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To Introduce Our Guest Star - Episode Eighteen: Bobby Moynihan · Muppet Fan Podcasts with ToughPigs.com

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  Hello. My name is Jared Faircloth.
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  And my name is Johannes. And welcome to to adduce our
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  guest star. I'm not a fan podcast, the
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  topics.com in this show, Joe, and I are taking it in turns to
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  surprise each other with each week's guest.
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  And this week, while I brought you a guest Joe, I brought you a
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  brought you a present. Oh, that's so lovely.
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  I'm very excited for this. This tough pigs holiday special.
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  Is it a? Is it holiday-related it
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  probably isn't, but, but time this is it won't be anything.
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  I mean, granted we done it just after Thanksgiving, but We're
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  probably peeking behind the curtain a little too much by
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  telling people that aren't we? Well, I think it's always a
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  holiday. It may not be the holidays.
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  Yeah, sure. It's always I have something.
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  Yeah, exactly. That's it.
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  But Joe, you don't know who's coming.
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  Di, I do not end. This is, this is my last time
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  guessing for a while. So I feel like I have a lot of
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  pressure here for me to get this one right.
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  That's it. Wow.
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  Joe as always, you can ask them questions and say, if you can't
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  figure this out, all right. Give me.
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  Give me the first one. Is it Muppet Henson or Sesame
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  and his Muppets and sesame. Muppets and sesame.
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  All right. Well, is it a muppet performer?
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  No. Hmm.
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  All right well then I'm out. I feel like it's all kosher.
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  Would you please welcome? It's always easiest to guess
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  when it's a performer and also very difficult because there's
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  so many of them. All right, so Sesame and Muppets
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  is this. Someone who was, did they work
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  in some capacity at the Sesame? 50th Anniversary, Special No, I
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  don't believe so. All right.
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  All right. That's good to know that we're
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  not at all. Good to know.
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  Sorry that this person wasn't invited.
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  So play along with the Sesame. I wasn't Patti, LaBelle, I'm
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  sorry. Is this someone who worked in
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  some capacity on Muppets tonight?
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  No, mmm-hmm. All right, that narrowed that
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  took a few people out of the running that I was thinking
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  about boy. I have no clue who this could
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  be. I will, I will guess.
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  Mmm. Is it some, is it a writer?
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  This person has written, but probably not in the way that
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  you're thinking. Yeah, fair enough.
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  All right, boy. Oh boy, I am stumped.
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  I'll have Wow. Wild guess, because you said
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  written but not in the way I'm thinking, I'm gonna guess.
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  It's someone who has written music and perhaps it is, Ed
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  Mitchell and is not Ed Mitchell, Joe.
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  And I'm so glad you got this wrong because it's gonna be the
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  last one for a while. I was like, oh, he's gonna get
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  it right and he's gonna be good. I think you've gotten even get
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  kinky apis. But you got the others.
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  Correct, Joe. My guest today is a Hilarious
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  actor, comedian and voice over artist who's appeared on shows
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  like 30 Rock. Unbreakable, Kimmy Schmidt, The
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  Simpsons Bob's Burgers and documentary.
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  Now he's also been in films like sisters Monsters University
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  inside out and the secret life of pets and of course I cannot
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  go past his whopping nine seasons on Saturday Night Live.
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  He's been a duck on DuckTales, a bear on, we bare bears and he's
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  also the world's drunkest uncle but my fans know him and love
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  him for his tons of Muppets appearance.
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  So, So people can see in this Joe is just gone silent.
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  And he's so excited. No one loved him for his tons of
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  Muppet appearances, over the years, like being the quacker
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  duck, man, on Sesame Street, or bringing the guest star for
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  both. The Hollywood Bowl and 02 live
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  Muppet chose Joe, would you please welcome to to introduce
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  our guest star? Bobby Moynihan.
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  That was that's a slow clap for you Jared.
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  Thank you, thank you very much. Ah, so excited.
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  Oh my God, that's Bobby Moynihan.
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  Hey Bobby. How are you?
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  How are you? How are you?
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  Dad, what's going on? I'm just being very excited over
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  the fact that I'm talking to Bobby Moynihan.
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  Oh yeah, same here. Nice to meet you guys.
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  That's me. Yes, I'm Jerry.
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  Yeah, I think you and Joel actually met.
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  Yes. Correct, we did.
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  Do you remember? That's our you look extremely
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  familiar. I know we met, we met very
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  briefly, after one of the Hollywood Hollywood Bowl shows
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  in. L.a., yeah, I snuck into the
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  after party. Good work.
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  Yeah, thank you. Yeah, no, it was, I mean, well,
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  well, we'll talk all about the Hollywood Bowl and the O2 shows
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  for sure, but like, it was just such a treat to meet you that
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  day, you know, to Like you were like, still floating on cloud
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  nine, from getting to lie, still habits all night.
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  Yeah, I'm yeah, I am I sore great interview with you.
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  I watched a couple of weeks ago where you talked about the
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  Hollywood Bowl show and then the fact that you went home
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  afterwards and you just had to like, take out your bins and you
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  like how am I supposed to do this with Kermit the Frog?
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  Just said my name. It's completely true II.
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  I remember, I remember that. Exact.
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  I don't remember saying in an interview but I remember that
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  exact moment happening. Do you need me to record on my
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  end? But not I'm recording on my end.
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  Oh, oh, great, great great, yeah, yeah, awesome.
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  Yeah. Well, we starts.
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  Yeah, let's let's let's talk about this.
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  Well, I mean, well, first of all, I mean, even before we even
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  get into like the times you've worked with the Muppets, are you
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  spoof The Muppets on a scenario or whatever?
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  Like you've been a fan? You've been a lifelong fan just
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  like us, which is always incredible.
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  To hear, you know, people, you know, our love the Muppets.
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  We love it, whether they're famous or not.
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  Yeah, you tell it just always loved them. yeah, ever since I
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  was a kid, I think it was like Sesame Street was like, you
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  know, or Christmas Eve on Sesame Street is like one of my very
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  most Vivid memories. But like gones at my mom, got me
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  a Gonzo stuffed animal. I have it.
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  I have it right over there. I've had, it's about the day.
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  I was born, she got me and Gonzo stuffed animal and like I had it
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  my entire life and that was my entry into it.
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  But like I remember watching the old Muppet Show and loving it
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  and just the movies and everything.
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  Yeah, I was talking to my wife recently about.
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  I was like why like where did it start?
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  I wonder what the moment is, and I tried to find pictures of it.
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  I can't find pictures of it, but in Westchester County, there was
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  a mall called The Galleria mall and one Christmas.
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  They just had like the entire Mall, the Middle of the mall.
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  Was this giant Christmas tree display?
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  And they had like life-size animatronic versions of the
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  Muppets like in the tree? Like doing things like, you
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  know, like yeah, like an end. First, I just remember being,
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  I'd remember going there and being like, what am I looking
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  at? And I for some reason I feel
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  like that is the start of it all as far as the Muppet love goes.
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  But yeah, just on my life. Yeah, I when I was a baby, my
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  first Christmas. I got given a Sesame Street,
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  like, projector that went up on the ceiling.
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  I was only six months old and my mum.
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  And dad have said, oh, we put that thing on every single
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  night. And I'm like, so you may never A
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  single not when my small little fresh brain, I just watched
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  Sesame Street characters dance. I'm like well that's why this
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  happens that's why I've got the muffin caddos.
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  Yeah, in low resolution what's up?
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  What are you have? Which I have I have chemists I
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  of and then I can't get it out there.
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  But I've got the original design for Big Bird just here.
