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Speaker 4: My name is Sugar.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I been waiting so long, Yeah to profess my love
Speaker 4: for yeah Cecily von Ziegazaar.
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Speaker 3: horney to you.
Speaker 2: Monday Supremo Roll Supremo, Supremo roll.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm sessling. Yeah, I feel kind of dumb. YEA
Speaker 5: hope I don't ruin this show. Yeah before it.
Speaker 4: Suprima Supremo roll pre Wait a minute, premu.
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Speaker 1: mute it. We just got murdered on our own. This
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Speaker 1: on our I said, I think you kind of fumbled
Speaker 1: on the lid. Can you pronounce it fully? Did my
Speaker 1: name or name I thought you're referencing a middle name
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 4: Zegas are if I'm pronouncing I don't know, it's not that. Okay,
Speaker 4: that's not her, she wrote. Cecily wrote the novels that
Speaker 4: became Gossip Girl.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Wait, how do you know that, Steve?
Speaker 4: I looked up famous Cecilyes to try and get some
Speaker 4: ideas from.
Speaker 3: Really be doing your Okay.
Speaker 1: Did you know this before he references? Did this take
Speaker 1: you by surprise as well?
Speaker 5: No, I mean it took I forgot who there's a
Speaker 5: there's a couple of Cecilies.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's not that many in history.
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I ran it.
Speaker 6: With cecil That's why I'm cly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Cicily, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, this is a sad love for someone Supreme,
Speaker 1: because messing up our theme is such a rarity.
Speaker 5: You know, it may feel very comfortable. I will say,
Speaker 5: I feel it feel at home.
Speaker 3: You did awesome?
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I'll give you that point advantage, Steve, out
Speaker 1: of this.
Speaker 4: We messed up there.
Speaker 1: And gentlemen, welcome to another edition of Anemic Supreme, brought
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Speaker 1: your podcast goodies. Uh, we have light ya in the
Speaker 1: house and we have sugar. Steve shout out to unpaid
Speaker 1: Bill and yeah, fon ticcolos out getting cigarette still, he
Speaker 1: said he returned one day. Uh, yeah, we're.
Speaker 4: Waiting and Boss Bill, we're like three Oh, Boss Bill,
Speaker 4: that's right, half a six pack.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So what rules can we break now that we
Speaker 1: can eat?
Speaker 3: We could do I'm supposed to. No, I can't. I'm
Speaker 3: supposed to be in charge, so I got to show
Speaker 3: some order. So no, guys, we're thinking by the rules.
Speaker 3: We talked to Cecily, and we don't go into the.
Speaker 1: Can eat my breakfast right now?
Speaker 3: Like, well, knowing you you got some little birds, so
Speaker 3: would you go.
Speaker 1: To No, it's good, it's good anyway, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: our yesterday. I'm very very honored to have uh what
Speaker 1: I when I when I mentioned my play of employment,
Speaker 1: I refer to it as thirty Rocky University. I consider
Speaker 1: it a college, a post grad school. I consider it
Speaker 1: life lessons. And it's always an honor to pick the
Speaker 1: brain of fellow thirty Rock thirty Rockians, especially those that
Speaker 1: are in the upper echelon of the eighth floor of
Speaker 1: the institution otherwise known as Saturday Night Live. I will say,
Speaker 1: in the last eight years, our guest today has given
Speaker 1: me some of my favorite moments on the show. Ever,
Speaker 1: I try not to stalk her dms with praise over
Speaker 1: that night's performance, But I'm the nerd that's always like
Speaker 1: somewhere in the audience judging every show your characters alone,
Speaker 1: I mean your story, Stormy Daniels, your Melania Trump, your
Speaker 1: Lynn Manuel.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Was That's why I'm really mad that freaking Bill's not here.
Speaker 1: Bill's a fellow Amal tonight. Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, please
Speaker 1: welcome the original Cecily Strong. Yes, we're very happy to
Speaker 1: How are you today?
Speaker 6: I'm around cold, it's called this weather is bad.
Speaker 1: It is hell, especially where we work. Yeah, getting to work?
Speaker 5: Are you an American Gladiator around this time of year?
Speaker 6: Like trying to get into that building it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the hardest thing in the world. I try.
Speaker 6: They're firing house. You know how they did that on
Speaker 6: American Gladiator? Yes, yeah, I know how you very familiar.
Speaker 1: Do you are you a subway to work person? Are
Speaker 1: you a walk to work.
Speaker 6: I'm walk to work.
Speaker 1: Oh say see, oh god you you oh you followed
Speaker 1: the rules. Wow. Okay. So when I first started working here,
Speaker 1: I naturally thought, okay, I'll move to Brooklyn or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my management is like not if it was up to them,
Speaker 1: like Steve wants joke, like they want you to live
Speaker 1: at thirty one rockefell As just you know, just in case,
Speaker 1: because it's almost like being on call to be a
Speaker 1: doctor or whatever, like you have.
Speaker 6: To immediately and just as important.
Speaker 1: Yeah it no, well it is actually used.
Speaker 3: Yeah what you do? I mean you too, But I
Speaker 3: was just saying that what she does, like it's the institution,
Speaker 3: So yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: I feel like an on call doctor like you pretty
Speaker 1: much if they call you, you have to be there
Speaker 1: within like a half hour for anything. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's that way all year round for you though.
Speaker 1: I mean once the.
Speaker 6: Seasons are oh yeah no, then I they're not allowed.
Speaker 1: You have something to break. Yeah you have two phones then.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they don't get the other number.
Speaker 1: Shout out to two phones.
Speaker 5: So I told you, okay, I but I do have
Speaker 5: a burner number. That's kind of exciting.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you're like a character on the wire.
Speaker 3: Yeah did you get.
Speaker 6: No, it's on my phone.
Speaker 5: But it's because I use so many apps like or
Speaker 5: during thing, I don't time out.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I'm about to reveal my age. You're telling
Speaker 1: me that I can get a Burner number and still
Speaker 1: on my.
Speaker 3: Phone absolutely for free, and have two numbers on this phone. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I know you could do that. Well, is that like
Speaker 3: the Google phone number thing you're saying, No.
Speaker 6: It's similar, but it's its own app and you you
Speaker 6: can just.
Speaker 1: Like if a tender date goes good, then you can
Speaker 1: give your real number real exactly and if it does
Speaker 1: it it's.
Speaker 6: Great not having to give out your real number. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well see, now's the point. My burner, my fake phone
Speaker 1: was my bat phone was once the coveted phone, and
Speaker 1: then for some reason, now I've given everybody my bat number.
Speaker 1: So my real number, like, no one calls that anymore.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so I dubbed that mom phone.
Speaker 6: That's one number.
Speaker 3: It's mainly.
Speaker 1: We learn quick this. Yeah you know, I don't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's mom phone. Only talked to my mother on that phone. Okay,
Speaker 1: So what got you here? Where were you born?
Speaker 6: I was born in Springfield, Illinois?
Speaker 1: Okay, so too outsiders of the Midwest US East Coasters.
Speaker 1: In our minds, it's either Chicago or not Chicago, right.
Speaker 6: So it's definitely not Chicago.
Speaker 1: How not Chicago is it?
Speaker 5: It's very not Chicago. I mean not only was there
Speaker 5: for a year and a half. Okay, so I can't
Speaker 5: say I remember much of Springfield. It's the capital of Illinois. Well,
Speaker 5: pretty exciting.
Speaker 3: Also where the Simpsons live.
Speaker 5: And I actually I saw that's a I think that's
Speaker 5: where Barack Obama announced Joe Biden as his VP in
Speaker 5: two thousand.
Speaker 6: And you were there to see it, you know it
Speaker 6: three and a half hours.
Speaker 1: I see Abraham freezing.
Speaker 6: An Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a role gossip girl.
Speaker 4: I looked up famous Abraham's.
