Adam Friedland Joins the Old Boys Club

Summary

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Podcast Summary: "Adam Friedland Joins the Old Boys Club"

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Aired: March 19, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this lively and irreverent episode, comedians David Spade and Rob Schneider (with Dana Carvey referenced but not present in the chat) welcome Adam Friedland—comedian, podcaster, and host of his own long-form talk show—to the show. Together, they dive deep into comedy influences, the evolution of talk and comedy formats, behind-the-scenes anecdotes from showbiz, navigating podcasting fame, and Adam’s comedic journey and philosophy. The tone is fast-paced, self-deprecating, and playfully combative, characteristic of the hosts and their guest.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Adam Friedland’s Talk Show Style & Nostalgia

• Adam talks about modeling his talk show after Dick Cavett’s long-form interview style and the natural nostalgia for the analog era.

• Quote:
  "The show is kind of modeled after Cavett. So it's like a long form talk show—the attempt was to revive some of that." — Adam Friedland [09:02]

• Discussion on the value of old talk shows, where real personalities emerged during free-flowing conversation, as opposed to the over-produced, sanitized late-night spots.

• Spade reminisces about watching vintage Cavett interviews on YouTube, noting how "they age so well." [09:49]

2. Comedy Podcasts & the Cumtown Era

• Adam details the dynamic of his previous, now-defunct podcast Cumtown, referring to it as a “friendship simulator” and credits its low-fi style and improvisational chaos.

• Quote:
  "It was kind of like just a friendship simulator, I guess, for people. Because it's like you're in a living room with friends hanging out." — Adam Friedland [11:49]

• Nick Mullen (his former collaborator) is praised for his improvisational prowess, with Spade noting the “great chemistry” among Nick, Adam, and Stavros Halkias.

• Ads on Cumtown were deliberately shambolic and subversive, notably for boner pills, adding to the show’s mystique:
  "We did the absolute worst ads ever… the ads became part of the show—they're funny." — Adam Friedland [12:32]

3. Generational Comedy Influences & SNL

• Adam expresses his admiration for Spade and Schneider, describing meeting them as an honor and a moment where his self-confidence faltered.
  "I have delusions of grandeur… but around you guys, it's just an honor. I've been a fan my entire lives of, of the both of yous." [04:34]

• Discussion on SNL as a generational springboard. Adam once aspired but feels "too old probably now" at 38. He’s close friends with current SNL star Sarah Sherman, leading to a humorous digression on women in comedy.

• Notable Bit:
  Adam mock-laments the "old boys club," teasing the guys for their supposed chauvinism, only to laud women comics:
  "For a long time we doubted [women could do comedy]... now they're funnier than us." — Adam Friedland [19:30]

4. Standup, Bombing, and War Stories

• All share tales of bombing at charity events and corporate gigs. Adam recounts a disastrous roast, where jokes about Jeffrey Epstein fell totally flat in front of a crowd of elderly Jewish donors—one of whom apparently knew Epstein.
• Memorable Sequence:
  Adam: "I look at the crowd, and I'm like, 'And Jeff Epstein's here. Where the hell have you been? Dead?' Like… it's the worst silence I've ever heard." [38:13]
• Spade and Schneider empathize with tales of misfiring at corporate gigs or industry events, emphasizing that even legends bomb.

5. Comedy, Fame, and Intellectualism

• The group debates the new expectation that comedians are "modern-day philosophers."
  "They say comedians are modern day philosophers, which is offensive to modern day philosophers… there are actual smart people in the world." — Adam Friedland (paraphrasing Norm Macdonald) [45:26]

• Friedland stresses resisting the urge to be an “authority” on his own show, preferring curiosity and personal connection instead.

6. Inside SNL: Auditions & Early Days

• Spade and Schneider revisit their SNL auditions—a blend of stand-up, characters, and awkward, cold rooms with Lorne Michaels.

• Quote:
  Spade: "The tension was, I think, intentionally ratcheted up to make you nervous and see if you can handle it." [28:38]

• Anecdotes about early SNL careers, Sandler’s rise, and support among the “crew” (including Dennis Miller and Dana Carvey) provide a comedic inside-baseball look at showbiz hierarchy.

7. Politics & Showbiz: Staying Playful

• Campy discussion about mayors as real estate agents, politicians’ personalities ("He likes walking around and hot dogs. He sounds like the BTK killer." — Adam Friedland [49:10]), and declining network talk shows.

8. Artistic Side Projects

• Adam mentions dabbling in painting during COVID, notably a painting of George W. Bush getting word about 9/11 and a Steve Harvey portrait.
  "I'm not… during COVID I just painted a little bit." [33:49]

9. Audience Engagement and Upcoming Shows

• Adam discusses ramping up production on his talk show, returning to stand-up, and upcoming gigs, including at the Region Theater (Netflix Is A Joke Fest).

• Playful threats from Spade and Schneider to surprise him at his live show:
  "We're not gonna let you know, but we're going to be sitting in the back and right before you go on, they're going to go spade and carve your hair. They want to see what you got." — David Spade [51:20]

• Light “Grown Ups 2 vs. Grown Ups 1” debate: Adam is firmly in the “2 is better” camp. [52:11]

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• Adam Friedland (on doing the podcast):
  "The scary thing about trying is that if you try as hard as you can, you could find out that you have no talent." [14:15]

• David Spade (On bombing at corporate gigs):
  "I have my tricks, but… I try to levitate the room. I have a sickness. When I was in the clubs in the early days, if you didn't kill, you didn't move up and you didn't get rehired." [40:54]

• Rob Schneider (on early SNL):
  "It was like being in the quarterback room with Brett Favre…" [32:58]

• Adam’s accidental roast disaster:
  "I was told that Jeff Ross is gonna be the roastmaster. So I wrote some nasty crap... And then it's just 97 year old billionaire Jewish grandparents." [35:55]

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Highlighted Timestamps

• [09:02] — Adam’s talk show inspired by Dick Cavett, love for retro formats
• [12:32] — Legend of terrible ads on Cumtown
• [14:15] — "Scary thing about trying is you find out if you have no talent"
• [19:30] — Satirical riff on women in comedy and SNL’s evolution
• [28:38] — Spade on SNL auditions and Lorne’s “test”
• [38:13] — Adam’s harrowing roast/Jeffrey Epstein joke
• [45:26] — Norm Macdonald quote on comedians/philosophers
• [51:20] — Spade/Schneider joking about ambushing Adam’s Netflix show
• [52:11] — "Grown Ups 2 is better than 1" mini-debate

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Final Thoughts

This episode is a whirlwind of showbiz self-mythologizing, comic neurosis, rapid-fire banter, and genuine mutual admiration. Adam Friedland fits right in with the “old boys club” by both skewering and revering comedy traditions. The discussion’s true highlights are its candid confessions—about stage fright, imposter syndrome, and bombing—as much as its celebration of comedy’s past and present. Listeners are treated to a rare blend of inside stories, meta-commentary, and the loose, living-room energy that has become the gold standard of modern comedy podcasting.

