123: Sour Candy Hot Head with Bobby Moynihan | Soder Podcast | EP 121

Summary

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Soder Podcast Ep 121 (123): “Sour Candy Hot Head with Bobby Moynihan”

Date: March 3, 2026
Host: Dan Soder
Guest: Bobby Moynihan

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Episode Overview

This episode of the Soder Podcast is a lively, affectionate stroll through comedy history, focusing on Bobby Moynihan’s career, favorite stories from SNL, run-ins with comedy legends, and the quirks that make comics (and comic fans) who they are. Soder and Moynihan trade bits, industry insights, and nerdy gushes about Saturday Night Live, voiceover work, “30 Rock,” and more. The conversation flows with warmth, riotous laughter, and behind-the-scenes revelations that both comedy nerds and casual listeners will love.

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Main Themes & Discussion Points

1. Tracy Morgan: Living Cartoon & Comedy Legend

(Mostly 02:36–12:09)

• SNL/30 Rock Crossover:
  Soder and Moynihan gleefully compare Tracy Morgan in real life with Tracy Jordan from “30 Rock.” Both agree there’s virtually no daylight between the character and the man.

  • “There’s no difference.” (Bobby, 02:53)
  • “I have a file on my phone, a notes file, with like 1500 different things Tracy has just said.” (Bobby, 03:11)

• Legendary Tracy Moments:

  • Hosting SNL, Morgan bursts into Loren Michael’s office bellowing, “The dark horse has returned!” (Bobby, 03:46)
  • Celebrity car stories abound: Tracy hanging out of vehicles, drawing crowds — “You’d be surprised how many people have stories about him hanging out of a car and screaming.” (Bobby, 05:51)
  • Making up credits for fans (“This is Jerry Seinfeld’s wife!” 07:04), outrageous claims (“I used to date Michelle Obama back in high school.” 07:44), and a running gag that various famous figures are his biological father.

• Essence of Tracy:

  • “He’s just so happy to be alive. Every moment... everything goes through the filter of like, but what if I was also playing a boombox right now?” (Borrowed quote, Bobby, 08:45)
  • “Tracy’s insane, but in the best way possible. He’s like a gigantic, beating heart who’s just throwing out fun.” (Bobby, 08:10)
  • Soder recalls Morgan’s belly slap after a wild claim: “The belly slap to me was what sold it for me...it just set it for the room, then he did like that on his belly.” (Soder, 10:32)

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2. The “Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins”: Show Biz Surrealism

(12:09–15:27 and references throughout)

• Working with Daniel Radcliffe & Tracy Morgan:

  • Bobby plays Reggie’s best friend from the NFL, now living in Reggie’s basement and running his social media.
  • Tracy constantly riffing, dropping comic gold not in the script (e.g., stretching out “dude…”).
  • Radcliffe’s Harry Potter fame is omnipresent. Bobby counts how long until it’s mentioned whenever they’re together (14:14), likening it to “a condition — my Harry Potter’s flaring up.”

• Comparisons of Fame:

  • Radcliffe vs. Mark Hamill (“real life wizard superheroes” 14:37).
  • Kindness, humility, and how both Soder and Moynihan are surprised Radcliffe deals with it all “wonderfully” (15:27).

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3. SNL Nostalgia & Comedy-Origin Stories

(16:13–30:39 and scattered throughout)

• Bobby’s Early SNL Obsession:

  • “I have a... like, I’m in a suit coming out of my bathroom going, ‘Bobby!’ and like turning around and doing my SNL opening.” (24:53)

• Don Pardo Memories:

  • “He just passed me one day and he went, ‘bobby.’ That’s all. Quietly to himself. And he went, ‘that’s a good one. Not like that nightmare Naseem Pedrad.’” (Bobby, 25:13)
  • “He was just standing there [at rehearsal]... just wanted to see the dancers. Never saw Don Pardo on the floor before.” (26:31)

• “Getting the Call”:

  • The nerve-racking, surreal process of auditioning for SNL, with industry strikes and behind-the-scenes politicking.
  • “You want to navigate this amazingly cool thing that you wanted to be in your whole life. Then you got to go there. You were. It’s like going to space camp.” (Bobby, 16:26)

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4. Comedy Community: Admiration, Roles, Bombs & Legends

(32:39–70:27)

• Tales from UCB, Improv & Beyond:

  • SNL’s effect on perceptions: “You knew about you at ucb... you were phenomenal.” (Soder, 16:46)
  • Moynihan recounts being reviewed as a newcomer alongside SNL legends’ costumes — “In a quick change, throwing on a suit, seeing Farley or Belushi written in the pants...” (Bobby, 55:38)

• SNL Cast Praise:

  • “Taran Killam... one of the most criminally underrated SNL cast members of all time.” (Soder, 35:01)
  • Jay Pharaoh’s uncanny impression skills: “Jay would come into the room... and do his pitch as Hannibal Burris. He would be able to like improvise as Hannibal... like he walks aside and just becomes Hannibal.” (Bobby, 38:07, 38:26)
  • Keenan is “number one cast member of all time. There’s no other...He is Saturday Night Live.” (Bobby, 46:55)

• SNL Writers:

  • “Brian Tucker... like Harvey Keitel in Pulp Fiction. He just steps in and says, ‘Yeah, we understand how to do this.’” (Soder, 45:07)

• Bombing Stories:

  • Both share brutal tales of bombing on big stages, finding solace calling their moms afterward, comedic trauma as rite of passage.
    • “Someone in New York saw you sad as drunk uncle near the garden and was like, that couldn’t be...” (76:59)
    • “Bombing drunk, someone saw you—‘What do you think, he walks around in the costume?’” (77:20)

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5. Joys and Quirks: Sour Candy, Pixar, Randomness

(17:41–23:35, 30:44–35:01)

• Bobby’s Sour Candy Heat Reaction:

  • “If I have Sour Patch Kids... top of my head down. Starts here. Just starts to like. I get hot. I start to get a little sweaty whenever I have sour candy.” (Bobby, 18:19)
  • “What a curse.” (Dan, 19:07)
  • “Anything sour. I love sour candy. But you do love it.” (Bobby & Dan, 19:03)
  • “The only way I can explain [Sour Patch Kid ice cream] is like Sour Patch Kid gel... as if they melted Sour Patch Kids and squeezed them out.” (22:24)

• Voiceover Life — Pixar/Inside Out/Hoppers:

  • Pixar works like a creative paradise with themed offices, secret vents, legendary guests (“I signed in between Barack Obama and Anthony Daniels [C3PO].” 33:02)
  • Bobby’s roles: Monsters University, Inside Out 1 & 2, and Hoppers (as King George).

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6. SNL’s Legendary Items & Institutional Memory

(54:22–56:43)

• Running Gags:
  • SNL’s costumes and props as historical artifacts. Bobby describes the joy of wearing costumes once used by icons like Chris Farley and John Belushi and seeing their names or photos—“I’m wearing those boots.” (56:01)
  • “That happened with a suit. I had a peach tuxedo on... and there’s John Belushi in a peach tuxedo, and you look inside, and it says J Belushi.” (Bobby, 56:12)

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7. More Insider SNL and Stand-Up Nuggets

• Lauren Michaels as “Professor X”:

  • Extended playful bit likening SNL to the X-Men, with Lorne Michaels as Professor X recruiting comic mutants.
  • “He just shows up in a small Indiana town, and he’s like, I heard you can do a perfect impression. Show me your powers.” (Dan, 40:33)

• Best SNL Night: The 50th Anniversary Drunk Uncle Return

  • “I can’t explain to you those—I hate when actors talk about acting and all that stuff—but, like, those two minutes, I’ll never [forget].” (Bobby, 82:02)
  • “It was the best two and a half minutes of my life.” (Bobby, 83:21)
  • “Colin [Jost] changed a lot of people’s lives that night... by speaking up... we should give this person and this person... a moment for their brains for the rest of time.” (Bobby, 80:55)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Impressionists:

  • “Jay Pharaoh is the greatest impersonator alive.” (Soder, 36:53)
  • “James Adomian... it’s criminal he never got to be on SNL.” (Soder, 64:47)

• On SNL Writer’s Room Hazing:

  • “Brian Tucker walks in, says, ‘What are you writing?’ I hand him my sketch, he looks at it, opens up the window and throws it out the window... and then tells me the Chris Rock story.” (Bobby, 70:01)

• On Comedy Failure:

  • “You can’t change that lineup. No, you can’t go, I’m not going out there.” (Soder, 75:08)
  • “Walked home crying, dressed as Drunk Uncle.” (Bobby, 75:37)

• On Fame, Humility, and Performing:

  • “On the 50th, you’re going, Conan O’Brien’s laughing at me.” (Bobby, 83:20)
  • “You talk yourself out of it... That’s why we’re all comedians: we’re better at that.” (Bobby, 85:47)

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Entertaining Segments & Timestamps

• Tracy Morgan Stories: 02:36–12:09

  • Ridiculous sayings, wild entrances, faux-family stories, NY legends.

• SNL Auditions & Fan-Nerdom: 57:00–62:50

  • Moynihan and Soder on freezing up or getting too awe-struck at SNL auditions.

• SNL 50, Homage to Icons: 79:37–83:36

  • Bobby’s reminiscence on returning as Drunk Uncle, crowd reactions, and the overwhelming star-power present.

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Tone & Style

Lighthearted, affectionate, relentlessly funny. Both Soder and Moynihan wear their comedy nerd credentials with pride, mixing reverence for the craft with loose, joyful banter. The episode is peppered with impressions, in-jokes, and plenty of “did you know?” moments for comedy fans.

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Summary for New Listeners

Whether you’re a die-hard SNL fan, a Bobby Moynihan superfan, or a casual comedy traveler, this episode is an entertaining, affectionate oral history of modern comedy. It blends juicy industry anecdotes (Tracy Morgan, SNL writers’ room gladiators, Pixar creative chaos), sweet slices of humility and gratitude, weird body quirks, and hilarious tales of bombing and triumph. You’ll come away with new appreciation for the weird magic that powers comics and the friends, legends, and lucky breaks along the way.

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Recommended Segments to Jump Into:

• 02:36 Tracy Morgan in the wild
• 24:53 Bobby’s SNL childhood tapes
• 38:06 Jay Pharaoh’s impression superpower
• 46:54 The case for Keenan as SNL’s GOAT
• 70:00 Brian Tucker and the cruelest SNL hazing
• 75:07 Both hosts’ war stories about spectacularly bombing
• 82:33 Bobby’s on-stage SNL 50th emotional homecoming

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Transcript

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[Dan Soder]

I hope you guys enjoyed today's episode. Myrtle's got her little bee and she's sitting here, you know, upset that I'm podcasting. My dog is upset that Myrtle. My attention isn't on her awesome episode today with Bobby Moyhan, who I've been a fan of for a long time and I'm a bigger fan of after hanging out with him on my couch. The guy fucking rules and he's hilarious. I am on the road. The Golden Retriever of Comedy Tour still pushes on a couple more months before it's over. All the tickets are [e-mail] this week 9 o' clock show Schubert Boston March 6 There is a late show. Tickets are still available. Dan Soder.com if you live in the Massachusetts area, Philadelphia, I believe you're sold out. There could be a couple loose tickets around, but go to dan soder.com also if you we're going to be in Dallas, Houston and Oklahoma City soon. Charlotte and Durham, Europe soon. Dan Soder.com Go get tickets and I'll see you on tour. Myrtle will be there in Boston and Philadelphia, but not in Dallas, Houston or Oklahoma City. I'm sorry, it's too far to drive with her, but the other one, you know, you get it. We'll See you on the road and enjoy the episode. I try not to talk over them too much. I really did try not to talk over them. I get excited. I just get really excited. Dude, 30 Rock's one of my favorite shows of all time.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Amazing.

