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Tight with all the comedy greats. And maybe you've heard of, maybe you haven't, but it's time you have, if you haven't. HBO special, a comedy central special. He's part of the Netflix standup comedian special. He did 30 minutes there and they self-produced special. And so he's been around and it was fun to hang out with him. His standup is great and he has a great ear and he delights us with some of his off kilter stuff.

impressions and tells you his story. It's kind of funny because yeah, his YouTube special, he threw it on there about a year ago as 3 million views. That's like a good trick. And 3 million is very hard to come by. People just throw numbers around, but it's hard to get that much. And a lot of comments about it. They liked it. And that's a good calling card. He's going to start doing theaters and he's announcing that pretty soon. So look for that.

And, you know, he's buddies with Shane. He talks about all these guys, Nate, all the ones we always talk about. And good dude. So I'm excited. We had a lot of laughs with him. He does a few impressions. He's not really an impressionist, but he's better at most impressions than an impressionist. He's like Eddie Murphy or something, you know? He just does, his regular sound is great, but he does this really some cool. Chappelle is. Chappelle is.

Probably the best one. Yeah, that's awesome. So super talented, nice guy. And a lot of these famous comedians are his good buddies who opened for him. So now it's Dan's turn. Yeah. So here he is. Check it out. Dan Soder. Dan, when you sleep, can you have the bedroom door open or unlocked? No. Or do you lock yourself in? I lock myself in. I shut it in. Oh, yeah. I barricade.

Have you ever seen, uh, I've ever thought there was an intruder in your house actively. Um, one time at, yeah, when I used to live in Queens, I had a, like in the first two weeks I lived there, the guy broke in through our, we lived on the first floor on a very busy street. A guy broke in through the back by pushing in the window and stole everything. And then, uh, my landlord, Anthony put up,

put up bars on the inside of our window. And we were like, why wouldn't you just put it on the outside? He's like, nah, Dan, that's not how that works. We're going to put them up on the inside. So then my roommate just had bars on the inside of his room. Oh, it might hurt property value. So he doesn't want it to look like a prison. Yeah. It's more for function, not for to look good. Have you ever had an active shooter in your house? No, but I am from Colorado. Oh, right. You're from Aurora. Yeah. I'm from like... All your buddies are in that gang now.

Yeah, everyone's Venezuelan. Everyone's a school shooter. There's a lot going on in Aurora. Is it when you step foot in Aurora right over the county line it starts shooting or is it you have to get in a little bit? Yeah, once you have to get registered as school. I'd like to go to this...

hi is there any seats available in the public oh that's good let's go back and forth with laying down machine gun fire because these sound effects anyway it's a toddler town where do you live now funny but we'll put a pin in that come back to that one um i live in new york oh i will tell you dan quickly i uh

I lock the door. I lock the door when I take a shower because I had a break in once. But yeah, I don't like to sleep with the door open. I put a big bolt on it because I'm scared. Now, David. Yes. Aren't you worried about locking the door in the shower? What if there's an accident in the shower? Well, this is a good, I'm glad you brought this up. Four to five times I'm in the shower, there's an accident.

No, actually when I'm on the road and you know how people put the little bar over the lock. So it's like a hook lock and you see TikToks where people go, I bring these nine things to lock my block, the little hole I put this, I put a chair against it.

I'm not that crazy, but I will say that, um, when I do that lock, I always feel like, what if something happens inside and they need to come get me and they can't get in. They can't get out. Yeah. They're just going to take the door completely. Is that a real, is that a real thought? I mean, I don't know. Am I the only one thinks that's crazy? Let me, let me ask a neurotic question. Do you, when you get into the shower, uh,

Is that it? Neurotic. You get into the shower. Do you ever wonder as you're turning on the water, gee, I wonder if there'll be some seismic activity while I'm in here. Does that go through your mind?

Not for me because I'm not in California. I think that's a very Californian way of thinking. You guys have fault line brains. And we worry about buildings crumbling. So I wonder if I'm in the building. Everything in airplanes is going to come into your shower. Ours comes from terra firma. Yours comes from the sky. Yeah, but things fall down in both cities. I'm worried about Delta 126 coming into my shower as I'm taking it. Yeah, you got it.

I don't have to worry about the earth swallowing me like you two do. I'm even worried about the hologram airplanes, if those are real. I don't want those hitting my shower either. I got that Pro Plus in my hair while a 7.6 comes in here. That's why I got Per Plus. It's combo. I don't want...

Oh, you better not go off on a rant here, Dennis. Christ sakes, Dan Soder. All right. He's kids coming up pretty strong. Got a couple of specials out there. Friend of all those, that posse. That's the new, uh, the new rat pack and these cats out there. Okay. You sound like Rodney. Do you do Rodney?

Oh, yeah. I like to do... My new one is Ben Rodney as a mass shooter. He's like, hey, they're all going to pay. I'm telling you. You guys don't want to be friends with me. Well, now you're not going to have a school to go to. Ha!

See, I love that more than anything. I like combos. Because I love the idea. You saw Rodney, and then you thought, what's the best scenario? And then you did it. Then you go, what's worse than that one I thought of? The language of Rodney. That's what's so funny. It's exactly if he was that guy, how he would say it. The one I used to do a lot

uh was woke rodney where he would be like you know you know it doesn't get any respect as women of color i'm telling you if they say that gender's fluid well then i'm in love with a puddle i'm a white man i get all the respect and dan is actually touching his chest he's doing rodney's stuff don't worry

Far away. He's doing Rodney stuff. That's what Andrew said last week. Andrew Schultz said that impressions are coming back. And then I was looking around and

You know, obviously Shane does his cadre, but you're kind of, you do a lot of voices, but you don't, I know, is that a word? But you don't lean on it. Your standup is just regular standup. It's great. And then you have these impressions. It's kind of cool. It's like a secret weapon. Well, I would honestly, um, you know, it's, it's weird to like be talking to both of you and not acknowledge how important both of your guys is HBO specials were in my life, specifically critics choice and take the hit.

Like two of the reasons I do comedy. My family's from the Bay Area. So anyone from the Bay Area was like a demigod in the house. San Carlos. Oh, I know. My father lived in, my dad's from the East Bay, but my parents got divorced when I was young and I would go live in Marin with him. He lived in Greenbrae and Mill Valley. Worked at a liquor store in Mill Valley called Dan's Liquors. Wow.

uh, been there, have a house in mill Valley. What's funny about that is I thought he was working there cause he loved me, but it was cause he was an alcoholic. That feels, that kind of feels like a norm joke where it's like, uh, you know, I thought he loved me, but it turned out he was, uh,

uh raging alcohol i know it's the way you would just slowly go yeah the guy thought he was a real good friend right we're talking about the game and everything like the giants could have won everything and i realized only talking to me because he's a raging alcoholic i'll just randomly do that now because i'm obviously a big norm fan but yeah he's explaining my father's drinking problem it's because he had a

Raging drinking probably. Yeah, right. It's just a normism. But I used to do him as, it never got a laugh. I would do norm as an alarm clock. Great. Hey, wake up. There's a crack horn and midget in your bed. Because I heard him say crack horn, midget. He did it like 45 times on Conan. And I was just, you know, he would just work a phrase you're not supposed to say over and over again. Oh, yeah.

