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Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

Alan Zweibel

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

Dana Carvey, David Spade, & Audacy

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.711.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

A love of writing, the original cast, and a crippling movie review with Alan Zweibel. *Note: this interview was recorded before the SAG-AFTRA strike took effect. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Let me just say something about Alan's White Bell. He is like a famous writer from

0:05.2

Sarah Knight Live and he was a huge part of the first cast and the first cast is always going

0:11.9

to be the first cast. There always be the greatest, right? And what happened and he really

0:17.3

breaks it down, another thing I like to say, stay in your lane, break it down. He breaks down that

0:22.2

when they got on the show, it was kind of innocent. No one knew they weren't rock stars. That's why

0:26.7

they call him not ready for primetime players. And then at a given point, I think it was John

0:32.2

Baluce. He did Animal House and became a movie star. And so the entire culture of the show

0:37.9

changes because of this, which is a fascinating thing and goes in detail about that. He could picture.

0:42.2

He come back to the set and they're in a little tiny. He's on SNL and now he's like so much bigger

0:47.2

than everyone. And now he's back to doing sketches and there had to be attitudes in this and you know,

0:52.7

some people are on drugs, some people aren't. But I think that once that hit, he said it changed

0:57.5

the dynamic. Yeah. And it's also Alan worked very close with Gilla Ratner and that's fun to hear

1:03.7

because she's somewhat American sweetheart. Maybe the most likeable. I don't know. She's just brilliant.

1:10.4

And he really talks fondly about her in great detail. He did a movie that he wrote, which was such a

1:16.8

hyped movie with a hyped cast called North. And it fucking bombed. And was John love it's in it?

1:23.4

It's so brutal because you get the interesting thing about showbiz out here is that no one knows

1:29.6

Jack shit. You can't. There's almost no for sure hits. And so smartest people, directors, writers,

1:35.9

cast and you just can't say this movie will be great and people to say pass. And it's unbelievable.

1:41.2

I can't believe that I'm cracked the code yet. I actually started the movie right after 1995.

1:46.0

Nobody knows Jack shit. And that even bombed that movie didn't do it. Nobody knows Jack shit and hit

1:51.5

it even bombed. No, you play Jack shit show business. Yeah, I was Jack shit. I look kind of like Joe dirt.

1:58.5

I was kind of like Jack shit. And Jack shit. And Jack shit. Are you clueless? Yeah. I don't know

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