January 22, 2020 • 65 mins
Saturday Night Live’s Cecily Strong chats with the team about ketchup on hot dogs, other city food trends, why the SNL house band probably hates Questlove, and more.
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name or name I thought you're referencing a middle name
or something.
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Zegas are if I'm pronouncing I don't know, it's not that. Okay,
that's not her, she wrote. Cecily wrote the novels that
became Gossip Girl.
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Right.
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Wait, how do you know that, Steve?
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I looked up famous Cecilyes to try and get some
ideas from.
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Did you know this before he references? Did this take
you by surprise as well?
Speaker 5 (02:24):
No, I mean it took I forgot who there's a
there's a couple of Cecilies.
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Yeah, there's not that many in history.
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To be honest with you, I ran it.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
With cecil That's why I'm cly.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah, Cicily, I don't know.
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You know, it may feel very comfortable. I will say,
I feel it feel at home.
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We messed up there.
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Waiting and Boss Bill, we're like three Oh, Boss Bill,
that's right, half a six pack.
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Yeah, So what rules can we break now that we
can eat?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
We could do I'm supposed to. No, I can't. I'm
supposed to be in charge, so I got to show
some order. So no, guys, we're thinking by the rules.
We talked to Cecily, and we don't go into the.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Can eat my breakfast right now?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Like, well, knowing you you got some little birds, so
would you go.
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To No, it's good, it's good anyway, ladies and gentlemen,
our yesterday. I'm very very honored to have uh what
I when I when I mentioned my play of employment,
I refer to it as thirty Rocky University. I consider
it a college, a post grad school. I consider it
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life lessons. And it's always an honor to pick the
brain of fellow thirty Rock thirty Rockians, especially those that
are in the upper echelon of the eighth floor of
the institution otherwise known as Saturday Night Live. I will say,
in the last eight years, our guest today has given
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me some of my favorite moments on the show. Ever,
I try not to stalk her dms with praise over
that night's performance, But I'm the nerd that's always like
somewhere in the audience judging every show your characters alone,
I mean your story, Stormy Daniels, your Melania Trump, your
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Lynn Manuel.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Was That's why I'm really mad that freaking Bill's not here.
Bill's a fellow Amal tonight. Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, please
welcome the original Cecily Strong. Yes, we're very happy to
How are you today?
Speaker 6 (05:12):
I'm around cold, it's called this weather is bad.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It is hell, especially where we work. Yeah, getting to work?
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Are you an American Gladiator around this time of year?
Speaker 6 (05:25):
Like trying to get into that building it is.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah, it's the hardest thing in the world. I try.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
They're firing house. You know how they did that on
American Gladiator? Yes, yeah, I know how you very familiar.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Do you are you a subway to work person? Are
you a walk to work.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
I'm walk to work.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Oh say see, oh god you you oh you followed
the rules. Wow. Okay. So when I first started working here,
I naturally thought, okay, I'll move to Brooklyn or whatever. Yeah,
my management is like not if it was up to them,
like Steve wants joke, like they want you to live
at thirty one rockefell As just you know, just in case,
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because it's almost like being on call to be a
doctor or whatever, like you have.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
To immediately and just as important.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah it no, well it is actually used.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah what you do? I mean you too, But I
was just saying that what she does, like it's the institution,
So yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I feel like an on call doctor like you pretty
much if they call you, you have to be there
within like a half hour for anything. I don't know
if it's that way all year round for you though.
I mean once the.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Seasons are oh yeah no, then I they're not allowed.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
You have something to break. Yeah you have two phones then.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they don't get the other number.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Shout out to two phones.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
So I told you, okay, I but I do have
a burner number. That's kind of exciting.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Oh my god, you're like a character on the wire.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah did you get.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
No, it's on my phone.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
But it's because I use so many apps like or
during thing, I don't time out.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Okay, so I'm about to reveal my age. You're telling
me that I can get a Burner number and still
on my.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Phone absolutely for free, and have two numbers on this phone. Yeah,
I know you could do that. Well, is that like
the Google phone number thing you're saying, No.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
It's similar, but it's its own app and you you
can just.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Like if a tender date goes good, then you can
give your real number real exactly and if it does
it it's.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Great not having to give out your real number. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Well see, now's the point. My burner, my fake phone
was my bat phone was once the coveted phone, and
then for some reason, now I've given everybody my bat number.
So my real number, like, no one calls that anymore.
Oh yeah, so I dubbed that mom phone.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
That's one number.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
It's mainly.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
We learn quick this. Yeah you know, I don't. Yeah,
that's mom phone. Only talked to my mother on that phone. Okay,
So what got you here? Where were you born?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
I was born in Springfield, Illinois?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Okay, so too outsiders of the Midwest US East Coasters.
In our minds, it's either Chicago or not Chicago, right.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
So it's definitely not Chicago.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
How not Chicago is it?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
It's very not Chicago. I mean not only was there
for a year and a half. Okay, so I can't
say I remember much of Springfield. It's the capital of Illinois. Well,
pretty exciting.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Also where the Simpsons live.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
And I actually I saw that's a I think that's
where Barack Obama announced Joe Biden as his VP in
two thousand.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
And you were there to see it, you know it
three and a half hours.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I see Abraham freezing.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
An Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Yeah, a role gossip girl.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
I looked up famous Abraham's.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Souh you only lived there a year and a half
in that and then.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Right outside of Chicago, okay, park.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Are you okay?
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Anybody that's did you say Simpsons?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Yeah, he's so that's why Springfold.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Well, no, that was just a weird coincidence.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
So yeah, there's two questions about Chicago. One or as
as a resident. Are you sort of dismayed at the
sort of hashtag what about Chicago staying that's on the
city right now, or at least the kind of the
the the cloud that looms over the idea of Chicago,
(09:44):
Like what is your version of Chicago.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
It's weird because I when I, I mean, I grew up.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
I did a lot of theater in Chicago as a kid.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
And then I was my.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Dad worked and pr and Chicago and did a lot
for the Democratic Party. And again, when I think of Chicago,
it's all like Obama for me because that's the years
I was there. I think it's always And I have
a good friend, my little sister. She's my fake little
sister from the South Side, so of course her experience
was very different than mine growing up.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
But I think, wait a minute, I'm sorry, I just
we have to acknowledge like I only felt like black
people had like play cousins and family and lets it's.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
In the program. Is she an official little sister?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Okay, didn't Yeah, okay, we play cousins do okay?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
No?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
You know what it was like I met her.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
I just I lost a friend, uh to a drug overdose,
and she lost her older brother, uh, which is part
of Chicago too, And it was kind.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Of like we had like the universe gave.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Y'all just met us to each other to this day.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Oh yeah, she's coming this weekend. College young she's uh,
she feels.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Like she's like fifteen years younger sometimes, but she's about
five years younger.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
So you're motherly.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Well, I'm an older I'm not motherless, never designated driver,
just older sister.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Okay, I see, Actually what I want to know. I
don't think we've interviewed anyone in the comedy world from
Chicago on the show. I don't think we have. What
is it?
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Why is something to do with mustard and ketchup and
hot talks?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
No, that's that's a letter. I want to know why
ketchup is not allowed on You know, I.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Don't even eat hot dogs or red meat. I'm not
the one to ask, but I do know.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
You don't.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
You're not supposed to. You get kicked mustard only mustard
and whatever.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
What is it? I've heard some I've heard some talk,
and I believe that this goes back to the hinds
face family from nearby Pittsburgh sort of having a beef
with the what's the billionaire family from Chicago, the pizza Prits. Yeah,
I'm hearing that the beef starts there, so you order
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must have too. Well maybe even it was like, okay, well,
I don't want to be the person like spreading false propaganda.
What I do know is that you get laughed out
of any establishment.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
I think it's just.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Like Chicago has a couple of things they just like
to be stubborn about.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I think, well, your pizza sucks, not you.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
But I'm just saying you don't like Chicago pizza.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
I mean, it's going to kill you so good.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Well will kill us too.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
So there's really I will say it's my favorite city
to eat at. Some of the best restaurants I've ever
even just like a small like little Greek resturant, Little Time.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
It's all so good.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I've been Okay, So as of this taping, for some reason,
I've been booked in Chicago every weekend for the last
five weekends.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Great time to be there.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Gorgeous weather yeah, oh no, no, no, actually no, weird enough
the last time.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
You're jinxing yourself. Now, I will say, you're going to
be stuck there.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I will. I will say that both times in the
winter it was like fifty nine degrees. For some reason,
I came dressed for like all right, where's it at?
Where's that? Where's the cold? Where's the cold? And I
was sweating like it was it was spring weather.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
I mean I probably unpredictable. Yeah, but it's the worst winters. Oh,
I have like I have like nightmares about it. I know,
thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I know, we know. But I will say that I tried. Okay,
they told me not to call it the illuminati. Illuminatisis okay,
but I love Manatis. There has to be a connection
into the Illuminati.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Is that a food?
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Pizza?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
And I will say I know Willie Malnaughty. He has
a podcast now he's in New.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
York about pizza.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
No no, says entertainment.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
But he is a Melnati and I did a show
with him when I was twelve or thirteen at the
Goodman and it was during the summer, so Taste of
Chicago was going on and we got free pizza.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yeah, it's it's.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
It's my favorite. Luminais my favorite.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I will have to say I was really impressed with
that pizza.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
You can you can get it shipped.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I know. Yeah, I don't want to do it though
I know.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
That dangerous. I don't want to fall do It's like
I have an addiction to pizza, so I have to
stay away.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
So how do you feel about New York pizza?
Speaker 6 (14:46):
I mean I pretty much like all pizza.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
No, you can't do that.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
I know I do.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Have you taking a pizza to New York?
Speaker 5 (14:53):
No, I will say, you know what, I did have
pizza I didn't like here, and I I don't want
to say where it's from because I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Is it not raise or is it an established par
established people ship on in Williamsburg Grimaldi's that you're looking
at me? Well, because the show so mnemic. Now there's
only two people left.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
I don't leave Manhattan.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
I've been to Brooklyn three times.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
What I mean, there's plenty of shitty pizza in New.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
York, but there's awesome pizza.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
But it's not like every slice you get is going
to be like right.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
New York See. For me, though, it's it's like as
far as the Korean Food Fair, Chinatown, even soul food
Jamaican spots in Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I've that's what the culture is.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I've slowed up. I've kind of well, I've just discovered
that Queens is like I'm I might have to do
my next book. Strictly on restaurants in Queens, Like some
of the best restaurants in New York are those family restaurants. Yes,
and Queens. You got it. You gotta venture out the city. See,
I have a car.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah, you don't have to be right. No, see yeah,
if you.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
You need a may bag. Just joking what you said a.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Car anyway, I got you off track. You were going
to say, well, I was going to.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Say about community, but we often rabbit hole on the ship. No,
let's go back to anyway. You need your car to
explore the city.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
For I have such bad anxiety. I could, I would.
I could never drive in this city. Really well, this
is the hardest city of driving in the country.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Myma always if you learn to drive in New York,
you can drive anywhere.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I feel like I can drive anywhere
now they have the rickshaws now.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
To Yeah I can.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
It's really expensive. You're like like fifteen dollar fifteen seconds.
I can't.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
I will never feel okay about a person. It's weird
acting like a.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Horse to me.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
It just makes it feels like I would the whole
time I'd be apologizing.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
I'd be asking if I could help.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
It would just make me watching the meters.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Let me interject. All right, so Liya's clowning me about
my swinky car choice case, my coach witch in Philadelphia.
I would never let my friends see me in such
a swinky, swinky car. So I have like my very
first scion and beat up sign. Oh my god, I
will never do you never give up your first car,
like I'm keeping that ship forever. I love that car. However, Yes,
(17:41):
I have a swink delicious car in New York because
I got to get around and go pointing in point B.
The reason why I got that swinky car was because
I learned the hard way. And this is pre uber
how cabs really won't stop for people of color. And
I was rushing to Penn station and a poor rickshaw
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guy had to take me. And this is when I
was like four hundred pounds.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
That was two hundred pounds ago.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
People, I'm there, I'm almost there. I got sixty pounds,
all right, So yeah, four hundred pound me and two
big giant kipling luggage bags. And the poor kid, I
was like, are you going to make it the Pend
station in an hour's I got this and cut to
like like he was. And the thing was on my
(18:31):
Twitter timeline, literally on my Twitter timeline. There was like
the narrative of the story. Like, guys, I could have
sworn I just saw a question inside of a bicycle
Rick on Fifth Avenue. It looked like him. Yo, dude,
I'm on forty second Street. I just saw yo, dog,
I'm on thirty second Street. I think you know. Poor guy,
(18:53):
Like listen, I missed the train, so it took him
that long to haul like five hundred pounds. Where the Yeah,
so that tip.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Of mirror you had, you had to bless.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Them, I am. I'm addicted to overtipping. That's that's one
of my And that's not even a humble brag, like
one of those people that get gets into those like
you know the pretty woman. Uh that watch costs two
thousand dollars. Oh yeah, I'll buy ninetyllion Like I'm one
of them people that will like defy you like I
(19:26):
have money. That that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
You know, sound engineers except tips.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
By the way, that's.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
What Derek said behind you.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
That's what Steves are a sound engineer at thirty Rock anyway,
So why is Chicago the who dubbed it the or
who christened it as the Comedy Epicenter, Like, why does
one have to go to Chicago?
