Bobby Lee Bombs But is Rich Enough for Spade

25:01She's my waitress. And her opening line was, I should have taken it. And she was all calmed down.

25:09Dana Carvey:Yeah. She's not doing what's up. You know what I mean? Welcome to. Yeah. No, she was more like, well, she goes, you know, I should have taken it. And you go, fuck, I'm sorry. And so what's the special? I say, can I get a bloomin' onion? That's making me sad because that is the story of Hollywood. Yeah. More people, you know, even if you have a career, you have a lot of regrets, you know? Yeah. I remember Brad Pitt and Troy. I turned it down. Really? Wow. I was ripped. Brad Pitt came in with his fancy hair. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't know this, but have you guys read? You obviously don't read anymore, but back in the day, did you read for things that you really wanted and not gotten?

25:55Dana Carvey:For sure. Amadeus. I tested for Amadeus. Oh, no, you would have been great for that. Yeah, yeah. Is this better? Yeah. I didn't know. I could barely talk. I was just from Moriarty. So Abram's got it. We would have been together. What's Moriarty? What did you audition for You didn't get? He was a movie star at 21 Not Moriarty I didn't audition for Moriarty What was that? Somebody in Amadeus? Yeah in Amadeus He played as an emesis The old man that was like Bitter of that I didn't see it I read for Risky Business You did? Yeah But not Tom Cruise's part Yeah Booger? Yeah I looked really young Yeah Really?

26:36Dana Carvey:I was 26 I was reading for 18 In those days Wow This was before life beat me up Except you said Keep the camera back. You go, when I hear that music, I think I'd walk out my underpants. I wouldn't slide. Yeah. And then they go, Tom slid, and that sort of clinched it. You did, I saw your audition tape, and you clearly had a full load in your underpants. Yeah. Most of my auditions, I start my underpants, and then I go, I can put pants on if you want. Your wiener was not doing anything, but you had a load in the back, and I go, that guy's pretty good. He should get the part. Bobby loves this. Yes, David.

27:08I have some real questions. What the nuts? Sorry about this, guys. This is a real show.

27:12Dana Carvey:I don't like notes. I'm just curious. When was the first time you felt rich? Oh, is that a real question? Yeah, like in podcasting. Okay, so. Did you ever get rich in regular television? You got rich during podcasting. Now, rich can be whatever you think it means. Oh, that young man, we had to define what rich is. You feel it. Feel rich. I've always felt like I was drowning. What's wrong, David? I was just looking at your $12 order I'm going I don't know if you're feeling rich right now But I understand what you're saying I understand this I was like That's a great shirt Is there a goodwill nearby Because I want to get one like it You know what Dave did Did to me once What I did And I haven't told this story before And I don't know if it's real But in my mind it's real Right Okay But I feel like the first time You ever talked to me No I hate it Was What I hate it already You're going to hate the story Okay You're going to hate the story And I told it before I don't think you've ever heard it I've never heard it Alright But the first time you ever even paid attention to me Because I was wearing a Montclair jacket I was wearing a Montclair jacket I was wearing a What does that mean?

28:17I was wearing a Montclair jacket It's the kind of jacket I think I have Yeah, that jacket that he has Oh, it's a Richie Rich It's a Richie jacket He took his finger, right? At the comic store You know how they had the Montclair symbol? You took your finger You wrapped your finger around the symbol and you go, someone's doing well. Someone's doing well. Someone's doing well. Someone's doing well. And then from then on, you talk to me every fucking time. And then I was like, Bobby! In the club. Someone's doing well. I know. And then I stuck my finger in your ass and I go, don't tell anyone this part.

28:56Anyway, sorry. Bobby and I are friendly. Good to see you. When did I start feeling?

29:02Dana Carvey:Oh, it doesn't matter. This is entertaining. I know it's a good question. I want to tell you. I'm always curious that anyone transitioning from poverty to kind of like having a lot of extra money. When you told me you're transitioning, I didn't know you meant from poverty. No, that's why I did it. From poverty. Okay, go ahead. So I always felt like I was drowning because I don't know if you guys were ever here where you would do weekends as a stand-up. Yeah. And the club would go, listen, you know, we had a comp. You know what I mean? Right. In those days, even though you would make some money, you always felt like you were drowning.

29:38I think up until maybe seven years ago is when I felt like, or eight years ago when I felt like, when podcasting started is when I felt like, okay, well, I think I'm fine. You had enough money. And you're going to be doing this forever. Yeah, that's a time when you go, I think I'm okay just doing this. Because I kept going, should I go back and bust? Wait, what could I even do? And then it takes a while To feel like Okay I got enough here I got enough of a bass In the beginning I had no overhead

30:06Dana Carvey:Did you ever call out a club owner on the split? Did you? I don't know what the split means Explain split Well I was supposed to get 35 % of the door At this hippie dive The club Very famous actually The other cafe Oh yeah the cafe Paul Poundstone played there And it was packed Two shows And I just was driving away my Volkswagen, but I'm going to add some cash. And I was like, I don't think so. So I went back. I go, guys, really? I mean, this doesn't seem right. And they immediately like, butch casting Sundance again. It was like, we did it. We're sorry. I don't know why we did it. They broke down.

30:42Dana Carvey:Oh, really? It's not us. It's not us. I don't know. This is fucked up. You got rat fuck? No, I got my money. No, I'm saying they rat fucked you. Well, they were not giving me 35 % of the door. Was it before SNL? Yo, way before. Yo, way before. Yeah. Bananas in New Jersey. this is the sad so sounds like a pretty sturdy club I want to hear this what no that's where everyone goes to make it you go I had some shenanigans of bananas yeah go ahead so they gave me an offer like a guarantee yeah and I just didn't do well they thought I would do way better than I did I know tough shit you gotta guarantee this old couple came up to me at the very and they were handing me this check shaky so they went oh well like this right and they go young man, I just, for your information, if we give you this check, our business closes.