Speaker 1: Souh you only lived there a year and a half
Speaker 1: in that and then.
Speaker 6: Right outside of Chicago, okay, park.
Speaker 1: Are you okay?
Speaker 6: Anybody that's did you say Simpsons?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's so that's why Springfold.
Speaker 6: Well, no, that was just a weird coincidence.
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's two questions about Chicago. One or as
Speaker 1: as a resident. Are you sort of dismayed at the
Speaker 1: sort of hashtag what about Chicago staying that's on the
Speaker 1: city right now, or at least the kind of the
Speaker 1: the the cloud that looms over the idea of Chicago,
Speaker 1: Like what is your version of Chicago.
Speaker 5: It's weird because I when I, I mean, I grew up.
Speaker 6: I did a lot of theater in Chicago as a kid.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 6: And then I was my.
Speaker 5: Dad worked and pr and Chicago and did a lot
Speaker 5: for the Democratic Party. And again, when I think of Chicago,
Speaker 5: it's all like Obama for me because that's the years
Speaker 5: I was there. I think it's always And I have
Speaker 5: a good friend, my little sister. She's my fake little
Speaker 5: sister from the South Side, so of course her experience
Speaker 5: was very different than mine growing up.
Speaker 1: But I think, wait a minute, I'm sorry, I just
Speaker 1: we have to acknowledge like I only felt like black
Speaker 1: people had like play cousins and family and lets it's.
Speaker 3: In the program. Is she an official little sister?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Okay, didn't Yeah, okay, we play cousins do okay?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 6: You know what it was like I met her.
Speaker 5: I just I lost a friend, uh to a drug overdose,
Speaker 5: and she lost her older brother, uh, which is part
Speaker 5: of Chicago too, And it was kind.
Speaker 6: Of like we had like the universe gave.
Speaker 3: Y'all just met us to each other to this day.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, she's coming this weekend. College young she's uh,
Speaker 6: she feels.
Speaker 5: Like she's like fifteen years younger sometimes, but she's about
Speaker 5: five years younger.
Speaker 1: So you're motherly.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm an older I'm not motherless, never designated driver,
Speaker 6: just older sister.
Speaker 1: Okay, I see, Actually what I want to know. I
Speaker 1: don't think we've interviewed anyone in the comedy world from
Speaker 1: Chicago on the show. I don't think we have. What
Speaker 1: is it?
Speaker 4: Why is something to do with mustard and ketchup and
Speaker 4: hot talks?
Speaker 1: No, that's that's a letter. I want to know why
Speaker 1: ketchup is not allowed on You know, I.
Speaker 5: Don't even eat hot dogs or red meat. I'm not
Speaker 5: the one to ask, but I do know.
Speaker 1: You don't.
Speaker 5: You're not supposed to. You get kicked mustard only mustard
Speaker 5: and whatever.
Speaker 1: What is it? I've heard some I've heard some talk,
Speaker 1: and I believe that this goes back to the hinds
Speaker 1: face family from nearby Pittsburgh sort of having a beef
Speaker 1: with the what's the billionaire family from Chicago, the pizza Prits. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm hearing that the beef starts there, so you order
Speaker 1: must have too. Well maybe even it was like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be the person like spreading false propaganda.
Speaker 1: What I do know is that you get laughed out
Speaker 1: of any establishment.
Speaker 6: I think it's just.
Speaker 5: Like Chicago has a couple of things they just like
Speaker 5: to be stubborn about.
Speaker 3: I think, well, your pizza sucks, not you.
Speaker 6: But I'm just saying you don't like Chicago pizza.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's going to kill you so good.
Speaker 1: Well will kill us too.
Speaker 5: So there's really I will say it's my favorite city
Speaker 5: to eat at. Some of the best restaurants I've ever
Speaker 5: even just like a small like little Greek resturant, Little Time.
Speaker 6: It's all so good.
Speaker 1: I've been Okay, So as of this taping, for some reason,
Speaker 1: I've been booked in Chicago every weekend for the last
Speaker 1: five weekends.
Speaker 6: Great time to be there.
Speaker 1: Gorgeous weather yeah, oh no, no, no, actually no, weird enough
Speaker 1: the last time.
Speaker 5: You're jinxing yourself. Now, I will say, you're going to
Speaker 5: be stuck there.
Speaker 1: I will. I will say that both times in the
Speaker 1: winter it was like fifty nine degrees. For some reason,
Speaker 1: I came dressed for like all right, where's it at?
Speaker 1: Where's that? Where's the cold? Where's the cold? And I
Speaker 1: was sweating like it was it was spring weather.
Speaker 5: I mean I probably unpredictable. Yeah, but it's the worst winters. Oh,
Speaker 5: I have like I have like nightmares about it. I know,
Speaker 5: thinking about it.
Speaker 1: I know, we know. But I will say that I tried. Okay,
Speaker 1: they told me not to call it the illuminati. Illuminatisis okay,
Speaker 1: but I love Manatis. There has to be a connection
Speaker 1: into the Illuminati.
Speaker 3: Is that a food?
Speaker 6: Pizza?
Speaker 5: And I will say I know Willie Malnaughty. He has
Speaker 5: a podcast now he's in New.
Speaker 1: York about pizza.
Speaker 6: No no, says entertainment.
Speaker 5: But he is a Melnati and I did a show
Speaker 5: with him when I was twelve or thirteen at the
Speaker 5: Goodman and it was during the summer, so Taste of
Speaker 5: Chicago was going on and we got free pizza.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's.
Speaker 6: It's my favorite. Luminais my favorite.
Speaker 1: I will have to say I was really impressed with
Speaker 1: that pizza.
Speaker 6: You can you can get it shipped.
Speaker 1: I know. Yeah, I don't want to do it though
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 6: That dangerous. I don't want to fall do It's like
Speaker 6: I have an addiction to pizza, so I have to
Speaker 6: stay away.
Speaker 1: So how do you feel about New York pizza?
Speaker 6: I mean I pretty much like all pizza.
Speaker 3: No, you can't do that.
Speaker 6: I know I do.
Speaker 1: Have you taking a pizza to New York?
Speaker 5: No, I will say, you know what, I did have
Speaker 5: pizza I didn't like here, and I I don't want
Speaker 5: to say where it's from because I don't want to.
Speaker 1: Is it not raise or is it an established par
Speaker 1: established people ship on in Williamsburg Grimaldi's that you're looking
Speaker 1: at me? Well, because the show so mnemic. Now there's
Speaker 1: only two people left.
Speaker 4: I don't leave Manhattan.
Speaker 6: I've been to Brooklyn three times.
Speaker 4: What I mean, there's plenty of shitty pizza in New.
Speaker 1: York, but there's awesome pizza.
Speaker 4: But it's not like every slice you get is going
Speaker 4: to be like right.
Speaker 1: New York See. For me, though, it's it's like as
Speaker 1: far as the Korean Food Fair, Chinatown, even soul food
Speaker 1: Jamaican spots in Brooklyn.
Speaker 3: I've that's what the culture is.
Speaker 1: I've slowed up. I've kind of well, I've just discovered
Speaker 1: that Queens is like I'm I might have to do
Speaker 1: my next book. Strictly on restaurants in Queens, Like some
Speaker 1: of the best restaurants in New York are those family restaurants. Yes,
Speaker 1: and Queens. You got it. You gotta venture out the city. See,
Speaker 1: I have a car.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't have to be right. No, see yeah,
Speaker 1: if you.
Speaker 3: You need a may bag. Just joking what you said a.
Speaker 4: Car anyway, I got you off track. You were going
Speaker 4: to say, well, I was going to.
Speaker 1: Say about community, but we often rabbit hole on the ship. No,
Speaker 1: let's go back to anyway. You need your car to
Speaker 1: explore the city.
Speaker 5: For I have such bad anxiety. I could, I would.
