In short
Theo Von and guests discuss Theo’s work and humor, plus behind-the-scenes stories from making the low-budget R-rated film Busboys (including whether it “feels like a documentary”), and Theo’s UFC/Dennis Miller connections. They also trade anecdotes about near-miss “molestation”/sexual-misunderstanding stories, comedy props, and writing/editing choices.
Guests (backgrounds)
- Theo Von (comedian/actor; known for distinctive “unicorn” humor; appears in Busboys and has worked with David Spade).
- David Spade (comedian/actor; longtime collaborator with Theo; discussed as highly aware and verbose; involved in Busboys).
- Dana (speaker; comedy/entertainment industry friend of Theo; mentions writing/production involvement and attending events).
- Dennis Miller (referenced; sat with Theo at a UFC-related event).
Key claims
- Busboys was written/edited with lots of back-and-forth; outdoor shooting forced reshoots and timeline jumps due to wind/fires.
- They don’t send the film to Rotten Tomatoes; they cite an audience score around 75.
- Dana White helped by running Busboys trailers during a UFC fight after seeing it was self-funded.
Notable examples
Theo’s “prison” and “pizzas medium” jokes during action scenes; mustache/hair “prop” anecdotes; Theo’s “no special” VIP drop-off story at a UFC event; Theo singing a Stagecoach song with Ella Langley (with lyrics on cards as backup).
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOIntroducing Theo Von and His Comedy Style
0:00 to 0:24
Theo discusses his approach to comedy and the importance of authenticity.
“You know what's the worst part of a race?”
Introducing Theo Von and His Comedy Style
0:26 to 1:25
Theo discusses his approach to comedy and the importance of authenticity.
“Well, he's taking his shoes off, and what are you doing?”
Hair and Props in Comedy
1:25 to 2:45
A humorous exchange about hairstyles and props in comedy performances.
“I thought y 'all were going to look worse, honestly.”
Stories of Unexpected Comedy Moments
2:45 to 4:00
Comedians share funny and awkward experiences from their careers.
The Nature of Fighters and Their Backgrounds
4:00 to 5:10
Exploration of the upbringing and behavior of fighters in the comedy world.
“it's so i don't know something about it it's so specific and gentle versus all their weird violence and just why would they need that information so theo's whole thing when there's questions that gets funnier.”
Memorable Childhood Stories
5:10 to 6:50
Theo shares a funny story from his childhood regarding an interaction with a comedian.
“A converted laundromat turned into a comedy club called The Other Cafe a corner of Carl and Cole right in the hate Ashbury.”
The Influence of Joe Dirt
6:50 to 8:30
Discussion about the film Joe Dirt and how it was perceived as a documentary by Theo.
“Now, what gentleman says to a new friend, you can take one here.”
Nostalgia and Missing Children in Film
8:30 to 14:00
Theo reflects on his childhood experiences and the impact of media representations.
“Are you going to come out of the closet at the end of this story?”
Reflecting on Joe Dirt's Documentary Feel
14:00 to 15:31
The hosts discuss their initial perceptions of Joe Dirt as a documentary.
“like heaven compared to my childhood but it's not a competition go ahead okay but anyway it's not a competition.”
Theo's Unique Humor and Performance
15:46 to 17:20
Discussion about Theo Von's humor and the impact of his performances.
“You know, when I heard about Theo, because they just said this guy is a mullet and that's, that's enough to get me in the building.”
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The Process of Writing Jokes Together
17:20 to 19:54
The hosts discuss their collaborative writing process and the spontaneity of humor.
“That's the beautiful thing about being Mexican.”
Memorable Mall Experiences
19:54 to 21:47
A comedic recount of childhood experiences in a mall setting.
“i don't believe the nice no it's a lie but i do sort of believe it look look kid we got to get you back to the mall, man.”
Encountering Celebrities and Viral Moments
21:47 to 25:11
The hosts share stories of interacting with celebrities and viral moments.
“because he had me on the hook and then uh I was like oh and I'm just bummed I didn't get a snow going out of the whole deal.”
The Experience of Performing with Ella Langley
25:11 to 28:00
Theo shares his experience performing with country star Ella Langley.
“They, she just, um, well, she and I are friends.”
The Role of Cue Cards in Comedy
28:00 to 28:59
Learn about the use of cue cards in live performances and comedic timing.
“I bet they've asked you, what did you say now?”
Reflections on Fame and Comedy
29:00 to 30:24
Insights into personal experiences of fame and the comedy landscape.
“I got to go to the 50th anniversary of the show.”
The Dynamics of Comedy Relationships
30:25 to 31:57
Exploring the chemistry between comedians and their unique styles.
“Yeah, you never expect what he's going to say, kind of.”
Memorable Experiences at UFC Events
31:58 to 34:14
A humorous recount of experiences at UFC fights and celebrity encounters.
“I go, actually it'd be great if you're going to the front.”
Creating a Movie: The Journey
34:15 to 36:38
The challenges and experiences involved in making a film with friends.
“It starts to get a little nerve wracking because you're stuck.”
Audience Reception and Reactions
36:39 to 39:20
Discussing audience feedback and reactions to a new film project.
“You know, I think it's, some of it probably seems easier than it is from the outside.”
Pop Culture References and Humor
41:50 to 42:00
A light-hearted discussion on pop culture and nostalgic TV shows.
“It's kind of like Highway to Heaven, you know?”
Nostalgia for Little House on the Prairie
42:00 to 43:26
The hosts reminisce about the classic show and its characters.
“They're redoing, I would have, and I love it.”
Meeting Childhood Idols
43:26 to 45:29
Theo shares his experience meeting cast members from his favorite show.
“And I was trying to, like, I wasn't trying to flirt with her, but I was like, I'll work at your house.”
Creating Comedy Specials
45:29 to 48:26
The hosts discuss the challenges and decisions involved in producing comedy specials.
“And some guy always come up and whisper in his ear.”
Collaboration in Comedy
48:26 to 51:46
Theo and Dana talk about the importance of teamwork and collaboration in their projects.
“you know communities you get used to doing everything by yourself kind of it feels like a lot of times well i understand podcast by yourself it's a hit uh stand up write it yourself it's a hit.”
UFC and Celebrity Encounters
51:46 to 53:09
The conversation shifts to UFC events and meeting celebrities in that realm.
“just like a lot of fun anything else for theo uh dana we can go on and on forever with this We go on forever.”
The Value of Hard Work
53:09 to 55:15
Dana reflects on the effort he puts into his podcasting and interviews.
“Nobody has like representatives or agents or man with that with them.”
Thoughts on COVID and Health
55:15 to 56:00
The hosts discuss perceptions of COVID and health-related topics.
“place for me to be even like with my thoughts or feelings.”
Discussion on COVID and Vaccines
56:00 to 57:12
The hosts discuss the complexities and experiences related to COVID-19 vaccinations and societal reactions.
“and he might go out in the secular world or the insular world.”
Reflections on Comedy and Its Evolution
57:13 to 59:05
They reflect on how comedy has changed over the years, touching on censorship and the quality of humor today.
“You can have 10 vaccines and four boosters, get and give COVID to another guy with 20 vaccines and 19 boosters.”
Creating Comedy Together
59:06 to 1:01:06
The hosts share their pride in collaborating on projects and the joy of creating comedy together.
