iHeart’s Best Comedy Podcast Reigning Champs Will Defend Their Title… Or Will They?

Summary

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Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

Episode: iHeart’s Best Comedy Podcast Reigning Champs Will Defend Their Title… Or Will They?

Release Date: January 19, 2026
Hosts: Dana Carvey & David Spade
Guest/Contributor: Heather Santoro

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Overview

In this lively episode, Dana Carvey and David Spade riff on their status as last year's reigning iHeartRadio Best Comedy Podcast champs and examine the confusion—and controversy—around this year's nominations. The duo dives into showbiz award categories, the blurred lines between comedy and other genres, Golden Globes reflections, SNL war stories, fitness philosophies, and tales from their entertainment careers. Along the way, they touch on trending movies, pop culture oddities, and their trademark “fly on the wall” banter, peppered with bits and impressions.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

iHeart Comedy Podcast Award Nomination Confusion

[03:24 – 07:04]

• Controversy: David brings up that they may not be nominated this year, despite being last year's winners.
  • “We have the Lombardi trophy. Any comers? Even though we will lose. Wait, why are we not nominated?” (David, 01:37)
• Roster rundown: Confusion over the actual nominees; Amy Poehler has multiple nominations.
  • “It’s an Amy Poehler year. Who’s who we love so. And well deserved. But yeah, she's got like six, seven nominations.” (Dana, 04:35)
• Category blurring: Discussion of how non-comedy podcasts (like true crime) sneak into comedy categories.
  • “Some comedy podcasts to me are about like murder and stuff. I think people jump over to sneak in a comedy category when they're not fully…” (David, 06:29)
  • Dana proposes a new podcast: "Murder, Murder, Murder—with exclamation points after each Murder." (07:11)

Commentary on Award Shows and Comedy Categories

[07:30 – 11:30]

• Golden Globes: Both discuss the comedy/musical category and movies that don’t fit.
  • "That it was in the comedy category really made me laugh." (Dana, 07:40)
• Nikki Glaser’s hosting: Praise for Nikki's jokes and style at the Golden Globes.
  • “She crushed it again. She looked great, she was funny and she did some sketches.” (Dana, 10:41)
• Commentary on Wanda Sykes’ hosting: David notes how some jokes about race or gender have a double standard.
  • "When she comes out and says, I am here because a queer black woman can do better than two mediocre white guys—it's just hard...everyone laughs. It’s hysterical." (David, 10:49)

The Evolving Nature of Comedy and Political Jokes

[14:51 – 15:43]

• Trump Joke Fatigue: Conan O’Brien’s points on easy Trump jokes and the prevalence of “clapter” (audience applause for opinion rather than laughter).
  • "We've said that sometimes people rely too much on Trump because it can be a hat on a hat." (David, 14:51)
  • "Instead of a joke, it's like Trump, and if you have the right audience, you might get a standing ovation. So it's a different environment." (Dana, 15:22)

Listener Reactions & Podcasting Meta-Talk

[15:43 – 17:14]

• David and Dana share anecdotes about meeting fans, comment on the stripped-down, DIY nature of podcasting.
  • "It's us talking and everybody and Amy and everybody. It's just people in rooms talking. There's no real production." (Dana, 16:34)
  • They joke about podcast set decoration: "In podcasting, there's like, you gotta have a plant, man." (Dana, 17:08)

Banter: Fitness, Health, and Domestic Life

[17:32 – 21:11]

• Debate about stairs as exercise: Dana advocates for intentional, mindful movement, and even offers detailed advice on stair form.
  • "If you just carefully go up and consciously walk up the stairs, go, ‘Oh, in your place, I get to walk up the stairs. One step at a time. Push from the glute.’" (Dana, 18:56)
• Stories of SNL physical comedy leading to lasting injuries.
  • "I got so many Saturday Night Live shoulder doing Dan Quayle over an ottoman...Grade three separation." (Dana, 20:21)
• Dirty massage joke bit from David.

Movie Reviews & Industry Talk

[22:21 – 25:08]

• Housemaid: Dana becomes a champion for the sleeper hit, praising performances and box office success.
  • “The performances are brilliant. And the way it all ties together, the music, the story, the ending. I think it's like, just a sleeper movie.” (Dana, 23:39)
• Primate trailer: Joking about the over-the-top horror movie marketing.
  • “People were throwing up and having diarrhea…Netflix doesn't think they can even air this.” (David, 25:57)

Hollywood and Career Anecdotes

[25:57 – 33:12]

• Brainstorming mock movie pitches: dinosaurs, aliens, and “Flintstones simulation.”
• SNL backstage stories; Dana tries “Yabba Dabba Doo” for Biden but is told by Lorne Michaels to swap it out.
  • “Lauren just comes. Dressroom just says, Oh, yabba daba dabadoo. And I said, all right, I'll change it, I'll change it.” (Dana, 28:56)
• Excitement over possible future projects (“Busboys” movie, guest prospects).

Pop Culture, Impressions, and Hair

[35:11 – 39:32]

• Discussion of mullet contests, with nods to “Joe Dirt” and a desire to host future contests.
  • “I want to host a mullet contest. We should do that next year.” (David, 37:44)
• Banter about wrestler Nick Nemeth’s podcast and the “Hollywood Minute.”
  • “The Hollywood minute thing, yours was specific to Hollywood stars.” (Dana, 40:05)
• Morning show anecdotes and Regis Philbin impressions.

SNL and Hollywood Lore

[47:00 – 50:07]

• Hollywood "brush with fame" stories (e.g., David and Dana’s Julia Roberts/Kiefer Sutherland tale).
• Dana’s SNL and film career reflections (ad-libbing with Richard Pryor in “Moving”).

Lighthearted Observations & Bits

[51:01 – 54:28]

• Mr. Beast reality show discussion; game show betrayals.
  • “He falls down in Shame. And everyone goes, what? They've been there for days. What?” (David, 51:19)
  • Dana proposes: “I'm going to have a show called Mr. Beastie. And I'll be Mr. Beastie. And there'll be people competing and betraying each other.” (Dana, 54:12)
• Jokes about “animals with people names,” old horror movies (“Willard,” “Ben").

Closing: Reflections & Final Impressions

[58:08 – 59:43]

• Dana shares a “Laura Dern” running award show joke; discuss Nikki Glaser’s roasts at the Golden Globes.
  • “What made me laugh just as a. As a comedian occasionally was how sincere she was. Nikki with, you're great. I love you. You're so great. And then just complete. You're too so great.” (Dana, 58:53)
• Closing laughs and shout-outs to fellow nominees.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "It's an honor to just talk about being nominated. That's pretty good. Hang."
  — Dana Carvey, [05:45]

• "In 2023 the comedy podcast, the year in I heart was Son of Sam. The entire season was dedicated to Son of Sam. And I guess it was funny. I don't know."
  — Dana Carvey, [06:51]

• "When she comes out and says, I am here because a queer black woman can do better than two mediocre white guys, it's just hard. If I said I'm here because I'm better than two mediocre black women, I mean, who could say that?"
  — David Spade, [10:49]

• "I've talked to people, everyone loves Kubrick...great movies need to be seen more than once."
  — Dana Carvey, [08:27]

• "It's tempting in a way. If you have an audience and they have a very strong point of view about anything, and you kind of co sign it, you don't necessarily have to be hilarious... It's different than a laugh. You get more of a woo."
  — Dana Carvey, [15:43]

• "If you just carefully go up and consciously walk up the stairs...one step at a time. Push from the glute. One step at a time. Make it a workout."
  — Dana Carvey, [18:56]

