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complimenting you. You land and grab a fan when they're introduced to you

At age five or six, apparently he saw Chopping Broccoli, the goofy piano song I did on Saturday Night Live. And then he was going around singing it at five and six. So Alex Moffat on SNL for six years. That's a catchy one. Does a lot of stuff with Mikey Day. They do Trump's Kids. Trump's Kids. He did Guy with a Boat on Update. That was another huge hit.

And super versatile performer and actor and a hell of a nice guy. I love him talking about my stuff. Yeah, he loves Dana and he was great. A lot of fun, very energetic, has a new show. I think it's Bad Monkey with Vince Vaughn. Is that correct? Yeah, Bad Monkey with Vince Vaughn. He just works a lot. I think he was on Broadway last year and he had a great run on SNL and we go into all that and more.

and more my parents went to denison and so did he is is that who went to denison because i forgot to tell him uh anyway that's uh not the most exciting part of the interview but i don't tell it so it's at least not really part of that so you you sat through it once you had to hear that once that's all yeah it's it's fun to get to know him on on the show um and he's uh

He's really cool. Just listen, please. Just listen. Stop asking questions. Just listen and you'll hear all the answers. And smash that subscribe button. Oh, yeah. We have 21 to smash it. Beat the shit out of it. All right. Here he is. Alex Moffitt.

Look at these chains, this fucking gangbanger. I love your chair. I'll take it. Plato is calling, wants his chair back. Hey, choo-choo, wants his chair back. Hey, choo-choo train. No one does Dennis back to me. That's fantastic. Hey, you sounded like Jimmy Reese hitting a watermelon with a fungo frown, okay?

Okay, so the young guy's doing the den man. All right, that's good. He's got his hooks down. I'm up here high in the high country. Tonight, we're going to be eating octopus from Sri Lanka down at Mickey D's place. That's Michael Douglas.

It's a good Michael Douglas. Wow. Now that's Dennis talking about Michael Douglas, his buddy up there in Montecito. Let's just talk about, let's just do some of your characters the whole time. The guy with the boat or the acid head. God, we're getting right at it. I'm settling. I want to riff with Alex. I want him, we all do him, me and Dennis back and forth. Give us a topic for Dennis. David.

Just any topic or reference. You did a casino gig.

Go ahead. So Dennis talking about a casino gig? Yeah. Okay. You know, I'm at the, I mean, I'm in Uncasville Connect. I'm opening for the loosest slots in the eastern seaboard here. Meanwhile, Spade is off doing the Tempe improv. Doesn't have to open for a blackjack table.

And have the pit boss give him the hook after 42 minutes. We got to get people back out on the floor, chooch.

Yeah, yeah. You did a fucking two minutes long. We just lost 28 million bucks in the casino. Do you do that anywhere? Did you do it on SNL is my question because. No, it's an impression of you. It's really funny. It's an impression of your Dennis Miller, which I've just had in my head for a couple decades now. Yeah, that was really funny. Yeah.

Dennis is incredibly wealthy. I hope he's listening to this. And, you know, he's got kind of a very relaxed, almost tight, almost like a Bob Hope thing going on, you know.

Feeling good about things, you know, going around. But as far as playing a casino, it'd be like it was great. Yeah, and a short hop to Toledo and three different cars to get me down to the South Carolina beach area where Harry's Hoffbra had a nickel slot machine thing. Came out to 12 pithy people who bought tickets. Did a quiet 45. The great thing about Dennis, when he used to play the desert in, all you were...

You just had to do 60 minutes on a clock?

And he's a killer stand-up and one of the greatest. But he could be mid-joke. He sees 60 and then he goes, okay, goodnight. And he doesn't break stride. He doesn't break stride in the casino back to his room. Good for him. We did. Alex, what's that casino above Dallas into Oklahoma? It's fucking huge. Thackerville. Thackerville. It made me think of Unksville. I did it with

my last gig before COVID was him and Norm MacDonald. And we all flew there together in some little thermometer plane. Spudly, you want to split it with me? I'm like, well, I'd love to stand up. I'd rather take United. I can stand a little bit. So we take this thing, which is basically an MRI with wings. We're just laying down.

And then we get there and then it's between him and Norm and how fucking crazy all three of us are. And he's like, hey, Spud, you mind closing the show? I got to get out of here. I go, we're all in the same flight. Why do you got to go? And then Norm goes, I'm not going at the end. And I go, so I have to go after these two assassins. And then we all have to do, I think, 40, which is too much. Yeah. Because they kill too fucking hard.

Anyway, it was fun. Back to Alex. Spade, Spade, you're going to close out, pal. I'm going to the high stakes room. Oh, yeah, that's right. He goes, they're closing back around. So that's your norm, right? Apparently so. Yeah. Hey, yeah, that's funny those jokes you're doing up there, right? The crowd's really going crazy for it. It was, I sucked. Yeah, I was going to say that, but I thought I'd say something else to you.

I go, Norm, try to walk less than 40% of the crowd before I get on. You know, why? What do you mean? Why was there not at least one guy with a camera the minute you got on the plane all the way through the gig? All the way. I mean, just that. Because it would have been too funny. Honestly, people say, oh, I bet it's funny. It was funny. It was funny because those two guys

Two of the funniest guys out there. And then just listening. I would have been unreal. I follow Dennis when he's in a rhythm toward the end of his act and he's hitting Pelosi. And it's like, you have to deal with his rhythm and energy. Do you do stand-up? I didn't know that about you. I know you were in like different Second City type things. Yeah.

Yeah, I mainly got I got the gig on, you know, SNL through more character stuff. But yeah, I do. I do stand up, too. I did a I did a fest up in Canada with Spade. Our paths almost crossed. Do you remember that, David?

The Toronto comedy or what was like Calgary or something? Yeah. One of those cities in the fucking Saskatoon. Yeah. Yeah. You count territory.

I did one. I think when he comes, there was outdoor gig and, uh, you got to take fucking seven connections to get there. So everyone's going to do an hour and a half of Dennis Miller to the essence in such a way that's makes me laugh. You know, coming on the zoom with a car V and spade couldn't get a word in, in the first 11 minutes, it was kind of an interesting motif, uh,

Mill, you're happening there today Where were we? Okay, sorry, go ahead No, I'm just, I have ADD, Oka Butterfly, I got a time issue What were we talking about? Casinos Greg Gutfield and Tucker Carlson Did I do Greg Gutfield? No, I guess I got the wrong information from James Austin Johnson Maybe I, I think maybe I did a Gutfield thing Or was it, yeah

Hmm. Hmm. Sometimes you're just assigned someone in a big sketch. Right, it didn't get on air, but he thought you had a great take on it. But, oh, I, that's kind of James. Do you even know that guy, James? Do you even know him? James who? Because it's all these stories. James, uh, James Vander Johnson? No. Beak. Maybe he was talking about Mikey Day, because you guys did so much together. I'm sure James confuses me and Mikey all the time.

