Hank Azaria Talks Conan, Walken, Pitt, and Springsteen

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

Dana Carvey, David Spade, & Audacy

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 12.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Hank Azaria joins the guys to discuss the Simpsons, why he never auditioned for SNL, and taking acting classes alongside Brad Pitt and Sharon Stone. They also swap Christopher Walken stories, marvel at Conan O’Brien’s rise from Simpsons writer to talk show host, and dissect how Moe Szyslak is a perfect combination of young Al Pacino and Bruce Springsteen. 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	My agent forbade me from doing.
0:02.2	Oh, really?
0:03.2	This is where the question for you, it's like, you don't want to do that.
0:06.4	It's crazy over there.
0:08.3	You're going to enter a situation that is crazy political, and you're going to be like a lamb
0:13.9	at the slaughter in there.
0:15.5	I wanted to act, not just because I enjoyed the voices like we were talking about earlier,
0:20.0	but it was a deeper, darker, like, I really wasn't too comfortable being myself. I preferred being other people. And so to get up and, like, Roy's whole thing was, if you want to really act well on stage or film or TV, you have to be going to expose yourself, like, really be yourself in front of people, which I absolutely
0:38.9	could not do.
0:39.7	I couldn't do it.
0:40.9	I showed my 16-year-old son, the godfather, for the first time.
0:45.4	So I've been working on my Rito Carleone.
0:48.4	It's good for disciplining him.
0:51.6	His name's Halza.
0:52.9	Helvitori.
0:54.1	Come over here.
0:58.1	Hank Azaria.
0:59.5	Hank Azaria is in most things you see.
1:02.9	He's in a lot of movies, a lot of TV shows.
1:06.4	And of course, he's the full course, the full Monty of 800 episodes of The Simpsons.
1:15.5	He's in each and every one since 1980.
1:18.1	He's very good.
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