Adam Sandler (LIVE SHOW)
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Yes, I have actually stayed at Airbnbs from time to time. And truth be told, I do really like them. I'm being totally honest right now that I've had great experiences with them. Yeah. I mean, you can have your look at you go get your own place, get your own pool, your own living room. You're not going to walk in an elevator. You're not going to see people when you're walking around in your undergarments. Yeah.

Yes. And if you don't understand what we're talking about, you should go online. What we're saying is you have a house with a kitchen and a bathroom and it's just for you, tailored for you. You liked your Airbnb over a hotel. Yes. And I do think I've had relatives stay nearby and sometimes it's very nice for them to do an Airbnb and have a little house and they're not underfoot. The last thing you want is your house guest to say, excuse me, um,

Where would I find a towel? That's a toughie when it's because they're naked. Well, it's like the 1800 time you say on the towel rack. Yeah. Thank you. I was going to look there. People don't even think hotels sometimes just go, hey, I'll go there. I'll get an Airbnb. So you won't regret it.

That's so much fun to do that. Why is it fun to do Sandler's, whatever that sound that he makes? I know, we used to repeat it always at the office because we'd walk around and go. Yeah, Sandler, one of our favorite persons to interview. He's just such a fun dude and such a good dude. And,

Been around him for years, a little bit before SNL. And then since then, been a great pal to me. We've had a good run of just being buds and screwing off and golfing and whatever. And Dana, he looked up to Dana when we got there. We all did. Everybody likes Adam. He'd probably hate to hear that, but he's hard not to just really like. He's a genuinely very sentimental person.

Super funny And uh It was really fun Just hanging out with him And he's got Some great stories He takes his time So uh We all Really enjoy The Sandman Yeah And it's live Can you believe it? So uh

Pull over, listen, call in sick at work, and here, this one goes long. Yeah, there's a big old giant audience there giggling at our little throwaway, so it made me a little lighter in my step the next day. All right, Sandu. Sandman and Sandu. I think he nicknamed me Dana-do, right? Did anyone else call me Dana-do? They called you Doo-doo.

You were Spudly, right? I was Spadoodle. They didn't call me Doodle. I'm sad now. Spudnick. And most of those are from Dennis. Cheers. But the shortest nickname I had was Spader McDater, Potato Tomato Hangernator. Right. And I get that a lot. And Sandler just called me Dana Do, but Farley and Rock always called me the Lady because they're church ladies.

And Sandler was Dana Dew because he did it the other night. And I realized he just calls me Dana Dew. So then I call him Sand Dew and he goes, no, it's Sandman. Anyway, we sing, we laugh, we cry. It's a really fun podcast. So please enjoy it. And they're all great. Let's face it. We don't have any favorites, but we do love Adam.

you gotta get to your seat you gotta get your drink and you gotta get to the seat sit down it's starting you gotta get to your seat you gotta get your drink you gotta get to your seats you gotta get to your seats and get your drink in what order david welcome to the olsen twins show yes

It's clickbait. What has happened to the Olsen twins? Look at them now. Wow. It's a cute fast up front. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, we played here in 1962. You know, it was a shitstorm then. Ringo couldn't even keep his beat. People are rushing in now.

This is the show by the way I hope you were able to write off your ticket You know Just send it to your account And hopefully you'll get money A rebate This guy's got a A laminate It gets him on all 350 shows From Netflix is a joke This week I know Netflix is a joke Here's Joe Biden Talking about the festival Netflix is a joke No joke Good night

You know how he says no joke all the time when it's not a joke? Yeah, they get it. People are dying. I'm not kidding around here. My father died. No joke.

We're done right now! We can't walk them through every joke. Hey guys, okay? David, there's two of us. We're like the Everly brothers. I mean, I'll just be over here now. I'm on top of you like this. We could just spread the stage. You go over there. Look at this. I've never been part of a duo. Yeah, it's good. Let's get it going because we got our bud here and we want to get things started. Fly on the wall. We got a lot of things coming. I'm telling you, many people are saying we got a lot of stuff coming for you today.

Fly on the wall. That's Trump. Trump with a head cold. Thank you. You're tremendous. Let's get settled. Let's settle down. Yeah, we're going to settle in. This is our podcast. And by the way, all joking aside, thanks for coming. I've never done anything like this. And we have our very, very, very, very good friend who we all adore as our guest, which is very cool.

Look at this. All right. I can just do that. All right. This next young man coming to the stage. Yeah. Dana, you can introduce. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our very dear friend from Saturday Night Live and about 100 movies, the one and only Adam Sandler! Yeah!

The middleweight champion of the world. Hey, yo, Rocky, what are you doing? How are you? I didn't even know it started. We know it hasn't started. What went on so far? Did you guys talk? We talked. I just got used to talking to a crowd. It's been the pandemic thing. Have you been in front of a crowd since the pandemic? Oh, this is the first time. It's going great. Yeah, it's going incredible. You got a good full one tonight. Yeah.

You got a mic? You good? You know, I wear a hoodie sometimes. It takes about a year and a half off my age, I feel. I think it's smart. It's good. Oh, it's so good. Look at this yo-yo. What's up? The beard is blocking so much, too. I like it. I like the look. You could definitely be on Skid Row and be like, hey, what's up, bro? Dude, I'm with you. I'm just kidding. No, no, I'm with you. I'm with you. I'm with you. Adam, I have to tell you something. Danny, you can listen, but I...

This time. Last time he made me go in the little boy place. Go ahead. Actually, today we did a...

memorial for Norm Macdonald today and that was great we all love Norm we all work with Norm yeah and yup when there was a break in the action yeah that's stupid but I went to McDonald's just because I had you did yeah what your what's your McDonald's order that's a great question um then we're gonna get to you in a minute but I want to get to me we like to talk about ourselves oh yeah that's right I've listened good god you are like

Listening to you I can't fucking believe How much you talk I know No Adam It's not that I have a lot to talk about Alright go ahead Alright back to David Oh the shirt Twelve grand What did you ask me? Anyway so He's rich No here's what happened

I went to McDonald's and I got scared because I went in and people go, do you actually, they can't believe I go to McDonald's and they can't believe I go in. No one goes in anymore. But I'm a man of the people, you know? So I go in and I get Filet-O-Fish meal deal. That's okay. By the way, I go, what's your Filet-O-Fish of the day? Is it a Branzino? Take a break. And then, oh, we laugh.

And then we laugh through the bulletproof glass. And then I cut. So then what happened? And then I get six piece McNuggy. I don't even know why I'm telling this fucking story. But Adam loves this kind of shit. This is real people stuff. So...

I get my nuggets and my hot mustard and I sit down and I sit down in there. I get on the table and I just want to make some fun because I got to go back and I'm eating bloop bloop and naturally there outside there's someone who's acting a little crazy and

At the McDonald's. Yeah, of course. It just comes with the deal. You start in trouble. I'm like this. I'm getting nervous because there's a line of cars and he's banging on the windows and I go, why the fuck did I come in? Because now I'm trapped. Starts heading toward the door. I go, there's no chance. Bam, door opens. Drenched in sweat. And he walks right up to me. And he walks right up to me.

It was Ted Sarandos. No, it wasn't Ted Sarandos. No, it was, um, no, it was just a guy. And, and, uh,

And he was kind of, I don't know what was going on, but he's a little crazy. So he goes, hey, man. This story keeps fucking going. I know, but you guys are interrupting. We're going to take a short break. Anyway, he goes, give me some money for some food. And I go, all right. And he's just talking to me. So I go, okay. And I give him 10 bucks. And then he goes, give me your McNuggets. That's fucking nuts. And he's dropping sweat. He's like...

And I go like this, but I know I don't have a lot of time and I don't want to argue that he's going to kill me. So he goes, I go, I'll give you one. What?

What? I gave him one. This is a fucking bitch. I swear to God today, and I gave him this out of the store. Chris Rock did this bitch. I'll give you one nugget. Give me one rib. I gave him a goddamn nugget. Who was it? Chris Rock. Oh, Chris Rock. Anyway, this is a newer version of that. And then he goes, give me another one. And I gave him two. And then I go, that's it. I gave you 10 bucks. Did he dip it in sauce?

Did he dip it in his stuff? I wasn't going to let him. He goes, I'll just dip it in sweat.

So he had two, and then I go, just go buy some. And the people on the cash register were waving me off like, don't send him over here. And so he went over there, and then I just got up and left because I got scared. But that's all. Adam, our guest tonight. Let's bring that guy out right now. Come on! Nugget Man! Darryl! Let's look at a clip. You met a crazy man in a McDonald's. That's pretty good, though, Dave. Anyway, Adam. Remember the crazy man you saw your first day in New York?

Oh, what did I say? You saw a man masturbating in the park? Yeah, we thought, yeah, he was masturbating in the park. And we're walking by. We just got to Manhattan. We're like, hey, let's go walk in the park. And he's masturbating. We're kind of trying not to look. And he goes, hey, have you got the time? Yeah.

He's jacking off on a car bench, but he's really worried. And a park bench, sorry. Anyway, yes, Adam. I remember those days. You have a memory like a steel trap. I loved it. We had some fucking crazy times. Me and you together was the best. When David would come by, we'd be like, all right, we got to listen for a while. No, no, no. He'd have a McDonald's. Remember the Jack of the Box story? It was like 20 minutes, but it was great.