Transcript

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[Adam Friedland]

Hey, Sal.

[David Spade]

Hank. What's going on? We haven't worked a case in years.

[Adam Friedland]

I just bought my car at Carvana

[David Spade]

and it was so easy.

[Adam Friedland]

Too easy.

[Announcer 1]

Think something's up?

[David Spade]

You tell me. They got thousands of options, found a great car at a great price.

[Adam Friedland]

It got delivered the next day.

[David Spade]

It sounds like Carvana just makes it easy to buy your car, Hank. Yeah, you're right. Case closed. Buy your car today on Carvana.

[Adam Friedland]

Delivery fees may apply. The mayor has been destroying himself as a cocktail waitress at night. I'm just. I don't. I thought that it was the old boys club. I thought this was the kind of stuff you guys said. I go to one of these Korean barbecues. He's like, would you believe it? They make you cook your own food. He's like, I sure hate to go to one of them Korean whorehouses. Wait, oh, why don't you come over here and suck your own dick? They say comedians are modern day philosophers, which is offensive to modern day philosophy. You know, like there are actual smart people in the world. When I, if we meet, I will go just on my knees and just flate in public, in private.

[Rob Schneider]

Done.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay.

[Rob Schneider]

You know, we always say we're not going to do these things, but let's do it. All right, Dana. We had Adam Freeland and he's on today. We talked to him. He's got a podcast that you know is out there, does well. He's a funny guy. He's actually a comedian, but he does a lot of some politics, some comedian stuff. Sort of a mixed bag, right?

[David Spade]

Yeah, it's Very interesting. He's. He loves Dick Cavett, or his set is kind of based on Dick Cabot, a talk show from the 1970s.

[Rob Schneider]

I barely remember, but yeah, and he

[David Spade]

kind of lays back. He's got a really kind of likable personality. He's kind of pithy. He's a little bit political, and then he'll say stuff that's slightly off kilter, and so it's very interesting.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah, he kind of catches people off guard on his show because they don't really know where he's coming from and. Yeah, but he's a comic at the root of it all, and he knows us, and we brought him on and we had a good chat with him, actually. Some good laughs. You know, you never know what you're getting, really. But if we can get some good.

[David Spade]

Yeah, and it's flattering when you meet younger comedians who are kind of, like, excited to meet us and asking us a couple questions. That was interesting. But, yeah, he's a very charming young man, and I enjoyed it.

[Rob Schneider]

Here he is, Adam Freeland. Don't get mad. I have to text the whole podcast. No, I'm done. Okay. I'm trying to text, trying to get spots. No, I'm kidding.

[David Spade]

Sandler's listening to this podcast, so every time his name is.

[Adam Friedland]

No, you stop.

[David Spade]

Guys, I, I say just as a signal to that.

[Rob Schneider]

Adam. Yeah, yeah.

[David Spade]

That this Adam is on.

[Adam Friedland]

Anyway, it's like the ear tug. The Mary Tyler Moore ear tug to her. Her mother.

[Rob Schneider]

Carol Burnett.

[David Spade]

Carol Burnett.

[Adam Friedland]

Carol Burnett.

[Rob Schneider]

Jesus.

[David Spade]

We come.

[Rob Schneider]

Really gone off track.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm blowing it right now, guys.

[Rob Schneider]

We can get out of 45.

[David Spade]

It's impossible.

[Adam Friedland]

Exposed to the school. Everyone's laughing at me right now. You guys are. I, I just, I'm, I'm a huge fan. I mean, like, it's, it's very cool to meet you guys. I, I do a talk show and I meet. I meet people and I'm, I'm not nervous around anyone, literally. I, I, I'm, I have.

[David Spade]

I've seen it.

[Adam Friedland]

Delusions of grandeur. I, or, like, I don't know. I, I, I narciss. But, like, around you guys is like, it's, it's, it is but an honor. I've been a fan my entire lives of, of the both of yous.

[Rob Schneider]

We haven't interrupted someone. Thank you. We want to hear the whole compliment.

[David Spade]

Yeah. For the first time. We've never. That we kept our mouths shut. We don't want to interrupt that flow. But, yeah, I was the same way. We're just. I'm up the ladder from you. So when I met Steve Martin or something.

[Adam Friedland]

Checky Green.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah. When he met Oscar Keaton, you know about.

[Adam Friedland]

Do you know who's that? Oh, Heshi Teshuitz. He was. He raped like half of.

[Rob Schneider]

Anyway, we're gonna go to a commercial and come back anyways. Adam.

[David Spade]

We'll be back with Hollywood rape stories with our guests.

[Rob Schneider]

Dana was on the set as a child when. When Buster Keaton was hanging off the clock.

[Adam Friedland]

Really?

[David Spade]

Yeah. BK. BK. I said, man, that's too high.

[Rob Schneider]

1936.

[David Spade]

Oh, no, it's all right. I got ring lights. I got a mic under here. Yeah, this is your grandpa's podcast. But anyway, let's go back to compliments. What do you. What do you like best? About what. What floats your boat? About David Spade?

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

Oh, nothing.

[Adam Friedland]

Nothing at all. I'm talking to you.

[David Spade]

Just shoot me. Okay, so we got.

[Adam Friedland]

No, no. I mean, I. I've. I've seen a hundred, maybe a hundred, probably a hundred movies with you. I mean, I've seen literally every single. Every single Happy Madison product. I've literally. It's. It's a very important thing for me and my group of friends. I. I had a. I had a. A Schneider on. On my talk show.

[David Spade]

I saw that episode.

[Adam Friedland]

Loved it. Yeah.

[David Spade]

What are you talking about?

[Adam Friedland]

A scher. Yeah, a small dog. He's a. He's a. He's a tall glass of water. That boy.

[Rob Schneider]

Schneider. I just saw her.

[Adam Friedland]

I had no idea. He was like. He was, he was. He's like. I thought it was like 5, 2.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

When I always thought he was like 6, 8.

[Rob Schneider]

Schneider looks so huge on camera.

[David Spade]

He has a.

[Adam Friedland]

He's a titan.

[David Spade]

I'm telling you what, though, whatever the numbers are, the confidence Rob has as a person going in the room and he's the only one yelling at him. Handler and stuff.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

That confidence makes you taller or makes you bigger. It makes you forget, you know?

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

I went to AC to see Sandler perform and Schneider opened for him for my friend's bachelor party. And I. I told Rob I really, I loved his closer. It happened to be one of the. One of the only non political justices.

[Rob Schneider]

You being arrested?

[Adam Friedland]

No, no. I live in New York City. It's a hellscape. It's a violent hell. Anti Semitic hellscape.

[Rob Schneider]

Is that garbage on the streets? That's what I heard.

[David Spade]

So that's not Nick.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. They don't have alleyways. The city planning, they didn't factor in alleyways. So we have garbage on the streets.

[David Spade]

But you've got Ma' am Danny now to kind of.

[Adam Friedland]

He promises he's my friend. Yeah, friends.