Confuses you like crazy and I gotta confuse you. Where do we go with Trump? I mean, how do we... Good question. I don't know. Who's going to play him? I mean, well, Jadge will. I call him Jadge. The Jadger Badger. Because Jadge is for James Austin Johnson. J-A-J. Jadge. Jadger. Jadger.

That's better. James Austin Johnson is a lot of work. It sounds like a Civil War general. I'm sorry. But I'm James Austin Johnson. I'm in charge of these confederate soldiers. Sorry, that's all I got. Confederates. So anyway, so did you do –

Tucker Carlson, or was that someone else? I did, yeah. Are we recording, by the way? Is this all just sort of the banter beforehand? Good, okay. No, no, this is real. This is my next question. I'm kidding. We're always recording productions with complete chaos. Good. I'm having a lot of fun so far. So far, so am I. I like that both you have a handheld...

a la being up on stage and Spade, you're just sitting there with the thing on a, on a crane. We're a lot like the Kelsey brothers. I'm broadcasting from a hotel in New York city right now. So are you, which one room number?

Ooh. He's like a reporter on the scene, and I am just a lazy podcast. They don't have room numbers, but they have names for the different suites. This is called You'll Never Get Out of Here Alive, and good night. That sounds promising. It's a little scary. Spade, do you always have a Joe Dirt merch just perched somewhere in your...

I have a Joe Dirt hat in the background, but I do have merch. And that's a hat from when I... That was my crew present on the actual movie. And so I don't make that one, even though I like that one a lot. Do you mind turning it around just for this interview? Well, because no one can see it. Does it hurt your eyes a little bit? No, it's just too distracting. By the way, that movie...

is timeless, if I may say. It's very, very funny. And I came, I discovered it very late. We inherited, we went upstate one time and the place had a DVD collection, including Joe Dirt. My wife and I watched it. I had never seen it. I don't know how I didn't discover it when it came out. I imagine I'm not alone in that. But I saw it years later and it is very, very funny. I don't know if you know that.

No, I appreciate it. And which brings me to something else I want to ask you that is sort of off the mark. I hope you don't get offended by this. I was reading this interview. Dana, you can chime in on this. Reading an interview with, and Vulture with you, right? And sometimes- There was a big article. Yeah, there's an article about you. So sometimes reporters- That was my tell all. Either to be funny or to be whatever-

Sometimes feel like to me, they inch across the line where I don't like it. And 90% of the time, I don't say anything. But like when they say like, hey, Joder, you know what movie I actually like? You know, those kind of questions where it bothers you. This one, which what you said was perfectly fine. I appreciate you actually watching it, honestly. That's not what I mean. I mean, I'm reading this and it says, you were in The Bear. Yeah.

And I was hoping you'd have a bigger role by season two, but they got you out of there pretty quick. I mean, I had to be like, hey, go fuck yourself, dude. I know. That was crazy. I read, he was in The Bear and then I've mentioned it to people. He's great. Great in The Bear. But yeah, she did put a tilt on that. Like it was a sad thing. Yeah. But you're working all over the place as far as I can tell. I know. It's just such a weird way to put it. You're like, hey, I did a great, you said I was doing meth. How long was I going to last? Yeah.

Yeah, your character's doing mezzo, but it's like, come on. Anyway, that's kind of a... That just reminded me of interviews where you get caught off guard and you're trying to be nice, then you go, what is going on? Are they trying to be funny? Are they trying to be cute? Are they trying to be cool? Yeah, no, I was... And you're not supposed to fight back. No, you're not. And I hope it did. I was just letting you know, even though I discovered it late, Joe Dirt is... No, I like that. A yuck a minute. I loved it. Can I ask about this...

Go ahead. Wait, Dana, what were you going to say? No, I was going to say the other way people do it. I liked it. Yeah. Yeah. How did you like that movie? Did you think it was operating in all cylinders, David? Yeah. I liked it, but am I alone in that? Wait, Spade, are you growing the beard out for something? It's for a movie I'm writing.

No, I'm kidding. See, Alex, you have a great beard because it goes under here and defines your jaw.

Yeah. Thank God. Right. That's the way you do it. Mine is a way to look even older, but I feel like the beard, like Dana said, I'll, first of all, the truth is I got one compliment on it and I never went back because I have zero when I don't have it. So I have one compliment with it. So I said, okay, even though it's mostly gray now, the salt is taking over the pepper.

So now I've got, you can kind of shape it. So you look a little more better because as every article says, if I ever date anyone, it's like beauty and the beast. Look at this monster. I'm like, I think you could ever say that about a girl. Like this great, great looking guys with this horribly ugly. Yeah. We got Alex looks fresh face. When I look at him, not a wrinkle.

He's in his prime. I don't know. I'll peg you. I'm going to say 32. 24. 28. You're both right. So 28, 32. So you're 59. Good guess. I'm 42. But, you know, I...

Very, I put, I put lotion on eight times a day. So that's not that I don't want to just talk about my face the whole time, which I do, but can I bring up another sort of,

Random because I mean, this is the moneymaker. Let's be honest. Anything. Dana, this is a connection that we have that you would have no reason to know about. I think I do know. Yeah. Well, if you do. Chevy Chase, the baseball. No.

Chevy Chase, the baseball Bill Murray. No, Bill Murray, the baseball. Sorry. That's a no. No, I bet that's OK. We have another. That's one of my favorite SNL memories and one of the most like kind of burned in my soul memories from my whole time there, which I am happy to get into. My God. But this goes even further back. And there's truly, I think, no way you would know about this. Let me see.

When I was going into my senior year of college, I lived with my sister in Mill Valley, California. And I worked at a restaurant called Cascade, which was only there for a year or two, but I worked there for a summer. But it was in the downtown? Yep. Yep. Okay. And one time I got to work

And I think I've been called into like sub because somebody had to go. But anyway, you you were already your your like family was your brothers were there, I think. And so maybe we're visiting.

