RE-RELEASE - Andy Samberg

Summary

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

Re-Release: Andy Samberg

Episode Date: October 30, 2025
Podcast Host: Audacy

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Episode Overview

In this vibrant re-release, comedy legends Dana Carvey and David Spade sit down with Andy Samberg, celebrated SNL alum, digital shorts trailblazer, and star of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. The group takes a raucous, insight-packed look at the world of comedy—from SNL’s evolving landscape and viral digital revolution to behind-the-scenes stories, collaborations, and creative processes. The conversation is whip-smart, loose, and filled with affectionate ribbing, career reflections, and impromptu impressions, offering an exclusive "fly on the wall" peek at showbiz from three comedy heavyweights.

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Key Topics & Discussion Points

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Early Career Transitions and SNL Legacies

Timestamps: 01:31 – 06:45

• Jumping from SNL to Sitcoms

  • Andy describes his move from SNL to Brooklyn Nine-Nine, initially hesitating until Mike Schur asked him to lead a sitcom.
    • “I mean, I didn’t want to. And then it was just Mike Schur asked, and I was like, oh, shit.” — Andy (02:53)
  • Spade and Carvey compare their own sitcom experiences and reflect on leaving SNL.
    • “You get like, one kind of free shot…if you jump off the show, they go, do you want to do your own sitcom?” — Spade (03:16)

• Revolutionizing SNL with Digital Shorts

  • The crew discusses how Andy and his Lonely Island partners, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, transformed SNL with digital shorts at the dawn of YouTube.
    • “When you leave the show, it’s very scary… but those digital shorts were just kind of groundbreaking.” — Spade (02:23)
    • “It was fortuitous timing…I like to say, with the YouTube stuff, because…we’re gonna do [film shorts] every week.” — Andy (06:18)
    • “Do you think you blew up YouTube or YouTube blew you up?” — Spade (06:54)
    • “I think we are responsible for YouTube and they owe us a lot of debt.” — Andy (06:58)

• Name Mix-up Stories and Early Stand-up Days

  • The group recounts being mistaken for other celebrities and enduring awkward on-stage introductions.
    • “Everyone thinks I’m Adam because of Sandler…Someone literally introduced me as Adam Sandler, and everyone went…” — Andy (09:49)

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Awards, Honors, and Hollywood Life

Timestamps: 11:15 – 17:00

• Award Show Anecdotes

  • Spade narrates stories about the Golden Globes and being nominated alongside legends.
    • “I was up against Gregory Peck…It’s drama, comedy, everything. So I can’t—I already won because I just got that far.” — Spade (12:06)
  • Andy shares how Brooklyn Nine-Nine earned him a Golden Globe, yet he wasn’t nominated again.
    • “That was the only nomination and win…then never again nominated.” — Andy (13:21)

• Industry Parties & “Carpet Rapport”

  • The challenges of being solo at exclusive events and the phenomenon of “award season friends.”
    • “You do start having, like, award season friends that you only see at events, and it’s a very strange phenomenon.” — Andy (26:02)

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Roots, Influences, and Getting into Comedy

Timestamps: 15:18 – 20:13

• Berkeley Upbringing & Family

  • Andy describes his “hippie-ish” upbringing in Berkeley with two older sisters and early comedic aspirations.
    • “I have two older sisters…But do you think I do (have cool hair)?” — Andy (15:29)

• Discovering SNL & Comedy Aspirations

  • Writing a letter at age 8 predicting his future; sneaking SNL on TV; drawing inspiration from Carvey and early SNL cast.
    • “It was like, I’m gonna be a famous comedian and I’ll be married and I’m gonna have two kids. And I was just like, oh, shit. It’s all exactly what happened.” — Andy (18:16)

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The SNL Era: Auditions and Collaboration

Timestamps: 27:02 – 41:32

• Breaking into SNL

  • Andy details the audition process, bringing along his Lonely Island partners as writers, and his early uncertainty.
    • “We had spent the last five years in LA making stuff. So we had kind of a rhythm of what we were doing already.” — Andy (29:31)
    • “We just made up a bunch of shit like the weeks leading up to it.” — Andy (29:04)

• Meeting Lorne Michaels

  • The awkward, noncommittal hiring tradition with Lorne.
    • “Lauren never went like, ‘We’re hiring you.’ Those words never came out…Jen and Shookas were the ones who told me.” — Andy (34:54)

• Navigating Rockefeller Center for the First Time

  • Andy and Bill Hader’s journey as newly-minted cast members, a dinner with Conan O’Brien, and the surreal experience of being suddenly part of SNL history.
    • “My life just got so cool.” — Andy (35:36)

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Digital Shorts Masterclass & SNL Process

Timestamps: 41:32 – 57:18

• Birth of ‘Lazy Sunday’ & SNL Digital Evolution

  • The guys dissect the significance of 'Lazy Sunday' and the mechanics behind writing and producing it with fellow cast members.
    • “We knew Parnell, quote unquote, rapped...because he used to do it on Update.” — Andy (41:52)
    • “Parnell is so in. He dedicates his brain to it…they will never break no matter what.” — Andy (42:27)

• Pushing Weirdness and Taking Risks

  • Both Andy and the hosts praise Lorne Michaels for greenlighting unusual sketches, even after a dress rehearsal “bomb.”
    • “Lauren…It takes balls to go, ‘we’re teaching the audience. This is funny.’” — Spade (43:41)

• Influence of Forte and SNL Colleagues

  • Expressing awe at Will Forte's unique comedic “lane” and the thrill of being continually surprised by fellow cast members.
    • “He was the person I was always the most excited to see what he was going to do because it was always so weird.” — Andy (43:02)

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Iconic Videos, Collaborations, and Music Parodies

Timestamps: 53:37 – 64:13

• Dick in a Box, Jizz in My Pants, and Beyond

  • In-depth behind-the-scenes on viral digital shorts, the creative process, and dealing with censors.
    • “Dick in a Box was revolutionary…but also, I’m on a boat. It’s so dry and silly.” — Dana (58:20)
    • “Because it was bleeped, people thought it was cock...Which...sounds much worse musically.” — Andy (57:04)
    • “There was not a lot of bleeps before us.” — Andy (56:25)

• Working with Music Stars: Beyoncé, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake

  • Getting celebrities on board for viral sketches and the impact those intersections had.
    • “I think it was Justin that went and talked to Beyoncé about it… she was delightful.” — Andy (54:04)
    • “Her doing it [Single Ladies]…one of the most incredible performances.” — Andy (55:04)
    • “Now whenever I see [Rihanna]…she sees me and she goes, ‘Shy Ronnie, cute.’” — Andy (70:34)

• Popstar & Box Office Realities

  • Andy and the hosts discuss “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping,” its reception, and the phenomena of cult film status.
    • “We ate shit at the box office. Ate a whole big pile of shit on a movie…Most of my favorite comedies didn’t do well in theaters.” — Andy (47:36, 47:57)

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Showbiz Banter, Animation, and Digman!

Timestamps: 64:13 – 68:44

• The Magic of Working with Sandler & Animation Projects

  • Andy, David, and Dana swap stories from “Hotel Transylvania” and Sandler’s process for bringing friends into projects.
    • “He called me after we did that’s my boy… You’re gonna be that guy...Four movies later, it pays off.” — Andy (51:40)

• Digman! and the Joy of Animated Comedy

  • Andy plugs his animated archeologist comedy “Digman!” and describes working on the show.
    • “It’s a show set in a world where archaeologists are the biggest celebrities in the world…It’s super silly.” — Andy (64:35)

• The Art of Silly Voices & Impressions

  • The trio riff on impressions, from South Park to Sean Penn, with lots of meta-commentary on the art of voice acting.

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Reflections, SNL Family, and Legacy

Timestamps: 68:44 – End

• SNL’s Family Dynamic and Lorne’s Influence

  • “Lorne-isms,” never quite getting an explicit compliment, and the psychological effect of chasing Lorne’s approval.
    • “He was like, slapped my hand. He went, ‘I am not your friend.’ And I was like, okay, yeah, sorry, sorry.” — Andy (71:22)
    • “The one time he ever said something overtly nice about something I did… I melted into a puddle.” — Andy (72:47)

• Cherished Collaboration and Friendship

  • Andy repeatedly credits Akiva and Jorma: “I always have to mention friends who are in a lot of the videos and are really great performers themselves.” (80:00)

• Recognition of Comic Greats

  • Discussions about the competitive-yet-loving environment at SNL, the thrill of meeting comedy heroes, and the meaning of art as legacy.
    • “There’s everyone says this about snl, right? It’s like when...a certain age, that cast is their cast and it means way more to them than even the original cast.” — Andy (45:24)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Being Remembered as a Game-Changer:
  “He came out of the gate and revolutionized Saturday Night Live.” — Dana (05:59)

• On Comedy Ambition:
  “We just made up a bunch of shit like the weeks leading up to it.” — Andy (29:04)

• On SNL’s Impact:
  “You look at both generations and it’s fucking stacked in both.” — Andy (31:46)

• On the Lorne Michaels Mystique:
  “He…never went like, ‘we’re hiring you.’ Those words never came out.” — Andy (34:54)
  “He was like, slapped my hand. He went, ‘I am not your friend.’” — Andy (71:22)

• On Surreal Success:
  “I have it [dream job]…It’s not a bit. I can’t believe it.” — Andy (73:41)

• On Internet Fame:
  “I think we have over a billion views on our YouTube channel.” — Andy (79:13)

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Additional Highlights & Running Jokes

• The Importance of Silliness:
  Dana and Andy agree on the undervalued power of pure silly, “acid” humor.

  • “I like acid humor the best. I like silliness the best.” — Dana (38:43)

• “Carpet Rapport” and Industry Parties:
  Stories about fleeting acquaintances and the odd rituals of red carpet socializing.

• Riffs on Generals and Casting Meetings:
  The absurdity of endless “general” auditions and sometimes fruitless industry meetings.

• Impressions Clinic:
  Playful one-ups on impressions, sometimes poking fun at one another’s technique.

• Business of Commercials and Endorsements:
  Lively teasing over profit from ad campaigns, e.g., “Corona with Snoop.”

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Episode Structure by Major Segments

| Timestamp | Major Segment | Summary | | -------------- | --------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- | | 01:31–06:45 | SNL to Sitcoms, Digital Shorts | Andy’s transition, SNL innovations, name mixups | | 11:15–15:18 | Awards, Parties, Hollywood Life | Awards stories, red carpets, party culture | | 15:18–20:13 | Childhood, Comedy Roots | Upbringing, early influences, SNL inspiration | | 27:02–41:32 | Getting SNL, Lorne Meetings, Auditions | Audition process, Lonely Island’s entry to SNL | | 41:32–57:18 | Digital Shorts, Iconic Sketches, Working with Stars | Writing and producing digital shorts, celebrities | | 64:13–68:44 | Animation, Digman!, Sandler Collaborations | Animation experiences, Andy’s “Digman!” show | | 68:44–End | Reflections, Lorne Michaels, SNL Family | SNL family vibe, legacy, closing thoughts |

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Closing Thoughts

Dana Carvey:
“Andy Samberg, one of the all-time greats. Revolutionized Saturday Night Live with digital video. Probably has two to three hundred million hits on YouTube between all those videos.” (78:27)

Andy Samberg:
“I always have to mention Akiva and Jorma…Those are my buds.” (80:00)

Andy’s career highlights the blend of comedic innovation, collaborative spirit, and cultural timing. This conversation is a masterclass in comedy history and creativity, brimming with laughs, humility, and genuine admiration between comics.

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Recommended For:
Comedy nerds, SNL aficionados, digital media historians, aspiring comics, or anyone interested in the chemistry behind contemporary humor.

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Transcript

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[David Spade]

Okay, our show today is someone we talked to. Took a while to get him on. Andrew Samberg.

[Dana Carvey]

Andrew Phineas is his middle name. Not many people know that.

[David Spade]

Samberg.

[Dana Carvey]

So he came on, he's all, you know, he's just one of the all time greats on snl. He changed snl, you know, with Lazy Sundays. What was it called?

[David Spade]

I think it was called Lazy Sunday was the first video short.

[Dana Carvey]

Went crazy. And then I got to know him as he was playing Maya Rudolph, as Kamala was playing her husband Doug. So we got to hang out a lot. Flew back and forth a couple times. So he, he is one of the smartest people I've ever met. He's really.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

And funny as hell. So good. Dude.

[David Spade]

I talked him at the 50th a little bit. He, he's on TV a lot. He's all over the place. Those digital shorts were just kind of a groundbreaking.

[Dana Carvey]

And he's got animated shows and all kinds of stuff going on.

[David Spade]

Hot rod. We Just had Isla Fisher, and she was in Hot Rod, his movie. He does tons of stuff. You know him, you love him. He's got great hair. Here he is. And December, you were on the show and then you went to a sitcom pretty quickly. Was it right the next season?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Yeah. And I. I mean, I didn't want to.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

And then it was just Mike Schur asked, and I was like, oh, shit. I saw. I saw what he did with Poehler, and I was like, it's good.