31:35Oh my God. And I go,

31:37Dana Carvey:excuse me? Wow. Yeah. It's over. And I go, and I looked at it, so it was$10 ,000. Fuck yeah. And I go, how much would I need to give you back for your business? And they go, five. So I had them rewrite it for five. Very nice. And then the next week, Carrot Top. I just figured they did it to every headliner. Oh, baby. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Carrot Top, was that really five? Next time the alley went just like this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was the first time. And also, it felt real. They had tears in their eyes. They felt like really like, you know, just down and out. I just couldn't do it. You know what I mean?

32:24I got that. I did cartoons in Utah. for 600 for a week and they the lady goes you got to stay on my couch we don't have some highfalutin hotel so i did it because i was newer and i did it and then at the end she goes can i send it to you and i was like well i kind of needed obviously i've been eating out of your fucking uh mousetrap all week yeah and so i go yeah and she never fucking sent it wow so i said she molested at me she did but i played a club where they didn't pay you at the end you would get it like

33:01Dana Carvey:they're a series of clubs up in canada and seattle and they you get paid like a month later because you would take all the money like that i don't like that i don't want to wait one god the improvs are good about when i do like i used to do san diego a lot irvine improvs yeah end of the week science sometimes give you a little bump or bonus but i wasn't the draw it was like i was just on a show that filled up i was middle when i got on snl i was a middle like dana was a high flute and headliner so when you go on we can switch topics because oh you said to switch to that i mean dana as soon as you hit snl that's it poverty no more right um started out 4500 an episode for the first season.

33:46Dana Carvey:So that, but then that summer, all of a sudden I was getting 25 ,000 to play at college. Jesus. If it's okay to bring up numbers. In one year? In one season? One season. Well, the bitch was out heavy. Yeah, the church bitch. Yeah, church bitch came out. Oh, the church bitch, yeah. I went to, I drove to a gig in Connecticut and for the only time it happened was Churchley here tonight. Didn't say my name for the theater. Did you have to do the fucking garb and all that? Well, I was in it often, yeah. I showed up in it. No, I didn't wear the dress. I don't wear the dress unless they pay me a lot.

34:17Wow. I haven't heard the word garb since Theo said, is that traditional garb in Busboys? I'm like, what are you saying? I didn't even understand until I saw the Daily. Theo always says something quite different. I feel like you're wearing garb. How fast? I mean, are you guys editing the movie? I'm sorry. No, we did Busboys. We talked about it too much, but we did it. We talked to Tim yesterday, Tim Dillon, who's got a big part in it. He goes, hi, what's going on? He goes, is a clip going to come out? Is a photo something that we can just say we're in a movie? Can I just ask? Ask whatever you want.

34:54Can I just ask, how are you feeling about it? I think it's funny. I think what we did was funny. And it's just a matter of I've never had no help. Like, it's just me and Theo. So we have him and we have another guy that put in a little bit of money. But he's one of Theo's buddies. so we are once the movie's over we both go on the road so now i would usually go have someone edit it and then go sit with them if i even had that privilege not all movies i do not many people do you go and then you go hey do this thing and you go through the takes it's arduous long painstaking work me and theo aren't in the same spot and the editors in new york so they add that they did director's cut and we look at now we're trying to shape there's no special effects so theo was on the road so now we got him involved so he's got to do his i do mine we go back and forth till we then we're going to show it to people we're almost that that part okay you're destroyed wake up grandpa oh sorry i did i do need a nap i'm the senior here i space out i owe it to bobby because he's in it and so he drove all the way we are in the valley one scene on time well i think it was

36:00Dana Carvey:a good move when you hit well here's we're going to shoot the movie here yeah now now we're both I was going to go on a global tour for six months. It's so dumb. Then come back. Well, he hasn't done a movie. And I said, we should be in the same room. Yeah. And he's like, well, I got to do this. And he's got his own podcast. So we're getting closer. It's just slower. Meanwhile, I did that Jonah Hill movie a year ago. That's not going to be out till end of the year, probably. And so it was a full year already. But this should go faster because it's smaller. That was a bigger. Well, Bobby and I, I'll put your name in there.

36:29Dana Carvey:We're available to put some eyes on it. Yeah, I know. I want to show it. I would show it to you guys just to say what do you think doesn't make sense we just want to show it from a crowd of 20 people to say what do you not understand what do you like what do you not like listen it's not fucking can I talk to you guys about something controversial a little confrontational why are your eyes like this I don't like it already it has nothing to do with you go ahead you're setting this up beautifully Okay, it has nothing to do with either one of you, but you guys are a part of it. Adjacent. Adjacent to it.

37:06Okay. All right. I want to hear. Because it's a long wind-up. Go ahead. It's a good wind-up. Go ahead. Okay, you don't like it. No, I like it. So, let me ask you something. May I lean forward? Yes. Don't break that$3 table. Okay, I won't. May I lean forward a little bit?

37:19Dana Carvey:The Kmart cameras have autofocus. Okay. For you to lean forward, we have to have eight people jump up. Okay. So, I just, and you weren't there, Dana. All right. Okay. But. But, okay. So let me ask you about the wrong Missy. Oh, boy. Okay. Did I, that day. Yes. Okay. That day, did I do a bad job? That's a great question.

