KPCS: Laraine Newman #105

welcome back to Kevin Pollak's chat show I am as always chat show what about you happy Anniversary how nice of you it is our second anniversary two years we've been here and I can't believe it let me just start there I can't believe it our humble beginnings two years ago I was on the other side of this table just to give you a little example of where we were at our motto was born that day on the air live when at some point in the early goings I was forced to look at the camera and say we're not ready and boy weren't we and boy aren't we we've started late here for only the second time in 105 guests two years we've started late twice it's my responsibility for starting late this time because I decided we would start the show with a clip of the guest as a cold opening right because we can never show clips on the show because they said well then you have to pay for him you have to go after the studio opening I don't want to that so we stopped doing clips almost immediately and then forever we haven't had clips on the show and then I was going through my show ritual just so you know we're in this room often a couple of hours so early on our initial makeup artist Kate shorter would yell at me Kevin did you pee and the computer would stop buffering and I would say no Kate I hadn't peed yet and I would race out of the studio and pee because a couple times going to take an intermission because I was going to explode so I was doing my pre-show ritual of the pee and I thought you know it'd be nice to show a clip of the guest before the cold opening which would be just for the live show that's right those of you watching live at this very moment should have a little nice bonus the people who watch and listen to later don't get no so we should show a clip at the opening as a cold opening edited out for the iTunes that we would have to pay for it it's just there's live how about that as a ritual so we started 12 minutes late to pull this off and we gave birth now to a new bit write to us at contacts khempal's chapter comm let us know what you think those of you watching live in the chat room don't just tell Jamie and Sam reading over her shoulder let me know I rarely read over her shoulder is that right Sam I mostly try to pay attention to you happy two-year anniversary uh ah you're so kind now we look 2 years older cuz god I feel like six years old you look two years younger you're not the first person to say that what's so happy Anniversary to you - thanks buddy Jamie yeah you kept saying happy Anniversary to me and I was like what I miss like I thought it was like some personal thing and then I'm like I I didn't I didn't get a gift I know right but then you're like the show it lay the Travis bought a cake of course they did of course they did they travel with the cake and in their lane always a spare food I think the writing looked very last second as if they'd brought it from the trunk to the table and run oh it was very thoughtful and although the only gesture from all of our friends to celebrate the anniversary top cakes I didn't I said friends all right and say I was gonna run it can you did bring cupcakes he's gone can I pretend to Kenyan I'm shattered it's Kenyan now we're walking Chen joins us for the first time today as a truly paid crew member yeah took two years and now I've insisted on paying Sam your day is coming but happy Anniversary to all of us last year we did a catcher's catch can type show and I said no let's have a real guest this year and let's do a real show and we'll just celebrate the anniversary in the opening moments and then you get back to business as it were but I did want to mention from our humble beginnings a couple years ago we were on the front page above the column above the column above the fold in column 1 of the LA Times just a couple of months after launching the show then we went on to win a Streamy award not to be confused of the cable ace for best live production and then written up as in numerous news and reviews sites such as to filter guerrilla geek new TV beat TV TechCrunch and a blog titled not just movies by a film and journalism student at Auburn University named Jake Cole who writes he's also on Twitter at not just movies he wrote he writes for this armchair C blog post com what I consider to be the most intelligent review of the chat show ever not all flattering by any form or means but it's basically the ultimate guide to the chat show our guidebook if you will I just wanted to give him a little prompt because I was reading through a bunch of them in preparation for the anniversary and holy [ __ ] that he just kind of do an amazing job and he's some a student at the Auburn University journalism hopes to be a film critic one day and you know if you watch this show how I feel about film critics and I wish Jake Cole tremendous success in his career because he reminded me of young Maslin the Janet Maslin who did such great film journalism I would say not reviews film journalism there's enough about that I want to thank my crew you know I realized also it took two years all of the epiphanies that come after two years I'm just an infant I can barely walk I realized that you know the majority of our downloads are audio because people don't really care to look at us no they've telling us over the years over the years I get to say now because it's so awkward saying over the year that they'll be at work and you can get busted watching the show but if you're listening they just run me walk right past you so people listening to Jim at the squint and in the car and and so on so 90% of the iTunes are it seems audio and I don't thank the crew by name on the show in an audio way it's only in the rolling video credits that you see who the [ __ ] works on the show and that ain't right two years and by the way another crew said yeah maybe you want to mention us my name [ __ ] people should tune in how else are they gonna see my Benji buttons thing I got going on Benji what if the third year anniversary you're three that's gonna happen people there's a reason to tune in one more year at least go back in time so much that will actually become the same age of Sabrina and then at all sabrina the teenage dog we love you Sabrina and now she's gotten way too much attention uh so anywho I would do want to thank the crew by name and right now damn it Mike Robin our fearless director who just returned from South by Southwest himself he was there nine days and got three things done I also want to thank holding for laugh I also want to thank Jason McIntyre j-mac who was our sit-in director last week and does the research every week to help me put together the dossier fantastic job Emily good one of course he also does an amazing job as and with us I think well somebody write up on the board there exactly how long but I know it's over a year somebody give me exactly a time line anyway she does a great job for our sound one year three months thank you Josh Negron who does a lot of post production and pre-production and also has been editing for the longest time didn't have post production on the show it just throw it up there live I don't want to edit the show ever refused and then AOL said we'd like to show two minute clips of your show five days a week and I said Josh started editing so he's done a great job and he was a walk-on what do they call the shirts the in the college the football is there's a there's a term of a what is that red shirt he was a red shirt he was a walk-on red shirt for those of you that give a [ __ ] about sports clearly I've suffered horribly I just knocked on the door we were out doing the show two or three weeks yeah gypsy said I should come over who are you I'll work yes that's Georgia how do we know he's not a spy for a rival podcast he exam from Russia there's no way out yes given the Mars he's got some pretty good cover going on he's been here what a year and a half now it's worth because this would really help his cover for you to talk about it openly right no no I think I think we're gonna take him out back and beat it out of him mmm-hmm do not wash enough spy movies who am i leaving out Dr Chen's been covered Jamie Jesus Christ the Lord our Savior for being the head writer and and bearing witness Jesus Christ our Lord our Savior did you say yeah don't you watch a work shows nobody wins an award without Jesus hell but doesn't that suggest it he voted against the other four people who didn't win no big [ __ ] you from Jesus it's not it's not a no or yes it's just yes cuz that's true in sports I want to thank Jesus for you know for helping me win oh no in sports it's different in sports Jesus hates the car did you imagine the pressure being Jesus could you imagine being the pressure of being Jesus bookie that's a rough gig right it's a rough Yankees I'm gonna need that six grand mmm I hate that send a guy over I think you're gonna want to rewatch that game Yeah right this rice is not on this crew is that everyone's crew know what I'm talking about no Sam you remember that you're Jewish very good oh that's what that was and I also want to thank our executive in charge of social media Elaine Ewing everybody Elaine Ewing not as much as grown from her as much applause as I was expecting makeup artists I mentioned Kate Schroeder Jennifer's ID Kelly LeBlanc Oh Diane Mayo Samantha Ward and net Laurent that's how many makeup people we need just for me look like a bags under my eyes I look like garbage also some help we've had on occasion from Cory Levin JJ Mays who are some other people my grotmann that have dropped in and covered ruin kinky what was the other one Cory we said cry said Cory pay attention thanks to Joseph Bleecker Street to Peter Peter Hermosa peds the Gorn brothers for some of the fantastic chef pose I were in the Hat here in Los Angeles they're great as well as in their home of my home San Francisco but also thanks to of course Jason Calacanis the mad Greek for the encouragement and opportunity to begin this newest phase of my creative career not for him believe it or not none of this would be possible and I say believe it or not because most people hate Jason Calacanis let's be clear I'm still on the fence he is is beloved by three and hated by the rest and two of those three are his family which means not all of his family people have said hey why not sponsors why don't you have sponsors where are your sponsors well we have a sponsor right now that sponsors name is Bowflex thank you very much and we put together this little ad for Bowflex so that they may continue to sponsor the show as they sponsor this very one and we thank them also for making this possible and making it possible for me to add dr. 