Kevin Nealon Gets Nostalgic
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
25 years ago, Kevin Nealon was anchoring “Weekend Update” on Saturday Night Live. Now he's walking the woods with his famous comedian friends on the YouTube series Hiking with Kevin. In this episode, we talk about how that show got started and look back at his SNL days, including how he got hired, when he knew it was time to leave and some fascinating stories about Dana Carvey, Chris Farley, Al Franken and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hey, welcome back. I recognize you. I'm Kevin, you know me, and we're hiking today. |
| 0:07.3 | And I've noticed that when I go by people on hikes, a lot of people are venting. |
| 0:12.9 | Hiking is great for venting. It's not complaining. It's just venting, getting things off your chest. |
| 0:17.1 | It's like the difference between high maintenance and getting attention. |
| 0:20.9 | Hiking is great for venting and getting attention. |
| 0:23.8 | I think that's what I'm really trying to say. |
| 0:25.8 | All right, grab your protein pills, put your helmet on. |
| 0:27.8 | We're going for a hike. |
| 0:30.1 | Hello and welcome to The Last Laugh. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast. |
| 0:35.2 | My guest on this week's show is a true comedy legend, Kevin Nealyn. |
| 0:39.9 | I grew up watching Kevin anchor Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live. He's an incredible |
| 0:44.8 | stand-up comic and actor. You might know him from weeds, and now he stars on the sitcom Man with |
| 0:50.8 | a Plan. But the main reason I wanted to talk to Kevin is because I love his |
| 0:55.2 | YouTube series Hiking with Kevin. It just started its third season this past week with Alec Baldwin |
| 1:01.1 | as the first guest, but he's talked to a lot of great people on the show, including a lot of his |
| 1:05.4 | SNL, former SNL cast members. The show has been compared a bit to comedians and cars getting coffee, |
| 1:12.2 | including by Jerry Seinfeld, who seemed to call him out a little bit in a promo for that show |
| 1:17.1 | when it came back this past season. I feel like an alternate title for it could be |
| 1:21.8 | comedians on hikes getting winded. But I think it's a really interesting show, and he gets |
| 1:27.4 | really great stuff out of his |
| 1:28.7 | guests. And there's something kind of weirdly meditative about watching him hike around the |
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