That might be. And they were like, hey, Dana Carvey's here. And I was like, and I, it truly, well, I mean, as you can imagine. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. And also they kind of knew I was like young comedy dweeb, like probably idolize this guy. They happened to be right in that case. And so I was like, oh my God. And so basically like from across the restaurant, I was just like, oh my God, there he is. There he is. There he is. And then, and apparently you were only there for like the last,

Like a little bit, you like showed up for dessert, picked up the tab for the whole table and then left. And I was just like, what a classy guy. Wow. Oh, my God. So, again, there's no connection other than I saw you 20 years ago in a restaurant. But I it was like I got it. But it was one of the first times I ever saw like a celebrity or an idol of mine. And I know. Believe me, I got a lot of cool stories like that.

First of all, it's flattering. And I saw Michael Landon once in a restaurant when I was a little kid and I couldn't stop. He's from Bonanza and Little House on the Prairie. So I totally get that. It's just, and now you have people go, hey, you're the Saturday Night Live guy, Alex Moffitt, man. I love that. You know, you do that Trump brother so good. So you're getting it. So it's all surreal that now we're on Zoom together as peers together.

as co-co-SNL alums you know we are yeah but that was my I think literally the first time I saw like a a member some like an alum from the show let alone one who I grew up watching and I literally was sort of like frozen in the corner of Cascade restaurant in uh Mill Valley just being like

There he is. And I, I creepishly observed you for two minutes, pick up the check for your whole family. Then was like, someday I'm going to be sitting on my little, my little throne here chatting with those two goons. I keep a casual diary on my phone. Do you know about what was it in the summertime? June of 92 or something. Yeah.

I keep a couch. Alex, were you a waiter? You were a waiter at Cascades. Hold on, let me just get that. Cascades is going up. Cascades, waiter, summertime, with vacation. Summer of 2004. Yeah, okay, let me see. Yeah, it checks out. Went to Cascades with my brother. Weirdo kept staring at me.

Got out, paid the check and got away. Straight out of your diary. That must have been a different. Okay. Then there was another guy there because there's no way. You're going to get those calls where it's like, Hey, I thought you were coming. So can you at least come and pay? You're not coming. All right. I'm going to tell you something about a LinkedIn, Danny, which you probably already know, but

You know, when you're hiring for a small business, you want to find quality professionals that are right for the role. That's why you have to check out LinkedIn Jobs. Now, when I was getting a job at Bullocks, which is a clothing store in Arizona, they said I had the best meeting and the worst performance. So they would have weeded me out here at LinkedIn Jobs because they have the tools to find the right professionals for your team faster and for free.

That's exactly right. I mean, it is very difficult to know who you're hiring and comprehensively to get them vetted by LinkedIn gives you takes, you know, takes away the hassle of finding new people. I mean, LinkedIn isn't just a job board, David. LinkedIn helps you hire professionals you can't find anywhere else. Even those who aren't actively searching for a new job, but might be open to the perfect role. Do you understand? Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, listen, I feel like I get it. In a given month, over 70% of LinkedIn users don't visit the other leading job sites. So if you're not looking at LinkedIn, you're probably looking in the wrong place.

Well said. On LinkedIn, 86% of small businesses get a qualified candidate within 24 hours. Hire professionals like a professional on LinkedIn. 86%. That's a good percentage. Who has the time? Dana, you're a small business. You're out there trying to just run a show and you can't just stop everything and try to interview and make calls and bring people. You just call LinkedIn and

It's easy. Bing, bang, boom, beep, bop, boop. Quicker. Post your job for free at linkedin.com slash candidates. That's linkedin.com slash candidates to post your job for free. Terms and conditions, of course, apply. By the way, we can talk to you about something because this is going to be on October 9th. So I'm in New York.

And I haven't done it yet, but it'll be interesting because you played along the whole cascade of people who played, oh, you switched, that have played Biden. I'm now going in to play Biden. It's like, are you? I asked them, I asked Steve Higgins, Lawrence DeWitt, who asked me, and I said, well, does Mikey Day, who's the latest, latest, does he still want to do Biden? Because I can't go, you know, he said Mikey would be relieved that,

I hope that's true, but I love it. Lord asked me in June before the debate problem with Biden, you'll come in. It's just, you know, it's an autumn in New York. It's four shows and you'll be like, really, really have fun. And then he got kicked out or he left like George Washington. We don't know. And you

You'll come in as a ghost. You'll be places. He won't let go. So he wants you to go in there and do it. So what on the continuum of Biden, where were you? You're like, who did it before you and who did it after you? Well, on the continuum, I'm guessing I hold the record for quickest.

which I think was, you know, probably just putting America out of their misery. I did it for, there were two appearances. Before me was a young upstart named Jim Carrey. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. So this was after he did his, that was like, you know, the whole fall. Yeah. I guess during that election. Yeah.

And that was, I believe, always meant to be sort of a temporary thing. And then I had screen tested before they went with Mr. Carey. So I had shown. Yeah, it's fine. OK. Yeah. So then and then I was playing golf. It was like close to Thanksgiving and I was out there teeing it up.

And I got a phone call from a friend of mine who works there. It's like, hey, just a heads up. I think Lauren's going to be calling you and I think they're going I think they're going to give you Biden. And I was like, cool, that's great. And then sure enough, the next day he brought me in. And yeah, similar conversation. Right. You'll do Biden. Well, I think that there's a trajectory. Yeah.

This is a little process for the audience. You know, there's a trajectory, like someone gets elected, like we all knew Joe Biden, but then he's elected president. Now we're really in the primaries are really seeing what he, how he talks and what, and then it takes a while for the audience to recognize the hooks. So early in, I only had my father lost his job. No joke. You know, those was his early kind of manifestations. And then for me, I don't know if you did it before, after Afghanistan happened,

Because the press conference there was the first time I saw him get angry and it was funny. It was always going to be hard. You know, that guy. So there may not have been, there was no hooks after that. I kind of gave up on it. I did it on Colbert and I go, it's so soft and whispery. Father lost his job. No joke. That's all I had until he, yeah, there you go. All right. My God, we should have fun.

Come on, what are we doing? What are we doing? Let's get back to the business of having fun for my God. It was like, please, what are we doing here? Did they let you do it like that? Did they let you extend it? Yeah, more or less. I guess that time was kind of a blur.