[David Spade]

Yeah. I mean, if you. I sort of went in polar.

[Dana Carvey]

Poehler doesn't go down for anybody. I love Amy Poehler.

[Andy Samberg]

She doesn't what?

[Dana Carvey]

She doesn't go down for anybody.

[David Spade]

What does that mean?

[Dana Carvey]

I don't know. I just said it as a joke. She's powerful.

[David Spade]

She's a great comic. No, when you leave the show, it's very scary. And. And then they said, which I used to say was, you get like, one kind of free shot, you know, like, if you jump off the show, they go, do you want to? Back then, it was a little more going on in that world. Like, they said, do you want to do your own sitcom?

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yeah.

[David Spade]

Like, Pauly Shore got one. You know, you get one, but it's very hard. It's riskier. And then just Shoot Me was already shot. It was already at the upfronts, and they picked it. And then Laura San Jacome was out there to announce it, and the night before, they polled her and said, it's just, we need one more thing to this. So it was so weird. So I got to see the whole pilot.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, wow.

[David Spade]

And then the guy was from Larry Sanders, which I loved, and the writer, Steve Levitan, and then.

[Andy Samberg]

Never heard of him.

[David Spade]

He said, you want to add.

[Dana Carvey]

I don't want to hear about him anymore.

[Andy Samberg]

That's wild. I had no idea about that.

[David Spade]

Yeah. So I said, I got to see it, which has helped. And I go, oh, I'm coming from the most competitive, toughest, funniest people in the world. Not that they weren't funny, but they're all actors. And I go, oh, there's no one like me here. You know, I had a Dana there, and I had everyone better than me.

[Dana Carvey]

And I was, thank you, David.

[David Spade]

Yeah. And so, no, I'm saying because he's great. And you go, wow. When I'm not in a room with Sandler, Rock Farley, Michael Myers, Dana. And I go, these guys are just great actors and funny, but there's not one like me. Exactly. I could sort of jump Out. George Siegel said, it's four actors in a cartoon. That's what he used to say about me. And I go, thanks.

[Dana Carvey]

You were the fonts, you guys. It was kind of cool. Just an observation, Brooklyn. What was the name of yours again? Just shoot me. I'm sorry. You guys also went. You were the stars, you were the Fonzes, but you had an ensemble. Yeah, that's. And so that's not like hanging out in a movie. You can't do it. You can do it on live streaming now. If no one sees it, no one cares. But in those days, like movies, you're hung out there. But I thought you were great.

[David Spade]

People see it, and it was like you and your experience. I think I did know you were on. Is it the CBS Radford, right?

[Narrator/Ad Voice]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

That's where you shot it.

[Andy Samberg]

Same stage.

[David Spade]

So you got into it and you. Somewhat hesitantly, but you jumped in. You did your best. Because once you say yes to something. Right?

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

You got to try and make it good.

[Dana Carvey]

Did you write on that? And you're going to be writing just casually, but. Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

No, I never. I never was, like, in the room or had my name on a screen that great, though.

[David Spade]

But when you go stuff anyway and it works.

[Andy Samberg]

That's the craziest feeling coming from snl is having someone hand you great jokes and you're like, wait, I get to just have these? And then everyone thinks I thought of them.

[David Spade]

And then they go, how do we make these better for you?

[Dana Carvey]

I don't know. We were both standups. That was a revolution for me. If Bonnie Turner G, the church lady, can say this. Wow. Awesome.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, it does happen at snl. It takes a couple years before someone gives you a great joke, though.

[David Spade]

Well, he came out of the gate huge.

[Dana Carvey]

And thank you, David.

[David Spade]

I think this is my favorite podcast. Had to work a little bit, but. But you get on there.

[Dana Carvey]

He came out of the gate and Revol revolutionized Saturday Night Live. But we can get to that thing.

[David Spade]

We'll get to that.

[Andy Samberg]

Because that's in the live show, though. I did not come out of the gate strong.

[Dana Carvey]

But you. You revolutionized the thing, right? YouTube comes out. SNL's still going. And then you came in with your buddies and it went, woo. It went.

[Andy Samberg]

It was fortuitous timing, I like to say, with the YouTube stuff, because, you know, it started with, like, Albert Brooks doing short films and McKay did short films, and it was like, a long history of it at the show that we loved.

[David Spade]

Schiller Vision.

[Andy Samberg]

Exactly. Schiller Vision's great. Even, like, the Eddie Murphy stuff. Doing, like, White Like Me, where he's, like, walking around town like, there's always cool Pre tapes. We just were like, we're gonna do them every week.

[Dana Carvey]

SNL Digital even got a name. Yeah, Like a idea.

[David Spade]

Yeah. And they was the first one's Lazy Sunday, if I'm correct.

[Andy Samberg]

It was the first one people liked.

[David Spade]

Do you think you blew up YouTube or YouTube blew you up?

[Andy Samberg]

I think. I think we are responsible for YouTube and they owe us a lot of debt.

[Dana Carvey]

I knew a guy who was trying to do YouTube, and he was, like, six months late. He had all the technology.

[David Spade]

Oh, he's gonna do a YouTube thing.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, YouTube. And then YouTube came out, and then I was with him, and he was trying to think of a name. He had Grouper. And then a friend of mine renamed it Crackle and Sony bought it.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yeah, I remember those.

[Dana Carvey]

But YouTube is such a perfect name, like DocuSign. You have to sign documents. I own Docusign stuff. I shouldn't be promoting my portfolio.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, I interact with DocuSign a lot.

[David Spade]

I do, too.

[Dana Carvey]

I think I love you.

[David Spade]

You know, Danny gets a penny, I eat a penny.

[Dana Carvey]

What?

[David Spade]

No, you get a penny every time someone signs something.

[Dana Carvey]

Does an angel get his wings? No, I do. So YouTube was only out about six months, right? Or.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, that sounds about right. I mean, we hadn't heard of it until someone told us they just watched Lazy Sunday on YouTube.

[David Spade]

Oh, wow.

[Andy Samberg]

And then we were like, what's that? And then we realized, oh, someone finally thought of an actual good layout for streaming videos. Because there had been tons of websites trying to do it.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

And especially, like, comedy shorts and like, that kind of thing. And we would submit to websites, our Lonely island stuff that we were making before. Before snl. Yeah. And we had our own website that we, like, somehow finagled server space on.

[Dana Carvey]

You know, right around broadband was starting to come in. Right.

[Andy Samberg]

I don't know.

[Dana Carvey]

Broadband, I heard, was starting to come in.

[Andy Samberg]

So then YouTube.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, it was perfect timing.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. And you got to keep, you know, they just eradicated measles. But we, you know, we heard of YouTube and then, like, the next week, put all our videos on YouTube because we were like, oh, this is the.

[David Spade]

Best version of Shovel them on there.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, it finally works.

[David Spade]

You found the spot.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, you.

[Dana Carvey]

And I just want to get the pronunciations right.

[David Spade]

It's Andy, by the way.

[Dana Carvey]

I set him up.

[David Spade]

Andy's name. Your name was David. I want to say, listen to this thing. This is what Someone told me, look, his name was Andy.

[Andy Samberg]

Somebody told him that.

[David Spade]

They called him David. No, his name was David. And my brother's name is Andy and my name's David. You can't make this. Yeah, you could.

[Dana Carvey]

You can make this.

[Andy Samberg]

Was the person who told you with first name Aedia?

[David Spade]

Yeah, it was Wikipedia. It was printed out. But I know about you. I just didn't know that.

[Dana Carvey]

Okay, but your bandmates from 8th grade Advocate have it a little smaller than. It's Kiva Schaefer, Jorma and Jorma.

[Andy Samberg]

Tacony.

[Dana Carvey]

Jeez, talk about Tacomi.

[Andy Samberg]

Taccone. Yeah, with n's. But it's his fault for having that name.

[Dana Carvey]

Like people, I was Dana Garney for years, and no one ever got it right.

[Andy Samberg]

You were what?

[Dana Carvey]

Dana Garney.

[Andy Samberg]

Dana Garney.

[Dana Carvey]

No one got to go, who's on. Who's up next? The stand up.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, by the way, Dana Garney, I've been.

[Dana Carvey]

Oh, you must have been.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm Adam. Everyone thinks I'm Adam because of Sandler.

[David Spade]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

You think I want Adam Sandberg?

[David Spade]

Oh, right.

[Andy Samberg]

Andy Sandler. One time I was doing stand up before I got SNL and someone literally introduced me as Adam Sandler. And everyone went. And I walked out. I was like, no, no, no, no.

[David Spade]

That's not my name.

[Andy Samberg]

Is that. I'm so sorry. I also like him.

[David Spade]

No, I got here, too.

[Dana Carvey]

This is David Bowie.

[David Spade]

Once David I got introduced. Here's my one. They mess up David Bowie. I go to the Improv a couple times a week just to give them a little treat, you know?

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yeah.

[David Spade]

And then give them a taste of the magic. They go, what do you want to say? And they go. I go, just say. Because the last movie on Netflix was the Wrong Missy. I go, just say the wrong Missy and some other shit. And they go, got it. And they go, this guy was in the right Matilda the Quiet. And I go, why is that one so hard? They say it wrong every single time. You say it wrong, too.

[Dana Carvey]

I came up during the Rough and Tumble Club days. My biggest intro from Tony DePaul at the Holy City Zoo. And I'm a nervous stand up. Here he is, Dana Garney, the man who invented the blowjob. That was the first one. And that was it.

[Andy Samberg]

You're like, I didn't ask him to say that.

[Dana Carvey]

Or you say, some people think he's funny. I don't know about that. You know, it was rough and tumble.

[Andy Samberg]

Yep, yep.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

40 seater.

[David Spade]

They're trying to nag you on the way Out.

[Dana Carvey]

Then Rob Williams would come in her. I just wanted to play. And he'd do like three hours.

[David Spade]

I'm going back to Brooklyn.

[Dana Carvey]

I want to go back. Because.

[David Spade]

No, listen to this Brooklyn nine nine thing. Because he got it for an Emmy. I think he won an Emmy.

[Dana Carvey]

Two Golden Globes. Who does his homework?

[Andy Samberg]

I got some Globes back when that meant something, you know?

[David Spade]

Sure. Do you want to hear people say, don't ever talk about yourself on the podcast. But guess what? So here's what's gonna happen, all right? I'm in the audience and they go, golden Globe, by the way. We're back in fucking Azusa. You know, they keep the people from tv, the Golden Globes on tv. Tom Cruise is up front. I'm on the third deck where I have to take a two elevators to get to the stage. They know I'm not gonna win so much time. So you're having a hard time. So I'm back there. And they go. But it was a harder supporting category. It was against Don Cheadle. It was against every supporting category on TV and movies. Supporting in anything for your show. Yeah, for just shooting. So I'm up against Gregory Peck, Don Cheadle, the guy from er. It's drama, comedy, everything. So I can't. I already won because I just got that far.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

It's crazy. And crazy. They go, no, but seriously, Gregory Peck, that's not a joke. He beat me up. He did 90 seconds in Moby Dick. And he goes, I can't believe I'm getting it for 96. I'm like, no, Gregory, I slugged out 148 episode. Anyway. And then at the Emmys, they go.

[Dana Carvey]

David Spade, I'm Gregory Peek. Sorry, I just spot on, people.

[Andy Samberg]

I know Peck. That sounds like that's.

[Dana Carvey]

That's Peck.

[David Spade]

Everyone listening is going, it's not close enough to an old person.

[Dana Carvey]

I met him once. So what happens?

[David Spade]

So at the Emmys, they go like this. This is supporting in comedy. And they go, david Hyde Pierce. And if you saw the slow motion of my shoulders go up and I went back down and then went for an applause. And I was like, did anyone fucking see that false start.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[David Spade]

And it's like everyone saw it.

[Andy Samberg]

I do feel like I like it when people react negatively when they don't win.

[David Spade]

It's real.

[Andy Samberg]

I feel like you can do it and everyone will think it's funny, but also, you can just do it and be honest about that.

[Dana Carvey]

I would just mouth, what the fuck?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, what the fuck?

[David Spade]

At least you're doing something comedy.

[Dana Carvey]

How many times were you nominated? You won twice.

[Andy Samberg]

I was for Brooklyn 9. That was the only nomination and win was the show and me that year and then never again nominated.

[David Spade]

That's weird.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[Dana Carvey]

Politics.

[David Spade]

Why were you bad after that?

[Andy Samberg]

I just didn't care.

[Dana Carvey]

As I poured, your nickname was phoned in on the side.

[David Spade]

I just didn't care. Yeah, you won. You go.

[Andy Samberg]

It just turned into a paycheck. I was like this and everything about it.

[David Spade]

Have you seen these shows? Like, you notice the Emmys because they sort of lost a little bit over the years, but let's say it's still exciting. So they win something and someone that wins on a show or a comedy, then the next year they get canceled and you go, that's a mind fuck. You just won. You go, at least we have a little job security here.

