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RE-RELEASE - Kyle Dunnigan

72 min
Mar 11, 20263 months ago
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Summary

Kyle Dunnigan, a sketch comedian and impressionist known for his viral character work on social media, discusses his journey from stand-up to becoming a content creator. The episode covers his SNL audition experience, corporate gigs including a memorable Tony Robbins event, and his evolution as a performer who creates elaborate sketches with face-swaps and character work.

Insights
  • Impressionists and character comedians face pressure from traditional comedy gatekeepers to abandon their strengths and do straight stand-up, limiting their early career growth
  • Corporate entertainment gigs can pay significantly ($25,000+) but require navigating mismatched audience expectations and energy levels, especially with cult-like corporate cultures
  • Content creators struggle with the economics of sketch comedy production—the labor-intensive nature of writing, filming, editing, and graphics work makes monetization difficult without team support
  • Viral success on social platforms doesn't automatically translate to sustainable income; creators must balance content frequency with quality to maintain audience growth
  • Live performance anxiety and audition conditions can completely undermine a performer's ability to showcase their actual talent, raising questions about traditional talent evaluation methods
Trends
Shift from traditional media gatekeeping to creator-driven platforms as primary career path for comediansIncreasing monetization challenges for sketch/character comedy despite viral success and audience engagementCorporate entertainment market remains lucrative but requires understanding and managing client expectations around brand alignmentFace-swap and digital effects technology becoming essential production tools for independent comedy creatorsAudience algorithm dependency creating boom-bust cycles for content creators who can't maintain consistent outputGenerational divide in comedy appreciation—younger audiences more receptive to character work and impressions than traditional stand-upSNL audition process potentially filtering out performers who excel in controlled environments but struggle with live pressure
Topics
Stand-up comedy career developmentSketch comedy production and monetizationImpressionist and character comedy performanceSNL audition experience and selection processCorporate entertainment and event performanceSocial media content creation economicsFace-swap and digital video effectsYouTube algorithm and content creator sustainabilityComedy writing and collaborationPerformance anxiety and live auditionsTony Robbins corporate eventsCruise ship entertainmentComedy club circuit and open micsCharacter development and voice workContent creator business models
Companies
Tony Robbins
Kyle performed at a Tony Robbins birthday party for $25,000, doing Biden impressions that disappointed the audience e...
Saturday Night Live (SNL)
Kyle auditioned for SNL with impressions but had a difficult experience, going first out of 30 candidates and struggl...
Inside Amy Schumer
Kyle worked as a writer on the show and won an Emmy for the sketch 'Girl You Don't Need Makeup'
YouTube
Primary platform where Kyle distributes his character and impression content, though algorithm changes cause signific...
The Comedy Seller
Comedy club where Kyle performed and followed Jerry Seinfeld, Robin Williams, and Chris Rock
The Improv
Comedy club where Kyle performed and hosted, and where he encountered Robin Williams performing unexpectedly before h...
NBC
Network that produced 'One of the Boys' in 1981, where Dana Carvey worked with Mickey Rooney and Nathan Lane
Monday.com
AI workflow automation platform advertised as sponsor for handling project management and deadline tracking
People
Kyle Dunnigan
Guest discussing his career in sketch comedy, impressions, and character work across traditional and digital platforms
Dana Carvey
Co-host discussing Kyle's work and sharing his own SNL and comedy career experiences
David Spade
Co-host engaging in discussion about comedy careers, SNL experiences, and Kyle's work
Tony Robbins
Referenced for his birthday party event where Kyle performed; noted for his unusual height due to pituitary gland tumor
Robin Williams
Discussed as legendary performer who unexpectedly performed before Kyle at a comedy club, leaving audience depleted
Jerry Seinfeld
Referenced as performer Kyle followed at The Comedy Seller club
Chris Rock
Referenced as performer Kyle followed at The Comedy Seller club
Amy Schumer
Hired Kyle as a writer on her sketch comedy show where he won an Emmy
Chris Farley
Referenced as SNL cast member who appeared in the Gap Girls sketch with Kyle as an extra
Mickey Rooney
Dana worked with him on 'One of the Boys' TV show in 1981; known for eccentric behavior and pituitary gland tumor
Nathan Lane
Worked with Dana Carvey on 'One of the Boys' and became friends during that experience
John Mulaney
Auditioned for SNL same night as Kyle; noted for looking very young at the time
Nick Kroll
Auditioned for SNL same night as Kyle; discussed the audition experience with Kyle
Lorne Michaels
SNL creator and decision-maker referenced regarding talent selection and show direction
Bill Maher
Kyle does impressions of him; discussed as a target for character work
Andrew Cuomo
Subject of Kyle's impressions discussed on the podcast
Chris Cuomo
Subject of Kyle's impressions; brother of Andrew Cuomo
Caitlyn Jenner
Kyle does impressions of her; was supposed to sing happy birthday as Caitlyn at Tony Robbins event
Joe Biden
Primary subject of Kyle's impressions; performed Biden at Tony Robbins event
Sylvester Stallone
Subject of Kyle's impressions; has seen Kyle's work and reacted to it
Quotes
"I was nervous because they're paying me more money than I've ever been paid for anything in my life... $25,000"
Kyle DunniganTony Robbins gig discussion
"He's like nine feet tall. He has actually a tumor on his pituitary gland and it's pumping out growth hormones. That's why he's so big."
Kyle DunniganTony Robbins description
"I was like, okay. I don't think you're right. Beat the funny out of you."
Kyle DunniganSchool bully story
"You don't understand what I'm saying? He goes no, we need to get these we need to get a lot of people out of your life."
David SpadeDating story about waiter
"I was so shell shocked. It's almost like if you're afraid of bees, there's bees around you. I couldn't even begin to get to my voice."