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Yeah, I think it's just so.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
I think, well, there's a lot of theater in Chicago.
It's cheaper than New York. And is it la to live?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yeah, it's like five dollars probably. Oh my apartment cheaper,
fight dollar is cheaper.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Well, I was living in it was a weird little
artist studio, but it was and this was a lot
of money for me.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
But it was like six hundred dollars a month my rent.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
What year was that was two thousand Williamsburg of Chicago.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
No, this is old town.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Wow, I don't know the section, so like what would
your town be here?
Speaker 5 (20:28):
So that's uh, queen, I would never know. That's very
second city. But it was like a nice neighborhood. And
my first apartment it was a two bedroom. It was
bit and it was like we paid seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Uh, I had a roommate. Yeah, so we each paid.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
I mean second with your friends. I'm curious what it
was gone up? That's interesting.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
I mean I'm sure it's right. It's been a while,
but yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
No, so you what was your childhood like, like, what
was your come to Jesus moment with flirting with comedy?
Because I don't like when do people finally admit, like,
(21:15):
I want to be in comedy? Was it that you
wanted to be an actress for?
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
I did a lot of like straight theater growing up,
and I did a lot in Chicago. I did my
first professional show and they were all like dramatic musicals
growing up, and then I went to college. It wasn't
until college I went to cal Arts. Tonight, a teacher
I was doing a s from Angels in America because
(21:40):
when I was eighteen, everybody wanted to do Angels and
people were laughing. It's like, I'm wait being dramatic right now?
And then the teacher suggests that I take a class
at the ground Legs And.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
That was like I'd always I mean, I thought I
was funny, but I was also like, but I'm a
serious actor.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
What it is I really want to be series instead? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Yeah, yeah, well I think even now that's how I started.
I think like a lot of comedy is just human
beings feeling anything can be funny.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
That reminds me speaking of SNL. I didn't realize this
until maybe a week and a half ago that Will
Farrell and Kristen Wigg actually did a lifetime movie. Yes seriously,
like they did it.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I remembered it.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
They did it seriously, but as a tongue in chee. Yeah,
thing to be funny, really smart.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Yeah yeah, oh I love it.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
I mean they're both are they alumni from?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
No?
Speaker 6 (22:39):
No, they're Groundlings?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
See between Groundlings and Second City? They got both, So
of course why.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Will say l A Like Groundlings is very character based right,
and Chicago there's like, you know.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
So break it down to people because somebody, I feel.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Like I'm the worst to break it down, so this
will be very simplified. Probably comedy nerds will yell at me,
but so la Groundlings, it's all very charactery.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
And then New York improv is very like fast.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
It's closer to like what I would think of as
like when you hear British comedy or English comedy, you know.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
And then Chicago does weird you do.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Like the you know, we do slower artsy fartsy sometimes,
but but I would say like improv is more Chicago,
and sketch should be more La, and it feels like
when you're doing it in LA, you're doing it to
get a part TV jobs.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
So is there was there an end game for you
in entering Second City or pretty much people know that
the road that leads to s And.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Now I would never have ever said that.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Because I just don't like to set myself up to
be let down.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
I like to set the bar very low.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
But I, uh, I was just like, you know, if
I if this is what my life, if I get
to do like some shows every now and then and
at Second City and I out, if this is like
where the top that I get, I'd be happy.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
So what is the process? I'm only asking because of God?
How do I see this? Okay? So I once Okay,
So I once dated uh a comedian Okay, and uh
I felt, see, I have it miserable. I have. I have.
(24:37):
I have a relationship with failure, not as an f
work but as a learning experience. And I feel like
in your years of comedy, it's almost like if you
stay in your comfort zone and only perform for your
friends at like this one bar, you're not going to grow.
And I kind of had to tell her, like you
have to go like stop going to your normal where
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you know your peeps are and go to other spots
to see if it works there as well. And it
was kind of hard hitted about it and then really
got a life lesson. So she went to Second City?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Yeah, experimental spot.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Do you know? She left and went to Second City?
And I guess under the hopes of I'm ready, so
I know I'm gonna go to Second City and then
in three years I too can be Tina Fey like
that's what I think, or and maybe she's in there,
like you can.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Stay there, you can just chill, and yeah people do.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Because that's i mean, after you getting paid for shows.
So yeah, I guess that's your life's now.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Yeah, And what I want to know is that when
people come, first of all, what is the process of
Second City? Is it a school? Is it just like
what's the rehearsal?
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Most people and they say they're they've done Second City,
it's not that they've been on a stage. It's that
they've taken the US there or done their own shows there.
There's there's two main theaters. I mean, it could be
totally different now. Uh. And I was on a touring
company for a while and I did a cruise ship
for four months with the.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Regent, so a second city cruise ship.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
That was my first job with them, so it was
very exciting.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
But then, well then it's like you're on this ship
for four months, you're just like I was never on
land at night time, which sounds crazy to say, but
I really was like, I just want to have a
night on ground. But it was so it's like by
two months and I was like, I can't tell if
it's prisoner vacation. Uh, and you're doing like very watered
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down sketch comedy for.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
It was well, we ported in New York.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Was billed as the Second City players or.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I don't think they have the contract anymore.
But it was like the first job most people do
that second City.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
So that's the entry level.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Were there any other notable.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
So I was on the ship with Alex Moffatt, who's.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Wow, yeah yo his uh Trump's son.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Yeah, yeah, Eric, that's.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
My all time favorite. Yeah, like even when like I'll
rewatch his facial expressions while everyone it's some of the
best shit I've ever seen. Yeah, I love that. Yeah, Okay,
And so how long was it until I'm assuming either
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Higgins or someone discovers you and suggestions.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Actually I went I got hired through IO. So there's
a couple of theaters in Probalympic, but they have to
be called It was like so lawsuitors the Olympics, you
have to say ioh yeah, okay, But it was IO
where I got my I did my showcase for Lauren
and some of the writers.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Oh so you didn't have to go through the audition
process that.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
A no no I did, but it just was there.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Like they go to different theaters, not because it's second city.
It's only the people that are on the stages that'll
be seen by SNL.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
So wait, this is I'm sorry, I'm gonna askually like
a five year old. So this is a special show
that y'all will do because you know that they're coming.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
Yeah, and they do it in every in la I
think at different theaters they'll just be showcases pretty much.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
And I would be.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Showcases for SNL or just with people or yeah, yeah
for SNL.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Okay, but is it with other people in the audience
or just the seven of them in the audience?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (28:50):
No, other people?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
Yeah, my family was there and I thought I bombed
because they were so they were so nervous because they
were sitting near and lorn, and so their faces were
just like they were like ghost.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
I was like, wow, that bad.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Huh did you remember what you did? You remember your I.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Did like a lady from the cruise ship.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
I did her trying to bring a pineapple on the
boat or something. I think I did Sophia Vergara. Nothing great,
I don't know it was and I had never done
like I wasn't an impressionist really, but it was again like, oh,
I'm going to do something that scares me and just
kind of try this out. And I took a workshop
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on solo characters.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I would imagine that probably the best way to get
on the show is to be mouldable to be anything,
you know what I mean. Like it's instead of like, Okay,
I do a very specific Donald Trump and then like
what happens four years if that's out? Like, but you
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can be mouldable to be anything. So I almost feel
as though some people go into the process, like I
know people that have tried to go through the process,
that we're kind of stuck in a category in a corner,
and they weren't mouldible. Yeah, if you, because I believe
it's malleable.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
I looked at this first two times. The third time,
I'm like, it's malleable.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
I just didn't know what he was saying.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
No, no, no, I didn't even I wasn't even reaching
for malla.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
I'm just playing around, but it's malleable.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Right, I wasn't reaching for malleable. I actually thought, okay,
sort of like imagine, it's not a word, right, okay.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Like seventy eight other words.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I hear you say every day, the spirit of Bill
is always here.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Here we go, malleable. Thank you. I wasn't even reaching
for that, but yes, malleable, and you just.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Thought it was a word I don't hear every time.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Yeah, this I appreciate this. This reminds me of the
time when the Roots let me go all day wearing
a shirt backwards and inside out. So when I got
home and went in the mirror, I was like, wait
a minute, oh ship. And then next day I was like, yo,
why the fucking y'all tell me my shirt was backwards
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in the inside out, And they were like, oh, we thought.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
To hear Multiple's cool. I'll start saying it if you
want me.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
To know, but I will. I now know that multible
is not a word.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
No, good to know that the same meaning though multiple
and that's the.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Same meaning, it's not one's not a word.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
So then okay, okay, let's go back to Chicago pizza.
So anyway, No, well, what I'm asking is, uh, I
believe correct me if I'm wrong. Wasn't your first show,
The Mick Jagger Season Closer? I remember your entry.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
I remember, No, that was Kate who did like five
episodes of that season, And I think, yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
You did, you did? I could have sworn I saw
you on a season closer, Like I thought. It was
weird that I tweeted out, wait, who's this person? I
don't know this person? And then someone said you, uh, well,
well you're not a cast member.
Speaker 6 (32:18):
What is it called a the feature player?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Feature player? But when did you come in into the show?
Was it the tail end of a previous show?
Speaker 3 (32:27):
No?
Speaker 5 (32:27):
Was the start of season thirty eight twenty twelve?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
How many seasons? Lord, this is beautiful?
Speaker 1 (32:34):
More than forty five minutes beauty?
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, so a long time. So okay, so you didn't
have to go through the process of just being in
the room with seven people.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
And No, I still had so I we had that
showcase and then we did like a weird speed dating
thing in Chicago where a couple of us from that
showcase went to go sit with the producers born and
pretend that was normal. And then then we got flown
out eighty and I. I sort of got to go
through everything with eighty though, okay, which was really nice because.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I was going to ask you because Lauren is a
very I don't know him at all. I've been in
a room where he is, and he seems like someone
who is he could be intimidating. Yeah, so when you
first met because you just said, you know, I did
speed dating, Lauren was there, but really you weren't intimidating
and how No.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
I definitely was.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
I couldn't tell you what I said at that table.
I remember talking about Trader Joe's.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
That's where I go.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah, I'm not going to right now. I mean, are
you allowed to? Okay, this is the tester. This is
how I know if a person's cool or not.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
Oh no, I'm going to fail.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Are you allowed to have popcorn?
Speaker 6 (33:46):
His popcorn?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Everyone is? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Oh okay, well then I'm not everyone.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Well, well, the meeting.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
In between the meeting, in between dress and air, there's
a big basket of popcorn.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Right, Yeah, okay, but that's showtime. But I'm talking about
off show hours.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
He got it in his office or something.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
He keeps it in off yees.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Yeah, that's important.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
I mean, I'm sure he'd let me just so he
wouldn't have to say no. But I don't know that
i'd go knock on his door and ask for his popcorn.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Okay, I was the type of person.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
That's where you were from.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
No, actually I brought well, I I purchased three big
ass bags of popcorn and brought him in Lawrence. That
was my first meeting with Lauren. You purchased, I would
there was once on forty eighth Street House of Popcorn.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
He didn't charge you for his popcorn though, No. Okay,
I brought checking brought just in case he's.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I brought my own. No, I brought it for him
because I knew that, like the popcorn was a big thing.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
But yeah, I didn't get better. You say it, But
that was great.
Speaker 6 (34:59):
It's a good move.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Great move. He's the ask the kids shit, right, I
mean right, we.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
All agree in eight years, do you feel comfortable now?
Is there's still tense if he's if you know he's
in proximity watching, Uh, and I mean eight years you're
very established?
Speaker 6 (35:17):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Yeah, I can you feel established?
Speaker 6 (35:20):
I get? I mean yes? And no?
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Who can? Ever?
Speaker 1 (35:23):
You always feel like a hand on the guiltine button, like, oh.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
No, I don't feel like he'll fi.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
I guess it's more about the audience where I'm like,
I still don't know what they find funny if it's
sort of like it's still a I don't know what's
gonna work at dress.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
So some things work to dress that didn't work on
the show in the opposite.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, or things that like I find very
funny that it turns out it's only me.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
So how does this? So how does this work? Because
you're you're a writer, So how often do you do
your the things that you write get to be a
part of the show, Like, what's the percentage of that?
