WEBVTT - Questlove Supreme: Hannibal Buress Part 2 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.439 Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:07.840 Welcome back to another episode of Quest Love Supreme. This 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:10.040 is unpaid bill. Last week we gave you. 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:12.720 Part one of our studio interview with our friends Hannibal Burns. 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:16.480 According to Hollywood, you haven't yet checked that out. Hannibal 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:19.880 spoke about Chicago, his beginnings in comedy, and more. We're 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:22.800 back with part two and also this full interview will 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:24.800 be available on YouTube soon, so be. 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:25.759 Sure to check that out too. 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:27.120 All right, folks, here we go. 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:31.920 I would think, like if I'm making my for raight 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:34.919 in the comedy, I would have my defense ready, Like 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:37.520 how do you deal with hecklers? How do you deal 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:39.640 with How early you deal with hecklers? 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:43.240 I mean you try to just win the room back, 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:44.040 you know what I mean. 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:47.519 I mean it's different early on when they don't know you, 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:48.440 because then. 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:51.400 It's just fully combative versus dealing with it. 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:54.800 Now when people pay money to see you and they 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:56.520 might have been wanting to see you for a while, 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.000 and then somebody else's ruining their experience, so it's easier 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:00.640 to light them up and flip. 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:02.160 You could just say like, hey, they. 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:04.200 Didn't come here for that ship and they're like, we 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.039 didn't come here for that. 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:08.840 You ain't got to no Heckler's rule. I've seen a 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:10.039 lot of comedians have that now, like. 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:12.880 We just said before the show, but if people want to, 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:15.440 I mean sometimes people say stuff and you just just 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.840 like it's not they stay in. 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:21.119 The seats, so it usually it's usually light work. 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:23.640 I'd rather not talk with them just because I got 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:26.319 an hour and a half of show and stories. 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.840 So it's not really going to ignore them. 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:32.360 No, no, no, no, you don't really ignore if they're 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:34.640 loud enough because they took focus. So you just try 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.240 to just settle the room and and just you know, 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:38.959 show them why they're there. 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:40.360 Who's that was it? 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:40.640 Said? 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:42.920 That told us that he makes sure that one of 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:47.520 his openers is like a shooter like that comes out 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:50.120 in his mere job is to roost the audience to 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:52.640 be like, you know, I don't bash you. I think 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:56.000 Chris Rock also had that. Do you know the white 0:01:56.160 --> 0:02:01.200 Uh yeah, he's good? Oh yeah, who Jce No, no, no, 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.520 it wasn't. Well I know Jesselyn, but it's another guy. 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.440 It's a new guy where he just he intentionally just 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:11.320 comes down the audience and talks like lights you up 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:16.200 unprovoked whatever, and it you know, it's I'm surprised that 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.720 he's still living, that's how good he is at roasting. 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:22.640 But for you, do you always have like your back 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.760 pocket full of like your mama jokes. 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:30.040 Or or no, you kind of you know, even now, 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:31.720 you just try to get an idea of where they 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.720 add and just you know why they you know, it 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:36.919 depends on the situation of what you were talking about. 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:39.680 A lot of times if they interest especially if they 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.040 interrupted in a story. It's just as simple as saying, 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:43.920 I don't know why you thought it was cool to 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:48.920 say that right there. That was a terrible spot for 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:54.799 you to say that must be drunk, uh yeah, drunk 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:58.639 or just you know, it's just a heckle by accident. 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:00.640 So you don't. 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:05.840 You got no heckle by accident, Like just like I'm sorry, 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:07.000 I thought that was a question for me. 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:11.960 Yeah, it wasn't. 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:15.079 Sometimes people talking amongst themselves and it's it's so loud 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:17.000 it sounds like a heckle But then a lot of 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.880 times too, it's a function of my show not being 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:27.200 that tight yet, and so it left them too much room. Yeah, 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:29.119 it left too much room, and so they're like, that's 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.360 my turn. I can't sit with my thoughts that long. 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.040 I got something. And so now as I've been on 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:36.720 the road with this one and now that the show is, 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.840 you don't really leave too much space for somebody to 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.120 even think of something to say because you're on to 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.120 the next So that's that's what that A lot of 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.520 the hecklers happen if I'm in a in a gap 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:48.520 and like, oh, where's my next thing? 