37:52No, Bobby. Okay. Because in my mind. Yes. I could, you know, ask my friend Sadie. Hi, Sadie. Yeah. sometimes I lay in bed at night no no no just hear what I'm fucking saying I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm the same I understand

38:08Dana Carvey:regret I didn't do it right yeah did I do it right or not right and you know what that's what I like about you he gets it no I totally get it you're with me yeah he doesn't really care about the outcome so he kind of just I've bombed in movies before but I don't think I bombed that's the thing oh you don't think that

38:28no this is I'll tell my side of the story. It is warm in here. The story is Dana. I'll tell Dana because he's an innocent bystander. The movie did 800 billion minutes. The movie was a big hit. The movie's a smash. The best thing. Do people know you?

38:42Dana Carvey:Your part was cut out? Is that what you said? No, it's Dave. Can I tell Dana what happened? All right. So David asked me to do the wrong Missy. Was it me or was Adam? It was you. Okay. I had no idea even if he was going to fucking be there. I did. That was, okay. That's a big part of the story. Also FYI, I'm in, um, Happy Madison Gilmore too. You are? Okay. So, Julie Bowen was here. Not only that, you know, I've worked with, you know what I mean, Adam Sandler. Yeah. Yeah. He's, I don't want you to hear this story, Sadie, but a year and a half ago, I was with a lady in Malibu, right? You're with who?

39:27I was with a lady in Alaba. I was holding hands with her. I'm sorry. Yeah. And Sandler walks up and he gave me a layup. Sandler and I are like this. He gave you a layup and he was very nice. Very nice. And I got some. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? That night. Excuse me. Yeah. But there was some. You know what I mean? From this other woman that's not here today.

39:48Dana Carvey:Yeah. Yeah. You get what I'm saying. I'm sweating. I'm so sorry. Okay. What I'm saying to you is this. I'll tell you what happened. So he calls me. Can you do one line in Hawaii You didn't do that? Go to Hawaii in one line? I think One line was for sure not enough for you And it was a straight line And it was just everyone's excitement to have you in the movie And we should have said We gotta give Bobby more of a Bobby thing to do That's funny where you can really get into it Because that was the problem God bless you and take care So I go there Dana I wanna hear this I go right The line is like, welcome to Alawani Hotel, whatever the fucking line is.

40:28That's all the line is. Mr. and Mrs. Tim Morris. Mr. and Mrs. Tim Morris, welcome to Alawani Hotel. You just did it better. What? You just did it better.

40:39Fuck you, David. You know what? I'm sweating. I know. I'm sweating too because I'm part of the problem.

40:45Dana Carvey:Okay, so here's the thing. Still, what is going on? I'll tell you what's going on. So I'm on set. Feeling good. It's outside. You know what I mean? Hawaii. Hawaii Right Yeah Not only Hawaii But Witowski Lauren Everyone on the set Is a friend of mine Right Alright Action You know what I mean Hello Mr. Intimator I'm not gonna do the line Okay right Welcome to All I Want Right Then I hear Stop From From Video Village Video Village Yeah It's Sandler Who never comes Who never comes He was He's not even He doesn't never come But he was just there He was just there One line and he jumps up He comes up and he goes What are you doing And I go Oh hey Adam What are you doing Not how are you doing What are you doing What are you doing And He goes yeah it's more natural I thought okay Action again I do it again Stop he comes back this can't be true now me and Lauren start laughing because it's so tense and weird and Adam wasn't being mean it got tense because Bobby kept nervously missing it by a hair and then they go stop they stop again and go okay on this one just normal just hear them yelling and we all start going oh my god because everyone's so like tired also Sandler's kids are in the scene making it work The whole family's shaming.

42:23That's why he's there. He didn't want to see. The whole family's shaming. Okay. So everyone's very nice, but Adam was just like, just say it straight. And then it was so matter of fact. And that's why we started laughing because we're like, every time he said it, I'm like, is that the one? And it was like, nope. Because then he comes out and goes, hey, what are you doing? Again, he goes, just try one like this. Okay, check this out now, right? So hilarious. Hawaii, outside. right yeah it's niagara falls now all the makeup is drunk you know i am having a panic attack right because in my mind i'm like i'm fucking you know daniel day lewis sing this thing what is the line again i just want to i want to walk through this what is the fucking okay we come in the hotel what is it what is the line literally hold on yeah i don't even know what the line is.

43:19Hello, Mr. Tim and Tim Robinson. Let me just make it up. Yeah. Let me just make it up. Me and Lauren walk up. Hello, Mr. Tim and Tim. What's the name? You be Lauren, I'll be you. The Robinson. Hello, the Robinsons. Hi. Welcome to Aloha Hotel. Yeah, here's your registration. Perfect. That's what I did. Where were you? Where were you? So we go in and Lauren argues with the kids first. They go like this. You were out there swimming with the turtles. She goes, gay fuck you to Adam's kids that was her line it was hysterical she's screaming then we all ha ha we walk up and we're with Witowski and Sarah and they're in robes and we all come up to Bobby and I'm telling you in your defense one line is harder than doing a whole scene because what happens when you're doing one line is all you just focus on is the whole time when you're watching the scene all you're doing is thinking about that one line and you're running it through your mind 10 ,000 times welcome to the hotel welcome to the hotel Mr.

44:16Russell Mr. Russell I've been there. It's torture. Yeah.

44:19Dana Carvey:But didn't you ask for a line reading? I'm sorry. That's so embarrassing. You've asked for that? Oh, how do you want me to say it? Just tell me how to say it. Just tell me how to say it. He did do it. Oh, okay. But at one point, I remember David going this. Because Adam's talking to me like this. But I see David. Behind Adam. Behind Adam. And this is where you go. You go like this. You go. Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Yeah. I was worried about you. Yeah, you felt. you know and that's why there was so much love now we're friends yeah yeah there was so much love there but check here's the good news okay can I tell you the good I want to hear that I want some happiness now so when I'm wrapped right I went to myself I go how high up is this hotel so I can jump off you know I mean or no there was like suicide you know I mean you're right or you know maybe I'll relapse that's I was sober at the time you know I mean so maybe you know seven years as well I could relapse all reasonable yeah there was so many different thoughts in my Welcome to the Iwani Hotel.