Speaker 5 (36:00):
If it's usually like if there's something on update, then
it's something I've written, And then I've gotten a lot
to dress this year and not a lot.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
To air the dummies.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
Okay, so we get things cut for time.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
I have a question about the schedule because actually, like
he and I sort of quasi sort of follow this schedule.
I'll schedule my life during the SNL season to sort
of coincide with what you guys are doing. So, like
Steve and I will like work Saturday afternoons in my
studio downstairs in my dressing room, and usually I'll be
(36:37):
done in time to go watch the tapic.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Yeah, so usually our schedule is pretty multible, but season
trying multiple, so that's nice.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Yes, multiple anyway, So I know that from striking up
a friendship with Tim Robinson. Yeah, when he was writing
on the show, he explained to us that you guys
do what eight dress or a thirty dress? Eight eight
(37:11):
a dress which is a longer.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Show y'all are so cute dress short for dress rehearsals,
dress rehearsal. Okay, thank you, okay, just for me, just
for you know, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
There's eight o'clock dress rehearsal.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
You forget. I know, this is not enormous.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
It's not your fault.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Language with more, with more sketches in it. And I
guess who is the deciding committee on who makes it
or doesn't make it to the final eleven thirty show.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
It's there's a there's a room that I've only been
in once, and it's the people in that room, but
it's mainly it's Lauren.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Higgins and crew. Yeah, okay, So is there like the
high school? All right? So what word am I looking for?
Where they place the zi gazaar? No, the high the
high school?
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Where you put the board?
Speaker 6 (38:04):
Or there is a bulletin board.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
A bulletin board, That's what I was looking for. So
or is it? Now? With technology, you guys just get
alerts of what your schedule is.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
No, and I wouldn't know how to get that anyway.
Speaker 5 (38:15):
There is people have like an app where they can
watch their sketches, and I'm blown away by that.
Speaker 6 (38:22):
I'll never get it. Okay, I just don't know how.
I have the burner number. And that's it.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
So when they put up when the person puts up
the bulletin board, notice, then you all run like it's
high school to see what made it, what didn't made it?
Speaker 5 (38:36):
Well, you we all go into it's called the meeting,
and we'll get notes and you just kind of look
at it and you try not to show too much
how heartbroken you are when your sketch is.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
I was going to say that side now again, with
failure being the f word or an education process, how
should one in the most non diplomatic way you can
do it without jeopardizing yourself. But like, how should one
take failure as a writer or as a person on
(39:13):
the show if their sketch doesn't make it to eleven thirty?
Speaker 6 (39:17):
I mean it always it's funny.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
Some hurt more than others, and it's so like embarrassing
how much sketch comedy you can be so emotional and
tim and I used to joke because some things get
cut during the show. You know, there's we always we
usually go on a little long, so you may be
dressed just like a complete asshole, waiting to go your
(39:39):
like dressed as a pumpkin or something, ready to do
your sketch about farts, and then they say over the
thing like that's been cut and you're just standing there
like crying, dressed like a pumpkin.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Is that because of overages? Okay, overages case in point.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
I was I think that's a word, by the way,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
I was watching all right, I was watching a Debbie
Downer sketch. Yeah, that obviously went way over. Then it's
a lot of time, but because of the laughter and
all that stuff, to get to the end, somebody has
to get sacrificed, right, So are sketches based on a
specific time hoping that it doesn't run over?
Speaker 6 (40:24):
Or yeah?
Speaker 5 (40:26):
I mean usually if you're like in the last or
second to last spot, you're sort of just waiting to
hear the whole night and there will be time.
Speaker 6 (40:36):
Like during the Chance show, there was an.
Speaker 5 (40:40):
Issue with the wires and I just remember I was
dangling there for so long and I was like, this, something's.
Speaker 6 (40:46):
Getting cut for this.
Speaker 5 (40:47):
I was going to say, now I'm dangling here, I
know something's getting cut for this.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Which leads me to the Tuesday night pitch. Now the one,
the thing, the thing that I always and let me
explain for our Listenershiggins on our show, jimmy sidekick on
our show, is one of the main producers of SNL.
So him doing the tonight show is sort of like
me doing a DJ gig from the roots, Like that's
his side hustle. He doesn't have to do it, but
(41:12):
you know, it's something to do and it keeps some
sharp comedy wise or whatever. However, the thing I always
ask about, Higgins, the thing that I'm most curious about
are how sketches are pitched on Tuesday Night to whoever
the designated host is. How do you do it in
such a quickly executed time? How do you explain a
(41:36):
sketch that really depends on physicality? Because that chance sketch
that you speak of was really I mean, what made
it hilarious was the fact that you guys were trapped
in mid air and these wires crashing all over the place.
So how is that conveyed at a table well that
(41:58):
they say, yes, that work.
Speaker 6 (42:00):
They I've never had to do that.
Speaker 5 (42:05):
We have pitched Monday, but usually that's like you're just
meeting the host sort of and seeing what they find funny,
or just hearing them speak or seeing them for the
first time in person, and then we write on Tuesday.
And I don't normally talk to the host on Tuesday
because I think then they may say like, oh, that
(42:26):
sounds fun, and what if I do this and you're
kind of like, oh.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Are we there every day? Yeah, from Monday till yeah, Saturday. Yeah,
now we can bring in the time lamps thing.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
Wait, but before we will before we do that. Does
that mean that comedian hosts are harder, way harder. Yeah, okay,
so then this weekend would be really hard coming up. Okay, well,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
I don't know. I mean, the thing is is that
Eddie Okay, we're obviously speaking before the you know, the
the Eddie Murphy, the grand return of Eddie Murphy to Essenel,
of which I think that because he's such because he's
such a maverick at his job, that he would know
(43:19):
to sort of go along with the climate of the
room as opposed to now. I was there. I was
there during the whole Chappelle hosting situation, and once I
saw Neil Brennan in the hallway, I was like, oh boy.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
The comedians bring their own Oh my writers, that's the clusterfuck.
You know, it's sort I don't sometimes, Yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (43:41):
Think like this week is actually I feel like I
can kind of sit back because it'll be very much
about and like, I think that's exciting and what he
wants to do, and I'll probably do like free are
you well?
Speaker 1 (43:57):
Only Okay? What makes in my opinion, what makes his
Dolomite film work is he's actually kind of a straight guy.
It's it's his re It's like the planets that the
stars that surround and the moons that surround his planet
(44:18):
is what really makes that film funny, like and he's
reacting to.
Speaker 3 (44:23):
Wes makes it fun Yeah, you're right like other.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
People, And you know, I think that you guys are
on such a role like I now consider as an
SNL expert, that your era SNL will be considered like
a high Mark cast season, the way that we looked
at the ninety eight cast with with Fallon and Tita Fey,
(44:49):
and the way that people look at the class of
ninety one or seventy five like people have specific eras
of right there, that was the Chicago Bulls of you guys. Now,
you guys now have your own rhythm when coming with
each other. So I think it would just behove any
host to join the gang as opposed to disrupt them.
Speaker 3 (45:13):
I don't know, Eddie might be what do you think
that's because I mean, I have I don't know what
will happen, but I assume.
Speaker 6 (45:19):
I mean because it's his first time coming back and
he was.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
Just he's never hosted.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
Eighty four was the last time he hosted when Beverly
Hills Cop came out. Wow, And the first time he
host it was inadvertently when Nick Nolty. Nick Nolty was
the only person to drop out of the show like
the Friday before, like I'm not doing this, and so
they were.
Speaker 6 (45:41):
Like yeah when he was on the cast.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
Yeah, so they're like, well, Eddie, you're in the movie too,
so you hosted and that became a game changer for him,
Like so.
Speaker 3 (45:51):
You really are an expert.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
I only know because Soul Train came on at one
a m. And SoulTrain came on right after SNL, So
it's like you watch SNL at eleven thirty and then
one am finally soul Train comes on. But if there
were a VCR back then I would have probably just
recorded SoulTrain and not cared about SNL as much.
Speaker 3 (46:13):
Wait, so on that note, just question to you are
you were you a fan? Were you a Jane Curtin,
Gilda reantn or like yeah you were all in?
Speaker 5 (46:22):
Yeah, we had I definitely want My mom had me
watch like Gilda's show, her Broadway show on tape. I
had vhs of like SNL's commercials that I wore out
pretty much. I like to Tracey.
Speaker 3 (46:40):
I mean I watched a bunch of different Did you
have a favorite grownd now class Like, I'm mi're just it.
Speaker 5 (46:45):
I really enjoyed every iteration I think up until like
you're eighteen or whatever and you're too cool for SNL
for a while.
Speaker 6 (46:56):
You know, I'm never busy.
Speaker 5 (46:58):
You're busy, busy, very busy, cool popular.
Speaker 6 (47:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:06):
So okay. I got to bring up two specific I
say specific specific sketches that you did that I felt like,
we're really mind blowing. One for the physical comedy when
you do Fox News as a Yeah, Piero, I don't
care if I mispronounce it in dress rehearsal, did you
(47:33):
go that hard with the spectaques and the falling on
the floor.
Speaker 6 (47:38):
Yeah, yeah, definitely you all right.
Speaker 1 (47:41):
I was in the audience. And so to see you
it's one thing watching on television, if you're at home
watching the Angle of It, that's one thing. But to
see you actually put yourself in physical danger, just like
that second fall out the chair. There's two moments where
she you know, well it's not a double take, but
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you threw yourself out the chair, right.
Speaker 5 (48:05):
I mean I had a giant Matt and I made
sure to practiced it a lot beforehand, and I was
very like serious about it, like you promised me time
to practice throwing myself out of a chair, and I
need this time to do that.
Speaker 1 (48:21):
You did it on the floor, like elsewhere.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
On the floor, because you only have that.
Speaker 5 (48:25):
I just needed to see like the space, you know,
seeing what you can do at that desk. You nailed
it because my shoes flew off on accident, I thought,
And then I was like, oh, I got to keep that.
Speaker 6 (48:38):
Then I had to try to flick my shoe off air.
Speaker 1 (48:41):
Okay, I was. It was spittal and perfect. But the
other thing is you're Barbara Streiss and jingle Bells reradition
now as a as a person who's whose band member
is known for his breath control. The first thing I
noticed was that you hardly breath all these words. How
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do you how long do you prepare a sketch or
how long do you prepare bits? Well?
Speaker 5 (49:13):
That one Brian Tucker, I got a text from him
at like two am with that song and he said,
I just heard this in a cab and I think
this would be really funny if you want to do it,
And so then I just I was like number one.
That's very funny that Brian Tucker is sending me a
Barbars Streissen song. And then, uh, if I just started practicing,
(49:34):
I mean it was just like, I'll my neighbors probably
think I'm insane because I'll just be singing things.
Speaker 6 (49:41):
Like that over a note repeat on loop. Yeah yeah,
at night time in my primary Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:48):
Yeah, Malcolm Gladwell hours like, there's no way, Like I
put the I put it on Spotify myself, and I
was like, there's no way that she learned this in
less than a month or year, Like I thought that
was something in your repertoire.
Speaker 5 (50:01):
No, No, it's just when you're a lunatic, I think,
And you don't sleep, You've got all those hours in
the night.
Speaker 1 (50:09):
You are a lunatic.
Speaker 3 (50:11):
Yeah, Cecy, you never took singing like serious series.
Speaker 5 (50:15):
I mean I sang because, but it was never like
a singer singer. No, And there's a lot of singing
I can't do, so I'm more like I can do
sketch comedy singing.
Speaker 1 (50:28):
Speaking of which, what's the determining factor of when you
guys warm up the crowd? Is it that? In my mind?
I thought that was like, oh, this is when like
you're new to the NBA and the freshman on the
new team had to carry all the bags. So when
they warm up the crowd, Keenan does his old Soul
(50:54):
review routine and usually three of the SNL ladies will
be his pips, so it'll be like his version of
Glass Night and the Pips and they dress up for
it and all this other they get.
Speaker 3 (51:05):
They never never changed.
Speaker 1 (51:06):
They no, no, it's just a warm up thing.
Speaker 3 (51:08):
Okay, So that's what I mean for the warm up.
They always do the same warm up.
Speaker 1 (51:11):
Yeah, but I mean the audience isn't crazy like me
and be there every week, so it's new to everybody. Right,
it's new to everyone. But what is the process of that.
It's like if you're new, you have to sing? Or
is it like how do you guys negotiate it? Are
they told like, well, it's my week to sing?
Speaker 6 (51:29):
Or no, no, I uh.
Speaker 5 (51:32):
I did it for four five years or something and
then it was but you singh give me some lovin right,
and there was like I Now the newer girls do it,
especially because if the cold open is coming, to do
that warm up and then to go right into the
cold open can be kind of tough, and a lot
of times Kate will be wearing crazy prosthetics or something.
