WEBVTT - Some Time With... Andy Goldberg! 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:22.400 Hey there, Fana Ritos. Welcome back to an all new 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:25.919 episode of How Rude Tanner Ritos. Today we have the 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:30.520 actor who appeared on season four, episode fourteen, Working Girl 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:34.680 as DJ's photographer boss. Not only has he appeared on 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:37.839 numerous TV shows, he is also one of the founding 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:42.080 members and the director of the longest running improv comedy 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:47.520 show Off the Wall. Please welcome the extremely talented Andy Goldberg. 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.360 Hi Andy, Hi good, How are you good? 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.760 Welcome to our podcast, How Rude tan Ritos. We're so 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:55.760 excited at here. 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:57.080 Thanks for having me. 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:59.520 Yeah, we just watched the episode that you were on, 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:04.080 which was a Working Girl, Working Girl. That's right, Working Girl, 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:08.000 where you played DJ's boss, and we were like, oh 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.600 my gosh, this is hilarious. And then we found out 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:14.520 you had been Jeff's roommate and you did all this 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:16.840 and problem we were like, we have to have them on. 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.679 So we're so glad you're here. Yeah. 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.039 I need a big honking microphone like you guys have. 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.560 Tell us how did you become an actor? How did 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.880 you like? What it was? The you know, genesis of. 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:35.520 Oh well, I guess that started in summer camp. I 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:38.160 think my first joke you know, I was a shy 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:42.280 kid and I had trouble making friends. But I memorized 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:46.119 this joke from Boys Life magazine, and for some reason, 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:49.000 I did it with a French accent at I don't know, 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.320 nine years old. Did I ever tell you about the 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:56.160 time I killed the bear blindfolded? How the bear ever 0:01:56.240 --> 0:02:02.760 became blindfolded is beyond me? And for some reason, all 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:04.520 the kids were like, oh my god, he can talk 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:05.520 with a French accent. 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:07.920 You know, it was hilarious. It's impressive. 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:09.720 I don't know where I got that, Maybe from a 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:11.799 I don't know if you know Maurice Chevalier. 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.720 Oh yeah, yeah, I made movies, you know when I 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:18.240 was a kid. Anyway, that got me started and I 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:18.720 got hooked. 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:20.359 I guess that's kind of how it happens. 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.080 Did you ever think you'd be on a Full House 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.480 rewatch podcast talking about this. 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:29.880 Role you did something years ago? 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:33.480 No, not in a million years. 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.360 What do you remember about that week on Full House? 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:39.000 Do you remember your audition, how you got the role, 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:41.400 what the week on set was like. 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.480 You know, I was pretty good friends with Jeff. 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:48.640 We were roommates for I don't know a couple of years. 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:49.080 I guess. 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:52.400 Okay, wow, how did you guys meet? 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:57.320 Well, there was a my improv group is called Off 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:01.800 the Wall, uh huh, and we had what year was 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:03.280 this episode? 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:03.520 Do you? 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.400 Ninety one? Yeah, ninety ninety one, oh. 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:08.079 Ninety one, Okay. 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.919 Off the Wall started in nineteen seventy five, and Jeff 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:13.840 was in the workshop. 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:18.160 Oh, and he was renting a house. 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.519 I think it might have belonged to his parents, and 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.320 he needed a roommate, you know, to help share the 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.519 expenses if I wanted to do it, and I want Yeah, sure, 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:31.160 So we became roommates, and we had kind of a 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:35.760 revolving door of third roommates. 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.040 Which are told the other stories. 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:43.960 But I were really good friends and we would cook together. 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.520 Jeff turned me on to a butternut squash with apple sauce. 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:55.720 Ooh okay, that sounds delicious. Yeah. 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:59.080 Anyways, so you know it was we all kind of 0:03:59.120 --> 0:03:59.520 hung out. 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:01.440 We you know, there were a lot of the shows 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.320 on Paramount Lot and that. 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:04.720 Kind of thing. 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:11.200 So I don't remember if I auditioned, honestly, or if 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:14.960 he just gave me the role. I honestly can't remember. 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.880 The main thing that's just so weird to remember but 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.800 I like the wardrobe they gave me because I thought 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:23.239 they were nice flattering colors. 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:28.960 Oh okay, which is as an actor a godsend, because 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.160 I mean, Andrew, you know you poor you. Every week 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.560 you hated what you were wearing. But there is there's 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.799 nothing like, you know, like something that you just really 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.480 don't like on You're like, oh, I just yeah, I can't. 