And I remember he came in, he came in, he had seen Jaws at a theater in Times Square, and he told me that his favorite thing about it was there were guys in the audience during the scary scenes going, get him, Jaws.

Get him.

I was constantly encountering Eddie Murphy.

This was who was a featured player, and he was just going into everyone's office and being hilarious.

And I remember going to Gene and saying, you know, Gene, there's that Eddie Murphy guy.

I mean, I don't think I'm this mad genius who's spawning something no one else can see.

I think you really, you got, I think you might want to put that guy on camera.

And her attitude, I remember it, is being like, I think he needs a little seasoned.

The writer's assistant comes up to me.

I'm at the head of the table and whispers to me,

just so you know, Chris Farley is out in the hallway

and he's completely naked.

And so I told everyone, okay, Farley's going to come in, you guys.

He's going to come in naked.

So it's vitally important that no one given anything.

No one react. We just have to sort of go, oh yeah. Hey, Chris. What's up?

Jim Downey, his second time with us, it's scintillating, a return visit with the one and

only Jim Downey, writer extraordinaire.

Yeah.

Brief.

We always jump into it without saying too much because we just think everyone knows Downey,

but he was our head writer while we were at S&L.

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