So him on a Kona, but then Dave, David, I went to college in Tucson. So I spent time in Arizona in a very uncomfortable way. Right. And then,

There was a moment when I was in college, when I was getting high with a guy and he did the, let my tarantula crawl on you. Oh my God. From the, and it wasn't for shake. It was for a legit bong hit. Oh, and I was like, I was trying to explain the joke, your joke to him while a spider involved. I go,

You have to watch this special because he does this as a giant. I love it. But that was like, yeah, those two specials, especially like when you're young and you watch, you know, I grew up with like cable. I was like the first cable generation. And there weren't many on. So you could kind of watch them and know them. Yeah. Yeah. Watch them over and over and over. It wasn't mandatory now as it is.

Yeah, it wasn't in your face. It wasn't like, you know, you weren't trying to dodge them. He was like, it was like you would find it and you would almost be like, I feel like I wonder if musicians go through that with tick tock and stuff where it's all in your face now, where it used to be fun to probably go to a record store and like dig around the way it was like tape HBO specials and then watch them and be like, oh, these are awesome.

Everything was slow and everything, everything counted. Now it's just a billion pieces coming at you, but who's your best, who's your tightest friend? A comedian. Is it Shane or, or a bunch of, uh, you know, Shane and I'm real, I'm real tight with Shane. Uh, Nate Bargatze and I have known each other. How's he doing? He's,

doing fantastic. He's selling out the mood. I think Nate's probably got those machines now where you count the money like in Scarface. That's all you hear when you call him. And he goes, hi, man. Sorry. I'm going to need to get a different room because this one's filled with money. It's topless girls counting money but no cocaine. He's just a German guy.

The kids selling out so many tickets. He's playing the state of Nebraska. It

It always makes me think of this line from a Bill Hicks album where he goes, I can't sell out a comedy club and they're draining the ocean to build bleachers for carrot top. It was such a good line that I always think about that with like Nate and my friend, like Schultz and Shane and all these guys doing arenas. And I'm like,

I'm at a funny bone in short pump, Virginia. These guys are like, yeah, the King of England came and watched me do a set. What's it like to hear that? You've got a friend, a friend playing clubs. And then it seems it happens really fast these days where the first it's maybe a big, big theater. Whoa, dude, 3000. And then it's sort of, um,

an arena, like a 15 or 20 or, you know, it's what I like about it is I think standup comics specifically, you know, you know, it's always in the rock bios that they get like,

carried away with it and they're like we owe this this is what we're owed comics I think in general are just like what the fuck is this this is crazy like Shane I'm opening for Shane in he's doing arena shows in Cleveland in DC and I did a couple with him a couple weeks ago and he jokingly walked up to me and he goes

I just wanted to headline a Thursday at Helium in Philly. No shit. Got out of control. That's how it starts. If you can fill up a week, yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, I think it's awesome, man. I'm very happy for all those guys that are doing just, you know, I never thought stand-up would be as big as

you know, hair metal. Yeah. Do you think it's, I mean, I think those stadiums are the bigger, the bigger gigs. If I'm in them, I'm not really filling them. But when I do them, it's with other people, it's a different sort of pace. It's a different sort of everything. And I sort of miss just my type of jokes.

are a little and plus i'm kind of quiet and maybe i mumble i don't know but it's better for a little smaller uh area but you know when i go on tour it's not that big but i was i saw a picture on shane's instagram of uh which is depressing of uh it's like a slide of places filled arenas and i think i'm i think i'm like watching a ufc fight i see dinky shane in the middle i go oh you

It's just stand-up. But it feels like sometimes when I'm up there, I feel like my energy isn't enough to match how much is in the room, and it's very odd. Well, that's why Nate is such an outlier there. He plays it so intimate. What's his secret? What is he doing that's so amazing? His jokes are just so good at stand-up. Quality jokes, yeah. When we were coming up, I always called him the Basset Hound of comedy. Sure, he loved that. He just seemed like a guy...

Yeah. Oh, he was a big fan of that. He definitely. He did have a bit of a glow up. What was the idea behind it? Yeah. I miss old Fat Nate, dude. I want. Yeah. Where's Fatty? Where's Fat Nate? He used to look like Jared from Subway. Fat Nate should be a cartoon on Netflix. I would 100% watch that. Old Fat Nate.

Nate used to look like a guy that fixed like a Ferris wheels. And now, and now he looks, now he looks like the CEO of a blood company where you're like, I don't even know what this space pants. Yeah. It was wild. Yeah. He's something I see. Yeah. But there's less clips now, I think we're just smart because I think the market was flooded. Yeah. There's Theo clips. There's Nate clips. And there's almost Shane clips. Shane clips. Shane clips. I see more Shane is Trump clips. Yeah.

Yeah, his Trump is perfect. His Trump is... It's a secret weapon. Dana, when you rate other people's presidents... When you go up to your chart and you put the rating... When you do the rating, who has been your... Because Baldwin, obviously, was the classical pick by SNL, but I would argue that Shane does the perfect Trump. Well...

I would say I go by funniness more than accuracy for my personal taste. I think that James Austin Johnson is like,

jazz with it. You know, he's got so many hooks and so much. It's almost an over running thing. Shane, first of all, he's a little doughy like Trump, so he kind of can be Trump. He's tall. That's going to get him to punch a wall. And when you see, well, he's not Trump, but you know what I mean? I mean, what am I going to play Trump at 145 pounds? But he

But he makes me laugh the most when he does it. So that's why I go by. Well, he goes a lot more racy. He does more stuff that's a little like when it's on Kill Tony or something. Edgier. I think Tyler Fisher has some hooks that are really, really great as well. Really some interesting hooks.

I think Shane's speed dating on Gillian Keeves, that the, his sketch show when he does Trump spade, you're right. He like nails the dirtiness of it that, you know, Trump kind of has. So it's kind of funny to be like, he thinks it doesn't quite get there, but he, he's close. Yeah. He's close. He said a lot. He is. Trump knows he's like a comedian and he knows he goes for laughs. Like, and I saw him at a thing. The other, he's doing a press conference. He goes,

we're uh republicans for gays like you don't look gay and everyone laughs he's like go ahead what was the question and everyone's like it was fine with it like who says that obama never said that to anyone that would be funny he goes you know well you don't look gay you're not gay you don't look kind of yeah that's very yeah that's very shame

I don't know. I do. I do. Trump woke. That's my only. I like that. If he was woke, how would it sound in his language? We're going to take care of trans women. We're going to take care of them. What's happening to them is quite frankly a disgrace. They ought to be able to compete with the girls. I don't care if they're six foot three with flippers for hands and feet. You got to put them in the pool. Yeah.

Yeah, that is my favorite thing to do with a voice is to completely take it out of context and make it applicable. That was, you know, I screen tested twice for SNL. Didn't get it. You know, Dana, I saw Mindy Kaling the other night at this little shindig. And it made me think she does a master class. You know, that's one of our sponsors. And

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We'd like to hear about that. I want you to go through your voices. You guys wanted me. You wanted to hear about the failure. Well, I'm just, after seeing your stuff today and seeing you on Billions, realizing you're an actor, you could play the game show guy, you could play the dad, you could do all that. And then you also have all these really cool takes and impressions. So what happened? You should still be on that show. I got too nervous.

