RE-RELEASE - Chloe Fineman
59 min
•Feb 18, 20263 months agoSummary
Dana Carvey and David Spade interview SNL cast member Chloe Fineman about her five-year tenure on the show, her signature celebrity impressions, the creative writing process, and behind-the-scenes dynamics with cast and leadership. The conversation covers sketch comedy craft, working with host Ryan Gosling on the viral 'beef is a butthead' sketch, and navigating career longevity on SNL.
Insights
- SNL cast members experience persistent job insecurity even after five seasons, requiring continuous 'hits' and writer relationships to maintain relevance and avoid being let go
- Celebrity impressions, while a breakout talent, can become a limiting typecast that constrains creative range and character development opportunities
- The SNL writing process is collaborative and relationship-dependent; writers prioritize helping cast members who have strong ideas and respect their time over those with underdeveloped concepts
- Lorne Michaels uses indirect feedback and observations about other cast members to critique performers, creating anxiety about what is said behind closed doors
- Pre-taped sketches require rapid turnaround (assignment to shoot in 24-48 hours) and involve complex logistics including set building, costume design, and location scouting
Trends
Shift from political/topical comedy toward abstract, surreal, and weird humor as cultural response to contemporary anxietyIncreased use of pre-taped segments and digital content over live sketch performance on SNLCelebrity impressions trending on social media (Instagram, TikTok) drive casting decisions and sketch assignmentsAward show moments (Oscars, etc.) becoming primary inspiration source for new impressions rather than sustained character studyCollaborative writing rooms with multiple writers pitching simultaneously creating competitive dynamics for sketch placementViral sketch success (20M+ views) elevating cast member profiles and creating pressure for repeat performanceCasting directors seeking fresh, underdone impressions over established celebrity parodies to differentiate content
Topics
SNL Cast Dynamics and HierarchyCelebrity Impression Performance TechniqueSketch Comedy Writing ProcessPre-Taped Segment ProductionCareer Longevity in Live ComedyLorne Michaels Leadership StyleViral Sketch Success MetricsCharacter Development vs. ImpressionsWriter-Cast Relationships and CollaborationAbstract vs. Political Comedy TrendsSocial Media Impact on ComedyAudition and Casting PracticesLive Performance vs. Pre-Recorded ContentImprov and Comedy TrainingBay Area Comedy Community
Companies
Saturday Night Live (NBC)
Chloe Fineman's primary workplace where she has been a cast member for five years performing impressions and sketches
Disney+
Mentioned as streaming platform distributing content including Monsters Inc and High Potential series
Paramount
Theater venue where Chloe and Sarah Sherman performed stand-up comedy shows back-to-back
People
Chloe Fineman
Guest discussing her five-year SNL tenure, celebrity impressions, and sketch comedy craft
Dana Carvey
Co-host of the podcast conducting interview with Chloe Fineman about SNL experience
David Spade
Co-host of the podcast conducting interview and sharing SNL anecdotes
Lorne Michaels
SNL leadership discussed for his indirect feedback style and influence on cast development
Ryan Gosling
Recent SNL host whose sketch 'beef is a butthead' with Mikey Day went viral with 20M+ views
Sarah Sherman
Chloe's collaborator on Paramount shows and SNL sketches, known for provocative comedy style
Mikey Day
Featured in viral 'beef is a butthead' sketch with Ryan Gosling that broke during live performance
Kenan Thompson
Discussed as strong performer who carries sketches and maintains composure during breaks
Kate McKinnon
Veteran cast member who participated in understudy sketch and known for being collaborative
Cecily Strong
Senior cast member who appeared in understudy sketch and known for being supportive
Rob Schneider
Taught improv classes in San Francisco that Chloe attended as a child with her father
Robin Williams
Referenced for doing Shakespearean material and improvisation at SNL
Jennifer Coolidge
Subject of Chloe's celebrity impression that she performs regularly on SNL
Timothée Chalamet
Subject of Chloe's celebrity impression she developed over time in Los Angeles
Greta Gerwig
Subject of Chloe's celebrity impression inspired by her award show emotional moments
Quotes
"They can't miss you if you don't go away"
Lorne Michaels (paraphrased by Chloe)•Mid-episode
"It's important where you live. I always want to live in a place you can't quite afford"
Lorne Michaels (paraphrased by Chloe)•Mid-episode
"I need to help so and so get a hit. It is hard to ask a writer"
Chloe Fineman•Late episode
"I don't really care about if the sketch gets cut. I only care about like, well, these people help me write it and if they cut it those people aren't gonna write with me again"
Chloe Fineman•Late episode
"We're in the era age of weird. Everything's weird"
David Spade•Final segment
Full Transcript
Chloe Chloe Feynman Dana Lovely young lady that was with you more than me. I've only seen her I saw her at the Marcello premiere and then I saw her when I did the show, but you're more familiar with her She's great though. Yeah, she's great and she's from the Bay Area and We did the Jennifer Coolidge sketch which she asked me to do she wrote it that's right with Ariana Grande remember her Oh, yeah, and That was really fun. That was a killer that got big laughs. Yeah, so she's just a super talent lovely young person funny She may do the most impressions on this on that show She's one of those people she could play the characters do impressions. I mean, she's totally built for sketch comedy and The Drew Barrymore, I think I hit her on DM. I didn't know about like that Drew Barrymore was a killer Like yeah, trying to throw out compliments here and there when I watch the show Or even when I see stand-ups, you know on my feed I'll kick them something just to say hey one more person out there saying good job on that bit But Chloe's great. We had a lot of fun with her as always and she's such a sweet person So here she is Chloe Feynman Okay, Chloe I have a character a new character for you a Person trying to get on zoom with technical voices come in go to a R7. Do you see a blue dot? No, you see a box button yellow button in the control like some sort of Roman Looks like a We've been through this for years It's it's very common Martin short took 