[David Spade]

Oh, good.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, yeah, good.

[David Spade]

I'm gonna say nice things.

[Adam Friedland]

He probably grew up watching you guys as well. I mean, he's, he's, it's the first like leader that I met where it dawned that he's like, of my generation.

[David Spade]

Right.

[Adam Friedland]

And it was like, yeah, we were like talking about like hip hop and like soccer. Like, we suck.

[David Spade]

I have a question.

[Adam Friedland]

Like the lame was Millennial Men that.

[David Spade]

Can I ask you a question? So this is kind of what I gather, because I saw your precursor for your show and you had a crt television. You know, when you do your little preamble up front.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

And you also, it looked like you were filming it from something deconstructed from the 80s or 90s. That segment, there was a wash over it. It was kind of dull, but it felt very retro. And I find that people who have came through the analog age, the end of it, went into the digital age, have nostalgia for that era. Like when you were a little kid. Right. So is that like an emotional touch point for you? Like, do we also trigger that with you watching us when you're like 12,

[Adam Friedland]

10, you're triggering something and you can't see, you can't see down here. No, but, no, that, that is modeled after a reference image. So the show is kind of modeled after Cavett. So it's like a long form talk show. Right. So it's, it's. The attempt was to like revive some. I, I do a talk. I don't know.

[David Spade]

I've seen it many, many times. I think you're great at it. I love it. And I, and I love the Dick Cavett reference. I think Dick Cavett has only gotten shiny and brighter as we go forward. I mean his long form interviews with like Robert Mitchum, these old timey movie stars for like an hour. It's so. And then you're hearing the sirens. You're hearing the sirens. Tiny audience. So I'll watch it on YouTube some nights. I'll just go on a Dick Cabot run, you know.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, they really, they age so well. And the thing that's cool about it was because of the format of like long form interview and it like free flowing conversation, you could see a famous person for who they are as a guy, you know. Totally. And, and talk shows that nowadays it's, it's so. I don't even know if they make money for the networks anymore. Like. Yeah, it's yeah, it's like, tell me your vacation, your story about losing your luggage. And then what's the movie? And then this is the clip. And it's like there are these like, kind of like weird, like legacy, like products that just exist because they have to be there.

[Rob Schneider]

It's super surfacey. I mean, in the old days, I don't even know when they invented boredom. It was probably like late 80s because Tom Snyder show was again, just a. Like, he had Dan Akron. They would talk for 45 minutes straight. It was like no commercials. And you would learn a lot.

[Adam Friedland]

You're right.

[Rob Schneider]

It would go a little deeper than just, I heard you bought a dog recently and then you do your dog. Yeah.

[David Spade]

And he also had Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer and really enemies and fights and weirdness would happen on Dick Cabot and real tension, you know. But yeah, the talk shows dying. It basically. Late night talk shows took in about 485 million pre pandemic between all of them. Now it's like 50, less 190.

[Rob Schneider]

Isn't that crazy?

[David Spade]

I'm curious. I love these machines. I love to research stuff.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. I love money. Yeah, Yeah. I know nothing. I know nothing about money. I. I don't. The objective really was just to like, do not. I did a podcast for so long that was like quite successful.

[David Spade]

Nick Mullen, who's. I think he's a great improviser, doing characters and impressions.

[Adam Friedland]

And I thought you guys played ever. Yeah, yeah.

[David Spade]

And Savros. Yeah. There was a break chemistry between you three.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, it was. It was kind of like just a friendship simulator, I guess, for people. Because it's like you don't see people listening to a podcast. So you're kind of in a living room and then like once you stop recording, then you start having the argument about what time for lunch. It's kind of like it feels like you're in a living room with friends hanging out.

[David Spade]

It was either overtly performative when Nick would do impressions, or it was so lo fi. And the way you guys would even dress in your whole body language. And sometimes you get really tight on the mic and kind of talk really soft, so it drew you in. But my question for you is this. You didn't do ads, right?

[Adam Friedland]

We did.

[David Spade]

Yeah, we did ads and pages.

[Adam Friedland]

We would do the worst ads. Yeah.

[David Spade]

Okay.

[Adam Friedland]

We do the absolute worst ads ever. Like, we had boner pill companies, which are like literal pharmaceuticals. We'd make really just irresponsible claims. We had no idea why they were like signing up still But I think because the ads became part of the show, they become like, they're funny.

[Rob Schneider]

You know, they're in a meeting one day going, did you know these guys from Cumtown are goofing on our.

[Adam Friedland]

No, they keep buying on. No, no, seriously, I think because people skip the. The reads. Right. I hate. As I hit the 32nd skip.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah, we love our. Our advertisement, but go ahead.

[Adam Friedland]

No, I mean, you're. You guys. I mean, some of the worst. I mean, you barely know how to read, but.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

No, I mean, no, but genuinely, we were working two hours a week, and then st was still doing the road. Nick and I got really lazy.

[Rob Schneider]

Lazier than two hours a week?

[Adam Friedland]

Well, yeah, I mean, I didn't have to wor. I mean, I stopped doing standup kind of. It's just like. Yeah, I thought I sucked also. I was kind of like the like, like nebbish of the show, you know, Nick. And Nick is like the funniest guy ever. Sa is one of the funniest guys ever. Like, you know, I was like, oh, I'm just like the, the. The gay, like the gay Jew, you know? And then with this, with this show, it's like kind of. It's just a series of accidents. I think it started off as a joke to make me into like a public intellectual. Like.

[Rob Schneider]

And Stewart, they said. Oh, yeah, who's they?

[Adam Friedland]

I'm not. I'm gonna blow it. I'm gonna. I, like, literally, I'm just wearing glasses. I mean, they think I'm something that I'm not.

[Rob Schneider]

I'm just wearing.

[Adam Friedland]

Really. I'm a stupid guy. Like. But beyond that, like, yeah, this is. This requires a lot of effort. And like, the scary thing about trying is that if you try as hard as you can, you could find out that you have no talent.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

And what's ended up happening is that it's gone really well.

[Rob Schneider]

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[David Spade]

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[Rob Schneider]

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[David Spade]

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[Rob Schneider]

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[David Spade]

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[Rob Schneider]

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[David Spade]

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[Adam Friedland]

Right.

[David Spade]

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[Rob Schneider]

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[David Spade]

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[Rob Schneider]

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[David Spade]

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[Rob Schneider]

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[David Spade]

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[Rob Schneider]

Comptown is still around or is it for sure?

[Adam Friedland]

No. Yeah. Cometown is gone. You like it? You should.

[Rob Schneider]

I like the cum stain.

[Adam Friedland]

Sounds so cool that you, you know about Nick. It's so cool.

[David Spade]

I had young people turn me on to it and say, really, you should go on this show and so you can riff with Nick, you know.

[Rob Schneider]

Wow.

[David Spade]

So he's great.

[Adam Friedland]

That's awesome to hear. Yeah.

[David Spade]

Yeah. Straight up, as they say. Absolutely no cap.