Speaker 5: I could never drive in this city. Really well, this
Speaker 5: is the hardest city of driving in the country.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Myma always if you learn to drive in New York,
Speaker 3: you can drive anywhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I feel like I can drive anywhere
Speaker 1: now they have the rickshaws now.
Speaker 6: To Yeah I can.
Speaker 3: It's really expensive. You're like like fifteen dollar fifteen seconds.
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 5: I will never feel okay about a person. It's weird
Speaker 5: acting like a.
Speaker 6: Horse to me.
Speaker 5: It just makes it feels like I would the whole
Speaker 5: time I'd be apologizing.
Speaker 6: I'd be asking if I could help.
Speaker 4: It would just make me watching the meters.
Speaker 1: Let me interject. All right, so Liya's clowning me about
Speaker 1: my swinky car choice case, my coach witch in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: I would never let my friends see me in such
Speaker 1: a swinky, swinky car. So I have like my very
Speaker 1: first scion and beat up sign. Oh my god, I
Speaker 1: will never do you never give up your first car,
Speaker 1: like I'm keeping that ship forever. I love that car. However, Yes,
Speaker 1: I have a swink delicious car in New York because
Speaker 1: I got to get around and go pointing in point B.
Speaker 1: The reason why I got that swinky car was because
Speaker 1: I learned the hard way. And this is pre uber
Speaker 1: how cabs really won't stop for people of color. And
Speaker 1: I was rushing to Penn station and a poor rickshaw
Speaker 1: guy had to take me. And this is when I
Speaker 1: was like four hundred pounds.
Speaker 3: That was two hundred pounds ago.
Speaker 1: People, I'm there, I'm almost there. I got sixty pounds,
Speaker 1: all right, So yeah, four hundred pound me and two
Speaker 1: big giant kipling luggage bags. And the poor kid, I
Speaker 1: was like, are you going to make it the Pend
Speaker 1: station in an hour's I got this and cut to
Speaker 1: like like he was. And the thing was on my
Speaker 1: Twitter timeline, literally on my Twitter timeline. There was like
Speaker 1: the narrative of the story. Like, guys, I could have
Speaker 1: sworn I just saw a question inside of a bicycle
Speaker 1: Rick on Fifth Avenue. It looked like him. Yo, dude,
Speaker 1: I'm on forty second Street. I just saw yo, dog,
Speaker 1: I'm on thirty second Street. I think you know. Poor guy,
Speaker 1: Like listen, I missed the train, so it took him
Speaker 1: that long to haul like five hundred pounds. Where the Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that tip.
Speaker 3: Of mirror you had, you had to bless.
Speaker 1: Them, I am. I'm addicted to overtipping. That's that's one
Speaker 1: of my And that's not even a humble brag, like
Speaker 1: one of those people that get gets into those like
Speaker 1: you know the pretty woman. Uh that watch costs two
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Oh yeah, I'll buy ninetyllion Like I'm one
Speaker 1: of them people that will like defy you like I
Speaker 1: have money. That that sort of thing.
Speaker 4: You know, sound engineers except tips.
Speaker 1: By the way, that's.
Speaker 3: What Derek said behind you.
Speaker 1: That's what Steves are a sound engineer at thirty Rock anyway,
Speaker 1: So why is Chicago the who dubbed it the or
Speaker 1: who christened it as the Comedy Epicenter, Like, why does
Speaker 1: one have to go to Chicago?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's just so.
Speaker 5: I think, well, there's a lot of theater in Chicago.
Speaker 5: It's cheaper than New York. And is it la to live?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like five dollars probably. Oh my apartment cheaper,
Speaker 3: fight dollar is cheaper.
Speaker 5: Well, I was living in it was a weird little
Speaker 5: artist studio, but it was and this was a lot
Speaker 5: of money for me.
Speaker 6: But it was like six hundred dollars a month my rent.
Speaker 1: What year was that was two thousand Williamsburg of Chicago.
Speaker 6: No, this is old town.
Speaker 1: Wow, I don't know the section, so like what would
Speaker 1: your town be here?
Speaker 5: So that's uh, queen, I would never know. That's very
Speaker 5: second city. But it was like a nice neighborhood. And
Speaker 5: my first apartment it was a two bedroom. It was
Speaker 5: bit and it was like we paid seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 6: Uh, I had a roommate. Yeah, so we each paid.
Speaker 3: I mean second with your friends. I'm curious what it
Speaker 3: was gone up? That's interesting.
Speaker 6: I mean I'm sure it's right. It's been a while,
Speaker 6: but yeah.
Speaker 1: No, so you what was your childhood like, like, what
Speaker 1: was your come to Jesus moment with flirting with comedy?
Speaker 1: Because I don't like when do people finally admit, like,
Speaker 1: I want to be in comedy? Was it that you
Speaker 1: wanted to be an actress for?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was.
Speaker 5: I did a lot of like straight theater growing up,
Speaker 5: and I did a lot in Chicago. I did my
Speaker 5: first professional show and they were all like dramatic musicals
Speaker 5: growing up, and then I went to college. It wasn't
Speaker 5: until college I went to cal Arts. Tonight, a teacher
Speaker 5: I was doing a s from Angels in America because
Speaker 5: when I was eighteen, everybody wanted to do Angels and
Speaker 5: people were laughing. It's like, I'm wait being dramatic right now?
Speaker 5: And then the teacher suggests that I take a class
Speaker 5: at the ground Legs And.
Speaker 6: That was like I'd always I mean, I thought I
Speaker 6: was funny, but I was also like, but I'm a
Speaker 6: serious actor.
Speaker 1: What it is I really want to be series instead? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, well I think even now that's how I started.
Speaker 5: I think like a lot of comedy is just human
Speaker 5: beings feeling anything can be funny.
Speaker 1: That reminds me speaking of SNL. I didn't realize this
Speaker 1: until maybe a week and a half ago that Will
Speaker 1: Farrell and Kristen Wigg actually did a lifetime movie. Yes seriously,
Speaker 1: like they did it.
Speaker 3: I remembered it.
Speaker 1: They did it seriously, but as a tongue in chee. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thing to be funny, really smart.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, oh I love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean they're both are they alumni from?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: No, they're Groundlings?
Speaker 3: See between Groundlings and Second City? They got both, So
Speaker 3: of course why.
Speaker 5: Will say l A Like Groundlings is very character based right,
Speaker 5: and Chicago there's like, you know.
Speaker 3: So break it down to people because somebody, I feel.
Speaker 5: Like I'm the worst to break it down, so this
Speaker 5: will be very simplified. Probably comedy nerds will yell at me,
Speaker 5: but so la Groundlings, it's all very charactery.
Speaker 6: And then New York improv is very like fast.
Speaker 5: It's closer to like what I would think of as
Speaker 5: like when you hear British comedy or English comedy, you know.
Speaker 6: And then Chicago does weird you do.
Speaker 5: Like the you know, we do slower artsy fartsy sometimes,
Speaker 5: but but I would say like improv is more Chicago,
Speaker 5: and sketch should be more La, and it feels like
Speaker 5: when you're doing it in LA, you're doing it to
Speaker 5: get a part TV jobs.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So is there was there an end game for you
Speaker 1: in entering Second City or pretty much people know that
Speaker 1: the road that leads to s And.
Speaker 6: Now I would never have ever said that.
Speaker 5: Because I just don't like to set myself up to
Speaker 5: be let down.
Speaker 6: I like to set the bar very low.
Speaker 5: But I, uh, I was just like, you know, if
Speaker 5: I if this is what my life, if I get
Speaker 5: to do like some shows every now and then and
Speaker 5: at Second City and I out, if this is like
Speaker 5: where the top that I get, I'd be happy.
Speaker 1: So what is the process? I'm only asking because of God?
Speaker 1: How do I see this? Okay? So I once Okay,
Speaker 1: So I once dated uh a comedian Okay, and uh
Speaker 1: I felt, see, I have it miserable. I have. I have.