I got too nervous. I got way too nervous when I auditioned. My agent told me to do characters and voices, even though I was doing... It's not all you do. Yeah. And I was like, well, why don't I do stand-up? And then I could do a couple impressions at the end. And they were like, no, they want you to do all characters and impressions. And I was like, okay, great. And the first one went well, but then you get the call to come to...

30 Rock and go to 8H. And it's like, as a fan, as like a lifelong SNL fan, it's very intimidating. And it also, at the, that, it was for season 40. It was before season 40. And, um,

I wasn't planning on ever auditioning for SNL. I just loved it. I just loved it as a fan. And then I was writing a cartoon for comedy central with Brian Tucker, who at the time was the head writer. And he was like, you should audition, man. I was like, I don't know. And then I did. And I got, you know, I got to do the screen test and it got in my head. I just got like,

I wish I could have redone that because I think if I would have been more relaxed, I would have done a lot. I mean, I watch everyone's Dana. I've watched your audition tape over a hundred times because of YouTube. You get to watch Phil Hartman's. Oh, you know, you can go find all crazy. They have those. Yeah. And they're just floating around. Yeah. I never heard of that.

And I think that did me, you know, I used to open for Colin Quinn and Colin would always go, he'd go, yeah, you know, he'd go, that's the problem with your generation. You guys know every damn thing that happened in comedy. You can't even be surprised with anything. So, and I was always like, I don't know if I believe that. And then now I'm like, oh, he was absolutely right. It was like the weight of knowing too much. For sure. I wouldn't know of anyone's audition. You just hear about it. Yeah. I've heard that story a few times from different people.

I think Kyle Dunnigan told a story of just feeling remorse. But, you know, I got to do stand-up in front of Lorne Michaels in a club. With a good crowd. With a packed club, with a good audience, and got to do 40 minutes. Shit, yeah. Before I had to go do the kind of 8-H, but it was actually in Burbank. And Jim Carrey was...

on that audition too. Was he really? Yeah. Putting his foot behind his head and well, well there, they got to hire this guy, you know, put his balls in his mouth. I mean, it was tough. I don't even know how he was in the green room.

I don't know who the impression is, but it's funny. I was on the way in. I've never seen balls in a mouth. It's just funny. It doesn't need any. Something like testicles in an orifice is always good. Eric Idle and I used to talk about it with Chevy and Danny and Billy and all.

Can I tell you guys a character I've been doing on the road? So a lot of comics are very rich right now and they suck. They're not good at stand-up. And so I've been doing this character that is an African shaman that I pay to tell people the truth.

So he just goes up to him and he goes, I do not like your comedy. I do not think you are funny. I do not think you have a punchlines. You are just saying bad words. You are not funny.

and then they go like oh they go oh fuck man that kind of hurts and then it like catches on in comedy where like you know people are buying so you're at the cellar and there's like four shaman walking around being like i think that you you do bad jokes i do not like you and then they're like and then the punch line that i had in my opener was that it gets back to lauren and he's like um

dana had a shaman in 89 it really it really split the cast he was pretty mean to a couple of the feature players yeah for sure that is like david the shaman wants to see you yeah david adam got a shaman he wants to talk to you with me he'd go why are you gay you do like the

the boys. He sounds like, why are you a gay guy? Yeah, that's the whole, that's where I got that impression from. That guy's funny. Why are you gay? Why are you gay? Why?

Why isn't that guy auditioning? Keep going with that, man. That is really funny. And get really specific with maybe the cliches of stand-up like he gets into. Another 7-Eleven joke we do not need. Why are you... Counseling is not a thing. I fought in the Sudanese Civil War. I do not worry about being canceled. Sudanese...

I cut the bitch is not a punchline. The audience answering for you is not a punchline. It's just shock value. Why do you make them do their work? And then he's like, he gets really out of date. Jerry Lewis is who you should be doing. He's like, hey, I had a shaman come up to me and tell me about the Boots thing.

that's great but um so the snl thing yeah it was it literally was like before day um the director's name was dave dave dave wilson he was cool as fuck he was like he was great he goes hey man i had like you know my cowboy hat and like other things that i was gonna put on for shit where do i put my wagon

Excuse me. I have my little streamers, but he was like, he was like, Hey man, just have fun or whatever. And then I remember this is the moment I remember where I tightened up is I, I stepped onto eight H and I went like, man, fucking Farley, Phil Hartman, Belushi, Murray, Carvey. It's just, and it just was like, just the weight was just like pressing me down. And then I just don't feel like I did like,

The first year, I think I had better voices and stuff. The second year is the one I broke Lauren in the room. And that was, even though I didn't get it, I was like, I like that. What did you do? What made Lauren break? Winnie the Pooh addicted to honey. Where he was like, I don't know if you've ever woken up at a truck stop in just a red t-shirt. Being a man named Jimbo's lot lizard. For

for a couple pots of honey. And I just heard him go, like that. Yeah. That's a good Winnie the Pooh. I've never heard anybody do Winnie the Pooh.

Yeah. And I know a lot of people do Eeyore. Adam Egan sounds like Eeyore. He's like, Oh, I got a book. I don't know. You can come in if you want. Joe's mad at me. Took my tail again. Tim Dillon missed his flight. I got to go tell him. Gaines got another friend. I have to watch. How many comps do they get? Is there a number? Yeah.

Shit. But when you go in there, how many people, because first of all, someone goes in there before you audition and with a hose and sucks all the fun out of the room. It's like the most grossest time to while you go. It's funny because all the standups were pacing me, Andrew Santino and Pete Davidson. Oh, you guys are all doing it.

We're all pacing and all the improv actors were just comfortably in the green room, like going over their lines. And then you're just hearing people kill. Oh, the worst. Just murder. And then you're like, and then when you're up there, you're like, I don't think mine got that big of a laugh. But then.

It was, you know, I knew a couple of the bits. And what's funny is I wrote a Michael Che. That was the year Michael Che was coming back from Daily Show to go do Weekend Update. That was like his first year on Weekend Update. And we're buddies. And he was like,

Well, why don't I come over and go through your audition, you know, just to like give you notes or whatever and help. And I was like, yeah, that'd be awesome. So there, I was like confident in a couple of the characters. I just don't think I performed confidently or, uh,

I just don't think I relaxed. I think if I would have relaxed, I would have done a lot better. You know what? Che helps because if you're on the inside, like when I was writing sketches starting out, of course, you don't even know how to write a sketch. You just got the audition. And I was like a pretty good middle. So I'm not even a headliner. And then they go, here's a pad, right?

And then if you have someone on the inside, just walk you through. Cause after a while, I think what I write is funny. And after a few weeks, you can see something stand out at read through. You go, this wouldn't work. You can just read it ahead of time and go, this room is not going to buy it. And you don't know that when you're auditioning. And so if someone can go, I can't explain why I just know this is the kind of thing that's going to set off a red flag. And that does help. Yeah. Cause he was really, I had like a couple different characters and one character. He's like, you should do that. One was, I did, um,

I did the honest 1950s Alabama football recruiter.

where he went, you mob. I was like, I had like one of those straw hats. My friend, you are one of the fastest men I've ever seen on the ground. And you are going to need those legs off campus. They are not happy about us recruiting a black man. And it was just like, Jay thought it was hilarious. And I was like, yeah, all right, I'll do that. Cause there were a couple where I was like, I don't know. I did Sam, Sam Elliott used to do these,

Coors commercials. And this is in 2014. So this is like pretty much before the trans thing became mainstream. But you do these Coors beer commercials. And I grew up in, you know, my mom raised me in Aurora, Colorado. And in Colorado, there was a place called Trinidad, Colorado, where they used to perform

the sex change operations. Like everyone in Colorado knew it was like, Oh, you go to Trinidad to have a sex change. Was it bigger there than the rest of the country? So I think that was, I think, but I tried to explain it in the setup of like everyone who grew up in Colorado knew if you were going to Trinidad, it was for a sex change operation. Like Turkey for a hair transplant. Exactly. Exactly. Uh, or like Brazil for a butt lift. It was just like,

They knew it. And then I did a Sam Elliott doing a commercial for Trinidad, Colorado, where it was like, uh, you were born with the wrong parts. Well, there's a place in Colorado that can take your Audi and turn it into an inning. I'm talking about Trinidad, Colorado lopping off. And I think it might've been too, uh, but what, maybe it was the eight minute setup. Yeah.

