September 5, 2025 • 52 mins
End your summer with the most fun you’ll have on a podcast! Impressionist and comedian Matt Friend joins Katie for a star-studded tour of celebrity voices from Hollywood to the White House, from Barack Obama to Timothee Chalamet to Jennifer Coolidge. There’s even some singing! And, yes, he does his Trump impression–which is so good it might make you squirm. In between it all Matt shares what it’s been like to break out online during the pandemic, and end up taking the stage at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. It’s a trip!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
So I'm in the room with Barack Obama and I
want to do one more video. I take out my
Mitch McConnell glasses and I go, Barack, good to show
you again, and he looks at me and goes, no,
we can't do that. That is giving me serious PTSD.
Put those away. That's freaking me out.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hi.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Everyone, I'm Katie Couric and this is Next Question. It's
that time of year everyone, A new season of Next
Question is beginning, and we thought it would be fun
to have my friend Matt friend come by because he's
having a moment or is it just because he had
a moment with me recently at the US Open.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Take a listen.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Hey Matt, Katie, I'm I am. This is like a
make a wish. I really am excited to be.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Here, except you're not dying.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
No I'm not, thankfully not. But this is iconic. I'm
in being interviewed by you. This is a dream come true.
Thank you for having me. I haven't been this excited
to get interviewed since Charlie Rose interviewed me with his
towel on and that was quite the experience. But we'll
talk about that later.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Well, you know, every time I listen to you to
speak in your normal voice, I'm like, who is he impersonating?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Isn't that funny?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
This one is me? Which is hard to believe. Sometimes
I'm confused myself.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Who did you have a great speaking voice?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Matt?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I remember who was it?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
You were with Seth McFarlane. McFarlane at an award show.
I think you were interviewing him and you said he
was your idol and he said, why isn't it Peter
Jenny's With a voice like that. You do have an
incredibly strong voice, and you could be a newscaster, don't
you think.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
You saying this is outrageous to me, Katie Kirk to
look at me and say that I could be a newscaster.
I mean I do have resting broadcaster voice. Yeah, I'm nice.
I'll be on a date and I'll be like, I
will have the gaspacho right after commercial. So that's kind
of my I always sound like I'm delivering major breaking news.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Well you do, you do. You have a great, great
speaking voice. But you're only twenty seven years old yet,
and you are in a role. Although I've heard about
you for quite a while now from my husband John Molner,
who also hails from Chicago. Yes, you're from Lincoln Park.
You grew up in Lincoln Park. He grew up in
Highland Park. And we should full disclosure. I mean one
(02:16):
of the reasons I'm talking to you. You're an Eppo
baby for the first time.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
And John and your dad, I guess knew each other
as kids.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Talk about this connection.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, my dad grew up with John. And then there
was also Richard Marx and rich Appel. These are some
of the Chicago luminaries in my mind, right, Richard Mark,
Richard Mark's legendary singer, rich Ad Pell, execut producer of
Family Guy. So it's very interesting connections. And then there
was Harvey Weinstein, but we don't talk about that one.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, Oh my god, your dad did they Did he
go to school?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Did he go to high school North Shore Country Day?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, it's very sounds very preppy.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
It does.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Really, how small the world is?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
So John Mulner has been telling me about you, Matt
and how funny you are, and showing me he's like
your videos.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
He is, I know, are you going to give him
ten percent?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Maybe?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Maybe?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
But I'm fascinated by how you got into this line
of work, Matt, did you? And I remember interviewing Barbara
Streisan once, and I love to find out from people
who are kind of found their thing when they first
realized they were good at that thing. And she told me,
I think growing up in Brooklyn, she was in the
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lobby of her apartment building, and I guess there was
a banister and the acoustics were really intense, sort of
in this lobby, and she sang, and she realized, Oh,
I sound good, isn't that. It's just so interesting to
me where you have these gifts and you suddenly realize
(03:54):
that you have them. So when did you notice that
you could really do a good job of impersonating people.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I was four years old and I watched Austin Powers seriously,
so I watched that movie and then I started to
mimic Fat Bastard and gold Member and Doctor Evil. And
then basically it just began with me trying to make
my parents and their friends laugh, and then my teachers,
and then I would do my grandfather Don Levinson. Hello,
how you doing. That's him, Yeah, hugely popular in the
(04:24):
comedy clubs. And then it really does start with trying
to make my parents laugh. And then I'm just turned
twenty seven, like you mentioned, and I'm a product in
my generation. So I grew up with YouTube, and through
that I discovered old comedians. I loved Don Rickles and
Johnny Carson and Richard Pryor.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
And make sure you're not seventy two twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I'm one hundred years old. I don't know what it
is now.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
What is it about those guys that when you watched them,
people like Don Rickles, who I interviewed once and all
he did was insult me the whole time. And by
the way, I got to be on the I mean, I'm.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Your own cushion.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I was on the teach shows.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Okay, Katie Kirk, how you after the show? On the
program this evening is Katie kurrk She's on. I'm sorry
now I'm getting.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I have to say, that was the thrill of a
lifetime insane.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Were you attracted to him?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Was I attracted to him because a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Of people there's a sexual charisma to him?
Speaker 5 (05:18):
You know?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Not really, although I do. I did find him well
according to moment.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
We like him a little bit younger. I would say, sorry,
that wasn't me again, well, it'll come out later, but
I did.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I mean I was. I was almost too an off
into attraction.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
That's how I feel right now. Yeah, I'm not attracted
to you, but I'm in awe of you.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
You're not attracted.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
It's both, No, it's both.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
But yes, I was really thrilled to be on the
Tonight Show. And So what was it about some of
these older guys or really legends in comedy that that
appealed to you when you watch them.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I think number one, it was the era. I mean,
show business just seems so exciting at that time. There
were I guess fewer people doing it seemingly, and I
think just that era of the sixties and the rat
Pack and Sinatra and Vegas and just the importance of
Late Night, but specifically the Tonight Show format in general
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in terms of breaking new stand up comedians. And I
also loved that that show, specifically Carsons Tonight Show, it
was less about a promotional vehicle and more about generating
authentically hilarious moments. Frank Sinatra and Don Rickles were on
Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, and Rickles tells a story of
how he was younger at a restaurant. He asks Sinatra,
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who he sow at a restaurant to impress the girl
he was with. So he said to Frank, can you
come over and say hi to this girl helped me out?
And then Sinatra comes over to the table and says, hey,
don how are you? And Rickles says, can you see
I'm eating Frank and then he turns him away. And
it was just but that's like one little story of
why I loved that.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Era jo and as something was sort of so pure
about that time, where you didn't feel like they were
making fun that much at someone else's expense, Right, It
just was a kinder, gentler era comedy vicious.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Oh well he.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Could, You're right, But now I feel like that was
his stick, you know, like he was he was like,
what was it the insult Dog?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
What he was? The merchant of venom they call them.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Yeah, but what was the.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Name of the Triumph?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Try It was like Triumph the Insult Dog before Triumph existed?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Right?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yes, So anyway, so you started impressing your parents and
making them laugh.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Can you still do a lot of Austin powers people.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
A little bit?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I just did a movie actually last week with Seth Green,
and so I was getting to do a lot of
doctor Evil in my fantasies.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Okay, well, can you do a little of doctor I didn't.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Spend six years in evil medical school to be called
mister thank you very.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Much in himself.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, that's going to be tough. You can, really, I
got to figure it out.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
You can't do Mike Myers's Often Powers.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
It's been so long.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Do I make you harm?
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Baby, I gotta figure we'll circle back to it.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
One thing you might not know about me, Matt is
I did have a cameo in Austin Power's Gold Member.
I played a prison guard. I had a unibrow, and
I had to stop Frau and Doctor Evil from making
out in prison.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
And my big line it was like.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Me stopping you and Moelner from making out the us open.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
It's really hard for us to keep our hands off.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
That was no.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
You want to know what my line was?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
What was the line?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Well, first of all, they were like making out like
crazy to that song Evil Woman anyway, and I had
this sort of polyester prison guard outfit on, as I said,
with a unibrow, and I walked up and this was
my line.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Time's up.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
And that was it. But Mike Myers was so fun
to work with because we did some mirror exercises and
he's like, I'm the kitten.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
You're a kitten. I'm a kitten. You're a kit to.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
As in costume and character like yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
He was, Yes, he was so funny, and that was
That was one of the highlights of my career. Matt,
that is so much for anchoring the CBS Evening News.
But anyway, I can't believe you don't do Austin Powers anything. Now.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I know you're really see this is Katie, she breaks
the news. You know, I talk about this movie all
the time. I haven't done that one in a long time.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Okay, well that's okay. You're pretty good at work.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
In my mind, I'm not gonna make that joke. Okay, good, Okay, okay,
I have a filter. Go ahead, Okay, good.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
So you obviously started doing Trump, which was like mana
from heaven.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Right, yeah, in a way.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
So when you start to do an impression or learn
how to really have someone's mannerism since speaking voices, how
do you do it?
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Do you watch videos them?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
My sister called me a glorified parrot.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Recently really so, I mean, do you do you immerse yourself?
Speaker 6 (09:56):
I do?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I mean I watched so much content, like, for instance,
I would watch this podcast on YouTube. I spend so
much time in front of my iPad my computer watching
again old talk shows, YouTube clips, and I watch a
lot of you know, television. But also there's also has
to be substance behind what I'm saying, right So, It's
one thing to get a voice down or to get
(10:18):
the essence of somebody down, but the writing actually has
to matter. Like when we did the video that in
the case of Trump together, I think part of the
highlight was maybe the substance of what I was saying
right now, It's so true, you have to get what
they're gonna say, right so, but a lot of it
has spent watching. Then I'll walk down the street as.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Like I walk down the street as King Choles, and
it just happens, you know, King Charles comes out of me.
I don't know why, but I just I con told
my body and I just look at the clothes and
I think it's great to be the King. I don't know,
it just it just comes out.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
It's weird, But you're right, I think you have to
be smart and kind of not only impersonate the voice,
but you have to truly get in character.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yes, you do, right, which in my case because I
love the political stuff. So it's also an awareness of
exactly what is happening in our world and being able
to be super tuned in like Peter Jennings and just
tune into what people are talking about. And I also
want to know who's relevant, you know, like I do
a lot of older impressions, but like what like I
(11:18):
don't think Rodney Dangerfield is really lowered beel from the network.
You've got to get mad. You've got to get mad. Sorry,
that's weird, h I love, I want you to get
up now. Yeah, but say I'm mad as hell and
I'm not gonna take it anymore, you know, Like that's weird.
But then I look at who's younger, like Timothy Shalame,
Austin Butler. Those are actors that are people are talking
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about more.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
But also you, I mean you get there sort of
as you just did with Prince Charles. You do get
kind of the way they move their bodies and contort themselves.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
For example, there are some physical one like for I
do want impression to seduce women. This is how I
get laid. And I'm gonna warn you, Katie. I know
what every.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Woman and it's making me hot already.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Well, every woman in America I found wants to have
sex with this man.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Do it?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Wait?
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Wait is this well this is a Kentucky Schenator, Mitch McConnell.
