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Speaker 1: of explaining one of the greatest sketches in the history
Speaker 1: of Seaturday Night Live. It's the more cow Bell sketch
Speaker 1: with Will Ferrell. It's part of there's a whole hour
Speaker 1: documentary on this sketch that's airing on Peacock And where
Speaker 1: we just left off, they were talking about they do
Speaker 1: a rehearsal before they do the live show at night,
Speaker 1: and the rehearsal of the sketch had gone really poorly.
Speaker 1: Will Ferrell did not perform to his capability. Christopher Walking
Speaker 1: was way toned down, and it was a part of
Speaker 1: the studio where sketches usually go to die.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were very nervous about this. They leave that
Speaker 2: going okay, we're probably not getting this on. They what
Speaker 2: happens after the dress rehearsal. They go into Lauren's office.
Speaker 2: This would be nine o'clock Central time. Okay, snel starts
Speaker 2: at ten thirty. They go into Lauren's office, the big
Speaker 2: decision makers, and then basically they talk it over. They
Speaker 2: start moving around the sketches and then they start getting
Speaker 2: rid of sketches, and then the cast and riders all
Speaker 2: learn okay, this is how it's gonna go and a
Speaker 2: lot of people are broken hearted. It's quite a emotional
Speaker 2: roller coast. It was very high school play. Here's here's
Speaker 2: the casting chart. So they get on, in fact, they
Speaker 2: get on right after the monologue, so monologue commercial and
Speaker 2: then over there in the side of the stage called
Speaker 2: s ken Alley.
Speaker 3: Question, does that mean they think it's one of the
Speaker 3: best ones?
Speaker 2: Yes, because Lauren had this intuition that this is gonna
Speaker 2: be a little bit bigger. And who knows, maybe because
Speaker 2: Christopher Walkin is also in there with Lauren when they're
Speaker 2: picking sketches and the host has a little bit of
Speaker 2: say and he might have said, hey, baby, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: tone it up.
Speaker 1: You know, he might have done that. I don't mind
Speaker 1: walking Did they Yeah, you made him frank'snatra. Did they
Speaker 1: ever talk to Christopher walking on this?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: He hates this? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Let what Yeah, he's because he's it's his legacy. Oh
Speaker 2: to so many people?
Speaker 1: You know what, have you guys ever seen him talk
Speaker 1: about him doing table reads?
Speaker 3: No? And okay, so.
Speaker 1: He won't when he gets a script, he won't read
Speaker 1: anybody else's part in the film. Yes, and he's gonna
Speaker 1: perform it the way he wants to perform it and
Speaker 1: make people adapt to him.
Speaker 3: Yes, where did I hear that recently? I can't remember. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I heard the exact same thing of something I was watching.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so I can totally see him thinking I'm
Speaker 1: going to do it different when it's my time to
Speaker 1: really do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And he likes the idea of being weird and awkward,
Speaker 1: putting a spin on it and then people have to
Speaker 1: react to it.
Speaker 2: Yah, have in his own voice, which Will Ferrell wrote
Speaker 2: it for him. So this Bruce Dickinson guy who is
Speaker 2: the name, is the producer. Basically it's on the back
Speaker 2: of the CD and he, Bruce Dickinson, produced the reissue
Speaker 2: of it. So one of the great things about this
Speaker 2: documentary it's well, y'all need to go watch it. They
Speaker 2: have the Blue Oyster Cult guys on, they have the
Speaker 2: guys who produced the song on. The guy who made
Speaker 2: the decision to have a cow bell on the song
Speaker 2: is on. I mean, it gets very in depth and
Speaker 2: very good. But Bruce Dickinson is just a guy who
Speaker 2: on a remastering of it, produced that like years later.
Speaker 2: So when they first made it go to CD. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So all the actual producers like what the hell? And
Speaker 2: you know Will Farrel's like I just saw Bruce Dickinson
Speaker 2: was a funny name. Yeah, and that's all the thought
Speaker 2: that went into it. Now Here, you're gonna hear this
Speaker 2: couple lot of things, but you will hear the drummer
Speaker 2: of the Blue Oyster Cult when they're kind of talking
Speaker 2: about this too.
Speaker 4: I put my pants on just like the rest of
Speaker 4: the one leg at a time, except once my pants
Speaker 4: are on, I make gold Records. I was truly surprised
Speaker 4: Christopher walking found this new kind of intensity.
Speaker 3: He brought his perfect thing to it. Christopher Walkin for
Speaker 3: Air upped his game.
Speaker 5: He was almost doing an impersonation of Christopher Walkin.
Speaker 3: He was talking like no other human being. It actually
Speaker 3: sounds like Will has like pretty good time.