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  Oh, wow. That's do you want to mention
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  skills? Like, design deep.
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  Yeah, yeah. How old are you?
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  How old are you? Don't mind me asking.
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  I'm Thank you 365. Trying to see if wear this
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  around the same age. I'm 45.
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  I'm 39, but I have no ink yet not yet.
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  Yeah, yes, errors. All have something yeah,
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  fullback Snuffleupagus tet. Yeah, my yeah.
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  My my Oscar, the Grouch tramp stamp.
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  Yeah. If you ever thought about Dylan
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  Dylan postal, he's Hornswoggle from UWE.
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  He's and he's Muppets Most Wanted.
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  He's like covered in Muppet tattoos.
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  That's the best thing I've ever heard of him.
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  Yeah, right. So I want to ask you about so
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  like obviously, I'm sure people ask you about your time on SNL
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  with every single interview you've ever done.
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  But like, specifically, you've gotten to like dress as Muppets
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  and make references to Muppets and like even like hang out with
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  big bird on the SNL stage. So have you ever was any of that
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  stuff? Been something that you've
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  pitched or that you've written? Or is it just like, hey man,
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  we're just gonna put a Gonzo nose on you.
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  Get up there. Almost all of it.
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  I think no, I hope right before I was technically on the show, I
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  was at the Seth Rogen show, Seth Rogen hosted and I was there
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  like backstage. Before I got the show, Bill
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  Hader invited me and I got to go like, sit backstage and that
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  night, Seth Rogen played Rolfe. And then when I got on the show,
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  I wrote or I pitched it, and wrote that sketch, I'm sure I
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  wrote it with somebody. I don't remember who helped me.
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  Here's, I don't remember who helped me write it in this
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  moment, but the Muppet sketch where we were all on the boss of
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  the whole moves though we were in a hit-and-run.
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  That's a gripe that one. Yeah and I that was yeah, I
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  wrote that one like going like, oh sevis here again, maybe he
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  could play. Of and I can play Gonzo.
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  I just wanted to play God's out. I just wanted to like have them
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  make me a chicken which I still have and yeah I kept that
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  chicken. I kept that Camilla the chicken.
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  I just stole stuff from SNL all the time.
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  I would have kept the bus if they let me, I would have bet.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then like, I think I like,
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  we wrote another one where, like there was a monologue or
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  something with bleep. Blake Lively.
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  Yeah, we live right. Think that happened again?
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  Because of that first one or the bus 1.
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  And then my think my crowning moment Like you can see me, you
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  can see me. See the moment hat.
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  Like, I look off camera and I'm what I'm doing is, I'm looking
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  at the Monitor and the second, I see it.
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  Like, I just lose it inside is the blue jean committee sketch
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  when Jason Segel hosted with the Muppets.
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  And I'm, I'm physically on camera with Gonzo and Rolfe and
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  like my life was over after that.
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  I was like, I've appeared on camera with Gonzo.
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  I'm On I'm done, I'm amazed it then but then I got to go then I
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  got to go on tour with them and do that show.
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  And like then I had no idea what was to come.
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  Like in that moment I was like, oh my God, I was on TV with
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  Gonzo and then like I got to work with them a bunch and it
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  was the craziest Right. Like, as if you could just tell
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  your your younger self. Like like, no, no, I know this
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  is cool. Don't get me wrong, but yeah,
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  yeah, we know, he was back on the Warriors.
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  Yeah, yeah. You have no idea that pretty
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  soon your ringtone is going to be when Kermit announces you for
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  the Muppet Show, hosting the Muppet Show live at the
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  Hollywood Bowl, like it like that.
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  That's where I still don't yell, don't understand.
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  That one was incredible. Well, one of my favorite moments
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  on SNL was went Big Bird. Came on.
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  Let me that was a great segment. Anyway, and just went Big Bird
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  comes out after Seth and and it was Carol to and it was Carol
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  and when people realize that it's the real big bird people
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  just go nuts. And then there's a beautiful
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  moment during the credits, when you're on stage, you know,
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  hugging each other as you do, and you hug big bird and there's
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  a moment where you're just looking up at him, just so
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  filled with love and it's like, oh yeah, I think I fell in love
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  with you. Then it's that that is, that is
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  That is the essence of Bobby Moynihan.
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  Going like we like it, I couldn't believe it.
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  But but but what you don't see is off.
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  Camera is a bunch of big birds handlers going don't, don't
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  touch him. Don't touch him, be careful.
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  I've worked with a couple times. I've been in a few times, but
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  like I'm always, like, I want to get in there for that hug.
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  Like, I don't care who's inside this Bard, not doesn't matter
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  because it's the real big bird. And it's hard not to all of the
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  hug, all of them, all of all of them.
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  When you're, when you're talking like, like, my, my, I noticed
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  was like, in between takes, whatever, like I work with them
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  or like, whatever. Like in between takes, I get mad
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  with it when I look down and they're not looking at me.
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  And I'm like, hello, like her. Like, you know, like it's like,
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  you forget, you forget that they're not for you.
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  Like it's yeah. Yeah, I am not ashamed.
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  It's fun. Fun to work with.
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  I've had clear their own I've had like that.
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  I wouldn't even call them stress dreams, but I've had dreams in
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  my life where I've been in like the vicinity of the Muppets.
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  And like, I'll they'll be the for our camp at the Frog.
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  Puppet. And I want to put it on and my
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  brain won't. Let me my brain of wake me up
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  before I actually get my hand inside the puppet and then 2015,
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  I was actually got to be on set of the old ABC series and I was
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  in a room and they left me in there and it was just the Kermit
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  puppet laying on the table and I was Like I'm not allowed to
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  touch it. Like it's my dream has come true
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  and it was horrible. And I'm saying to like Peter
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  lens, I'm like, no. Just let me put it on.
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  He's like he goes I would love you so.
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  But I really can't let you and I'm like, I get it.
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  But God, I was so upset it. I get it.
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  I am sorry. I don't, when I worked with him,
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  I didn't have the urge to like put it on like I was like
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  terrified of that. I got to try on a journey when I
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  did Sesame Street like the oh sorry.
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  Now you're up. They let me let me calling.
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  That's Ernie. He's calling, don't tell the
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  story. It's burnt it's actually Bert.
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  It's they let me try an Ernie. I'm when I did Sesame Street and
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  it felt wrong. I really like you know because
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  well because because it's like it's like it's also like It's
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  like somebody picking up Bruce Willis and going like, hey, I'm
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  Bruce well, it like, you know, like therefore these famous, I
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  mean, not like a well, as but, you know what I mean, like, it's
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  like, it's like, they're these famous entities.
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  Like it's like what? It's like seeing somebody else
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  in a Chewbacca costume. You're like, that's not him.
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  Yeah, that's it. Like I can put on what I put on
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  Kermit and I can't do his voice. Yeah, exactly.
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  I was going to have a bunch of people when people say like, oh,
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  I can do a great Kermit impression, it's like, well,
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  that's great, but you can't be Kermit.
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  There is like, that's not the essence of groomers just The
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  Voice, or just the puppet. Yeah, it's yeah, it's the facial
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  expression. You know what I mean?
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  Like, it's the, it's all that it's.
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  It's not, it's such an art to, and like Matt vote.
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  Matt Vogel does it now right? Yeah.
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  Both Carmen and a big bird, right?
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  For hate so. So well I think I've worked with
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  both of them. Yeah, that one of my favorite
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  things I've ever got to do in my life was that happy fee with
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  him? And I was going to ask about
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  having favor bowl and then at one didn't like that was nuts.
