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Dana Carvey
Yeah, and get a kitchen, get a pool, whatever you want. And it's all custom. And you just go online and you see how it's rated and what people like. And so I guess I'm going to say it's. It's just freedom, you know?
David Spade
Yeah. Listen, you got more space, more privacy, you can be closer to where you want to be.
Dana Carvey
Yeah, I was staying at really nice hotels that I like in this area that we would go to, and then we found like a little house. So you kind of had a house, you know, and it was spotless. And you just drive up and you get the key out of this thing, you go in and there's a bottle of wine and a note and it's just a great experience.
David Spade
Yeah, the people don't have to, I don't think. But they always seem to put little extras in there for you for your next adventure. People listening. Maybe give it a try. They won't regret it. You make the switch from traditional hotels and let us know.
Dana Carvey
Hello there, everybody. This is Dana Solo. It's a little scary. My partner in crime, David Spade, is flying right now. He's flying to Singapore today to do a corporate date. No, I made that up. But anyway, I'll give you a little taste of him if you miss him. Everybody's like, anyway, that's my David Spade. Our guest today, where David is on the interview was really a blast. We put him in one of our favorites, Ike Barinholz, who was on Mad TV for like, seven years, I think, did all these characters. He's got a big, a big resume. The Mindy Project and currently running point on Netflix with Kate Hudson, Chet Hanks. That's Pretty cool. Justin Thoreau. So we go through all those shows, we go through his career. He has a Nepo dad. You'll find out about that. And he is sort of a brainiac. He's won Celebrity Jeopardy and who Wants to Be a Millionaire and raised literally babillions millions for charity. So very fun. A hard laugher came to play. So I think this one will cheer you up for sure. Ike Barinholz, everybody.
Ike Barinholz
I can't wait for the fish. 50th anniversary of this podcast.
Dana Carvey
I skipped the SNL. 50th. Man had something to do.
Ike Barinholz
Wait, were you. I was wondering. You must have had, like, you must have had the flu or something.
Dana Carvey
Yeah, I had the flu. That was lingering. So I was kind of, by the day of the show, I felt great, but I was 3, 000 miles away. Yeah, but, but yeah, when I had to make the call, I was like, I don't have the oomph. And, you know.
Ike Barinholz
Yeah, no, well, if he doesn't have.
David Spade
The oomph, we don't want him.
Dana Carvey
Marcy, look up. Oomph. No, it's a Scandinavian word for laissez.
David Spade
Faire, I believe for lazy. Fair.
Dana Carvey
Did you audition for snl? We don't have any now line, but we, we. You have a lot to talk about. So.
Ike Barinholz
I did, I did not audition for SNL when I, in like 1998. I remember people from NBC came to Improv Olympic to watch, you know, to scout. And I remember, oh, my God. And it was the worst too, because the owner, God bless her, Sharna, she like, invited like 50 of us to go on stage at once. So, like, everyone was like, put. You're pushing people aside to, like, Subway. Yeah. Yeah.
David Spade
How sickening.
Ike Barinholz
Yeah, it was, it was just reprehensible. But so then I, I, I, I moved to Amsterdam for a couple years, and then when I came back, I was like, I want to do snl. But I even auditioned. I got cast on Mad tv. And so I was kind of there.
David Spade
Basically the same thing. So you're on doing sketches and you stayed there a long time though, right? Are you one of the longest?
Dana Carvey
No, there's different versions online. By the way, the last one I got before this was 2002 to 2007.
Ike Barinholz
That's, that's right.
Dana Carvey
There was others. 2009 to 2. I mean, there was.
Ike Barinholz
I mean, it's, it's a very important information. So it's natural there's going to be discrepancies online about it.
David Spade
Mine says 1886 to.
Ike Barinholz
It'S.
David Spade
Got to be wrong.
Ike Barinholz
Oh, man, I did an amazing impression of Rutherford B. Hayes. That really got me cast on it.
David Spade
That guy gets literally. No, I do them too, by the way.
Dana Carvey
I've done them. Just, just give me a second.
David Spade
Not now.
Dana Carvey
Ruth B. Hayes, President of this here United States. I don't say it's accurate, but can't fight it. It's the Stab. I'm Ruth Rutherford. So were you, like, did that disappoint you at all that you weren't on SNL or you're just glad to be on a sketch show every week getting paid?
Ike Barinholz
My dream was to always be on snl. We grew up in a very SNL heavy home, like we said. My earliest memories are watching like, like EDDIE MURPHY, the 83 year with, like, Billy Crystal and stuff.
Dana Carvey
Yeah.
Ike Barinholz
So we were obsessed with it in our house. And, and when you're in the comedy scene, especially the improv scene in Chicago in the 90s, that's your goal. But, you know, listen, man, I, I, I was busing tables at Morton's on.
Dana Carvey
La Cienega, and I know the rest.
Ike Barinholz
It's no longer there, sadly.
Dana Carvey
Bus boy, I would say bus boy. Bus boy. We've all been busboys.
Ike Barinholz
The hardest job in the world. Bus, busing tables. It's so hard, especially there, because there's like so many famous people, you know, and you, you're like, kind of like starstruck. Like, one time I saw Pete Rose there and I was so excited, you know, And I walked past him and he grabbed my arm. He goes, hey, give my wife a Diet Coke. Get out of here. And I was like, oh, okay.
David Spade
Get out of here. That fast? Jesus.
Dana Carvey
And you said, hey, hey, Pete, I just won 20 bucks. I promise. That guy, you would say wife. A Diet Coke.
Ike Barinholz
Bet you can't finish that ribeye, Charlie.
David Spade
Oh, boy.
Ike Barinholz
So, but it was, it was, it was, you know, to get an offer to be on, on a TV show, especially a sketch comedy show, was, was just a dream. So I was just kind of like, great, let's do it. And there was really great writers there. Great.
David Spade
Some great, A lot of great people came out. You're with Bobby Lee around then, too. He's funny. I see him.
Ike Barinholz
Oh, my friend. I know, I know. You're friends with Bobby. You've been friends with Bobby for a.
David Spade
Very long time, which I, we're business acquaintances. Yes.
Dana Carvey
And Josh Meers. Ze.
Ike Barinholz
Yeah, Josh Myers. And Michael McDonald was still there. Jordan, Jordan Peele and Keegan. Michael Key came while we were there.
Dana Carvey
Nicole Parker, you did have a big fat cast at that time.
Ike Barinholz
Yeah, we had a big fat cast.
David Spade
Dude, I like that when I look at your impressions. When does BO B impression come up these days? Not as much as before.
Dana Carvey
Yeah, you have some quirky impressions. Can we get a the off labels be obscure.
David Spade
Carrie Underwood, right?
Dana Carvey
Is that Rutherford B. Hayes Boyce?
Ike Barinholz
Oh, my God. I mean, I'm still doing it a lot, obviously. I, I, I, I, I shouldn't say this, but I feel like Bob Ice. If you told me he stormed the Capitol, I'd be like, yeah.
David Spade
Typecast.
Ike Barinholz
But yeah, we, you know, Mad TV definitely did a lot of impressions of the moment.
David Spade
Of course, we got stuck with that too. It's week, like go around the room. Can you cover this one? Can you? And you just have to work on some something close.
Ike Barinholz
Was there ever one that you guys were like bum that you're like, this is obviously, this is a bad impression. I don't want to do it.
David Spade
Oh, it's, there's somewhere super hard.