[Dan Soder]

I think I've probably watched it nine or ten times front to back. Yeah. And the thing I've learned about being a standup comedian in New York City and bumping into Tracy Morgan is that they nailed however they. Tracy Jordan.

[Bobby Moynihan]

There's no difference.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah. And then the. The new show coming out, I was like, it was the same crew as 30 Rock and you. And I was like, this has got to be awesome.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Very lucky, boy. Yeah. It's nuts. It's. It's absolutely. And Daniel Radcliffe.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, and Daniel Radcliffe. Was there ever a moment where he was Tracy Morgan and you guys did, like, the look to each other, like,

[Bobby Moynihan]

oh, I have a file on my phone, a notes file on my phone with like, 1500 different things. Tracy has just said.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, that's incredible.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

Can you bust out some.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah, me and Daniel. Me and Daniel. Just like, I'll. He'll say something, and I'll just see, like, a crowd of people, and I'll just see Daniel going. Looking like he's. He's just looking for me to see if I. If I am typing.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Because we. Yeah, we have a vast. Yeah, we have a vast. Vast.

[Dan Soder]

He doesn't stop with sound bites. No.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I think one thing that Tracy knows about himself is that he. If he says something insane, it will get a laugh. And that is like a superpower of his. Like, one of, like, he just, like, people want to see him say crazy. When the very first thing when I saw him in person was he hosted snl and Lauren's door opened. I'll. Because it was like a cartoon. Lauren's door open, and he was just standing in the middle of the room with his arms like this, and he went, the dark horse has returned. It's just that, like. It's just like no one and no. No one in the world gets away with that besides Tracy Morgan. Like, that kind of an entrance as a human.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And there's.

[Dan Soder]

I don't. I don't think there is a person on earth who makes a crazier first impression with anybody.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Well, you just. You just go, like, you talking to Tracy, you immediately understand the sentence of, like, Lauren saw something and that something

[Dan Soder]

works, and it absolutely works. It's hilar.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Just hilarious.

[Dan Soder]

One of the first times I ever saw him in person was right When I moved to New York, there used to be a Laugh Factory in Times Square, and I was doing check spots, so I was, like, doing the shittiest spot on the show, not doing well. Wanted to go outside and smoke a cigarette on 8th Avenue, because I just bombed. And I swear to God, this is 100% true. I'm standing 8th Avenue, right by Port Authority. It's one of the busiest avenues in New York City. Smoking a cigarette, and I just hear, it's a yellow Lamborghini, and it pulls up, and all I hear is, yeah, I'll take a picture with you. And it's Tracy Morgan. And 8th Avenue gets out Andre the Giant. But he gets out and takes. He's. He still had his low jack on, so he wasn't driving. And he goes, I can't drive because of the low jack, but I'll take a picture with you. And he's standing there on 8th Avenue, and. And people are coming up, just taking photos. And then he just. He. And they went, are you doing a show up here? He didn't even realize he pulled over in front of a comedy club. I. He looked up. He went, no. And then left.

[Bobby Moynihan]

You'd be surprised how many people have stories about him hanging out of a car and screaming something at. It's. It's truly like everyone is like, I was in a car. I was on the street, and he was hanging out of a car. And it's always the same thing. It's always. He was always, like, in a vehicle, hanging out of it. But also, the best thing, like, the only way to explain knowing Tracy Morgan is this shooting in Westchester county, my hometown. Literally. Literally my hometown. We're shooting in my hometown, where I grew up. And a woman comes running over as we're shooting and goes, tracy. Tracy. We're in the middle of a take. We're outside. We're at, like, a. Like a deli in. In White Plains. And I used to work at White Plains. I worked at the Pizzeria Uno on Central Avenue.

[Dan Soder]

Go check it out.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah, go.

[Dan Soder]

Go pick up a pizza and say, you know, bobby, really mess him up.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And a woman comes running over in the middle of a take and goes, tracy. Tracy. And everyone's mad and goes, like, cut. And he goes, it's okay. This is Jerry Seinfeld's wife. It was not Jerry Seinfeld's wife.

[Dan Soder]

He just makes up credits for being.

[Bobby Moynihan]

It was a woman, Chester. No, that's Dom's wife. He gave her a hug. She was like, tracy. He was like, it's so good to see you. She was like, it's. I don't know. Like she was trying to explain to him that it wasn't him, it wasn't her, it was that it's just perfect.

[Dan Soder]

That might be the most brilliant move of all time, which is to out crazy someone who's crazy. So they come at you and you just go.

[Bobby Moynihan]

She tried to explain to him that she was not, in fact Jerry Seinfeld's wife. She was just a fan. But she even, she bailed halfway through and was just like, everything's great. I'm just happy to meet you.

[Dan Soder]

He's leaving. Say hi to George Castanza. Cuz that's not a real, that's not a real person.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Tracy, he came in, he. My another great one was just standing there and he goes, you know, I used to date Michelle Obama back in high school.

[Dan Soder]

And this, you guys why, this is why you guys are just doing a tape.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Or like, Tracy, do you know Morgan Freeman? He's like, yeah, I know Morgan Freeman. And then his assistant goes, he doesn't know.

[Dan Soder]

Do you. Is that the most overworked assistant in Hollywood? Is that guy going around going, he actually never dated Michelle Obama.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I, I ask him, I'm like, so what was your last night like? Yeah, like just out of curiosity. He's the best. Tracy's insane, but in the best way possible. He's like a gigantic beating heart who's just throwing out fun.

[Dan Soder]

It's never been.

[Bobby Moynihan]

It's a, it's the way to live.

[Dan Soder]

I've never witnessed his crazy and it hasn't been funny.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I correct. And just. I saw this sentence this morning. It was either Robert or Tina. Somebody asked Robert and. Or Tina what, what, like what it was about Tracy.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And they. And it was the best sentence. I went like, that's it. It was. He's just so happy to be alive. And it's just, it's, it's true, everybody. Completely true. He's just like, every moment is he. He just, everything goes through the filter of like. But what if I was also playing a boombox right now?

[Dan Soder]

He came in to the Comedy Cellar on a Sunday night, probably around. It's Sunday night, so it's dead. It's like 10pm yeah. And he just comes in the Olive Tree Cafe, takes his shirt off and goes, I'm buying everybody drinks. I just found out Roberto Clemente's my biological father. And then he slapped his belly.

[Bobby Moynihan]

He just kept 15 of the 1500 things end with the things. Is my biological father it was great. A lot of people. A lot of people are his biological father. Barack Obama was his biological father.

[Dan Soder]

Mathematically impossible. Tracy, I couldn't have been your father. I was. We're the same age.

[Bobby Moynihan]

He often says Flip Wilson is his biological father. You do a fantastic Flip Wilson.

[Dan Soder]

You know my Flip. You queued me up for a flip.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I always.

[Dan Soder]

Right up for my.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Always do.

[Dan Soder]

But because when you. When that happened when I was.

[Bobby Moynihan]

He also claims he goes, flip Wilson died with no money. And I don't know if that's true to Wilson families.

[Dan Soder]

Like, he was. He was notoriously a good investor.

[Bobby Moynihan]

He actually invested charitable.

[Dan Soder]

He's got libraries.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Can you look up in a pile of cash?

[Dan Soder]

He was.

[Bobby Moynihan]

No, no, he's not dead. No, no, no, no.

[Dan Soder]

They. They based Scrooge McDuck on Flip Wilson swimming through his money. Yeah, He. The biological father thing is just like. It's like a setup.

[Bobby Moynihan]

He knows if he said it's the. It's. He. He's great at being Tracy Morgan because

[Dan Soder]

the belly slap to me was what sold it for me, because he said it, but then he did. Like, no one was listening. Like, he just set it for the room, and then he just went like that on his belly.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Because that's because, like, you know, because, like, that's what made his mom laugh when he was a kid.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, just a belly slap.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And that's it. Like, like, that's it. And he just knows it, and he just still does it because he's the best.

[Dan Soder]

The. That's why I always. One of my favorite 30 Rock episodes is where they're doing the Boys and Girls Club commercial, and they have to do the skateboarding and everything. And then the guy. They're, like, filming it all day because Tracy's like, oh, I'm supposed to go now. And the guy's like, ah, it's just so perfect.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I shouldn't admit this in a podcast. Like, wow, I kill people. No, just kidding.

[Dan Soder]

I go, you know what? We'll do some editing. We'll do some editing. I go out there, like, Bobby said some stuff that I'm not really comfortable with.

[Bobby Moynihan]

No, I. Ever since the show came, has come out online, like, the last couple days. I have watched it a couple times.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

But mostly because, like, Tracy's just line readings are so, like, insane. Like, it's like there's only one person that can read them that way. Or, like, he'll just add. He. He does this thing with Daniel. It's not in the script. I don't think it's in the script. I should. Robert and Tina are brilliant. I don't think it's in the script, but he does this thing with Daniel where, like, Daniel will say something. He'll just like. He'll. Instead of saying, like, calm down. He'll go, calm down, dude. And he'll just call him dude. But, like, every dude gets, like, a little bit longer and more so. He'll be like, a dude. And it's just. It's killing me. It's just. Even the way he speaks. He just throws so much Tracy into it.

[Dan Soder]

I mean, to put together that team for the. For the rise and fall of. And. And what I love about Fallen Rise. Okay.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I have to remind myself.

[Dan Soder]

Fallen Rise.

[Bobby Moynihan]

It's the fall and rise of Reggie Dinkins. I've got to keep reminding myself, too,

[Dan Soder]

because when I heard they were making it, I think every 30 Rock fan was like, what? What? And then adding you and Daniel Radcliffe, and we're like, what? It was great. It's just like.

[Bobby Moynihan]

It's nuts.

[Dan Soder]

I haven't watched the first episode because I want to watch the full season 30 rock style.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Interesting.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, I'll take that. I'm a huge. I'm telling you, like, the way that I. Because 30 Rock, I think, unfairly.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Just play them and then leave the room right now.

[Dan Soder]

I'm gonna do that six times.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah, okay.

[Dan Soder]

Oh, I'm gonna stream it on my phone. You're gonna. If you came in here like a boiler room, there's no furniture. It's just a bunch of phones set up.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I have a. I have a Reggie Dinkins farm in my. Going on, and I have a bot farm.

[Dan Soder]

Imagine setting that up and being like, go.

[Bobby Moynihan]

All right, season two, here we come.

[Dan Soder]

We're getting green lit. We're in a green lit for six.

[Bobby Moynihan]

You're not gonna believe this. We had 33 billion viewers.

[Dan Soder]

We're getting, like, a Lucasfilm deal. They're buying a whole universe. There's a Reggie Dinkins universe.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Figures.

[Dan Soder]

Coming out.

[Bobby Moynihan]

We have a video game.

[Dan Soder]

Was that, like. Was that a cool moment? Like, I get to play, like, his. You're playing, essentially, his best friend from the NFL.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yes, I. We were teammates. I was the kicker. We've been best friends since childhood. We. Or no, no, since. Since we were on the team together. And I live in his basement now. Yeah. Has he And I run his social media?

[Dan Soder]

Did Tracy ever call Daniel Radcliffe Harry Potter?

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

I mean, like, I wondering. The reason I asked that question is how do you curve that? How do you go Tracy in This world, he's not Harry Potter.

[Bobby Moynihan]

It's so weird because, like, I come from a world where it's like sn. We talk about SNL a lot. No matter what, it always comes back to snl, but with him, it comes back to Harry Potter. Like, what I do is I like to count how much time I'm with Daniel before it comes up.

[Dan Soder]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Like. Because, like, sometimes it's like 10 seconds.

[Dan Soder]

Sure.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Sometimes it's a day, but it's like, it always comes up.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah. It's almost like a condition. Really. Like my Harry Potter's flaring up.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Well, like, yeah. There's like three people in the world, I feel like, that have to deal. What he has to deal with. It's like him. Mark Hamill.

