Remember Pee Wee's Big Adventure? (with Danielle Schneider)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This week on the HDWGW, we are so psyched to be joined by actress, writer, comedian and co-host of Vanessa's other favorite podcast, "Bitch Sesh," Danielle Schneider! Vanessa and Danielle recount their formative experiences in school drama programs, Jonah talks about being cast as Sandy the dog in his childhood production of Annie and our listeners all learn a valuable lesson about why early rejection can be the best possible experience for aspiring entertainers. We also dig deep into Danielle's love of Pee Wee's Big Adventure and the way the film shaped her childhood friendships and sense of humor. Plus, we recount some of our favorite movie one-liners, revisit the Brian Bozworth film "Stone Cold" and get some updates from Vanessa on the General Hospital universe and all the latest happenings in Port Charles. Finally we play a round of CONGRATULATIONS, YOU BAKED YOURSELF, where we debate the culinary merits of Pineapple Casserole, Tomato Aspic and Chicken Spaghetti Casserole. Bon Appetit!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
0:06.0	We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today.
0:11.0	Who are very excited for this sesh, if I do say so myself.
0:15.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. You know, Jonah, our guest today is very into theaters and musicals, and I think did a lot of that growing up.
0:35.5	And I often will come on here and kind of give my gripes about times that I was miscast in our middle school theater program.
0:44.0	But don't give you a lot of chances to do that.
0:46.4	And I was thinking about a time when you were, I would say, miscast in elementary school production.
0:54.1	I believe, yeah, maybe middle school even.
0:56.5	It was a production of Annie. I was really hoping to be Daddy Warbucks. Right. You wanted to be Daddy
1:01.9	Warbucks. I believe this was a stagecrafters production. Yes. Yes. Stage crafters are after-school
1:06.8	theater program. Yes. And yeah, I got cast as Sandy, the dog.
1:13.3	Which feels like kind of mean.
1:15.2	Like, so I was in a dog suit.
1:18.5	It was really hot, really hot.
1:20.9	And like, there's the only scene I really remember, maybe the only scene I had was like,
1:25.7	there's a scene where like Annie or Daddy Warbucks
1:27.7	and like Sandy has to run to one of them
1:30.2	and I can't decide
1:32.1	and so it's kind of fake out and then I run to Annie
1:34.4	but I think that's like the only
1:35.8	I don't think it was like a real part
1:37.3	yeah well I also remember
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