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Speaker 1: this podcast is Joy. I talk to interest in people
Speaker 1: about what brings them happiness. Broken Lizard are an narco
Speaker 1: terrorist comedy organization that have been a narco terrorize comedy
Speaker 1: ing for many, many years. They have made such hilarious
Speaker 1: films as Beer Fest and Supertroopers and Supertroopers Too, and
Speaker 1: the TV show dot coma FD. Please welcome two fifths
Speaker 1: of the funniest comedy troop in America, Kevin Heffernan and
Speaker 1: Steve Lemmy. So we are Mucky Pask got monkey pops. Kevin,
Speaker 1: you have monkey pokes yesterday? No, No, in the past.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have it.
Speaker 2: No, Kevin, you're doing something that's great because I was
Speaker 2: like no, I never answered you to earnestly.
Speaker 1: No, I've never had monkey pop. Yes, yes, and he's yes. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: come on, he's still because he's still following the rule.
Speaker 1: Come on, but broken listen were you guys? Were you
Speaker 1: improv No? Hi, everybody give us the name of a town. No,
Speaker 1: we were not going.
Speaker 2: We did one like we were sketch. But then we
Speaker 2: we performed.
Speaker 1: We tried to do it well. We did a show
Speaker 1: like we used to at the Duplex.
Speaker 2: Where's Christopher Street and Sheridan Square on the West Village,
Speaker 2: West Village.
Speaker 1: Okay, is that is that a gay club? It is? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like a cabaret club. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: And it would be like cabaret shows. It would be downstairs, downstairs,
Speaker 3: and it would be drag shows like every day of
Speaker 3: the week, and you would have work tonight.
Speaker 1: Did you ever work in drag just to get an
Speaker 1: extra night? No, nobody.
Speaker 2: I think that they took us. They were the only
Speaker 2: club in New York that would take it. This is
Speaker 2: the first part we ever performed in right, And I
Speaker 2: think they took us because it was a bunch of
Speaker 2: us guys went in there to like see if we
Speaker 2: could get in there. I think they thought we were
Speaker 2: a gay sketch group, right, And so they took us
Speaker 2: and they gave us what three mondays? Yeah, yeah, one
Speaker 2: day night terrible and uh but we were twenty one
Speaker 2: and that first show all of our recently graduated college and.
Speaker 1: What year was this? This is ninety one one? All right, okay,
Speaker 1: because I was in New York. But yeah, well just talking.
Speaker 1: We were talking before about my first ever stand up
Speaker 1: appearance in America was at the Comic Strip. Yeah on
Speaker 1: eighty seconds, Well, no eighty seconds, so on second Avenue,
Speaker 1: I think at eighty seconds, but it's around that. It's
Speaker 1: a sort of you know, yeah, all mixed together. Let
Speaker 1: me used to haunt to that area. You grew up there, right,
Speaker 1: I grew up on East eighty six. Yeah, yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: that must have been tough. Well the only way to school,
Speaker 1: like Dorman could attack you, instell the people. Old ladies
Speaker 1: may come out and give you a snack.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you something, Craig. What I don't appreciate
Speaker 2: is that you're already on his side.
Speaker 1: I'm not on his side. I just happened to know
Speaker 1: that neighbor I live in that neighborhood. You live there now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's a rough and tumble neighborhood, New York city
Speaker 1: has changed a lot to golf the side. Do you
Speaker 1: know what it used to be called? But still is
Speaker 1: Yorkville now Yorkville doll that come on, now you're going
Speaker 1: to far that's just that's just hartful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but true, you know no, not dork fell well,
Speaker 3: but that was also farther east right, that's whether on
Speaker 3: the river.
Speaker 1: You know where Daniel d Lewis in that movie. That
Speaker 1: was it started the eighty fourth Street Gang. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: that was it was still a good neighborhood when that
Speaker 1: movie was set. Sure there was farmland, yes you did
Speaker 1: you ever? Do you ever watch that movie? But you
Speaker 1: know when Daniel de Lewis touches his eye with the knife, yeah,
Speaker 1: and it clinks. Yeah, it's not it's got a glass eye. Yeah,
Speaker 1: can you do that if you have a glass you
Speaker 1: you famously have a glass eye. I do have glass eye.
Speaker 1: And monkey pocks see see that? Steve say no he didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but did you you never had to do that? Yes,
Speaker 1: you guys wrote your stuff down right. Yeah. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: were terrified of him, but we didn't.
Speaker 2: So what I'm saying is like we you know, we
Speaker 2: performed at the Duplex for a while, but one time.
Speaker 2: We did a joint show, yeah, with a group called
Speaker 2: Scared Scriptless.
Speaker 3: Right, that was the improv team, an improv group that
Speaker 3: we were friends with.
Speaker 1: I'm already angry. Scared Scriptless was the name of them,
Speaker 1: already kind of like, yeah, yeah, those guys are listening
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, goddamn yeah, they're listening in their dental
Speaker 1: offices as they're working, like gentlemen. Scared Scriptless, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: they guy, Hi, Hi, Scared Scriptless. Does anyone have the
Speaker 1: name of a disease? Yeah, Mockey Fox, Okay, monkey Box
Speaker 1: in Phoenix. But the thing is, they would have you
Speaker 1: on stage with them.
Speaker 3: And I've done it here where you go to Groundlings
Speaker 3: or whatever, you do an improv show and they're so
Speaker 3: much better than you are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's so much better because they're skilled. That's a
Speaker 1: different game. Yeah. But's juice, b all that stuff. That's
Speaker 1: that's real. Yeah, that's it's the improv muscle. You know.
Speaker 1: We don't have that muscle. But we did.
Speaker 2: We did a like a very basic and we were
Speaker 2: performing for for an audience.
Speaker 1: We did like the mad.
Speaker 2: Libs version that is funny, where like you tell the
Speaker 2: story and then you're like and then I went and
Speaker 2: I saw him behind the and somebody's like dairy queen,
Speaker 2: and then like you started improvising.
Speaker 1: About you know, dairy queen being behind the dairy queens. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so let's so let's say you're in So let's say
Speaker 1: you're in a gay club in the West Village and
Speaker 1: someone shouts dairy queen. So what do you what do
Speaker 1: you do? Because you don't wanna, you don't want to
Speaker 1: be offensive, but at the same time, you can't run
Speaker 1: away from the improv So.
Speaker 2: I think you have to start milking, milking, milking, milking dicks.
Speaker 1: Right, we went too far? I did? You went too far?
Speaker 1: See you said, dick, it was too far?
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 1: I mean? I know that this is a wholesome podcast.
Speaker 1: Well I don't know if that's necessarily true. Well it
Speaker 1: should start wholesom, right, because it's about joy. Well joy
Speaker 1: in the sense that it's you know, you just need it.
Speaker 1: You don't need to overform these things always like people say, Okay,
Speaker 1: my my podcast is the five five things that you've
Speaker 1: used to clip your nails over the years. You just
Speaker 1: need to lose umbrella. Yeah, it's nice, joy. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like like like an Almald Joy. Do you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? It's like, no big fucking deal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like maybe there's another and I can't remember. Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of Nut and Joy, I enjoy saying the word dick.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well that seems fair enough. I don't want
Speaker 1: to get in the way of that. But I don't
Speaker 1: want to. I don't want to abuse that. I don't
Speaker 1: want I want to keep it clean. Yeah, I think that.
Speaker 1: You know, you lose a lot of people when you
Speaker 1: start with do you guys ever like cause you don't work,
Speaker 1: you still work live? We haven't done a live show
Speaker 1: in five years. Say, you guys are really kind of
Speaker 1: like you work for the corporate we do. We work
Speaker 1: for you know, the big companies.
Speaker 3: Now yeah, no, but since we had this TV show
Speaker 3: to calm AFT, we hadn't done that's the last time.
Speaker 3: I think twenty nineteen it was the last live show
Speaker 3: we did.