• "The performances are brilliant. And the way it all ties together, the music, the story, the ending. I think it's just a sleeper movie."
  — Dana Carvey, [23:39]

• "I want to host a mullet contest. We should do that next year. I'm going to call Barstool Sports... let's go host a mullet."
  — David Spade, [37:44]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• iHeart Nomination Confusion: 03:24 – 07:04
• Comedy Category Blurring: 06:29 – 07:11
• Golden Globes & Nikki Glaser: 09:50 – 11:30
• Conan/Trump Jokes Discussion: 14:51 – 15:43
• Meta-Podcasting Talk: 16:34 – 17:14
• Stairs & Fitness: 17:32 – 21:11
• Housemaid & Primate Movie Reviews: 22:21 – 25:08
• Flintstones/SNL Anecdote: 28:56
• Hollywood “Brush with Fame” Stories: 47:00 – 50:07
• Mullet Contest & Joe Dirt: 36:28 – 39:32
• Mr. Beast Bit: 51:01 – 54:28
• Award Show Jokes & Closing: 58:08 – 59:43

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Episode Tone & Style

The episode is classic Carvey & Spade: loose, irreverent, playful, and occasionally self-deprecating. The conversation bounces rapidly between personal anecdotes, showbiz observations, and spontaneous riffs—full of improvisation, impressions, and running gags. The rapport is lighthearted but sharp, with plenty of meta-commentary on the comedy industry and their place within it.

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Summary Takeaway

This episode delivers a healthy dose of behind-the-scenes absurdity and insight into the world of comedy podcasts, award shows, and pop culture. Whether poking fun at the ever-shifting criteria for “comedy,” reflecting on career war stories, or simply riffing on mullets and movie trailers, Dana and David remain in top comedic form. Fans and newcomers alike will feel like true flies on the showbiz wall.

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Transcript

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[David Spade]

Any comers? Even though we will lose. Wait, why are we not nominated? Are there nominations out? I don't. Maybe I got everything. Maybe I read last year's Left looks good too. He's dialed in. Look at those American flag boots he's got on.

[Dana Carvey]

I like these kids. And they should have their own show based on what I'm seeing. Like if this was. If this was a live streaming show and you just call it Mullet, I.

[David Spade]

Have one that you might not want to watch. It's called Mr. Beastiality. And what I do is. Dana. Yeah, here's my opening line.

[Dana Carvey]

Okay.

[David Spade]

Do you ever walk down the street in LA wearing a puffer coat because it's cold and then you walk by some guy in shorts and you feel like a yes, it happens to me too often. Or a guy with a girl. They're both in shorts and they're snickering at me and I'm like, isn't it a little brisk? I'M feeling a chill.

[Dana Carvey]

Well, look, embarrassing. I have like five. I have like eight puffer jackets.

[Heather Santoro]

Oh, yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

And I've got some lightweight ones, heavier weight ones. And, you know, they're adaptable. So if people judge you, just, they. They can come see me. This fighting words, man. Because you can unzip it. It's sort of light in a movie theater. You go to a movie sometimes it's 45, 46 degrees sometimes. Right. Ever been one that's like, are they going to show the movie where I can see my breath?

[David Spade]

Sometimes to make it look less like, not tough, I tie it around my.

[Dana Carvey]

Waist with a double cinch.

[David Spade]

I don't know if that helps cinch it up.

[Dana Carvey]

I think it's adorable.

[David Spade]

Anyway, welcome to the show.

[Dana Carvey]

Welcome to the show.

[David Spade]

He's my guest.

[Dana Carvey]

We're gonna get to in a second. The controversy over the iHeartRadio nominations.

[David Spade]

There's a huge controversy. We can start. We can talk about it because it happens.

[Dana Carvey]

It's no big deal. I'm not gonna say anything.

[David Spade]

I mean. Well, that ties into a few other things. The. The I heart comedy podcast award we won last year. We're up for it again. We are alluding to.

[Dana Carvey]

Well, wait a minute. You said you walkie talkied me because that's how we communicate.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

That we were up for it again. 2026 Comedy Podcast of the year.

[David Spade]

I think that's what I read. Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

I looked at it and I did not see our name on the nominations anywhere.

[David Spade]

Oh, so we're not.

[Dana Carvey]

Well, I don't want to co sign it completely. Anyone want to look that up? But that's what I saw. Yeah.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

There's podcast of the year and then there's comedy podcast.

[David Spade]

Yeah. I think podcast here is like la carista curistas. Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

Let's put it this way. It's. It's a Amy Poehler year.

[David Spade]

Who.

[Dana Carvey]

Who's who we love so. And well deserved. But yeah, she's got like six, seven nominations.

[David Spade]

They'll sweep it all. But. But what about. We should be up for comedy because I thought I saw Nikki Glazer. Us. And.

[Dana Carvey]

Well, could someone look that up? Then one of us has to be wrong or right.

[David Spade]

Bill and Heather and erased.

[Dana Carvey]

Look. Yeah. But in the meantime, just to make sure that everyone knows who we're talking about. This is our award from last year. So we right now are the defending champions. We. We have the. The Lombardi trophy.

[David Spade]

Any commerce. Even though we will lose. Wait, where are we not. Are there nominations out? I don't Maybe I got everything. Maybe I read last year's.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, I think a lot of times that happens. You're reading 2025.

[David Spade]

Well, it sent me. It was an article.

[Dana Carvey]

They said it was an honor to be nominated and an honor to win. And now I guess it's an honor to not be nominated. I guess so. I don't know.

[David Spade]

It's an honor to just talk about being nominated. That's pretty good. Hang.

[Dana Carvey]

Okay, here they are. Yeah.

[David Spade]

Toast. Wait, it went away. Toast.

[Dana Carvey]

Distractible Handsome. Or is that distractible Hands Handsome.

[David Spade]

Oh, handsome is with Fortune.

[Dana Carvey]

Okay. And then the basement yard.

[David Spade]

Can you read that? Mine went away.

[Dana Carvey]

Oh, yeah. Best Comedy podcast year 2026. I Heart Radio. Good. Hang with Amy Poehler. The toast with Jimmy Toast. I don't know the feel. Distractible.

[David Spade]

I will say handsome. I know is fortunate. And she's a comedian with. With her two friends and.

[Dana Carvey]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Tig Notaro. Fortune.

[David Spade]

Which ties me into the Golden Globes. Some comedy podcasts to me are about like murder and stuff. I think people jump over to sneak in a comedy category when they're not fully. I feel like if it's not like a comedian or a comedy person, like a Jimmy Fallon podcast, like it has to have some. And some of these, I don't think for sure they're. I think.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah. I mean, in 2023, the comedy podcast, the year in I heart was Son of Sam. The entire season was dedicated to Son of Sam. And I guess it was funny. I don't know. The categories get a little.

[David Spade]

A little.

[Dana Carvey]

You know, there's.

[David Spade]

Because, you know, they go, we take a light hearted look at Grizzly Murders. That is one of them. I won't say the name, but I know.

[Dana Carvey]

You know what? And I would like to see a podcast with this title or let's do it Ourselves as an offshoot. It would just be Murder, Murder, murder with exclamation points after each Murder, Murder, murder, murder.

[David Spade]

And then in parentheses with jokes.

[Dana Carvey]

Well, murder can be funny.

[David Spade]

Well, I will ask you, did you and jumping over Golden Globes, did you think one battle after another was a comedy? It was in musical or comedy. Right.

[Dana Carvey]

I would say. I would say it's not a comedy. But that. That it was in the comedy category really made me laugh. So in a weird second degrees of whatever, Kevin Bacon. It is a comedy because to call it a comedy is really funny.