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:42.000 Well, you looked you looked great. 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:46.680 So yeah, you guys looked the same. It's amazing. Obviously 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:50.080 you're older, but I mean you look so youthful. 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.440 Thank you, Thank you growing up with John Stamos and 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:55.400 that's all that Greek yogurt. 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.640 And yeah, it's true just by the proximity. 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.840 Actually it's he actually is the fountain of you if 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:02.480 you just have to like touch him and it. 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:04.520 Yeah. 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.240 So I mean I love that you and Jeff like 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:11.159 started in this business so many years ago, as like, 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.280 you know, writers and improv artists. 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.800 How long have you been doing? I mean it is 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.320 off the wall still going, have you like what is? 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.520 I love improv comedy, So I'd love to hear more 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:23.039 about that. 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:27.040 The Wall is still performing And in September we're going 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.200 to celebrate our fiftieth anniversary. 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:31.520 That's incredible, it's amazing. 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:35.720 What are you doing to celebrate a special show? 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:40.200 I've tentatively got us booked at the Improv on Melrose, Okay, 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:44.719 where we performed for fourteen years, So we'll probably go 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:48.240 back there and you know, bring me in some past 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.640 members that don't perform with us anymore. 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.719 But right, we love him, enjoy working with and that 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:55.279 kind of thing. 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:56.200 Nice. 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.120 Yeah, we're just getting that going now. And you know, 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.440 printing hat and T shirts. 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.760 And right, all the merch, merch, merch, all the merch. 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:09.600 Off the Wall had some really significant talent. I mean 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.920 so many talented people such as yourself, but also big 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:16.520 names like Robin Williams, John Ritter, Gary Shandling, like so 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:17.680 many huge names. 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:18.200 Yeah. 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:21.160 The sad thing is that our fiftieth anniversary is it. 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.599 Robin's gone and John's gone and Gary. 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.760 Yeah, and yeah, a lot of time, a lot of 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:31.640 time has passed. But whoever comes back will be welcome 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:32.760 and we're excited. 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:36.360 Absolutely. We were having workshop one night. It was a 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:38.240 Thursday night workshop that d. 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:42.600 Marcus started off the Wall and she was having her 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.960 workshop when we're there, and Susan Elliott, who was in 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.440 the workshop, comes in and she brings this guy with 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:52.360 him with her and he's wearing a brown suit and suspenders, 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.240 and it's a very odd guy, and he's talking with 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:58.920 a Russian accent. And he gets up on stage and 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.640 he's got a Russian accent, and then he goes into 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.600 a whole bunch of other characters and it's Robin Williams. 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:10.080 And so Dee said, hey, you want to be in the. 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:12.960 Show this weekend, because we were having a show every weekend, 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:15.600 and he did, and he stayed with us for. 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:16.280 A year and a half. 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.720 Oh wow, Wow, it was an amazing time. 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:25.520 He was just I talk about somebody who's mind never stopped, 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:30.080 you know. I was constantly, constantly great, loved watching his stuff. 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.560 And so a lot of people would come see us, 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:34.840 you know, because they heard about Robin. I mean, we 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.520 were very popular at the time. We got great reviews 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:42.800 and Variety and Hollywood Reporter and La Times, so we 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.680 were always pretty crowded. But once word got out that 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:50.160 Robin was there, the place was packed. And one night 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:51.920 Norman Lear came to the show. 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:55.040 Oh yeah, we see Norman at Jeff's house all the time. 0:07:55.280 --> 0:08:00.480 Yeah, oh okay, And and it intermission, Norman comes up 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:02.480 to me and I think, well, this is my big break. 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:04.600 You know, he's he's about to discover me. 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.520 It comes up and he goes, boy, is that Robin 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.440 Williams funny? 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.800 I mean, I can't imagine being in an improv group 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:16.680 with Robin Williams, you know what I mean, Like he's 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:21.560 his own improv group. He's and to like go toe 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:25.360 to toe with that, or to just even you know, 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:26.920 be able to keep up. 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:31.320 I mean it was. Yeah, Robin was just absolutely hilarious. 