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:50.960 But so now where if the ship is like that, 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:51.920 then they ain't got no room. 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:56.240 At what point are you taking this series as in, 0:03:57.680 --> 0:03:59.240 this is what I want to do for a living? 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:05.320 And are you aware of the Chicago paths? I e. 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:09.280 You know, either go the Second City route, so that 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:13.000 a Steve Higgins, Yeah, Like, is it general knowledge for 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:17.359 every comedian in Chicago that either Higgins or a rep 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:22.360 for Lauren Michaels or anyone SNL related it's going to 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:26.000 spend three weeks out there and sort of circle the 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:29.000 Second Cities and the ucb's. 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.360 Yeah, well yeah, around then it was it was known, 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:35.039 but that wasn't really my path or what I wanted 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.360 to do at the time. I was kind of really 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:42.760 locked in on stand up. Even getting SNL was a 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:47.360 after fouling. Seth Myers wanted to meet and I didn't 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.520 know what he wanted to meet about because I was 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:51.719 I didn't I hadn't submitted a packet. I had submitted 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:53.479 some stuff the year before, and I thought it was 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.240 that it was so bad that I was blackballed. I 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.479 did that cast submission with some bad I was like, 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.440 here's rock being Jerry Seinfeld. It was some stuff that 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:05.000 really wasn't as good as I could have. So I 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:06.559 was thinking, what does he want to meet about? Because 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:08.680 I didn't added a mine, and I damn it didn't 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:10.880 take the meeting because I had a price line ticket 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:14.360 back to Chicago and those guys really they have really 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.120 rigid shame's policies. 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:17.960 So I was like, what does he want to talk about? 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.760 Because you can't talk about on the phone. Wait, all right, 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.800 So that's another question you get answered for me because 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.320 this is the number one thing every comedian friend of 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:31.320 mine and the Tonight Show and SNL. Yeah, what is 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.680 a package? And what goes in those package? Because they 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:35.599 always say to me, well, just have to send me 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:37.960 a package, right, what's the what's the package? 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.960 The writing package? For SNL or just in general. 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:45.440 Or if you want to be have you written for 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.840 a late night show before you did SNL or was 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.120 that SNL your entry into writing for a show? 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:51.240 SNL was my entry? 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.679 Okay, So if I want to submit a package to SNL, 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:56.360 what is in that package? 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:00.800 Probably a few handful of sketches. 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:03.839 This is also you know, I'm just thinking of what 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.520 the format of the show is. I don't know exactly, 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:10.520 So it'll be a few sketches, probably a commercial parody, 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:13.600 some weekend update jokes. 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:16.680 And you have to type this out like submit it 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:20.200 as a script or you do this like video. 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:21.680 Or if you submit it as a writer out there 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:23.120 you would have it typed out. 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.360 Does it help if you have a visual to it? 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:27.120 Especially now? 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.680 Probably now you know I was my year was O nine, 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.000 so I'm sure now it is definitely more visual because 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:34.080 they got more visual. 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:35.880 I think they got different three different. 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:39.760 Visual camps in there now, so yeah, you know, they 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:43.680 definitely focusing more on the on the digital. But yeah, 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.720 I think that's what it will be a few sketches maybe, yeah, 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:52.520 commercial parody, weekend update and that and that. That's just 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:53.640 a solid submission. 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:56.800 So you feel as though that your actual stand up 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:00.839 on that show was your. You didn't officially have to submit. 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.200 I never Yeah, I never submitted anything written up. They 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.120 just I met with Seth. I think the meeting was 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.320 just to see if I was crazy. 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:11.200 In person or intolerable and then for me the job. 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.000 At the end of the meeting. How many years were 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.600 you at SNL? One year? One season? Wait? What? 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:16.400 Yeah? 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.560 In my mind you were like or maybe I'm just 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.280 lumping you in with Tim and Chay. 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:23.720 Yeah. 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.160 We never like Tim Robinson and like all. 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:30.840 Never overlapped with Chay or who's uh or JB Smooth? 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.800 No, he was the only lone black guy. 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:39.760 In and h Keena was, Yeah, Keena was. It was 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:43.960 just yeah, it was me there. Who's Fred Armisen was there? 