[David Spade]

Well, I know that it's. It was a great movie. Probably win all the movies at the Oscars.

[Dana Carvey]

I have thoughts about it.

[David Spade]

Right. Okay, go ahead. Because I thought at least. And I did laugh at parts, but I, if, if I went in there, think it was a comedy. That was not how I went in there.

[Dana Carvey]

Right. Yeah, it's. There were.

[David Spade]

It's a drama. Right.

[Dana Carvey]

Elements, I would say if you look at pta, Paul Thomas, Anderson, Magnolia, you know, There Will Be Blood. So the guy's brilliant, right?

[David Spade]

Boogie Nights.

[Dana Carvey]

And I've talked to people, you know, everyone loves Kubrick, you know, and, and if you look at, you take a Quentin Tarantino, you take a Coen Brothers. Great movies need to be seen more than once. So I'm going to wait a little while and I'm going to watch one battle after another a second time, and then I will give my thoughts on it because I do believe great movies that. Because it's a, it's a handful. It's. It's a big movie. There's a lot, a lot of movie. So once upon a time in Hollywood, like, I liked it the first time, but the fifth time I was like, in love with it. So I'm going to withhold that. That's my.

[David Spade]

Please take. And I will say that I love Bonio del Toro. There's guys are like old school turning into old school Hollywood, like movie star guys that I like. I think DiCaprio is cool. I think he's younger, but Sean Penn is cool. He's all beat up.

[Dana Carvey]

Sean Penn is like electric at this point. He's. He's aging the way he wants and like, you can't take your eyes off of him. There's an intensity about him in, in this movie that's amazing. Yeah. The acting's brilliant. Yes. There's element plays.

[David Spade]

The younger activist is very good in it. So, you know, it's interesting. It's a good movie. And. And while we're on the Golden Globes, we could talk a little bit about. Nikki did a good job. Nikki, our friend of the show and a friend. Nikki, this is a show. Here's a couple of my favorite jokes. She did do a joke about podcasts, which I didn't see till after because I didn't see it on the show. I watched part of it. But when she makes fun of the podcast category and says, you know, I shouldn't be this close to Roberts, actually me and anyone up for a podcast should not be this close to you for a podcast. And then when she said good hang is up. Amy Paul's good Ang, which is also at Timothy Chalamet tells his dates after a one nighter.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, some great jokes. She Crushed it again. She looked great, she was funny and she did some sketches.

[David Spade]

It was, it was. Yeah. So that the. Oh, also I thought this is always rubs me wrong. Wanda Sykes, who I saw at the party after, said hi to and friendly with. But when she comes out and says, I am here because a queer white, a queer black woman can do better than two mediocre white guys, it's just hard. If I said I'm here because I'm better than two mediocre black women, I mean, who could say that? Meanwhile, everyone laughs. It's hysterical. So great. She got a little burning on Bill Maher. Yeah. And she got burned out of Ricky Gervais.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah. She went around and kind of roasted the nominees and they were great jokes. It was funny and she's likable, you know, but you watch your, you watch yourself when you're a straight white male. You just, you just, you just immediately are.

[David Spade]

No, you got more careful. Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

I can offend you, you know, but it does.

[David Spade]

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[Dana Carvey]

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[Dana Carvey]

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[David Spade]

Oh yes. What about Conan made a point of saying that Trump jokes are easy. I kind of like that he said that. We've said that before. We've said that sometimes people rely too much on Trump because it can be a hat on a hat. Like it can be. It's a story about him is funny already. And then when you tell a joke about it, you're just, you can just retell the. What he said and it's funny.

[Dana Carvey]

You know, I think Conan actually, I mean it's part of what he said was just the anger.

[David Spade]

Oh, the anger is.

[Dana Carvey]

And just instead of a joke, it's like Trump and if you have the right audience, you might get a standing ovation. So it's, it's, it's different. It's a different environment. I'll just say.

[David Spade]

Right. I did like that. That was the angle. It was.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

You're coming at it with anger instead of just being a comedian and being doing comedy. Yeah, right.

[Dana Carvey]

It's tempting in a way. If you have an audience and they have a very strong point of view about anything, any kind of audience. And then you kind of co sign it and you don't necessarily have to be hilarious to go. It's different than a laugh. You get more of a woo.

[David Spade]

Listen, during my act, I'll take any of the above.

[Dana Carvey]

I asked. So I ran in somewhere, the grocery store up here and said, what do you think of flying the ball? And he stood back, took one step back, and what I go, is that good or bad?

[David Spade]

You'll laugh. But when I'm on the road, I hear about this. People will show me their phone in an airport. They're listening to it, or that this is how many they've listened to, or they asked me about it. So I like that it's out there. I mean, people are. Are knowing something about it because I hear more than I thought I would about it.

[Dana Carvey]

I know it's always kind of weird because podcasting, it's like, it's not. There's not trucks and a crew or anything. It's us talking and everybody and Amy and everybody. It's just people in rooms talking. There's no real production. So it is kind of like, ah, I love your thing where you guys hang out and talk.

[David Spade]

It's Dana sprayed in a fake plant against the world.

[Dana Carvey]

This is me dressed up. Well. I got Superman back there, in case anyone knows. And that's a fly on the wall leather bag. And this is either a real plant.

[David Spade]

Now we don't know.

[Dana Carvey]

Or a fake plant, but I don't know. When in podcasting, there's like, you gotta have a plant, man.

[David Spade]

It fills out the room. I have real carpet behind me.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, you're like, in a superstar studio. I'm in an undisclosed location. It's a small bedroom, but as long as the mic works, the jokes can land.

[David Spade]

Okay, I have a real question for you, Dan. This is an exercise question. And I'm not afraid.

[Dana Carvey]

I'm all into it.

[David Spade]

Are controversial.

[Dana Carvey]

Okay.

[David Spade]

When people say it's better to have stairs in your house because you get a workout, I say no, because I have stairs. And if you're doing them all day, it's not all day. It's literally once every half hour. So there's no building up. You know what I mean? There's no, like, I'm gonna do 12 minutes of stairs. I'm gonna do. It's just once where it kind of, like, shocks your system. Like, oh, we're working out. It's over. And then you can almost pull something because you're kind of running up the stairs. Well, I want your thoughts and dreams on this.

[Dana Carvey]

I would say I should write a. I should write some kind of sub stack.

[David Spade]

Yeah. About this.

[Dana Carvey]

Working out throughout the day is. Is kind of good. So, like, if you're trying to turn the water on, it's kind of tight. You just make sure your abs are on you take a wide stance. It's a little workout. If you're in your car and you're taking a turn, perfect. Time for a crunch.

[David Spade]

Yep. Tighten up.

[Dana Carvey]

While you're doing anything, you get out of a chair. You lower yourself in a chair. The stairs will make you stronger. Unless they don't. But I would just say because we homo sapiens on earth sit on our ass, exponential amount of time, we don't squat. Like in Cambodia and stuff, they can make a chair and just go down, you know, but we're sitting in chairs.

[David Spade]

So jealous of those people.

[Dana Carvey]

Stairs are counteractive to that. And if you just carefully go up and consciously walk up the stairs, go, oh, in your place, I get to walk up the stairs. One step at a time. Push from the glute. One step at a time. Make it a workout. Now, when you come down, this is very important. You have to slightly toe out your feet. You don't want to do it. Jerry Lewis. You toe out because right inside your. Right near your knee, right above it, is a muscle called the vmo. The vmo. If that is strong, you'll see it on NBA athletes. You don't get knee pain, so you want to toe out. If you're wearing shorts, look down and make sure your vmos are popping with each step. So then you get a quad workout coming down the stairs as well.