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a sponsor we have a whole new subscription page being put together for you we've had lots of people write in and thank you for that and continue to do so right in telling us hey I'm happy to help out and support your show but how about a subscription model idiot so there again we listen to you and we are attempting to evolve and should be presenting the subscription page I assume in the next couple of weeks because I've been told that it's going to be less than that so look forward to that and we look forward to your continued support and help to make all this possible as it completely and utterly is taken over my life yeah yeah I I get calls every now and again from show business and I'll say Nona busy busy doing this so mmm alright show business did you really want to be the center square come on Kim you know I did I say bring back password that's what I say yeah that's a show I love yeah um anywho thank you again for your continued support and ideas and in fact we will include a couple of your ideas right now dare I say as we go to a part of the show I like to call ask Kevin ask what they did not say ass there's no K there's a K in there there was no candy this first ask Kevin is from Isaac Malan at Isaac Malan the super moon means super werewolves that's the question from Isaac Malan and I believe the answer is known to all other than Isaac Malan yes of course it means super where rolls mm-hmm clearly you were a fortunate not to be bitten everyone raised their hand who saw the super moon last night there are no hands being raised Kenny you're lying you are a liar you could not possibly know I'm sorry Kenny you're not lying you were thank God Los Angeles got really boned on that one yes it was completely overcast and raining last night and I think there was a moment of clarity in an hour where we live and I went out and looked around still no super moon yeah ridiculous I saw a couple of super Dracula's I would but I think that was unrelated that must have been because just a coincidence this next question comes to us from at the Kevin Rubio will you be participating in the third annual talk like William Shatner day is it the third annual already I believe this coincides with the birthday of his that means he's turning 81 good one years of age let me just say ah aha I look forward to it I'll kick any one of the balls he's my hero Maurice LaMarche dragged me into a talk like William Shatner day last year I shot a little video with him for him on his phone and I believe it popped up elsewhere on the youtubes mm-hmm so sure I'll participate Emily make note of that let's do something what is that Tuesday last question is from C Mick go at SEMA go are you going to get people from Always Sunny in Philadelphia or Modern Family the chat show am I going to hmm yeah I'd love to do you know how I reach them I love the suggestions from you on guest ideas but keep in mind we book to show ourselves today's guest is 105 number 105 and I've yet to talk to one publicist agent or manager simply because I refused I have cc'd a couple when when asked but never dealt with one in order to get guests consequently unless I have a way to reach these people I don't have to be friends with them I could have just met them once but I need your help so I put it back on you when you'd like to suggest a guest please suggest a way that I might reach them otherwise the answer will be no I am NOT going to book them because I need your help I would love to have anyone from either one of those show I tried to get Kaitlin Olson and her husband Rob from always sunny but when I told him about the show I think they thought I was making it up why would they thank you I don't I don't know I don't think they believed me that it was a real thing that exists every week would you continue to go after them because I just saw her on whose talk show was it holy crap was she fun Jack Paar yes it was Jack Paar okay I don't think Conan I want to say gosh darn it I wish I could remember him no I'm but I'm telling you it was just a couple days ago everybody was in rerun so it was not a reason anyways she was crazy ridiculous funny way beyond what I had thought and I loved her on the show oh yeah so anywho dear god somebody all right I'll do my best somebody someone do I go down that road hands on Jimmy Fallon that's what it was she was on Jimmy Fallon I'll go down that road again nobody I'm okay I'm gonna make this happen um so yes I would love to put people from Always Sunny in Philadelphia Modern Family please help and that is all for ask Kevin however before I get to our guests we have one last little piece which is the Larry King game today we have a winner of a t-shirt we'll need to know your size Nick read please email us back I believe we got a hustla mail j-mac came in here with a letter a handwritten letter with today's Larry King game because it came with my keychain it came with your keychain that's what it was Jamie do you want to talk about your keychain I got my first keychain people yeah yeah you put out a little help keys right at the end of January and I was more upset I lost my keychain and I guys somebody sent me an old-school Figment plush keychain which is excellent cuz I had a figment keychain was one of the ones I lost Nick greed sent it to it's an agreed kick some serious ass so we thank you for that if those of you want to continue with the contest send it to Jamie care of this weekend comm 902 Colorado Boulevard Santa Monica California is nine zero four zero one good look beat to beating Nick Reid's effort there Nick Reid rights in this Larry King they recently found that ten thousand year old bones of a boy in Mexico his mother was my third wife because I was on peyote at the time she got custody in the divorce his death was a soul-crushing loss for me though not as big as the time he finally beat me in basketball and I realized I was getting old whatever happened to his mother well our village sacrificed her tossed her in a volcano at the mouth of which I married my next two wives separate occassions news necro darlin what's a question Wow nice effort Nick Cray's very beautiful that was a whole story granted a three-act play but that was nice puts a little pressure on those who write in Larry King games in the future to win a Kevin Pollak's chat show t-shirt please Nick read write us little quicker mail than the slow mailed snail mail little email to contact Kevin pause chatter calm and let us know what size you are so we can send out that t-shirt okay that is three hours of of thank-yous and honest-to-goodness everyone who's ever done anything to help this show the last two years that I may have forgotten I am now including you because I really truly am grateful ah thankfully I just picked up the ball myself Ustream dot-com thank you thank you Richard kite has done nothing to help this show can I be honest he's never lifted a finger but I will use him now - thank you string thank you check out their new apps on the the you stream app TriCaster people you can watch the you can watch the show on your on your Android or your iPhone now and lastly of course TriCaster this is it new tech who's the company that sends that yeah new tech Thank You new tech new tech comm maybe new tech ink.com check them out they make live television possible for the interwebs and for the television alrighty um like many people who make comedy their life either as a fan or as a participant as a creative entity what have you there was a time when it all kind of changed or for a certain generation and for the next 37 years maybe when in 1975 well I just did the math in 1975 the Saturday Night Live was born on the televisions on your NBC network and it was its its predecessor laugh-in was the first time I remember from my life where what is now known as water-cooler comedy that was something the next day that everyone was doing the bits from the show the night before Sara Night Live became that times a night and it's where a great many comedians of my generation and every generation since found Valhalla this new world to learn from to study to embrace and to enjoy and to feel like we were part of something just by knowing the ins and outs of it so many books have been written of course the collection of DVDs over the many years have continued to celebrate the so-called and forever called original cast as a group they lasted I believe five years 75 to 80 of course they lost I think Chevie after year one and there were some comings and goings and Bill Murray was added pretty soon and for that for those of us who celebrate and continue to the launch of this particular intergalactic ride there's a moment in time and you can't say enough about it quite frankly and I I I care not those that came before me and waving this flag to suggest that my doing so now is a bit trite because to emphasize the difference that it made in my life was still an understatement so I am thrilled beyond words clearly as I trip over them to welcome laraine newman to this table as a founding founding member let's yeah let's put the Oh see nice we we turned up the air conditioning as a way to America mm-hmm wearing a parka on the TV show let's give a little background to the people you know it's a long-standing history and I know you know this that for every talk show and probably same for the theater you want it to be cold in the room to keep the audience fresh in life people have been busting Letterman's chops about its room when they come out in fur coats and well if it wasn't 40 degrees in here and there was this long-standing tradition and I didn't find out about it I think till I was a guest on one of those shows cuz I don't I don't remember Carson having a chill factor of 40 degrees but Letterman was the first one and we're like a meet Lawford literally yeah well is also the auspices of keeping the cameras cool was it mm-hmm I never heard that before yeah well that makes sense for the equipment remember when they had camera people who actually ran the cameras now they're all done oh they don't have they're all remote control as you can tell by the six cameras in this room yeah so first of all thank you so much honestly for braving the cold here in the studio it's it was a gauntlet but I got here yeah we had the LA Marathon as our first obstacle and then it decided to rain cats dogs ran and geckos and werewolves and werewolves left over from the super moon mm-hmm and you don't live far away from here now I'll give the street address in a second but it must have been ridiculous still as a member this is I think well the second year we've had to deal with the LA Marathon in terms of our guests and I remember last year at being an absolute nightmare so thank you oh you're welcome I did it was not that much it wasn't that hard you and your husband did a little recon yeah we did I oh man I'd like to take some credit but I'm just I can't I can't hang up to dry like that he didn't like a military operation was painless really I just I can't take her I have a new thing where I can't trust Google Maps yeah it's true we can't really can't trust Google Maps and then we found the Sun when we did the show live from San Francisco about a month or so ago and I'm from there but I still need to Google map a couple of things you're from San Francisco I am indeed I was born there I was burned at Children's Hospital oh don't you know yeah that's what the Irish people come from are you a fan of man vs. food by any chance um I'm familiar with you yes I am so Jamie my better half because that's what the show and Adam Richman the host and we are suddenly on a quest every opportunity to go to one of the restaurants where he goes to beat the challenge I've always wanted to I've always wanted to so we have to drive 45 minutes out of here let's just go to one of these places and I trust Google Maps and I end up in Switzerland it was ridiculous yeah yeah so then she recreates this was running gag that Google Maps is gonna come to my stand-up shows that night and and heckle me fun so that we picture a map kind of like tally with legs crossed the arms out this guy can't me can't follow a simple direction huh yeah so I got heckled by Google Maps oh that's that's alone so anyways thanks for getting here and and I'm sorry about the the ramblings because I can't imagine how how tried it may be for you after all these years but the truth of the matter is much like you reminded chubby the his history should not be forgotten let's talk about that opening bit that you did for Chinese roast and now you were warned by not then senator Al Franken than just funny man Al Franken that that would not be funny that that would not work well and now you fought through the gauntlet of that he said I'm gonna do it anyway yeah I just thought you know what is the worst thing someone could say about Chevy you just start off with that you know and I just I really wasn't prepared for that show I I remember the roasts from you know the Dean Martin era great you know we roast the ones we love yes now but this was just a horrible horrible like just you know filthy rotten a Chanel for money thing people that didn't know Chevie it was awful was an awful experience I just felt filthy afterwards and so yeah and he was he was not happy I'm sure yeah the end of it basically said I'm only doing this because they're donating money to my wife's favorite charity yeah it was brutal so they wrote stuff for you and you said I can't say this well no I did use some of the things that they gave me and then I consulted some other writers Alan Zweibel and you think oh well he ended up writing most of what I did and some of it was what I wrote but I I just dear diary things yeah I just redid the premise where it was you know because it was set up so that you know I just I don't remember what's in here I just you know anything could be I haven't seen in 20 years you said so I have no responsibility for what what might come out what the child like in me yeah 27 years ago favorite yeah who knows yeah thank you man you said in it you know and those of you know me know that I'm not a stand-up comedian that is in fact something that you never tried stead of going oh god no no I'm a supporting player that's what I do I don't want to be by myself out there although