[Adam Friedland]

Dude, I don't say that kind of stuff.

[Rob Schneider]

That's you and Madani over there. Like no cap Mandani.

[Adam Friedland]

No. Me and my Donnier, we're. We have. We have plans.

[Rob Schneider]

We have plans. We go to. Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Soviet style plants. Yeah.

[David Spade]

What kind of apartment, like could I get as kind of a casual acquaintance of the mayor now through you? If I wanted a one bedroom in the village. Nice. You know what could I get it for if we connected through Danny?

[Adam Friedland]

I don't think the mayor does real estate.

[David Spade]

Okay, that's an answer. I was just probing in case we know Lauren Michaels. Here's a question I have.

[Adam Friedland]

It'd be funny if he Had a side. He had to get a side job.

[Rob Schneider]

Still does open houses.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

He's a real estate agent.

[Adam Friedland]

The mayor has been destroying himself as a cocktail waitress at night.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

He's in trouble. Yeah.

[David Spade]

Would you have aspirations for SNL or ever thought about it that or were you.

[Adam Friedland]

I mean, as a kid it was the coolest thing in the world. But I think I'm kind of too old probably now. I'm 38.

[David Spade]

Phil.

[Adam Friedland]

I kind of have a thing going. But I'm very close with like. Like Sarah's a Sherman. She's like one of my good friends. Yeah, I know you guys. You guys are friends, right? That's so awesome. Yeah. All she does is yell around how. Don't take that from her. What the. Does she know?

[Rob Schneider]

I can't help.

[Adam Friedland]

What has she done with her life? Just warned, man.

[Rob Schneider]

I'm like, why are you my boss?

[Adam Friedland]

No, I mean she's like one of. That's. That's like fan.

[David Spade]

We love her. Can we talk about her special a little bit? I watched it the other night.

[Adam Friedland]

I was there. I was there for the day.

[Rob Schneider]

You were there.

[David Spade]

It's the wildest good guy thing and it's only her could do it. I was just.

[Rob Schneider]

Her commitment to being bananas is so good.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

And attacking the audience. Go ahead.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. I think women can. I think women can do it. I think they could do comedy. I. For a long time we doubted it, but I thought, you know, know.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah. This is just a recent thing.

[David Spade]

Male or female. This is an X rated haunted house.

[Adam Friedland]

Come on. How many of them are show.

[Rob Schneider]

What?

[Adam Friedland]

How many?

[David Spade]

Adam, don't even get a women. Oh, women.

[Rob Schneider]

A thousand million.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm just kidding. They're funnier than us. Of course they tell great stories. Well, no, no, I'm just making fun of Sarah.

[David Spade]

No, no, we had to. We had to give it up. I. We were in that mode back in the 80s for, you know, know, nor done. Didn't think they were represented. And then all of a sudden Sherry O. Terry and Tina Fey and Christine Wig and you know, that the women kind of took over the show in some ways.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm just. I don't. I thought that it was the old boys club. I thought this was the kind of stuff you guys said. I don't even believe that. I think women are fabulous now and so funny and their stories, they really go somewhere and they're really interesting and they went to cv.

[David Spade]

Are you reading a lot? Where are you getting his point of view?

[Rob Schneider]

He's just talking off top of his Head.

[David Spade]

I. I co. Sign all that. I mean, I'm teased.

[Adam Friedland]

I. I don't believe that.

[David Spade]

No, I'm too. I'm in your frequency right now.

[Adam Friedland]

I get this Sarah, but Sarah's special is disgusting and revolting, and it's. It's so fun. And she's. She's so. She's so. She's a singular voice, and she's. She's a lovely friend, and when you're

[Rob Schneider]

genuine, it's kind of sickening.

[Adam Friedland]

I know. It's disgusting. Really? It sounds like I'm, like, trying to molest you or something. Yeah. I'm like, molesting with compliments.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah. Yeah.

[David Spade]

There is mullet stand up.

[Rob Schneider]

I know.

[David Spade]

Is kind of boring. A lot of time. I don't know. You know, when you. Hey, everybody.

[Adam Friedland]

I hate it.

[David Spade]

I masturbated in front of my cat. And the elbows on the mic. And Sarah never is boring.

[Rob Schneider]

She walks out and goes to this guy. You act like you don't have a butthole. That's like. I'm like, okay, she's. She's already got us. She's doing stuff that's very different. Very hard to find. Different.

[David Spade]

Well, I like that with. She took the Seinfeld riff, and she would press a button doodle. I didn't know you could do that. Like, I thought einfeld, go, you can't have it. No.

[Adam Friedland]

Sorry, Jerry.

[Rob Schneider]

She doesn't get in trouble for doing that. Right? Would you have to clear that, Adam?

[Adam Friedland]

I. I had to talk to Jerry. Yeah. And Netanyahu. I had to talk to both of them. They're fine now.

[Rob Schneider]

Did you hear my joke that I was saying that all my exes got a podcast now? It's called Didn't Come Down.

[Adam Friedland]

Really? Don't. Don't say that. I'm sure they were.

[David Spade]

Yeah. I'm gonna do the Seinfeld bass for the rest of the time. We do the podcast.

[Adam Friedland]

I saw a video recently of how they did it, and it was a synthesizer. I thought my entire life. Yeah.

[David Spade]

Okay. Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

There's a YouTube video of the. The composer doing the music.

[David Spade]

Oh, really?

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

It's all.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

And he's doing it live to the episode.

[Rob Schneider]

No.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. But it blew my mind. It was like, I thought. Yeah.

[Rob Schneider]

I thought, dude, I'm so old. I was on the lot at CBS Radford when we were doing Just Shoot Me oh, a couple people remember? And also they were doing Seinfeld, and I'd see him on his bike. It was the greatest lot. Of course. Just filed for bankruptcy. The Lot terrifying in la. Thanks, Karen Bass. Thanks, Gavin. Your friends. I'm kidding.

[Adam Friedland]

Whoops.

[Rob Schneider]

I'm just trying to put blame.

[David Spade]

The Hollywood industry is dying.

[Rob Schneider]

He's on your show.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, yeah.

[Rob Schneider]

Hollywood. Bring it back.

[Adam Friedland]

Who's going on a list? I would say this was. This is a great idea.

[Rob Schneider]

Text you some ideas because we'll get this place back in track.

[David Spade]

It's Gavin. Is that the guesses?

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Next week, three big ones.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

The Hollywood studio system is dying. The amount of productions is dying, and so they have to do something. So more production comes back. And that starts with negotiating with the union and also subsidizing, you know, the industry tax breaks to compete with Romania.

[Rob Schneider]

Boston, Atlanta, Romania. Zanzibar.

[Adam Friedland]

Could you, like, put it in an email or.

[Rob Schneider]

Maybe.

[Adam Friedland]

If you guys are saying it. You guys are legends. He might be like, oh, you should say.

[Rob Schneider]

We have a question from a couple of constituents. Hi, I'm Dan.

[Adam Friedland]

Listen, you already lost Schneider. You don't want to lose them.