[David Spade]

Well, is it less likely to pull something in your knee if you're not totally straight ahead with your foot?

[Dana Carvey]

You know, you want to want a slight rotation like that. I mean, if you're really strong and really young, you could do squats in the gym and be.

[David Spade]

I can do straight foot stairs.

[Dana Carvey]

Interesting. Well, you know what? Here's what I want Heather to do is like get her iPhone. Let's see how you go up and down the stairs, and then I'll give you my advice.

[David Spade]

Analyze it. That's a good idea.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

Like this.

[Dana Carvey]

When I picked this up, this is pretty heavy. Now I'm doing a podcast. Here's a pop quiz. Am I working out as I'm doing the podcast? Am I switching?

[David Spade]

Should you be breathing heavy at this point? You're not, though, because you're in shape?

[Dana Carvey]

Not really, no. I fought apart. I got so many Saturday Night Live shoulder doing Dan Quayle over an ottoman. I was. He was the vice president at the time, so I had to do the stunt on a Thursday. Concrete with narrow little bit of carpet. Did a grade three separation the first time. I was trained in pain. So I'll do another one. Another one. Then another one. Then the next day, Mary Tyler Moore is the host. Her husband is a doctor. I'm walking around like this, literally.

[David Spade]

He goes, hey, what the shoulder up.

[Dana Carvey]

It's way, way up. And he goes, oh, what are you doing? So I had it checked out. They go, grade three separation surgery, maybe on the bubble. So I didn't do surgery. I worked it out. It didn't hurt for 40 years because now it's back like a mofo. But I work it.

[David Spade]

You know what? Sometimes this has never happened to you, but I got a massage last week, and I've gotten them. And then I. The lady, I wasn't really paying attention, but she gave me a hand job. And I was like, what happened? And then I realized my flight's taking off because I was in the airport. It was one of those, like, lean over.

[Dana Carvey]

With the hand chopped, wait for.

[David Spade]

Me, give me like a three minute massage. How'd she sneak that in there? And I was mad about. I didn't say anything, but I was mad.

[Dana Carvey]

I know it's mad because it's. Who. Who was doing it. You don't even know. But that was.

[David Spade]

Oh, yeah. I didn't even look if it was a guy or girl.

[Dana Carvey]

It was them working their hand out. You know, that's. You know, it wasn't to do with you. Three minutes.

[David Spade]

I go, I'll do 20. And then after that, I go, I'm done. They go, oh, it's only been four minutes. I go, yeah, I'm pretty much done. I like these dirty jokes I sneak on you, and then you're like this. Oh, boy.

[Dana Carvey]

Oh, I don't have any problems. You don't want. You don't want to hear my Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas. We'll save that for another time. I just do it in my own. I do it.

[David Spade]

I know that one, too. It's like Farley when he used to attack the pillow.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, there's a lot of that kind of stuff.

[David Spade]

Or the Office.

[Dana Carvey]

Mike Myers had a character called, you know, this is backstage stuff. And it was. It was completely harmless. But let's talk about movies just for a second, because I'm a huge fan of Housemate. Guess what number two, it's climbing to 100 million.

[David Spade]

Oh, yeah, I did hit up our friend of the show, Paul Feig, who did the show. And I said, you know what? I went in a housemaid with a open mind because Dana said to go, and I thought it was good. I told him my only criticism was maybe a hair long. I said, but, you know, What? No other criticism? Well, I said Sydney Sweeney played it kind of under. She wasn't overacting. She wasn't doing anything. She wasn't trying too hard. And I like Amanda Siegfriedenroy, whatever her last name is. And. Okay, we talked about this. Yeah, I like this. And they're doing a scene.

[Dana Carvey]

Text me his number. I want to text him, because now I've seen it twice. So I brought my wife, and I'm thinking, okay, see what you think. We get all the way to the car. You know, I'm thinking, I guess you didn't like it. She goes, I loved it.

[David Spade]

Oh, that's nice. Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

There's just not that many movies you look at. Fatal Attraction, I guess you call them sexy thrillers or something.

[David Spade]

That's kind of the vein of it. So just so you know, it's like, yeah, regular, like, oh, my babysitter is pretty. Like, there's more going on.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, there's a lot more going on. And the performances are brilliant. And the way it all ties together, the music, the story, the ending. I don't know. I think it's like, just a sleeper movie. So I. It's kind of fun when you start to root for a film when it's first weekend, then you watch it and you're seeing how its audience is not eroding like the other films. It's only going down.

[David Spade]

Made is an old term. Or is that a. A real term that I don't use and I never hear.

[Dana Carvey]

I think it's kind of an old, old term. I don't.

[David Spade]

You know, I'm here for the house made job. I was like, are we in 1820?

[Dana Carvey]

Well, it's like, you clean the house and you do all the meals and get all.

[David Spade]

They gotta do a lot. Yeah. By the way, the room they put her in, they thought it was so charming. I thought it was terrifying. I would never go, well, they couldn't.

[Dana Carvey]

Get the window open. But, yeah, if Sydney wants to come on and talk about it.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

Just FYI.

[David Spade]

Oh. People are circling the block to be on the show. I think we're gonna. We're gonna have your boy Marcelo in a couple weeks, which will be fun.

[Dana Carvey]

Your boy. Yeah, that'll be. That'll be fun. There is a. There is a trailer for a movie. I don't know if you've seen it. Makes me laugh. And it's called Primate. So the monkey goes in the thing, and they call the monkey Ben, and they go, what's wrong with Ben? And Ben is jumping the pool and Biting people. They go, what's wrong with Ben? And they go, that ain't Ben. It's like he's demonic or something. But that might be a fun movie to see.

[David Spade]

That's kind of funny. We should comment on. We should watch it and comment on it.

[Dana Carvey]

That's good. Let's see it.

[David Spade]

Yeah, we can do that. Because I would laugh doing that. It's a kind where they show on TikTok or Instagram, the people in the audience being scared. That's how they get you in.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

And sometimes the Daily Mail, which is known mostly for the ads they have because they have a thousand on every. You can't get through that thing without getting an ad. And so I snuck in that complaint. But they'll be like, they get paid for some of their stories. I didn't know. So if you see someone's photo a lot, they're like, oh, they have a deal with them. Like, here's where I'll be. Take a picture of me. I'll be a leggy blonde actress. Or I'll be a. You know, show some cleavage. But the monkey one, they're like, people were fucking throwing up and having diarrhea.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

They show the crack like a nightlight. You know what I mean? Like night vision. And that's always a good trick to go. Netflix doesn't think they can even air this. There's probably legally. And then it's like, oh, I gotta see it.

[Dana Carvey]

People are running from the theater. They're afraid of Ben.

[David Spade]

People are lining up to piss their pants over this movie.

[Dana Carvey]

I. I just think the writers room in some studio with five guys and a woman. Of course, women in a room kind of sitting back going, I don't know. They want us to make a. And some dude at one point went killer ape, killer monkey man.

[David Spade]

And they go, it's too much like Planet of the Apes. And he goes, no, because there's only one. And they're like, okay, it's a friendly.

[Dana Carvey]

Cute little chimp that get. Goes shithouse demonic and just count the Benjamins.

[David Spade]

Yeah, they, you know, the big thing out there because I've got my pulse on Hollywood, Dana.

[Dana Carvey]

And the big thing is that written down right here. Pulse.

[David Spade]

I would do. And we're losing in the pulse. We need some ringers lactate over here in Holland.