Let me begin by stating what a privilege it is
to be aware.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Katie.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Today, I've observed your journalistic questions, whether it's to share
a pair, letting, or any number of illuminaries in our
society today. You always know how to get the best.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Oh you're having that moment, Mitch, come back, come back, mitche.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Sorry I stopped functioning, but did it work?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
You're right?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yes, there there are physical ones.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yeah, and also like I know, like when you do
Timothy Chalomy you kind of hold your.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Rommie Allix another. He was just at the US Open. Yeah,
Bohemian Rhapsody won the ostre.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
He just right.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
He's always like squeezing in his face, like Katie is
SENI delight. It's creepy. But then when I'm near a microphone,
I want to get deeper. I want to go Howard
stern On those. Let me ask you this. You're a
beautiful woman. You've been at the Tapa show business, which
celebrity goes has had the worst breath? I need you
to tell me that right now. Who have you just been?
(13:22):
This guy is disgusting. Who is it, Katie?
Speaker 4 (13:24):
You you're Timothy shallowmy Timothy.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Well, it's such an honor to be here with Katie Couric.
She's one of the greats of our time. And uh,
you're making me laugh. Yeah, I don't know. I'm nervous
because you have a young staff here who really knows
what he sounds like. Well, I think it was Austin
Butler is in a new movie.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Tell me about it.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Well, he we had an interesting moment on the carpet
of the Golden Globes because he still sounds like Elvis.
He's from Anaheim and he dogs like this.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
It was such an honor to be playing the role
of Elvis and bez Lerman's Elvis Presley. Katiekirk is a
great legend of journalism and I love so.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I'm like, dude, you are from California?
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Is fuddy still got the us still going?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
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about Donald Trump, because I think, right now.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
What do you want to talk about Katie?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
She's a beauty, right, I Like, when you go.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
She is one of the great beauties. I will tell
you she looks fantasic. Go ahead, ask the question.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Well, go ahead, I mean tell me.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
About like you want to talk about his person, like
the way he speaks, the way he his mannerisms, the
kind of expressions uses, the way he pauses, the way
he kind of you know when yeah, tell me all
about it.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
So there's a I say this in my standup, But
if you want to sound like him, to accurately do
a Trump impression. You just have to mispronounce big words
whenever you're talking. So I was imagining Trump summarizing the
plot of Harry Potter, and he would just be there
was a boy wizard named Terry Pooter befriended these lefty loons,
Rune and hermany they were pigs, went to this school.
(15:57):
Who wats terrible? The headmaster Elbows stumbled, probably gay, okay,
and that's him doing that. And then he proved my
thesis because he called hamas hummus, which was interesting, and
I just wanted him to keep naming random foods like
hummus needs to be destroyed. The leader of Hummus, Baba Ganush,
is a nasty guy. It's the worst invasion since Tika
(16:20):
Massala in the nineties. Tika Massala is also the name
of JD. Vance, his wife's sister Ushe Tika Massala Vance.
We love the Indians, great people, right. So the thing
about Trump is I use it, I like when you go.
I use him to say things I can't say as
myself because any other person would be their career would end.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Right.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
But so like whenever politically incorrect.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Well, this is a good thing for your audience. So
whenever you're frustrated or in a situation where you just
you can't find a way to release your anger, say
it is Trump, and you might even win a third term.
Like I was on a plane last week, very upset
with my seat because while I was sitting next to
a fat pig of a woman. Honestly, she was terrible.
She looked like a combination of Chris Christie and Rosie o'donald.
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But I didn't say it. Trump said it, So it's
completely fine. Now again, it's not me saying it, you know.
That's the other thing. I go on Fox News, I
go on Katie Kirk, I go on MSNBC, and I
remind everybody I'm just repeating exactly what he has said.
So people, are you making fun of him? How could
you say that? Well, the President said it, so I'm
using his own words.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
But he had never said that. Did he say Rosie
o'donald and Chris Christy had a baby?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Not exactly like that. That's me merging terminology or merging
his words. But he's had a lot of words for
both of those two people.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Now I know that you've never met Donald J.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Trump.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I have not, and would you like to meet him?
And if so, would you do your impersonation for him?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Wow? Katie Kirk has great questions. Well, I'm supposed to
be putin at Kremlin next week, so no, I'm not,
but I like, can you do this? Sucks? My sin
War meeting got canceled. But we're supposed to ry Hanuka again. Yeah, wah,
you're coming over. No but uh no, but really So
I met Obama. Uh and that was an incredible experience.
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That's the closest I've ever gotten to being like Katie Couric.
So I got to do my Obama next to Obama.
I got to sing Amazing Grace with him, amay Ze Grace.
It was great. He was a good sport.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Where where was that?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
That was in Chicago? And then I debated him as
Trump and that was just it was incredible an event.
So it was ahead of the DNC, and his team
reached out I think they were trying to get a
get out the vote thing, and then they reached out
to me and I think a couple other people, and
then I got to go at a hotel. We met
at a hotel in Chicago and there were security, but
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you wouldn't really know he was there. And then I
go up like fifteen floors. I'm waiting in this private area,
and then probably forty five minutes pass and then I
can hear that voice. It almost sounds like the TV
is on. And then I walk into the room and
there's coming in so it's very well lit, and it
looked like a mirage. It looked like I felt like
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I was hallucinating. It didn't feel real. And then Obama's
just standing there and his assistant is off to the side.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
He goes, Matt, how are you what are we going
to do today? Thank you get in here, and then
he goes, Michelle, and I are watching some of your videos.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
It's very funny, and I'm like freaking out like it's
it was crazy. And then I go, well, I want
to do you next to you. So the camera starts
to roll and I go, hey, everybody, this Barack Obama
and I am here with Then he looks and goes, actually,
I'm Barack Obama, and then I basically did three of
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his biggest moments right next to him, and I go.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Tonight. More than two hundred years after a former colony
won the right to determine its own destiny, the task
of perfecting our union moves.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I memorize his entire twenty twelve acceptance speech, and then
I did him saying that's what I do when he
made a three point shot, and then I sang amazing
grace and it was just like surreal. And then we
debated as Trump at Obama and I said, you know,
I have a much better golf game than you, actually, Barack,
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I do, and he said, well, how about those crowd sizes?
Take a look at those. And then the video ended,
and then I tried to do Mitch McConnell and he
actually looked at me. So I'm in the room with
Barack Obama and I want to do one more video.
I take out my Mitch mcconnald glasses and I go, Barack,
good to show you again.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
And he looks at me and goes, no, we can't
do that. That is giving me serious PTSD. Put those away.
That's freaking me out. So that was surreal. Now meeting Trump,
you know, I have not met him. I think he's
a Well that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
If I met Trump, I would want to do exactly
what I did with Obama, which is I would want
to do what he does, and I'm not sure he
could necessarily handle it, because again, I would say to him,
you look a little bit like a fat pig. I
would say, you're a little bit a little overweight, you're
a little heavy. Shit, the makeup is drifting off. We
call you, uh, just tweak. You're a weak guy, You're tired.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
I might ask about the bruise on his hand.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
The bruise, it's bruising. It's terrible. But I don't know, like,
I don't know. I don't know if he could handle
it comedically, you know.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
And maybe if you if you didn't call him fat,
maybe if you could.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
But but but but what would he do? See I
get into the mind of the person. You think he
wouldn't do that. Oh no, he That's what I'm saying.
I like to do to do justice to the character
I hear you. All I'm doing, as I remind audience,
is I'm just repeating stuff that he he would say.
But obviously it would be tough to envision myself actually
calling him fat next to him. But uh, if given
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the opportunity to meet him, it'd be It'd be an
interesting question because look what happened to Jimmy fallon not
too pretty with the with the hair tussling thing. Because
we're in a very divided society, and I've been kind
of trying to thread the needle a little bit, because
if you go into the lions Den like that, then
it's a different it's a different level. I don't know
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if there's an offer, I guess we'll, as he would say,
we'll take a look at it. We'll take a look
at it.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
How about Joe Biden. I know that he's but is
he more difficult?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
But I did meet him.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
No, what's it like impersonating him? Well, you have to
change with the volume of your voice, right, Yeah, Sometimes
he'll say something really that and then yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
He'll lean like it's no joke. We'd beat medicare, come on.
I was doing a bit on Biden. He was more
difficult to do. I think that's why he was less
comedically tapped into by people. But I did a bit
on Biden that I was always amazed that he was
eating children's desserts, such such serious moments, like he was
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always eating ice cream, And toward the end of his
campaigner report goes President Biden, when will there be a ceasefire,
and he was holding a dripping scoop of ice cream.
Then he took a bite out of the cone, but
the ice cream fell on the floor, so he just
took a bite out of the air. So he was like,
seize far Monday. Ice Cream's on the floor, And I'm thinking,
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there's never been a time in American history where an
elected official has eaten a children's dessert like this.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
You know, have you listened to Josh Sapiro and how
much he sounds pencil.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
He's like a Jewish Obama. But Newsom kind of has
a little bit of that.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Well can you do?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Gavin Newsom is kind of like Will Arnette from SmartLess,
the actor from Smartletts. Gavin news Donald Trump is a bully,
he's a fraud, He's a narcissist. Yeah, but Will's over here.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
But but Will is super real Will. I don't think
Gavin is quite as rad Will interesting.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
I don't think just like when Gavin's wife speaks Spanish,
I find it funny very white woman or not so.
Jennifer Cheba, I'm like, I love the she has like
sort of an accent to it. It's it's incredible, But
he's a good looking guy.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Yeah Yeahvin Newsome, Yeah he's got he's got, he's got
that pat Riley here.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
He does right, he's slick.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Yeah yeah, And I guess that's part of the criticism
of him.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
But a question for you, Katy, Yes, yes, of course,
I've wanted to ask you this for a long time.
What is internet?
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Ah, this was nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Exactly what's the world Wide Web?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
We should go an updated version of this, Katie. What
is only fans? What is it?
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Alison? Alison, can you tell me what OnlyFans is?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
What is that? How does it work? They upload their
body onto it? How does it tap in? Alison? Does
it tap in?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Well?
Speaker 4 (24:48):
I did.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I did make a VMW commercial with Brian Gumpbell making
fun of us not knowing what the internet was. But
you have to remember that was nineteen ninety four. Let's
talk about some of the other people that you've done,
because I know you. You're good at Bill Maher and
you did something with him. I did, wait and I'd
love how you kind.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Of do that?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Oh oh yeah a lip smack?
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Right?
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
And finally, new rule, if you're going to do a podcast,
make it Katie couric. Okay, Oh, I used to have
the biggest crush on you. I still do. Here's what's
wrong about the modern left. They're not the modern right.
And here's what's wrong about the modern right, They're not
the modern left. Okay, that's real time.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
What did he think of your impersonation because you did
it next to him?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yeah, you always. I don't hear it. I just I
don't hear it. You got to work on it.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Is that what he said?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
A little too flamboyant. Okay, but you.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Are on Howard Stern a lot.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yeah, how it's been great.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
And so Howard gets a kick out he does, right,
he does, And so I know you did it earlier,
but give me a little more, Howard.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Well, let me ask you this. I mean, Katie's a
beautiful woman, right, your a beauty. You're a beauty. Would
you say your top three sexiest news anchors of all time?