“Yeah, and I've seen so much bad shit on some of the streamers that I think we're good.”
Jokes and Their Impact
1:01:07 to 1:02:04
A light-hearted discussion about the nature of jokes and the changing landscape of humor in society.
“You can just use them out in the real world?”
Transcript
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0:36To not get laid.
0:40Dana Carvey:So you never worked with props. Did you go through any incarnation? Were you dressed in something different, or you were always Theo right up? I mean, I've been a recovering drug addict most of my life, so that is the prop that never leaves your... It's always go-to-able. That's that monkey on your back if that's not a prop. I mean, David's the best to be around. Everybody loves him. He's the funniest. Everybody says he's the funniest. Mm-hmm. So how does that, when you hear that, Dana, how does that make you feel? Sorry to spin this back.
1:11Dana Carvey:Oh, holy shit. What's up, guys? I like your shot. See, why are we all tight up here, man? We look like dog shit. I don't like this. I'm on the bad side of 50. I thought y 'all looked better. I thought y 'all were going to look worse, honestly. Yeah. Oh, we got tools. We have tools. I knew you'd wear a baseball cap That's why I did this Oh thanks man Your hair is crazy In this movie Your hair is wildly Awesome in Busboys Yeah I mean it's pretty I mean it's definitely We cut it Didn't they put a lot of product in I mean it looks like extra extra I mean nothing like urban Nothing that would get me accepted In the urban community HBCU.
2:01Yeah, doesn't that would get me into it.
2:03Dana Carvey:Oh, I thought he said herb like in peppers or something. No. Pre-code. Nothing like. You look the funnier way. Theo has the hair for about six people. It's like there's a sprout over here and there's crops over here. It's just there's so much going on. But in the movie, I remember he came out one day with like a little stash. He's like, what if I had a little stash? And I go, yeah, that wouldn't be bad because it still looks like you. we don't want to shock people with a total De Niro transformation but then he came out a minute later he goes yeah I took it off I'm like okay this would have been good for Theo I wrote a character once in a movie that shaved his or took his eyebrow off and then put it down and pretended and glued it and pretended it was mustache oh yeah well we've all I think that's a common prison experience is people you know transferring hair amongst each other for you for different uses but i was on a cruise one time and they had like a costume party and we didn't have any um we needed a mustache and we didn't have any so this brazilian guy had a bunch of good hair and so he cut us off probably a couple grams of hair yeah and uh we have a baggie yeah just yeah just something to get us through the evening you know just under the legal amount I thought that would be a conversation stopper that no way Theo comes up well of course we had mustaches glued to us on a boat what are you talking about yeah there's a guy that had a mustache in the movie and when we we walk out of frame Theo goes I like he's got those prison curtains or something and I was like Theo always comes up with something to say prison and Dana was saying one of the big laughs because you know when Nate Diaz beats up the car we're not going to talk about the movie the whole time but when nate diaz beats up the car nate and chris and we're just standing there we have nothing to say other than just watch the action then theo goes hey fellas we're gonna get some pizzas medium pizza yeah that made me laugh out loud the whole thing because it's so i don't know something about it it's so specific and gentle versus all their weird violence and just why would they need that information so theo's whole thing when there's questions that gets funnier.
4:19Those guys were alarming, I think. Alarming is a good sedative word for what they were.
4:26Dana Carvey:Do they scare you for reals a little bit? Because don't they just punch people? I think they grew up in an asbestos home, maybe even lead. Yeah, heavy lead, probably. Pencils everywhere. Unlimited, probably boxes of pencils in the walls. Different kinds of fungus in the freezer. Fungi. Weevils, mold. who knows what's what they've been through yeah they've been through a lot but when they came to the set theo did get a little giddy it was like they're here so we went over there to make them feel at home like we do with everybody we come say hi and then that was the day they beat up someone and threw them in the trunk i don't know if they know they're not supposed to actually beat someone up so we have to say pretend beat up which is not really what they do and where are they from stockton is that what it's yeah they're from stockton and it is a it is a fist first community up there.
5:15That's what the license plate says. Pissed first in this town. So is San Francisco, shockingly.
5:26Dana Carvey:I was in the Haight-Ashbury. We were flowers first. Sorry. Yeah. You're on Polk Street? No. Yeah. Where were you down there? Were you down there? What were you doing on there? Canoodling down there under the bridge? A converted laundromat turned into a comedy club called The Other Cafe a corner of Carl and Cole right in the hate Ashbury. That was okay. I'm going to tell you a story, Dana and Theo, you can listen. Okay. You have 20 seconds. Um, when I was just a tyke and I came out from Arizona to stay at my mom's house and try to do standup. I, I had seen a comic in Arizona. The first one I saw do an hour.
6:06Don't guess. And he was great. And I was like, is he making this shit up? It's like comedy is so, I was only doing amateur nights, but I'm like, this is so crazy. see a guy do a whole hour i'd only seen guys on late night talk shows do five so anyway he talks to me my friend knows him he says if you're ever in la say hi of course i thirstily hit him up which is like the worst thing you can do because they don't really mean it but he's like hey let's go walk around westwood i drove my mom's rabbit you know we had a pretty cool car and so anyway we're there and he goes we should go see the wrath of con this is such a specific story i remember because it was traumatizing.
6:41Dana Carvey:Should we guess who the comedian is? No, no, no, no. But I want to guess. No, you both know. Okay, you'll figure it out. So then I go, oh, we're in Westwood. I got to run home. It's about half hour. I think I can make the movie. I got to take a shower. He goes, you can take one here.
7:01Now, what gentleman says to a new friend, you can take one here. But of course, me. Probably Kevin Spacey. I'm going to guess. I already put a guess in early. Don't jump ahead. Sorry. innocent sweet adorable me uh it's like tim dylan in the movie because we don't understand what's going on so anyway here i am he goes take a shower at my house i go oh no alarms went off no red okay so i go in the shower i hear fucking door open i'm like this it's like uh did you get the plus that you're finding everything am i finding everything i found the water coming down i found the soap he goes need any help i go help help what sir i've taken so many showers at this point i've almost got it down pat and he just stays in the bathroom the bathroom's this big and then the curtains here he's on the other side going so all systems go we're doing great we're gonna make the movie i'm like i can hear you from outside the door and then but of course no alarms looking back traumatized because then i finished and he lost interest in the movies like we can still go if you want i'm like was that was the whole point right and he goes no the shower was so um so he was native american i don't know i'm going slow motion like they do on instagram it's funny uh so we go to ratha khan which is fucking i won't i don't want to give it all away but
8:30Dana Carvey:Oh, I like that. Ricardo Maltobon. Are you going to come out of the closet at the end of this story? What is this? What I'm thinking is, ladies and gentlemen, the molestable David Spade. We did a movie show called The Molestables. I had two situations like that. Here we go. This is how it happens. This is how. No, it just kind of shocked me. It was just a comedian friend at my apartment, whatever. Yeah, see you later. Yeah, yeah. And then I take a shower. He's gone, you know, and then suddenly he's in the bathroom. Hey, what's up? I mean, same kind of story. I'm like, what? And then another one, I was in an apartment and this guy got the wrong idea.