Speaker 4: First, could you come in here for a second?
Speaker 6: Plead?
Speaker 3: That was going to be a great track. Guys, what's
Speaker 3: the deal?
Speaker 7: Are you sure that was sounding okay? When I saw
Speaker 7: the skit, I said, how did they even hear the cowba?
Speaker 3: How do they even know it was there?
Speaker 2: And then to come up with this thing about should
Speaker 2: it be in there or should it not be in there?
Speaker 2: That's exactly what happened that we actually had that debate. Yes,
Speaker 2: and he and the producer or and that one of
Speaker 2: the producers are in there, like talking about the fight
Speaker 2: that they had about whether it should be in there.
Speaker 2: It's very good.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming I mean, i'd have to go back and listen,
Speaker 1: but I'm assuming the drummer played the cow bell while
Speaker 1: playing the kit.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. They don't really get into that as much.
Speaker 2: They just got into the decision to use it. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: and they're like they're all fighting over who gets credit
Speaker 2: for the decision too. It's it's a bunch of old guys.
Speaker 3: It's amazing.
Speaker 2: It's very funny.
Speaker 3: Is Donald Butt Dharma in there?
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: But got the most memorable name of any guys. I
Speaker 3: don't think so. Guitars.
Speaker 2: So just kind of moving a little forward with the
Speaker 2: sketch now and how it's playing out on the air.
Speaker 3: I could have used a little more cow bell.
Speaker 4: As soon as he delivers that first line and that
Speaker 4: gets a huge line, I'm like, oh, they're in, They're in.
Speaker 3: Oh goodie, there's more coming. I was walking around backstage
Speaker 3: and I started hearing roars let's take it again and Geene. Yeah,
Speaker 3: really explore the studio space this time.
Speaker 4: You got it, Bruce, I mean really yeah.
Speaker 3: Will was playing Gene Frankel and his shirt was hiking up,
Speaker 3: clicked front, twerking, just sort of dry humping the air.
Speaker 3: I didn't do it like that in dress.
Speaker 5: I just looked at Will and he was sweating and
Speaker 5: his shirt was up here.
Speaker 7: And it's hard to be serious when you see that summit.
Speaker 2: It's different than most stomachs.
Speaker 3: You could see Walkins enjoying this. He's laughing in the background.
Speaker 3: It's wonderful that somebody caught that moment.
Speaker 2: So what they freeze frame on is Christopher Walkin is
Speaker 2: supposed to be in the recording studio, so he's in
Speaker 2: that other room and they freeze frame it and you
Speaker 2: see Christopher walking laughing.
Speaker 3: And it's very good.
Speaker 2: And then they get to the point too, because Jimmy
Speaker 2: Fallon kind of famously broke during this sketch in all sketches,
Speaker 2: but it is funny because Will Ferrell had everyone and
Speaker 2: Chris Parnell's the guy who famously never breaks him and
Speaker 2: Will Forte they never laughter and sketches and it almost
Speaker 2: happened to Parnell.
Speaker 3: Will was right on.
Speaker 6: Top of me and banging the cowbell in my face.
Speaker 6: I had the sense that he wanted to make me break.
Speaker 6: It was intense. You also have the instinct that this
Speaker 6: is only gonna work if I do not break. You know,
Speaker 6: it's got to be this intensity between us. Chris Parnell
Speaker 6: was a machine and would never break.
Speaker 5: They used to call Parnell the iceman because he was
Speaker 5: the guy you couldn't break.
Speaker 7: Well, so when you say you're lying, whatever you've got
Speaker 7: in that little body just you know, pushed me as
Speaker 7: hard as you can. I was like, okay, I really
Speaker 7: was like, don't Jean. I think he was startled.
Speaker 2: Okay, So little Chris Gatan does push it like Farrel
Speaker 2: almost falls over. Okay, And Chris Gatan is so small,
Speaker 2: good bear to the giant lumberjack Will Ferrell. And Will
Speaker 2: Ferrell got a smaller shirt too, went between dress and
Speaker 2: the actual thing.
Speaker 7: And I pushed him so hard and then yeah, his
Speaker 7: stomach came out.
Speaker 3: And then that's when Jimmy broke. I was out of
Speaker 3: my league. You know, I had one line.
Speaker 2: It was Jimmy's first year too, so he was new
Speaker 2: and those guys had all been there for a little bit.
Speaker 5: On line, and Will turns it and I have my line,
Speaker 5: and I looked into the eyes of a lunatic.
Speaker 4: And I'm laughing too, but I have the benefit of
Speaker 4: wearing a beard, so you can't quite tell that I'm
Speaker 4: breaking as hard as they.