But we had some crazy, we had that one crazy gig where we got lost. Yes. Remember that? Me and Dana went on a great gig. I opened for you. You were the king, and you let me do 10 minutes before you. It was upstate New York, and there was no cell phones, and we started getting lost. And we just realized, wow, we're really, really lost. So we showed up like four hours late. Yes. And the students were just sitting up in a gym like this, dead silence, like a church. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, they were pissed, right? So I go, go get them, Adam. Yeah, you sent me out there. Did you have your guitar with you? No, I wasn't guitar-ing then, but I just, Cajun Man just started. Oh.

It was Cajun Man, so I said, onion. And they gave me some sort of noise. And I was like, okay, this is a new life I got, man. Fucking Cajun Man. But I did 10, 15 minutes. I did fine. Yeah, you did fine. You said I did great, but I probably did fine. But then you went up and...

I don't remember it that way. Yes. I thought we both had a rough set. Was your set eight minutes of Cajun, man? Anytime something didn't work, I'd go, Fonio? And we ate Cajun afterwards. We found a place in the Pocono Mountains or something, right? Yeah, we tipped back a few, drove back. No, we went crazy in the car, let's admit it. On the way back, Adam and I just got a case of the fuck-its.

And the car was full of beer. And we started drinking it. And then you brought out cigars or somewhere. So we're drinking beer and having cigars and playing Rod Stewart for like

like hours and we went crazy and we ran out of beer and then we went to a liquor store but you were with me and you looked 15 at the time that's right I had an ID but he goes I'm not selling it to you because of him and he pointed at you and then we got him I said do you remember I said on your own he goes shut up usually that worked

They would just hand us a six pack. Alcoholism. We went crazy. So let's get to when Adam started stand up because you started before me, but you were in New Hampshire. I did start before you? Yeah.

I think, no, no, maybe it's about the same time. I started when I was like 18 and a half. And then you, how old were you? I was 17. Oh, when you started stand-up, where did you go on? I went on senior year in high school. My brother told me, my brother was going to Boston University. And then he said, remember I told you, somebody went to Boston University here? No? Hey! They're like, whatever you want, Adam. That's a good, it's a good school. Congratulations. Um,

But anyways, my brother, we were at dinner and he said, hey, I got you that lottery ticket. I told you, remember you had to wait online and get a ticket to go on stage? And I said, oh, yeah. God, you got that? And because he mentioned it a couple of months earlier and then I went, he said, it's tonight. So I put on a dress shirt. I remember I had a nice dress shirt with stripes on.

I folded, I didn't know how to button this. I was never good at buttoning my own. Oh, right here. This right here. So I rolled it up like spade right there. Yeah. And then I. Cause I still don't know how to do it. I don't know. Is that happening still? It's a good look. You would think to wear the first time. Cause I wore a, I wore a shirt and a tie. The first time.

The first time you went on? Really? That's nice. Because I wanted to look, also I wanted to look older. I look very young and I had to go to a real bar to do it. And the age was 19 in Arizona. So what was the bar? There's one called Chuckles and then Anderson's Fifth Estate. Chuckles? I know they all have goofy names. Gut Busters. Was that in Scottsdale? The loony bin. Yeah. Chuckles was the first place I went on.

And let me stop your story. So you, but where could you go on a bar when you're that young? I went on at a place called Stitches Comedy Club. See, Stitches. Stitches in Boston. You're 17. 17, went on stage. No one gave a fuck. It's so funny. They let anyone go on young. I didn't even know what to talk about. I was driving down with my brother and he said, did you write anything? And I said, no, no, no. I'll wing it, man. You didn't think you were funny? Your brother was like your manager. Yeah, he 100% was just going, you got to do something with your life.

And so there's nothing else you could do. You really can handle nothing. So I went on. I went on. I did the five minutes. I had a retainer because I was still young. And I remember just total silence. I was saying stuff that, you know, that I thought they would love, that my family's loved for years. And they were just going. And then I remember hearing one guy go, he's got a retainer.

And I was like, smiling. Do you remember any of your jokes? Didn't say anything that made sense. There's nothing to remember. I didn't even know what happened. I used to get that blank mind like the first two years, three years of comedy. All day long I'd be practicing and all the shit written down and like I'm going to say this, then that, then this. And then I'd get on stage and I'd be like, I fucking hate it here. Why am I here right now? Space out. You guys space out, I'm sure. Yeah.

Back in the day? Blank out all the time. I would be nervous all day long. Just adrenalized, sweating, just a bright red neck, terrified, pacing, you know. It's funny because when you... This was while I was sleeping. No, my point is this. No, it was stage fright. I mean, you had just basic... 100%. By the time... Well, I don't want to go forward, but by the time you got on SNL, it seemed like you had a lot of confidence pretty quickly then. I don't know how, but yes. Yes.

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I'm just curious about a little bit about early Adam, just for a second. Yeah, yeah. You guys are curious about what made Adam sound like... I just... I mean, you know, whatever you want to... I just... I do this sometimes with our guests. Just, you know, a favorite toy or a favorite bike or your first guitar. Mm-hmm. Do you have memories about any of those? All of those. Okay, favorite toy. Favorite toy was probably the fucking Evel Knievel. Ah.

SSP Making a jump So you wind it up You'd create your own little jump You'd put pillows and cardboard And fucking Evil Knievel would fly off of that That was fun I would scratch my mother's tile

She would yell at me for that What was the second one you said? A bike I had a Stingrays were big when I was a kid Did you have a bike that was a big chariot for you? Mongoose I had a Mongoose I had a Monoshock

I used to do jumps. It was a little, it was very daredevil-y. I'd love to see you doing jumps. That'd be awesome. Oh yeah. Now he's neck would hurt me. I do a little cross up, tabletop. Don't worry about it. But I also had the Evel Knievel. That Evel Knievel thing was really good on the commercials about jumps. And then in person, it's fucking impossible. To make do anything. Ram the wall and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I just go over and fall. But when did you get, when did you be, when were you musical?

Can I tell him about my fucking bicycle? No Hey we're new to this He's going to hear from me right after What are you moving on from my bicycle? You took over the whole bike thing I thought it was We're learning Which is great Dana you're fantastic Thank you

It's not true. But David, no, so I had, I always wanted a Huffy. I wanted a Huffy like everybody else. Now tell me about a Huffy because that's... Huffy has like a longer seat. The long seat. So it was like a Stingray. Like a Stingray. Stingrays got... It had a banana seat, they called it. Banana seat, right. So the friend could ride in the back. Yes, yes. A Huffy, I had more of a cushiony seat. It was like a banana, but a little thicker for like dirt riding, right? Like if you're riding, you go, ah, ha, ha.

Was it sold at Sears? Was it from Sears? Well, here's the problem with the Adam Sandler Huffy. So I said to my family, I'd like a Huffy. Of course, I didn't get the Huffy. I got something else, a green bike. They took the seat off. My father bought a Huffy seat.

And put it on the fucking other bike. And I would go down to Webster's school, my elementary school. Everyone's popping wheelies and all their Huffies. And I showed up with my Huffy seat and the green bike. And I was like, hey. And they were like, get the fuck out of here with that.

Fake coffee shit. Is that a budgetary thing or teaching a lesson for your dad? There was a time when my dad, he didn't tell us he was so cool. Yeah. He didn't have a job for like a year and a half.

And I remember he just kept it from us I'd be like, dad's always fucking home This is incredible But I would ask him I'd still ask for shit I'd be like, I saw this thing on TV Let's go, get me out And he was like, we'll get to that And I was like, we'll get to that What the fuck is happening? Wow, so it was out of love When he did the Huffy scene But I think he had to kind of build that fake Huffy for me

Were you a daredevil at all? Did you get hurt as a kid? Did you fall off things, break things? I was definitely tougher as a kid. I was more fearless as a kid. Now, I was a good skier.

Oh, in New Hampshire. New Hampshire skier. Yeah. So we skied all the time. You, Dana? You ski? No, it was for rich people. We would have a little, we'd have a little inner tube. We'd go to like, you know, snowball and just go down like that. But the big people out there could pay the money to go up the thing. There was no money. We had Huffy skis.

But in New Hampshire, your mountains were like 300 feet, right? We were in California. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So how did you get hurt a lot? Did you just fall down? I was pretty good. I used to do, back in the day, you did a helicopter on the skis. Oh, yeah. On the skis, you could do that? And that was like a big deal.

Jesus. Now it's fucking... I don't even think anyone does a helicopter anymore, right? You never see these guys on TV pop out a helicopter. They're always doing those flips and shit. Well, they can do anything they want. It's insane Olympics now. It doesn't even make sense. There's one guy...

In my hometown, Robitile, his last name, J. Robitile, he used to do flips. He fucking was at this place, McIntyre. It was a little ski area in my hometown. They'd build a jump for this guy, and no one else could do it, but he would just come down, knock out a flip. Everybody was like, what the fuck? Yeah.

Well, wait a minute. You go down and then you go up. He leans forward. He gets in the air. He leans forward, does a full flip. Oh, a front flip? Front flip. Fuck. But you would go like a complete 360. I would do that. I could do it. And then land your skis. And then land. Yeah, I was cool. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. I was very good when I was like up to 15. And then I started getting scared.

Okay. Not being as cool. So then when did the guitar come in? Like I got a drum set at 14. When did you get a guitar? And you're great on drums. We had some good jams. We had some good jams too. The best, yes.

My guitar happened, my dad had an acoustic. Okay. So he used to play, he'd always sing Mariah. A way out west they got her, right? For wind and smoke and fire. And they called the wind Mariah. So thank you. You didn't know that one? Do you guys know that one? I did, I knew when to be quiet.

You beat me down so much I didn't join in. Even though I have the voice of an angel. So you got...