9:14Dana Carvey:He was a script supervisor on a show I was doing. He knocked on the door. He walks. He's supposed to deliver a script. He walks right past me. There's a loft. He sits down on the bed, starts taking his shoes off. Just like that. And I had to kind of go, I think you got the wrong idea. I mean, what would you have said in that situation, Theo? I was tongue-tied. Well, he's taking his shoes off, and what are you doing? You're just kind of standing there, and what's your motivation in the scene? To not get laid? To gently explain to him, feeling mostly empathetic of like, you got this all wrong. I mean, he turned bright red.
9:52Dana Carvey:He was humiliated. You're still at the door. You're still like. No, I mean, I had my shoes off, too. Louie sat. Wait a second. It doesn't matter. No, but it was, I felt bad for him instantly. It was not, I wasn't leading the guy on a little bit. Yeah. It's hard to get someone out of a beanbag chair, to be honest. Yeah. You got to pull them. They got to roll off. I was clickbait then. I had blonde bangs. I looked like a child. Clickbait. I was so hot. I got kidnapped almost when I was in a mall when I was a kid. Cause I, no way I had a blonde long hair. I was about 10. Honestly, it was almost entrapment.
10:29I was so fucking cute. I look like early Home Alone, Macaulay Culkin, like the first one. And I was just like, tra-la-la, and this guy, I'll tell you later, Theo. Let's stay with this theme. No, but we're doing good here. But imagine. But we're doing good here. Let's stay with this theme. Go ahead. Imagine some pedophile picking up one of you chatty Cathy's, dude. they would have been like i gotta get they'd have dropped you back at the mall yeah we're in the van and he's like is this story almost over we gotta stop i'm like keep going around the mall dude i got more to say he's like oh boy this is one long run-on sentence yeah there's just no there's no perfect way to get sexually assaulted i guess is something to say you know and that i think we can all agree.
11:19Let's look at a clip. You think you guys would have made it in the Epstein files or not? Let's get real about it. Let's get political. Theo's whole thing is let's tiptoe into politics and then run away and go, what? It's like the water touched him. You fighting everything in there? You're walking him. You're walking the crowd. Dana, come back. Oh, he just went to the bathroom. By the way, when I first saw Theo Dana Oh there's Epstein he's got a little puppet
11:51Dana Carvey:Witness protection That's not Epstein I'm not Jeffrey Epstein This is crazy That's it So I wanted to use the puppets Let Theo know what's going on His show has no fucking puppets It's flatlining I love that I love the puppet idea You know what I will say this When I first started doing comedy You'd find more men with puppets and with onstage Annamalia, you'd find more men doing a guitar act. A lot of that has disappeared. That's true. A lot of song parodies I used to love. I had a trunk because Robin Williams had a trunk. I had a trunk. I'd go to a toy store and get things. I had a Gumby doll, and I would just hold it up and say, ladies and gentlemen, Gumby, and then I would just stretch it and go, ah, huge laugh.
12:45Dana Carvey:I see it. That's like a stretch Armstrong gum beef. So you never worked with props. Did you go through any incarnation where you dressed in something different or you were always Theo right up? I mean, I've been a recovering drug addict most of my life. So that is the prop that never leaves you. It's always go to a bull. That's that monkey on your back. If that's not a prop. Here's Theo's first stand up set. Hi. When I was in third grade, my teacher was an ocelot. Everyone's like, how many people were at this tiny town, Covington? Well, here's a, I will say this crazy story is that David shot Joe Dirt too in the town that I grew up in.
13:27Oh, that's right. Did you go watch the movie getting made? Were you just a little kid then or something? No, I saw the first one. I remember seeing the first one and I didn't know that whatever I'd watched it on, we watched it on an intercom. We didn't have regular audio at the house. sure and so we had a we watched it we had to listen to an inner well wait a minute
13:47Dana Carvey:the sound for the tv came over an intercom yeah because we lived in part of an old school yeah okay so go ahead well it was just the way it was set up look i just live there yeah all right you guys want to judge a child you guys want to judge a child but uh it sounds like heaven compared to my childhood but it's not a competition go ahead okay but anyway it's not a competition. But anyway, so it was hard to tell and everything kind of sounded like a documentary. So I remember the first time I saw Joe Dirt. I thought it was a documentary. I thought this young man had been left at the, um, it was like a date, almost like a Dateline episode or something that was really long.
14:25And it was like this young man had been left at the Grand Canyon by his family. Yeah. And so we were always looking for David when I was a kid. Like we were like, nice. Oh, trying to help out. Yeah. Like, has anybody seen him or whatever? We would draw pictures of him around town, like look for him or whatever. And, uh, But anyway, yeah. So when I so years later, I learned it was an actual film and that David was an actor. He let me down before I even met him. Yeah. Because, yeah, I was always one in the missing child spade. You know, the one that was just the chatty Kathy. Definitely more interesting.
14:56Chatty Cathy Chatty Cathy is a funny phrase but anyway so but anyway it was just ironic that years later he shot that in the town that I'm from and then years later that we became friends and that we wrote Busboys together
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15:54And I think I talked to Theo with Adam Egan and some other people in the hallway at the comedy store for definitely a long time before I saw his act. I already was in on his sort of unique unicorn type of humor, which you don't see a lot. You know, you see a lot of funny people, but you don't see like an interesting, more one of a kind thing. And then I was laughing anyway. And then by the time I saw his act, I saw you one time at that COVID in the round Sarah Teller show. What is that called? Oh yeah. Supernova. That place was crazy. And they're like, we're going to pay you like$2 ,000. We'll have to pay you at midnight.
16:32We're going to pay you. And it was always money. Yeah. It was like a Nigerian guy will email you. You're like, this is. Yeah. We're going to pay you in pecans, which are going up during COVID. And then he asked. Yeah. Wait, let me tell you one of his jokes, Dana. Let him do his story. I know. I like to interrupt him once in a while. Yeah, never mind. Then do it.
16:51Dana Carvey:If I get to five, I win something. It's a polymarket thing. Go ahead. I think, Dana, I was just saying early on, I think he's Nicaraguan. So he says, where are my knickers at? That was funny. And then I think you said something about if you were ever reincarnated. I was talking to someone about reincarnation the other day. And you know what? I think I'm going to do it. that was like funny that it was going to be your decision and then things you would come back as what race he asked somebody what race yeah would you come back and mexican is what i landed on after much landed on after much debate and discussion with my lord and savior i have if mexicans will have me that's what i'm gonna be next time yeah i think it's a good move that five two nation yeah dude that's it they are bro the five two nation dude you get to be the same hot as your girlfriend.
17:43That's the beautiful thing about being Mexican.
17:44Dana Carvey:Oh, it's a big advantage. Dude, Heather is laughing at every single one of your jokes. I know, it's great. This is the hardest Heather's laugh. Usually 20 minutes go by before we hear a giggle, but this has been a consistent... I look at Heather and she's like this. She's used to all of our stuff. Yeah, she's like this. No, he did that, and then even in Busboys, we're writing and putting together this stupid movie, but that's number four on Amazon. but also when there's some jokes in there that people were like did Theo just make that up I'm like some he did but some he makes up while we're writing it and they sound like they're just made up when Leah McKendrick who plays Romina who actually I don't know if you know this Theo she just wrote and directed a a rom-com on Netflix did she really?