Speaker 1 (51:55):
So then yeah, I was wondering, now do you guys
run with just three seconds left to right?
Speaker 5 (52:01):
So it's but I was definitely like, I am done
to you. I broke my foot one year right before
the show started, so I got out of warm ups
and then it was kind of like.
Speaker 6 (52:13):
Can I stay?
Speaker 1 (52:14):
I like this? Speaking of out, you were in the
coveted anchorchair of weekend Updates. Yeah, yeah, exactly, thank you
and then you well because of you, I guess we
now have Michael j. But why would you give up
(52:37):
such a coveted spot?
Speaker 5 (52:38):
Well, I think it was doing it with Seth, who
was so established, made it feel like I could just
go in and it was already a thing that I
just could sort of slide into. And then when he left,
it was Colin and I and it was like, clearly
this needs to now we have to figure this whole new.
Speaker 6 (53:00):
Thing out and kem and it was just.
Speaker 5 (53:02):
Like that the what that would have taken if that
was really exhausting and sort of like, I don't know
that I want to spend my time now just figuring
out what update's going to be. So there were a
lot of talks with Lauren and you know, and it
was it wasn't an easy decision necessarily, but it was
(53:24):
I think absolutely the right one.
Speaker 1 (53:26):
So would would doing Does doing update require that you
really have to have a chemistry with whoever your partner
is on the show.
Speaker 5 (53:35):
And well, I think it was because he was so
new too, so it was like two new people trying
and it was just like I just would rather I missed.
Speaker 6 (53:45):
I just want to do.
Speaker 3 (53:46):
Get more fun. You do more fun to do the care.
Speaker 1 (53:49):
You can't do both. You can't do update and characters.
Speaker 5 (53:52):
I think if if Seth had stayed longer, I would
have I could have stayed longer because it was I
didn't we didn't have all they make something new? Yeah,
but is it rare though when we think about it,
like it feels like the folks who always do we
can update do the least other stuff? Right because Amy
did a lot right, Well, dang you, Yeah, Amy did
do a lot. But I think like once you had
(54:14):
but just to try to figure out what that new
dynamic was going to be just felt like pretty daunting
and and and exciting, but not what I was wanted
to do on the show the most I see.
Speaker 4 (54:32):
He's like so curious about SNL man, like I'm gonna
get past it. I'm not knocking it. I'm just saying
that's a very cute, adorable child, like.
Speaker 6 (54:42):
Very good to go see a message.
Speaker 4 (54:44):
Now he sees like Cremony's and.
Speaker 5 (54:46):
It's like there's nothing I truly am like. It's very
flattering and exciting.
Speaker 4 (54:52):
You can hear him laughing in the audience sometimes, Okay, that's.
Speaker 2 (55:00):
No.
Speaker 1 (55:01):
I told them, like, don't sit me the mic that
they put me under. But the mic is as close
to my seat as the microphone right now that I'm
sitting in. Wow. And so occasionally Jimmy will hit me
like my thing, like really you thought that you thought
that you thought that Harry Potter joke was really that
funny of me?
Speaker 3 (55:19):
Here?
Speaker 1 (55:20):
Really? Really? Yeah? I always get out it with with
my laughter, so I try to have you done. Here's
the weird thing. And speaking of when things get cut,
we were weird enough. Yeah, always brides me, never bride
you answer. We were we were busters banned weird enough
(55:44):
hosted by Donald Trump. We were Yeah, we were Buster
rhymes has been uh on his on the ninety on
his ninety nine show, I think hosted by damn Why
did I fold down on this rabbit? No? No, that
was just give me some more period. Uh okay, do
(56:09):
I really want to try to figure out this? No?
He's in George of the Jungle.
Speaker 3 (56:15):
One. Wait the Last Live? Was he your voice?
Speaker 2 (56:18):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (56:19):
Come on, I don't do this to me.
Speaker 1 (56:20):
He was also in the movie in which the woman
was the Devil. She's real sexy. She has an English accent.
Speaker 3 (56:28):
Elizabeth Hurley, Yes, you're right.
Speaker 1 (56:30):
Yeah, yes, Brandon Fraser.
Speaker 5 (56:33):
Okay, we can play Elizabeth Hurley.
Speaker 1 (56:38):
Yeah, anyway, So yeah, the Brandon Fraser Show and then
the Donald Trump Show, in which we did an album
with two to the Maytales Quinn Stefani.
Speaker 3 (56:55):
So does he know you want to be in a skit?
Because I know probably know norybody else.
Speaker 1 (57:02):
No. I My my love of the show is actually
watching two things I love. I love watching the panic
whoever your wardrobe, lady, is that or not? The wardrobe?
Speaker 6 (57:14):
Yeah, the one that wrangles.
Speaker 1 (57:15):
Yeah, that's my favorite thing to watch, Like to watch
her grab after monologue's done. She will grab you by
the collar and yeah, that to me. Watching the machine
run is my favorite shit.
Speaker 3 (57:31):
Ever, it's still on some VIP shit because I'm like
other shows sn ling, the kind of show where you
can be like, yes, can I get on the list
for next month show?
Speaker 1 (57:40):
However, my second favorite thing is I love I love
throwing off the audience clap when it's time for the end,
so the band will try to teach them all the time.
Speaker 5 (57:54):
If they're ever off watching the band, you know that's
so disappointed in the eye dance.
Speaker 1 (58:01):
It's not the audience. It's not the audience.
Speaker 3 (58:03):
Really, it's me, because it's.
Speaker 1 (58:07):
It doesn't sense up.
Speaker 6 (58:10):
They go so fast.
Speaker 1 (58:12):
I'm the one in the audience that's speeding up the clap,
knowing that the nine.
Speaker 3 (58:16):
People next to me, So what are you doing about? Now?
Speaker 1 (58:19):
I'm sitting in the audience and I'm speeding up the
clap knowing that thirteen to fourteen people next to me
are going to speak clat with me, and then so
on and so on and so on, and then I
mess it up. Every time it's messed up, you know,
you know to look up in the valcony, be like
I got.
Speaker 6 (58:38):
To tell the band, no, don't do that.
Speaker 1 (58:39):
Please, please don't do that? All right, My last question
is that most people use sen L as the springboard
two other careers. We're actually now on SNL is actually
(59:01):
a cool end game. Yeah, I mean Keenan's on his
twentieth year, I believe. Yeah, yeah, so wow, I've.
Speaker 3 (59:09):
Been that Kean. Yeah, but it works for him straight
from Goudburger just punce.
Speaker 6 (59:13):
Yeah, I mean he's a genius.
Speaker 3 (59:15):
Yeah, but that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (59:16):
It works for him, like and so, but I mean
I'm certain that people had like, well, you know, Eddie
Murphy did it, Sandler did it. You know, Tina Fey
did Like for you, do you have a vision board?
And I'm not asking for like this is your last year,
but do you have a vision board that you might
(59:40):
consider Like, Okay, the end of this particular sentence will
happen this particular year and then I'm going to develop
this show or direct this movie or Yeah.
Speaker 5 (59:51):
I mean, I think there's a there's a lot of
things I'd like to be doing. Some things you can
do at the same time, so of it'll just depend on, uh,
when it feels right to go. But there's a lot
of things I'd like to be doing, like a lot
of different things. I think I brought up a project
(01:00:11):
to you once that I wanted you to do that.
Speaker 6 (01:00:14):
I'm still hoping.
Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
Are you, oh, we're proposisiting each other now? Yes? Yeah, yeah,
Yes'm I'm the king of yes. And then Steve laughs.
That mean, like, when you're going to fit the senior schedule.
Speaker 3 (01:00:27):
Can you be the king of follow up?
Speaker 6 (01:00:29):
The schedule is always tough. Yeah, and it's the worst.
Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
Yeah, So do you plan your summers early? Like, are
you a I need some charge.
Speaker 6 (01:00:37):
Because so many things fall apart.
Speaker 5 (01:00:39):
I mean in this just in this industry, you think
you're doing one thing, so then you don't plan for
something else, and then that falls apart. So it's really
just like it's it's very frustrating. And then to know
that I am taken from September to May, that's really tough.
Speaker 6 (01:00:57):
So that'll sort of be the decide factor.
Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
If there is an important enough offer, are you giving
leeway to take this week off?
Speaker 5 (01:01:11):
And then I think now they've been more lenient. I
mean maybe I shouldn't say that out loud, but it
seems like it that they're that they're letting us sort
of do that a little bit more to some seniority
kind of Yeah, and I think it's I think he
(01:01:33):
likes having an established cast and having people that know
each other, and it's sort of like, if that's how
to keep people, that maybe is the way to go.
Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
Well, it's like Lawrence Scorsese's like, I gotta have you
as DeNiro's daughter and the Irish man. Can you do
it these reasons?
Speaker 6 (01:01:50):
I think then Lauren would make me.
Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
I love it. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Okay, cool.
Oh one last thing. I was there when you did
the last uh I say, the last White House Correspondents dinner.
Speaker 6 (01:02:06):
Oh yeah, what was.
Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
That like for you?
Speaker 5 (01:02:09):
It was so it was terrifying because they asked me
in August or something and it's not till April, so
I had like months to doubt myself and think about failing.
But it was like again, I'm a big Obama head,
and it was like I just and everyone was like,
don't do it. Nobody liked you never win. You don't
(01:02:31):
win in that room. The best you can do is
break even. But I was like, but it's Obama, so
I have to do it. People or no industry people. Yeah, yeah,
we're definitely trying to talk me out of it.
Speaker 1 (01:02:44):
I see people remember that. People just remember that you
did it, I mean, or unless you really want to
make a mark, like Michelle Wolf and like really laid
it down. But I thought it was great.
Speaker 3 (01:02:54):
It was a few in the pass.
Speaker 6 (01:02:55):
I really killed it.
Speaker 3 (01:02:56):
But now you did you say it? I'm like, I
can't even remember who was I killed it?
Speaker 6 (01:02:59):
So yeah, yeah, right, well I think had a big one.
Speaker 3 (01:03:02):
Yeah, which one was? Do you that Obama wrapped?
Speaker 6 (01:03:07):
I don't know, but Keegan was there. That was when
I was there.
Speaker 5 (01:03:10):
That was like, oh great, that was right before I go, oh,
that was the same one.
Speaker 3 (01:03:14):
Yeah, that was a good night though.
Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
It was. Yeah, I thought it was excellent. I thought
it was it was tasteful, it.
Speaker 5 (01:03:19):
Was very it was cool, and it was the first
it was I brought like fifteen people, my entire family
and my grandfather and grandmother in Arlington National Cemetery Colonel
Cecils Struck And it was the first time I went
with my dad to his parents' graves.
Speaker 6 (01:03:36):
So that was it was a very emotional trip as well.
Speaker 1 (01:03:40):
That's awesome. Well, I'm glad you made that decision and
not to listen to anyone that helped you talk to
yourself out of a yeah, a great opportunity.
Speaker 5 (01:03:49):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I'm always going to take the
chance to sit next to Michelle Obama.
Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
That's a small group of people who asked to do that,
so that's a big honor.
Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
Well especially, I thank you for coming to the show
and Molding.
Speaker 4 (01:04:08):
We looked it up multiples in actual words.
Speaker 3 (01:04:10):
Sorry, thanks again. Derek in the clinch.
Speaker 1 (01:04:14):
Derek Man, you come through in the clutch.
Speaker 6 (01:04:16):
Man, you want to get that to thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:04:20):
Todd Rendren would be very mad.
Speaker 1 (01:04:26):
Oh, thank you. I appreciate you coming in the show.
Speaker 6 (01:04:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
You're definitely one of my favorite players, and I appreciate
you enlightening our audience. All Right, kids, that's another episode
of Quest Love Supreme on BF of Laya Sugar Steve
the spelling Steve your new name, I heayd Bill. I
guess one of these days Manuel Miranda will let you
(01:04:53):
come back to work and Fantigolo. Hope you don't get
you know, the throat cancer with the cigarettes. Hopefully you'll
come back this Quest Love and oh my fault, how
you doing, Boss Bill? I hope we did you proud.
We will see you. We will see you next week
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there were three A mimic Supreme.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Supreme, Supreme roll Call, Supreme Supreme.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
So.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Supreme roll Cecily's a rth Yeah, and she'd be strong. Yeah,
Oh my god, I just messed up my own roll
call Supreme Supreme. That's how it is. Supreme Supreme roll Call.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
My name is Sugar.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I been waiting so long, Yeah to profess my love
for yeah Cecily von Ziegazaar.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Supreme Supreme roll Call, Supreme cut Supreme roll call.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah, Yeah, Damn, I messed up too. I'm gonna say
horney to you.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Monday Supremo Roll Supremo, Supremo roll.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Well, I'm sessling. Yeah, I feel kind of dumb. YEA
hope I don't ruin this show. Yeah before it.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Suprima Supremo roll pre Wait a minute, premu.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Should we know we stopped? Stop stop, mut yeah or
mute it. We just got murdered on our own. This
is somenas jay z ship, where like Eminem murdered us
on our I said, I think you kind of fumbled
(01:49):
on the lid. Can you pronounce it fully? Did my
name or name I thought you're referencing a middle name
or something.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Zegas are if I'm pronouncing I don't know, it's not that. Okay,
that's not her, she wrote. Cecily wrote the novels that
became Gossip Girl.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Wait, how do you know that, Steve?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I looked up famous Cecilyes to try and get some
ideas from.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Really be doing your Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Did you know this before he references? Did this take
you by surprise as well?
