Kevin Nealon
Maltin on Movies
Leonard Maltin
4.3 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
If you still associate Kevin Nealon with Saturday Night Live, it's no wonder: he was a vital cast member for nine years. But he's also an author, video producer, banjoist, savvy second banana (on such series as Weeds and Man With a Plan), dedicated standup comic, and member of Adam Sandler's comedic stock company. And if you haven't seen his spectacular caricatures, you're missing out: his book is called I Exaggerate: My Brushes with Fame. He talks about the adventure of playing supporting roles in indie films of all kinds. His latest, Mermaid, drops on digital platforms May 26.
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| 0:38.3 | You're listening to Malton on movies and our guest today is a versatile fellow. |
| 0:43.3 | You all know, I think he's succeeded in every form of communication for possibly ice shows. |
| 0:51.3 | Ice shows and circuses. |
| 0:52.3 | You don't see. You don't know. Well, we'll go find out. You don't know. But say hello to Kevin Nealon. Hi, Kevin. Hi, Leonard. Good to see you, man. Hi, Jesse. Hi. I have to tell you, really are so excited to get to speak to you. I've watched you for, yes, really, watched you for so long. And you've just, I feel with you the way people talk to me about my dad, which is they say they've watched him forever and it's like he was in your living room and that's just a part of your life. |
| 1:20.6 | That's how I feel. |
| 1:21.6 | Because I feel like I've just watched you as long as I can remember watching anything. |
| 1:26.6 | Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, I've been around |
| 1:30.1 | for a while. Yeah. For a while. But yeah, I'm glad you liked it. I just love what I do. I'm very |
| 1:35.9 | lucky to do what I do. And I've, you know, I've been able to do every almost aspect of this |
| 1:40.8 | business from writing to directing to, you acting and stand-up live all that |
| 1:46.8 | yeah have you ever had an acting lesson i've had you know it's funny leonard all i ever wanted to do |
| 1:53.3 | was stand-up comedy right that's all they ever wanted to do and i came out to los angeles to begin a career |
| 1:58.9 | and to try my hand at it and uh a guy i know came up to Los Angeles to begin a career and to try my hand at it. |
| 2:07.0 | And a guy I know came up to me and he goes, do you ever think about acting? |
| 2:13.5 | Like, you know, because, you know, one day an acting, you know, a casting agent is going to come into the show at the improv and, you know, like you and want you to come in for a cold reading. |
| 2:17.9 | I said, no, I never really considered that. Because we should because it really creates opportunities. |
| 2:23.0 | So I said, okay, that's not a bad idea. He goes, I teach an acting class, by the way. |
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