Zach Braff Is Back In SCRUBS

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2:47I got them all. And my producer at the time said, just so you know, that will never happen again in your career. And it never did. And then I showed up and there was that meeting in Lauren's office where everyone goes around and says an idea. And I really, I was sitting in a chair, but a lot of them were on the floor. Yeah, you get the King Tut chair. So we've got Zach Braff, who pretty much everyone knows zach braff zach braff likable guy very funny guy always with always with donald faze we talk about the t-mobile commercials which she has a big hand in helping with writing they

3:28Dana Carvey:they really yeah they really re they shoot them ahead of time on their phones and show them to the ad agency and stuff i was thrilled to hear that the kind of control they have but that's a very interesting that's why they really yeah uh he's got um you know scrubs is back scrubs is back which is i think it's like a 15-year hiatus and they're back i like that i like when they bring things back sort of those comfort relaxing comedies that people like to watch and uh they don't look about the same so why not sarah chalk who was in wrong missy who we really like she's a lot of fun yeah she's of course a big part of scrubs and we had his snl experience hosting snl which is very interesting it's always it's always you get a little nervous when when someone recants how nervous they were and the intensity of hosting that show a little bit it's like oh boy it's kind of like oh my god you know it's that's it's a whoop-de-doo So here he is You know him Zach Abarap And love him Oh my god Uh oh SpaghettiOs Holy shit we're not Prepared for this Why have you put on earphones like this Yeah You have earphones we got a podcaster On our podcast Oh that's right Wow I knew you'd get it you've got another skill set we didn't research no i know and i used to do a podcast and people would come on and we'd spend sorry i'm doing the thing i was so annoyed with other people exactly the same thing come on get it together inside baseball martin short took 45 minutes and nothing to do with it just just was we love martin short you know but dumb as a rock but a great guy a genius in his field no technically is a different thing i mean i always i'm not are you handy can you build a chair me no i can't do shit like that no he knows already i know but look at your chair has plastic on well i have to explain uh i used to do this podcast with donald phase on my co-star we re-watched 180 episodes of scrubs and we would talk about we would watch them and then we talk about them and we had a nice fun time and then we stopped doing it and so this room that used to look nice just became a storage room so that's why there's shit all over the place this was your podcast room yeah yeah this is my this is my room look how nice yours looks david spade i looked up on google it says people also googling zach googled donald fazan and then literally no one else just what was that really yeah because you're in everything with them yeah we are comedy partners we uh we do everything together t-mobile right uh scrubs the show yeah we just um we we found each other literally 20 years ago at the table read for scrubs and uh we just had great chemistry we just crack each other up people really responded to it and uh he's an upbeat dude too He's a great guy.

6:47We're so different, but at the same time, we have the exact same sense of humor.

6:52Dana Carvey:That matters. It's good. Yeah. I like everything I'm hearing so far. Dana, I don't think I've ever... Like, David, I've met before. We had a dinner at Howard Stern's house once before, which was really fun. Well, that's its own podcast. We got invited into the castle. Yeah. But Dana, I don't think we've ever met. and i'm such a massive fan of yours and it's it's an honor to meet you same right back at you i i was looking up i was looking up um when you started doing the church lady because i truly i got to host snl once and it was a dream we know all about that i saw i want to talk about it but because i i obviously i wanted to share my my story i'm such a fan of the show my whole life but i remember being a little kid and i wasn't supposed to be up that late and i was staying over my friend's house and we we were secretly staying up and we saw i saw the church lady and i honestly thought i'm not just blowing smoke i thought it was the funniest thing i'd ever seen in my life for a 10 year old it was about at that level no but i'm saying yeah it was silly of course but you know they always think it was a lady no i knew what it was doing and we were jewish so we we didn't we didn't know i we didn't we you know i didn't have an experience with watching church shows.

8:09Right, right, right. But I just found the cast. I just thought what you were doing with that. I just know, you know, people always say, you know, the first SNL cast you're exposed to is one of your favorites. You know, I'm sure you guys are like that.

8:22Dana Carvey:For sure. Lorne Michaels. Yeah, and you were that era, 86, 87, 88. That was my first exposure to it. And I just thought, oh, my God, this is the funniest shit I've ever seen. And looking like the most fun thing you can do. They've got costumes on and they're doing characters and people laughing. It was definitely inspirational for me because at that age, I didn't know I would go into comedy, but I was like, this is a job? These people are being paid to do this? I know, that is the truth. It's a fever dream even now in a way that I got on that show. I auditioned three times. I bombed every time.

