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August 15, 2025 11 mins
We welcomed Andrew Dismukes from SNL into the studio today for Free Comedy Friday!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, it is free comedy Friday today, and man, we
got a big one coming in studio right now from
Saturday Night Live Andrew Dsmukes, who is performing at the
American Comedy Company this weekend. A couple of shows tonight,
a couple of shows tomorrow night. Welcome back, Andrew. How's
it going?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Thanks for having me?

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yeah, dude, Now you're you're a Texas guy, right, you
were born in Texas. We were just in Texas last week.
We had our big radio conference. Was in Austin, Oh week. Yeah,
that was my first time in Austin.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's a very fun city. A little hot. Thought it
was a little warm, little warm in August.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah, last time I went. As soon as the airport
doors opened, I was like.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Good, Like what am I doing in San Diego? I
mean we have like, you know, perfect weather every time,
so I mean in the hundreds of Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
It was rough.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Well, and then the thing that I thought was really
crazy is it gets that hot right like every summer.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
It's not like a fluke.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
But then these like world famous barbecue spots, all the
seating is outdoor and you're literally sitting on top of
the fire pit.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
I like, you want to eat barbecue in that heat
the hottest food.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Well, they're probably you You're you get used to anywhere
you live. I'm sure you're probably just used to it.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
And indoor place there really affected Sky. Yeah he's a
coastal chick. Yeah, I'm coastal. I'm sorry it was too much.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
I like felt like I got punched in the face
anytime I would walk out of a door.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
So obviously you're in New York now, right, and so
is there a culture shock factor going on there or
you're kind of used to it now?

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Man? I felt so embarrassed the first time I moved
to New York. Literally, like I was like, these buildings
are for real. I had never had that moment. It
just doesn't stop. That's hilarious, but it is.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
It is wildly different because, uh, you know, in my
radio career, I was in upstate New York, so I'm
not I can't say New York.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
He's been Long Island, so yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
So it was a culture shop for me because I'm
a California boy and going to New York and then
I lived in Dallas for two years. That's another world.
And so like like that kind of stuff will get
you like just people are different across the country, you know,
being from California, like South very nice, you know, very
nice people. New York different different like it is. Well,

(02:19):
it's not that they're not nice, they just have a
different way of dealing with things, I think, you know,
like they want stuff done, Like if you want to
order something, it is wildly different here. If I walk
in there, they're like basically like what do you want?
And if you don't know, your dead? Yeah, Like I
went through what's the famous one Cat's Deli? Like they
have an ordering process and I didn't know. They looked

(02:42):
at me like I was the biggest piece of crap
on the planet.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Was wild? Do you have to get used to that
kind of stuff? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Definitely, just a totally different energy, much more confrontation, so
like quietly talk about you behind your back.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
But so le's talk about Saturday for a second, because
you know, we just got through the big fiftieth and
all that stuff and the show itself. When they did
the fiftieth show, who did we talk to that was there?
I forget now? Somebody was it? Finesse Mitchell was Jay?
I don't remember. Somebody came in and told us a

(03:16):
little bit about the show and just how weird and
wild it was that. I mean you'd look around and oh,
there's Eddie Murphy. Oh wait, there's you know, the biggest
stars on the planet were all there and you had
a piece of that what was that show? That particular show?
Like it was amazing. I mean it was just NonStop.
Everybody you grew up like idolizing and comedy was there

(03:38):
and you got to meet them all and it was
cool because it was kind of like we were all
sharing the same experience. So it sort of felt like
sometimes when famous people come to the show, there's like
a clear divide, like they're the host, you're the cast. Yeah,
this time it was like all casts, so it was
kind of like, oh, we're all kind of the same
people right now. Did you have to pitch stuff like
did you want like a bigger presence on that show

(03:58):
or did you kind of know, like listen, I get
what we're doing here.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Like I think I was pleasantly surprised I was in
it at all. Over All, the whole current cast felt
that way because we were like, we're just excited.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
To see everything in the room. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Basically, so when you look out in the audience and
you see massive A listers. Does that throw you off
at all? Or you just go I gotta put blinders on.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
But Pete Davidson recently said that was one of the
hardest audiences ever because it's hard to impress Jerry Seinfelder.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
How do I make him? Laught right?

Speaker 3 (04:33):
Totally for doing comedy. It's a terrible environment for sure,
but it was definitely you know, it was cool. I
think you just go into it. You're like, this probably
isn't gonna crush.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Do my best. Just don't embarrass myself for sure.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
Can you ask for an autograph?

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Or is that like, well, no, it's like selfies. I
don't think.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
Sorry, I'm old, okay, Can you ask for a selfie?
Or is that?

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Like my wife is very she is the more extroverted
of the two of us. At the after party, she
was like, that's going to O'Brien. That's this person running
around and I was very much like following her, like
I'm so sorry, but like, like I really want to
take a pic of she wants to take.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
A pic whatever, So what's the best picture you got then?
Probably Conan?

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yeah, Oh that's awesome, going to hang with Conan he's
one of my one of my favorite.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
That's awesome Andrew again performing this weekend American Comedy Company,
a couple of shows tonight, a couple of shows tomorrow night. Now,
one of the coolest things that happened because of the
fiftieth was that Peacock documentary. That was because for us
who don't know the behind and how things work and
all that stuff. So I kind of want to break
down your process of like what was your audit? The

(05:48):
audition episode was fascinating. I had no idea that that's
how you auditioned.