A lot of... I was very deep into... That was my bourbon phase. I'm just kidding. No, I...

it was, it was just so quick. I did. Yeah. Oh my God. Oh, let's have, uh, and, and when I screen tested with him, it was more like he was kind of constantly hitting on Jenna, the stage manager, which I think maybe had, had, you know, we'd done more of him. Maybe we would have gotten to him being the more like hair sniffy dude. Right. That's a funny hook. Yeah. But the, um,

um yeah i guess my thing was like thinking he was like joe cool you know but then clearly like not clocking the fact that he's just slightly out of touch you know what i mean so that was kind of more the the hook if i had one clearly whatever the hook was it was a hard pass from the higher ups of the ship well also when i did colbert when i did colbert there was just a sense of uh

Everyone was exhausted, whatever your political stripe, from Trump. Yes. And then when Biden came in, it was like he's a...

moderate Democrat, reach across the aisle, just going to quiet everything down. And when I was doing Colbert remotely and I'd go for a certain kind of joke, the audience would just sort of get quiet. They didn't, the audience wasn't ready. They don't want to go there. Right away, you know, so. Yeah, no, that's true. And that I think is another thing that was going on at the time was like, I don't know that people wanted to...

everyone was exhausted. Like you said, it was just like, okay, well, what's the, what's the joke about this guy? Also, let's not joke about him because he just saved us from the, you know, collapse of democracy or whatever's going through people's minds, you know? Yeah, exactly. It was a random time. Not ready in New York. They're not going to poke him as hard. Right. And then the next, and then, like I said, I think in that, you know, uh,

vulture interview that you guys mentioned, they wisely realized that they had hired a guy who is one of the most insanely gifted impressionists of all time in Mr. Judge himself. And they were like, oh, this guy can can make Biden sing. And so it is, believe me, all good, because I really James's Biden tickles me as Trump

Absolutely tickles me. So I was between my era was between Kerry and Johnson was my Biden administration. OK, I got it. So it made sense because his Trump is like jazz. You know, it's it's remarkably detailed. And he told me for himself, I guess it's OK to say he just made it a cause to live for himself to try to really master a Biden for himself. Yeah.

And so he's been working on it, but there's a lot of hooks there. A cause celeb. I like how you called it a cause celeb, which normally, if I'm not mistaken, is reserved for an actual charitable cause that one lends one celeb to. But in this case, his cause was to- Murph Griffin said that to Zsa Zsa Gabor in 1966. And I've never forgot it. And I use it- I don't even know what it means. Yeah.

Merv Griffin. Oh, come on. You're fine with beans. So anyway, so you did that, which was sort of that pre audience accepting. And James had told me that just this summer, uh,

once and for his audience is a stand up once Biden was no longer running, the crowd was emancipated and laughing really hard. So it's interesting. That's probably true. Yeah. Yeah. Because they're not worried about helping Trump, you know? Right. Yeah. Can I? Dana, another thing that I stole from you is when you my first season.

And when you came back to do Church Lady on Update, I just happened to be walking by in the hallway and somebody asked you how it went after dress and you said something like, well, at least I didn't peek at dress.

Uh, and I, so I always stole that was just like, and like, at least I didn't pick a dress. Like if something went kind of like a little dicey address, like, well, uh, that there's no way that was the peak. Yeah. This could be, this could be a good thing. You say to the writers, this is good. Cause you don't, and it is somewhat true. I mean, I felt like I'd peek at read through in the early days cause I was trying so hard.

And then maybe I'd peak Friday night trying to entertain the crew or I'd peak at dress because I was pushing. And after a little time there, I was able to kind of just do it 85% because you want what's going through your head during the air show is this is the best it's ever gone. Yeah. That's all. Yeah. Rather than like, huh.

They laughed harder a few hours ago at that joke. Dress was so much better. Oh, now we're going down. David knows this feeling. Yeah, you want to do good enough a dress where it makes the show. You don't want to save it so much that it gets cut and you go, oh, fuck, what happened? Right. That's the problem. Fine line. So of your kind of like your...

your poppy hits, which the one you had the most fun doing? Was it the, the, uh, the film reviewer seemed really fun. Cause you're just, you're locked in rhythmically. You've got all the hooks and change ups and, and,

Um, I don't know if people are familiar with this one, but tell us about that. What did you do it before SNL or when an IO IO? That's right. IO. What does IO stand for? Improv Olympic. Oh, improv Olympics. Dumb, dumb. I think Spade's been on my Wikipedia. Uh,

Was that a trunk piece? Was that a trunk piece that you brought to the show? A trunk? Trunk. You know, a trunk piece. Isn't that a... It means you pull out when you need it. It goes with constantly. Motivational speaker was a trunk piece. Yeah. Where did you write it during the show?

I, that one, that one, it was during the show. No. Who just did a, someone just did a thumbs down. Have you seen it? No, that's something that pops up accidentally. That's something in our computers. Like sometimes the stars will come. We never put it, I don't know. Yeah, exactly. I think it, it could happen. Dana can do confetti sometimes. Sometimes. Right now it's not because of this freaking hotel. I can't even get a real one. Let me see. No. Mm-hmm.

- There it is. - I got one. - Right above the Joe Dirt hat. A thumbs down. - Fucking funny. - Which we've already covered was that is actually very funny. - You're in the clear on that. - We're in the clear. Was not a trunk piece. I like that expression, which is like something I brought along when I got there. No. - That always killed.

No, no. You know, what's funny is actually speaking of trunk pieces, another, I'm just going to keep referencing. We love it. Ways that Dana, you came up in either conversation or my waitering life. I love it. I don't think I've ever actually told anybody publicly about my meeting with Lorne, you know, like before you get hired and he referenced you publicly.

In that meeting, because he said something to me to the effect of like the gist was like, we don't really know what we're getting with you because you're not a known entity. And I was sort of like, yeah, I hear you. And he was like, like, like with Dana, for example, we knew what we were. He had an act. He was established. We knew what we were getting. And I was like, yeah, I get that. Well, he also does Church Lady in his act.

right but all of it was surreal i had no idea how it was gonna go i really really thought that i was gonna me and phil the show was only had an eight show pickup we by christmas it was going to get canceled for the only time in the now they're doing a documentary about 85 and 86 because there's so many documentaries for the 50th but um

I didn't realize that I didn't, there was no groundlings in San Francisco. So I was doing standup and in rowdy bars, you know, I would have a rough time cause I was kind of doing little characters and impressions, but I didn't know it would go as well as it did, you know, but it was, uh,

it was a great feeling when i said well isn't that special and i got a laugh just like in the clubs i was like okay i don't worry him but um anyway you were you were already you were like touring right i mean i was doing a lot of clubs i did a lot of shitty weird things they offered me because hollywood wanted to hire me just as a nice guy you know i did a movie with burt lancaster kirk douglas just a nice straight man i did blue thunder with james farantino as the straight man i did mick

one of the boys was Mickey Rooney and Nathan Lane. So, um, but then I kind of said to hell with it. I probably not going to make it. I'll just pay. So I just did a lot of clubs for two years, a lot. And that's where it all, it helped. It was helpful. Um, but you're a thousand hours. Uh, also, uh, the, um, chopping broccoli, uh,

was one of the first laughs I ever remember getting in my life was just imitating chopping broccoli to my parents and sisters and them being like, look at this precocious little ham thing and chopping broccoli. You were like 12, 11, 10? Did you try to actually play it? No.