Dana Carvey
You know, usually during the primary seasons, politically, they'd say, you know, you're John Liquick from Pennsylvania Circuit 4. And then you look at the impression like, hi, I'm John Liquid. And you know, there's no hook, you know. And then Lauren would say, are you ever going to get Representative John Licknick? And I said, no. I said, I say, lauren, no, it's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. But the key to impressions, if you can't do it, just say the name of who you're doing right at the get go. Oh, yeah, I'm John Licknick. And they don't know. But what was your best one? I'm just curious that you thought was the most accurate because I saw you.
Ike Barinholz
Did Arnold, but my Arnold was not great. Especially that was a huge bummer because Will Sasso was on the show. I really kind of like replaced him and he did the funniest Arnold. So then I had to come in and do my kind of half baked one that wasn't that great. And it wasn't funny and it wasn't.
Dana Carvey
Well, it's already good.
Ike Barinholz
But Wills, but Wills was like, like, like a tour de force. You know, I kind of look like, like Mark Wahlberg. So, you know, I sometimes do a Mark Wahlberg. Come in. Come on, sit down. Maybe I'll give you a knuckle sandwich if you're lucky.
Dana Carvey
Yeah, that's it.
Ike Barinholz
That was kind of, you know, but there was a lot of times too where I would just Get. I remember one time I got a sign. They were doing a Frasier parody and the writer's like, you're going to play John Mahoney, who was the father on Frasier, who's a great actor.
Dana Carvey
Yeah.
Ike Barinholz
And I was like, I can't play. He's like an older man. And I remember sitting in. We did a lot of prosthetic makeup, and I remember sitting in makeup for like two hours as they're aging me. And I was complaining so much and I was on set and I only had like three lines and one of them was, I'm John Mahoney. And I complained so much that they cut down my lines where I only said that in the sketch.
Dana Carvey
Complaints. Five hours of prosthetic makeup. Six hours to get it off.
Ike Barinholz
Getting it off. When I put that, like alcohol directly in your eyeball and they're like, oh, don't worry.
David Spade
I'm such a colossal puss. When. When I do movies, they're like, or SNL even. But you hear about these people that are in makeup chair for nine hours a day. I'm like, well, what are you shooting? Like, you shoot one half a scene and then go home and undo it all. Like, you're only legally allowed to shoot so long and you get all this shit on. Look like the blob and then you or the penguin. I would just say, I'm going to sleep as a penguin, guys. Give you a head start tomorrow morning.
Dana Carvey
Who's the guy who plays the penguin now? Nice looking movie star. Yeah. And it's like he's, hey, some agent somewhere's going, you're throwing away your good looks. You got good looks. You're behind rubber. I can't monetize this kid. But I, you know, so he got.
David Spade
Enough good looking parts. Now he's. Now he just won something for the Penguin.
Dana Carvey
So I want to actually come up with a lit cigar at some point. It's like, it's a magic chick.
David Spade
Well, I know you're. I know. I know you from your Raphael Palmero. I like. They bother putting that in your Wikipedia.
Dana Carvey
What the hell is a Rafael, pal?
Ike Barinholz
He was a baseball player for the Texas Rangers. And he was. He was like a big steroid guy. And he kind of famously went in front of Congress and was like, I did not take steroids. So we did like a. A parody called like, oops, I just took steroids or something. I can't remember what it was, but that was another impression that I still am getting a lot of love for. People are constantly asking Me to do.
Dana Carvey
Oh, really?
Ike Barinholz
A baseball player who retired in 1996.
Dana Carvey
What did they do the thing like. Because I noticed when the Mark McGuire and those went up to Congress that they were so roided up by the time they got to Congress, they didn't bother to buy fitted suits. So, like, they got little pencil necks and giant suits and it was so obvious. Gigantic suits that were totally natural. Look like, David, I'm wearing a 52 large and now I weigh 160 pounds. But I'm telling you, I did nothing that. That 290 I put on.
Ike Barinholz
But I know my head is three times the size of a normal man. I know that.
David Spade
Senator Lnick, I have a huge jaw and forearms for no reason.
Dana Carvey
I love the callbacks. It was representative, but.
Ike Barinholz
Well, it was your character. I loved it. Well, he became a center. You know, he became a center.
Dana Carvey
I'm gonna run with it. So you, you did a lot of work before he got on Mad TV and Amsterdam for two. Who went with you to Amsterdam?
Ike Barinholz
So I was there. So there was a theater that a bunch of dudes in Chicago started because, like, Dutch comedy back in the day.
Dana Carvey
Was Josh Meyers, right? They.
Ike Barinholz
Josh Meers was, was there. Seth Meyers was there. And I kind of came in right after him. But I was there with Brendan Hunt, who. I don't know if you guys watched Ted Lasso.
David Spade
He's Coach.
Dana Carvey
Coach. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Ike Barinholz
And then while I was there for about. Just about two years and we had great people come through. Sudeikis came through there for a year. Cakes was there. Jordan Peele. Okay. Kay Cannon, who directed me, and Black was Amber Ruffin. Just all these really, really funny people. And it was a really fun time too, because it was like before, like, it was like before 9 11, you know what I mean? Like, it wasn't the Euro yet.
Dana Carvey
It was.
Ike Barinholz
It was the Gilder.
Dana Carvey
Yeah.
Ike Barinholz
So it was really nice. And I still talk to a lot of the sex workers I befriended while I was there. We still keep in touch.
David Spade
Sex right there. Okay.
Dana Carvey
Those Dutch accent is tricky. But the Myers brothers, Josh and Zeh, didn't they live there in high school or something? They have a big affinity for it.
Ike Barinholz
Well, they just, they just really, like, Josh kind of went native for a while and dated like a Dutch woman for a long time. And yeah, the Dutch people, as a people, they're very, like, reserved. They're very. But they're very honest. Like, they're. They would come up to you after the show and be like, I did not think you were the funniest one. I thought your black friend was funnier. But the woman, the woman. The song about sex was very good as well. So congratulations and goodbye.
David Spade
And you're like, thank you.
Dana Carvey
If I had a dollar for every time my wife said that because she's half Dutch, her dad was Dutch and she. Yeah, I listened to the podcast and Ike was a terrific guest. You were not at a 10.
Ike Barinholz
You were a little bit late there. I don't know why you were the representative.
Dana Carvey
Lutnak Comeback was very entertaining. I'll see you at dinner time, bitch. I go, why do you. Why do you have to say that's not.
Ike Barinholz
That's unacceptable?
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Dana Carvey
So when did you start feeling like Just either as a kid or high school. Like, I think I, I should do this. I'm good at this. Because on your Wikipedia page it said considered to be a lawyer or a politician.
Ike Barinholz
Okay, yeah. Growing up. Okay, yeah. Growing up in Chicago. I mean, my, my goal was Representative Lutnick when I was a child. But as I got older, I went to college and I didn't, I knew I didn't want to be in politics. I was a terrible student in college and. And I kind of eventually got kicked out of college because I stopped going to class. And I was drawn to acting and I didn't. And I was drawn to comedy, but I didn't know where to start. And my dad took us to see the Improv Olympics. I think like their, maybe their 15 year anniversary or their 10 year anniversary. And I saw improv for the first time and I saw Adam McKay and I saw Amy Poehler. And specifically the person who made me laugh so hard that I was like, I need to do this was Tim Meadows. Like, he is to me, like one of just the funniest people in the world. And watching him on stage just kind of enter a scene and make a random joke and got such a big laugh, I was like, I'm signing up for improv classes. I gotta do. So that was that. I was, I was like 18 at the time and, and I was, I really kind of jumped all in. It was so much fun.