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:35.520 But we got some footage from back then that nobody's 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:36.160 ever seen. 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:40.480 Oh oh wow, great stuff. So trying to figure out 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:41.480 exactly what to do with that. 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:44.640 Yeah, oh I bet people would love to see that. 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:46.840 Yeah, anybody out there has an idea. 0:08:46.920 --> 0:09:02.000 Let me know, right, Welcome to casual Chaos, where I'm 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:07.640 telling my story unfiltered, unedited, and unapologetic for a moments 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:11.080 you didn't see on camera, to secrets nobody's dared to spill. 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.880 I'm bringing you behind the scenes like never before. 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Listen to Casual Chaos starting 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:50.720 on March twenty fourth on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:52.600 or wherever you get your podcasts. 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.439 And do you still teach improv? 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.959 Do you like, are you still involved with, like actually 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.760 doing some of the theater stuff, or have you kind 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:12.319 of decided that that's not your deal anymore. 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:16.040 No, I still perform in all the shows, and I 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:19.440 teach a couple of classes. I have an advanced class 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.600 in a beginning class and have done that for years 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.840 just because it's fun to do and it's a whole community. 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:30.360 Yeah, improv is super fun today terrifying, but fun. 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:32.280 Have you done it? 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:34.640 I have? I have, I've done it before. 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.200 I have a couple of friends that have different improv shows. 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.079 Pretty pretty Pony And then a friend of mine had 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.080 something at the improv I can't think of the name 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:43.520 of it. 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:45.320 But they would have. 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.120 I've done a couple of guest things and it's not 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.560 nearly as much work as they're doing, and it's still 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:54.720 terrifying because you just have to not doubt and just go. 0:10:56.200 --> 0:11:00.559 Yeah, yeah, you just have yes, and that's what it's about. Yeah, 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.800 we often have the guest stars at our shows, So 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.200 if you want to join us sometimes we'd love to 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:05.480 have you. 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.920 Oh yeah, that would be so much fun. I would 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.920 absolutely love to do that. That's your jam, Jody, it is. 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.760 That's yeah. I love I love doing that kind of stuff. 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:15.120 It's fun. 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.280 Oh okay, well yeah, okay, Well I'll reach. 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:21.560 Out please do yes, reach out through Maddie, will get 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:23.520 our information and an exchange. 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:25.800 Well, this is fun. 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:26.560 There we go. 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:32.559 What would you say to like actors that are trying to. 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.360 Sort of get started in improv because it's kind of 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:41.720 a different animal sketch comedy. Improv comedy is its own 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:46.600 sort of beasts, Like, what would you recommend people do 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.120 or don't do if they're trying to kind of get 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:52.239 into that scene? 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.840 You know, when Off the Wall started, there were I 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:59.880 think three improv groups in Los Angeles. Now there's probably 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:06.880 three thousand, so I don't know, try and hook up 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:12.080 with somebody knows what they're doing. Yeah, there are some 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:16.800 places I always like to think that I'm teaching how 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:22.920 to do improv and some classes, not to mention any names, 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.400 they're teaching you how to do it, but you're also 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:28.680 trying to get into the show. 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.400 Yes, I know of which you speak and yes. 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:37.000 And which is great, you know, because people made it 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:38.760 the Saturday Night Live from the show. 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:40.559 Yeah, but. 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:43.600 You know, learn the basics of it. 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.400 I would highly recommend my book Improv Comedy. 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.720 Okay, I love it. Where can people get that? 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:57.600 It's on Amazon? Okay, got it forward by John Ritter and. 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:03.920 Quote by Gary Sham and also an interview with Brian Kranston, 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:04.880 who took quicklib. 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.280 Oh wow cool, So. 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:11.880 I'd start there. 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:18.840 Okay, you know it's to me, improv is about playing 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:23.720 the moment for real. I think all comedy is funnier 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.040 when you play it for real, that you're not trying 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:29.480 to joke the joke, you're not trying to make up 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:34.360 something that's so crazy, you know, just play the moment 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:35.880 and create characters. 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.240 I think that's a big part of it, is creating. 