[Andy Samberg]

You're talking about the show got canceled.

[David Spade]

Like the show? Yeah. Somebody wins or the show wins and then the show gets canceled and you go, what happened in that?

[Andy Samberg]

Like, I guess it wasn't good, right?

[David Spade]

You go, I'm not. Not only are we not up for one now, we're canceled one year later.

[Andy Samberg]

Do you think that they, like hide that Emmy in the closet and like, shame, Shame it.

[Dana Carvey]

It's sad.

[David Spade]

Yeah. I would take it out, yell at it.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, you happy, Emmy?

[Dana Carvey]

You happy? You ain't all that Emmy.

[David Spade]

You got the Emmy curse. Stay in there.

[Dana Carvey]

There's a little Nicolas Cage sneaking in there for your fans. Whoa.

[David Spade]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

We can talk plenty about that.

[Dana Carvey]

We can talk about that. It's hard. You have so much. But the cool thing is you. You did 152 episodes. Your first kind of thing. I do my homework.

[Andy Samberg]

I love it.

[Dana Carvey]

I went to state school.

[Andy Samberg]

I didn't know that. I did 152 episodes.

[Dana Carvey]

I'm a Bay Area guy like you, so I know that's true. I'm down for you and.

[Andy Samberg]

But not anymore. Do you still stay up there?

[Dana Carvey]

I have a house up there.

[Andy Samberg]

In what area? We don't have to.

[Dana Carvey]

Marin County.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, I love Marin.

[Dana Carvey]

That's stunning.

[David Spade]

What's the address?

[Dana Carvey]

My wife grew up there. We could do a little childhood stuff for sex. So what town did you grow up in?

[Andy Samberg]

In Berkeley. You look so disappointed.

[Dana Carvey]

Love Berkeley. Used to go to the track meets there. My first stand up set was on Telegraph Avenue at La Salamandra Cafe.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, that rules.

[Dana Carvey]

Hippie place. So were you kind of raised like a hippie or just.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, a little bit. A little bit.

[Dana Carvey]

How many kids just. You were the only one.

[Andy Samberg]

I have two older sisters.

[Dana Carvey]

Interesting. Yeah.

[David Spade]

Baby Andy Sandberg's got cool hair, which always infuriated me.

[Andy Samberg]

But do you think I do? Right now?

[David Spade]

It's pretty cool still. Yeah, no, you're good looking, dude.

[Dana Carvey]

You have hair and you have a jaw.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, you guys are.

[Dana Carvey]

I need a lot of work up here. And I even Burt Lancaster told me, how can you be a movie star? You've got no chin. That was a quote from Burt Lancaster to me.

[Andy Samberg]

What does he gain by saying that to me? Exactly.

[Dana Carvey]

He got mad because he was a dick back then. I jumped out of my chair so he could sit in my chair. He was 73. Yeah, and he's coming over. I jumped out. He thought I patronized him. You motherfucker. Where was this jump out of a chair for me? Again? This was tough, guys. Year before I got snl, I played the parole officer with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.

[David Spade]

But anyway, you know, when I beat Greta Thunberg at the Emmys, she goes, how dare you?

[Dana Carvey]

Good one. How dare you.

[David Spade]

I swung back for that weak joke, but go ahead.

[Andy Samberg]

I know it was a good. It was worth it.

[Dana Carvey]

Who's going to be married to that woman? How dare you not clean your plate. How dare you? We're on shit.

[Andy Samberg]

She doesn't have to get married to find happiness. I just want to point out that's true.

[David Spade]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[David Spade]

No, it's not.

[Andy Samberg]

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[David Spade]

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[Dana Carvey]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[David Spade]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Dana Carvey]

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[Andy Samberg]

Cut the camera. They see us.

[David Spade]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Dana Carvey]

Did you have it like an artistic childhood? And was there stuff going on in the house with your mom and dad or how did you and your 8th grade buddies get so into comedy?

[Andy Samberg]

We just were.

[Dana Carvey]

I don't know, met these guys. Like soul mates, right?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Actually I like just found a letter I wrote myself. It was like a third grade exercise when I was eight where they're like, you know, say, write a letter to yourself. What you think you'll be in 20 years? My mom just sent this to me.

[David Spade]

Wow.

[Andy Samberg]

From the basement. And it was like, I'm gonna be a famous comedian and I'll be married and I'm gonna have two kids. And I was just like, oh, shit. It's all exactly what happened.

[David Spade]

How cool. Wow.

[Dana Carvey]

How old were you?

[Andy Samberg]

Eight. I don't know why. Honestly, it started not to blow smoke, but I used to sneak into the TV room in our house and watch the Saturday night's main event, the WWF wrestling thing. And it was only on once a month.

[David Spade]

He wasn't on that.

[Andy Samberg]

And every other time it wasn't on, it was snl. So by accident I started watching snl. Cause I was like, oh, it's not on, but what's this? And it was right when it was your first cast. And that's when I got into the show.

[Dana Carvey]

So you were like 12 or something? Or 10?

[David Spade]

12?

[Andy Samberg]

Honestly, I might have been like 8, I think.

[Dana Carvey]

Wow, that's cool.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm 44.

[Dana Carvey]

I'm glad. So I didn't make you want to quit like that guy?

[Andy Samberg]

No, I was like, you can do this. This is allowed. I want to be like. I want to be like that guy. I'm pointing at you right now for people, because you can't see us, but I'm pointing right at you, Dan.

[Dana Carvey]

We can never forget that. I mean, it'll hit me sometimes if you're up there in a costume on a stage somewhere doing something, you go, this is my job. Really?

[David Spade]

Also somebody right now.

[Dana Carvey]

I'm working.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, you guys probably grew up watching snl.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

It probably wasn't possessed. Different from how it was for. For me and my.

[Dana Carvey]

For me to run into Dan Aykroyd at the show is just nerve wracking.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. And then he talks to you about his vodka for like an hour and a half.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah. Well, you don't have to leave the show. Yeah. You talk about investing. He was an investor early on.

[Andy Samberg]

It's insane to bump in anyone from that original cast.

[David Spade]

It's crazy when they walk. The rock stars you ever seen walk around the offices and Aykroyd came in. Knock, knock. All right, sir, Fair enough.

[Andy Samberg]

Sir.

[Dana Carvey]

That's right.

[Andy Samberg]

He's good about it too. Ackroyd's very like, I liked what you did. I know.

[Dana Carvey]

It's very funny.

[Andy Samberg]

And you're like, holy shit, this is crazy.

[Dana Carvey]

Every time I run into him, he goes, you know, the church lady was kind of, you know, sir. It was sort of a perfect comic character. If I see him at the 50th, I'm waiting for it. I go, hey, Dan, what about the.

[David Spade]

Did you go to the 40th?

[Andy Samberg]

I was at the 40th.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

Fun, right?

[Andy Samberg]

I did a video with Sandler. We did the thing about everyone breaking.

[David Spade]

Oh, you did? Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

They put it in Shit Can Alley, but it played well online.

[Dana Carvey]

First of all, that should be your next musical video. Shit Can Alley.

[David Spade]

Do you mean you presented it from a bad spot on the stage?

[Andy Samberg]

No, no, I don't. I did not make that up. People used to talk about at the table read, if you were in the second half of the read in the middle of the second half, that's Chicane Alley, where nothing plays because everyone's exhausted.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

And then once everyone knows there's one or two left, they laugh again.

[David Spade]

Yeah. It's not bad to be the end.

[Dana Carvey]

Barry Sandler. It got on, right.

[Andy Samberg]

Of course it aired and it played well, but it was like people were partying already and drinking and walking.

[Dana Carvey]

I think Mike and I went on last, didn't we? Wayne's World.

[Andy Samberg]

Were you dead last?

[Dana Carvey]

I thought we were dead last.

[Andy Samberg]

That's crazy. Well, see, but that's a good spot.

[David Spade]

Then they're waking up going, it's almost over.

[Dana Carvey]

I said, we should be either really angry or really flattered. I said that to Mike right before he went out.

[Andy Samberg]

I think probably a little of both. It worked out, you know, it was interesting. I probably shouldn't say this.

[Dana Carvey]

Say anything you want to me or David.

[Andy Samberg]

It was such a comedy room and people are so fucking like SNL competitive that like the monologue opening thing was Timberlake and Fallon doing like SNL through the years. And it was like a full on crowd pleasing showstopper. And half the room was kind of like arms crossed. Like, I was like, jesus, I don't want anything I do to air in this room.

[Dana Carvey]

We're all wounded little clowns. If he does good, then I don't do good.

[David Spade]

Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

And everyone at home was like, this is the greatest thing I've ever seen, dude.

[David Spade]

I was doing buh by and I Jane curtain was yelling you to me.

[Andy Samberg]

From the front row.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah. Take your own advice and skid out.

[David Spade]

Of all nice people.

[Dana Carvey]

Jane Curtin was cool.

[Andy Samberg]

She's wonderful.

[Dana Carvey]

You're going to what, are you or will you be at the 50th?

[Andy Samberg]

We ask everybody if I'm invited. I got to go, right?

[Dana Carvey]

You're going to be invited.

[David Spade]

You never know.

[Andy Samberg]

I heard there's no plus ones.

[David Spade]

That's always weird.

[Dana Carvey]

So my wife's not coming. Wait, that won't go down well.

[Andy Samberg]

There's other wife, you know.

[David Spade]

You weren't at Vanity Fair the other night, right?

[Andy Samberg]

I didn't go because of the knee.

[David Spade]

Oh, the knee.

[Andy Samberg]

I just want you to know I was invited, though.

[David Spade]

Oh, yeah. Dana. This Vanity Fair thing. I should have brought fucking Dana. I couldn't bring anyone.

[Dana Carvey]

I was invited for 25 years. Never went. So finally they stopped inviting me.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, God.

[David Spade]

For people at home, they hear about that Vanity Fair party, like the Oscar party, right?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

So there's one at Gallo's after that, which is really fun. And that's. At least I know him, so it's easier. But Vanity Fair, it's not an audition, but you just hear one. Oh, if you want to go to the Vanity Fair. I always thought I was always invited. And then one year, I go, hey, I didn't hear about that Vanity Fair. I think I want to go to that and bring my buddy. And they go, it's just so tricky this year. I'm like, oh, what does that mean? They're like, I can't go. And they're like, mm, it's not that. It's just that you can't right now. And I'm like, so it is that. And then. But they. For people listening, you know, you see pictures of the Vanity Fair party, but it's a fun party. But they stagger you.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[David Spade]

So you either go, like, apatow. I didn't know anyone, and I got no plus one. And I said, I think I'm gonna go. I get home for my shows. I just want to go. At least do. I can't stay all the way awake till a guy's party. But I go, I'll just go to this one. Oh, wait, what's my time?

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[David Spade]

And so it gets a little sweaty. I got 9:30, which is pretty good.

[Andy Samberg]

9:30 is not bad.

[David Spade]

This is all embarrassing, Dave.

[Dana Carvey]

It's the cool group.

[David Spade]

It's cool kids. And they go, you're right. Between Gigi Hadid and Harvey Weinstein.

[Dana Carvey]

They let him out. Just. They furloughed him.

[David Spade]

He's there. I'm like, this is the only thing you get out for Cruel and unusual.

[Dana Carvey]

Not to let that man go to that party. And then they put him right back.

[David Spade]

Embarrassingly. But 9:30 is not bad. One year I got midnight and no plus one. I didn't go. Too embarrassing.

[Dana Carvey]

Too embarrassing. Now you got Fly on the Wall. So it's a hit podcast.

[David Spade]

No, they know. This is. It's insane.

[Dana Carvey]

But back to our guest.

[David Spade]

No, I want to tell him, because I want to say, because he's done this, that when you go. And you go. You get out by yourself. And so I hit Appatow and I say, are you there? And he goes, oh, I got here at five. I got five. He went.

[Dana Carvey]

He had a head cold.

[David Spade]

He went to.

[Andy Samberg]

How does he sound?

[Dana Carvey]

Do it again.

[Andy Samberg]

Everyone has a little Apatow.

[Dana Carvey]

You cop an attitude and just say the name.

[Andy Samberg]

You do the thing when you do.

[Dana Carvey]

I'm Jeff Apatow.

[David Spade]

How are you guys doing? I'm Jen Apatow. I thought I was saying that's pretty funny what you did.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yeah, that was really funny. He does say that. He does say that's funny a lot.

[David Spade]

So anyway, very generous. I get there. I get there all the. I hit right when all the models hit, and they're all 50ft tall. And I go, can I just cut in front of you guys? And just. And they're like, is someone talking? And so I go. I remember I went up to Jessica Alba. I go, oh, I thought you were Nancy Pelosi. That was my joke to her.

[Dana Carvey]

And she goes, fuck you.

[David Spade]

And I go, no, she's right behind you. And I go, because it's funny, because one time she kicked me in the ass at the Golden Globes. And she said, hey, Fats. And I turned around, I don't even know her.