Kyle DunniganSNL audition experience
Full Transcript
Kyle Dunnigan is one of my favorite guests we've had because I didn't know him as well as you did But we've had dinner a few times and the guy he's just flat out brilliant I mean his impressions and some of the weird quirky character He does in this episode are just laugh out loud funny. Oh, yeah, I follow him on tiktok and Instagram And he's doing he put so much work into this stuff. He's got a coma one. I was gonna send you a Is it Andrew Cuomo, who is the governor? Yeah, well Cuomo, there's two of them. Yeah, it was Andrew and then there's Chris Cuomo who's on new so nice now But he does Bill Maher He does and we were doing all of his impressions and just crack up when he talks that great story about going to do a corporate gig for Tony Robbins. Oh, yeah, that's a star. Yeah, I would listen to this one if I were you Yeah, I think if you don't know him or not familiar just listen in and here because it's just you'll have He's just one of the funniest. You'll be a new fan. Yeah, here is Cal Dunn again Dot Dana we're almost done You need a hat Yeah, oh, no, I don't chuck bearish. Yeah I did like that. Oh really so I was doing that I saw you in a hat like a round circle yeah, and I was like I need that cuz the sun's really bad And then I got one fucking pineapple picker hat that I can either spend hours with greasy Sunscreen all over I could put a giant hat on yeah for the giant hat some people will know fucked a hat I'm gonna grease it up for hours. I do both Cal Dunn again. Sorry guys today. I I Want you know I went to dermatologist and it looked at a thing and it was yeah, cuz I thought this looks not great We recording. Yeah, light it up So what I think actually focus the podcast on dermatology it's good when it's about some good nits So what happened? I we can always cut this Means means we won't cut it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I just looked at like a little mole spot And I was like that is not good I went and the guy looked at it. He's like you're fine and then this girl came to visit me for like a weekend I think I told you David about this and it did not work out like she walked into my house. I knew that was coming. Yeah She's my house. No, he always that's how they always end. I had yeah, it always ends like that I had this house and she walks up. She was two planes always fly over your house. She immediately just had all these I Never noticed the planes like but I'm now you hear the path now. I it's constant There's just planes around anyway. She goes. I don't like the look of that mole and I was like I checked it out I think it's okay to it off bitch. She's like, I don't think it's dangerous. I just don't like the look of it Yeah, yeah, it was just a vanity thing. Yeah, so I went but I went back and a different dermatologist was like That's a problem and cut it out and it had like damn got caught It was if it wasn't for girl was the problem. I thought he said cut the girl out of your life Well, I was naked on a slab and this guy's going around with the eyeglass. He's like 90 or something Yeah, and he's going around and everything he sees because I'm covered in stuff. He goes age age related And a woman's writing it down age related age related for a guy for a half hour Did you do anything? Nope age related Sick it's like Billy Bob Thor age related He goes he goes this doesn't look like much but you might have to remove it I go my wiener and then he took that monocle because oh, I'm sorry Wiener is Childlike reference to a dick actually Dana tell him when you went to the masseuse what she said Oh, I just masseuse once and she really started digging and she'd go she'd say give it give it give it Give it give it. Did she go by your wiener and go you hungry? No Irish comedians for a hundred is done again Irish or British Irish Yeah, so I went to it. This is like a longer story, but a Tony Robbins wanted me to perform at his birthday party I had oh go ahead and tell the story cuz why not? Do you do Tony Robbins? No, I don't but I tried to get one for the thing But I was excited cuz like I like Tony Robbins like read like three books in my life Awakened Rob. Yeah me too. So I was excited I was nervous because they're paying me more money than I've ever been paid for anything in my life $750 no I turned them down. I know you got I won't say what it is, but it was more than I know Tony does not Tony There's twenty four thousand dollars more than a thousand what do you net? It was $25,000. It's great. Yeah, it's that's that's wonderful. Well. Yeah, so it's very adorable number. I Know to you guys He says money bags here think about where you are and think of who owns this place No, I know cooling this house is 25,000. All right Tony Robbins tried to beat you up Got you we'll let you get through this story. Hopefully we probably won't I was nervous I thought hey Tony would say take care your take care of yourself little buddy people don't know Tony He's like nine feet tall. Yeah, he has actually a tumor on his pituitary gland and it's pumping out Growth hormones. That's why he's so big. He's grown a foot and a half in the last 18 months. Yeah, he's been When he was a kid they asked if he wanted to take it out and he was like no, I want to be enormous So he could have taken it out. He is that true. That's a true story He worked it did yeah Really stands out. Yeah, he'll like put obviously the documentary, but he's his hand on someone's head It's like a giant catcher's meant just envelops the whole guys. Yeah. All right. I'm getting to the Bunch of fucking Yeah, he's a therapist that swears. Yeah, he yells he's scary go ahead I'm gonna go take care of myself and and get a massage. I never do that So I went to this place and I don't want a hand job. I know about one of those happy ending Yeah, David's never heard those. No. Yeah, but the the whole point of going there is to feel better about myself You know, I don't want to walk. I want to go. I don't want to have like Have a hand job. So I'm like, what do I look like I don't want a hand job So I take off my baseball hat because guys in baseball hats look like No check I like it so I take that up and I kind of go in jolly, you know, yeah Serious looking around yeah, embarrassed already shame. Yeah, and she gives me a good back massage She flips me over she starts doing a little tickly on the stomach. I'm like, oh, this is like going down a hand job lane You know and so um, I don't know where she taps my penis And she goes you hungry And I was like, oh no, I'm I just the better question is is she hungry she seemed hungry. Okay, I didn't ask her But you know, this is important for our listeners She's like famished. Yeah, so I said someone's the meal and someone's the Yeah, consumer of the meat. Yes. Yes. She was drooling then she tapped my penis again harder like four more times She was like, no you hungry am I breaking your mic? And I go, oh, no, thank you. Thank you And she goes oh girlfriend and I go now and she goes wife and I go now I know where this one's heading to yeah, and she goes oh Oh Yeah, so watch how they're feeling great I go to the Tony Robbins thing and They beforehand they did a zoom call with me You know where they go This is what Tony wants and he wants me to do Biden on a big screen no one sees me They just see Biden, but he's gonna introduce me as the president of the United States is here And I was a little worried because he that could happen. He could zoom in the president He's met all the presidents So I said to them I'm a little worried they'll be disappointed when they see me and they were just like this is what 20 wants This is a cult you don't tell us what we do Yeah, I did the same kind of gig. Yeah, I want to hear about one of your ears because I'm sure yours is better than no Everything is ringing true to me. Okay. I love Tony. Tell when they play they play like a videotape before yes, so Well, it's actually two things a montage, right? Yeah, I'm making this story way too long Fly right I googled Tony Robbins birthday on YouTube I don't think I told you that research and he his last birthday was this big extravaganza with all these stars Just like Tony are the best. He's balling crying his wife's like. I love you, honey. It was like it's 60 others You know, so I felt even more pressure. This is the next oh, yeah So, um, I get there and he's like thanks for doing this you little hunk of crap and he waxed me on the back and everybody's super jazzed up, but they've been up since like five in the morning, you know This is a lot of corporate gigs where they beat him to death. They go here's your entertainment. They're like, yeah It's like raw right go where we can win They have dancers come out you probably saw this after every speaker they could Mom was on zoom mom was on zoom. Oh, yeah, see that was smart Well, I was there. I flew down to west Palm Beach. He wanted me to undisclosed location. So anyway, so what what how does this what happens? Yeah, get in the story. No, you know I could do Tony Robbins for the first half hour. Yeah, and then we'll do mccartney for the second half hour He's at a trampoline and I jumped on that beforehand trying to get pumped up and um, so the guy before me was uh, the secretary defense former secretary defense Larry Sumner's and he just talked like this. He went over an hour and a half It's like midnight now and uh Tony goes, are you ready for the surprise of your life? And they're like, yeah I've never disappoint I do like no you never get some of this and then he goes And then and then someone goes like blah blah. There's a pause. He'd forgot to play the package They made this minute package video of him with