that is really what I did at The Groundlings I did like character monologues and The Groundlings yeah but to stand up now it's a different crowd well character monologue suggests that of course you are in fact hiding behind the auspices of the fictitious character of your own design right but you don't have to talk of yourself exactly neither art gets mm-hmm it's not that personal right so it was never an idea that crossed your mind is something that would be fun oh no no no I didn't have the balls for that right now but I love stand-up I've been watching it you know I'm my education if you want to talk about influence please you know the Merv Griffin Show came on in LA yeah in black and white when Arthur Treacher was his side character we were in the afternoon yeah and I would see everybody you know people are beauty Jackie Vernon Jackie Mason David Frye John Byner yeah you know Richard Pryor Rodney Dangerfield all these people and Tony fields he loved comedians yeah and that was my education and I I just ate that stuff up and it was just so great and there was you know humor was encouraged in our house anyway and my sister was a folk singer she was in the new Christy Minstrels Tracey mm-hmm you're kidding I'm not kidding and one of the parts of your dossier suggested that you are a twin yeah I have a twin brother named Paul Newman wait for it there it is okay okay and have you folks had a sense of humor there's not a well-known actor at the time we were born now I'm what oh yeah I let's do the math sure yes okay no he wasn't a well-known actor we were born right so all right so I'm sorry so Tracy was with the new shoes with the new Christy Minstrels she hears that here's the deal this is just so great when I read Steve Martin's orange tanning right he talks about all these people like Randy sparks people he knew in Westwood Village Tracy knew those same people it was just like synchronicity at the same time I remember hearing her talk about all those people and we converted our garage into a pool house and we used to have hootenannies in the backyard sure but people liked the limeliters and the Kingston Trio and Theodore Bikel all these jobs with Kingston Trio I didn't know the names of these individuals but you know they would all show up and have these great hootenannies in the backyard now I of course hated folk music but I appreciate it I appreciated the harmonies and the musicianship it was fantastic and you must have loved these people are gathering in your house yeah it was like a mighty wind how are you at this well I was like seven eight nine so this is incredible yeah and my cousin Marcia and her husband Stewart husband Clark they were like a well-known folk team they were like the characters that Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Wright played in a mighty mighty wind yet there were those people holy crap so that resonated with me yeah just as a kid that young to have that going on in your garage yeah yard oh my goodness yeah and I remember being a similar age and visiting cousins and anyone broke out a guitar I felt like I was at a live concert not knowing that this is just what people do and it's magical yeah yeah so actual professionals Balmain your garage she also she met this guy who was like a pipe fitter by day but was a folk singer at the Elle trill which was a folk club which i think is now some BJ's you know in Westwood next to the Fox Theatre it was the L trill Wow Barry McGuire holy [ __ ] and then he was her boyfriend who would come to the house you know I just loved all of her boyfriends sure she was a stone Fox my sister still is what you know Oh still it's like so always had really great looking boyfriends and she would let me hang around she was a great and is a great sister oh I know Tracy we're talking Tracy who became a big-time television right I know an Emmy award-winning TV writer yeah yes I've had a wonderful career yeah but she was a musician and is now again really Tracy Newman calm go there yeah all right I'm fortunate we're going to get back to use oh sorry nice try all right but you are stretching the point that you were and are a Los Angeles native yes and loved comedy and was very influenced by that yes and and I like the similar experience because I can so relate to it of being home in the afternoon and seeing a cavalcade of comedians on your television in the start light of the afternoon there was something incredibly surreal yeah about that that Murph pulled off this weird thing what's a late night talk show I'm doing in the afternoon this must be a mistake but don't tell anyone well we had no context for it right you know yeah but it didn't have the association of a nightclub right or late night yeah and he'd made no extra effort to welcome you to an afternoon show he never Fernan Oh second slow down just to even suggest that this was airing any time other than the evening remember that part of it - yeah so is it at this point that you're starting to watch funny people that you're that I mean are you naturally funny kid at this point hard to say I mean my dad was funny and the family was well it was an it was encouraged my mother was kind of like a Gracie Allen type funny she would say things like when one of us dies I'm getting a Jaguar things like that okay and my dad was really really funny guy really smart he he was a lawyer but he was drafted into World War two and so when he came back his business moved to California he didn't want to take the California bar so he went into the quilting business what the yeah so but he's a very bright guy was a very bright guy very funny and my twin brother is instinctively funny and it was just encouraged in our house that's kind of nice so well it's that kind of support early on I think that that there's an interesting parallel I've noticed in other people that have been on the show that if your family was was of the mind of what are you doing then it became the secret you kept for yourself until you could break free in your early 20s but if it was supported as it was in my house as well from such an early age just because it was just kind of a fun thing around the house to be funny mm-hmm then you're right there is no recollection of and then I realized I was funny because it was just the norm right yeah so when you're at when you were saying before we went on live you remember sick because I'm in your dossier it says you went to Beverly Hills High and I wondered if you went there at the same time as a Rob Reiner or Richard drivers couple people I know that went there Albert Brooks and you of course younger than all of them which I hadn't done the math on that sorry but you had mentioned that you saw Richard Dreyfuss he was in a high school production you were in probably middle school still yeah what was the production to remember what the I don't know but you just remembered this kid catching you're stuck out yeah totally remembered little Dicky Dreyfuss yeah a scene stealer even in high school totally memorable yeah uh but they had all graduate about time you started in high school yeah so when you meet him later do you do you bring this up to him do you let him know ultimately uh yes and I met him when he hosted SNL right and the first thing he said to me was John Engel didn't like me either and that was our drama school teacher our drama teacher right and I remember thinking who says he didn't like me yeah exactly pleasure first I'm hearing of it yeah right but actually our drama teacher was a great guy and he was very supportive but were you studying with him thinking this is fun who were you studying with him thinking I think I might like to do this I don't think anybody dares think that they could have a career at this and also Beverly Hills High School is a very unique place to be at school because you're at school and friends with children of real movie stars and you know when you go grocery shopping or Christmas shopping you're gonna see Cary Grant and Fred Astaire and you live across the street from Groucho Marx and down the street from Kirk Douglas so you know you don't necessarily think Cary Grant at the store Christmas shopping well Carolyn company right oh he would shop at Carolyn company yes where are the shoes good for the shoes anyway somebody tell me where the shoes are don't do that while I'm drinking all right so you say you're with these kids are ridiculously famous people yeah so you you your existence that is an everyday existence in a very mundane one and I don't mean that in a pejorative sense I mean that it is the norm it's such the norm that it's not special nor do you take it for granted it just is it just is but at the same time it does still seem unattainable hmm so yeah and also my mother said to her four children I don't care what you kids do as long as you don't go into show business Wow what age are you when you and that announcements made mm it all ages so she hadn't done the math that you could get that Jaguar without anyone dying if one of you went into show business well my mother did pretty well yeah exactly yeah you were going to Beverly Hills hi everyone all right so mom lays this gauntlet down and do any of you take it seriously or you're not thinking about show business anyways sure it was a folk singer you know already with the Christian yeah and then she left for New York she had her own show on at the time was like PBS or what was it KCET or in new york yeah and Ed McMahon was her manager shut I'm not kidding what the hell are you talking about and man was her manager now we've already had some Paul Newman confusion the admin the admin all right yes wow I did not know he was in the management game you did not know that I know I did not know that so she's on her way to show business and then she was like the MC at places like the bitter end so she became friends with all these comics oh boy so like when they like Richard Pryor played The Troubadour one of his first gigs in LA and she said mom dad kids want you to come meet my friend Richard Pryor no no I'm 14 I'm in one of those braces I'm sorry one of those braces yeah what is that the body brace what had happened oh I just I had the curvature of the spine did you know yeah you know the funny thing that makes you funny how long does the body cast last two and a half years Oh fantastic you know when you really are very very excited about your appearance gerrae formidable year but at least I had cystic acne what a great combination and my adult-sized nose hello that's funny I saw it at your dossier you made it several references to when I was young I had fabulous acne an adult-sized nose that I carried as an adult but as a child not so great but but all of this Oh a body cast for two and a half years no it wasn't a cast it was a brace it came off an hour a day okay it came off an hour a day mm-hmm so you slept in it of course yeah two and a half years this is going on mm-hmm that's got to be something that most of us can't wrap our brains around so is there a single funny memory or should we just talk okay yes there was a funny memory here it goes I also had braces on my teeth and I had the night guard oh this is gonna do to get connected and and I was like one day as had curlers in my hair - and I was playing the electric guitar wait a second and I took the patch cord and I put it on my knee and I received a radio station I am not kidding it really happened or at least I think it did I'm pretty sure it happened that's funny I think it did oh man all right so you get out of the braces you get out of the back brace no way but why you're in it though you meet Richard Pryor you're 14 at the Troubadour mm-hmm it's at that point you'd seen him on Merv Griffin oh yeah yeah yeah so you realize who you're meeting in love yeah okay and it was that the first famous comedian that you actually met at 14 gotta be yes yeah yeah so impactful god yes yeah and I'm wondering if the thoughts at that point were gosh I'd like to do what you do someday yet or no still not about this thing that was already in that was my trajectory you know I whether I realize it or not I was never someone that planned anything it was just you know the exact Sorrell direction that's going in when I was in high school I started I had seen Marcel Marceau at Royce hall I saw everything that was available to me in LA and there was great theater great everything right I often went to things by myself because I didn't have any friends that were interested in the same things that I was interested I did that with