How you doing out there. It's me Tigger Duc Wayne Duck. It's me
Bunkers Deep Bobcat. All right, y'all, didn't bring your favorite firefly you
desire? Hold the old knock guy. My name is Jim Cummings and welcome
to tuned In. All right, welcome back. We're tuned in with Jim
Cummings. Thank you so much for joining us. Today. We have Miley
Flanagin. You know her as the voice of Naruto. Yes, Yes,
among other things, and most most recently the show You're on Royal Crackers.
Royal Crackers, which is on an adult swim. It's very adult, so
don't watch it if you're young. Hey boy, boy, that's easy to
believe. I can remember watching Walking in years ago when my youngest was about
fourteen, and I went, you know, it was like, wait,
what is this me? You know? Porn anime? No, yeah,
you know PORNA wait, I think I just write that copyroll somebody somebody watching
this, we could write that of me and you kind of love that,
of course you do, so tell us more so. Yeah, it's so
weird because I used to when I started going to conventions, mainly for Naruto.
It wasn't nearly as popular, and I'd see you guys and Maurice and
you know, all the all these people that you knew exactly who they were.
I've never heard of anyone but Maurice. But okay, but it would
be like these iconic characters. But years and years ago I did a cartoon
with Rusy Taylor and Charlie Adler in the cast and Tara Strong and Mel Brooks,
which was amazing. But he never really recorded with us. I think
he thought I was the coffee girl like when you know, like it was
like, hey, nice to me, wow. But it was like so
amazing. It was called Jaker's The Adventures of Pigley Winks and Jaker's The Adventures
of Pigley Winks Wow, and it was on PBS. I had that once.
It sounds like a condition. I'm sorry, has a scabbed over yet?
I just I made that up, thank God. But it was for
five years and I was the lead and it was amazing and terrific and it's
the first time I ever had a lead. And uh so cut to I
get Naruto and I have a healthy on camera career and I'm about fifty to
fifty person and so I get Naruto and the thing just explodes. And then
I would saying too as we came in the room, like over COVID,
people just you know, they just binged it. Yeah, there you go.
So it got even more popular over COVID. Oh yeah yeah, I
mean like unvoc really, how cool is that? Yeah, it's cool.
And it's big with like the military because they're all stuck in a submarine or
something. Oh oh that's cool, got it. So they binge it because
they're like, yeah, you know, seven hundred of Naruto and then about
another to two hundred and seven hundred episodes seven and seven to maybe what cheese
and crackers. It's been nineteen years and that is do mucho. Yes,
it is a lot. Here we go, OK, just scutch you a
water? Oh, there we go. Yeah, I have a I've been
in the air conditioning all day and I I know, yes, freezing.
Yeah I know. So that's what I'm not. He was to. I
know, I woke up and I was saying the air conditioning in my room
was just freezing. I've changed it like five times. And I'm like,
I had changed it in your room five times too than you. I saw
the camera. It's funny. I had seventy nine degrees and I woke up
freezing. I'm like, this is not some yes not, I think they're
all broken. Yeah, yeah, obviously somesode of alien plot conspiracy. It's
good, It's all good. But yeah, so then Naruto kind of exploded.
Borto followed it, and I keep yelling the same things in video games
for like, I don't know, I think I'm probably I used to know
the exact number, but I think I've done maybe almost sixty video games as
Naruto saying pretty much the same thing. Yeah, but it's good to get
the fresh paycheck for the same old words. Yes it is. Yeah,
I mean I won't tell them if you won't, I know, well,
I mean it's dub so it's it's you know, it's sort of poor man's.
It used to be considered like it wasn't that popular, right, People
would be like, it's like being an extra versus being a regular. And
then all of a sudden it was like, oh, not just the nerds,
but now the cool kids like it. Oh wow, And that was
a big change, that's true. Yeah, so it got very a very
different audience. Life is good. Life is great. So it's expanding the
horizons are it is beautiful, it's it is, it's I would say,
the people are weirdly as you will know that the same. So you think
it's like different accents. Sure, oh that's true, that's true. Now
have you got overseas with this yet? I have been, Yes, I
loved it. I haven't. I haven't done much. But but we change
that tag along. You absolutely can't. All right, I've been to New
Zealand, which was amazing. People are amazing, food's amazing, climate's amazing.
Oh wow, Australia, Sweden, where it's weird. All the Swedish
people, unlike other Europeans, uh, speak English with like an American accent
because half the TV shows at least are American shows that they watch on their
regular network. What a convenient country read it is? Well, you know
it'll be like thirty four dollars for martini. But I hate that. Let
me finish. What the hell are they thinking? I don't know is what
I meant to say. Oh man, that's amazing. Stockholm was amazing,
of course, Canada and then I did. I don't want to say like
it's another country, because it's not. But Puerto Rico is a Ohio Okay,
yeah, sorry, well that's another country. Yeah, Ohio, definitely.