[Andy Samberg]

Nancy Pelosi.

[David Spade]

No, I know.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm sorry.

[David Spade]

I knew. I knew, and I fell for a Fats.

[Dana Carvey]

Can I do my name? No.

[David Spade]

I saw Nancy Pelosi at Wendy's once. No, I tried to get you back.

[Dana Carvey]

Nancy. Nancy Pelosi always looks like she just sat on cold and wet.

[David Spade]

That's.

[Dana Carvey]

Sorry. That's my Nancy Pelosi joke. We'll finish this.

[David Spade]

No, there's no story. I was just saying it's embarrassing. And I go to the. And I went there. And that was it, I guess.

[Andy Samberg]

So wait, why did Alba call you Fats?

[David Spade]

She did because she thought it was funny, and I thought it was funny.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, okay.

[Dana Carvey]

If you really were fat, that would be insensitive.

[David Spade]

Yeah, I just. No, I didn't care, though. It was back in the Dark angel days.

[Andy Samberg]

So we're talking. Oh, we're talking dark angel era.

[David Spade]

Well, that's when I used to get to go to the Golden Globes. So this time. Oh, I just. I was just getting her back because sometimes if I see her, she says something like that.

[Andy Samberg]

So you guys have kind of like, just funny.

[David Spade]

Yeah. So you have carpet rapport. It was nothing mean. It was just being stupid.

[Dana Carvey]

Carpet rapport.

[Andy Samberg]

That is a thing that if you go to a lot of award shows and. And awards show parties, you do start having, like, award season friends that you only see at events, and it's a very strange phenomenon. You're like, hey. But then you, like.

[Dana Carvey]

And you never see them again.

[Andy Samberg]

You're never like, we should exchange numbers.

[Dana Carvey]

You want to hear something weird?

[Andy Samberg]

Just see them at that.

[Dana Carvey]

I went in 91, I think, because of Wayne's World. So I look over, I say, I think it's Juliet Lewis.

[David Spade]

We'll put it in later.

[Dana Carvey]

Thanks. I see Juliet Lewis and Brad Pitt. I think it was her.

[David Spade]

Oh, when they were dating.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah. I see them off the side, and I can see that they're talking to each other, whether they should come over and talk to me, like, nervously coming over.

[Andy Samberg]

And did they?

[Dana Carvey]

Mm. I go, we're just gonna leave now. And he goes, that's a good plan. Like that plan. Let's face it, man, We're Mama. Goddamn. It has been. Sorry. Once upon a time in Hollywood.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I've seen it.

[Dana Carvey]

Oh, yeah.

[David Spade]

That was Brad Pitt.

[Andy Samberg]

You were in that, right? Yeah. Neither.

[David Spade]

No.

[Dana Carvey]

Eleven times. What I'm interested in right now.

[David Spade]

Say hello to your mother.

[Dana Carvey]

I'm interested in Andy and his buddies. They make their thing, and then they come to SNL and your first broom. And then you did come up with Lazy Sunday at snl.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

So how to walk me through that process? You. You meet Lauren. You tell him, what was your first meeting with Lauren and the writers? What was that by?

[Andy Samberg]

We got the show, actually, because we were writing on the MTV Movie Awards and Fallon hosted, so I do owe a great deal to Fallon.

[David Spade]

Hey. What?

[Dana Carvey]

You put up with your video? Oh, my God.

[Andy Samberg]

What's up, my man?

[Dana Carvey]

I know. He's awesome. We love him.

[Andy Samberg]

I did him in my audition because I knew he did Sandler in his. And it was very winky.

[David Spade]

Oh, wow.

[Dana Carvey]

What was your take on Fallon?

[Andy Samberg]

It was Jimmy Fallon at a funeral. I was like, oh, my God, So sad, right? I'm so sad. What a tragedy.

[David Spade]

Anyway, here's the next album.

[Dana Carvey]

I just took him to the Nth. Was like.

[Andy Samberg]

But yeah, but yes, he was great and he was super great to us and we got some stuff in the show and he and Higgins and Shoemaker were there for people. Steve Higgins, SNL producers and a bunch of the writers. And we kind of hit it off with everybody. So they were like, you guys should audition.

[Dana Carvey]

So how did you audition? What do you do? Were you Andy Samberg? Are you with your buddies or.

[Andy Samberg]

I did a solo and I had been doing standup for like five or six years. Seven years.

[Dana Carvey]

Really? On ice.

[David Spade]

Really?

[Andy Samberg]

I didn't know that. Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

Where were you playing mostly?

[Andy Samberg]

Well, I started off, I was going to NYU for a couple years and I started doing just bringer shows in New York. So like Cellar and Boston Comedy Club, when it was called that, Gotham, all those kinds of places. And then I moved out here and like the best I ever got to was doing a couple of shows here and there at the Improv. And then I did Premium Blend on Comedy Central. That was kind of the high, high watermark for me, the stand up. But so I did some of that stuff. And then they were like, but you need characters and impressions. And I was like, I don't have.

[David Spade]

So you didn't really?

[Andy Samberg]

Not really. We just made up a bunch of shit like the weeks leading up to it. And those guys helped me Kevin Yormo and it went well. So they said, you need to come back. And then they also had Yorm audition and Keev did a meeting with Lauren and we all submitted a writing packet together.

[Dana Carvey]

All three writing. And you got a feature performer.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, and then they got hired as writers. Like it was a crazy dream where.

[David Spade]

All of a sudden three you guys.

[Dana Carvey]

To get on is very well to come in with. With your buddies from eighth grade. And now we're on Saturday Night Live.

[Andy Samberg]

And we had already been. I mean we'd known each other a long time, so we had shorthand and we trusted each other, but it was also like we had been. We had spent the last five years in LA making stuff. So we had kind of a. A rhythm of what we were doing already.

[Dana Carvey]

And a TV show on YouTube basically kind of.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. I mean it didn't. People didn't really know about it the same way they do now, but it was, it was the same thing in that we had gotten a lot of the. The bad stuff out of our system.

[David Spade]

Well, you had to practice.

[Dana Carvey]

Well, the thing is, is that in for young people today, it just. I say, well, just do a YouTube channel, do this and that and then you get two views or five. And then you're reading about someone else with, you know, Rihanna has 500 million. And to keep yourself going. You guys obviously just loved it. Even though it wasn't getting tremendous traction.

[Andy Samberg]

No. It was also just a different time. Like, YouTube really didn't exist yet when we were doing this.

[Dana Carvey]

So you didn't have that compare and.

[Andy Samberg]

Despair thing for us, it was like, let's just make stuff until we feel like we're good and it'll work itself out one way or another. But we never thought we'd get snl. That was like my big only dream. And I was just.

[Dana Carvey]

Fallon saw something.

[Andy Samberg]

I even went and did the Groundlings intro audition for the classes and stuff and just tanked it. I just wanted it too bad. I was like. My brain went a million different places.

[Dana Carvey]

Isn't that the tough part of show is try not to try. Because whenever you push, it never works. And yet you want to be present. It's trying to catch the wind. It's always there. But isn't it great when you're in the pocket and you don't give a fuck?

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

Like, by year, I don't know what year did you kind of go? I'm not nervous on stage. I'm relaxed. Was it right away or was it took me like, I think 80 shows.

[Andy Samberg]

I think it was probably by like year four or five.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

It's once you feel like you're not gonna get fired.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

I think is truly it. And then you get genuinely loose and then people relax. Cause you're relaxed.

[Dana Carvey]

Did you get picked up every year.

[David Spade]

Where it was like, pretty much on. Cause I had to go home in May and he wouldn't decide.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, you guys had a carpet crazy stretch.

[David Spade]

I had to check out my apartment. I had to get out. And then.

[Dana Carvey]

Well, because the old guys. My team didn't leave. I stayed until 93. So you overlapped, and that was a reason. But once we all cleared out, I think David had a pretty hot two years.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

When you guys were all there at the same time, like the two different generations.

[Dana Carvey]

We were.

[Andy Samberg]

And you look at it, it's so rare in the history of the show where you look at both generations and it's fucking stacked in both.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

That's the craziest part to me about.

[Dana Carvey]

When you guys were 90 to 93, that I feel like that was the most loaded because we had David and Farley and Sandler and Chris Rock, and they're. They're coming up and doing stuff. Adam's getting the guitar. He's going. And then we had Phil Hartman and myself and Mike Myers.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, that's a lot of people making shit that, like, ended up on a T shirt, you know?

[Dana Carvey]

Well, we talked with Lorne about that, and it was like, if it's a team, you know, you've got this guy can start or this guy can start. So we had Toonce's the Cat, even with Jack Hammond throwing toonces.

[Andy Samberg]

Even just like, throwing deep thoughts.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Which was a constant on the show.

[David Spade]

And super funny. That always was.

[Dana Carvey]

And Mike would throw down his sprockets and. Or Wayne's World, you know, Sandler would do Opera man. You know, it got greatest hits. Every show, practically. But anyway, enough about that era. This is called Dana and David.

[David Spade]

No, I like.

[Dana Carvey]

I want to hear if we can tactically. You go in to Rockefeller Center.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[Dana Carvey]

What are you feeling? And do you have a private meeting with Lauren or with the three of you or what?

[Andy Samberg]

You mean when I got hired?

[Dana Carvey]

When you got hired? First time you went and talked to.

[Andy Samberg]

Lauren, they had me and Bill fly out.

[Dana Carvey]

Bill Hader?

[Andy Samberg]

Yes. Sorry. Me and Bill Hader to fly out to, I'm told, to meet with Lauren. Be like, you auditioned twice. They're interested. They want you to come meet with Lauren. Me and Bill sit next to each other on a flight from LA to New York. Marcy Klein had already told him that me and him got the show.

[David Spade]

Oh, wow.

[Dana Carvey]

Cool.

[Andy Samberg]

No one told me. And Bill, bless his heart, pretended the entire flight that he didn't know. So he didn't be the one to tell me. He wanted me to have, like, my moment where I got to actually find out.

[David Spade]

That's nice.

[Andy Samberg]

So the whole. He makes fun of me now. Cause we're, you know, we talk all the time. He's like, you were like, oh, man. I wonder if we're gonna get it. You fucking idiot. I knew. But.

[David Spade]

But.

[Andy Samberg]

So we get there, he goes in for his meeting, which is just saying hi to Lauren because he knows he's got the show. Then I go in and I talk to Lauren, you know, maybe 10 minutes, and it's Lauren.

[David Spade]

So he gives you nothing, Mentions nothing about anybody?

[Dana Carvey]

Was there anyone in the room?

[Andy Samberg]

No, just me and him.

[David Spade]

He never stands up and leans over the table and goes, congratulations, you got the job. Literally, I think a cigar or.

[Dana Carvey]

Here.

[David Spade]

It's not like a real guy.

[Dana Carvey]

Chip.

[Andy Samberg]

A rule, if you want.

[Dana Carvey]

Now, you must do a Lorne or a Lorne impression. It doesn't matter how good it is.

[Andy Samberg]

It's not good, but it's basically him being like, so do you think you'd be willing to cut your hair?

[David Spade]

I'm like, willing to cut your hair.

[Andy Samberg]

It was really crazy long. I was like, oh, yeah, I'll shave my head if you want. Whatever you want. I was like, on coke.

[Dana Carvey]

But that's a very specific Lauren.

[Andy Samberg]

And he goes, you think you could do this? You think you could live in New York? And I was like, oh, yeah, I've lived here before. Lived here for two years recently. He was like, okay, well, we're gonna all go out to dinner, so you should come. And I was like, okay. And I walked out and I looked around and it was like Jen and Shookas were there. And I was like. And they were like, so? And I was like, I don't know what happened. And they were like, you got it.

[David Spade]

So they were the ones who knows.

[Andy Samberg]

They were the ones who told her. But Lord never went like, we're hiring you. Those words never came out of me.

[Dana Carvey]

I never heard that either. I don't think he ever does. Some lieutenant comes up and yes.

[Andy Samberg]

And they're like. I mean, he, like, fell on the floor.

[Dana Carvey]

So where did you go to dinner? Do you remember? And how. More. How many people were in that dinner? Because that's kind of a.

[Andy Samberg]

It might have been worse.

[Dana Carvey]

A big thing to be invited was.

[David Spade]

A big one for Tuesday night dinners. When I was.

[Andy Samberg]

I remember we. Wherever we went, it was in that theater district area, and it was me and Bill and a few other people. And Conan was there at a different table, and they were like, oh, Conan, you should meet. These are gonna be two new cast members. And I was just, like, freaking the fuck out. We're like, my life just got so cool.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, it's a cool fact.

[David Spade]

He would come up to us and go, well. Well, if it's not shitty, crappy and cruddy.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yeah, and being all tall, too.

[David Spade]

So tall.

[Andy Samberg]

So alpha.

[Dana Carvey]

Dominated an animated show.

