RE-RELEASE - Drew Barrymore

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2:23All right. Not just any break. This is a refreshing break with Snapple. We all know about Snapple's iconic real facts. So let's take a minute to go over some of my faves.

2:33Dana Carvey:Snapple Real Fact 455. Movie trailers used to come on at the end of the movies, but no one stuck around to watch them. I've heard that. Snapple Real Fact 831. Adults laugh only about 15 to 100 times a day, while preschoolers laugh an average of 300 times a day. Snapple Real Fact 1983. The first player drafted to play pro football never played in the league. That's interesting. Snapple Real Fact 1274. Kickball is referred to as soccer baseball in some parts of Canada. Hmm. So grab a Snapple. Take a second. Enjoy the moment. Because let's be honest, this might be the most refreshing part of your day.

3:17Snapple, make your break more interesting. Drew Barrymore. Drew. Drew Barrymore. universally loved very sweet um and i've known her since the old days right around wedding singers when i met her and we talk about that and i saw her out the other night and i never see her she's one of the ones i just never see perfectly sweet and lovely as you would think

3:46Dana Carvey:yeah she was when i saw her when we were vetting our friend adam sandler at the kennedy center honorees all right i just ran into her and um i'd seen some of her show and we'd had her on our podcast and i said you're really really good at this and she just paused and she's very sincere and her shoulders dropped and she said really you think so she's very vulnerable and sweet uh and uh we enjoyed talking to her one of our favorite podcasts is easy to talk to and goes anywhere you want her to go to. So I think this is a fun one. Here she is, Drew Barrymore.

4:27Dana Carvey:Bill Hader has kind of a, his voice has a treble softness to it. But then when he did Daniel Day-Lewis, it just went incredibly deep. So his range is like really kind of interesting because his talking voice is very sort of soft, you know, here. And we had a great time. And then he's like, but I totally... I like that I try to do Daniel A. Lewis and you guys both do it and I forgot. I used to do it like crazy. His was so great. I feel like at some point we'll just tell. I was going to say, yeah, if they said you were the best ever, I wouldn't slug him in the face. But there's 50 people that could be mentioned.

5:06Dana Carvey:It's just people love to have lists. Yeah. I don't want Maya Rudolph to go, what's going on? But he's definitely up there. Well, he just, it's kind of like Will Forte. That middle knots, that early 2010 or 12, whatever. Knots. Had a lot. Knots is the grossest. I know. Had a lot of talent. That's why I listed all of them. And I forgot Maya Rudolph. There's a lot of talent. Where's that lady? Oh, my God. You guys, I've been here the whole time screaming. It was on fucking mute. Oh. I didn't want to interrupt you. I was like, oh, I guess they're going and riffing. I'll just sit here. You thought we were ignoring you You were a fly on the wall I was listening in You were talking about Maya Rudolph and the nots Or the aughts or whatever we're calling them And I literally was like oh I guess when they're ready They'll invite me in But these are like the high class problems Of our current world You're on mute I can't Your screen is off This is the new verbiage for us But I actually have been sitting here waiting To jump into to the double dutch um literally i'm so excited that you guys would have me are you crazy i love both of you so much i'm in i'm double dutching with you right now and i'm loving my wife said oh drew so sweet she's so fun has so much energy and i go you think i don't know i'll tell you what happens but already yeah exactly what she promised well she's so kind she's definitely right about the energy part i'm a lot i'm like a lab labrador in heat i like the heat yeah yeah i've heard people say that yeah i am i but like with uh yeah well that was my go ahead no go ahead i like the heat but then i when i'm happy when i'm intense i think i'm a whole other metaphor but when i'm happy i'm like labrador and heat panting probably trying to grab your leg you know interesting well i read i read um some things about you last night and it was truly impressive and exhausting how much you packed in so i mean my god labrador and he i'm going and how young you are from where i'm perched it's like damn you got if where does that come from where does the where's the motor to do all this and then become a producer and now this and I don't know.