Because Robin and I are attracted you. Robin, you like Katie,
she likes you. She likes you, But I do like
the eighties nineties.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
Howard.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
He's a little dirtier than.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
He's Yeah, you know, yeah, go ahead, give it to us.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Give it to you. Oh, Jesus.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Okay, are you a good musician. I'm just curious because
people I think who have this kind of ear I
do like he said, Yeah, do you play any instruments?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Not no, but I sing a little bit. I do
edit with Michael Boublay. That was I did Michael bl
and I did Luke Bryan as Luke Bryan.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Oh that's funny, So do Michael Boublay because you can
probably sing like him. If I love Michael Bouble.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Luke Bryan and Bouo Blair are my two favorite singing ones. Okay,
I'll do it. So Luke Brian I met her, he said, mad,
if you want to do me, you got to do
one thing. You got to mix golomer Pole and Elvis
and you got to bland them together real todd. Then
you get country girls. Shake it for me, Now, shake
it for me. So thank you so much, Luke Big
Kermit the frog vibe out of this. Yeah, come on now.
(27:01):
Ronda Santus twenty eight and we always try to forget
that you brought Ronda Santa's on stage. Oh, State of Florida.
Welcome to the Free State of Florida. Sorry for a
smile there uh, and then Boublay, well, let me miss it.
Hello friends, Michael Buble, I'm here with Katie Kuric O
(27:24):
the Tree of Life. I just picked me a Kuric
baby birds flying High, you know how Katie fee Sorry
that was a little mini one. Wasn't terrible? Was it?
Speaker 5 (27:37):
No?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
It was good?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Not great. Oh I liked it.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
I liked it. I think I think I sang with him.
Oh God went no.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
This is the problem with doing Katie's podcast. No, it
was an Austin Powers. He's saying with that.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Okay, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
So David Foster really discovered Michael Boublay, and I think
Michael came on the Today Show and we sang, and
then I go and spoil it.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Up by saying something like the Today Show was actually
my first TV appearance really remotely over zoom?
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Was it during COVID?
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I was going to say, my childhood at home?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
So what did you do?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Fifth hour with uh? Isn't that right? In the fourth hour?
It was on the fortieth hour with Hoda and Jenna. Yeah,
I'm just glad you haven't asked me what I'm reading.
Sarah balin question, what are you reading stupid? Was that, Eric?
Can we just talk with it? I mean, she wants
to be the vice president of the United States, So
what are you reading?
Speaker 5 (28:39):
What?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
No? I think when I had paper, Matt, I said, well,
I was interested, you know, just as I'm interested in
when you realized you could impersonate people, or Barbara Streisan
realize she could sing. I was interested in what had
shaped her political ideology.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yes, So the.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Question was what newspapers and magazines do you read on
I think on a regular basis that have helped shape
your worldview?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
This is in credible, asked me the question. I'm so
excited about that.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Really, Yeah, go ahead, Governor Palin. Yes, what newspapers and
magazines do you read on a regular basis that have
help shape your world view?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Q andon? Truth? Social and q Andon? Yeah? You bet
the way to do it, you bet you.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
I could never understand why she didn't say I first
and foremost, I read all the publications about Alaska because
my my responsibility is to my constituents.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Yes, as governor.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
And then of course I read every major newspaper in
the country. And I'm a I like to I'm just
so intellectually curious. I like to google everything, and I
so my sources are really wide and varied.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
It's it is interesting to look back on these iconic
interviews that you've conducted and I think how people answered
questions in that. I hope I don't look back at
this and I'm not running for anything, but I mean, yeah,
but you you do have a way you can lock in,
like for me if I were to answer that question.
I truthfully, I'm consuming like everything because I want to
know what all people are thinking. Because if you're in
(30:14):
your echo chamber eco echo chamber, uh then you then
you you really, I think you lose a lot you
miss out on because especially as a touring comedian like
I want to be able to make different audiences laugh
and that's the challenge. So I want to see what
Peter and Steve Doocey are thinking. And I want to
see sure you did yes in Washington. Unbelievable, of course,
(30:36):
you see unbelieve It's just it's out of control. It's
it's unbelievable. Uh well it's just your ledge.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
I'm so old and I think you are the.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Ship, Katie Kirk is the ship. That's what the podcast
should have been called.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Yeah, you know, what maybe we'll remake the.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Best, but but I want to I want to be
able to talk to a variety of people. So, I mean,
I watched so much MSNBC, I watched I want Fox News,
I watch CNN, I watch Katie Kurk, I watch it
just all pops up, and I think it's just also
a generational byproduct, like it's all coming at me on
TikTok and on YouTube. But also obviously reading the failing
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New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, so.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
They're not taking it easy on President Trump. No, No,
Emma Tucker, the new editor in chief, I think has
really done some great reporting on Trump. But you know,
getting back to Sarah Palin, I know, I always sort
of thought if she I mean, she could have answered
the question in two ways. She could have talked about
what she reads, but she could have also said, I
(31:39):
was really influenced by Ronald Reagan and his speeches government,
you know, or William F. Buckley was really you know,
and believe it or not, Katie, I've been very influenced
by the Bible because a lot of my sort of
life philosophy is fundamentally in the Bible and the life
(32:01):
lessons that it imparts or something.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Right.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Well, what's amazing about this moment in particular, and this
relates back to Trump, is that in the case of
Sarah Palin, that was a moment that arguably was a
defining moment for her that interview, Whereas with Trump, he's
had so many of those moments and we don't even
remember it. For example, President or mister Trump, he wasn't
president yet. What is your favorite Bible verse? Well, I
(32:28):
know the Bible very well. There's like so many, but
there's just a lot of them, actually, and I'm a
big fan of it. Honestly, I wrote it, but I'm
a big fan of it, and it's tough to pick.
And like we write, he's a master and not answering
question Like if you ask me a very serious question,
I guarantee you, like I could do it as him
in the way that he never does it. That's why
(32:48):
I want to debate him, actually, because all these Republicans
they tried to challenge him, and I'm thinking I'm the
only one that could do it.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Well, let me ask you again, mister President, do you
worry about developed?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Look it up beautiful When she asked the question, Look
at that smile such a and she smells great too.
She's a beauty. Look at her.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Are you worried about forging such a close personal relationship
with Vladimir Putin? Given such an animosity that he.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
You have animosity towards me, Katie? Go ahead?
Speaker 4 (33:22):
How do you feel?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
How do you I mean, do you worry about that?
And really kind of changing the global order as it
has stood since the end of World War two?
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Well, I said, I said, a couple of days ago,
I said, Vladimir, you're going to have to end at Vladimir,
you're going to put this thing doing. So you got
to talk to these people, Katie. If you don't talk
to them, then you're in real trouble. You're in real trouble.
So you got to talk to them. I know him
very well. He said, we're going to end this very quickly.
It's going to be very easy. We're going to end
(33:54):
it quickly. I want to go to heavan, Katie.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Do you feel like he's playing youdent talking?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Men are talking. Okay, he's playing all of us, but
he's not gonna play me because we're gonna end it
beautifully and very bigly. And well, that's why we're getting
the DC patrol at. We got the patrol at. We're
going to look at what's happening, these bigger problems. They
said my health was a problem. You know who's healths
AP problem? Put his health SIP problem. Okay, not my health.
I'm in perfect health and you know it. Fake news.
(34:20):
Next question, Sorry, go ahead, I'm in character. Let's keep talking.
You see, he didn't say anything right right.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
In fact, I just watched a clip where somebody asked
a question and he just started talking and rambling and
he didn't answer it at all.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Yeah. Yeah, it's weird. It's very weird. But that's why
it'd be interesting for me to debate him, because like
if I met him as him, i'd want to meet
him in that format because I think I can do
him like he could do himself. Yeah, and I think
I can get under his skin. You've done such a
great job with your interviews. But I've always wondered that,
like why aren't people challenging him, but also on the
(34:56):
democratic side, like just doing what he does, Like the
whole one they go go high thing was always so
stupid to me, like you just got to go right
back at him.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Well, Gavin Newsom is doing that. I just saw Ron
Brownstein on Bloomberg talking about this new breed of politician
called a confrontational centrist, and he was saying that he
thought that was the best way to beat Trump, to
not go further to the left but kind of take
him on but not lose your sort of centrists.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Is this breaking news?
Speaker 4 (35:28):
No? No, no, But I you.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Know, I would say eight years ago they should have
done that. Yeah. But that's why I would have loved
to have seen an Obama Trump matchup, because I feel
like he has he had that inquality, just to kind
of go right back in a really cool, non forced,
non cringey way.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Hi everyone, it's me Katie Couric. You know, if you've
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(36:13):
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(36:37):
go too deep into politics. But I'm curious why you
believe you know, you were talking about Donald Trump not
being able to come up with the Bible passage or
doing things that would have really destroyed any other candidate
or any other president. Really, and why do you think
people forgive all these things that he does and they
(37:00):
he's he's more teflon than teflon.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
I don't have an answer. I think it's like it's
it's like a it's he's just a complete anomaly in
our society. I don't think there's anyone that's going to
ever like, maybe this is a naive thing, because there's
always a leader or someone that sucks oxygen. But especially
in the moment we're in now with social media and
how much attention he's been able to gather for himself,
(37:25):
he's such an anomaly. There's no one that has been
able to suck as much oxygen and also get just
a group consistently get away with saying the things that
he does, whether you like it or not, it's like
it's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Well, I think he's a living example of all press
being good press. Like he doesn't. He doesn't really care
what you think about him as long as you're talking
about Yeah, that's true, as long as he's living rent
free in all of our brains.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Right, it's it's it's really wild. It's weird, wild stuff,
thanks Johnny, spiky stuff.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
That is funny, funny struck.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
It's funny, funny stuff. What about?
Speaker 4 (38:04):
All right? I got to ask you for a couple
of more.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
No, I want to I don't want this to end.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Okay, all right, Bernie game, I know you do.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Bernie.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
He's conducting a small Jewish orchestra.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
God, Katie's so good.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
I did my research back Bernie centers.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
He always sounds like he's conducting a very tiny Jewish
orchestra with his hands all the damn time. I always
worried that Trump will insult Bernie and it will literally
kill him on the spot. Like this guy looks like
he's having a heart attack. Oh that's because I actually
am having a heart attack right now. And I apologize
for blowing out the microphone. Yeah what uh? Some people,
(38:43):
I'm like, they were designed for comedy. He was designed
for comedy.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
What about Jeff Goldbloom.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Yes, and you lost over Ted Cruz. How dare you?
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Oh sorry, yeah, I dare you? Okay, talk to me, as.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
I said, Donald Trump, I said, here's what, here's what
I think about Ted Cruiz, Ted Cruz. There everybody's talking about.
There needs to be a mental and mental acuity test
for the President's either saying there's be a physical test
for the presidency. I think there needs to be a
vocal requirement because you cannot sound like Ted Cruz and
lead the free world. Donald Trump may have called my
(39:18):
wife an ugly pig back in the day, but by god,
he's right, he is right. I don't see it either.
Now again, I'm pretty sure he did call his wife ugly, right, right, Okay,
But anyways, I don't think you can sound like this.
I gotta go to can kun. Let let let's wrap
this interview up right now. That nasal it's ridicted Ted Cruz.
(39:43):
Do solemnly sweat like that's just not going to work. Yeah, yeah,
it's that's a tough one. Need I would do my
JD Evans, but I forgot my eyeliner in my apartment.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Well, I was going to ask you about Jady Vance
because I'm thinking someone who has selective memory, like Ted
Cruz when he's insulted. I mean jd Vance said.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
That Donald Trump, you know as my me, mom my, peepa,
my wie wan my woah wee wa, would all agree
Donald Trump is he was. I did say he was
America's hitler, but now I know that the way he
talks to Usha, I mean, he's a great guy. And
if I could have dinner with anybody throughout all of
world history, it'd be him. It really would be on
behalf of all senators in this country today. I mean it,
(40:27):
I do. I don't know he's I'm gonna work on him.