Yeah, Puerto Rico never been. I want to go there. I
want to go there for the food and we own it and they can't kick
your ass legally. Yeah, if you're there and you know and you're just
being you. Is it true that Puerto Ricans don't get passports. I don't
think so. I think they have passport they probably don't need them. There's
some like essential thing that well they don't need them to get like here,
they need them to go. Yeah, there's something yeah, of course,
yeah, no, I mean like for some reason, my understanding is that
they don't get American place or something like that. There's some weird thing that
we all get that for some reason Puerto Ricans do not. Yeah. Well,
it's a territory, you know. I think it's a yeah, yeah,
that's it. My god, Catholic school. Yeah, uh well Catholic
and or international just because nobody would answer that, but somebody would. No,
I'm sorry, it's a it's a territory. How do you know,
Sister Marry Agnes or I love the nuns with the man's names, men's names.
Oh yeah, sister Edward, Yes, yeah, you know, sister
Lenny. Yeah whatever, it's like Lenny Mary and we never do their last
names. Yeah that's true. Huh son of But I think their last name
was son of Joe, son of Oh wait, headmaid. Yeah I could
be wrong. Oh man, that's so funny. Yeah. Where where'd you
to tent school? Uh? Youngstown? Oh, I've been to Youngstown.
I was stranding there, just kidding. I was too, but it was
okay. I was just born. I was flying across the country my friend's
four seedar plane with a guy that should really tell us more. No,
it was like a little plane. Oh, I was terrifying kidding. We
could see the storm and she's like, look on the map, look on
the map. That was fun. Yeah, And so we had to make
an emergency landing and I was in Youngstown for a while. Emergency. I
love. It's the only reason you went to Youngstown is because you had to.
I did you? So either go to Youngstown or die? The choice
was you're going. You know what, let's go to Youkstown. Yeah.
That's funny because I have the same No, but when did you leave there?
Oh, it's been weeks no, seventy eight something like that. Oh
wow, and right to LA. Oh no, wait even before then,
no, seventy two wow, whoa. And then I moved to New Orleans
for a long time though, but then I moved to LA in about seventy
nine or something. Oh okay, yeah, I moved in ninety six.
Oh yeah, baby, you're just you're barely an Angelina. Are you okay?
Are you registered to vote? Oh my god? Yeah? Okay?
Good, great, good, Well that's very cool. Yeah yeah, what
are the New worlds? Yeah? I do that. We're on strike,
so I'm not doing any on camera, which is for a while. It
was good because auditioning is hard, and it's harder still. We're doing it
all on zoom. Yeah. Oh yeah, can you do it or just
auditions? No, I haven't had an I actually put off the flight.
I took a red eye Thursday night here because I had a straight to call
back for a director I worked with before. Yeah, cool casting director I
worked with before. So I was like, yeah, fingers crossed, but
I don't know if I'll get it. But it was worth it. And
I was in a room and it was like it wasn't It was for a
commercial. It isn't on strike, so yeah, yeah, yeah, I
think commercials are the only things doing in person. They just started in person.
Yeah, but I haven't had one in commercial audition like six months maybe
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, well I think it kind of And
you're on the show. Not dead yet, are they? Yeah, not
dead yet. With Gina Rodriguez, who's a gift. She's lovely. She
was extremely pregnant, but what she's a producer and obviously because she's extremely pregnant,
Yeah, thank you, sorry, could resist. I don't think your
husband does anything with the business, which is probably smart. But she's like
a light. She's just generous and warm and funny, and I I mean
she was she got more and more pregnant. I'm recurring. Well, of
course that's what they do. But you know how she's like I said,
oh, that's a cool pink Floyd shirt. Like I was like, that's
cool. Yeah, and I said it's kind of a weird coat. She
goes, how many bags can I have in front of my stomach? She
was always like behind a desk, you know, yeah, yeah, so
so it'll be weird. We got picked up for a second season, but
literally two days later the writer strike started, So I'm just hoping that it
gets picked up, picked up, yeah, yeah, send your cards and
letters. Is that it? Is that a thing with the writer's strike,
Like, so everything that's kind of put on hold, it's gonna have to
go through another negotiation once strikes over. Probably not, but I mean,
at any point, you can cancel a show literally, of course. Yeah.
I've been on shows. I was on a show called God. It
had these people later on became super famous, like Sophia Vergaro was on it
before people knew who Saphia was. Kevin Michael Richison on it. What was
the name of that? Oh hot property, hot properties, hot property.
Ok, did a guest shot on that, And so I went in and
I filmed on Monday, So it's a guest shot, not a big role.
Fild on Monday, went in on Tuesday. It air Tuesday Night,
and I was scheduled to work Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday air Tuesday
Night. Got canceled on Wednesday and then I had to go back into work
on Thursday, the day after they had been canceled from the pilot. From
the pilot, Yeah, and I was like it was so weird, like
you know everyone just all the shows Likewilight Zone, Yeah, and all the
all the crew was staffed up, you know, they're all they could.
