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Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

Punkie Johnson

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

Dana Carvey, David Spade, & Audacy

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.712.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Messing with Lorne, working at the Comedy Store, and leaving SNL with Punkie Johnson. 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Our guest today is Punky Johnson, who was a cast member for four years on Saturday

0:05.8

Night Live and just left the show. And so she's going to tell us all about her experience

0:12.3

on Saturday

0:13.0

Live and other things.

0:14.6

The good and the bad and the in between.

0:16.3

We, you know, I don't think we've had someone off the show

0:19.3

that we talked to him so quickly.

0:20.8

We've talked to people a while after or years after. Most people have

0:25.8

been on it in the past, but we're just hosted. We had Nate Burgatsee just hosted

0:30.4

the week before. So you know it's still fresh in her brain and she's pretty cool about it. I mean you know it's obviously a roller coaster there. We know but she's got a lot of energy. She's got less. She's pretty hilarious to talk to you about it.

0:43.1

She says so many funny things without really trying, just in the way she describes

0:49.8

the environment, how she interacts with Lauren Michaels is really funny.

0:54.8

And her whole presence is just extremely entertaining.

0:59.3

So I would listen to this one if I were you.

1:01.4

And it is interesting, she's hot off the show and we get like a first

1:05.0

blink feeling from a cast member what it's like.

1:08.0

It's funny she's like Dana can you mad you say I see Lauren in the hall I go hey

1:11.2

wait up I gotta tell you something I read through it.

1:12.8

And I'm like, what are you doing?

1:14.4

What?

1:15.1

How could you ever to confront Lorne about anything?

1:18.2

She goes, no, I do it in a funny way.

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