45:13Dana Carvey:May I help you? I mean, fuck, where were you? Yeah, yeah, where were you? You could have died. You're drenched in sweat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All the makeup's tearing down. Yeah, yeah. He's going, I'm so sorry. Yeah, yeah. That's better than anything in the movie. That's the most dramatic thing. Right. That is - Here's the good news. There's more good news. All right. Oh, it gets good. Yeah. So then I go to the hotel, the Aloha Halani Hotel. This is not the name because it's not, I never, never heard of. Okay, whatever the fucking name is You're just putting a bunch of Just yes and it

45:48Dana Carvey:He's being so extra right now What is wrong with you right now? I love you so much I feel for him So now, here's the good news, Dana There's a wonton bar All it was wontons? Is that all you eat? He has an app for it

46:13so you go to a wonton bar

46:19sorry blonnie skinny it's okay take it easy skinny do you want to take a break no I'm fine anyway thank you so much so I'm at this wonton bar can I have some wotons please right they gave me a bowl of wontons right and i don't even want to eat them like i'm just so sad so there's another korean guy next to me oh what well i thought that's what he said to you

46:57that's what he goes ah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah because he's eating wonton soup no so no he was in the scene previous to you yeah one line yeah okay go ahead so he goes hey you go i go hey And he was sitting next to a guy I was familiar with His name is Zach Knighton He's an actor And back when I was on MADtv What are you doing in your hands like this? Is this not the night we went to dinner at Nobu? No, it wasn't We've been to many Nobus though In Hawaii? Yes And you remember we went to dinner? Yes And someone came and talked to us? Yes Okay It's not that Okay So anyway So Zach Knighton is sitting So this Asian guy looks just like me too.

47:40Big headed Koreans. And we're the best kind. Yep. I'm not going to co-sell any of this stuff. Because you have the Steven Newton Koreans. You know what I mean? Leading man. But then you get the big headed. And we're the coal miners of the business. Coal miners? That's funny. Yeah, yeah. In Korea, I think I would have been a coal miner. Is this part of your standard?

48:00Dana Carvey:No, I like that. It should be. It's fine. Well, it's not. Anyway, so he was a big headed Korean. Okay. And he goes, hey, my name is Gene. I go, I met you, which I didn't remember. He goes, I met you at Earth Bar, and you were talking about my genes. I'm really big into raw denim. Let's move on. And I go, oh, and he goes, I'm the executive producer of Magnum PI. That's what he says to me. So I go, oh, and he goes, let me write you a part, right? So I go, really? There's no more than one line. Yeah, he wrote me over the next three or four years. Oh, that's right. I did 15 episodes of that thing.

48:35He wrote me Like I was number one on the call sheet Like storylines It was the He's my best friend now Gene Right We hang out You know you've met Gene We've gone to Hawaii together I mean he's one of my best friends I would have never met him If I hadn't done the wrong mistake With that nightmare that you put me through Okay And you know And so you know The moral of the story is this Yeah Sometimes when you say yes Right Great things can happen Yeah Sometimes no means yes yeah is that it no that I don't think that's a win

49:09Dana Carvey:sometimes you lose for winning yeah sometimes sometimes you win for losing but sometimes you lose for winning sometimes you know you don't know why you're somewhere something's happened for a reason something there we go it's all in God's hands yeah I think that's better yeah yeah it's all in God's hands mine was close you're pretty close something's happened yeah yeah yeah but um that experience you know what I mean And just want to reiterate that, you know what I mean, Adam and his whole family has been very gracious to me. Yeah. And I love them very much. And I am in happy Madison one or two.

49:49Dana Carvey:Yeah. And I know Sandler, he would have been very gentle, almost whispery about it. He was very gentle about it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He just pictures it in his head a certain way. I get it. and when i did when i did my wig for grown-ups i walked in so excited long wig and everyone was thinking it's so funny the way that we got there he's coffee same thing and he goes this is the wig you want and i go yeah and he goes i don't like it and i was like what i go isn't this funny because i have a guy like this long hair he thinks you're right he does from the 80s and he goes no no i shorten it and i go back and cut it and cut it and we kept doing it until it was basically where it was yeah you're supposed to be a good looking guy i don't want that long I was like, okay.

50:31Dana Carvey:Oh, yeah. But in his head, he pictures it. And it's his movie. And that's the fun thing. I mean, that's the good about at least you need someone calling the shot. And he's casual as a person when he's the executive producer. He'll be lying on a couch, have a leg of turkey, and people come in. No, I don't think so. He is a good decision. He's very decisive, though. I mean, he's just very casual, but decisive. I'm not decisive. So I would, I actually thought you were doing fine. Oh, yeah. I mean, he's the nice guy. I just wanted to share that story with you. And I've never confronted you about, did you think the actual performance was bad?