7:33Dana Carvey:I can't even. Maybe maybe a hard question to ask more of an Oprah question or Larry King. I love it. I'm like, I did not expect the how do you do it question. That's traditionally a woman to woman. Oh, well, yes. And a mom working mom. Yeah. Yeah. I like like that. You guys are asking it because we're real thinkers, Drew. Well, we love we love women, basically. I, and I love, and I love funny men. So this is a match made in heaven. Um, I, I, I do it by burning the candle at both ends. Uh, I actually I'm here editing our next issue of a magazine, um, that we're making. And I, um, I, I think about, it's weird.

8:26A lot of people will ask that question and I think I've been so passive about my answer because my humility wants to go no no no I don't do that much let me turn it back to you yes um and um lately I've been for this magazine um and trying to think of uh some content for it I've been looking at the how and the we not the how and the I but I think that it's really messy and I was brought up sort of we all lived in that world where we would see those articles where people were like 8 a.m I drink my coffee and I do this okay Mark Wahlberg 2 a.m 10 30 I do this you know and I I never lived that life and it seems so type a and unattainable and i was more the you never know where the day is going to take you whimsical or i will burn myself to a crisp and then i'll find that pocket of rest and wellness somewhere else uh so i don't i don't know how anyone does it and if they do it in an organized fashion, they have my deepest respect.

9:41And if they feel like it all feels like putting out fires and kind of burning yourself out and it's all like a higgledy piggledy mess and it's super comedic and there are chickens running through the frame and like rando funny shit is going on that feels so true, um, to our, to my experience. And, um, I would never preach to anyone that I have it together or that I'm a blueprint. I am just a work in progress. And so far I'm, I'm, I'm shocked, uh, in some ways that like, I am a relatively healthy person because I feel like I don't live a very healthy lifestyle.

10:31Dana Carvey:Jeez, and that's been Drew Barrymore today. We appreciate it. No, listen. That's amazing. Go ahead. I have a question. No one argues that she's busy. Her IMDb looks like a CVS receipt. And if you could see her Zoom, it looks like house and garden. Me and Dana look like we're in a bunker in Kabul. Yeah, we're in a bunker. Her place looks gorgeous. She looks fresh as a daisy. Yeah, fresh as a daisy, gorgeous. Oh, boy. Because I have hair and makeup because I'm at the show. And by the way, on my headstone, we'll for sure say death by inspo because I'll have inspired myself into the brain. Like, I can't even look at a woman's shoe without going, do you mind if I take a quick picture of that?

11:12Because that color tone would just be so great for the packaging on the next thing I'm making. Like, I cannot, I can't stop. and sometimes I feel like I wish I could just like have like quick temporary you know I I think that's probably why I drank so much back you know most of my what do you mean you had a problem shut it down I was like just shut up dude at seven you were like I can't take it anymore dude you know what yeah yeah at seven i was paying the rent and that's a lot of stress

11:52Dana Carvey:that that yeah a fairly uncommon thing for a human being in america to be uh paying the rent at seven true i can relate dana i didn't tell you this i was a child star too i when i was uh my dad was in advertising he was like a madman type of guy and when i was i was five i was pretty cute i had a good run from five to eight so when i was five really i never heard this my dad goes why don't you be in this like taco bell commercial that we're filming because they were part of it he goes they need some kids we'll throw you in we'll give you 10 bucks and i was like holy shit so they they put 10 one dollar bills out for me on my desk i probably got a thousand but they kept it you know and they go here's your 10 and then i and then they took nine of it and i go so you already took a cut i'm sure before behind before i saw it then i get 10 and then you go we'll hold it and i go wait is what's going on and then i had a dollar left my god they go go nuts you guys i was like i hear that i was still i didn't put down my waiter's apron till 23 and a half you You guys start right out of kindergarten.

13:07Dana Carvey:Kindergarten. What a head start. Can I ask you a question, Drew? Because you kind of talked about it. Like Reese Witherspoon, okay? She's another, like, how does she do all that? And I heard her kind of own it, like in the way men can sort of own it. Like, okay, get out of my way. I can do anything, basically. Is it difficult for you to have that gear? Because people would say, I'm nice. They'd say, you're nice. But, you know, where do you have that part of you that has a ego, like can kind of yourself, give yourself a pat on the back? I don't. So that's why you just keep going. Yeah. And I hate those.

13:46And I know Reese. So I, you know, she's just incredible that she is a good, like hot question mark of how the hell does she do it?