8:56Dana Carvey:Really? The church lady was a piece of my standup, but in those days, I was doing an hour, hour 10, and I do three or four minutes of that, but I had no idea. I'd never worn the dress, But, and I always say this, in the early days of that, I had Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks come on several times. There was a lot of religious scandals that year. And so it was 86. So anyway, but thank you. And the dress and the wig, everything about it had to be right. And then it all came together. I had to ask, just as a fan of it, did it get on the first time you wrote it? It was my first show. It was your very first show?

9:34Dana Carvey:Very first show. Wow. And Laura Michael's ex-wife was there, which I didn't know it was his ex-wife, and she was Rosie Schuster. And she would call Lauren Deer, and I didn't know it was her ex. But she was assigned to me, a stand-up comedian, you know, and then I thought, well, let's do Church Lady. And she was actually, we said, we'll do a talk show. And I remember she goes, how about we call it Church Chat? And I go, perfect, you know. But I had no idea it would kill. It was the last thing in the show. I've told this story before, but after, you know, for the dress show, the practice show, it was the final sketch.

10:09Dana Carvey:Rudy, it's not going to happen. You know, whatever. You know, Phil Hartman went to bat for it. So then it killed and then moved up. It was a complete fever dream. And then there was like merch. Yes. You were. We don't do that here. You know, right now they have, you know, Cone had oven mitts in the store. You know, now they've had merchandising, you know. But they didn't be merchandise back then? No, no. Kevin Neal and I were offered a Nike commercial. Just Do It was going to be Hans and Franz. Just Do It. It's the same era, right? Hans and Franz, because that was another one. 88, 88, 89. And then we were told, really, it's not what we do here.

10:51Dana Carvey:Cut to 10 years later, they have Bud Light commercials inside the sketch. It's all about modernization. I love, and I want to ask you about this. I love the, when I see young comedians and they refer to themselves as a brand, they're doing commercials, they're opening up banks. I love the businessman artist because I think in the end of the day, it's money is freedom. Whoops, hot take. Well, it went from like, you shouldn't do this. It's a sellout to. Cool. It's like overnight they go, there's no sellouts anymore. It's like, oh, okay. So just anything. So what is your comment on that? Yeah, comment.

11:28Dana Carvey:You've had T-Mobile, one of the biggest campaigns I've ever seen, the T-Mobile. It's been pretty huge. I got to say the unique thing about the T-Mobile thing is we participate in making them. We don't just show up on shoot day. The big ones, the Super Bowl ones, we shot like spec versions of them in my backyard. And we would sort of workshop them. We would make them on an iPhone in my backyard. Perfect. We would show them and say, do you like this one? Do you like this one? Yeah, there's a guy named Brian Klugman who's sort of the Don Draper of all the campaign. And he's the one who comes up with the idea.

12:05But then we kind of riff on it. Because we're shooting on iPhones, it doesn't matter. We just do it. And then we cut it together. We add the graphics. If we don't have a big star like we did when we did a spec one of Momoa, in post we put this big face of Momoa like a bobblehead size and then move the mouth like South Park style. And so then they have a total proof of concept before they ever buy it.

12:28Dana Carvey:well that's god that's just music to my that's the greatest thing i've heard in a long time on this podcast just the idea of taking those people out of it maybe smart these people you two guys already have the chemistry you know how to work together and you make it like i always tell people ask me i go make stuff with an iphone i tell them that don't don't go in and pitch make a lot of that and do it until you know it's great show it to your friends how can people compete with we're doing it with the stars of the commercial we're we're sitting there we've shot 11 versions of the punchlines to to see which ones work best in the cut right right yeah um and then we have you know if you can use your imagination at all you can get that that's momoa or that's travolta or whatever and then uh and then we and then they watch it another you're used to watching they're used to not having anything they're used to looking at storyboards and going i guess this right pitching bullshit do you say we would like this celebrity might be funny for this and then they go we can go get them yeah we will we'll sometimes say we wrote this with travolta in mind obviously and then uh and then they'll try and get them and sometimes they can't get them and and then we just swap out the head for a different celebrity and you get webster yeah that is so great and that's why they pop that's why they popped because yeah i mean obviously the writing's good and the chemistry's good but also we participate it isn't like yeah hey say this dumb line that you don't think is funny uh that that doesn't that would never 99 of course i had a friend who's doing one and she sent me the spot and she goes we're shooting tomorrow can you help me and i looked at it i was like i don't know where to begin to help you this is blow it up it's hard to change shit it's hard i did one for hans and franz for a super bowl with kevin nealon and we had a lot of stuff left over from the script and so we sort of suggested some things and at one point we were water skiing and uh aaron rogers is in a kayak paddling really hard we wanted him on a speedboat but yeah it's great to just use stuff and then when they go for it it's a it's a really good feeling you know all they want is their their they want their their stuff in their their their messaging but as long as we get that in in a way that's funny this particular company i can't speak for others is so collaborative and cool and do they do they pay you for doing these commercials or just for the exposure?