Speaker 5 (05:54):
It seems like the scariest thing ever because it's like
dead quiet.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Well and the pressure because it's like, you got whatever
was three minutes, good luck, make us, make us want you.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Totally empty room except like one table with Lorn and
a couple other writers and producers there, and you're like,
I feel like they didn't prep us properly, that we
were doing it on the stage, and I remember walking
out and being like, oh, we're doing it here.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
I was like, WHOA, but yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
I auditioned back in twenty seventeen and got to hire
as a writer and then got moved from writer to cast.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
So do you.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
What was your audition like, because everybody had difference. You
stay whatever you want.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
I mostly did stand up, but tried to kind of
do like characters in my stand up and do voices
and stuff. And then they were like, we'd like to
hire you as a writer. Like we liked it, but
you know what behind the camera man, you know, maybe
the jokes were.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Funny about you. It was like, you need to work
on some stuff. We like something, but you're still stoked,
because I.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Mean I was very I felt like that was at
that time best case scenario.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yea, get in the door.

Speaker 5 (07:05):
Yeah, exactly, all right, And now the next part of
the documentary, what is like the process of the week,
And like, you know, I'll have like I have like
a bit on Wednesdays where I have to think of something,
but I have a full week to write it out,
and I can't imagine like all this stress and anxiety,
and it seems like in the pressure and it seems
like such an old school.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Way to do it.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
Like you guys meet in Lauren's little office, you pitch
ideas and then you literally are up to like three
am coming up with ideas Like do you ever think
why don't I think like, why don't we do this
a different way? Or is this the way it has
to be?

Speaker 3 (07:40):
I think there's definitely you know, I don't think it
has to be. When you're there that late, you're like,
we if we just started the show every day two
hours earlier, we could all get home earlier time. But
you know, I think the thing about it that is fun,
Like you're saying, being back at the fiftieth with everybody's like,
this is the way they've done the show forever. Yeah,

(08:02):
so you are having like the exact same experience that
all these people Heavy Chase did.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
Exactly Chevy Chase was openly doing coke, and like, I
mean you had different I.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Don't know what you know, Yeah, you know, hey off, Mike,
not the same stimulants.

Speaker 5 (08:22):
And to that point, so you if you get something
pitched and you think it's incredible, have you had something
like that? You think it's incredible, but then it just
doesn't make it and you're just like what the hell?

Speaker 2 (08:31):
All the time?

Speaker 3 (08:31):
Probably, Yeah, we've had I've had sketches that we've like
stayed up till four in the morning writing and me
and whoever I'm.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Writing it with are like dying laughing funny.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
They have the best table read on Wednesday. You read
it gets nothing, They just like throw it. Finished the
script and like all right, throw it, and then you're like,
well that was really hard on that guy.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Thought we had something there and you're working hard on it,
and you like.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Make eye contact with the person you wrote it with
across the table, and you'd be.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
Like, that didn't is part of it because that this
is what would happen to me. I'm so loopy and
think everything we're thinking is brilliant and funny, and then
when it does make it to the table reads, you're like,
oh was I just yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
A lot of times, one of the reasons it's good
to stay up late on Tuesday's writing is it just
takes a long time to maybe figure out the exact
right idea. But then sometimes it's like three am, an
idea comes to you and you're like, that's perfect.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah. A lot of coffee.

Speaker 5 (09:31):
My favorite thing this past season was the Shane Gillis
couple of beers were in that.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
One at all.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
I think that was Shane. I think Shane brought that
one in and really, really that was so good.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Do you guys like that? When the host brings stuff.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
You guys, you know when they're when they're like a comedian,
it's nice. Sometimes like a non comedian will come and
be like I have an idea for something and you're like, how.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Would we do that?

Speaker 3 (09:57):
And explain it to you and you're like, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Has there ever been somebody who thinks they're good at
like a voice or a character and you go, oh,
that's not who has to.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
It's a lot of like it's very show busy in
a way where you're like, that's incredible, but then like
they're leave and.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
You're like, what the heck.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah, it's a lot a lot of they will say
like I can do this accent or something like that
Australian and then they do it and you're like, all right,
well we're probably not gonna.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, probably not going to go to their face. You go,
we're writing it up right now. That's incredible.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
So what do we think is going down this coming season?
Is there a lull after fifty or do we just
go they gotta go guns blazing again?

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Think they gotta go guns blazing.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
I think you know, they want to keep I think
after the fiftieth seeing how much attention was on the show.
They just want to keep the Pedaltony, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
That makes sense.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
And then do you have a thought process of for
your and like are you going to be doing this
or as long as they want you or do you
go you know eventually maybe I want to do something.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Else, you know, eventually want to do something else, you know,
trying to start figure out what that is and work
on stuff. But definitely, you know, I want to stay
there as long as I can and try to do
other stuff while doing.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Are we talking movies or sitcoms that kind of a
thing too.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Or movies and sitcoms more on the writing side. I
think that that's more they accurately.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yell they really they really nailed you on that one.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
So that's kind of the obviously stand up, yes, go
check out Andrew at the American Comedy Company again. Two
shows tonight, two shows on Saturday. Good seeing you man,
Thanks for coming in as great shows this weekend. Absolutely

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