[Dana Carvey]

Well, give me a movie idea. I'll give it. I'll give it. Of 10 seconds. Don't talk a movie. A one liner. Just think a one liner for the next big movie. High concept movie of 10 seconds.

[David Spade]

Okay. I was going to say they were into low budget horror movies because they cost 3 million and they make 20.

[Dana Carvey]

They're the most successful. Yeah.

[David Spade]

So that's why they. If you're wondering, that's why they always have them. Okay. A movie. Monsters come to Earth and then aliens come to Earth the same day and it's awkward.

[Dana Carvey]

And the monsters are not aliens. They're just when they beat monster aliens. It's all right. It was a good start.

[David Spade]

Maybe the dinosaurs come back and they come back the same day the aliens land.

[Dana Carvey]

I would say it's like a simulation where the dinosaurs come back and they're big and they're real, but they look exactly like the dinosaurs on the Flintstones.

[David Spade]

Like Dino and.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, it's a simulation. We're all in a simulation, man.

[David Spade]

We're in a sim. And they. And do you remember when the Flintstones, like Pelican, they'd squeeze his gut and he'd spit out water and that was like the dishwasher. And then, and then he'd go, it's a living. I thought, listen to the camera.

[Dana Carvey]

I used to love that cartoon because it's like at 6 o'. Clock. Like it was quasi adult and it was a half hour. Do you want to hear my funny Flintstone thing?

[David Spade]

For sure.

[Dana Carvey]

So I'm on SNL last fall and I'm doing Biden and I'm trying to think of nonsecurity. So for the dress show, you know, he's like, people, yabba dabba dabadoo. Right?

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

So Lauren, I could tell, and I wasn't sure about. He red flagged it. So between, you know, like 11:15, Lauren just comes. Dressroom just says, oh, yabba daba dabadoo. And. And I, I said, all right, I'll change it, I'll change it. So the writers came around, they were panicked. You talked to Lauren, he wants something change. It's like 11:20. We came up with Bed, Bath and Beyond or whatever. Can't believe it's not butter.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

Bed, Bath and Beyond was you.

[David Spade]

Oh, yeah, that's right.

[Dana Carvey]

You thought of it.

[David Spade]

Tutti Frutti. Yeah. There's so many funny things that Biden can say. And nuts. It was such a fun. Once you got into that, it was like, oh, this is guess what, by the way.

[Dana Carvey]

No, I know. It was a fun character and he had his moments, but now it's all.

[Heather Santoro]

Trump all the time. We're taking over the world this week. This week, the world.

[David Spade]

Really.

[Dana Carvey]

It's exciting. It's exciting.

[David Spade]

Right now, what else we have? You want to go to some stories or what else you want to tell me?

[Dana Carvey]

Germany sent 13 soldiers in France, 15 soldiers to Greenland as a show of force.

[David Spade]

Did they really?

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah. That's what. That's what I've read.

[David Spade]

Look out. Well, we gotta rethink it. We have to be nice if we're going to Greenland. We say, listen, let's do a collab. We'll go up there, you're up there. Let's make this right. What does Greenland have? Minerals.

[Dana Carvey]

What's so great about rare earth? And who knows what's under there? But I looked it up. I go, greenland, what isn't this? Climate change? And then I looked it up. So a thousand years ago, it was like 5 degrees Celsius, like 10 degrees warmer, and Greenland was just this green island.

[David Spade]

Oh, because Greenland's icy and Iceland's green. That's what I've heard. Is that true?

[Dana Carvey]

Yes. But Greenland, when. When this Viking went over there, this place is green. What are you going to call it? Gonna call it Greenland. And now it's a frozen tundra. There's a lot of stuff there. There's a lot of activity up around Antarctica. Like China and Russia are up there. We see your icebreaker, you know, come follow us. Chinese people, you know, so why are.

[David Spade]

We not allowed to fly around the North Pole in Antarctica or whatever that is?

[Dana Carvey]

Who's telling us we can't?

[David Spade]

No one can go up there because aliens.

[Dana Carvey]

Aliens, yeah.

[David Spade]

They don't tell us. But the people that think there's shenanigans going on there, you can't go past a certain place. But I kind of want to go. I don't want to go at all, but I kind of wanted someone to go and find out.

[Dana Carvey]

Well, would you take a helicopter from it?

[David Spade]

I would be scared. I would be like, I don't want to know. Like, the ice wall, like, what's going on up there? Lots going on. Conspiracy.

[Dana Carvey]

I would be so excited if they're aliens or monsters or hidden civilizations in the planet or anything that's proven that we're not just 8 billion people on this rock in the middle of nowhere.

[David Spade]

These eight billion turds. I'm getting bored with us. Christ. What else you got?

[Dana Carvey]

I have a non segment because I've been doing this for Chris Rios, the haircutter woman. She loves it so much. This is only for people. She's not that old. But here he is. Well, I can't believe Trump wants Greenland.

[David Spade]

Excellent. Cary Grant. My mom goes, I knew he Was gay. He's so good looking. But nothing. Got nothing from him.

[Dana Carvey]

It was never proven that I was a homosexual. I'm carrying that. That was a rumor.

[David Spade]

Oh, I didn't know you could hear me talking. Okay. I'm sorry, David.

[Dana Carvey]

You don't really know what you're talking about half the time. That's the reason we're not coming back for Podcast of the Year.

[David Spade]

We might be. I think I got some bad data now. We'll see if we don't get it. We'll say it's rigged. Go ahead. What happened? What he said.

[Dana Carvey]

I don't care. Fuck them all.

[David Spade]

Oh, my God. By the way, Dana, we're gonna have busboys. Is getting closer to maybe being seen by.

[Dana Carvey]

Please release it.

[David Spade]

Release the hounds.

[Dana Carvey]

What? Tell me what. What's happening? Where is it at now?

[David Spade]

Trevor Wallace and Tim Dillon and Theo. They'll come on more. Closer to that. But I finished the music. We finished. We act like it's some big opus. It's literally a teensy little movie. But it's such a pain because Theo's always busy and I'm on the road. I'm. We're trying to go back and forth and I send him a cut. Then we tweak this. And what about these songs? And what about this? We have to do the score. We do it all because we paid for it. So it's like we gotta hire a guy to do the color. You know, contrast. We gotta hire a guy. Wait. Now we gotta go to the looping. Good luck. So we gotta go in a booth. Beep, bop, boop.

[Dana Carvey]

And then sound wasn't right to people.

[David Spade]

We're almost there, though. This year in the making. It was a year now we would still be shooting, right, Heather? Last year we started right during the fires, made a postpone week. Then we went out there and there was a fire, and then the winds were like 90 mile an hour. We'd sell drugs in the movie. And I was like, oh, it's blowing us so bad. Anyway, we got through it. Listen, it was like after the. After you see Titanic, then you hear about all the stories they had, you know? But once you see the perfect final product, you're like, I have Golden Globes next year. I'm nervous.

[Dana Carvey]

What if you're nominated? Yeah. For best comedy. Best comedy actor or best what if.

[David Spade]

It'S a new category called best? Whatever this is.

[Dana Carvey]

Get your outfit ready.

[David Spade]

Me and Theo will dress as busboys and we'll go like. Like, make it all stupid.

[Dana Carvey]

Well, here's my Question for a comedy, if the sound broke, would it still be entertaining?

[David Spade]

I. We're hoping the sound breaks. Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

Okay. We just run around going, yeah, funny. With the sound off. Well, look at, look, if this doesn't work, it's be still More Bus Boys. And you just sort of redo this one and call it Still More Bus Boys. Bus Boys forever.

[David Spade]

Waiters, dishwashers, associate gm.

[Heather Santoro]

I got a sneaky feeling.