Speaker 1: I have a relationship with failure, not as an f
Speaker 1: work but as a learning experience. And I feel like
Speaker 1: in your years of comedy, it's almost like if you
Speaker 1: stay in your comfort zone and only perform for your
Speaker 1: friends at like this one bar, you're not going to grow.
Speaker 1: And I kind of had to tell her, like you
Speaker 1: have to go like stop going to your normal where
Speaker 1: you know your peeps are and go to other spots
Speaker 1: to see if it works there as well. And it
Speaker 1: was kind of hard hitted about it and then really
Speaker 1: got a life lesson. So she went to Second City?
Speaker 3: Yeah, experimental spot.
Speaker 1: Do you know? She left and went to Second City?
Speaker 1: And I guess under the hopes of I'm ready, so
Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna go to Second City and then
Speaker 1: in three years I too can be Tina Fey like
Speaker 1: that's what I think, or and maybe she's in there,
Speaker 1: like you can.
Speaker 6: Stay there, you can just chill, and yeah people do.
Speaker 3: Because that's i mean, after you getting paid for shows.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I guess that's your life's now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And what I want to know is that when
Speaker 1: people come, first of all, what is the process of
Speaker 1: Second City? Is it a school? Is it just like
Speaker 1: what's the rehearsal?
Speaker 5: Most people and they say they're they've done Second City,
Speaker 5: it's not that they've been on a stage. It's that
Speaker 5: they've taken the US there or done their own shows there.
Speaker 5: There's there's two main theaters. I mean, it could be
Speaker 5: totally different now. Uh. And I was on a touring
Speaker 5: company for a while and I did a cruise ship
Speaker 5: for four months with the.
Speaker 1: Regent, so a second city cruise ship.
Speaker 6: That was my first job with them, so it was
Speaker 6: very exciting.
Speaker 5: But then, well then it's like you're on this ship
Speaker 5: for four months, you're just like I was never on
Speaker 5: land at night time, which sounds crazy to say, but
Speaker 5: I really was like, I just want to have a
Speaker 5: night on ground. But it was so it's like by
Speaker 5: two months and I was like, I can't tell if
Speaker 5: it's prisoner vacation. Uh, and you're doing like very watered
Speaker 5: down sketch comedy for.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 6: It was well, we ported in New York.
Speaker 1: Was billed as the Second City players or.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, I don't think they have the contract anymore.
Speaker 5: But it was like the first job most people do
Speaker 5: that second City.
Speaker 1: So that's the entry level.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Were there any other notable.
Speaker 6: So I was on the ship with Alex Moffatt, who's.
Speaker 1: Wow, yeah yo his uh Trump's son.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, Eric, that's.
Speaker 1: My all time favorite. Yeah, like even when like I'll
Speaker 1: rewatch his facial expressions while everyone it's some of the
Speaker 1: best shit I've ever seen. Yeah, I love that. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: And so how long was it until I'm assuming either
Speaker 1: Higgins or someone discovers you and suggestions.
Speaker 5: Actually I went I got hired through IO. So there's
Speaker 5: a couple of theaters in Probalympic, but they have to
Speaker 5: be called It was like so lawsuitors the Olympics, you
Speaker 5: have to say ioh yeah, okay, But it was IO
Speaker 5: where I got my I did my showcase for Lauren
Speaker 5: and some of the writers.
Speaker 1: Oh so you didn't have to go through the audition
Speaker 1: process that.
Speaker 6: A no no I did, but it just was there.
Speaker 5: Like they go to different theaters, not because it's second city.
Speaker 5: It's only the people that are on the stages that'll
Speaker 5: be seen by SNL.
Speaker 3: So wait, this is I'm sorry, I'm gonna askually like
Speaker 3: a five year old. So this is a special show
Speaker 3: that y'all will do because you know that they're coming.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they do it in every in la I
Speaker 5: think at different theaters they'll just be showcases pretty much.
Speaker 6: And I would be.
Speaker 3: Showcases for SNL or just with people or yeah, yeah
Speaker 3: for SNL.
Speaker 1: Okay, but is it with other people in the audience
Speaker 1: or just the seven of them in the audience?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 6: No, other people?
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my family was there and I thought I bombed
Speaker 5: because they were so they were so nervous because they
Speaker 5: were sitting near and lorn, and so their faces were
Speaker 5: just like they were like ghost.
Speaker 6: I was like, wow, that bad.
Speaker 3: Huh did you remember what you did? You remember your I.
Speaker 6: Did like a lady from the cruise ship.
Speaker 5: I did her trying to bring a pineapple on the
Speaker 5: boat or something. I think I did Sophia Vergara. Nothing great,
Speaker 5: I don't know it was and I had never done
Speaker 5: like I wasn't an impressionist really, but it was again like, oh,
Speaker 5: I'm going to do something that scares me and just
Speaker 5: kind of try this out. And I took a workshop
Speaker 5: on solo characters.
Speaker 1: I would imagine that probably the best way to get
Speaker 1: on the show is to be mouldable to be anything,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like it's instead of like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I do a very specific Donald Trump and then like
Speaker 1: what happens four years if that's out? Like, but you
Speaker 1: can be mouldable to be anything. So I almost feel
Speaker 1: as though some people go into the process, like I
Speaker 1: know people that have tried to go through the process,
Speaker 1: that we're kind of stuck in a category in a corner,
Speaker 1: and they weren't mouldible. Yeah, if you, because I believe
Speaker 1: it's malleable.
Speaker 4: I looked at this first two times. The third time,
Speaker 4: I'm like, it's malleable.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 3: I just didn't know what he was saying.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I didn't even I wasn't even reaching
Speaker 1: for malla.
Speaker 4: I'm just playing around, but it's malleable.
Speaker 1: Right, I wasn't reaching for malleable. I actually thought, okay,
Speaker 1: sort of like imagine, it's not a word, right, okay.
Speaker 4: Like seventy eight other words.
Speaker 3: I hear you say every day, the spirit of Bill
Speaker 3: is always here.
Speaker 1: Here we go, malleable. Thank you. I wasn't even reaching
Speaker 1: for that, but yes, malleable, and you just.
Speaker 3: Thought it was a word I don't hear every time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this I appreciate this. This reminds me of the
Speaker 1: time when the Roots let me go all day wearing
Speaker 1: a shirt backwards and inside out. So when I got
Speaker 1: home and went in the mirror, I was like, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, oh ship. And then next day I was like, yo,
Speaker 1: why the fucking y'all tell me my shirt was backwards
Speaker 1: in the inside out, And they were like, oh, we thought.
Speaker 4: To hear Multiple's cool. I'll start saying it if you
Speaker 4: want me.
Speaker 1: To know, but I will. I now know that multible
Speaker 1: is not a word.
Speaker 3: No, good to know that the same meaning though multiple
Speaker 3: and that's the.
Speaker 4: Same meaning, it's not one's not a word.
Speaker 1: So then okay, okay, let's go back to Chicago pizza.
Speaker 1: So anyway, No, well, what I'm asking is, uh, I
Speaker 1: believe correct me if I'm wrong. Wasn't your first show,
Speaker 1: The Mick Jagger Season Closer? I remember your entry.
Speaker 5: I remember, No, that was Kate who did like five
Speaker 5: episodes of that season, And I think, yeah, but.
Speaker 1: You did, you did? I could have sworn I saw
Speaker 1: you on a season closer, Like I thought. It was
Speaker 1: weird that I tweeted out, wait, who's this person? I
Speaker 1: don't know this person? And then someone said you, uh, well,
Speaker 1: well you're not a cast member.
Speaker 6: What is it called a the feature player?
Speaker 1: Feature player? But when did you come in into the show?
Speaker 1: Was it the tail end of a previous show?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: Was the start of season thirty eight twenty twelve?
Speaker 3: How many seasons? Lord, this is beautiful?