Well, we'll get David in on one here. Yeah, get in on the rest. Sorry. Okay. Yeah. Favorite entertainment that you saw in your formative years? I say 5 to 13. Like TV show or movie that fucking blew your mind? Sing that wrong. Blew my fucking mind. Wild Wild West? No, you're too young. I like that. Yeah? I like...

My favorite thing, I think the thing that knocked me out when I was, yeah, I love movies. I loved all the comedies. Like, well, I'm sure everybody up here, you know, the Mel Brooks and all that stuff, you know? Yeah. Young Frankenstein and Simon movie and blazing saddles and all that stuff got me, but I'll tell you what really got me. I look back at it. I think I was in Florida.

Or Florida, as you would say, David. But I was in Florida. Florida. Florida! Yeah. And so my parents took me to see Eddie Fisher. He sang. Oh. Eddie Fisher. And somebody went on before him. Oh, from Singing in the Rain, Donald O'Connor. Donald O'Connor. And they came out and Eddie Fisher was there.

I was in my parents going, holy shit, one guy, you go on stage, you can do that kind of thing. And I got kind of like wanted to get into that. That's interesting. That's that sort of turned you on just to perform like they didn't know if you'd even like it. And then you really liked it. I guess so. I mean, I don't think they were trying to talk me into it. They were just trying to have a nice night out in Florida. And then I was just kind of locked into I used to sing a lot in the car. I used to sing a lot. My mother always said I sang good. My father would just stare like this.

What would you sing? Do you remember? Just songs off the radio? Oh my God. It was a pain in the ass because I sang a lot of Johnny Mathis for my mother. Oh, really? She'd always sing Chances Are. And I'd be like, Chances are, cause I wear a siligree. Whatever I did. And it was fine, not great. Chances are you will. I used to see him. Yeah, the big vibrato.

and then pipes i i sang uh i sang oh maria from west side story i sang this is when i was little you know like 10 and but my mother always said i had a good voice and my father was like he's all right and uh yeah didn't your mom who was such a cheerleader that if sinatra came on she would say you're better oh yeah you could do that yeah supportive mom oh you know what's funny

My mother, speaking of that, my uncle worked at a clothing company. And when I went to NYU, I was a stand-up. There you go. And I was a stand-up. I was making no money like all of us. And my mother called my uncle and said, can I add a model for you? And my uncle was like,

"You know, I'll talk to them." And she's like, "He really needs the work. Help him model." - Modeling. - And I'm like, "Really, I'm a model?" She's like, "You're gorgeous and..."

And then my uncle. You're wonderful. And then my uncle had to just go, he's fucking looks terrible in a suit. He's not great. There's not a good angle on him. You own a suit now, don't you? What? You own a suit now. I actually, because of my daughter's bat mitzvah, I had to get that fucking suit dry clean this morning. I don't think it's going to fit either. I've been swelling up.

What can you do? All right, so. Go ahead, Dana. You had so many questions. I know. Well, then you go to NYC. That's your hero, Adam. He doesn't know anything. We're kind of up in that area. Toy, bike. I got to have a road map. This is good, man. Stunt boy. The stunt boy.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, well, Adam was a great stand-up, had a very unique perspective, interesting delivery, good, memorable joke. It was more like one joke, one joke, one joke, right? Yeah, not really stories. It was kind of like that. And I...

wasn't even, you know, we didn't have YouTube, all that shit. So I didn't know you until I actually physically saw you. Yeah. Oh, that was in the Valley. It was at the Improv and the Valley Improv. You ever go to Valley Improv, Dana? Did you ever do that, Dana? Oh, yeah, I did that when I was living in New York in 1981 doing a sitcom with Nathan Lane and Mickey Rooney. Wow. I worked there. Yeah, one of the boys. Check it out. And it was Scatman Carruthers as well. But you, you, like, Jack Gaributo told me once that

He was your partner for a long time, and he knew you back then. You would just do a bit. You'd go to a club. It wouldn't quite work. And then you'd keep going and going. And then you'd come back like a week later, and you had it killing. So you were very tenacious about it, right? Yes. I don't know why. I was probably the same as you guys. You just...

I don't know. I believed in it. I kept doing it. Found a way to kind of phrase it right. Do it till it works. Or do you ever tape? I used to tape mine and it was very excruciating to listen to your own voice. But you would think you killed and it was really just one person laughing loud. Yeah. Yeah.

Or you'd think it was nothing, but then you said something you forgot in between the jokes that was good. So you'd sort of like piece it together and then try it again and tape it. Sure. Yeah, I did the old, I did the same thing you do where you pulled out of a hat, but it was more sickening because I drove off from Arizona and then they'd have at the improv amateur night. And so I'd sit there and they'd pull a name and read it and you'd come up. So we're all waiting. Yeah.

And every time they pull it, you get nervous and it's not you. And I go, oh, and you almost don't want it to be you. Sometimes you're like, oh, good. They're not going to get to. Right. Then it was tough. And then by the end of the night, I'm like scared. It was then I never, it never worked that way. And I think it was rigged. I think they knew who was going up. They had friends and friends, but, uh,

I finally got a few things, but then we wound up running into each other. How did you do your first night? How did I do? Yeah. First night of stand-up? Yeah. That's a good question. When I started stand-up...

I take the mic off. Can I get to say anything, Adam? No, it's actually, anyone's first time is a good story. We were spoiled because when I got to Saturday Night Live, or I was in the Valley, and I was seeing comics, I was seeing guys like Drake Saylor, who was great. I saw Adam was great. Schneider was funny. Yeah, he was great. And I just wound up seeing guys that, in a million years, how would we all get on SNL? It was so weird. Yeah.

that it would happen that way when you came in it was like a firestorm but you guys really you kind of like had 20 minutes right you weren't headlining on the road you had a minute 20. people saw you in the clubs that's right and they liked your writing you got hired as a writer yes yes yes yes dennis dennis hooked me up dennis miller so dennis miller dennis was the one who saw you that's true yeah dennis miller saw me a few times

at the Santa Monica Improv. And he waited in the back after. I think you guys knew each other already. I knew Dan. He was my favorite comic back then. You probably introduced us then. Maybe, yeah. And he watched me and he said he liked some of my jokes and he was so nice to me and we loved him and we idolized him. And he heard they were looking for, Lorne was looking at new people and he said, you should check out the Sandman. And

Sandingo, yeah. He gave you that moniker? Yeah. Because Dennis never, he always has a name for somebody. Yeah, right, right, right. Christ sakes, you know, Sandman hitting it heavy down at the Prov in Santa Monica, okay? Tearing up the beach communities with his wilt-a-stilt humor. Sorry. I love being Dennis. I love being in that attitude. Yeah, it was good.

Thank you. So what was your... Do you remember your first bit that kind of became your rock? Like even if the set was not going well, you had one that started to work? Yes. I had one that... I don't... I said...

Vicks Vaporub. They used to say, remember Vicks Vaporub? When your mother would rub it on your chest. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And my mother would be rubbing it on my chest, and then we'd make eye contact. And I was like, I thought we were just friends, Ma. That was like my... That's a great one. That was my big...

Guaranteed back then Did you ever say This one when you go I remember that joke very well I thought that was a great one And he said When I was People say If you could live your life over Would you change a thing You go yeah When I was walking down When I fell down the stairs I might have grabbed the rail next time Oh yeah That's right It was something like that Yeah yeah that was it Geez I forgot that

I mean, there's obviously Wilt Chamberlain, but you had so many good jokes and they were so different and odd. And then, uh, and then Dennis got you on. Yeah. But it's good to be different. It's very hard to be different. And so when you see... When I did it, when I auditioned that night, it was with Rock...

Dana Gould and three other good comedians. Where were you? I was in Chicago. Flew to Chicago. Oh, that's right. Rock was Chicago. That's right. Rock did great. I did fine. Dana Gould destroyed. God damn, that's a hot one. Me too. He was incredible. Yeah.

He should have got it. He's great. I don't know why. He wrote for the, he did a lot of great stuff. But somehow I got hired as a writer like David did. And that would be David and Schneider, me, and who else was a writer? Anybody else? Just us three? Me, oh yeah, because Farley and Rock got hired that year and they were just straight feature cast members. They were on Feature Players.

Everybody wrote for themselves, like Dana wrote, but Dana was never credited as a writer. If you got on as a main player, you never got a writer's credit for some reason. But whatever, it's just part of the deal. That was good sneaky money, though. I didn't want to be a writer, but we didn't make much money, but you'd get kicked a rerun

in perpetuity. And that was nice, even though it was two cents, but it was nice to... You get a stack of checks and it's the host. So it's like 18 cents, Alec Baldwin, 18 cents, Tom Hanks, Glenn Close. So that was kind of fun to rack that up, the bricks. You've invested wisely. Yeah, invested wisely. And then...

But we didn't make a ton. I'm sure when you started, we didn't make shit. I don't think we even, we couldn't believe we were getting paid, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who cares? Just a big deal to get money. Just maybe, yeah, like you net like maybe 20 grand for the whole season or something. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, just living a hobble. Yeah, it was really. But, you know, there I was with Phil, late great Phil, Jen, Jen Hooks, God bless them. Yes. And Mike Meyer.

and Lovitz and the show was really cooking and then you guys came off like the mothership in Close Encounters, you know, here comes Rock and Sandler and I remember the first

First time I saw you in the office, you were just kind of sitting at the big table on 17th floor, Saturday Night Live. And I was doing pretty well on the show, you know. But I liked you immediately. You just had this vibe about you that was really, really funny and likable, you know. And that's a big part of the DNA. You sensed the love we all had. Dana was the

The King. Dana, I'll tell you, remember it was almost like at a stand-up club. If Dana had a skit and your skit was going on after, you were just like, oh no. Yeah, yeah. Oh no, because Dana would crush so hard. You got to follow Church Lady or something. Are you talking about read-through or on the show? Read-through was bad. But on the air, on the air was the biggest explosion in the place.