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  That's still I wrote something. All those better write something
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  recently about how, you know, Kermit's things Rainbow
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  Connection a lot, which is great.
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  So one of my favorite songs of all time but you know he has
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  other students on for. Yeah.
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  He has other songs that he could be singing and one of them was
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  happy fate and I actually That video of you and Kermit singing
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  it because I was like, look at it, could be done, it can even
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  be done if you can't see Kim at State like on the revenue show
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  and you can always have whoever he's like the host of the show
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  is whatever, do it with him. So yeah, I think people need to
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  be looking at that sketch. You two did?
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  Okay, half a muppet for that. Is what every morning?
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  Yeah, correct. Yeah, that was.
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  That was a blast. I feel bad for the two
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  gentlemen, between my legs. But yeah.
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  I'm sure they were honored. They would know they were
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  wonderful. They were wonderful.
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  They were fantastic. Was it Paul McGinnis?
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  It was I think he was the one McGinnis who and yeah I'm
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  blanking on the other guy's name.
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  He was awesome. He was very well.
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  How did the how did it come to you?
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  That you know this they were going to do the live map it
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  shows and they wanted you to host.
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  Do they just come to you? Did you just hear something in
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  the rumbling and go? Oh, can I do that?
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  I feel like my whole journey with the Muppets just started
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  from like when one night of SNL is like Christmas show, the
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  Christmas tree lighting was happening downstairs and we were
• 18:05
  looking down. We saw that the Muppets were
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  there and I like my brain broke in half, so I ran downstairs.
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  Through 30 Rock like a maniac. And just went, like, just went
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  outside like a fan and just like, hung out outside and tried
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  to see them and ended up like, getting close enough, where and
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  somebody there was like, are you Bobby Moynihan?
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  Like, we all got. We got him.
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  We got to take a bunch of pictures with them, and that's
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  if you look at my Twitter account, that's the picture of
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  me and Gonzo, that's at all. So I've never changed it just
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  because that might, that's the, that's the, my peaked at that in
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  that moment and I met Gonzo and that was it, I freaked out.
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  I met Dave goals, I couldn't believe it and it was like the
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  best day of my life and then like slowly stuff started
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  happening, it was like I got to do Sesame Street.
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  I met David Rudman through that and like we ended up doing
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  nature. Can he start?
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  He was think I'm doing this thing called nature cat.
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  So we started doing nature cat together and I had known a
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  couple of those guys. I've met Bill Beretta and Couple
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  of them. And then I think next was that?
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  Yeah, I think that was it possibly was just like, hey, are
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  you around? We know you're a huge fan.
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  We're doing this thing, and would you want to host the
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  Muppet Show live? And I was like, are you insane?
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  And I was like, what do you mean?
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  And it was like all the original B, like all like, you know, like
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  the classics and I was just like, are you kidding me?
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  Of course, and I had just had a baby like Days before it.
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  Like, I think, like, 12 days before the Hollywood show bowl,
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  like, the Hollywood Bowl shows, I had a bait, like, it was
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  cutting it close, but I was like, I can't, there's no way I
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  can't do this. I don't think I could do it
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  again now, looking back. But it was the best, that was
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  like, one of the easily, one of the best.
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  Weekend's of my life. And then we did it in London at
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  the O2. And then I think, like, I think
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  the aspirations were to Go Muppets Take Manhattan and do it
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  on Broadway. And then pandemic heaven.
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  That damn pandemic. Yeah, yeah.
• 20:20
  So I did a, I did a podcast for tough pigs a while back.
• 20:24
  We're called 15 seconds to curtain where I was
• 20:26
  interviewing, some some celebrities and notable people
• 20:29
  who are also being Muppet fans. And I was trying to figure out
• 20:32
  like, how to get in touch with these, these folks.
• 20:34
  And I was talking to Ryan, Dylan who, you know, he plays, he
• 20:36
  plays Elmo sure. And he was like, well, you
• 20:39
  talked to Bobby, you gotta talk to Bobby.
• 20:40
  So, like, I feel like you have this reputation of like, you're
• 20:44
  the famous guy, who, Is also like the ultimate Muppet fan.
• 20:48
  So it doesn't surprise me that you were the first person on
• 20:50
  their speed dial. When you know, that's that's
• 20:54
  amazing Muppet Show. It's not a bad place to be.
• 20:57
  It's not a, not a bad thing to have Muppets as friends.
• 21:00
  So I completely agree. Yeah.
• 21:02
  Can you talk a little about back?
• 21:04
  You know, you get the phone call to go and be the quacker duck
• 21:07
  man on Sesame Street. Kevin Hart backed out?
• 21:12
  It was written for Kevin Hart. Really Kevin Hart could.
• 21:15
  Oh yeah Kevin Hart couldn't make it and they were like hey you
• 21:18
  want to do this bit real quick and I was like yeah and yeah
• 21:22
  because you're a Kevin Hart type.
• 21:23
  Oh dude no joke. This is not a bit.
• 21:30
  Okay, for those. I'll spank you put this picture
• 21:32
  online, but Bobby is wearing a quacker duck man hat.
• 21:41
  That's perfect. What you really do?
• 21:42
  Steal everything from set. Yeah.
• 21:44
  You gotta vote, dude. No, Brian.
• 21:47
  Brian. The said lucky the guy that did
• 21:49
  the made the costume for that was a costume designer at SNL
• 21:53
  and he gave it to me, I have a coat, like, right over there for
• 21:57
  some reason. Yeah, I keep everything I do.
• 22:00
  I have, if you go back and you watch that the oatmeal Telly.
• 22:05
  Yes, like I have that. I have that downstairs and he's
• 22:09
  amazing. Wow, yeah.
• 22:11
  I got a bunch of Muppets downstairs.
• 22:13
  What I like about you Bobby is that you've got real Muppet
• 22:16
  energy in your characters like the quacker.
• 22:18
  Duck, man. Feels like he belongs on Sesame
• 22:21
  Street, but even going back to some of the Year.
• 22:23
  SNL characters. Someone like drunk uncle or
• 22:26
  Janet peckinpah, ugh, or remember the name of the
• 22:29
  astronaut who loves these little kitty, cat.
• 22:32
  They all feel very much Appetit and so you can really I think,
• 22:36
  see that influence from the Muppets on You sure?
• 22:40
  I mean like it's this, I mean, like in my mind at the second
• 22:43
  best sketch comedy show, like, variety, show that I remember,
• 22:46
  growing up with, besides Saturday Night Live.
• 22:49
  Like it's it's the same thing, like it's the same show, but,
• 22:53
  like, black puppets. But, and, but Lorne Michaels,
• 22:58
  isn't quite as is entertaining to watch as Kermit the Frog.
• 23:02
  And I shall know. I disagree.
• 23:05
  I don't know. Fair enough.
• 23:12
  He's got a deal with. I think that's the only
• 23:14
  difference piggy. That's that's, that's the next,
• 23:19
  exactly. But I have to assume that like,
• 23:22
  I mean, I assume this of anyone in the comedy world that
• 23:25
  especially someone who's like around our age who like you must
• 23:29
  have been influenced by the Muppets.
• 23:30
  So I'm curious if there. Were other people who either
• 23:33
  like writers on us now, or performers, or even, like, guest
• 23:35
  stars who are coming in. Who like, would you like find
• 23:39
  people in? Like kind of bombed over this or
• 23:40
  like, I gotta show you this like old Muppet Show clip on YouTube
• 23:43
  or whatever. Yeah.
• 23:46
  I mean, like I would go as far as saying, I've yet to find
• 23:48
  someone at this at maybe our level, but my Sergei is a huge.
