Speaker 1: Still the Place with Laura Layton, Courtney thorn Smith.
Speaker 2: And daphnews Aniga an iHeartRadio podcast. Hey you guys, there's
Speaker 2: jump in here and gossip and have memories and when
Speaker 2: we were all fabulous in the nineties.
Speaker 3: You get to talking about this stuff like remember when
Speaker 3: I remember when.
Speaker 1: So there's an old talk show clip of mine, kind
Speaker 1: of making the round of Norm McDonald, which comes up
Speaker 1: every few years.
Speaker 3: And I was on a talk show with.
Speaker 1: Norm MacDonald talking about a film, an art film I
Speaker 1: did with Carrot Top Calledture of the Board. And Norm
Speaker 1: McDonald leans over mid interview on the Conan O'Brien show
Speaker 1: and says, yeah, bored b.
Speaker 3: O r E D it was. I mean I was
Speaker 3: canceled today we would dis cancel him.
Speaker 1: Well, no, but it was so genuinely funny, like Conan
Speaker 1: keept saying I'm sorry, I'm like, are you kidding getting
Speaker 1: teased by Nor McDonald. I thought it was hilarious and
Speaker 1: I wasn't you know. I knew the movie was what
Speaker 1: the movie was, so I didn't take it seriously. So
Speaker 1: we thought it would be fun to talk about talk
Speaker 1: show experiences or live TV experiences like what what comes
Speaker 1: to mind when you guys think about moments like that,
Speaker 1: when there's this really surprising thing that happened on live
Speaker 1: TV and you just have to kind of roll with it.
Speaker 3: Do you guys have any stories like that?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 4: Speaking of Norm McDonald, he is that guy. He just
Speaker 4: has the greatest He thinks, if it's funny, say it,
Speaker 4: and it doesn't matter if it might be a little
Speaker 4: bit like ouch. You know, if it's funny, say it,
Speaker 4: and he does. He was in the SNL cast during
Speaker 4: the time that I hosted Saturday Night Live and.
Speaker 1: Was he doing Weekend Update. He was so extorted. I
Speaker 1: mean miss we miss him so much. Trust and peace.
Speaker 2: Norm.
Speaker 4: He was actually really kind to me. I was on
Speaker 4: the same plane with him flying out to New York.
Speaker 2: Really he was just hooking you in so he could
Speaker 2: make fun of you later.
Speaker 4: He was like trying to get material. I'm sure it's
Speaker 4: like an investor, and there was no shortage of that
Speaker 4: for sure.
Speaker 3: On SML.
Speaker 4: It's like I got there and they do a little
Speaker 4: bit of a they it's just a whirlwind of trying
Speaker 4: to put together what the sketches are going to be
Speaker 4: for the week, and you go into these meetings with
Speaker 4: all the writers in the cast and everybody's there and
Speaker 4: they're throwing out pitches of ideas, and it was they're
Speaker 4: sessing you out. They're kind of, you know, assessing what
Speaker 4: can you do and who you are, and it basically
Speaker 4: like was noted, well, you know, since you're so exotic,
Speaker 4: you you know, we should probably do so. And it
Speaker 4: was like very clear that they were going, Okay, you're
Speaker 4: such a plain midwestern person, like made fun of that
Speaker 4: in a way, like okay, let's you know, so like
Speaker 4: I had this goofy, sort of exotic like gypsy sketch
Speaker 4: with Norm MacDonald and anyway. I mean, it was truly
Speaker 4: the most exhilarating experience to the terrifying too, absolutely terrifying
Speaker 4: and exhilarating, unbelievable, and I wish it hadn't been wasted
Speaker 4: on me as a twenty five year old girl who
Speaker 4: twenty's like however old. I was just a wide eyed
Speaker 4: and overwhelmed, and you know, it was just this wonderful
Speaker 4: experience I'll never forget. It's, you know, maybe the thing
Speaker 4: that I'm most proud that I got the opportunity to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's extraordinary.