He's going to get better.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
No, I think that's frue the obscure.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Ones like Chuck Grassley. Chuck Grassley during the Kavanaugh hearings. Okay,
Janator lay, Jannator lay, We're going to be mar shooting
to the floor. Janator lay, Chuck grass like we really
do have. I talked about this on said cho I
think we have a problem in our government. You could
say this as agist, but I think we have a
legitimate geriatric Congress, and it needs to be to take care.
(40:57):
We need to take a look at it. I mean
on both sides of the aisle. I mean Ruth Bader
Ginsburg dying on the job, Diane Feinstein, Trump and Biden.
I think it's a problem.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Well, I think people want term limits.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
I think we have term limits. But also like it
is interesting and you can see the the the generational
gap really shines whenever there's these technology hearings and they
invite like a young tech executive or CEO to come
in and testify, like Chuck Grassley. We'll interview the CEO
of TikTok, like mister PF Chang okay, mister General cho
(41:29):
is checking. Oh he's Chinese. Okay. I understand that China
is stealing and manipulating our data, But how do I
turn the brightness up on my iPhone? Like he's asking
basic tech questions. This isn't the genius bar. So it
feels very weird. We have AI, we have a lot
of future technological challenges.
Speaker 4 (41:45):
But is some of this material in the world what
you're using?
Speaker 1 (41:49):
It's all right in itself. It's Tim Cook going to
the White House. Oh yeah, mister President, We're so thrilled
all the work you've been doing to expand technology globally.
Here's a gift we've given you. It's a it's a
gold plate, like what didn't even like a gold plate
or something.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
I thought he gave him an apple, So you guys,
didn't he give him an apple?
Speaker 4 (42:07):
A gold apple?
Speaker 1 (42:08):
But Sam Altman like all these people again, it's like
the world. It's it's literally writing itself. It's it's wild politically.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
Yeah, but gold Well, you know, I did notice that
you do very few women.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
What context tell me about your sex. Let's get into it.
Come on, but you know you.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Do Jennifer Coolidge, right, and you were you cracked her up?
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (42:34):
I do cool Well, I actually pulled the Katie couric.
I had breaking news. I was on the Golden Globes
carpet and I can tell you about that.
Speaker 4 (42:40):
Yeah, who were you working for?
Speaker 1 (42:42):
So well that?
Speaker 4 (42:42):
Do you want to take a sip of your riceed coffee?
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Go ahead, No, I'll do it, Yeah, I'll do it.
I'm sorry. I hope your audience. I'm psychotic because guys,
you never hender said. Being in the presidence of Katie
it gets me energized. I am excited. I feel like
I'm at a Tony Robbins event. This is This isn't
like some boring comedians podcast. This is Blazer icon Katie Kirk.
I'm in a studio in New York. She has like
a staff, there's cameras. I feel like it is nineteen
(43:07):
ninety five. I'm on the Today Show. This is it? Okay,
like this is iconic? And I hope and I'll wake
up to myrow morning. What happened? What did I do
on that show? But here we are. Let's let's just rewind.
Let's take a breath, let's ground ourselves. Okay, where was
I saying? Yes? Golden globes? Gods, I'm excited. It's Katie Curric,
(43:27):
It's Katie Kuric. This is like look at that, Look
at that Emmy? Are you kidding me? No one does
a podcast with a big Emmy sitting there? Do you
know how many idiots have podcasts? Katie Kirk the legend
with her Emmy.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
I also have a few from the Macy Thanksgiving Day parade.
Speaker 4 (43:43):
We're just going to turn this back.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
Arn Let's amaz Sally, Yeah no, please, no. The Golden Globes.
I've been lucky to be on the carpet past three
years for Dick Clark and first Golden Globes. Yeah, and
my friend Jeremy Jeremy Lowe who works at the company.
He's been huge advocate for me and he's put me
on the carpet and I've just got to do my thing.
It's kind of what vintage SNL was like, where you
(44:06):
can do the person next to the person.
Speaker 3 (44:08):
Oh, you know, by the way, I was going to
ask you, I'm surprised that nobody has called you, although
I think the guy who does Trump on SNL is excellent.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
You know, I was always a Barbara Walters fan, more
of a barber than a Katy. You like how that felt?
Speaker 6 (44:22):
Katie?
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Did you like how that fell? I'm going to call
up Savannah. Let's end this going over to the Today Show. No,
he's got James Austin Jensen. Very three names, yes, three names, yes,
three terms, three names.
Speaker 4 (44:39):
Would you like to do that on SNL?
Speaker 1 (44:41):
I mean it was always my dream as a kid,
but now, like again your proof of the changing world,
and like, look at what Katie Kirk is doing. You
create your own show, your own format. I'm again, I'm
just a product of my generation where I always wanted
to do it, but it's such a different world now
and to have the opportunities that I have created, and.
Speaker 4 (45:02):
I'm not buying it, Matt, I'm not buying it.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
No.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
Jeff Lauren Michaels called you and was like, Yo, Matt, Yeah, yeah,
I mean I want you to audition for SNL. I'm
sure you'd be like, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
I mean, I think it's a different world to be honest,
I really do, really, I really do.
Speaker 4 (45:20):
You wouldn't want to be on SNL.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
I think it'd be interesting. I mean, I'm not going
to be chasing it at this point, but I think
it'd be a really fun experience. I mean, especially given
the history of it and also like the nature of
my skill set and what I do, but I got
to be focused on what I can control.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
Do you think you you know, other than impersonating? I
know you did some stuff with Second.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
City right now, I interned there.
Speaker 3 (45:41):
Yeah, yeah, did you have any desire to kind of
pursue acting more?
Speaker 1 (45:46):
I'm doing it. Yeah, I'm starting because you know, you
got to start somewhere. So I've just been been building
and twenty seven now and I've created this platform for
myself and now I'm creating content I'm doing carpet interviews.
I'm doing voiceover just to my first movie last week.
Speaker 4 (46:01):
Yeah, what movie was it?
Speaker 1 (46:02):
Can you talk called Grace period to rom com starring
Ashley Green and Seth Green.
Speaker 4 (46:08):
Oh well that's right, you said, Seth Green. Yeah, and
what do you play in it?
Speaker 1 (46:11):
I play this younger Sioux chef to Seth Green, who
is a chef who falls in love with this woman
played by Ashley Green who is going through the egg
freezing process and then she meets the right guy at
the right time, and I'm like the younger roommate who
has a lot of sex and has a lot of jokes.
Speaker 4 (46:29):
Sounds like a good part.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
It's great, But it was really surreal and fun experience.
And I'm very focused on my stand up now yeah
and doing my first hour. But to answer the Asino question,
obviously that would be a really cool, like dream come true,
But I got to be focused on what I can control.
Speaker 3 (46:44):
Yeah, And you're right, you can go directly to an
audience and kind of do your thing without somebody kind
of giving you permission to do that.
Speaker 4 (46:52):
Right. So we were talking about Jennifer Cooley.
Speaker 1 (46:55):
Yes on the Globes. Yeah, I've gotten to do my
impression next to the actual person on the globes, and
so I did Coolidge next to Coolidge, and the news
broke because people didn't realize that she had a regular
sounding voice, because she's always like, oh god, oh, Katie
Kurk's the best. Fuck oh God. And I did Jennifer
Coolidge after sipping on a cold drink. So I just go, ah,
(47:20):
that's it. That was the entire And then I did
Goldbloom next to goldbluem I do Goldblom core Katie Kuric,
wonderful journalist, iconic, very beautiful. Yes, of course I have
a wife, Emily, Emily Goldbloom, Olympic contortionist. As Sandy Meisner,
my acting teacher said, have ever given the platform to
appear on Katie Kirk Tell her she's fantastic, She's wonderful.
(47:44):
There may be trouble ahead. He speaks in jazz and orgasm.
Jeff Goldbloom, I do have a mild sexual experience whenever
I do go something about him. He's the greatest. I've
been lucky to do him on Family Guide, on the
Simpsons and in a Marvel show. And it's glad he
has ensued me but and then I did Paul Giamaty
(48:05):
and that was very fun too, Katy, very fun indeed.
Oh yes, you know, Katie Kirk is any of your
many presidents, many politicians. But today's the first time you'll
ever speak to John Adams. Very good. That was really fun. Yeah,
so Golden Gloves was Paul Giamatti the cast of Succession.
Speaker 4 (48:23):
Uh oh, really, can you do Brian fuck off?
Speaker 1 (48:26):
Fuck off? I do Tom Wam's gams from.
Speaker 3 (48:29):
Oh Yeah please, because you know he's British, which is
so interesting.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
He says, hey, Hoddy, buckle up, fuck ahead. Oh hey, shive,
you know I have a dick the size of Red
Sequoya and I fuck like a bullet train. That's a
quote from Succession. I apologize again I'm quoting the show.
But The Gloves has been a huge platform for me
and it's been like the highlight of my career. I've
loved it. It's been surreal.
Speaker 4 (48:52):
Well, I am so happy for your success and it's.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
What it's done. Don't don't want, don't want to. I
want to get grill.
Speaker 4 (48:58):
Okay what else I can't?
Speaker 1 (49:00):
I want to be grilled by Katie. I just want
one grill. Go ahead, really imagine I just announced that
I'm running for president.
Speaker 3 (49:07):
Let's go come on high see I don't know I'm ready,
mister friend yep. Obviously, income inequality is a huge problem
in this country. Most people don't have four hundred dollars
to spend in an emergency. Now CEOs are making so
(49:27):
much more than their average worker. It's really gotten out
of control, and I feel in many ways it's made
this country right for revolution. How would you solve income
inequality in this country and create opportunities for people who
aren't in the lower rungs socioeconomically.
Speaker 1 (49:50):
Well, Katie, I'm really glad to ask that question, because
if anyone is in a position to talk about income
and equality, person who looks like they had a very
expensive bar Mitzvah party, I look like if Pickleball was
a person, Katie, I looked like the whole cast of
succession in one person. So me, the kid from Lincoln Park,
(50:15):
isn't a position to talk about income inequality. Katie. I
think it's a real problem that we're facing today, and
I think that we have to look at this issue
as a whole holistically. On the left and on the right.
We had to come together because Katie, it's just not right.
It's just not right. And before we wrap up this question,
i'd like to say, uh, I'm sorry that was that
(50:42):
was But before we wrap up, I want to say,
thank you so much for having me. You were so
nice when I met you the first time, and uh,
the work that you have done inspires me and will
continue to inspire many generations. And I'm so happy that
you have this new platform and you're that you are
so cool and uh, what's amazing about you is you
have you define an era with your long god no no, no,
(51:03):
that's true. That era is Deadlight a Doug, but you
define that era and now you're you're defining the next one.
So thank you so much for having me. This was
so so cool. Thank you, and come by the show please.
Speaker 4 (51:12):
I will, I will.
Speaker 7 (51:13):
So.
Speaker 4 (51:13):
Where can people find you on tour?
Speaker 1 (51:15):
Mattfriend dot com for tickets and.
Speaker 3 (51:17):
Go see Matt everybody on tour. Thanks for listening everyone.