Maybe you didn't need to read the whole epilogue. You've got a chart. Here's a map of the U.S. You can see in 1988, it's spiked. Sam Mellon talks about where to go to get a sex change operation. There it is. You know what? I probably should have gotten, yeah, I would have loved to have gotten notes from you guys before I did it.

Well, one thing I could tell you is that then later on there's people in a room and there's a lot of great things being said about a lot of people and probably for sure you. Yeah. And it's going, the cards are going in and out. All you need is one person doesn't like you and you can kill you. Like, you know what I mean? It's so crazy. And also he likes to cast like, if you didn't get it, who was close to you? Or do they already have a you? Like we have a Phil Hartman. That's when they had like,

Maybe Michael McKeon came and they're, they're thinking more than what I'm thinking. You know what I mean? They're just not just funny. They're going, we don't have a Jan hooks who would be someone that's versatile, female, cute, you know, that kind of stuff.

The thing I was told was it was the year after Sudeikis left and they were like, Oh, you need a kind of an older white dude who can play a dad who can play a teacher. Be kind of hulking if he needed to. Yeah. And so I think that's why I got far because, you know, it was, it was nice. Like Spade, what you said about having someone that's like kind of on the inside that can tell you because Brian Tucker, I was his guy, you know, like, and he's the head writer. I think, um,

I was like privy to the process more than anyone else that was going through it. Cause Brian was like, they like you, you're in like the top five. I don't know if you're going to meet Lorne. You might get a call, be prepared for a call at any moment. Then I didn't get that call. And then he kind of, you know, Tucker was there to be like, I think they're going to go with Pete Davidson. And he was my opener. Oh,

Oh, wow. Pete was like opening for me. He had been featuring me for me on the road. I've known Pete since he was like 15. And so it was funny listening to him be like, I don't even know if I want it. You know, like I would talk to him on the phone. And he'd be like, I don't think I'm going to get it. So you think I'm going to get it? And then he got it. And he was like, I don't know. I think I'm going to do it. And you're like, great. So if you said there was, was it three auditioning, just three dudes and then one got it?

No, it was like 16, 17 of us. Oh, how many got it? Who else? Pete? One. It was just Pete. Oh, wow. So that's such a different choice that you can't take that personal. And Michael, no, no women. And Michael Che had the funniest.

you know, cause we're still good buddies and like, it fucked me up. Cause you know, I took it as, I wasn't funny. I know everything you're saying now makes sense that they're casting what they're looking for. But when you go and you do it, you just go like, I, but if I would have been funnier, I would have got it. Like, that's what I kept thinking. And then Jay goes,

no man pete's cool you're like an older white dude he's like pete's like 19 his dad died in 9 11 i was like yeah that's a way better story yeah you blew it i blew it my dad died next to a lake land outside of ukiah that's not very well that is tough i i agree that he does like someone you know he's got marcello now so it's like

cool, good looking dude. And there's just, he's once one of everything, I think. And here's the thing about Lorne. He's right. Like, look what Pete blew up in Marcello's like incredible. So it's like, he knows what he wants. It's his show. It's also why it's been around. Then you get girls watching and, you know, he's got to cover all the bases. But to say you lost is like going to the Olympics and going there. They liked me, but I got 11th. Yeah.

Yeah, that was exactly it where they were like, oh, but you auditioned. It's like, cool. I'm not going to wear my team USA jacket when I got close. Yeah. You got to the Olympics. That's what you did. You got to the end and you just, that's the hard part is that you can't help. Mostly comics are insecure anyway. So going into that room,

From me to you to Dana, you're just going, why would I be here? This is not even what I even thought about. Like, and now do I deserve it? Am I good enough? And if I'm not, that makes more sense in a weird way. It really, um, you know, I think it, it, it made me focus on standup, which I appreciate a lot. And it was a thing where I, you know, I'm a alcoholic, like I've been sober for 12 years. Yeah. Let's look at a clip.

You passed out in your Winnie the Pooh shirt. It's just me crying on a subway. Notes from Shane, bring up alcoholism. Shane's so mad because I quit drinking before I met Shane and Shane was like, I just want to get you out there one more night. And you're like, brother. Just do a few reps.

So how does that relate to that? I just feel like if I would have got SNL, it would have been a situation that I probably would have drank in that. I think I would have gone at such a high pressure. Yeah. It's, it's fun. High pressure. It's cool. It's like everything that I would have been like, well, let me just have a drink. You would deserve it. Yeah. I would go like, I'm hanging out with Bono from you. I have a beer after party and everyone's like, don't be a pussy. Yeah.

And then they're like, you took the edges. And now YouTube hates me. Remember when you wore the edges hat and he was so fucking mad. You're like, I did. Marcelo has hired me to tell you, you can no longer drink at the after party. You are a problem. That character can go anywhere. It is interesting though. I would, I would almost want to be there and just see, cause you know, when you're, if you're watching open micers and stuff, you're,

You know for yourself if the room is dead or if you're following someone really blue and you got to deal with that energy. But what was the energy, the three, four before you? Because I'm sure on a given night, because I've seen your stuff, you're out there and you're going, right now the vibe is I'm the best guy doing stand-up on planet Earth right now. I mean, there is that vibe can happen to any really great stand-up.

And so I'd have to go back and see what it was in that moment. And it's, it's, uh, probably nothing to do with you. You know, I snuck in like two before me just to see what the energy was like. And when you walk in, you know, through the back, like the main entrance of eight H and I like peek around and it was like, I forget who it was just like throwing confetti and being like, Oh my God, a little fucking piggy. And I was like, yeah,

That's someone going on and auditioning. You're saying I'm saying at eight age, like I saw like props and stuff. Oh my God. Oh fuck. Oh fuck. And then I, I also, I mean, I really should have just fought to do standup and impressions at the end. Cause I think I would have just gone out and been like, they would have gotten a better. Yeah. And also, you know, if they had someone had just not told you we're going to audition and you were just walking down the street, can you go up there?

Yeah. In two minutes. That probably was no prep. That's exactly. Three days later, I've done sets like that where I bomb and three days later I'm at some club doing great. And I'm like, why wasn't, what's the difference? Why is this working? You're people in a room. Now you're people in a room. Yeah. Why was that so? How many were there? I never know how many come to watch.

i don't uh in the back i could only see you know they like stay out of the light gross yeah i know they just vampire you but it's like all that jazz they're like should i start hello yeah i think i think that's what happened to kyle dunnigan he goes he walked out and the guy goes whatever you do don't do it until they say three two one and then he goes he went out lauren goes are you

Are you going to go? And he goes, no, this guy said, and then he goes three, two, one. And he goes, uh, and he's immediately off on the wrong foot. Didn't someone go out there when, and then they had taken a break and didn't tell him. And there was no one out there. Yeah.