presidents. Oh, okay. So now that plays for like, okay No, he goes. Yeah, the president states to go nuts Then they play the package then he reintroduces me because he introduced me before he did it wrong But now it really feels like for sure the president because he's in the video. They said he's shaking hands with obama Yeah, so they really think bind's coming. Oh, they hundred percent. Oh, and there's no way he would fuck us over and have some asshole Playing by exactly. So I'm sitting backstage like, oh, no, it's the nightmare imagine So then I pop up on the screen and you hear this audible And I'm like, hey, it's Tony Beloni's birthday Come on Really They're Nothing from them because they're angry. Yeah, and I think they don't even know if it's a joke and they're just staring And I'm in my head. I'm going this is my this is the funniest thing and I've got another 25 minutes You know, you don't make your best bit. Yeah Yeah, you're like This is just gonna get worse and are you in a suit and tie just that a regular mile? That's a whole another thing. I went shopping. You're nervous. You shop for a new after the masseuse I had to go after you know what I mean So I bought these new shoes. They were both left feet. So I couldn't even use I I had dirty shoes Who does that? I'm making this story. I'm telling you 10 percent. This is gonna be a bonus Yeah, if you are yeah, go to the patreon And then I got a shirt so I looked it was a black button and I looked like a magician Yeah, I think and I made a joke about that you have clown shoes on and a misfit I yeah, I didn't I wore my dirty shoes And um, because I I couldn't fit into those two left feet. They go. I like when the magician made all the laughter disappear Yeah It's weird because the screen goes up and now I have to introduce myself and yeah, here's a surprise for tonic Kyle This is very normal. This guy's still going. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I walk out and they jump up and they're like Yay, because they're all taught. Yeah train of seals. Yeah the energy and then back to like we hate you sit back down This is very normal Yeah, and I go I I said something about like I know I look like I'm about to magic. I promise I'm not and they're like Where's the entertainment? Yeah, they don't get any sarcasm or irony. No Yeah, it's almost like the opposite because it's all about positivity and then I you know stand up still cutting And I'm halfway through joke going don't tell the rest of this joke I told the joke I go, um, I did this girl. She was too young for me. She was 19 years younger Don't judge I was in college. That's when you experiment and they go, oh wait, that means she was like Oh my god, that's a tough If that you're going to do more or something right what's your what's your your failsafe like Defconn five what bit is just never that situation when you jump to maybe this is now to your sure fires Yeah, but nothing's working in your head. You have nothing. Yeah Oh, but you're skipping chunks and then you're like, I know and then you're yeah, you're speeding through Yeah, done it half this and then the clock's like going backwards and then like on the piano at one point And then people I have like pictures If you want to I don't feel a website if I could put up Anyway, um, we have nothing it doesn't matter. We don't really good at social media. We barely have audio. Yeah Oh, and then I just got wi-fi Anyway, I get off and I was supposed to sing happy birthday to Tony as as Caitlyn Jenner Right, so there's a wig I'm back on the where the laptop is where I'm projected like a face swap and I see the wig there and Go in my no, I say I can't I need to walk out of here with something I can't walk out of here with a woman's wig on so I leave it there and not crush Yeah, and I just go sincere. I'm like, hey guys, it's Tony's birthday. How about a happy birthday? I was supposed to be like happy birthday to Tony, baby. Yeah, and do some But he's got a big old cock. Yeah, but I bailed on that And I just did a sincere happy bird and they just turned to their leader and they're like happy birthday And I use that to sneak out and I'm grabbing my stuff And so he thought I was offstage about under the desk and he goes did you guys have a day? You'll never forget and they were like, yeah, and then he goes this is a night. I'd like to forget No, he was talking about me way Have you ever heard Tony Robbins saying negative life on anyone? No, he said about me. That's that's weird. It was rough That's weird. That is weird. Well, we'll be right back I'll just show you from our sponsor point Yeah, I was just on a zoom bar real quickly and he was just super enthusiastic And there were just all these flashing pictures of people all over the world And he would go I would do a bit like he didn't like Fauci So I was like, you don't need a vaccine. It'll solve everything all that stuff And he goes give it up for Dana Carvey. So I'm just in my little room My wife's cooking dinner downstairs and he's going like this and it went on for two minutes So I started dancing in my room and just for one landed joke Yeah, I was during the pandemic obviously how much time you have to do Um, I think it was supposed to be 45. I think it ended up being 35 and they were fine with it David, do you have a Tony Robbins gig story? I have you know, I did get a call about a Tony Robbins gig Oh, you what? I got a call about one recently Are you being serious? I swear to god, yeah, because I turned him down. I think what happens is they do these gigs Yeah, I was too busy. Go ahead. Do you have to throw that? Well, well Dana, you already did it though You were number two. They have Dana, they have to do it But then they wanted me back in person Oh, yeah, yeah And I was really really busy with something and they only told me five days before So I said, you know, there was nothing that was going to stop me to get 25,000 dollars This was I would like that money now that my 401k is 70 percent down. Yeah because of I I think I know Caravan Because of docusign or no docusign. Yes. The stock market's been bad. It went down over 100 percent. I actually owe money It's negative 28 No, it's it'll be fine. Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine Um, David, you guys are fine. I like when you both do buy names funny talking to each other Well, I just end with Pirate of the Caribbean. I love yours your stuff. It's good. We have like different pines Yeah The the ladies when you do the whisper yell because that's what happened after Afghanistan I like yeah, I do like come on man. This guy gets this guy A very punteng not punteng. Yeah the guy And then it's like yeah, it's like a lower like a mumble. He does like But even my dad used to do this where he he'd patronize whisper like I know better than you Oh, yeah, because I know a lot better and I know how to do it. You know, that's a bit of your biden's amazing Come on. Yeah, it does that and you do everything I mean you just went at him early because now the new york times is attacking biden saying he makes up stories and bumming back in those days It was a hot oven, but your thing was always just edgy and funny and kyle on youtube is all and the instagram Is always something that's ahead of the game anywhere you felt like going even when you do katelyn jenner You get you get you always wonder these connections even are they even aware? I had I never know they I found a video that they make because I did a video where they were like We're mad at you the whole thing was just like we're mad at you And then the cloe did a video going we're mad at you and they did it They saw that one. I don't know if they saw the other ones though. I think Yeah, maybe just that one should we talk about one that you thought might tweak them? Because you're always going for the laugh. You don't seem like you're waving any political party or any point of view other than what's funny Yeah, that's all I I'm trying to do. You do biden a fresh prince of dc, right? I'm trying to finish one up now. They take forever and I go dark So, you know with making money on the internet you've got to keep cranking stuff out You know sketch you really hard to crank out. Yeah, I mean snl's they got 30 writers or something and then oh no One man ban what you're doing. I don't know when you're doing in the house You've got green screens the face swap and all these computer things you have graphics and I edit and then it's like Like I'll be like, oh I need tape to tape down this wig So then I go to the store. I gotta get the tape for the wig and that's a half hour And I'm like, oh wait, I need a tie then I go like the goodwill and I get a tie And then I'll shoot for an hour. I'm like, oh my ear was sticking out. I gotta reshoot that current Some day one helping you how much work I I know some people could help you Well, I need to find I need to find a way to get money that I could pay people Because that's that would be great. Well, you're okay. It's kyle dunagin. You got a youtube channel Or listeners go check it out more talent It's tougher to make there's just some ways It's hard to make money No matter how good you are just hard to get on youtube and that shit It's hard to crank out sketch like they do snl's got Just probably two sketches a week that are well, they write about 50 55 and 24 hours And two are good and they take two weeks off every two weeks. It's just like it's like bass player, you know You know, sometimes three kyle. Oh, is it three? Lauren visited the podcast we would do two and then a week off and then Three and then we go off then around Christmas two weeks off But you're a huge staff churning stuff out and it's a numbers game Yeah, so I'll