45 minutes did he read okay? That makes me feel Wonderful. I was kind of gave it it but I think a half hour. Okay, and I took 10 Yeah, that's are you guys in LA that factors out about right So Southern California undisclosed location Like like I'm really really good to follow a lot So you're in the white hot world of Saturday live and you're living in Manhattan. Yeah Wow Zooming from the kitchen. Did you live in New York before I spent time in New York before you got SNL? I did Not to be your problem. Did you ever live in Northern California? Oh? Yeah, no, I'm from San Carlos and you're from Piedmont. Yeah, Berkeley is what I tell people is Piedmont is the coconut Piedmont is a really really nice place. I've done. Yeah, my bro lives there But the name Piedmont right now really that's insane. Yeah. Yeah next to coakland or not Oakland God damn I'll say it one more time When someone near My driver I went to see my brother of course I would driver and he goes well Coakland I'm like what I keep track of these coakland jokes. That's David's seventh It within four minutes. Wow. No, it was it was more of a marriage Juana place growing up I grew up in Berkeley and then in high school. I moved to Piedmont Berkeley is pretty cool. Yeah cool. The first time I lived in New York I was like doing something anyway. I was like 25 26 It had never been to New York So I just wondered you'd live there before and then you get back and now you have the coolest job You can have in New York probably. Yeah, I went to college here. So I've been here in the West Village For like over almost 20 years That wasn't on your research was it? My first 20 minutes I gotta tear up. No, no, no. Yeah, I went to school here So I've been here since I was like 18. I'm 35. Okay. Yeah And did you ever walk by Rockefeller Center? You knew that's where SNL was and kind of go, huh? I had a really Exhausted roommate who was an intern. She was like a page and she was so tired. That's so happy. That was the only Knowledge of it. I I went to like drama school. So I thought I would do like Shakespeare. I Never thought I would give us a little Shakespeare. What's the ultimate? Yeah, I'm here Robin Williams did a lot of he was doing Shakespearean stuff and he always had one leftover Shakespearean thing he wouldn't use the mic, but he was just being wrong. We have oh look the moon It hangs low like a testicle in the sky like that was he did that a thousand times a hybrid Oh Common problem Robin would always go oh common problem. He had so many we love them But so what else do you want to talk about? Oh, we know you're a doofy buddy Sarah. Yeah, my little freak is a little pal How is I want to ask you that you did the paramount? She hit me up and said we're doing the paramount after you and I was like look at these girls within minutes They're doing the same theater. I'm doing after I've been sweating and slugging away for 50,000 years and then I think it probably sounded like fun How does that happen with you two and then what do you do? That's a good, you know, we're very different, but it works Yeah, too, I think we're obviously Sarah's like extremely disgusting and Nogiating and there was like a 30-minute slide show of a like a vagina Prosthetic that Louis was mad at her that he didn't get to make and it is so disgusting And then I come out and I do my impressions, but I make them orgasm. So it's like guess it's like a Rated axe. Yeah. Yeah, I try it's an after dark Yeah, you have your crossover audience messin L and so it's more potent and then it would be like me and Dana going out I was like people that like it go Oh if they like one they'll take the other or they like you both, you know, that's always fun And it sounds like it's a very intriguing show that I would see for sure I think it sounds just fun because I don't know what it is Right so people just want to go because you're both good and you're both funny. So that's also your good start It's where we're just meeting you now, which is fun and Sarah. Yeah, it's kind of it's sort of sweet I don't know or you're you're not like kind of Yeah, and then what it then when you're working blue. It has this energy to you It's a nice little Jewish perverts coming out Yeah Yeah, I saw what when we did Chloe the I Used to work at the show too when we did the Whatever sandlers tour and then she was on with me Yeah, it's so funny because I didn't know her at all and then she was actually super easy to talk to super fun Magnetic personality is very sweet and then she gets out. I don't know her act at all And she's like New York. Where's money? Sticks the mic out and they kind of go. Oh Right, what about that pizza? How about the garbage? And then now they've stopped applauding. What about abortions? What about that and she goes on for another 19 times around the side going yeah now I love it because if she doesn't give a fat fuck at all A chilling abortion material in Portion yeah, yeah big abortion chunk It was great. That's not that's awesome. You gotta follow it. I'd be backstage going I'm I'm up there going should I do 711 then McDonald's If you're orgasming as your impressions, which are really stout yeah, I want to hear a few of those Dog hear that which is just to get the con which one kills the artist Which one they eat up, you know, it's different. It's different every place Um, I've been doing it for years. I'm always like god, this is so hack But you know not everyone's I'd say like drew bare more starts strong They're they all they all do pretty good. And then I think I Do way too many than I should people get and then they're kind of like laughing just to be nice In Texas the Ted Cruz orgasm does better Yeah Yeah, there's like some old like an old millennium trump one. I do them all I just do them all Oh, you do do you do millennia? Mm-hmm Did I say it right? I think so. Yeah Malania Postal yeah, yeah, I know we're talking about and do you do I've seen you do uh Men is it harder or is it is there any difficulty to do men? I can do like beautiful boys I think like a boyish a beautiful boyish man is much easier real Real men. Um, no, I think they're so hard Harry Styles I remember like doing in front of Harry Styles at the show and I bombed so badly Horrible horse locking on air. Was it? No, no, no and and like he was like looking at me and discussed But yeah doing it and I and I've most of the men I do I happen to do it in front of them God Timothy shallow may is kind of Your I mean he's he's so huge right now. Yeah, the only one who Doesn't there it