00:00I need to make out on a couch again.
00:01Yeah, oh yeah.
00:02I made out for the first time on a couch to Step Brothers 1.
00:05Yeah.
00:05Second time saying that today, and I hope I get a third.
00:13Obviously, the Saturn Live has been influential for decades.
00:16Is there a performer that you can point to and say,
00:19that person impacted the way that I perform or the way that I view comedy?
00:23Eddie Murphy.
00:24Yeah, Eddie Murphy.
00:25Eddie Murphy is the king.
00:27There was a while where I was obsessed with him.
00:32I was just so fascinated with everything that he did.
00:35Nutty Professor is one of my favorite movies.
00:37I mean, the guy plays seven characters, you know.
00:40Coming to America, he's playing 100 characters.
00:43The ability to do something like that, the stamina to do something like that.
00:47A film day is difficult.
00:49To go through all that and then create a completely different character for the same scene is genius.
00:54And his origin was Saturday Night Live.
00:57And it's a great training ground for some of the greatest entertainers that we've ever seen.
01:02And I think Eddie Murphy is at the top of that list.
01:05God, I mean, there's been so many guys.
01:08Like, I really loved Will Ferrell when I was a kid.
01:11You know, I don't know how much it impacted Mayor.
01:14I'm kind of like Ferrell, right?
01:16You're exactly like Will.
01:17They say, Will, Dylan.
01:19Well, Dylan, sorry.
01:20The next Ferrell.
01:21Yeah.
01:21Wait, you're not?
01:22Did you think I was in Brazil?
01:23You're not, Will Ferrell?
01:24Totally different guy.
01:25Whoa.
01:25Oh my god.
01:26Totally different guy.
01:29Wow.
01:29Corey, selfishly, I just want you to keep playing Chevy.
01:32I think you're so amazing at Chevy in that time period.
01:35Sorry.
01:35Tripped over my penis.
01:36If you could keep the performance going and do one of his early roles, which would you remake right now?
01:43Oh, that's a great question.
01:45You know, his very first feature was Foul Play with Goldie Hawn.
01:49So cool.
01:50And it's a great movie.
01:51I don't know that I'd want to remake it.
01:53It's a pleasure.
01:55But it's really interesting.
01:57You know, as I was like studying him and who he was, one of the things that I had to really look for and pay attention to was who is the Chevy that's performing and who is the Chevy off screen.
02:09And I was always looking for moments of like nervousness or vulnerability, most of which I would find in interviews.
02:16But I did notice, you know, there's a different quality of him in Foul Play than other films.
02:22It's his first feature.
02:24And you can sort of feel him exploring and figuring stuff out.
02:29You know, it's like he's not doing sketch comedy.
02:32He's doing like a proper Hollywood film with a star, with Goldie Hawn.
02:36And I do see moments in like flex in that performance of like, oh, that's an actor doing his first feature.
02:46I can see that.
02:47And I kind of love that, you know.
02:49I mean, more than 90 minutes of live television by a group of 20 year olds who have never made anything.
02:54Okay, so this is a bit.
02:56Look, I don't get half the shit that they do.
02:57I go down these weird rabbit holes of people telling Lorne Michaels stories.
03:05I'm curious, what's the greatest one that you heard in your preparation leading up to this?
03:10I think, I think, man, I love, I think one that's the most charming is how he and his writing partner,
03:20Hart Pomerantz, had their own CBC radio show when they were in college.
03:25And that's how they, and they really satirized.
03:29And you can really see the formation of Saturday Night Live and Lorne's sensibility, his sense of humor,
03:34his writing style, and how he'd kind of been building up to the show for so long.
03:39And he wanted to take down the Canadian government and satirize them as he would the American government on SNL.
03:47But it's a Canadian government run company.
03:52So they were totally censored.
03:55And that was the beginning of a long battle with censorship his entire career.
04:01Rachel, you're obviously extremely gifted both as a writer and a performer.
04:04If you were given the chance to do one of them for the course of a season,
04:08would you want to write or would you want to perform on the show?
04:10Ooh.
04:11Cool.
04:12That's a great question.
04:13Honestly, I think it would be really cool to write.
04:18Because I went in the writer's room and, like, I was there for the Ryan Gosling episode this past spring, I guess.
04:27And I was in there when the Beavis and Butthead sketch played.
04:31You're talking about me?
04:32And everyone was like, yeah, that's really good.
04:35Like, it was cool to see all the people, like, responsible for the sketch.
04:40So I think it would be really fun to write.
04:42Ella, the line that sticks with me is, do you ever have nostalgia for a moment that you're still in?
04:47Right?
04:47That scene we shot on our first night of shooting.
04:53We were actually at Rockefeller Ice Wing.
04:57I'm a New Yorker.
04:59So to shoot a scene playing Gilda Radner, directed by one of my favorite directors ever,
05:07saying these words about having nostalgia for a moment while you're still in it.
05:13Talk about, like, uncanny, like, meta experience.
05:20Like, dream within a dream.
05:21I felt all those things that Gilda was saying.
05:25And, God, what a privilege to get to say them.
05:29And, weirdly, I ended up saying them to Jason.
05:33Jason, that night, we shot Matt playing Belushi, who is just extraordinary in this movie.
05:40I can't even.
05:42We shot Matt on the ice first.
05:44And thank God we got a lot of the scene from his perspective before he fell.
05:51He fell and he hit his head.
05:53And then we were like, we have to keep shooting.
05:57He went to the hospital.
06:00Jason put on skates and did the scene with me.
06:05Get out of here.
06:06Yeah.
06:07Yeah.
06:07First night of shooting was wild.
06:10Gabriel, if you could continue to play Lorne and keep this exact same ensemble,
06:14but tackle a different era of SNL, which one would you do?
06:17I think, you know what, the funniest idea that I've heard was Cooper Hoffman and Andrew Feldman
06:25would always joke, because when Lorne left after the first five seasons, Dick Ebersole
06:31was running it, and Neil Levy, Lorne's cousin, was running it as well.
06:37And it was just those two.
06:38And I think it would be really funny to see those guys carry on the story.
06:44I think there's really something to that, actually.
06:47You just have to make it to air.
06:49Live from New York!
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