[David Spade]

What? They're poisoning our water.

[Rob Schneider]

No, you were saying? His last joke isn't political.

[Adam Friedland]

The Korean. Yeah, the Korean barbecue joke. Sounds like, I go to one of these Korean barbecues. He's like, would you believe it? They make you cook your own food. He's like, I sure hate to go to one of them Korean houses. Wait. Oh. Why do you come over here and suck your own dick? Why don't you come over here and your own ass? Yeah. It's just like. It's so stupid.

[Rob Schneider]

You ready for Adam?

[David Spade]

I love fake. So great. They make you suck your dick. Well, no, they don't.

[Adam Friedland]

He's like. It's kind of lazy.

[Rob Schneider]

Here's one of his jokes. We just saw him on his first Letterman. We were all friends, actually. Sandler, me, Judd, we were all friends. Right before we all got us. We're just doing Stand up in the Valley. And.

[David Spade]

And.

[Rob Schneider]

And Schneider was the first one to get Letterman. We all loved Letterman, of course, and the show. And so he got it. And I was on Tik Tok the other day, and it was so. He had such a funny, unique look. He looked like a little cowboy shirt and he had a big pompadour.

[Adam Friedland]

And he's like, did he do Elvis?

[Rob Schneider]

He did Elvis on a fish hook.

[David Spade]

And he did Elvis on a fish hook. That got him snl, I think.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah. I think that was so weird.

[David Spade]

He did.

[Rob Schneider]

How you say dude when you're in la? There's different ways of saying it. He had one where he goes, my parents. When I one Time they spilled. I spilled like. No, no. He hit his knee on the coffee table. And he was a little kid and his mom would hit the coffee table and go, bad. Coffee table, bad. And. And then he'd feel better because she goes, we make it even here. You were bad. And so he goes to bed and then his dad wakes him up at 2 in the morning and, hey, Rob, your mom just spilled some hot oil on the coffee table. Come on out here. We gotta make it even. You know our policy.

[Adam Friedland]

So was he the first, like, breakout of your. Of your crew?

[Rob Schneider]

Did I say it wrong? There's no laughs.

[David Spade]

I worked with him in San Francisco, maybe.

[Adam Friedland]

No, I mean, like, when you guys were all like, yeah, before. You guys know. Yeah.

[David Spade]

Spade and Schneider came as, like, a duo somehow.

[Rob Schneider]

We got hired together. We were. We auditioned at the same time, got hired as writers. Adam, I think, was doing remote control. So I think he was sort of known a little bit in that world of mtv, which is a big world back then.

[David Spade]

Yeah, he was on mtv. He struggled. I am poor boy. He struggled for, I think it was like 13 weeks when he got to New York and then he got a TV show. So Sandler had a lot of stuff going on. Yeah, undeniable. I knew Rob and. Well from San Francisco and then met Spade in la, so. And Dennis Miller. We both knew them and sort of helped a lot, tacitly. How about these guys? And then you only had, like, 10 minutes, right? At the time, David, or 15.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah, probably 15. I was not a headliner for shows. Maybe a middle.

[David Spade]

They came in as writer features, basically.

[Adam Friedland]

Right.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah, yeah. Wasn't a writer either. Couldn't. It was a.

[David Spade]

We couldn't even get a writing.

[Adam Friedland]

What did you do for your audition? Just stand up.

[Rob Schneider]

He's talking about me or Dana.

[Adam Friedland]

What? Yeah. What'd you guys do? Like, I think I know. What did you do?

[Rob Schneider]

And I think did characters.

[Adam Friedland]

You did characters, right?

[David Spade]

Well, yeah.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

Basically chatting in between. But. But I. I was seen at a club, which was lucky because I auditioned for snl, the Comedy Store in a cattle call and followed Sam Kennison with no MC in between at midnight and bombed epically. And the SNL people were there, but not Lauren. And then later on, Lauren was. The show was coming around, so I went to a small club on the west side and Lauren came with Cher and I got to do 40 minutes of stand up with a regular audience. But I still had to audition again. Jim Carrey was there too, and Phil Hartman at a studio and stand in front of maybe five cast members, Lovett's, Nora Dunn, Dennis Miller, Lauren Michaels, some assistance and do kind of chatty stand up. You know, just doing character.

[Adam Friedland]

Did you get laughs? Like, the thing is, you get no laughs, right?

[David Spade]

Not in that one. Not with Lord and everybody. You just have to. Well, I done chopping. I did something and. And then there was a fire alarm, so there was 10 minutes of nothing. And I'm just standing there. And then Lauren goes, oh, is that pretty much. Do you have anything else?

[Rob Schneider]

Or is that it?

[Adam Friedland]

Or just a song?

[David Spade]

Is that all of these? And I. I thought later that his aloof coldness was trying to find out, can you take live TV and not blow it? Because the tension was, I think, intentionally ratchets it up to make you nervous and see if you can handle it. I said, I got a lot more. And then he went, oh, you're like,

[Rob Schneider]

I'm just waiting to see if there's a real fire. Can we leave? Sarah?

[Adam Friedland]

Actually, speaking of our friend Sarah, Jesus. In the middle of her second show, taping the. The lights up. And she. She was like. She had a ton of momentum. The lights up, and then she had to come back out cold. And I. It was giving me heart palpitations, like, as a comic, because it's like. It's a. It's a special taping.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

And I was like. I was, like, nauseous. I, like, wanted to throw up. She had to get the momentum back. And I was like. I was so stressed out.

[Rob Schneider]

I said, she's dressed as a goiter or some. She's doing.

[Adam Friedland]

She's dressed as some sort of clown psycho.

[David Spade]

We were on the road. This is a.

[Rob Schneider]

Literally a clown's outfit.

[David Spade]

She goes, I know.

[Rob Schneider]

I go, do you have any normal. Do you have a, you know, pencil dress?

[David Spade]

She's one of those people who'd be like, you take one day to know her and 20 years to believe it, you know, because that's really. That's really her. Yeah, she's really. She's not putting on a thing as.

[Adam Friedland]

I mean, on stage, that's not really her. She's an annoying Jewish girl in real life. But on stage.

[David Spade]

But that's so her. So her in the sense what she wants to do. It's. It's so humor.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

You know, but anyway, that.

[Adam Friedland]

God, David, what did you. What did you do?

[Rob Schneider]

Oh, I just.

[David Spade]

Not much.

[Rob Schneider]

Didn't really knock the Richter scale. I did supposed to be doing 20 at, I think catch Rising Star. It was a light crowd, probably half SNLs. It's probably 10 people and then a half, 10 other people. And I did, I did 12 minutes, I think, because it wasn't going that well. And then.

[Adam Friedland]

And then Schneider from a bad scent.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah, well, they had seen me on the Young comedian special, so I was already foot in the door. And we had the extra push of being with Bernie Brillstein and that that company had a lot of SNL people.

[David Spade]

Lorne Michaels was a client.