14:01I feel like I had so much opportunity because of starting as a kid that the gender effect never had me. It never had my attention. It was squandered early because I started working as a baby and kept working. So I never had the anything other than I could do all these things. And they're my opportunities to screw up or make something of. And there were men and women giving me those opportunities. I just wrote the forward to the new ET book because it's the 40th anniversary. And I was talking about Kathleen Kennedy and Melissa Matheson. You know, I saw women at work. So I just really didn't have that.

14:53I need to be aggressive or act like a man to get anything done. I always felt permission to check in with my idols, the Go-Go's and Pippi Longstocking, who were all girl all the time, but they did everything that boys did. And it became my ethos on making Charlie's Angels was why do women have to pretend to be men in order to look strong and capable? Because the truth is in my world, if I was kicking butt with my girlfriends, we would totally be talking about last night's date while taking the bad guy down. And bad guy could be again, bad guy or bad girl. I've never been affected. Luckily, I've not had the unfortunate ingenue treatment of being held back.

15:43Or as I started a production company at 19, and we was really in the era of the power suit woman, I was like intimidated by that and just felt like, screw it. I'm going to be a girl with my corduroys and my transport backpacks. And the work is going to speak for me. And no man has ever kept me down. They've only helped give me opportunities as women have. And I'm just, I'm a girl. And I, I think the one thing that's always stuck out for me about men first and foremost was that like a lot of my comedy influence when I was young came from men. There weren't a ton of female comedians. Um, there's so many more now.

16:27I feel like the playing field is so much more equal. So I identified men a lot with funny and that was a good thing. I didn't think of men as my bosses or anyone who was going to hold me back or I had to be like them. I've had fortunate liberation my entire life like that. And I hate boss bitch. I hate it. Boss lady. It sounds like you're hanging a pair of balls on you with a bitterness. And I don't like that because I don't have one bitter bone in my body. However, if people have to put, you know, metaphorical balls on or a cape or do any mechanism to empower themselves that I stand back and do not judge because everybody has their process of how they get to bravery.

17:19Mm-hmm. She has the best answers. I know. Oh, my God. They're unreal. Oh, David Spade, I love you so much. I mean, my God. We have to talk about SNL. By the way, back to E.T., to have two women that high up in the chain must have been nice back then. And they must have had an even keel about them because you look up to them and you don't see them. I mean, there is equal up there with everybody that are running a huge, huge movie. that's good that's a good influence early on and steven spielberg was flanked by these two women frank marshall was there but kathleen kennedy and melissa matheson and uh so that was just for our viewers melissa wrote it she was married to harrison ford at the time um they were very close uh they had the script for years they were making the indiana jones movies they were all a tight-knit group and um she had this script it was called a boy's life and um and yeah that's what et was called yeah it wasn't called et until after the film was made i guess maybe in marketing i'd have to ask it was called a little gross monster for a little bit i heard cute little alien

18:39okay good so as dana ask her a question on snl what are you doing i i know i'm i'm so i'm so

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21:29Dana Carvey:For people who don't know it, you've hosted six times, which is a record for I'm tied right now. Tied with Candice Bergen? No. Nope, she's five. I think I'm tied with ScarJo, who I'm pretty sure is going to beat me because She's married to Colin, so she's got a fast track. We're going to book her for three a year. Oh yeah. And she makes, you know, big movies that are gonna, you know, I, I, I'm sure she's going to beat me and I love her so much. And we just did the show together. Um, and if anyone's going to beat it, but here's a record I do hold that. I, I think I will be, it will be bittersweet when it happens.

22:16Um, I am still the youngest in 1982 at seven years old. Yes. And that one's going to hurt. That's going to be a tough one. That's in really no danger. I don't know. I wonder, how has it not been taken? How the hell has that not happened? Well, because it's child abuse.

22:42Hey, kid, you're going to I can't even handle it. I was crying when I hosted and I'd done 200 shows. Yeah. You go back there and you're like, wait, what do I do?

22:50Dana Carvey:And the band's playing. It's terrifying. I'm 47 and I can't even. But was the monkey a surprise? Yes. Yes. The total surprise. It was a non sequitur for David. Yeah. Go ahead. Explain that. Tim Kazerinsky, who I had just an adorable crush on. I just thought he was the greatest thing since sliced bread. they didn't want me to have to deal with an opening monologue and they sort of addressed that in the monologue and they say instead we're going to do a Q &A with Tim and Drew weird to say your name and so he asked me questions on little index cards and I adorable And then at the end, he says, we have a surprise for you.

