Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

Episode: BEST Western Weddings & Liam Neeson's Graffiti Balls

Release Date: August 18, 2025
Hosts: Dana Carvey and David Spade

Episode Overview

This episode features the signature riffing and storytelling style of Dana Carvey and David Spade as they banter about recent personal adventures, odd celebrity encounters, showbiz movie trivia, and odd news stories. The main highlights include: a disastrous wedding trip at a Best Western, an emotional mature-age wedding in the family, behind-the-scenes showbiz stories, a hilarious Liam Neeson graffiti incident, and comedic hot takes on current events (including see-through airplanes, ant cities, and more). The tone is light, quick-witted, and filled with candid laughter and impressions.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Spade's Hotel Mishap (02:00–04:12)

• Story: Spade recounts accidentally wandering into the wrong hotel room while on tour, leaving him terrified someone would emerge from the bathroom.
  • “Of course, I realized this is not my room. I'm not in my room. I'm in someone's room. ...I just sprint it out without anything happening.” (Spade, 03:25)
  • Dana mocks Spade for hyping the story: “That was the best story of the year. Well, maybe I hyped it too much.” (Carvey, 03:57)

2. Dana's Epic ‘Best’ Western Wedding Trip (04:36–15:51)

• Setting: Dana’s wife Paula’s sister, Neve, is getting married in Colorado—her third marriage, which leads to emotions and laughs.
• A Comedy of Travel Errors:
  • Plane delays, out-of-shape people sprinting through airports, difficulty with Denver’s sprawling airport and car rentals.
  • Staying at a Best Western: room features a vomiting neighbor and a “rubber pillow that Hermann Munster could sleep on but not a regular human” (Carvey, 08:57).
  • Mother-in-law’s room is flooded with a “sewage component”—forcing a move to the Hilton and finally a boutique hotel.
• Small-Town Celebrity: Dana is treated like “Elvis in Fort Collins” because locals rarely see celebs.
  • “Party, you know, I mean, I'm not normally like that... I'm Elvis for the entire week and I can't hide.” (Carvey, 10:16)
• Wedding Day Insanity:
  • Vows are “mature”—deeply emotional for everyone.
  • The groom writes a poem for Neve, transformed into a song via AI. “Beautiful singer...that was AI.” (Carvey and Spade, 11:52–11:59)
  • Event is beset by sewage floods and malfunctioning toilets (including someone literally snaking the toilet during the vows), and guests using a neighboring home’s bathroom, adding a “Deliverance vibe.”
• Endearing Family Memories: Dana waxes nostalgic about first knowing Neve and shares a heartwarming childhood anecdote involving “bubble head” motorcycle drivers and windshield sprayers. (Carvey, 13:21)
• Reflections on Mature Love:
  • “In the end of the day...who are you going to watch TV with? Marry that person.” (Carvey, 15:46–15:51)

3. Liam Neeson’s “Graffiti Balls” and Pamela Anderson Rumors (19:15–20:00)

• Liam Neeson Video: A viral video where someone draws graffiti as prompted—“I go, there's naked...someone walks up while I'm driving by and draws a dick on it.... We caught this vandal in the act.” (Spade, 26:43–27:27)
• Pamela Anderson Dating Rumor: Spade jokes about possibly booking her—“I knew Pamela in the old days...we should have her on and she's got a movie out.” (Spade, 19:36)

4. Behind the Scenes: Movie Trivia, Casting, and Rewrites

- Joe Dirt/Happy Gilmore/Tommy Boy/Master of Disguise (20:10–31:13)

• Joe Dirt:
  • Spade revisits how the original parents were played by Gary Busey and Roseanne, but their performances were so unwieldy they were replaced in reshoots.
  • “He [Gary Busey] can talk in a run-on sentence for maybe 15 minutes… He talks like Charles Manson or something.” (Spade, 21:20–21:26)
• Master of Disguise:
  • Dana on hiring Robert Loggia, only for the accent to be deemed “too shaky.” Robert still got paid and “went to Italy.” (Carvey, 23:08–23:39)
• Movie Titles:
  • “Tommy Boy” was almost titled “Billy the Third: A Midwestern” and had no title for most of production.
  • “Happy Madison” is Sandler’s production company—a combo of “Happy Gilmore” and “Billy Madison.”
• Comedy Film Nostalgia:
  • Reflection on the cost of movie stunts and scenes: “He has an airplane in one scene…Just that—$300,000.” (Spade, 31:26–31:28)
  • “Borat” and “Blair Witch” cited as the cheapest most profitable movies, with the “found footage” genre changing the rules.

5. Comedy, AI and the Superhero Movie Conundrum (32:08–36:10)

• AI in Writing: Speculation that AI could soon write a movie script—“We'll be able to make a movie very soon just with our laptop.” (Carvey, 32:45)
• Sketches That Can’t Be Written Now:
  • “Gap Girls go to Gaza”—a nod to how some SNL sketches wouldn’t fly in the current era.
• Superman Commentary:
  • Observations about superhero movies’ need for “made-up countries” and reluctance to name real-world villains.
  • “Lex Luthor kept pointing at Superman and going, ‘you're just an alien...’ But he is an alien.” (Carvey & Spade, 34:41–34:53)
  • Dana’s gentle review of the recent Superman and Fantastic Four movies.
  • “Either you have a frog in your throat or you didn’t really like Fantastic Four.” (Carvey, 36:10)