[Rob Schneider]

And I got Dana, like Dana Lewis and a little bit. And Dennis push. So that all helped. And then Dennis was saying, they're going to mostly look at your writing of the jokes. Not really if you're a polished road act. And so I think they just liked that it was like sort of a weird act and I looked a little younger.

[Adam Friedland]

He said it normal like that. He didn't say like that. That was like Hannibal crossing the Alps. Chachi. He didn't say it like that way. No.

[Rob Schneider]

He did say before I went out, he goes, I go, I'm a little nervous tonight. He goes, well, don't worry. He goes, he goes, you don't want to kill too hard. They're going to think you're some polished road dog act. And I go, so don't do well. And they're like, and you're on. I'm like, wait, don't get laughed. So I go on. And. And then I got off and I was like, oh, it. And then Schneider went on, then Tom Kenny went on. And then we got a call a couple days later on payphone. Old man alert.

[David Spade]

And then they were like, Rob walking by one. We were waiting for a call like in the Matrix.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Rob Schneider]

And they go, oh, it was like someone from Brillstein saying Gervitz. Or someone saying, oh, the good news. They're going to hire you as feature player writers. I'm like, I don't want to write. I just want to be a on this show. And then they go, you got to write for everybody. Like Dana. Everyone's better than us. I'm like, I don't know how to write for these guys. I don't know how to write a sketch. So it took a long time, especially for me. Rob picked up a little quicker. Sandler picked up very quick.

[David Spade]

And David would sit behind me in the read through and we're all reading the scripts and there's like 50. Die, die. And then Lauren would always say to me, just, just to mess with me, David's ready. Whenever you fall, David's right there. Because David, you know, we kind of look like we're from the same tribe, or he's my little brother or whatever. So it was a natural thing of like.

[Rob Schneider]

It was like being in the quarterback room with, like, Brett Favre, and you're like, hey, so you're gonna stick around another year? And he's like, I think I got one wearing me. I'm like, that's great.

[Adam Friedland]

You know, they're giving great massages here at the jets, so I gotta stay around for another year.

[Rob Schneider]

Remember his wiener?

[David Spade]

Yeah, I remember.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah. I still talk to his wiener sometimes. No, I'm kidding. He sent his wiener around. Remember this one time he sent it to some sports reporter?

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, yeah.

[Rob Schneider]

Early dick pick drama.

[David Spade]

Are you an artist?

[Rob Schneider]

Not really. Yeah. Oh, him.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, I. I didn't do this, but I've no.

[David Spade]

Well, on a side, I put in Adam Freeland, and then it went to. It said, tour this and that, and then it showed these really cool paintings.

[Rob Schneider]

He is not.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, yeah, I'm not. No. During COVID I just painted a little bit. Yeah, you have.

[David Spade]

There's a painting of George W. Bush getting the word about 9 11.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, I think that was the best one I did.

[David Spade]

You did do those two.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

And then you did the comedian. Yeah, and you did the comedian crying or whatever. Which.

[Adam Friedland]

Which one was that?

[David Spade]

He hosts?

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, yeah, I did the Steve Harvey. Yeah, the Steve Harvey.

[David Spade]

Okay, so that. I thought, where am I? This is a weird site. So. Okay. All right. Hidden talents is that.

[Adam Friedland]

I don't even know that that's still up on the Internet.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah, I did it.

[David Spade]

I did a deep dive.

[Adam Friedland]

I should get rid of that.

[David Spade]

Is Epstein still alive? Five seconds.

[Rob Schneider]

Go.

[David Spade]

Epstein's still alive. You have five seconds.

[Adam Friedland]

Well, if he's still alive, then he's. He's quite rudely ghosting me.

[David Spade]

Quite rudely.

[Rob Schneider]

He's getting bad press lately. Have you noticed?

[Adam Friedland]

He's a. You know, it's just his anti Semitism has gone out of control.

[Rob Schneider]

You know what it is? If he's alive, he's gonna need one of those crisis PR people. I think he definitely will.

[Adam Friedland]

Definitely digging out of a hole as evil as possible.

[David Spade]

Yeah, Anti Semitism is out there, man.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, actually, I. I did a show. It was like the worst show of my life.

[Rob Schneider]

Right?

[Adam Friedland]

But it was like, sorry, Richard. Kai did my. My talk show, and then he asked me to co host a charity event. I. I didn't know what it meant. And then, like, 45 minutes before, they were like, it's a roast of Richard Kind hosted by the RoastMaster General himself. Mr. Jeff Ross. And I was like a rose. I didn't. I didn't have a set. I did like. I'm like, I'm freaking out. So I fared out like a. Like some jokes. And I get there and it's just 97 year old billionaire Jewish grandparents. And I'm like, what is this for? Like, I was like, I don't know where I am.

[David Spade]

And.

[Adam Friedland]

And I was like, I was told that Jeff Ross is gonna be the roastmaster. So I was like, I wrote some nasty crap.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Real nasty blue crap.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

And so like I go out and then I was like, I don't. Guys, I don't know if I should say this is a little bit. A little bit crude. And they're like, say that job. And I was like, well, like, like a lot of. Like a lot of people, like Richard Khan, like, changed his name when he moved to Holly. Like, John Stewart was once named John Leibowitz, and Richard Kyle was once named. And I was like, zalman the rapist. And then it just crushes the old people, like, love that joke. And I was like, I was like, how is this possible? It was like, I was like. And then I'm like, you know, but relax, guys, it's a family name. It's. It was rapid with changed Ellis Island. And I was like, in fact, his grandfather, Moshe Rapist was the. The first rapist in Hollywood. He founded the Creative Artist Agency and there have been rapists throughout the industry ever since. And then it dies. When I say that. It's a weird crowd.

[David Spade]

It went from a throwaway to a theme.

[Rob Schneider]

You got a one shot. You're a one shot wonder.

[Adam Friedland]

Crap. I wrote, you know, on the subway. I was like, I'm freaking out. I was like, I have to get through this. And so then I'm like, you know, and then I was like, you know, I. It's going fine. I'm like, I'm surviving, right? And it's actually. I'm happy. I'm happy with how it's going.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

I was like, I wrote. I wrote a movie for Richard recently. I pitched him. It's called the. The First Jew who Died in the Holocaust. And I was like, it's about a guy who's in line for the train to Auschwitz and he was complaining about whether or not he could use his points for business class.

[David Spade]

Good.

[Adam Friedland]

And you know, they liked it. They liked.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Although all the other Jews like, take him. He's horrible. And so then the last joke's there. And then I was like, Oh, I guess it's a roast. I gotta go around the deus. No, it's all I have left on the page.

[Rob Schneider]

Right.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm like, well, Jeff Garland's here from curb your enthusiasm. Hey, you fat. You fat. And then Jeff Ross is here, like, oh, don't give me. I forgot what I said. We know. I know what you did. I had nothing. Right.

[David Spade]

Well, that's.