[David Spade]

When you did impressions, like you said, I didn't really do impressions too many. But did they assign you one? Or say, hey, can you play this? Or did you do Marky Mark?

[Andy Samberg]

That one. All my impressions happen on accident. I think Emily Spivey and someone else were the first ones to be like, oh, we put you in this thing as Nick Cage. And I was like, I don't do Nick Cage. But so I just worked on it, and it ended up being something I found out that I could kind of do. And Wahlberg, I was doing some bit with Jonah Hill, actually. We were hanging out in the Summertime. And he's like, you kind of sound like Mark Wahlberg right now. And I was like, ooh, yeah, anything to get on the fucking show. Yeah. So I tried. I tried that. I wrote it with. With Steel.

[David Spade]

But say hello your mother for me is the funniest thing to say.

[Dana Carvey]

Which character says that he does?

[David Spade]

Walberg.

[Dana Carvey]

I saw him talk to animals.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, he talks to animals. That was Steel's idea.

[Dana Carvey]

But you found that rhythm, that hook that, huh?

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

It's funny. Like, obviously, you're one of the greatest of all time at the Impressions. And I'm close with people also who are like wig and Fred and Gil. I mean, it's a whole other skill set. And I've never considered myself good at it, but there's like a few times in my life where I have found it, and I'm like, oh, this must be what it's like for them all the time. Like, it is really fun to do it, and it becomes its own language and it becomes its own character, you know?

[Dana Carvey]

Well, that's the thing. It becomes a character. So I know many, many incredibly accurate impressionists that aren't intrinsically funny, but since you're a comedian, when you did it, it was funny. And also it was accurate enough that it represented Mark Wahlberg.

[Andy Samberg]

Sure, sure.

[Dana Carvey]

So it worked completely. How many times did you do that? It was kind of a hit.

[Andy Samberg]

I think only twice.

[Dana Carvey]

Really?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

And you did it to Mark Wahlberg?

[Andy Samberg]

Well, he came on the show and to. Basically he did a whole thing where he was like. I guess they had asked him about it and he said something negative. And then I think him and his team were like, oh, we don't want people thinking I'm being too much of a bummer about this. So he came on and pretended like he was gonna kick my ass.

[Dana Carvey]

Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

And it was very pleasant. It was totally fine. It was the episode that Palin was on, too. It was a crazy episode.

[David Spade]

Oh, big one. That's a score. Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

Your time was pretty heady, you know, that election year and your bandmates, so to speak.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, it was interesting for us. Every election. We were there for two election years, I think, and our joke was always like, oh, well, we're not gonna have anything on the show this year. Cause it became so political, and we just didn't really engage with that. We just wanted to make goofy shit. But now, I think for everyone who works there, now, that's just every year.

[David Spade]

Yeah. Just non stop politics, you mean?

[Andy Samberg]

Like, it always has to be, like, about something and saying Something and addressing what's happening. There's. I think they have less opportunity to just do kind of weird ideas.

[Dana Carvey]

The world changed.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. And it's probably going to change back. I mean, that's how it's historically happened.

[Dana Carvey]

I like acid humor the best. I like silliness the best. If I have to say madness. And coming full circle back to you. So Lazy Sunday and the Princess at Narnia. Like, are you writing that when it's coming together? I'm just curious. Like, that's your first snl.

[David Spade]

Is that the first one or not the first one?

[Andy Samberg]

That was the second one. We had made one short that aired before that called Lettuce, which was.

[David Spade]

No, I'm kidding.

[Dana Carvey]

Hey, come on. Hey, David.

[Andy Samberg]

That's kind of mean.

[David Spade]

He's the one that said he's our guest.

[Dana Carvey]

What are you talking about? But that was as part of snl. Not a pre snl.

[Andy Samberg]

No, no, it aired on snl. It was. It was a Will Forte idea that we did with him. And we shot it on, like, a home. Home camera. And it aired, and we were like, holy shit. That aired. And then Lazy Sunday was the second one that aired. But that wasn't until the Christmas episode of our first season.

[Dana Carvey]

Did you show it to Lauren when you got it completely finished?

[Andy Samberg]

No, I think the first time he saw it, I think, was at dress.

[Dana Carvey]

And I assume you. You guys knew you had a hit with that.

[Andy Samberg]

No, no.

[Dana Carvey]

Felt irresistible to me.

[Andy Samberg]

Once. Once it aired, we were like, oh, shit, this is. I think people really liked it. You know, the crowd liked it. Yeah.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Was a new feeling. And, you know, you came out real hot. I don't really remember your beginning part, but I just remember.

[David Spade]

Thank you.

[Andy Samberg]

Knowing that you were there and you were good.

[David Spade]

No, it was worked in. Wormed in over time.

[Andy Samberg]

We had been there up till Christmas to that point, you know, and we hadn't. We had gotten stuff on and we were getting along with everybody, but we weren't like. Like, we're killing this, you know? Yeah. So for us, it was still the mentality of, oh, it's gonna air. Like, it was that. Yeah, it was still that early.

[Dana Carvey]

You don't want to jinx it.

[Andy Samberg]

They think it's gonna air. And then the crazy thing that happened with Lazy Sunday was what you brought up. Was it all of a sudden became a news item because everyone was like, there's a website called YouTube. And then every article about it was a picture of me and Parnell.

[Dana Carvey]

Yes. You kind of represented YouTube in a.

[David Spade]

Way when you do this. Do you say, does Shoemaker or someone say, you should put a cast member in it with you, or is that your idea?

[Andy Samberg]

What do you mean?

[Dana Carvey]

Like, it's you and Parnell.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yeah. Well, in the beginning, we, like, Kevin Yoram shot one. That was an idea that we all had when I was. I was in LA for an off week. Taking generals.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Time well spent.

[David Spade]

Take those generals.

[Dana Carvey]

Generals.

[David Spade]

General meeting.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

Oh, you're just generals now.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. I came back and they had made something, and I was like, oh, shit, it's that idea. It's so funny. And we showed it to Shoemaker and Higgins and they were like, you guys just went and made this. And we're like, yeah. And they're like, do stuff like this for the show, but put the cast in it. That was literally what they said.

[David Spade]

Yeah. And so they'd say, put the cast because you're too new.

[Dana Carvey]

So did Parnas. Did you have to coach him at all? Because, like, if someone cast me in that, I don't know how you. You're double tracking to get. Cause it sounds like real rap. All your stuff does to me. Like.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

So do you. What do you double track? You put effects on it. Just has this muscularity.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. I mean, we had been making songs for fun and we had shot a few music videos for them. That was, like, something we had sort of started doing before snl. And we're like, oh, yeah, we could try a song here that might be fun. And we knew Parnell, quote unquote, rapped or frowned, as we call it fake rapping, because he used to do it on Update. Like, he did a thing, I think, like, Britney Spears, one week was the musical guest and he, like, did a rap dedicated to Britney Spears that we thought was super funny.

[David Spade]

What a score for him to be in that, though.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. But it was also awesome for us because he was fucking hilarious.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Like, as soon as it starts, you're like, oh, my God. Parnell is so in. He dedicates his brain to it. Like, him and Forte both have that weird, like, gene of a performer where, like, they will never break no matter what. Like, they're so in it.

[Dana Carvey]

They're really serious.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Forte is, like. There's, like, a slight psychosis to it that makes you laugh so hard because you can tell they're actually lunatics deep down, and you love it.

[Dana Carvey]

There's something a little different. Yeah. Forte had his own lane. He did some brilliant. Just only he could do, I would say.

[Andy Samberg]

He probably of everyone. And this is Saying a lot because I loved almost everyone I worked with there at the table. He was the person I was always the most excited to see what he was going to do because it was always so weird.

[Dana Carvey]

He was so weird.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

I mean, you know the potato chip one where he came potato chips in all time. I told him back then. And he goes, you saw the potato chip one? I just watched it one night on television. I go, yeah. You know, comedians, we know where all the tricks are, but, you know, to get surprised by another comedian and the commitment, then you have to just commit. But.

[David Spade]

And you give Lauren credit for seeing a weird bit and it even bombs miserably. And he goes, put it on.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

And it takes balls to go, we're teaching the audience. This is funny. We're not saying, oh, it didn't do as good, you know, you just go, no, this is what should be out there.

[Dana Carvey]

How's that gear? Can I. Wayne's World Story.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

When I sometimes do stuff that I don't explain. So anyway, I was doing Garth's making a Mechanical Hand. Hope you've seen the movie, but in my mind, the mechanical hand is going to strangle. Right. Rob Lowe. Yes. So Rob Lowe comes in before it's finished. So then I beat the shit out of it. So it's laying there at the previews and I kind of liked it because it was my shtick, but I'm like, okay, I get it if you guys want to. And Lauren's like, it's one of those things, you know, like 20 years from now you're like, glad it's there.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

So Lauren does have that quirky side to him.

[Andy Samberg]

Isn't that we fear change. It's that moment, right?

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah. We fear change.

[Andy Samberg]

I know the film.

[Dana Carvey]

God, I love that. What about, how do you react to people coming up to you the way you would have come up to someone.

[Andy Samberg]

Else, you know, like to come up to you guys.

[Dana Carvey]

I can't believe, I mean, Andy Samberg, you know, that at the airport or whatever, and they're usually very sweet and stuff. It's. It's an out of body experience, isn't it?

[Andy Samberg]

It's trippy. I mean, the first time it happens, you're like, fuck it, I did it. You know?

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

And then, I don't know, I always just think about and truly you guys are on this list. When I was a teenager or in my early 20s, if I saw someone from SNL in real life, I would lose my shit. So I try to always remember that I felt like that and the idea that somebody could feel that way about me is super exciting.

[David Spade]

I advise quite hit you the same way, though. Like when I see Aykroyd or I saw Dana, those guys, it's never the same as when people see me. I go, eh, that's not that exciting.

[Andy Samberg]

When they saw me, I'm sure you mean.

[David Spade]

But I go, I see these guys. You know what I mean? Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

But you gotta remember, like, when it's. It's whatever. There's. Everyone says this about snl, right. It's like when. When kids and teens are a certain age, that cast is their cast and it means way more to them than even the original cast, which feels impossible.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

To us movies too.

[Dana Carvey]

When you 12 and 13.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

See an Ackroyd after Blues Brothers, and you go, yeah. Oh my God.

[Andy Samberg]

But dude, Wayne's World and Tommy Boy, are those for me? Way more than Blues Brothers. Nothing against Blues Brothers. It's just those were my years where I was like, holy shit, I can't believe that they're getting to do this. And it makes me feel like I have a place on earth. Like, literally.

[David Spade]

Because you want to do that stuff.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. And I still quote those movies, like every week.

[David Spade]

Yeah. That's nice.

[Dana Carvey]

I can't believe you remember we feared change.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

Did Garth say that?

[Andy Samberg]

Garth said that we fear change.

[Dana Carvey]

We feared change.

[Narrator/Ad Voice]

And then.

[David Spade]

What about this pop star movie?

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yeah.

[David Spade]

I think I told that whole Vanity Fair story because Bieber was there. I think that's what I was leading up to.

[Andy Samberg]

Is that right?

[David Spade]

And he was wearing a blanket. Remember that? He's wearing a poncho. Did you see that?

[Andy Samberg]

I wasn't there.

[David Spade]

Let's look at a clip. Let's go to the phone.

[Andy Samberg]

Bieber.

[Dana Carvey]

But it wasn't really a Bieber parody, but they marketed it as a Bieber parody.

[Andy Samberg]

I like Bieber as well. And we met him a bunch of times at snl.

[Dana Carvey]

I'll say this super talent.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, obviously in that moment, it was like he was one of the biggest pop stars. Of course, he still is. So we're making a movie about that world. So there are definitely jokes in it that are inspired by him.

[David Spade]

Sure. And you exaggerate a situation like he's a big pop star. What's the funniest version of everything? Doesn't mean it's about Bieber.

[Andy Samberg]

Correct.

[David Spade]

It's about.

[Andy Samberg]

But there's also a lot of stuff about a lot of other people in it too. And then a lot of stuff we just kind of made up Yeah. I will say this. Judd, who, bless his heart, is the reason we got to make that movie.

[David Spade]

Oh, that's right. Judd did fully produce it.

[Andy Samberg]

Fully ushered. It told us like, hey, if you guys wanted to make a movie like that, I'll produce it. And just gave us basically a free pass to make a movie. I think he was in line with Universal more about making the marketing feel a little more Bieber leaning. And we were like, this is Judd. He doesn't fucking miss, so whatever you guys want to do. And then we ate shit at the box office. Ate a whole big pile of shit on a movie.

[David Spade]

That is funny, though.

[Dana Carvey]

That's a very colorful way to put it. I've been in a couple of stinkers.

[Andy Samberg]

I'll tell you what, it wasn't because of the marketing or the Bieber stuff. It was just like, people didn't want to go to the theater for.

[David Spade]

But also.