51:07And what you were saying to me, what I got was it could have been better. No, I got that. It was a little nerve wracking to hit you with all of us do a whole scene. And we come up and you just have to say one line and get us out of it. And we get all the way to that part and it would stop again. It was another good point was, is that when you guys were all jumping around, having fun, and you know, you know that I'm a goofy guy. Right? I'm silly Billy baby You had to play straight man Yeah and whenever I had to play something straight It feels like I'm being you know what I mean You're tied down I'm sorry what point in the movie was that

51:43Dana Carvey:About was it 30 or 40 minutes in Yeah I think I only Oh never mind Oh you switched it off at 15 No I'm just Forget what I just said At a certain point I just Do you watch each other's stuff or no? I think so. I've seen most. I saw Joe Dirt. I saw Grown Ups. Yeah. Yeah. Grown Ups 2 didn't quite do it for me. But I think I've seen most of your stuff. Yeah. Yeah. And I've seen, I was there for five years overlapping with him. SNL. So I saw. Yeah, we worked for five years together. I saw him kill from like 10 feet away. Did you guys get along instantly or was there competitiveness? No, the sad part was no one was competitive with me because I wasn't competing with them really so they were like nice to me and i'm like i should have been offended because i wasn't a threat to anyone that's rude oh yeah you know what i mean like you see a comic and you go yeah you can go before me yeah and they go i won't curse and you go do whatever you want yeah i don't give a fuck all right i can follow you put it this way i used to call him the junior varsity and dennis would come in dennis miller and they would beg him it would be you know you and rock and and farley in the dressing room they were sharing on 8H, and Dennis would just rip everyone spudling.

52:59Dana Carvey:Okay, the Carvey thing's not working right now, or whatever, he'd go one at a time. But the junior varsity, when you look at them, Sandler, Chris Rock, what's your name again? Yeah, Schneider. Did very well, but they were sort of quasi understudies of me and Phil and John Nealon in a way. And then we meshed really well, and I think, I've said this before, I think 90 to 93, where we had these guys, plus we still had the guys from 86 there. Yeah. We were very potent. What a powerful group. Yeah. Because when you read, I read Life from New York, right? And you read some of the nightmarish stories that are in it, right?

53:36Mm-hmm. Were those elements in your class? Probably not then, because it felt like a healthy... No, they were all there. There was tension and competitiveness and all that stuff. For sure, for sure, for sure.

53:48Dana Carvey:Yeah, I mean, but in a friendly way. Lovitz and I decided to make a joke out of it So we just teased each other the entire time The idea of being envious I would say I was in Three sketches tonight Stuff like that And John of course loved it He leaves too many voicemails And I don't know what to do He loves you Is he stalking you? No but he leaves so many voicemails Hello And he pretends Why do you have to be so Chinese? And these kind of You know what I mean? Question everyone's mind No but he loves Comedians do foul stuff behind the scenes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because we try to shock each other.

54:23Dana Carvey:He's so funny. Yeah, hysterical. But anyway, I love the man. Yeah. So there was teasing and stuff going on. Yeah, teasing. I see. Phil Hartman, you couldn't compete. There was no competition because Phil was such a savant that he was reading other things in the magazines about motorboats and stuff. And then they'd call him in. He had 10 sketches and he just hit it perfect. And he'd go back. And then he'd paint and stuff. He was the only one pretty much relaxed at the whole place. Well, he'd done 20 years, like 15 years at Groundlings. He was like a superstar at Groundlings. And he had a good life.

54:58Dana Carvey:He didn't really even care if he got on SNL. He came in as a writer. He worked with Pee Wee Herman on The Adventures. Yeah, he co-wrote that movie. Oh yeah, Paul. Paging Mr. Herman. That's how you did your part. Paging Mr. Herman. Did you see that part of the movie? Do you know who Pee Wee Herman is? Yeah, Paul Reubens. Okay. All right. I have a few questions before we gotta get rid of you hold on okay how long does this go I mean I would we don't even we're not like you guys how long do you do three hours we're not Rogan how long do you do we do about 45 maybe an hour okay how long does it get so far 45 there's no way it's 45 already is it is that 15 minutes already yeah okay that's fun see because you're having fun well I want to keep going yeah okay I have a question for you very for nothing you know what I mean it's easy I have three questions first of all when we sometimes we're on the same show we had a good lineup the other night at the comedy store.

55:49Didn't we? Were you on it? Give it the line. No, what was it? Did you say, was I on it? No, what was it? I'm just saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You and I were, they took a photo of us. Check your diary. Okay. Dear diary, today David half-hugged me and then rubbed his fingers all over my Montclair. So I'm saying that it was fun the other night because I see you there about once every two weeks at the comedy store. It was Whitney, maybe Tim Dillon. Sometimes they have a great lineup. It's fun to watch. yeah okay that was one not question oh you know what yeah because i because when i was leaving i sat and watched you and a you had new stuff yeah you always say you don't have new stuff you have new stuff well i do a special so i have to get crank it out oh when is your special it's january i have some stress out of this what what platform hulu okay um hulu we'll get we can people some people have hulu all right listen no you can get it i'm just thinking you're stressed out i mean do

56:42Dana Carvey:Do you understand that you're Bobby Lee? Do you get it? Do you understand you're famous? I don't. I'm not. I just wanted to tell you. Number one, I'm not. Number one, I'm not. That's part of your charm. Can I tell you? Can I lean forward again? Yeah. Whenever you say stuff like that, I get kind of emotional and stuff. All right. There's two types of different kinds of fame. Yeah. Can we at least agree with that? Everyone in the room. Yeah. Okay. Well, I'm going to explain it to you. Well, I'm not agreeing. What? I'm not agreeing. You're not agreeing. And may I explain to you gently? Yes. Okay.

57:14Gently. So there's two types of fame, okay? There's Hollywood fame, right? Where the type you have. And whatever you were doing earlier. Podcasting. Yeah, yeah. And then there's internet fame. I think I'm in sort of in the middle there. I think I've kind of gone back. I'm sort of in the middle. You have TV from the past. But me and Andrew Santino, my other podcast, Bad Friends, check it out. Very good podcast. Yeah. I did Bad Friends, I love it I did So me and Andrew complain a lot about Because we came to LA In the early 2000s 90s And we still have dreams Of doing Hollywood And because we do internet As well It doesn't feel like our dreams Were accomplished But they have been And in fact we're almost better off having our own thing in control.