If you have a question for me, a subject you
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So I'm in the room with Barack Obama and I
want to do one more video. I take out my
Mitch McConnell glasses and I go, Barack, good to show
you again, and he looks at me and goes, no,
we can't do that. That is giving me serious PTSD.
Put those away. That's freaking me out.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hi.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Everyone, I'm Katie Couric and this is Next Question. It's
that time of year everyone, A new season of Next
Question is beginning, and we thought it would be fun
to have my friend Matt friend come by because he's
having a moment or is it just because he had
a moment with me recently at the US Open.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Take a listen.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Hey Matt, Katie, I'm I am. This is like a
make a wish. I really am excited to be.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Here, except you're not dying.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
No I'm not, thankfully not. But this is iconic. I'm
in being interviewed by you. This is a dream come true.
Thank you for having me. I haven't been this excited
to get interviewed since Charlie Rose interviewed me with his
towel on and that was quite the experience. But we'll
talk about that later.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Well, you know, every time I listen to you to
speak in your normal voice, I'm like, who is he impersonating?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Isn't that funny?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
This one is me? Which is hard to believe. Sometimes
I'm confused myself.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Who did you have a great speaking voice?
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Matt?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I remember who was it?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
You were with Seth McFarlane. McFarlane at an award show.
I think you were interviewing him and you said he
was your idol and he said, why isn't it Peter
Jenny's With a voice like that. You do have an
incredibly strong voice, and you could be a newscaster, don't
you think.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
You saying this is outrageous to me, Katie Kirk to
look at me and say that I could be a newscaster.
I mean I do have resting broadcaster voice. Yeah, I'm nice.
I'll be on a date and I'll be like, I
will have the gaspacho right after commercial. So that's kind
of my I always sound like I'm delivering major breaking news.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Well you do, you do. You have a great, great
speaking voice. But you're only twenty seven years old yet,
and you are in a role. Although I've heard about
you for quite a while now from my husband John Molner,
who also hails from Chicago. Yes, you're from Lincoln Park.
You grew up in Lincoln Park. He grew up in
Highland Park. And we should full disclosure. I mean one
(02:16):
of the reasons I'm talking to you. You're an Eppo
baby for the first time.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
And John and your dad, I guess knew each other
as kids.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Talk about this connection.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, my dad grew up with John. And then there
was also Richard Marx and rich Appel. These are some
of the Chicago luminaries in my mind, right, Richard Mark,
Richard Mark's legendary singer, rich Ad Pell, execut producer of
Family Guy. So it's very interesting connections. And then there
was Harvey Weinstein, but we don't talk about that one.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, Oh my god, your dad did they Did he
go to school?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Did he go to high school North Shore Country Day?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, it's very sounds very preppy.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
It does.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Really, how small the world is?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
So John Mulner has been telling me about you, Matt
and how funny you are, and showing me he's like
your videos.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
He is, I know, are you going to give him
ten percent?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Maybe?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Maybe?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
But I'm fascinated by how you got into this line
of work, Matt, did you? And I remember interviewing Barbara
Streisan once, and I love to find out from people
who are kind of found their thing when they first
realized they were good at that thing. And she told me,
I think growing up in Brooklyn, she was in the
(03:33):
lobby of her apartment building, and I guess there was
a banister and the acoustics were really intense, sort of
in this lobby, and she sang, and she realized, Oh,
I sound good, isn't that. It's just so interesting to
me where you have these gifts and you suddenly realize
(03:54):
that you have them. So when did you notice that
you could really do a good job of impersonating people.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I was four years old and I watched Austin Powers seriously,
so I watched that movie and then I started to
mimic Fat Bastard and gold Member and Doctor Evil. And
then basically it just began with me trying to make
my parents and their friends laugh, and then my teachers,
and then I would do my grandfather Don Levinson. Hello,
how you doing. That's him, Yeah, hugely popular in the
(04:24):
comedy clubs. And then it really does start with trying
to make my parents laugh. And then I'm just turned
twenty seven, like you mentioned, and I'm a product in
my generation. So I grew up with YouTube, and through
that I discovered old comedians. I loved Don Rickles and
Johnny Carson and Richard Pryor.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
And make sure you're not seventy two twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I'm one hundred years old. I don't know what it
is now.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
What is it about those guys that when you watched them,
people like Don Rickles, who I interviewed once and all
he did was insult me the whole time. And by
the way, I got to be on the I mean, I'm.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Your own cushion.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I was on the teach shows.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Okay, Katie Kirk, how you after the show? On the
program this evening is Katie kurrk She's on. I'm sorry
now I'm getting.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I have to say, that was the thrill of a
lifetime insane.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Were you attracted to him?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Was I attracted to him because a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Of people there's a sexual charisma to him?
Speaker 5 (05:18):
You know?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Not really, although I do. I did find him well
according to moment.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
We like him a little bit younger. I would say, sorry,
that wasn't me again, well, it'll come out later, but
I did.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I mean I was. I was almost too an off
into attraction.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
That's how I feel right now. Yeah, I'm not attracted
to you, but I'm in awe of you.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
You're not attracted.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
It's both, No, it's both.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
But yes, I was really thrilled to be on the
Tonight Show. And So what was it about some of
these older guys or really legends in comedy that that
appealed to you when you watch them.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I think number one, it was the era. I mean,
show business just seems so exciting at that time. There
were I guess fewer people doing it seemingly, and I
think just that era of the sixties and the rat
Pack and Sinatra and Vegas and just the importance of
Late Night, but specifically the Tonight Show format in general
(06:14):
in terms of breaking new stand up comedians. And I
also loved that that show, specifically Carsons Tonight Show, it
was less about a promotional vehicle and more about generating
authentically hilarious moments. Frank Sinatra and Don Rickles were on
Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, and Rickles tells a story of
how he was younger at a restaurant. He asks Sinatra,
(06:37):
who he sow at a restaurant to impress the girl
he was with. So he said to Frank, can you
come over and say hi to this girl helped me out?
And then Sinatra comes over to the table and says, hey,
don how are you? And Rickles says, can you see
I'm eating Frank and then he turns him away. And
it was just but that's like one little story of
why I loved that.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Era jo and as something was sort of so pure
about that time, where you didn't feel like they were
making fun that much at someone else's expense, Right, It
just was a kinder, gentler era comedy vicious.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Oh well he.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Could, You're right, But now I feel like that was
his stick, you know, like he was he was like,
what was it the insult Dog?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
What he was? The merchant of venom they call them.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Yeah, but what was the.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Name of the Triumph?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Try It was like Triumph the Insult Dog before Triumph existed?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Right?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yes, So anyway, so you started impressing your parents and
making them laugh.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Can you still do a lot of Austin powers people.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
A little bit?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I just did a movie actually last week with Seth Green,
and so I was getting to do a lot of
doctor Evil in my fantasies.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Okay, well, can you do a little of doctor I didn't.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Spend six years in evil medical school to be called
mister thank you very.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Much in himself.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, that's going to be tough. You can, really, I
got to figure it out.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
You can't do Mike Myers's Often Powers.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
It's been so long.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Do I make you harm?
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Baby, I gotta figure we'll circle back to it.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
One thing you might not know about me, Matt is
I did have a cameo in Austin Power's Gold Member.
I played a prison guard. I had a unibrow, and
I had to stop Frau and Doctor Evil from making
out in prison.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
And my big line it was like.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Me stopping you and Moelner from making out the us open.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
It's really hard for us to keep our hands off.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
That was no.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
You want to know what my line was?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
What was the line?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Well, first of all, they were like making out like
crazy to that song Evil Woman anyway, and I had
this sort of polyester prison guard outfit on, as I said,
with a unibrow, and I walked up and this was
my line.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Time's up.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
And that was it. But Mike Myers was so fun
to work with because we did some mirror exercises and
he's like, I'm the kitten.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
You're a kitten. I'm a kitten. You're a kit to.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
As in costume and character like yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
He was, Yes, he was so funny, and that was
That was one of the highlights of my career. Matt,
that is so much for anchoring the CBS Evening News.
But anyway, I can't believe you don't do Austin Powers anything. Now.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I know you're really see this is Katie, she breaks
the news. You know, I talk about this movie all
the time. I haven't done that one in a long time.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Okay, well that's okay. You're pretty good at work.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
In my mind, I'm not gonna make that joke. Okay, good, Okay, okay,
I have a filter. Go ahead, Okay, good.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
So you obviously started doing Trump, which was like mana
from heaven.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Right, yeah, in a way.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
So when you start to do an impression or learn
how to really have someone's mannerism since speaking voices, how
do you do it?
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Do you watch videos them?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
My sister called me a glorified parrot.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Recently really so, I mean, do you do you immerse yourself?
Speaker 6 (09:56):
I do?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I mean I watched so much content, like, for instance,
I would watch this podcast on YouTube. I spend so
much time in front of my iPad my computer watching
again old talk shows, YouTube clips, and I watch a
lot of you know, television. But also there's also has
to be substance behind what I'm saying, right So, It's
one thing to get a voice down or to get
(10:18):
the essence of somebody down, but the writing actually has
to matter. Like when we did the video that in
the case of Trump together, I think part of the
highlight was maybe the substance of what I was saying
right now, It's so true, you have to get what
they're gonna say, right so, but a lot of it
has spent watching. Then I'll walk down the street as.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Like I walk down the street as King Choles, and
it just happens, you know, King Charles comes out of me.
I don't know why, but I just I con told
my body and I just look at the clothes and
I think it's great to be the King. I don't know,
it just it just comes out.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
It's weird, But you're right, I think you have to
be smart and kind of not only impersonate the voice,
but you have to truly get in character.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yes, you do, right, which in my case because I
love the political stuff. So it's also an awareness of
exactly what is happening in our world and being able
to be super tuned in like Peter Jennings and just
tune into what people are talking about. And I also
want to know who's relevant, you know, like I do
a lot of older impressions, but like what like I
(11:18):
don't think Rodney Dangerfield is really lowered beel from the network.
You've got to get mad. You've got to get mad. Sorry,
that's weird, h I love, I want you to get
up now. Yeah, but say I'm mad as hell and
I'm not gonna take it anymore, you know, Like that's weird.
But then I look at who's younger, like Timothy Shalame,
Austin Butler. Those are actors that are people are talking
(11:41):
about more.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
But also you, I mean you get there sort of
as you just did with Prince Charles. You do get
kind of the way they move their bodies and contort themselves.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
For example, there are some physical one like for I
do want impression to seduce women. This is how I
get laid. And I'm gonna warn you, Katie. I know
what every.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Woman and it's making me hot already.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Well, every woman in America I found wants to have
sex with this man.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Do it?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Wait?
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Wait is this well this is a Kentucky Schenator, Mitch McConnell.
Let me begin by stating what a privilege it is
to be aware.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Katie.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Today, I've observed your journalistic questions, whether it's to share
a pair, letting, or any number of illuminaries in our
society today. You always know how to get the best.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Oh you're having that moment, Mitch, come back, come back, mitche.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Sorry I stopped functioning, but did it work?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
You're right?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yes, there there are physical ones.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yeah, and also like I know, like when you do
Timothy Chalomy you kind of hold your.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Rommie Allix another. He was just at the US Open. Yeah,
Bohemian Rhapsody won the ostre.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
He just right.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
He's always like squeezing in his face, like Katie is
SENI delight. It's creepy. But then when I'm near a microphone,
I want to get deeper. I want to go Howard
stern On those. Let me ask you this. You're a
beautiful woman. You've been at the Tapa show business, which
celebrity goes has had the worst breath? I need you
to tell me that right now. Who have you just been?