It's like going to the electric chair and there's everyone's at lunch. You're not going to go to the electric chair in an hour. Some guy fixing the bleachers goes like, Hey, that's a pretty good Woody Harrelson. I liked it. When they come back, they're going to like it.

Oh, you're not here. Excuse me, sir. Like take it out of the way. Pitch black cabaret style. I know. Yeah. Get your lavalier mic on and talking to you. Oh, yeah. You know, it was one of those things where immediately when I left, I was like, I could do that. I could have done that so much better. Sickening feeling. I could have done that so much better. And it is like, and then the second year, the next year,

I like kind of knew I, you know, I didn't do any of the preliminary auditions. They just called me the week of screen tests and they were like, that's nice. Yeah. Well, that's very complimentary. And obviously they, they were on your, you were on their radar. Go ahead. Yeah. But they were like, you, um, can you do a, I think they wanted someone that could do a Jeb Bush. They wanted someone that could do a, I can do Jed clamp it. Yeah. But it was a thing where I was like, nothing, nothing there. I was like, yeah, Bush is tough.

I was like, I could try. And they were like, and then just bring three new voices. And that's when I did Winnie the Pooh and I think a couple other ones. And they were like, okay. And then they were pretty quick back to me like, no, not this year. But it was nice. Pete got it again. Yeah. Pete goes, you can get it twice. You can get it twice. And there's back to back years. He quit and then they hired him back. We didn't see anybody good.

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Which, by the way, I think they did take one of my things in kind of... Which you signed the contract, so I'm not, like, mad about it. But one of the things I did...

One of the sketches I did was Jason Statham's edible arrangements where I was like, if you're proud of your family, send them a bouquet, but not a flowers, but a fruit made of fists. How about you kick them with some cantaloupe with Jason Statham's edible arrangements. And then one of the sketches that they cut was Jason Statham's Jason Statham's.

That was like that episode. And I was like, Oh, right after you audition. Whoops. That's a little too close to the bone there. That's also in all fairness. And people love to leave this part out whenever they, they tell about sketches, you sign a contract going like, Hey, I'm giving you these ideas. Like when you audition, there is a contract that's like, whatever they see, if they like it, you know, it's going to be theirs. And I completely understood that. So I wasn't mad about that.

It says in the contract, we will not hire you, but we do love these ideas. But good joke. But the first SNL 40 premiere, I was at the stand here in New York at their old location. And I was doing the 8 to 10 in the midnight. And I was very excited to watch Che on Weekend Update because I've known him since we were doing open mics together. And 8 and 10 o'clock show were great. Midnight show, I bombed so hard.

I had like flop sweat. Like it was through both shirts I was wearing. And I went first on the show and just absolutely fucking bombed. And then I go upstairs to where the restaurant is at the stand and they have it SNLs on all the screens. And it's Che on weekend update, which I'm excited about. I'm like,

I'm excited so I watched Che do a couple jokes and then he does the thing where he's like and now I'd like to introduce our newest cast member our young people correspondent Pete Davidson and Pete's got phenomenal stand-up jokes and he comes out and Pete fucking murdered on his first weekend update and I'm sitting there watching it with hot sweat drying on my forehead and he'd had a roommate at the time named Derek who's a comic black dude in New York he's a

He's a comic and Pete's killing. I'm watching. And Derek is walking up and down the stand going, he's the next Eddie Murphy. She's the next Eddie Red. I'm just standing there. It's still escalating. Yeah. I'm like, of course my dad going to come back from the dead and be like, I'm proud of him. Not you. He is the,

He is the gold digger Ain't nobody funnier than this man And you're just like, ah, fuck Oh, it's an emotionally violent I bombed horribly Following Sam Kennison at midnight At the Comedy Store The original room with no MC in between And just

Dead silent. I mean, just death. What does Sam bring in? Sam goes, all right, this next young man. I go, what's up? And then I saw a little painting lights up. I looked over, it had been lit up. And so I,

Yeah, it took me a couple months to get over that. I thought SNL was out of there. You remember every bomb. You remember every bomb so accurately that you're just like- It can have turned so fast. You would have done better if they saw you. They saw me and Rob Schneider at the maybe Catch Rising Star, but we didn't do that well. But Dennis Miller was saying, they're just going to look at the writing so that you don't even have to do well. And they just want to see kind of what you're thinking. And if it's a little weird or a little something-

And they didn't have one of me. They had Dana, but they were like, I was brought in as a writer and Schneider. And they didn't have anyone who looked like Schneider, so he got on a little quicker. And then Sandler was unique and Farley was very unique. So I'm just saying that when I walked off stage, I was kind of like, ah, tough. There's probably 25 people in that crowd that night. Probably...

10 SNL, 12 SNL, 12. So they were like about half of it. Yeah. Like comes in, like they, they come in into a crowd. It's not that full. And then you see like you hear, and it's like Jim Downey and law, you know, and then all these people that are in some cast members, I think anyone's invited. Cause I remember being there and Marcy Klein going, they're doing auditions. If you guys want to stop by or like how horrible to see us all come in and watch. I just said it.

Dude, if I would have walked in there and just Kristen Wiig would have been staring at me. I know. Like, what's this fucking chump got? Just not even blinking. Oh, God. Are you mad at me? I was there for Louie's. I watched Louie's. Oh, at Caroline's, right? Danny, your boy, Louie. You mean my head writer? Louie's? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. From the Dana Carvey show, my head writer. What? Dana Carvey show. Let me tell you right now that affected me. It did me too. Yeah. You, but as a, as a, uh, a little boy that, uh, was, was your biggest fan when they took off the Dana Carvey show, that was a bad Monday for everyone in my class. I was, I

I know we had murderers row boy, Corral Colbert. Fuck. You guys had the fucking best. That documentary was phenomenal. It really was like, it's funny. Cause I would tell people about Dana Carvey, uh,

the Dana Carvey shows sketches and they would treat me like I was crazy. Like people that it was like a Mandela effect. Like I was misremembering something where I would do the, the nauseous waiter was always one that I'd be like, Oh yeah, that was a killer. That was Colbert and Corral. And when you guys would pay for stuff and drive away your bad pranks,

They still show those. They show those on Instagram. Thought I was going to lose Steve. I mean, he was so committed and flipping out in that car and the veins were popping out of his head. I said, we'll flip out. But I mean, you know, it's okay. Chill out, dude. Yeah. But you know, when you, it's, it's, it's just getting the lens on people. Like it was just Colbert and Corral, just two guys. We, I, we nicknamed the two Steve's.