[Dan Soder]

Yes.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Like, there's a couple people that are real life wizard superheroes.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah. I would also probably.

[Bobby Moynihan]

But, like, Mark Hamill's face is not. I went to the mall recently with my daughter, and every single store we went into, I saw his face on something. Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

Daniel Radcliffe. Yes. Yeah. Because Mark Hamill, you go, Hamill is everywhere.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Well, I mean, like, he kind of is, but like, Harry Potter more so,

[Dan Soder]

like, well, Harry Potter is our. It is a younger generation. Star Wars. Correct. Basically, Harry Potter, the entire franchise took the page from Star wars and was like, oh, we'll just do this with wizards.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I never noticed that before.

[Dan Soder]

Before. And they just go like, yeah, put the merch. But there were no star. There's a Harry Potter store. There was never like a.

[Bobby Moynihan]

There's all Harry Potter land. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dan Soder]

There's like an amusement park so much bigger.

[Bobby Moynihan]

You immediately realize how amazing his parents are or must be because he is just such a. I go, like. I go home. Like, man. He's just deals with everything wonderfully. Everything wonderfully.

[Dan Soder]

It really is amazing. It's almost like when you see these World War II veterans that you're like. And you're just a normal guy and they go, yep, yeah. Came back, fought the Nazis, and then I started a family. And you go, no p. It. No ptsd.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

Like, none you were in. That's.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I want to. I want to grab them by the shoulders sometimes and go. Also, like, relax and be a kid and have some fun. Like, just go do something silly. Please.

[Dan Soder]

Let's go run around.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Stop producing amazing things for one second.

[Dan Soder]

Go around the grass. Can you be kind of an.

[Bobby Moynihan]

For a little bit, like, spill a bottle of shampoo.

[Dan Soder]

Could you do one thing off? Could you. I mean, with you. With the SNL stuff, when when you left, was there a feeling of, like, I don't want to talk about it all the time. Were people, like, bringing it up to you in a way that you're, like, uncomfortable?

[Bobby Moynihan]

There's still. You always want to navigate this amazingly cool thing that you wanted to be in your whole life. Then you got to go there. You were. It's like going to space camp. And then when you get done, you're like, okay, do I never talk about

[Dan Soder]

it again and be cool, or do

[Bobby Moynihan]

I talk about every second of it? Like, you know what I mean? Like, you want to know what the food tastes like up there? It tastes so different.

[Dan Soder]

It tastes so different. But I really. I mean, I think you. I think you're a guy who, like, came on was. I mean, I knew about you at ucb when I would go, like, see you do, like, ass cat and stuff, and you were phenomenal.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Katie was, like, one of the.

[Dan Soder]

She was so.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Interviews I ever did.

[Dan Soder]

She was very mad that she was not here. She's at work right now. Oh, you were on garbage time.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

And she was like, tell Bobby that he was the greatest interview I ever had.

[Bobby Moynihan]

But that was also like. And I think about that. That was also, like, one of the first ones I ever did. Like, it was like. I remember, like, she was brand new. And I remember going, like, me too. Like, and she was great.

[Dan Soder]

She's absolutely. And she says that to this day. She was, like, one of my favorite interviews I've ever done.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah, it was a blast.

[Dan Soder]

And she brings that up. She was like, garbage time was new. He didn't need to do it. But I don't think she realizes you were new at snl. So there was, like, this brand new.

[Bobby Moynihan]

It was definitely. I remember going home and being like, that ain't so bad when you got to do those things.

[Dan Soder]

Like, you know what's funny is she was. She said it like an old friend. She had her keys in her hand today. She was living with her purse. And she goes, ask him if his head still gets hot from eating sour candy.

[Bobby Moynihan]

She knows me well.

[Dan Soder]

I went, okay. Almost this. As her fiance, you go, what? She's saying that. And she's, like, shuffling her keys in her hands. She goes, ask him if sour candy still makes his head hot. And you go, what is this? I'm going to work.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I. I say things I shouldn't say immediately when I meet people say if I eat anything, like, if I have Sour Patch Kids. Love Sour Patch Kids.

[Dan Soder]

They're great.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Blueberry. Sour Patch Kids, specifically, very Good. But if I eat them, you sweat. Top of my head down. Starts here. Just starts to like. I can feel it. Like, I get hot. I start to get a little sweaty whenever I have sour candy.

[Dan Soder]

Do you have to like, get. Eat it at home?

[Bobby Moynihan]

My temperature rises from the top. Starting down. I don't. I can't explain it. I can make it happen. If you give me sour candy.

[Dan Soder]

You can just go, here we go. And then. And you.

[Bobby Moynihan]

It's probably some kind of medical condition.

[Dan Soder]

There's a doctor right now that like, this is on in their office.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Well, it's probably like I'm allergic to some sort of red dye number blank or something.

[Dan Soder]

The blueberry ones that specifically.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Oh, it's sour candy.

[Dan Soder]

Just in general.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Anything sour. I love sour candy.

[Dan Soder]

But you do love it.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

What a curse.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah. It's like people who are lactose intolerant but still drink milk anyway because. Because dessert's great.

[Dan Soder]

It's great. My friend Daniel K. Isaac, who I did billions with.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Not a real person.

[Dan Soder]

He's a real person. Look him up.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I'm just kidding.

[Dan Soder]

Don't you Renee Descartes me.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I'm kidding.

[Dan Soder]

I know.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I'm just kidding.

[Dan Soder]

We would get. Sometimes one of the bigger actors would get like, hey, I got a Van Len's truck to come by and like, like, like a cyanide capsule. He would have always have a lactate thing. And he'd be like, I'm ready for it and drop it. And he'd be like, bring on the dairy. And you're like, I get that loving something, but it gives you.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

Have you ever done Sour Patch Kids in popcorn at the movies?

[Bobby Moynihan]

I'm not an animal.

[Dan Soder]

It's first.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I'm just kidding. I have done snow caps and popcorn.

[Dan Soder]

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[Bobby Moynihan]

I saw this. I saw Sour Patch Kid ice cream at target once. First of all. Target. Buying any food at Target?

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, I don't care that you're a grocery store now. That's where I had to buy my knockoff Jenkos in middle school.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I saw Sour Patch Kid ice cream and I got it just to see what it was. It was lemon flavored ice cream with Sour Patch Kid. Like the only way I can explain it is like Sour Patch Kid gel. Like a, like a, like a jelly swirl that felt like as if they had melted Sour Patch Kids and then squeezed them out.

[Dan Soder]

Which does sound fun.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Well, the gel was delicious, but the ice cream, I didn't.

[Dan Soder]

So when you. But I mean the whole thing and

[Bobby Moynihan]

the box and the fork. Yep.

[Dan Soder]

I wouldn't be a scientist unless I asked you this. Did the ice cream make you.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Did the ice cream warm make me sweat? No. No, not as much now, come to think of it, no. But it might be because the ice cream was cooling me down at the same time I might have found the. I might have found my. My.

[Dan Soder]

This is it. This is your eureka moment.

[Bobby Moynihan]

That's how I. That's how I got to intake. Sour stuff is through ice cream.

[Dan Soder]

Cool it. Cool it at the greatest temperature we can.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I just enjoy my desserts in a. In a walk in freezer.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah. Where's Bobby? You go.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Well, the Riot, the Fallen Ride, Pizzeria Uno, he used to work at in the. In the closet.

[Dan Soder]

The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dickens was so successful, he bought his own walk in cooler strictly for sour stuff. He just eats it in there. But like SNL stuff, I feel like that.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I also have to mention Hoppers, too.

[Dan Soder]

Oh, Hoppers looks great. Go check out the new movie Hoppers. If you put my mind inside of a beaver, I wouldn't build a dam. I wouldn't build a dam at all. But Bobby voices the character King George. So go check out Hoppers. In theaters now.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Thank you for watching that.

[Dan Soder]

And watch the Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins on Peacock or NBC. Is it on both?

[Bobby Moynihan]

It's on both.

[Dan Soder]

It's on both. It's, you know how it is. Everything.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Watch it on a phone, Computer phone.

[Dan Soder]

Watch it right there on a plane. No headphones. Make everybody listen to it. When you, when you left snl. Because I think everybody who's ever been in comedy, whether you've done SNL or not SNL gets brought up. Like, when you, when you started doing improv.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

Did you have family that just went like, did you ever think about doing snl?

[Bobby Moynihan]

I think I talked about it so much. They already knew. I mean, my, my thing I haven't used to make my mom make videos. I have a. Like, I'm in a suit coming out of my bathroom going, Bobby. And like turning around and doing my SNL opening.

[Dan Soder]

Like, was that.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Oh, yeah. I was a. I was a lot.

[Dan Soder]

What was that moment? Because you still had Don Parda. You did it.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I mean, Daryl Hammond, if I'm a big nerd, I think Sashir was the last one without with Don when he

[Dan Soder]

was getting shaky where he was going, I can't do this anymore, Lauren. Haven't I given you enough?

[Bobby Moynihan]

I have told this story before in interviews, but it's one of my favorite things in the world. He just passed me one day and he went, bobby. That's all you were really quietly to himself. And he went, that's a good one. Not like that nightmare Naseem Pedrad.

[Dan Soder]

What?

[Bobby Moynihan]

He didn't like saying Naseem's name.

[Dan Soder]

He Goes, sorry, Don is in. He's sundowning right now. FDR ruined the economy. A lot of hot takes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You go, you know what's funny? Those studio times are about 17 hours because you can't get to the names without opinions. You know who I don't like? The Polish. The Polish. What a fucking weird thing to hate there.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Another great one was we were rehearsing a sketch called Rough, Rugged and Roker, which was. The whole premise of the sketch was Keenan Thompson goes straight from, like. As Al Roker goes straight from the club because he's so cool from party to, like, doing the news in the world.

[Dan Soder]

That's great.

[Bobby Moynihan]

But, like, right before, he's the coolest dude in the world because he's been up all night partying. And it was absolutely hilarious. Were a lot of dancers. Never saw Don Bardo on the floor before of the studio. Like, he was just. He was in his booth.

[Dan Soder]

Sure.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And he was just standing there. And I was like, what are you doing, Don? And he. The dancers, like, he was just there to see the dancers. They're in so much glitter. But he speaks, like. He would speak that way. He's like. That's how he dancers, like, you know, and it's like. He's like.

[Dan Soder]

He was just like, remember the.

[Bobby Moynihan]

It was as if they were musical guests.

[Dan Soder]

He said it. Sexy dancers.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I'm here to look at women. I'm gonna go.

[Dan Soder]

You remember the homeless guy with the. With the golden voice? Do you remember there was, like, a homeless guy on the thing?

[Bobby Moynihan]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Dan Soder]

And it was a big. It was like, one of the first viral things where he went, like, really viral, and they got him a job.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. Right.

[Dan Soder]

And then he'd be like, this is coming in. And they'd be like, give him, like. He'd be like, can you get a dollar? And they'd be like, do it. And he'd be like, coming up on the. And it was like. And then it got too much money. And you go, oh, yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

He was, I believe, homeless again, shortly after. Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

He made a lot of money, and then he made a lot of bad decisions.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

But I do wonder if. If Lauren just found Don Pardo like that, like, just walking around and he's

[Bobby Moynihan]

like, I don't think so. I think he was in the building when Lauren got. When they built it, and he just said, I can't leave, like, with him. And Tuscanini's music stand, which was in a case right next to it. Like, they. He Would be like, I was here when they built it. Like, no joke. Seriously? Yeah. Not doing a bit. He was like, on when they would do my show of shows.

[Dan Soder]

He's the Phantom of the Opera.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah, he really was. It's crazy. It's like.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, because he did it until he was in his 90s. Like, late 90s.