Speaker 1: We did live shows to promote to com AFT. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but since then we just haven't on the road. That's
Speaker 1: still going to cool AFT. Uh No, well no, probably not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got we were on this this joke network,
Speaker 3: True TV. Have you heard that network? I heard it
Speaker 3: and they've kind of fallen apart a little bit. But
Speaker 3: then the show moved over to Netflix.
Speaker 1: Like a month ago. You heard him familiar with that,
Speaker 1: and it's had a really nice new life there. Oh
Speaker 1: so you got that sweet Netflix, yeah, rebooth thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it landed there in January. We were like the
Speaker 1: top ten for like a month and then because you've
Speaker 1: always brooken, Lizzard always been like the people's comedy, do
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? It's like because you guys,
Speaker 1: you even crowdfunded a movie, as I recall we did.
Speaker 1: We crowdfunded super Troopers too, that's right. Yeah, I figured
Speaker 1: I think that's the last thame I spoke to you guys,
Speaker 1: probably Super Tripers that and J I think I spoke
Speaker 1: to him during the promotional tourism. Yeah, yeah, we raised
Speaker 1: five million bucks. Croud funded five million bucks. And how
Speaker 1: much the movie make, I don't know. I mean that
Speaker 1: was a portion of the thing. But right, we don't
Speaker 1: get any of that, so so so you used to
Speaker 1: we just get the accolades, the glory. Well that's still
Speaker 1: good though. Accolades are good. That don't pay the bills, man, No,
Speaker 1: I know, you know that's why I don't go That's
Speaker 1: why I have no accolades. But I just go for
Speaker 1: cat that is like, oh yeah, joy podcast. Sure, sometimes
Speaker 1: you learn that. It's like, yeah, hey, how you doing.
Speaker 1: You don't have a you gotta have a podcast. We
Speaker 1: do well.
Speaker 3: We we had a podcast for a long time and
Speaker 3: then we started doing the TV show and we stopped.
Speaker 3: And then when we finished filming the TV show, we
Speaker 3: did one of those things where that everyone's doing now,
Speaker 3: where you do the companion piece. You know, you get
Speaker 3: the episode and you talk about the episode, and so
Speaker 3: we did that.
Speaker 1: I don't care for that. You don't like that, No,
Speaker 1: I'd like to go deep diving. Yeah, but I don't see.
Speaker 1: I don't think it is. I was having a conversation
Speaker 1: with you. There's no not called Kevin Bacon. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: Kevin Big actually lives in New York. Yeah, yeah, married
Speaker 1: to a very famous kind of New York royalty, sort
Speaker 1: of a Kiie s Edgewick family in New York. I
Speaker 1: think I see him on a farm all time. He's
Speaker 1: playing like a target was going And so I saw
Speaker 1: on social media I was on the playing guitarists.
Speaker 2: Go.
Speaker 1: Kira came and visit me and my wife in Scotland.
Speaker 1: Oh really yeah, they and he is very common because
Speaker 1: we live in the country and he he's They're very
Speaker 1: country people. They know things like he would go, oh,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a bird over there. I was like, really, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's a squirrel right there. I was like, you
Speaker 1: know all the things more than you know. Yeah, shot,
Speaker 1: I just shoot him, shoot him. But he was talking
Speaker 1: about that deep dive stuff and we were talking about it.
Speaker 1: He said, oh yeah, he had a show coming out,
Speaker 1: and it was quite a serious show. Because Kevin's proper actor.
Speaker 1: He's not like sure, sure he knows how to do it.
Speaker 1: He's proper kind of growing up what the hell type actor,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, hey, these guys are
Speaker 1: coming over here. Actor like I have a feeling actor.
Speaker 1: That was really good, though, the only thing is that's
Speaker 1: all I can do. I can't do like two sentences,
Speaker 1: that's fine, but just one.
Speaker 2: I can do like half a sentence of Morgan Freeman
Speaker 2: from Shawshank Redemption.
Speaker 1: Oh, let's hear it now. And they said, oh, that's
Speaker 1: not bad, that's all right. I can't do one. They
Speaker 1: do free and they do free and do free. I'll
Speaker 1: see you in Mexico. No, I don't know, you got it.
Speaker 1: I think you got see I shouldn't have. The first
Speaker 1: one was good. Yeah, the first one was great. We
Speaker 1: were all like, Okay, it's happened now. I was talking
Speaker 1: to Kevin Bacon because he was doing this serious show
Speaker 1: and he said that the car I can't remember. I
Speaker 1: think it was Amazon or something that was on. They
Speaker 1: were making him do all this social media stuff at
Speaker 1: the time. So it's like he's like a serious scene,
Speaker 1: but he had he has to do it in real time.
Speaker 1: So he's tweeting that, oh yeah, that day it was
Speaker 1: really cold and I we had you know, everyone was
Speaker 1: snuggled in their trailer. And he's like, my whole job
Speaker 1: is to try and get people to believe I'm somebody else,
Speaker 1: and then on the other side of the corner, trying
Speaker 1: to get me believe that I'm Kevin Bacon playing dress
Speaker 1: up with my friends, which of course that's that's what
Speaker 1: acting is. But so I agree with him, you should.
Speaker 1: It's it ruins the fourth wall, I guess.
Speaker 3: I guess, but I think comedy is a little different.
Speaker 3: And also our job has always or the thing we've
Speaker 3: always done, is create worlds and environments where it's a
Speaker 3: bunch of guys hanging out having a good time. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and the audience you want them to be a part
Speaker 3: of that audio crowd. I feel like they're hanging out
Speaker 3: with you, and so I think that that that's why
Speaker 3: these companion things seem to work well for us, because
Speaker 3: then it makes pop feel like they're hanging out with you.
Speaker 1: Well, the first one I wanted. That's what I like
Speaker 1: about broken lizzards. I always want to like, I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm hanging out with you and I and I
Speaker 1: feel like, not only am I hanging out you, I'm
Speaker 1: slightly bare than you guys, Like I'm not going to
Speaker 1: fuck up as much as you guys are, which I
Speaker 1: think is the appeal of the joy going to make
Speaker 1: the bad choices. You're going to make the bad choices.
Speaker 1: I'm going to get okay, guys, I'm going home though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll remind you of a story that I'm pretty
Speaker 2: sure we told the last time we saw you. Was
Speaker 2: that when we were at the Kevin and I were
Speaker 2: doing a live show at the Montreal Comedy Festival.
Speaker 1: Just for last I'm familiar, Yeah, And we had worked
Speaker 1: out this increase like eight or nine years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's pre to coom after. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we worked out a terrific routine where he was
Speaker 2: going to come out and say hello to the audience,
Speaker 2: and I was going to say it in French. Oh nice,
Speaker 2: And we had a nice little bit worked out. But
Speaker 2: before that, we went over to the International House of
Speaker 2: Comedy which you were hosting, and you and Eddie Izzard
Speaker 2: came out and did like the best version of it,
Speaker 2: like he is the exactly the same.
Speaker 1: Well Eddie speaks French. I don't exactly well, you know
Speaker 1: what Eddie was doing. So I found it later on.
Speaker 1: He was fucking with me, like I was saying, so
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys speak French. I was
Speaker 1: saying stuff, and then he was saying whatever he wanted
Speaker 1: in French, right to the French Canadian. Seems like that
Speaker 1: was this guy is idea. See, I don't know why
Speaker 1: I have to do this. It's a contracted obligation and
Speaker 1: I'm like, good evening everyone, and welcome to He was
Speaker 1: just being a dick to me. So it's very funny.
Speaker 1: We've been friends for a long time and he does
Speaker 1: speak French.
Speaker 3: That that was the bit though, right that you Yeah,
Speaker 3: you would say something and he would mess it up
Speaker 3: or whatever, and like or you you know, and that
Speaker 3: the bit that we had was the same exact one,
Speaker 3: and you guys started doing it on the stage, and
Speaker 3: we were sitting at each other and when we're with
Speaker 3: your our mutual friend Phil Cotone, and we looked at
Speaker 3: each other like, holy shit, we're doing this exact same
Speaker 3: bit an hour from now in another place.