Dana Carvey
And you're 18 at that point. And how old were you when you got mad tv? Was that kind of your biggest break and then you went from there?
Ike Barinholz
Oh, that was my first break. Yeah, I got MAD TV. I was probably 20, 25ish.
Dana Carvey
Yeah, okay.
Ike Barinholz
Wow. It was great. I was making that, that late night money, which when you're broke, you're like, I'm basically Steve Jobs. And then as you learn, you're like, oh, late night money is terrible. It's not in the grand scheme of.
David Spade
Showbiz acting, but you're on a job. You worked with Del Close. That was Farley's guy. He used to talk about a lot.
Ike Barinholz
Yeah, man. Oh, yeah. I hung out with Farley a couple times.
David Spade
Oh, good.
Ike Barinholz
I got to meet him a couple times and he was like my id, you know, Like, I loved him so much. And I remember one time he came. I was a bus boy at Second City and I remember he would come in once in a while and he was always so nice.
Dana Carvey
He was Midwest nice in Midwest Wisconsin night. Wisconsin nice.
Ike Barinholz
And one night he came up to me, was like, hey, you know where. Where Johnny is? You know his brother John?
Dana Carvey
Yeah.
Ike Barinholz
And I was like, oh, yeah, he's. He was actually, he's at this party on Lincoln. He's like, you want to go? Can you take me there? And I'll never forget.
Dana Carvey
So he says that. Okay, go ahead, go ahead, finish this story.
Ike Barinholz
Turn to my friend, my. My buddy Brian from high school. It's like, hey, do you.
David Spade
I quit.
Ike Barinholz
Can you take me and Chris Farley to this party? He was like, what? What? And we went there and we were. I remember we parked and we're walking right under the L tracks. Train tracks. And Chris is like, I got. I gotta pee. I gotta pee. And I was like, I gotta pee too. And we started peeing. And I remember he turns to me, he goes, you want to play swords? You know? And I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I. I kind of turn. We're kind of, you know, mixing our urine, right? And he just kind of turns and just sees kind of on my foot. He goes, I cut your foot off so hard. I couldn't. Like, I couldn't metabolize.
Dana Carvey
David, you knew Chris well. Does. Did you ever sword fight with him?
David Spade
But yes. That sounds like classic buffoonery.
Ike Barinholz
I think. I. I'm not just saying this because I'm on this podcast right now. I think this weekend we're gonna show. I have three daughters from 6 to 12, and I think we're gonna show them Tommy boy this week.
David Spade
Okay. It's a 30th anniversary, I heard. Oof. Maybe 20th.
Ike Barinholz
It's a bummer when you. I think I heard it's the 15th actually. It just came out.
David Spade
Yeah, I would never say anything higher than 15. That sounds sickening. I don't know. I can't believe I've been around 30 years. Do anything like, oh, gross.
Ike Barinholz
You look. You look really good, though, man. Like, you're really hanging on. Like, it's a lot of people, they get smashed by the wall, but you're looking good.
Dana Carvey
Unbelievable.
David Spade
Thank you, buddy. Look at this.
Ike Barinholz
You're welcome.
David Spade
New sweater on. Trying to judge it up for you.
Ike Barinholz
Good. It's the beard. It's very good. It's working.
Dana Carvey
Oh, yeah. Tommy boy is pretty much surefire, I think, for your kids.
David Spade
Yeah, it is.
Ike Barinholz
I'll probably just hit a quick fast forward on the scene where you're.
David Spade
Oh, that's right. You know, sometimes take that out of when it's on TV and stuff. And I never knew that. I'm like, oh, there's a couple of things they Just pull out of movies where you're like, oh, yeah, so some people never see that part.
Ike Barinholz
Yeah. If you're watching it on tbs, that's not in there, but we're gonna go ahead and pay the Apple TV buy purchases. You'll probably be getting a little check in the mail. You're welcome.
David Spade
Oh, yeah.
Dana Carvey
It's not a competition, but if. If something doesn't work out or it doesn't quite fly, you pop in Wayne's World. One, one or two. But it's not a competition. I'm just saying I love Tommy Boy. I think it's a classic. But if it doesn't work out, you're like, what do we do? Well, let's not surf the web or go on Instagram. Let's put in Ike.
David Spade
I have been pitched Tommy Boy 2. And I'm telling you, I always go, you have heard the news about Farley. And they're like, yeah, but it would still. And I'm like, it would still be without Chris. It would still be what? I mean, you don't think that was 99 of them. They're like, it's about. And I'm like, oh, it's a just a good, solid brake pad movie.
Dana Carvey
Do they push back at the co star who knew Chris better than anybody?
David Spade
I said, well, I can't do it. You can get someone else.
Dana Carvey
Yeah, Psych.
Ike Barinholz
I think it's a prequel where you go back to the founding of Callahan Auto.
David Spade
Oh, okay.
Ike Barinholz
And you have basically someone playing like young, young Brian Dennehy.
David Spade
Oh, you go way back.
Ike Barinholz
You go way back. Yeah. So this is way before Chris.
David Spade
So really what you're looking for, instead.
Ike Barinholz
Of looking for a modern day Chris Farley, which is impossible, you find a modern day Brian.
David Spade
A young Brian is doable.
Ike Barinholz
I think that is doable.
Dana Carvey
Okay, that's interesting because looking at all your stuff, you're a writer, right? Is.
Ike Barinholz
Yeah.
Dana Carvey
A real. A real writer. Not a comedian who.
David Spade
I'll get into some bullshit.
Dana Carvey
And you're a co producer. Co writer of your current project.
David Spade
Now. How do you say it, Dana?
Dana Carvey
Now I'd say that's the best pitch for a Farley, for a. That I've heard for a Tommy Boy sequel. You slap on executive producer. You do a cameo like. Like Stallone in Staying Alive with Travolta. And you do that little turn. It's David Spade. And you walk. Yeah. Boom, boom. So much boom's coming.
David Spade
That's all.
Ike Barinholz
I mean, do you like money? Do you like money? You like dollar bill?
David Spade
You like money?
Dana Carvey
Asked that a lot by our agents and managers. I don't think I want to fly to Malaysia for a one nighter. Guess you don't like money. Guess you don't like money.
David Spade
Well, do you want to go like money?
Ike Barinholz
You want to do impressions of Joe Biden for the Saudi royal family? I don't.
Dana Carvey
Well, that. Because they don't care what they pay no tax. We pay the tax. We paid this shitbox golfer. 400 million. He can't make a putt.
Ike Barinholz
My friend, you are going to go home with this lion.
David Spade
Yes.
Ike Barinholz
It will fly with you on the plane.
David Spade
We kill you on the way back to the airport so we get it all back.
Dana Carvey
The key to that is my friend. That's it. My friend, my friend, my friend. Listen to me, my friend. We are going to make you so rich. If you want to be rich. And I'm from Denver. I just. They topped this accent by watching too much Arab arc Italian. Too much. All right, go ahead. Running.
David Spade
Running Point. Now there. I have heard it both ways, Ike. I think it's Running Point and people say running Point.
Dana Carvey
I thought it was the. The. The Mediocre Rascals. Wasn't that the name of it?
Ike Barinholz
That was the name we tried to get.
Dana Carvey
The Mediocre Rascals.