Speaker 1: More than forty five minutes beauty?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so a long time. So okay, so you didn't
Speaker 1: have to go through the process of just being in
Speaker 1: the room with seven people.
Speaker 5: And No, I still had so I we had that
Speaker 5: showcase and then we did like a weird speed dating
Speaker 5: thing in Chicago where a couple of us from that
Speaker 5: showcase went to go sit with the producers born and
Speaker 5: pretend that was normal. And then then we got flown
Speaker 5: out eighty and I. I sort of got to go
Speaker 5: through everything with eighty though, okay, which was really nice because.
Speaker 3: I was going to ask you because Lauren is a
Speaker 3: very I don't know him at all. I've been in
Speaker 3: a room where he is, and he seems like someone
Speaker 3: who is he could be intimidating. Yeah, so when you
Speaker 3: first met because you just said, you know, I did
Speaker 3: speed dating, Lauren was there, but really you weren't intimidating
Speaker 3: and how No.
Speaker 6: I definitely was.
Speaker 5: I couldn't tell you what I said at that table.
Speaker 5: I remember talking about Trader Joe's.
Speaker 3: That's where I go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not going to right now. I mean, are
Speaker 1: you allowed to? Okay, this is the tester. This is
Speaker 1: how I know if a person's cool or not.
Speaker 6: Oh no, I'm going to fail.
Speaker 1: Are you allowed to have popcorn?
Speaker 6: His popcorn?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 6: Everyone is? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well then I'm not everyone.
Speaker 3: Well, well, the meeting.
Speaker 5: In between the meeting, in between dress and air, there's
Speaker 5: a big basket of popcorn.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, okay, but that's showtime. But I'm talking about
Speaker 1: off show hours.
Speaker 3: He got it in his office or something.
Speaker 6: He keeps it in off yees.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's important.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm sure he'd let me just so he
Speaker 5: wouldn't have to say no. But I don't know that
Speaker 5: i'd go knock on his door and ask for his popcorn.
Speaker 1: Okay, I was the type of person.
Speaker 3: That's where you were from.
Speaker 1: No, actually I brought well, I I purchased three big
Speaker 1: ass bags of popcorn and brought him in Lawrence. That
Speaker 1: was my first meeting with Lauren. You purchased, I would
Speaker 1: there was once on forty eighth Street House of Popcorn.
Speaker 5: He didn't charge you for his popcorn though, No. Okay,
Speaker 5: I brought checking brought just in case he's.
Speaker 1: I brought my own. No, I brought it for him
Speaker 1: because I knew that, like the popcorn was a big thing.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I didn't get better. You say it, But
Speaker 3: that was great.
Speaker 6: It's a good move.
Speaker 3: Great move. He's the ask the kids shit, right, I
Speaker 3: mean right, we.
Speaker 1: All agree in eight years, do you feel comfortable now?
Speaker 1: Is there's still tense if he's if you know he's
Speaker 1: in proximity watching, Uh, and I mean eight years you're
Speaker 1: very established?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can you feel established?
Speaker 6: I get? I mean yes? And no?
Speaker 3: Who can? Ever?
Speaker 1: You always feel like a hand on the guiltine button, like, oh.
Speaker 6: No, I don't feel like he'll fi.
Speaker 5: I guess it's more about the audience where I'm like,
Speaker 5: I still don't know what they find funny if it's
Speaker 5: sort of like it's still a I don't know what's
Speaker 5: gonna work at dress.
Speaker 1: So some things work to dress that didn't work on
Speaker 1: the show in the opposite.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, or things that like I find very
Speaker 5: funny that it turns out it's only me.
Speaker 3: So how does this? So how does this work? Because
Speaker 3: you're you're a writer, So how often do you do
Speaker 3: your the things that you write get to be a
Speaker 3: part of the show, Like, what's the percentage of that?
Speaker 5: If it's usually like if there's something on update, then
Speaker 5: it's something I've written, And then I've gotten a lot
Speaker 5: to dress this year and not a lot.
Speaker 3: To air the dummies.
Speaker 6: Okay, so we get things cut for time.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: I have a question about the schedule because actually, like
Speaker 1: he and I sort of quasi sort of follow this schedule.
Speaker 1: I'll schedule my life during the SNL season to sort
Speaker 1: of coincide with what you guys are doing. So, like
Speaker 1: Steve and I will like work Saturday afternoons in my
Speaker 1: studio downstairs in my dressing room, and usually I'll be
Speaker 1: done in time to go watch the tapic.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so usually our schedule is pretty multible, but season
Speaker 4: trying multiple, so that's nice.
Speaker 1: Yes, multiple anyway, So I know that from striking up
Speaker 1: a friendship with Tim Robinson. Yeah, when he was writing
Speaker 1: on the show, he explained to us that you guys
Speaker 1: do what eight dress or a thirty dress? Eight eight
Speaker 1: a dress which is a longer.
Speaker 3: Show y'all are so cute dress short for dress rehearsals,
Speaker 3: dress rehearsal. Okay, thank you, okay, just for me, just
Speaker 3: for you know, Yeah.
Speaker 1: There's eight o'clock dress rehearsal.
Speaker 6: You forget. I know, this is not enormous.
Speaker 3: It's not your fault.
Speaker 1: Language with more, with more sketches in it. And I
Speaker 1: guess who is the deciding committee on who makes it
Speaker 1: or doesn't make it to the final eleven thirty show.
Speaker 5: It's there's a there's a room that I've only been
Speaker 5: in once, and it's the people in that room, but
Speaker 5: it's mainly it's Lauren.
Speaker 1: Higgins and crew. Yeah, okay, So is there like the
Speaker 1: high school? All right? So what word am I looking for?
Speaker 1: Where they place the zi gazaar? No, the high the
Speaker 1: high school?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Where you put the board?
Speaker 6: Or there is a bulletin board.
Speaker 1: A bulletin board, That's what I was looking for. So
Speaker 1: or is it? Now? With technology, you guys just get
Speaker 1: alerts of what your schedule is.
Speaker 6: No, and I wouldn't know how to get that anyway.
Speaker 5: There is people have like an app where they can
Speaker 5: watch their sketches, and I'm blown away by that.
Speaker 6: I'll never get it. Okay, I just don't know how.
Speaker 6: I have the burner number. And that's it.
Speaker 1: So when they put up when the person puts up
Speaker 1: the bulletin board, notice, then you all run like it's
Speaker 1: high school to see what made it, what didn't made it?
Speaker 5: Well, you we all go into it's called the meeting,
Speaker 5: and we'll get notes and you just kind of look
Speaker 5: at it and you try not to show too much
Speaker 5: how heartbroken you are when your sketch is.
Speaker 1: I was going to say that side now again, with
Speaker 1: failure being the f word or an education process, how
Speaker 1: should one in the most non diplomatic way you can
Speaker 1: do it without jeopardizing yourself. But like, how should one
Speaker 1: take failure as a writer or as a person on
Speaker 1: the show if their sketch doesn't make it to eleven thirty?
Speaker 6: I mean it always it's funny.
Speaker 5: Some hurt more than others, and it's so like embarrassing
Speaker 5: how much sketch comedy you can be so emotional and
Speaker 5: tim and I used to joke because some things get
Speaker 5: cut during the show. You know, there's we always we
Speaker 5: usually go on a little long, so you may be
Speaker 5: dressed just like a complete asshole, waiting to go your
Speaker 5: like dressed as a pumpkin or something, ready to do
Speaker 5: your sketch about farts, and then they say over the
Speaker 5: thing like that's been cut and you're just standing there
Speaker 5: like crying, dressed like a pumpkin.
Speaker 1: Is that because of overages? Okay, overages case in point.
Speaker 4: I was I think that's a word, by the way,
Speaker 4: thank you.