is. Yeah Yeah, but he's nice about it. You can tell It's I don't know. I'm like a lot older than I just feel like there's like weird older woman Just like obsessed with these little boys. He's very kind about it Um, but it's hard not to I don't know if you have this where you like slip into the Slip into the voice when you're around the person No, because you're sort of mimicking you're picking it up as you go probably. Yeah, and they give you all these get like yeah He was totally totally Dain is great at that Well, uh, we're you know sister brother from another mother. Yeah, I with your timothy Uh You yeah, you find you find these rhythms and hooks and then they really help you get in it It's like what's that sound you just made as timothy? Yeah, it was like yeah listening to a lot of This was like before he became huge. I I started working on him and it was like, you know growing up in new york You're growing up in new york as an actor you're kind of like rhythm like Yeah, that's it. Yeah, just like a 19 year old billionaire. He's like the most famous guy. They don't they think they don't give a shit That's why it is. You're kind of you you're in that mold where you're accurate But you're also an abstractionist. You're you're making it into a character. I tried to I think that's like After you're like Lauren will talk about other people, you know, I don't know if he does that to you where he talks about other people To to kind of have you be glean insight into yourself and he'd always talk about you or bread And not being having a take yet not being like so it's not like a biopic Right, it's just sort of a It's it's only it's probably gonna get laughs. Sorry, Dan It's probably gonna get laughs Meanwhile, I'm the guy that doesn't do impressions But it gets more laughs when I watch you or Dana when it's a little Just Yeah Lord god damn I thought of a good one didn't take you before you had a lawn like day one or Yeah, honey I think as soon as I sat across the first time I met him. I was like, oh, this is never leaving The first thing he asked when you guys you have to like meet him He was I'm from the bay area and he was like, are your parents hippies? And then that was I Like when he talks nothing about like you're auditioning for the show come in come in wait five hours Then you come in he's like Do you like baseball you're like, what? It's just something nothing about showbiz. Is there anything I just like to get a few He told me once I go lord. I'm looking for an apartment. What are you up to? David he's totally bored with nothing else to do Come in and I'm like, oh, and then he goes sit down I'll make some calls and then he goes uh when he's done with the calls he goes What's going on with you? Basically like are you still on the show? So I go yeah, and uh, I go. Yeah, I'm looking for an apartment, but I'm a little torn because one's like Upper west side and one's like lower upper west side, but one was a little more expensive and he goes It's important where you live I know he's right. I think it's more of the price point. Yes wait the thing he said to me Which is why I'm always like Which is why we're trying to do these paramount shows as much as possible. He was like Yeah, I always want to live in a place. You can't quite afford Oh, it's very close to what he said to me exactly. It's very important. So money's not a problem and I'm like, is it though? I think it is Yeah, do you have you been in uh, like, okay, you're on 8h and lorns golf is on the ninth floor and there's glass I'm painting a picture for that listeners And then you see the rehearsal down there and you're up there hanging out with them talking about something And then in his own incredible lauren way, you know, be like kevin's going through that, you know It's the second season and where is this, you know, he's cycle analyzes not not in a very sweet way not mean But you always wonder what he says about you when you're down there. I'm so terrified I I have very close friends who are writers on the show and they just will not tell me but and I know I know it's awful and with like never get out of my head What plowys is she's kind of stuck in a uh, they're like What yeah, yeah, yeah, or like But then I feel like when he talks about other people and maybe it's Crazy making but you're like, is he trying to say something about me, you know, or it's like, well shown show was You know, if you're doing the same thing you did in your first year in your fifth year, it's time to go You know and your hard nut. Yeah hard nut to be like Yeah, it's hard to take it constructively and move on Yeah, one time he said to me anything new or are you pretty much played out? Did bush senior and bush jr. Have another baby there might be another third one to do Yeah, and it does kind of scare you. I mean I was this is in 80s early 90s I'd worry about the show because he'd get me worried and I'm like it's summertime and I'm like And you're also killing well, you know, but I got remarkably the same Chloe. I have one. He told me this is the last thing We'll talk about he said, uh He goes, uh, I see you on a lot of talk shows I go He goes Anything to add to that and he goes, well, they can't miss you if you don't go away Oh, that's a good one. That's a lot of talk shows. Yeah Yeah, I mean hey, no, it's like doing commercials and I think he was saying in general with celebrities Do a movie lay low that that was actually the old school now Yeah, now it's podcast ship. But you know, just go away and but that doesn't work anymore. 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Yeah. Yeah, it's like Maybe that's my first impression. Yeah, we had a bird calling contest at my weird high school Uh, and then we were flown and went on david letterman when i was like 15 Fucking sweet and he was kind of dirty. Yeah. Yeah, he said or we were dirty We didn't know we were we were said something about like feeling your inner bird But you were like these like 15 year old girls. It was weird, but it was on tv And was that dirty? I don't know. He was like, whoa Uh I think I saw that you saw her doing her pee foul. Yeah, I meant I remember the bird call thing and it Sound just do it again because it's reminiscent. I must say It was I have to get up No, no the way they do it in the high school is like you kind of put on like sketch. It's like you do bird sketch You like develop a sketch My friend and I just like Some like arsenic and old like I don't know really these two old british ladies and then and then the bird call happens And