And then your skit would do fine, but in your weird comedy brain, you're just like, how the fuck do I get those Dana laughs? Well, I had a lot of help. You know, make a talk show and then have Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks come on. You know? Crazy. Thanks. So you come on, you get on the show, you're like... What's your first big... You probably did Update first, right? Or did you do Iraqi Pete or something?

No, that was... Al Franken wrote that. Yeah. Aren't you supposed to do the noise now? You do it... All right. But... I'd like to ask you a question. Yeah. So, like, in classic comedy...

Sorry David, you weren't finished. You're gonna like this one. Because you know, you didn't really lean on it much, but in the beginning I remember, in the classic comic sense of the idiot, so like there's Jerry Lewis is like the king, and then I remember you would do the hunched over guy, and he would do that sound. Like where did that guy come from? Because that instantly made me laugh so hard, because you were so committed. What was that? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I don't even know, man. It's very musical. Can you do more of it? It always felt good in a microphone. I don't even know if that ever got on the air, if I ever did that. I just remember seeing that and really loving it, you know. But there's one character I want to break down, unless David has a question. Because I'm... Sure? Go ahead. We're really close friends. The...

Opera Man, the evolution of opera man that then became the indestructible killer bit of all time. By the time you got it on the update desk with the pictures,

And you were mixing. Great wig. Good wig. Good look. But talk about the origins of that and the way you did it and then the way you ended up doing it. It evolved, right? Gotcha. Yes, it did. Go ahead. Yes. That's my question. Thank you. Yeah, that's a good question. And I remember you knew the guy. So there was a man on the street who used to sing opera on the street. He used to hold the can up and you'd be walking down the street and he'd kind of come at you and go, hey! And he'd sing really hot. And he'd charge you. Hey, dude!

And you'd be like, whoa. And you'd give him money. I didn't know that. That's kind of where I first started doing it. I love that. I didn't know that. I met that guy today at McDonald's. He wasn't singing, though. He's in between sets. Adam, what would a guy like that be ordering at McDonald's? That's what he sounds like. Hey!

barbecue sauce. The thing that you can sound exactly opera is one more gift. On SNL, if you can... Have a voice. If they'd write a singing sketch, obviously Adam wrote a lot of his own, but if they'd write somewhere you sing, you can get in. If you can play an instrument, you can get in. There's so many things if you can do. Dance. So if you... I didn't do a lot of those things, which was...

Kind of a drag, but Adam can sing so well and actually write songs and actually write songs that are catchy because a lot of those things you don't update were actually really catchy on top of just being funny. And so that combo is big. And that opera man was a fucking cruncher. That always kills. That was a gift from the turners. Didn't you do it off on the stage next update initially? Yeah, no, first time I did it, it was just gibberish. It was like, it was a theater thing. And I think maybe you...

Or was it Phil? That's what I remember. I don't know if I remember this right. Maybe you, maybe you. But I was in my office. Yes, that's it. Adam used to go around the office on all fours. So then I hear a little knock.

And I'm in my office. So I open it up and you're on all fours. You go, oh. And then you were asking me to do something, introduce Opera Man, right? So I did remember that. You were like a theater guy who would say, tonight the Opera Man, something like, goes from the emotion of trying to catch the bus, but unfortunately he misses the bus. But then he sees his mother, you know,

you know, is behind the bus and picks him up. Let's watch the opera, man. And I'd walk, and I'd be like, and then I'd see my brother, I'd be like, oh, yes, yes.

Something like that. And that was it. And it did good. It did good at the table. It did good. You know, Sandler, it's good if you... A trick on SNL is if Adam was probably slightly newer then, but if you anchor it with Dana, who they love. Oh, right. And then he brings you on and they go, and Dana seems to like it. And then they start to like the new guy. It helps you. When you're new, it helps. Yes.

No, it was a Dana's the best at it. So that's what it was. But any, anyways, uh, it did fine. I, it was up at the table. It did well. Everybody remember after a while, they started liking us at the table when David and I first were on us and, um,

And at the table, when we tried to get on and we'd do full skits for ourselves, everybody else was kind of like, calm down. That's enough, guys. Yeah, that's enough. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. Yeah. Right. But then by this time, they were like, all right, give him a shot. And then we did that, and it didn't do great, so Lauren didn't put it on. But then the Turners, out of nowhere, Bonnie and Terry Turner. Great writers. Great writers. They wrote for the show for eight, nine years. Wayne's World.

Wayne's World. You and Mike. Yeah, they were. They wrote the first Tommy Boy draft too. What's that? They wrote the first draft of Tommy Boy. That's right. Tommy Boy. That's right. They were monsters. I don't even know why we don't hear about, talk about them more. They had some huge sketches. You guys should have them on this show. Yeah, I'd love it. We'd love to. Yeah, they're great. Hi, Bonnie. Hi, Terry. Hello, guys. Listening to this when it's released. But they wrote what? What we said. And Lindsay. And Lindsay, their daughter. Their daughter, Lindsay. Yes. But anyways, they wrote...

this thing and they talked to me i was in my office they're like so remember that opera man thing you did we came up with an idea for the news and they showed it to me and i'm so

I was just so dumb and young and whatever I was and I was like, "Yeah, I guess." I guess we could try it that way. It was Opera Man on the news that he said? Opera Man on the news. Doing the news. Showing current events and then me singing about him and blah, blah, blah. And I didn't really... I was like, "No, Opera Man speaks gibberish and that doesn't make any sense." You don't understand Opera Man.

So then it became a divorce. So how would you know, you would do events with like Trumpo. Yeah, exactly. And it was just crushing. That was all those guys wrote it. I got to be it. They would give me the melodies and Cheryl would write Cheryl hard. Yeah. And they would just give me all the goods. And I mean, it was the greatest gift ever. That was a home run. Got to wear the.

Did you do it with Eddie Vedder or not? Did you sing like Eddie Vedder once? I sang like Eddie Vedder once. Was it as an opera man or was it something else? Opera man singing about Pearl Jam. Yeah, yeah.

And then, yeah, yeah. And remember when, I think they were even on the show, Pearl Jam, that night. Oh, that's right. So what would he say? A better, what do you call it? Even. I mean, you got the pipes, kid. No, you were going, hey, I'm saying a little something, something made of concrete. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you sound exactly like him. Hey.

I can't do it now. I know any better. It's a certain thing he does. He's got a thicker, lower voice. His voice is unreal. Yeah, it's a juicy voice. We share an office, me and Farley, and then you walk through our office to get to Adam and Chris Rock. So when the doors close, I hear, ho, ho, ho, ho!

I'm like, oh my God, he's got a killer cooking in there. It's in the oven. We all got excited when we landed on a good impression. But I did one with Lovitz, an opera man with Lovitz. Oh, that was awesome. He can sing great. And that was a perfect, only other guy who could do it besides you because he's got pipes and he's just a funny, so that was a killer. That was amazing. He played your brother or something? It was Glenn Close and-

love us and maybe they were my parents i don't remember yeah yeah i remember they came only on saturday night live um can we i i'd like i could go anywhere there's so much fun i want to ask about when he does bits when you get to bring in one of the musical stars i think mccartney did red hood sweatshirt oh that was the great god damn farley did something with him you did something with him

I left just right before McCartney hosted. You weren't there then? I missed it. I was a fool. You know, he was upset, you know, because we'd met at 86 at Lauren's house. He called me up. I don't know why you didn't stick around, Dan, you know. We could have had a plonker. We'd be plonking, looking at each other. I go, who is this? Nobody in Fulton.

I missed that, but you got to do a thing. What did you do with Paul McCartney? It was red-haired sweatshirt. I wrote it with Ian Maxton Graham and I forget who else, somebody else. And we had dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dip,

Kevin, maybe Kevin Nealon did it with me. And then I said, let's call out Paul and Linda and Paul and Linda McCartney.

We wrote it for him and then Lorne said, I said, "Will they do it?" He goes, "Well, you have to talk to them." So I went to Lorne's office, they were eating, I think. - They were on the show or they were just visiting? - They were, Paul was the guest. - Okay. - And Linda was with them. - You walk in and you have to convince them. - I just had to come in with the dopey guitar and be like, my heart's pounding through my chest. - Did you crawl in or did you walk?

A little skip. That was when you were going to pitch it. Remember you'd skip across? No, I'm making that up. Sorry. Go ahead. So you walk in there. I mean, Lauren's eating Chun-Li. Chun-Li. I love it. And...

Paul and Linda, and Linda's amazingly nice, and Paul's amazingly nice, and I sing them the little thing, and they laughed, and then I left, and then I was like, I don't know if that worked or not, but then they said yes, and forever I got that. I sang with them, hung out with them after the show, hung out. Stella was there. Remember Stella was a kid? She came to the show. Stella McCartney, the fashion designer. Yes, and she was such a nice kid. She was like our age then, you know, like whatever we were.