Speaker 4: It was amazing that you got to do that, but
Speaker 4: talk to those are a whole different live beast anyway,
Speaker 4: Like there's so anything can happen, and like for you,
Speaker 4: Court Norm was the other guest on the couch and
Speaker 4: he's interjecting when it's supposed to be kind of like
Speaker 4: your turn to talk about your stuff, and he's interjecting
Speaker 4: doing his thing, and like the unexpected thing that you.
Speaker 3: Kind of have to go with is so.
Speaker 1: But it's so much fun because people who haven't done
Speaker 1: them don't know is you have to do this pre
Speaker 1: interview and a good pre interviewer will chat with you
Speaker 1: and make you feel funny. A bad pre interview will say,
Speaker 1: tell me something funny, tell me a funny story, and
Speaker 1: you're still on the spot. So they have an they're
Speaker 1: going for these stories that you're going to tell, and
Speaker 1: you have to make sound spontaneous. And one time I
Speaker 1: was on I was telling a story about my sister's
Speaker 1: wedding and my dad telling a joke as we were
Speaker 1: walking down the eye and I was on with Don Rickles,
Speaker 1: was Tonight Show and Don Rickles leans over and goes,
Speaker 1: your dad sounds like he's crazy, and my dad loved it, right,
Speaker 1: Don Rickles and he teased my dad and that was
Speaker 1: my dad's favorite thing that don.
Speaker 2: Like, he teas me the genius amazing.
Speaker 3: So what about you, JAF do you like to do them? Daf?
Speaker 2: I there's one that I've seen around that I remember
Speaker 2: doing with David Letterman, and he was like going after
Speaker 2: like my boyfriend. My boyfriend at the time was named Billy,
Speaker 2: and He's like, Billy, Billy, what kind of billy man
Speaker 2: is Billy?
Speaker 3: What does Billy do?
Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh, he's a professional, and he interrupted
Speaker 2: me and said wrestler.
Speaker 3: God, I was hoping you were going to say wrestlers.
Speaker 2: Billy's Billy?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 2: So what's Billy? Like? I go, well, he's a chef
Speaker 2: and he cooks.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, what was he cook? What do you eat?
Speaker 3: What do you eat?
Speaker 2: And I just felt so like fish And then he
Speaker 2: went through all these different kinds of fish and I
Speaker 2: felt so thrown off, like I thought I was going
Speaker 2: to tell you know, like you said, Courtney, the stories
Speaker 2: that you go through with the producer beforehand, and yet
Speaker 2: then he just came at me and I and I
Speaker 2: felt a little bit like it was at my expense,
Speaker 2: do you know what I mean? Like this young actress
Speaker 2: who is like, you know, has this boyfriend and he
Speaker 2: was making fun of him and the idea of him.
Speaker 3: But what I always helping though, Right, that was Letterman's thing.
Speaker 2: It was him being funny, yes, going after it, and
Speaker 2: I did get I think it was right after I
Speaker 2: finished uh Melrose Place, because I got to tell him
Speaker 2: everything that Joe did. That's where I say that the baby,
Speaker 2: the back and the fourth and this and that, and
Speaker 2: then I gave him up for adoption and uh anyway,
Speaker 2: so I just remember that being like when am I
Speaker 2: going to get to just be funny on my own?
Speaker 2: I had to respond constantly to his being making joke
Speaker 2: after joke after joke like that in my eyes, Well,
Speaker 2: there's different like who were your favorites to do? Like?
Speaker 1: I always loved doing the View because you got to
Speaker 1: just relax because there it's just like hanging out with
Speaker 1: the girls, right, and Conan is so fun and he
Speaker 1: really listens and he's really out there to make you
Speaker 1: look good and have fun.
Speaker 3: What do you think what were your favorites to do?
Speaker 4: I had an uncomfortable experience, like you're talking about daff On,
Speaker 4: like where you have an expectation of like, this is
Speaker 4: what they said we're going to talk about in the
Speaker 4: pre interview, this is what they said we're going to
Speaker 4: talk about, this is what they said they wanted me
Speaker 4: to do and whatever. And I had one actually with
Speaker 4: Jay Leno and it was as I was leaving Melrose
Speaker 4: after the very final season and I was going on
Speaker 4: the Tonight Show and then it was they somehow in
Speaker 4: the pre interview said I heard you play the trumpet
Speaker 4: or that you used to play. I'm like, oh god, no, no,
Speaker 4: did that as a youth in my childhood.