music too I went to the Ash Grove all the time and the experience up on Sunset which was supposedly Jimi Hendrix's Club and all over saw so many great people blues you know Big Mama Thornton Muddy Waters holy crap oh yeah but Marcel Marceau strikes you such that according to your dossier you studied with him when you were 15 Paris is that studies my dossier yeah yes I did study with him it was a great experience okay then speak to the forever tradition in America of making fun of mimes when it is of course the celebrated artform I know and what here's the thing when I saw it was revelation for me the idea of making people laugh without words yeah and he was great you have to I mean I remember seeing him on television and being blown away ed Sullivan what have you yeah and thinking this is of course I'm so young that I haven't had cynicism or sarcasm make its way to me yet so the idea was this is brilliant brilliant artist yes absolutely but you know even at that age there was an aspect of the whimsy part did not appeal to me I still had you know if you want to call it edgy or whatever you want to call it that was really more me than the sweet stuff so when I saw people like shields and Yarnell and the mimes that you'd see at the Renaissance Faire I don't really I just yeah I wanted to cut their throats I really really yeah I really didn't appeal to me at all so I really tried to hide the fact that you were starting mine yeah because you know and III don't know how the how I had the balls to do this but I went backstage and I asked Marcel Marceau if there was anybody in LA they could teach mine because I was 15 at the time he recommended someone and that person who taught lime also taught improv so that's the first time I learned improv and so this is a life altering experience yes so that's really when I started doing that kind of thing and then I I did the first improv show at our school I directed it holy crap you organized it obviously and this was from the teacher you met through Richmond Shepherd ready for Shepherd yeah Wow way cool and so that's kind of a I imagine a focus pulling experience for you that is to say in school so much of your experiences about am i popular no I'm not who's popular they are when you start to have sort of a self-motivated activity such as this and people start to glom onto it or find it equally as entertaining and interesting mm-hmm it does sort of push you to the forefront of popularity for those people is this the first time you're experiencing that sort of thing that popularity that comes along with being creative and being funny I think that you know because of the the physical stuff right I had just abandoned all hope for that kind of popularity yeah you had no change but in your mind and your mind you must have thought yeah so you know I convinced myself that I didn't want it that's that was my protective kind of you know the nose not this must have been a breakthrough yeah also at that point you know the brace was off everything was off and I was you know whoever I was gonna be but I I was really interested in that you know most of my friends were guys right so I wasn't really in I wasn't in a clicks I didn't have the girl drama stuff going on right I wasn't in that group I found my kind yeah which we all do I think I'm sure you did too you seek them out yeah sure so I I mean yeah you do you do garner that kind of attention and of course it's what we covered we want that kind of attention as a result of it yeah and it was great yeah I mean you're probably too young at that point to realize it's happening as it's happening because who's ever really present for something like that but it seems when you were telling it that it must have been sort of a breakthrough thing where you went into a new arena of what a performer ultimately thrives on which is feedback from strangers yeah so I imagine that must have been a big part of the experience for you and then CalArts follows for a minute did you also go for a minute I would I went there because a friend of mine wanted to apply and he needed an audition partner right really yeah so why was the audition partner oh my god and so they offered me a spot there so I thought oh what the heck that's good yeah so that's where I met Paul Reubens oh is that Paul Rubens there and then I left to do this improv workshop that Tracy was in right and that's what eventually formed The Groundlings became The Groundlings was Tracy so Tracy your sister was involved in the founding of The Groundlings as well or yes she was yes that's pretty great mm-hmm it's also what year is that that I guess that would be like 73 yeah yeah 72 73 so it is interesting to me were there other like was the committee the committee was going on in terms of improv I remember seeing the committee when I was 16 right at the Tiffany theatre sure and loving it you know I never imagined that I would be friends with howard hesseman years later right and I remember also the credibility gap with Michael McCann and Harry Shearer and I think David Lander wasn't in that group was he I think so he was okay and there was one of the guy in that group but I'm not sure I can remember his name but they didn't used to do those simulcasts of the Rose Parade on KRL a oh boy it was incredible and I I never imagined that one day I would know very sure I mean when he came to SNL I was like okay you know because I had seen them I'd seen them at the Ash Grove and growing up listening to them and it was just I just had a great education so we're starting Groundlings a bit of a I want to say focusing of what I yeah not just your creativity but also you know there's something about that moment in time in a person's life that when you're looking at it as research that seems like well here's the first time that organization is meeting creativity because you know as your career goes on there's the that that seems to be what it's all about the combination of whether it's commerce and and artistry or in this case as I said organization some sort of let's remove all the obstacles and just create something do our own thing like we foolishly did here two years ago yeah yeah you don't care work yeah yes and so it must have been a sense of that yes we wasn't well you know we had this little Theatre on Oxford in Hollywood and it it seated maybe 40 people so there were times when there were more people on stage than in the audience yes Larry but it was a great experience and really there was it was creating for the sake of it just as what you described yeah and as you're putting together the initial group that are The Groundlings who other than Tracy is part of this initial group well Pat and Morita Pat Morita so it's in a class Jack sue uh-huh Tim Matheson well I'm sorry Valerie Curtin Tim Matheson yeah yeah these were the people in the workshop Tim Matheson who became much more well-known for dramatic skills but of course you remember him being funny in Animal House they're all people that were in this improv workshop Jamie you remember Tim Matheson from the movie Fletch he played the bad guy so he's one of the founding members of the ground like mmm about that yeah and there was a time when we actually had to decide our name and there were two possibilities The Groundlings or the working class I thought The Groundlings made us sound like a bunch of hippies so I voted against it I was the only vote against the name of The Groundlings well you were right The Groundlings was a heart it was stupid and it thrives to this day of course yes so wow so that's 72 73 yeah and then you're putting together monologues as you said characters in one and so now you are focusing not just improvising something you had picked up from the instructor you said but now you're becoming a writer as well were the characters you're writing for born from improv or had you created them for the purpose of doing an original character in written and sketch for both both yeah both I think they'd always been something that I'd done off-the-cuff in conversation and then I just focused them yeah that's where most material thing yeah it seems and if you have a character they always just write themselves if you're really solid on them if you know who they are they just write themselves the valley girl must have been an example of that yeah yeah cuz you you had been around it for real totally for reals yeah and it must have just been through osmosis that you absorbed all the points of view and then from a comedic standpoint it seemed like you were one of the first with that character to do what became and remains to this day an evergreen comedic perennial no but really you know I mean we clueless I mean so many to this day that it it's and and it continues to evolve in the next generation and how they speak I know and it's there was a an incredible story on NPR awhile back about dialects and how its kind of pervasive across the country that there's that almost everybody has a semblance of that speech that there's a loosening of the jaw amongst younger generation that diction has just you know gone by the wayside and that Association is going yeah that you can hear across the country that it that regional dialects are just going away and you can hear it all over which I find is really amazing and I remember watching if there was this show I'll write all that minute called the fashionista Diaries it was a reality show and it took place in New York and there was this girl who was it was a really mean [ __ ] fashion editor and she was trying to train these trainees and she was really horrible to them but she had like a you know a cross between a valley girl dialect and Gloria Upson from Auntie Mame you know and just squash the ping-pong ball just squashed it to nothing you know there was like a combination of both she says what do you mean that your favorite catchers juicy catcher that's not a designer oh my god she was from New York you know she's not from the valley but I like that telling like that you know it was weird that tone is pervasive now in teenagers I know and it's one of the more obnoxious sounds unless you're trying to be funny but when they do it for real I know it's funny this to say oh my god but when you hear them do it and they mean it you didn't just do that sincerely did you oh my god you're so cute you just look you have everything I love like a faux hawk oh my god and good teeth I just saw that on Jersey Shore today yeah yeah god bless the Jersey Shore but you know when Groundlings were just nobody knew The Groundlings were when I went on SNL they weren't established they weren't like Second City they weren't like the proposition which is where Jane came from so I got endless razzing from you know Chevy and John and Danny is like what's that group you come through well be that as it may Lily and Lauren in tow the first time either of those are you there yes one of the research things says that they came together to see you yes right and so Lily insisted that you being the Lily Tomlin special mm-hmm her television special on the ABC network yes which must have been incredibly fun because at that point she had to have been a mentor of yours just oh yeah that's a fan oh yes she was it oh yeah so speak a little bit about that experience being brought in and almost mentored by a hero it was that's one of those moments in time that it was unbelievable I first of all I met I met Rosie Shuster I met Lorne I met Valerie Bromfield who had been Dan Aykroyd's partner in Canada and one of the funniest people I'd ever seen in my life I mean one of those people who did characters that were so much better than anything I could ever do that I couldn't even be jealous of her you ever seen anybody it was like so much better than you that you could just worship them but not be jealous yes I mean you know it's hard for you to find people like that know the moment you meet them you're right the jealousy falls away instantly and you just have to literally bow it's like the croupier I'm done yeah you know this like says no you're upset right Chris guess I just dropped to my knees and said whatever you want sir so and but also I noticed that Lilly had this big preternatural or was that the word sure I'll take it yeah energy because it was a taping and it took for [ __ ] ever yeah yeah and the audience was there I'm not kidding until three in the morning Jesus so she was entertaining them and she stood out there and entertain them one of the guests on the show was Catherine Coleman the Catherine Coleman Catherine