[Dana Carvey]

But now, hasn't it rounded still? Sorry. Isn't it kind of a cult film in a way? Like, the people who are gonna love it are gonna be quoting it and possessed by it, I'm assuming.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, most of my favorite comedies didn't do well in theaters. Most. Wayne's World obviously is an exception. And, you know, there's exceptions. There's Anchorman, which is one of my all time favorites that did really well. But generally speaking, you know, like, we were kind of like riding Spinal Taps coattails. And when it came out, I just kept reading stuff about how when Spinal Tap came out, it was in like six theaters or something.

[David Spade]

Yeah, there was like wet, hot American Summer. There's a bunch of wet, hot spots.

[Dana Carvey]

Oh, when I was in Spinal Tap.

[Andy Samberg]

That's right.

[Dana Carvey]

Geez. You know, my whole.

[David Spade]

You were in Spinal Tap.

[Dana Carvey]

Andy Samberger's interviewing me today. We're having a. I was in Spinal Tap, the mime waiter with Billy Crisp.

[Andy Samberg]

That's right.

[David Spade]

It's super fun. How fun.

[Dana Carvey]

But to me, that movie was. To your point, that was sort of like, God, they can make a movie like.

[Andy Samberg]

Like that.

[Dana Carvey]

It's like the first mock documentary.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[Dana Carvey]

That I'd seen is like, this is so cool. It's one higher.

[Andy Samberg]

What's. Have you watched that movie anytime recently?

[Dana Carvey]

Maybe not in the last couple years.

[Andy Samberg]

It's crazy how well it holds up. Like, just the pace of it. And it doesn't seem like it's rushing at all.

[David Spade]

Pushing. Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. But it doesn't waste a second of your time. Like, it's just like tight bit. Tight bit. Tight bit. Every joke is funny. And they get out and it moves and the story makes sense and you actually kind of care in the end.

[Dana Carvey]

We did Stephanie Pollock and I talked like Christopher Guest for like three years every time we talked. And we actually played Blackjack at Harrah's. We were playing and we just did a guy talk like this. I'm supposed to take a call and you want me to take a call and try to do it is real enough that they maybe believe it.

[David Spade]

When I did Coneheads, put the applause.

[Dana Carvey]

Thank you, coneheads.

[David Spade]

Michael McKeon, I'd ask him about Spinal Tap and Coneheads after, you know, it came out, was probably better than Spinal Tap anyway.

[Dana Carvey]

Coneheads was great. Yes.

[David Spade]

Coneheads had so many funny people in it and it never just gelled.

[Dana Carvey]

Well, I love anything where they're called coneheads and their heads look like cones.

[David Spade]

It's perfect.

[Dana Carvey]

I always liked the nail on the head.

[David Spade]

Maybe it was too on the money.

[Dana Carvey]

I auditioned for Spinal Tap. You might find this interesting. I came into Rob Reiner and the whole cast. I'm auditioning.

[Andy Samberg]

You did?

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, to play the drummer or something.

[David Spade]

Great.

[Dana Carvey]

And then I go, this is nerve wracking. You guys are all friends. And I'm just walking in here. And so they all go, oh, we get that. They all just immediately left the room. They just got out of the room. I'm waiting there five minutes and they come back in. They go, oh, we're a little nervous. How long have you been in here? But I think they felt sorry for me, so they gave me the mime thing.

[David Spade]

Oh, dude. This guy was in grown ups too.

[Andy Samberg]

Was I ever.

[David Spade]

The cheerleader scene, which is.

[Andy Samberg]

That was a good girl. That was a fun day.

[David Spade]

That was a great thing to use guys like you where not to waste your time. It's like one bit funny. And get out.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean. Yeah, that's the thing too, that I know you know about. Once Sandler likes you and puts you in stuff, he'll be like, just come do a thing.

[David Spade]

You're like, okay, we'll figure it out later.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

He has a very sweet whispering.

[Andy Samberg]

So we're gonna do a thing and you'll be like with a bunch of suds on you and stuff.

[Dana Carvey]

Going to be so funny. There he is. Adam has a lot of.

[Andy Samberg]

The best.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, the best. A lot of rhythms to him.

[David Spade]

And so we should. He's in hotel transportation.

[Dana Carvey]

We should talk about some of these monster, monster things.

[Andy Samberg]

Dude, were you. You were in the fourth one, right?

[David Spade]

Yes. Andy.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

Were you?

[Narrator/Ad Voice]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

Was Selena.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

Oh, Adam Wasn't correct. That's right.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

You were in four.

[David Spade]

We've been in four together. We've been in the.

[Dana Carvey]

I was in two trenches of hotel, by the way.

[Andy Samberg]

That is like, the. The true, like, business. Joy of when. Sandler likes you.

[David Spade]

Oh, my God.

[Andy Samberg]

He called me after we did that's my boy. And he called me after. That was like, hey, we're doing this anime thing, and there's a goofy guy. He's the only human. You're gonna be that guy. And I was like, okay, thanks, Sandman.

[David Spade]

And then, like, four movies later, it pays off.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I'm just like, okay, I have.

[David Spade]

A story about that, Danny. But it' involves Andy, unfortunately.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay.

[David Spade]

You have the floor on Hotel Transylvania. So do you remember this? The first table read at Sony. And Amy Pascal was there, and it wasn't Selena. Who was Mavis?

[Andy Samberg]

I truly have no idea.

[David Spade]

Miley Cyrus.

[Dana Carvey]

Whoa.

[Andy Samberg]

Really?

[David Spade]

And she was a half hour late.

[Dana Carvey]

And it was me, Sandler, you.

[David Spade]

Everyone was there waiting.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

And that was dead silence because, you know, Amy is the president of Sony. Comes in. Okay, we got a call. She's on the 405. She's getting off at Sawtelle. Everyone's like, oh, my God, she's still not here. And it was like, she comes on, hey, sorry. And then sits down, rifles through the script, like, I don't know if it's a cold read. I was like, first of all, I love Miley Cyrus. First of all, she's a great singer, too. She's unbelievable. I just saw her do a Like a Prayer live with her cowboy hat on.

[Dana Carvey]

She's great singer.

[David Spade]

This was just an off thing because she did the table read. And the movie obviously went fine, but they got Selena. I don't remember that right after. And that's so weird.

[Andy Samberg]

I don't know.

[David Spade]

Miley decided not to do it or it just was not a perfect fit. But Selena's obviously unbelievable and great, and she was.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

I only met her twice along the way. Cause we don't do that much, you know, we don't shoot them all together.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, I've never been in the room with her for anything. But press. We do all the press.

[David Spade]

I know. We did press.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, we do all the press together. And it's like, hey, this is fun.

[David Spade]

This is a bunch of nice people. Cancun. Didn't we go somewhere for the.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes. Dude, that was crazy. The Sony, like, retreat. That was nuts. And then my wife and I were like, oh, we're gonna go to Tulum Yeah, we're already here.

[David Spade]

Yeah, you're in Mexico. Go ahead, Dana.

[Dana Carvey]

Oh, I just wanted to. Because I know we have. Our producer Craig Holston gave us a list. A super fan. The huge. Obviously digging a box. We can't get through all of them, but, you know. But Dick in a Box with Justin. Also dancing with Beyonce.

[David Spade]

Oh, yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

Single Bobby Moynihan, single ladies. So if you want to talk about.

[David Spade]

Those quickly, I mean, you have to go to Beyonce. Or does Marcy or does someone go to her?

[Andy Samberg]

We wrote it, me and Bobby. I think I might be getting that wrong, but I think that was it. And I think we knew Justin was around and could do it. And then I think it was Justin that went and talked to Beyonce about it, because we were like, well, he's very famous, and she's very famous, so that would probably go better.

[David Spade]

Go see his dm.

[Andy Samberg]

And also it's him being like, I'm gonna be in a leotard. We're celebrating you, whatever it is. But she was delightful. She's such a sweet, wonderful person in my limited interaction with her, but that one was. That one was fun. Cause we just were like, there's no way people are gonna be mad at this.

[David Spade]

It's too funny. It's great. She rolls with it and it's all. And having her in it.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[David Spade]

And then that's probably a blow up on video.

[Andy Samberg]

Also, her doing that song, like, her performance of that song that night on the show is one of the most incredible performances.

[David Spade]

It's harsh.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes. And they're in giant heels and just fucking destroying. Like, her and Prince, I think, are the two people in my time there where I was like, I don't understand what's happening right now. It's so impressive.

[David Spade]

She seems like a very hard worker from, like, early age of, like, busting up and gives 100% in every performance. She's a killer, that song. Check on it. She has so many words in it. There's a couple songs where I go, how does she. I mean, to do a whole concert. She has so much to do and dance and sing and costume. Her last album's incredible, and everyone's in love with her.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. And then, you know, dick in a box.

[Dana Carvey]

Beyonce, if you'd ever like to come on the podcast, you're always welcome.

[David Spade]

Obviously, everyone likes you here. Go ahead. Yeah. Dick in a box.

[Andy Samberg]

You know, it was fine. We just kind of threw it together.

[David Spade]

Any problems with that was the first.

[Dana Carvey]

One that went kind of sexual or R. Right. Or that hard Because Dick in a Box was, like, on the edge, right? Did censor.

[Andy Samberg]

We did the one with Natalie Portman at the end of the Mother Lover of the previous year. And it was filthy, but it was all bleeped. But that was all.

[Dana Carvey]

Oh, it was all bleeped.

[Andy Samberg]

That was all her.

[David Spade]

What?

[Andy Samberg]

People really like that.

[Dana Carvey]

What was that one?

[Andy Samberg]

It was. It was just her rapping. Real filthy. Basically. She. She, like, loved Lil Kim and told us she wanted to do one, and.

[David Spade]

We were like, okay, how great.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

And you bleeped all the words out.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, a lot of bleeps. I mean, that was the fun of getting to do so much pre tape. As we ended up, there was not a lot of bleeps before us.

[David Spade]

I don't think when you do Dick in a Box to the audience, it says dick in a box.

[Andy Samberg]

No, I think it was bleeped in.

[David Spade]

Oh, no. Really? Even for the.

[Andy Samberg]

Cause it's live.

[David Spade]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

So what part is bleeped?

[Andy Samberg]

The word dick.

[David Spade]

Yeah. Dana.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

So you can't say dick. Okay.

[David Spade]

You can say box.

[Dana Carvey]

Well, couldn't they have dick? You bring this up dick, and you wouldn't know what it meant. It could be Dick Wilson.

[David Spade]

It could be dick in your pants. Like a medical thing.

[Andy Samberg]

Two things. Two things about the bleeps. We were told that because it was bleeped, people thought it was cock.

[Dana Carvey]

Cock and bleed.

[David Spade]

Even dirtier. Really? Right. Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

Which. And it sounds much worse musically. And then a few years later, we aired the song Jizz in My Pants with no bleeps and no anything.

[David Spade]

But what's jizz?

[Andy Samberg]

I don't know. Why would it be? I'm told someday I'll find out. But that one, it had to air after 12, 15 or something. Like, it was like at the very end of the show. And I think whoever was running NBC at the time, it was maybe like Jeff Zucker or somebody, came down to the show and they had a whole conversation about it.

[Dana Carvey]

Interesting.

[Andy Samberg]

Basically, we brought it in. Cause we had already started doing albums at that point. It was from our first album. And we were like, hey, we have this video. Maybe we could just play it at dress and see how it goes. And then it was like, ooh, it went well. And Laura was like, so we should air it. And they were like, but can we? And we were like, we have a censored version which does exist, where instead of jizz, you just hear variations of us going. It's a lot sillier, but not as funny.

[David Spade]

You could have a dick in A box. And also Jizz in the box.

[Andy Samberg]

You could, with the dick say more about that.

[David Spade]

Well, I'm going to show you a chart how that could work.

[Dana Carvey]

You're on space.

[Andy Samberg]

Where would you hold the box? Just depends on your age.

[Dana Carvey]

Dick in a box was revolutionary, but also, I'm on a boat. It's so dry and silly.

[Andy Samberg]

It is dry as a bone. There's nothing to it. But that one idea.

[David Spade]

What are you doing on the boat? I'm on a boat.

[Dana Carvey]

People being on boats.

[Andy Samberg]

There were a lot of. There were a lot of videos at that time where the concept of the video was just, look at us. They were on a boat and they were doing their song.

[David Spade]

Rich, we're doing good.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, Yeah.

[David Spade]

T Pain was a great addition. It's always fun when you just throw someone in that out of the blue. I think you pan over to him at the beginning. Like, you go to the end, that's a laugh. And then.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, that's like an old, almost like Marx Brothers style reveal. Yeah.

[David Spade]

It's hard to get people. We were trying to get people for stuff back in the show, and, you know, they don't know till last minute. Unless it's Geraldo Rivera, they're not coming.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my God. I mean, especially once you start going into the music world. Like, they're on their own schedule. Everybody in music does whatever they feel like.

[David Spade]

I go, what about Steve Martin? And he goes, what about Geraldo Rivera? And I go, well. And he goes, he's circling the building. Anytime you see, would he do it? He's circling the building.