• 23:55
  Mikey day is like a huge, huge, huge muppets, muppets guy.
• 23:59
  Yeah. Like there's definitely a, you
• 24:01
  run into them and you find them or like my favorite is like, the
• 24:06
  people who were like, who you, who you think, would not care at
• 24:10
  all. And then they're like, hey, if
• 24:13
  you're doing them up and thinking, I bet that They
• 24:18
  secretly have a muppet, they really want to be and you go
• 24:20
  like I knew you liked it. Well and then definitely, huh.
• 24:27
  When you see people, when you see people like that, you know,
• 24:30
  that like you're I assume you're friends with like Tina Fey, is
• 24:33
  starring in a Muppet movie. Are you calling it up?
• 24:35
  And being like, Oh my God, Tina, I saw you like what was it?
• 24:38
  Like, I didn't know Tina. Well enough to call her at that
• 24:43
  point. I don't If I would have, but I
• 24:46
  definitely have. I think I definitely have
• 24:49
  brought up wins to Tina since we got closer because of mr.
• 24:54
  Mayor like just asking her like what was it?
• 24:58
  Like, did you have a good time? Like or like, just talk to it's
• 25:02
  a common thing to bring up like oh we both worked with the
• 25:04
  Muppets. I was fun, right?
• 25:06
  But she's a huge Muppet fan. I think she's feeling, she's
• 25:09
  fantastic. She's the funniest woman of
• 25:11
  sure. Yeah, absolutely.
• 25:12
  I mean, she really is. Yeah.
• 25:14
  But you so you've done a lot with sorry, I'm just gonna have
• 25:17
  to assess me for my you've done a lot, which says to me, I think
• 25:20
  I didn't realize until I was looking for this podcast, just
• 25:23
  how many things you've done with Sesame like you hosted, a steady
• 25:27
  stroke panel in 2014. There's a couple of videos of
• 25:31
  that around you also hosted the comic on Sesame Street panel or
• 25:37
  something. For years ago, is that again
• 25:39
  there's yeah, that was nuts. Again, them coming to you.
• 25:44
  Yeah that was like the the last I was that one was like super
• 25:48
  last minute. That one that Comic-Con one was
• 25:51
  like I had done the live shows already and then they were like
• 25:54
  hey we kind of want to do some sketches for Comic-Con.
• 25:56
  We have a small theater like why not?
• 25:58
  And then the next thing I know I'm dressed up it and we did a
• 26:01
  whole bunch of new ones. So I went there like the night
• 26:04
  before, read a script and then like we just did them like the
• 26:09
  bit like where I'm dressed as Ernie and I did something with
• 26:11
  burp, but he thinks I'm Ernie and Then we did something with
• 26:15
  Guy. Smiley we did like a whole bunch
• 26:17
  of new bits and it was a blast it was a it was an absolute
• 26:21
  blast. and then I did Carol spinnies Oh, the other thing of
• 26:31
  the Henson tribute. That's right.
• 26:32
  Yeah, that the tribute on the Henson lot, I sang, I love trash
• 26:37
  with Oscar to Caroll spinney. That was the one of the craziest
• 26:41
  moments of my life. That must have been mind-blowing
• 26:44
  to completely absolutely insane. Absolutely.
• 26:47
  AB to Carolee insane. Yeah.
• 26:50
  Yeah. It was nuts.
• 26:53
  Yeah, because that's good right there.
• 26:57
  Working with the Muppets, you're doing something like to give
• 27:00
  back to the puppeteers. That's yeah.
• 27:03
  That's, that's a guy, was a special night.
• 27:05
  It was a special night. It was absolutely.
• 27:07
  And well, I think just and he was, of course, this show.
• 27:11
  I think gonna show you just how much they love and respect you
• 27:15
  if they're asking you to do all this stuff and, and yeah, don't
• 27:19
  blame him. Well, it seems to be about love
• 27:22
  and family over. Are and they're very kind people
• 27:24
  and I think like, they understand that.
• 27:27
  Yeah. Every single one of those live
• 27:31
  shows that I did at the ball or even or at the O2 ended with me,
• 27:35
  hysterically, crying and being extremely thankful.
• 27:38
  So, I'm just glad I didn't scare them away.
• 27:41
  What do you do? Two shows.
• 27:44
  Was that a given when you did the Hollywood Bowl or did they
• 27:47
  then come to you afterwards? And say, hey, we're going to do
• 27:49
  the go to as well if you want to come.
• 27:52
  Yeah, it was kind of like that went so well, let's do it here.
• 27:55
  I think like, I mean, to be honest, I don't, I mean like I
• 27:58
  don't remember behind-the-scenes.
• 28:00
  It may well have been like a pre-planned thing or like an if
• 28:04
  this does well we do this but from what I remember it was
• 28:08
  like, Hey, you free to do this also and I was like yeah.
• 28:13
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 28:15
  Could you imagine saying no to them?
• 28:17
  That's the real question like it.
• 28:19
  I had with him recently. All right, you anything I had to
• 28:23
  recently where I would they ask me to do something and I tried
• 28:26
  to like move something and I couldn't make it work and like
• 28:29
  I'm still mad about it. I'm still mad about it.
• 28:33
  I couldn't do it. It was a tiny little thing but
• 28:35
  still I really wanted to do it and I just I couldn't.
• 28:39
  But uh yeah no I dropped everything and went London.
• 28:44
  And next thing, you know, you're in a bus with all the Muppets
• 28:46
  looking at Big Bend in your like, this is not.
• 28:49
  This is the movie. This is a Muppet movie.
• 28:52
  Yeah, right. Yeah.
• 28:52
  You're living the great Muppet. Caper, that point?
• 28:54
  Yeah, exactly Bonkers. So I'm curious like when you
• 29:00
  were starting to prepare for the live shows, you know, when
• 29:04
  you're basically looking at a script and seeing, like, I get
• 29:07
  to sing this song, I'm doing that sketch.
• 29:09
  Was there something that you looked at?
• 29:10
  And you were like, oh no. Like I like that's Too much for
• 29:14
  me, whether it's like, to close to what the Muppets did, or two
• 29:18
  challenging to do or, oh, no, I had this like whole song to sing
• 29:23
  or was it all? Just gimme, gimme, gimme gimme.
• 29:26
  Yeah, it was the opposite. It was that it was.
• 29:28
  It was, it was, especially the Hollywood Bowl shows.
• 29:31
  I mean, like, it was a full Broadway show.
• 29:33
  I mean, like I had 13 songs costume changes, B with every
• 29:38
  Muppet, like, you know, like running around the, the actual
• 29:41
  Hollywood Bowl in the Like it was one of the craziest things
• 29:48
  I've ever done. And I look back now, and I'm
• 29:51
  super, super, super proud of it. And then, like the London shows,
• 29:55
  were like, even better for me personally because SNL isn't on
• 30:02
  in the UK. So, so nobody knew who I was so,
• 30:06
  but I still got to host it but like, they would, what they
• 30:10
  would do is like four or five of the B, it would be E, like the
• 30:14
  first night, it's Kylie Minogue. And then we got, you know, like
• 30:17
  all these famous people from the UK.
• 30:19
  Like David Tennant, came and did Doctor Who like, for pigs in
• 30:24
  space and like, they wrote like specific things, but, like, my
• 30:27
  load was a lot lighter and in London.
• 30:30
  So I got to like, watch a lot more of the show and just go,
• 30:34
  like, sit there and like everybody, you talk to It has a
• 30:40
  prolific, like, you talked to one guy and you're like, hey,
• 30:43
  what do I do? He's like, I'm a penguin and
• 30:44
  this show and I'm like, oh that's great.