[Dana Carvey]

We got. We got stolen selves. A fun comedy on a hand.

[David Spade]

Now, Dan, have you ever been a restaurant and people come over on purpose to talk to you? So they go, hey, I'm the assistant gm, night manager of this quadrant. Anything we can get you if you guys need anything? And I go, A1? And they go, huh, you got any A1? And they're like, they don't know what you're talking.

[Heather Santoro]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

First of all, they don't wait to ask them for anything. They just say this as a courtesy to come over and just say hi. I send them on a, on a job and they're like, oh, there's chores. Then they go, let me ask, first of all, what is A one? I'm like, it's the stuff I drown out your crummy steak with. They're like, and they know it's like a five star restaurant. They're like, this chef doesn't like that on the premises. I go, yeah, well I'm eating here, not him. So.

[Dana Carvey]

So you get a hundred dollar steak and smothered an A1 steak sauce.

[David Spade]

Why don't you, why don't you scoot down to 7:11.

[Dana Carvey]

God, you are Joe Dirt.

[David Spade]

I got a funny story. I hope it comes up. Let's go into one of the stories because this is Joe Dirt Story. Hey, put that mullet contest. There's a 10 year old in Pennsylvania. This was in Entertainment Weekly. That's not him, that's me. So a 10 year old does it. There's a lot of mullet contest.

[Dana Carvey]

You look 10 years old now.

[David Spade]

And so the next picture dude.

[Dana Carvey]

Oh well, maybe we can do that annual mullet contest.

[David Spade]

I sent win one. Okay. Look at this dude. Yeah, no better way to describe this. The event in Harrison. Look at these bros.

[Dana Carvey]

They're coming back. Theo's bringing them back.

[David Spade]

John Daly. Look at that little part here.

[Dana Carvey]

Wow.

[David Spade]

He should have won. The Overall winner was 10 year old Drew Flesh it of Dallas, Pennsylvania who wore a red and black plaid shirt with a mop to mimic the movie character. Joe Dirt. Looking good. Oh, he had glasses on.

[Dana Carvey]

Oh, okay.

[David Spade]

I sent in a Photo of him. Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

So they really shave the sides.

[David Spade]

Oh, yeah, because.

[Dana Carvey]

So you have a shave. You have a mullet right now, and you weren't even entered into the context.

[David Spade]

I'm trying to get into the hockey movie where they're gay guys. What's it called?

[Dana Carvey]

Hockey movie where there's gay guys, something.

[David Spade]

Rivalry, heated rivalry, big show.

[Dana Carvey]

As good.

[David Spade]

As they like, fighting hockey. Then they start going, oh, oh, it's.

[Dana Carvey]

One of those shows.

[David Spade]

But that little kid that. Those five, the kind of chubby kid that should be the new cast of Stranger Things, all those guys with mullets. That was pretty cool. Everyone went all out. I want to host a mullet contest. We should do that next year. I'm going to call Barstool Sports. We're going to do a collab. And let's go host a Muller, maybe for the movie, because Theo's got them all in it.

[Dana Carvey]

I don't think. I don't think I've ever had a mullet. Heather. She's our female on the show. Woman. Are they sexy?

[David Spade]

Love them on girls. I like them on girls, too. Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

Well, how about you getting a mullet then, Heather?

[David Spade]

He's got great hair. She could do. I do my natural curls. I'll be Odessa someday. Oh, we all like Odessa. Oh, there's the kid, Heather. So there's a kid in the middle.

[Dana Carvey]

Oh, he did full Joe Dirt. That's.

[David Spade]

Look at that little twerp next to him. He looks cool as.

[Dana Carvey]

Ah.

[David Spade]

He doesn't even know where he is. He thinks he's at Walmart. He's like, what's going on, man?

[Dana Carvey]

Spade plays a lovable down in his luck janitor whose mullet is famously fixed to his head from infancy.

[David Spade]

Yeah, let's get Chester Flesh. How do you say his name? Dana. Go ahead.

[Dana Carvey]

Well, let's have him on the podcast.

[David Spade]

You know, I'm playing Pennsylvania in a couple weeks. I'll tell him to come down. This kid's probably too young to come to the show, but I'll say hi to him.

[Dana Carvey]

Well, you come backstage. Couldn't he. And then come out on stage. You kind of.

[David Spade]

I don't know if my act would hurt him in any way, but I think the left looks good, too. He's dialed in. Look at those American flag boots he's got on.

[Dana Carvey]

I like these kids, and they should have their own show based on what I'm seeing. Like, if this was. If this was a live streaming show and you just call it mullet, you know, like, you know, it's Like a Napoleon Dynamite kind of movie. It'd be great with these kids.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

You know, quirky.

[David Spade]

Okay. Well, they did a great job. That kid's a winner. I hope he won.

[Dana Carvey]

I feel good. Now, that was a field.

[David Spade]

So this wrestler name. And I know this guy, Nick Nemeth, I think. Yeah, he's a. I used to talk to him on Twitter because he followed Nick Nemeth. He's in TNA wrestling. He's doing a inside the ring show based on a Hollywood minute. Not funny.

[Dana Carvey]

Okay.

[David Spade]

Like a. Like influenced by Hollywood. So I guess he's going to kind of make. Make fun of us and stuff.

[Dana Carvey]

And the rest, wrestlers and. Yeah, I. I think that putting a picture up and being sarcastic is funny. Can't be copyrighted. But the Hollywood minute thing, yours was specific to Hollywood stars.

[David Spade]

He stole that because I couldn't think of a name for it. And I was watching CNN and they used to go, here's Jim Swank, my. With the Hollywood minute.

[Dana Carvey]

And he would talk, well, well, it's great because it couches it, it brands it, and it's not going to last that long.

[David Spade]

It's just like, you start and it's almost over. That's the best pitch. This is almost over.

[Dana Carvey]

But it's like if I came out as the church lady. I didn't say she's church lady on church chat. Just a funny character talking. You know, you got a couch. If. For anyone who wants to be on Saturday Live, you need to brand it and you need to have reoccurring characters. Not so much anymore, though.

[David Spade]

They don't. And I said, dana and I kind of do a morning show if you just watch it in the morning.

[Heather Santoro]

Right.

[Dana Carvey]

Well, I've. Did you ever pinch hit for Kathy Gifford or Regis?

[David Spade]

Oh, I don't think I did. I've only done Kimwell.

[Dana Carvey]

I did two of those where I was with them. I was with Kathie Lee out doing Regis, then I was with Regis. So it was kind of sweet. It was like just Regis and I.

[Heather Santoro]

Anyway, you ready for this honest to God kid? You know, you're terrific at all these things, and everybody. Everybody's happy, you know.

[Dana Carvey]

And then we came out, he had. He had a. There was a book, and he signed it for me. It was his autobiography, you know, like. And he had told me, he goes.

[Heather Santoro]

You'Re honest to God. They wanted us to call it, well, I'm out of control. But I told her I never said that. That was Dana Ghani. Dana Ghani said I was out of control.

[David Spade]

I Love it.

[Dana Carvey]

So we come out, we come out of the studio as like 10am and there's all these crews working and stuff with drills. They stop, hey, yo, Regis, Regis.

[Heather Santoro]

You know they love me, kid, they love me. I don't know what it's all about, but honest to God, you know, I don't know.

[Dana Carvey]

And then it was, have you got.

[David Spade]

Regis the whole time?

[Dana Carvey]

I did. I was a full hour, just me and Regis.

[David Spade]

Yeah, but you were acting like Regis or you were yourself.

[Dana Carvey]

No, I was doing myself and going in and out and doing other things.