[Bobby Moynihan]

6712.

[Dan Soder]

I'm an oracle. Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

No, he felt magical.

[Dan Soder]

He's Merlin. We find out that's who Merlin's based off of.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I did get locked. It almost missed a cue on live television while I was dressed as Cogsworth from the clock from Beauty and the Beast because Dom Pardo fell asleep in the booth and I couldn't get the door open because I was like, I was a clock and he was in the way, and I didn't want to, like, wake him up. Like, it was a. Yeah, it was. It was an only. An only SNL moment.

[Dan Soder]

That's a. What a fantastic.

[Bobby Moynihan]

If I move too fast, I'm gonna wake up Don Pardo and miss my live telev, and then Jane lynch is going to be upset.

[Dan Soder]

That also sounds like a Stefan line. We've got everything from sleeping Don Pardo. But you know who my new Don Pardo that I don't want to see go yet is Johnny Gilbert from Jeopardy. Johnny Gilbert's the guy that goes, this is Jeopardy.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And you see, you're very good at voices. And you go.

[Dan Soder]

And you go, johnny, don't. Don't move, Johnny. Like, he's. He's like the couch in your grandma's living room with plastic on it.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I just did Kelly and. And. And her husband.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah. Mark.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Jesus Christmas.

[Dan Soder]

Kelly and Mark.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yes.

[Dan Soder]

Kelly Ripon. Mark.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yes. And Gelman was there. And you're like, gelman, what are you still doing here? What's up, dog? I remember they're like, oh, my gosh,

[Dan Soder]

we're going back Regis Kathy Lee's days.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah. I was like, how you doing, gentlemen?

[Dan Soder]

Oh, geez.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I pretty much did that. And he was like, all right,

[Dan Soder]

that's enough. I get it. Like, I'm. When Katie did celebrity Jeopardy, I obviously, I'm a. We're huge jepheads. And I really wanted to meet Ken Jennings, the greatest player of all time and the only. The only. Who would you argue, brother? I'm just kidding. I hate to tell you this. Go back and watch. I watch YouTube highlights of him just absolutely bodying nerds. Jennings stayed on that thing. He kept the blicky on him. But I was super excited to meet him. And then I was like a little kid at Disney World, where they're like, I want to meet Mickey. And they're like, mickey's not here today. And I was like, is Johnny Gilbert here?

[Bobby Moynihan]

And they're like, no, that's me all the time, Constantly. Also, this. I'm on the tour for Hoppers right now, and I'm like, is Meryl Streep gonna be. Did you do a lot of that when you.

[Dan Soder]

Because I don't think people know this. With voiceover work, sometimes you're in a booth with other people if it's a scene.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

But sometimes you just have to hear how they read it. And then you.

[Bobby Moynihan]

You play, and sometimes you don't. So sometimes, I mean, Hoppers was different. I mean, like, Hoppers has been years. This has been, like, a couple years of my life. So it's like, I've had different versions. I didn't record with anyone. The girl who plays the main lead, Piper Kurta, who plays Mabel, the main beaver.

[Dan Soder]

The girl who goes into the Beaver.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah. Didn't meet her till after we finished recording. And we now have, like, spent more time with each other than. Than other people I have worked with for many years because of. Just from promoting the movie.

[Dan Soder]

Sure.

[Bobby Moynihan]

But, yeah, we never. But like, I did Inside out and Inside out, too.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah. Both great.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Me and Paula Poundstone are like, Forgetter Bobby and Forget her. Paula.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

We recorded together for all of those. Like, we got to improvise. They flew us up to Emeryville, Pixar, and, like, we.

[Ryan Reynolds]

They.

[Bobby Moynihan]

You know, it was like this. Like, you know, they put us in a room with cameras. They recorded us. Like, you know, like, we got to do some stuff together. But this one, we. We didn't. But I would get to hear Piper throughout.

[Dan Soder]

When you go to a place like Pixar, are you kind of, like, lost in it? Of like. Oh, wow. Because you forget that Pixar's, like, got.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Well, yes. The Toy Story I was in. I was on snl.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And I got. Just got an email, I think that was, like, from Dan Scanlon. That was like. Saw this sketch on snl. It was the. The Jammy Shuffle, the Andy's. It was a SNL digital short.

[Dan Soder]

Sure.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Where we were all kids playing, like, on a kid show. And I was just like a little kid. But, like, it ended up with, like, all of us murdering each other. And he was just like, saw you in this. We have this character in Monsters University, and I thought you would be great for it. Like, do you want to do It. And I was like, what? Like, are you kidding me? Like a Pixar movie? Like, of course. And then they were like, great, we're gonna fly out to Pixar. And I was like, like what? Like, and went there and like, was definitely. That boy was like, they gave me a tour of Pixar. Like, and like, that place is nuts. Like, it's. It's built for creativity. There's like a person walking. It's like a college campus. There's a guy walking around with a gelato cart just like around sick. And then they have rooms where you can get massages and like, like all this stuff. And everyone gets to decorate their own space. And they have like a plot of land, not an office that they can do whatever they want. So someone has someone's desk is the cockpit of the millen falcon and the person next to them is a Jurassic park themed thing with working waterfalls. And like they have, like that's Someone has the Batman thing and they move it and there's a speakeasy behind their office. And like everything is it like that. And then they go, you want to see something really cool? And they open up a vent, an actual vent in the wall. And you crawl in it. And it is the vent they had. It's like just this gap in the wall that when Bill Gates and them were working there, they would like go in there and hang out. And it's. It's like just like event with like, it's like air conditioning ducks. And you hang out in there and it's. But now it is signed by everyone that has. They have shown it to. So it's like Barack Obama next to Anthony Daniels C3PO. And then like I. They're like, you want to sign it? And I signed in between Barack Obama and Anthony Daniels. And I remember thinking like, that's a good sp. They're like in the Pixar building.

[Dan Soder]

Barack Obama.

[Bobby Moynihan]

They just show you like all this crazy stuff in this Pixar history. It's a beautiful. And now this is my fourth Pixar movie. And I go like, I can't.

[Dan Soder]

It's one of those things where, thank God I don't work in that field. Because if they were like, you could have your own desk. It's like, well, I just want to back float all day. And they go, I don't think we can do that. And you go, but I need the temperature. And I want it chlorine. I don't want salt water. I want a floating chlorine.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And like, I wonder if they would, like, figure that out if you were

[Dan Soder]

good enough at your job.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I. I go, like. I wonder, like, if, like, it seems like the place where they would be, like.

[Dan Soder]

Because the first guy in tech that

[Bobby Moynihan]

tried real fast, you know, he's pretty good. He made eight leaves today.

[Dan Soder]

He made a tree sing and dance. We're letting him go.

[Bobby Moynihan]

This guy, 46 hairs an hour, this guy.

[Dan Soder]

Watch him work. And also, look at his desk. He recreated the Titanic.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

It's to scale. It's like. It's a giant freighter there. Yeah. I always.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Every day at 2, his desk splits in half.

[Dan Soder]

I was like that when I went to. I did, like, with the WWE Network. They had me up there, and I was, like, walking around. And then they did a thing where they're like, act cool. And you're like, no, I don't want to act cool. Oh, don't take away from.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I did a movie with John Ceno. This movie Sisters. Yeah, with John Cena. I wrestled John Cena in that movie. And, like, the coolest. And he was like, you want to come to WrestleMania? And I was like, what's this?

[Dan Soder]

Do I want to go with one of the greatest wrestlers of all time?

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah, I do.

[Dan Soder]

To your work.

[Bobby Moynihan]

So me and Taran Killam from snl,

[Dan Soder]

one of my favorite cast members of all time, and I would argue one of the most criminally underrated SNL cast members of all time.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Easily.

[Dan Soder]

He was. He was one of those guys where you watched and you went, what the.

[Bobby Moynihan]

He's like a Dan Aykroyd or a Phil Hartman.

[Dan Soder]

You just go, Phil Hartman is exactly the. You go. He did a Taco Bell commercial, was Brad Pitt that people forget. That makes me like, whoa, come on, man. And, like, the way he does it,

[Bobby Moynihan]

like, Jay Farrow's a mimic. Jay Pharaoh.

[Dan Soder]

Jay Pharaoh's the best voice.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Looks at you up and down and then goes like, all right, I'll do these four things.

[Dan Soder]

His Stephen A. Smith run on Weekend Crazy was one of my favorites.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Taryn is, like, the opposite. Taryn's like a painter. Like. Like, he goes. These are the four things that person does. But I noticed that he also goes like. And, like, he'll do that. And you just go like, yeah, yeah, you're right. Like, he's.

[Dan Soder]

That thing that he would do is.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I don't do impressions, but Taryn makes it easy for me to do impressions

[Dan Soder]

because he can find those.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Like, it's. This sound. Like that is.

[Dan Soder]

That's always what it is.

[Bobby Moynihan]

He's great. He's Great at that.

[Dan Soder]

It's one Jay Pharaoh.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Not.

[Dan Soder]

I would say Jay Pharaoh is the greatest impersonator alive. Like, wow.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I would agree, man. That's also like, I'm so glad that they are both getting high praise right now because they both deserve it a great deal.

[Dan Soder]

Because people go like, oh, you do voices. And I go, I do sentences. These guys do like full impressions.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Jay would do this thing that like, I've never seen with anyone else. Like, I don't understand it. It was like a superpower he would do. Like, if he start like. So, like, Jay would write sketches that were crazy. Like, Jay would write sketches like, I'm the Pillsbury Doughboy, but I'm. I'm. I was burnt to a crisp. So now my name is Pilsy and I'm a gang banger. And Lauren would be like, okay, I

[Dan Soder]

don't think we're gonna go in that direction.

[Bobby Moynihan]

That was a real one that I think he did that was like, you know, like, he. He'd be like, ah, this guy. Uncle Bear. A guy with a stick had a bear on the end of it named uncle something. That's all I remember. He had a lot of crazy characters. We all did.

[Dan Soder]

But.

[Bobby Moynihan]

But Jay had crazier characters. But then Jay would come into the room, like the pitch room, and like do his pitch as Hannibal Burris.

[Dan Soder]

That's so funny.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And I don't understand how to explain this correctly, but he would, like, access Hannibal Burns. Hannibal burrs his comedy brain for 10 minutes.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

So he would be able to like improvise as ha.

[Dan Soder]

If that's the thing that I'm the most it. I know exactly what you're talking about. And I think that's the point I'm making with Jay.

[Bobby Moynihan]

It's almost like he walks aside for five minutes and he just becomes Hannibal and goes like, this is everything Hannibal's about. And then goes like, wasn't that nuts? And you're like, how did you do that, man? Like what? Like you just.

[Dan Soder]

It's my favorite thing about his concepts

[Bobby Moynihan]

of comedy and executed them perfectly.

[Dan Soder]

Like, there's clips of him. There's a clip of him on a morning show while he's promoting a stand up gig. And he does Kevin Hart doing his New Year's resolutions. And it's Kevin Hart. It's like, yeah, the way he does it, where he goes, bam, here's what I'll do. I'd get knee implants seven feet tall.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Bam. Now I'm in the NBA.

[Dan Soder]

And he does it. He does it in A way with the hands and stuff that you go, this is Kevin Hart. He's. That's just Kevin Hart.

[Bobby Moynihan]

It's. It's. It's crazy. It's like there's someone on the X Men. Like, if they touch, like. Yeah, they touch you, they rogue. They absorb your powers. That's what he has. Has.

[Dan Soder]

That's funny. Lauren's like, shake hands with Jay. We're going to need him anyway.

[Bobby Moynihan]

We gave him velvet gloves. Be gentle. Jay has a white streak in his hair.