like do a few in a row and I'll watch it grow and then I'll stop I'll need to like take a break for like a month or a couple weeks and it'll just I'll drop 40% on my next video So it's like that's I'm trying to figure out how to do the business side So now this next fresh president is more like a short film. I'm going to release it like And maybe have people pay like two bucks for it or something the will smith show Yeah, I know I've seen them just for the audience You're kind of rapping as Biden and running around and then insanity ensues. Yeah, there's like sitcom laps around it Monday dot com a i agents took over my work and I absolutely love it chasing deadlines writing status reports updating stakeholders Agents handle the daily grind now. I stay in the loop only when it matters Create your own a i agent in minutes on monday.com Hi everybody, I'm mori povich on my podcast on par with mori povich I'm going to sit down with the icons the stars and the faces at the very center of today's big cultural moments With everyone from comedians josh johnson dan soter leon morgan to newsmakers don lemond joy reed erin parness And so many more so join me for new episodes every week because nothing is off limits great conversations They're always on par follow and listen to on par with mori povich wherever you get your podcasts Hey, everyone, it's stavros halkis and i'm here to tell you about my podcast stave's world Each week we're joined by great guests like josh saf the eric andre kaleb heron and more It's sort of an interview show, but really we're just messing around Making each other laugh and hopefully making you laugh while you're washing the dishes or grocery shopping or on a long drive Plus i take listener calls where we have honest conversations about dating life and everything in between Imagine if your therapist was a vulgar degenerate whose office was in a greek diner no scripts no polish and absolutely No holding back listen to stave's world wherever you get your podcasts Well also people that are listening should know kyle is a comedian Been doing it forever he up for five emmies wrote for the was it inside amy schumer and won an emmy for Girl you don't need makeup. I listen to today. What was that girl? You don't need makeup Was it on amy when you wake up? Yeah, it was on the schumer show my mom has that i brought her the emmy is just very excited Okay, we'll come back to your show Uh sarah silverman, did you write for that show? I did actually that was a show i was writing and then i had I was like i have to get out of here. It was a great job But I just felt like I was writing too much for other people and I wanted to you know perform in a show I started making I actually during that writing thing. I figured out how to Um do the face swaps so it was a FaceTime call so they could talk to each other and that was like a big Um I just like was doing imitations of the writers in the room and they liked and then I started doing it online That's kind of what what you're doing that. How long you've been doing uh 2016 or two? 2016 17 and so okay well early on we'll tell us when you You probably were into snl because all we all were yeah, and um But you did did you find a good audition or was it one or was it? You were trying to get an audition like uh, yeah, I didn't know what to do Yeah, big fan of snl. Dana's been a huge influence. We talked about that, uh, but we're gonna have to I don't want to Yeah, well, maybe we could about just a little we can talk a little bit Three sentences. I'll comment David though. Uh, because I was an extra When I was this is the worst no you had left like the year before And being let me just go back but but but David. Oh, we're gonna dog you that one. Yeah, yeah, David. Um Fucked you you could see in the monitors what was going on in rehearsal and you could hear it and I was like, oh, David's the funniest one Because he was he was so yeah Yeah, I don't remember what you're doing. Yeah, and then you when the air show came he would freeze up a little bit He was fun. Yeah, David was the always the funniest so funny but very very low Show you yeah, I mean rehearsal. I didn't know back then they were probably taping him But you're just bullshitting with your friends saying by the way anything for getting you're on camera, but When Kyle was there We were doing happened to be one of my favorite ones ever which was the gap girls lay off. I'm starving lay off And Kyle not only was he there he was a Extra And they put him in the gap girls sketch And they put him in a primo spot Of behind us. I was really excited about that. So you were just on camera with no lines throughout the screen. Yeah, and I'm just right next to Chris Farley. I'm like, this is probably my big break. I'm not sure That's not sure but we're about to go out and David comes already like, uh, yeah, this is my friend Oh, my god, what's this? My buddy was visiting maric's on and I'd never done this ever And I fucking go he flip can he be in this they go? Yeah, and I go rick. Why don't you sit here and they pulled kyle out Yeah, well, they flip me. So I go get you the back of your head And uh, my friend will get the uh, and then he became famous off that he got a deal off that extra work Can I ask a question about this like when just for a second because I don't know that that party you like when did you start being a comedian? um You know trying to be professional as you go It was your first stand-up at 18 or were you doing little shows for your parents when you're 10 or we have all different When I was younger I I didn't uh I remember being laughed at but not like me trying to be funny about like humiliating things Just in school. Yeah. Yeah, I mean my very first memory Was my whole family laughing. I mean my my grandmother was like first remember I was like, what's this nana and it was a placemat. We got like a chuchu place and she goes Oh, you eat on that and my little brain was like eat On it didn't make sense, but eat it made sense Like I could see I think I'd skip that little word So I started eating it and I came in I was trying to eat that and this my first memories everyone like, ha And then I got to school. What an idiot. Yeah, and people would laugh at me, but I wasn't trying to be funny I was little I think we're like three little guys, right? Yeah, we're like little guys height and weight when you entered high school Uh, I know all I know is the tiniest except for my friend Michael was like a half inch and I love because when they'd line you up It was like Michael year on the end I would but I was always number two But I remember they had superlatives where they go, you know best looking most like succeed And the popular girls come up to me. They never talked me and they were like we decided you're the funniest Whoa And it was like eighth grade. It was like 12 years old So before school, you know, I say to that I go you hungry and they go And I go you go it's early. I'm gonna ask you again but I didn't really know or think I was funny and then The lobby of the before you go to school. There's like a lobby and everyone hangs out. That was terrifying. Yeah, junior high Right, right and this big the big bully Scott Chapman comes up and pushes me and he goes You're not funny Whoa, the word got out that I was going to be the funniest and he wanted to be the funny guy And I was like, yeah, okay. I don't I don't think you're right. Beat the funny out of you. Yeah And he goes, I'm funnier than you now. Everyone starts gathering around us. I was gonna be some funny fight Funny fight? Yeah, yeah Eight miles. So what does he say? I backed it. I was like you are like This is hilarious what you're doing. So then I got voted class clown. I got upset about it because um Clown it kind of isn't the same It's not good Especially when you're 12 and you want to be liked by girls and it was like a popular guy I was like, oh, they look at me like on this like clown So I've My friend was really sweep and he was intended to do something nice But he went to the principal or whatever and was like Kyle's upset of the clown called clown So they changed it to best person they changed it to best personality Really? Don't he's shrinking down in his chair. He's changed it Did you did you uh, did your gift for mimicry emerge at that time? Could you do the p coach? Or were you doing it? Yeah, that actually got me attention from girls. I did um of Mike I did Michael jackson's girl. I really liked they do Michael jackson. So it just dance like a monkey So then one time she'd cross it off her shoe Michael jackson. I got hurt personally like we broke up But but did you do the voice or just do a little dance? I do the voice and the dance I remember this is a hacking impression now, but I saw what my first impression I saw Christopher walkin at our local Tiny grocery store west in Connecticut tiny little thing I'd never seen a famous person before, you know, so I was following him around like a creep You know the thing when you go to a grocery store and you're like, oh, I just want to get like some batteries But then you start going oh, I need that I do that. So he had this whole pile of stuff And right before he got to the front. He just like jangered it all over the floor And he goes, oh no my cottage cheese and the lady was like it's fine. He's like no No, you get quiet and I'm sorry. He got really loud And not like bug got me. I was like, I think I'm one of the first impressions I did But I did impressions, but then I started doing stand-up when I got out Uh to try to make money because there just was no money in sketch Out of out of the world of school out of college and stuff. Yeah, okay. So early 20s you start to stand up Yeah, and