18:35yeah voicemails for Isabelle it's number one right now on Netflix did you know that I don't know she was great in the movie but she we're introducing ourselves and she says i'm a sagittarius blah blah blah and then theo goes we're two adult males and yeah i see so anytime it's like that you know it's a theo joke because i wouldn't have written that joke for him i would he just says something different on almost every take and then you have to say which one should we use you know david has david has all the jokes in him right so you have to trick him you have to do something he's like oh i couldn't i wouldn't have done that right i think that's like a lot of ways with most comics they you have to find something that they like i don't know that's how comics get impressed like oh i that wouldn't have like oh he tricked me yes because i would have written something maybe more normal but that's the beauty of like there's some stuff that's more my humor and and the combo is more fun because theo is one of the funniest guys i know so so funny and so when he puts those things in there we just all laugh when we cut because you don't know what's coming out and that's what people i think wanted to see from him and that's the hard that's hard but he does a great job with that well that's nice of you yeah um i don't believe i i believe you believe what you're saying yeah i don't believe the nice no it's a lie but i do sort of believe it look look kid we got to get you back to the mall, man.
20:02This is kidding. Dude, there I am in the mall. That's your happy place. Yeah. My mom would drop us off. You know, in those days she dropped us off at 10 AM, pick us up at six. I mean, a good eight hour chunk. She gave me a quarter in case everything went sideways, but, but no one blank. There was no moms on Facebook going by. I saw Judy Spade dropping. No, no one gave me fat fuck. And they were like, what a great idea. Get rid of these fucking kids yeah the mall was so fun i wound up in the card store and for some then my mom came in a few hours later i don't know she's in there and this guy who's like 50 which is not old now it's not old to that to when i'm 10 it's old and not my type at all he comes up and he goes hey are you hey do you want to go uh do you want an ice ice cream cone and i go and i go could it be a snow cone?
20:59First of all, I'm like, no, no, ice cream. Like, why am I bartering? It's like winning the lottery. Of course I won it. There's no red flags. There's no tingling. So I go, of course. And I go, could it be a snow cone? And he goes, uh, okay. What are you waiting for, sir? I'm going to be chained to a radiator in five minutes. There's no ice cream or snow cone. What do you care? And the second he talks - It's hard to eat ice cream by a radiator, too. Yeah, and it's all hot and it's melting. Gotta eat it fast. I'm like dude you waited a hair too long because then my mom says hey and I go oh there's my mom real quick I should get my windbreaker and he goes no no no and I go hey mom I'm gonna buzz by this guy with his band we're gonna grab and she's like no you're not and I go hey dude mom says no go and he's like like we had a deal but I didn't know how traumatizing it was for him because he had me on the hook and then uh I was like oh and I'm just bummed I didn't get a snow going out of the whole deal.
21:55Yeah, dude. Well, you hate to lose a good kid that you don't know that well. That's got to be tough for that guy. Yeah, when you're just... He could have been innocent. But it's got to be a lot for those guys to drive all the way over to the mall, you know what I'm saying? Clean out their van first, probably some of them, I mean, the decent ones. Just the gas. Yeah, the gas alone of being... Because then they got to drive you a hundred miles at least after. Oh, yeah, we got to drive in circles while I yap a fucking blab-a-lanche. So what happened like the next weekend
22:23Dana Carvey:At the mall with you I don't know either I wasn't as hot I don't know But I wasn't getting the attention I deserved Oh I got a funny story about Theo So we're at this Netflix brunch A couple weeks ago At Ted's house Oh yeah dude it was crazy All of like the people you ever even have seen That made you laugh were there Everybody from comedy was there Just standing around dude And Dana was invited, just so the record knows. Ted even hit me up twice and said, bring Dana, bring Dana. And I said, you were actually maybe going to be in town, Dan. And then you couldn't be. I've weirdly injured my back because I was traveling so much.
23:03Dana Carvey:Oh, that's right. That's right. And all the suitcase stuff, a rolling suitcase on carpet for a half mile. Carpet is the worst. So then I found out about this guy who could have just do all that in Malibu. So that's why I wasn't there. I would have been there. I would have dominated. Oh, yeah. You would have. so here's me and Theodore and then uh and uh Bobby Lee and then we see Kate Hudson and so oh yeah she says I've seen that guy on something and I said yeah I go I go you should meet him he's really nice so I say Theo you want to say hi and here's where Theo cracks me up again he comes over he's kind of got his arms straight and stiff total weirdo and then she goes oh hi blah blah and then he's like where are you from Covington blah blah talk talk and then we're under of this tent where it's only like 70, but outside of the tent, he's standing in the sun and it's about 90.
23:55Right. And she goes, you look high. You have long sleeve black shirt on. He goes, yeah. And she goes, it's colder under the tent. He goes, yeah, I know, but, but there's no signs. There's no signs to tell you it's colder under the tent. Oh yeah. Well, that's a problem. That's why I prefer graffiti. I prefer areas with graffiti because you get more information. That's why i like living in those neighborhoods so that was cool bro meeting kate hudson dude yeah oh my god yeah theo is the belle of the ball we go around and all these cute girls like is theo coming i'm like who cares about theo yeah he's in the bathroom right now touching himself give him a couple minutes give him a second by the way before you get through he likes dudes I don't like dudes but I saw you singing with Ella Langley who's this really pretty country star Dana he was a stage coach and uh and she invited him up and he he jumped around a little fruity at parts but overall he was with a girl so it was sort of cloaked a bit and uh that was good and it was viral because everyone's like where's Theo he's at stage coach I heard I go look at this guy the boy can get around.
25:11What happened there? How did that happen? They, she just, um, well, she and I are friends. And so then she, well, she'd invited me to do her, like the part in the song is a man's part. Okay. So you got to get a man. And then they, uh, she'd offered it to me a couple of weeks earlier at some other place at, um, the Ryman here in Nashville. Yeah. And I wasn't ready. I didn't, I didn't, I hadn't practiced my lines. So then, um, anyway this story is bad but i saw her uh we're doing a commercial right now okay i saw her not long after that and she goes well if you're i wish you're gonna be at stagecoach next weekend because i'd have you read the lines over there and i said well i'm gonna be over there and so that was that and so then yeah they just yeah it was it was it was cool out there dude i've never been a singer because i'm not a singer yeah could you i didn't see it because i i'm i'm i'm in a
26:07Dana Carvey:other age group but did could you give us a sample of the song could you give us just about three or four minutes three or four what just like one line like what was it like i love you baby or what no it's uh let me think oh it's like um well i walked into a bar and across the uh right across the tracks um or i was like i walked into a methadone clinic and right across the tracks it was no hold on let me think that i just turned my chair around okay oh that means i like you no i'm liking this yeah i like this is i've never heard theo sing this that's and that's what we don't want to get to here that's what i'm avoiding okay well theo didn't you talk a little and then you sing is that how it is yes you have to talk it's like i'm you know i walked into a bar and the prettiest little thing i'd ever even seen in a pair of boots and she and she looked at me and uh i looked at her yeah something like that i can't remember i don't know the lines right it's like johnny cash it's basically johnny cash yeah very much it's john yeah it's johnny some currency um i don't know if it's a u.s dollar johnny pesos it was a guy from latin america he did a good job people loved it and um i will tell you viral yeah i will tell you a funny story about it though my friend wrote the cards he wrote all the words down on the cards right so he's standing right off stage with the words because we've been we've been practicing you know because you up there with ella lyingly man and she knows what she's doing she's professional yeah you know and i'm amateur and so my buddy we've had him write all the work we wrote all the lyrics on the cards so he's standing off stage with all the lyrics well he starts getting mad but when i got there i felt good and i felt some confidence so he's standing off stage and he starts shaking the cards like bro look at the cards and i'm like i'm trying to give him like i don't need the cards you know but he got upset that i didn't like wasn't he kept like like shaking it oh yeah it's like dude i'm not looking at the cards because i don't need the cards yeah i got it yeah your second it's your your backup yeah yeah yeah you're there in case of emergency yeah in case of emergency but it is scary it's better it's like snl you know you have cards if you need them and uh you don't want to have to go to them did you guys ever get stuck in a spot where you had to go to the cards or was that pretty common i think we're always on cards to be honest well you go to the cards a lot i once once i was playing keith richards and i took such a long pause but i did it for comedic effect but the card guy was doing what your guy did he's shaking it and point at it.