Speaker 5 (02:24):
No, I mean it took I forgot who there's a
there's a couple of Cecilies.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Yeah, there's not that many in history.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
To be honest with you, I ran it.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
With cecil That's why I'm cly.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah, Cicily, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Well, yeah, this is a sad love for someone Supreme,
because messing up our theme is such a rarity.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
You know, it may feel very comfortable. I will say,
I feel it feel at home.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
You did awesome?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Okay, Well, I'll give you that point advantage, Steve, out
of this.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
We messed up there.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And gentlemen, welcome to another edition of Anemic Supreme, brought
to you by the only One, uh quest Love. We're
at iHeartRadio streaming on all four mats that you get
your podcast goodies. Uh, we have light ya in the
house and we have sugar. Steve shout out to unpaid
Bill and yeah, fon ticcolos out getting cigarette still, he
(03:24):
said he returned one day. Uh, yeah, we're.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Waiting and Boss Bill, we're like three Oh, Boss Bill,
that's right, half a six pack.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, So what rules can we break now that we
can eat?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
We could do I'm supposed to. No, I can't. I'm
supposed to be in charge, so I got to show
some order. So no, guys, we're thinking by the rules.
We talked to Cecily, and we don't go into the.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Can eat my breakfast right now?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Like, well, knowing you you got some little birds, so
would you go.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
To No, it's good, it's good anyway, ladies and gentlemen,
our yesterday. I'm very very honored to have uh what
I when I when I mentioned my play of employment,
I refer to it as thirty Rocky University. I consider
it a college, a post grad school. I consider it
(04:11):
life lessons. And it's always an honor to pick the
brain of fellow thirty Rock thirty Rockians, especially those that
are in the upper echelon of the eighth floor of
the institution otherwise known as Saturday Night Live. I will say,
in the last eight years, our guest today has given
(04:32):
me some of my favorite moments on the show. Ever,
I try not to stalk her dms with praise over
that night's performance, But I'm the nerd that's always like
somewhere in the audience judging every show your characters alone,
I mean your story, Stormy Daniels, your Melania Trump, your
(04:52):
Lynn Manuel.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Was That's why I'm really mad that freaking Bill's not here.
Bill's a fellow Amal tonight. Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, please
welcome the original Cecily Strong. Yes, we're very happy to
How are you today?
Speaker 6 (05:12):
I'm around cold, it's called this weather is bad.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It is hell, especially where we work. Yeah, getting to work?
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Are you an American Gladiator around this time of year?
Speaker 6 (05:25):
Like trying to get into that building it is.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah, it's the hardest thing in the world. I try.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
They're firing house. You know how they did that on
American Gladiator? Yes, yeah, I know how you very familiar.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Do you are you a subway to work person? Are
you a walk to work.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
I'm walk to work.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Oh say see, oh god you you oh you followed
the rules. Wow. Okay. So when I first started working here,
I naturally thought, okay, I'll move to Brooklyn or whatever. Yeah,
my management is like not if it was up to them,
like Steve wants joke, like they want you to live
at thirty one rockefell As just you know, just in case,
(06:03):
because it's almost like being on call to be a
doctor or whatever, like you have.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
To immediately and just as important.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah it no, well it is actually used.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah what you do? I mean you too, But I
was just saying that what she does, like it's the institution,
So yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I feel like an on call doctor like you pretty
much if they call you, you have to be there
within like a half hour for anything. I don't know
if it's that way all year round for you though.
I mean once the.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Seasons are oh yeah no, then I they're not allowed.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
You have something to break. Yeah you have two phones then.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they don't get the other number.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Shout out to two phones.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
So I told you, okay, I but I do have
a burner number. That's kind of exciting.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Oh my god, you're like a character on the wire.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah did you get.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
No, it's on my phone.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
But it's because I use so many apps like or
during thing, I don't time out.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Okay, so I'm about to reveal my age. You're telling
me that I can get a Burner number and still
on my.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Phone absolutely for free, and have two numbers on this phone. Yeah,
I know you could do that. Well, is that like
the Google phone number thing you're saying, No.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
It's similar, but it's its own app and you you
can just.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Like if a tender date goes good, then you can
give your real number real exactly and if it does
it it's.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Great not having to give out your real number. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Well see, now's the point. My burner, my fake phone
was my bat phone was once the coveted phone, and
then for some reason, now I've given everybody my bat number.
So my real number, like, no one calls that anymore.
Oh yeah, so I dubbed that mom phone.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
That's one number.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
It's mainly.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
We learn quick this. Yeah you know, I don't. Yeah,
that's mom phone. Only talked to my mother on that phone. Okay,
So what got you here? Where were you born?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
I was born in Springfield, Illinois?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Okay, so too outsiders of the Midwest US East Coasters.
In our minds, it's either Chicago or not Chicago, right.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
So it's definitely not Chicago.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
How not Chicago is it?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
It's very not Chicago. I mean not only was there
for a year and a half. Okay, so I can't
say I remember much of Springfield. It's the capital of Illinois. Well,
pretty exciting.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Also where the Simpsons live.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
And I actually I saw that's a I think that's
where Barack Obama announced Joe Biden as his VP in
two thousand.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
And you were there to see it, you know it
three and a half hours.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I see Abraham freezing.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
An Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Yeah, a role gossip girl.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
I looked up famous Abraham's.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Souh you only lived there a year and a half
in that and then.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Right outside of Chicago, okay, park.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Are you okay?
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Anybody that's did you say Simpsons?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Yeah, he's so that's why Springfold.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Well, no, that was just a weird coincidence.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
So yeah, there's two questions about Chicago. One or as
as a resident. Are you sort of dismayed at the
sort of hashtag what about Chicago staying that's on the
city right now, or at least the kind of the
the the cloud that looms over the idea of Chicago,
(09:44):
Like what is your version of Chicago.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
It's weird because I when I, I mean, I grew up.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
I did a lot of theater in Chicago as a kid.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
And then I was my.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Dad worked and pr and Chicago and did a lot
for the Democratic Party. And again, when I think of Chicago,
it's all like Obama for me because that's the years
I was there. I think it's always And I have
a good friend, my little sister. She's my fake little
sister from the South Side, so of course her experience
was very different than mine growing up.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
But I think, wait a minute, I'm sorry, I just
we have to acknowledge like I only felt like black
people had like play cousins and family and lets it's.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
In the program. Is she an official little sister?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Okay, didn't Yeah, okay, we play cousins do okay?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
No?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
You know what it was like I met her.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
I just I lost a friend, uh to a drug overdose,
and she lost her older brother, uh, which is part
of Chicago too, And it was kind.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Of like we had like the universe gave.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Y'all just met us to each other to this day.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Oh yeah, she's coming this weekend. College young she's uh,
she feels.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Like she's like fifteen years younger sometimes, but she's about
five years younger.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
So you're motherly.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Well, I'm an older I'm not motherless, never designated driver,
just older sister.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Okay, I see, Actually what I want to know. I
don't think we've interviewed anyone in the comedy world from
Chicago on the show. I don't think we have. What
is it?
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Why is something to do with mustard and ketchup and
hot talks?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
No, that's that's a letter. I want to know why
ketchup is not allowed on You know, I.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Don't even eat hot dogs or red meat. I'm not
the one to ask, but I do know.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
You don't.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
You're not supposed to. You get kicked mustard only mustard
and whatever.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
What is it? I've heard some I've heard some talk,
and I believe that this goes back to the hinds
face family from nearby Pittsburgh sort of having a beef
with the what's the billionaire family from Chicago, the pizza Prits. Yeah,
I'm hearing that the beef starts there, so you order
(12:16):
must have too. Well maybe even it was like, okay, well,
I don't want to be the person like spreading false propaganda.
What I do know is that you get laughed out
of any establishment.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
I think it's just.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Like Chicago has a couple of things they just like
to be stubborn about.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I think, well, your pizza sucks, not you.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
But I'm just saying you don't like Chicago pizza.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
I mean, it's going to kill you so good.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Well will kill us too.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
So there's really I will say it's my favorite city
to eat at. Some of the best restaurants I've ever
even just like a small like little Greek resturant, Little Time.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
It's all so good.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I've been Okay, So as of this taping, for some reason,
I've been booked in Chicago every weekend for the last
five weekends.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Great time to be there.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Gorgeous weather yeah, oh no, no, no, actually no, weird enough
the last time.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
You're jinxing yourself. Now, I will say, you're going to
be stuck there.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I will. I will say that both times in the
winter it was like fifty nine degrees. For some reason,
I came dressed for like all right, where's it at?
Where's that? Where's the cold? Where's the cold? And I
was sweating like it was it was spring weather.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
I mean I probably unpredictable. Yeah, but it's the worst winters. Oh,
I have like I have like nightmares about it. I know,
thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I know, we know. But I will say that I tried. Okay,
they told me not to call it the illuminati. Illuminatisis okay,
but I love Manatis. There has to be a connection
into the Illuminati.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Is that a food?
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Pizza?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
And I will say I know Willie Malnaughty. He has
a podcast now he's in New.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
York about pizza.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
No no, says entertainment.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
But he is a Melnati and I did a show
with him when I was twelve or thirteen at the
Goodman and it was during the summer, so Taste of
Chicago was going on and we got free pizza.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yeah, it's it's.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
It's my favorite. Luminais my favorite.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I will have to say I was really impressed with
that pizza.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
You can you can get it shipped.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I know. Yeah, I don't want to do it though
I know.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
That dangerous. I don't want to fall do It's like
I have an addiction to pizza, so I have to
stay away.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
So how do you feel about New York pizza?
Speaker 6 (14:46):
I mean I pretty much like all pizza.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
No, you can't do that.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
I know I do.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Have you taking a pizza to New York?
Speaker 5 (14:53):
No, I will say, you know what, I did have
pizza I didn't like here, and I I don't want
to say where it's from because I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Is it not raise or is it an established par
established people ship on in Williamsburg Grimaldi's that you're looking
at me? Well, because the show so mnemic. Now there's
only two people left.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
I don't leave Manhattan.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
I've been to Brooklyn three times.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
What I mean, there's plenty of shitty pizza in New.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
York, but there's awesome pizza.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
But it's not like every slice you get is going
to be like right.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
New York See. For me, though, it's it's like as
far as the Korean Food Fair, Chinatown, even soul food
Jamaican spots in Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I've that's what the culture is.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I've slowed up. I've kind of well, I've just discovered
that Queens is like I'm I might have to do
my next book. Strictly on restaurants in Queens, Like some
of the best restaurants in New York are those family restaurants. Yes,
and Queens. You got it. You gotta venture out the city. See,
I have a car.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah, you don't have to be right. No, see yeah,
if you.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
You need a may bag. Just joking what you said a.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Car anyway, I got you off track. You were going
to say, well, I was going to.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Say about community, but we often rabbit hole on the ship. No,
let's go back to anyway. You need your car to
explore the city.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
For I have such bad anxiety. I could, I would.
I could never drive in this city. Really well, this
is the hardest city of driving in the country.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Myma always if you learn to drive in New York,
you can drive anywhere.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I feel like I can drive anywhere
now they have the rickshaws now.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
To Yeah I can.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
It's really expensive. You're like like fifteen dollar fifteen seconds.
I can't.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
I will never feel okay about a person. It's weird
acting like a.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Horse to me.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
It just makes it feels like I would the whole
time I'd be apologizing.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
I'd be asking if I could help.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
It would just make me watching the meters.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Let me interject. All right, so Liya's clowning me about
my swinky car choice case, my coach witch in Philadelphia.
I would never let my friends see me in such
a swinky, swinky car. So I have like my very
first scion and beat up sign. Oh my god, I
will never do you never give up your first car,
like I'm keeping that ship forever. I love that car. However, Yes,
(17:41):
I have a swink delicious car in New York because
I got to get around and go pointing in point B.