my you know managers were like, don't do impressions and guitar. So everything that I do well They I didn't do for 20 years until I found they told me not to do that either. Yeah, don't do impressions Don't don't do the church lady. Look bad advice that we got. Yeah later you go. What the fuck do you know? Yeah, I was so then what was your like those years you you got on It shows pretty quickly like cedric the entertainer. You're a sketch player. That was yeah That was um, I thought that was like a big break because I was kind of a hit sketch show and I joined mid-season because like we need a white guy to pick on and uh Before we would do the shows like a funny little thing. They would do a prayer circle And cedric, you know, he's very religious and uh, he's holding hands with two jewish, you know producers And we're just sitting around. I would just stare at the jewish producers because they'd have to be there like Pray please jesus help these setups land our punchlines and We all praying for jesus and there was really only like a couple of people who Believed in jesus, but those those are all are you doing circles are awkward. I'm not religious. No, okay. Yeah, no Do you have any um, were you affiliation with a political party? No, how do you spell your last name mr. Dangan? Uh, wait, I want to get to some impressions too But also oh wait, when did you do cruise ships because my buddy does cruise ships and he said they're tough My friend was like don't do it. It'll be really bad. I was like, how can that be bad? You know how can vacation how could that be bad? So I go there and cruise ships three shows a night And it's a free show so everyone goes to the show because it's free. They paid for it and I'm bombing so hard Mostly wheelchairs. It was a very old cruise. You hear people leaving these And then the walkers after that Yeah, he by wd-40 is and I got We love when David does I know he does great. He does great sound effects Wd-40 gets underplayed in the world. It's out there though Yeah, I but I was famous for being terrible on the ship So I just hid in my room and then you go and you're looking over the lead. Oh deck and it was like that guy suck Are you the guy that's horrible? So yeah, so you bombed the first night. No, I bombed every night Nothing three times in three times a night where it was just this awful And then one time they make you after the show say goodbye to everybody. So you bombed and you got a big thank you for coming Yeah, so I see this woman good game. Good covering You know around me and I'm like, oh here's a fan. That's what we have to deal with this This is nice and she goes I have to tell you You look exactly like my dead son My son just died a month ago. They were gonna cancel this trip And they were already bought the tickets and the dad won't look at me Apparently I look amazingly and sound like her son who just died. So I'm like, oh my god. I'm so sorry And then I keep running into her because the ship's not that big at the buffet by the pool And then I went to one bar and I'm like, oh god there she is again And she's got the rest of her family and it was like there he is and no every There he is. They're like, oh She confused you dying at stage You both die once you died at stage. I was like, no that's him And then she asked me to go rock climbing and trying to be the son again. Yeah I can't say no to her so now I'm rock climbing and she's staring at me. She starts calling you Dave Michael or something She was sort she was sort of having this thing with me and I I had had to do it and I could tell I wasn't It's a good sitcom as good as her son. She was like just climb up Like you're not you're good at this. Yeah, she's ordering you're out like a mom to a son. Yeah, just climb up Yeah, and just so you do what she's terrified And her son I'm sure was like bing bing. You're the worst fake son Yeah, that was my uh, that was the week that obama was uh, or not obama that uh, bin laden was uh Oh That was my bin laden. My obama's not like this. That's that's what you do My mom points like obama, you know not obama So then when did how did you become a genius? Are they two different people? I don't know Points like like obama. I meant to say bin laden There might be something racist in there, but like I kept saying obama and bin laden But um, yeah, she just points like obama terrorist is Saying their blood will run in the streets, but mother's finger gets right and you know, yeah Your mom's in your bit sometimes. Yeah, she's really good. Actually. Do you tell her what to do or no? Yeah, I actually surprised her because once she knows she's acting it's over we have to She'll come on stage no I'll make videos and I'll just when she's doing gish on the bed. Hey mom. Let's I'll just start doing something That is she has to improv it. That's craig. Yeah craig. I do craig Stereo-kul craig's a seraphil. Thank you. Yeah. All right. We'll talk about it. Let's go ahead. All right. Oh, you think it's your snl audition Oh, yes. Well, we want to get to that. We're just creeping up to like how many years to stand up and then when do you try out for snl? Oh, yes And the first time I did stand up actually was in the high schools 20 minutes before my friends Like you should you stand up and I Was like, okay Because I just did what people told me and I wrote a set in 20 minutes and the set was 20 minutes So I don't know what that must have been very bad. First time music crushes What's that first time usually crushes and it's about one pretty good Because I was doing teachers and stuff like that, but I got suspended halfway through it Well, it's so funny though. Yeah, but yeah halfway through the host this girl was like, um, you have to um You have to stop uh saying Something about oh, you can't say penis or miss always gonna suspend you was the thing And then they were all quiet like what happened. I was like, I'm not allowed to say penis anymore And then I started going like my kill boss and then I started doing other names. It was then they took me off stage anyway They took you away. Yeah, they took me in in the jacket. Um, but I started yeah But I like when you bump with the microphone with your chin while you're talking and you hug it like this hugging it He's bumping it. He's funny. So when you start crushing and get the notion I want to and I'm highly qualified to be on serenity life Uh, I always wanted like like watching you and stuff. I Not that I felt like I'd be as good as you but I thought like I can do that kind of thing That's like in my wheelhouse. Yeah. So I really want to do it and I love the show You actually almost stopped me from getting uh from losing my virginity It didn't happen, but you almost I was coming home from a party and uh This woman who is this girl. She's like 21 was in my Spanish class and she's on a balcony. She goes Kyle dunag and get up here She's hammered and like we Immediately had she decided we're having sex and I remember what happened in between But then I was like But I almost didn't go up because I was like I want to go back and see Dana Carvey because snl was starting now almost But I I wish I had because I I didn't think I got aids from this woman. I knew I got aids from this one It was back when if you just had unprotected sex, you got aids right when it started to everyone thought yeah It's everyone's gonna get it. So I wish I had just I did and I wish I hadn't I got aids from watching Dana once Yeah, yeah, you either way Fouchy got me took care of me. We give you this shot The boosters You do it accurately. I just punt sometimes I just decide how I want him to sound and hope people he does quieter fouchy I'm a Dana Carvey derivative. You're you're not just crying laughing talking about um Mickey Rooney Yep Mickey Rooney. I I heard you do it before but I know it's true story Work for words. Yeah what you worked with him on a play No, a tv show one of the boys in 1981 I was cast out of nowhere. I was just a young stand-up fred silverman the head NBC That's Mickey Rooney's grandson then I'm on a 747 with nathan lane. He was going that's right He was your brother so we became friends and then we met Mickey who had a 38 revolver and Literally at least once an hour. I was the number one star in the world. You hear me bang the world Anyway, and then he's not kissing you. He's like pulling something. Yeah, he would say things like uh, he needed money and he would I heard he's dying laughing Judy Garland never owned a car It was non sequestered. Why Mickey because they pumped her so full of drugs. They killed her and then he would just look off into space Yeah, yeah, I asked him for money and joe louis joe louis He'd be there studying. Yes, doesn't yeah, he's getting right up on my face. He's not four foot ten He's going like this right to my face joe louis. He's slam. Bam joe louis This fire plug will take you out. He referred himself as a fire That that's another podcast entirely but um when I first met you it's kind of interesting I had dinner with you because david's very social and i'm home body And I didn't really know what you did. I just thought you were funny and a really nice guy And then I went home and looked you up and went my god. This is my brother from another mother I mean it's an honor that you think that that's well. It's the evidence is on youtube watching it. It's like Extraordinary acidity stuff the Stallone doing the way you do Stallone now Oh, yeah, it's like a character as well. There's a sweetness to him kind of Yeah, it's different than he he's actually seen it which is funny. We've had frank Stallone on the show Oh, really? And it's really cool to because some people like impressions some people don't like What why did