28:45Dana Carvey:Come on! He thought I spaced out. Yeah. We got to get you hosting SNL. I can't wait. I bet they've asked you, what did you say now? I don't remember. Yes, Theo. I guess it was no. You didn't do it. I don't remember what happened exactly. I did get to go over there one night. I got to go to the 50th anniversary of the show. David was there. Who else was there? Bill Murray was there. Were you there, Dana? No, I kind of felt like you were my surrogate. When I heard you were going, I figured Theo's my guy. He represents me that night. You took your spot. No, I wasn't there. Dan Aykroyd, Bill Hader, and I watched it together.
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29:29That's weird. Why wouldn't y 'all just go there instead?
29:32Dana Carvey:No, I was - Theo, don't dig too deep. Okay, sorry. I was getting over. I was still not feeling 100%. I had the flu, wicked flu. That's the real story. Not very exciting, but how - where are you in your fame ladder right now? Like, seems like when I first, you were on David's show, like how big were you when you first went on lights out? Well, where were you? Like, was that a big deal to go on David's little show? I mean, did anyone ever see it? It was fun. I don't know if anybody saw that show. I think some people did. No, I'm kidding. I love this show by the way. Yeah. I thought the show was good for sure.
30:09I mean, David's the best to be around every, everybody loves him. He's the funniest. Everybody says he's the funniest. so how does that when you hear that dana how does that make you feel it's hard to spin this back
30:20Dana Carvey:because you're so really be so close to being that fun really angry and then sad and then i just practice gratitude i take deep breaths gratitude no one you have your own lane no one does what you do theo so you're the funniest guy who does what you do does anyone do what you do David has his own soft, very verbal patter that's really lo-fi, but very funny all the time. Yeah, you never expect what he's going to say, kind of. And he just knows so much, and you're shocked by how verbose his awareness of things is. Oh, my God. He's probably one of the most aware guys. You mean about darkness and stuff?
31:03Dana Carvey:Well, oh, yeah. I'm not even sure what verbose means. Yeah, I think it's kind of. That was a good one, though. I think it's speakers. We're selling speakers. But no, just his awareness. He's so up on just whatever the current events are. He just has all the patterns. He's got patterns. Yes, he's very Dexter. He doesn't just bring one weapon to the thing. Dexter always had a ton of weapons. Thank you. He'd be the Michelangelo of killers. Right. You never got to hang out with Dennis Miller. You would like that, too. dude i did one time oh you did okay it was the best i got to sit right in between them dude oh yeah so they would go like that right yeah best threesome i've ever been in honestly yeah it was dennis mumbling jokes on one side and me on the other and we were all hilarious and uh i mean we were all laughing the whole time because theo says stuff and theo's like new to the whole thing and just everything is fun and exciting i theo i went to the ronda rousey fight i don't think i don't think you were there but i was in the second row dana white always puts in the front row and it's such a world of difference because the second row i told dana i had michael irvin in front of me all it takes is one person it's over like he stands up it's like full eclipse i'm like is the fight still going on because he stood up for anything they tie the gloves up that's end of round up beginning round up i'm an athlete yeah so that and when john's bones jones was there too oh yeah well he's tall what a badass so anyway uh theo and i'd gone to the fights a few times that one time we got lost theo got frustrated because um i had a driver but the guy wasn't there we were late his driver spoke a language that no one's ever spoken no and it's not even racist because i never saw his face so i'm not but i was in the back and i thought it my driver but i didn't know theo called an uber so we're in the suv and i go just go to the back entrance like we we said and then he goes oh no that's for special and i go what no i know we're going to back he goes no that's vip special i go well what about us we and he goes you're no special yeah he kind of glanced and he goes nah no special here and then we go no no we're getting more mad because he won't.
33:25I go, actually it'd be great if you're going to the front. We need to go to the loading dock. He goes, no.
33:30Dana Carvey:Very special. This is just a recreation of what happened, but it's not. I was showing him pictures of David in all his Dickie Roberts. I'm like, is this Dickie Roberts? That's not the one to ring the bell. Anyway, he goes, he's in sitcoms and stuff and movies. He goes, oh, you're in a sitcom now? I go, yeah. Well, not the second. He goes, no special. And we got out in the street because we weren't getting even close. And then we got out. And I think that was the first time I realized how famous Theo was because so many people were coming up, especially at a fight. And we had to wait for them to send someone to give us our tickets.
34:11And people kept coming up. And it's the first time where you can see it for both of us. It starts to get a little nerve wracking because you're stuck. You can't keep moving. because we're waiting so then he goes let's just walk to the back and i'm like well they're not gonna we may might not let us in and then we're gonna there's already the guy at the front with our tickets so we sat there and everyone means well it's just when they get around you because they're fight fans you know and they're bored and we're just standing there's like hey blah blah right yeah everybody was kind of bored it was just like yeah you're just waiting in line kind of so it was like a lot of um but that driver he just did not think we're special enough to drop us off in a decent area.
34:53Yeah. And he kind of dropped us off in like a used person area. I was like, that's even worse than just regular. He goes, how about this part of the median? I'm like, yeah, that guy. Yeah. We got out in the middle of the street. Yeah. But David, David, like knowing David has been such a, like just even getting to go to UFC. Like I got to sit in the front row because of David. That was awesome. You know, just some of the relationships that I got to build over there. Dana White did a really nice thing for our movie, actually. Oh, that's right. I don't even know if we can say it or not, but he saw that we had made it ourselves and made it with our own money, and he called us one day just out of the blue.
35:33Can we even say that, David? I think so. Yeah, he doesn't care. We can cut it. He said he was going to make some commercials for us and put it in some of his fight. During the fight before the main event. And then I forgot because I thought, oh, what if it doesn't happen? I don't want to say anything because also he's the boss, but you know, whatever. And then my friends are like, I'm watching the fight, dude. They're showing bus boys trailers. That was really cool. Dana. Cause they, cause Theo originally, when we were looking for money, I tried Dana. Cause I'm like, Dana White's rich and this is his bar tab.
36:07So I can just ask for a little bit. And he goes, you know, I don't mind this idea. Let me talk to my guys. Give me a couple of days. And then Theo goes, Hey, Oh, I just got a guy that's going to do it. So I called that. I said, Dana, don't worry about it. And then, uh, so that's, he was kind of aware of it. He hadn't even read it yet. He just goes, Oh, I like the idea of you and Theo, uh, doing a movie. And then we had a guy Ezra and then we, we kind of got it going then, but, uh, it was, it was a long road, but yeah, it was a lot. I mean, I'd never done it before. It's a lot of work. It's a lot of stuff that you guys do.