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:48.800 As far as Yeah, it was Jenny Slat's one year there? Yeah, 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:54.480 n Megan Fox was the season premiere. That was your 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:58.440 That was your that was your first that was first episodes. 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:04.400 And inside for people, that particular episode is what has 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:10.800 started the mythical war between Melody Cole and I because 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.840 I had a dope sweater that she liked and she 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.160 ignored him. She's like, oh, I like your sweater. I 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:19.720 was like, oh thanks, and she like he was like 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:24.080 and that sort of that's the beginning of our spy 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:28.640 versus spy on Instagram thing with each other. But for you, 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.240 the one thing, now, I wish i'd known you known 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:34.440 you during that period because I'm always running the Higgins 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:38.960 on a Monday after I watch a show, because sometimes 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.600 I'm trying to figure out how do things get greenlit 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:48.000 that I can't actually see written on paper? For instance, 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.559 like I would assume that all sketches on that show 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.439 that people have to sit at a table, yeah, and 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:59.200 physically describe something and you can feedback in the room 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:04.200 or not. But there's some things that I literally can't 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:07.080 see it be in formed with, like and at this point, 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:09.679 I'm gonna fall down the stairs, and trust me, it's 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:11.440 gonna be funny. Like is there a lot of that 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.800 where it's this faith that Okay, it sounds like you 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.040 know what you're talking about right the bit, Well. 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.199 Yeah, people, it's the pitch meeting, the Monday pitch where 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:23.720 everybody's in the office in Lauren's office and some people 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:27.960 pitching real ideas, some people pitching fake and then folks 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:31.320 right on Tuesdays and then it's the read through that 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.600 two thousand and nine twenty ten season was the first 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:35.920 What's up with that? 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:42.400 Oh man? Yeah, I love that. Did you have something 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:42.600 to do? 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:44.760 Like, No, I didn't have it, but I just you know, 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:48.240 being there for the beginning was cool, and I remember 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.320 everybody was kind of singing it around the oven. 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.120 Okay, Well that's the thing though, like at a pitch table, 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:57.679 Like that's a bit that relies a lot on repetition, 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:02.400 mostly Jason Sadac dancing in the background. Yeah, but it 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:06.520 involves a lot of physical things in which how do 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.679 you literally don't see how that's funny on paper, but 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:11.400 it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen on 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:11.760 the show. 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:13.840 So yeah, I think the song care in it in 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.840 the in that setting, you know what I mean, Like everybody's. 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:20.360 Just you know, Coatri Sponge sugar free. 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:21.360 Yeah with that. 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:25.520 Yeah, was there a bit that you like, what was 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:27.440 the bit that you were surprised that actually made it 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:28.920 to air that you were part of? 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:33.720 Only had one sketch of my own that made it, 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:38.040 and then I contributed to others and contributed lines here 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.800 and there. I had Rihanna said one of my lines 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.080 that that that helped me for a little bit, just 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:46.640 you know, because I popped into Lonely Island office when 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:48.959 they were working on Shyronni. Because it was just you know, 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:50.920 it was a time where I realized, Okay, I'm not 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.120 getting stuff on, so let me just pop in and 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:54.040 try to you know. 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:57.360 Are you allowed to keep your head in and what's 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:58.040 going on here? 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:00.520 And then yeah, you could just you know, yeah, you 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:04.080 could just pop in territorial like maybe some people you know, 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.400 they weren't, but some people might have been on that. 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:08.800 They might have some people might have been more closed 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:10.840 off than others. I'm not even you know, those day 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.520 I felt comfortable going, you know, just to chop it 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:13.959 up with them. 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:15.680 So I popped in. They were working on shy Ronnie 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:17.280 and I had. 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:21.160 Actually sent him a Bangs video you remember, let me 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.320 take it to the movie and. 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.960 So that's yeah, that's where you got. 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:36.960 The ha yeah, and so yeah, maybe where it came from. 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.600 Yeah, And then it was a line they was they 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:44.800 were doing the Schyronnie and then I came up with 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:47.640 the line this beat cost a lot of money for 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:49.920 Rihanna to say, and so this to see it, I 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:51.760 was like, WHOA was Brehanna just said some ship. 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:53.240 I said, man, that's crazy. 