you find that Stallone that particular Stallone you just started doing it Yeah, just you know, I was like really like the punch is Stallone, you know He's really stupid. He's like coffee. Yeah coffee super sincere coffee stupidity Coffee stupidity. Yeah, I just did like uh, I don't do him He like makes a lot of movies and the last one which got demonetized everything gets demonetized that I put out But he's like doing a documentary on 9 11, but it was like the day we got 9 11 The first building got 9 11. What about this? Kyle and I joke about like If he goes on dates or you know, we're obviously both Older Then our twilight years mature back nine mature and when we're out. I remember I was with uh Said rick our friend all my friends in my age So we were we were in Las Vegas and we sat at this booth and this girl came she was our hostess So they liked to blab and then the like manager sends her go talk to those guys. So she just sits with us But no one invites her she's just she's 21. She's like hey guys, so beer in Vegas like yeah, that's Safe bet and then and then she doesn't have much to say and so she goes where are you staying? We're like oh at the mirage and she goes oh fun. That's the one that's got a big fountain You know, she doesn't know anything and then my buddy goes, you know, I was there when they built the mirage I was there opening night. She's like, huh? I go rick quit advertising how lucky old we are like built them Or she doesn't know that was ever built. She goes, wow and he goes. Yeah, and I go. Oh, yeah And we were at uh, we were she he goes remember the dunes before they blew it up. I go rick It's getting worse. I go the monkeys were better than the He goes, uh, I go we were at joey bishops 40th at the dunes. Were you there? No, I'm 21 years old and that was 200 years ago and and and I we just got to be careful because You've said it before you slip and say something like uh, I've got buddies are like, uh You know, do you use compression socks and she's like, huh? Yeah, why are you talking about the oldest things in the world? I even feel like you don't wear that and he goes in my other friends like Uh When I if I have like soreness and she goes, I know my arm her yesterday and he's like, oh, do you think it's arthritis? What it's not arthritis. She's 21 quit saying the oldest sickening is words that even I'm at your table going beat it old man Yeah, he's not good for you. No, it's just All my young shtick though. What would you say to a younger? No, I love I love you There's no conversation. It's just she was doing her job to say I but this happens a lot When bands or some or just anyone comes up and says hi and then we just catch ourselves having it's just too old You're right. Just references the old is hard. I did my last date that I had I don't go on many dates because of what happens in on them and she says to me um, well, you're a little long in the tooth And I don't think we've been talking about age or anything And I thought we had a yeah and never heard from yes, that's how we were talking about that It's too long in the tooth. Long in the tooth. That's that makes her seem old. That's an old fashion. That is old Maybe she was 62 with a nice lift Yeah, I went yeah Dating's not bad. I went on a date where the uh girl was um She showed up different than what her picture was just to say that very different to say different Yeah, I'm different and she gets in the car and um, she gets nauseous and every five minutes We're pulling over for her to drool out of the car and then she takes off her shoe and starts rubbing her bare foot Like crossed over anyway Been going well. So anyway about snl I knew a guy went on a tinder date with this woman and uh, she'd never she was I guess she's Didn't have a lot of money but they took her to her sushi restaurant and she just kept saying I want to stab it I want to stab it. So she had she had a fork. She was just stabbing the sushi. I mean just a little piece of sushi Yeah, I want to stab it I I'll tell you one last story of when my waiter who's german I got I was there was a picture of me kissing a girl in a pool that was Secretly taken or whatever, but it was kind of all over the place because it just was a weird match of people Me and her Actually, it was just weird because she was cute and I'm gross That's really the headline and so my way The daily says but definitely very weird, you know, like I obviously I'm aware of it And it's weird and then about a week later the guy goes. Hey, he knows me. Yeah How was your vacation? I go, okay. He goes a little pool party, huh? I go, yeah, he goes, huh a little fun in the sun I go, yeah, and he goes, yeah I saw pictures of you kissing a girl. I I know I know you're talking about Oh, why why do they make you so fat in that? I go, what do you mean? He goes you get out of the pool It's like I didn't know you were kind of fat, but why do you want that picture? I go I don't want that. What are you talking about? I go, that's what a paparazzi is they take A hundred pictures of you and find the grossest one and then they go they got a jeweler's loop and they go He looks fat and gross here. We got a winner run with it and then someone runs it to the press room But he goes no, I wouldn't pick that. He doesn't get it Yeah, now I wouldn't pick that one because you know, you look kind of fat You want to look good? I go, why aren't you listen? You don't understand what I'm saying? He goes no We need to get these we need to get a lot of people out of your life. No that guy. He's all right Let's put on speedos. Everybody's makes go to the beach I'm an easy prominate around and then run to run to the web and see if daily mail all right snl audition That's all snl audition at this point Let's just say you're a season stand-up and you probably do Pretty much any accent and at least 50 have you done any humor show yet at this point? You've done any of that stuff writing No, I had done said drake, which was a sketch show, but I never worked on any There was no reason to really work on any Impressions or characters because I wasn't doing it on youtube and there was no money in doing it right I was doing stand-up and doing yeah, and you do just straight Yeah, just doing straight stand-up extremely funny as well. Yeah. Thank you. I um always feel like square peg Into doing stand-up like I'm trying to do scenes and stand up. That was the same with me Yeah, I was always I didn't realize that till later. The wonder was difficult in a honky tonk bar show us your dick, you know I am a fresh waiter. Now I'm trying to find out so Yeah, I so what I did was I just made a random tape of impressions And sent it in not even thinking because I nothing was going on. I was broke and somehow they were like Flew me out and decided that I would audition and it felt like way too big Suddenly it's like the next day. I was flying out And I'm trying to write the thing and I'm really really nervous And I'm in a hotel for two days just running it and you gotta like here's my six minutes or whatever Trying to get it correctly on time, which is the wrong, you know I know I'm in the wrong mind frame and I get there and it's there's 30 of us It was nick 30. Yes 30 people nick roll was there and he was talking about that And he was with john malaney who looked really young. I was like, hey, I will I would do I know you? He's like No, I'm five I'm this many So I was like this guy's not gonna make it That I've never heard of john malaney. Let me let me absorb that I'm five He he made jokes about how young he does he looked he looked real really young crazy for the high school So he's auditioning too. So you got he's auditioning. It's the same night as our day is Nick roll nick roll and 30 people 30 people. That's a death march And I'm just like white knuckling and I'm just like, please not first. I just want to go first Yeah, you know let's someone else so you can hear can you hear? Uh No, was this in eight h. I think people could actually I No, we were in the conan's jigs. They were doing the olympics. Yeah, six four rock foe center. Got you But they're like first up is kyle dunne again I was like out of 30. Yeah, I know that's what are the odds of that three percent odds three point three percent odds So I went into the you can do this Hey, you got you got this buddy, right, but um, I'm having trouble. He didn't have this Spoiler so they're mic'ing me up which is nerve-wracking and I'm self-absorbing someone's mic'ing you and the camera guy's like I'm gonna count you in three two one. You're writing stuff. I'm getting nervous. This is so well told Crew guys have too much power to ruin that. The mic thing and all the okay kid. Yeah, is that good for you? Do you like it right and they're not nervous at all You want your radio back you want to write in your pocket? Yeah, exactly I'm gonna count you right in your stuff three two one you'll write in your stuff So he said to me my stuff So I had that locked in my head So I walk out and the camera's in front of me and lauren everybody are to the left and I'm just staring at the camera Oh, no any applause at all. No, just silence. Nothing's happening. You just walk out Nothing's happening and then lauren goes Hello Like hello say hello to us over here and I go. Oh, hello. Hi. Hi And I turned back to the camera and more dead silence and he's the guy's not counting me in, you know And then lauren says something I'm already on thin ice and that's just crushed me through the ice and the war he goes Are you okay? Whoa, and then I start trying to say tell him the guy I go well He said three two. He knows he's about to get tattled on so he counts me in and the red light goes on and I'm just destroyed I I can't