• 30:46
  How do you know these guys? And it's like, oh, my name is
• 30:49
  Mike Quinn. I was inside, Jabba, the Hutt
• 30:51
  and I also did nine numb. And I'm every character from
• 30:55
  Star Wars you love, and then you talk to this guy.
• 30:58
  And I'm like, I point to the next guy, and I'm like this guy
• 31:00
  thinks he's been in a bunch, he's like, oh, I'm the voice of
• 31:02
  Johnny 5 and you're like, what? Like everybody, everybody just
• 31:06
  has as some sort of like insane. In story or prolific character
• 31:12
  that they've played and it's like you mentioned Peter wins
• 31:15
  before. Like, you know, like how many
• 31:16
  characters like beloved characters is like everybody is
• 31:20
  a genius and it's crazy. So it was that London was London
• 31:25
  was a lot more like me. Annoying, people backstage or
• 31:28
  being like tell me every story about Jedi like or like working
• 31:32
  on? Yeah, working on Fraggle Rock
• 31:34
  like you know, and stuff like that.
• 31:35
  So That's what it's like for us. We get to see the whole lot to
• 31:40
  tell me everything about this one.
• 31:42
  This one little job that you did like 30 years.
• 31:45
  That's like that's what this entire interview is Bobby.
• 31:49
  Tell us all about that. One thing you did.
• 31:51
  Yeah. How do the Doozers?
• 31:56
  I think they're alive. That's magnets.
• 31:58
  Yeah, I think they're real, they're dumb.
• 32:00
  I had friends at the O2 shows who went and watched and they
• 32:06
  they said pills, I don't know that it had been announced that
• 32:09
  it was you until the day of I think at least they didn't know
• 32:13
  it was you until the day of and they were a trailing.
• 32:16
  So they knew who you were, they'd seen SNL but they said
• 32:20
  you came out and people will like Who?
• 32:24
  And then they said by the end people are going, oh my God,
• 32:26
  that sounds so good. I think you made a bunch of fans
• 32:29
  just from that show alone. That's good to hear.
• 32:34
  Yeah my favorite was my favorite thing that's ever happened.
• 32:37
  To me was just like A couple months later, I was just looking
• 32:42
  like a CVS and I turned a corner in this little kid was just
• 32:45
  staring at me, but like staring at me with, like, eyes of the
• 32:51
  terror, like, you know, like, and I just went to you look
• 32:54
  like, I went like, are you okay, and he just went, are you the
• 32:57
  Muppet man? And I was, I had just done it.
• 33:03
  So I was like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he just like, ran away.
• 33:06
  But I was like that and he, and being known to anyone as the
• 33:09
  Muppet, man, whatever. Loved if he just looking.
• 33:11
  It looked at you and go on a eugenic pick and pull.
• 33:15
  Tell me about it. Until I want to give him 10
• 33:17
  grand. I do love that character up.
• 33:19
  That's such a like, a like a spy thing to like.
• 33:22
  Like he sidled up next to you on a bench, wearing a trench coat.
• 33:25
  Yeah. It was very view.
• 33:26
  A briefcase very peculiar. Are you the Muppet man?
• 33:31
  That's creepy. Sorry.
• 33:32
  You said, pull the Happy Feet was your favorite moment.
• 33:36
  Have you got other favorite moment from the show?
• 33:38
  Like, one or two things that really stand out?
• 33:42
  Definitely, I would they wrote they said they said like thank
• 33:46
  you so much for coming out here and doing this as their because
• 33:50
  you're doing so many of these things as they're like something
• 33:53
  you want to do. And I was like mmmm if you're
• 33:56
  asking, I was like, I would love to do something with Gonzo in
• 34:00
  some capacity. Just me and Gonzo.
• 34:03
  And they wrote this like whole thing where me and Gonzo go back
• 34:06
  and forth and like it was the greatest, it was absolutely
• 34:11
  wonderful. Awful.
• 34:12
  But like now looking back, like I think I was so focused on that
• 34:16
  because I was such a huge Dave goals fan and Gonzo fan that
• 34:20
  like what? But when I go back and look at
• 34:21
  it, like the whole of the whole Comedians a bear bit with Fozzie
• 34:32
  like that. Like, that blows my mind.
• 34:34
  Like, I can't believe I got to do this, like, Vaudeville bit
• 34:37
  with Fonzie, and with Ozzy, and like the Swedish Chef bit.
• 34:41
  Like, there's just so many famous things pigs in space like
• 34:44
  that. Like, SNL used to afford me.
• 34:47
  This this, this Niche that I would get to scratch which is
• 34:51
  like, hey, this week, your get to be in a Madman Sketcher.
• 34:54
  Hey, this week, you get to be in a Star Wars sketch or something
• 34:57
  that you love or like a lord of the Sketch and you get to jump
• 35:00
  into these worlds that you adore.
• 35:03
  And that was that. Was that like?
• 35:05
  It was insane. Yeah, that's it.
• 35:12
  I would love to ask you more about about, like, your own
• 35:16
  fandom and like, you know, like nowadays, especially now that
• 35:19
  you have a kid, is this something that you still revisit
• 35:23
  a lot? Do you like, put on The Muppet
• 35:24
  Show or the movies? If, so, like what are, what are
• 35:27
  some of the ones that kind of make the play over and over
• 35:29
  again for you? Yeah, it's interesting her like
• 35:33
  we, I have my garage is filled with Muppets full-size, Muppets
• 35:39
  and Mike. She knows them.
• 35:42
  She has the machine has, she's not surprised by like giant
• 35:46
  Muppets anymore, and, and like, but like her first introduction
• 35:51
  was Muppet Babies. The new one, the new Muppet
• 35:54
  Babies and great. And she loves it and it's
• 35:57
  fantastic. And like, that's how she got
• 35:59
  into it. And like when she first started
• 36:01
  Seeing the real Muppet. She was like, yeah, I want the
• 36:03
  cartoon like and it was, it was interesting, but I also didn't
• 36:07
  want to force it on her, but now whenever she sees Muppet stuff,
• 36:13
  she loves it. She how can she not?
• 36:16
  She grew up on Sesame Street, like she knows all about it.
• 36:20
  She's a She was a big fan of Elmo because Elmo had a goldfish
• 36:26
  named Dorothy which is her name. So she was have you have you
• 36:30
  shown her honey? This is me on Sesame Street.
• 36:34
  Look, I think she saw. I think like it came on TV once
• 36:40
  and she saw it, but I don't think she was young enough to
• 36:42
  understand what was happening and I think now she just that's
• 36:45
  when you come back out with the hat on and be like, yeah, yeah,
• 36:49
  well, I guess you don't. You don't think I have that?
• 36:51
  Once a week, running around this house.
• 36:59
  Yes, exactly. Do you have?
• 37:07
  Do you have like a be all end all like greatest mother
• 37:09
  production of all time for you personally like some people it's
• 37:13
  the movies or it's the Muppet Show or like one specific
• 37:17
  episode of a TV show like a thing that I love.
• 37:22
  What like like your absolute favorite, your favorite like
• 37:25
  that? You had to boil down here, to
• 37:27
  show someone like, like a, like, a muppet production of the has
• 37:30
  never heard of The Muppets before, you know, what would you
• 37:32
  be showing them? Oh, I think like, you guy mean
• 37:36
  like, it might be great Muppet. Caper some maybe that Christmas
• 37:42
  Eve on sick. If I like if I gotta keep one
• 37:45
  thing and the only thing I can keep Muppets, I can only keep
• 37:48
  one thing. I keep John Denver in The
• 37:50
  Muppets Christmas. Um, that's oh yeah.