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:42.520 Characters because people who are most remembered for comedy, have 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:46.679 a character that you can kind of mess them up with, right, 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.040 or several of them. You know, if you look at 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.120 Saturday Night Live, all you know, they all play all 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.439 these characters, and that's what people tune in for is 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.480 to see them play the character, not to just really 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:57.280 be themselves. 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:02.160 But if you play the character for real, trying to 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:02.520 think what. 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:06.360 I So it was a character on Saturday Night Live 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.800 and she just played it so real that you thought 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:14.160 it was an actual person, and you know, right, funnier 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:14.560 that way. 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:19.760 Yeah, the ridiculousness of the reality of it rather the 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.600 like forcing sort of shoehorning the joke in there. 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:23.080 I get that. 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:25.840 Yeah, you don't need jokes if you're you know. 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:30.840 Right, you don't need jokes if the situation is ridiculous. 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.040 And you within that situation. 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.480 Right, Oh, start writing this stuff. 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:39.080 So there's prep work involved here, Like I always assume 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.560 for improvisation you don't prep at all, You just do. 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:45.360 But you're saying that you should come up with like 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.240 these characters ahead of time in your mind so that 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:52.040 when you perform it just it comes out more naturally. 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:54.840 I think you can have a bag of tricks. 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:58.320 So that you have these different characters and you know 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.960 they you've worked on, that you've developed and maybe through 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.720 improv or maybe from just driving around in the car 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:11.440 talking to yourself. But once you have those characters, then 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:14.280 a situation comes up and you go, oh, you know, 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:15.080 my so and. 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:16.640 So character would work perfect there. 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:21.240 I think that works for auditions for commercials and TV 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.160 shows and all you know stuff like that. 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:28.760 It's something that you can realistically play right. 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.840 And it's also then it's a little less terrifying, probably 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:35.040 because you're like, oh, okay, I have a file to 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.520 dig through of you know what I mean of things, 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.440 rather than like I'm just completely free for all. 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:41.200 Yeah. 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:45.280 I think people enjoy improv because there isn't a lot 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:48.440 of preparation enough to memorize lines in that regard. 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:50.840 You just show up right once. 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.359 Once you know how to do it and you're comfortable 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.600 doing improv, then it's you know what times you show 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:58.240 eight o'clock, I'll be there five minutes. 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:04.440 Eight Yeah, exactly. So what are off the wall shows like, 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:08.440 like when people come to see and where are you guys? 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:09.600 Where do you guys perform at? 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.800 Currently we're at a place called the Fanatic Salon in 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:19.920 Culver City, Okay. And it's a cute little theater. It 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:22.560 was actually a hair salon at one point and they 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:26.080 into a theater, so they just put an extra the 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.200 word hair and it's called Fanatic Salon. 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:30.320 I love it. 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.600 That's great, but it's a great place. A lot of 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:37.160 people perform there. I started another improv group called Mostly 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:42.680 Organic Okay, and they're somewhat younger, so they they open 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.720 for us. And then so you get two shows, two 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:51.680 for the price of one. And our show is all 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:57.360 audience suggestions. So we take ideas for scenes, we improvise songs, 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:03.480 we get styles of music to imp We try to 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:08.000 deal with current events. We you know, it's. 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.800 Like my friend Jeremiah Watkins does a show called stand 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.560 Up on the Spot at the Comedy Store that I've 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:15.199 done a couple of times, and you just you go 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.520 up and you people just yell out things and you're like, Okay, 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:20.399 let's make a joke out of this, you know. 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.640 Yeah, I mean we have formats for things. 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.320 We have games, you know, change of emotions where you 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:29.359 just get a lot of emotions from the audience and 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:31.440 play different emotions. 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.720 And oh that sounds like so much fun aymphony. 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:37.520 Of social criticism where we each get a topic, you know, 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:43.560 current topic or topic in the news, or right riff on. Okay, 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:49.280 I like that, So it's it's unstructured structure, my favorite kind. 