get to any facility or impression My brain's like look all hands on deck to make this guy pass out Drop the bill. We're not doing any of that. We're just gonna breathe, you know, katelyn Yeah, but I think she was alive. It was alive. She wasn't anyway Um, but I mean no sense So I came and they brought a piano out for me. I can't play the piano like I'm just plonking on it And every impression sounds the same. I'm like, this is chris hansen. I'm chris hansen. This is blah blah Sort of outside myself and then I walk out like I just got beat up And then the producers go to everybody else guys when you go out there say hi to lauren Okay After me Yeah, anyway, and before it's fine. How many were out there? There's lauren was like 10 people Probably 10 people and they were sort of to your left and the camera was center Yeah, I didn't know where to play. Yeah, I didn't know where I don't know if it's good to them or the camera But the camera guy it seemed like that was the thing to do. Yeah, but what was your bill mar there? Okay, people Do you think you're one of those people? Well, let's hear bill mar. Yeah, keep going. I love it. No one does anyone else do him I don't think uh your to me your hook was the okay Okay, people. Yeah Winey winey winey you think you really think you don't you're wrong church lady. Do you think there's a magic man in the sky? There's not okay Okay, it's sustaining the okay. Yeah. Yeah, eve was a pig. She was made out of ribs. Okay Yeah, because he admonishes his audience so directly you think this and you think that yeah, everything sounds sarcastic You think you're good. I bet even if he was trying to be sincere. I'm there. Yeah, I'm sort of like that where people think I'm I'm like him ordering frozen yogurt. I'll have the rum raisin because it's delicious. Okay I'll have the gogurt If you do an snl audition yeah, I tempt it yet. I did chris Hanson was big at the time He knows I do him now. You're not. Uh, yeah, he was that from to catch a predator. Oh, yeah He's trying to have sacks with old girls. His screen name was yep. You guessed it boner 95 He was trying to have sacks He does like nine notes in the one word sacks. He goes Yeah, he's so lascivious. He's got a new show on I was watching. It's just everything is so cryptic And it's come out. He's kind of a criminal sort of which is interesting. It's quiet. This is quietly Yeah Yeah And what was your one that never failed that you just couldn't get to that day with lauren watching Like none of them sounded like any of them. Oh, you really couldn't get in the voice from nerves. Yeah, I was so Um shell shocked. It's almost like if you're afraid of bees, there's bees around you I couldn't even begin to get to uh, what I my voice It's really so inefficient of this thing because I steve karawani auditioned for the show. I did in 96 Yeah, you know, yeah, that's great. He came in and he was really nervous Yeah, you know and he wasn't really doing well But I I was such a horrible auditioner that later I looked at his tape And of course louie and smigel loved him too, but it was like, oh no, he was just nervous Didn't mean a thing to me It would be it was better if you put it on tape and send it in because then you just do it on your own time Your own speed you get it the best it is. I know I think so and I hear that they do try to rattle you I know nick was saying that they so maybe they do but they Lauren if you're listening, you don't have to everyone's really nervous You're really already really nervous and I get it's a live show. You better be able to handle it And there's an argument for that like I wasn't ready to do that. You know, it's funny when I don't remember this but louie Ck when he auditioned I think he auditioned where we did a maybe catch rising star one of those places stand-up comedy club where me and robbie shneider did and And when I was on the other side of it it was like Oh, there's auditions night if anybody wants to go like marsy would say you guys And so downy so a bunch of us went down Because I was still a writer also and performer Had no poll but I don't know if it was lauren, but it was Maybe that first one is everybody else. Maybe it's lauren, but you know, it's still scary smile go down Frank and you know all of us and then a bunch of scattered writers and producers and then Louis said he was going on and we were walking in when they introduced him And he said I shushed everyone to be quiet so he could start I don't remember that but it sounds about right that you would go. I just did this two years ago And I know how sick he is backstage going. Oh, no, I gotta go on and then and then like you're up They're like, well, they're not here yet. And then they go ladies and gentlemen, they go. Oh, they're coming in That's exactly like a horrible situation. What do you do? Do you not start your best jokes at the top? No one's listening Yeah, no one's like, I'll get a vodka soda. Do you guys have a potato skins? You know, yeah, no just listen right now. That's the only part you need to hear And then we can do whatever at one point lauren did stop me I've got to be seen in a comedy club But I also did the thing you did with like eight people there Is that all you've got or is this or you're gonna is that pretty much already said? Yeah But I thought later it was to see if I would blink, you know, but I I had a rough childhood I know yours was a peaches and cream. It really was So I had a lot of anger in me that I would translate into competitiveness like Sometimes like I had a little bit of like, okay I saw that audition that you're talking about. Yeah, it's online somewhere and you were really funny I remember that and I remember thinking wow, he's that's really tough. You were you were like, um, I remember there was like a microphone Like, oh, penis. Oh, you started doing Yeah, it was an easy one to do. I always I felt like I kind of bombed I felt very nervous But you know part of Stand up and show business is hiding nerves, right? Yeah, just that's it. Well, that's I think his argument is well when it's live to the world We don't need you freezing up. I I I think that's a legit thing from today I just think that if you if the government Mandated that that you would you would do Saturday night live you would have flourished because you you get desensitized It just takes time. There's all yeah There's also once you have a job some people and I think I'm like the ones have a job. I relax It's more like they trying to get the job or yeah, because it's just there's lorne This is thing and I came on there was just the original cast and then there's ability crystal a murphy years So there was the legacy was only 10 years old. So the bad people coming in now It's like 45 years of comedians and pitchers. Yeah, here's what you got to compete with. Yeah, you know I think you saved the show because I love you No, I mean I really if you think about that show was dead I mean, no you Elevated you saved it again. You're the funniest guy. I you kind of run the air It's in the baton when I was like you're out of here, Chris I can't even argue that it was so good on there. I want you also that time I don't remember anyone talking about it. I mean Robert Downey Jr. Was in the cast In 85. Yeah, I was right after that. No, I was right after that purge year Weird where Madonna did the cold opening what my first show Saying that last year was just a dream. It never happened. Oh is that what she did? Yeah, because it was like yeah going to Iron man for your laughs. He's great, but like but I was nervous as hell and I had shitty shows and you know It was just you do get used to it, but it it there is an aggression to it. It's a rock and roll show It's it's like aggressive. It was scary being Being an extra and they're like counting down and all the extras get nervous I thought I'd really made it or something and they sent all the extras into their Donahue room and they're like you stay in here. He filled you don't look at the casts in the eye We're gonna come in here between minutes and beat you with a stick and you could feel like oh, we're I'm rolling Kyle came right up to me and he said hey You accidentally switched me in the booth during gaff girls and can you just go ahead and fix that? Because it's harder for me to be on camera. Actually, you're in the one of my favorite gaff girls ever sketches ever did I know it's funny. I have a memory of being there And that was so you were there as David's friend. You know, I didn't know I didn't know I was in the booth with him Yeah, no, you were in the booth Not with us, but you were in the booth right on camera with your friend. Oh with my buddy And that's you said yeah, we just flip flopped sides to the back of my head. I'm sure he iced you once he was on camera He said once Farley sat down though his acting career was 100 over Because it was funny funny then Farley shifted or something and he just it was like an eclipse. Yeah, so Arnold said that about Danny David You never get Danny never have him sit down because he loses the energy You got to keep Danny on his You know, you got to pump him up. Yeah. Oh, you must do Arnold, of course Who can't you do who do you want to do who are your favorites? I can't do you guys Did you do anything on Amy Schumer? I know you do my voice. I have a blank voice. Hi. I'm Danica He has a voice. He has like he has kind of a cool He's like a throwaway thing that I start to do and I don't think about it Doing him throw away a thing. Can you get to his timber though? Because he has kind of a This is David spade everybody. He has kind of a timber. That's a lower register. It's more of a laziness Because my jaw always hurts my neck. So I don't That cuts you