Speaker 1: I was watching all right, I was watching a Debbie
Speaker 1: Downer sketch. Yeah, that obviously went way over. Then it's
Speaker 1: a lot of time, but because of the laughter and
Speaker 1: all that stuff, to get to the end, somebody has
Speaker 1: to get sacrificed, right, So are sketches based on a
Speaker 1: specific time hoping that it doesn't run over?
Speaker 6: Or yeah?
Speaker 5: I mean usually if you're like in the last or
Speaker 5: second to last spot, you're sort of just waiting to
Speaker 5: hear the whole night and there will be time.
Speaker 6: Like during the Chance show, there was an.
Speaker 5: Issue with the wires and I just remember I was
Speaker 5: dangling there for so long and I was like, this, something's.
Speaker 6: Getting cut for this.
Speaker 5: I was going to say, now I'm dangling here, I
Speaker 5: know something's getting cut for this.
Speaker 1: Which leads me to the Tuesday night pitch. Now the one,
Speaker 1: the thing, the thing that I always and let me
Speaker 1: explain for our Listenershiggins on our show, jimmy sidekick on
Speaker 1: our show, is one of the main producers of SNL.
Speaker 1: So him doing the tonight show is sort of like
Speaker 1: me doing a DJ gig from the roots, Like that's
Speaker 1: his side hustle. He doesn't have to do it, but
Speaker 1: you know, it's something to do and it keeps some
Speaker 1: sharp comedy wise or whatever. However, the thing I always
Speaker 1: ask about, Higgins, the thing that I'm most curious about
Speaker 1: are how sketches are pitched on Tuesday Night to whoever
Speaker 1: the designated host is. How do you do it in
Speaker 1: such a quickly executed time? How do you explain a
Speaker 1: sketch that really depends on physicality? Because that chance sketch
Speaker 1: that you speak of was really I mean, what made
Speaker 1: it hilarious was the fact that you guys were trapped
Speaker 1: in mid air and these wires crashing all over the place.
Speaker 1: So how is that conveyed at a table well that
Speaker 1: they say, yes, that work.
Speaker 6: They I've never had to do that.
Speaker 5: We have pitched Monday, but usually that's like you're just
Speaker 5: meeting the host sort of and seeing what they find funny,
Speaker 5: or just hearing them speak or seeing them for the
Speaker 5: first time in person, and then we write on Tuesday.
Speaker 5: And I don't normally talk to the host on Tuesday
Speaker 5: because I think then they may say like, oh, that
Speaker 5: sounds fun, and what if I do this and you're
Speaker 5: kind of like, oh.
Speaker 1: Are we there every day? Yeah, from Monday till yeah, Saturday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now we can bring in the time lamps thing.
Speaker 3: Wait, but before we will before we do that. Does
Speaker 3: that mean that comedian hosts are harder, way harder. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: so then this weekend would be really hard coming up. Okay, well,
Speaker 3: thank you.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, the thing is is that
Speaker 1: Eddie Okay, we're obviously speaking before the you know, the
Speaker 1: the Eddie Murphy, the grand return of Eddie Murphy to Essenel,
Speaker 1: of which I think that because he's such because he's
Speaker 1: such a maverick at his job, that he would know
Speaker 1: to sort of go along with the climate of the
Speaker 1: room as opposed to now. I was there. I was
Speaker 1: there during the whole Chappelle hosting situation, and once I
Speaker 1: saw Neil Brennan in the hallway, I was like, oh boy.
Speaker 3: The comedians bring their own Oh my writers, that's the clusterfuck.
Speaker 3: You know, it's sort I don't sometimes, Yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Think like this week is actually I feel like I
Speaker 5: can kind of sit back because it'll be very much
Speaker 5: about and like, I think that's exciting and what he
Speaker 5: wants to do, and I'll probably do like free are
Speaker 5: you well?
Speaker 1: Only Okay? What makes in my opinion, what makes his
Speaker 1: Dolomite film work is he's actually kind of a straight guy.
Speaker 1: It's it's his re It's like the planets that the
Speaker 1: stars that surround and the moons that surround his planet
Speaker 1: is what really makes that film funny, like and he's
Speaker 1: reacting to.
Speaker 3: Wes makes it fun Yeah, you're right like other.
Speaker 1: People, And you know, I think that you guys are
Speaker 1: on such a role like I now consider as an
Speaker 1: SNL expert, that your era SNL will be considered like
Speaker 1: a high Mark cast season, the way that we looked
Speaker 1: at the ninety eight cast with with Fallon and Tita Fey,
Speaker 1: and the way that people look at the class of
Speaker 1: ninety one or seventy five like people have specific eras
Speaker 1: of right there, that was the Chicago Bulls of you guys. Now,
Speaker 1: you guys now have your own rhythm when coming with
Speaker 1: each other. So I think it would just behove any
Speaker 1: host to join the gang as opposed to disrupt them.
Speaker 3: I don't know, Eddie might be what do you think
Speaker 3: that's because I mean, I have I don't know what
Speaker 3: will happen, but I assume.
Speaker 6: I mean because it's his first time coming back and
Speaker 6: he was.
Speaker 3: Just he's never hosted.
Speaker 1: Eighty four was the last time he hosted when Beverly
Speaker 1: Hills Cop came out. Wow, And the first time he
Speaker 1: host it was inadvertently when Nick Nolty. Nick Nolty was
Speaker 1: the only person to drop out of the show like
Speaker 1: the Friday before, like I'm not doing this, and so
Speaker 1: they were.
Speaker 6: Like yeah when he was on the cast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they're like, well, Eddie, you're in the movie too,
Speaker 1: so you hosted and that became a game changer for him,
Speaker 1: Like so.
Speaker 3: You really are an expert.
Speaker 1: I only know because Soul Train came on at one
Speaker 1: a m. And SoulTrain came on right after SNL, So
Speaker 1: it's like you watch SNL at eleven thirty and then
Speaker 1: one am finally soul Train comes on. But if there
Speaker 1: were a VCR back then I would have probably just
Speaker 1: recorded SoulTrain and not cared about SNL as much.
Speaker 3: Wait, so on that note, just question to you are
Speaker 3: you were you a fan? Were you a Jane Curtin,
Speaker 3: Gilda reantn or like yeah you were all in?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we had I definitely want My mom had me
Speaker 5: watch like Gilda's show, her Broadway show on tape. I
Speaker 5: had vhs of like SNL's commercials that I wore out
Speaker 5: pretty much. I like to Tracey.
Speaker 3: I mean I watched a bunch of different Did you
Speaker 3: have a favorite grownd now class Like, I'm mi're just it.
Speaker 5: I really enjoyed every iteration I think up until like
Speaker 5: you're eighteen or whatever and you're too cool for SNL
Speaker 5: for a while.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm never busy.
Speaker 5: You're busy, busy, very busy, cool popular.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So okay. I got to bring up two specific I
Speaker 1: say specific specific sketches that you did that I felt like,
Speaker 1: we're really mind blowing. One for the physical comedy when
Speaker 1: you do Fox News as a Yeah, Piero, I don't
Speaker 1: care if I mispronounce it in dress rehearsal, did you
Speaker 1: go that hard with the spectaques and the falling on
Speaker 1: the floor.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, definitely you all right.
Speaker 1: I was in the audience. And so to see you
Speaker 1: it's one thing watching on television, if you're at home
Speaker 1: watching the Angle of It, that's one thing. But to
Speaker 1: see you actually put yourself in physical danger, just like
Speaker 1: that second fall out the chair. There's two moments where
Speaker 1: she you know, well it's not a double take, but
Speaker 1: you threw yourself out the chair, right.
Speaker 5: I mean I had a giant Matt and I made
Speaker 5: sure to practiced it a lot beforehand, and I was
Speaker 5: very like serious about it, like you promised me time
Speaker 5: to practice throwing myself out of a chair, and I
Speaker 5: need this time to do that.
Speaker 1: You did it on the floor, like elsewhere.
Speaker 3: On the floor, because you only have that.