• 37:53
  Well and I think that's it. Anything Gonzo, Gonzo singing,
• 37:59
  I'm going to go back there. Some days, the greatest /
• 38:03
  saddest moment in cinematic. History, did you did you get to
• 38:09
  talk to Paul Williams about that?
• 38:10
  When, when you were both of the Hollywood Bowl show?
• 38:13
  I not about that moment. I talked to him about going
• 38:16
  golfing, he talked about going golfing, we never did, but he
• 38:20
  was so kind. And so Wonderful and so nice but
• 38:25
  we he is the nicest. We did make plans to go golfing
• 38:28
  and then never did and I don't golf.
• 38:30
  I mean, you've reminded me He seemed really, really invited me
• 38:34
  golfing once. And I was like it does fall
• 38:37
  under never wanted to know how to golf more than that in this
• 38:41
  moment right now, like it killed me inside that I had to say I
• 38:45
  wanted to Surf you just can I just hold the club's?
• 38:47
  I don't know. He just sized up Muppet fans, 20
• 38:52
  years ago and he's like, I know, none of these nerds play golf
• 38:55
  and I'm just going to ask him so I can get away with it every
• 38:58
  way. So I look like the good guy.
• 38:59
  He said to me, what you do. It worked, we interviewed him
• 39:03
  and he said he is a muppet. He is a muppet by the way.
• 39:06
  I'm convinced yeah, I'm interviewed him for this podcast
• 39:10
  a couple of years ago, and he said, oh, I'm in Australia all
• 39:13
  the time. I'll will go out and have dinner
• 39:16
  and I was like, yep. Great.
• 39:17
  And then he's emailed me about something else.
• 39:20
  Not long ago. He goes.
• 39:21
  I haven't forgotten. We're gonna go after dinner, and
• 39:22
  I'm necessarily. And I'm like, yep, great.
• 39:24
  He's never coming to Australia again.
• 39:26
  He's never getting, he's never gonna call me back.
• 39:29
  Let's have dinner. Have a good for him.
• 39:32
  For have little. Did he know there was gonna be a
• 39:35
  podcast or three guys. We're gonna come against Paul
• 39:38
  Williams one day, but it finally, I will say, on my way,
• 39:42
  we can't get mad at him. You know?
• 39:44
  How could you on my way to the O2 shows in London?
• 39:51
  I was standing at customs and like I had like some sort of
• 39:57
  priority like because it's like a Muppets thing.
• 40:00
  They hire someone to travel, you know, the thing with you but
• 40:05
  ever and I end up on this line and it's just me and another guy
• 40:09
  and the other guy is Mel Brooks. Oh, and I'm like, what?
• 40:17
  What Mel, Brooks turns to me? I have, I don't think I'm Mel
• 40:22
  Brooks. He's like Moynihan, what we're
• 40:23
  doing. What are you doing?
• 40:24
  Where are you going? I'm like - well, what are you
• 40:27
  talking about? I don't know what to say.
• 40:31
  So I go. I'm going to work with the
• 40:33
  Muppets and one that he's like, tells are the Muppets.
• 40:35
  I used to work with the Muppet, still Kermit.
• 40:37
  I said hi, funniest thing I've ever heard in my life.
• 40:40
  I end up talking to Mel Brooks for 25 minutes.
• 40:43
  Customs about the Muppets it. Wow, that's a real pinch me
• 40:47
  moment. Yeah, it was nice.
• 40:50
  That's something like a fever dream.
• 40:51
  Are you sure that happened? Super jet-lagged.
• 40:57
  No, I wish I wish, you know, he's the, he's the kindest.
• 41:01
  He I met him. I had met him once before at the
• 41:03
  Emmys and like, it's, he's like one of those guys like Martin
• 41:08
  Short, where you just go. How are you?
• 41:09
  How, where do you have this energy from?
• 41:11
  I'm 45. Mm.
• 41:12
  Yeah, I want to die. I'm 33 and I'm tired.
• 41:17
  I'm tired. All the time Bobby.
• 41:18
  Here's Mel, Brooks. Didn't Martin shun 40.
• 41:22
  I'm fine. Yeah, yeah.
• 41:24
  You pick up. It'll wake up in three years.
• 41:27
  No, I'm just caffeinate. Engaging like all day long.
• 41:32
  It's all I do is I just inject coffee directly into my
• 41:35
  eyeballs. So Bobby, you've already hosted
• 41:41
  The Muppet Show, which I think, for a lot of people myself
• 41:43
  included would be kind of the Apex of anyone's career.
• 41:49
  But do you have ideas for other mother projects that you would
• 41:53
  like to do? Of course, I mean a million.
• 41:56
  Yeah. My mom talked about a few of
• 41:59
  them are, do you like keeping to yourself?
• 42:01
  I mean, I should put them all out there just because like, at
• 42:03
  this point, I really wanted Mike like my dream right now is to do
• 42:07
  a butt like a butt like Fast and the Furious Style movie with me
• 42:12
  and Gonzo, it's brothers. And, and just do like a fast and
• 42:17
  the furious Style movie with the Muppets and just like super fast
• 42:20
  cars with super big action like a big bass in A furious style
• 42:25
  action movie with the Muppets is my dream right now like that.
• 42:29
  Both of those franchises are all about family, so there you go.
• 42:32
  You're halfway there. Yeah.
• 42:34
  And I don't understand why I like Muppet Babies style like
• 42:38
  like, they would always be like, look, The Muppets in Star Wars
• 42:42
  or the Muppets in this. And I'm like, I don't understand
• 42:44
  why they don't just make those movies like every good movie.
• 42:47
  Just be remaking again with the Muppets.
• 42:51
  I don't know. They say, every Gonna Wanna Make
• 42:53
  it better. With Muppet.
• 42:55
  Yeah, just make it but them up, make it again with the Muppets
• 42:57
  and that's it. Yeah.
• 43:00
  I'm actually genuinely surprised that they haven't done like a
• 43:03
  muppet Star Wars film. Like it's all under the Disney
• 43:06
  umbrella. Like everyone loves pixels ass.
• 43:08
  Like I do imagine it coming. Back in back in the day when
• 43:13
  like Mark Hamill was on the show and like Gonzo was Darth Vader.
• 43:17
  Like that was like the big. That was the greatest day.
• 43:19
  Heather did it. And Mark Hamill still loves The
• 43:22
  Muppets. Like he tweets about them all
• 43:23
  the time. Like there's like he would do it
• 43:25
  in a heartbeat. I think it's time.
• 43:27
  All right. So if they make Marcus towels,
• 43:30
  who are you gonna play Bobby? Wow.
• 43:36
  I would like to play some sort of new characters, some sort of
• 43:40
  alien Beast or something. I don't know.
• 43:42
  You want to be an alien. Not not like a Jedi or like a
• 43:45
  Han Solo Rogue type. You want to you want to put on
• 43:47
  some Prosthetics? Yeah yeah I think I want to go
• 43:51
  full great Papa. Fulfill something for weird
• 43:55
  right we'll pick you all out full Java sounds a little
• 43:58
  uncomfortable. I don't know about that one.
• 43:59
  I disagree, I disagree. I would love to be a little slug
• 44:02
  man. Honestly, I am just be carried
• 44:07
  around on the biggest want to be inside a puppet and
• 44:10
  uncomfortable for like in the desert to that.
• 44:18
  Yeah. That's the dream.
• 44:19
  Right? And experience better ass off
• 44:22
  inside a plastic, you mentioned for the art nature cat before
• 44:27
  which for people who don't know, is David Friedman and his
• 44:31
  brother Adam created. Do you work much?