down Just sexy. There's only one word to describe it When you're on Amy Schumer, you were a writer and did you we'll get you out of here soon Yeah, what's Amy Schumer like was it was it fun to be a writer on that? Was it uh, good you wrote some good sketches It was pretty much a heyday for her show, right? It was a big big show big show Yeah, it was a really good schedule too because we come in and have like really basic pitches Like this is a guy who owns a hamburger shop, but he's afraid of hamburgers or whatever That'll be your whole pitch And then they go, okay, right Ham scared hamburger guy and this other sketch and we'd go home for three days and we'd send it in on thursday Oh, really? And then on friday we get notes and then we'd fix it. So it's like we lived lives Oh, you did just smart because then we had so we wrote better stuff in fear like we did So you got trained to be a sketch writer on that show. They hired you from your stand-up or how? Yeah, she just hired me from stand-up. So there was no crazy audition with any there going on Did you worm your way out audition me? I don't know if you've heard of what happens Yes What what what are you talking about? We want to trend we want to we never trend. Yeah, no, but um, she's funny Yeah, we would love you to be on the show. Amy. Yeah, did you get on the show? Did you do anything on the show? Yeah, originally it was it was uh, yeah, I was uh Yeah, I was on a few Things okay, could you have a softer answer? Um, and then um Was uh, what are on stuff? He says I was I was on the show the right time. What was the highlight so far then because you I when did you just fucking destroy at a club or a gig that you went? Okay? Because I've seen some I think you're a toronto comedy festival or montreal And you're destroying just stand up. You saw me there. No, I saw it on Oh, I mean it was kind of destruction. I I remember it. Thanks Um, yeah stand up. Have you ever destroyed or you're not remembering this danis that I just destroyed I think you must have destroyed because I look at the talent and I think of the number times on stage. I mean, what He's gotta you killed a couple years ago somewhere. Yeah, I'm not gonna follow you if we go out and have a fun night David likes to hit the club That was kyle dunaghan now dan of farfow the living museum piece. That's what I do He's still alive. Let's bring him out. No, you do the longer you stay around you become a museum piece A great story like monsters ink Stays with you forever and disney class is where you'll find your next great story From the return of the award-winning hit series Rivals welcome to the naughtiest show on television to the unmissable crime drama high potential Gotta dead body gotta go a lifetime of great stories awaits this spring on disney plus 18 plus subscription required teas and sees apply Welcome to paddy's piece. So dear your blind date is already at the table and there she is Cousin brander, what are you doing here? You're married anyway? Substitution brought to you by paddy power cousin brander makes way for bet the office crush. 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But just as far as just writing just writing and writing Of course. Yeah, I I did the comedy seller and it was it was Jerry sign fell went up then Robin Williams And then Chris rock and then I was next This is Well, that would be a tough after robin guy before when was this it was just after he died. That's a tough spot It was a tough spot Done again. Oh, the leprechaun man We represent the lollipop No, Robin was oh it was a fly. I was doing the improv And the uh, they said uh, you know, I hosted it a lot when I was in the beginning Before us and all that just to get on stay. I mean, of course they go bud would say, huh, David. What are you? But do you want to stand the halls don't stand the halls and he goes? Do you want to host one night? It's not about the money. It's the honor and I was like, all right Do I get a pineapple chicken dinner at least because I'd have to eat there. I have no money So I was now and then they have a showcase night So they had me do seven minutes for star search or you know, whoever and I'm standing there waiting And uh, it's a good crowd. It's packed and I'm next and the guy's finishing up He got the light and then behind me. I hear her Touch shoulder David's face And I go, oh, hey, Robin. I don't know. I'm really well at all. I met him through bobcat And I go, oh, hey, and then it hit me You're not fucking gonna go on, right? You know, and he goes, I'm just gonna jump on real quick. I go, of course And then he went on did 45 And he annihilated raped and pillaged and then And while I was like a salmon because he walked off the whole crowd left with him and I was trying to get to the stage Yeah, like the pipe pipe Excuse me. Pardon me like bug is funny and I finally get the stage was about 18 people out of the whole club And all the people I went to see me laugh. They're like, ah, it's not gonna get any better than that I had one run in with bud where I was the comic strip in New York and I was eating Chinese food And he goes, hey, can I have a little bit of that and I got now And he goes, I don't know who you are, but you'll never work in LA And I thought he was joking. I was joking back and he may have been joking. I still don't know this day But you who was talking to bud Friedman. He was in New York. Yeah Yeah, I thought we were kind of take it outside. I did him on snl. Didn't do very well Take it outside take it outside I'm not the monocle. It's kind of bomb, but Just for the fans listening Robin Williams I got to know him really well the last five ten years of his life because he moved out to marim where I was raising my kids Played a little local theater. Yeah, this shyest sweetest The dichotomy between the powerhouse on stage and to me it's like Elvis charisma because he was so introvert So shy and so deferential called everyone boss. Okay boss. All right boss And then we go on stage and he had such likeability and to me He was like a shakespearian actor Coming on stage as if he had nothing So he created this whole because he was always saying, oh, did I take anything from you? He was always making her men's I said, no, I I tried to be you. I stole your whole act, you know and uh, right he walks on like he's got nothing and then he's Even the improv it's a roll adex of like if I think of this I do have a joke about that Yeah, yeah, if you say this and he's kind of meant, you know, I'd pick up a little plastic thing. Oh flying sasa Yeah, there was just one time I think it was albert brooks. It says said robin. It's okay Because when robin would get on he couldn't stop himself. Yeah. Anyway. All right. Well enough enough about kyle. Let's um Yeah, let's start the podcast. I'm warmed up. Kyle did a great job and uh, kiles guy You gotta check out on youtube. I'll done again. Okay. Compliment alert good. If you like comedy You gotta go on kyle done again YouTube channel kyle.com or dot com or yeah, that's Dot com kyle done again dot com. I wear your merch hoodie And I've sold a couple There's a plebora. I love it. And what is your latest favorite voice? Is it biden because he's so current or yeah I like bide also alex baldwin. Yeah, that's a really interesting take Can we have a little bit a little bit of a to finish off today our little little impression cavalcade? Hey, hey alex baldwin. How you doing doing well? We're thinking of finishing rust, but I haven't pulled the trigger yet my wife ilaria she was Born in hispanic a little town known as post-demat to jutheth Well, what does he want to think of this? It's pretty cool. Yeah Russ is probably gonna be pretty pretty cool today. Yeah It's precious jukebox doesn't Bob doesn't alex baldwin's wife have another little baby named ilaria They're all called ilaria They all have 19 children, but it's not an age. It's an eye. It's ilaria. It's ilaria and there's lilaria and there's hillaria Ilaria, okay He did a instagram where he went off on I love my children Sure, I'd like to be playing poker with the guys sometimes or going to a film We're seeing an opera where thank god for and he's listed for 20 minutes. He goes What's your trump? What do you do? It's so terrific. My trump. It's the best trump It's gotta be the most fantastical trump. It's really not but it's like silly. It's like uh, exaggerated. I did him before Before he ran present stuff But it never got better. There's people who do it. Um that guy on s and all is it really really well Yeah, here's this. Yeah, I do trans trump Trans trump. What is that? What is that like? It's the same. I don't ask Oh, okay. Trans. Okay. It's just trying to get elected for the next 2024 Look, we'll just end there. Listen. Thank you so much. Carly at dot com I was going to jump up trump applying chapstick. We're gonna put it on. We're gonna put a lot of on Let me tell you the lips are gonna get soft. You're gonna love them like you wouldn't believe He's cherry All different flavors How do you do raleigh? The fucking chantix, you know, it was the chantix commercial. I did a thing where you say, uh, how about the Try fucking chantix. Why would you want to quit smoking? Why would you do that? Why would you want to quit smoking? How it works, how would uh, Sylvester Stallone sum up? I hate when people do this to me Oh my god, yeah, sum up the podcast Stallone. You first I like the beginning when everybody said Kyle was funny Then the beginning got a little weird When Kyle was talking then the end was nice when people said Kyle was funny All right, everyone grab a protein bar on the way. Thank you. Thank you guys. I appreciate it. 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