14:47No, they don't. I was like, you know how it works. I like that you took that seriously. You go, actually, I think we do get paid. To be honest, to be blunt, as a comedic actor, you would do it for free because the exposure on the Super Bowl is there's one shit out there. You know, I did one, Zach. I was almost in your family. We did a team, I think it was T-Mobile, yeah, with Brent Gelman. I told you this, Dana. We shot it in February. 2020 and it was airing for the final four and i think it was 90 seconds which was even longer it was fully written out it was really fun brett gellman is of course bananas and we had a really we thought it was pretty funny and then it was covet and then they go okay hang on people aren't doing comedy like right now it's too sad in the world we're like okay and then the final four was canceled and then anyway long story short it got whittled down to a 15 second instagram ad about nine months later because they just said, and then it took place in an unemployment office.

15:47And then that was the latest thing we couldn't air. Like, whoa, wait, we forgot. Everyone's unemployed right now. And I'm like, no one's even thinking. I don't know. So it was just tough because, but I really liked it. We had a great director. We had a great time. T-Mobile was great. It just, COVID, I mean, there were some downsides to COVID if you look back. Yeah.

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19:51You didn't have a reason with Sarah Chalk. There's no way. We did in the wrong Missy. Whoa.

19:56Dana Carvey:Oh, it's part of a comedy film. It was. Beep, beep, beep, beep. Oh, it played. My brain was scanning. I know. Isn't that great? You're like, who, who? And then you said Sarah Chalk, the least likely answer. I know. Like on planet Earth. It sort of stopped when the cameras stopped rolling, and I was sort of going, oh, is everyone just pretending here? And they were like, yeah. And I go, I don't know. You tell me where you guys want to go. I'd love to tell you. Well, I'll set the stage a little bit. I'd be researching you. Yes, sir. And I have a jack of all time. I mean, you do a lot. You do theater.

20:31Dana Carvey:You've directed Harrison Ford and Shrinking. You directed Ted Lasso and got a lot of award nominations for that. Get off my plane. You're a director. And then you're doing the half-hour show, and you're directing those. And then you're doing Garden State. You're doing movies. you're in London with a play you wrote. I mean, how are we supposed to make sense of that? I just am very driven, I guess. And I've always believed early on that you can't just sit and wait for your number to come up. You have to be so proactive in this field, you know? I'm always shocked by people that are just sitting there waiting for their lottery number to be picked, you know?

21:13Such a tough business, that's right. It's so hard. And so, and I see actors that come in and, and how hard it is to get picked. And so I just, from a very young age, I was, I was acting a bit as a kid and I saw how hard it was. And I was just like, I'm going to do all the things I'm going to write. I'm going to produce. I'm going to direct when I'm lucky enough to be cast. I'm going to, I'm not going to go to my trailer and, and, and do nothing. I'm going to sit on set and ask the director questions. I'm going to ask the grips questions. I wanted to like learn, you know?