Speaker 3: Whatever.
Speaker 4: They're like, well would you do this on the show.
Speaker 4: We am like no, no, no, no, this is really
Speaker 4: funny whatever. And they're like, okay, this is going to
Speaker 4: be okay. I like sort of reluctantly agree to do that, so,
Speaker 4: you know, play along whatever. And the premise was like
Speaker 4: they wanted to know you're on this show, tell us
Speaker 4: now is he gonna die?
Speaker 3: Is she you know? Is she coming back for another
Speaker 3: season or is she gonna die? I'm like, she's she's dead.
Speaker 3: We saw her die, you know. And they're like oh no,
Speaker 3: they're like and.
Speaker 4: Then the trumpet comes out and it's like pedny, and
Speaker 4: so I start to play tax.
Speaker 3: Horrible, Oh my god, because I don't play the trumpet anymore.
Speaker 4: Whatever, and he's like all right, up right right, and
Speaker 4: he like and it was just like everything was so like, wait,
Speaker 4: you told me I was going to do this, and
Speaker 4: now you're not. And he was like literally like pushing
Speaker 4: the trumpet away, like I'm like that thing you're talking about,
Speaker 4: but I think I'm going along with a bit.
Speaker 3: But then you're like just so hard to anticipate. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: Oh I.
Speaker 2: Hope they can find these clips that we talked about.
Speaker 2: I would love that.
Speaker 3: I need to see you with the trumpet.
Speaker 4: It's horrible and it's I'm sure it's findable.
Speaker 3: It's terrible. So these talk shows not easy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're very intense and it goes so fast. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like they're fun to cook, like Rachel, you would get
Speaker 1: to cook something if you were on uh like I
Speaker 1: did Martha Stewart and I got to make my hummus.
Speaker 3: Like that's fun. If you can actually do something exactly,
Speaker 3: they're not trying.
Speaker 4: I feel like the late night talk shows are like,
Speaker 4: you know, fast, and like if if they feel like
Speaker 4: the energy needs to change, they'll just change it. And
Speaker 4: so you as the guest, because suddenly, you know, going
Speaker 4: along with this new energy that it's really hard to anticipate.
Speaker 4: Doug was being I think he did the Martha Stewart one,
Speaker 4: like you're saying, and she had him fold a fitted sheet.
Speaker 3: Which.
Speaker 4: My husband knows how to fold a fitted sheet to
Speaker 4: this day.
Speaker 2: God, I remember that's something about that I didn't know
Speaker 2: Doug was on. I to this day, every time I
Speaker 2: fold a sheet, I think, Martha.
Speaker 4: Stewart, you, I'm sure that he's how to do it.
Speaker 1: The next time I see Doug, I'm gonna have him
Speaker 1: show me how to fold a fitted sheet.
Speaker 3: Mine end up a little lumpy. I did one.
Speaker 2: It was, oh my god.
Speaker 3: I was mortified.
Speaker 2: Do you remember Greg Kannear had a talk show back
Speaker 2: in the days nineties. I did the Greg Kannear Show,
Speaker 2: and right before I was so nervous before we went on,
Speaker 2: I went into the bathroom and I so that nobody
Speaker 2: could hear me pee. I clicked my you know how
Speaker 2: the mic is, there's a mic pad box behind you,
Speaker 2: and then it was already miked up, and so I'm
Speaker 2: in there, I'm like, ha, they're not going to hear
Speaker 2: me pee. So and then I just walk out. I
Speaker 2: get all ready and I go back out and we're
Speaker 2: sitting there live and Dobby b I come down and
Speaker 2: suddenly somebody goes, what what, Oh, they can't hear you
Speaker 2: and I and they moom a boom comes in and
Speaker 2: so I guess we couldn't redo it. So, oh no,
Speaker 2: I can't hear my wonderful story about the White House
Speaker 2: and everything and stealing toilet paper and all on. Thing
Speaker 2: is like, I just go, oh my god, I went
Speaker 2: to pee and so you could. I just told everybody,
Speaker 2: what the hell, I'm so sorry. I turned it off,
Speaker 2: and he goes, we don't sit around listening to our
Speaker 2: guest pe.