No, I did. I just like my lady. She went downtown as like a five year old. You know, she bought some broccoli. Oh,

When I hear other people do it, it makes me laugh. But as I was doing it, I'm still mystified by how long people have... It may be the thing I'm referenced to most in many ways. I don't know what it is about it. It's completely inane. Yeah. It's from another planet. It's so out there. Here's the way I put it. It's so dumb and stupid, Dana. That's how people say it.

That's their backhanded compliment. It's not funny at all, so it's funny. Some people... Well, someone told me it's the commitment...

Everyone hates it. I love it. Is what it's about. It being so precious. But you probably didn't know this. I'm going to talk about myself. But I kept going with that character. We gave him a name, Derek Stevens. And I wrote an idea that the record company asked him, says he has to, you know, they have to kill him because they'll get more record sales. And they have a chart where it's like Jim Morrison sales went up and Jimi Hendrix and

And so, and that laid there, you know, that was like, no, yeah, it was a funny conceptual idea. Phil Hartman, the late great was playing the guy, but so, well, I'm very flattered about that. So, oh my God, I want to talk about more. What other things did you like? Funny, you should ask. Opportunity Knox, I saw in theaters eating milk duds with my family when it came out. Do you remember doing that movie? Yeah, I do.

It was an interesting experience. Was that your first big movie out of SNL? First big off? Yeah. It was a little difficult, you know, because they did not want to let me write it with them or anything, you know. So then the movie came out and it was unreleasable. Yeah.

What does that mean? The worst term.

We all have our turkeys. That's another going back to the 70s or something. Fucking jive turkey. But kids like it. It was fanciful and silly. I loved it. Well, you're my favorite guest. Not because of...

saying everything you love about my entire career, but you're just as a person, I like you. The feeling's mutual, but I truly, I don't mean to keep just diving into Carvey lore, but it runs pretty deep, so I'm just making sure that you know that.

I, you, I would always love to hear that, you know, because I, and on this show, people sometimes, I do like to give people compliments because I think most creative people have an inner critic of, you know, or you're the other way. Like, hey, have you seen it? Bulletproof. Yeah. Yeah.

Alex, I have to agree with you that it's not crazy. You say this stuff. I watched Dana. He's not much older than me, but I watched him. He was breaking obviously before anything happened with me. And so I watched that and fucking chopping broccoli. It's such, and everyone thinks it's like this undiscovered, but everyone seems to love if they know comedy and it's so good. I mean, I love Hans and France. I like all this stuff, but that that's way, way, way up there. So you're not crazy. And, uh,

Especially if you're on SNL and you do characters. I didn't do as many characters as most people. So I was more in amazement of like, I can't do all this shit. I'd watch all the guys out there. I'm like, this is just not even possible. I hear you. But you also carved out your own...

Slice of that show. And actually, here's another fun fact. I went after the first time. So the character you mentioned early on that I did, guy who just bought a boat. I wrote that with a really great writer named Anna Dresden, who became we started together at SNL. She became head writer. But anyway, she was like under the bleachers the first time I did that. And it went well the first time I did it.

uh and apparently lauren uh like said turned to anna and said uh it's very spade so i i always took that and i remember at the time being like yes i will take it yeah it's it's very spade so uh it's funny i did i did a character called receptionist where i was just being like really aloof to people like oh and you are and this is regarding and

And then people would be like, who's that gay character you play? And I'm like, um, I don't think it's gay. And they're like, no, you're gay and it's gay. And the show and every sketch you're in is a gay person. I'm like, no, no, no. So I had to deal with that for a while. Why would your mom say that? Because she's like anti, no, she thought I was like coming out. Yeah. But it was, uh, I, cause it's somewhat feminine, some of those, you know what I mean?

I hear that one for me was a little like, yeah, it's just tricky right now. When I look back, I go, oh, I see it. It's just, it's just land glorious. It's land glorious. It's not any, any sexual orientation. It's just right. Right now. Of course, I know what land glorious means, but for the listeners who don't,

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Back to our guest, Alex Moffitt and his great run on SNL. I love when the premise is, see, if you didn't have a guy who owns a boat, a man who owns a boat, what is the title?

The guy who drove a boat? I think it's, yeah, all three of those. All three of those. The guy who saw a boat. Yeah. I think that really just kind of like, why waste time? You get right, everyone, you know what I mean? It's just, I love the presentation of that. I did Germans Who Say Nice Things with Steve Carell once. And it just, it could have worked without it, but it's just not. Right.

This is exactly what it is. This is what you're getting. And obviously it's a pretentious kind of prick. And, you know, it was. And that was all Anna Dresden. She, yeah, she called it.

Called it that title, which made me laugh when she said it. And I was like, yeah, you know, that's his name, of course. And then she also was the one who pitched. We had been like writing the character and then even kind of like late in the game. She she was like, well, and what if he just like says he has a horrible dick? And I was like, yeah.

So the thing that made the bit actually work, you know, was like him saying his subtext or whatever. And that was all Anna. So thank God for good writers. Well, we talked about this last week, just this idea of almost it's a rodeo aspect where you're in the shoot and you're going to wheel out and pivot.

to 15 million people or whatever. And you're waiting and they're getting laughs and maybe some other cast member killed and you're still in the shoot and you got your stuff rolling the car. I mean, it's a very... So you went out there and landed it. And so the writer, she probably gave you a big hug because all of her stuff killed and you have to do it with timing and talent. So...

It was like a hand and a glove, the two of us writing this. And then a couple of guys who write pretty much exclusively for Update, Pete Schultz and Josh Patton, both then. After the first few times we did that bit, they started just texting us really, really gross messages.

funny dick jokes and we were like, all right, you're in. You want to write this with us? So then those two guys jumped on board and by the end it was sort of a four-headed beast where we would just text each other the dumbest stuff we could. I read when you joined, I didn't mean to cut you off there, when you joined

Was it your first host with Chappelle, or you just got to sit in a room with Chappelle, which would have sort of blown away most people? I think it was like my fourth or fifth show. So first year, yeah. But that's like one of the arguably best comic out there, arguably. There's a lot of really good ones. But I remember being there, and they just have the host walk in your office, and you couldn't believe it. Yeah. Especially if it's like a funny...

but it's kind of in your world, like same age. Like I would have someone that was 65 come in. I was, you know, 25. So it was a little different, but when you have someone that's like out there that, you know, that's cool, uh,

It's such a weird thing that he's like, he doesn't know anything. So he just thinks you're might be the best right there. Right. So he's like, hey, what are you thinking? And you're getting nervous going, well, I don't know what the fuck I'm doing. Yeah. And you're Alex, I want to ask you a question because we talked about this before, but you're on eight H and there's a host and then someone will say, you know, I don't know who would be.