The reason why I got that swinky car was because
I learned the hard way. And this is pre uber
how cabs really won't stop for people of color. And
I was rushing to Penn station and a poor rickshaw
(18:01):
guy had to take me. And this is when I
was like four hundred pounds.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
That was two hundred pounds ago.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
People, I'm there, I'm almost there. I got sixty pounds,
all right, So yeah, four hundred pound me and two
big giant kipling luggage bags. And the poor kid, I
was like, are you going to make it the Pend
station in an hour's I got this and cut to
like like he was. And the thing was on my
(18:31):
Twitter timeline, literally on my Twitter timeline. There was like
the narrative of the story. Like, guys, I could have
sworn I just saw a question inside of a bicycle
Rick on Fifth Avenue. It looked like him. Yo, dude,
I'm on forty second Street. I just saw yo, dog,
I'm on thirty second Street. I think you know. Poor guy,
(18:53):
Like listen, I missed the train, so it took him
that long to haul like five hundred pounds. Where the Yeah,
so that tip.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Of mirror you had, you had to bless.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Them, I am. I'm addicted to overtipping. That's that's one
of my And that's not even a humble brag, like
one of those people that get gets into those like
you know the pretty woman. Uh that watch costs two
thousand dollars. Oh yeah, I'll buy ninetyllion Like I'm one
of them people that will like defy you like I
(19:26):
have money. That that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
You know, sound engineers except tips.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
By the way, that's.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
What Derek said behind you.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
That's what Steves are a sound engineer at thirty Rock anyway,
So why is Chicago the who dubbed it the or
who christened it as the Comedy Epicenter, Like, why does
one have to go to Chicago?
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Yeah, I think it's just so.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
I think, well, there's a lot of theater in Chicago.
It's cheaper than New York. And is it la to live?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yeah, it's like five dollars probably. Oh my apartment cheaper,
fight dollar is cheaper.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Well, I was living in it was a weird little
artist studio, but it was and this was a lot
of money for me.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
But it was like six hundred dollars a month my rent.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
What year was that was two thousand Williamsburg of Chicago.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
No, this is old town.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Wow, I don't know the section, so like what would
your town be here?
Speaker 5 (20:28):
So that's uh, queen, I would never know. That's very
second city. But it was like a nice neighborhood. And
my first apartment it was a two bedroom. It was
bit and it was like we paid seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Uh, I had a roommate. Yeah, so we each paid.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
I mean second with your friends. I'm curious what it
was gone up? That's interesting.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
I mean I'm sure it's right. It's been a while,
but yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
No, so you what was your childhood like, like, what
was your come to Jesus moment with flirting with comedy?
Because I don't like when do people finally admit, like,
(21:15):
I want to be in comedy? Was it that you
wanted to be an actress for?
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
I did a lot of like straight theater growing up,
and I did a lot in Chicago. I did my
first professional show and they were all like dramatic musicals
growing up, and then I went to college. It wasn't
until college I went to cal Arts. Tonight, a teacher
I was doing a s from Angels in America because
(21:40):
when I was eighteen, everybody wanted to do Angels and
people were laughing. It's like, I'm wait being dramatic right now?
And then the teacher suggests that I take a class
at the ground Legs And.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
That was like I'd always I mean, I thought I
was funny, but I was also like, but I'm a
serious actor.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
What it is I really want to be series instead? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Yeah, yeah, well I think even now that's how I started.
I think like a lot of comedy is just human
beings feeling anything can be funny.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
That reminds me speaking of SNL. I didn't realize this
until maybe a week and a half ago that Will
Farrell and Kristen Wigg actually did a lifetime movie. Yes seriously,
like they did it.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I remembered it.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
They did it seriously, but as a tongue in chee. Yeah,
thing to be funny, really smart.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Yeah yeah, oh I love it.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
I mean they're both are they alumni from?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
No?
Speaker 6 (22:39):
No, they're Groundlings?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
See between Groundlings and Second City? They got both, So
of course why.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Will say l A Like Groundlings is very character based right,
and Chicago there's like, you know.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
So break it down to people because somebody, I feel.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Like I'm the worst to break it down, so this
will be very simplified. Probably comedy nerds will yell at me,
but so la Groundlings, it's all very charactery.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
And then New York improv is very like fast.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
It's closer to like what I would think of as
like when you hear British comedy or English comedy, you know.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
And then Chicago does weird you do.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Like the you know, we do slower artsy fartsy sometimes,
but but I would say like improv is more Chicago,
and sketch should be more La, and it feels like
when you're doing it in LA, you're doing it to
get a part TV jobs.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
So is there was there an end game for you
in entering Second City or pretty much people know that
the road that leads to s And.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Now I would never have ever said that.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Because I just don't like to set myself up to
be let down.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
I like to set the bar very low.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
But I, uh, I was just like, you know, if
I if this is what my life, if I get
to do like some shows every now and then and
at Second City and I out, if this is like
where the top that I get, I'd be happy.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
So what is the process? I'm only asking because of God?
How do I see this? Okay? So I once Okay,
So I once dated uh a comedian Okay, and uh
I felt, see, I have it miserable. I have. I have.
(24:37):
I have a relationship with failure, not as an f
work but as a learning experience. And I feel like
in your years of comedy, it's almost like if you
stay in your comfort zone and only perform for your
friends at like this one bar, you're not going to grow.
And I kind of had to tell her, like you
have to go like stop going to your normal where
(25:01):
you know your peeps are and go to other spots
to see if it works there as well. And it
was kind of hard hitted about it and then really
got a life lesson. So she went to Second City?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Yeah, experimental spot.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Do you know? She left and went to Second City?
And I guess under the hopes of I'm ready, so
I know I'm gonna go to Second City and then
in three years I too can be Tina Fey like
that's what I think, or and maybe she's in there,
like you can.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Stay there, you can just chill, and yeah people do.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Because that's i mean, after you getting paid for shows.
So yeah, I guess that's your life's now.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Yeah, And what I want to know is that when
people come, first of all, what is the process of
Second City? Is it a school? Is it just like
what's the rehearsal?
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Most people and they say they're they've done Second City,
it's not that they've been on a stage. It's that
they've taken the US there or done their own shows there.
There's there's two main theaters. I mean, it could be
totally different now. Uh. And I was on a touring
company for a while and I did a cruise ship
for four months with the.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Regent, so a second city cruise ship.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
That was my first job with them, so it was
very exciting.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
But then, well then it's like you're on this ship
for four months, you're just like I was never on
land at night time, which sounds crazy to say, but
I really was like, I just want to have a
night on ground. But it was so it's like by
two months and I was like, I can't tell if
it's prisoner vacation. Uh, and you're doing like very watered
(26:51):
down sketch comedy for.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
It was well, we ported in New York.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Was billed as the Second City players or.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I don't think they have the contract anymore.
But it was like the first job most people do
that second City.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
So that's the entry level.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Were there any other notable.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
So I was on the ship with Alex Moffatt, who's.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Wow, yeah yo his uh Trump's son.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Yeah, yeah, Eric, that's.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
My all time favorite. Yeah, like even when like I'll
rewatch his facial expressions while everyone it's some of the
best shit I've ever seen. Yeah, I love that. Yeah, Okay,
And so how long was it until I'm assuming either
(27:45):
Higgins or someone discovers you and suggestions.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Actually I went I got hired through IO. So there's
a couple of theaters in Probalympic, but they have to
be called It was like so lawsuitors the Olympics, you
have to say ioh yeah, okay, But it was IO
where I got my I did my showcase for Lauren
and some of the writers.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Oh so you didn't have to go through the audition
process that.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
A no no I did, but it just was there.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Like they go to different theaters, not because it's second city.
It's only the people that are on the stages that'll
be seen by SNL.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
So wait, this is I'm sorry, I'm gonna askually like
a five year old. So this is a special show
that y'all will do because you know that they're coming.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
Yeah, and they do it in every in la I
think at different theaters they'll just be showcases pretty much.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
And I would be.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Showcases for SNL or just with people or yeah, yeah
for SNL.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Okay, but is it with other people in the audience
or just the seven of them in the audience?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (28:50):
No, other people?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
Yeah, my family was there and I thought I bombed
because they were so they were so nervous because they
were sitting near and lorn, and so their faces were
just like they were like ghost.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
I was like, wow, that bad.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Huh did you remember what you did? You remember your I.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Did like a lady from the cruise ship.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
I did her trying to bring a pineapple on the
boat or something. I think I did Sophia Vergara. Nothing great,
I don't know it was and I had never done
like I wasn't an impressionist really, but it was again like, oh,
I'm going to do something that scares me and just
kind of try this out. And I took a workshop
(29:37):
on solo characters.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I would imagine that probably the best way to get
on the show is to be mouldable to be anything,
you know what I mean. Like it's instead of like, Okay,
I do a very specific Donald Trump and then like
what happens four years if that's out? Like, but you
(30:02):
can be mouldable to be anything. So I almost feel
as though some people go into the process, like I
know people that have tried to go through the process,
that we're kind of stuck in a category in a corner,
and they weren't mouldible. Yeah, if you, because I believe
it's malleable.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
I looked at this first two times. The third time,
I'm like, it's malleable.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
I just didn't know what he was saying.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
No, no, no, I didn't even I wasn't even reaching
for malla.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
I'm just playing around, but it's malleable.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Right, I wasn't reaching for malleable. I actually thought, okay,
sort of like imagine, it's not a word, right, okay.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Like seventy eight other words.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I hear you say every day, the spirit of Bill
is always here.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Here we go, malleable. Thank you. I wasn't even reaching
for that, but yes, malleable, and you just.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Thought it was a word I don't hear every time.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Yeah, this I appreciate this. This reminds me of the
time when the Roots let me go all day wearing
a shirt backwards and inside out. So when I got
home and went in the mirror, I was like, wait
a minute, oh ship. And then next day I was like, yo,
why the fucking y'all tell me my shirt was backwards
(31:18):
in the inside out, And they were like, oh, we thought.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
To hear Multiple's cool. I'll start saying it if you
want me.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
To know, but I will. I now know that multible
is not a word.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
No, good to know that the same meaning though multiple
and that's the.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Same meaning, it's not one's not a word.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
So then okay, okay, let's go back to Chicago pizza.
So anyway, No, well, what I'm asking is, uh, I
believe correct me if I'm wrong. Wasn't your first show,
The Mick Jagger Season Closer? I remember your entry.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
I remember, No, that was Kate who did like five
episodes of that season, And I think, yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
You did, you did? I could have sworn I saw
you on a season closer, Like I thought. It was
weird that I tweeted out, wait, who's this person? I
don't know this person? And then someone said you, uh, well,
well you're not a cast member.
Speaker 6 (32:18):
What is it called a the feature player?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Feature player? But when did you come in into the show?
Was it the tail end of a previous show?
Speaker 3 (32:27):
No?
Speaker 5 (32:27):
Was the start of season thirty eight twenty twelve?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
How many seasons? Lord, this is beautiful?
Speaker 1 (32:34):
More than forty five minutes beauty?
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, so a long time. So okay, so you didn't
have to go through the process of just being in
the room with seven people.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
And No, I still had so I we had that
showcase and then we did like a weird speed dating
thing in Chicago where a couple of us from that
showcase went to go sit with the producers born and
pretend that was normal. And then then we got flown
out eighty and I. I sort of got to go
through everything with eighty though, okay, which was really nice because.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I was going to ask you because Lauren is a
very I don't know him at all. I've been in
a room where he is, and he seems like someone
who is he could be intimidating. Yeah, so when you
first met because you just said, you know, I did
speed dating, Lauren was there, but really you weren't intimidating
and how No.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
I definitely was.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
I couldn't tell you what I said at that table.
I remember talking about Trader Joe's.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
That's where I go.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah, I'm not going to right now. I mean, are
you allowed to? Okay, this is the tester. This is
how I know if a person's cool or not.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
Oh no, I'm going to fail.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Are you allowed to have popcorn?
Speaker 6 (33:46):
His popcorn?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Everyone is? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Oh okay, well then I'm not everyone.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Well, well, the meeting.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
In between the meeting, in between dress and air, there's
a big basket of popcorn.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Right, Yeah, okay, but that's showtime. But I'm talking about
off show hours.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
He got it in his office or something.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
He keeps it in off yees.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Yeah, that's important.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
I mean, I'm sure he'd let me just so he
wouldn't have to say no. But I don't know that
i'd go knock on his door and ask for his popcorn.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Okay, I was the type of person.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
That's where you were from.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
No, actually I brought well, I I purchased three big
ass bags of popcorn and brought him in Lawrence. That
was my first meeting with Lauren. You purchased, I would
there was once on forty eighth Street House of Popcorn.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
He didn't charge you for his popcorn though, No. Okay,
I brought checking brought just in case he's.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I brought my own. No, I brought it for him
because I knew that, like the popcorn was a big thing.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
But yeah, I didn't get better. You say it, But
that was great.
Speaker 6 (34:59):
It's a good move.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Great move. He's the ask the kids shit, right, I
mean right, we.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
All agree in eight years, do you feel comfortable now?