58:11So it's just, I guess, thank you. I know what you're saying. By the way, Bert Kreishner said

58:16Dana Carvey:the exact same thing on this podcast. Did he really? Essentially the same thing. Yeah, yeah. And just that, your age group and the romance of that. And some people don't want to, they used to go, come here and do stand-up to get a sitcom or a movie. And now people go, come here and do stand-up and just do stand-up the rest of your life. Yeah. No one's even trying to get those other things. And it's not as much money and not as, maybe what it was, there's not as many. so when you're driving on the road and you're like you see that billboard Zippy the King I don't know I'm just getting it up Zippy the King right and some you know some open micro guy that you did back in the day is like zipping out right and he's zipping through the sky you know what I mean and you're like and you go oh I want to be zippy yeah it's fun that's all I think this is so much better also you're doing great although there was excitement being on the Tonight Show with the pressure and all that I did Leno but anyway let's move on and it would be a game change well next game Bobby Lee has been at the comedy store you know people are having a good time please welcome it's the first time here on this night show you know Bobby we had a viewer question okay roughly how many pubes do you have under a thousand or over it's interesting I have none now that's interesting it's interesting because I have none now that's true okay answer is under I had a meal there I've never had a meal there before and they had free razors back there and so I took all five razors I dipped them in the little bucket and I went at it and I even did the, you know what I mean?

59:42And I went, you know, with the mirror and I did the whole thing. At where? Clip this. Clip this. We spot. What's we spot? If we're in there naked. We spot? If we're in there naked ever, dude, don't say hi. It's weird. It's so fucking weird. It's a male. Wait, which brings my next question. He leans into the audience. He goes, what's up, brother? He says he does a little crowd work and then he leaned over. He goes, You're cute, dude. He kissed him on the lips when I was in the back of the room. Okay. I don't know if that was a question. No, it was an observation. It seems more like an interrogation.

1:00:17Dana Carvey:Is there a question? You were... No, it says here... Now, I understand. No, I was giving you a compliment that you were at the comedy store and you do well. And I would say in my life, when I run around, people ask me the most for tickets for you or Theo. So if they say, hey Bobby Lee's going on I had someone call me and say can you get me into the comedy store and I go oh I'm not there they go no I know Bobby's there now can you get me in I'm like call somebody to get you in and see this fucking idiot no offense I've done it for you that's not a put down so you're very charming so when you guys do your show it's good people really like I don't know why they gravitate to you but they do we see do you look at the charts Bobby do you ever look at the charts The podcast that I chose.

1:01:07Dana Carvey:I don't. I don't. Because, you know, I think that it's, I'm just going to probably do it until I can't do it anymore, right? Why would you stop doing it? Unless it changes. We don't know what the next thing is. It's pretty easy. You get to sleep till three. Yeah. And then you just roll around and mumble on your podcast. It's not a bad life. It's fun. You roll down the store and do - But you guys, you guys enjoy doing this? No. I hate repeating myself. Like, stand up. The toughest part for me is we've managed to, you know, make a truce. Yeah. to share the stage a week along fine but um you know repeating yourself in stand-up is work but this is all being live in the moment maybe with a few notes is is fun because it's happening in real time that's yeah the worst things i've asked you were notes it's better it's better to just talk well i think so yeah yeah it's better to just but it's hard do you have any prep like when i came in do you have any prep no no oh yeah you weren't even there when i came well this is what I asked Andrew when I went on.

1:02:05Dana Carvey:Oh, sorry. When I went in. Andrew who? When I went in to his podcast. And I wasn't supposed to tell the story. Well, you went in with the two. I went to see Bad Friends and I go, I couldn't get on the main. I says, I says to him, I says, I says, all right, we're doing it one day. Do you want to hear this? I'm here. And I go. Oh, I know what you're going to bring up. Fuck you. I apologize. There's a lot of, can I say this? Do you want to hear this? There's a lot of that today. Go ahead. I want to hear this. No, I was doing Bad Friends and the night before he says he texts me and he says hey can you not do it today do you mind doing it tomorrow we could do i go i have a flight i could do probably one to two let's say he says great thank you that really helps me i get there at 12 30 in case you were a little early today which very sweet in case they're ready let's knock it out i see andrew and he's like this i go what he is he's not here and i go oh i can wait and he goes uh i don't know when he'll be here and i go I'm sure it's fine.

1:03:03And then the other guys at work, the interns, they go. Why are you so sad during this story? I'm listening. This is my listening face. I've never listened that long in my life. I always talk. I had a fake listening face too. Yeah, you did, right? You know what? You have a very good fake listening face. I know. I know. Watch this one. Really good, dude. And I don't have a chip. I'm listening to you listen. Yeah. I had that. finish it's a little judgy story no it's got 25 more minutes i'm a third way through it so anyway story was he was a little late and then he came in yeah but it was a fun 30 minutes late yeah i have a question dana would have hit the fucking roof dana does not play games i'm pretty

1:03:52Dana Carvey:uptight most of the time yeah um so when you i got to know you guys from clips right i mean YouTube clips initially. And so I see Andrew doing the most racist thing ever of a white guy doing. Like crazy over the top. Very weird. And then you do the thousand yard stare. Yeah. And it's instantly hilarious. I don't know what that combo of him being that foul and ridiculous and then that face. Do you know how funny that is? Or did it start out serious? No, it's the instinct of that. Yeah. The stillness of it. You know, staring. You know, I mean, it's like, you know, I think Theo and I had a thing where he said something.

1:04:37I forgot what it was, but it was so ridiculous. So you just kind of look at him for a good seven seconds to let it sit. You know what I mean? Yeah. And then he starts to backtrack. How ridiculous that really is. Yeah. And you don't count your mind, but it's an instinctual thing. You know how to fucking do it. What the fuck are you talking about? It works.