36:41People don't realize a lot of it. You know, I think it's, some of it probably seems easier than it is from the outside. Um, but yeah, putting it all, putting it all together. I mean, we put it all together. I couldn't even believe it was real. I mean, writing it was one thing. It was like we would keep finding ourselves in these problematic areas with the script where things didn't make sense. And I think some of the movies still doesn't make a little bit of sense. Yeah. But that's fine. You got to suspend disbelief, right? Well, for that low budget, I've never done for that low budget. And you don't get a full timeline on that.
37:11I mean, we had the problem with Joder too, where they were taking out budget during the shoot, which is impossible. Me and Fred are going, wait, we have to lose a set piece. Well, that brings us from here to here. So that was a time jumping because we had to. Because we're like, then I jumped ahead three years. And everyone's like, huh? But we had to. But this one, it was just, they had the fires were going and it was a lot of wind one day we couldn't really shoot. yeah and it's just those things when you're outdoors and um it's very calm complicated and we weren't screening it so we just were like asking two people we knew does this make sense to you and then we figured out a few questions and we went back and reshot a half a day and just said this will answer a couple things and so far honestly theo i get probably 80 percent people that it's almost like they really like it or hate it it's there's almost no in between I mean, these people that love it and watch it four times.
38:13And then there's about 10 % that absolutely fucking hate it. And it's not even a toss up. They're like, this is the word F minus. They don't need to throw the minus. We've talked about this. F is fine. Just go to G if you're going that low.
38:29Dana Carvey:Yeah, make it a musical scale. Do you have a Rotten Tomatoes score? Do you have a score on Rotten Tomatoes? No, thank God. Because we have an audience score. They said there's not enough reviews. not enough reviews to get on wrong because yeah because that's good or bad it's good that's i don't know what it is i never heard of it before well studios send it to be seen and screened and we don't send it to anyone yeah so there's like internet people that go hey i just saw it and they'll might say something but it's not enough for rotten tomato so we just have like a 75 audience. Really? That's pretty good.
39:10I think that's good. That's like 75 % of my family liked it. 25 % were like, shouldn't be doing this kind of stuff. We thought you were doing stuff with the church now.
39:18Dana Carvey:Yeah, this was, didn't pull punches with the R-rated. You guys, did you write stuff and go, oh, we can't do that? Was there anything off limits? The greatest thing about the writing was we would get into some real cul-de-sacs and I would literally tell David and it would seem like he was not going to be able to get us out of it and then he would come up with the idea and he'd like no that was back and forth we started i was the right i yes i wrote it but most of the i was the stenographer i was the court reporter that's what i was well you need someone to physically do it and sometimes i i'd say that was me i was the minor david was the jeweler you know the guy you know he was the guy with the you know he was the guy with all the gems i was just the guy who was like writing in a lot of stuff.
40:01Theo's on the road and we get on the zoom, but we did laugh our fucking asses off. And it's funny. If you see a scene, it's not that funny. Me and Theo are like, ah, that's so great. And people are like, is it? But you know, you write it and it goes through different form. Then we're like, oh, we hit a wall like shit. Well, how do we get the drugs and how do they,
40:19Dana Carvey:how did you come up with the, I don't, for the people who haven't seen it, but the acidy thing of where you have that thing in your car and it identifies what kind of animals you're hitting. Like that was that whole sequence was very like, like rodent radar. Yeah. It's not fair that we live in 2021 or whatever. And you look and you're driving and you don't know what kind of animal you just hit. Yeah. It's not fair. Where's Tesla? Where's the future? What is this? A little house on the prairie? Like, well, thank you. Like what is going on? Right. Because we were hitting things, but we didn't realize they were drinking water.
40:59that was laced with cocaine. I don't think anyone realized that at the end of the movie. Yeah, I know. We haven't looked this up. It's kind of smart when you realize that's what it is because the cocaine is getting lost in the water and broken up. Yeah, there was a lot of things people didn't figure out. Yeah, there's some unanswered questions. People are clamming for a sequel. They're like, just so we know what's going on.
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41:55It's kind of like Highway to Heaven, you know? Yeah, exactly. It had one good season. They're redoing, I would have, and I love it. I would have, and yeah, Michael Landon? They've tried to redo it. I will say this, that they are redoing Little House on the Prairie. It's coming out on Netflix soon. They're going back to 1980.
42:16Dana Carvey:70s, late 70s. Yeah, that'd be great. They just had people that that's how, they're like, here's how we live, Paul. Let's go to the mall, Paul. It's fun to play a character that says Paw I like Paw Like the blind girl Mary Yeah well she got kicked by a horse David Is that that's not what happened She got acid thrown on her by a She got acid what do you think she was at like a What like one of those like a Rufus DeSalle concert or something she was robbed About oh she was Yeah she's robbed of her pelts And they threw acid I don't know I'm trying to get us out of this I'll just be in the audience for a second what are you guys talking about this is how this is like the movie yes we're writing the movie no but this was this was true though i had to show up in winnipeg last year and um i had to show up in winnipeg last year and after the show they're like uh some of the cast of little house on the prairie is here they would like to say hello and i was like they would like to say hello dude and i watched every episode i'd read the books so um i even met nelly olsen at a starbucks when i first moved to LA.
43:23I was there for like two weeks. Villain. I know. And I was trying to, like, I wasn't trying to flirt with her, but I was like, I'll work at your house. I'll do whatever you need or whatever. You know, like I'll put, I'll put stuff on the shelves at the mercantile. I'll do whatever you need. Right. But, um, anyway, they said the cast of Lost in the Prairie is there. And the, the lady that played the mother, they're like, this is the lady that plays Ma. And I gave her like the biggest hug. Like I was like this kid, like, like, like idolize this like character when I was a kid, you know, anyway, she's cute too.
43:52Um, yeah. Yeah, she's a really nice or cool actress. Crosby is her name. Fitzgerald, maybe, I think, is the actress. Oh, the original one, but the new one is named Crosby Fitzgerald. Oh, you know, Nellie Olsen should be on Villains, that show. Is that what the show's called, Heather? Villains? Yeah. She was a good villain. By the way, Theo, this is off the record, but I got offered a gig in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Do you know where that is? Yeah, I haven't been there, though. I'd come, though. How far is it? An hour from you? Probably 40 minutes. I've got 40 minutes. I'll do it. I thought it was way far.
44:25They said,
44:25Dana Carvey:wait a minute, you're going to advertise this and say, uh, my friend Theo's going to drop by. I mean, no, he's not. I'm just asking how far he's from Smashville. I'll jump on if he's out of time. I want to go to that zero tax state, man. What am I doing? that's the only bummer about LA. I love LA. Theo has a little place here in Westwood, right? Yeah. But he's 181 in Tennessee. Yeah. Yeah. 181 days. So much money. he's like Scrooge McDuck. He just sits on a pile of money every night. That is not true, dude. I wish I could have some more money, but I just don't have any more. If I had yours, I'd throw mine away.
45:04No, but Theo. I'm with you, Theo. Dana, Theo has a special coming out. Do you have the name of it or when it's coming out yet? We haven't decided on the name. I'm trying to figure that out right now. You guys have any ideas?