• 44:35
  I'd like to. I don't know if that shows still
• 44:37
  going. Yes, though.
• 44:40
  Yeah, yeah. Do you work much with David?
• 44:44
  Yeah. Yeah, but yeah, but whenever I
• 44:48
  record, I record with either of the brothers, either, either one
• 44:52
  of them are both. Yeah.
• 44:55
  Usually every time so when you're, you know, when you might
• 44:58
  be recording, I you, you know, do a taken thing.
• 45:02
  I remember that one time in that one sketch that we did or hey,
• 45:07
  you remember that one time when you did that one thing, or are
• 45:09
  you just sort of like, no, I have to be professional here.
• 45:11
  I have to just do my lines. Now with Dave with David now, I
• 45:16
  think Like we've worked together long enough.
• 45:18
  It's been a couple years that I'm like, please, I'm like, my
• 45:21
  only thing is like, I'm like, please just, don't make me sing.
• 45:24
  Okay, nature cat is, there's a lot of songs and it and I'm just
• 45:28
  at my wife is a Broadway singer. And I now hate the sound of my
• 45:33
  own singing voice. So I just beg him to not.
• 45:36
  Let me sing. How'd the dog that I play on
• 45:39
  nature, cat? In all the songs in like season
• 45:43
  three and four just starts going like, yep.
• 45:46
  You got it. A lot of tags at the end of
• 45:52
  lines. That's fun.
• 45:55
  Yeah good. So all right we'll take out the
• 45:57
  musical number that we usually end this podcast with thank you.
• 46:01
  I appreciate your. It's going to you're going to do
• 46:02
  better. Yeah.
• 46:03
  Right. You know what?
• 46:04
  We'll leave the musical number in but we just need you to chime
• 46:07
  in at the end and just go. Yep.
• 46:09
  Yeah that I gonna do does and in the okay.
• 46:17
  You know, you've having worked with the Muppets at the
• 46:20
  Hollywood Bowl in the O2 and at Sesame Street, like, you were on
• 46:23
  the street, I feel like you kind of, like, covered the gamut of
• 46:26
  working with with, like, core characters.
• 46:28
  But is there a character, whether it's a core character,
• 46:32
  or like an obscure one that you've always wanted to work
• 46:35
  with that? You just haven't had the chance
• 46:36
  yet. We'll see that's like too big to
• 46:40
  be honest, like no. Like that's the weird thing is
• 46:42
  like When I did Sesame Street, I was in a, I was in stuff with
• 46:48
  like Telly and like that was it a?
• 46:52
  But, but like, I don't know if I was just lucky or if they were
• 46:57
  had a slow day, but there were people around that were like,
• 47:00
  you got a minute you and like, they would open up a closet and
• 47:03
  like all of us, like, open up, not a closet, but like these
• 47:06
  special made bins that they have.
• 47:09
  And all of a sudden, it's all of Sesame Street.
• 47:13
  Like, you know, it's We character, and you're just like
• 47:16
  what? And and I got to like, see that
• 47:19
  and hang out, like I got like a great deal of time with with,
• 47:23
  with, with them. And then, then at the at the O2
• 47:27
  thing, it's like, you know, you have a 12-hour rehearsal and
• 47:31
  you're sitting backstage with every single Muppet and like
• 47:36
  some of them like five different versions or 12 different
• 47:39
  versions. Like there's 12 different
• 47:41
  versions of piggy, because of all of her out.
• 47:44
  Outfits in her hair cuts and like stuff and like, there's the
• 47:47
  Kermit, the half, Kermit the full body Kermit, the Kermit
• 47:51
  that can play the banjo the Kermit that like and like, it's
• 47:54
  you just go, like, holding this is the best I can.
• 47:59
  It was it's so like no II. Like I got to see like all of
• 48:04
  them on that, like, every single Muppet I got to work with on
• 48:08
  that tour and then like maybe like Fraggle Rock and like,
• 48:11
  stuff like that, I haven't gotten to see up close.
• 48:15
  But like it's built on. Yeah, that's built on.
• 48:18
  Yeah, wimbley has faced a web well and I appreciate no, that's
• 48:23
  a good answer but I got better appreciate that for you.
• 48:25
  It's so much more about like having a moment with the
• 48:28
  characters as opposed to like, no, no, I want to be in a sketch
• 48:30
  that's on television that a 8 million people see.
• 48:34
  Like, it's not about that. It's about like, no, no.
• 48:37
  This character means a lot to me.
• 48:38
  And I got to like, you know, say hello to Lou Zealand or I got to
• 48:42
  like, you know, yeah, it's a good photo of Fozzie Bear, or
• 48:44
  what Ever yeah yeah but also like even just like for me it
• 48:48
  was like the honor of like being able to like inspect them up
• 48:52
  close and just look at it. You just go like damn, these
• 48:54
  things are beautiful. Like somebody made these like
• 48:57
  this thing cost. 50 Grand, we get something beautiful.
• 49:01
  Like, it's a real crazy art and like they make these things come
• 49:07
  alive, and it's really beautiful.
• 49:10
  Yeah. Did you did you steal anything
• 49:14
  from the the Hollywood Bowl show for the audition?
• 49:18
  No, no, I would never. I would never.
• 49:20
  I also like I think they saw that coming.
• 49:22
  A mile away. They were like, don't even try
• 49:24
  it, but they did give me some stuff.
• 49:27
  They gave me some like a couple thoughts Williams.
• 49:30
  He's just sitting in your garage.
• 49:32
  I wish I wish. I wish know.
• 49:36
  Like, like I got to keep like a bunch of Props and stuff like, a
• 49:41
  couple like Fozzie had, like, there was like, the bit I did
• 49:44
  with Fozzie and he had his first record and like they had these
• 49:47
  Breakaway records that would snap in half, like, I have a
• 49:50
  bunch of those like, but like nothing.
• 49:54
  I didn't get to like, that's okay.
• 49:55
  I don't have like a. Yeah, I don't have Piggies foot
• 49:57
  or anything or if you did. You're not going to reveal it on
• 50:03
  the podcast. If I could have stolen anything,
• 50:05
  I would have stolen the doctor strange version of that, was a
• 50:10
  good one. Oh, how cool is it?
• 50:12
  Like a god? Gonzo and like a genie outfit
• 50:15
  floating and I was like, definitely.
• 50:16
  Like that's the one that's that's the that thing is
• 50:18
  beautiful. What I really would have liked
• 50:20
  him to have made which obviously, we're never going to
• 50:23
  work. Was maybe, dr.
• 50:25
  Strange board macduff French Port.
• 50:27
  Well, talking about pigs in space, is, I would have liked
• 50:30
  it. They'd made a little like
• 50:31
  figurines of all the Muppets as the various doctors from the
• 50:35
  Doctor Who part when they all regenerate, right?
• 50:38
  Because I want a little Little Walter with The Fez.
• 50:42
  The bow tie, the little Matt Smith dr.
• 50:44
  I was like, I'm really upset than ever made those I think
• 50:48
  well now with 3D printing. I think you can just simply go
• 50:50
  to write books, you can do it. All right.
• 50:53
  I'll get on it. Joe.
• 50:55
  Anything else before we eat? We need Disney to buy.
• 50:58
  We need just need to buy the Doctor Who for I mean didn't
• 51:01
  they just do that the same feel like well yeah yeah sure.
• 51:08
  They they're all talking about get there.
• 51:10
  Here's the thing is like I just want Disney to my complaint
• 51:13
  about this in every every podcast I ever do.