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:53.000 Do you ever get up there and just totally blank 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.119 and you're like, uh, I got nothing? Or do you 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:59.360 rely on your your fellow members to help you out 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:02.439 and try to or like what happens if you mess up? 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:04.280 Can you even mess up in improfit? 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:06.080 Well? Sure, yeah, okay. 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:08.960 But the thing that I really love about Off the 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:12.480 Wall is that, and I think de Marcus started when 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:17.720 she first cast it, but there's only been I think 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:21.200 less than twenty members in fifty years. There have been 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:24.760 a lot of guests, but once people get in the group, 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:29.600 they either have to become really successful to leave or 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:37.840 die or both in some cases. But people just stay 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:43.639 because it's a really tight knit group and you know, hopefully, 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:47.320 I think we're doing some good stuff there. But to 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:53.440 answer your question, I think it's a diverse group. So 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:57.679 some people are good at characters. Some people are just 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:00.760 really smart and have a lot of note going on 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:03.399 and can riff on anything. So I think when we 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:06.520 get a suggestion we can look at each other and go, 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:10.119 yeah that's for him. Oh yeah, he can do that, 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:15.200 be able to or you know, and you can also 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:18.560 an improv. You can save a scene if it's not 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:21.320 going that well, somebody can enter and take it in 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:24.119 a direction, or bring a button in or something that 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:26.240 suddenly it's become very funny. 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:38.840 Hey there, folks, it's DJ Holmes and Amy Roebach. 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:42.639 Don't miss Morning Run every weekday morning Monday through Friday. 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:45.440 Yeah, we'll be covering the biggest stories everything you need 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:49.159 to know, breaking news, politics, pop culture on our daily podcast, 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:51.679 Morning Run. And of course it has a little bit 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:53.320 of our own personal flare to it. 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:54.280 Yeah, that's right. 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:57.040 Make sure to subscribe now, so every day when you 0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:00.000 wake up, you've got the Morning Run waiting for you. 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.280 Listen to the Morning Run wherever you get your podcasts. 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:07.200 Yeah, what are some of your favorite projects that you've 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.520 worked on throughout the years, I mean other than the 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:12.560 off the wall like improv stuff, and. 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:14.879 What are some things that you've yeah, yeah, and off. 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:18.080 Obviously, well a full house of course, it's. 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:19.600 A highlight yep, right, I. 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:24.720 Guess that was a co producer director of a movie 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:27.600 and probably nobody ever saw it, and it was one 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:29.840 of the last things John Ritter did because I asked 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:32.720 him if he would be part of it, and he goes, well, 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:35.160 talk me into it, and so I guess I did. 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:40.640 And we shot an entire feature film in thirteen hours 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:43.560 with people bringing cameras and they were shooting. 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:45.280 We got a big house and we. 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:51.840 Were shooting upstairs, one scene downstairs, another scene simultaneously, and 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:55.160 it got edited together. It was a murder mystery. It's 0:20:55.200 --> 0:21:00.159 called Man of the Year and at the end of 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:01.200 the ending away. 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:03.280 But spoiler alert, right. 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:05.400 Yeah. 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:08.000 I was such a John Ritter fan even as a kid. 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:10.120 I loved watching Yeah, fun. 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:11.240 And a sweet, sweet guy. 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:12.119 Yeah. 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:15.280 Anyway, that was just an amazing thing that I would 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:18.600 love to try to do again because it was improvised, 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:22.040 there was an outline and we knew all the scenes right, 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:26.560 kind of like I was on Curby Your Enthusiasm and 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:29.320 the same thing, ye, where it's. 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:32.560 All you know, you know the beats, Yeah I did. 0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:33.879 I did a show like that for a couple of 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:36.120 seasons that was super fun where it was like, okay, 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:38.880 you know what the episode is generally about and where 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:39.840 you need to get from. 0:21:39.720 --> 0:21:41.560 Point A to point B in the scene. But how 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:44.560 you do it right? Figure it out, have fun? 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:46.159 Yeah, exactly, you know. 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:48.399 So so that was a lot of fun to do, 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:51.520 except for the part where I had to pull up 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:56.840 next to Larry David on Sunset Boulevard and there were 0:21:56.960 --> 0:21:59.080 police in front of us and behind us, you know, 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:03.240 to you know, and every time he would slow down, 0:22:03.240 --> 0:22:04.000 I had to slow down. 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:05.399 If he sped up, I had to speed up. And 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:07.000