[David Spade]

That's.

[Dana Carvey]

But yeah, I don't know. He probably signed this to every book he ever had. But later on I got home and my wife's was flipping through the book.

[Heather Santoro]

And it said, after all these years, my favorite guest.

[Dana Carvey]

Love Regis. Wow, that's kind of sweet.

[David Spade]

That is nice.

[Dana Carvey]

But then I talk to other people.

[Heather Santoro]

After all these years, my favorite.

[David Spade]

Now we put in mind you, but after all these years, you're the friend of my favorite guest.

[Dana Carvey]

I just thought Regis was brilliant. I mean, I thought just because it was a morning show and stuff, the way, the way he could be funny and sincere and his patter and his energy. I mean, he was.

[David Spade]

He literally all he had to talk about, if you think about it, because we do this once a week. All he has to talk about is when he gets off work at like noon until he goes to bed at 7. So if anything happens, can you believe I'm walking down the street like there's, it's gonna be the same every day. So he's got to go out and do adventures because what else is there to talk about?

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah.

[Heather Santoro]

You know, honest to God, I was at a charity function, I'm seated by Tom Brokaw, I can't see age, you know?

[David Spade]

Yeah, exactly.

[Dana Carvey]

You know, David, people keep asking about my 2026 Resolute Res. Yes, they do.

[David Spade]

I. One of them. You. I know what you're trying to say. The people keep asking about your 2026 resolutions. And I've got the usual ones. Read more or read at all. Hit the gym. Hit the gym. Learn how to crochet. Get the knitting.

[Dana Carvey]

Really.

[David Spade]

But this year, the goal at the very top of my list is simple. Get comfy. I've learned that from Abby. And that's exactly where Bombas comes in. They're bringing next level comfort to my everyday essentials. Take the new Bombas sports socks. They're designed with sport specific comfort for everything from running, hiking, golf. That's what I do. Skiing and I know you want to get back into running. They got some stuff.

[Dana Carvey]

I would really want to get back into running, honestly. For sure. I do a lot of hiking.

[David Spade]

Yeah, they're cushioned right where you need it most. Sweat wicking.

[Dana Carvey]

That's good.

[David Spade]

Is that good?

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, it keeps the sweat away. Packed with tech that keeps you comfortable and locked in. So comfy socks. It's a great idea.

[David Spade]

So for every day around the house, resolutions. Bombas has the comfiest footwear imaginable. I've been living in their Sherpa Sunday slippers for things like weekend resets when I'm spring cleaning, when I'm just doing this and that around the house. Honestly, they look very squishy and you wouldn't know this, but it's like walking.

[Dana Carvey]

On clouds underneath it all. Bombas.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

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[David Spade]

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[David Spade]

Heather and I had a break in at my fucking storage unit. And then. And then the other day a guy came off my car and started not attacking me, screaming at me and he's obviously crazy and he was saying stuff that was really scary. So actually it's a funny story but.

[Dana Carvey]

So is that Keith or Sutherland?

[David Spade]

I love Keeper Sutherland.

[Dana Carvey]

I know. And I. I always say innocent till proven whatever. So you know what went down? I don't know.

[David Spade]

I felt like a star when I was at the Chicago Improv. Jamie Gertz. Her dad owned it. Jamie Gertz the actress. And it was back.

[Dana Carvey]

And. And the richest, I believe the richest Hollywood actress, Jamie Gert.

[David Spade]

They're so rich.

[Dana Carvey]

I don't even know why she's a multi billionaire.

[David Spade]

Yeah. I think I'd only met her once in there, but yeah, we all had a crush on her. And then back the. I'll tell you, the circa flatliners was coming out that no shooting. So this is. So they said, the movie. Yeah, yeah, the movie. So they go, kiefer Sutherland, Oliver Platt, Billy Bolton, they're all coming in for flatliners, whoever the cast was, and they're gonna watch the show. So after the show, they said, let's go out drinking. Meanwhile, I wasn't even on snl. I don't think I was just the comedian. So. Great. And then they go, oh, Julia Roberts just got here. And Kiefer says, oh, yeah. And Billy goes, we said we would bring her out when she got in. And in my head I'm like, oh, great, we're gonna see Julia Roberts. So we go all the way to her hotel, all the way to her floor, all the way to her door. And Kiefer goes, guys, let's just do one night with just us. And they go, all right. And then we walked away.

[Dana Carvey]

Was he dating her at that time?

[David Spade]

Nobody met her on there.

[Dana Carvey]

And then they.

[David Spade]

They got married.

[Dana Carvey]

They got. Or they were engaged.

[David Spade]

That's right.

[Dana Carvey]

And far away, because I remember him on the show.

[David Spade]

She. A runaway bride. Do you remember that story? She was a runaway bride from Jason Patrick. Yeah. Something weird happened.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, you was. When he was on the show, I think it was before you got on there. And he goes, yeah. Have you ever heard of this comedian Danny Spidler or David Spad? Spade. David Spade. Oh, yeah. He goes, that guy's. That guy's pretty funny, man.

[David Spade]

That's how he probably got me on snl. You didn't. No, I was. You know what I was telling someone the other day is I read for moving because they told me they liked that movie. And I said, I read for it. And I was living, I think, with Dana, and then Dana just got it offered, of course, and he did it.

[Dana Carvey]

And I was like, well, moving with Richard Pryor. So I play kind of a psychotic who looks very normal. And he. Richard Pryor's hires me to help him move across the country. I'm gonna drive his car and I'm out of my mind, basically. But the director was really cool. He just let me ad lib all my dialogue and stuff. And then there's. There's this scene where Richard seems very tired. He's not really being Richard Pryor. So he pulls me aside, he goes, richard's just not in it today. Can you try to get him riled up? So I'd only been on SNL, like, 18 months, and now suddenly I've gotta go get Richard Pryor, who I waited on at the Holiday Inn 10 years previous. I got to get them all amped up. So that was kind of a fun challenge. I could say more, but it'd be tails out of the turn.

[David Spade]

Tails that are. What does that mean?

[Dana Carvey]

I don't know. It sounded turn of tails. But you would have been great in that movie. What part were you reading for? And yours, dude, you would have been great in that. Would you have been as good as me? I don't know. You might have been as good as me.

[David Spade]

That's right. You're.

[Dana Carvey]

You were.

[David Spade]

You won a iheartradio Award.

[Dana Carvey]

What do you mean? I'm just.

[David Spade]

Isn't that what that is?

[Dana Carvey]

This is. It's very, very heavy.

[David Spade]

But I saw you carrying. Just walk around.

[Heather Santoro]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

Me about my trophy. All right, let's look at another story.

[Dana Carvey]

Let's do a story. Come on, man.

[David Spade]

Let's check our ad libbing. Okay. Oh, this. Okay. Don't even look. Love you, Jeff.

[Dana Carvey]

We trust you with our lives, brother.

[David Spade]

What's your number, Han? I want to know. I think it's higher. You press that. That. I see 940.

[Dana Carvey]

The beast.

[David Spade]

Your integrity is not for sale. Please do not click the button. You got this.

[Dana Carvey]

Someone's had a million. What are we doing? Oh, my gosh.

[David Spade]

It's a lot of money, guys.

[Dana Carvey]

Come on. If you press that button, I will wire you a million dollars. A button.

[David Spade]

Oh.

[Dana Carvey]

Good.

[David Spade]

Rack, focus.

[Dana Carvey]

I don't. I haven't seen the show, but I will see it now.

[David Spade]

They all lost. They're out.

[Dana Carvey]

And he gets.

[David Spade]

Don't even look, bro. Love you, Jeff.