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.720 It sounds like, so did you did you really enjoy 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:00.200 being a writer? Like it doesn't sound I mean like 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.280 you sound you were thankful for the experience. Yeah, it 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:03.840 seemed like you just really wanted to just be on 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:04.840 stage kind of doing you. 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:10.760 I think before the second half of the season, Chris 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:13.679 Rockett actually told me to try to get on camera, 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:17.280 try to get on weekend Update, And so so I 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.200 met with Sad, Hey can I get on Weekend Update? 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.160 Which was it was I feel like it was a 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.960 strong ass because you yourself. I hadn't done anything, but 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:27.839 it was just you know, well, might as well asked you. 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.280 He said, all right, write something up and we'll we'll 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:31.040 try it at the table. 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:32.280 And so I wrote, wrote something. 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:36.360 I reformatted the picklejuice joke and this other joke about 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.960 rental cars or something. I formatted as me as a 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.440 financial advisor or something like that, and then we tried 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:44.040 it at the table. 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.000 It went cool, and then we. 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:49.640 Did it in dress rehearsal actually, and it went cool 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.760 at dress and then it got cut and then we're 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.760 gonna get you next week, and then it never came okay. 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.960 So I have a question about dress rehearsal. So in 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:06.319 my observations, whenever you guys have the post dress rehearsal meeting, 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:08.319 when you guys find out if you made the cut 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:13.760 or not, I automatically know that the people that didn't 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.800 make it, they always rush up to seventeen and they 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:20.760 just start getting drunk, like yeah, there's a level depressed 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:28.200 giving family secrets away. No, there's just a level of hope, 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:30.600 like you know, you're pointing all your hope that this 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:33.600 makes it, and they do like what they do, like 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:37.079 an extra six or seven sketches on the rehearsal show 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:39.320 to see what works, and then they got to cut 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.520 the six and then remix it for the eleven thirty show. 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:46.360 And usually I would know that some writers that whose 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:50.600 jokes didn't make it, and you know, you take that 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.760 lonely trip up to seventeen where there's always a stash 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.959 of beer like brown liquor whatever, and people just get 0:13:57.559 --> 0:13:59.800 ungodly drunk and be like all right, I'll try to 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:03.680 get next week. Like but for you, were you taking 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:07.920 stuff personal or did you feel like there's a time limit, 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.400 like I gotta get something on next week. 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:14.840 It was just it was tough to not get stuff 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.680 on because it was just you know, I knew I 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.120 was funny and I was having I was doing well 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:21.880 it's stand up, you know what I mean, And so 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.920 I was I was having success there. Uh, but yeah, 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:30.400 it was frustrating to to not to not have stuff 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.720 moving and feeling like I was creative enough to succeed 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.680 in the in the format. I think, you know, if 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:39.120 I did it another year, because then I would have 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.640 known how to move around in the building and just 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:45.640 how to collaborate and and how to just learn really yeah, yeah, 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:47.760 I learned the system because it's really I mean, it's 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.680 a terrible on boarding process, being honest, you. 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:57.680 Just right, here's your office peace, like what. 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:01.040 On board just created last year? 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:03.680 It was just just get there. 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.280 But the thing was, I always thought that because I 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:12.360 also recalled you were on thirty Rock a lot that year. Yeah, right, 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:16.080 So was the decision like, okay, well let me try 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.200 did you write for thirty rock or you were. 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:20.480 Just like I wrote for thirty rock? 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.160 Yeah, okay, was that a better fit for you? 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:27.360 Or it was SNL kind of soft fired me. There 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.920 was no real and then you just didn't get a 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:32.000 call back, just didn't get. 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.800 A call back. And then and then thirty Rock came through. 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:40.360 I think because Donald had left to do community, so 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:42.320 didn't they need to. 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:46.440 They need to feel their diversity spot and so there. 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.760 To punch up Tracy Morgan and guys. 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:51.120 Yeah, I punched up. I did a lot of It 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.040 wasn't a general thing. 