Yeah, let's keep the numbers out of it. I saw him discipline his kids on Long Island, went over to his house, and I think James had a little toy sword, a plastic sword, he dropped it down on his sister, and Paul goes, you do that one more time, we're going to have a problem. See him as a dad. See him as a dad. I remember some comic said,

He was the first one with a billion dollars. And they go, you know, if he lost his wallet in a cab and there was 500 million in it, he'd still have 500 million dollars. That was some comic book joke. But do you remember when Farley's Brothers came to the show when McCartney was on that stupid story? Where Paul looked the same as Paul McCartney growing up, but he had a little bit of gray here. And so Farley's Brothers were standing there with red cups. There was no security. So the music comes out of their dressing room, walks by the 8-H...

You know that And they walk right into the show And they go Paul McCartney One minute Till you're on live And so you see He comes out with a bodyguard On the front and back And he walks out With his guitar And it's fucking Paul McCartney I'm there with Farley's Idiot brothers And they're all drunk And he comes around And they go And one of them goes Hey Paul And he looks over And he goes Getting a little gray And he goes Hey Paul

And then he walks out and I go, are you an idiot? He goes, he looked. And then he goes on the monitor and they're like 15 seconds and he looks in the monitor and he goes like this.

He got in his head right before he went out. Oh, no. And, you know, he's like, is mine? And then, anyway. So I will say one of my proudest moments, because sometimes Adam and I would try to write together or we would all try to think of excuses to all be in the same sketch or whatever. And the one I like the best is the Gap Girls when we were...

in the wall. That was all David. In the mall and then Farley says lay off me I'm starving. That is one of the funnest ones we ever did. Yeah man. And Schneider was in it and Sarah Gilbert was a host. Oh yeah. And we were all that was just the fun for me because

we would all just rehearse. So, you know, you write it. If it gets in, you laugh at read through, you laugh, you know, when we talk about what, who plays what parts and what we say. And then you, you really wrote all that stuff though. I know. But then everyone adds jokes, whatever you want. And then we got to do it on. So you have to rehearse all week or once or twice. And that's a good reason to hang out. Yeah. That was amazing. Does everyone know about the gap girls? Cause there's a young. Yeah.

Okay. Because there's some younger people here. It was just a sketch where we all worked at the Gap. We played girls and it was infuriating. And how did you talk?

- Whatever! - That's right. - Yeah. - Oh my God. - Weren't you at the folding meeting? Yeah, and I went to the Gap and studied it and they showed how they put a clipboard in the sweaters and pulled them out and fold them up. - Oh yeah. - Mesmerized. And then they would actually, this is when you feel kind of like a big deal 'cause if you get a sketch on and you're just some doofus from Arizona and it's like a dumb sketch about the Gap and then when they bring the sketches written and it's put up on its feet,

They bring in... They talked to Gap and brought a whole section of the Gap over. So, they had a security guard because it would cost so much. It was real pants, real sweaters. And it was just a chunk of the Gap they moved in. And the Gap liked it because it was free advertising. Yeah. Even though we made them all look like morons. But...

It was still really fun. And then we all hung out there and would practice in there, rehearse, whatever it's called. And it was great. So we did a couple of those. We did Gapparty, where it was Jeopardy. It was just a fun way for me, you, and Farley to be in sketches. Yeah. And that was... What was our names again? Say it again? What was our names? Christy. Lucy. He was Cindy, and you might have been Lucy, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Does anyone know? Something like that.

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No. When you play drums, what? Pepper Boy. Oh, that was the best. Oh, let's talk about Pepper Boy. So that... Yeah. That was incredible. That was like, you and I were peaking on the show. Chris Farley was, Tim Meadows was. Oh, yes. Farley crossed his eyes. Let's talk about that for a second. Steve Korn started it. That's right. Wrote it. So did the... It's just too...

I was kind of the, he was my protege. I was the mentor. I was obsessed with how to do the pepper. The huge pepper mill. And Adam was kind of the underling and really eager. And we, I'll just set it up for a second. We did well in read-through. Yeah. Pretty well in rehearsal. Dress show, pretty good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then Steve Korn comes to me and tells me something you want to do between shows. So at one point we had the, I was going to,

You were going crazy. You were so nervous. Remember I slapped you. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Comedy, it's always threes. And

And then I can't bud you, right? Yeah, with the sound effects. So between dress and air, Steve Korn, the writer, comes in and says, Adam's going to put the pepper shaker between his legs. So you're going to do this. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then we timed it great, but we really peaked on air. Yeah, that was amazing. That doesn't happen every time. We committed so hard. I mean, because Tim Meadows was sitting there and I was doing the pepper. You like a pepper, huh? I mean, it became way, I don't know if it was sexual or something, but we were just...

on another level. Every, I'd say once a two weeks if I'm in a restaurant, a guy with a pepper thing will be like,

Fresh pepper. All right. Yeah. Yeah. And do you remember what happened? Like Farley was always the best at breaking people because he could be explosively funny. Do you remember his line and what he did on the air? I know what it is too. We flew in from Tommy Boy. Yes. For just the show and then we had to fly back. Oh.

Oh. And he goes, I have a line in Pepper Boy. And didn't he have a big beard? He had a big beard. Yeah, he looked ridiculous. He really hammed it up. His line was, why thank you, Pepper Boy. He said, I'm going to make you laugh. He goes, Etsy, I'm going to make you laugh out there. I think he over, he goes, why thank you. Before it started, he goes, Etsy, I'm going to make you laugh out there. And I go, all right, all right. And then. I think he leans back and goes, why thank you.

Thank you, pepper boy. I've never seen a human being transform like that. He had like 12 chins and perfect amount of pepper. But...

Huge beard for no reason. But he screamed it for the air show. He did, yes. He crossed his eyes too. Adam starts to turn purple. That's the stage. I'm over here. Adam's turning toward me and trying not to go. The sketch had gone so well that I stayed in character. But I said, don't break. Do you remember?

Do you remember that? Of course. That's funny, man. Yeah, you were the pro. You were the pro. The funny thing is, Farley wasn't even supposed to say it that loud. It made no sense. He was supposed to go, why, thank you, Pepper. Why would he go, why? Oh, yeah. He lost his mind.

Yeah, well, this is mine. But that was an electric sketch for a restaurant sketch. And then Il Cantinori when we did that one. Well, you guys wrote Il Cantinori. That was major. That was explosive. But you would take the reins, murder, murder, murder, murder. Yeah. Then we'd have a little...

to do when we were like, let's jump on the Dana fucking Thunderstorm. Well, I don't know quite if you guys killed too. You and Schneider came in. We did. We did good, but you got them all ready. That was an Italian restaurant where all the waiters are too sexual with Cristialli and all the women that come in, they're like, oh, bellissima, bellissima. Bellissima. Yeah. I start licking Cristialli's face. I'm supposed to lick her face really hard. I remember in rehearsal, I go, is this okay? She goes, oh yeah, go for it. Whatever you want to do. Bellissima, la, la.

Oh, you like it like that. But you guys were just, you know, you and Schneider came in. Schneider had no clothes on or something. I had no clothes on. That was the, I was the guy back then.

I could take my fucking shirt off and feel okay. Now there's a reason the sweatshirt's on at all times. He has another shirt in case that somehow falls off. You know what's another question? It was Lunch Ladyland and a great song. I called Sandler about a year ago. I go, it's on my iPod and it came in. And I go, this is a good song. When you go, sloppy Joe, slap, sloppy Joe. I go, the way you write it and it's actually funny and then you do a sketch.

It's funny and then you hear it again you go that's actually a good song. Like you can, it's always catchy songs. I sang that on my album before I sang it on Saturday Night Live. Oh yeah? Oh you did it first? I did it first on the album and Farley was at the taping of my album. And so when I'm singing on the album, I think I'm in Santa Barbara. I don't remember where I was. Just a cool club. I'm sorry I forgot the name of it but yeah.

It was a club, we were recording, Farley was in the crowd going nuts, and then his crazy voice is so... When I'm going, "Sloppy Joe, sloppy, sloppy Joe," you hear Farley going, "Sloppy Joe!" And he never even heard the song before, he just kinda said, "All right, he's gonna sing 'Sloppy Joe'."

Did it Yeah that was a crush Was that on They're Gonna Laugh At You Which was They're All Gonna Laugh At You Two times platinum That was a biggie You're the last guy To really sell comedy albums I think I don't know I don't know if there's There's been some after But with that Back in the day That was You were on it Yeah Everybody was Hey buddy Hey buddy We did buddy dude Buddy dude Homie

Yeah, that was a great one. What the Hell Happened to You was another one. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Thank you. That was where your real acid-y humor came out on those albums. That was where I got to curse a lot for the first time, and David cursed with me, and we all, we were so excited. It was like being on Saturday Night Live. I just thought it was like jazz. I mean, the one about the announcer with the champion, you say the word champion? It's a golf announcer, you do it.