They got a season, it carried one one time and they canceled them.
Yeah yeah, oh yeah. I just I can't believe that about Hollywood,
like some of the decisions that they make. And you know, like the
most recent thing that comes to my mind that blew me away was that woman.
Oh that's They filmed the entire movie and I know one of them and
then just decided not to release it. I know what were done special effects,
and it was they they wanted to write off and they took a huge
loss of one hundred million dollars. Yeah, help their taxes. And I
don't know anyone hate that problem. I don't know anyone that's seen it.
But one of my friends I met doing labroths, he was like one of
the main special effects guys. So he basically was in Georgia for like two
years, owned a house in la and like two years of solid working on
that movie. Yeah, and no one will ever see it, I don't
think. I don't know, like you would think that they would just throw
it on like a streaming service or leaking, you know, something like yeah,
why why absolutely, let us get at least get one of those versions
where you know, the guys sitting in the theater and it's all shaky and
the audio sucks, and at least get one of those versions that video depot.
Yeah, that was that was me. You know. I remember when
I many years, right right before I got in this business, worked at
the video depot and one of the burgeoning sort of venues at the time was
some Nimrod sitting at the back seat. But you know, got plugged it
in with the phantom. Let back here and he did the whole movie on
his little home video. And you come back there and you make copies,
you sell them for ten bucks, you know at VHS. Yeah, VHS.
Well, I have friends that live in Africa and they're like, oh,
we see everything you're on because they just go to the town center.
Basically cool. It's a dollar for each DVD and you get like a they't
even sell USB drives now, you know, it would be like a USB
drive with like five hundred movies and half of them are in theater. Really
oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, it's amazing conventions. I mean yeah,
because you're not even getting like seventy five cents out of that dollar.
I know. I take your schedule the other day. You did me too,
you did, I've told yeah, but like ten of them. I
mean, you know, over the year. Wait, tell the audience how
that works. Tell the audience how it works. How do you get at
a residual for zero dollar? They Well, that's a good question. You
know, there's a bar. Oddly enough, I would know this, but
there's a bar down on Venturila Boulevard called residuals. Yeah. And the old
the old wisdom was you would take in your check and if it was for
under a buck, you could post it. Well, I had six of
them for zero dollars and zero cents. I never took any in. I
just I just thought that I don't want to be the guy with the most
of these on the wall in freaking Hollywood history. Yeah, is it all
right with you? No, I'm gonna burn them, you know, And
so I did. Yeah. I never I went in there. I bet
in that place. It was a friend of mine plays in a band that
sometimes plays there. But well, how's he getting paid? Not by my
residuals? HBO? Fine, you know that I hate tho. Yeah,
like those guys, I have a band. Yeah, yeah, that's true.
They do, don't they. Yeah, they all do, right,
all right, I have a band. Are you happy there? No,
I don't don't have a band. I may start one. But I did
just get that zero dollar one right after all the hype was going on about
the strike. And I might point out it also was stated May and I
got it like the end of August. That was like, and it was
early and I have direct deposit. Oh right, really? So like they
mailed it to me for zero yeah, yeah, so I think it.
I knew I used to know it years ago. But I think it's around
a buck to mail something, the bulk to buy to pay for the stamp
for all that stuff. You know, somebody got to it. Yeah.
I ain't licking it. I ain't catching it. So they're losing money just
sending you a zero Oh no, they are. We did a thing years
ago. Actress did a thing where we could request if it was under a
dollar, and I brought it up and I was on one committee at one
point, me too, Yeah, and then I got sick of it.
I got sick of the other actors on the community. Yeah, I was
just like, oh god, too much talking always there's one guy. Yeah,
that's funny. You did that. I did that too, a long
time ago, A long time. I said, keep and because they could
add it up maybe seventy bucks, who knows, I don't. And we
also give it to the actors fund. Yes, yes, that went away.
That's exactly what I's But they wouldn't even think about it. Yeah,
you know who was there, David John who? Yeah, probably, I
mean, I'm sure he. I mean not that he didn't think about it,
but but they were just like no, you know, and it's like
yeah, and there was you're not going to make any money off cable anyway,
and yeah, anyway, sorry, this is really inside showbiz show.
Yeah, but it's and it's terrible. Yeah, well, I mean that's
the whole thing was anyway a long time ago. Yeah, this time around,
we'll see what we have. What happens, I don't know, I
don't know. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know what reason I
wasn't. Yeah, well there you go me neither. Yeah. Same here.
It's like plus I don't know what they're talking about, you know,
Yeah, or they'll get really specific and I'm like, yeah, I just
want to be an act I mean an actor, you know. I write,
sometimes, I teach sometimes there you go. But I'm just like,
I don't want to do this. I don't want to be a negotiator.