(13:22):
This guy is disgusting. Who is it, Katie?
Speaker 4 (13:24):
You you're Timothy shallowmy Timothy.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Well, it's such an honor to be here with Katie Couric.
She's one of the greats of our time. And uh,
you're making me laugh. Yeah, I don't know. I'm nervous
because you have a young staff here who really knows
what he sounds like. Well, I think it was Austin
Butler is in a new movie.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Tell me about it.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Well, he we had an interesting moment on the carpet
of the Golden Globes because he still sounds like Elvis.
He's from Anaheim and he dogs like this.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
It was such an honor to be playing the role
of Elvis and bez Lerman's Elvis Presley. Katiekirk is a
great legend of journalism and I love so.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I'm like, dude, you are from California?
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Is fuddy still got the us still going?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
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(15:05):
about Donald Trump, because I think, right now.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
What do you want to talk about Katie?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
She's a beauty, right, I Like, when you go.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
She is one of the great beauties. I will tell
you she looks fantasic. Go ahead, ask the question.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Well, go ahead, I mean tell me.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
About like you want to talk about his person, like
the way he speaks, the way he his mannerisms, the
kind of expressions uses, the way he pauses, the way
he kind of you know when yeah, tell me all
about it.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
So there's a I say this in my standup, But
if you want to sound like him, to accurately do
a Trump impression. You just have to mispronounce big words
whenever you're talking. So I was imagining Trump summarizing the
plot of Harry Potter, and he would just be there
was a boy wizard named Terry Pooter befriended these lefty loons,
Rune and hermany they were pigs, went to this school.
(15:57):
Who wats terrible? The headmaster Elbows stumbled, probably gay, okay,
and that's him doing that. And then he proved my
thesis because he called hamas hummus, which was interesting, and
I just wanted him to keep naming random foods like
hummus needs to be destroyed. The leader of Hummus, Baba Ganush,
is a nasty guy. It's the worst invasion since Tika
(16:20):
Massala in the nineties. Tika Massala is also the name
of JD. Vance, his wife's sister Ushe Tika Massala Vance.
We love the Indians, great people, right. So the thing
about Trump is I use it, I like when you go.
I use him to say things I can't say as
myself because any other person would be their career would end.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Right.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
But so like whenever politically incorrect.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Well, this is a good thing for your audience. So
whenever you're frustrated or in a situation where you just
you can't find a way to release your anger, say
it is Trump, and you might even win a third term.
Like I was on a plane last week, very upset
with my seat because while I was sitting next to
a fat pig of a woman. Honestly, she was terrible.
She looked like a combination of Chris Christie and Rosie o'donald.
(17:04):
But I didn't say it. Trump said it, So it's
completely fine. Now again, it's not me saying it, you know.
That's the other thing. I go on Fox News, I
go on Katie Kirk, I go on MSNBC, and I
remind everybody I'm just repeating exactly what he has said.
So people, are you making fun of him? How could
you say that? Well, the President said it, so I'm
using his own words.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
But he had never said that. Did he say Rosie
o'donald and Chris Christy had a baby?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Not exactly like that. That's me merging terminology or merging
his words. But he's had a lot of words for
both of those two people.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Now I know that you've never met Donald J.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Trump.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I have not, and would you like to meet him?
And if so, would you do your impersonation for him?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Wow? Katie Kirk has great questions. Well, I'm supposed to
be putin at Kremlin next week, so no, I'm not,
but I like, can you do this? Sucks? My sin
War meeting got canceled. But we're supposed to ry Hanuka again. Yeah, wah,
you're coming over. No but uh no, but really So
I met Obama. Uh and that was an incredible experience.
(18:10):
That's the closest I've ever gotten to being like Katie Couric.
So I got to do my Obama next to Obama.
I got to sing Amazing Grace with him, amay Ze Grace.
It was great. He was a good sport.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Where where was that?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
That was in Chicago? And then I debated him as
Trump and that was just it was incredible an event.
So it was ahead of the DNC, and his team
reached out I think they were trying to get a
get out the vote thing, and then they reached out
to me and I think a couple other people, and
then I got to go at a hotel. We met
at a hotel in Chicago and there were security, but
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you wouldn't really know he was there. And then I
go up like fifteen floors. I'm waiting in this private area,
and then probably forty five minutes pass and then I
can hear that voice. It almost sounds like the TV
is on. And then I walk into the room and
there's coming in so it's very well lit, and it
looked like a mirage. It looked like I felt like
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I was hallucinating. It didn't feel real. And then Obama's
just standing there and his assistant is off to the side.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
He goes, Matt, how are you what are we going
to do today? Thank you get in here, and then
he goes, Michelle, and I are watching some of your videos.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
It's very funny, and I'm like freaking out like it's
it was crazy. And then I go, well, I want
to do you next to you. So the camera starts
to roll and I go, hey, everybody, this Barack Obama
and I am here with Then he looks and goes, actually,
I'm Barack Obama, and then I basically did three of
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his biggest moments right next to him, and I go.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Tonight. More than two hundred years after a former colony
won the right to determine its own destiny, the task
of perfecting our union moves.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I memorize his entire twenty twelve acceptance speech, and then
I did him saying that's what I do when he
made a three point shot, and then I sang amazing
grace and it was just like surreal. And then we
debated as Trump at Obama and I said, you know,
I have a much better golf game than you, actually, Barack,
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I do, and he said, well, how about those crowd sizes?
Take a look at those. And then the video ended,
and then I tried to do Mitch McConnell and he
actually looked at me. So I'm in the room with
Barack Obama and I want to do one more video.
I take out my Mitch mcconnald glasses and I go, Barack,
good to show you again.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
And he looks at me and goes, no, we can't
do that. That is giving me serious PTSD. Put those away.
That's freaking me out. So that was surreal. Now meeting Trump,
you know, I have not met him. I think he's
a Well that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
If I met Trump, I would want to do exactly
what I did with Obama, which is I would want
to do what he does, and I'm not sure he
could necessarily handle it, because again, I would say to him,
you look a little bit like a fat pig. I
would say, you're a little bit a little overweight, you're
a little heavy. Shit, the makeup is drifting off. We
call you, uh, just tweak. You're a weak guy, You're tired.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
I might ask about the bruise on his hand.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
The bruise, it's bruising. It's terrible. But I don't know, like,
I don't know. I don't know if he could handle
it comedically, you know.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
And maybe if you if you didn't call him fat,
maybe if you could.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
But but but but what would he do? See I
get into the mind of the person. You think he
wouldn't do that. Oh no, he That's what I'm saying.
I like to do to do justice to the character
I hear you. All I'm doing, as I remind audience,
is I'm just repeating stuff that he he would say.
But obviously it would be tough to envision myself actually
calling him fat next to him. But uh, if given
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the opportunity to meet him, it'd be It'd be an
interesting question because look what happened to Jimmy fallon not
too pretty with the with the hair tussling thing. Because
we're in a very divided society, and I've been kind
of trying to thread the needle a little bit, because
if you go into the lions Den like that, then
it's a different it's a different level. I don't know
(22:12):
if there's an offer, I guess we'll, as he would say,
we'll take a look at it. We'll take a look
at it.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
How about Joe Biden. I know that he's but is
he more difficult?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
But I did meet him.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
No, what's it like impersonating him? Well, you have to
change with the volume of your voice, right, Yeah, Sometimes
he'll say something really that and then yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
He'll lean like it's no joke. We'd beat medicare, come on.
I was doing a bit on Biden. He was more
difficult to do. I think that's why he was less
comedically tapped into by people. But I did a bit
on Biden that I was always amazed that he was
eating children's desserts, such such serious moments, like he was
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always eating ice cream, And toward the end of his
campaigner report goes President Biden, when will there be a ceasefire,
and he was holding a dripping scoop of ice cream.
Then he took a bite out of the cone, but
the ice cream fell on the floor, so he just
took a bite out of the air. So he was like,
seize far Monday. Ice Cream's on the floor, And I'm thinking,
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there's never been a time in American history where an
elected official has eaten a children's dessert like this.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
You know, have you listened to Josh Sapiro and how
much he sounds pencil.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
He's like a Jewish Obama. But Newsom kind of has
a little bit of that.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Well can you do?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Gavin Newsom is kind of like Will Arnette from SmartLess,
the actor from Smartletts. Gavin news Donald Trump is a bully,
he's a fraud, He's a narcissist. Yeah, but Will's over here.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
But but Will is super real Will. I don't think
Gavin is quite as rad Will interesting.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
I don't think just like when Gavin's wife speaks Spanish,
I find it funny very white woman or not so.
Jennifer Cheba, I'm like, I love the she has like
sort of an accent to it. It's it's incredible, But
he's a good looking guy.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Yeah Yeahvin Newsome, Yeah he's got he's got, he's got
that pat Riley here.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
He does right, he's slick.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Yeah yeah, And I guess that's part of the criticism
of him.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
But a question for you, Katy, Yes, yes, of course,
I've wanted to ask you this for a long time.
What is internet?
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Ah, this was nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Exactly what's the world Wide Web?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
We should go an updated version of this, Katie. What
is only fans? What is it?
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Alison? Alison, can you tell me what OnlyFans is?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
What is that? How does it work? They upload their
body onto it? How does it tap in? Alison? Does
it tap in?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Well?
Speaker 4 (24:48):
I did.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I did make a VMW commercial with Brian Gumpbell making
fun of us not knowing what the internet was. But
you have to remember that was nineteen ninety four. Let's
talk about some of the other people that you've done,
because I know you. You're good at Bill Maher and
you did something with him. I did, wait and I'd
love how you kind.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Of do that?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Oh oh yeah a lip smack?
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Right?
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
And finally, new rule, if you're going to do a podcast,
make it Katie couric. Okay, Oh, I used to have
the biggest crush on you. I still do. Here's what's
wrong about the modern left. They're not the modern right.
And here's what's wrong about the modern right, They're not
the modern left. Okay, that's real time.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
What did he think of your impersonation because you did
it next to him?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yeah, you always. I don't hear it. I just I
don't hear it. You got to work on it.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Is that what he said?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
A little too flamboyant. Okay, but you.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Are on Howard Stern a lot.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yeah, how it's been great.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
And so Howard gets a kick out he does, right,
he does, And so I know you did it earlier,
but give me a little more, Howard.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Well, let me ask you this. I mean, Katie's a
beautiful woman, right, your a beauty. You're a beauty. Would
you say your top three sexiest news anchors of all time?
Because Robin and I are attracted you. Robin, you like Katie,
she likes you. She likes you, But I do like
the eighties nineties.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
Howard.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
He's a little dirtier than.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
He's Yeah, you know, yeah, go ahead, give it to us.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Give it to you. Oh, Jesus.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Okay, are you a good musician. I'm just curious because
people I think who have this kind of ear I
do like he said, Yeah, do you play any instruments?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Not no, but I sing a little bit. I do
edit with Michael Boublay. That was I did Michael bl
and I did Luke Bryan as Luke Bryan.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Oh that's funny, So do Michael Boublay because you can
probably sing like him. If I love Michael Bouble.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Luke Bryan and Bouo Blair are my two favorite singing ones. Okay,
I'll do it. So Luke Brian I met her, he said, mad,
if you want to do me, you got to do
one thing. You got to mix golomer Pole and Elvis
and you got to bland them together real todd. Then
you get country girls. Shake it for me, Now, shake
it for me. So thank you so much, Luke Big
Kermit the frog vibe out of this. Yeah, come on now.