[Dana Carvey]

We trust you with our lives, brother. Thousand dollars.

[David Spade]

What's your number? And I want to know. I think it's higher than yours.

[Dana Carvey]

You press that, I send you $940,000.

[David Spade]

Your integrity is.

[Dana Carvey]

Well, so in essence, I. Well, I've never seen it, but that he can betray the team.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

Mr. Beast is a beast. He knows what he's doing.

[David Spade]

Like one of these guys, I'll just pay it out of my pocket because I'm so rich. But he says, I guess, you know, it's one of these challenges. But then he throws in. I'll give you a million dollars right now if you just. Everyone loses and you win on your team. And he's like, done, Deesh. I got so much. Then he falls down in Shame. And everyone goes, what? They've been there for days. What?

[Dana Carvey]

Like you said, like a monkey for a second. What? And then he goes, couldn't he then get the money and share it with the team? Oh, sorry, you're doing a slow motion. This is the team. When he presses the button like this.

[David Spade]

Right? And then primate comes in and rips him apart.

[Dana Carvey]

What's the matter with Ben?

[David Spade]

Ben's acting weird since he took that potion.

[Dana Carvey]

Ben's not cute anymore.

[David Spade]

You should trim his fingernails. Ben's fingernails are 30 inches long and they're sharp.

[Dana Carvey]

I think it's just funny to give animals human names.

[David Spade]

Ben was the rat in the movie. Ben with Michael Jackson singing the song.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, you got like a parrot. Hey, Sebastian, you.

[David Spade]

I do like people name their animals. So weird. Just to get attention.

[Dana Carvey]

If you had a dog, what would you call it?

[David Spade]

Pig. That's what people do. They go, they have a duck named dog. But actually, Ben scared me because there was a movie called Willard when I was little about a rat. And then the next one where Willard and Ben begins, it was rats taking over New York City.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah. Kind of a sad loser in a movie. And then he gets all these rats that are like his friends and they're terrorizing and killing people all. I mean, it's thousands of rats. And then he locks that bad guy in a room. And then he yells at the rats, he says, tear them up.

[David Spade]

And then one of the rats says, Mr. B says, if you don't tear him up, I'll have all the other rats die. And I'll give you a million pieces of cheese. And he goes. All the rats go squeak, squeak.

[Dana Carvey]

I'm thinking of a game show. Why would we talking about anymore? We can't even follow the threat of what we're talking about. I'm going to have a show called Mr. Beastie. And I'll be Mr. Beastie. And there'll be people competing and betraying each other. Just thought of it.

[David Spade]

I don't know why. I have one that you might not want to watch. It's called Mr. Bestiality. And what I do is.

[Dana Carvey]

How about. How about a game show called Besties where best friends betray each other?

[David Spade]

Yeah, I love that guy that betrayed everyone. And they did this slow rack, focus. Each person looking down and he goes, good douche.

[Dana Carvey]

That's one of your.

[Heather Santoro]

That's.

[Dana Carvey]

That's in rotation of one of your douche. Because you can use good douche for a lot of different things. But in that case, it was slow motion. Good douche. So you don't even need the sound effect. You just say the word is the sound effect. I would have just gone Slippery Abraham.

[David Spade]

Being Spix Horse and voicemail each other and just go, goodish. Good douche. That's so stupid.

[Dana Carvey]

Let's do one more banger.

[David Spade]

Oh, no, I actually don't play this one because I saw this and I never knew this, but it's a little grim. I'll just tell you the story.

[Dana Carvey]

Okay.

[David Spade]

It's not one to end on, actually. I won't tell you, actually.

[Dana Carvey]

Let's move on.

[David Spade]

Well, JFK Jr. And lovely Carolyn Bessette I met through Marcy Klein at snl. She would come to the office, they were flying. And you know the story.

[Dana Carvey]

I know.

[David Spade]

I never knew anything else other than they went down in that little. Wherever they went. It wasn't Chappaquiddick, was it? Heather? Well, that was the girl that drove off. This is another Kennedy, the younger one that. Yeah, she's playing. And this guy says he was there. The argument is he's not old enough because it was a while ago. But whoever was there said in that situation because the seat belt they. You can be in half. And they never reported it because it was too grizzly. So that's my job.

[Dana Carvey]

This is. This is terrific. I don't know how you aggregate these clips, but this is.

[David Spade]

Came across my desk and I said, you've ruined my day. And now I will ruin Dana's day and all.

[Dana Carvey]

Look, I've been watching the Pit where people come in that are in half, literally.

[David Spade]

I know. See, you already grossed me out with that stupid show.

[Dana Carvey]

The show is addictive and brilliant. Noah Wiles, Noah Wiley is extraordinary in it and the whole cast, I can't say enough about it. I'm. I got housemaid in the movie theater, television, the Pit. And of course, number one with the bullet over the whole dome of show business is Billy Bob Thornton in Landmine. Damn it. What the fuck's going on?

[David Spade]

Season is getting razzed for being a little dropping off. Do you have any comments on that, Dana?

[Dana Carvey]

I just said Billy Bob Thornton's rants are extraordinary. Ally Carter plays this larder.

[Heather Santoro]

Is that it?

[Dana Carvey]

Sorry, I have one. I was one letter away. Ali Larder is great as the wife and they have a really funny thing. And then Sam Elliott is just also brought a lot to it. You better do it now because pretty soon you won't be around to do it. Well, God damn it. I don't want to get all bummed out every day. I gotta Go drive. Drive to Waco. I'll go with you. You will?

[David Spade]

I got an impression for you. Okay, so we'll end on this because this is good. Okay. So when I was talking to Nikki about trying to throw her some jokes for the Golden Globes, just, you know, it's kind of a fun thing to do.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, yeah.

[David Spade]

One of them was Laura Dern. Every joke starts, Laura Dern, unbelievable actress. You have to be like you.

[Dana Carvey]

Well, that deception.

[David Spade]

And then you go, Laura Dern is in two movies. J. Kelly. And is this thing on where she plays the sad, beaten down wife of the idiot star husband who has two lines every eight pages, and in one movie says, you can do this, and the other movie she says, you can't do this.

[Dana Carvey]

That's a lot of subtext. But it's funny, though. What made me laugh just as a. As a comedian occasionally was how sincere she was. Nikki with, you're great. I. I love you. You're so great. And then just complete. You're too so great.

[David Spade]

You've seen this trashy horror in this movie, and you're like, wait, was that me? That's how you got to do it. That's the roast. Kevin Hart is here. Kevin. Legendary.

[Dana Carvey]

You're legendary. You're all great. I mean, you are. I am such a fan. The fact that you are a pedophile doesn't bother me at all. No, I'm serious. You are terrific. And, you know, it's just. Yeah, very funny. She was great.

[David Spade]

Anyway, let's sign off. We had a lot of fun today.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, we made another pancake.

[David Spade]

Another 10 out of 10. We did it.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah. And to all our I heart nominees.

[David Spade]

All the other shows, good luck.

[Dana Carvey]

You're gonna get one of these, and we'll be happy for you when you get it. We love you.

[David Spade]

It's great. Okay, thank you, Dana. And I'll see you, Joe.

[Dana Carvey]

Dirk lives.

[David Spade]

Hey, guys. If you're loving the this podcast, which you are, be sure to click follow on your favorite podcast app, Give us review 5 star rating and maybe even share an episode that you've loved with a friend.

[Dana Carvey]

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[David Spade]

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

[Dana Carvey]

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

[David Spade]

Phil Sweet tech booking by Cultivated Entertainment.

[Dana Carvey]

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

[David Spade]

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