Ike Barinholz
I decided to be the Little Rascals.
Dana Carvey
Own any Rascals and Eddie Murphy would have a bone to pick.
Ike Barinholz
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Luckily, we get involved. It is. It is. It's whatever you want it to be. You could say Running Point. You could say Running Point. You could say Running Point.
David Spade
Because there is something when people go, you're going to run point on this job or whatever on this client, right? So I call it Running Point and no one else does. And I'm.
Dana Carvey
I call it. What's the point? No, no, no. I was just gonna say, okay, I gotta put this in. I'm gonna watch it on Netflix.
David Spade
All right.
Dana Carvey
From the 80s. I mime it. Even if I'm clicking on digital. And you guys. You guys nailed it. It's very there of that kind of workplace fun. Single camera. And I honestly was thinking to myself last night, I don't feel like these people are acting. They're having fun. So whatever. You. You. I mean, you. You kind of. You're renewed for a second season.
Ike Barinholz
We got my. My sources tell me we were picked up for another season.
David Spade
But you do something. You're part of putting it together. Or is this.
Dana Carvey
You're executive producer with Mindy Cowan.
Ike Barinholz
Yeah, Mindy. Mindy came to my partner, Dave Thassen. And I was like, you guys love basketball. We work together. The Mindy Project. We have this show that I think could be a funny kind of family business show at a basketball club. And. And we were. We loved her. We had such a fun time working with her. And it had been a while and we had just finished up a thing and so we. We kind of spent a long time kind of breaking the show and what it could be.
David Spade
And.
Ike Barinholz
And we kind of. It became very, very real when Kate Hudson was like, I want to play this part. Because that was like, wow, That's a real. That's a real. No fooling movie star.
Dana Carvey
Yeah, she's fantastic in it. And you got Justin Thoreau, too, who's.
David Spade
Just too cool for friend of the show.
Ike Barinholz
So cool. Friend of the show. One of the. My. He's my best dressed friend.
Dana Carvey
He does dress cool.
Ike Barinholz
Yeah. And it's just like, I. If you. I think he has clothes that are like all bespoke. Like little leather jackets that, like, are only made for.
Dana Carvey
Can I throw something about. This has been a thing that I've talked. We talked to Justin about it. I just have a thing that, like, he would be the perfect guide in a Rod Serling biopic.
Ike Barinholz
Oh, my God. He looks so much like him.
Dana Carvey
And he really vibe. But it doesn't have to happen. But I just. Yeah. Picture, if you will. Like, picture. View.
David Spade
He did night.
Ike Barinholz
A tiny leather jacket.
David Spade
Picture, if you will, Draer cologne.
Dana Carvey
Well, I love that. He's so polite.
David Spade
I can't think of the other.
Dana Carvey
Instead of. Think of this was the first thing. Think of this. Then he said, picture, if you will. It's. I watched two episodes of Twilight Zone yesterday.
Ike Barinholz
Which one?
Dana Carvey
Wally Cox with the. The first AI woman that falls in love with him.
David Spade
Wally Cox from an old TV show. What? Hollywood Squares.
Dana Carvey
Marlon Brando's best friend, by the way.
Ike Barinholz
They would. They would like. They would like, have sex with the same. Excuse me, woman at the same time. They were like, very famously like Coxman together.
David Spade
He was on that show, you know, Wally Cox was on.
Dana Carvey
What did you say? Because I want to laugh.
David Spade
Escobros. Eskimo brothers. But Wally Cox was the bottom left square on when I was a kid on Hollywood Squares and I. I had no idea he was an escobro with all these famous people. I just thought he and Paul Lynn were funny, you know, so.
Dana Carvey
Oh, that's.
David Spade
Smells like in here. I think.
Dana Carvey
Yeah, smells like. That's a. That was repeated back to your show Scared Straight. What? So you get. You get Goldie Hawn's daughter.
David Spade
Get Katie and Katie.
Dana Carvey
Katie Hudson, who I. I think is tremendous.
Ike Barinholz
Amazing. And. And it's so much, like, so fun. Like, stories about, like, her stories are so crazy, you know, like, oh, yeah, you know, it's my birthday and I was crazy. Like, Paul McCartney, you know, was there. And at one point, he looked over to Barack Obama and told him this. And I like when people tell you those stories. I'm like, what do I have? I'm like, oh, really?
David Spade
You're like, this is all a Pizza Hut.
Ike Barinholz
One time, Bobby Lee and I went to Las Vegas together.
David Spade
That's your story. And we couldn't find his pubes.
Dana Carvey
Wow.
David Spade
So he couldn't go on that night.
Ike Barinholz
I've seen Bobby Lee naked more often than I seen my. My own wife naked. So I've seen him naked three times.
Dana Carvey
Plot thickening.
David Spade
He is hilarious.
Ike Barinholz
He is one of the all time funniest.
David Spade
He's got a very funny thing about him.
Dana Carvey
He's got a great burn. He acts real serious and just looks stairs.
David Spade
I like when he.
Dana Carvey
And he does the deaths in his podcast and, you know, he's loaded up with something.
David Spade
Every other comment is racist. And he just stares at them and he doesn't say anything. I think I'm take off. Yeah, that's funny. Oh, by the way, Dana, on a side note, you don't have to listen. I. When I was. When I was golfing the other day, I burned him because we were on the green and he was blabbing away, and I was walking the other side of the green. I go, oh, you're cutting out. And I've never used it in real life before, but it was good with lovers. Because he goes, I take offense to that, and I'm sorry about your attitude. And then. But it was funny to say he's cutting out real life. Laughed at my own joke, then laughed at his. All right, go ahead back to this guy.
Dana Carvey
Some people say, you're cutting out on me. You're cutting out on me. I have a brother who says that to me. Me. You're cutting out on me. Well, I'm not doing intentionally.
David Spade
Oh, yeah, they're mad at you. You're cutting out.
Dana Carvey
You're cutting out on me. It's not what. So the show's a smash.
David Spade
Show is picked up, which is.
Dana Carvey
I thought you. You're in it a little bit or where. Where are you as an actor?
Ike Barinholz
I. I'm not in it. I. I just kind of wrote it and. And was there while we were shooting It. My dad is in it. My dad is an actor. He plays the family attorn.
Dana Carvey
The attorney on jury duty.
Ike Barinholz
Yeah, the judge. He played the judge on jury duty.
Dana Carvey
And he always wanted to be in show business. You get in show business. Now he's in show business.
Ike Barinholz
I got a Nepo down, and he has a good. Good.
Dana Carvey
That's cool. A reverse. I've never heard of that.
Ike Barinholz
Nepo. Because a Nepo. I understand people get mad at Nepo babies. I don't, by the way. I think they're good a lot of the time.
David Spade
They're fine.
Ike Barinholz
But. But Nep.
David Spade
Unnecessary evil.
Ike Barinholz
Everyone can. Yeah. And. Yeah, everyone can get behind a Nepo.
David Spade
Yeah. Let him have fun.
Ike Barinholz
Yeah.
Dana Carvey
What are you. What are you gonna. And by the way, who I think has a ton of charisma is Chad Hanks.
Ike Barinholz
Oh, my God. That's something else someone says to me. It's like, I can't believe Chad Hanks is such a good actor. I'm like, his dad is Tom Hanks.
David Spade
That's.
Dana Carvey
Yeah. The apple ain't gonna fall that far from the tree. If he's half as good, he's gonna.