so the people who win the bird calling contest ultimately, I feel like have not hellishly bad sketch comedy That's great. You know, I do one. Watch this. This is birds in the morning God i'm not hitting the high way your sound went out. You do really quiet bird Why wait, what's the other one? Oh, here's a bird flying away ready You know I could have fit right in to your high school No, you totally the the easiest one was someone if you like grab your throat for turkey, it's like That's like that's early first year for when you're when you're a little kid and you're uh, you're seeing people on tv doing what you're doing now Do you remember that feeling of and then you're actually doing it? It's kind of cool. I mean did you I'm trying to think of your age group like who blew your mind when you were Well, we I mean you you guys certainly did we had uh, I'm older So we had vhs like best of vhs tapes that I watched my reruns. Yeah. No, no, they were like compilation Yeah, vhs is and my best friend had all of them and we'd stay up and watch them all the time as kids and then When I was like in high school that was like the christin will will era But I've been watching it since I was like I have a video of me as a toddler in Berkeley and the cone hens are playing In the back You know, it's just forever Love the con and was your dad an actor or my dad is a is improv improv guy. No, he's in biotech Oh I just thought maybe He's insane. My mom is a painter and my dad When my mom was pregnant with my sister would take me to improv at fort mason in san francisco and there were a lot of like rob and williams friends and Her and and I would go to this class with rob schneider would take this drop-in class Yeah and then I would do it as a a little kid and then he Retired rice like I don't know 10 years ago now. He goes twice a week Once on saturday at San Francisco and then in marin and mill valley on wednesday with my mom Mays mill valley. Oh, yeah Schneiders from half moon. I have a house there. Do you? Okay, I believe you and I might have at one point had the same doctor and mill Whoa, he would show you the other guy's x-rays. Huh I'll bring it up offline. I don't know. I had a weird doctor who claims to like Do you or do your doctor stuff? Oh, really? You should see here's some clips of dana's colonoscopy. If you have exams I have a doctor. I still have an md in san francisco. Oh, yeah Is this boring you david? I'm sorry. No, because dana says No, it is but dana also his uh, when he calls in for his prescriptions His secretary goes. Oh, no, I need your address Well, no, it's I call in for the same prescription every 30 days. She's very sweet You want to do what? Oh Yeah, I need the same one I did last month. Oh I'm going to have to talk to the doctor And then 30 days later hi, it's dana same prescription same pharmacy Oh You want to do what? Well, don't a lot of people call for prescriptions. Oh Yes, but So wait, I I have a cloy question. Yeah, why I have more of my uh nurse impression Oh She's confused. Oh, you have a question for our guests. Well, first of all she's into fashion I want to have this green pops on zoom. Oh, yeah Yeah, okay. That's that's one and uh That's from someone who has an instagram where there's like always like it's funny to see you go from syria funny cloy then you're like serious Like knock out like I should show blue seal. It's good I won't bore you with that but also nick Cole kidman. I did a comment on one of your instagrams because The way you say no is so funny and I was trying to relive it with letters But how is the proper way to say no? No, it's kind of n a r. I think it's like in you you you you No No It's so funny. I mean do you Do try to do these impressions or do they sometimes just come to you like do you seek out? Okay, I'm gonna do a Nicole kidman sometimes at snl It helps if you're a sign someone and you're like, okay, I gotta try to learn it Yeah, no one else does Nicole kidman. There's anyone else not really I feel like I feel like most of my Keith urban Yeah, yeah You cornered the market. I think I I have weird taste. I just like I don't know The cold kid Gretta Gerwig like I just really like Gretta Gerwig. Yeah, that was like Lord He last out in my audition. I heard him What's your take on her? Yeah It's just like her like, oh, yes. Yes. And she talks and you know these little uh, yes like shapes and gestures, you know Like he yeah, he had like a thing that's funny if you didn't even know I just remember it's usually like I get inspired. I guess when people win awards Like there's like them on talk shows you get a lot But I think when someone's like having like an emotional thing happen I guess like waiting an Oscar. I just find it's so funny like Gretta Gerwig was like Yes And yes, yes like they're hyperventilating that's how I got my Francis McDormand was like, okay I'm hyperventilated. Okay, you know like inclusion writer but like she had a hyperventilating. I don't know that's that's usually when they come to me I don't really seek them out. I just makes me laugh so hard I'm about award shows and what you're talking about. Does it feel like sometimes They'll win the Oscar like Francis McDormand and then they'll come up and they're exactly the character Like she's this tough. Totally. You know kind of alpha woman Yeah, sometimes maybe to win an Oscar You're just go super far away from The character so that when you get up there, you're like you're like talking like this or you're playing some street hood or something Just an observation go This is like every every acting class I was ever ever in You're crying you're alone. You're Italian go Um Yeah, she's an I want to fan out on some of these. Okay. We've already done those which I love Reese Witherspoon, which is like just a sound kind of Uh-huh It was like I was watching her on opera and the way she said opera made me or she was like Opera and then she's like I'm murder the way she said murder like really It's like so Like I guess I do everything is ultimately a bird call. I realize Yeah, really Yeah, Jennifer Coolidge is just so uh such an interesting You do that right you must No, I don't who Dana froze Did I freeze keep going? Almost in it almost in a Jennifer Coolidge way Oh, you can go Yeah, oh, I mean I everyone and I know has been doing that impression since we were like 10 Because we Hi, oh, that's right. Yeah But Lorne likes Greta Gerwig because I think when you come on SNL I only had one impression, but if you come on and do something that hasn't Been