Is there's still tense if he's if you know he's
in proximity watching, Uh, and I mean eight years you're
very established?
Speaker 6 (35:17):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Yeah, I can you feel established?
Speaker 6 (35:20):
I get? I mean yes? And no?
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Who can? Ever?
Speaker 1 (35:23):
You always feel like a hand on the guiltine button, like, oh.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
No, I don't feel like he'll fi.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
I guess it's more about the audience where I'm like,
I still don't know what they find funny if it's
sort of like it's still a I don't know what's
gonna work at dress.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
So some things work to dress that didn't work on
the show in the opposite.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, or things that like I find very
funny that it turns out it's only me.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
So how does this? So how does this work? Because
you're you're a writer, So how often do you do
your the things that you write get to be a
part of the show, Like, what's the percentage of that?
Speaker 5 (36:00):
If it's usually like if there's something on update, then
it's something I've written, And then I've gotten a lot
to dress this year and not a lot.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
To air the dummies.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
Okay, so we get things cut for time.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
I have a question about the schedule because actually, like
he and I sort of quasi sort of follow this schedule.
I'll schedule my life during the SNL season to sort
of coincide with what you guys are doing. So, like
Steve and I will like work Saturday afternoons in my
studio downstairs in my dressing room, and usually I'll be
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done in time to go watch the tapic.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Yeah, so usually our schedule is pretty multible, but season
trying multiple, so that's nice.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Yes, multiple anyway, So I know that from striking up
a friendship with Tim Robinson. Yeah, when he was writing
on the show, he explained to us that you guys
do what eight dress or a thirty dress? Eight eight
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a dress which is a longer.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Show y'all are so cute dress short for dress rehearsals,
dress rehearsal. Okay, thank you, okay, just for me, just
for you know, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
There's eight o'clock dress rehearsal.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
You forget. I know, this is not enormous.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
It's not your fault.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Language with more, with more sketches in it. And I
guess who is the deciding committee on who makes it
or doesn't make it to the final eleven thirty show.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
It's there's a there's a room that I've only been
in once, and it's the people in that room, but
it's mainly it's Lauren.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Higgins and crew. Yeah, okay, So is there like the
high school? All right? So what word am I looking for?
Where they place the zi gazaar? No, the high the
high school?
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Where you put the board?
Speaker 6 (38:04):
Or there is a bulletin board.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
A bulletin board, That's what I was looking for. So
or is it? Now? With technology, you guys just get
alerts of what your schedule is.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
No, and I wouldn't know how to get that anyway.
Speaker 5 (38:15):
There is people have like an app where they can
watch their sketches, and I'm blown away by that.
Speaker 6 (38:22):
I'll never get it. Okay, I just don't know how.
I have the burner number. And that's it.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
So when they put up when the person puts up
the bulletin board, notice, then you all run like it's
high school to see what made it, what didn't made it?
Speaker 5 (38:36):
Well, you we all go into it's called the meeting,
and we'll get notes and you just kind of look
at it and you try not to show too much
how heartbroken you are when your sketch is.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
I was going to say that side now again, with
failure being the f word or an education process, how
should one in the most non diplomatic way you can
do it without jeopardizing yourself. But like, how should one
take failure as a writer or as a person on
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the show if their sketch doesn't make it to eleven thirty?
Speaker 6 (39:17):
I mean it always it's funny.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
Some hurt more than others, and it's so like embarrassing
how much sketch comedy you can be so emotional and
tim and I used to joke because some things get
cut during the show. You know, there's we always we
usually go on a little long, so you may be
dressed just like a complete asshole, waiting to go your
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like dressed as a pumpkin or something, ready to do
your sketch about farts, and then they say over the
thing like that's been cut and you're just standing there
like crying, dressed like a pumpkin.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Is that because of overages? Okay, overages case in point.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
I was I think that's a word, by the way,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
I was watching all right, I was watching a Debbie
Downer sketch. Yeah, that obviously went way over. Then it's
a lot of time, but because of the laughter and
all that stuff, to get to the end, somebody has
to get sacrificed, right, So are sketches based on a
specific time hoping that it doesn't run over?
Speaker 6 (40:24):
Or yeah?
Speaker 5 (40:26):
I mean usually if you're like in the last or
second to last spot, you're sort of just waiting to
hear the whole night and there will be time.
Speaker 6 (40:36):
Like during the Chance show, there was an.
Speaker 5 (40:40):
Issue with the wires and I just remember I was
dangling there for so long and I was like, this, something's.
Speaker 6 (40:46):
Getting cut for this.
Speaker 5 (40:47):
I was going to say, now I'm dangling here, I
know something's getting cut for this.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Which leads me to the Tuesday night pitch. Now the one,
the thing, the thing that I always and let me
explain for our Listenershiggins on our show, jimmy sidekick on
our show, is one of the main producers of SNL.
So him doing the tonight show is sort of like
me doing a DJ gig from the roots, Like that's
his side hustle. He doesn't have to do it, but
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you know, it's something to do and it keeps some
sharp comedy wise or whatever. However, the thing I always
ask about, Higgins, the thing that I'm most curious about
are how sketches are pitched on Tuesday Night to whoever
the designated host is. How do you do it in
such a quickly executed time? How do you explain a
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sketch that really depends on physicality? Because that chance sketch
that you speak of was really I mean, what made
it hilarious was the fact that you guys were trapped
in mid air and these wires crashing all over the place.
So how is that conveyed at a table well that
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they say, yes, that work.
Speaker 6 (42:00):
They I've never had to do that.
Speaker 5 (42:05):
We have pitched Monday, but usually that's like you're just
meeting the host sort of and seeing what they find funny,
or just hearing them speak or seeing them for the
first time in person, and then we write on Tuesday.
And I don't normally talk to the host on Tuesday
because I think then they may say like, oh, that
(42:26):
sounds fun, and what if I do this and you're
kind of like, oh.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Are we there every day? Yeah, from Monday till yeah, Saturday. Yeah,
now we can bring in the time lamps thing.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
Wait, but before we will before we do that. Does
that mean that comedian hosts are harder, way harder. Yeah, okay,
so then this weekend would be really hard coming up. Okay, well,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
I don't know. I mean, the thing is is that
Eddie Okay, we're obviously speaking before the you know, the
the Eddie Murphy, the grand return of Eddie Murphy to Essenel,
of which I think that because he's such because he's
such a maverick at his job, that he would know
(43:19):
to sort of go along with the climate of the
room as opposed to now. I was there. I was
there during the whole Chappelle hosting situation, and once I
saw Neil Brennan in the hallway, I was like, oh boy.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
The comedians bring their own Oh my writers, that's the clusterfuck.
You know, it's sort I don't sometimes, Yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (43:41):
Think like this week is actually I feel like I
can kind of sit back because it'll be very much
about and like, I think that's exciting and what he
wants to do, and I'll probably do like free are
you well?
Speaker 1 (43:57):
Only Okay? What makes in my opinion, what makes his
Dolomite film work is he's actually kind of a straight guy.
It's it's his re It's like the planets that the
stars that surround and the moons that surround his planet
(44:18):
is what really makes that film funny, like and he's
reacting to.
Speaker 3 (44:23):
Wes makes it fun Yeah, you're right like other.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
People, And you know, I think that you guys are
on such a role like I now consider as an
SNL expert, that your era SNL will be considered like
a high Mark cast season, the way that we looked
at the ninety eight cast with with Fallon and Tita Fey,
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and the way that people look at the class of
ninety one or seventy five like people have specific eras
of right there, that was the Chicago Bulls of you guys. Now,
you guys now have your own rhythm when coming with
each other. So I think it would just behove any
host to join the gang as opposed to disrupt them.
Speaker 3 (45:13):
I don't know, Eddie might be what do you think
that's because I mean, I have I don't know what
will happen, but I assume.
Speaker 6 (45:19):
I mean because it's his first time coming back and
he was.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
Just he's never hosted.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
Eighty four was the last time he hosted when Beverly
Hills Cop came out. Wow, And the first time he
host it was inadvertently when Nick Nolty. Nick Nolty was
the only person to drop out of the show like
the Friday before, like I'm not doing this, and so
they were.
Speaker 6 (45:41):
Like yeah when he was on the cast.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
Yeah, so they're like, well, Eddie, you're in the movie too,
so you hosted and that became a game changer for him,
Like so.
Speaker 3 (45:51):
You really are an expert.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
I only know because Soul Train came on at one
a m. And SoulTrain came on right after SNL, So
it's like you watch SNL at eleven thirty and then
one am finally soul Train comes on. But if there
were a VCR back then I would have probably just
recorded SoulTrain and not cared about SNL as much.
Speaker 3 (46:13):
Wait, so on that note, just question to you are
you were you a fan? Were you a Jane Curtin,
Gilda reantn or like yeah you were all in?
Speaker 5 (46:22):
Yeah, we had I definitely want My mom had me
watch like Gilda's show, her Broadway show on tape. I
had vhs of like SNL's commercials that I wore out
pretty much. I like to Tracey.
Speaker 3 (46:40):
I mean I watched a bunch of different Did you
have a favorite grownd now class Like, I'm mi're just it.
Speaker 5 (46:45):
I really enjoyed every iteration I think up until like
you're eighteen or whatever and you're too cool for SNL
for a while.
Speaker 6 (46:56):
You know, I'm never busy.
Speaker 5 (46:58):
You're busy, busy, very busy, cool popular.
Speaker 6 (47:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:06):
So okay. I got to bring up two specific I
say specific specific sketches that you did that I felt like,
we're really mind blowing. One for the physical comedy when
you do Fox News as a Yeah, Piero, I don't
care if I mispronounce it in dress rehearsal, did you
(47:33):
go that hard with the spectaques and the falling on
the floor.
Speaker 6 (47:38):
Yeah, yeah, definitely you all right.
Speaker 1 (47:41):
I was in the audience. And so to see you
it's one thing watching on television, if you're at home
watching the Angle of It, that's one thing. But to
see you actually put yourself in physical danger, just like
that second fall out the chair. There's two moments where
she you know, well it's not a double take, but
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you threw yourself out the chair, right.
Speaker 5 (48:05):
I mean I had a giant Matt and I made
sure to practiced it a lot beforehand, and I was
very like serious about it, like you promised me time
to practice throwing myself out of a chair, and I
need this time to do that.
Speaker 1 (48:21):
You did it on the floor, like elsewhere.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
On the floor, because you only have that.
Speaker 5 (48:25):
I just needed to see like the space, you know,
seeing what you can do at that desk. You nailed
it because my shoes flew off on accident, I thought,
And then I was like, oh, I got to keep that.
Speaker 6 (48:38):
Then I had to try to flick my shoe off air.
Speaker 1 (48:41):
Okay, I was. It was spittal and perfect. But the
other thing is you're Barbara Streiss and jingle Bells reradition
now as a as a person who's whose band member
is known for his breath control. The first thing I
noticed was that you hardly breath all these words. How
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do you how long do you prepare a sketch or
how long do you prepare bits? Well?
Speaker 5 (49:13):
That one Brian Tucker, I got a text from him
at like two am with that song and he said,
I just heard this in a cab and I think
this would be really funny if you want to do it,
And so then I just I was like number one.
That's very funny that Brian Tucker is sending me a
Barbars Streissen song. And then, uh, if I just started practicing,
(49:34):
I mean it was just like, I'll my neighbors probably
think I'm insane because I'll just be singing things.
Speaker 6 (49:41):
Like that over a note repeat on loop. Yeah yeah,
at night time in my primary Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:48):
Yeah, Malcolm Gladwell hours like, there's no way, Like I
put the I put it on Spotify myself, and I
was like, there's no way that she learned this in
less than a month or year, Like I thought that
was something in your repertoire.
Speaker 5 (50:01):
No, No, it's just when you're a lunatic, I think,
And you don't sleep, You've got all those hours in
the night.
Speaker 1 (50:09):
You are a lunatic.
Speaker 3 (50:11):
Yeah, Cecy, you never took singing like serious series.
Speaker 5 (50:15):
I mean I sang because, but it was never like
a singer singer. No, And there's a lot of singing
I can't do, so I'm more like I can do
sketch comedy singing.
Speaker 1 (50:28):
Speaking of which, what's the determining factor of when you
guys warm up the crowd? Is it that? In my mind?
I thought that was like, oh, this is when like
you're new to the NBA and the freshman on the
new team had to carry all the bags. So when
they warm up the crowd, Keenan does his old Soul
(50:54):
review routine and usually three of the SNL ladies will
be his pips, so it'll be like his version of
Glass Night and the Pips and they dress up for
it and all this other they get.
Speaker 3 (51:05):
They never never changed.
Speaker 1 (51:06):
They no, no, it's just a warm up thing.
Speaker 3 (51:08):
Okay, So that's what I mean for the warm up.
They always do the same warm up.