23:40And they bring out this monkey.

23:44Dana Carvey:Chimpanzee, yeah. I don't know what the point of it was other than to be the cutest thing and the most delightful surprise for anyone, let alone a seven-year-old girl. I remember so many different emotions. uh steven spielberg came and he's very much uh probably the only father figure i've really had in my life and he was very parental and uh on the show night he brought robin williams which scared me to death because i was so obsessed with robin williams and um that felt very intimidating uh to me and um who's blabbing yeah somebody's auditioning back there all right sorry um tell them you don't want to get spayed mad they're all right exactly um so um robin williams so robin williams um and it was such a weird mixed bag because the there i was in the opening scene which i didn't realize until way later how hard it is to get in the scene before the credits um Like I spent my young adulthood fighting to get in that opening scene.

24:57The cold open. The cold open. And I was in it and they all circle around me and I'm sad about something and they are rallying me up. And then they said, you know, would you like a glass of milk? And I remember my line was milk. I'm a Barrymore. I want to drink and make it a double. and um seven years seven boy little did i know how true that would end up you were like all

25:28Dana Carvey:kidding aside make it a double was there was there a family history of that at all or oh my god i mean they all died of consumption i literally my grandfather died of consumption um i think Ethel and Lionel were a bit more put together, but yeah, total hedonists and, um, and artists, um, and a long line of alcoholism and, uh, and yeah, so it's highly genetic, obviously. It is highly genetic, but I'm going to be the one who breaks that in our chain. Break it. Yeah. I haven't, I haven't had a drink in almost three years and, um, it's, it's a really good feeling. What's your happy place? how do you calm down then?

26:12Dana Carvey:Do you meditate? Do you take a bath? Do you run around the block? How do you calm that thinking brain without alcohol? I'm not sober. I don't work a program. I realized my relationship with alcohol was the most toxic one in my life. And when I'd been trying to master since I was nine years old and did start drinking. And that, yeah, I had to find a way I had to find a different way to live. And I can sort of trace every negative thing back in my life. And there's probably alcohol dancing in there somewhere. And it's like the best breakup I've ever had in my life. And it's so confident and quiet.

26:58And I have a bar in my house. I serve people drinks. I have no hangups about it i'm just like so psyched at this choice to finally cut this like cancer out of my life it's something excuse me well you feel better too i mean there's a lot of positives if you can get through it it's a lot of yeah upside and so how did you manage all these movies and this massive

27:21Dana Carvey:career while imbibing was it sort of binge drinking or would you how did people look the other way Um, I think, you know, when you do burn the candle at both ends and you are prolific, that's part of the fooling yourself. Like, but I'm doing all this work, so I'm functioning. Yeah. Um, and that was definitely my justification, but I was more of like, when I partied, I was the crazy one. Um, like I can think of another SNL alum, Chris Kattan, whose nickname and I for each other is rooftops. Cause we would get wasted and jump off my roof into the pool. and I had a lot of fun with it and there, there, there, it wasn't all bad.

28:05And then I think when kids came into my life, I realized that this was no longer sustainable and I made a hard choice and it's the best one I've ever made when it was just me and my life, I guess I didn't matter to myself enough to find the balance. My kids mattered more to me than I did. And I found the balance and it It didn't come easy and it wasn't pretty. And we all wish we had done things sooner, but I'm here and I'm so happy to be here. And that in itself, I think has replaced a ton of meditation and jogging and new agey stuff and self-help and self-care, just being a person who isn't corroded with guilt and dysfunction and blame.

28:51Like I had a bad girl narrative growing up. So every time I did something wrong, I went straight back to, well, you're a bad girl. So what the fuck else do you think? It's you. You're the bad girl. And if it's kind of your thing, like she's the drinker and the fun party girl, then you're like, it's already sort of factored in. So no one's going to get mad. That's kind of what they want. A hundred percent. I'm the good time girl. And I did have a good time. I wasn't willing to give it up for a long time. I was balancing it in a way where I was working my ass off. I work hard. I played hard and that was okay for 30 years.