1:04:55Dana Carvey:But I've never seen something that. potent where the bow is going back with Andrew and then and then to the release of someone who's clearly just saying that I just see that it's like the stillness of getting a huge laugh a little bit like Charlie Chapman yeah yeah well Bobby thank you and you are you look great you you're talk great we uh you look great and you cut your hair and you honestly look 10 years younger I don't I don't know how. Take care of you. You look great. Anything else? Can I plug some things? Yeah, plug some things. Let's go plug it all. You'll be at the comedy store one night.

1:05:31No. Well, so I mean, eventually I'm going to do, so if you check out my Hulu special when it comes out. Do you have a title? I'm going to call it Finally. Oh, that's good. Do you know why? I've never done one before. I've never done a special before. Yeah. Where are you going to shoot it? San Diego Balboa Theater. Did you not do it yet? Okay. I do it in January, I said. Oh, you haven't done it yet. And then, oh, I thought it comes out in January. No, I'm going to do it in January. Because I did mine. They hold it for a while. So mine will come out in three years. They do take a while to come out.

1:06:03Okay, well, it's going to come out eventually. Well, that's Amazon Prime.

1:06:05Dana Carvey:He's on Hulu. Right, but Hulu sometimes holds them too. What's better, Dana? Hulu. Hulu's a slightly bigger deal. I'll talk to you right now. Amazon Prime. Anyone get on it. Look where you've started, Bobby. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In fighting. You've seen Dandelion. What? Oh, never mind My favorite movie in the world Is it a movie? His special is called Dandelion What do you think of the title? It's so good Dandelion's great Yeah, it was a great special I saw it three times Is it out yet? I'm giving you this Is it out? A very good listening space I'm giving you the stare down Oh, you are You know, I watch you so much That I don't think I need to see Dandelion There you go, thank you There we go Does either of you ever sit down For a big heap of night of stand-up specials?

1:06:46Dana Carvey:Because usually, you know how Not really You know how the rabbit gets out of the hat I'm looking for I have one last question Can I ask him a question? Yeah, sure. How come you're never around the clubs? Yeah, why don't you do a set over there? Because there's a lot of reasons. But for me, I never really liked group shows. Because when comedians go on, and unless they're really good friends, like I could go on a group show with you guys. But generally, after a while, it's like either staff or people walk back and say, I thought you were one of the best ones out there tonight. Or it becomes a comedy competition.

1:07:20Dana Carvey:You know who killed last night? And it's supposed to be like open mic and I'm going to try new material. Everyone throws that away. Right. It's hard to go bomb. It's hard to bomb when some of your friends are in the room. But actually, usually when we're back in the green room, nobody really leaves to go watch somebody. It's usually everyone bullshits. Yes. And they come back and you think, oh, no, they all watch and judge. And they're like, they don't even know you're on or not. So, Dana, when you were on the road, do you do new jokes in front of that many people? Yeah, where do you practice?

1:07:51Yeah, where do you practice?

1:07:52Dana Carvey:If I go six months without doing it, if I do two or three sets, I feel pretty good. But the first set's kind of rough after six months of not doing it. Okay, so you do two or three. Yeah, well, I just sort of put down my sword a certain while, I just went, I was at one point kind of playing a different game, like doing regular stand-up. So now I've kind of tabled that. So I'm just going to do Trump or Biden or Scarface, and I'll go for 10 minutes, 15 minutes. I'm just going to ride the wave of what I really like to do rather than try to be a stand-up. Yeah, but there's a clip of yours. That's how right.

1:08:29Exactly. But there's a clip of yours. I forgot what the bit was about rockets or something. It had something to do with space or something. But it was a joke. I'm being real. It was a stand-up joke that was so good. And I thought to myself, wow, that guy's so good. He does kill. He's always been good. He kills. And he doesn't do it. Can we do a gig together? I thought you said 45 minutes. Say it again. I thought this was done now. We are. We're cutting all this. This is all on the editing room floor. Oh, it is? No, it doesn't matter. I don't feel like I'm on a podcast. You're one of the fun ones because I think you're hilarious.

1:09:04I watch you. I'll stop and watch your act when we're there. I always like talking to you. Sometimes we talk real in the back, which is very odd. That's okay. I like that. How do you feel about that? I like it. Because here's, I'll tell you why I do this with you specifically. And don't take this the wrong way. I will. Okay. But there's something about you that reminds me of me. Not that you're that much older than me.

1:09:31But a couple of years. I don't know how old I am. I know. I know the gap, but I'm not going to say. Yeah, yeah. But you are a little older than me, right? And I just, there are times, especially in specific topics, like I want to know your advice. Yeah. yeah that's all but we do have normal talks and i like it because i think everyone thinks you're more of a goofball than me so i think when you're on stage you're very funny and when you're back there you do goofy stuff and you're a good laugher you're a good laugher here you laugh at us very sweet and it's always good to hang out with someone that laughs some comedians very tight with the laughs you know they don't laugh anything you say they just laugh at their own stuff or whatever so you're fun to talk to you're one of the ones fun to talk to there so if we we can just bullshit without trying and to be funny.

1:10:17We just talk. It's fun.

1:10:18Dana Carvey:I think the skill set that you have to have, no matter what kind of comedian you are, is you have to have social IQ, being able to read the room. And so when you hang out with comedians, if you're at a party, it's really boring or some award thing, and you're with regular people, and then a comedian comes in, it's always they know what the elephant in the room is. That's the wrong thing that person wore, or this is the worst part of the show. they should have cut this and so i find comedians just a very enjoyable there is a serious a bond yeah there is a bond that you have when you're in like a regular place and then you see a comic walk in and you're like oh oh you know what i mean like better now like a showbiz party yeah run to the comics right right i have a question about your uh you have a podcast called uh tiger town or something right super belly and on that one is actually how long do you tape those How long is a regular guest take?