Yeah, no kidding. I want to be you too. I want to
be you too. Yeah. Yeah, so there yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well Jimmy, you and I have been talking about this in person,
and you know, just like to me, it's fascinating because you guys were
around, you know, when cable was becoming popular for a time. So
can you guys kind of talk about that because for you know, my generation's
AX generation, it's you know, such a such a mind blowing thing because
like you know, I've been naive assumed it kind of just around for us
always there. No, yeah, yeah, I remember. I mean we
had we had four channels if you had good rabbit ears, you know,
and then uh, and then cable came out. You wait, HBO what
Bravo what Hbo? Yeah? Oh yes, it was T N T T
Yeah and on TV was the thing, and I forget the other one,
not FedEx federated anyway, but yeah, and all of a sudden there's a
million channels and nothing on. Yeah you know that? So that was the
pisser. Yeah, you know right, somebody wrote a song. Who was
that Springsteen? If the in didn't know, I don't know, but I
just wanted to get that out of it. I remember, And so do
you remember there being resistance to that, Miley? Do you remember like the
no he wanted to be on HBO. I did a movie called sixty one
Asterisks Asterisks with Billy Crystal, developed it or directed it, and it was
about Roger Marris, you know, and a baseball movie. I remember one
time I was on the East Coast visiting my parents, who have passed on,
but they retired on Cape Cod. I grew up all around the world,
but so I had to return to Los Angeles from Cape Cod and they
were like, okay, sit down. I was like, oh what did
I do? And they're like, you have two auditions tomorrow. One is
you have to improvise about baseball with Billy Crystal. If you know Billy Crystal
again, Yeah he's a fanatic. Yeah, he's all about baseball. And
then they go then you're going to go across town an audition for this new
show called Kurby Your enthusiasm, and you're gonna have to improvise with Larry David
about incest curious. Yeah, sure, I'm pretty sure. I must have
like changed my underwear because I was just like, are you kidding me?
Yeah, I mean that's insist. And then Baseball with Billy Crystal, that's
not an audition, that's a torture. Yeah, it's a sentence a torture.
Yeah, and that was your introduction to HBO. Yeah, I got
the I got the Billy Crystal thing. I was like played a neighbor.
And then I was able to say to him after I think, because I
think I was a Yankees fan, said, by the way, Billy,
you're you're killing my parents. You're killing my parents. Like, in fact,
my father lived. It had some medical problems that he lived. The
Red Sox finally won the World Series, they had the parade, and then
he died. I'm not kidding you. I was like, I'm gonna hold
on. They okay later Jesus. I feel like that would the not Baseball,
but the Raiders. The Raiders. Oh here we go, Oh god,
this is painful. Now now it's become famous. But I didn't get
the incest thing, and what I saw. It wasn't really about it.
I felt okay, And I think it might have been Marissa Janet Winnaker that
got it. Good Company. Yeah, the bane of her existed. Well,
I'm the poor Man's Melissa McCarthy. Dorothy became famous and it was the
best thing ever for my entire on camera career. They were looking for Melissa
McCarthy type, and I'm like, hey, we have the same stunt woman.
The woman. Yeah, she doubles Melissa, and she doubles me.
And they asked me on the show. They'll be like, who do you
want? And I tell them who I want and they're like, okay,
we call the Little Mermaid. No, I just saw the promos. Is
she good nominal? Yeah? I love. I knew her before she was
famous from Brownling's friends and stuff. And then I also, I mean,
I just for the Gilmore Girls, like nine times. Really, I do.
All the writers they come see me in plays that I did. Yeah,
because one of the writers for the girls was playing with Yeah. So
they would come They're like, hey, Miley, and I was like,
you're not casting me again. Macarthy became famous and I was like, thank
you Jesus. Yeah, because I'm gonna slide in the poor right in there.
Yeah, nothing around with that. Yeah, and here you are here
with the poor man. It's very good, My god, not that.
I'm so glad. Who's your stunt double, Jim? Yeah, who is
my stunt double? I think it's me stunts like Jackie Champ. Yeah,
what was that? I am my own wife. No, there's a movie
like that. I am my own Thank god, I'm not Yeah that was
I'm not my own wife. That's right, God, Yeah for your wife,
yeah, not for you. Yeah, she's not here, but you
had a couple of people asking about her to day that. Yeah, it's
interesting. She's been in a couple of tiktoks and they've they've made a big
splash and they're going more peggy, you know, a little more unless you
you easy easy in the background, back more Yeah, you know. So
that's awesome. I'm getting the I'm getting the message. Yeah, you're fine
on your own. Oh yeah, yeah, we're doing fine. Yeah.
It's weird, isn't it. Yeah, Yeah, these conventions are weird.
It's weird, trust us, it's weird, Like it's really weird sometimes,
especially when it's like weird. Yeah, the whole dynamic of it is fascinating
to me and weird. Yeah, there is yet to be a great There's
some death Convent, there's some movies or things about it, but I don't
think anything has ever captured the true weirdness. I'm definitely not getting in an
elemor of William Shatner, like ten Cities in a Row. Yeah, you
know. Yeah, I'm like, never met him, I don't know him,
like sit across from him, and I'm always texting my friends. I'm
like, I'm eating with but not really with, Like John Cusack. Would
you say it's unexplained you can do those voices? Well, I don't know,
John, Well, I think, yeah, OK, doesn't everyone.