45:17I might pick one of them, actually, if you guys come up with a good one. Oh, yeah, that's a good idea. And David also looks like David Duchovny today, which people, we should say that. Oh, yeah. For people that aren't watching. You mean it's not David Duchovny? Slick today. People confuse them a lot. I've been with them before. Yeah. You know? And some guy always come up and whisper in his ear. He's like, they're out there, aren't they?
45:38Dana Carvey:How about this for a title? What's up, y 'all? All right. And what other? I wanted to think of the worst title possible. What a scribbling amount. I want to think of a title where you would I already used that one we were going to call this podcast Rackham that was David's what do you say after you knock a ball in a cube Rackham what were your previous specials names dang I cannot even remember right now No Offense was one of them yeah it's not very good And the other one was called Yes, I'm called Yes, I'm about some taken. Yeah, that's pretty good. Yeah. Some taken. That's another X-Files reference, isn't it?
46:27David Duchovny. I believe that's about people getting abducted, dude. It never ends today. Working it out, y 'all. Working it out, y 'all. No, no snap to it. No, I think it's good, man. I just I look. Yeah, I don't know. I got to listen to one more time. I've been doing the editing and stuff. no that must drive you fucking bonkers well it's all ball i mean it's just like i mean even with busboys it was like we had to do a lot of the you know we had editors we had a um a great director and it's like we had great people but in the end if you're like producing it and stuff you kind of have to make a lot of choices and you know it was tough so we would go back and forth dan like he made it in the edit for a while yeah and then we look at it and then we go but i was always careful Like if it's a Theo joke, I didn't want to just take it out unless I was like, oh, I don't think he'd want this one in, but sort of you want to go.
47:22I don't want to be in charge of his joke in case he likes it. But if he took one of mine out, it's either to cover each other to make sure you don't look stupid, but some are so weird. There's a thing where you're, you're with the guy in the wheelchair and you're going on and on. And that's some people's favorite thing. and you just made all that up while you're doing it. Commitment. Yeah, I think I probably could have had a better, I get used to editing just my own podcast. So we'll go through, you know, I'll watch everything and I'm sitting there giving notes. And so I probably could have done a better job.
47:54I think I probably, there was probably some of David's jokes. I was like, I don't think he, I know for sure. I like, and I was like, probably should have asked him, uh, before just like taking some assumptions. Um, but then there were some parts it was like, I just don't, maybe this angle doesn't look great or something. It's like, you want to make your boy look good. um and then but yeah i i learned a lot man i learned a lot about like i don't know sometimes you want to learn lessons easier ways you know but you learn them when you're in the fire you know and it's like i think i could have been a better teammate at times i get used to like doing you know communities you get used to doing everything by yourself kind of it feels like a lot of times well i understand podcast by yourself it's a hit uh stand up write it yourself it's a hit.
48:40So even though we're good together, it is hard to say, Oh, even forget us to say, let's set dressing deal with the plates because we're both going, do these, do these make sense? You know, and you kind of start second guessing every department is almost too much to worry about. And that drives people crazy. And then dailies are coming in, which look bad because they're so confusing. Now that's one more thing spinning in your head. And then we're, it's just all hard. and uh but i do like the final product and going back and forth and saying like i would call it you and say hey can we put this back in or did you like this or were you on the fence about like that kind of stuff and then so by by the end we're both like okay this is it we like it and then whatever happens happens so i just like having it floating out there and then kids can watch it or mostly under eight years old is probably our class yeah it's for kids it's for kids who are getting and dropped off at the mall who are just burning time until they meet someone until they meet their someone or they get a snow cone by other means yeah david had some of the best choices there was like this steve steve thing it's in the beginning that i was like i don't get it but then that was one of the biggest laughs in the theater you know um and i like that i like that moment and and i was like i just don't i don't really see it that way but we're in there and people die laughing and that was like a big moment for me it was like dude you sometimes you do not know what you're doing well you never know until you see crowds they laugh at something you don't think like a cutaway joke but even i like when we're looking at the uh the wedding ring and it's so tiny the diamond and you're like which one's the front i'm like i think i saw it earlier where's the diamond oh oh here it is you're like yeah that's a marriage metal oh yeah that's a real but when i say you keep i remember that we're like he's trying to help me out he's like this girl likes you still i go but she doesn't even text me back and she went to palm springs like yeah because that's suspense haven't you heard of jaws what a dumb and you go we're saving private ryan i'm like well jaws sort of makes yeah sure it was dumb dude it was fun uh i'm trying to think of another really oh my favorite scene is probably david in the bathroom with tim dylan i think that's just such a good when he's like make your favorite face you mean he's like and he's like fuck yeah yeah they had some funny angles
51:08Dana Carvey:on david with that you know bugged on they're coming down on me like this also tim's face and then theo you put in a few extra shots because you're listening and those are funny cutaways because you're doing different faces you're like sort of agreeing and you're like then you're back and so that combo was fun we did it when he says hey i'm not gay and you're like oh no i'm not what do you think we're here to suck your dick and you're like i can't even suck my own dick what a dumb thing to say and we all laugh no i know i can't i'm not gonna walk around through life pretending like i'm a guy and blow himself no you showed us at lunch you can't yeah that's not who i am you proved it um uh it was it was a lot man thanks you thank you david for just like a lot of fun anything else for theo uh dana we can go on and on forever with this We go on forever.
51:59I know this is more fun. I didn't know. I'm not on SNL, so I haven't been able to come on here. No, this is our first time with Theo. We talk a lot all the time.
52:07Dana Carvey:Oh, we have people that have never been on SNL all the time now. That was kind of early. But it started off as an SNL only. It was very exclusive. Right. Then we ran out. It was the Mar-a-Lago. Yeah, it was. It was. We came out with 10 bangers, 10 all-time greats. And then, you know, it's been a little pull up, pull up. by the way we i just saw you didn't go to that ufc fight i think you're working on the uh reflecting pool yeah i was probably doing something yeah i think i was busy yeah you're busy i think i was busy but i thought it was what i thought that they did a great job i thought it was really amazing that dana white gets things done he's a guy that continues to get he's a good dude he says he's gonna do um yeah he's not a big bullshitter i i'm gonna probably go to that I might go to the Conor McGregor.
52:54At least I'm going to watch it. That one's coming up. You know where that one is? I believe that's in Las Vegas. I'm going to try to go to that one. That'd be awesome. But yeah, even just to be welcome at those things is pretty special, man. I've met a lot of amazing people over there. And then you all have this thing in common. Yeah. Nobody has like representatives or agents or man with that with them. So you just like, you can just meet people and talk to them. And everybody has like the fights in common. That's been something special. Yeah. And getting to go with David. Dude, David took me to meet freaking Drew Brees one time at a party in his freaking backyard in Scottsdale.