Speaker 3: I just want to let you know that's not a thing.
Speaker 3: I still though.
Speaker 1: If I'm working on something, you always wear mics now,
Speaker 1: and I always turn it off before I pee, because.
Speaker 3: You don't just remember to turn it back on.
Speaker 4: You don't know if the sound guy's just checking mics
Speaker 4: at that moment.
Speaker 3: And yeah, they should check before you go on.
Speaker 2: I mean they just stay around between setups, you know.
Speaker 2: All they gotta do is go, let's see what old
Speaker 2: Daphne's doing in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, we actually shouldn't even turn it on until
Speaker 3: you go on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, remember I used to turn it off and on
Speaker 1: when you leave set.
Speaker 3: Now that's so funny.
Speaker 4: But doing it on a talk show.
Speaker 3: Like, oh my god, I was so moreed. But I
Speaker 3: was like, you know what was.
Speaker 1: Super fun when we did talk shows to promote this.
Speaker 1: It was so much fun to do it with you guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that takes all the pressure off because like, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: having a ball. Then suddenly it's I can talk about
Speaker 1: the view or one of those shows where they're the talk.
Speaker 1: When it's a group of women, I'm immediately just relaxed,
Speaker 1: like I can do I can hang out with you
Speaker 1: guys all day.
Speaker 3: So that was super easy talk. You're just chatting, you're
Speaker 3: talking in a group.
Speaker 2: I just know that it always seems like it goes
Speaker 2: so fast, Like I think at the top is like
Speaker 2: four two segments, maybe a four minutes or something. So
Speaker 2: when the three of us were doing it, it's like
Speaker 2: all I gotta do is just like they'll turn to
Speaker 2: me and say one thing, you know, and then you
Speaker 2: one thing and kind of spreads out it. But I
Speaker 2: just remember doing them, it just goes so fast and
Speaker 2: you're like no, wait, because so you have to learn
Speaker 2: to talk in sound bites, you know, like oh yeah
Speaker 2: you have are you have your PR person and they're like, okay,
Speaker 2: so what you kind of do is this, and you
Speaker 2: can't be like, well, it's funny, you should ask.
Speaker 1: And you want to be spontaneous, but it doesn't work
Speaker 1: because that's not how the system.
Speaker 3: I remember one time I thought, I'm going to go
Speaker 3: and do this show. I'm just gonna be authentic.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to be just myself and not do
Speaker 1: the bit horrible just it was just horrible.
Speaker 3: It was just like silence.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, so I do need to do
Speaker 1: the kind of the like sitcom version of me for
Speaker 1: a talk show, because you've got three minutes. You got
Speaker 1: to cut in and hit it. You can't just there's
Speaker 1: no warm up time time. How are you like, there's
Speaker 1: no time for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I've never.
Speaker 4: Been more nervous than on any given talk show. Like
Speaker 4: that makes me the most nervous of anything at all,
Speaker 4: more than even like doing Saturday Night Live, which feels
Speaker 4: a little bit more like theater, you know, that feels
Speaker 4: like enjoying some Yeah, but talk show nervous is just nervous.
Speaker 3: And even with the three of us.
Speaker 4: I just think as.
Speaker 1: In general, as a genre like talk show, it's very artificial.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, guys, Well, since we're all so nervous
Speaker 2: and miserable at it. No, I'm just kidding, we're so.
Speaker 4: I just have to say, I'm so grateful for you
Speaker 4: that we that none of that, Like, we get to
Speaker 4: just sit around and chat and we have none of
Speaker 4: these feelings.
Speaker 3: It's just so relaxing, isn't it in our very homes?
Speaker 3: All right, it's so good.
Speaker 4: To see you as you have a Melow's minute to
Speaker 4: talk this out.
Speaker 3: All right, Great to see you, guys.
Speaker 2: We'll see you soon.
Speaker 3: Bye guys, By everyone, Bye,