You say the word champion like 500 times. Go ahead. It's about a golfer who has like a nine-stroke lead, and he's on the last hole, and he keeps missing putts. And you're the announcer. I'm the announcer going, the champion is...

feeling it today and he's about to set the course record and the champion and then he putts it and you hear the crowd go oh and well the champion laughs that off eight stroke lead now you know all that kind of shit and then it gets more and more uh just insane closer to being like choking and he's like well he's up

Three strokes Hopefully he can put this one in And then it's Blake Clark Is doing the voice Of the champ Oh Blake Clark And he's going God fucking damn it Anyways Those albums were good Because like They lay Into the crowd Of college kids In the summer And then you come back And you're even bigger on SNL Because they're like Playing them over and over And over Smart The albums with the biggest Deal

besides Saturday Night Live because like you said I would go out on tour the kids who were coming to see me knew the album so they knew some of the songs they knew some of the characters and that definitely relaxed me on stage all of us we used to have fun well let's just say because you've given me a lot of props that by the time you you're after about two years in on SNL you really were just like top notch I mean you were crushing

consistently on that show and the audience was falling in love with you because you know when you'd sing Hanukkah song when you would do your guitar or Thanksgiving song first of all you actually you're a really good acoustic player and you can hold a great melody and then it's so silly and funny and also watching you enjoy it not breaking but just the light in your eyes it's so infectious it was exciting yeah man I remember that I remember singing that at the table

the turkey song, the Thanksgiving song for like Smigel and a couple of other writers at the table going, you know,

Singing it to them And if they laughed I was like Oh fuck Okay They think it's funny You're on to something Yeah It was a big deal If those guys The great writers on the show When they would Smile at what your idea was Like Jim Downey If he said something was good You would just like Even if it didn't get on You were like Alright I'm funny now Yeah We had the A team there Was Smigel Genius Downey Brilliant You know We had some Incredible writers Helping us When was your first movie That was when we did The summer we did Tommy Boy You did Billy Madison right

Yes. Yes. And then the next summer, Happy Gilmore? Happy Gilmore. And those movies kept making it more than the other ones. They give you another one. And then it was...

Wedding singer Wedding singer Yeah And then And then Waterboy I think that was Where it was the mic drop At that point You were a movie star It was too big When you do Happy You did of course Billy Madison But you do Happy Gilmore The wedding singer And Waterboy Yeah Within like 24 months or something Then Big Daddy

- Then Big Daddy. - Another mega monster. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - So you have too many, I can't even, too many. - You know, when Waterboy came out, I was hosting and you were there that weekend and we were gonna do a bit in the monologue and then you had to fly back. Waterboy was such a fucking, they told us, or they told you how much it made

And everyone's like, what the fuck? And then you had to get back. And I changed my monologue and I just did stand-up. I wasn't doing stand-up in monologue. You're kidding me. I was supposed to go out with you? Well, we were going to do audience member, you know, when you go, oh, yes, can I do it? And you're going to ruin my monologue with questions. And then they go, Lauren goes, well, you know, you said you had to go. And I go, all right, well, what do I do? And he goes, stand up.

Oh, really? Aren't you a stand-up? I go, well, I fucking never do anymore. I go, tonight? So he goes, just throw some things together. I go, so you can't go practice or run to Catch Rising Star. So I put some together. But it's so fucking terrifying to do a monologue anyway. And then out of cordless mic. Posting's hard. And then everyone's like...

That is the worst when you're doing stand-up and you're about to go out and you look for the mic and then the guy makes the decision for you like, don't use a hand mic, use this. And you don't have a fucking mic in your hand and you're like, holy shit, what do I do with both my hands? I go like this, hey, wait, wait.

You know what to do. We're not used to it. Or a mic stand. I lean on a mic stand sometimes. It's not there yet. Yeah, yeah. Looking for a mic stand to lean on. It's just like drowning. Yeah. Yeah, when you first start to stand up, you just hold the mic like this. Oh, God. You're choking. Did you go with...

I remember shooting Billy Madison and you guys were shooting Tommy Boy and hanging out up in Toronto together. Yeah, we were in the same place because we came over there and that was the night...

When you remember when you did that thing called, there was like a crime scene, a joke with everybody where they go in a room and you go walk in and it's a crime scene. Anyway, so, but, but, oh yeah, but Adam's movie was called Billy Madison. Our movie was called Billy the third. And so we changed it and we just didn't have an,

We know what to call it. Of all things, we both have the same lead as the same name. So we eventually changed ours because the name of the movie was Billy the Third. But fucking hanging out in Toronto with you and Farley. Oh, that's great. We had a couple of weeks together. It was unbelievable. Nice. I hate it. And then...

Oh, yeah. So then you do all those movies that seem to work out for you. You did some movies. By the way, my wife and I watched Hustle last night. What'd you see? Hustle. You saw Hustle? Loved it. Yeah, thank you. I think it's a great movie. Hustle is a movie he's got coming out. I got a new movie, yes. It's on Netflix. It's Netflix. It's kind of like Hoosiers meets Rocky meets Moneyball.

Yes, yes. And you're great in it. Thank you, man. I mean, really great. Thank you, thank you. It's just a really, you know, it really works as a movie. I got teary-eyed. Yeah, man. That's so great, Dana. I mean, I don't know how much we can give away. Adam's a basketball agent. Yeah. Oh, you were? I didn't see it all. Like a...

uh yeah i watched it twice no adam's uh you're uh no you're a scout yeah he's a scout and then he's uh wants to be a discover a guy in spain i want to be a coach i can't get on the staff and i've been working for the sixers for many years and i find out yeah you like the sixers i'm nervous about joel there i hope everything's i'm nervous yeah that is a good team though

But anyways, I discover a guy in Spain, Juancho Hernan Gomez. He's just a he's an NBA player.

who never acted a day in his life. Yeah. And he's so fucking good. It's great. He's so great. You really believe he's just from this little village and really just has nothing going on. Beautiful jump shot. I knew it wasn't CGI. Yeah, you knew it was. I mean, like an amazing. All you think is how many times you got to do every scene he makes every basket and you go, is he making all these fucking baskets? Because I've been on sets where they're like, going again. I'm like, make it. Let's get the fuck out of here.

But it's very hard to do that in all those scenes where it's pivotal. He has to make it in a crowd, with a crowd behind him. And you got all these NBA players in it. It's very real. It's unbelievable. Unbelievable. Is it Heidi Garner? Heidi's in it. Oh, yeah. Heidi Garner's in it. She's a cast member. Yeah, Heidi Garner. She did a nice job. She did a nice job.

who Robert Duvall owns in the movie, owns the Sixers. Yeah. And he has Ben Foster's son and Heidi Gardner's daughter, and they all work for the organization. And Heidi's excellent in it. Yeah, and she's great in it. And Duvall must have been huge to be in the same movie. That was amazing hanging out with Duvall. Must have been. What was that like? She shot the shit with Robert Duvall for, we were together three, four days.

Did all our scenes together. We talked and talked and sat. I sat in a... He has a Rolls Royce in the movie. I fucking sat in the back of a Rolls Royce. Just talked about the Godfather. Talked about everything. In between setups. It wasn't like...

He just was cool. He was just talking about everything. And he's 90-something years old, and he was just a sweetheart. And he has great, great, great stories. James Caan, and he just fucking knows everybody. See, that would just, you're a fly on the wall at that point. Yeah, yeah. And he's talking about the godfather.

you talking about the godfather just saying the first name you try not to ask him about it you're like what other movies you do you liked and he's like Sonny the protection squad Sonny they're gonna help us you always have that yeah that's all I got you also I think because you know the movie I don't want to give anything away but it kind of goes rollercoastery but you have to get on the phone and it was like very like

great acting, solid scene where I was like, oh my God, that must've been hard to do. But like a tearjerker, that was, there's a couple of scenes like that in there that are really get you into the movie, into the movie, into the movie. And that guy was, the basketball player was great. Actually, we remember I ran into you

Yeah, we played golf with Juancho. And you were with him. Yeah. And you know, yeah, this guy's in the movie. And then he was super cool then. He's 6'9". Yeah. He's from Spain. Him and his brother, both are in the NBA. He plays for the Spanish national team. He's on the Utah Jazz now. And he just did it as a fucking joke because of the pandemic. They were like, go

Going around saying, we're looking for a basketball player. Adam Sandler's got some movie LeBron James is producing. And his sister said, why don't you do it just for fun? And he did it. He auditioned. We were like, geez, that guy's pretty damn good. Who is that? So good in it. It's amazing. He did these scenes. Like, when you have to do a real crying scene in a movie or something like that, I don't know about you. You cry a lot. I've seen that. But...

In real life, I don't cry that much. But on a movie set... Yeah, every day at 10 a.m. When you have to cry in a scene, you're just like, oh my God, how the fuck is that going to happen? Yeah. Whatever, you work hard. This Wancho...

Did like 10 setups of different angles, blah, blah, blah. And he was just bawling, crying, and saying his lines perfect. I'm like this. And he's a handsome fucking guy. Yeah, he's a good looking dude. I was trying not to say that, but he is. Oh, he's so good looking. He can cry.

He's got everything. Actually, he's got it all. It's game over. Six, nine, crying, handsome motherfucker. I know. Ten and a half, actually. Sobs like a baby every day. I'm 13 feet. Dana, I will give you guys a tip. If you're ever in a movie and you have to cry and it's hard to, you fake it and you go like this.

And get glassy. That was the end of Tommy Boy. He's obviously crying. That's good. It does work. It's called great acting. But Adam, I'm going to ask you a question. Yes. Do you feel like, because you had Uncut Gems, that was pretty good, right? Yes. Thank you, Dana. So then I saw that, and then I see this one. It seems like you're either, I don't know, you're...

The murder mystery movie. I mean, you're on a roll. I mean, are you feeling like you're more comfortable acting now? Are you changing up stuff because you seem to be at this other level? Or is it just from doing it so much? I think I'm getting older, more opportunities. Guys like the Safdie brothers. Yes. The Safdie brothers who your brother...

He kind of worked with them as a... Helped them get going, yeah. Helped them get going. They're great friends with Andy, and I met them, God, 12 years ago. They were talking about Uncut Gems then. Uncut Gems. They were trying to get that going, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was sort of the muse for Justin. Because I met him 12 years ago. Uncut Gems. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. But those guys are super cool. Yes. Very good. They're great. Yeah, they did. I think they did a Kate Spade commercial that Andy wrote. Is that how you guys met? Yeah. And I think Andy wrote an idea and they did it. And then it somehow went to the Cannes Film Festival. And then they did a movie called, I think, Daddy Long Legs after that. Yeah. An incredible movie. And then they just kept getting, they were just better and better and better. Yeah.