53:27That's right. Wow. It was a big. Who's? It was Kurt Warner's house, right? Kurt Warner had a party. Yeah. Kurt Warner has a half of a football field in his own yard. Fuck, that guy's rich. It was five acres. I'm like, God dang, what happens? I was in Scottsdale. Everybody got rich. Yeah. That was a lot of fun, though. They were all nice, all those football players. And Steve Mariucci was there. Mooch. Oh, that's right. I've seen him since. Mooch Well We will keep you You're a good guy That Hawaiian shirt Looks very BLM dude I wore my freaking Tom Selleck For you guys today Nobody even called it God there was
54:01Dana Carvey:Oh yeah I'm seeing it now How did we not mention BLM When you were wearing Tom Selleck's shirt I know TLM dude And he passed away Huh Who Tom Selleck I don't think so Oh No maybe Magnum Did in the show Oh Somebody oh wow you really brought somebody passed away third season of mega mean today funeral feed no my funeral feed is sorry oh you get you got a funeral app i got a bad yeah i'm getting we're getting some bad intel on it yeah okay um well dana the only thing i wanted to say is your podcast the amish boy you interviewed and some of the ufc fighters it's extremely high skilled interviewing and and it's it's just great content i love to i love your lane what you do that no one else does i mean there's rogan and stuff but you do have your own style and it's you were so gentle with that boy and kind i i don't know just just putting some sugar out there just saying hey what's up you know well thanks dude i appreciate it yeah i don't really know what my lane is sometimes i know that i work really hard um it's almost all i do most of the time you know it's like the safest place for me to be even like with my thoughts or feelings.
55:19I put them into work because I feel like it's just, I know there's a potential return there, you know? So sometimes I wish I could do a better job of putting like that same energy into like, um, other fields of my life probably, but it has been great, dude. It's been great just to sit and talk with people to learn how to listen. I've done that, been able to do that a little bit better over time. Um, you know, I'd like to be able to just like, yeah, sometimes you want to have fun, but sometimes you want to talk with somebody, something that means something. And they let me talk to children, which is nice.
55:46And so, you know, that Amish boy, who knows what happens to him? He might end up, you know, you know, you know, we don't know how it's going to go for him. We hope he does well. We hope he stays over there milking with the boys or whatever. And I don't know what that term means in some communities, but, um, but he might give up and he might go out in the secular world or the insular world. I can't remember what it's called. Yeah. And live at a Dave and Buster's and drink his life away. You know, I don't know what he's going to do.
56:11Dana Carvey:All scenarios are very, he was pretty poised for his age. I got a good feeling about him. Where did you find that dude? He's really fallen off the cow's back since then. That's what that's. He's not going to die by nail gun. Not an Amish community where they build everything with like chewed up gum stuck together. They haven't done. I don't think they even got COVID or something. They really stay out of the fray. Yeah. Cause it's not, well, it wasn't real. That's a new thing. I don't know if you read Tulsi Gabbard's new report, but, uh, it's, it's sitting on my desk. I haven't read it yet. Ta-da.
56:45So interesting. interesting. Here's my question. If people didn't die COVID, what did they die? What happened? Yeah. Dana will tell you because he does Fauci. Oh, he does? Tell him about the shot. Oh,
56:57Dana Carvey:do this. Yeah. Do that. Well, this was when, yeah, the, uh, people were getting their shots. They were timing their shots because the thing kept mutating, you know, and Fauci had to come out. I know. I told you when you got the vaccine, you'd be dancing in the streets. I missed it by a little bit. You can have 10 vaccines and four boosters, get and give COVID to another guy with 20 vaccines and 19 boosters. You can have 45 vaccines and 200 boosters. You can get and give. Anyway, that's why I'm introducing Tony Fauci's daily shot. Every day you go to your health care provider and you get a shot.
57:40Dana Carvey:By the time you get to your car, you got no immunity, but it's a beautiful 39 seconds. Anyway, that was my poem to try to help me deal with the whole COVID thing. I got a couple death threats, but that's okay. Hey, come on. We were right. But yeah, who knows? I don't know. But I think I don't know anything. well but thank you guys for having me man it's a it's an honor to be on here with both you guys thank you guys for all the laughter for being some of the greats i don't think they have humor like you guys made anymore i think it's pretty diluted this stuff we're out here you know you guys were dealing with pure i mean white flake stuff straight out of colombia that's the stuff that you guys were giving to the masses yeah um through humor and we're out here this stuff has been stepped on the stuff that we're delivering it's got baby laxative in it we're just not here we're barely filling the diaper and you guys were just blowing them out fresh in it you know uh i saw wedding crashers in a related story and some of the jokes are pretty rough and you didn't even think of it back then and now you see like a movie and there's like two big comedy stars and it's like they're kind of roasting each other like look at those shorts you look like some crazy guy and them and everyone's like are these jokes yeah but it's the safest joke world and i think that's why there's not a lot of r-rated movies because the bigger the corporation the more they're scared of offending and hurting feelings and some of the ones when saw our movie were like oh that's a little spicy i don't think that would work with us and that's okay we kind of knew what we were getting into that's good yeah some of the streamers passed on it right out of the gate you know and uh Good.
59:25I don't know. It's fine. Can we? Yeah, and I've seen so much bad shit on some of the streamers that I think we're good. Let's don't pretend like just because they have a channel that the shit on there is great. How many bad movies are on most of these streaming platforms? Most of the streaming platforms.
59:43Dana Carvey:It's very difficult sometimes. Now, I'm not saying that. I'm not saying ours is ours. Yeah, we're not the greatest. I agree with you saying that. but how many movies have you turned on you're like what are we even doing here okay yeah i think what happens like with definitely comedies is you start to get the same seven jokes that are sort of approved by everyone and not offensive and now it's just different versions of just a handful of jokes that are like everyone's like okay i mean we don't laugh at that but that's acceptable well that's what i'm late night too late night kind of it felt like it got a little bit like that sometimes you know um especially political and yeah political and then there's only one group to make fun of type of thing.
1:00:22But I will say that I thought it was cool that we made something and we got it done and we got it all the way through. And that gives me like a lot of pride that I got to do that with David freaking Spade, dude. Listen, I had such a great experience going like from having an idea and being buddies and then just putting something together. So thank you for doing that. And Dana, who's one of the top 10 SNLs of all time. This is the compliment Dana gets. they go Dana always funny always funny on here and then when people come to me they go when they come on the show they go Dana you were unbelievable top 10 and they go and Spade you were on there too you did some stuff and I go thank you but you can't even compete with legitimately with all the cast members that Dana that's what I was built to do man I mean sketch comedy I was made for but I didn't know it till later but you guys are we sat through a lot of bad cast members to enjoy you to say that all right thanks buddy and uh let's get back well if we think of a name for your special yeah yeah yeah we'll text you because i do like that stuff i was just joking around but yeah no and it can be racial too if it needs to be i'm okay with it okay black like you know you could say that's not bad the n-word and then you put nashville what did you think yeah actually I just bought 40 N-word passes online.
1:01:47You can get them online? Yeah, I got 40. I'm selling six of them for charity. They're like peptides or something? You can just use them out in the real world? I mean, these are official. They're official, so we'll see how that... So you don't get in trouble. Is that what it is? TBD, man. Times have changed. Yeah, TBD, dude. Times has changed. That's not bad. I was in the streets, Matt. Yeah, okay.
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1:02:36Dana Carvey:I'm gonna tell you this right now hear me now believe me later fly on the wall believe it or not is presented by Odyssey and executive produced by, hold for it, Dana Carvey and David Spade or David Spade and Dana Carvey. We don't write this stuff. Heather Santoro, Greg Holtzman, and Leah Reese Dennis. The show is edited by Evan Cox with production support from Phil Sweet Tech. Talent production and booking by Sophia Lepore.
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