done. Well, yeah, like walking is at this point But to do early walking was great like I didn't do it when you saw when you saw I think jay more there's some Back in the day. I'm like, oh my god because you don't see it and then you see it and you go. Oh, it's so clear Totally, it's good to find those and the NSO. Can you see somebody new? That's great. Yeah, I also find I think it was when I was like auditioning There was it was like don't do Drew Barrymore. Don't do Jennifer Coolidge. Don't do Christopher walk in just stay away But then I ended up doing Drew Barrymore just because I thought my friend was really good I was like, yeah Uh, but I I do think that that's fun and if I see people do like God, I saw someone do like rosamund pike the other day and I was like, that's awesome like that. It's exciting. You know Yeah, because it's not someone who's overexposed. So then you really have to go. Oh, oh, then you go. Oh, that's it You know, it is Yeah, I'm lazy. I find it hard. I find it if I make a goal of doing an impression It's kind of it's it's kind of a bad feeling when you first start and you don't have it at all And you just get it yourself in a room and you have no you're horrible. I can't do it at all It's really a weird. How do you do it? You just what's your pras? Sorry. It's it's that no, it's totally that I mean, I remember and now I feel like once you've done enough of them I feel like in a weird way they all sound the same and so you're like I'm not good anymore They're starting with the same voice your own voice and it's hard to make it so different every time Yeah, it was easy when I was like alone in LA Like chalamet was really bad at first But I had like the luxury of just kind of being like sad and alone In my hot apartment with no air conditioning. I don't know like that was yeah Easy and then I was doing stuff at ucb and the groundlings at the time And the worst one I've ever done and I still can't get it was lana dana I was like for a ucb show and I think it was like if they sound a little too close to your own To my voice. It's like I can't my brain just like doesn't know what to do Right. Also, I don't think people maybe they know when they're listening But a lot of it is also not just you it's a writer knocking at your door at like 1 a.m. On Tuesday going Hey, can you do a Sydney sweeney because we got everyone in the scene you're like Oh, oh tomorrow. Okay. And then you just have to kind of go All right, I got to find something and then a funny wig and then you know, things get help it a little bit But totally you've got to you got to be ready when you get assigned someone in the sketch I do feel like if I'm really stuck laughs are such an in Yeah, now the way they're not what their mouth is doing and they're laughs Anyway, that was that No, I just funny interesting like you're Okay, so you do all these impressions and everybody everybody knows it and then you're doing characters and you kind of in a way You don't want to be couched as like people today. It doesn't matter to me at this point Oh, you're the impressionist guy. Well, I go. What about church lady garth and huns and fronds. They go. Oh So, you know Chloe just Oh Uh, but I just thought uh Inventing Chloe was such a cool and uh, Piper Dunster and I feel like someone who has an ear and can do these things can also of course do all these other things It's just it's on demand on Saturday night lives. There's a lot of demand for celebrity impressions So yeah for someone with its biggest payoff talent Yeah, I feel like all of us kind of you know, you like find the thing that you can get on the show in your first year or two Sarah disgusting Uh me Sarah's like prosthetics brilliant and then I was like impressions and then you know, you're like, okay This is like my life raft Um, but now that I've been in my fifth year like I've only done that many this year I don't know. It's it's nice that we can stretch ourselves like you coming up. Yeah, you go Sarah's like guys nobody do a six foot tall vagina this week because I'm doing it. Okay. Is that like an update thing? Yeah But Sarah says like Sarah's done like amazing characters this year and like he's awesome pre tapes and I kind of really focused on three tapes for like Back like last year in the year before that was like the thing and I've done a lot more live I don't know. It's cool. You can really like stretch yourself at the show What was the character you did a pre tape with during covet where you had a short blonde wig and then you let you played both parts Yeah, and then you and she was living with you and then you had to film Did you have to do that all yourself or not? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, my boyfriend filming Yeah, he was in the other room working on a quitty show wanting to Absolutely saw the whole time RIP Are you drinking hairspray? What is that? Okay, water bottle. I have a notion. I don't know what it is but I What I think of you as an actress and wanting to really commit there's something in my head here that it's you and Sarah probably like some sort of science Symposium to high school kids or something and there's little volcanoes in goo and Sarah starts to make sexual innuendos And you're just get really really mad like you accelerate to I will fuck you up You know basically without saying that if you do that one way take her aside Yeah, I just think you letting go with that kind of anchor on Anger Maybe it's a science I see you Funny in that character. We were talking with No, that's really we we want to go again like when it was Sarah's first year And we got the please don't the pdd boys to stay up until like five in the morning writing this sketch Where we were like We were kids We're sisters who had come home trick-or-treating or covered in chocolate like on a sugar high And it was Jason Sudeikis and him and hi day were like realizing they were going through a divorce and he kept like interrupting being like I don't know and it was the hardest bomb ever the You guys are like that's the worst sketch we've ever done And she and I haven't written since we haven't done anything like it's so really yeah We gotta get over we realized that in austin like I haven't written with the pdds since this candy thing It's like really you bought yourself a year Can you get eye contact in the hallway? Oh, yeah We like love each other. I just was like god and it was so long I think everyone's forgotten but sometimes when you when you bomb that badly it's like hard to recover a bit Well, what if you did