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.320 Okay, every time I mentioned that on the show, people 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:59.000 look at me like, I just like, like I landed 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:02.520 from another planet. But I recall, I don't know if 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:04.200 you've seen it in jests. I mean, he wasn't saying 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:07.480 it jokingly. But I was always under the impression that 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:12.640 Glover's sort of existence on thirty Rock was sort of 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:18.280 to punch up whatever Tracy Jordan's character was, like, to 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:20.840 enhance his stuff, like you did like Werewolf, bar mitzvah 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.200 and all that other stuff. And you know, so I 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:27.520 just assumed that when it came to Tracy's character, they 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:32.120 needed to not look like all white people writing for 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:32.840 the show, and. 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:36.800 That uh nah, that was never explicitly explicitly said. It 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:38.920 was just you know, you in the room with everybody 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.640 and they go on line through line by the script. 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:42.840 Everybody pitch of the. 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:47.000 Line until something is just undeniable and then you write 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:47.480 it with that. 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:51.960 And then move along. But yeah, it was yeah, I 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:55.240 think the day job that was more of a regular job. 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.400 Thirty Rock was like that was every you know what 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.680 I mean, show up at nine or ten or whatever, 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:01.440 even at at six. 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.760 And so was that challenging because that scene that just 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:09.040 sounds like the complete opposite it was being a comedian. 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:12.480 Man, it wasn't. It wasn't for me, man, But I yeah, 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:13.360 it wasn't. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.040 Less stressing essnal though. Right. 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:17.679 The thing with ESSNL though, was that you would have 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:20.040 weeks off, so you might do two weeks on, two 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:22.080 weeks off, three weeks on, one week off, and then 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:23.600 so for that week you could go on the road 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:24.199 do whatever. 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:30.440 Yeah, thirty rock was just your on on on. So yeah, 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:32.880 it wasn't. It wasn't really for me like that. 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:34.760 How long you do that job? 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.480 One season? I went through one season, but. 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.480 It was early on I was I realized it wasn't 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:44.280 for me, and I said, man, about to quit this. 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.080 I wrote out pros and cons on the sheet. 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:51.920 To quit just writing or quit comedy period, no quick 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:54.840 that that job, and so I just said, let me 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:57.879 just tough it out for this year and and do it. 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.920 It's a it's a steady paycheck. But then after that, 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:03.040 because I had cabin fever, I think I went on 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.680 a road for probably eight months straight, you know what 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:09.520 I mean, just because I was. 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:09.160 I went everywhere. 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:13.800 How far in events? Was the Andre Show? And how 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.760 is that pitch to you? And does it make sense 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:21.400 to you? At the time when that looked like for real. 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:23.760 I think it was just more I'm doing this. 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:27.560 Thing and you already know he's crazy, And it. 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:29.480 Wasn't even it was just you want to It was 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:31.000 when did we film that? 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.440 Oh? Wait, see like an improved version of Hits from 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:39.640 the Streets? Yeah, and is well you never done any 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:42.320 of the have you done any of this street bits 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:43.040 that he does? 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.600 Or yeah, we did some street stuff in New York? 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:52.000 Did the Black Israelites? I did acting like we did 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:54.719 beating up the police car. I did draw a police 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:59.080 officer with a forty. We did Who Get a Stranger? 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:02.000 I wrote a stranger to let like, who can get 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:04.199 the most strangers? Let them hold their babies? Which I 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:06.600 bailed on that when I do it in real life. 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:08.840 Wait a second, I know I wrote this, but to do. 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.120 So, what's the planning like, because I would assume that 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:15.760 you would have to go to a place where you 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:19.680 absolutely know that they do not know who Eric Andre is. Yeah, 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:24.919 and I can be in Harlem, Yeah, in the Heights. 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:27.400 First couple of seasons that wasn't that was that wasn't 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:32.119 an issue right twenty premiered in twenty twelve. 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:37.320 How do you guys, like, because he's such a call phenomenon, 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:41.760 how did you find you know? There were some places 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:44.359 where I see y'all like went to like Redneck down South, Like, 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:45.240 how do. 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:47.080 You think I didn't do those I didn't do those 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:50.960 travel ones. And that's more on production and and and 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:53.960 on that that side of the game as far as 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:57.760 trying to preserve that. But yeah, the early stuff that 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:00.280 wasn't really too much of an issue. He was would 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:02.360 have kind of catch people off guard with a lot 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:03.560 of the early stuff. 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:05.560 It was it was. 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:08.320