Speaker 1: But you could still do do you did you do it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course you did, because it's not going to be
Speaker 1: the same modeo. It's not going to leave it because
Speaker 1: I think we were still on stage when you were
Speaker 1: sure it started though we were in like the.
Speaker 3: And we were also like the Wrath Skellar or something.
Speaker 3: There's something like heavy metal Dungeon. There were skulls on
Speaker 3: the wall.
Speaker 1: Of piercing. For me, that Montreal was better when you
Speaker 1: did that. Yeah, Like when I started, I started out
Speaker 1: in Montreal after the coming of the Montreal but Montreal
Speaker 1: I back then, I was really kind of they had
Speaker 1: an underground kind of vibe. It was really kind of cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when did you guys, When did you guys first get together?
Speaker 3: When when was we went to college together? When college
Speaker 3: at Colgate University in upstate New York. And that was
Speaker 3: in the late eighties, and then we moved. We started
Speaker 3: comedy group there, right, and we you know, we.
Speaker 1: Just it still is it's like five guys, right, it
Speaker 1: was then now it is.
Speaker 3: Then it was like twelve people or something, right, and
Speaker 3: then people you know obviously attrition.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like you know these things that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't hit make an almelet without breaking, Well
Speaker 2: you killed.
Speaker 1: Isn't that what you were talking about? I thought I
Speaker 1: thought maybe it was like you know, I thought maybe
Speaker 1: it was just like age, but no, you're talking about
Speaker 1: you know, two men enter one man. Yeah, this thing,
Speaker 1: this was serious. But it was always just dudes. It
Speaker 1: was almost associated. No, we had we had we had women.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but then they I guess they get tired
Speaker 1: of us or something.
Speaker 2: We had people quit because we had people write us
Speaker 2: letters that they were quitting because of how immature we were. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Like we had one guy who quit. He's like, you
Speaker 2: guys and your mom jokes. You give me a headache
Speaker 2: for every show, and I can't be with you anymore.
Speaker 1: He couldn't handle the mom jokes. That doesn't sound like
Speaker 1: someone that's got a career in comedy ahead of them, probably, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean because the best even if you don't like
Speaker 1: someone else's jokes, shut up, Yeah, because you know they
Speaker 1: might have a show in a couple of years and
Speaker 1: then they'll say, hey, what happened to let's get him
Speaker 1: on to play the car? Yeah, you want to be
Speaker 1: in a movie? Yeah? That was That was it, Jordan,
Speaker 1: it was. Yeah, that's quite a long time for you
Speaker 1: guys to be Like, so the five that are in
Speaker 1: the Broken Lezard all still original members, right, that's a
Speaker 1: long time for guys to be friends a long time? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean are you friends of your Is it kind
Speaker 1: of like the Rolling Stones? You just get together for
Speaker 1: work and then because I don't believe until I saw
Speaker 1: you Steve today, I side when you were driving in
Speaker 1: I don't believe I've ever talked to both of you
Speaker 1: guys like separately. I always see you together. I guess
Speaker 1: that's true. Ye. Yeah, we travel on packs. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: a husband and wife team. Yeah, so you know, we
Speaker 1: got sick.
Speaker 2: We talk about this all the time. Like, you know,
Speaker 2: have you ever toured with well, you've toured with an
Speaker 2: opener right that you like?
Speaker 1: Oh? Sure?
Speaker 2: We like on Thursdays when we would go to cities,
Speaker 2: we'd be walking together in the airport and you know,
Speaker 2: eating a meal together and go out to dinner that night.
Speaker 2: You know, everything's great my Sunday, Like we're like fifty
Speaker 2: feet apart.
Speaker 1: I think that's healthy. Yeah, I think that's good. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like understand and also I think over time you
Speaker 1: can get past the first It's like marriage. You get
Speaker 1: pasted the first twenty years. You'll be all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know after that.
Speaker 3: But now all guys have their own families and whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so now it iss we come together and not just
Speaker 3: for work. I mean we'll come together for so and
Speaker 3: you know, I think that's fun stuff and you know.
Speaker 1: But but I mean, given the fact that you guys
Speaker 1: have been through the economic ups and downs of a
Speaker 1: career in show business, like you didn't like form the
Speaker 1: Apple Company and then Yoko Ono and you don't have
Speaker 1: all that or maybe you did, No, I mean I
Speaker 1: guess we didn't. Thats about yes, and oh you were there.
Speaker 1: There's a Yokana. Yeah. I was about to ask anthem,
Speaker 1: I've lost it. Yeah, okay, but did Yoko ever get
Speaker 1: involved with No?
Speaker 3: No, no, and we've never had a Yoko Ono figure, right,
Speaker 3: and we've had an.
Speaker 1: Oh joke on that's good, that's okay, that's I think
Speaker 1: it's maybe a rite down. I should go now, I
Speaker 1: should leave it is you know it's going to be done?
Speaker 1: How from some mid level joe.
Speaker 2: Well no, but at the improv clubs, that's when they would,
Speaker 2: you know, turn off the lights.
Speaker 1: The show's over that one and like a the Craik
Speaker 1: Ferguson Fancy radscal stand up to He continues throughout the
Speaker 1: United States in twenty twenty four. For a full list
Speaker 1: of dates and tickets, go to the Craik Ferguson show
Speaker 1: dot com slash tour. See you out there? Do you
Speaker 1: go and see comedy you like other comedy trips? Was it?
Speaker 1: Was there a thing where you're like, oh, we want
Speaker 1: to be like Python, or we want to be like
Speaker 1: I don't be the other comedy troop. At the time,
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 2: So, I mean we watched Python Weird Kids, right, So definitely,
Speaker 2: I think maybe our says it's a humor.
Speaker 1: We're formed that way. I think everybody who's walk in
Speaker 1: the earth now is formed by Python, is like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like a game changer. It's like I don't know,
Speaker 1: Pythagoras or something. It's like a whole says it's the bar.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think that was the inspiration film wise,
Speaker 3: like I think, you know, you know, they were obviously
Speaker 3: guys who were comedy group who made films. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: you know, I think a lot of the comedy groups
Speaker 3: aspired to you know, TV shows and things like that,
Speaker 3: but we definitely the TV no they were yeh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: but I mean I think, you know, we we were
Speaker 3: in the film world we grew up with.
Speaker 2: Like also like early SNL, which to me was a
Speaker 2: big thing because that was like my sister was watching that.
Speaker 2: I wasn't old enough to watch it yet, but I
Speaker 2: would sneak sneak out after my parents went to bed.
Speaker 2: I would catch the last half hour and it was
Speaker 2: like that first season as well as early seasons they
Speaker 2: were doing like experimental stuff yeah was on there, and.
Speaker 1: The wave of stuff and stuff like that. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: once the once the eye of the corporate borg looks
Speaker 1: on you, you're not going to do that anyway. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know that from some experience late like I had
Speaker 1: Magic Week and all that shit. The yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I haven't magic.
Speaker 2: At some point they stopped yet when we were when
Speaker 2: we were starting out doing sketch Comedy New York City
Speaker 2: in ninety onety two, it was like it was kids in.
Speaker 1: The hall, like they were yeah, they were great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think it was HBO they had the show.
Speaker 3: And they came through town and we were they were
Speaker 3: CBS kids though they went then they started to went
Speaker 3: to CBS, they went to HBO the other way, right,
Speaker 3: I can't remember. Yeah, they were definitely on CBS for
Speaker 3: a while. Yeah, well they were you know, CBC or whatever.
Speaker 3: They were Cannon for a while and then and then yeah,
Speaker 3: Michael's brought them.