Coleman how do you make that call how do you call whoever represents her and says say you know we'd like you to do the Lily Tomlin special we'd like you a televangelist to be on a comedy variety show yeah I mean how do you say yes to that and how does that agent not get fired yeah by so introduce Coleman she was so interesting it must have been so Dreyfus was on it too right who is this your first television experience yes well if you don't count art Linkletter an engineer bill I don't I do no I mean in terms of purposely being funny as opposed to what you must have been was cute well no shows I was hired to do a Manhattan transfer special Joel Silver who was Aaron Russo's assistant at the time saw me in The Groundlings he loved the valley girl character hired me for the show Aaron Russo saw the character and fired me oh nice and what the hell Joel had to be the one to tell me and I swear to God I will always love Joel for this because I could see the pain in his eyes right of having to break this news to me well there's good news for you he got really good at he became a superstar in the firing business yeah yeah trained on me well it's nice to know he had a he did very sensitive side at one point he did all right so so from the lily tomlin thing they came back saw me doing new material new characters and then Lorne said that he was doing this summer replacement show which had him sounded like for tonight's show yeah mmm 13 weeks that's all yeah what a five-year option oh yeah like is that's gonna happen that's what I thought like that'll ever happen summer replacement show for The Tonight Show so initially it was gonna be on yeah during the summer I mean that's what he said and then it happened in the fall and also just once a week where's it's a night show was five nights all right so the whole thing was a ruse from the beginning mmm but it meant at that point it meant going to New York and being part of a new show and your dossier suggests that you didn't actually audition you were just asked to join the group ah hello yeah pretty spectacular yeah and so what are you thinking at that point uproot your life leave your family in Los Angeles we'd like to move to me or can be a part of this summer thing because we think you're such a great sketch player um again you know I I thought it would be a short period of time right but still as just isolated as a about a pat on the back as a career moment or as a I was I was focused on the fear yeah we I always focused on the fear of what was gonna happen I didn't know anybody Lauren was the only person I knew I made friends with Gilda she was my first friend and then I met the people over at National Lampoon Radio Hour old ramus Richard Belzer Bob we did I did an album right away with them and then once you got to New York yeah and then I met people on the show and the car that I drove cross-country with with my boyfriend that had everything I owned including my material mmm was stolen shortly after you arrived in New York yes and so I didn't have any of my material and this was a day when there was no such thing as facts no no nothing so there's not even a floppy disc it could have been on signs are write to my sister and see if she had any copies of anything it was that's devastating beyond belief so but also you basically it's your life stolen in the car other than your family had the clothes on my back literally all my records and you must have been adopted at that point by someone another way someone has to come to corner in that situation and say it's going to be fine or no was there not someone - well I had my boyfriend Arthur yes so he wasn't freaking out no because you lived there before but Lorne you know he the writers didn't really know my work they had never seen me so Lorne had me auditioned for the writers yeah I read that and I thought that must have been fun for you it was really you're hired now going to this room and performing with these strangers who were maybe the most cynical people you're about to me yeah and I did not do well was why bill one of those right mm-hmm yeah well you must have laughed about it since oh we have yeah we have but boy they didn't understand the valley girl bed oh boy do they not understand that I don't know if they did or not I think like that character but you know the the mean the fact was that my performance was so bad because I was so scared I must have been scared out of your mind and I didn't have you know I didn't know any of this stuff verbatim I had to like paraphrasing because you had written these monologue yeah but I didn't have them really done them in a long time yeah but my point was you that you had written them and they had been stolen in your car so they weren't memorized they no longer existed yeah I mean I had done them but I'd done them a long time ago so I didn't know them anymore right so now you're half making them up oh yeah oh it was ugly yeah it was just ugly and I just made the situation worse yes yeah yeah undermine my credibility tremendous yeah all right I think it's time we invited some of our audience in I just realized literally I had left them out of it after insisting what an important part of the show they were at the out seifer's right part of the show here is that we like to bring them in and I'm apologized to them this one from oh my Travis rank hello friend to you and me and the show from the get and also happens to be on the other side of the wall at present really yo yes really it's comes from the other side of the wall hey crow American hot wax was such a great film how much research did you do for the role and did you ever in fact meet or hear from MS Carole King great question the role I did not do any research I'm embarrassed to say I not only met Carole King she was living with my my one of my closest friends phil robinson and she said that of all the depictions of her in any kind of movie that was probably the most accurate of her experience like at the Brill Building and right thing which was great I mean yes that's what they wrote it speaks volumes to a couple of things if she's when she says that first of all as you said you didn't hadn't done any research you of course knew her music you'd seen her perform either in television or something so you had a little sense but it it was really a fictitious character it was really loosely based yeah it was loosely based it was there were a lot of young people you know young Jews mmm writing at the Brill Building you know Neil Sedaka who's probably 16 also I'm trying to think of some other people that were less known but were around that age too but she was an exception she was a prodigy for sure but she was a prototype I I mean I'm sure I hope this isn't coming off like I'm like diminishing what she was but I I didn't know that much about her to be honest with you because I wasn't I didn't buy her records right but I respect her you know a lot sure so you had the script to go on in terms that's what I want Asian yeah but I also knew historically that there were that was a lot about what happened at the Brill Building in those days that there was a lot of access for young people to write that kind of music right and it was almost ironic that you had these young white Jewish kids writing for black artists yeah and yet kind of perfect mm-hmm yeah was that your first film well tunnel vision no gosh this film yeah la man again I talked about those moments Isaac as a comedic person that was love it was mind altering tunnel vision was one of them oh no it really was it was the first time in a movie in my experience of being a fan of comedy that suggested much like a great deal of the film of the 70s that looks as looked back on now as a very special era for film and film makers dare I go down the list of the Scorsese's and De Palma's and it's endless but in comedy when tunnel vision came out it waived a brand-new flag as well interesting I remember the auditions for that Neill Israel mmm said to the people auditioning this film will have something to offend everybody right and I was 21 playing Billy salut gus' mother he could have been my dad that makes sense and Ira Miller was my husband and I like I I loved what we did our our thing was called Sonja and Ramona and it was the ultimate sitcom you know it was the the gypsy family and just you know the pent ultimate obnoxious filthy horrible sitcom family well you know the opening scene is is Irish steps in [ __ ] literally you know and then you have hear the laugh track you know I mean that was really pretty good yeah yeah pretty great so I mean I look back on it because it was also kind of a comedy salad yes in that sense and there was a trend towards that too and it didn't always turn out so good no it often doesn't turn out though when you put too many funny people in a thing yeah because it's for the sake of it and it's kind of slapped it has no focus has no direction has no team leader mm-hmm but this kind of focus yeah yeah yeah yeah so you say you meet Gilda she's one of the first people mm-hmm was there a sense in the beginning or soon after of and you said they gave you some [ __ ] about what the hell is a groundling is there an early sense you know how when you work on on any sort of project there's a sense of team a sense of us at some point it becomes us almost against everybody out there and I've always imagined that within those hallways of the launch of this show before you're known as the not-ready-for-prime-time players when does how soon before it starts to feel at all like a team does it have to air a couple of times or is it in the actual building of it before it launches I think one of the things we were focused on was the fact that Howard Cosell had another show yeah with the same sort of name and the same kind of rep company right we were concerned about that but yes he was famous your show didn't have a famous person yeah he was going to be the host I guess there was question as to whether we could use the not-ready-for-prime-time players of the you know cuz he had something similar to that with his his group yeah I think Chris guest was in that group guys I think Billy Crystal yeah really good people but we had no other sense of we really felt anonymous we felt like nobody was watching us and if it was anything us against anybody it was against the network just trying to get material through but other than that we felt anonymous and nobody was watching so it was really more of kind of a secret Club where you know we were just kind of entertaining ourselves right and is it something that that I am I've always sort of romanticized because over the years I known people on the cast and I would go and hang out and visit during the crazy late night sessions and whatnot but I always imagined in the early days before learn Lauren rather developed his brilliance of divide and conquer he always had it was it from the from the guillotine to create a little in-house competition in order to see who gets what on the air and what becomes the show I think he did want a rep company that knew each other's strengths in order to work together a positive way artistically whatever articulate those thoughts well he he tried to do it in turn it physically by having us all do improv at his loft right I did read um and in fact it was at the sketch fest that you and Danny talked a little bit about that about the birth of the Coneheads that you were just screwing around one night a loft yeah doing the voices that lasted a couple of I don't know I think we went there twice that wasn't it that was it it just everyone come by the loft and just have some fun it didn't gel that was about it and I'm guessing early on Belushi said something like this is [ __ ] and locked up I don't remember whether or not he did that he was pretty cooperative yeah but I know for a fact that Lorne you know patrolled the the hallways and walked into the writers rooms and tried to make sure that there was something written for everybody I know that he did that because I saw him right so I think that even though the divide-and-conquer inclusion/exclusion thing was always kind of there it developed over time well I would think it would develop organically and uh from the beginning because there is only so much material that's gonna get into the show so just by very nature of the setup there's gonna be a competition among writers first but it was a meritocracy and whatever worked best at dress rehearsal is what went in the show Wow period yeah and why would it be that way