And then as they emerge and they go on, you go, oh, it was Steve Carell. So I would – if I was your manager or agent, I would still float you around for SNL. I don't know. I think I'm probably – I mean, just put it out there. They'd have to come find you at this point. I think they could use your versatility and your impressions, your take on things. I don't know. It's just –

I don't think there's any, you know, Phil Hartman got on at 38 or 39. I mean that audition, you want to see the perfect audition. The guy first off just comes out, does the, the, the private eye, the perfect private eye voice. Chick hazard. Chick hazard. Yeah. I was, I was, I was dancing cheek to cheek with a bar and it's like, it's perfect. And then his impressions are in fucking German. He does his impressions in German.

as the best german impressionist a legend at the groundlings already yeah i got it and didn't really even want to do the show it's funny he talks he uh he does a he does like an infomercial voice where he's like it's the stun gun the incredible stun gun and he does the he does the three different rays and he goes look there's bonnie bernstein and he like hits him with one and you hear people in the back laugh like you hear him break

everyone there. They go like, ah, that's good. Cause he's just doing his, he's doing the impression and then breaks to go like, you're frozen. He would always be called in for the voiceover. It's happy fun ball.

Oh, it's the best. I mean, happy fun balls, a top 10 commercial. When we did church chat, David and I, the past fall, Phil, they still use Phil. Oh yeah. People bought it. It's a little emotional. Yeah. It's time for church chat. Yeah. But that's, um, you know, you're, you're, you have a wide skillset. I mean, you're in the Phil Hartman territory as far as what I can tell. You look like a carpenter. And do you tell, they bring you up like that. This next guy looks like a carpenter.

This guy's going to can't fix stuff, but he can do voices. So that's it. It's going to fix your funny bone. That's what you should say. Oh, before we let you go, I got to ask a quick question about, but you did, you, you did say you're from Arizona. You went to dirt bags to drink maybe that bar. And, uh, you were in, what did you do in drunk parents? Oh, I, um,

I had a scene with Alec Baldwin in a diner. I did. I mean, this is pretty, this was pretty awesome. Number one, when I went in to audition, it was just like, you know, a regular old audition. And then I walked dirty works. One of my favorite movies of all time. Dirty. Yeah. It's like, I love it. It's like, didn't Fred co-write dirty? No. Oh,

That's why. So I walk in and Fred, Fred Wolf is sitting there and I go, Oh shit, Fred Wolf. Like I walked in and that was my first reaction. I go, Fred Wolf. And he goes, you know, you know him. He's like, Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Hey dad. And I go, you know, normal, normal. That's really funny. You're really good. You're not so good. But he goes, um, he goes, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I go, I was just quoting dirty work the other day or a Chevy chases line where he goes, you know, the worst part of these bookies is they put

they break your legs and they still expect you to pay you the money. He goes, yeah, that. And then I auditioned and it went like, all right or whatever. And then I left. And then Fred came out and he was like, Hey, there's another role. Could you read for it? If I gave you like,

15 20 minutes could you like learn the sides and come in and do this other role and I was like yeah sure and so I just did it and I came back in and it was the role that I ended up getting which was rusty who's a guy who sells catalytic converters or is like trying to recruit Alec Baldwin to steal catalytic converters and so that was like we just filmed in this diner up in the Bronx for like a morning and

But the best, the thing I'll always remember is I went through a really tough breakup like right then. Like a girl just absolutely crushed me. And then I had to go film with Alec Baldwin. And the night before I filmed, I was at the stand again and I saw Judah Friedlander. And I was like, hey, I'm going to see your buddy, Alec Baldwin. And Judah was like,

tell him you're a standup comedian. He loves standup comedians. And I was like, awesome. So we're in the makeup trailer and he comes in and I introduced myself and I was like, Hey, uh, I'm, my name's Dan. I'm a standup comedian. I'm playing rusty or whatever. And, um, Judah Friedlander, I saw him last night. He says, hello. And he did the tell the world champion. I say hello. And then he like sat down in his makeup chair and I

throughout the, you know, he's like, he direct his, he like kind of directed his own scene where he was like, no, put the camera right there. No, put the camera right there. And then he like, I'm across a diner just like watching Alec Baldwin. I mean, 30 rock is my favorite television show of all time. Yeah. I'm watching Jack Donaghy just fucking rip it in front of me. And I,

And he, you know, he always, he is jacked on it. Like I know he isn't, but he is in my head. Of course. Yeah. He's like lemon. That's not how that goes. But yeah. So we're filming. And then we, uh, we break to, to, um, you know, move stuff around and, and to get my coverage. And he's talking to me and we're like eating this plate of fries. And I'm like, yeah, I went through a really bad breakup this weekend. And he just talked to me through it. He was like, what happened? And I like tell him, and he was like,

I just remember I go, we were so hot and heavy before Christmas. And then she went away and it kind of changed. Baldwin dips a fry and he goes,

Someone got in her ear. And then he. Yeah, that sounds like. And then we're like, we're like talking. And then he, um, he, it's one point he goes, you know, I went through a tough breakup in 2000 and I went, yeah, Kim Basinger. Yeah. Kim Basinger. Yeah. He went, yeah, it was a tough breakup. And then he like, he was just giving me this, like, uh, it was really sweet. He was just giving me this like advice and,

And it was awesome. He loves to talk about stuff. Everything. Anything. He would love that. He likes to be funny and you're funny. He's very curious. He'd be like, what happened? But it just broke me when he dipped the fry and he went, someone got here. Yeah.

I want to, I want you to do a couple of impressions for us, but first of all, front desk energy, that is your podcast. Did I get that right? It's just called soda. It's just called soda. Okay. Yeah. It's just called, it's just my last name. I'm not a podcast. Yeah. Okay. Front desk energy was the name of the episode with Shane. Yeah. Shane. It was actually the day after what's funny about that. That was the day after Shane hosted SNL the first time. And I've, you know,

You talk about you on the Dana Carvey show, obviously, helping Carell and Colbert and all those, and Louie and stuff. Bill Cott. Yeah. Shane used to be my opener. I saw Shane in Pennsylvania, and I was in Philly, and I was like, you should come on the road with me. And then me and a couple other friends got him to move up to New York. And so that's why it's awesome now that I'm going to go open for him at an arena. And you're like, well, it looks like this investment paid off.

Well, let's try to get a tour together where you do headline. It's called Secret Headliner and Pete Davidson and Shane open. You know who also Tim Dillon used to feature for me and Nick Mullen. Yeah. By the way, I remember a show where Tim Dillon buried me so bad that halfway through my set.

I was like, uh, in my head, you have that comic thought where he goes, should I ask them if they want me to bring him back out? Cause it was like, Oh, he's too good. Yeah. He just, it was at, um, the Vermont comedy club in Burlington on like a show. And Tim just murdered for like 25 minutes. And then I went out there and I was like, well,

What am I going to do? It's hard to do. That's a pain in the ass. What the fuck am I going to do? But Shane was like that. Shane would kill and you'd just be like, ah, fuck. I know. Don't get a go opener that's that good. Guys, just get kind of a nice, sweet opener. It doesn't do anything like you. Kind of mellow. I mean.

But this was like, you know, I was still in that like, you need to be the best you can be. You both were absolutely right. Get a guy that's good, but not going to fucking make you go crazy. Yeah. Or a woman, somebody just different. So you self-produced, right? You did a Comedy Central special and then a Netflix. You did 30 minute, the standups. And then you've, which I think is cool. People are doing it. And Shane did it.