I mean, seriously, holy dudes, let's stop and think. Hold on,
you have to do Christopher walk into You know, it's funny that you
would say that to me. It's because like it's like, why is he
note at the end that's terrible? Anything else? But he gets away with
it. Yeah he does. I heard. I don't know. I heard
on the internet. I don't know if this is true, have never met,
it's got to be sure, but I heard that when he was auditioning,
you know, trying to look for his big break. That he would
just put random commas in his lines Christopher Walker. Yeah, No, he
would erase all the punctuation, thank you, thank you. Yeah, he
would take out whateverything, only different. Yeah. I would think, yeah,
and that's that's a that's a theater thing, because I remember learning that
when I was in theater school, the very first thing. But it's the
first step in a multi step process. And then you just stay there and
then yeah, he didn't do step two because he didn't want to. His
wife is a casting director. Really were they married before you got fame?
I don't know. That's a good question. How does she talk talk?
She probably doesn't talk to him. I got it, that's how she talks.
I used to have to wait in the waiting room at CSC, my
agency, Voice Agency, and it was like we'd sit in there and they
were like you could wait in the lobby or you could wait where you went
into the boost back in the old days when you had to audition, like
you had to drive into the agency. Emailing me too. Yeah, And
I would sit there and listen to like seven guys just all do Johnny Carson
and then they do their Christopher Walking and they do their Williams chef. All
the women were just like what it and please someone shut them up? And
it would go on because we'd wait for a long time, right, I
would wait at like an hour and a half sometimes yeah right, yeah,
I guess, and they're just sitting there doing a person. It wasn't me,
don't it was. I was, no, thank you. I say
it because I can. I'm actually picturing the actual seating arrangement. I can
picture every person. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, me too.
I get up and leave. I'm like, I'm out in the lobby,
like sitting on a planter, literally on a planter. Yeah, but
everyone like, but they all stay. And I can't imagine the people that
were like, you know, this agent's assistance. Every day I had to
listen to those guys do their best Christopher Walking. Who are the other ones
they always do? Just one to shoot yourself? Gosh, I did well.
I remember Judy Garland was somebody that the ladies did, okay, and
that you know earth a kit? Oh yeah, it was an earth kit.
I would try and yeah, was this an actor's choice or did they
want to hear people do impersonations? They wanted to hear it. They just
want to hear it, just one upping each other. Yeah, to bug
us the Bosters, I lost. I want an Emmy and I lost an
Emmy to Earth a Kit. Sorry, I brought that talented person person.
I knew I was nominated with Earth the Kit. I was like, this
is ain't gonna happen at this I means I'm going to have a little beer,
you know. Yeah that's true. You know it just like it's not
gonna happ Oh that's funny. Yeah, yeah, that's good stuff. I
loved her, So take that Earth wherever you are, wherever you are.
Yeah, she wasn't there anyways. We all knew we're losers, which is
funny because we're all sitting there, but we're just like everyone's like, you
don't think you're gonna win, are you? Like? Oh no, I'm
not gonna win. All table, we all knew we were losers. Like
that's what everybody started to. Oh that's funny, yeah, because hey,
yeah, you know you have nothing else to do? How about Eartha Earth
was one? What else killed around her a little bit? M I don't
think women do it as much as men do. Do you think do like
impersonations, like, oh, that's true city around. Yeah. Actually,
I can't really think of many famous women impersonating. Yeah yeah, I'm trying
of the girl who did from East McKey Sport, McKey Sport or something like
that. But she did, she did the best barbar streisand oh really yeah,
and she and she would cross her eyes just enough, just enough so
that it bugged you and you know, you know, and with the nostril
and sorry that you're not taping this right. Oh man, that's I've never
thought about that before. Women don't do as many impersonations. Also, don't
do the thing where they quote a line from a movie. Guys will like
it's like unless it's Bridesmaids. I hear a lot of Bridesmaids quotes. I
hear a lot of main girls. She doesn't even go here. Oh really
yeah twenty five year olds. Hey I'm only thirty two. Yeah exactly,
that's exactly what I hang out. Oh yeah, I'm the person that knew
all the bridesmaids before they were famous. Oh yeah, I remember them before
they were famous. Yeah, back to yeah, Wendy mcclannic covey. Yeah,
like you know, heroes, Ay McKinnon, that was a great cast.
Yeah. Yeah, I knew Paul Feek before he was directing Big Stuff.
I played a I played the hands. I have tiny little hands and
I played the hands of a puppet. Hm. Wow, yeah it was
I recognized your hands. That explains everything little. Yeah. So I had
a magician who's like he's been the top magician in the world many times.