Did yours and you know maybe one day you'll do another one with us. Yes. They're writing another one right now but I lucked out. I'm getting to do all this great stuff. Noah Bombeck PTA they all hooked me up. They all wrote great stuff. They asked me to be in it.

Jim Brooks. Paul Thomas Anderson. Yeah, Paul Thomas Anderson. And then you just get more relaxed over time, right? You get... Or more in the pocket. I guess I'm getting... I just did a movie with Johan Renck and he did Chernobyl.

He did the series. He's incredible. And I played an astronaut in it. And a guy is fucking crazy in the movie and going through a lot of pain. And then, and I went, yeah, just fucking do it and go and try your hardest. So that's all I do. I try my best. And the ones that don't work, they go, all right, we've got to cut around that. But, um, but I try to try to get as good as I can and they, they make it work. Is it ever scary? Cause I,

these guys do great movies or great TV show and PTA, obviously, uh, one of the best, one of the best ever. And then, but you know, PTA a little bit, but if you get lucky enough, you know, you're, you're, you're paired up with some great director, uh,

And usually on sets like grownups, those kinds of movies, you have more of a say, but if you have to kind of keep quiet somewhat, not totally, but yeah. And trust them. And you ever get a feeling where you're like, I don't even know if this guy knows what the fuck's going on. I mean, that must be scary. These guys are so good, but you go, it's going to work. It's,

They know what they're doing. That must be hard. You just go. You just give yourself to them because you know they're great. And you read the script and you just don't want to let them down. And you jump in their world. And it is neat. It's neat not...

I always feel more comfortable doing comedy. I'm always more at ease going, all right, we're going to go make a movie and have a great time and try to come up with the best jokes and make everybody laugh. I love that. I'll love that the rest of my life, just like you guys were addicted to that. But the other stuff I'm getting to do, it's awesome. I know you both would crush at that also. It's just, it's just, it's,

it's just different it's fun yeah uh it's a different day in the trailer you don't go what the fuck uh you know let me come up with a joke you're kind of sitting there going oh i got to get in this mood right well the jokes are kind of crutchy because you know how to do it and you know yeah if you have a scene that's not working you go i think we can figure a way out of this if we think of a joke or way out which is what you do a lot on a comedy but in these

You're like, this is just connecting. It's part of connecting the dots of the bigger picture. So not a lot has to happen right here. And it's hard to trust that. That's true. Just do what it is. They'll figure, I mean, sometimes they add music or something and you go, oh, I see what they did. It's perfect. Yeah, that's true. You don't know when you're doing it. And then when you're doing it and it's not right, those guys tell you, whoa, whoa, whoa. And you go, oh, you feel stupid for a second. You go, oh, I was giving you a little extra. And they're like, yeah.

Calm down. Juice it up a bit. You're making it real good for the people. And they go, no, no, no. Believe me, they want to see. Those are the brothers, right? The Safdie brothers. Yeah, the Safdie brothers. And Ronnie. Dana, what else do you have for Adam? We got to take a few questions. Oh, I don't know. I do think it's kind of cool that you did. There's so many movies, obviously. We talked to Drew Barrymore about 50 First Dates. I heard that. That was sweet. Drew was great.

Drew gave you answers that were incredible every time. Doesn't Drew automatically take even a half a question and she fucking goes... And she poetically does a seven-minute answer. It's unbelievable. Beginning, middle, and end of every story. She goes, I'm going to guess your next three questions and here's the answers. When I went to SNL, we were like, okay. Made it easier. I was amazed at her talking about being a little kid on SNL. Oh, I know. Yeah. At age seven. By the way, I've listened to, I think...

Every episode of your show You have? I fucking love this show It's the best Yeah I'm so happy for both of you It's the greatest Well it's fun to do Because you know Like we don't get to hang out With our friends that much So this is our chance to You know The other one I wanted to ask You did Anger Man So you got to work with Jack Nicholson Yes Unreal And really got to know him Yes And you told a funny story About peanut butter Just hanging out at his house Oh yeah yeah yeah That's right man

My first day over Nicholson's, I got there and he keeps the house dim. And so I'm sitting in this chair and Jack's sitting in this chair. We're facing each other about five feet away from each other and we're talking and shit.

And I'm going, it's dark enough that I'm going into my head, I don't think this is Jack Nicholson. I think like they brought out a fake one to talk to me and see if I'm okay to talk to the real one. So I'm just going like this. And he's like talking quietly. And it doesn't sound like the impression everybody does, you know, whatever. Let me tell you something. It's not like that. It's kind of like.

yeah, man, it's kind of quiet and cool. And we'll say, man, let me, I don't know. He just has a cooler voice, but I was not really believing it was him. And then I do like an hour of that. And then at the end of it, he goes, you hungry or something like that? I said, yeah, yeah, I could eat. He goes, you want a sandwich? And I said, yeah, yeah, that sounds great, man. And he's like, PB and J's.

And I go, that's fucking great. Then he gets up and walks away. Then he turns around, he looks at me, and he goes, Skippy or Jeff? Yeah.

That sounds like... I thought also that you went outside for a minute. Oh, yeah. And you were outside. He came out and he held up the jars. Oh, that's what it was. He said, skimpy or Jeff. That's right, man. Such a funny image. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I remember your stories because that was a very... You're better than me, man. I ran into him with Lauren, of course with Lauren. And we had dinner and he goes... And he comes... There's an empty seat. Is this stupid? No, no, no. Okay. So...

Lauren.

And Lauren goes, we're going to have some spaghetti. And I was with Rosie. She's over there. I was over here. Tortellini. There's an empty seat. And Lauren sits here. There's an empty seat. And Jack sits next to Rosie. And he starts talking. And then he goes, one time I went to the MTV Awards or something. I ran out and it was so dark I got in the wrong limo. And I sat down. And everyone just stared at me. And it was Nirvana. And he goes...

And he goes we're just and anyway in the wrong limo I go oh and then she goes did they know who you did they not know who you were and he goes well, that's never happened Yeah related SNL so Phil Hartman and John Lovitz and I are playing the par-3 in Studio City so it's it yeah, so we're on

the green we wave the guy on and he shoots it out of bounds and he walks over we realize it's Nicholson right you know so he walks up and Phil Hartman had dubbed his voice in the movie the border because they couldn't get a hold of Nicholson he feels very respectful he goes mr. Nicholson I dubbed your voice in the movie the border one beat and he goes no wonder it was my only stinker

That's a good one, yeah. As a joke. Staker. All right, let's take some questions real quick. We'll get Adam out of here. By the way, just so you know, before Nicholson did anger management, he called Lorne to see if it was, he had Lorne read the script. Oh.

Oh, really? He goes, I've just got to make sure. See if it was funny or something. Yeah, he goes, I like it. It makes me laugh, but let me just let Lauren. Oh, that's cool. He goes, he is the man. I skimmed it. He went through it and gave it the blessing. So I owe it to Lauren for that, too. We owe Lauren a lot. Yes. And Lauren...

You appreciate Lorne more and more every year you're away from the show. When he has to deal with the egos, the politics, keeping the sensibility in a certain frequency. Because if he left, it could turn into hee-haw in a second. Oh, man. He likes smart. He likes big laughs. So there's a lot of respect for Lorne Michaels. That's very true. All right. How are we going to do Q&A? How do we do it?

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That's a good one. I got my leather jacket. You remember? I got a Police Academy movie and I bought a $400 leather jacket that was too heavy, but I...

Couldn't give it up. It was like a motorcycle one and it hurt my neck, but I wanted to wear it. And then I think I wore the improv when I first, I was around Adam. The first thing you ever said to me was, can you unzipper me? Can you help me get it off and I have to lay down now? That was it. Mine was another jacket. Dana, what do you got? What'd you get? With my own money that I bought. I think I bought, I went out and my father had at it.

dark green and light green 78 Cadillac Fleetwood or some shit when I was in high school and my first big move I went out to an old Cadillac place they didn't have that color but I got that same Caddy and had them painted that color that was like my big first move that's cool that's a big match for it

Can I change mine? You must have got more than a leather jacket based on your home sales recently. Sorry. He did well. David invested well. Yes.

What was your... What'd you get? My wife and I did a silly thing. We walked in Encino. We walked into a Mercedes dealership and we bought Mercedes cars, like $100,000 cars. I bought a convertible coupe and I drove it for like a week and it had a plastic windshield. Like, what the fuck? So I got, I took it back and got a sedan. That was just during my German phase. You had a Volvo. I have a Volvo now. It's very non-sexy. What a loser. Go ahead. Next one.

Yeah, I was gonna ask you about the origins of your trademark, you know, Adam Sandler voice, but you kind of already answered that. Yeah. But so my next question is, do your daughters do like an Adam Sandler impression? Like they go like, they're all laughing at you or whatever. They don't do that. They don't know that album yet, but they do both do the... Oh yeah, I've seen them do that. They do that. Every time I'm trying to be funny and it...

And it doesn't work. That's funny that you asked that. Thank you. Thanks, man. Sorry, I'm shorter. Hi. Hi, guys. Big fan. My name is Shalise. I'm from Houston. Nice to see you, buddy. So my question is, out of all the films you guys have, if you guys can go back and do a sequel to any of y'all's previous films, what would it be? Shit. Shit.