On YouTube, right? That's called On the Road? Yeah, that was recent. So I did an HBO Hour in 2019, which was like, I think I feel lucky. I think I was one of the last people to do a real HBO special. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like an actual on HBO, like debuted. Full out.

full hour. It was the best experience of my life, especially talking about your guys' HBO specials. Dana, I got to perform at Palace of the Fine Arts last month. I headlined, and I kept thinking about it. A thousand seats. Yeah, as a Niner fan, because my dad's from the Bay, I just kept wanting to go, fucking 49ers. You say that, and they go crazy. Oh, God, yes. But I did the HBO special, and then HBO...

you know, I think kind of fell off and, uh, Netflix, I have a good relationship with, but I was just on the road so much. My agent was like, you should just record your hour right now. Cause I didn't have any plans to, and we, I think that's what the difference of the business is now. Now you can just take a guy that can give you a four camera shoot. You can do it, um, on the fly and just put it on YouTube. And it got, you know, I think we're at like

close to three million yeah three million it was just like a thing where it was like this is exactly what i needed at this time of my career i i was jokingly calling it like a mixtape like just putting out a mixtape and being like it is like that yeah here's what i'm doing on the road right now come and see me on the road and it really helped you know i'm about to um

About to kick off a theater tour, the Golden Retriever of Comedy Tour. It's my first theater tour, and I'm excited, and I think the YouTube special really helped that. So you've made the leap to theaters. Yeah, I'm making the leap in the fall. I'm still doing clubs through the summer, but then I've done a couple theaters in certain cities, like in San Francisco and San Diego at the Balboa, and it was like...

You know, I think it's a slow roll. I'm not, you know, I'm friends with Nate and Shane and Tim. And I see these guys go from being like, I did a funny bone. Then I'm doing Taj Mahal. Yeah. And, uh, and it's like, I I'm like very slow and steady. Very slow. Well, it is just, it's adding up now, all the specials and all the podcasts. You're on a lot of podcasts. They give you a good review and then you go back to city. It's the same thing. It just building, building, building. Yeah, exactly. It's just the slow route is, um,

Very slow. Yeah. Well, you're still, you're, you're brand new. Trust me. You got a long way to go. You know, I mean, Louie, a lot of people, Sebastian was around early forties when they really took off. That's, you know, I say this, I said this to my manager and they're like, Oh Jesus. But it is the truth.

white dudes hit their superpowers in stand-up in their 40s because stuff starts hurting and you stop caring less about being cool and I think there's this kind of thing of like you're comfortable like I feel more comfortable doing stand-up than I've ever felt yeah you want to have that next level of confidence like you know get out of my way you ain't ever wait till they get a load of you wait till they get a load of Dan yeah

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Just real quickly, because we've never had anyone do these on this show, just a quick Chappelle and a quick Cat Williams. Cat Williams is reactionary. I don't even think it's that good. You just go high with it. I love Cat Williams so much, and hearing you do it makes me happy. The funniest shit that he said on Shannon Sharp that no one talks about is when he goes...

Chris Tucker used to hang out with Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson used to call him Christmas. And he goes, would you ever let another man call you Christmas? No, I wouldn't. No, no, I do not believe I would. I ain't going to say that, but Mike Chappelle.

My Chappelle is a, Chappelle's my favorite comedian of all time. Like I, uh, I've like probably paid to see him live before I started doing standup. I would like, like a deadhead. I would follow him around. And, um, then COVID hit. This is the reason, this is what I talk about on stage. But when COVID hit, they shut down all the comedy clubs in New York. We couldn't go inside. That was like the big thing. And then the stand was like, we're doing inside comedy.

You're we're going to do some inside shows. And every comic in New York was like fighting to be like, please let me go inside. I want to do a regular set. And the day of the show, we get a, I get a text from Patrick, the booker. And he goes, Hey, the next three nights are canceled. Uh, Chappelle is just going to do shows. And so then I walk into the stand one night, bitter,

Sure. Bitter. Angry. I want to go inside. And then I'm watching Dave, my favorite comic of all time, just do a five hour set where he was just staring at his cigarette. And so I started making fun of it. Like, uh, he's just talking about like a white people sports, you know, he's like,

A lot of people don't know this, but Mark Messier was drafted by the Edmonton Oilers and he played with Wayne Gretzky, but no one gave Mark Messier the credit for it. Oh man. Or I would also do like, I love it.

A lot of people don't know this, but the black man made up a lot of lawn games for white people. Croquet was invented by a black man named Jamal Croquet, and he never got to play his game. A lot of people don't know this. A lot of people don't know he never got to

play his game and you just stare at your cigarette wow that's really good he does he says he don't take 12 minutes to light the cigarette everyone's just going what's going on and then he lights it and he goes i don't know if you guys ever saw the show punky brewstup but he lived with a man that was three times her age that man was a pedophile

I can't believe it. I said, punky, that man is a pedophile. That's great. Oh my God. That is one of the best impressions I've heard in a long time. When he did the comedy store, he kind of did a quick end run. It was the first time I felt

The confidence went to this whole other level and it was like 15 minutes of no, not any. And the audience was almost afraid of him. Yeah. It was such a level of calm and confident. And then those kinds of rhythms. It's just, so I got to watch him at the cellar, you know, uh, before he did radio city. In fact, it was me.

Joe List and Mark Norman all sat at a table and watched Chappelle do like two hours. And his improv is just funnier than anything I could ever write. There was a guy, there was a guy in the front row and Chappelle was smoking and he goes, he goes, where, uh, where are you coming in from, man? And the guy went, um,

The guy went, uh, where do they cane people? Is that Singapore? Yeah. It's single. He goes, I'm coming in from Singapore. He goes, oh, that's crazy. When you landed, did you take all the gum and go, I'm going to eat all the gum right now. And he like did this like chewing motion that I think it just made me laugh so hard. He's just so quick and funny. He's just the best. Yeah.

So who's the second best? Yeah. Yeah. You go and who would round out your top five? Well, it's funny because I mean, Spade, your let's go to the clip thing is like one of my favorite. I just did it. I know. That's why that wasn't a fake. That was you really got me. My fiance and I, that's one of our favorite bits is just go just to break the tension and go, yeah, let's go to the clip.

It's just so... Yeah, that is one of his... Yeah, yeah, it is. And I'll tell you, Spade, you got... For me, you made me laugh the hardest on SNL 50 when they were doing the Mulaney thing. Oh, yeah. And Pete goes... And then Mulaney goes, where's Spade? He was just doing the thing. And you go, yeah, I got the beat.

That made me laugh. I know every, all the writers said the same thing. Cause I talked to the producer about David's little moment and everybody who's kind of in comedy. It said so much because the, the, the Broadway show thing was so energetic. And what was the exact thing you said though?

I got a feel for it. That's the name of your special. I just named my special that because it was the day I got home and I go, hey, that's funny. I'll just call it that. I got a feel for it. It was just perfectly spayed. The way you were talking to someone else and you went, yeah, I got a feel for it. It made me laugh. Because it was like a 12-minute...

Broadway show. It was like, this is more about the singing anyway. I'm glad this podcast didn't turn into me complimenting you too, because that almost is what it became because I'm such a massive fan. Like Dana, I don't think you understand you saying I do a good Chappelle. That's like a, that's going to fuel me for years to come. It's unreal. I'll add to that. That's unreal. Because it's not just the, uh, the rhythm. It's also some texture in the tone of, uh,

- Voice, and then it's the phrasing. So the three things are sort of perfect. So it's like, don't anyone else try to do Chappelle if anyone wants to try? Just that's been kind of checked off. - But your Biden was something that I thought.