science fair and you're nice this is more of a sketch gets all drier She goes it's like the volcano is is coming and then you go can I talk to you for a second? Same same kind of thing. No, what what do you want to see you escalating getting angry, you know like hair Fizzy wig I just feel like Yeah, basically, I don't know Do the pdds guys write their own stuff work? No, they take their suggestions Um, no, they yeah, they work. They work really well with the cast. Um, and then they do their own stuff Jake so there's a couple one for them. Oh, no, no, they would never do that Although there's a writer Jake Nordwind who pitched Well, he pitched something to them and it didn't it didn't go but you know, they're open to I there's a lot of like today's Monday so when I get to work everyone will be in Mike the Chenzo and Jake's office or pdds office and they all kind of like give each other ideas in a way He's the host who's those do a leapa Oh nice Who's the music do leapa? Um, who's gonna be in most of the sketches There's a lot of doubles lately. I don't know if I love it. Do I said there's a lot of do us get it? That was so bad Yep, I'm gonna do all week I used to be a licensed therapist. Oh, I didn't know that So what are you you're five years in you're doing great on the show you have all your buddies there You're in the trenches with everybody Yeah, um, what's your What what is your head space like are you feeling like because some people like eddie murphy day one They're like at a 10 as far as comfort There in your fifth season or you're feeling good excited or you're still Like where are you at? Where you at? I mean we only have three shows live so I definitely and it's 80 degrees in york. So it's definitely that like senior vibe, I also think yeah summer senior, I did a little bit. There's also I remember uh There's like those life rafts you need in a year, you know Like you need enough things to hit to feel like you're not getting fired I still I mean because I do people in their fifth year who did get let go, you know, so it's it never goes away It's a common feeling. Yeah, and I think now I'm kind of like well So and so needs a like making sure enough people need wins Although that's just what other writers have said. They're like, I'm not gonna write with them. They say wins I don't even heard that Something that they make their mark. Really? No makes sense hits. Yeah, they were like you've had a good You had a good run. We've got a couple doubles, but not a home run lately. Yeah. Yeah, they're like I need to help because when you reach out to writers like I need I'll try and help you with this, but I need to help so and so get a hit It is hard to ask a writer. I would ask smigel or I'd ask conan and they're like they're already busy with something It's hard to go. It's stuck. Hey, I have a knock knock. I have a dog shit idea. That's not formed at all Yeah, you spend Three hours cracking the code with me to make it a c plus. Yeah. Yeah, we're busy No, I have a lot of like I don't know. I I'm not as like brazen about writing like I'm like I have to have I hate wasting their time and like I'm the most nervous on the show just In terms of like letting writers down and the fears that they won't want to work with me again Because that is like the only way to survive the show And so I yeah, I don't really care about if the sketch gets I guess I only care about like Well, these people help me write it and if they cut it those people aren't gonna write with me You know, so like that is a big part of it and and having enough Yeah, yeah, and and it is that thing of like I can waste this writer's time for like two hours trying to crack my horrible idea Or I can just like a wispy idea suffer alone until I somehow have an idea I've gotten better with that. I don't like Suffocate writers to help me. I don't know if I don't have something I'll be like I'm gonna I'm just gonna sleep on this and not like ruin someone's I don't want to ruin relationships You just gave me a sense memory of like Tuesday night at 2 a.m I know sick and you're in a room with a writer and everyone's just like this Yeah, and the idea is the souffle is just deflated. It's just like yeah five minutes of no talking and then like What if maybe Farley could come in Yeah, all to the ceiling and save it. Yeah That's us. No one's no one is laughing everyone's like bloodshot eyes and it's like well Keenan could enter Keenan's are Yeah, 100% Yeah, right Keenan is so articulate and so clear and he has such a strong voice And he has like a mischievous vibe about him like he's not breaking But you clearly see he's enjoying it. By the way, I just want to really help together that beef is a but I was gonna ask you How the beef is about it because I know you came Came in at the end. I think and yeah, and so I thought because Um, ron Gosling is such a huge star and his attitude. He's he's kind of breaking the whole show, but it's so entertaining Yeah, because people but that's that's kind of a famous show and now a famous sketch of the most broke broken So just speak to your from your point. I mean it was well for Mikey None of us knew that's what even when we were oh really? That's what I thought they escalated it, right? Yeah, like when we blocked it on thursday everyone was laughing just because of the the lines that ryan and mikey have are so stupid Like I think ryan has a line. Yeah where he's like, I actually have a really busy life like that would always make mikey like The dumbest line ever actually but you think he's not talking to him. He's like this guy over here Yeah, yeah, and then they they ad-libbed on thursday or maybe it was friday when we were blocking the like I don't know this hi john. Nice to meet you like that was added Uh, but the yeah just mikey just looked so Fucking dumb. It was it was shocking What was the difference in his makeup between because everyone had seen it? Yeah, we all saw it at dress. I think it was just the it was like this He just amped it up a few percentage points. He just made himself like 20 percent dumber All you need yeah, and keenan never brought like keenan carried that like I don't think that's what worked as much If you didn't have keenan doing that to the point where like I got rolling yeah by the time it got to me. I was like I can't like super break. It's annoying like Yeah, right. It was already yeah, cuz Did hidey stop hiding was already that was yeah yesterday. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. I don't know. I'll see you today I would Yeah, but hidey never breaks. That was what was so Like delightful about that. It was very adorable and it was more than a break. It was laugh out loud It made me laugh. I think that thing as like 20 million views or something. I mean, it's really awesome It's awesome. And it did mike. Yeah, well, mike and hidey have known each other forever. So I think it's also like too Long time friends I think she's yeah with a lot of love for each other. So it's like it was so hard hard Yeah, there's a lot of love behind that too. It was just great. It was fun to see everyone looked funny in it Uh, the beat of some blood head and then just seeing that and then she really like got like she can't stop Which is always fun to watch Just fun one And ryan gossings a huge star. It's all the construction of the writing of having kinan be the voice of the audience I hate that. A stupid ai conversation. They look like beats about that and that and that and then the seriousness and back and forth It's sort of just a really well Yeah, it operated at all cylinders It did but I don't know if you know this but like they have pitched that sketch so many times. I didn't know that Oh, really? Yeah, there's a jonahill Dress rehearsal you can watch there. Wow. Oh, yeah, this is like the third time maybe And they said the jonahill one's like hilarious It just never like made it past the finish line So it was cool when air when it happened on air all these writers came down like street or sidel was there watching it Because I think he has taken that thing to table like five times Geez, well, I mean a motivational speaker didn't get on right away. That took a long time Really and that's people would be shocked and actually the writer bob odin kirk had left And then we came back in the season and did it That's a that's a weird scenario. That's crazy Have new cast members Which ones have come on since in the last five years so that you would be the wily veteran or or you came in with bohenn and Just Shane Shane Oh, yeah, Shane. Yeah Did you meet Shane when that happened or you never even got to meet him? No, no a part of me like no I met him at like a one of those like more baseball games like two years later He was so sweet Can you get us some hot dogs chloe? Yes, what would you like on it? What do you want rice chain? Whatever you met him there. He was there Yeah, at a baseball game like two years later. Yeah, I was crazy. Oh two years later Yeah, yeah, but bohenn was a writer before I was so I really felt very new but bullet dan bullet and I were the were the same year Love dan bohlla Jeanness jula solid solid solid and you came in as feature writer or just feature or cast cast I was just a main cast No, no feature cast cast future player. I think they call it a player Yeah, and then gosh came after me Uh, then it was like Andrew And No, everyone who's on the show Yeah, I do it's an item. You're like I'm I just try to remember It was like me and bohenn Then I feel like it was punky and through lauren halt then came the sarah jadj this guy aristotle year Then yes, then they brought in a hundred people marchello Marchello Devin and molly for who does the impressions and she's not there anymore Melissa Melissa Yeah, yeah, yeah, shoo is like three years in when I started Melissa had been there for Four or five years. I see her and marchello one thing that speaks to your It is the understudy sketch where you did melissa and you did Kate to them Yeah That was kind of interesting. How did they take that? I was so scared Especially like, you know, I think we are all really close But you know when I started the show like pate had been on the show for like nine years and was a superstar But it is one of the loveliest weirdest I was about to be like down to earth and very down to earth but like Pate I was like, I think we'll get a kick out of it But like sessley I was really intimidated all those women I was so intimidated by but then it was sort of this like sweet Sessley was like so into it which was shocking and kate was great um And I was like it was a thing too when I started if you had a pre tape I'd written actually with dan bowie wrote this murder show And like just getting those Super seniors to be in your video was so hard. So I was like shocked that they even were open to being in a pre tape Can they turn it down seniors? I like I've had I've had things turned down. Yeah, what? That was that was already approved Of like a cast. Yeah, I've had that. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I wouldn't do that anymore Yeah, I'm not revealing anybody but you know, but then you have you Kate has never kate was always in everything and that meant a lot to me I've never turned anything. I love the pre tapes. I could be there for hours. Pre tapes are tough I know do you do you don't do when do you start? That's my last question When do you start on pre tapes because we used to only do them Dana right after reed thirst? Like on a Wednesday no Thursday Yeah, yeah, how do you know what's what's approved before ryan gossin gets her do you get him working monday morning? No, well now they're doing these promos. So like I have to shoot a promo tomorrow Will you walk around with a host or do some yeah, they're like, can you do a do a leap impression? I'm like now So I'll I'll do like I'll find some bird call version of her tonight So you literally right now just for our listeners. So you've been assigned this impression Yeah, I cannot down by tomorrow and you don't have it right now. She's british No, I'm not like a like melissa was part of melissa's genius was he could do these singing in prep like lady gaga I cannot think of what is with me. Yeah, you'll have a funny wig. You'll have an accent. You're half there Yeah, we'll be okay But otherwise yeah, wednesday night you they pick your stuff Hopefully and it's cool with the pre tapes because usually you'll get an email Like 15 minutes before the pics are out asking to zoom for your video So it's really sick as hell to be like Oh, you know, that's how you find it you got on Yeah, yeah, we did a like a pilates video and it was like you got the bing and we were like Oh And then when is the next morning? No, then we then they have to build they build the set thursday and then we shoot it friday uh and then for like The under that when it would be like a me-centric video that would be done Sometimes they would pick it on wednesday, but not really and then be like we're gonna do this next week But shoot it like on monday or we're gonna shoot it on tuesday