[Dan Soder]

From now on, takes his gloves off,

[Bobby Moynihan]

and Lauren shaves his head. Lauren is Professor X. Who are you kidding? Yeah, 100%. He's billion percent. Makes me beast or blob.

[Dan Soder]

No, I think. I would think you're Beast or Wolverine.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Interesting. I'll take it. I would make a fantastic Wolverine.

[Dan Soder]

You would be great as, like, Wolverine if. If. If you were just like. If Wolverine was like, I don't like

[Bobby Moynihan]

violence, can you imagine what would happen? I just want to see. Oh, there are so many people's face. I want to see where they go.

[Dan Soder]

Bobby.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Hey, hey, honey. Bobby Moynihan just got cast as Wolverine. I would pay billions.

[Dan Soder]

Someone's doing. Someone's doing dishes, and they're like, oh, you mean in a new cartoon. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Live action.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Live action. Oh, no way. And he gonna. You're gonna play Wolverine?

[Dan Soder]

What universe? I mean, Comic Con. They would just be the line to see you being like, what the hell? But Lauren really is. He really is Professor X. He just shows up in a small Indiana town, and he's like, I heard you can do a perfect impression. Show me your powers.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I see. Promise. Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

The only.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I will say he's completely uncontrollable, but I know how to do it.

[Dan Soder]

I. I understand. He's gonna turn dark, and then he'll go to Magneto. That' tv. Magneto and the dark forces. But he is. He's like. I mean, we call them the new mutant. They work with the government to eradicate. I mean, if you want to work with Mr. Sinister. I guess if you think that Juggernaut is good at physical comedy.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Sure, sure, sure, Bobby. If you. Maybe the Juggernaut is cool. Yeah, yeah. Oh, this is my new favorite. Ben.

[Dan Soder]

Lauren is Professor X. I. I read your mind. You've got a lot of dad stuff. You're gonna fit in perfect.

[Bobby Moynihan]

We're thinking about pairing you with Nightcrawler for a movie. I don't know if it'll work, but you know what? It's a Summer.

[Dan Soder]

A lot of people, you know, a lot of people thought Tina was my jubilee. And I proved them wrong. I really proved them wrong.

[Bobby Moynihan]

They have no idea. She was my storm.

[Dan Soder]

She could change the weather, make it very icy in here if she walked. Oh, she could change.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

I'll tell you what's funny is sitting here talking to you how much I reference or quote the kings of catchphrase comedy.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Oh, my heart just jumped to beat.

[Dan Soder]

Me and Big J used to think that was the slappy Pappy. Wait, what is slap it? Dracula's chasing you, turn around and trip the.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Which is a real Sinbad thing. You know, Charlie Sanders. Charlie Sanders introduced me to this. I can't I credit where credit is due. I think it was Sinbad who said, if a Dracula is chasing you, turn around and trip the. And we just thought that was the funniest thing in the world. And I've just shoehorned it. Oh, yeah.

[Dan Soder]

I was like, that's such a fun.

[Bobby Moynihan]

The story was that Charlie had a tape of like a VHS tape of standup. And like, you know when you would tape stuff.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And like, then like there would be like something in the middle and then you would tape something. So there was just like one clip in between and it was just a clip of Simbad going, if a Dracula is chasing you, turn around and trip the. And then like the next thing started and he told me about it and that always stuck with me.

[Dan Soder]

That's great.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Shoehorned that in there. Just be. Brian Tucker was one shout out Brian Tucker. Oh, the best.

[Dan Soder]

I wrote a. I wrote a show with him. He was the one that would tell me Jay Pharoh stories. Cuz he would write the Stephen A.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Smith things with him.

[Dan Soder]

We were writing the show while they were doing it and he goes. He just turns into Stephen A. Smith on the Weekend Update. Because there's ones where he goes, I know Dwayne Wade. I. He feeds me seedless fruits. And I asked Tucker, I said, who came up with that? He goes, jay. Jay came up with that.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yes. He just. He'll just. Jay will say things while doing impressions that he would not say as Jay in real life.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Does that make.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, he like accesses a part of his brain that.

[Bobby Moynihan]

It's true.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

It's like. It's like the. It's. I know this. It's like when the Matrix when he's like, I need to know kung fu real quick and like he downloads it. Like that's what it feels like. It's like he just Goes like, okay, I have every. I can now be as equally funny as Hannibal Burris. And then all of a sudden, he's back to Jay going like, what did I just say? Like, it's am.

[Dan Soder]

Brian Tucker's the man. Brian.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Oh, Brian's the best. Brian helped me write those in Christine Nangle. And I love Christine Yangle. Jake Samanski.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah. Christine Mangle and I worked on a pilot together. And then I've been in writing rooms with her and she does Philly Girl, which is one of the funniest characters.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I think I was in one of those Philly Girl videos.

[Dan Soder]

But she.

[Bobby Moynihan]

When she was the first surrogate or something or something like that, that she

[Dan Soder]

was the first person I watched in person because she would do it in the writers room jokingly as Philly Girl. And it was like, oh, my God, this is every woman I've ever met from Philadelphia.

[Bobby Moynihan]

She's hilarious. She runs the, like, Simpsons now.

[Dan Soder]

Does she? That makes so much sense.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yes, it does.

[Dan Soder]

You get into a writer's room with her and you go like, oh, you're the funniest person I think I've ever.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah, yeah, she's a genius. You.

[Dan Soder]

You.

[Bobby Moynihan]

She's one of those. She's one of those people like James Anderson and Paula Pel at snl where you're just like, Brian Tucker, Brian Tuck, Colin Jones.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, but Tucker, you look back, Chappelle Show, Chris Rock show, like, all stuff crazy. He.

[Bobby Moynihan]

They just step in and they go like, yeah, we understand how to do this.

[Dan Soder]

It's like Harvey Keitel in Pulp Fiction.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah, they're just really culture of comedy. And like, she's. She's a genius. But Tucker told me about hamburger or. You ever see how he ends and jokes just going, ham burger.

[Dan Soder]

Well, that's why beef jelly.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Well, that's what that was immediately stuff of.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, He. He is a black dude that wears a cowboy.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And you know Chucky, Ducky.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, Chucky Ducky.

[Bobby Moynihan]

That's what Slappy Pappy was. He told me about Chucky, Ducky, Ducky. People wanted to be Sinbad my whole life. So now that was where that came from.

[Dan Soder]

I don't think I've ever seen anyone kill harder than Sinbad at Caroline's. I like, you walked in the room and you. You walked in and you were like, he hurt this entire room with laughter. No cussing. Well, just went in and was like, you ever go on a date?

[Bobby Moynihan]

How many hours do you think Simba Bad did comedy before we knew who Sinbad was? You know what I mean, like, it's like, it's like that man probably just has. How many hours of stand up comedy has Sinbad done in his life?

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, it is the 10, 000 hours.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

Where you go. He's perfected it. He's just so good at it. Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

He's more comfortable doing it than not. Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

But the. But it's like Keenan that blows my mind that Keenan is just.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I mean, if he's not on camera doing sketch comedy, he's relaxing.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And that is his entire life.

[Dan Soder]

Would you put him as. I think, at least I hope he is with. With. You worked with him and we've seen his body of work on snl.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Is he.

[Dan Soder]

I think he's a top three cast member of all time, if not the best.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I think, I think, I think like, if you're not being romantic about SNL and you're not going like Gilda and John, like, you know which, like they have their spot and you know what I mean? Like also Lorraine Newman too. Lorraine Newman should be. Be much higher up there. And then everybody puts her. Keenan is number one cast member of.

[Dan Soder]

I would put.

[Bobby Moynihan]

There's no other. There's no. He is Saturday Night Live.

[Dan Soder]

I mean, you think about Eddie Murphy, obviously saved the show from 80 to 85. Don't know the Edward. Is he Murphy?

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah, he was in shrunk.

[Dan Soder]

When you do the SNL reunion shows

[Bobby Moynihan]

is all the time.

[Dan Soder]

All the time. You guys all but like 40 and 50 were big deals.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I was at big.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Both.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

On the show for 40th. Came back for the 50th.

[Dan Soder]

When you go back for the 40th anniversary and you're on the show, is it like homecoming week where you're like, hey, we got to give our spots. Like we're going to be kind of the kids.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I mean, that's the show.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I got on the show and they were like, you cast members aren't in it anymore. Alec Baldwin's doing everything. And it was like, what's this now?

[Dan Soder]

Excuse me.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I thought someone could do try real hard to get here.

[Dan Soder]

I kind of dedicated my whole life.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Alec Baldwin got the Emmy nomination. Great, great. I'm happy for him.

[Dan Soder]

No, no, no.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Is this wall punchable?

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, no.

[Bobby Moynihan]

He's been here a whole bunch this week.

[Dan Soder]

Oh, man.

[Bobby Moynihan]

He was up for 97 hours too.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah. You guys are just like sleeping. I'm glad you got it. Yeah. Good job, man. I'll tell you what, I. I did a scene in a movie with Alec Baldwin and I was going through a breakup. And it was the oddest moment of my life because he was talking me through a breakup.

[Bobby Moynihan]

A singular human.

[Dan Soder]

And he. He's always Alec Baldwin.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I did 30 Rock with him and SNL. Yeah, the best.

[Dan Soder]

But we sat down at a diner and he went, we're gonna do my coverage first. And you went, yeah, absolutely. And so, because Fred Wolf. It was a movie. It was drunk parents that Fred Wolf was directing, and they do. They. He does the coverage and then they. They're turning around. So we have a break, and I'm, like, depressed because I'm going through this breakup. And Al goes. We start talking and he stops and he goes, can I get a plate of fries? And they bring us a plate of fries. He's like, ketchup. And they bring the ketchup. And you're sitting there and he's like, what happened? And we're sitting there eating French fries with him.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Perfect.

[Dan Soder]

Kind of telling him about the breakup. And I just remember, I was like, you know, she was real into it. And then she went on vacation and she completely, like, changed. And he tips. Frying the ketchup. And he goes, someone got in her ear and took a bite of the French fry. And I was like, this is. In that moment, I went, this is the weirdest I've ever been through in my life. Is Alec Baldwin coaching me through a breakup.

[Bobby Moynihan]

So, like, it's so funny to hear. Like, it's just like, I know the answer.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah. And he goes, you know, I went through. He goes, I went through a divorce in 2000. And I went, yeah. With Kim Basinger.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I heard about it, Alex. My favorite thing he ever said. He did monologues at ASCAT one time. The improv show at ucb. Legendary about being, like. When he first started, like, being a male on a soap opera and in Hollywood and, like, how he. Like, these men would come after him, essentially.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And he just said this phrase one night. He talked about, like, some Italian man that approached him at a. As a. At a restaurant. And he went. He approached me. He had a wallet thick as hippo skin.

[Dan Soder]

You know, who thinks that. What are you.

[Bobby Moynihan]

He had a wallet thick as hippo skin. I'll never forget that. I'll never forget it.

[Dan Soder]

The confidence of that man.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yes.

[Dan Soder]

As at most comedians, we can all agree, are insecure. It's why we go after laughs. It's why we are so desperate for laughs. It's why we just wanna make people laugh. And having a man that confident around, who's also very Funny is I feel

[Bobby Moynihan]

comfortable telling this story.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

We were rehearsing at snl, and we were. I passed him in the hallway. He had his dinner. His dinner had just gotten there. And we had. We were just done with dinner. We were about to start rehearsing again, and I noticed. I was like. I noticed his dinner. He was. He had it in his hand. Like, it just got there. And I remember thinking, like, starting on time, and he goes to Jenna, the stage manager. He's like, hey, I just need my dinner. Or she said, like, hey, Alec, five minutes. And he's like, my dinner just got here. And he's like, five minutes. We're starting to rehearse. And I just saw him kind of, like, look down and go, like, okay. And he just walked into the studio, and he was like, is this rehearsing next? Yeah. And it was like, the hotel scene. Yeah. I've never seen a hotel with this kind of television before. Can we get one with, like, the doors that open up? And he was like, I don't think we have that, but sure, I'll go. I'll go look for one. And he was like, great. How long will that take? And the guy was like, 20 minutes. He was like, perfect.