Taylor Swift is down there if you want to say hello. And you're kind of walking and the door opens and you're meeting three-dimensionally this family. I had Charlton Heston, for example. You could go meet Charlton Heston, the guy who did Soil and Greed. He's waiting. They're not going to tackle you on the way. What were your...

I just want to for a second, cause I, the experiential, that's another pretty good, the Lengorius experiential thing of going into 8-H, going to seeing Lorne Michaels, all this stuff is so established and now you're a cast member and you're on that show. And what were some of your, what was your mind blowing moments where you like, I walked through 8-H today and I got very sort of, I just felt weird. Yeah.

I hear you. It's just weird. I saw pictures and I was like, I needed to get out of there. Something's wrong. Yeah. There are pictures all over the place of you as like the head wound hairy guy. Did you happen to see this? Another monster. It was a big one. I did not write that one. I wrote that one. The dog. And I'm not sure. The dog was a star because they added more food.

But I did hold the wig on, you know, because I knew if the wig flew off, I knew it was a good enough sketch that let's not make it about that. So I was really fighting. That's thinking on your face. Well, to answer your question, for some reason, the first thing that pops to mind is that even seeing 8-H, I knew would kind of,

be kind of a big moment because again, I kind of revered the show, revered the job. So the first time I was sort of in the running for it, which was a few years before I actually ended up getting hired, I had auditioned at

In Chicago. And then they flew me there for some meetings. And then one of the assistants or something was like kind of walking me around. They were walking me from the offices on 17 or like taking me down to Higgins's office and

which was several in some dungeon under the building. And, but we had to like go through eight for some reason. They were like, Hey, we're walking by the studio. Do you want to see it? And I, in my mind, I remember going like, and I said, actually, I'm good. Thank you. Because I wanted to, I didn't want to just like look at it as a tourist. You know what I mean? Like I wanted to sort of have a reason to be in there. So even though they were, I hadn't been invited to screen test.

So I just wanted to save it for a time when I was actually being invited to perform in there as opposed to just look at it as a fan, if that makes sense. Yeah, interesting. So then the first time I ever set foot in that studio was to screen test four years later. Wow. Yeah. Chris Kelly, one of the stage managers, was he there with either of you guys?

I don't think so. Don't think so. Maybe when I did the guest stuff, you know, sometimes I do a cameo or something, but yeah. Yeah. So great guy. He kind of, you know, walks you into the studio, kind of just like patting your head, like a nervous dog, you know, and then Jenna, who is his like counterpart, co-studio manager. They both kind of,

babysit all these young, nervous people about to screen test. So anyway, the first time I saw the studio was like walking out there to go and, you know, do my screen test. But yeah, what a wild thing. The place definitely has like a very surreal, sweet little corner of my heart. I love it so much.

And it took you three auditions to get to show over three years or something like that. I mean, it took you a while to get on. It took me a good eight. It took me 34 years, all told. But yeah, so I auditioned in 2013 for like a bunch of in Chicago twice that year.

The following year sent in a tape and heard nothing. And the following year auditioned in LA and IO West Spade. Oh, Oh, um, and then, Oh, gentlemen joins us with that doof. It's Sheriff Sherman. That doof. Uh,

No, she, that was the following year. That nutball, that beautiful nutball. That kookaloo nut. Put her in a rubber room. Yes, for real. In a straight jacket. How long has she been on? Covered in macrame flowers. Put her in a fucking bird cage. No, but that year in Iowa West, they actually hired the guy who went on before me, which was John Rudnitsky.

And super duper funny, incredibly talented guy. And so then the following year is when I auditioned in Chicago again. And then that year finally got the screen test, blah, blah, blah. So all told, I think I did like six auditions over the course of four summers. What a beating. Damn. Right? And then you finally get it. And who came in with you? Melissa, right? Melissa V. And Mikey Day moved from...

just lowly writer to uh cast the year oh yeah melissa v mikey d that's pretty until later right no i know no i'm allergic to i can't explain later yeah okay um so you get on and you did how long three years

Six, thank you. Six years. Just twice that many years. You did five shows. More than half a decade. No, I did six years. Six years might be the average. I did six. That's 120 shows, basically, or more. I don't know if some years they go over 20. That sounds about right. It's a nice, good run. Wait, so, Spade, you did six? Dana, how many were you on there? I think I was seven. Twelve. Twelve. No, I mean...

I never have, you know, that was such a great play.

place for me to be you know and you you when you step off of it and i had so much stuff coming at me but you step off of it and then you're like oh you're kind of never gonna do sketch comedy live again unless you guest hosts you know there's not another saturday night live there's no fridays remember fridays from the early 80s there's no in living color yeah i mean snl is just a little in or the big engine that can not the little engine that could mm-hmm

It's the big engine that did and still does and can. Yes. Well, you're on Bad Monkey now. We didn't even talk about that before we get you out of here. Like Bad Monkey is, it's so different. It must be because I remember when I left SNL, there's just nothing like it as far as excitement level. I mean, even the doing takes and doing movies, it's all fun, but it builds up to when it comes out. It's fun and nervous when you do it, but it's not that crazy nerves. True.

Was there a question in there? No, I'm trying to see if you agree. We're just observing that you've hit the ground running after SNL. It seems like you're in demand as an actor, comedic actor, whatever you want to call it. So it's nice. I mean, that's got a well-received show. Vince Vaughn. It's a blast. It's cool. Yeah, that show's great. And then, I mean, as far as the... Yeah, there's no other...

Way to be in front of, like you said, 15 million people shooting out of a rodeo gate. I don't think there's a lot of shows out there that provide that level of excitement. But, you know, doing theater...

They can't, I don't think there are any theaters I could squeeze 15 mil into them, but doing a play, doing a musical. Yeah. You did one recently, right? Last year. Yeah. Did, did a play last summer, which was a blast. The cottage, the cottage. And then now I'm doing a musical. So you guys should come. What? Yes. Whoa. Spade can dance. Ah,

Hello, my baby. What are your qualifications? What are you, the next Liza Minnelli or something up here? What makes Alex Moffat a musical star all of a sudden? You know, the Trump twin guy, all right? What's on your curriculum vitae that's applicable to the live musical game? I got some old tap shoes from Red Button you can borrow. Steve Sondheim.