Speaker 5: I just needed to see like the space, you know,
Speaker 5: seeing what you can do at that desk. You nailed
Speaker 5: it because my shoes flew off on accident, I thought,
Speaker 5: And then I was like, oh, I got to keep that.
Speaker 6: Then I had to try to flick my shoe off air.
Speaker 1: Okay, I was. It was spittal and perfect. But the
Speaker 1: other thing is you're Barbara Streiss and jingle Bells reradition
Speaker 1: now as a as a person who's whose band member
Speaker 1: is known for his breath control. The first thing I
Speaker 1: noticed was that you hardly breath all these words. How
Speaker 1: do you how long do you prepare a sketch or
Speaker 1: how long do you prepare bits? Well?
Speaker 5: That one Brian Tucker, I got a text from him
Speaker 5: at like two am with that song and he said,
Speaker 5: I just heard this in a cab and I think
Speaker 5: this would be really funny if you want to do it,
Speaker 5: And so then I just I was like number one.
Speaker 5: That's very funny that Brian Tucker is sending me a
Speaker 5: Barbars Streissen song. And then, uh, if I just started practicing,
Speaker 5: I mean it was just like, I'll my neighbors probably
Speaker 5: think I'm insane because I'll just be singing things.
Speaker 6: Like that over a note repeat on loop. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 6: at night time in my primary Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Malcolm Gladwell hours like, there's no way, Like I
Speaker 1: put the I put it on Spotify myself, and I
Speaker 1: was like, there's no way that she learned this in
Speaker 1: less than a month or year, Like I thought that
Speaker 1: was something in your repertoire.
Speaker 5: No, No, it's just when you're a lunatic, I think,
Speaker 5: And you don't sleep, You've got all those hours in
Speaker 5: the night.
Speaker 1: You are a lunatic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Cecy, you never took singing like serious series.
Speaker 5: I mean I sang because, but it was never like
Speaker 5: a singer singer. No, And there's a lot of singing
Speaker 5: I can't do, so I'm more like I can do
Speaker 5: sketch comedy singing.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, what's the determining factor of when you
Speaker 1: guys warm up the crowd? Is it that? In my mind?
Speaker 1: I thought that was like, oh, this is when like
Speaker 1: you're new to the NBA and the freshman on the
Speaker 1: new team had to carry all the bags. So when
Speaker 1: they warm up the crowd, Keenan does his old Soul
Speaker 1: review routine and usually three of the SNL ladies will
Speaker 1: be his pips, so it'll be like his version of
Speaker 1: Glass Night and the Pips and they dress up for
Speaker 1: it and all this other they get.
Speaker 3: They never never changed.
Speaker 1: They no, no, it's just a warm up thing.
Speaker 3: Okay, So that's what I mean for the warm up.
Speaker 3: They always do the same warm up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean the audience isn't crazy like me
Speaker 1: and be there every week, so it's new to everybody. Right,
Speaker 1: it's new to everyone. But what is the process of that.
Speaker 1: It's like if you're new, you have to sing? Or
Speaker 1: is it like how do you guys negotiate it? Are
Speaker 1: they told like, well, it's my week to sing?
Speaker 6: Or no, no, I uh.
Speaker 5: I did it for four five years or something and
Speaker 5: then it was but you singh give me some lovin right,
Speaker 5: and there was like I Now the newer girls do it,
Speaker 5: especially because if the cold open is coming, to do
Speaker 5: that warm up and then to go right into the
Speaker 5: cold open can be kind of tough, and a lot
Speaker 5: of times Kate will be wearing crazy prosthetics or something.
Speaker 1: So then yeah, I was wondering, now do you guys
Speaker 1: run with just three seconds left to right?
Speaker 5: So it's but I was definitely like, I am done
Speaker 5: to you. I broke my foot one year right before
Speaker 5: the show started, so I got out of warm ups
Speaker 5: and then it was kind of like.
Speaker 6: Can I stay?
Speaker 1: I like this? Speaking of out, you were in the
Speaker 1: coveted anchorchair of weekend Updates. Yeah, yeah, exactly, thank you
Speaker 1: and then you well because of you, I guess we
Speaker 1: now have Michael j. But why would you give up
Speaker 1: such a coveted spot?
Speaker 5: Well, I think it was doing it with Seth, who
Speaker 5: was so established, made it feel like I could just
Speaker 5: go in and it was already a thing that I
Speaker 5: just could sort of slide into. And then when he left,
Speaker 5: it was Colin and I and it was like, clearly
Speaker 5: this needs to now we have to figure this whole new.
Speaker 6: Thing out and kem and it was just.
Speaker 5: Like that the what that would have taken if that
Speaker 5: was really exhausting and sort of like, I don't know
Speaker 5: that I want to spend my time now just figuring
Speaker 5: out what update's going to be. So there were a
Speaker 5: lot of talks with Lauren and you know, and it
Speaker 5: was it wasn't an easy decision necessarily, but it was
Speaker 5: I think absolutely the right one.
Speaker 1: So would would doing Does doing update require that you
Speaker 1: really have to have a chemistry with whoever your partner
Speaker 1: is on the show.
Speaker 5: And well, I think it was because he was so
Speaker 5: new too, so it was like two new people trying
Speaker 5: and it was just like I just would rather I missed.
Speaker 6: I just want to do.
Speaker 3: Get more fun. You do more fun to do the care.
Speaker 1: You can't do both. You can't do update and characters.
Speaker 5: I think if if Seth had stayed longer, I would
Speaker 5: have I could have stayed longer because it was I
Speaker 5: didn't we didn't have all they make something new? Yeah,
Speaker 5: but is it rare though when we think about it,
Speaker 5: like it feels like the folks who always do we
Speaker 5: can update do the least other stuff? Right because Amy
Speaker 5: did a lot right, Well, dang you, Yeah, Amy did
Speaker 5: do a lot. But I think like once you had
Speaker 5: but just to try to figure out what that new
Speaker 5: dynamic was going to be just felt like pretty daunting
Speaker 5: and and and exciting, but not what I was wanted
Speaker 5: to do on the show the most I see.
Speaker 4: He's like so curious about SNL man, like I'm gonna
Speaker 4: get past it. I'm not knocking it. I'm just saying
Speaker 4: that's a very cute, adorable child, like.
Speaker 6: Very good to go see a message.
Speaker 4: Now he sees like Cremony's and.
Speaker 5: It's like there's nothing I truly am like. It's very
Speaker 5: flattering and exciting.
Speaker 4: You can hear him laughing in the audience sometimes, Okay, that's.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: I told them, like, don't sit me the mic that
Speaker 1: they put me under. But the mic is as close
Speaker 1: to my seat as the microphone right now that I'm
Speaker 1: sitting in. Wow. And so occasionally Jimmy will hit me
Speaker 1: like my thing, like really you thought that you thought
Speaker 1: that you thought that Harry Potter joke was really that
Speaker 1: funny of me?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 1: Really? Really? Yeah? I always get out it with with
Speaker 1: my laughter, so I try to have you done. Here's
Speaker 1: the weird thing. And speaking of when things get cut,
Speaker 1: we were weird enough. Yeah, always brides me, never bride
Speaker 1: you answer. We were we were busters banned weird enough
Speaker 1: hosted by Donald Trump. We were Yeah, we were Buster
Speaker 1: rhymes has been uh on his on the ninety on
Speaker 1: his ninety nine show, I think hosted by damn Why
Speaker 1: did I fold down on this rabbit? No? No, that
Speaker 1: was just give me some more period. Uh okay, do
Speaker 1: I really want to try to figure out this? No?
Speaker 1: He's in George of the Jungle.
Speaker 3: One. Wait the Last Live? Was he your voice?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Come on, I don't do this to me.
Speaker 1: He was also in the movie in which the woman
Speaker 1: was the Devil. She's real sexy. She has an English accent.
Speaker 3: Elizabeth Hurley, Yes, you're right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, Brandon Fraser.