David Spade
Get a couple Oscars, even if he only got 3O. Be good.
Ike Barinholz
Yeah. Yeah. I only have. I only have two. Best original score for the Brutalist.
David Spade
Did you do that Pepe tune?
Ike Barinholz
I did it. That was. I did all my little Casio keyboard.
Dana Carvey
I saw Ignora last night because I.
David Spade
Had not seen it again with Ignora.
Dana Carvey
I loved Ignora. What was the real name of it? What's it called? Nora Anora. Okay.
Ike Barinholz
Hard made.
Dana Carvey
No disrespect, but I saw it in.
David Spade
Some Disrespect, by the way.
Dana Carvey
No, I only saw Dune 2 and Conclave. Of the nominees, how many?
Ike Barinholz
I loved. I loved Conclave. I love doing two. I love the Nora, and I loved the Brutalist, and I think that's all I saw.
Dana Carvey
Will you watch the Brutalists again?
Ike Barinholz
Never.
David Spade
Never. It's very bad movie this summer.
Ike Barinholz
Yeah. It's really. It's brutal. But I really did think it was cool.
David Spade
Was Dune two with the popes?
Dana Carvey
No, the popes were. They had to get it. They had to get a new pope. So they sequester him. Not unlike a jury. They put them all in this big room in the Vatican. Game of Thrones. He can't be pope. You need to be a little heavier.
David Spade
Yeah.
Dana Carvey
You can't have a stick.
David Spade
Figures.
Dana Carvey
They need to be round.
David Spade
People want to.
Dana Carvey
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David Spade
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David Spade
Celebrity Jeopardy Twice.
Dana Carvey
Celebrity Celebrity. Wheel of Fortune or no, wait, Celebrity.
Ike Barinholz
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Dana Carvey
Another million played with your dad.
Ike Barinholz
Yes.
Dana Carvey
And then you win this one of them by referring to a obscure quote in Eyes Wide Shut or a reference in Eyes Wide Shut. Stanley Kubrick.
Ike Barinholz
Yes.
Dana Carvey
Yes. Story.
Ike Barinholz
So I went on. I went on Celebrity Jeopardy. I won it. I got the trophy. Right.
David Spade
Did you go against Mindy?
Ike Barinholz
No, I went against. Who did I play? I played Jalen Rose. I played Constance Wu. I played Simulu. I played Shangchi.
David Spade
Wait a second. It sounds like it's all stacked over here.
Dana Carvey
Yeah, yeah, yeah, go ahead.
Ike Barinholz
I played. Hold on, someone else.
David Spade
These are the people you smoked.
Ike Barinholz
I. Then in the finals for Celebrity Jeopardy, I went up against Pat Patton, who's a real smarty pants. Patton Oswald.
Dana Carvey
Oh, Patton Oswald. Yeah, yeah, he is. He's a definite pop culture.
Ike Barinholz
Yeah, he loves that. And then also Will Wheaton, who. Oh, yeah, Star Trek.
Dana Carvey
Yeah, yeah.
David Spade
He still gets Stand By Me.
Ike Barinholz
He still gets down by me.
Dana Carvey
Next gen.
Ike Barinholz
Okay, I won that. So then I went back, they invited me on the Tournament of Champions, which I thought was just going to be.
Dana Carvey
Like, not to do with celebrities. You're going up.
Ike Barinholz
No celebrities. First time that happened, and I just. It was like a fade of complex that I wasn't gonna win. So I was just gonna have fun and let these kind of, you know, sweet nerds destroy me. And I just kind of, by a fluke, won my. The quarterfinal. And the final question was. The final Jeopardy. Category was Roman Poets.
David Spade
And I was like, oh, I only.
Ike Barinholz
Know like one or two, but and then I read like, this, what the quote was. And I just. In my mind, I was kind of weighing them, and I thought of Eyes Wide Shut, because you remember the scene in Eyes Wide Shut where Nicole. They're at the party. They're at Sydney. Sydney Pollock's party.
Dana Carvey
Yeah. Yeah.
Ike Barinholz
And. And Nicole came in. That, like, really creepy European guy is like, hello, how are you doing? Have you ever read Ovid on the Art of Nuts? And I was like, oh, Ovid. It'll be. Maybe it's Ovid. And so I. I credit Stanley Hubert.
David Spade
Oh, my God.
Dana Carvey
How did. How many times had you seen that movie? I. I've seen.
Ike Barinholz
I watch it with the family. We watch it once a week with the kids. Every Saturday with the kids we watch. We want them. We want them to understand that there is a. A Illuminati out there who are having secret sex.
Dana Carvey
Do you have other Kubrick movies that you like?
David Spade
Is that landing.
Dana Carvey
The moon? Landing.
Ike Barinholz
Moon landing.
David Spade
The JFK he's supposedly filming Dana.
Dana Carvey
That was Oliver Stone.
David Spade
Oh, he found the moon.
Dana Carvey
I see. Okay.
David Spade
You got it. You got it.
Ike Barinholz
I. I have been in a bit of a Barry Lyndon phase. Really?
David Spade
Really?
Ike Barinholz
I don't know the last time you said it was.
David Spade
I have.
Ike Barinholz
I remember seeing it when I was young and I was like, it's so long. But now when you watch it, it's.
Dana Carvey
It's.
Ike Barinholz
It's hilarious, first of all. And it's so beautiful. And Ryan O'Neill really was a really great actor.
Dana Carvey
I had the same thing that the standard was so high in the 70s with Kubrick and other movies that I saw it. Didn't get it. Saw it in the theater. I watched it a year ago by myself. Just said it. I'm gonna go revisit it. And the. The. The prologue was the. Afterwards, they said such was life in 16th century France or whatever, and gone now and then I. I got the whole. The whole thing. And the thing. The physical comedy of that dance sequence he did.
Ike Barinholz
Oh, my God.
Dana Carvey
Which he just stepped right up to the tippy toe of. Of winking at us. Yeah.
Ike Barinholz
Yeah.
Dana Carvey
But that's a brilliant film. The atmospherically, you are completely submerged.
Ike Barinholz
Oh, my God.
Dana Carvey
Into it. And the. The cinematography is, you know, so very sexy.
Ike Barinholz
And let's. Do you guys mind if we watch a couple hours of it real quick?
Dana Carvey
We always talk about movies at some point, and I always say, if you can only watch one movie tonight, you had to watch a movie tonight by yourself. Ike, what pops into your head?
Ike Barinholz
Guys, this is different than my favorite Movie. Right.
Dana Carvey
But what would you watch tonight?
Ike Barinholz
Tonight? If I was gonna watch something. You have five seconds. I would watch Idiocracy.
David Spade
Oh, okay.
Dana Carvey
Wow. Workplace comedy with Mike Judge, the director.
Ike Barinholz
Mike Judge. I was just watching a little of it on a flight last week and not drug any parallels to the president, of course. But it is such a funny movie. And every time I watch it, it gets funnier and funnier.
Dana Carvey
I would watch the Bridge of the. The Bridget. Remodging World War II movie from the 70s. That's what I would watch.
Ike Barinholz
What's it called? What's it called?
Dana Carvey
The Bridget. Remagen or Remodge and Remodel? No, I'm kidding. You don't have to watch that.
Ike Barinholz
What?
Dana Carvey
I was.
Ike Barinholz
But I want to do it.
Dana Carvey
Yeah. I like the Longest Day. If you like World War II.