Speaker 5: Are could be so selfish. Scene then flooded my line,
Speaker 5: and then I couldn't start laughing. I had to look away.
Speaker 4: I know that Jimmy would get flack for breaking all
Speaker 4: the time, but I loved it every single time, and
Speaker 4: it just it just showed how much funny he was
Speaker 4: happening in it.
Speaker 3: I wish I didn't laugh at it, but of course
Speaker 3: it became known.
Speaker 5: For the guy who laughs and sketches instead of the
Speaker 5: guy that plays the drums.
Speaker 2: So when you see Parnell too, there's a part where
Speaker 2: they show Parnell, he puts his head down like he
Speaker 2: smiles for a minute, like because they got him. And
Speaker 2: it's just this perfect amalgamation of everything. Because Walking like
Speaker 2: they didn't even know if Walking liked it or not.
Speaker 2: That's all things those guys like he might not even
Speaker 2: be into this. He might have just came out and
Speaker 2: screwed us in dress rehearsal, but he came out and
Speaker 2: did it a little more and then Will Ferrell ramped
Speaker 2: it up and this is the end. And I think
Speaker 2: Dana Dana Carvey was there because he was playing George H. W. Bush,
Speaker 2: because he was in the cold open with George W.
Speaker 3: Bush.
Speaker 2: The the only reason Carvey was there. And Nana Carvey
Speaker 2: is kind of talking about how you didn't need they'd
Speaker 2: already done enough, like you didn't have to do something
Speaker 2: wacky to end it like a lot of sketches ending
Speaker 2: a sketch of the most impossible part. And the way
Speaker 2: it ended is kind of cool because they have a
Speaker 2: big fight, a big blow up, and then they settle it.
Speaker 3: On this night, a catchphrase was poor guess what I
Speaker 3: got a fever? And the only prescription is Mark Capbell.
Speaker 5: That's it, you hope for one of these things. It's
Speaker 5: it's lightning in a bottle. I mean it does it
Speaker 5: rarely happens.
Speaker 3: Wall and Privy guy, I'm down by the river. We
Speaker 3: want go popop. You didn't want anything wacky at Deana
Speaker 3: cow Bell.
Speaker 4: It had feasted on every single metric a comedy and
Speaker 4: it's just it's full of joy.
Speaker 3: One two, three foot.
Speaker 2: And it just kind of ends when they zoom in
Speaker 2: on a Will Ferrel's face and he looks like a
Speaker 2: Uni bomber, and then they show it and then they
Speaker 2: show it end and everyone drops their stuff and takes
Speaker 2: off running, and like when you see it, just how
Speaker 2: it happens actually live. They go into a little where
Speaker 2: I'd having more clips, but they go into a little
Speaker 2: bit more about Okay, so we knew like it was
Speaker 2: good when it played, but we didn't know. And then
Speaker 2: when they started doing the best of DVDs, and these
Speaker 2: were huge and they were a blockbuster or whatever. I know,
Speaker 2: I have two of them, and they've put on VHS
Speaker 2: tapes too, But they had the best of Will Ferrell,
Speaker 2: and they talked about how it started getting handed around
Speaker 2: at colleges and then it's being played at college football
Speaker 2: stadiums before the game starts.
Speaker 1: It was a huge part of the old MAVs Kings playoffs,
Speaker 1: huge part the cow the cowbells.
Speaker 2: So it's just kind of talking about how over time
Speaker 2: it got bigger. It's so good. There's so many things
Speaker 2: I couldn't even tell you about. And they're all kind
Speaker 2: of rewatching it as it's happening too.
Speaker 3: It's just it's very beautiful. Where do we find this peacockock?
Speaker 2: And that's the problem.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the peacock app man. Just get it tonight, Ben.
Speaker 1: It's they got like other hours of documentary of the
Speaker 1: the SNL stuff. Happy birthday, Kevin did a great job.
Speaker 1: He did a great.
Speaker 3: Job, all right.
Speaker 1: That's going to do it for us on KT's birthday.
Speaker 1: Make sure to reach out to him on social media
Speaker 1: and wish him a happy birthday. And don't ever forget
Speaker 1: that time he looked Christopher walking dead in his.
Speaker 2: Eye and he said, do your job, go home, enjoy
Speaker 2: your night, turn around, do it again.
Speaker 3: Die. That's life, It sure is, Kevin.
Speaker 1: All right, MAVs pregame for Abs Timberwolves next right here
Speaker 1: on the eagle.
Speaker 3: Here you going, well, I.
Speaker 4: Want to get my sack backed, dude.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Good night,