[Dana Carvey]

That was Lauren's best joke.

[David Spade]

I've stolen that one.

[Dana Carvey]

What about Geraldo?

[David Spade]

Geraldo was the one that was always circling that.

[Andy Samberg]

We could always. Lauren will do that sometimes where he's just like, so and so is here. So put them in it. And you're like, okie dokie, Steve's coming. Yeah. We did a Laser Cats, and it opens with him having dinner with Senator Dodd.

[David Spade]

Oh, wow.

[Andy Samberg]

And we were like, yeah, that was definitely who we were thinking for this.

[Dana Carvey]

Senator Dodd. Yeah, he was around. I think Chris Paul picked him up and threw him around at a party.

[David Spade]

He had Steve come in a Hollywood minute and stand behind me and just listen to it and drink, sip a drink.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my God.

[David Spade]

And he goes, I want a drink and I want to sip it with a straw. And we're like, okay. Fuck, I love Hollywood. And then he just stood behind me. Steve Martin, my fucking hero.

[Dana Carvey]

Did he say anything after?

[David Spade]

At the end, he goes, I did a joke. About him. I go, he's in a new movie where he thinks he's cool. Hey, I have my shirt open. I'm Matt Dillon. And then he's standing behind me. And then he taps me and I go, oh. And then he tells me to leave. And then he sits down and does.

[Andy Samberg]

Some jokes and are they about you or just whatever.

[David Spade]

He made fun of me.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

But you gotta.

[Andy Samberg]

That's the deal.

[Dana Carvey]

Sense of humor about yourself.

[David Spade]

I sort of embarrassed because I didn't love it.

[Dana Carvey]

Thanks, Andy.

[David Spade]

I wanted more for Steve. Cause I love him.

[Andy Samberg]

We're bae, guys.

[David Spade]

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[Dana Carvey]

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[David Spade]

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[David Spade]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[David Spade]

All right, give something else to him. Give him another call.

[Dana Carvey]

I know that you love. I read that you especially had a fond heart for a great day.

[Andy Samberg]

I do. I do love a great day.

[Dana Carvey]

Cool video. It has pathos. It's funny, you know, because you want to have a great day, but he's got coke all over his right.

[Andy Samberg]

Of my own works. Thank you for bringing up my own works. Ooh, I do. I am proud of that one. It came together nice.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah. I think it has a. Well, it's just. It steps outside all the other ones. It's just so different. The neighborhood and it's all beautiful.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes. And it's and it's a different kind of song for us. It was more musical style. We shot down on Commerce, which is like my favorite street in Manhattan.

[Dana Carvey]

Made it Utopian.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes. In front of the Cherry Lane Theater. We've shot there a few times. We shot this Ahmadinejad one with Fred down there too. I love that street.

[David Spade]

Anyway, wait, I forgot to ask about dignity. Digman.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yeah, that's my show.

[David Spade]

Digman is a show.

[Andy Samberg]

By the way, I saw Billboard for it on my way over already.

[Dana Carvey]

I saw it too.

[Andy Samberg]

I was super. I was like, hey, it's real.

[David Spade]

I was thinking of the voice you did.

[Dana Carvey]

I rolled down my window and said, interviewing him. Interviewing him and me.

[Andy Samberg]

I was like, please fucking let Dana have seen this dude.

[David Spade]

Billboards are all that matters.

[Dana Carvey]

Is it out already?

[Andy Samberg]

Aren't we promoting it March 22.

[Dana Carvey]

Okay. And you're out, so.

[David Spade]

Yes, we'll be out.

[Dana Carvey]

That's Dickman is available because. So hard to find. Shit it on.

[Andy Samberg]

It's today.

[Dana Carvey]

No, but where do you get it?

[Andy Samberg]

Comedy Central.

[Dana Carvey]

Comedy Central.

[Andy Samberg]

I know.

[Dana Carvey]

Old school. Hey, Samberg Sandberg with the 90s called.

[Andy Samberg]

But we're on after south park, so it's the best slide you can.

[Dana Carvey]

Oh, the best slot in history.

[Andy Samberg]

Is that your South Park?

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah. That's good.

[David Spade]

That dirty is.

[Dana Carvey]

So this is south park guy.

[David Spade]

Hi.

[Dana Carvey]

How are you? I just shit my pants. I'm three.

[David Spade]

This kid just fucked me in the ass. I'm like, really? This is a real show?

[Dana Carvey]

I can't believe what they get away with.

[David Spade]

When I see those clips on Instagram, I. I go, this is from a real show, or is this just a clip they made up?

[Dana Carvey]

Because I like it in my ass?

[David Spade]

Yeah, they're in print.

[Dana Carvey]

Hey, guys. South park guys. Trey and Matt. And Matt. If you guys ever want to come.

[Andy Samberg]

On the podcast, Beyonce's gonna be here.

[David Spade]

What if they all want to come.

[Dana Carvey]

The same day, though? Andy will come back. Go dig, man.

[David Spade]

I just watched it last night. Did you? Oh, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, awesome.

[David Spade]

They got it to me.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. What's the Digman? It's an.

[David Spade]

He's an Archie.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, it's. He's an archaeologist. They call him Archies. It's a show set in a world where archaeologists are the biggest celebrities in the world. So, like, there. There's like, a Met gala, but it's the Archie gala, and everyone's wondering, like, what museum they're gonna be hired by, and it's. It's super silly. I made it with my buddy Neil Campbell, who wrote on Brooklyn9.9 and Comedy Bang Bang and stuff. And I've been working on it for fucking two and a half years.

[Dana Carvey]

It is how many episodes?

[Andy Samberg]

It takes so long. First season's eight and we're hoping there'll be another one.

[David Spade]

Yeah, it was funny. I just watched it last night. And there's an assistant archeologist.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes. Mitra Juhari, who's super funny.

[David Spade]

Okay. Yeah, I was wondering who that was. Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

If there's a season two, do you need any guest voices?

[Andy Samberg]

Are you in? Would you guys want to do it?

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

We got motherfucking Emperor's new groove right here, motherfucker.

[Dana Carvey]

All right. Remember that one? I can do two things. This is way around animation.

[David Spade]

I can do a llama or an invisible man. Okay, first of all, I think that sounds the same.

[Dana Carvey]

Let's hear the llama.

[David Spade]

No, because they all invisible man. The llama is. Look at me and my bad self. Uh huh huh huh. No touchy. Yeah. That was one. That was a rappy.

[Andy Samberg]

That's a funny movie.

[David Spade]

That was a great one.

[Dana Carvey]

That was a great. Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

You and Warburton.

[David Spade]

Come on. It's solid mahogany. The poison couscous.

[Andy Samberg]

Poison.

[David Spade]

He and goddam are. The kiss playing Yzma were so hilarious. Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Have you seen that movie?

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

It's genuinely like shockingly funny.

[David Spade]

Funny, isn't it?

[Dana Carvey]

I couldn't come out.

[David Spade]

Took me three years.

[Dana Carvey]

93.

[David Spade]

What do you mean, three years to shoot it. Oh, it's so hard.

[Andy Samberg]

It was mocap.

[David Spade]

Say it again.

[Andy Samberg]

Motion capture.

[David Spade]

I don't know if it was mocap.

[Dana Carvey]

Did you get it through a general? Did you think it was general? When he got it? Did he get it through a general?

[David Spade]

I snagged it through a general. At Disney, general meetings are where you go in and they tell you you're good and then nothing ever happens.

[Andy Samberg]

Happens.

[David Spade]

Correct.

[Dana Carvey]

I had one a couple weeks ago.

[David Spade]

They want to meet. They just want to. They just want to.

[Dana Carvey]

Would you like to play twins? They go, you should be both guys. You should be both guys in the scene. Right yourself.

[Andy Samberg]

How would you like to clumps it?

[David Spade]

The clumps, but more clumps.

[Dana Carvey]

That's like the Eddie Murphy movie.

[Andy Samberg]

It's called clump you guys. This we all call it. When you're more than one part, you're clumps in it.

[Dana Carvey]

See, what they do is they cut tape, they let him do four hours of makeup change and they start the camera again. It's like magic.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes. Once he did it, it kind of should have been retired, I think, because that was then like, you're just like, how is this possible?

[Dana Carvey]

No one understood.

[Andy Samberg]

How can he possibly.

[David Spade]

One guy's Arsenio sometimes.

[Andy Samberg]

That's true. I don't think that's one of the movies.

[David Spade]

Coming to America just came to me.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yeah.

[David Spade]

Okay. So Emperor's New groove. I'll play llama. And you're. But the show Digman is. It is funny as shit. I was just like, thank you.

[Dana Carvey]

It's Andy Sandberg. Come on.

[David Spade]

So.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, well, that's the. I mean, not every brand, not everything you ever do is like, we're going hard funny. But this one is.

[David Spade]

It's just jokes.

[Andy Samberg]

We're trying to do as much.

[David Spade]

And it's a good story.

[Dana Carvey]

So you follow PG13 or soft R?

[David Spade]

It was kind of.

[Andy Samberg]

It's a little. It's.

[David Spade]

There's all that stuff on there.

[Andy Samberg]

Everything's in. But when it airs on network, it'll be bleeped. The fucks will be bleeped. And everything else can air.

[David Spade]

What is that network? Me and Comedy Central.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[David Spade]

Oh, so. Because it's. They've got a few in there, but it's not overdone.

[Andy Samberg]

No, no, no. We try to sort of parse them out.

[David Spade]

No, it's clever. But there a couple times I go, oh, yeah, bad word.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, it's not softy nasty. But that was, that was kind of the idea. Like we worked together, you know, on Brooklyn. Thanks.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

And we loved making Brooklyn, but it's NBC, so there were plenty of times we were like, we were like, just want to make a show where we don't have to care.

[David Spade]

Just something borderline gets killed. I've done that before. And you go, ah, this isn't even. We got to compete out there.

[Andy Samberg]

Exactly, exactly.

[David Spade]

It's very hard to argue because you're like, who's going to care?

[Andy Samberg]

Yes. Our hope is that we made something that people in comedy will like it.

[Dana Carvey]

They say that a half hour show, network show is kind of the best schedule for a human being.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, yours was even yours harder. Mine was harder than his. He did it live.

[David Spade]

Mine's a straight sitcom.

[Dana Carvey]

You were 17 hours a week, right?

[David Spade]

About 16, five.

[Andy Samberg]

And once it's like a hit. And everyone knows their parts too, and no one's stressed. You just show up, smash. The audience is there to love it.

[David Spade]

Oh, yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

And you were single camera.

[David Spade]

So Will and Grace got down to a science. Four day weeks, three day weeks.

[Andy Samberg]

You know, I worked at Radford as a pa. Oh, you did? I worked on Spin City.

[Dana Carvey]

Oh, really? I can't believe it. Get out of here. Sarge, he does my thing.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, you guys vote.

[David Spade]

Hey, guys, what are we doing here exactly?

[Dana Carvey]

It's a soft. Casey. Case of. Got it.

[David Spade]

Give me a minute here.

[Dana Carvey]

Come on. Give me a minute.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm Casey. In what? Prisoners of war or something. Casualties.

[David Spade]

The worst one to do an impression. No one saw it.

[Andy Samberg]

But you're doing it with Sean Penn.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

What are we doing?

[David Spade]

We're gonna get this VC gook.

[Andy Samberg]

Get a tattoo.

[David Spade]

Hey, come on, guys.

[Andy Samberg]

Getting a tattoo. I know it all.

[Dana Carvey]

Come on, guys.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, man.

[Dana Carvey]

It's Casey. Casey, basically.

[David Spade]

Is it really?

[Andy Samberg]

It's a little.

[David Spade]

Come on.

[Andy Samberg]

No different. But your case is.

[Dana Carvey]

But you just take it back a little bit. Come on, Sarge.

[David Spade]

Don't make the audience think it's easy.

[Dana Carvey]

Audience.

[Andy Samberg]

It's not dissimilar. I'll give you.

[David Spade]

You gotta go on your tiptoes. Open your eyes.

[Dana Carvey]

I'm.

[David Spade]

Hey, doc, this is.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my God. I love it.

[David Spade]

You're home now.

[Andy Samberg]

By the way, when I was there, though, it was Charlie Sheen.

[Dana Carvey]

It's actually very good.

[David Spade]

It was Charlie Sheen.

[Andy Samberg]

It was Charlie Sheen. It was post Fox, so it was a different.

[David Spade]

Oh, Spin City. Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[David Spade]

Did you do the sketch Hookers and Blow with Charlie Sheen?

[Andy Samberg]

Did I do that?

[David Spade]

Yeah. Were you in it?

[Andy Samberg]

I don't think I was in that.

[David Spade]

That was Matt. Piedmont wrote that it was a body shop called Hookers and Blow spelled differently. And it was. Charlie Sheen was the pitch man.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my God. And it aired.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Who played Charlie Sheen?

[David Spade]

He did. Oh, he did it when he hosted.