Speaker 1 (51:11):
Yeah, but I mean the audience isn't crazy like me
and be there every week, so it's new to everybody. Right,
it's new to everyone. But what is the process of that.
It's like if you're new, you have to sing? Or
is it like how do you guys negotiate it? Are
they told like, well, it's my week to sing?
Speaker 6 (51:29):
Or no, no, I uh.
Speaker 5 (51:32):
I did it for four five years or something and
then it was but you singh give me some lovin right,
and there was like I Now the newer girls do it,
especially because if the cold open is coming, to do
that warm up and then to go right into the
cold open can be kind of tough, and a lot
of times Kate will be wearing crazy prosthetics or something.
Speaker 1 (51:55):
So then yeah, I was wondering, now do you guys
run with just three seconds left to right?
Speaker 5 (52:01):
So it's but I was definitely like, I am done
to you. I broke my foot one year right before
the show started, so I got out of warm ups
and then it was kind of like.
Speaker 6 (52:13):
Can I stay?
Speaker 1 (52:14):
I like this? Speaking of out, you were in the
coveted anchorchair of weekend Updates. Yeah, yeah, exactly, thank you
and then you well because of you, I guess we
now have Michael j. But why would you give up
(52:37):
such a coveted spot?
Speaker 5 (52:38):
Well, I think it was doing it with Seth, who
was so established, made it feel like I could just
go in and it was already a thing that I
just could sort of slide into. And then when he left,
it was Colin and I and it was like, clearly
this needs to now we have to figure this whole new.
Speaker 6 (53:00):
Thing out and kem and it was just.
Speaker 5 (53:02):
Like that the what that would have taken if that
was really exhausting and sort of like, I don't know
that I want to spend my time now just figuring
out what update's going to be. So there were a
lot of talks with Lauren and you know, and it
was it wasn't an easy decision necessarily, but it was
(53:24):
I think absolutely the right one.
Speaker 1 (53:26):
So would would doing Does doing update require that you
really have to have a chemistry with whoever your partner
is on the show.
Speaker 5 (53:35):
And well, I think it was because he was so
new too, so it was like two new people trying
and it was just like I just would rather I missed.
Speaker 6 (53:45):
I just want to do.
Speaker 3 (53:46):
Get more fun. You do more fun to do the care.
Speaker 1 (53:49):
You can't do both. You can't do update and characters.
Speaker 5 (53:52):
I think if if Seth had stayed longer, I would
have I could have stayed longer because it was I
didn't we didn't have all they make something new? Yeah,
but is it rare though when we think about it,
like it feels like the folks who always do we
can update do the least other stuff? Right because Amy
did a lot right, Well, dang you, Yeah, Amy did
do a lot. But I think like once you had
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but just to try to figure out what that new
dynamic was going to be just felt like pretty daunting
and and and exciting, but not what I was wanted
to do on the show the most I see.
Speaker 4 (54:32):
He's like so curious about SNL man, like I'm gonna
get past it. I'm not knocking it. I'm just saying
that's a very cute, adorable child, like.
Speaker 6 (54:42):
Very good to go see a message.
Speaker 4 (54:44):
Now he sees like Cremony's and.
Speaker 5 (54:46):
It's like there's nothing I truly am like. It's very
flattering and exciting.
Speaker 4 (54:52):
You can hear him laughing in the audience sometimes, Okay, that's.
Speaker 2 (55:00):
No.
Speaker 1 (55:01):
I told them, like, don't sit me the mic that
they put me under. But the mic is as close
to my seat as the microphone right now that I'm
sitting in. Wow. And so occasionally Jimmy will hit me
like my thing, like really you thought that you thought
that you thought that Harry Potter joke was really that
funny of me?
Speaker 3 (55:19):
Here?
Speaker 1 (55:20):
Really? Really? Yeah? I always get out it with with
my laughter, so I try to have you done. Here's
the weird thing. And speaking of when things get cut,
we were weird enough. Yeah, always brides me, never bride
you answer. We were we were busters banned weird enough
(55:44):
hosted by Donald Trump. We were Yeah, we were Buster
rhymes has been uh on his on the ninety on
his ninety nine show, I think hosted by damn Why
did I fold down on this rabbit? No? No, that
was just give me some more period. Uh okay, do
(56:09):
I really want to try to figure out this? No?
He's in George of the Jungle.
Speaker 3 (56:15):
One. Wait the Last Live? Was he your voice?
Speaker 2 (56:18):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (56:19):
Come on, I don't do this to me.
Speaker 1 (56:20):
He was also in the movie in which the woman
was the Devil. She's real sexy. She has an English accent.
Speaker 3 (56:28):
Elizabeth Hurley, Yes, you're right.
Speaker 1 (56:30):
Yeah, yes, Brandon Fraser.
Speaker 5 (56:33):
Okay, we can play Elizabeth Hurley.
Speaker 1 (56:38):
Yeah, anyway, So yeah, the Brandon Fraser Show and then
the Donald Trump Show, in which we did an album
with two to the Maytales Quinn Stefani.
Speaker 3 (56:55):
So does he know you want to be in a skit?
Because I know probably know norybody else.
Speaker 1 (57:02):
No. I My my love of the show is actually
watching two things I love. I love watching the panic
whoever your wardrobe, lady, is that or not? The wardrobe?
Speaker 6 (57:14):
Yeah, the one that wrangles.
Speaker 1 (57:15):
Yeah, that's my favorite thing to watch, Like to watch
her grab after monologue's done. She will grab you by
the collar and yeah, that to me. Watching the machine
run is my favorite shit.
Speaker 3 (57:31):
Ever, it's still on some VIP shit because I'm like
other shows sn ling, the kind of show where you
can be like, yes, can I get on the list
for next month show?
Speaker 1 (57:40):
However, my second favorite thing is I love I love
throwing off the audience clap when it's time for the end,
so the band will try to teach them all the time.
Speaker 5 (57:54):
If they're ever off watching the band, you know that's
so disappointed in the eye dance.
Speaker 1 (58:01):
It's not the audience. It's not the audience.
Speaker 3 (58:03):
Really, it's me, because it's.
Speaker 1 (58:07):
It doesn't sense up.
Speaker 6 (58:10):
They go so fast.
Speaker 1 (58:12):
I'm the one in the audience that's speeding up the clap,
knowing that the nine.
Speaker 3 (58:16):
People next to me, So what are you doing about? Now?
Speaker 1 (58:19):
I'm sitting in the audience and I'm speeding up the
clap knowing that thirteen to fourteen people next to me
are going to speak clat with me, and then so
on and so on and so on, and then I
mess it up. Every time it's messed up, you know,
you know to look up in the valcony, be like
I got.
Speaker 6 (58:38):
To tell the band, no, don't do that.
Speaker 1 (58:39):
Please, please don't do that? All right, My last question
is that most people use sen L as the springboard
two other careers. We're actually now on SNL is actually
(59:01):
a cool end game. Yeah, I mean Keenan's on his
twentieth year, I believe. Yeah, yeah, so wow, I've.
Speaker 3 (59:09):
Been that Kean. Yeah, but it works for him straight
from Goudburger just punce.
Speaker 6 (59:13):
Yeah, I mean he's a genius.
Speaker 3 (59:15):
Yeah, but that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (59:16):
It works for him, like and so, but I mean
I'm certain that people had like, well, you know, Eddie
Murphy did it, Sandler did it. You know, Tina Fey
did Like for you, do you have a vision board?
And I'm not asking for like this is your last year,
but do you have a vision board that you might
(59:40):
consider Like, Okay, the end of this particular sentence will
happen this particular year and then I'm going to develop
this show or direct this movie or Yeah.
Speaker 5 (59:51):
I mean, I think there's a there's a lot of
things I'd like to be doing. Some things you can
do at the same time, so of it'll just depend on, uh,
when it feels right to go. But there's a lot
of things I'd like to be doing, like a lot
of different things. I think I brought up a project
(01:00:11):
to you once that I wanted you to do that.
Speaker 6 (01:00:14):
I'm still hoping.
Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
Are you, oh, we're proposisiting each other now? Yes? Yeah, yeah,
Yes'm I'm the king of yes. And then Steve laughs.
That mean, like, when you're going to fit the senior schedule.
Speaker 3 (01:00:27):
Can you be the king of follow up?
Speaker 6 (01:00:29):
The schedule is always tough. Yeah, and it's the worst.
Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
Yeah, So do you plan your summers early? Like, are
you a I need some charge.
Speaker 6 (01:00:37):
Because so many things fall apart.
Speaker 5 (01:00:39):
I mean in this just in this industry, you think
you're doing one thing, so then you don't plan for
something else, and then that falls apart. So it's really
just like it's it's very frustrating. And then to know
that I am taken from September to May, that's really tough.
Speaker 6 (01:00:57):
So that'll sort of be the decide factor.
Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
If there is an important enough offer, are you giving
leeway to take this week off?
Speaker 5 (01:01:11):
And then I think now they've been more lenient. I
mean maybe I shouldn't say that out loud, but it
seems like it that they're that they're letting us sort
of do that a little bit more to some seniority
kind of Yeah, and I think it's I think he
(01:01:33):
likes having an established cast and having people that know
each other, and it's sort of like, if that's how
to keep people, that maybe is the way to go.
Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
Well, it's like Lawrence Scorsese's like, I gotta have you
as DeNiro's daughter and the Irish man. Can you do
it these reasons?
Speaker 6 (01:01:50):
I think then Lauren would make me.
Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
I love it. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Okay, cool.
Oh one last thing. I was there when you did
the last uh I say, the last White House Correspondents dinner.
Speaker 6 (01:02:06):
Oh yeah, what was.
Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
That like for you?
Speaker 5 (01:02:09):
It was so it was terrifying because they asked me
in August or something and it's not till April, so
I had like months to doubt myself and think about failing.
But it was like again, I'm a big Obama head,
and it was like I just and everyone was like,
don't do it. Nobody liked you never win. You don't
(01:02:31):
win in that room. The best you can do is
break even. But I was like, but it's Obama, so
I have to do it. People or no industry people. Yeah, yeah,
we're definitely trying to talk me out of it.
Speaker 1 (01:02:44):
I see people remember that. People just remember that you
did it, I mean, or unless you really want to
make a mark, like Michelle Wolf and like really laid
it down. But I thought it was great.
Speaker 3 (01:02:54):
It was a few in the pass.
Speaker 6 (01:02:55):
I really killed it.
Speaker 3 (01:02:56):
But now you did you say it? I'm like, I
can't even remember who was I killed it?
Speaker 6 (01:02:59):
So yeah, yeah, right, well I think had a big one.
Speaker 3 (01:03:02):
Yeah, which one was? Do you that Obama wrapped?
Speaker 6 (01:03:07):
I don't know, but Keegan was there. That was when
I was there.
Speaker 5 (01:03:10):
That was like, oh great, that was right before I go, oh,
that was the same one.
Speaker 3 (01:03:14):
Yeah, that was a good night though.
Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
It was. Yeah, I thought it was excellent. I thought
it was it was tasteful, it.
Speaker 5 (01:03:19):
Was very it was cool, and it was the first
it was I brought like fifteen people, my entire family
and my grandfather and grandmother in Arlington National Cemetery Colonel
Cecils Struck And it was the first time I went
with my dad to his parents' graves.
Speaker 6 (01:03:36):
So that was it was a very emotional trip as well.
Speaker 1 (01:03:40):
That's awesome. Well, I'm glad you made that decision and
not to listen to anyone that helped you talk to
yourself out of a yeah, a great opportunity.
Speaker 5 (01:03:49):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I'm always going to take the
chance to sit next to Michelle Obama.
Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
That's a small group of people who asked to do that,
so that's a big honor.
Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
Well especially, I thank you for coming to the show
and Molding.
Speaker 4 (01:04:08):
We looked it up multiples in actual words.
Speaker 3 (01:04:10):
Sorry, thanks again. Derek in the clinch.
Speaker 1 (01:04:14):
Derek Man, you come through in the clutch.
Speaker 6 (01:04:16):
Man, you want to get that to thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:04:20):
Todd Rendren would be very mad.
Speaker 1 (01:04:26):
Oh, thank you. I appreciate you coming in the show.
Speaker 6 (01:04:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
You're definitely one of my favorite players, and I appreciate
you enlightening our audience. All Right, kids, that's another episode
of Quest Love Supreme on BF of Laya Sugar Steve
the spelling Steve your new name, I heayd Bill. I
guess one of these days Manuel Miranda will let you
(01:04:53):
come back to work and Fantigolo. Hope you don't get
you know, the throat cancer with the cigarettes. Hopefully you'll
come back this Quest Love and oh my fault, how
you doing, Boss Bill? I hope we did you proud.
We will see you. We will see you next week
on the next round of quest Love, Supree, all Right iHeartRadio.
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