I could. So what are you going to do in the music? Are you going to sing and dancing? What are you going to do? All of it. And my God, the voice of a nightingale. Oh yeah. I could tell just by you talking.

Is it a Western musical? Is it, well, I'm going to shoot up this town. He's going to shoot up. Or is it a romance or is it a remake of a musical? No, it's a brand new original. It's an original called Big Space. Perking up. You guys, he's perking up. He went from yawning to not.

We counted as Johns. I've counted five so far. No, but you guys do that. Instead of saying original, you say Ridge. You guys have that in common. So anyway, it's not out yet, but you sing and dance as well. Did you ever sing and dance on SNL? Once or twice, yeah. Not to any great fanfare, but yeah, I can do a little bit of each, enough that they...

allowed me to, you know, well enough to do it in comedic settings, which I think is sort of my, my purpose in this too, is I'm not blowing anybody's hair back with my voice of an angel, but you know, I can, I can move my body a little bit. So it's more like talky Broadway singing? Yeah.

Like I know what I want. Yes. And I know what you want, but I'm telling you I'm in town tonight. Is that, that sounds fun. How did you get an advanced copy of my song? I just see you up there. I know what I want. I'm telling you I'm in town tonight.

And I like pussy. They're like, don't ad-lib. No, no, it's not. Keep it short, Moffat. Yeah. Was that literally a lyric or you're just doing the fake lyric? No, no, I'm just, I loved the song that you made. Alex, were you saying that a play does kind of mimic...

the crazy energy of SNL. It is scary. A play is very scary. So that wakes you up. That's a good one. Oh, yeah. That's like stand-up. It's kind of the same thing. Totally. Live crowds. Exactly. Yeah, live crowds are always going to be

Totally. Yeah. Do you guys, are you the types who like when you're going out about to go out and do standup, do you still feel like the butterflies in the basket? Yeah, I definitely do. Yeah, definitely.

dana yeah yeah like in a good way right like yeah well it's good because in the olden days it's like here you know on a cowboy bar here comes down on protocol you know what fuck you you know they don't know who you are now it's like fasten your comedy safety belts because this man brings it every time live company right now i'm sorry i love you

And so it's like, it's like, it's like NASCAR. You know him from this. You go to an open mic, you have, you have notes and they're like, he's here. You know? So that's the other pressure, but it's a, it's a good problem to have. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good buzz too. When you get off, if it goes good. Do you do a Lorne Michaels impression? Cause everyone does something. Not a good one. I don't, I don't have one. There's no such thing as good or bad. Everyone has a different.

You know, different slight angle. You'll, you'll, um, we don't know you. You do the best, Lauren. Go ahead, Dana. Give us some more. Um, you'll find Alex is, uh, he's like a really, really good guy. And, um, he did some great work for us. And, um, he's, um, it's good to have a long career, um,

We had a moment, neither of us are gay, but we looked, anyway, it doesn't matter. Happened at Orso's one time. Orso. I'm sorry. You know, what is it with Orso? Because also in that, you know. I love it. I think that's where the cast. I remember those cast dinners. Yeah, well, it wasn't during our time, but in my, you know how also, I guess somewhat famously. You did P.F. Chang's, did it move? Yes. Yeah. Right.

in a, in a secret room under the giant horse out front. Um, change humor for you. Yeah. Thank you. Um, that's all I got. No, but we, now it's at some place in the theater district. But when I was, uh, when I had my little meeting with him where he, you know, said like, uh, essentially, you know, Dana, uh,

Um, he, he also said, uh, you know what? Hey, he ain't wrong. Um, I think it was more just like he was setting the table for a conversation. Like, Hey, what, what, we don't know who, who the hell are you? Like we've, I've never seen you before. So it was a valid thing.

Because he also was like, it's, you know, it's a it's an election year. It's going to be tough to get your, you know, sometimes people spin out if it's their first year and it's an election year. And I was sort of I didn't really fight him on anything. I was sort of like, yeah, I hear you. Like, I know. You're like, listen, I'm in. Just get me in the fucking building. It was like I got Saturday Night Live. Yeah.

Yeah. But I, so then at the end, you know how he will like say, ask if you have any questions for, I don't know if that was his thing when you guys met. Anything for me. Yeah. He was like, do you have any questions for me? And for whatever reason, my, the only thing I could think of was I just said, I was like, yeah, I've got my fiance in town with me and we wanted to like do a fun dinner tonight. Any recommendations? Yeah.

And so I asked him for a dinner recommendation in my, which he was like, oh, uh, oh, uh, well, there's always Orso. Uh, so he was like, but, but, but, you know, one of the, my assistants could probably give you a list of recommendations, but I was like, no, no, no. Of course, Orso's, that's good. I'll go there. I want it from you. So we went to Orso's that night.

And hey, the... Any stars? Well, let's... Can we hear about this? Because now you're married, right? So apparently it was a good dinner. Yeah, cat's out of the bag. It worked. Sorry. Sorry, hose hounds. This old ox is yoked.

You should have proposed at Orso because then you tie Lorne into your proposal. You're like, and then Lorne made me go to Orso. I should have proposed right then and there, but we were already engaged. So I guess we should have just eloped at Orso. Propose again and put on Instagram. Yeah. I mean, is she in the biz? She is. She's a, she's a brilliant actor. We met at a Velveeta cheese commercial audition in Chicago. 12.

12 years ago. That's the place. That's the place. Wow. Yeah. And who got it? Neither one of us and no one. In fact, I think the script was so bad they chucked it out the window and never made the spot. They said the government just found out what's in Velveeta cheese and it's being shut down. Yeah. It's half asbestos. There's no cheese. Asbestos.

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Sorry, non-sequitur. I was talking to Lauren once and it was just about business, show business and how the machinations of it. And he said, no one likes to know how a hot dog gets made. I do. I saw a YouTube video on it. But the old days, you didn't have YouTube. No, no, not in the old days. You'd have to accept my analogy. Yeah. I'm going to go. Okay. Bye.

No, I'm going to go Oprah. What would you say to your younger self right now who had the first day of SNL? I'm just going, is it Oprah or was it maybe Barbara Walters? Either way, that was a really good Oprah impression. Did you ever get that? Yeah, really good. Peepo!