[Adam Friedland]

I look. I look at the crowd, and I'm like. And Jeff Epstein's here. Where the hell have you been? Dead. Like. Like just the worst silence I've ever heard my entire life. And horrible. Like, you know, what a joke. Bob's. You hear a couple chuckles. It's like. It's like the air has left the room.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

And I'm like, standing there. It's the last thing I have to say. And I'm like, it's topical. It's like, that's your.

[David Spade]

The news.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm like, it's not my clothes. What are you talking about? It was just the last thing on the page. And I'm like. And I'm like. And then Richard kind of, like, looks at me. He's like, Adam. I think it's because he's dead. And I'm like, oh, I didn't mean his. His body's barely cold. You know, I didn't. I didn't mean to speak ill of the noted sex trafficker and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. And then my friend is in the crowd, and this old guy turns to him. He's like, hey, I knew Jeffrey Epstein. Oh, to me, I didn't even.

[Rob Schneider]

There's funny.

[David Spade]

Oh, that wouldn't.

[Adam Friedland]

I got off the stage and someone was like, actually, I think he was a major donor to this organization. It's a charity that we're doing an event for right now.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

And I was like, I didn't know it was a real guy. I thought it was, like, from the news.

[Rob Schneider]

When did they get. He's. They. They got some data now. It's.

[Adam Friedland]

It's a guy from dinner. It wasn't. It's just like. It's a real person to them. And so it's just. I literally. I ran away.

[Rob Schneider]

I like the idea of you on the subway, going there, going, does anyone have rape jokes? And everyone's trying to help you. And so they liked, like, a rom

[Adam Friedland]

com Zalman, the rapist they love.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah. You started with your closer and you.

[David Spade]

Well, that's the rhythm of a great joke.

[Adam Friedland]

Well, it just sounds like someone from, like a. A small village in.

[David Spade]

Yeah, yeah. It's. It's kind of quaint. You don't expect.

[Adam Friedland]

There's like one guy that's the. The. Yeah. The fool, the village idiot.

[David Spade]

Yeah. This guy, the, like the hunchback, he's the rapist, you know, the butcher, the rapist. Yeah.

[Rob Schneider]

And the hunchback, the local rapist.

[David Spade]

Yeah. Stand up is delicate. I've done those events. I. Neil Young and every. The Croc, Stills and Ash were in the audience. Some kind of benefit in LA somewhere and the same kind of thing. Just crickets.

[Rob Schneider]

Bombs away.

[David Spade]

Yeah, Neil. Neil just sat there kind of stone faced. I mean, he just. He was probably waiting to go on, you know.

[Rob Schneider]

But.

[David Spade]

Yeah, Neil is cool, but it was just that situation. You just triggered me and I know you can't.

[Rob Schneider]

He was busy searching for a heart of gold. I've done so many, so many corporate gigs where I bombed Dana. I don't. I can't even imagine Dana bombing. But I guess it happens.

[David Spade]

I have my tricks, but I. I could, you know, I try to levitate the room. I have a sickness. When I was in the clubs in the early days, if you didn't kill, you didn't move up and you didn't get rehired. So there was this like, dog eat dog, Must kill and must get a standing ovation. Must. Or I'm dead in the water. So I've just carried that with me. So I go to these corporate dates I still want to kill and it's kind of hard when they've had dinner and it's like 11 o', clock, you

[Rob Schneider]

know, it's a good bit to do. Last night I was at the Comedy Store and I do my set and I get off. It was either Harlan Williams or Santino is next. And I. I go, I get my applause, which is just fine. It's not crazy. But I get off and I see them about to walk on. I go, ooh, encore. And then I go right back behind the curtain. They think I'm gonna run back on stage and they're so pissed. They're like, no, I. But of course I was.

[David Spade]

Can we ask you about.

[Adam Friedland]

So funny.

[David Spade]

Yeah, he is just that last time

[Adam Friedland]

I. I saw him like a couple years ago, and I'm like, he blew my mind.

[Rob Schneider]

Harlan is underrated because one of the funniest.

[Adam Friedland]

He's one of the funniest.

[Rob Schneider]

Constantly kills there and you don't hear that much about him. This isn't a negative thing. It's just. It's a positive thing, meaning he gets good spots and there's a reason he gets these good, juicy spots. He does. He does.

[David Spade]

Well, was he the one who did this standup special? There's somebody who did one just on a mountain by themselves with no audience. Was that Harlan? Somebody did that.

[Rob Schneider]

Someone did that during COVID Didn't they do no audience?

[David Spade]

Yeah, the camera just came in and I thought it was Harley. He was just in the loan in the desert on kind of a.

[Rob Schneider]

That's how you need a hook for a special. I would have to get laughed. That would be easier.

[Adam Friedland]

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[David Spade]

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[David Spade]

Adam, have you done a Netflix special yet? I'm sorry that I don't know that I kind of.

[Adam Friedland]

I took the last year off the road to get the show up and running and because like, yeah, Nick. Nick, like, Nick left the show to do. We were sick of podcasting and that's like how we were paying for the talk show. So we both were like, let's just stop doing the podcast. And then I kind of went dark for four months, hired a staff and now I'm kind of producing this talk show. Once we. But now I'm back on the road. So I'm in Philly this weekend and. Yeah.

[Rob Schneider]

Have you had any confrontations on your podcast with big world leaders or important people?

[Adam Friedland]

Big world leaders? Well, I didn't have a conversation with him. I got along with him really well. Yeah, on the show I had this guy, Richie Torres. We had a Thing that went sideways about politics, you know, it's just like, you don't want to be a major thing I, I want to resist doing is like, people think comedians are smart now. Like, you know, like, oh, yeah, I don't want to speak from a position of authority in any way that I don't qualify. Like, I could do the homework and then present that I know these things, but it's a lie. Right. Instead, I could rather, like, talk to someone and ask them, ask them questions that I feel comfortable asking instead of, like, whenever I hear a comedian, like, spouting off about that, trying to be smart, it's like you become a blowhard.

[David Spade]

Right?

[Adam Friedland]

Like, so I don't want to, I don't want to do that.

[David Spade]

I call it becoming a teacher. Like, I am a stand up, but I'm going to shut up. I'm gonna teach.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah,

[Adam Friedland]

yeah, yeah, exactly. Norm had a really good quote once that was like, that was like, they say comedians are modern day philosophers, which is offensive to modern day philosophers. You know, there are actual smart people in the world, you know, and he happened to be like one of the smartest guys, you know, but it's just

[Rob Schneider]

like, it's not really us.

[Adam Friedland]

We shouldn't be. Like, the, the thing is, is, like, the platforms are so big now. Like 10 times more people are listening to Rogan every day than watching CNN anything. Yeah, so. So there's like this, you know, just by virtue of the fact that the platforms are so big that they're getting a ton of attention. But for me personally in my show, I, I have to make a concerted effort of, like, what I want to do, which is like, if. So if I have a politician, I'm not going to study up on like specific legislation, but instead I could be like, yo, like, you know, no one likes the government and everyone hates you. Like, why do you want to be in it?

[Rob Schneider]

Right?