Speaker 2: We saw them live at the like the bottom line,
Speaker 2: bottom line, that's the bottom line, and then like maybe
Speaker 2: the Beacon Yeah.
Speaker 1: At the Beacony something too. But that was a big
Speaker 1: thing for us, I mean, you know.
Speaker 2: And then we want to see that was us going
Speaker 2: to see like these are the guys doing what we
Speaker 2: are now trying to do the big.
Speaker 3: And there are a few different groups in New York
Speaker 3: at our level, I think, you know, like the State guys,
Speaker 3: the State are kind of contemporaries of yours, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: they were at NYU. You know, I think at the
Speaker 3: same time that we were performing in the village or whatever,
Speaker 3: and we went up. There was at some at one
Speaker 3: point where the three or four kind of sketch groups
Speaker 3: in the same food group were went up for like
Speaker 3: some MTV.
Speaker 1: You know who got the gig on TV and they
Speaker 1: got that gig. Yeah, it's funny because the state. I'm
Speaker 1: very good friends with Tom Land in the state, and
Speaker 1: I always thought of the state a Tom get out
Speaker 1: of me for saying this, But I think of the state.
Speaker 1: No that that's not true, but I think of the
Speaker 1: state as being kind of the kind of middle class one,
Speaker 1: and I think of you guys being a little more
Speaker 1: blue collar. But since you grew up in Yorkville, Steve,
Speaker 1: I'm beginning to I don't know. I'm like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I think that's true.
Speaker 3: I think we were probably a little more fratty, like
Speaker 3: frat guy.
Speaker 1: Probably, yeah, a little more make a movie exactly. We
Speaker 1: were more perceived that way. Was I going to be
Speaker 1: in beer fest at one point? Do you remember that
Speaker 1: what beer feest? I seem to remember somebody I would
Speaker 1: like some It was like it was before I met
Speaker 1: you guys. But somebody had come to me for to
Speaker 1: do beer Fest and I wanted to do it. I
Speaker 1: couldn't do it. Oh yes, I think that's true. That's
Speaker 1: that's absolutely right. Yeah, It's like I was doing Late
Speaker 1: Night and I couldn't get it. Well, you guys were
Speaker 1: shooting in Atlanta or some of that, or where did
Speaker 1: you show? We shot in Albuquerque. Yeah, far same away
Speaker 1: from from CBS in in West Hollywood. But I remember that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember that being around and I was like that
Speaker 1: might be coming. It would be you'd be on the
Speaker 1: Scottish team. Yeah. Was there a Scottish team? Was that
Speaker 1: what it was? We had? The British team was the biggest.
Speaker 3: There was a Scottish team because they were in they
Speaker 3: were in kilts Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: But they were relegated to background. Yeah, well get Craig Ferguson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. Doing Craig Ferguson. I'd be like, wait, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, guys, I mean I've come all the way
Speaker 1: from CBF that cou'd be the background, like shrinking back here? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you doing the throw them up front?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say you know, uh see, this is
Speaker 2: something we discussed on the show Takhoma FD which is
Speaker 2: our after.
Speaker 1: Oh so you the Tacoma from Taco End of the Week.
Speaker 1: The comedy Club. That's that's a great club, is it?
Speaker 1: Have you been there? No, No, I'll beat it's a coma,
Speaker 1: But I've never done that club. We excellent. That's one
Speaker 1: of the places.
Speaker 3: I think that's where we kind of killed the idea
Speaker 3: for the show because we were we were batting around
Speaker 3: this firefighter show and which we put it, and it
Speaker 3: was just raining the whole time up there wouldn't be
Speaker 3: funny to put a firefighter showing the rainiest town in America.
Speaker 3: And then because we were doing that Tacoma Comedy Club,
Speaker 3: you're right, and then we would go back there afterwards
Speaker 3: after the show came.
Speaker 1: Out, and it would just be phenomenal. Because I've got
Speaker 1: an idea for a shool right now into Cooma, Okay,
Speaker 1: Tacoma p d Okay okay. And what it is is
Speaker 1: that I'm a private detective, private detect in Tacoma in
Speaker 1: the rain, and I came and I came from Glasgow
Speaker 1: because I didn't like the rain and I heard the
Speaker 1: America it had better weather, and I ended up in Tacoma, Okay.
Speaker 1: I actually just as I say this, because I'm just
Speaker 1: like digging around them, like sexually pretty good story, that story. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, so we genuinely said because maybe I don't
Speaker 1: uh No, it's like and then the price and then
Speaker 1: the puppy died. Yeah, No, it's nothing like that. No,
Speaker 1: it's not that.
Speaker 2: Well, it depends so like we had and I've never
Speaker 2: told the story publicly before.
Speaker 1: So we shot season three.
Speaker 2: We shot during like prime COVID time, and that was like,
Speaker 2: you know, all the protocols.
Speaker 1: We were one of the first shows to go, and
Speaker 1: they were like bad time. You're going to be doing
Speaker 1: the Q tip every day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, guest stars and every crew members got two masks
Speaker 2: and all that stuff and so and we made it
Speaker 2: a pretty long way now.
Speaker 1: Like five months. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So along the way, we had uh we had started
Speaker 2: talking to the network about doing Tacoma p D spinoff show. Yeah,
Speaker 2: extend expanding the universe, right, And there was you know,
Speaker 2: because we had a group of local cops in the
Speaker 2: show that are our nemeses. But the day we were shooting,
Speaker 2: one of those actors who they loved, turns out he
Speaker 2: had COVID and he gave him COVID and number.
Speaker 1: One in a call sheet. Man. Oh geez. And then
Speaker 1: they got COVID and everything and everything shut down for hello,
Speaker 1: ten days or two weeks? Whatever? Did you were you vaccinated?
Speaker 1: It was pre vax, So this is like I go
Speaker 1: to pre vax as well. It was Harley.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, it's crazy because you didn't know. You would
Speaker 3: just sit in like a dark room and you weren't sure.
Speaker 1: If you died. Yeah, you know what I mean. But
Speaker 1: then remember that if they used to say it like
Speaker 1: after ten days you also might die. You start to
Speaker 1: feel better, then you.
Speaker 3: Might die, and like you know, my kids and my wife,
Speaker 3: nobody would go near me. You know, nobody knew it
Speaker 3: was gonna happen. So you just sat in a room
Speaker 3: and waited.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I had to quarantine because I was in
Speaker 2: the room with you and him, and I didn't get it,
Speaker 2: but I had The construction crew came and built a
Speaker 2: wall for me in my house.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, and then my dad slide fucking the door. Madness.
Speaker 1: It was mad, wasn't that madness? Just mad, like fucking
Speaker 1: fool on. Yeah, I mean it's crazy. I was in
Speaker 1: the UK when it happened, and like the lockdown was crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like you couldn't go out like you walked out. It
Speaker 1: was like remember that Will Smith movie before he got
Speaker 1: Punchy when he did that im po. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: it was like in Scotland. He said, you know, exaid
Speaker 1: it was right now, but it was like I was there,
Speaker 1: you just it was so quiet and crazy and scary. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But then I go to Anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the network said, I pitched the idea of
Speaker 2: to CoA PD and they were like, yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 2: Oh great, And then this actor got COVID shut down
Speaker 2: the set for two weeks and I said, is this
Speaker 2: a bad time to keep discussing Tacoma And they were
Speaker 2: like yeah, fuck that, it's over and they killed it
Speaker 2: just because of the COVID.
Speaker 1: Because that guy got COVID to me, you know, now
Speaker 1: we can bring it back. Yeah, Like I'm willing to
Speaker 1: go into Tacoma PD where me is the private takes
Speaker 1: from Scotland as a co production with Broken Lives. I
Speaker 1: think this is a real idea. I'm seriously, this is
Speaker 1: a serious, real idea that I think we're having right now.