21:41Dana Carvey:Wow. That's great. So what was the first thing that, sorry, you go, I guess I'm going to, I'm in show business. This is what I'm going to do. Well, the first thing you landed. I got a pilot at 14 years old. Do you remember Bruce Paltrow? He created St. Elsewhere. Yeah. That was Brenna's father. And she was 17, I believe. And she was cast in the show as like the pretty senior in the high school. And I was the nerdy. Who has leukemia. No, she was just a babe. that was a doctor we got threesome we got leukemia these are two bangers oh no the same elsewhere was his oge was his the show that made him famous and then he created this pilot of about a high school it was the same year 90210 came out and where they were the beverly hills show we were like a rough you know new jersey uh yeah and that was my first thing and i and i didn't know that pilots didn't get picked up i was 14 years old i got a gift basket that said welcome come to the CBS family and I was like I'm in the CBS family what are you talking about I didn't get picked up what does that mean then you were orphaned how do you get into show business at 14 are you we got a Mickey Rooney here or something no gone to my dad did community theater my dad would take us into the city to see plays and they saw that I really liked it and so they found this theater camp in New York it's called Stage Door Manor and if you're serious about acting and you're a kid it's a great summer camp and up there I had gotten scouted uh someone saw me and said hey I'd love to represent you and send you some on audition there you go that's how it happened and I auditioned for a lot of movies at the time like Big and Parenthood and um and um and um Oliver Stone's movie uh um uh wow a couple of Oliver Stone movies and so yeah and then I and then I didn't get any of that and then this was the first thing i got is it second when you audition and then you sometimes i wouldn't hear and then the movie would actually come out and i go oh i i guess i should have given up on that one but i saw probably doing callbacks and then i saw i think dead poet society was the first one of my first first auditions and i'm like oh these assholes got it i was pretty cool about it yeah it was hard you know especially because my family didn't really understand they'd be like what do you mean you had an audition for it why didn't you get it and i was like what did they do they would just be you know they they would just be bummed no they said what did you do wrong oh yeah my dad couldn't hide his disappointment he would be like oh really i love it no he would try but he'd be like what's going wrong like why aren't you getting should you be doing this should you they believed in me but they were like how do we it's such an uphill battle it's so tough to talk them into believing in you when you're like when like i'm in arizona there's like no one doing stand-up they're like what's going on i'm like i think this might be the best pick for me it seems like such a moonshot like i had a girlfriend at maybe 19 or something And I was like, let's go to San Francisco and watch comedy.

24:50Dana Carvey:Or maybe I was going to do a set at a little tiny club. And she kind of very seriously go, are you really trying to do this? And I met other parents. Well, it's great you're doing stand-up, but this will help you with whatever you really end up doing. You know, it just seems so. Lake Bell was the thing that was bugging my brain because she's exactly like you. Directing, creating projects, proactive. I don't know if you know her, but she was on recently and that was just bugging me. Who else is just like Zach? Yeah, I advise, you know, when people, when younger folks ask me advice, I always say that.

25:25I say, you can't just sit there and hope your number comes up now more than ever. It's crazy. Like that's. Well, you can also point to Garden State. You can say like this was, I'm sure you get asked about this too much. Was it Garden State or which was the one where you did the crowd sourcing? Oh, that was Wish I Was Here, which is a film I put a lot of love into, but didn't do nearly as well as Garden State. garden state was the first movie i made i had written i had written the screenplay and then when i got scrubs i thought oh gosh this is that that was that hustler brain of mine i was like oh my god this even if this show doesn't work it's gonna help me get my movie made and um so i sort of used the momentum of getting scrubs to at least get my script higher in the pile you know because i was totally and all about heat it's all about like yeah someone can get your part a week later they just they just their tick tock blew up and they're like we're gonna get that person instead like it's so fleeting i see that and and you and garden state was a bit was that natalie portman that was natalie portman and peter sarsgaard and ian holm yeah it was a big deal for me i love natalie portman so how exciting for you to be able to work with someone such a monster professional great actress she's extraordinary and you know when you make casting lists uh for anyone casting something you often put like well i can't see very much what i do is you make you put sort of an archetype and then you put a line and then you put under the line people that you think are like them and i had written and i had written natalie portman peter sarsgaard ian home and uh and i got them all i got them all and my my producer at the time said just so you know that will never happen again in your career and it never did it's so hard i mean but they like those sort of gritty small if you can get someone that's already made it you can get someone that's like give me something a little off the beaten path natalie portman sounds like particularly big cast particularly they want something you know big actors if they're going to be no money doing it for nothing in in in in 25 days they're looking for something that's different than what they've done and that will challenge them i mean i feel that way as an actor i just did yeah for sure i went and did an indie for 19 days in atlanta and it was something no one would ever normally cast me as and i was like well that i'm drawn to i'll go do that for no money for 19 days yeah nice hope those get some attention somewhere somehow if nothing else at least you get to flex some different muscle

27:47Dana Carvey:exactly yeah yeah that's great before we get to the scrubs uh part two or reboot or whatever you want to call it revival revival's good okay just tell us your snl story for a second and then let's go to that i gotta go to snl because it always been a dream of mine i i'm i'm truly a lifelong watcher and um just always been on my bucket list and i got the call i think it was 2005 i had a movie coming out called the last kiss and scrubs was on the air and i my stock you know you only get the s invite if your stock is pretty darn high great barometer and mbc the scrubs at that point was on NBC, right?