Wayne's World 3. Wayne's... Garth... Garth at 60. Wayne! I gotta get some Flomax. Flomax. I don't know if it would work. Go ahead, Adam. We've done so many movies. What would be the sequel? What would you... What was the... I can't think of the name right now. You did with Cage and Lovitz.

Oh, Trapped in Paradise. Oh, Trapped in Paradise. That'd be fun to just work with Nicholas Cage. That was a tough shoot. We fell down in the snow and yeah, we just... You were doing Brad Gray in that, right? I was doing Brad Gray and Mickey Rourke. I don't know what you're doing, but I wouldn't do it, counselor. Oh, yeah.

was doing Mickey Rourke. The studio flew in from LA. We were in the middle of the woods in Canada and said, you got to stop doing that. But Nicholas Cage said, I would do it anyway. He was a great character. I guess that's it, right? What would you do a sequel to? You have so many movies. No idea. I liked them all. I liked doing Grown Ups with Davey because we all hung out. We

We had a great time. Grown-ups could work. Yeah, three. Whatever it is, I like to do it. It's always great when you're with your friends. Grown-ups, we literally got to do this every day. Sit in chairs, hang out, try to be funny, and cut around it. Yeah, that thing's been keeping the lights on at TBS for the last seven years. Yeah.

That's on heavy rotation. But I love it. I love grown-ups. That was a smash. Great memories. Thank you for that question. Thank you.

Cheers, you guys are wonderful. This is amazing. Thank you. Hey man. My question, I suppose you guys have written for so many different like wonderful projects in both film and TV and of course on Saturday Night Live and my question was do you think that to properly like kind of well like master that sort of craft, do you think it's like writing as much as you can like

every day is really the proper way to get to a point where you feel comfortable with your writing. Or do you think also, I suppose, do you think it's also helpful to like try and collaborate with other people that you know you'd work well with? Sounds a little like John Mulaney.

I would say, if I would take that, my first answer would be, if it's stand-up, just get as much stage time as you can. And if it's writing, I think it's just more is better. Collaborating or writing by yourself, just anything you can do until something sticks, I would say. Writing, writing, writing. I remember I lived with Apatow when I was...

Judd. Great writer. And Apatow, he was the first one of us that would write. Yeah. He was smart about it. He used to sit in his room and write books.

skits all the time for for Saturday wasn't on Saturday Night Live but he would write kind of skits and he would collaborate with people and he was smart he made himself like a producer because that was a valuable thing to help someone do what they're doing Jim Carrey or you right right well I would say what is your name uh my name is Ambrose okay all right that's all right it's a cool name that's a great Chardonnay no anyway

Ambrose, I would just say initially that seems like too much pressure to me to try to go in a room and stuff. If you're a comedy writer, just write everything down. That's what George Carlin said. So if you're out with your friends, a lot of times just taking a walk or going to a movie, someone will say something. Make sure you either record it or write it down.

And just do it spontaneously all the time. And your headset gets into that. Yeah, it's hard to just sit and write and be funny. It happens all day. And if you just write it when it happens and don't see it, you'll remember it later because you won't. So just write it, write it, write it. And then you collect it and go, is there anything here? Is there anything here? That stuff's very valuable. You basically only need to write five good jokes your whole life. And then like David, you use that the rest of your life. Indifferently.

It's a spade roast. It's all right. Thank you guys so much. Good luck. Thank you, Ambrose. All right. What do we got, boss? Ambrose. Hi.

I have a favor to ask you guys. It's my nephew's 15th birthday. It was my nephew's 15th birthday today and I was wondering if I could make a video of you guys saying happy birthday to him. Imagine if we said no one meant it. You know when to ask. What's his name? What's his name? Nicholas. Nicholas. And we're going to say it. Do you want us to film it and then send it to him?

Theodore sings Happy Birthday to Nicholas. Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday dear Nicholas. Happy Birthday to you.

Thank you. And it's my niece. Sorry. Hey there, guys. It's testosterone man.

My name is Al and I want to say that it's my grandma's dying and it's her birthday day and if we could sing happy birthday to her, that would be incredible. What is changing? What's her name? No, but for real, this is such a fucking treat. That was a good one. This is such a fucking treat for all of us because you guys are all just such pillars of comedy. Yeah. Awesome. Thank you. You too, David. Thank you. He's rolling. Thank you.

Here's my real question. You know, when you're watching you guys, we pretend we're you, we see ourselves in you and shit like that. So when you did Mixed Nuts with Steve Martin, and then when you did that scene with Philip Seymour Hoffman, being you in those moments is like fucking incredible. So how was it being you in those moments? It was...

Very cool. Good co-stars. You're funny as shit, by the way. Thank you. Good job. You're a moron. My name's Al Manero. Manero, you're funny. You've got a great name for a comedian. God. You're so psyched you followed Ambrose, too. Like, he's going to take it down. Ambrose is looking for pen and paper. David, did you tune out? David tuned out. So, uh...

Steve Martin, of course, all our heroes. Yeah. We loved him. One of the greats of all time. All time. Yeah. First time Hall of Famer, Steve Martin. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Probably the number one ballad for us, right? Say it again? He was probably the number one guy. Memorize his albums. His albums, Wild and Crazy Guy, all the way.

all the shit Steve Martin did. So of course, being in a movie with him was just staring at him and waiting for like quiet moments to run over and say something. And hopefully he'd respond. And so I love that. And he was very nice to me. And then Philip Seymour Hoffman. Fucking great. Genius actor. Great tour de force, that guy. He was just a very good guy.

Funny man, took it serious, went hardcore when we worked together. By the way, Philip Seymour Hoffman, I don't know if you guys know this, so we're doing Billy Madison. I think we wrote, oh no, the Happy Gilmore. No, maybe Billy Madison. We wrote for Bob Odenkirk.

Wrote that for Bob Odenkirk, the bad guy in the movie. And the fucking studio wouldn't allow it. They were like, you can't just have your friends. And we were like, no, he's fucking great. And they said no. It's Bob Odenkirk. Bob Odenkirk. He was a writer. They said no. So I think that's how it went. I think it's that. Okay, so we wanted Bob. They said no. They put out...

you gotta audition, you know, audition people. Philip Seymour Hoffman auditioned and I was in Toronto getting ready to make the movie and it still wasn't cast yet. I saw Philip Seymour Hoffman, I was laughing my ass off. I'm going, who the fuck is this guy? He's hilarious. So I tell the people, I show Universal, can we have this guy? Are you good with him? I mean, you fucking said no to Odenkirk. Are we okay with this guy? And they were like, and it took some

talking into and then they said yes then we offered it to him and we get this call back like he's not he doesn't want to do it and we were like he doesn't want to do what he mean he auditioned and so I go let me fucking talk to him this guy and tell him how great he is and I called him up

And I said, hey, it's Adam. And he's like, oh, hey, Adam, blah, blah, blah. And I said, hey, man, I saw your tape. You're so great, buddy. And they said, you don't want to do it. And he goes, oh, thanks, man. I go, do you want to do it? And he goes, oh, I can't. I go, oh, why not? And he goes, I just don't want to. And I go, oh, OK. You sure? We're going to have to do it.

That's a great answer. Isn't that great? I want to. I go, I really love you. He goes, I know you do. I swear to God. Wow. We met confidence. Yeah. Awesome. That was cool. Thank you guys. When you get bored and you want to go to YouTube, go to Crypto Junkies EZ. I'll make you rich. Hang on to that card, Dave.

Get that fucking Solana. It's going on the move. He's a funny bastard. Hi, guys. My name is Denny. Hi. Just want to thank you guys. You guys are my comedy heroes. Moved out to L.A. for my pursuit of SNL as my dream. So I've been looking up to you guys my whole life. Oh, that's sweet. Welcome. Are you doing stand-up and stuff like that? All over. All over. North Hollywood, I produce a show and...

No way. Really? What's your name? Denny Glasser. Denny Glasser. That's a great name. I'm going to pass out. Thank you. Is that a question with this or no? Dr. Denny would be a good moniker. Dr. Denny's in the house. I'm just saying. Thank you. My only question I wanted to ask is what was the first impression or character that you guys did that you knew you could do this for a career?

Oh, I could do Michael J. Fox real good. That was David. That was David. Always yours.

My first impression... You didn't do many impressions, did you? I did. No, I used to do them around the house. I did the basic. I used to do Rich Little stuff, you know? Yeah, yeah. Me too. John Wayne and... John Wayne. Yeah. Well, yeah. I used to wear a cowboy hat around the house. Oh, really? Well, I'll tell you. Oh, my God. I would do that. Oh, my God. I would cook for my parents. Who wants bacon and eggs? Oh, gross. I know. I know. So... Oh, my God. Yeah, yeah. How about you? Who was your first impression?

Casey Kasem? You guys do that. Checking in at number five, the boss. Bruce Springsteen, a man and his guitar. A man who likes to call his guitar his own. I was nine years old. The Beatles came on Ed Sullivan. The next day, I walked up to my mom and I said, Hey, do you think I could get me some pancakes? She screamed.

I should have known what I was doing, but that was my first time I knew I could alter my voice is doing a Liverpudlian accent. All right. Well, good luck to you, buddy. Thank you for asking. Love you, guys. Thank you. Love you, buddy. Good luck. We got to go. We got to go. Thank you. Thanks, Adam Sandler. Thank you. Love you all. Sorry about your questions. Thank you, guys.

You guys were awesome, and thank you so much for coming out to the Wiltern. Take care. Bye, folks. Thanks, David. Really enjoyed it. How are you doing? That was fun. Thank you so much. All right.

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