and then the writers were so mad Uh they inventing clothing we shot on thursday. So that was the next day and We weren't thinking and it was whenever it was doing like rewrites, I think And we had we wanted like seafood towers. So we basically like stunk up. Oh, I saw that 17 that looked expensive by the way, really expensive. It was really gross and like all the writers were like locked and they were so mad Oh, yeah, that was That rewrite table with jim down. He was probably dating with 15 hours of Oh It's going over every goddamn sky and you weren't even in them or you wrote one you just go spade wake up What do you got for me on this one? You're like, yeah, this guy says yeah Yeah, that's that's a tough that was a tough job that day All right, dana. What else you have for lovely clothes? Do you have a question for us? You're off the show this week There's no show this week. No, no, I'm kidding So I think we'll do another hour and let's let her do we can go into our second hour, but Uh, just say hello. Hello to the cast. They're all brilliant. It's the show's cooking. Uh, yeah, it is it really it's like found it But we've like figured each other out a little bit more Yeah, I do think that bro. Oh pad. Sarah Sherman. The audience just keeps discovering. Yeah crazy, Sarah What did she say the sun has knockers? Oh, yeah, she was on our show. She goes by the way just a foi audience Dana and I I told her later I go we both found out later We didn't understand we didn't understand and we just laughed because it was so bananas But she said, you know, they're saying Earth is flat, but I think the sun has big knockers. I didn't connect that And then we did all these jokes about it and then later when I saw it on a clip. I go Oh, I get it. I didn't even get it. She I didn't hear the earth's is flat So that was the thing that I thought it was not Not sequitur and I was like, well, why do I even say I'm in comedy? I didn't get it. I was so embarrassing She did a bit and we thought it was funny anyway because she's like, you know, how the sun Has to do hers. It's big the sun has big knockers because she has a funny voice. She has kind of She has um, but uh, you can go walk to work now I could actually today or do you have a limo? No, no, no, no, no, I like the sub we're near west for it. So it's like seven minutes five minutes on the train Get out All right, our last our last thing we'll let you go. Do you have a fake pitch for the The uh meeting today like Real why this little bit it'll be like Chloe anything you're like, hi doa That's how you start. Yeah. Yeah. Hi doa. Um, so over the break. That's usually how it starts. I mean, I think so I know we're sad it. Yeah mine are like weird Everyone has their thing There is our sarah. Marcello kind of does this like Uh, so I was uh thinking that uh, he does like a chalame like sexy baby thing. I take I'll have it one way and then the pitch is So bad, but then sometimes they do become sketches. Yeah, they bite on the host doesn't know they bite on a fake pitch and you go Uh-oh Sydney's Sweeney I pitched her the hooters idea where I was like maybe we're getting hooters Oh And we're counting tips I get 20 dollars and you made like you're like cool I made like 40 000 dollars and then she DM'd me to write it and then we got in so much trouble for like sexualizing It was so fucking funny, but it was you pervert over here I know you perv. That was a good one. That was very funny when you're counting your money Stupid yeah Some of that just silliness. I think uh, this is sort of I don't I just the way the world is all this Madness and everything and just abstraction. That's why beef is a butthead. Maybe it would hit so hard and yeah Hooters sketch just I think we're in the mood for like just I know I think so. I think the political quiet like we also like It's you you can kind of touch it, but not really it's like It's it's it's open the the door for weird, which I think is so nice Weirdest like a real a relief. Yeah. Yeah, because I I'm not the smartest with the political stuff. So I don't I do I do these little shorts for this just because if I do biden I feel like I'm doing something really nasty and wrong. Yeah, so I kind of Do it. Yeah. Yeah people get so mad when there's so many trump jokes But I have done some silly little things and people I don't know people seem to like that now I don't know what you call it abstract or weird. We're I like that a lot But movies are like I was thinking that the sasquatch sunset. I don't know If movies are weird everything's weird. We're in the era age of weird You know, it's funny because there's a lot of superhero movies because I figured out that the bad guy Can't be a certain race or a legend so you make them just a monster And then no one gets mad Well, you know what I mean? Are you gonna be a transformer and then go think of it? Okay, the influence the influence on on entertainment is because of the trauma of Hiroshima in japan There was all this radioactive godzillas movies and worse than So it is an influence on whatever the zeitgeist or the emotional Freak are the emotional temperature of the culture Yeah, totally. So two people having fun being really silly and you know, it's just great. So yeah, I'll be watching saturday. Don't Yeah, we'll watch Fun chloe Chloe thank you for doing a zoom from the kitsch your new sketch You're welcome. I'm sorry about being so inept at this beautiful microphone And at least I nailed it. I'm gonna bring this to a pitch. I'm gonna just pitch with a little That would be so funny. Just stand up I actually think I might do that It's pretty funny loose my say You go. Hey, hey do it. Do it. Can you hear me? She's like, yeah, I'm two feet away Okay Sometimes this doesn't work in here Nice to meet you. Chloe. Thank you. I wish you all the best and and have fun and say hello to anyone who would ever care Anybody that listen Hey guys, if you're loving this podcast what you are Be sure to click follow on your favorite podcast app. Give us review five star rating And maybe you can share an episode that you've loved with a friend if you're watching this episode on youtube, please subscribe We're on video now Plano wall is presented by autos scene executive produced by danie carvey and david spade hethersan toro and greg holtzman matty sprung kaiser and lea riece denis of autos Our senior producer is greg holtman and the show is produced and edited by phil sweet tech Booking by cultivated intersame special. 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