• 51:15
  I just want to see you make more mother Merchandise.
• 51:17
  So I'm always coming with it with bad ideas, for them of
• 51:21
  things that I want to buy and that's one of the, or on Disney
• 51:24
  up in on this area. Very obscure.
• 51:26
  Yeah, it seems like I'm blanking on the name of the woman in
• 51:31
  charge now but it seems like she's going in a fantastically
• 51:34
  threatened with yes lovely Slaughter and Lee a meteor hits
• 51:41
  the fan sites which is great for us.
• 51:43
  Yeah we're good we're very grateful and like that.
• 51:47
  Name. Well, you said before that, you
• 51:48
  know, they're very much a family.
• 51:50
  She has said to us multiple time.
• 51:52
  Now, you guys are part of the family and so she's really made
• 51:55
  us feel included. That's awesome.
• 51:57
  That makes me happy. She sounds great, and that's who
• 51:59
  they need in charge are fleeing, right?
• 52:01
  And she's a fan to, which is what we want.
• 52:04
  We want someone who likes the Muppets and wants to see fun
• 52:07
  Muppet things come out of, the Muppets department is also in
• 52:10
  charge of what the Muppets are making.
• 52:12
  So that seems like a good love her.
• 52:14
  Well, it came, I mean, Example, is the Muppet Show and Disney
• 52:19
  plus, she got in charge and said, why isn't the muppet show
• 52:22
  on Disney plus yet? And they said, I could we have
• 52:24
  to do a bunch of stuff with like music rocks.
• 52:26
  She went where Disney go and do it and they went.
• 52:30
  Oh, okay. And she's like, let's just
• 52:31
  actually get it done. People want it, let's give it to
• 52:34
  them. And so soon as I should tell me
• 52:36
  that story. I was like, ah, I think I'm in
• 52:38
  love. Just like the perfect person and
• 52:40
  a and again, she's a fellow Aussie, so I'm happy we're gonna
• 52:45
  take over. And, and you all know each other
• 52:49
  over there. I mean, well, that's funny.
• 52:51
  She told me she's to live, like, 15 minutes that way.
• 52:54
  So we could have, that's crazy Bobby.
• 52:59
  We usually wrap up with with a set of questions, I have my own
• 53:04
  Joe has his own. As I brought you one, I'll be
• 53:08
  giving you mine, just click as you.
• 53:10
  Like just answer as you wish. What is the food that you hate?
• 53:16
  Beats. Oh, I love Bates.
• 53:20
  I hate, enjoy be okay. Okay, we'll take your tickets,
• 53:24
  that's fine. I came home, one night and my
• 53:27
  20s in my and thinking might get my dad.
• 53:30
  Had put like a bunch of beets with pasta, and I thought it was
• 53:34
  pasta with marinara and I ate it and it was the most disgusting
• 53:37
  thing I've ever had my life and I'm never have, I still don't
• 53:40
  know why he made out how to do it.
• 53:42
  What if they tell you? You can only, we could.
• 53:45
  What if they tell you, you can only work at the muppets again,
• 53:47
  if you ate a whole bowl of Bates, I would do it.
• 53:52
  I thought so everyone has their price that's the correct answer.
• 53:55
  Just it's just it's just a bowl of bean and that's right.
• 53:59
  What is your go-to karaoke song? Oh, not not those this this,
• 54:05
  whatever the shortest song in the world, I will say back in
• 54:11
  the day when I was fun. I would do Come Sail Away by
• 54:16
  state by Sticks, but as Eric Cartman.
• 54:19
  Yeah, great. Oh, yeah.
• 54:21
  And nowadays ever, Andre and nowadays, you just let the song,
• 54:24
  play the music play, and then again, go.
• 54:26
  Yeah. Yeah, I like or I just pretend
• 54:30
  my mic doesn't work. Start tapping it and then sit
• 54:32
  down. What is the sound of one hand
• 54:35
  clapping? All that is bright.
• 54:40
  That's it, that noise. We figured it out.
• 54:42
  I know it's unsettling. Yes, very much.
• 54:46
  So I don't really get here. That was good.
• 54:49
  Pick a number between one and two hundred fifty. 19:19.
• 54:53
  All right I have a list of 250 questions.
• 54:56
  He number 19 is which meal is your favorite breakfast, lunch
• 55:00
  or dinner? Dinner.
• 55:05
  Good choice. What you go to, what's your
• 55:07
  favorite deer? Which favorite meal?
• 55:11
  Chinese food or right? Choice.
• 55:14
  They be cheeseburger. Yeah.
• 55:17
  Now I'm just now. I'm just hungry.
• 55:19
  Yeah. Anything without beats?
• 55:21
  Yeah? Yeah.
• 55:22
  Anything beatless in our last episode, our last guest a bit.
• 55:28
  Nicole Brown. Not knowing who I guess was
• 55:30
  going. Yeah, wanted us to ask you, what
• 55:32
  is your favorite Muppet song? Oh, I love her.
• 55:37
  Um, at stake. The second you said that the
• 55:43
  first thing they can well, it's that Gonzo song is like my
• 55:46
  favorite. I just love, Gonzo like that
• 55:48
  song. Happiness Hotel is like a, my
• 55:50
  favorite. It's like my favorite thing in
• 55:52
  the world, my daughter. Just sang it at, like, their
• 55:54
  kindergarten thing. I couldn't believe it was the
• 55:56
  most beautiful thing in the world, but I think it's can you
• 56:00
  picture that? I think it might be.
• 56:01
  Can you picture that the second you said that song?
• 56:04
  That's the first thing that comes to mind.
• 56:05
  It's fantastic, Electric Mayhem all the way.
• 56:09
  Next is the first thing that you pictured was.
• 56:10
  Can you picture that? Yes.
• 56:11
  Could exactly correct. And finally with that knowing
• 56:15
  who it is, what question would you like am next guest to
• 56:18
  answer? Um, oh boy.
• 56:23
  That's a lot of. Okay?
• 56:26
  If they could, if they could cast any movie with the Muppets,
• 56:33
  recast any movie with the Muppets, what would it be?
• 56:37
  I love it. That's a great question.
• 56:40
  Yep. Bobby.
• 56:42
  I can't. Thank you, enough.
• 56:43
  This is genuinely, like, I've all remember the first time I
• 56:47
  saw drunk uncle many, many years ago, and I just immediately
• 56:50
  went. I don't know who this guy is,
• 56:51
  but I love him. Thank you.
• 56:54
  And then, and then honestly, you'd be in the top five SNL
• 56:58
  cast members for me of all time. And I'm so glad you got to do
• 57:06
  all this Market stuff, and I'm so glad you're part of Family
• 57:08
  and I'm so glad I got to talk to you, so thank you.
• 57:12
  Thanks man, same here. That's why I did it II,
• 57:16
  appreciate it. And I appreciate fellow fan.
• 57:19
  Yes, and thank you for me as well.
• 57:21
  This has been such a joy to get to spend this time with you and
• 57:24
  to talk to you and geek out where you about Muppets.
• 57:26
  And, you know, we I made a list of long time ago of like people
• 57:31
  who I really wanted to interview that.
• 57:33
  Like I know for a fact like I could tell because of the way
• 57:36
  they talk about it interviews or Or way they've worked with the
• 57:38
  Muppets. They'll like these are our
• 57:40
  celebrities who are like huge Muppet fans, and you have been
• 57:43
  very much at the top of that list for a long time.
• 57:45
  So, I'm glad we finally got this opportunity.
• 57:47
  So it's been a just such a treat, same here.
• 57:50
  That's the best absolute blast.