any good producer would would do it like that right but during mam because rehearsals in front of the live audience so you're gonna find out exactly what's what mm-hmm and oh my so how about that first one well we didn't know what we're doing and you can tell I mean the format is just so odd yeah there's an awkwardness that's kind of beautiful now but there's an awkwardness and there were so many good sketches that were cut with Alexander the Great's high school reunion that sounds hilarious yeah on that show when they cut it more sketches you know and it ended up less sketches right it's such a shame yeah yeah George Carlin was Alexander the Great you know yeah well it must have been a sense of that on a weekly basis in terms of oh there's another one that's not gonna make it that I love dearly it's good stuff too are there writers that are who who's the first what was the first sense the first memory of a writer who might have been looking out for you or at least getting what you were doing because the valley girl eventually makes it on air and is embraced I think Tom Schiller totally got me right Michael O'Donoghue also I think you know there were times when I would see what was being written we're trying to insinuate a character of mine in there hmm and then help write the dialogue for that one right but there were a lot of you know characters that I brought from The Groundlings that you know I could have in sketches and they would do very well in the sketch but then I didn't want to repeat them because I felt that that was kind of hack yeah you know from the groundlings I'm sure a sense of not it just I felt like it was kind of like made a commercial interesting you know I came down it became the ones that were repeated ad nauseam I know but there's something about the true heart of an artist that says we're to repeat this would be to try to exploit it yeah I just I just kept wanting to do new stuff right now that really was dumb well only in retrospect but at the time you're thinking how can we make this better I suppose yeah you must have been they showed that sketch at the sketch fest thing they showed the character of Alice with Fran Tarkenton and that was a Groundlings character and it was so you know her monologue is in a book called titters and it so reminds me of a character that Kristen Wiig would do because this characters is someone who would take mundane events and you know make a grandiose assessment of them you know it's very subtle stuff but I imagine if it had been repeated I think the audience would have gotten it no I mean yeah no I remember the sketch now that you mention it from I'm showing it it's sketch fest and that was one of the things that went through my mind was is this a character I missed that that became a runner and it sounds like you're saying you weren't really into that at all I should have repeated that character because I think people would have gotten it you know yeah well there was subtleties to it in terms of but you know I'm stuck so it's you know the format of the show i when I watched the first season when they first released it on DVD I was like oh god you know and it was you know there was a lot of hit and miss and boy you know a lot of stuff that this is how I assess it you look at the Olympics from fifty years ago and it's like why didn't you miss can do two somersaults oh yeah and then you look at the Olympics now and it's point that gymnast can do five somersaults yeah you know and that's really how it looks to me it's like look at what we could do then and how we remember it right and now it's like boy that's it's not that funny you know it isn't to me well there's no question that some things are timeless something still make me laugh but very few I guarantee you when they watch the shows that are on now 20 years from now they're gonna feel the same way first of all there's a in essence an A and a sort of unspoken reality for comedy which has much to do with the time that it is created and performed and enjoyed mm-hmm doesn't have to be dated material doesn't have to be topical material doesn't have to be about this horrific thing going on in Japan mm-hmm yes it just has to do with a sensibility mm-hmm and the sensibility of 1975 can only be appreciated by the people in 1975 right so yeah I think you're right there's a sense when you watch it there's a romantic version in your head of man we were funny as hell this is gonna be great honey come on this is the first season what the hell is this yeah because you yourself have evolved and all of your sensibilities beyond that - I do remember though there was an electricity about it for the people for those of us at home watching this thing happening live from New York there was an electricity and I think there's a genuine curiosity for the people who've been fans forever several of which three of which are in this room now growing up and being fans no matter what generation that electricity of putting on a show live in the theater as one experience and then live television which for all intents and purposes doesn't really exist other than a talk show and in the back of your mind even on a talk show you you know mantle if this goes horribly [ __ ] wrong leaking stuff tape mm-hmm new to New York lost everything car stolen all these things building up to the first live show I can't imagine other than being a natural that it's anything but nerve-wracking and you can't really even enjoy it until it's over that would be my well you know we were all kind of in this I mean not specifically but we all had the same responsibilities nobody had more to do than anybody else so I don't really think that and also you know you can't really be aware of well there's five million people watching us because you know it's a studio with a little cameras and yeah there are people in the studio everyone that's in the audience is the only audience you're aware of right for sure don't really have that global sense but never do right but there's it's made clear to you I'm sure through the pressures whether it's Lorne or stage director or whoever these are cameras these earmarks there's the cue cards here's what happens when we do it live remember all of us come from sketch comedy used only from be here when the lights come up up run back when the lights go out change your costume really quickly and then be here when the lights come up we all came from that so you all had a comfort zone with that it was just a bigger distance right you know and the cameras the cameras were a little different but we've done the blocking right you know the cue cards were different too we have all had to learn how to look like we were not reading and that was a learning curve the people suffer with to this day there are very few people who get that very few it's an art form all to itself I remember thinking I don't think anyone gets this or there's no way first of all everybody wants to be up off book obviously but then they're changing between dresses and Hoss and live which sketches and then they're rewriting up to the last second yeah so it literally becomes impossible and at some point it seemed as a fan there's a lifelong fan I'm rooting for people just read the cards don't go from the cards to the actor just stay on the cards the whole time and then you'll see sometimes I'll see Bill Hader in the cast now looking right at the cards and thinking he gets it he's looking right at the cards oh wait a second he's looking right at the cards you know what it was like there's no way to win here yeah well but if you do an update there's you're supposed to because that's your focus you're an n1 you know and there's nothing wrong with that your character is almost bound to do it right in its you can cheat it that way yeah god I love him bill later oh yeah he's so good he's about as good as anyone gets at that and I also the obscure nature of some of the characters when he does Alan Alda and he does he's really no ingredient fried rice oh my god yeah oh my god I know I know yeah he's spectacular um so it's easy for you to watch the show now and love it when it's yeah oh god yes I love the show I've always loved it I there were a long times when I didn't watch it just because I had small children right and you know I didn't I don't think I had TiVo once there was TiVo yeah then I went back to watching it right I want to get a little sense of oh you know what we've had a couple of questions come in I wanted to get to these one of which there was so much not said about live from New Orleans oh no I don't know if you've been um if you had to sign documents that said you're not allowed to talk about this but to our understanding no one really has talked in detail or rather we haven't heard enough I guess some people have talked in detail about it but there's still a sense of what the hell really happened well you know for the longest time with regard to just the parade I had always been told that the parade stopped you know it was supposed to go past where Jane and Buck horror so that they could comment on it and it never arrived interesting and I had always been told until February of this year that it was because someone died on the route and then to stop it Danny told me that Lorne pissed so many people off they rerouted no you just found this out that's fantastic Oh tasty that's delicious they rerouted yeah they they [ __ ] him [ __ ] him oh my god that's according to Danny yet well that's something Danny would because she just just so many people why would Danny share that unless it were in fact I don't know but I tell you we had so much fun more fun than we had a right to have well apparently as the story goes yeah but I mean it was technically we tried to do things that nobody had ever done before right and we just weren't set up to do it and I I think just so many things went wrong right what did you care you were having a great time god yes I mean Gilda and I during rehearsals we were forgotten we were on at one location and just forgotten we were somewhere for four hours left no water no food you know I mean we had fun we were laughing our asses off because we were making each other laugh but we were you know and there no cell phones no no 1970-something yeah just they forgot us we had if I may lose Cheri Oteri who she is directly prompt on the program I remember she told a story just a little snippet of a story about how which her first season she felt like she wasn't getting any sketches on the air and the writers weren't giving her anything and so she went to Lauren and Lauren's response was you know Gilda made the writing staff cookies maybe you could bake them something and I and I just blew my mind like that's really his now you were there does that sound maybe like something he might have said well I've but I mean you know that's certainly not why they wrote for her right that's an interesting way to get someone out of your office that's a creative way to get someone out of your office yeah yeah Gilda would make them brownies off you go mm-hmm toddle along yeah but he's you know he's found some really great ways to get people to leave his office without getting what they want yeah he's a master at that what feeling great and not realizing that they didn't get what they were wanted right someone I'm trying to think who was now wrote that recently that he was an absolute master out of not addressing the issue and undermining your efforts to like someone called him out on something and he was able to say yeah I'm just not and then he would you come into his office and make some comments some statements some lack of appreciation and he would find a way to get you to leave and by design almost like it was until years later people were able to look back and go holy hey he was really into peeping out of his office and most more importantly out of his face on whatever the hell their problems were but happy because you thought you got what you wanted that's the that was genius that's the evil power well you know I but I've known Warren since he was 28 and I met him at the Chateau Marmont when he and his wife rosie were breaking up oh boy and I remember him there used to be this strange character who was worked the switchboard and he would answer the phone chateau and Lorne said he would he would come in you know from working or whatever it was he was doing and he was so depressed and he was so lonely and he'd see the switchboard lit up and this guy would be reading a book oh my god not you know paying attention and