[Adam Friedland]

That's a good question. Yeah, that's a question I feel comfortable asking. And then you get an interesting answer to it too, that they're not, they don't have, they don't have talking points.

[Rob Schneider]

They're not ready for that one. Yeah, yeah. And you do both sides when you do interviews.

[Adam Friedland]

What do you mean both sides?

[David Spade]

Like, right left, Republican, Democrat. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

I've had. Right. That guy Scott from cnn from the argument.

[David Spade]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

That guy's having so much fun on that show.

[David Spade]

Oh, he is, is he?

[Rob Schneider]

Where he sits down and argues that

[Adam Friedland]

he's like, shut up. That. What is that show?

[Rob Schneider]

It's Just a flip.

[Adam Friedland]

It's more people.

[David Spade]

Well, it's kind of.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, it's like the United Nations. Yeah.

[David Spade]

They get, they're all agreeing with each other. One after. It's a circular thing. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then they come to Scott. Oh, wait a minute. I mean, it's kind of entertaining.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Scott's looking because he gets half the lines right. Yeah.

[David Spade]

One of him, he gets 50 of

[Adam Friedland]

the time he's cooking on that show. But I had him on the show and then like, you know, and then I've, I've had, you know, people on the line. I don't want to be partisan also, like, I have my own opinions. I'm not gonna be like, of the left or of the right. I'm just a person. And if someone says something that sounds like, if someone says something that sounds stupid.

[David Spade]

I think secular trends are a way to talk about politics without being political. You know, okay, we, for better, for worse, we have a 38 trillion dollar debt. What's that about? You know? Yeah, what are we gonna do with homeless people, literally in the big cities? I mean, stuff that should be a problem for everybody and then it's a matter of how you want to solve.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Sometimes you want to be like, what, like, what's the food like at the cafeteria in Congress? Or like, you want to be like, you know, like.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

You know how.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Someone met Trump. They're like, yeah. What were like the weird things that he showed you?

[Rob Schneider]

Right.

[Adam Friedland]

You know, sometimes you, you kind of want to get like a three dimensional picture of who these guys are and of course, kind of see how like normal or weird the people are that are in these positions. And I think like, actually seeing people for who they are is actually very helpful.

[David Spade]

Helpful.

[Adam Friedland]

So if I'm like asking them about even just like, you know, their backgrounds, like, I had one politician on and I was like talking to his comms team and I was like, you know, does he like, does he play guitar? I was like, I can't find anything. And they were like, he likes walking around and, and hot dogs. And I was like, he sounds like the BTK killer. I was like, you guys have to make something.

[David Spade]

Oh, everyone, everyone's gotta get him a

[Adam Friedland]

tattoo or a snake. I mean, this is walking around in hot dog.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

They don't know anything. They are nothing. And it's, it's. You give them power. If you have a financial advisor, they use all these funny terms to kind of ravis massage you. They're just dudes in a room. They you know, they're taking, taking a. These people.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

Never give experts power, you know, especially with modern day information, you know, I don't know.

[Adam Friedland]

I think they. We just. They need to do a good job, probably.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Doesn't seem like they're doing a good, good job. A lot of them.

[David Spade]

Have they ever. I don't know.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, I think they've done a good job a couple times, maybe.

[David Spade]

Well, maybe we are doing a better job.

[Adam Friedland]

That's like the Civil Rights Act. That was pretty good.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

Maybe this is the best it gets,

[Adam Friedland]

you know, because people go, no, it's very trashy. It's like they wear hoodies and stuff. Now I. We got to bring back the Yale guys that do like satanic blood rituals. Like, it was. At least it was class.

[David Spade]

Did they ever really go away?

[Rob Schneider]

At least it was classy. Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

You go on Facebook Live and have a meltdown on CVS and being Congress, like six months later.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah, that's true.

[Adam Friedland]

It's a little white trash. It's like. Yeah, yeah, they used to have class. They used to kill kids. They'd kill the president, they'd kill the brother they'd kill. But they had class.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah. All right, we're ending on that because that's a good upper. I'm trying to get you.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, okay.

[David Spade]

Are you on the way to the airport?

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, guys, I've been like a, like a 10 year old, so nervous. And I hope you've enjoyed it. But genuinely speaking, my legends, I mean,

[Rob Schneider]

first of all, I don't take complaints well. I didn't react earlier. I really, really.

[Adam Friedland]

I want to dick when I. If we meet, I will go just on my knees and just flate you in public. In private.

[Rob Schneider]

Done.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay.

[Rob Schneider]

You know, we always say we're not gonna do these things, but let's do it.

[David Spade]

Here's what we're gonna do. Here's what we're gonna do. On May 9, Netflix is a joke. You're at the Region Theater.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

We're gonna get a ticket. The first one, David and I, we're gonna be. We're not gonna let you know, but we're going to be sitting in the back and right before you go on, they're going to go spade and carve your hair. They want to see what you got.

[Rob Schneider]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Some jokes might sound familiar from our act. My chopping broccoli opener.

[Rob Schneider]

My chopping broccoli.

[David Spade]

I love it when people do me.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Rob Schneider]

But the other broccoli called broccolina.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. I have a big Joe Dirt that I've been doing

[David Spade]

a Dickie Roberts Chunky in full costume. Yeah, you said a lot.

[Rob Schneider]

Thank you for coming.

[Adam Friedland]

Can I ask you. Can I ask you a sincere question?

[David Spade]

Sure.

[Adam Friedland]

You think Grown Ups 2 is better than 1?

[Rob Schneider]

That's a whole another podcast. Okay, I will tell you in person.

[Adam Friedland]

Two is one of the funniest movies of all time.

[Rob Schneider]

You like two better?

[Adam Friedland]

I like two better. I'm a two guy.

[Rob Schneider]

That. That's a split, I have to say. It's a split with Boy and Black Sheep. It's 90% Tommy Boy. Grown Ups and Grown Ups 2. It's almost 50. 50.

[Adam Friedland]

We'll get into it.

[Rob Schneider]

Yes, we will. Hey, guys, if you're loving this podcast, which you are, be sure to click follow on your favorite podcast app, give us a review, five star rating, and maybe even share an episode that you've loved with a friend.

[David Spade]

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[Rob Schneider]

Fly on the Wall is presented by Odyssey and executive produced by Danny Carvey and David Spade, Heather Santoro and Greg Holtzman, Maddie Sprung Kaiser and Leah Reese Dennis of Odyssey.

[David Spade]

Our senior producer is Greg Holtzman and the show is produced and edited by Phil Sweet.

[Rob Schneider]

Tech booking by Cultivated Entertainment.

[David Spade]

Special thanks to Patrick Fogarty, Evan Cox, Maura Curran, Melissa Wester, Hillary Schuff, Eric Donnelly, Colin Gaynor, Sean Cherry, Kirk Courtney and Lauren Vieira.

[Rob Schneider]

Reach out with us. Any questions be asked and answered on the show? You can email [e-mail] that's a U-A C-Y dot com.