John Carney, he's fantastic. Have you ever get real? Where's he he
does? He lives in LA but travels to Germany. I mean he's huge
in like Germany, the Magic Castle. Oh, he has characters too,
and he's hilarious. So the first thing I did in La, actually the
first kind of acting thing but kind of not was John Carney had to sit
on me and he's not a small man and he would sit on me and
I was the hands and I did and Paul Figue was the director. That
sounds like a lot of fun. It was fun. My legs were dead
at the end. Yeah, but yeah, it was like, I think
I can at him through Joel Hodgson from Mystery Science. Yeah. Oh so
the Hogston brothers knew and that was the only people like besides the people I
moved here with to do theater, lived LA with. It was those guys.
So I met Paul many many years pedigree. Yeah, and he always,
like you kind of knew like he had it going on, you know,
But I would have never imagined he would be like this top direct.
I mean we're in a warehouse and like Silmar or something, I don't know.
Yeah, you're lucky if they give you a people Silmar glamorous. Don't
ever go there downtown? Yeah? Oh good, see jock Town somewhere right,
it'side the home depot, Yes, exactly right. Oh man, oh
man. Did you did you ever do stand up comedy? Yeah? Yeah,
yeah, yeah for a while in Minneapolis. The first gig I ever
did, I was asked to do it, forced to do it with Prince
No no, a lot of the Prince of people too. But the first
stand up comedy I did was Collin Cruise, who was a great is a
great comedy Oh yeah yeah. And she she like got a deal in LA.
She was a big deal. And I had meetings with Tim Allen at
the time was one of the top comedians and she maybe go on and Jackie
Kation was the and Jackie is a famous comic now hilarious. And then the
two there was an m C and then the two openers were me and Maria
Bamford and that was the first gig she ever did. We did it together.
Yeah, yeah, she's a buddy of mine too. Oh she is.
We did yeah, we did cat talk. Oh yeah, that's right.
And she she was I was cat and she was you know, shriek.
Yeah yeah, this voice, you know, her impersonations are really speaking
of yeah right yeah yeah her mom. Yeah, she's great. Yeah,
yeah, he's a character. I want to get it. Oh me too.
Yeah, and I forget I didn't know that. Yeah, it just
came out like this week ever on your podcast. Because I'll be at Barnes
and Nobles soon. Yeah yeah, because it's I didn't. I always listened
to her albums or whatever they are CDs. Yeah yeah, but I always
think about that. But you know, she's always like this, She's like
Miley you yeah, yeah, someone specially in your life. And I was
like, yeah, Maria, I've known you thirty years and for twenty eight
of those years I've been with my wife. It's like one time was on
a plane. Not so recently, and I was like, I was in
one of those weird five seat rows. Oh yeah, awful. And I
was like, hopefully you were in the middle. And that's well. Second,
okay, then there's a middle person, and then there's a person.
I see her get up and she has a jacket on comedy store or something
like that, and she walks up and I go she came back, and
I was like, I mean, we know each other from Minneapolis, where
she started and where I start, and she goes, I go, Maria,
you're sitting right there the whole time, and she goes, oh,
Ley, how are you. I was like, good, what's going on?
You know whatever? Oh, I'm going into a cup? Right?
Does she do you really look? This is exactly it. I'm gonna go
do a comedy show. Why are you asking me? Yeah? Right,
because you know the answer because it sounds like a question question. Yeah,
like you know me, I don't know. She's like, oh yeah,
I think so, And I'm like, are you kidding me? Yeah?
Yeah, yeah. I might have got invited to her wedding. I don't
know if I did, but like I knew what was happening. You were
there, right, yeah, So it cracked me up, Like, yeah,
I started with all these crazy comedians. Well that's cool. Yeah,
well yeah, but I never did stand up. Oh no, I didn't
sit down. Lay down, Yeah, lay down and shut up. I
was good at that one. Lay down and shut up. Sure, necessarily
in studios. I had had a few turettes out here and there and there,
and but mostly no, I had to have somebody write it. Yeah,
good for you. Yeah, I loved it when I did it.
But I moved to LA and the first show I did, they said it
was like an open mind, which are not an open mic, well kind
of an open mic, but it's in Minneapolis. It's where you work on
your best, your new material. Oh yeah yeah, friendly place. And
it was a women's show. Yeah yeah. And they knew that you weren't
supposed to be totally polished. You were still working on it. You know,
we've seen Jerry Seinfeld, different people works out at the whatever. Yeah,
see what works? What doesn't? That clubby owns whatever. But so
like, I think that's what's happening. Right. I'm new to LA.
I'm doing a hit play just how I got agents and theater play, and
so I'm like, all right, don't do it. I've been doing it,
been being paid for it. And I get up and I slowly realize
that all the women there were doing their best five and I had concentrated on
doing new material, which you can't do in LA. Yeah. And of
course there are HBO people HBO. I'm sorry, Max. They were like
somebody in the audience. The person person before me was Janine Garofalo. She
was super hot. The person after me was Margaret Chow no way, oh
yeah, And I was like perfect, I'm fucking out. Yeah, like
you couldn't ask for better. Yeah. But I was like, and they're
doing their best stuff. They did the best stuff, And of course,
unbeknownst to me, I just moved here. It was like all these executives
and then they all have their own shows like literally yeah literally yeah yeah yeah.