[Dan Soder]

Oh, my God.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Wow. He's been in this business for a while.

[Dan Soder]

I was like, that lighting scaffolding. I don't think that he just bought

[Bobby Moynihan]

himself the 20 minutes he needed. Not his problem. And then, like, took his bag and, like, winked at me as he. I. He did not wink at me, but he might as well have steak in

[Dan Soder]

his dressing room with.

[Bobby Moynihan]

With fingers like this. Yes, it was. It was a perfect move.

[Dan Soder]

That is so. It was a perfect move to watch him change the dynamic.

[Bobby Moynihan]

It was like, he's been at SNL longer than I have, man. He's been here for 100 years. He knew how to get six minutes.

[Dan Soder]

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[Bobby Moynihan]

time we were there. So when someone asked where the bathroom was and Tom Hanks was like, it's right down there. And I remember being like, yeah, of course he's been here.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Whenever he knows where, like he knows where everything goes. He could probably tell me the renovations, the quickness. The quickness. Where Tom Hanks is like it's right that way.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And like just went on like it was a very like you forget that there's like four or five famous people that like are essentially cast members.

[Dan Soder]

Steve Martin can just walk in and

[Bobby Moynihan]

he goes, Justin Timberlake was like that

[Dan Soder]

apartment built onto this to 8H. I can go to sleep. You guys want to go there?

[Bobby Moynihan]

I still have under the bleachers.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Candace Bergens down there.

[Dan Soder]

Where have you been? My, my friend who I worked with on Billions and she still cuts my hair. But she was your Katie. She did your hair.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And she was like, is now my next door neighbor. I think, oh, I know where you live.

[Dan Soder]

You live.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Let's tell him.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah. No, no go to go to this neighborhood. Neighborhood. But she, I, I'll go To. I'll go to 30 Rock to get my hair cut when. When it's a show week. Because she's like, hey, it's in the city. You don't have to come up all the way up there. Just come get my haircut or whatever. And I will, like, stop. When they were doing SNL 50, they had. Because it's in the wig shop. That's where I get my haircut. So you walk through and you see.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah. Floor. It's 8H, yeah, yeah.

[Dan Soder]

It's like, costumes and SNL 50.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I stole everything, dude.

[Dan Soder]

They had two boxes out, and I took pictures. It's still on my phone. It was next to each other. And I, like, stopped and had. And it was Dana's church lady.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dan Soder]

And in a box.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I have a lot of those pictures, but I also.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah. Was Matt a great deal?

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

Was the Matt Foley, Chris Farley, Matt Foley suit. And they said when they pull them out, they're all, like, kind of together. So they. And I was like, this is what Farley wore. And they were like, yeah. And I was like, and this is the Dana Carvey church lady.

[Bobby Moynihan]

That was the. One of the coolest parts as being a ganest SNL fan was like, being in the middle of a show in a quick change, throwing on a suit and seeing Farley or Belushi, like, written in the pants. Because it's the same pants or the same costumes, or, like, me and Chris Parnell have the same shoe size. So a lot of my shoes were Parnell or Farley. Like, it's like, oh, my God. Like. Or like, you're seeing a picture.

[Dan Soder]

You're.

[Bobby Moynihan]

You're waiting to do a sketch, and you're looking at a picture of Lothar of the hill people, and you're like, oh, my God. I used to watch this sketch. And then you're like, wait a minute. I'm wearing Chris Farley's. I'm wearing those boots. That's like. And you would just be like, I'm wearing those. That happened with a suit. I had a peach tuxedo on. And I was like, this has to be, like, the coolest thing I've ever wore. And then you walk by a picture, and there's John Belushi and a peach tuxedo, and you're like, oh, my God. And you look inside, and it says Jay Belushi. And you're like, oh, my God. Maybe Jim Belushi wore this. No, but, like, from the movie Canine. No, that happened once, too, where I was like, she wore this. That might be Jim.

[Dan Soder]

That is funny. Calm down, Bobby. Calm down. You've got a sketch to do.

[Bobby Moynihan]

No offense. Jim, you're breathing.

[Dan Soder]

Get him the panic bag. He's gonna. He's wearing a hero's clothing.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Put me in. Put me in Cerebro. We need to calm him down.

[Dan Soder]

He goes, I'm gonna go into his thoughts.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I'm gonna make him think Moynihan's getting too grateful again. Yeah, we can't have him happy.

[Dan Soder]

I. I'm making him think he was a fan of According to Jim. But it is. You know, a lot of the times the. Where I up was, I was too much of a fan when I auditioned and when they called me in.

[Bobby Moynihan]

That's a. That's a fantastic sentence for people auditioning for snl.

[Dan Soder]

Too much of a fan. I let it because I was writing a cartoon with Tucker, and we were writing it. Wow.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I didn't know you knew him that well.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, And Tucker was like, we got put together, and we were writing this thing, and I. You know, I was a big fan of him. And the first two weeks of us writing is just me asking questions about Chris Rock Show, Chappelle show, and snl, but we're writing it. And then my agent was like, hey, do you want to audition from snl? And I was such a fan that I was like, no, because I know

[Bobby Moynihan]

I did the same thing because I

[Dan Soder]

would go watch you guys at ucb,

[Bobby Moynihan]

and I was like, I need to wait. I'm not ready yet.

[Dan Soder]

I'd also be like, no.

[Bobby Moynihan]

It's like, I'm not that funny.

[Dan Soder]

These guys are unbelievable. And Tucker and I were writing the show, and. And Tucker was. I was like, hey, I think I'm gonna put myself on tape for snl. And he was like, you should. You should. Do you know how he is? He's like, yeah, do it. And so I did it.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And why he's great is because he's. He can be emotionless.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah. He's gonna.

[Bobby Moynihan]

He can go like, your emotions don't matter. So. Like, maybe don't. Yeah, exactly. They don't matter.

[Dan Soder]

Okay.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

And then I did it, and they liked the tape, and they came back and they watched me do stand up. And then I did the live audition at ucb, and I saw Frank Garcia Helds, who. I was.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Oh, amazing.

[Dan Soder]

I was like, well, he's.

[Bobby Moynihan]

He's snl. He was born to be on that.

[Dan Soder]

I literally watched him. I'm not joking. I watched him at that UCB showcase, and I Went to my agent and I went, well, it's that guy. He just did a perfect Dan Aykroyd and he did a perfect Jimmy Kimmel. I've never seen anybody do that. Give him snl. That helped me because then I went out there and I went, went, who cares? I saw the guy was going to get SNL and then Tucker was like, hey, they liked you. We're going to bring you in to 8H to screen test. And that's what me up. Because I went in and I was like doing the thing in the hallway

[Bobby Moynihan]

of like, oh, oh, oh.

[Dan Soder]

And then Dave, the director, you know, tells me, brings me in and he goes, hey, don't think too much or whatever. And I'm waiting to go go up on home base. And I'm a idiot. And I went like Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, Chris Farley, all my. Phil Hartman, my. One of my favorites of all time. And it me up and I was like, too tight. I wasn't like, funny. I wasn't loose.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Interesting.

[Dan Soder]

And I was like. I got off stage and I remember walking out of 30 Rock and like, just walking around that area and just sitting in front of a Chase bank and being like, I up, up.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Everyone who that Chase Bank.

[Dan Soder]

I know exactly. And by the way, it's across the

[Bobby Moynihan]

street from Serious bank. It's on 48th and 6th. I know exactly that Chase bank has so many sad comedians.

[Dan Soder]

I did a show across the street

[Bobby Moynihan]

called My mom from that. The vestibule of that Chase bank going like, I think, I think I got it.

[Dan Soder]

What's funny is that ended up being. Because for me, it was a place I called my agent, was like, I was too into it, I was too tired, I didn't do well. And then I ended up doing a SiriusXM show for eight years, the bonfire, which I love to death. But we would smoke a joint before every show and I would stare at that Chase bank and I'd be like, I remember failing and standing in front of that Chase bank being like, I up. And then they brought me back the next year. But they brought me back in a way where they're like, I think it was shook us.

[Bobby Moynihan]

It was like I got brought back too. You know, I had the same exact thing. Well, I auditioned, was told, like was brought in. Yeah, it was like me, Donald Glover and Jordan Peele went in together and literally sitting on the three of us sitting on the couch talking to Lauren. And I had known both of them. You know, I'd known Donald since he was 15.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah. Doing Derek.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah. And the three of us sat on that couch, and he went like, well, I have decisions to make. And you're just like, what? Why are you toying with us? And then the writers strike happens. Happened. So it was like nine months of, like. I think I. I think me and a couple of my friends are getting it, but I'm not sure. Like, it was like. It was. It was crazy. And then, like, the second the strike ended, I saw, like, it was like. The strike ended, like, on the news.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And then it was like snl, like, literally, like, on my phone. And I was like, no way. And it was like, we can't hire you. We're. Well, Maya Rudolph left during the strike, and we. We're gonna hire a woman instead. And I was just like, like, what? And then it was gone.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And it was gone.

[Dan Soder]

So, I mean, people don't realize.

[Bobby Moynihan]

A couple months later, it was like, come in on Monday. And by the next Monday, I was. I was in a sketch with Michael Phelps.

[Dan Soder]

That's crazy. Yeah, because people don't realize it really is the moment. You know, you're going to get it if you meet Lauren. And I was. I was writing that thing with Tucker, and he was like, I think you're the last guy to not meet Lauren. He's like, I think you're the guy that gets cut off. And that was the year that I didn't think I did.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Well, ask guy to not.

[Dan Soder]

So there was like, he's like, he's going to talk to three people. And I think it was.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I see what you mean. I see.

[Dan Soder]

It was Pete Davidson, Frank and Andrew Santino were the three guys.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Wow, that's good to hear.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah. That went and talked. And I was like, oh, I'm not getting it. And then the next year, they were like. They called me up and they were like, hey, probably not going to get it, but we want to screen test them again. And this time I went in and I. I was way more loose.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

And it really helped. I made Lauren crack during my audition. And that was the thing where I. I was like, I'm not gonna get it.

[Bobby Moynihan]

That's all. You gotta. It's. And. But at least I got like. Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

And I got him to laugh at Winnie the Pooh. Addicted to Honey. There's a thing where he went like. Like that.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Which you would have written, and I would have got cast as.

[Dan Soder]

I would have loved that. I would have loved that.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I just wanted Peter Dinklage, who I believe played Winnie the Pooh. And I was Sketch I was in. I might have been in that.

[Dan Soder]

That was the same year I. That was the year I auditioned.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Oh, wait, I think I know this story. Yeah, I've heard you talk about that.

[Dan Soder]

Well, the. The first one was Jason.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I was in that sketch.

[Dan Soder]

Jason Statham's Jason Stum. When I auditioned, I did Jason Statham Edible Arrangements. And I went, are you sick of getting the same old fruit? Send your love a cantaloupe shaped like a fist. And then they did Jason Statham, Jason Stacums. And I went, that's much better. That's way tighter, way funnier.

[Bobby Moynihan]

So crazy. Like, being on both sides. Like, being a fan of SNL for many, many years and still so since after. And being there, that whole thing, like, I've seen it a couple times where some. Someone's like, that's my idea. And it's like seeing comedy, like, minds, like, write the same thing very close to each other has happened so many times. And you go, like, but I'm not one.

[Dan Soder]

I'm not one of those people that goes, like, I'm not one of those people that was angry about it. Because what I. What I've said before and I've told the story is that when you audition, they go, hey, you're giving us all this.