Speaker 1: Like detective from Scotland like retires from the police force,
Speaker 1: does his twenty right, Yeah, retires from police once a
Speaker 1: quiet life. But you know, how bad can it be
Speaker 1: in Tacoma. It's a quiet town. It's probably got really
Speaker 1: nice weather. It's in America, right, And he goes there
Speaker 1: and it's like it's a rough town and it's raining
Speaker 1: all the time.
Speaker 3: But is the joke that because you're coming from Scotland
Speaker 3: you actually think the weather's great in Tacoma.
Speaker 1: Well, it's got to be better in America. It's got
Speaker 1: to be America. American weather. It's nice. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like sun sun sun in California, but you's on
Speaker 1: the West Coast. It's going to be like beach boys
Speaker 1: and all that.
Speaker 3: You're out there in the rain at your Hawaiian shirt,
Speaker 3: Hawaiian shole car.
Speaker 1: Yeah, convertible, definitely a le baron because you don't want
Speaker 1: to break the bank, so you get an old le baron. Yeah, sunglasses. Right.
Speaker 1: It's so kind of like it's like he thinks he's
Speaker 1: going to be like magnum p I, right, but he's drenched.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah mind he mind wait mine because you think
Speaker 1: this is rain, this isn't rain. Yeah, yeah's not Scotland.
Speaker 1: This is missed right, all right, we got I think
Speaker 1: this is okay, we got it. I think this is good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So this podcast forms a contract between us bound. We're bound,
Speaker 1: but we're yeah, yeah, we're we are now together, so
Speaker 1: we should probably discuss financial Okay, okay, we can do that.
Speaker 1: I actually I'm not kidding. I think this would work.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good.
Speaker 2: It's very funny because what we talked about too, is
Speaker 2: that we would flip it so that the firefighters are
Speaker 2: just the nemeses.
Speaker 1: You guys are the heroes of the show and we
Speaker 1: are the bad guys. Well, I think if you go
Speaker 1: into the universe, like the fire Department are there, So
Speaker 1: you guys are producers of this show, and if you
Speaker 1: feel like coming in and going all right, we're going
Speaker 1: to do like three episodes, right right, right, we can. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but then you just make producer money and.
Speaker 2: I'll just go and do the job, right Yeah, okay, sweet,
Speaker 2: I think it's a good package.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me all right. Would you want to shoot
Speaker 1: in Tacoma or do you want to shoot somewhere else?
Speaker 1: That's a that's a tax question, welcome, because we shoot
Speaker 1: our show in La Yeah, and we're constantly erasing palm
Speaker 1: trees out of the well that sounds and also who's
Speaker 1: seven fifty? Who the hell can work in California?
Speaker 2: Well except that accept that living for me, it would
Speaker 2: take me one song to get to.
Speaker 1: The set, all right, okay, which yeah.
Speaker 2: You know It's like when I would hear actors throwing
Speaker 2: tantrums about like the locations and how they don't want
Speaker 2: to leave home. I was always like, Oh, they're Prima Donna.
Speaker 2: Until I had kids. Yeah, that's different.
Speaker 1: That's why I took Late Night because kids my first
Speaker 1: son was born. Oh really yeah, Like because I was
Speaker 1: I was a job. I needed something that was going
Speaker 1: to keep me in town. Yeah. And then this thing
Speaker 1: about that Craig Kilbourne is leaving the Late Night Show.
Speaker 1: I was like, do you want to try out for it?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, actually, it's it's in town all the time.
Speaker 1: They're like yeah. I'm like, okay, did you have to
Speaker 1: go up against a bunch of people? Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: one of them from the state, michaeleam Black. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he nearly got I think I actually think funny guy.
Speaker 1: He's very funny guy. I actually think he would have
Speaker 1: been a better choice. But you know, no, come on,
Speaker 1: oh no, I think so I agree, Yeah, No, I
Speaker 1: think I agree. He's very funny guy. He would he
Speaker 1: would be very smart, he's very he would have done
Speaker 1: a very good show, I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you guys bring a different thing to it,
Speaker 2: Like he would have had more of that like kind
Speaker 2: of smarmy, snarky young guy energy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You so you're saying, I'm an affable grandpa. You had,
Speaker 1: you had a more virtually gray.
Speaker 2: You know, a regal, dignified presence. Sure, you know, like
Speaker 2: like you could have like he couldn't have like politicians
Speaker 2: on the show, right, No, he couldn't keep up.
Speaker 1: With he could you could, Well, I didn't really have
Speaker 1: that many politicians. And the things about politicians is they're
Speaker 1: they're kind of like they're not good at him, right,
Speaker 1: They don't understand. They just stay on message. Somebody teaches
Speaker 1: them that there's some kind of media training out there
Speaker 1: and they and they say, I don't know what it's like,
Speaker 1: they say, stay on message. And it was like, so
Speaker 1: I'm going to be a douchebag from when I began
Speaker 1: until it doesn't matter what political party read, stay on message,
Speaker 1: and so you can't talk to them. They just come
Speaker 1: out and fucking yell.
Speaker 2: But that's that's when you have the skeletons start talking
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 1: Did you notice that there was a love I didn't have?
Speaker 1: I still have this. There were two skeletons. I don't
Speaker 1: want to you know? Really? Yeah? Where are they both
Speaker 1: in my house in Scotland?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Really? Yeah? Did you? What do you do? Like? Put
Speaker 1: them in a box and cinemore? I put they sit
Speaker 1: in a room and we have little tea parties together.
Speaker 1: The scale of the first class airplane seat, No, see,
Speaker 1: I don't buy first class. I buy a coach, but
Speaker 1: I buy a coach for the scalton next to me,
Speaker 1: and then I don't have to go for the middle seat. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's all good. Didn't we fly someplace first class recently?
Speaker 3: We did, and one of the brook Miners got bumped
Speaker 3: out of first class and.
Speaker 1: That's a no fly situation for me. Well, here's say
Speaker 1: you're bumped at a first class I'm saying, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Here's the funny thing was, then we walked through first
Speaker 3: class and there's a cello player, and the cello player
Speaker 3: had bought the first class seat, so he's sitting in
Speaker 3: one seat and next to him in first class is
Speaker 3: his cello in the seat, But.
Speaker 2: It did look like a big giant head. It was
Speaker 2: like an eight foot tall person sitting there.
Speaker 1: The way as you do is paint a face on
Speaker 1: top of the cello so it looks like a big
Speaker 1: person and then you can shame them for taking the seat.
Speaker 1: But got bumped out of first class for the cello,
Speaker 1: but he still had through the curtain. He could still
Speaker 1: make direct eye contact with the cello. Right, you get
Speaker 1: free drinks. Was that a long Yeah it was. It
Speaker 1: was nearl A. No, No, it was Chicago. That's a lot.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's long enough to want to be in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think the cello is quite sexy instrument.
Speaker 3: It's sexy. And when you see it sitting in a
Speaker 3: first class seat, there's in a white case.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's that guy's flex. You think, well, that's
Speaker 2: that guy trying to like get some action, you know, like.
Speaker 1: A pet dog. Because immediately you're like, no, it's like
Speaker 1: the guy in Starbucks with a pirate on his shoulder,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's the same, or a
Speaker 1: big lizard or something. It's like yeah, oh yeah, sorry,
Speaker 1: you want to talk to me. Sure, go ahead and
Speaker 1: talk to me. Will have the the brisket brisk But
Speaker 1: you know, you're immediately who is that guy? Who's that
Speaker 1: guy Yoyoma? It might be Yoyoma. It's not Yoyoma, it's
Speaker 1: not but he's because Yoyoma is too cool for that
Speaker 1: is like, yeah, my cello flies private.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, no this but we were, you know,
Speaker 2: we were trying to peek and take pictures of the
Speaker 2: guy and then like we were looking like googling who's
Speaker 2: what cello players playing in Chicago.
Speaker 1: It's probably just like that's a whole world though, that
Speaker 1: classical music world, Like there are giant stars in that world.