And so some of my stuff hit, some of it didn't. But
also they peppered the audience. They know that the HBO. Yeah have you
seen Beef? No? Yeah, it's really good. Oh I got to
see it, really good. Yeah, Margaret show which one beef? It's
called Beef on Netflix. Margat shows show. You mentioned that, Oh,
I didn't realize it was her show, not her show. But she's in
it. Okay, yeah, yeah, there you go. Yeah, so
take that. Yeah, And speaking of comedians, you were telling us a
little earlier at dinner that you have been to Ellen's house parties, not her
house parties. I've been to parties with her. Can you tell us about
that? Not much? What's she like? Because there's so much online that
said, you know, coming out against her and she's an asshole. You
know. I had a lot of friends worked with her and they don't talk
about it, and they you know, they loved it. I mean,
I'm a I'm friends with a lot of pretty famous comedians and like, it's
kind of rude to speak so poorly of her. You don't know what a
show runner does to the rest of the crew. So I'll stand up for
that. Like Kelly Clarkson, And there was a horrible article about Marty Short,
like like, come on, Marty Short, how do you do that?
Well, somebody did it and it's a hit piece because they said his
comedy annoyed them and that was the whole premise of the article. I'm like,
that's just being spirited. So about Ellen, I knew a lot of
her writers. Who know we we've known a long time. I know a
lot of people have known her. I've been at several parties before she was
like Ellen Ellen, and she was just very quiet, kind of in the
corner, you know, not mean, you know, not just introverted.
I think so. But most of the comics I know at bigger parties don't
say anything. They just listen. Yeah, right, well, they're gathering
material, you know, they can do impressions of you next week. Oh
you know. Oh my god. I've seen so many of my friends,
like girlfriends crying like after the act because it's all about them. Oh man.
In fact, I got a call about my friend. My friends went
to see like a friend of mine trying out her special. They were like,
did you see it? I said no, I've been out of time,
and I said, it's all about you. I'm like, oh shit,
none of it ended up in her special. I was like, what,
Like all the girlfriends I know that one comics are very nervous. Yeah,
yeah, even like I love Jim Gaffkin. It's all about his kids.
Yeah, it's about his wife. Yeah, but it's like that's what
they do. Yeah, well, I think he found a niche. When
everyone does, they tend to occupy it. Yeah, you know and develop
that well. Yeah, if you can't, if you yeah, shamas going
to be a one trick pony. Yeah, I'll tell you no respect.
Right, there's another one. Oh jeez, I don't I don't know.
So you were one of those guys, but you weren't with my agency.
Yeah, I knew it, Jim, I knew it. The other one,
let's see stallone, the one he wasn't He wasn't that kind of it,
wasn't that kind of a guy. The other guys. I can't think
of anything really, I mean, like, did people do impersonations of oh
yeah, Gilbert godf let's God bless them? Else would they do? Well,
there's a ton of as souls out there to choose from. So that's
that was my Sophie Tucker. Yeah, thank you, ladies. And j
Since we're doing in Precious, it feels like a good time to segue.
We like to do this thing. Jim likes to do this thing where we
trade we trade character lines. So Jim will do a voice of one of
his characters, sure, and then you'll do a voice of one of your
characters and we'll trade the lines. Gotcha. I want to do that.
Yeah, okay, so from from here to yeah, yeah, give her
a line, give her a just one from tigger, don't forget to remember
wherever you go? There you are, I don't know where I'm going.
Believe it. That's pretty good. Then you want to give him a lie
for it, just like all right, Hey, what's up? Why don't
you use yours sing gun anymore? Hey? What's up? Why don't you
use yours a gun anymore? I bet to throw you. I said it,
right, didn't I? Y Yeah? Okay, good, just check
it. Well, thank you. We can dub it flawless over you.
That's another thing like people do think house the mic. It's good, right,
yeah it is. Thank you. See nobody heard that because I didn't
say it. Yeah. Do you remember when there were records and you would
play yes, Yellow Yellow, play to the Southern. Yeah, but you
play it backwards and it sounded like Stevie Nicks or at a higher speed.
Yeah, that's the slower that's the slower one. Sorry, I was wrong,
But when you speeded it up like it was a thing when I was
okay, no, I don't remember. That's exactly you nailed it. Thank
you. You're welcome. My God, I could sleep tonight. It's an
entire lifetime. That's wonderful. I love that. Yeah, well, is
there anything you want to you want to plug your advertise to let the people
are like watch this. I'm like, let the entire universe know right now.
You have the entire universe. God, do you have any conventions coming
up? Oh yeah, I'm in Edmonton next weekend for a fan xpo.