[Bobby Moynihan]

You ever read Jay Morris?

[Dan Soder]

That's what I was just going to bring up.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Read that book a hundred times because of that.

[Dan Soder]

You want to talk about one of the best voice guys of all time?

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

Jay Moore is one of the greatest

[Bobby Moynihan]

brother, like, Jay Farrow, Jay Farrell, like, doesn't get the respect that he deserves.

[Dan Soder]

My favorite clip of Opie and Anthony. One of my favorite clips is he calls in and he's doing voices, and then he does Reservoir Dogs with Bobby Kelly and Colin Quinn.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And it's, oh, yeah, to this day, that lies.

[Dan Soder]

He goes, I don't know. This guy's getting blood all over the back of my back, seeing, like, Cadillac is on my LA sneakers. And you're like, it's a perfect Colin Quinn.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah, He's. It's insane.

[Dan Soder]

He's the B. His Harvey Keitel is.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I could listen to him do Colin Quinn, like, all day long. Do you know James Adomian?

[Dan Soder]

Yes. James Adomian is. It's. I would say it's criminal. He never got to be on snl.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I don't know if I've ever said this out loud. James Adomian. I don't know if you're going to hear me say this now on a podcast. Sometimes when I'm Sad. Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I listen to James Adomian doing. Oh my God, I'm blanking on his name. The LA radio host that was really mean to women.

[Dan Soder]

Oh,

[Bobby Moynihan]

God.

[Dan Soder]

Wait, he's. He's not doing Don Imus?

[Bobby Moynihan]

No, not Don Imus. Oh my God. There was like a. A guy, he had like rules and he would blow Tom Lycus. Blow him up Tom. He would go. He would go like, you got to go to school at Tom Tom. Like is blow it up tom tomus.com. and he's just like, you know, like if a woman is marrying you, she wants your money. Like, you know, like and it's just like. And, and. And he's a piece of garbage, this guy. But James Adomian improvising as him is like something like when I, when I need to relax. It's like Zach Galvanak is live at the Purple Onion, right? Him, James Adomi and doing, doing, doing Tom Lykis or like Jiminy Glick.

[Dan Soder]

See, my favorite, Jiminy Glick is phenomenal.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Like, that's what I listen to.

[Dan Soder]

My favorite thing of James Adomian that I bring up all the time on YouTube that I show to people on my phone like a proud parent. And I sit and I watch them watch it. How great is that? Is him doing Lewis Black reading out of a girl's diary where he goes, today was the best day of my life and I'm not even doing it justice. Where he goes, timmy said I was cute. Heart thing. And he's like, does the finger thing in a way that you're like, please watch. If you're watching this at home, pause this. Go watch James Adomian doing Lewis.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I can't wait to see reading out

[Dan Soder]

of a 13 year old girl's diary.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I was in Inside out and Inside out too. I got to see a screening with Lewis Black of Inside Out.

[Dan Soder]

Oh yeah. His anger.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Never met him before in my life. I don't. I don't. I still don't know if he knows who I am. I don't care. I walked past him and I said, it's a great movie. And he went for a cartoon.

[Dan Soder]

You go, yeah. The guy from Pixar is like, ah, yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

He's the. He said for a cartoon. For a cartoon about Inside out too.

[Dan Soder]

What I've ever heard. He goes, a talkie. That's just cartoons. That's a talkie. That's drawings.

[Bobby Moynihan]

To say that about up to be.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, that is great. He. Adomian was one of the first person to do A perfect Jesse Ventura. And he would do those. Wow. He does Mark Marin. Perfect, perfect. He does Jesse Ventura. Perfect. Paul Giamatti.

[Bobby Moynihan]

You want to know how good I am at impressions? I played Jesse Ventura on SNL in what up with that? And I never said a word, but I tap danced the whole I test dance across stage with a cobra with a giant snake on my neck.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah. That's a Tucker sketch.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

What's up with that?

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah, yeah. One of my favorites.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah. What's up with this? Sudeikis just hitting the running man every time.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I love how silly Tucker is. I love how silly. One of my favorite characters I ever got on I wrote with Brian Tucker and John Solomon is this character called Janet Peckinpah. The dumbest thing in the world. It was just this lady who was just begging celebrities to have sex with her and would say, just please. Just throw one at me, please. And I would. It was just. It was Brian Tucker, me and Brian Tucker as a woman, and that should never happen.

[Dan Soder]

And I hope Tucker doesn't get mad that I'm saying this on a podcast, but when we were writing that thing, I was at the Cellar and Amy Schumer was filming Train Wreck with Bill Hay Hater, who had just left snl. And Hayter was like, at the Cellar and he's like, hanging out.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And he was in that too, right?

[Dan Soder]

Yeah. Pete Davidson was in. That's where Bill Hader saw. That's where they met and got a snl. But Hayter was like, at the seller. And I was like, hey, I'm writing a. A pilot with Brian Tucker. And he went, please have him do the impression of a man being in the ass to death. And I went, I'm absolutely.

[Bobby Moynihan]

What you're talking.

[Dan Soder]

Gonna ask him about that. And then we're in Tucker's apartment and I go, can you do the impression of the guy getting. And he is at his laptop. And he goes, yeah,

[Bobby Moynihan]

that is a. Wow.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah. Then shut it and did it. And it was. Oh, my God. I don't. It's.

[Bobby Moynihan]

You're like my. My wife. Like, there are people that just like. Like, they. When they talk about people, they just like, you just became Brian Tucker for a sec. That was crazy. My wife is like that. I can't do that. Brian Tucker did an amazing thing to me. Was telling me about, like, what it was like to work on the Chris Rock show. Yeah. And you have to understand, I'm telling this story out of order. I'm going to tell what happened after first.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

He told Me this story after he did this to me. All right.

[Dan Soder]

I like that.

[Bobby Moynihan]

He said when he was on the Chris Rock show, his first night on the Chris Rock show, he was writing a sketch, and Chris Rock walked in the room, said, what are you working on? Like, nice to meet you. What are you working on? He said he showed him the sketch and that Chris Rock took it open the window, window. Threw it out the window, closed the window, and went, like, I'm just kidding, man. And, like, did, like, a bit.

[Dan Soder]

Sure.

[Bobby Moynihan]

He told me this after my first night at snl. Yeah, I'm writing. Tucker walks in, he says, what are you writing? I hand him my sketch, and he looks at it, and he opens up the window and he throws it out the window. And I see it flutter across Radio City Music hall hall. And I, I look at him like,

[Dan Soder]

why, why is Earth. Why are you so cruel?

[Bobby Moynihan]

Why on earth? Like, I'm a grown man. Like, why would you do that? And he laughs, and he's like. And then he tells me the Chris Rock. He's like, they did that to me on my first day. He goes, so print me up another one. And, and, and then hand it to me. And I went, I don't have a computer yet. I, I, I, I wrote that. I wrote it on paper. And you just threw it out the window?

[Dan Soder]

Oh, no. He's like, he was like, like, I'll be right back.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And, like, literally, like, ran outside to, like, go try and find it. I was like, tucker, don't worry about it, man. But, like, that is, that really happened. And I was like, oh, my God, why are you so. They're so cruel here.

[Dan Soder]

Well, you know what's funny is New York standup. The, the throwing the paper out the window is when you're a young comic and you walk up with a drink and someone just slaps it out of your hand on the sidewalk, and you go, go, why would you do that to me?

[Bobby Moynihan]

That's.

[Dan Soder]

Bobby got me like that. Jim Norton did it to me once where he went, shut up.

[Bobby Moynihan]

That's territorial when it's him. Coming from another comedian in a comedy club, I feel like I had the lighting designer for snl, Phil Himes, God rest his soul. He was, he was another Don Pardo. He had been, like, in the building forever. He was 6, 000 years old. I love him with all my heart.

[Dan Soder]

Like, there's an amulet that will release him.

[Bobby Moynihan]

He has 700 Emmys. Meanest man in television in, like, the best way possible. He was the one that walked up to Jennifer Lopez and be like, shut your mouth. We're moving.

[Dan Soder]

You know what I mean?

[Bobby Moynihan]

He was that guy.

[Dan Soder]

Well, you need a person like that in those shows.

[Bobby Moynihan]

He. He.

[Dan Soder]

He was old school. Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

We'll leave it at that. Because he. I was. It was my first week on the show. I'm in the hallway. There were famous people around. I'm standing there. I have a cookie on a plate. And he just smacked it out of my hand and went, dink din, Moynihan, you're on television now. And I was like, wow, what a moment.

[Dan Soder]

You know, I really wanted that cookie.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I'm really. I'm really glad Beau Bridges heard that.

[Dan Soder]

Oh, you know, the lesser known Bridges of the bridges boys.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Well, that was that. You'd be standing in the hallway and. Or walk down the hallway, and it would just be, like, insane. Or you would be waiting to. You'd be, like, dressed as a pirate, waiting to go in a sketch. I was watching the monitor one night waiting to go on, and the sketch ended, and there was, like, a plastic dinosaur that walked at the end of the sketch and did something stupid. And Steven Spielberg just leaned over my shoulder and went, mine were better. And I was just like, that's crazy. This. This place is the best.

[Dan Soder]

That's crazy.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

That is crazy.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

But there is those people that, like, you know, for anyone that's ever pursued a dream, and then you. There's a moment where you get to do the thing you've dreamed about, but you're in this stage where you're like, like, what the. The first time I saw Chris Rock in person, I was like, at standup New York, and he came in to do a set, and I was like.

[Bobby Moynihan]

He came up to me at a Jet game.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Once, like, just, like, felt a hand on my shoulder, and he was just like, hey, man, you doing good? We're treating you right. Like, we had been through a war together.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Never met him, never spoke to him. Like, he was just like, sn. You know, like, it was just like that. And then when he hosted snl, not as kind. That was very much like, not meaning he was mean. Was very much like, how long you been on the show? You got to get out of here. Like, he went into, like, papa mode.

[Dan Soder]

Well, he does that. I mean, he did that. He. He's done at the seller for 15 years, where if you walk in and you're not famous, he's like, yeah, who's this guy? And you're like, all right, we're co

[Bobby Moynihan]

workers, though the Best advice I never listened to, I got from Chris Rock. If I could go back, if I had a time. A comedy time machine to go back in time and take something back. Standing on stage backstage at the benefit. The Sandy. The. The 2020. The Sandy hurricane benefit, 2012.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

With, like, Kanye west and all those people. Kanye west is me and Seth Meyers are backstage. I'm dressed as drunk uncle, and Chris Rock comes up to me. He goes, you're not going out there, are you? Dressed like that? And I was like, yeah. And he goes, don't go out there, man. Don't go out there. Like, he was, like, concerned for me. And I was like, what are you talking about, man? Like, relax. I'm going out to do this bit. We walked out on stage to complete silence. Just, like, silence. Kanye west had just finished. He was in a kilt, screaming the N word and, like, dropping, like. Like three. Like, you know, like. And then out comes Drunk uncle in hour seven of this concert where they're waiting for Bruce Springsteen, Chris Christie's in the audience, and Drunk uncle comes out. And it was just Madison Square Garden as a whole turned to each other and went, like, beers. We're all getting beers. And, like, the entire Madison Square Garden just stood up and left. And we just. And Chris Rock was 100% right. He was like, don't go out there.

[Dan Soder]

Your defense.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And I've never bombed so hard in my life at Madison Square Garden.

[Dan Soder]

You can't. And no offense, I walked by. You can't change that lineup. No, you can't go. I'm not going out there.

[Bobby Moynihan]

No. Also, it was supposed to be Stefan in the height of Stefan. And Bill was like, I'm not doing it. And. And I was like, okay. They were like, send Mohan out there. And, like, I was an idiot and was like, I'll do it. Like, thinking, like, it was going to benefit me somehow.