Ike Barinholz
That is a great movie, the Longest Day.
Dana Carvey
But if you haven't seen. Because, God rest his soul, Gene Hackman. If you haven't seen the Firm, you've seen it, right?
David Spade
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Ike Barinholz
He's great.
Dana Carvey
And that whole movie is fantastic.
Ike Barinholz
That movie is really great. Like, for, like a legal thriller. That's a great movie.
Dana Carvey
And he's unbelievable.
David Spade
Denzel in that?
Ike Barinholz
No, that's the Pelican Brief. That's. That's his next movie. David, what would you. What would you watch? And don't say Tommy. Don't say Tommy boy. Don't plug the 30.
Dana Carvey
Opportunity.
David Spade
Josie and the Pussycats. All the classics. No, I don't.
Dana Carvey
Dave's not a movie.
David Spade
When I get on a movie. When I get on. On a flight, I try to. I have to have a TV in the back of that chair. And it just kills time. It's so great. So when I'm on a flight, they have new releases. They have old ones. I always buzz through. I can't tell you the last one I saw. But I will say, I don't think they can call Fern Gully a new release on Delta. Just shouting out, legally. I don't think they can. And I do watch. I will watch almost anything on a plane. Because you're stuck. So. God, what I watched last time. Maybe. Maybe that Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt.
Ike Barinholz
Oh, Edge of Tomorrow.
David Spade
Edge of Tomorrow.
Dana Carvey
Oh, yeah, That's a cool one. I like that movie. I like science fiction. Another thumbs up.
Ike Barinholz
Hey, Dana, can I tell you something about opportunity? Knox, I saw that movie opening night.
David Spade
Love it.
Ike Barinholz
And a kid I went to school with, elementary school, was one of the kids who. The Karate Kids who. Who beats you up because you shot that movie. Yeah. Josh Livingston, I don't know if you remember him.
Dana Carvey
In Chicag, Chicago.
Ike Barinholz
In Chicago. Yeah. So I saw that movie opening weekend, baby.
Dana Carvey
I did the best I could. It was a bit of a tussle with creative forces. But this goes full circle to this podcast. So I'm doing the movie in Chicago and so there's these two dudes playing dude number one, dude number two, maybe they have a line, they look like they're in their 40s or early 50s. And I'm just talking to them at lunch and whatever. And I didn't know one of them was the infamous improv guy you mentioned earlier. Godfather of improv. So he's moonlighting, getting a check on this.
David Spade
Love it.
Dana Carvey
Silly romantic comedy. And I didn't know till later I was talking to Del Close. He had no, he didn't ever kind of go, well, you know what? I, I kind of started improv in Chicago. No, he was very, very cool.
Ike Barinholz
And that checks out because he was always like broke. So he would, whenever they were shooting a movie in town, he would get up, you know, directors would call him. He's teaching. And he was also like, you know, a heroin addict for a long time. He wasn't like, he wasn't like, he didn't have his shit together, so to speak. But he was a really fascinating guy. And, and I learned a lot from him. And yeah, for a guy who I think touched so many people, he wasn't a name dropper around us. He never was like, oh, one time Bill Murray told me he was just like, very like, he was cool.
Dana Carvey
Mike Myers always would refer to down close. You know, just.
Ike Barinholz
So Mike was big. Yeah, yeah, Mike Myers, who, by the way, is a enemy of the state right now because he's Canadian. So you guys should reach out to him because they're coming after him.
Dana Carvey
Yeah, well, I did elon Musk for 28 seconds on that show and, and got a, got a little chatter from him. So now Mike's doing this sort of Monty Python esque avant garde version. It's really funny. He's running, he's turning, he turns himself off. He's like. But yeah, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll have him on tomorrow to discuss his.
Ike Barinholz
Yeah, and if you guys could shelter him, that would be nice because he's gonna need help.
Dana Carvey
We will remember shelter in place during the pandemic. Shelter in place wherever you are.
Ike Barinholz
Do you mean, do you mean the pandemic?
Dana Carvey
Yeah.
Ike Barinholz
Let's look at a video of Anthony Fauci That I made. It's a jib jab where he kind of admits the whole thing.
Dana Carvey
I want to hear it.
David Spade
I want to see a jib jab.
Dana Carvey
You know my Anthony Fauci bit. I know. I told you, if you had two shots, I just threw this guy for him, you'll be dancing in the streets. I missed it by a little much. A little bit. Who knew it was a mutating mother? That's why I'm introducing the daily shot. Anthony Fauci's daily shot. Every single day you go to your health care provider. By the time you get to your car, you don't have any immunity. But It's a beautiful 39 seconds.
Ike Barinholz
He does. He's. He's a doctor. He's supposed to be like, you know, have an academic voice, and he sounds like he's trying to sell you, like an old Pontiac in New Jersey.
David Spade
Let me get you this lesaber from.
Dana Carvey
The bottom of my all new leather Fauci's. Go yourself. I just did that for myself. You are a great audience, Ike. You must be fun in the writers room. And you're a great writer.
David Spade
I have a serious question for Ike before we get. Get rid of him, please. You were shooting the movie Blockers, which. Which I think I just met your director recently. We had a. Oh, Kay Cannon, super cool guy. He's also friends with Theo.
Ike Barinholz
Wait, Kay Cannon directed Blockers? Oh, maybe that's a lady.
David Spade
Maybe he wrote it.
Ike Barinholz
Is it?
David Spade
Or did you write it, right?
Ike Barinholz
Oh, there were. Oh, yeah. No, there were. There were other writers. There was. Okay.
David Spade
It was one of the 40 people, so.
Ike Barinholz
Yeah, exactly.
David Spade
He's friends with Theo, pretending to be part of the film Blockers, and he was on the set and. But it says, because I have a bad neck and you did a stunt, you hurt your.
Ike Barinholz
Oh, yeah, yeah.
David Spade
God, that's the worst on a movie, too.
Ike Barinholz
Yeah, it was a bummer.
David Spade
You know what dick joke were you doing where you fell?
Ike Barinholz
It was a. I was trying to suck my own. It was like. It was an improv.
David Spade
Guys, let me. One take. Keep the cameras going.
Ike Barinholz
Yeah, no, it was it right when it happened. You kind of don't even realize what's happening until before you know it, you have a doctor being like, hey, you up your neck. And so I was really bummed, you know? But luckily, like, I. I really took the. I took, like, the rehab of it all really seriously. The worst part about hurting your neck, besides the fact that you could possibly be paralyzed, is you have to wear a neck Brace, which we can all agree do that is an inherently comic thing. Like, when you see people in a neck brace, you're thinking like Christopher on the Sopranos or like John Larroquette. It's like a funny. It's a funny bit because most of the times, it's like nine times out of 10 when someone's wearing a neck brace, they were rear ended and.
Dana Carvey
And.
Ike Barinholz
But this one, it was a more involved one that was like, had braces and buckles.
David Spade
Oh, no.
Ike Barinholz
Yeah, that was rough. That was really rough because, like, I would see friends of mine, people on the street too, who don't even. I don't even know them, would walk up to me like, oh, my God, what happened?
David Spade
They feel for you.
Ike Barinholz
And like, they feel for you, which is nice. But you're also like, I don't want to.
David Spade
Can't tell this story.
Ike Barinholz
I don't want to talk about it. But yeah, I don't, I don't want.
David Spade
You can tell us though.