Speaker 5: Okay, we can play Elizabeth Hurley.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, So yeah, the Brandon Fraser Show and then
Speaker 1: the Donald Trump Show, in which we did an album
Speaker 1: with two to the Maytales Quinn Stefani.
Speaker 3: So does he know you want to be in a skit?
Speaker 3: Because I know probably know norybody else.
Speaker 1: No. I My my love of the show is actually
Speaker 1: watching two things I love. I love watching the panic
Speaker 1: whoever your wardrobe, lady, is that or not? The wardrobe?
Speaker 6: Yeah, the one that wrangles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's my favorite thing to watch, Like to watch
Speaker 1: her grab after monologue's done. She will grab you by
Speaker 1: the collar and yeah, that to me. Watching the machine
Speaker 1: run is my favorite shit.
Speaker 3: Ever, it's still on some VIP shit because I'm like
Speaker 3: other shows sn ling, the kind of show where you
Speaker 3: can be like, yes, can I get on the list
Speaker 3: for next month show?
Speaker 1: However, my second favorite thing is I love I love
Speaker 1: throwing off the audience clap when it's time for the end,
Speaker 1: so the band will try to teach them all the time.
Speaker 5: If they're ever off watching the band, you know that's
Speaker 5: so disappointed in the eye dance.
Speaker 1: It's not the audience. It's not the audience.
Speaker 3: Really, it's me, because it's.
Speaker 1: It doesn't sense up.
Speaker 6: They go so fast.
Speaker 1: I'm the one in the audience that's speeding up the clap,
Speaker 1: knowing that the nine.
Speaker 3: People next to me, So what are you doing about? Now?
Speaker 1: I'm sitting in the audience and I'm speeding up the
Speaker 1: clap knowing that thirteen to fourteen people next to me
Speaker 1: are going to speak clat with me, and then so
Speaker 1: on and so on and so on, and then I
Speaker 1: mess it up. Every time it's messed up, you know,
Speaker 1: you know to look up in the valcony, be like
Speaker 1: I got.
Speaker 6: To tell the band, no, don't do that.
Speaker 1: Please, please don't do that? All right, My last question
Speaker 1: is that most people use sen L as the springboard
Speaker 1: two other careers. We're actually now on SNL is actually
Speaker 1: a cool end game. Yeah, I mean Keenan's on his
Speaker 1: twentieth year, I believe. Yeah, yeah, so wow, I've.
Speaker 3: Been that Kean. Yeah, but it works for him straight
Speaker 3: from Goudburger just punce.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean he's a genius.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's amazing.
Speaker 1: It works for him, like and so, but I mean
Speaker 1: I'm certain that people had like, well, you know, Eddie
Speaker 1: Murphy did it, Sandler did it. You know, Tina Fey
Speaker 1: did Like for you, do you have a vision board?
Speaker 1: And I'm not asking for like this is your last year,
Speaker 1: but do you have a vision board that you might
Speaker 1: consider Like, Okay, the end of this particular sentence will
Speaker 1: happen this particular year and then I'm going to develop
Speaker 1: this show or direct this movie or Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think there's a there's a lot of
Speaker 5: things I'd like to be doing. Some things you can
Speaker 5: do at the same time, so of it'll just depend on, uh,
Speaker 5: when it feels right to go. But there's a lot
Speaker 5: of things I'd like to be doing, like a lot
Speaker 5: of different things. I think I brought up a project
Speaker 5: to you once that I wanted you to do that.
Speaker 6: I'm still hoping.
Speaker 1: Are you, oh, we're proposisiting each other now? Yes? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Yes'm I'm the king of yes. And then Steve laughs.
Speaker 1: That mean, like, when you're going to fit the senior schedule.
Speaker 3: Can you be the king of follow up?
Speaker 6: The schedule is always tough. Yeah, and it's the worst.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So do you plan your summers early? Like, are
Speaker 1: you a I need some charge.
Speaker 6: Because so many things fall apart.
Speaker 5: I mean in this just in this industry, you think
Speaker 5: you're doing one thing, so then you don't plan for
Speaker 5: something else, and then that falls apart. So it's really
Speaker 5: just like it's it's very frustrating. And then to know
Speaker 5: that I am taken from September to May, that's really tough.
Speaker 6: So that'll sort of be the decide factor.
Speaker 1: If there is an important enough offer, are you giving
Speaker 1: leeway to take this week off?
Speaker 5: And then I think now they've been more lenient. I
Speaker 5: mean maybe I shouldn't say that out loud, but it
Speaker 5: seems like it that they're that they're letting us sort
Speaker 5: of do that a little bit more to some seniority
Speaker 5: kind of Yeah, and I think it's I think he
Speaker 5: likes having an established cast and having people that know
Speaker 5: each other, and it's sort of like, if that's how
Speaker 5: to keep people, that maybe is the way to go.
Speaker 1: Well, it's like Lawrence Scorsese's like, I gotta have you
Speaker 1: as DeNiro's daughter and the Irish man. Can you do
Speaker 1: it these reasons?
Speaker 6: I think then Lauren would make me.
Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Okay, cool.
Speaker 1: Oh one last thing. I was there when you did
Speaker 1: the last uh I say, the last White House Correspondents dinner.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, what was.
Speaker 1: That like for you?
Speaker 5: It was so it was terrifying because they asked me
Speaker 5: in August or something and it's not till April, so
Speaker 5: I had like months to doubt myself and think about failing.
Speaker 5: But it was like again, I'm a big Obama head,
Speaker 5: and it was like I just and everyone was like,
Speaker 5: don't do it. Nobody liked you never win. You don't
Speaker 5: win in that room. The best you can do is
Speaker 5: break even. But I was like, but it's Obama, so
Speaker 5: I have to do it. People or no industry people. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: we're definitely trying to talk me out of it.
Speaker 1: I see people remember that. People just remember that you
Speaker 1: did it, I mean, or unless you really want to
Speaker 1: make a mark, like Michelle Wolf and like really laid
Speaker 1: it down. But I thought it was great.
Speaker 3: It was a few in the pass.
Speaker 6: I really killed it.
Speaker 3: But now you did you say it? I'm like, I
Speaker 3: can't even remember who was I killed it?
Speaker 6: So yeah, yeah, right, well I think had a big one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, which one was? Do you that Obama wrapped?
Speaker 6: I don't know, but Keegan was there. That was when
Speaker 6: I was there.
Speaker 5: That was like, oh great, that was right before I go, oh,
Speaker 5: that was the same one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a good night though.
Speaker 1: It was. Yeah, I thought it was excellent. I thought
Speaker 1: it was it was tasteful, it.
Speaker 5: Was very it was cool, and it was the first
Speaker 5: it was I brought like fifteen people, my entire family
Speaker 5: and my grandfather and grandmother in Arlington National Cemetery Colonel
Speaker 5: Cecils Struck And it was the first time I went
Speaker 5: with my dad to his parents' graves.
Speaker 6: So that was it was a very emotional trip as well.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Well, I'm glad you made that decision and
Speaker 1: not to listen to anyone that helped you talk to
Speaker 1: yourself out of a yeah, a great opportunity.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean I'm always going to take the
Speaker 5: chance to sit next to Michelle Obama.
Speaker 3: That's a small group of people who asked to do that,
Speaker 3: so that's a big honor.
Speaker 1: Well especially, I thank you for coming to the show
Speaker 1: and Molding.
Speaker 4: We looked it up multiples in actual words.
Speaker 3: Sorry, thanks again. Derek in the clinch.
Speaker 1: Derek Man, you come through in the clutch.
Speaker 6: Man, you want to get that to thank you.
Speaker 4: Todd Rendren would be very mad.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you. I appreciate you coming in the show.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 1: You're definitely one of my favorite players, and I appreciate
Speaker 1: you enlightening our audience. All Right, kids, that's another episode
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