Good to have you on the show now,
am I pronouncing your name correctly?
Because it's an unusual, Sudaikis.
Sudeikis, yes, yes, it's Lithuanian,
All I don't know much about my heritage
Because I said CB ass earlier.
Yeah no that, that'll fly, it'll be fine,
I'm, I'm used to everything, no, I get,
I get a bunch of different things, but,
and it's awesome, awesome hearing you say it,
even though a little wrong, but,
but one of the best,
Great, very passive aggressive of
you but I accept your judgment.
No, but no, I'm sure you'll get it right next time.
There'll be no next time.
(audience laughing)
Gone, when am I?
I'd kill for one of those.
(man laughs)
But you know, the coolest,
one of the neatest things about working at SNL
is getting to hear, you know, Don Pardo say your name.
The great Don Pardo.
Oh what a voice, "Jason Sudeikis" like it's just so great.
And what was so funny was when I first came on,
because it is a difficult name, he's very,
very sensitive to that.
And he comes up to you and he's like, he's like,
"you know, is it, am I saying it right?
Is is Sedate, Sudicus?"
And I'm like, no, it's actually Sudeikis.
"Sue Dickus?" and I'm like, no, that's not that.
You're getting further away, Don.
Further away, so it's like Sudeikis,
and he's just, "all right, Sudeikis."
I'm like, that's it, and then he just
sort of wandering away just
saying my name over and over
"Sudeik, Sudeikis? Sudeikis! Jason Sudeikis!"
(men laughs)
He's like, I just hear him.
I saw him at the Commissary, days later,
looking at a mop and saying "Sudakus!"
Yeah, I don't, I don't doubt it. The guy,
loves it and he practices, it doesn't come easy.
Now I'm, I'm curious, the, of course the,
the audition process for Saturday Night Live
has always mystified me a bit because
it's such a nerve-wracking experience.
Sure, tell me about it.
I would think you'd get a call and they say,
all right, we're thinking of putting you in the cast
of Saturday Night Live, this legendary show,
and you go there, do you, I mean,
what did you audition with?
What did you go in there with?
Well, they usually make you do like,
some original characters and impressions,
and like, and some of the impressions, actually,
none of the things that I've done in my audition,
'cause I auditioned two separate times.
I have I done on the show and sometimes that occurs
because someone already does on the show.
So like I sort of, you know, goof around
and do like a decent, you know,
I do a Dr. Phil impression, I will,
I will declare it decent as arrogant as that may be,
but I, you know, and I can't do it
because Darrell Hammond, who does a much
better impression, believe it or not already does it.
So, so like it's wasted, it's wasted.
And I, it was just simply me just, so you know,
"You know what you need to do? You need to understand
that sometimes people don't get the way that
the things that they want?"
you know, it's just a lot.
And all I'm really doing is just my
high school basketball coach.
And then just so low and behold,
a guy named Dr. Phil came in
that happened to talk and act and be,
and bully people just like my high school basketball coach.
But it used to be "no, steak is
where you're supposed to be?"
It's like,
On the, on the baseline, sir.
"Then get there!"
(audience laughing)
"What the hell you doin' up there?
You let you look more nervous than a,
than a long-tail cat in a room full of rocking chairs."
Like my high school coach used to say that,
Have you ever met someone who actually
said things like that?
Oh, he said it.
Yeah, if you'd ask my buddy think he'll
tell you he wrote it too.
He's one of those guys.
But you know, in a good way, in a nice way,
but like, Dr. Phil you know, is all this
type of advice that makes no sense.
I, you know, "you can get people to do what you want.
Sure, you can, you can get a dog to bark
by grabbing on was ding dong, but you
ain't gonna get the kind of bark you want, you know?
(audience laughing)
You're just sitting there,
(audience laughing)
Stop that, stop it.
You where down there a long time.
Eh, yow know, the dog likes it, the dog likes it,
Yeah, your imaginary dog, disgust me.
(audience laughing)
"Get some more on there boy, there you go."
Did you ever get to meet Dr. Phil?
No, I've never met Dr. Phil.
Not yet. I need his help, but I have not met him.
(audience laughing)
The closest I come as a degree of separation.
The story, one of those, which you know,
was a buddy of mine lives down in Texas.
He goes down there, you know, and he
he's going across the street.
He's got some headphones on
just sort of listening, you know,
to that sort of dazing out and starting
to cross the street, it goes out
during a red light and hears just,
It was loud horn, like "get out of the way, idiot!"
And, and he looks up and there's a yellow Ferrari,
looks up a little further, big middle finger.
It looks up over to the left of that finger,
And it's Dr. Phil.
(audience laughing)
Tell him to get out the way.
Wait, wait, wait, who bumps?
You've already won when you're in a Ferrari
and you're honking the horn at a pedestrian
to get out of the way you've won. You've won.
You've won.
To then, give them the finger,
just seems like a new low.
That's why he's one of the great ones.
(audience laughing)
That's why he's one of the great ones,
he takes that next step.
Yeah, then he stopped the Ferrari,
got out and kicked your friend to death.
And throw a $100 bill at him.
"Take that, stay out the road, dummy."
(audience laughing)
But, I just have to ask you, okay,
you haven't been at Saturday Night live long,
but quickly, favorite celebrity interaction moment.
And I mean like, behind the scenes.
Okay, well I, you know, I get asked,
you get asked that question lot.
I would say Snoop, Snoop doggy dog.
I mean, I've got to see some of that,
some awesome people, you know, from Al Sharpton
and Will Ferrell, obviously. But like,
but, but Snoop dog is the coolest dude,
I used to write for the show, I wrote for the show
for two years before I actually got to be a cast member,
and we when, as you probably know, 'cause you wrote there,
you get to meet with them, and you get to talk about ideas
and stuff with them and you get to hang out
with them for like 30, 45 minutes sometimes,
like we did on this one Tuesday night
and he just drops little pearls of wisdom,
just as cool as can be like, we're listening
to his songs, like some of his great hits,
like Gin and Juice,
Right.
Or Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang.
Sure.
Some of the great ones.
Yeah. And you know, he's like, "no, you gotta, you know,
I put a, I put a cover on every album because
you gotta look forward, you gotta look backwards
before you look forward." You know,
all this little knowledge, and then at the end,
my buddy Rich, who we were sitting there talking
just joking around, was like, "you know, Snoop,
maybe Saturday after the show, we, we got a party."
And Snoop, like he should, he goes "for shizzle."
Right, and then Rich's just joking around, he goes,
you know, "hey, maybe, maybe we'll get a ho?"
And, and, and Snoop just, on a dime goes,
"why get only one ho? Why not two or three?"
(audience laughing)
He goes, but that's not it, it gets even better.
"Why do you only one ho? Why not two or three?
"Don't put limits on your life. Dream big.
You may never wake up."
(audience laughing)
It's always a great sentiment.
It's like, I couldn't believe it.
And then he got up, and walked out,
and Rich and I just stood there.
Just sat there we were like, we gotta call
Urban Outfitters, get that on a t-shirt,
make some money, how do we turn this into cash?
It's like right up there with readings a right,
not a privilege. Yeah.
Put it in like a vista view, mountain vista,
excel to accessories, you know, "Snoop says,
'Dream big. You may never wake up."
Yeah, this weekend, Lindsay Lohan
is hosting Saturday Night Live,
Yeah, who is she?
Yeah, I'll tell you later, and musical guests, Pearl Jam.
Pearl jam.
Pearl Jam, so really good. Jason Sudeikis.
(audience cheering)
We'll be right back. Daniel Powder.
Stick around.