(27:01):
Ronda Santus twenty eight and we always try to forget
that you brought Ronda Santa's on stage. Oh, State of Florida.
Welcome to the Free State of Florida. Sorry for a
smile there uh, and then Boublay, well, let me miss it.
Hello friends, Michael Buble, I'm here with Katie Kuric O
(27:24):
the Tree of Life. I just picked me a Kuric
baby birds flying High, you know how Katie fee Sorry
that was a little mini one. Wasn't terrible? Was it?
Speaker 5 (27:37):
No?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
It was good?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Not great. Oh I liked it.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
I liked it. I think I think I sang with him.
Oh God went no.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
This is the problem with doing Katie's podcast. No, it
was an Austin Powers. He's saying with that.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Okay, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
So David Foster really discovered Michael Boublay, and I think
Michael came on the Today Show and we sang, and
then I go and spoil it.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Up by saying something like the Today Show was actually
my first TV appearance really remotely over zoom?
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Was it during COVID?
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I was going to say, my childhood at home?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
So what did you do?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Fifth hour with uh? Isn't that right? In the fourth hour?
It was on the fortieth hour with Hoda and Jenna. Yeah,
I'm just glad you haven't asked me what I'm reading.
Sarah balin question, what are you reading stupid? Was that, Eric?
Can we just talk with it? I mean, she wants
to be the vice president of the United States, So
what are you reading?
Speaker 5 (28:39):
What?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
No? I think when I had paper, Matt, I said, well,
I was interested, you know, just as I'm interested in
when you realized you could impersonate people, or Barbara Streisan
realize she could sing. I was interested in what had
shaped her political ideology.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yes, So the.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Question was what newspapers and magazines do you read on
I think on a regular basis that have helped shape
your worldview?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
This is in credible, asked me the question. I'm so
excited about that.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Really, Yeah, go ahead, Governor Palin. Yes, what newspapers and
magazines do you read on a regular basis that have
help shape your world view?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Q andon? Truth? Social and q Andon? Yeah? You bet
the way to do it, you bet you.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
I could never understand why she didn't say I first
and foremost, I read all the publications about Alaska because
my my responsibility is to my constituents.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Yes, as governor.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
And then of course I read every major newspaper in
the country. And I'm a I like to I'm just
so intellectually curious. I like to google everything, and I
so my sources are really wide and varied.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
It's it is interesting to look back on these iconic
interviews that you've conducted and I think how people answered
questions in that. I hope I don't look back at
this and I'm not running for anything, but I mean, yeah,
but you you do have a way you can lock in,
like for me if I were to answer that question.
I truthfully, I'm consuming like everything because I want to
know what all people are thinking. Because if you're in
(30:14):
your echo chamber eco echo chamber, uh then you then
you you really, I think you lose a lot you
miss out on because especially as a touring comedian like
I want to be able to make different audiences laugh
and that's the challenge. So I want to see what
Peter and Steve Doocey are thinking. And I want to
see sure you did yes in Washington. Unbelievable, of course,
(30:36):
you see unbelieve It's just it's out of control. It's
it's unbelievable. Uh well it's just your ledge.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
I'm so old and I think you are the.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Ship, Katie Kirk is the ship. That's what the podcast
should have been called.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Yeah, you know, what maybe we'll remake the.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Best, but but I want to I want to be
able to talk to a variety of people. So, I mean,
I watched so much MSNBC, I watched I want Fox News,
I watch CNN, I watch Katie Kurk, I watch it
just all pops up, and I think it's just also
a generational byproduct, like it's all coming at me on
TikTok and on YouTube. But also obviously reading the failing
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New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, so.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
They're not taking it easy on President Trump. No, No,
Emma Tucker, the new editor in chief, I think has
really done some great reporting on Trump. But you know,
getting back to Sarah Palin, I know, I always sort
of thought if she I mean, she could have answered
the question in two ways. She could have talked about
what she reads, but she could have also said, I
(31:39):
was really influenced by Ronald Reagan and his speeches government,
you know, or William F. Buckley was really you know,
and believe it or not, Katie, I've been very influenced
by the Bible because a lot of my sort of
life philosophy is fundamentally in the Bible and the life
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lessons that it imparts or something.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Right.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Well, what's amazing about this moment in particular, and this
relates back to Trump, is that in the case of
Sarah Palin, that was a moment that arguably was a
defining moment for her that interview, Whereas with Trump, he's
had so many of those moments and we don't even
remember it. For example, President or mister Trump, he wasn't
president yet. What is your favorite Bible verse? Well, I
(32:28):
know the Bible very well. There's like so many, but
there's just a lot of them, actually, and I'm a
big fan of it. Honestly, I wrote it, but I'm
a big fan of it, and it's tough to pick.
And like we write, he's a master and not answering
question Like if you ask me a very serious question,
I guarantee you, like I could do it as him
in the way that he never does it. That's why
(32:48):
I want to debate him, actually, because all these Republicans
they tried to challenge him, and I'm thinking I'm the
only one that could do it.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Well, let me ask you again, mister President, do you
worry about developed?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Look it up beautiful When she asked the question, Look
at that smile such a and she smells great too.
She's a beauty. Look at her.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Are you worried about forging such a close personal relationship
with Vladimir Putin? Given such an animosity that he.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
You have animosity towards me, Katie? Go ahead?
Speaker 4 (33:22):
How do you feel?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
How do you I mean, do you worry about that?
And really kind of changing the global order as it
has stood since the end of World War two?
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Well, I said, I said, a couple of days ago,
I said, Vladimir, you're going to have to end at Vladimir,
you're going to put this thing doing. So you got
to talk to these people, Katie. If you don't talk
to them, then you're in real trouble. You're in real trouble.
So you got to talk to them. I know him
very well. He said, we're going to end this very quickly.
It's going to be very easy. We're going to end
(33:54):
it quickly. I want to go to heavan, Katie.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Do you feel like he's playing youdent talking?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Men are talking. Okay, he's playing all of us, but
he's not gonna play me because we're gonna end it
beautifully and very bigly. And well, that's why we're getting
the DC patrol at. We got the patrol at. We're
going to look at what's happening, these bigger problems. They
said my health was a problem. You know who's healths
AP problem? Put his health SIP problem. Okay, not my health.
I'm in perfect health and you know it. Fake news.
(34:20):
Next question, Sorry, go ahead, I'm in character. Let's keep talking.
You see, he didn't say anything right right.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
In fact, I just watched a clip where somebody asked
a question and he just started talking and rambling and
he didn't answer it at all.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Yeah. Yeah, it's weird. It's very weird. But that's why
it'd be interesting for me to debate him, because like
if I met him as him, i'd want to meet
him in that format because I think I can do
him like he could do himself. Yeah, and I think
I can get under his skin. You've done such a
great job with your interviews. But I've always wondered that,
like why aren't people challenging him, but also on the
(34:56):
democratic side, like just doing what he does, Like the
whole one they go go high thing was always so
stupid to me, like you just got to go right
back at him.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Well, Gavin Newsom is doing that. I just saw Ron
Brownstein on Bloomberg talking about this new breed of politician
called a confrontational centrist, and he was saying that he
thought that was the best way to beat Trump, to
not go further to the left but kind of take
him on but not lose your sort of centrists.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Is this breaking news?
Speaker 4 (35:28):
No? No, no, But I you.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Know, I would say eight years ago they should have
done that. Yeah. But that's why I would have loved
to have seen an Obama Trump matchup, because I feel
like he has he had that inquality, just to kind
of go right back in a really cool, non forced,
non cringey way.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
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(36:37):
go too deep into politics. But I'm curious why you
believe you know, you were talking about Donald Trump not
being able to come up with the Bible passage or
doing things that would have really destroyed any other candidate
or any other president. Really, and why do you think
people forgive all these things that he does and they
(37:00):
he's he's more teflon than teflon.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
I don't have an answer. I think it's like it's
it's like a it's he's just a complete anomaly in
our society. I don't think there's anyone that's going to
ever like, maybe this is a naive thing, because there's
always a leader or someone that sucks oxygen. But especially
in the moment we're in now with social media and
how much attention he's been able to gather for himself,
(37:25):
he's such an anomaly. There's no one that has been
able to suck as much oxygen and also get just
a group consistently get away with saying the things that
he does, whether you like it or not, it's like
it's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Well, I think he's a living example of all press
being good press. Like he doesn't. He doesn't really care
what you think about him as long as you're talking
about Yeah, that's true, as long as he's living rent
free in all of our brains.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Right, it's it's it's really wild. It's weird, wild stuff,
thanks Johnny, spiky stuff.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
That is funny, funny struck.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
It's funny, funny stuff. What about?
Speaker 4 (38:04):
All right? I got to ask you for a couple
of more.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
No, I want to I don't want this to end.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Okay, all right, Bernie game, I know you do.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Bernie.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
He's conducting a small Jewish orchestra.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
God, Katie's so good.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
I did my research back Bernie centers.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
He always sounds like he's conducting a very tiny Jewish
orchestra with his hands all the damn time. I always
worried that Trump will insult Bernie and it will literally
kill him on the spot. Like this guy looks like
he's having a heart attack. Oh that's because I actually
am having a heart attack right now. And I apologize
for blowing out the microphone. Yeah what uh? Some people,
(38:43):
I'm like, they were designed for comedy. He was designed
for comedy.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
What about Jeff Goldbloom.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Yes, and you lost over Ted Cruz. How dare you?
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Oh sorry, yeah, I dare you? Okay, talk to me, as.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
I said, Donald Trump, I said, here's what, here's what
I think about Ted Cruiz, Ted Cruz. There everybody's talking about.
There needs to be a mental and mental acuity test
for the President's either saying there's be a physical test
for the presidency. I think there needs to be a
vocal requirement because you cannot sound like Ted Cruz and
lead the free world. Donald Trump may have called my
(39:18):
wife an ugly pig back in the day, but by god,
he's right, he is right. I don't see it either.
Now again, I'm pretty sure he did call his wife ugly, right, right, Okay,
But anyways, I don't think you can sound like this.
I gotta go to can kun. Let let let's wrap
this interview up right now. That nasal it's ridicted Ted Cruz.
(39:43):
Do solemnly sweat like that's just not going to work. Yeah, yeah,
it's that's a tough one. Need I would do my
JD Evans, but I forgot my eyeliner in my apartment.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Well, I was going to ask you about Jady Vance
because I'm thinking someone who has selective memory, like Ted
Cruz when he's insulted. I mean jd Vance said.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
That Donald Trump, you know as my me, mom my, peepa,
my wie wan my woah wee wa, would all agree
Donald Trump is he was. I did say he was
America's hitler, but now I know that the way he
talks to Usha, I mean, he's a great guy. And
if I could have dinner with anybody throughout all of
world history, it'd be him. It really would be on
behalf of all senators in this country today. I mean it,
(40:27):
I do. I don't know he's I'm gonna work on him.