28:31Dana Carvey:Yes. Helps a little bit. It's part of our tribe. We're in the family. He seems to be, he's got a light touch on the show, and I think it'll do well here. And that's in front of you. He's talking to a picture of you, and you're in the office. Oh, sorry. I didn't see you, Zach. So go ahead. So you're blown away. You get the call. I get the call that I'm going to host the finale of the season, which was Oh, Maroon 5 was the musical guests. They were also super on fire. Yep. And I couldn't believe it. I showed up. I was very nervous, very nervous because I didn't know how to be. I didn't know how this all worked.

29:13They don't tell you.

29:14Dana Carvey:They don't tell you. No one tells you anything. How fucking scary is this? I know. We hear that a lot. And then I showed up and there was that meeting in Lauren's office where everyone goes around. One day meeting. And says an idea. and I really, I was sitting in a chair, but a lot of them were on the floor. Yeah. You get the King Tut chair. Like, I know what is, Oh, go ahead. And then some of the ideas were like, I was like, I thought I didn't know that these were just like, everyone is sort of supposed to say something. Fake ideas. And they were just like, they were all over the place. I was like, what?

29:48I didn't even, but, but then someone told me later that like you have to say something and no one's really thought about anything yet.

29:55Dana Carvey:and also you do not want to mention ideas so you can catch them by surprise at the read through on Wednesday strategy big laugh at Monday meeting bomb and read through everyone already knows the joke Zach is dressed as a donut on a sidewalk hitchhiking with a tomato Christian wig it sounds like a funny idea and then you go where was that one Does Lauren ever go like, where was your Monday morning idea that was good or no? Not really. He knows we're all playing a game, keeping our powder dry. You could mention, maybe we'll do a massive head wound hairy, but you don't say what it is. There's all the games, but it's hard.

30:43Dana Carvey:Did anyone stand out for you? You were there because that cast was arguably maybe the best cast. Let's just say it's in the conversation. Oh, yeah. Forte, Kristen, Fred Armisen, Sudeikis. Maya was still there. Maya Keenan, Amy Poehler. Yeah. That's some home run hitters. Daryl Hammond was still there or no? Adam, Andy Samberg. Andy, yeah. So, yeah, it's like a murderer's row. It's a murderer's row. And then there's Zach. It's going to be your fault if it's bad. Right. So what, who, how did you feel the day of the show? Well, I got it before we get there. I got to say I was really nervous because then they, then there's the two, is it the Tuesday night you write all night long?

31:34Dana Carvey:Yeah. Well, I didn't know what to do because I didn't know, you know, I'm not a, no one knows what to do. Cause you have the whole day off, by the way. They don't even start anything till like. Why don't they tell the host what's going on? They didn't tell me anything. The only thing I knew, by the way, this is a funny story. is that I had done Conan to promote it. And I leaned over to Conan. I think it was during a commercial break or something. And he said, do you have any advice at all for me? Because this has been my dream come true. I don't want to fuck it up. I'll take any advice you got.

32:09And he said, the only thing I can say is you're going to not believe that they're going to put a show on on Saturday night by the time. He goes, by the time you get to Friday, you're going to still be shocked at how little is ready. Disarray. And it feels like a morgue on this. He said, just go with the flow. He goes every Saturday night, the show goes on. He goes, don't panic. Just go with the flow. And that actually really helped me because Friday morning, my monologue hadn't even been written. And I was like, wait, what? Most people cry on Friday. Honestly, hosts cry. They go, what's wrong?

32:47The host is sort of having a breakdown. and you go, oh, that's about that time because they're looking around going, all it says in my itinerary is like, Tuesday report at 6 p.m. for dinner at Orso. And you go, what about the show? I'm going to Orso's. I mean, why am I going to Orso's?

33:04Dana Carvey:Marcy Klein had said that she had to go in. I don't know, was she still there? Was she there? Marcy was really helpful to me. She helped calm me down. There were hosts that were curled up in a ball crying like 10 minutes before air. You know? I definitely felt the beginnings of a panic attack coming about when like there was no monologue on Friday and I knew that I was singing. I knew it was going to be a song. Oh, that's horrible. But you're very light and carefree and I'm sure Lauren is like, he's got this. But even I'm sort of like that too. But down deep, I really want to know what the fuck is going on.

33:41I really want to be ready to be light and carefree and know it. But you can't plan ahead and not even memorize, but just get a feel for it. You have 13 characters you got to do. It's so complicated. So Little by Little, the monologue came out and it was a song and it was very funny. It was a spoof of New York State of Mind, but it was New Jersey State of Mind.