Speaker 1: You never know, you never know. It's it's kind of
Speaker 1: like now with your kids, right, they have like they
Speaker 1: have you two people or whatever it is, or you know,
Speaker 1: they want to go and see people that are performing
Speaker 1: in a stadium and you're like, who is this Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, he's the biggest influencer slash anime star. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've ever seen like there's a there's a hologram thing.
Speaker 1: Now have you seen this? Now? My son want to
Speaker 1: see this hologram? How old are your kids? Twenty three?
Speaker 1: Or twenty two and thirteen. Because Scottish people, the way
Speaker 1: we breed is like these orchids in the jungle. So
Speaker 1: every ten years, a Scottish person goes and anywhere you know,
Speaker 1: a Scottish man goes, and anyone in a kind of
Speaker 1: like five twenty five gets pregnant. Yeah, okay, that's how
Speaker 1: we do it, only every ten years, caause it takes
Speaker 1: you ten years to regenerate, right, It just it builds
Speaker 1: up in your well. You have to fill in your
Speaker 1: pretenda and what is it?
Speaker 2: That's that's a nice way of saying that nat that's
Speaker 2: flower Genitalia.
Speaker 1: Is it pedenda? Yeah, flower Genitalia. I thought it was
Speaker 1: an Italian meal that it's also that. Yeah, I'll have
Speaker 1: the pedenda, yeah exactly. Yeah. But it's kind of a homophone, right, homophone. Homophone?
Speaker 1: What is a homophone again? It's a phood where you
Speaker 1: tell friends.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so your kid went to see something, Your thirteen
Speaker 3: year old kid went to go see a hologram.
Speaker 1: No, it's just when my twenty two year old was
Speaker 1: about seventeen or something, it was like it's like a
Speaker 1: touring thing. We could probably google it. It was like
Speaker 1: a touring thing. Where you go and see this Japanese performer,
Speaker 1: but there actually isn't it. It's a hologram, so they're
Speaker 1: not really there, but there's but there's songs and stuff.
Speaker 1: But Abba are doing that now Aber on tour. But hologram. Yeahlo,
Speaker 1: it's holograms. It's a big thing in London and the
Speaker 1: O two in London. You can go and see Abba
Speaker 1: like they wear back in the day, but it's hologround.
Speaker 3: So it's like a it's a broadcast of an old thing,
Speaker 3: or they're sitting somewhere fighting somewhere in their generation.
Speaker 1: It's holograms of them when they were young and in
Speaker 1: their prime, and the music is there and it's like
Speaker 1: they're on the stage performing for you. You see.
Speaker 2: I thought using iPhone or something, I thought it was
Speaker 2: gonna be like they're in a studio in Sweden.
Speaker 1: Nope, and they're putting on a show. No, No, this
Speaker 1: is completely generated and that they're just taking the money,
Speaker 1: just cashing checks. We should do that, We should do
Speaker 1: a Broken Lizard show that way. Guess I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I know Elvis is appearing in London
Speaker 1: pretty soon. Yeah, No, he's Elvis is going to be
Speaker 1: doing hologram shows in London down on the lobby of
Speaker 1: this building. There's an advertisement for it. Oh really, well
Speaker 1: that's probably that's crazy. Yeah, so Elvis, you know we'll
Speaker 1: be going back to Vegas. Oh yeah, young Elvis or
Speaker 1: Hefty Elving. For me, I would go I would go
Speaker 1: Hafty because I feel like that where I enjoyed it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That Elvis was only forty two and he died. I know. Crazy.
Speaker 1: It's weird saying, isn't it. It's weird even think about that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And Wilford Brimley was only forty nine when he.
Speaker 2: Filmed Cocoon Man, playing a grandfather who's been put out
Speaker 2: the pastor Yeah, he's forty nine years old.
Speaker 1: No. I had Wilford Brimley on the old Late Day Show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I have to say, uh, he's pretty impressive slash
Speaker 1: scary guy. What was he like? Funny? Did he engage? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's funny, but he was kind of like frightening, frightening
Speaker 1: tough grandpa, like he'd like someone had been in the
Speaker 1: Second World War and see in action. But you know,
Speaker 1: I still had a bit of a sense of humor. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: he's been a grandpa for forty years. Yeah, he's been
Speaker 1: a grandpa really easily since he was forty nine.
Speaker 3: It's sometimes hard to get those guys to, you know,
Speaker 3: open up a little fun, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's true. But he did a little bit.
Speaker 1: I think he had to travel in from Montana or something. Okay,
Speaker 1: he lives it. Was he promoting something? No, No, he
Speaker 1: wasn't doing anything. He I kind of I did a
Speaker 1: campaign to get him on because I saw I saw this, uh,
Speaker 1: this drag queen in San Francisco who looked like Wili
Speaker 1: Brimley and was wearing stack heels and hot pants and
Speaker 1: but but otherwise looked like Will for Brimley, and I
Speaker 1: was like, wow, is that Will for Brimley? And then
Speaker 1: we started the whole thing is is it? Isn't it?
Speaker 1: And then he came on the show to and dispute
Speaker 1: the did.
Speaker 3: You have the the person from San Francisco too?
Speaker 1: At the same time, I did know which was wrong.
Speaker 1: I should have needed me there, Yeah, I should have.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a mess. I came up with the
Speaker 1: idea for Tacoma Private Detect that's true. That's true. Well,
Speaker 1: I didn't come up with the idea. But no, you
Speaker 1: you said that's true, so legally that is true. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's true. Yeah, I'm just yes, standing and it's cruise me.
Speaker 1: You just contracted it just because holy ship. And he's
Speaker 1: a lawyer. You know he's a lawyer. Are you a lawyer? Really? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Do you actually go you go through the contracts and
Speaker 1: stuff for the But I mean we pay someone to
Speaker 1: do that. I do it for fun. The only time
Speaker 1: he ever actually should have done it for us.
Speaker 2: We got screwed, we got loopholed, and we were like,
Speaker 2: what he didn't you catch he passed the barn two states?
Speaker 1: And did you passed the barn in California? New York?
Speaker 1: That's New York, New York? Is there? Yeah? I did
Speaker 1: all right, first time though, first try, first try. That's great,
Speaker 1: pretty good that that's pretty good, So not just some
Speaker 1: beer swilling. I long ago dispensed with the idea that
Speaker 1: you guys were actually who you actually were, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean it's like, oh, yeah, they're just gonna are they.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I dropped out of college my senior year because
Speaker 2: I got drunk and kicked through a glass door.
Speaker 1: He is that consevered my achilles tendon really. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you couldn't walk and you had to do comedy. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it. It drove me to comedy with my kids.
Speaker 1: What were you what were you studying? A couple? You
Speaker 1: study in law. I was a fine arts major. I
Speaker 1: was a painter. Oh see, I like my wife was
Speaker 1: a fine art dealer in New York. I love all
Speaker 1: that stuff. Yeah, he's just doing it to get girls. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: like he did it. Do you ever check out my painting?
Speaker 1: Do you have? Do you collect art? I don't make art.
Speaker 1: You make it comic art. Fart jokes, you do fart jokes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in the style of Matisse and stuff like that. Metis
Speaker 1: style fart jokes I liked.
Speaker 2: I liked point to, point to Yeah, okay, told me through,
Speaker 2: which is like like Monette and Maynet, Like it's like
Speaker 2: a little.
Speaker 1: All those little dotty pointy things.
Speaker 2: Yeah okay, Yeah, so that was what I was experimenting
Speaker 2: with at the time of my dropout.
Speaker 1: So you were an experimental painter and he ended up
Speaker 1: broken Lezard. Yeah dude, that's okay. That's that shows your
Speaker 1: adaptable and it's the adaptable that survived. Well.
Speaker 2: The thing was, so my junior year is when we started, Uh,
Speaker 2: broken Lizard Chart Goosebeak was the name of that group.
Speaker 1: Charge Goose Peak Chart Goose Oh, Charred Goose Peak. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's a little. I feel that's a little.