1:11:16Or is it very? Well, it's been around for 10 years almost now. We've done over 500 episodes. I know. I did that one a long time ago, too. Yeah, and you did during COVID. And I do it every Monday. What's great about Tiger Town, Tiger Belly, is that what's great about it is I've set it up so that I literally open my eyes. Walk down the stairs. Walk down the stairs. Sit down. I don't know who the guests are During the day You're the worst That's great Literally Like one time I sat down And then Carrot Top walked in I'm like Who Carrot Top You know what I mean Carrot Top And then you do it You know what I mean And you have some backup now You have about six people there That's another thing I've done Is I've gotten two or three Cast of characters Yeah Like you gotta have the one That's kind of like You know what I mean Yeah And then you have the smart Alex It's like a show It's a full show It's a show So you don't have to carry the weight You're the anchor But you Whatever you say works, but you can wait for your spots.

1:12:15Now with bad friends is hard because that's where you have to be completely, because Andrew's so fast. Right, and he will bust your balls on any turn. Right, so it's like you know what I mean? And it's hard. Sometimes he'll go, right? And I'll go nothing. Right? Nothing. Right? And then you're like and then you start, I'm drowning. Sometimes I go We can't enter that one The whole thing

1:12:46Dana Carvey:And we don't Oh really But he's pretty good about seed balls Bail on the entire episode We have one episode I didn't know you could do that Try this, this is fun We have one episode We did early on Where it was going so horribly We went, you know what, let's do one two hour episode where we can say whatever we want. I'm talking about, you know what I mean? Yeah. Anything. Foul. Comedian stuff. Racist. Cancelable. Cancelable. Every line was a cancel, right? It was so freeing. We laughed so hard. Yeah, of course. It's the funniest. We laughed so hard. Of course. It's in a vault somewhere. I don't know who has it, right?

1:13:31But if that goes out, uh-oh, big trouble, big trouble in Little China. I mean, yeah. But there is something therapeutic about it It was really freeing To be able to say whatever you wanted to say You know what I mean It sounds like a blast

1:13:46Dana Carvey:The stuff I do behind the scenes with friends Dana is funny Dana can say stuff That is the ricketyst piece of shit table I'm sorry you're doing this You know what I have to say What a beautiful place This place Because I've been to your other places Oh yeah I haven't been to this one You like this one? Well you don't Probably know People don't know That you're shooting In your house Is that what it is? No I don't care No we don't I thought you were joking No I'm being fucking real Okay Your last place was nice But this one Ooh la la Get me Yeah It's good Yeah I like it That's okay Right Well Bobby I will take you out I'll take you out For dinner soon You're sometimes tough To get to dinner Because I like to go early Okay okay But thanks for coming here We both need it 530 It is a problem For nightclub comments I don't say it's not 5.30 it's 6.30 no but I liked it I would eat at 5.30 yeah he likes it thanks for having me on guys that was fun guys we just walked Bobby Lee basically kicked him out because he could have gone on forever he's so goddamn hilarious I love the awkwardness and funniness but he's just we're all weird and it's very funny love the dude very sweet guy he was just pulling out and I said you should turn your car around he goes no I can back out I go no well there's a driveway that's a little tricky it get right at the gate it gets small and i go it's kind of hard and he goes no no i'll just back out heather and i went to the window and watch him just go just took his mirror off and i was like anyway um i told him i'll do some spots at the store and work it off but super funny you laughed dana he's a great guy right well uh as you saw folks he's the kind of guest you don't need to do any prep none so i did none because i'd seen i know enough of him i've seen him enough to know that um you know he's he's just well first of all there's very few comedians who have a real great laugh usually we have a pretty good laugh yeah but we're the ones trying to get the laugh he's really funny and has an incredible laugh so he brought all this energy right away and so that was just went by very fast like i was saying he's a fun comic because he will laugh at your stuff and he does go back and forth with you and it keeps the balls in the air and when you're interviewing he does so many podcasts he knows not to just sit there and give mousy little answers he right answers tells a story laughs stands up that's what you want so we i mean for a guy we've been talking about having a man and i see him out and santino's coming in soon it's like we kind of waited on theo and tim dylan and these guys for this chunk of shows and they're going to be great we have our bucket list you know i i would say i learned from him and you did a little bit too but it is kind of interesting like like maybe i shouldn't say this um but i i feel like i just want to say this i hope it's okay that's me illustrating what i was my point was it's very much you lean in even you did it yeah i don't know i should bring this up but so when he did that precursor it it's good podcasting maybe i shouldn't really bring this up but it was one line sometimes people that i see on podcasts that don't do a lot of them or that aren't that interesting go they intentionally go i've never told you this story i've never told the story on podcast before and everyone's like and they're like anyway here's my dumb story and it's but they they want you to be like where's the clip guy get ready and then they you know bore the shit i probably shouldn't say this it's a really good one yeah i'm gonna get in trouble if i say this and I have 10 of those in my pocket, but I have followed my own advice.

1:17:29I like that we finally turned on the air conditioner after me and Bobby in this sweatshop.

1:17:33Dana Carvey:I stole this jean jacket and I took it off. I want t-shirt today because it was so warm and now I'm glad I took it because it's so cold. But anyway, that was Bobby. I had a blast. Dana had a blast, right? Love, love, love. And we'll look forward to the other guys like Santino, Tim, Theo. They're all coming in soon and we're going to get this wave of dudes and thanks for watching. We will actually have women too. And some women.

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