He's going to get better.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
No, I think that's frue the obscure.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Ones like Chuck Grassley. Chuck Grassley during the Kavanaugh hearings. Okay,
Janator lay, Jannator lay, We're going to be mar shooting
to the floor. Janator lay, Chuck grass like we really
do have. I talked about this on said cho I
think we have a problem in our government. You could
say this as agist, but I think we have a
legitimate geriatric Congress, and it needs to be to take care.
(40:57):
We need to take a look at it. I mean
on both sides of the aisle. I mean Ruth Bader
Ginsburg dying on the job, Diane Feinstein, Trump and Biden.
I think it's a problem.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Well, I think people want term limits.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
I think we have term limits. But also like it
is interesting and you can see the the the generational
gap really shines whenever there's these technology hearings and they
invite like a young tech executive or CEO to come
in and testify, like Chuck Grassley. We'll interview the CEO
of TikTok, like mister PF Chang okay, mister General cho
(41:29):
is checking. Oh he's Chinese. Okay. I understand that China
is stealing and manipulating our data, But how do I
turn the brightness up on my iPhone? Like he's asking
basic tech questions. This isn't the genius bar. So it
feels very weird. We have AI, we have a lot
of future technological challenges.
Speaker 4 (41:45):
But is some of this material in the world what
you're using?
Speaker 1 (41:49):
It's all right in itself. It's Tim Cook going to
the White House. Oh yeah, mister President, We're so thrilled
all the work you've been doing to expand technology globally.
Here's a gift we've given you. It's a it's a
gold plate, like what didn't even like a gold plate
or something.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
I thought he gave him an apple, So you guys,
didn't he give him an apple?
Speaker 4 (42:07):
A gold apple?
Speaker 1 (42:08):
But Sam Altman like all these people again, it's like
the world. It's it's literally writing itself. It's it's wild politically.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
Yeah, but gold Well, you know, I did notice that
you do very few women.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
What context tell me about your sex. Let's get into it.
Come on, but you know you.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Do Jennifer Coolidge, right, and you were you cracked her up?
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (42:34):
I do cool Well, I actually pulled the Katie couric.
I had breaking news. I was on the Golden Globes
carpet and I can tell you about that.
Speaker 4 (42:40):
Yeah, who were you working for?
Speaker 1 (42:42):
So well that?
Speaker 4 (42:42):
Do you want to take a sip of your riceed coffee?
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Go ahead, No, I'll do it, Yeah, I'll do it.
I'm sorry. I hope your audience. I'm psychotic because guys,
you never hender said. Being in the presidence of Katie
it gets me energized. I am excited. I feel like
I'm at a Tony Robbins event. This is This isn't
like some boring comedians podcast. This is Blazer icon Katie Kirk.
I'm in a studio in New York. She has like
a staff, there's cameras. I feel like it is nineteen
(43:07):
ninety five. I'm on the Today Show. This is it? Okay,
like this is iconic? And I hope and I'll wake
up to myrow morning. What happened? What did I do
on that show? But here we are. Let's let's just rewind.
Let's take a breath, let's ground ourselves. Okay, where was
I saying? Yes? Golden globes? Gods, I'm excited. It's Katie Curric,
(43:27):
It's Katie Kuric. This is like look at that, Look
at that Emmy? Are you kidding me? No one does
a podcast with a big Emmy sitting there? Do you
know how many idiots have podcasts? Katie Kirk the legend
with her Emmy.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
I also have a few from the Macy Thanksgiving Day parade.
Speaker 4 (43:43):
We're just going to turn this back.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
Arn Let's amaz Sally, Yeah no, please, no. The Golden Globes.
I've been lucky to be on the carpet past three
years for Dick Clark and first Golden Globes. Yeah, and
my friend Jeremy Jeremy Lowe who works at the company.
He's been huge advocate for me and he's put me
on the carpet and I've just got to do my thing.
It's kind of what vintage SNL was like, where you
(44:06):
can do the person next to the person.
Speaker 3 (44:08):
Oh, you know, by the way, I was going to
ask you, I'm surprised that nobody has called you, although
I think the guy who does Trump on SNL is excellent.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
You know, I was always a Barbara Walters fan, more
of a barber than a Katy. You like how that felt?
Speaker 6 (44:22):
Katie?
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Did you like how that fell? I'm going to call
up Savannah. Let's end this going over to the Today Show. No,
he's got James Austin Jensen. Very three names, yes, three names, yes,
three terms, three names.
Speaker 4 (44:39):
Would you like to do that on SNL?
Speaker 1 (44:41):
I mean it was always my dream as a kid,
but now, like again your proof of the changing world,
and like, look at what Katie Kirk is doing. You
create your own show, your own format. I'm again, I'm
just a product of my generation where I always wanted
to do it, but it's such a different world now
and to have the opportunities that I have created, and.
Speaker 4 (45:02):
I'm not buying it, Matt, I'm not buying it.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
No.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
Jeff Lauren Michaels called you and was like, Yo, Matt, Yeah, yeah,
I mean I want you to audition for SNL. I'm
sure you'd be like, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
I mean, I think it's a different world to be honest,
I really do, really, I really do.
Speaker 4 (45:20):
You wouldn't want to be on SNL.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
I think it'd be interesting. I mean, I'm not going
to be chasing it at this point, but I think
it'd be a really fun experience. I mean, especially given
the history of it and also like the nature of
my skill set and what I do, but I got
to be focused on what I can control.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
Do you think you you know, other than impersonating? I
know you did some stuff with Second.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
City right now, I interned there.
Speaker 3 (45:41):
Yeah, yeah, did you have any desire to kind of
pursue acting more?
Speaker 1 (45:46):
I'm doing it. Yeah, I'm starting because you know, you
got to start somewhere. So I've just been been building
and twenty seven now and I've created this platform for
myself and now I'm creating content I'm doing carpet interviews.
I'm doing voiceover just to my first movie last week.
Speaker 4 (46:01):
Yeah, what movie was it?
Speaker 1 (46:02):
Can you talk called Grace period to rom com starring
Ashley Green and Seth Green.
Speaker 4 (46:08):
Oh well that's right, you said, Seth Green. Yeah, and
what do you play in it?
Speaker 1 (46:11):
I play this younger Sioux chef to Seth Green, who
is a chef who falls in love with this woman
played by Ashley Green who is going through the egg
freezing process and then she meets the right guy at
the right time, and I'm like the younger roommate who
has a lot of sex and has a lot of jokes.
Speaker 4 (46:29):
Sounds like a good part.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
It's great, But it was really surreal and fun experience.
And I'm very focused on my stand up now yeah
and doing my first hour. But to answer the Asino question,
obviously that would be a really cool, like dream come true,
But I got to be focused on what I can control.
Speaker 3 (46:44):
Yeah, And you're right, you can go directly to an
audience and kind of do your thing without somebody kind
of giving you permission to do that.
Speaker 4 (46:52):
Right. So we were talking about Jennifer Cooley.
Speaker 1 (46:55):
Yes on the Globes. Yeah, I've gotten to do my
impression next to the actual person on the globes, and
so I did Coolidge next to Coolidge, and the news
broke because people didn't realize that she had a regular
sounding voice, because she's always like, oh god, oh, Katie
Kurk's the best. Fuck oh God. And I did Jennifer
Coolidge after sipping on a cold drink. So I just go, ah,
(47:20):
that's it. That was the entire And then I did
Goldbloom next to goldbluem I do Goldblom core Katie Kuric,
wonderful journalist, iconic, very beautiful. Yes, of course I have
a wife, Emily, Emily Goldbloom, Olympic contortionist. As Sandy Meisner,
my acting teacher said, have ever given the platform to
appear on Katie Kirk Tell her she's fantastic, She's wonderful.
(47:44):
There may be trouble ahead. He speaks in jazz and orgasm.
Jeff Goldbloom, I do have a mild sexual experience whenever
I do go something about him. He's the greatest. I've
been lucky to do him on Family Guide, on the
Simpsons and in a Marvel show. And it's glad he
has ensued me but and then I did Paul Giamaty
(48:05):
and that was very fun too, Katy, very fun indeed.
Oh yes, you know, Katie Kirk is any of your
many presidents, many politicians. But today's the first time you'll
ever speak to John Adams. Very good. That was really fun. Yeah,
so Golden Gloves was Paul Giamatti the cast of Succession.
Speaker 4 (48:23):
Uh oh, really, can you do Brian fuck off?
Speaker 1 (48:26):
Fuck off? I do Tom Wam's gams from.
Speaker 3 (48:29):
Oh Yeah please, because you know he's British, which is
so interesting.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
He says, hey, Hoddy, buckle up, fuck ahead. Oh hey, shive,
you know I have a dick the size of Red
Sequoya and I fuck like a bullet train. That's a
quote from Succession. I apologize again I'm quoting the show.
But The Gloves has been a huge platform for me
and it's been like the highlight of my career. I've
loved it. It's been surreal.
Speaker 4 (48:52):
Well, I am so happy for your success and it's.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
What it's done. Don't don't want, don't want to. I
want to get grill.
Speaker 4 (48:58):
Okay what else I can't?
Speaker 1 (49:00):
I want to be grilled by Katie. I just want
one grill. Go ahead, really imagine I just announced that
I'm running for president.
Speaker 3 (49:07):
Let's go come on high see I don't know I'm ready,
mister friend yep. Obviously, income inequality is a huge problem
in this country. Most people don't have four hundred dollars
to spend in an emergency. Now CEOs are making so
(49:27):
much more than their average worker. It's really gotten out
of control, and I feel in many ways it's made
this country right for revolution. How would you solve income
inequality in this country and create opportunities for people who
aren't in the lower rungs socioeconomically.
Speaker 1 (49:50):
Well, Katie, I'm really glad to ask that question, because
if anyone is in a position to talk about income
and equality, person who looks like they had a very
expensive bar Mitzvah party, I look like if Pickleball was
a person, Katie, I looked like the whole cast of
succession in one person. So me, the kid from Lincoln Park,
(50:15):
isn't a position to talk about income inequality. Katie. I
think it's a real problem that we're facing today, and
I think that we have to look at this issue
as a whole holistically. On the left and on the right.
We had to come together because Katie, it's just not right.
It's just not right. And before we wrap up this question,
i'd like to say, uh, I'm sorry that was that
(50:42):
was But before we wrap up, I want to say,
thank you so much for having me. You were so
nice when I met you the first time, and uh,
the work that you have done inspires me and will
continue to inspire many generations. And I'm so happy that
you have this new platform and you're that you are
so cool and uh, what's amazing about you is you
have you define an era with your long god no no, no,
(51:03):
that's true. That era is Deadlight a Doug, but you
define that era and now you're you're defining the next one.
So thank you so much for having me. This was
so so cool. Thank you, and come by the show please.
Speaker 4 (51:12):
I will, I will.
Speaker 7 (51:13):
So.
Speaker 4 (51:13):
Where can people find you on tour?
Speaker 1 (51:15):
Mattfriend dot com for tickets and.
Speaker 3 (51:17):
Go see Matt everybody on tour. Thanks for listening everyone.
If you have a question for me, a subject you
want us to cover, or you want to share your
thoughts about how you navigate this crazy world, reach out
send me a DM on Instagram. I would love to
hear from you next Question is a production of iHeartMedia
(51:40):
and Katie Kuric Media. The executive producers are Me, Katie Kuric,
and Courtney Ltz. Our supervising producer is Ryan Martz, and
our producers are Adriana Fazzio and Meredith Barnes. Julian Weller
composed our theme music. For more information about today's episode
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