Speaker 3: It's like wacky College is the quirky college guys, Charret
Speaker 3: gooseb It wasn't a pun at least, you know.
Speaker 1: It wasn't. Yeah, it wasn't Scared script Yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what I were still angry of him when I see
Speaker 1: those guys. Oh, but one.
Speaker 2: Of the girls in Scared Scriptless was a phone sex girl.
Speaker 1: Oh. I worked with a couple of girls that did
Speaker 1: that in New York. Yeah, it was I think it
Speaker 1: was kind of a good job for actresses in New
Speaker 1: York back in the day, in the nineties. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: there was these phone lines. I think it was like
Speaker 1: an only funds but audio, right audio.
Speaker 2: They didn't call and charge like they're fully dressed. She
Speaker 2: just had a very sexy voice. Yeah and yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean she probably had to say some lewde things and
Speaker 2: hear of she Yeah, but she was making a lot
Speaker 2: of money. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember I worked with a couple of actresses who
Speaker 1: who had supplemented their income with that. They were like,
Speaker 1: it's hilarious. You know you're sitting with like smoke cigarette
Speaker 1: your robe. Oh baby, I thought, you know that's improv Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's you know it is. That's right, and fair play
Speaker 1: of them for doing it. I'm like, yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1: I would have done it. Yeah, yeah, but you could
Speaker 1: have done it maybe with a Scottish Yeah you could not.
Speaker 1: Now I don't Yeah, no, no, I'm too affable, Grandpa
Speaker 1: send it. I don't have too dignified.
Speaker 2: Dignified, But did you, like, did you ever do like
Speaker 2: a uh, like one of those sleepy time books on
Speaker 2: tape that like silly and Murphy does.
Speaker 1: No, But you know what I did, like a lot
Speaker 1: of I just did like Matthew mcconey doesn't know that
Speaker 1: it's like it's time to go to sleep. It's got
Speaker 1: a like white noise type. Yeah. I listened to them too,
Speaker 1: But I what I do you listen to that? I
Speaker 1: listened to Right now, I'm listening to Dan Stevens okay
Speaker 1: tailing an Agatha Christie book and like I have to
Speaker 1: put the timer on the phone for like fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: I go, I'll have a bit. I'm asleep, and the
Speaker 1: phone shut it so off. After fifty minutes, I sleep
Speaker 1: like it's like it is absolutely arrowin to me.
Speaker 2: Do you think, okay, so American versus UK, because I like,
Speaker 2: I don't think there's an American who could make me
Speaker 2: fall asleep, but I would have to think that, like.
Speaker 1: Oh, Morgan Freeman, oh yeah, yeah yeah, or or Matthew McConaughey. Even,
Speaker 1: do you know what? I heard a great joke yesterday. Okay,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to do this. I can talk
Speaker 1: about Dan Stevens. Well, we can get back to Dan Stephens.
Speaker 1: But I heard a joke.
Speaker 2: It's Bradley Cooper, Leonardo DiCaprio and Matthew McConney.
Speaker 1: He decided they're going to make a movie together.
Speaker 2: And Bradley Cooper's like, I'll direct, and Leo's like, I'll act,
Speaker 2: and Matthew McConney says, I'll ride, I'll write, I'll ride.
Speaker 1: They see what he did. That's the joke. That's the joke.
Speaker 1: I talk about Dan, So that Stevens, we get to
Speaker 1: the yeah talking about Abby right, right, Dan Steve was
Speaker 1: even doing that? Yeah, was in that great Will Ferrell.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, he's so funny in that movie. The
Speaker 1: European European Eurovision Eurovision.
Speaker 3: That's like one of the most underrated movies fast. Like
Speaker 3: I watched that with my family and then we watched
Speaker 3: it again, like ye like funny, funny it is.
Speaker 1: It is Ricky Balby level funny totally. And then Stance
Speaker 1: he was the bad guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he played a Russian guy and he's hysterically
Speaker 3: he is and I'm like.
Speaker 1: Fantastic downn Abby guy.
Speaker 3: I like, yeah, he was like the lead dude and
Speaker 3: like he died at the end of the first season
Speaker 3: because he wanted to get out of his contract. Oh,
Speaker 3: like he drove his car into a tree or something
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: But the season yeah, yeah, I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I I doubt Nabby coming. Oh no, you see the
Speaker 1: thing is I watched it because I'm married to I
Speaker 1: did too, But then I loved it. You didn't try.
Speaker 1: I didn't get into it, but I think it was
Speaker 1: the second to third season. Yeah, my wife loved it
Speaker 1: and I got into it. And then we went and
Speaker 1: saw the movies and the movie theaters and.
Speaker 2: Did you see the one where they uh, they come
Speaker 2: and make a Hollywood movie stopped?
Speaker 1: I think that jumped the shark and they made really
Speaker 1: like the second movie they came out with, it was
Speaker 1: a movie from Hollywood and coming to film at the cast.
Speaker 1: I believe they're making another one where Scooby doing the Gang?
Speaker 1: Is that right? The Gang turn out that. I would
Speaker 1: see that one. I would see that. I will see that.
Speaker 1: They eventually did the deal with Matthew Lillard, so they're
Speaker 1: going they Shaggy and they're going to do Stevens comes
Speaker 1: back as a ghost. Yeah, you know, he's haunting that.
Speaker 1: I got more money than the amazing Yeah, it's going
Speaker 1: to be great.
Speaker 2: By the way, if that, if the producers of Downton
Speaker 2: Abbey were smart, they would.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and do that. They're definitely smart.
Speaker 2: Smart, they're errud right, Like they come across as a
Speaker 2: person who puts.
Speaker 1: In the slow It's it's the British thing, isn't it.
Speaker 1: They smart because they're British, but they're not really Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I've come across that in my life many times. Well,
Speaker 1: I really think this is going to be mindless.
Speaker 3: It's like anyone with an Australian accent. You think they're tough,
Speaker 3: but yeah tough tough now and you know, yeah, they're
Speaker 3: pretty tough some of them. Yeah, their head buddy or
Speaker 3: I think wasn't he Norwegian? Well but the guy who
Speaker 3: plays him, Hemsworth? Oh right, yeah, yeah he's pretty.
Speaker 1: He's tough and big Yeah, big, big, big tough Australia.
Speaker 1: Yeah scared. I feel kind of excited.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like all off Seas are like they're
Speaker 2: a head buddy crew you.
Speaker 1: Know that guy like you ever spend any time out there? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I kind of liked it. I thought it was I
Speaker 1: loved it. But Scotland is the same. Don't you think
Speaker 1: it's warm whaler Scotland? Yeah, I think you're right, yeah, vibe.
Speaker 1: It's got a kind of they're friendly, but they're you know,
Speaker 1: they do drink, so things get unpredictable later the Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when you're hanging out at the slot or lamb. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. Stick to the pus, Yeah, stick to the pus.
Speaker 2: We did a cold open of tacombe Ft this final
Speaker 2: season where he had played too uh two Scottish Highland
Speaker 2: Highlanders in blue makeup, did a Scottish accent.
Speaker 1: How did that go? Well?
Speaker 3: Like we I found out that there were certain like
Speaker 3: words that you could say that would get you into
Speaker 3: the Scottish accent.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, let's hear them you and not bad, not
Speaker 1: bad at all.
Speaker 3: That was my trigger word where it would get you in.
Speaker 1: He wears flipp and skinning. Okay, what about that? Yeah
Speaker 1: it's not bad. It's okay, it's a little bit, but
Speaker 1: it's a little bit like his earlier Morgan Freeman, had
Speaker 1: you stayed just a little, Yeah, but but then you
Speaker 1: moved on. I mean, okay, it's not an easy accent,
Speaker 1: especially to a Scottish pairs. Hold on, let me, let
Speaker 1: me go, let me go. I had two phrases. One
Speaker 1: of them is it's footing great. I love that.