Lawrence said he would be thinking one of those could be for me yeah exactly you know so I knew that Warren - yeah well he certainly has always had a gifted at finding talent and somehow nurturing writers and talent to work together in his own masterful way mm-hmm so so much has been written about his being a genius at dividing and conquering but the success rate and percentage of his batting averages insane beyond belief yeah Don novella was also on the Sketchfest panel and boy it was great to see him and I think you guys sort of realized on stage that night that Don Novello made more guest appearances or something in this yeah I didn't know that that was great but mathematically it made sense that was a very writer centric panel which was so gratifying I mean pardon me I don't know why my throat is so but I don't I wasn't texting did but texting them for those of you watching or listening later and it's still 41 degrees here in the studio I think I actually got the heat to work okay for a minute um peels on thank you okay but I I thought it was so great that people finally associated a face with like eating the cheeseburger sketch yeah and right that people knew that that Tom really was Tom and Danny wrote Coneheads I don't think people knew that Tom wrote the Coneheads with Danny I don't think so I um and the final days that sketch was so I mean that was great for Tom to experience a live audience of that size yeah acknowledging him that's gonna dawn yeah and don't you get it you were pointing on the mega data coming out to Dan Don Novello otherwise known as father Guido Sarducci too much of the audience I had written the cheeseburger cheeseburger yeah and there's a couple of others they mentioned that he had written Jamie you might remember that that we're sort of we're failing a shopping mall the scotch-tape boutique no the Scotch baby but yeah that the the sense of Franken and Davis also was pretty fun in terms of the mischievous - yes oh my yeah Frank Al Franken had a really interesting evolution in his writing - he aspired to write more actual relationship stuff like you know he admired a lot of what Marilyn Miller wrote and so he he wrote scenes like some of the stuff that I did with dick Benjamin and I think I'm trying to think if he wrote this thing I did with Fran Tarkenton I'm not sure but he he really made departures he made an effort to grow a lot in that way ultimately wrote the deep the moving drama when a man loves a woman yeah meg Ryan and people forget that Al Franken wrote that but you talk about writing about relationships my god yeah Nilsa wrote Stuart saves his family speaking of relationship exactly I love that movie as do i I just think it's so funny with yeah London buddy hey to service Lee you just jump in there come around the back side yeah there you go please all talking it's 41 degrees it happens yeah from the chat room lady diode has anyone decided there's a different way to say that and I think we've got it right there and I'll lay diode for Lorraine how insane was it working with Devo on we're all Devo we're all Devo and such and Martin mhm no that's a question because it's a whole thing to question so there's that one to choose from as well as from Miz jazz there are a lot of additional voices credits for the animated films that you've done on IMDB do you have favorites yeah we'll talk about the voice game because boy is that a career for anyone who dives in head first fun yes so fun and you talk about playfulness you talk about removing yourself from scrutiny more or less than just being in the sandbox it's nothing but fun I know I I assume oh I'm sure you know - I don't actually I'm envious well I have a sip and when we think about the Devo I cannot believe this oh losing my voice on the air no it's perfect the Depot thing will I also coming up in a hundred minutes by the way so don't feel like it's only been ten do you edit this ooh don't be silly don't be silly I would suggest some sort of production value I dated Mark Mothersbaugh for three years interesting point and so insane on we're all Devo it was it was business as usual really so I can't really say it was insane but you know I I actually have no memory I watched that video recently and realized gee I have no memory of shooting that that can only mean one of two things it's both you had in fact mm been elsewhere possible let's leave it at that shall we meditating uh-huh yeah yeah that's what we'll call it mm-hmm mommy's meditating that's right yeah yeah let's let's talk about the voice-over stuff because it is like I said the ultimate sandbox for creative people you don't have to deal with a live audience first of all or any sort of audience you really are asked to go in and play with others there's a lot of it just solo stuff the best shows you're playing with others the first series I got was a show called hysteria and it was one of the bat last Warner Brothers cartoons that had the big productions you know with the big orchestra original music this was who was in the first series I ever did Frank Welker Wow you've had Billy West on him yeah Billy West Rob Paulsen Maurice LaMarche all the hitters yeah Fred travel you sure may rest in peace why am I forgetting Oh Jeff Bennett it's okay girl girl girl Oh trust me Neil trust me now so that's my first series these are the people I'm working with on my first killers all of them yeah um and then we'd have guest stars like Buddy Hackett Adam West oh boy you know it was nothing but fun oh my god yeah you gotta know me well yeah it was a privilege and I I really I auditioned for a long time for probably salt two solid years and then then it just opened up and I've been working at it ever since great great job in the research it suggests that it had been a couple of years struggle in terms of auditioning because because there's so many people that want to do this for a living the competition is fierce but then you found out about a voice instructor charlie adler Charlie Charlie Adler yeah and that's when and Chris Zimmerman she was also the teacher with him mm-hmm but Charlie you know he's like Mel Blanc and he directs to but he's a brilliant brilliant guy and he really made the difference in my ability and opened up the world of just getting jobs well he I don't know that any director or teacher can do that but they help you to know what you can do and stretch your abilities and he certainly did that strengthen in the areas that we needed the most yeah in order to succeed mm-hmm as opposed to continue to try yeah yeah it's that kind of focus though I think that makes the difference yeah it was the perfect job for people with young kids because you go there for a couple hours you act stupid you get paid and go home and you're home for dinner and it was perfect and it was something that was meaningful to them too right cuz you know the SNL stuff they don't think I'm funny you know Amy Poehler's funny you're somewhere you're fine your mom yeah so but when they're really young yeah they you could do something in an animated series and they're being an immediate effect of that's mommy's voice in this character is fun and mm-hmm what an amazing thrill for for you as a performer but also as a mother that combination is ridiculously rare yeah I mean you'll hear actors interviewed saying look I've enjoyed definitely on the parts the carribean said I have a young daughter and this is a chance for her to see me do something and you know at some point that has to factor in yeah I'm you every time you see a prestigious actor doing something in that vein you know it's because they've got kids yeah nine times out of ten that's the reason right and it's great it's just kind of humanizes them it's an amazing bonus from Facebook which I believe you're on you're on the Facebook I am in I'm on the Facebook Kevin do you have memories you'd like to share and working with Bob and Ray on Bob and Ray Jane Lorraine and Gilda that must have been pretty magical oh my goodness well it was a long time ago from Steve strum okay Steve thank you thank you for your questions Steve yeah well I do remember that we did a sketch about shoelaces sure what shoelace repair or something like that which you know Bob and Ray were about my new show and that was what was so funny to me about them so it was just a privilege and I also remember that we did do this song do you think I'm sexy mmm which was the Rod Stewart jerk hit trigger so we got to sing with them oh but God they were great guys they were just so decent and so sweet and so funny and the third generation of Bob Elliott Oh his daughter granddaughter granddaughter happy Elliott good daughter yeah that's pretty wild I know yeah do your daughters have any aspirations in the yeah well 19 year old is very funny mmm she as we discussed she's friends with Jake Reiner right and he got her involved in an improv class when they were 15 okay it was an improv stand up class for teenagers and so my daughter was doing stand-up at the improv at 15 what them and she's good she's really good and so I let her do it for a while we let her do it for a while but then she was her grades were kind of you know not what they should be so we didn't let her do it in her senior year now she's a sophomore in college in New York and she's a literature major I don't know if she's doing comedy or not she will not tell us oh she won't will she know uh-huh but I do know that she is extremely funny and I she will not tell us if she wants to be a performer or not probably because she thinks I'll kill myself but well now wait a second I don't kids do as long as you don't go into show business yeah and then the 15 year old has done all-star competitive cheer what Wow bring it on Wow I'm not kidding and you've been president witnessed these goings on I was a cheer mom I'll say going to the competitions in Palm Springs and did we go Rancho Cucamonga yes that's right everyone goes drinkin yeah it was amazing it's she's so she's a real hardcore athlete she's the couple you know the kind of cheer you see on ESPN sure sure that's the kind yeah yeah no it's not funny games no no it's no kidney so that's got to make you feel pretty magical as the kids get that focused on something that makes them yeah I love that my kids have passion what it's that's all you could hope for a thing absolutely just be passionate something please absolutely yeah that's yes devoutly to be wish'd does their leaves disappointment and happiness exactly if you're passionate if you have a focus right let's let's prepare you for a couple of things miss as we hit the hour excuse me 110 minute coming up on two hours are you okay yeah does it t helping a little it is my voice is back all right it's bad we suggested to you that you might be enjoying a little thing we like to call the Twitter game do you dare at this point oh let's what the hell let's bring it on you know Sammy it's been far too many weeks we've missed you we love you it's time for who tweeted rollin intro oh it's good to be back welcome back what an old ahout witted starring our very own Sam Levine oh come on Sammy what do you got uh I got some tweets yeah I got some killer tweets here huh now uh we briefly discussed this before your three possible authors for these tweets okay Tyra Banks Paris Hilton Justin Bieber I'm sure having the teenage girls you're very familiar with all three of these I am okay then I think is next top model' yeah you'll do very well at this game uh so here's how it works there's eight total tweets I will read the a tweet and then at the end of it you and Kevin will buzz in hover buzzes in first I'll calling you buzz in by saying your name or making some noise that I know it's you cuz I'll just be looking at this I think I can't tell your voices apart and and then I will point to you when you will have three seconds to say Tyra Paris or Bieber okay you get it right you get yourself five points buzzing you get it wrong you're gonna lose three just being a competition and finally there were some sort of prize available to the winner yeah for crying out loud how about cold hard cash what the hell that's right I don't want to show the serial numbers too close on the camera less people think they can I don't know what that does but why aren't we allowed to show the serial numbers it doesn't matter it doesn't matter you mean like five five five klondike five yes all right Hyundai crime so we're playing for cold hard cash twenty dollars twenty dollars at stake to the winner there are eight questions they