I'm in Miami and then I'm in I was in Miami this yeah, right
connects to humans. Uh see, Oh my god. I do that all
the time. And I'll throw a kid. I'll be like, I'm doing
the rest of the panel in Germany, Like they don't laugh at all at
my stupid I did it. I did it last night and the colossally failed.
It was just like like eight hundred people were like, but six of
them laughed, so I liked it. That's right. I got six of
them, only the smart ones. I got that. And I don't know
if you haven't checked out Royal Crackers. It's a damn funny show. Kilbert
Gottfried is in one episode. I think it's the last work that he did
before and that's one of the earlier episodes, and we got picked up for
a second seas, which you've already completed but is being animated right now.
And I guess I don't know. Naruto never dies. I'll be like ninety
years old. I'll be your age. Jokes on you. I'm ninety seven.
So take that, missy, you little whipper and snapper, you snapper.
That's how you me. That's what I like that. Thank you.
That was my Gabby Hayes. Oh really, no one knows Gabby Hayeses.
Nobody, nobody in the room, nobody out there. Well he's that like
it junkman or like you have the beard, yeah, and no teeth.
What was he on? Uh? I think it was I got a geene
autry maybe kind of anyway, old time cowboy movies where they needed a stupid
sidekick, you know, And that's kind of really what he would say.
But Gabby has teen autry or hop along, I can't remember. I don't
know. I don't either, have the young look it up. He's like
it was another one sounded like Clinton. Sorry, oh to your Clinton.
We're a little rock. He's got to do it, Clinton, Yeah,
you got to do it. Wait a minute, well, you know,
it's a funny thing. You American people just have to give it up and
give me some trust. Hand me over there that little bag of just don't
worry what's in it? Thank you? You know. So it maybe him.
Well have you been to the Clinton Library here? No, it's fantastic
first and secondly, so it's a lot of doses that are elderly women.
Oh god bless. So I'm like, I'm like, hi, you kind
of check in there of course near the gift shop and leave through the gift
shop, exit through the gift shop. So yeah, that's right. And
they said Bill's here today. I was like, wait, is here?
Is here? They're like, yeah, he's speaking so at the cheerleading squad
was I love anybody. I love some Bill Clinton. But but it's so
funny, like the old ladies like adore him, right, So they adore
him. They're like yeah, And I said, well, does he ever
come down? They're like, oh no, no, he has an apartment.
They have an apartment on the top floor of the museum and that's where
they live, the Clintons when they come to Yeah, I think the driver
was telling. So we had this waiters like kind of stonerish look didn't smell
like I don't think it was probably did enjoy it. And he's like I
was like, so he ever come in the restaurant. The restaurant's really good,
and he goes, no, but I do private parties up there.
Sometimes. It was like, how weird is that? It's awesome? Is
he knocks on the door and rings in, you know, like some snacks
or whatever. Yeah, So then you know, we totally left the area
that was allowed to the public, and like I found the room that he
was speaking and it was to the Fulbright Fellows and so like I was just
lingering until then they were like, yeah, get the hell out of here.
I want to meet Bill Clinton. Yeah in his museum. Yeah.
And then the stuff yea, no matter your politics, it's really good and
fascinating. And the impeachment stuff takes one pen well, it's like impeachment and
anyway, this stuff whatever, you know, it's sort of like the next
the Nexit museum exit through the through the gift shop, peach resign yeah yeah,
yeah yeah, and the people that are there just love it. It's
like it never happened. Yeah heck yeah, oh wow, as long as
their boat is floated, as we say, but I suggest you go to
lunch there. It's really cool to where the Clinton Museum. Oh okay,
have a great restaurant. It's very pretty. Sounds good, right, coming
to a museum near you. Yeah, us, so take that. I
haven't met at the Reagan Museum yet, though I think I was a few
years ago. It's three miles from my house. Oh yeah you live,
Yeah, that's yeah, your deep valley living. Yeah. Oh yeah out
there where the air is still air. Yes, and the rock stars are
still Justin Bieber, your neighbor, You and Justin though you're you telling me
Biber? Yeah? Oh I read Kate McKinnon explained or saw on Fallon or
something. She's like, how she does Justin Bieber is you're like when she
does Justin Bieber, which she's really good at. Oh yes, yes,
she does this. She goes. She always says what he does, he
looks like he's done something naughty, and that's how he poses. He's like,
you see her do it. It's so spot on. It's so funny.
Those tricks. It's like uncle tricks. Yeah. Yeah, oh God,
like if you do this, you do brock Obama, no matter what
you do if you do this, Yeah, anybody can. Oh. Oh
that's good stuff. It really is. Thank you so much, thank you.
I talked way too much, but no, no, no, it's
a beautiful thing. You know. It's nice hanging out. Amen, everybody
please, Yeah, I really appreciate you joining us. That's a really good
one. It's my pleasure. I was supposed to do it, and now
I've done it. Yeah, and I get it now with some wine.
And now you've done it. I'm not doing it like you know, a
dirty rotten conventions. Yes, it's good night, everybody. Don't forget to
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