I mean, I'm not getting around here. I was so mad. I was so mad. They put you in late for that. I was so mad that I felt like the last, you know, 2020 to 2025 should have been you as Biden. I don't know if you wanted to do that, but like when I saw you do it, I was like mad that it hadn't happened yet.

It was, they'd asked me before, but I felt like I'd done it on Colbert just real quickly. And I felt like the audience in New York wasn't ready for it because of thinking it would make Trump happy. So, but the, but when he whispered and yelled is when it became a three-dimensional, I read the bill. Cause I don't write bills. I can write bills faster than he's ever better. Bed, bath and beyond. Then I knew I had an energetic impression, but I was happy to land it when I did. Yeah, it was perfect.

It was perfect. And two fan questions that I'm going to kill myself because I don't know if I'll ever see you guys again. I have to ask you. You can take the hit. David, hey, that was my first question. Did your dad get mad about those jokes on Take the Hit? My real dad, Peewee? No, he had no say in it. I would tell him. I know, but after it came out. I said, if I have to get, he goes, he didn't love it. You know, there was one I did about my stepdad. 15 inch account and 15 inch. Oh, yeah. 68 and a billion.

Nate and I would laugh at that on the road for fucking hours. And I always wanted, cause I've done jokes about my mom and I've always wondered if your dad was like, Hey, that's not, that's not how that. No, he, at that point I was sort of helping him out. I'm like, listen, there's a few jokes, but you don't worry about it. He was, he's by no means any dad of the year. So I said, I have to get something out of this. And then my stepdad shockingly didn't like one. When I said about my mom, when I was saying, yeah,

Oh, I don't know what it was, but it was something sort of dirty. And I was like, you're right. Because you don't really think of that. You're just trying to think what's the funniest thing you can think of. Yeah. And someone steps in and says, I can't, I don't, I can't hear that anymore. And I was like, oh shit, I didn't even, I just thought you'd be so excited that you were in a joke. I had an ex-girlfriend whose parents were from the Bronx and we were, I was at their house having dinner one night and I was trying to, I was telling her your joke, the Brad Pitt joke.

uh where you go where you're doing your grandma and you go where's my little david where is who's that kid i want to fuck that kid i'd fuck that dude you know him why don't you drag him around the house i'm like i can teach him a couple lessons fucking on his balls i remember my ex-girlfriend's mom just i love that joke obviously and she goes that's not funny

It's not. She goes, you don't talk about someone's grandmother like that. I go, it was about his grandmother. Yeah, it's my fictitious grandma and my lie of a joke.

Everyone's like, I still see things that go, David Spade went to school with Brad Pitt. I go, I did? I go, oh, and that joke. So funny. Fictitious lie of a joke that I told. Yeah, I mean, I remember Brad Pitt when I saw him right after that. He goes, oh, where's grandma? I go, what do you mean? I go, oh, right. I just did that joke.

Again, it's like, I don't even know what I'm talking about. Oh, fuck. That makes me. It's just a classic turn. Yeah. It's just such a fun. Oh, who's that kid? I want to fuck that kid. Oh, good change up. Yeah. Yeah. But, and then Dana, the question that I've wanted to know since 1994. That was an hour ago. Why did you guys take the Ross Perot stuff in Critics' Choice and put it during the credits? Because...

It was so funny because you cut it with Ross Perot talking about movies where he goes, if you pay $5.99 to see a retard on a bench, you're a retard. Get on a bench. And then you did Waterworld. This man drinks his own urine. Yummy, yummy. And it was all during the credits

of your special. For Critics' Choice? Yeah. I forgot about that. I don't know why. I don't know why. Did you do it in character? Did you have the makeup and stuff? No, I was just doing them. Can I finish one time? Can I finish? Can I come in on the one? Can I come in?

in on the one. You're not listening. Can it finish one time? Can it finish one time? What a gift to have a guy like that walk onto the scene. That was unbelievable. I always quote your I feel a temper tantrum coming on.

When you do the adopting an old man. Yeah, a two-year-old is like a hundred-year-old man with needs, you know? Where do you think you're going all dressed fancy? Yeah. I see the temper tantrum coming on. Now, buy me a toy. That's not Megator. That's Megatea. You can tell because the index finger's crook slightly different. Megator, Megatea.

Now buy me a toy. Or I think I feel a tantrum coming on. It's coming back. And the one where he goes, sit your ass down. We're watching Pooh Bear. And then you shuffle up and come back and you go, it's a good one too. Piglet gets lost. Well...

You're my new best friend. I know people who appreciate the weirdest, driest throwaway lines are like in a frequency. You're like, Oh, I love this. So I get it. You don't really, you hope people notice the weird, dry throwaway lines, but when they do it, it's very satisfying stuff. I would probably say both of your guys is the thing that makes me love both of your guys's comedy so much is that it's the texture. It's like the layers. It's like,

you know, I think like Spade, everything I've ever watched of yours, it's, there's all this, this like duality of like top asshole. And then this underlying belief. And I love that. I love watching like a guy that's a smart asshole. And you're like in a fun way, in a way that like, man, sometimes dude, I know you'll never remember this David, but there was a comedy musical in New York city called, uh,

And Kevin Farley was in it with like a bunch of standup comedians.

and one of my friends was in it and he was he got me and my roommate who's a comic to go see him big jay okerson was in it yeah yeah okay and he was like hey um you guys should come see it we're doing this thing with kevin farley and a couple other comics and so we go to the matinee on the upper west side because it's the afternoon and me and my roommate sit down and you and dave attell sit behind us and it was one of the greatest experiences of my life because you were in like

full spade mode. Oh no, was I commenting on it? But so quietly, but to the point that me and Vecchione were fucking dying. And then you got, you were doing it and it encouraged Attell to do it. So it like ramped up because there was a part where you're like, they're like breaking down stand-up comedy and they go, and now here comes the tough female chick and you just do a spade go. Mm-hmm.

And it made me laugh. And then Kevin Farley was doing a thing where he goes, and then a heroin addicted Jew named Lenny Bruce shows up and a tell goes easy. Yeah.

And it was like, dude, it was the, we walked out and I was like, that was like one of the best afternoons of my life. I got to watch it. I do remember that now. Cause that was, I think his wife was directing that play. Yeah. His wife, Michelle was directing that. And so it was so fun. I love that you saw that thing. Good job. We should have hung out then. Yeah. Well, dude, hearing you in a tell talk about it. Go out and see Dan Soder on the road, on the road playing theaters. I think, uh,

We'll have you back when you make the leap. When you make the leap to your first arena, just come back. It's so funny. I'm just going to be outside your guys' house going, guys, it didn't happen. But I can still do. Guys, remember Chappelle? What if Dave Chappelle came inside? I'll do it. I'm playing a shed. I'm playing a shed at Boston U. They got a shed. They got a good shed. They're serving soda out the back of it. So just let me in. Please let me in. It's so cold out here, guys.

All right, Dan, we'll talk soon, buddy. Thank you for all the nice things. Pleasure hanging out with you and I'll be seeing you around. See you guys. Thanks so much. This has been a presentation of Odyssey. Please follow, subscribe, leave a like, a review, all this stuff, smash that button, whatever it is, wherever you get your podcasts. Fly on the Wall is executive produced by Dana Carvey and David Spade, Jenna Weiss-Berman of Odyssey, and Heather Santoro. The show's lead producer is Greg Holtzman.