[Dan Soder]

Like, the Guardian was going to be like, did.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Didn't think I was be walking home crying dressed as drunk uncle? Because I just walked down the stairs of Madison Square Garden and out the front door. I didn't even go to my car that was waiting for me. I just went the way I knew how to get out of Madison Square Garden and walked home. And SNL was like, where's the costume? I was like, it's on my bathroom floor.

[Dan Soder]

It looks like it got evaporated. There is not a People don't understand bombing until you've walked out of the room in stage makeup, until you've called

[Bobby Moynihan]

your mom and go like, do I just come home? Did I make a mistake?

[Dan Soder]

I did that. That's. That's the story I told about bombing on mom's night out when they filmed this stand up show for moms and I needed the money. It's like 2011. And they're like, hey, you kind of do some jokes that are. It's about my mom dating a bunch of dudes. And they were like, you should do those jokes. Jokes. And I went and I did it. And I bombed. Yeah, I bombed bad. And then they call. I was still a waiter, and they called me while I was waiting tables and they went, why don't you come back tonight? We'll do it again. Why don't you try softening the jokes? It was at 1515 Broadway, TRL Studio. Wow. So times squares out the window, and I bomb so bad that I get off stage, grab my backpack out of the green room, full stage makeup, went downstairs, went to a bar, got a beer, called my mom and was like, am I right?

[Bobby Moynihan]

Wrong? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Dan Soder]

Am I wrong in doing this? And she was like, I don't think so. But I wasn't there. And I was like, yeah, yeah. Bombing drunk. Someone in New York City saw you sad as drunk uncle near the garden and was like, that couldn't be. What do you think? He walks around in the costume and they go, I'm pretty sure someone.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I hope someone saw that.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, I always definitely.

[Bobby Moynihan]

You know what someone gave me recently, which is crazy. It's. It's crazy is someone gave me a photo. It's like they took a. I used to work at Pizzeria Uno in Central Avenue, on. In Yonkers, and someone has. There's a photo of them at Pizzeria Uno. And I'm in the background cleaning the bar, watching Saturday Night Live.

[Dan Soder]

No way.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I. I would watch it every Saturday. I like, lost customers because they were like, can we watch the game? And I was like, no.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, you don't understand Saturday.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And they're like, bob, you have tables. I'm like, I don't care. Like, I'm brutal tv.

[Dan Soder]

That's the good. That's the good version of a bad employee story where you go, he used to watch SNL all the time. It would fight customers if they changed it. And you know where he ended up? Snl. Yeah. Most of the time they go, he wouldn't change the channel and he'd fight customers. You know what happened to him? Prison.

[Bobby Moynihan]

It was in Westchester county where the X Mansion is.

[Dan Soder]

Oh, Lauren knew.

[Bobby Moynihan]

It's all Coming together.

[Dan Soder]

I'm bringing you back with my. With my cyclops, Tracy Morgan.

[Bobby Moynihan]

My cyclops is calling Joe. By the way, I mentally cast Colin Jones as cyclops.

[Dan Soder]

Did you?

[Bobby Moynihan]

Because I was like, no. Colin Jost is the cyclops of snl. Colin Jost. I'm gonna say this because it needs to be said. There are two people besides Keenan that are extremely important to Saturday Night Live's history, and I think Tina Fey is one of them. And Colin Jost is. Should be known as one of the top four people important for Saturday Night Live ever.

[Dan Soder]

Took that thing together in a ways that people. They think he just does Weekend Update. And you're like, yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And also just, like, kind. A good, kind dude.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Like, just like the best.

[Dan Soder]

He was so nice when I didn't get it. I saw him at the comedy seller, and he was so nice about it. He goes, hey, you did a really good job. And you're like.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Like, he's. That. He's good at that. Good at the. The. The. The bedside manner of it. That. That's fantastic.

[Dan Soder]

It was really good. You sorry you didn't get it, you know, cuz. And I was like, thanks, man.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Look up his family. His family's amazing, too. His parents have phenomenal stories. Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

Colin Scott comes from a great family. His brother's. Casey's a hilarious writer, and his dad is like.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Their whole family left for the 50, got on the plane for the 50, not knowing if I was in the show. My ego had died. I was just like, I guess that's it. But I had also, like, entered this amazing phase where I was like, oh, my God, I get to go see it for the first time as a fan. Like, I never got to go.

[Dan Soder]

Really.

[Bobby Moynihan]

You know what I mean?

[Dan Soder]

Like, oh, before you run the show.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah, I never got to go.

[Dan Soder]

And after you never went back to watch, like, anybody. I went back.

[Bobby Moynihan]

No, I went back once, and I didn't. I felt like it just.

[Dan Soder]

It's a lot.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And you feel. I. I wish I didn't. I wish I could go back every weekend and not be a problem. But I think that's another reason why I wasn't so great. There was like, I wasn't my authentic self. Like, you know, that whole thing. I'm being serious.

[Dan Soder]

You know what I mean?

[Bobby Moynihan]

But if I go there, I want to go and relax, and I think I can do that now. But at that time.

[Dan Soder]

No, that makes complete sense.

[Bobby Moynihan]

After the 50th, everything changed. But, like, went to that 50th going like, this isn't for you. This is for essence. Hell. And by the time I landed, they were like, not only are you in the show, you're doing a drunk uncle. It's because of, like, they didn't say this, but, like, it's because of Colin. And you should thank him.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And like, Colin. Colin changed a lot of people's lives that night.

[Dan Soder]

Oh, wow.

[Bobby Moynihan]

By. By speaking up, up and going, we should give this person and this person and this person a moment for their. For their brains for the rest of time. Because, like, just being involved in that and just feeling that sense of, like, I put my time in there.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And it's the 50th. Colin gave me that and gave a lot of people. Colin looked out for a lot of people that night, and I love that. Yeah.

[Dan Soder]

And I think that's, like, a cool thing that people should know, because I think a lot of times people think. Think, well, what is he worried about?

[Bobby Moynihan]

That was one of the best nights of my life. One of the coolest experiences my entire life. Well, yeah, too. Because you're like, I sat down in that chair with Chris, the stage manager, and I was like, I'm sitting a drunk uncle at the 50th. Like, they gave me a minute. However long I have during the 50th of Saturday Live. Like, I can't believe how lucky I am. And then I turned and went, like, I'm home. I'm home again. Like, and. And it wasn't home. It was not the studio audience. It was Oprah and Conan and. And. And they're all right here.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And it was very, very different. And that happened really quickly for me. Like, I went from like, man, I'm home again. To like, oh, no, look who's in my house. You can see it. I. I rip Colin's jacket. I ripped the buttons off his jacket. And he goes, you ripped my buttons during the 50th? Cause I was just like. It was like, I. I can't explain to you those. I hate when actors talk about acting and all that stuff. But, like, those two minutes, I can't. I'll never.

[Dan Soder]

Was the pop. Did you take in the pop? Because watching SNL50, it was a drunkard

[Bobby Moynihan]

audience that's a hard audience.

[Dan Soder]

Got a huge pop. As a fan that watched, felt it. It.

[Bobby Moynihan]

It felt like. Felt like the audience went like, we're sick of clips. There's someone performing for us. Let's laugh for him. It felt like they were grateful to not be watching clips and to see someone who was Happy to perform for them. And they felt. You got Meryl. You're looking at Meryl Streep.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And. And she's laughing and you're like, it was a very.

[Dan Soder]

I.

[Bobby Moynihan]

A chemical reaction in my body happened. You know, it's when a studio audience laughs and you know, you're doing well on SNL. You're happy that Lauren's happy. On the 50th, you're going, Conan O' Brien's laughing at me.

[Dan Soder]

They're one of the greatest.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And I can see it. And Jerry Seinfeld's. You know what I mean? Like, next to him. And you're like, it. It just. Something broke. And I just. I just went like, full drunk uncle with Colin. And like, I, it was. It was the. One of the best two and a half minutes of my life.

[Dan Soder]

Well, I will tell you, you know, I think as someone that was watching at home that loves the show, I think you forget that the audience at SNL 50 is Oprah, Conan, Jerry Seinfeld,

[Bobby Moynihan]

Steven, also the regular audiences. That. And because it was the 50th, they have extra seats. So that was like the desk. And then Jerry Seinfeld and Oprah and, and Steven Spielberg and George Lucas and, and, and every single famous person. You, Jack Nicholson, every. And you're noticing this. You're waiting for. You're looking at cue cards and you're like, can Viola Davis get out of the way so I can see? You know what I mean? Like, it's like it, it's, it's, it's. It was a. That has never happened at snl.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And. Yeah, that night.

[Dan Soder]

But I would say, as someone that watched it at home, you forget that the audience is that famous. And I think everyone home the same way that the regular fans did. What they were like. Like, we were way we wanted to see. There are characters you want to see when they know.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And that's too. With the SNL fans, too. Like, it's like, you want to see characters. Like, it was like the silliest thing in the world was like. And it weirdly meant a lot to me was like insinuating that because Cecily was pregnant, insinuating that drunk uncle and the girl at the party now have a child. Like, my SNL nerd brain went like, back to like, you remember those Wayne's World. Like, when Wayne's World came out, the, like, the, the books, there was like those graphic books that was just like SNL writers. Now, being an adult, realizing that SNL writers just got like 50 grand to put a bunch of jokes on a book.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And I bought those books. Yes. I still have them.

[Dan Soder]

I was with Wayne's World, so I know exactly.

[Bobby Moynihan]

They had a Wayne. They had a flip book of Wayne in the corner doing the dream sequence thing. It was my favorite book in the world. I don't remember why I started.

[Dan Soder]

No, I love it, but. Because I think.

[Bobby Moynihan]

But I think those books and those jokes. Jokes. Like.

[Dan Soder]

But SNL fans saw you, and I think it really was a moment of, like. You know what it is? It's like when you're a real big fan of a band and they're at a festival, you go. If you're a really big fan of them, you go, I'm not going to get the same concert I would have got if I just went and saw them. But sometimes they play a song and you go, oh, oh. And other people now get to see this. I feel like that was your moment at the festival to go like, oh, hell yeah, I was nice.

[Bobby Moynihan]

It was also nice to go like, oh, people do know this.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah. I mean, people love that.

[Bobby Moynihan]

I did.

[Dan Soder]

You know, you.

[Bobby Moynihan]

You talk yourself out of it.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, well, the comedown is like, I shouldn't get this. I'm a piece of.

[Bobby Moynihan]

That's why we're all comedians. We're better at that.

[Dan Soder]

That's why we're not Alec Baldwin. That's why we're not going and going, I need seven.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Also why there's no handsome funny men. It's true.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah. Well, because they go, john Ham's pretty funny. John Ham is pretty funny. But I think a lot of them need damage. You need, like, damage on the inside to go, this isn't all fixed. That's why Alec Baldwin can do all that. Because there's so many something in. He did something which was crazy because you go, like, I was. I was real big on. Like, I did a movie with him. And then after that, you go, well, it was a very safe movie. But you did Hoppers in theaters right now. King George. That's how you pivot. That's how you sell.

[Bobby Moynihan]

That's. That's another crazy thing. I. I was thinking about the test saying my wife. It's like, I'm in the lead in a Pixar movie and I'm going to talk about SNL the whole time. Watch.

[Dan Soder]

And.

[Bobby Moynihan]

And it's. It's. That's the power of.

[Dan Soder]

We talked about the Fallen Rise of Reggie Davis.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yes, it's true.

[Dan Soder]

We plugged the other thing. I truly think you're one of the funniest human beings alive. I've enjoyed being a fan of yours and meeting you is even better. And you're just a man. And thank you for being so hilarious.

[Bobby Moynihan]

Yeah, same here man.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, did you rule?

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