6. Rapid-Fire Headlines, Hot Takes, and Weird Science (36:22–55:03)

• Headlines and Hot Takes:
  • Joking about an “AI-generated see-through airplane” and California’s woes (homelessness, fire).
  • Monorail nostalgia and Disney: “...Walt Disney was a visionary, and I think he wanted a monorail in the middle of all the freeways above ground. ...Monorail all the way to San Francisco.” (Carvey, 40:25)
• Disneyland Admission Rant:
  • Dana and Paula pay $1,300 each for Disneyland entry, only stay 90 minutes: “We did one ride and then we just walked around. Just still love it, though.” (Carvey, 42:50)
• Ant Cities Documentary:
  • Discussion about a documentary that poured cement into an anthill to map the underground tunnels, revealing an ant “city-state.”
  • “Everything looks like it has been designed by an architect.” (Carvey, quoting documentary, 47:33)
  • Dana quips, “I don’t want to sound racist, but I do think a lot of ants look the same.” (Carvey, 48:02)
  • Jokes about killing ant colonies, queen ants, and why Earth's natural weirdness rivals sci-fi.
• Science Questions:
  • Why is the deep ocean so cold if Earth’s magma is so hot?
  • “...at the core of the Earth, the magma...is 6,000 degrees. Why is the bottom of the ocean so cold?” (Spade, 49:17)
  • Dana imitates dramatic nature narrations and describes his confusion at ocean science.

7. Absurd News: Parents Leave Kid at Airport (51:11–52:47)

• Story: Parents board a flight, leaving their 10-year-old at the airport—Spade and Carvey riff on incompetent parents and imagine Macaulay Culkin coming to the rescue.
  • “We're gonna fly now. Tammy, just stay here and Uncle Sock Knock will come by.” (Carvey, 51:39)

8. SNL & Lorne Michaels Stories (52:47–55:01)

• Tales of Macaulay Culkin on SNL, faux emotional moments, and Lorne Michaels’ deadpan persona.
  • “Give Lorne credit that he created this comic persona around himself of the unflappable area died guy.” (Carvey, 53:46)

9. Social Media and Comment Culture (55:19–56:31)

• Mocking typical YouTube comments:
  • “Hey Dana, do you own anything else besides a jean jacket and a black T-shirt?” (Spade, impersonating a commenter, 55:40)
  • “You’re Christopher Walking. Comments to get people.” (Carvey, 56:06)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “That was the best story of the year. Well, maybe I hyped it too much.”
  — Dana Carvey, lightly roasting Spade’s mundane hotel tale. (03:57)

• “My pillow was like—Herman Munster could sleep on it but not a regular human.”
  — Dana Carvey on Best Western accommodations. (09:05)

• “This colossal and complex city was created by the collective will of the ant colony. Yes, the super organism.”
  — Carvey quoting the ant documentary, with both awe and sarcasm. (47:35)

• “Who are you going to watch TV with? Marry that person.”
  — Dana Carvey, sage advice on relationships. (15:46–15:51)

• “We caught this vandal in the act. Forgot to report him. But so anyway, that's an...Actually cool.”
  — Spade's deadpan narrative of the real-time graffiti incident. (27:27)

• “There's so many things that are off on the movie. It was put together with Scotch tape and hope.”
  — Dana Carvey, self-aware review of “Master of Disguise.” (25:02)

• Mocking superhero movies:
  — “They always fight superheroes because you can't get mad. You go, okay, they're bad people...But when you start naming countries that are bad, everyone goes, hey.” (Spade & Carvey, 33:28–34:01)

Timestamps for Important Segments

| Segment | Timestamp | |-----------------------------------------------------|----------------| | Spade’s Hotel Mishap | 02:00–04:12 | | Dana’s Best Western Wedding Disaster | 04:36–15:51 | | Liam Neeson Graffiti Ball Video | 19:15–20:00, 26:43–27:39 | | Joe Dirt/Roseanne and Gary Busey Parents | 20:10–22:58 | | Master of Disguise/Robert Loggia, Movie Trivia | 22:58–25:02 | | Comedy Film Trivia—Tommy Boy, Happy Madison & more | 28:24–31:13 | | Cheap Movie Profits: Borat and Blair Witch | 32:08–32:35 | | Comedy & AI in Writing, Superhero Satire | 32:45–36:10 | | Disney Monorail / Disneyland Rant | 40:25–42:54 | | Ant Cities Documentary Segment | 46:10–48:50 | | Ocean Science and “Why is the bottom so cold?” | 49:17–50:43 | | Parents leave 10-year-old at airport story (riffing)| 51:11–52:47 | | Lorne Michaels / SNL Bits | 52:47–55:01 | | YouTube Comments/Social Media Jokes | 55:19–56:31 | | Parting Jokes and Banter | 56:37–end |

Conclusion

This episode is a quintessential Fly on the Wall showcase, mixing absurd personal disaster stories, rapid-fire Hollywood trivia, sharp pop-culture satire, and unfiltered friendship chemistry. Listeners are treated to wild (and sometimes gross-out) tales of travel mishaps, deep wedding reflections, an unfiltered look at the chaos of comedy filmmaking, and signature one-liner hot takes on everything from AI to ants.

If you love a mix of inside-Hollywood storytelling, observational comedy, irreverent current-events riffing, and long-standing personal camaraderie, this episode will deliver—Best Western floods, graffiti-ed Liam Neeson, and all.

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