[Andy Samberg]

Got it, got it, got it.

[Dana Carvey]

Okay.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, good for him.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

By the way, Hot Shots. Really good.

[David Spade]

Hot Shots is funny.

[Andy Samberg]

It's really funny.

[David Spade]

All right. What's your name?

[Dana Carvey]

Blizzard man or Shy Ronnie? It's like a little game.

[David Spade]

Oh, Shy Ronnie. You got to do with Rihanna.

[Andy Samberg]

That was the. She's the coolest.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, that was kind of one of the sillier things. The cool thing about her character was just so.

[David Spade]

And her doing it is unbelievable.

[Andy Samberg]

Her doing it. But now whenever I see her, which is not often, she sees me and she goes, shy Ronnie, cute. Like, I don't know if she knows my name, but, yeah, I. I'm happy with what I got.

[David Spade]

Real you got everyone loves. Yeah.

[Narrator/Ad Voice]

Damn.

[David Spade]

Good job.

[Dana Carvey]

Jealous.

[David Spade]

All right, wrap up.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, should we talk about the Oscars? I don't know.

[Dana Carvey]

Fill in the blanks. It's a new game we have.

[David Spade]

Yeah. Oh, shit.

[Dana Carvey]

And you can always say pass.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay. Lorne Michaels is my dad. I thought that's what everyone would say.

[Dana Carvey]

He is kind of everybody's dad.

[David Spade]

Go to your room.

[Dana Carvey]

He's 13 months older than me.

[Andy Samberg]

One time I was. I'd been doing pretty well after a couple years. And I like did the bit, you know, where you like do. Where you force it and you make your hands touch. Like he was reaching for his popcorn.

[David Spade]

Oh my God.

[Andy Samberg]

And you're like, like a meet cute kind of thing. And I was like, oh, look at that. He was like, slapped my hand. He went, I am not your friend. And I was like, okay, yeah, sorry, sorry. Laurencer. Yes, sorry, sir.

[David Spade]

Like Lauren even says anything like that.

[Dana Carvey]

Remember any Laurenism? So we always do this on the show. I mean he does the value of water. Everyone knows that one.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I mean he always starts things. It's that thing, you know? Cause it's like that thing and like.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, it's like, you know, it'd be better if it was like funny. It'd be like a really, really good show.

[David Spade]

It helps with my bottle.

[Andy Samberg]

It would help if it was good.

[Dana Carvey]

This is the last. We have two weeks off.

[Andy Samberg]

It would help if it was good.

[Dana Carvey]

Rather a low note, you know, I know that that's all designed to relax us.

[Andy Samberg]

Emily Spivey, I don't know if you guys know her. She was a writer for a very long time on the show. She used to do a bit in the. In the rewrite table. Where.

[Dana Carvey]

Is it gonna be? R rated?

[Andy Samberg]

No, not R rated. Where the phone would ring or she'd pretend the phone ring and she'd pick it up and she'd go, hello. Oh, hey Lauren. Oh, thank you. Oh, I know. I worked really hard on it. I love you too. Like basically act like he was calling to give her tons of compliments because he never gives them any.

[Dana Carvey]

He'll always compliment. Not when you really kill on a big thing, but like some exit or when you have one line and some cowboy skip. I thought it was breathtaking.

[Andy Samberg]

The one time he ever said something overtly nice about something I did in front of everybody was a great day. Was the. The meeting between dress and air. He was like, can we like cut out of that a little faster? Very funny, by the way. And I was just like melted to a puddle. And I was like, God, why does he have so much power over us?

[Dana Carvey]

I know. He fucking love. Well, you know, he's seen everybody.

[Andy Samberg]

Exactly.

[Dana Carvey]

Every American sketch player and every back in picture.

[David Spade]

He knows every move somewhat equal to all those people that have been there before.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[Dana Carvey]

Believe me, Andy Samberg was very, very.

[David Spade]

All right, Andy, I gotta go. I can't. I can't answer any of my. My own questions anymore about you that I answer.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay, Fair, fair, fair.

[Dana Carvey]

Fill in the blank. I'm really bugged by.

[Andy Samberg]

Bugs.

[David Spade]

Nah, that's the right answer.

[Dana Carvey]

My dream job is.

[Andy Samberg]

I have it.

[Dana Carvey]

Wow. Yeah. Positivity.

[Andy Samberg]

It's not a bit. I can't believe it. It's like we were talking about.

[David Spade]

Finish this sentence. I did a Corona commercial with.

[Narrator/Ad Voice]

Snoop.

[David Spade]

Yeah, Snoop Dogg.

[Andy Samberg]

I'll tell you one thing about those commercials. When you do them, you're like, oh, it's fucking Snoop. These are funny. This is gonna be great. And then you don't realize they're gonna air them 7 billion times and make. Even if they like it the first hundred times. But that's. I guess that's. I should have known.

[Dana Carvey]

They're well known. What was your money's words? There was always a little something right at the end. You're with him, and then there's something right at the end. You do a little eyebrow thing or something. I'm sure I've seen it.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, I did a few of them. There's more coming, by the way.

[David Spade]

I know, I know.

[Andy Samberg]

I sold out.

[David Spade]

God damn it.

[Andy Samberg]

I took the check in.

[David Spade]

Oh, Andy, I have a free time.

[Dana Carvey]

So many commercials in the 90s. I regret it to the this day.

[Andy Samberg]

Did you?

[Dana Carvey]

The getting commerce now is cool. Ryan Reynolds just made 200 million on some gin products.

[Andy Samberg]

He makes so much money.

[David Spade]

Yeah, there's nothing stop either.

[Dana Carvey]

There's nothing wrong with that. All that means is freedom to do what you want.

[Andy Samberg]

It is annoying that he's making so much money and he's good.

[Dana Carvey]

Seems really funny.

[Andy Samberg]

You wish. He sucked a little bit.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

But instead he's like, funny.

[Dana Carvey]

He has an advertising company, a management company.

[David Spade]

He's got a phone company, and his.

[Andy Samberg]

Movies are all big and you want to watch them.

[Dana Carvey]

Northern California.

[Andy Samberg]

He's good, but he's the president of the universe.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah. Oh, this will be. You won't want to. You want to do this one? Fred Armerson is. Oh.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, man, that's good.

[Dana Carvey]

Like it's too much.

[Andy Samberg]

Too much, my friend.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

But also so good. So funny.

[Dana Carvey]

Just makes me smile every time I see him.

[David Spade]

He was on last week, right?

[Dana Carvey]

Camera.

[Andy Samberg]

He's delightful. And by the way, speaking of. No. No pushing.

[Narrator/Ad Voice]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Never ever is sweaty. Ever. And it's always funny and weird and interesting.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah. I could get sweaty sometimes. I never would.

[Andy Samberg]

Spade never gets sweaty.

[David Spade]

I'm not too sweaty. Right.

[Andy Samberg]

No, you run it nice and cool, and it's always charming. It's true. But you and me, we want it.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah. We could very easily stretch your body.

[Andy Samberg]

We're like, I got a skill set. Let me show you, motherfucker.

[David Spade]

Oh, you get one of those.

[Andy Samberg]

Kristen Wiig is also my friend and one of the greatest.

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

One of the best. When I was doing Regis out there, I was guest hosting and just kind of rehearsing all week, and then she comes in as Kathie Lee with all this stuff. I was kind of almost starstruck by the meticulous business. She had her energy. She was hypnotizing this other rhythm. It was really interesting to be around that.

[Andy Samberg]

She's kind of like Steph Curry of snl, where you're like. She's super quiet and seems kind of just keeping to herself. And then all of a sudden you realize she's been fucking working hard and is an absolute beast and ready to unleash. And like, as soon as that audience is there, you're like, oh, shit, I gotta get out of the way.

[David Spade]

Oh, she has been thinking about this.

[Dana Carvey]

Is it okay to mention your wife is a famous musician?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I love my wife.

[Dana Carvey]

Gina Newsome.

[Andy Samberg]

Joanna.

[Dana Carvey]

Joanna. Sorry.

[Andy Samberg]

That's okay.

[Dana Carvey]

Went to state school. Joanna Newsome, singer, songwriter, harp player, piano and vocals. I list some of it, so I think that's pretty hip. You're both artists.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

She understands.

[Andy Samberg]

She's. I mean, she's much cooler than me, obviously, but.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, she seemed incredibly cool.

[Andy Samberg]

She's.

[Dana Carvey]

That. We're just. What else?

[Andy Samberg]

She says hi.

[David Spade]

Good.

[Dana Carvey]

She says hi. So now, just to wrap it up. So you're a dad now, and so that whole. Your world has changed, and now you and your wife are going to balance this thing with your work.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[Dana Carvey]

You have a plan?

[Andy Samberg]

It's hard. It's very hard.

[Dana Carvey]

It is.

[Andy Samberg]

It's interesting figuring out when to work, when not to, when who works, when, where. Yeah, Spade, what do you think?

[David Spade]

I think you're heading the right direction. That's my general.

[Andy Samberg]

Spade, do you think you want kids?

[David Spade]

Yeah, what do you think? I have a daughter and she's here. Not here in the house. I kicked her out. But she's here and she'll be. And we're gonna go to the lunch right after this.

[Andy Samberg]

How old is your daughter?

[David Spade]

She's 14.

[Dana Carvey]

Were you gonna take her. Take her to Beverly Hills to pull. You know, that little diner in the Beverly Hills Hotel?

[David Spade]

No, we're going to something more grimy.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, really?

[David Spade]

Yeah.

[Dana Carvey]

In and out.

[David Spade]

I can't. I don't want her to know that I have any money.

[Dana Carvey]

Just keep it quiet. Well, this is a little bit of a giveaway.

[David Spade]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

In la, kids just think that's what houses are.

[David Spade]

I know this house.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm just kidding.

[David Spade]

Andy Samberg has been our guest and he's been very nice. And his leg probably hurts at this point.

[Andy Samberg]

No, I would do this for another seven hours.

[David Spade]

And you're gonna give us a deep.

[Dana Carvey]

Dive on how much fun it was to shoot laser cats.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, I do like laser cats.

[Dana Carvey]

When you see it, you're like, that's just kid stuff. That's so much fun.

[Andy Samberg]

It was very fun.

[Dana Carvey]

I like shy Ronnie. Okay, okay, sweetheart, sum up. Andy Samberg, one of the all time greats Saturday Night Live. Revolutionize Saturday Night Live with digital video. Probably has 2 to 300 million hits on YouTube between all those videos.

[David Spade]

Money.

[Dana Carvey]

Well, no YouTube views, silly.

[Andy Samberg]

Definitely more than that.

[David Spade]

Also one of the ones.

[Dana Carvey]

55 million just for on a boat.

[Andy Samberg]

I think I'm on a boat. Has well over 200 million.

[Dana Carvey]

Okay, so you're the new Bad Baby. I'm kidding. If I knew this at the beginning of the podcast, I can think of.

[Andy Samberg]

Myself as the new Rebecca Black. But thank you, thank you.

[David Spade]

Okay.

[Dana Carvey]

I would have been nervous if I'd known that stat, but yeah, it's pretty monstrous.

[Andy Samberg]

All of them are from years ago, by the way.

[Dana Carvey]

Doesn't matter. Aggregate.

[Andy Samberg]

I think we have over a billion views on our YouTube channel, which I know because what else am I going to do?

[Dana Carvey]

And you get paid $2900.

[David Spade]

Look at the views, those stats.

[Andy Samberg]

But now there's single songs. Single songs by pop stars that have like over 2 or 3 billion or something.

[Dana Carvey]

Yeah, yeah. Mr. Lizard has 7 billion hits on his latest song, Shabadoo. No, I'm kidding. I'm trying to think what's funnier than Bad bunny, Mr. Lizard.

[David Spade]

Well, we have been trying to get Andy for a while because people ask about, like, there's people they really want to hear from. So it's nice that you.

[Dana Carvey]

Well, your impact on the show is huge. You're part of the whole story of snl. And so we were very happy to have.

[David Spade]

And there's a chunk of time it's.

[Dana Carvey]

Like, good to have.

[David Spade]

Andy.

[Dana Carvey]

You had a lane that no one else had.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, thanks. I mean, it's very much with Akiva and Jorma too.

[Dana Carvey]

I always have to mention friends who are in a lot of the videos and are really great performers themselves. They always make me laugh.

[Andy Samberg]

They're great. Those are my buds.

[David Spade]

Let's take our picture.

[Dana Carvey]

All right.

[David Spade]

Thanks, Andy. Hey, guys. If you're loving this podcast, which you are, be sure to click follow on your favorite podcast app, give us a review, five star rating, and maybe even share an episode that you've lost love with a friend.

[Dana Carvey]

If you're watching this episode on YouTube, please subscribe. We're on video now.

[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 Odyssey.

[Dana Carvey]

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

[David Spade]

Tech booking by Cultivated Entertainment.

[Dana Carvey]

Special thanks to Pat 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-Y I dot com.