Ike Barinholz
So. Yeah, so, no, it was. It was a bummer. But it, it really. I. Every morning I would wake up and they were like, you gotta do your. You gotta correct your posture, which is basically if you. If you shrug your shoulders and put your arms up and then drop your arms, that feels crazy, right? But that means that's your proper posture. So I would strap that brace on and put on like a giant sun hat and just like walk up and down my block for as long until my legs gave out. Basically. I was committed to hold it, fixing it without surgery, trying to hold it, so. And I didn't have to have surgery. And now watch this. Ready for this?
David Spade
Oh, that's good. That's more than I can do.
Ike Barinholz
I can do the full Brady, but Full Brady Bunch mobility.
David Spade
Yeah.
Dana Carvey
Can you crack your back just by yourself standing up?
Ike Barinholz
I could crack my sternum a little bit.
Dana Carvey
Okay.
Ike Barinholz
But I've read. I saw. I read about a crazy person on Tick Tock. You should not be. You shouldn't be cracking and popping.
David Spade
You've seen those chiropractors. But most of the time the people fart on the ones I get. But yeah, those are funny.
Ike Barinholz
I get ones for dogs where it'll be like a guy.
David Spade
I don't like it.
Ike Barinholz
Like a hundred, what, 140 pound pit bull. And he's like. And you're like a bomb go off. And the dog is like, oh, dogs.
David Spade
Are not used to getting cracked. It's so weird.
Dana Carvey
And then the dog's happy, though, and runs away smiling. Is that because I saw One of.
David Spade
Them know if they're happy.
Ike Barinholz
I think that there's a the owner holding a piece of paper. I don't buy it.
David Spade
I do it to a Gerbal. He's like this. The gerbil's like. I was fine, by the way. Who's complaining?
Dana Carvey
I did a red ant.
David Spade
I was like, can you cut him in half accidentally?
Dana Carvey
And the ant was like, he's like.
David Spade
It'S more my thorax.
Ike Barinholz
Luckily, regenerate.
Dana Carvey
It's more my thorax. Well, a gentleman joins us here today, Mr. Aika Baron Holtz. She's made quite a splash on the the Mindy Project. Plays a character named Morgan Tooker. That funny Ed Morgan Tooker's male nurse. Oh, please welcome Dan on I don't know. So I wanted to mention that because five years on the Mindy Pro. Tell us about Morgan Morgan Tookers because we're going to get letters.
David Spade
Yeah. Why didn't you.
Dana Carvey
We're going to get letter.
David Spade
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David Spade
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Dana Carvey
Love to have her.
Ike Barinholz
She would do this she's very fun. She's like me. Big SNL fan, man.
David Spade
Let's book now. We won't put her.
Ike Barinholz
But if you could do it as Johnny Carson, that would be amazing.
Dana Carvey
Let me do this for you. This is what I do now for friends. Johnny. Johnny Carson gets pulled over for drunk driving, 1972.
Ike Barinholz
Oh.
Dana Carvey
Oh, sorry, officer. I didn't know I was swerving. I had two slippery monkeys at the Hook and Crook.
David Spade
Yes.
Dana Carvey
Slippery monkeys at the Hook and Crook. Yes, Sorry. I had a tomato, a back, a tomato, strawberry boom boom at the Wendy Summit. I just like the drink in the location. At the Windy Summit. I had a copper double daiquiri up with a twist at the Rusty Nail.
David Spade
Copper Penny is by Warner Brothers. He would have gone to that.
Dana Carvey
All right, so.
Ike Barinholz
And the Rusty Nail.
Dana Carvey
And the Rusty Nail. And. Or the Desperate Pillow is another good watering hole. The Desperate Pillow. But anyway, so. So the five years was big for you, right?
Ike Barinholz
So, yeah, and it was so much fun. It was such a fun Joey and, you know, such a fun cast and writers. It's like when a lot of my children were born while we were doing the show. And now it's so crazy. Now they're watching it. It's on Netflix, or it was on Netflix, and now they're watching it. And it's really sweet because you do stuff like. And you. You just kind of don't rewatch it for a long time and then it comes back to you one day with your kids and they get to see me, you know, like, farting so hard that my pants fall down.
Dana Carvey
How old are the kids again?
Ike Barinholz
6, 6, 9 and 12.
Dana Carvey
Okay, so they're still in the world of innocence and magic, except they have social media, but still they're like, they.
Ike Barinholz
Do, but we don't. We. I really am. Like, you're going to watch, like, SNL and Wayne's World and Tommy Boy and the things that I loved because at some point they're going to go online and watch some idiot online. So. And as long as they're in my.
David Spade
House before they like the pranksters on Tik Tok, you have to give them some Basel.
Ike Barinholz
If I was. If I was. I'm sorry. If I was running for president, I would sadly have to execute all TikTok.
David Spade
Pranksters.
Ike Barinholz
Or you're put in a gulag like, like. Because they're not even, like, clever pranks, man. It'll be like a guy like, like an older man in a Home Depot, like, trying to get, like, a bag of mulch. And they Walk up behind him and, like, give him a wet willy. And the guy's like, what the fuck? And then they run away. And I'm like.
David Spade
Or they hit him with a ball in the head. And then they both look around like, what happened? I'm like, I got hit, too.
Ike Barinholz
And it's like, you. You guys are now gonna break rocks for five years.
David Spade
Yeah.
Ike Barinholz
Let's see some pranks about that.
David Spade
I've seen when pranks go bad. I should send you on I. It's Instagram where it goes wrong and they get the. Kicked out of. It's great.
Ike Barinholz
David. I have seen those. And it. Mother's milk to me. Where a guy just starts wailing.
David Spade
Yeah. And he's like, it's a prank.
Ike Barinholz
It's a prank.
Dana Carvey
Who cares too?
David Spade
Why would I be like, oh, you're not Candid Camera. You're some.
Ike Barinholz
Oh, sorry. I didn't realize you were disrupting my life. For Internet.
David Spade
For your own. Don't get me going. Ike.
Ike Barinholz
Ike.
Dana Carvey
Now I have to say, were you named after Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose nickname was Ike? I'm sure you've been asked this a billion times, but Ike is a very. My name's a little usual.
Ike Barinholz
This is. This one's for the fans.
David Spade
I've never discussed.
Dana Carvey
Never been asked.
Ike Barinholz
I will never discuss it again after this. It's very private. But I will tell you. No. My real name is Isaac. And. Yeah, I know.
Dana Carvey
There we go.
Ike Barinholz
It's very. It's a Jewish bummer. But I had a. I had a teacher, My favorite teacher. A guy named Keho, Mr. Kehoe. And he started kind of calling me Ike. And that's really when it just. I kind of became Ike. And it's very rare. It's rare. And they're. Most Ikes, I think are good. Ike Eisenhower was an amazing Turner. Really, really good. Ike Turner's the. The rough one. But you also have.
Dana Carvey
Right.
Ike Barinholz
Ike Austin for the Miami Heat was very good. He was a good. Listen, Ike Turner, early on had a vision.
David Spade
Yeah.
Ike Barinholz
And I think we can all agree he made some very bad decisions.
David Spade
Yeah.
Ike Barinholz
But. And I don't like him. I think he's a bad guy.
David Spade
Good job. On the record with that on the.
Ike Barinholz
Record, I want to just. Just end the controversy.
Dana Carvey
Okay. 12, 12, 23 Pacific Standard Time.
Ike Barinholz
And I. Ike Turner gets thumbs down.
David Spade
Come on. Zoom. Put that thumb.
