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  • apparently, when I want to apologize in advance.

  • But apparently you did a sketch for us many, many, many years ago when you were struggling.

  • Actor, is that right?

  • Yeah, it was was one of my first jobs.

  • Okay, this is in New York on the old late night show.

  • Yes, The old show.

  • Yeah.

  • You were there.

  • I was there.

  • Yeah, well, you weren't there when we shot the the actual skill.

  • Say I wasn't there.

  • Yeah, yeah, yeah, I went away.

  • I want to wait for a while.

  • No, no, no.

  • He was saying that when you when you shot the sketch, uh, rehearsal you were probably not there.

  • You always came in at the last second drunk out of your mind.

  • That's why I went away for a few.

  • Uh, what was the sketch?

  • Well, apparently you it was a running gag that you guys used to do Where?

  • Um it was right at the advent of satellite TV.

  • That's all.

  • Mold.

  • That's a long trust me.

  • I know you make fun of the wheel when it first came out.

  • Yeah, sometime in the mid nineties.

  • And the gag was that there was all these new channels that were coming out.

  • And I think it was around the time of it, I believe, like TLC and come out and, um right, the cooking channel, the Food channel.

  • When we do arbitrary little remember this we would do arbitrary like, Oh, there's another cable channel and would be something really specific and really stupid and off.

  • Yes, And then it would you would hit the remote and then would blip around and my channel waas masturbating teen And I remember getting the call getting your call I love how I love how you made it sound like you've just been made a supreme court.

  • Well, you when you're a struggling actor in New York, any tapped me?

  • Yeah.

  • The Conan O'Brien show calls and says you're the one, kid.

  • I said, All right, where do I masturbate?

  • And so I get there and and I remember shooting it, and they're like, OK, so no way you people disappointment as a group, you really, really disappointed.

  • Go ahead.

  • So I remember in the director was like, Okay, so get underneath the covers.

  • I'm like, all right.

  • And what will happen is that we're gonna pretend we're gonna whip the camera around.

  • We're gonna pretend like we're your mom walking in.

  • Hammer's your mom?

  • Yes.

  • And you're supposed to say, Mom, what are you doing?

  • Get out of here.

  • Yeah, right.

  • And then it turns out that you're the mom, right?

  • And I remember sitting there as this is happening pretending to masturbate underneath this comforter and thinking Who were the other adults in charge of this?

  • Are there grown people that think that this is going to get on the air?

  • Because I don't think that it is right.

  • And luckily, and I get I went through the process and luckily, better taste prevailed and it did not make the cut.

  • It probably didn't that night, but I'm sure we used it.

  • It's out there somewhere.

  • Let's know we used to.

  • We used to cut some things, but not because it was in poor taste.

  • That was probably not the reason it that it was probably there was a technical problem.

  • I'd love to say that.

  • Oh, no, our bar was too high for that.

  • But absolutely not.

  • Absolutely not.

  • Yeah.

  • I remember thinking like, I'm not gonna tell anybody about this and was one of my first jobs And you usually excited like Hey, Mom, Dad, watch me on TV.

  • And I was like, Well, just Oh, yeah.

  • How do you think I felt with my parents?

  • I was hosting that.

  • It was very hard for me to say, I don't know what's going on on that program.

  • I have no control on The Conan Show.

apparently, when I want to apologize in advance.

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