begin with just filmed a PSA for our troops and military families I have so much love and respect for them all Bieber Lorraine Bieber sorry no oh what I mean hey that's the purpose response that is correct that response unfortunately it was Paris Paris Wow performing for the troops Paris yeah she film what are you suggesting Kevin Rabbit can talk what yes and she likes the rabbit on her nothing all right go all right question number two tweet ever do zero gravity plus my stomach equals not so good lol Tyra Lorraine Tyra consistency is all we really care about that would have been the Bieber that's the Bieber what the Bieber zero gravity for the lives oh my Bert he's a woman yeah well sure he's a lesbian right he's Canadian oh I'm sorry no I get those two can see sorry those being Canadian the same in my brain wait a minute I love Canadians we've gone off the rails I do tweet number three create overnight just ending the night my prayers go out tonight to the people of New Zealand god bless Kevin Tyra sorry no oh we are solid three for three Lorraine Lorraine Bieber that is correct what unfortunately I scored you know points yeah okay eliminate what it feels good to get one right you all right that was the Biebs feels good to get one right I feel like oh well just a three-point deficit anyone's game tweet number four accidental peep into men's bathroom and see urinals kind of make me wanna gag a bit Kevin Paris it's a tie game negative yeah yeah I've been Tyra awfully funny if that was Bieber ever man but that would have been comedy what is so I mean what's the matter with us what a [ __ ] urinal for crying out loud Tyra Banks she is afraid of dolphins unnaturally afraid of dolphin cuz they're smarter she's calling undue attention to herself tweet number five mmm at Avalon watching Asher perform that's it afraid so Kevin B bird that pusher found it found beaver made him start I've got good news we've got one right oh he's got one you were in the lead that was a trick question by default I love winning by default it was two sweetest words in the English language default deep vote only once before have the guest a technicality yeah gotten them all in technical ko it's okay we're looking for a TKO here yeah yeah all right you're up you're up negative six to negative nine right it's a battle of the wursts p number six mitt Bruce Weber at dinner tonight at the Sunset Tower Hotel love his work he's such an amazing photographer he's shown and shweet to Lorraine Tyra Oh controversy wait a minute who rang in first never rang in first and you said okay Kevin Paris I said it was correct she knows who Bruce Weber is she oh my god woo all right back year 6 - -5 - 4 - Parris yeah you are - 4 - Lorraine's - 6 truly anyone's game it really is how exciting hasn't him climb from the devil this is bracing tweet number 7 oh I got chills oh wait it's 40 degrees was watching The Hangover again yeah yeah yeah we all know Bradley Cooper's hot but he can act his ass off deranged Cowboys face Lorraine Tyra that is correct Oh lovely oh yeah plus five you're gonna get your city now you're only minus one - Kevin's - four oh you're in the lead again the eighth an eighth and final question final question and it's a anyone's ball game let's of course there's a ton I pull this out and I am negative I'm plus here your yeah so whoever answers this correctly wins pretty much plus of course you ring in and get it incorrectly in which case we have a time we have a tie yeah-oh time we had we have well we could tear the the billing not a girl who ever gonna be 1% of that bill yeah all right here we go here it is we never ate feel like thank you to the ladies of at the talk CBS for giving me one of the greatest surprises of my life still in shock Kevin Tyra ladies and gentlemen our winner and champion miss Laraine Newman thank you congratulation well lost thanks Oh fun oh my god quickly or not so quickly but um a dferent you're a long time friend got you involved in one for the table you're now a contributing editor to this food magazine yes it is food loving politics but we have is people basically writing people who don't write about food writing about food how much fun is that it's it's great and I guess that you the both of you really like these crazy foodies well foodies I need all food yeah me too and so it's really been great because a lot of the performance that I'm doing now has come from some of the things that I wrote for that blog that's nice that you're writing and there and thereby getting inspired by your own musings to the point where oh this is good I want to perform some of this mm-hmm you were mentioning before we went on Santa Monica Playhouse is playing into the future as you have written a couple of pieces that you're gonna perform and those were inspired by things you wrote for one for the table well no they're both of them are pieces that that I've written that come from a book that I wrote not that is in a drawer mm-hmm but just the act the act of writing and some of the things that I did right from there have been performed previously in other shows oh yeah and also I've been doing celebrity autobiography you ever seen that show tell me more I sir it's a wonderful show they did a sketch fest this year right yes part of it I was i I did the Friday night I couldn't do Saturday night but I'm doing it this Sunday at the brode a week from tonight or tonight um a week from tonight okay Mario Cantone Julian Sands YB Mott nazar mm-hmm Illeana Douglas I'm gonna forget tell us what it is it is readings from celebrities autobiographies but not just any celebrities the most cheesy well I don't want to say that I'll say it the most cheesy ones that shouldn't have written autobiographies there you go there we have it cheese is not the word meat my proxy we're looking for more humorous than cheese anyway yes it's it's so who's the last one you read do you remember oh I read Hedy Lamarr oh you always did I have I've read all of the ones that are in the show I've read Loni Anderson Elizabeth Taylor hello the poetry of Suzanne Somers late again the poetry of Suzanne Somers dad yo I've read Joan Lunden oh boy yeah I've read Burt Reynolds assistant Rhoda it's Rhoda every assistant is named Rhoda did you know that it is I can't remember her name it's like Helen Owen Carrie but it's yes she did and this is what's great about it the guy who created it Eugene PAC and his wife del Rafael they both created this show and what he does is almost like a mash-up where he takes the autobiography of Loni Anderson Burt Reynolds and this assistant and it's an account of the same incident oh that's nice yeah that's nice and he does that with Elizabeth Taylor Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds out when they can see this you can go to the celebrity autobiography website okay and that has a schedule because it plays all over the country different casts please check this out people yes sounds like magic yeah and you're doing the next one here in Los Angeles next Sunday yes all right where's that with abroad it's the broad theater in Santa Monica at 11th and Santa Monica all right I can't thank you enough honestly thank you for asking me it was so much fun yeah it was something that um came about on a whim and I was thrilled to death that it was even possible and has happened and I am most pleased thank you for having me on your Anniversary Show I feel privileged oh thanks thank you but a long time long time long time fan and same here follower of your goings-on same here honest to god big fan oh thank you I ask only now that you sit there uncomfortably while I wrap things I mean a second oh we can't let her go without Larry King game can you believe I came that close to letting her up I wasn't going to let you how dare you damn it let's never let it happen you can always blame Sam now let me reiterate let me let me reiterate some of the fun that it could be had here well trying to take away some of the pressure I want a bad Larry King you may have noticed a mine earlier I'm not interested in a good Larry King so no pressure at all to actually sound like Larry King it's much funnier to us if it's a bad Larry King impression that isn't indeed where the funny begins perfect actually perfect yes please we've had morons and then it's really that moment where Larry kind of it's the too much information moment the TMI just too much information Larry again about Larry not about you right it's really Larry's of course yeah well I have to reiterate cuz as few people who shared something about themselves cuz I didn't understand the concept oh no that's embarrassing so it's Larry's TMI moment and then you want to go to the phones and at the name of the city is funny-sounding it's good so that's got those are kind of the three things to look at our bad Larry King impression too much information moment and then go to the phones the way he does so it's a little bumper there's your camera right there should you be willing and able just go sure this is Larry King saying remember the time me and Melvyn Douglas were doing jello shots in helium and reading penthouse letters knit one purl two California thank you and thank you Sam Levine for reminding my pleasure uh we work as a team but we don't work at all thank you that was perfection one purl two that's protect thank you for all your questions that you brought in to us today thank you Jamie for forwarding I know that's always a difficult task and I don't stop along the way to thank you no it is because there's people writing and they all think they're so funny and engaging and of course they're not I don't do much nobody well these are all written by Jamie the last one was yeah you know you may need some 1970s Harold Ramis talk before release that's the only thing I do you remember the 1970s Harold Ramis that's my dream man cute is everyone in the chair enough food dance Jamie's that she wants go back in time and just be with the 1970s over Amazon last pinky Ghostbusters Brazil and likewise I watch I got watch guys just to last night dude that was yeah that was on it's on a continuous loop in our house are you kidding I wish thank you thank you very much all right next week is not our second anniversary it is the first show of the mod the rest of our lives Godspeed to those in harm's way around the world at present we continue to do battle in this time in a new neighborhood why because we're the [ __ ] sheriff but those that are risking their lives under the auspices of this particular country our hearts and prayers go out to each and every one of you Godspeed get home safe next week I'm very excited to say that Fred Savage will be at this table representing another generation but what's weird yes a nice turn is gonna come back and provide his inner monologue for us that is genius we've got to get daddy star on the blower to make this happen come on man Sammy you can't just make this [ __ ] up on the spot dreamy and follow-through all right Dan Easter was great on this show and a friend of the show and that is a brilliant idea get to work with Rotman now okay all right Ronny tune in next week tune in next week to see if they actually pull it off but I do want to thank everyone here on our second anniversary again for too near perfect and fantastic years and here's to the next many to come we will continue to bring you this show on a weekly basis check the calendar Kevin Pollak's chat show comm for upcoming shows we do have some great ones coming up with Tom Lennon and Eugene Levy and Rob Reiner and Peter Weller Peter Weller I won't be here for that breaks my heart Oh Sammy will play it for you in slow motion okay there's gonna be some great shows coming up so please and also as you continue to help us evolve don't forget to write us a contact at Kevin Pollak's chat show calm and make some requests but also help whenever you can and want for the show as we grow from 2:00 to 3:00 there are our crew outside the hallowed walls of the studio have been working fearless leaf or 2 hours and 17 minutes I wonder what they've really been up to over the last couple of hours if only there was some way some sort of photographic evidence of what's been taking place outside oh look we got a cake making number 2 oh yeah yeah where you are gonna put that in my face well you wasted the wine and I was just a little upset but now the fact that they wasted two cupcakes I know they're wasting two of Katie's cupcakes

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Published: Sun Mar 20 2011