Ike Barinholz
Come on. Let's do it.
David Spade
It doesn't do it when you really do it. Look at. I got rain. Dana.
Dana Carvey
Look at that.
Ike Barinholz
Wow.
David Spade
Heather, did you see that?
Dana Carvey
We don't know how it happens. It's just random. I can't.
Ike Barinholz
It has a special zoom app.
Dana Carvey
Yeah, you know, it's.
David Spade
It's space world war, but it's worth. All right, Ike. Anything else?
Dana Carvey
Danny, any final thoughts you want to do? Because what. The Scared Straight show or standing running? What is it called?
Ike Barinholz
It's called standing room.
Dana Carvey
Says it right on top of it.
Ike Barinholz
I always hate when shows tee themselves up for critics to slam it. You know, running. Running point is more like whatever.
Dana Carvey
Running away like happy times was anything but Bad moms.
David Spade
More like bad movie.
Dana Carvey
Yeah, that's really clever.
Ike Barinholz
They're so excited.
David Spade
Don't go for that.
Ike Barinholz
Such a delicious pun.
Dana Carvey
Delicious.
Ike Barinholz
Delicious. I just got to say, when they. When I first heard your guys podcast, I was. Listen to it. I was so excited being on this show. So much fun. You guys have made me laugh so much over the years. Really, it's wild. It's wild.
Dana Carvey
I'm putting you in the hall of fame of guests because you were so lively, so much energy. You laughed at our. Our jokes.
Ike Barinholz
Hey, can I say suck it, Thoreau.
David Spade
Yeah, Thoreau.
Ike Barinholz
Yeah.
Dana Carvey
Oh, he's always gonna come back.
David Spade
Beat you.
Ike Barinholz
Yeah. Well, let's have a little competition.
David Spade
And you're smart. No one knew that. That's great.
Ike Barinholz
No. I present Very dumb one.
Dana Carvey
$2 million for charities.
David Spade
Charity.
Dana Carvey
What are you gonna.
David Spade
I always like foundation.
Ike Barinholz
I've started. I've started a foundation that I. I wet my beak a little bit.
David Spade
Yeah. Wet my beak a little bit.
Dana Carvey
Yeah. I'll take a taste. I won't take all of it. I'll wet my beak a little bit.
Ike Barinholz
Some went to some kids. Some went to some poor people. Some went to my boat.
David Spade
Yeah. Something for the effort.
Dana Carvey
I whipped my beak is a great figure of speech. That's got to be it. We got to do a Sopranos remake. Man. That is a brilliant thing.
Ike Barinholz
That's the best.
Dana Carvey
Best.
David Spade
That's all right, boss. Appreciate look for Running point.
Ike Barinholz
Running amazing.
Dana Carvey
Running Point. Running Point. Running Point. Netflix right now.
David Spade
Peace out.
Ike Barinholz
Please have me back.
Dana Carvey
Yeah, peace out.
David Spade
This has been a presentation of Odyssey. Please follow, subscribe, Leave a Like a review, all the stuff. Smash that button, whatever it is, wherever you get your podcasts, fly on the walls. Executive produced by Dana Carr Harvey and David Spade, Jenna Weiss Berman of Odyssey, and Heather Santoro. The show's lead producer is Greg Holtzman.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade: Ike Barinholtz Episode Summary
Release Date: March 19, 2025
Guest: Ike Barinholtz
Presented by: Audacy
In this engaging episode of "Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade," hosts Dana Carvey and David Spade welcome comedian and actor Ike Barinholtz. The conversation delves into Ike's illustrious career, his experiences on sketch comedy shows like Mad TV, his academic accolades, and personal anecdotes that highlight his humor and relatability.
Career Beginnings and Mad TV Ike shares his initial aspirations and challenges in breaking into the comedy scene. He recounts auditioning for Saturday Night Live (SNL) but eventually landing a significant role on Mad TV. Ike discusses the competitive environment during his auditions and the dynamics within the Mad TV cast.
Impressions and Characters Ike highlights his talent for impressions, notably his portrayal of Rutherford B. Hayes, and discusses the evolution of sketch comedy impressions over the years. He humorously critiques his own impressions and reflects on the challenges of maintaining authenticity in comedic impressions.
Ike talks about his stint in Amsterdam, where he immersed himself in the local comedy scene before returning to the United States to further his career. He names influential figures like Josh Meyers, Brendan Hunt, and mentions interactions with notable comedians such as Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key.
Mentorship and Chris Farley One of the most memorable stories Ike shares is his encounter with Chris Farley. He describes a humorous incident involving a spontaneous "sword fight" that exemplifies Chris's larger-than-life personality and their camaraderie.
Job as a Bus Boy Ike reminisces about his days working as a busboy at Morton's on La Cienega, detailing interactions with celebrities like Pete Rose. These stories showcase his ability to find humor in everyday situations and his interactions with famous personalities.
Health Scare and Recovery A poignant yet humorous segment covers Ike's injury while filming Blockers. He shares his recovery journey, the comedic side of wearing a neck brace, and the support he received from friends and fans.
Challenges in Impression Comedy Ike discusses the complexities of doing impressions on a sketch show, expressing his frustrations when certain impressions, like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s, didn't meet his expectations compared to his colleagues'.
Favorite Impressions He highlights some of his favorite impressions, including Joe Biden for the Saudi royal family, and reflects on the balance between accuracy and humor in his impersonations.
Celebrity Jeopardy and Charity Work Ike boasts about winning Celebrity Jeopardy and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, emphasizing his intellectual prowess. He also mentions his substantial contributions to charity, raising millions of dollars for various causes.
Family and Nepotism Ike touches upon the role of his family in his career, clarifying misconceptions about nepotism and highlighting his father's involvement in show business. He discusses the balance between leveraging family connections and forging his own path in the industry.
Comedy and Parenting Combining his professional life with personal anecdotes, Ike shares how his children now enjoy his work on Netflix and The Mindy Project. He humorously describes watching his comedic moments with his kids and the generational shift in humor appreciation.
As the episode winds down, Ike expresses his gratitude for being a guest on the show, praising Dana and David's humor and hospitality. The hosts and Ike engage in light-hearted banter, further showcasing Ike's quick wit and affable personality.
Dana Carvey on Airbnb vs. Hotels:
"Airbnb, wake up. Whip it up in your kitchen."
**00:12
Ike Discusses SNL Audition:
"My dream was to always be on SNL. We were obsessed with it in our house."
**03:58
Ike on Impressions:
"I did an amazing impression of Rutherford B. Hayes. That really got me cast on it."
**05:19
Chris Farley Story:
"We started peeing and then Chris was like, 'I cut your foot off so hard.'"
**20:46
Ike on Winning Jeopardy:
"I went on Celebrity Jeopardy. I won it. I got the trophy."
**39:56
Dana on Life Insurance Commercial:
"That's the thing, and it's a loving thing to do for your family, is to take out life insurance."
**36:37
Ike on Meeting Chris Farley:
"We went to a party and started peeing. Chris said, 'I cut your foot off so hard.'"
**20:46
This episode of "Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade" offers listeners an insightful and humorous exploration of Ike Barinholtz's career and personal life. Through candid conversations and hilarious anecdotes, Dana and David successfully bring out Ike's charismatic and multifaceted personality, making it a must-listen for fans of comedy and entertainment.
Note: All timestamps correspond to the transcript provided and are indicative of when the quoted statements occur within the episode.