We both have in common working
in Saturday Night Live.
I worked there long before you, but I am.
I just love, and people always push me for this,
but people always ask me what was the sketch
that went terribly wrong when you were there?
Oh
Was there ever a sketch at SNL
that went so terribly wrong?
Yes. Yes. There is.
Cause people don't get, they don't get to see these.
So I was, one of the first movies I worked
on was when we called Purple Violets
and it was directed by Ed Burns,
and he is a very nice guy, but I was
listening to him talk all day and I would go back
to the office and I would try to
do Ed Burns, you know, and I watched his movies,
so it would be like, you know, his movies
are all kinda like,
yeah, you know the girl I like, you know
instead of a cop she wants to be a firefighter
and so we, I had written this sketch,
it was when Paul Rudd had hosted,
and it was a sketch where I was a,
it was called Ed Burns grill boys,
and it was us grilling, now they didn't, okay.
So, and we're like (mumbles)
and then, I, we went out there and do an address
and I did the voice but Paul, for some reason
would not do the voice, and I don't understand
why Paul decided not to do it.
(people clapping)
How dare you?
See. Why didn't you do that?
I can do the voice.
I did the voice.
But what happened? You disagree that
Memory is very hazy.
Yeah.
Now I might not be a trained monkey boy,
like your man over here with the voices.
(laughter and clapping)
I remember correctly. I did do the voice.
The reason the sketch didn't work is that it was terrible.
We were standing around, both of us as Ed Burns,
just talking about our pop and grilling meat.
And it was hilarious.
We thought it was funny, but it was a construct,
was an idea that just did not fly.
Yeah, it didn't work.
In fact, and this is true, Lorne said,
in the, in his history with the show,
it was the worst received sketch
That's fantastic.
Of all the time.
Yeah
We did it address and it didn't
get one, not one lap, not one.
Thankfully, thankfully, they actually
do film the dress rehearsal.
They do.
If you would like to see the sketch
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
(clapping)
Are you serious?
Yeah. Yes.
Oh shit.
And you will see what I'm talking about.
Play the sketch.
There he is!
No! No!
Yes!
Wooo
Oh my god!
Oh my gosh!
So, you can see why it bombed.
I didn't think-
Whoever dies first, you have
to do that at the other one's funeral.
Yeah. Yeah. You know what I can't believe
is, how many years has it been?
It's been like 25 years of you coming
on the show and you would never show,
You'd always say I've got a clip and you would,
every time for years, I would be convinced
that I would see the real clip
because you're such a genuinely nice person.
And you would say, no, this movie is really important to me.
And I, I put my money, my own money into this
and I really care about this.
And then you pull that shit every time.
I never really imagined 20 years ago
Yeah
That here we would be.
Yeah.
Well, someone, obviously on the internet
put together, they didn't even do all of them.
No
But you can see, I mean, you don't age,
but you see me, you see me go from like
a here's Paul Rudd to like a (muffled sound) you know
just a rotting pumpkin head and you see it
happen over a period of years and it's absolutely stunning.
It's this crazy performance art that lasts forever.
I just remember the very first time thinking
it's so artificial to come on and sell your wares
and show a clip from your movie
and what if I just show a clip from another movie?
Right, right.
We've never talked about this really,
but, but I thought what if I show a clip
from this movie that I saw a long time ago,
that is just really strange and there's one scene
in particular, but I was, I was kind of waffling
because there was another movie that I was obsessed
with at the time that was equally like,
who was this made for called Baby Geniuses.
Baby Geniuses. Does anyone know baby, oh okay.
Bob Clark.
Yeah yeah
That's right.
So there was actually a contender
There was a contender. There was.
and there was this idea, there was this,
basically there was this scene, I remember,
a baby, they're breeding these super babies or something.
And one of them escapes and these, I don't know,
like seven or eight grown men chase after him.
And then the baby jumps out and just beats the
shit out of all of these grownups.
And there are, there's this kind of demonic laugh
that just keeps recycling over and over again.
And it's clearly a little person.
It just beating up these, but it was, it was so bizarre.
And I'd always, the whole time
Did you almost go with that?
I almost did. I never did, I never show,
obviously I just stuck with this,
but I always was thinking about this clip.
And I thought seeing it is your last week.
Congratulations, by the way.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
There was, there was no way that
I would not come, and I was wondering
if it was all right, we could show,
I can show you the other clip that
I was talking about. The Baby Geniuses.
Yeah definitely.
There he is!
No! No!
(laughter and clapping)
What a horrible man. Love you, pal.
Bill Hader. Barry season 3.
Bill Hader. Paul Rudd. I love these guys.
(clapping)