Speaker 2: It's fucking great, I thought, and.
Speaker 1: There are you to have your mind. That's a good
Speaker 1: Scottish woman. That was like my mother, the mom I'd
Speaker 1: like to go into show business.
Speaker 2: Jesus, we should talk to America to become a late
Speaker 2: night talk show host.
Speaker 1: You're mad, you'll be back here in a year's time.
Speaker 1: What happened my first year in late night I had
Speaker 1: Riza on the show from the Wu Tang Clan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and my mom was on at the same time. So
Speaker 1: I said to reside, you do love comedy bit drive
Speaker 1: around l a and take my mom to some places
Speaker 1: that's funny, and he did. He took my mom to
Speaker 1: Roscoe's Chicken and water. Yeah, and they had taken a
Speaker 1: while and they gone really well. I mean, my mom
Speaker 1: was a nice woman and this is really cool, and
Speaker 1: he was like, yeah, it was Finally took her in
Speaker 1: his fucking bowler Mercedes around La and ah, that's funny.
Speaker 1: But they kind of kept in touch and then my
Speaker 1: mom my mom later on, like years, A couple of
Speaker 1: years later, Wu Tang We're doing a big show in Scotland,
Speaker 1: and my mom called me and said, I'm just trying
Speaker 1: to get in touch with Reza and I'm like, why, mo, Well,
Speaker 1: I noticed that Wu Tang are playing. Yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: I would take the ladies from Athritis. I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if the ladies we ride to
Speaker 1: scare are going to love, uh love the show they
Speaker 1: I don't know. Was she familiar with his music or
Speaker 1: she just liked them as I like what she was
Speaker 1: going to get into right group. I think she knew
Speaker 1: that it was, you know, it was a type of music.
Speaker 1: She perhaps wasn't familiar with that, but like, I'm guessing
Speaker 1: with your guys parents. I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: were in showbiz family, I wasn't, no, no, no, not at all.
Speaker 1: So when I love show business, my mother just was like,
Speaker 1: I guess that's a world I don't understand, but yeah,
Speaker 1: might be okay with it.
Speaker 3: They were totally loved they every interaction they had, they
Speaker 3: loved it. You know, they would make friends with people.
Speaker 3: We had the story about Linda Carter, my dad and
Speaker 3: Linda Carter was in super Troopers, old super Troopers movies,
Speaker 3: and then I did a couple of other movies with her.
Speaker 3: I did it called Sky High, Duke sat He.
Speaker 1: Became friendly with Linda Carter wonder Woman, Yeah.
Speaker 3: And and so legendary, legendary and also you know, like
Speaker 3: you know one of the you know, known.
Speaker 1: To be the heart throb of you know, the seventies
Speaker 1: or and Catherine ba. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It was at the same era we were shooting super
Speaker 3: Troopers too. We were in Massachusetts and uh, we had
Speaker 3: a day off or whatever, and we're eating lunch in
Speaker 3: the hotel. My parents came to visit, or we had
Speaker 3: wrapped or whatever, and I was eating dinner with my
Speaker 3: parents and Linda came into the hotel restaurant and sat
Speaker 3: down at the table with us, and we were just
Speaker 3: chatting and and and she, you know, chatting with my
Speaker 3: parents and my dad, you know, was chatting or whatever.
Speaker 3: And as my dad was eating hit a hamburger and
Speaker 3: fries and and Linda was sitting as my dad, and
Speaker 3: she just reached over and she like.
Speaker 1: Plucked the fry off his plate and ate it. And
Speaker 1: he freaked out. He like got like totally rattled. And
Speaker 1: after she I said, what's up?
Speaker 3: And he goes, Linda Carters d a French ry off
Speaker 3: my plate, you know, and he thought that was the
Speaker 3: greatest thing in the world.
Speaker 1: If she did done it to my daddy, either go angry.
Speaker 1: He would get you to Linda with a y maby
Speaker 1: that's Linda Carter. Yeah, but you know, get your to
Speaker 1: in chips, don't touch mind as like out of spake,
Speaker 1: get you know, jepsy and your mom was like, she
Speaker 1: picks the French fry off? Yeah all right, Well no,
Speaker 1: look see we're done here. Now. I was going to
Speaker 1: ask you a stuff I've forgot and we started riffing
Speaker 1: on ship. Well, but we did come up with the
Speaker 1: idea for the show, which I think we have that show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so let's get on to that. I think it's pitching time.
Speaker 3: Okay, uh, we go out there, Yeah, I think so
Speaker 3: we've pitched together before for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like what didn't we pitch a TV show? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we pitched ball guys? Oh guy, and he's the guy
Speaker 1: with the hair. I was the guy. He was in
Speaker 1: the room with us. Yeah, he was going to be
Speaker 1: Cale Forysting. Yeah, he was Kale the good haired guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good hair guy. Did that show ever get made? No? No,
Speaker 1: No one thought it was like a sketch. Yeah. The
Speaker 1: show was about a bunch of ball guys and the
Speaker 1: bad guy is the guy who has hair, and that
Speaker 1: was here. Yeah, it might be a sketch. To be fair,
Speaker 1: it could be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean let's let's I think you ended up
Speaker 3: firing your manager over that show. Yeah, that was one
Speaker 3: of the shows that you felt like your management wasn't
Speaker 3: getting behind.
Speaker 1: I don't think people know, like people who are not sure,
Speaker 1: but I don't think they know how many things get
Speaker 1: pitched don't happen. Oh god, I mean it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: i'd say even higher.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Probably. It's like like it's baseball numbers. You had one
Speaker 1: in ten year Hall of Fame. You know, it's like
Speaker 1: it's unbelievable. This idea was gold. This idea was gold.
Speaker 1: I think it was Phil Cator involved was involved.
Speaker 3: I remember it was a fun pitch, like we were
Speaker 3: in the room a little bit bets and laughs.
Speaker 1: Why did you agree to do it? How did we
Speaker 1: get it? It was film fell from Phil. He was like,
Speaker 1: you want to do a broken listen. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I still feel bad, but and it just do the BOK.
Speaker 1: But I think third time lucky the Tacoma probably Detective
Speaker 1: from Scotland. Now it is p D private to take
Speaker 1: and I think that the real PD would be like,
Speaker 1: you can't use p D and we were like, yeah
Speaker 1: I can. It's America, Yeah I can use PD. Have
Speaker 1: good will there we have good I will tell you
Speaker 1: this and he knows this is true.
Speaker 2: This is on the list of TV shows that we
Speaker 2: you know, we have a creative document with all the
Speaker 2: stuff that we have lined up.
Speaker 1: Right one of the shows is based on this cold open.
Speaker 2: We had such a good time playing Scottish Highlands right
Speaker 2: back in like the fourteen hundreds of the twelve hundreds,
Speaker 2: right that we're like, you know, there's like that there's
Speaker 2: a Viking show out now, and then there's like, you
Speaker 2: know what we're doing the shadows.
Speaker 1: There are all these like period pieces up for a bed. Thanks, fun,
Speaker 1: We we really do want to do a Scottish highlander show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because she'd been on that. Yeah, for sure, I'll be
Speaker 1: all over there. He could be technical consultant and I
Speaker 1: know I think i'd be looking for more than that.
Speaker 1: Oh really, yeah, i'd be looking for that would be
Speaker 1: so as a woman, Yeah, no, older woman. No, No,
Speaker 1: that's the thing I'll say.
Speaker 4: I loved at a very tough but with kreaky voice,
Speaker 4: the toughest guy with the toughest guy, and they were like,
Speaker 4: oh no, he'll come as big Alec Holleen, it's time
Speaker 4: to fight that.
Speaker 1: That'd be great if you became if you became the
Speaker 1: tagline guy with like T shirts that are you out
Speaker 1: of your mind? Yeah, yeah, it's all good. Well we're
Speaker 1: good at the milling is the f