It's all I got. Say to my younger self. You don't have to answer that. It's pretty corny. No, no. That's a good question. Well, here's a question. This is, I guess I would tell myself, just, you know, enjoy, make sure you try the tiramisu at Orso's.

um it's out of this world but uh how did you two decide to pair up for this because uh spade correct me if i'm wrong didn't i've heard you tell the story about how you thought you were gonna get to play like ross perot or something because they asked you they were like we're gonna and then but you were basically just a stand-in for dana is that am i getting that right pretty close yeah we we uh

that Ross Perot came in the news. I didn't even know how the machinations worked at SNL, but I hit up Smigel and said, Hey, there's this new guy. But they of course knew all this because I was just seeing it on like meet the press. I go, maybe this guy would be funny for me to play. And they're like, Oh yeah, Dana's going to play. And I'm like, how many can Dana do? And so, but then this is how dumb I am is that when it came up for like a,

right? Like a nighttime primetime special. There was Clinton, Ross Perot and George Bush. So I said, they said, can you come in and do Ross Perot? I was like, oh, fuck it. I thought, well, of course Dana can't.

But I was just a stand in for the wide shots with the whole wide shot. David had to put the wig on and go. And I remember it was the saddest I'd seen him. He's out there with the stuff on. And I go, I'm sorry, man, this is pretty bad. You know, then I tell Gervis, my manager, I might quit. And he goes, where are you going to go?

Who wants the guy that was bad on SNL and then quit? I go, Jesus Christ. That's not the pep talk I was looking for. He's firm, but he's fair, our manager. How about you? You've done a few things. I met David before SNL when he was out of high school.

In the Beachwood Canyon with Kevin Nealon. So we'd go back there and then we'd just all, he used to open for me, a great opener. You know, would never go on too long. Would come out in shorts and just kind of wander, put on a mic and a little prop and kind of lean on the stool. It's 3,000 seats in the round outdoors. And I didn't know you could do stand-up like that, but he would kill. Yeah, playing it under. Hey, what's going on? What are you people doing here? I'm going out there dancing for my donuts. Yeah!

I'm drenched in sweat. David's like, what's up? So then when I had a place in LA, we started hanging out and stuff and then stayed buddies. Well, so we're on the same page. Anything left for Alex? We've pretty much covered literally everything. We just have a few moments left and is there anything else you'd like to say to your fans out there? 120 shows of Saturday Night Live. Alex Moffitt, one of the

One of my favorite guests we've had on fly on the wall. Oh, because you can't mention every, every bit from the Olympics. Lie on the wall. I just got that. Fly on a wall. They listen. Uh, yeah, but thank you. Yes. Uh, that's my Ed McMahon. Uh, no, do you,

There's no Phil Hartman. Speaking of, uh, no, I love, love both overlap with him. We did. I came in with Phil in 86 and then David came in and then Phil, Phil left with him. He wanted to go longer. And David said, time to go. Phil was getting, I got a whiff of what Phil was getting. And I was like, blah, blah, blah. Like I was like, Holy shit. And then I thought, well, if they're going to give it to anybody, I'm going to give it to him.

This is the guy. We called him the glue. He was very important. Very important. Could do anything and was so talented. He kind of didn't, he was really into schematics of motorboat engines. Evan Rood. Hey, look at this. Evan Rood. We're just rehearsing. And he was just a Renaissance design, design albums and, and,

uh he could play guitar blues guitar he was just like and he just would just sit there he had his binder and he'd always intend things and he'd underline everything and they go okay go up and then he'd be like hello i'm a crazy frankenstein man or whatever he just yeah do it truly could do it all oh my god do it all the glue the glue nice guy like on a thursday would stop me and say hey i liked your update like if it didn't get on or something he would stop and go

These jokes are funny or something, you know, just, and that's like a guy that's that good saying something. It just takes the sting out of it a little bit, you know, because you're already bummed out.

Yeah. You mean like on a, Oh, like from like after read through, it didn't get picked up. And then he's like, I liked it. And, uh, that's sweet. So he was a sweet guy. Sweet guy. Very sweet. Oh yeah. Yeah. Just, just, uh, unpretentious, no ego. Just, just, just, um, just a great, you know, so who was your favorite cast member? We want to trend and who didn't you really, who did you hate? Who didn't I like? Let's start there now. Um, let's,

I mean, I'm a huge, like of all time. What, what are my, who are my faves? Or when you were there? Oh, I was there. Well, my Mount Rushmore. Well, we can do all. I seriously, I mean, Phil's up there. Eddie Murphy.

Dana, I would put you on there, my friend. Thank you. That's nice. Dan Aykroyd. When I was coming through in college, those guys were the Beatles, basically. Yeah. Chevy, Danny. Johnny. I think, you know, whenever we mention or make a list, then later I regret that I forgot this person. Totally. Especially as you get into the modern era, you know. Yeah, you don't want to leave anybody out. No, I had an amazing...

group when I was there. I mean, Kate is, I think one of the all timers and just a sweetie pie and a good friend. And one of the funniest people ever, you know, put on this earth. Absolutely. Keenan also could like with even just like the slightest little look in his eye could just,

make me like the clothes i didn't break uh really much on the show but keenan could make me break and i i had several times of just like having to like pinch my leg or like bite the inside of my cheek because keenan would just sort of give me a look knowing that he could level me uh so he's one of the greats

Yeah. And then Melissa is just so sweet. We had her on here. She's amazing. A brilliant ear, you know, just amazingly talented. Insane. Yeah. And Mikey Day seems like an extremely nice guy. I can see why you two would be friends. He's one of the great menches of all time. So I, and I've said this before, but I mean, the fact that he was already very like savvy in the,

you know, workings of the show, having been a writer for a few years and then kind of like took me under his wing in a way when I started there, like couldn't have couldn't have been a nicer guy, couldn't have been a better situation for me to walk into where this guy who's brilliant and is like also low key, one of the best sketch writers ever kind of looked out for me like an older bro when I got there. So I was very lucky for that. So, yeah, yeah, invaluable.

Well, thank you, Alex. Good Lord. Dana's going to go do his SNL stuff now. Yeah. I'm going to try to see what I can do. Get your facts straight, Jack. There it is. I'm excited for this. Come on. I'm a more transformative president. I did the border of the border there, the border of the border. I can't believe it's not butter.

It's going to work. There you go. All right. See you, Alex. That's great. Thank you, buddy. Thanks, guys. Appreciate it. Be well. Take care. Have a good day. Enjoyed it. Thanks, Alex. This has been a presentation of Odyssey. Please follow, subscribe, leave a like, a review, all this stuff. Smash that button, whatever it is, wherever you get your podcasts. Fly on the Wall is executive produced by Dana Carvey and David Spade, Jenna Weiss-Berman of Odyssey, and Heather Santoro. The show's lead producer is Greg Holtzman.