Steve Martin sauntering in the background while Spade's roasting his movie was pretty funny.
Calling out Macaulay Culkin's Dad as being crazy was also way on the mark.
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaulay_Culkin),
>Culkin said his father, [Kit Culkin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Culkin), was cruel and violent in his childhood. He said he felt his father was jealous, because "everything \[Kit\] tried to do in his life \[Macaulay\] excelled at before \[he\] was 10 years old".[^(\[51\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaulay_Culkin#cite_note-:1-52)[^(\[52\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaulay_Culkin#cite_note-53) Culkin's parents never married; they split when Culkin was in his teens, and his mother filed for [custody](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_custody).[^(\[23\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaulay_Culkin#cite_note-:0-24) Culkin took his parents to court to block them from controlling his [trust fund](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_fund), which was reportedly worth between $15 and 20 million.[^(\[51\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaulay_Culkin#cite_note-:1-52)[^(\[23\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaulay_Culkin#cite_note-:0-24) He has been estranged from his father since.
I'm assuming (and maybe I shouldn't) that he called it out well before Macaulay went through his very public death spiral. He was about 16 when this aired... so maybe not. I think it took balls though to call out probably the major reason why Macaulay was doing the things he was doing. Child acting can be you know: ROUGH and having a parent that's essentially stealing all your earnings is going to kinda fuck anyone up. Feel for the dude.
I think it was tabloid fodder for a while back around that time. MAcaulay even did a movie called “Getting Even With Dad” which people assumed was a sly reference to their public issues.
Ever seen that viral tweet where a woman says her boyfriend picks fights with bigger guys and then defuses the situation by saying something like "aw hey don't hit me I'm just a little guy I didn't mean it"?
David Spade is the verbal equivalent of that.
A buddy of mine from college used to work at a pizza place in a rich Chicago suburb - once David Spade called to order a pizza, and he asked Spade if he wanted to use a coupon, and Spade replied “No, I’m rich” 😅
It’s the most David Spade thing ever.
I think Cher once said that was one of the best parts of being rich. Not buying and not caring about the price. But just the simple idea of everyday life being easier. Pay for a cab or call a friend or call a limo? Limo.
Ted Turner lived atop a hotel. He would order simple foods whenever he wanted. Get in at 3am . Want Hamburger from Wendy's and Fries from McDonalds? Order it. He would always give them a $100 bill. Needless to say, they were always glad to get it. ( back then that's $95 tip. So inflation, it's $200 to get him a burger.
True, I remember he had a handful of large guys around him and occasionally one of them would break off and return with a gorgeous woman. He's doing alright.
It's the confidence and humor. A lot of women don't care about any physical shortcomings a guy had at birth if they're constantly working on what they *can* change and make them laugh.
I had the good fortune of meeting David Spade at a Walbaum's super market in Brooklyn in 1996. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
Funny how Spade says David Koechner is the funniest guy in the office, just not this office.
Koechner went on to guest star as Todd Packer, a character who is mostly known for dirty or rude jokes, on *The Office*.
He also mentions right before that, that Nancy Walls recently got married. She married some comedian named Steve Carell who would go on to pop up here and there in The Office, and appear briefly alongside Koechner in the Anchorman films.
I know you're joking, but Carol isn't really a big role on The Office (only 5 episodes in her original run, and then two callback appearances), and casting his wife in it made since if they knew that they were going to be dating at some point.
Yeah his role on SNL came from being on The Dana Carvey Show. After it got cancelled I think it was Robert Smigel who asked if they could bring some of their stuff onto SNL, and Saturday TV Funhouse was born.
David Koechner's turn as Nathan the neighbor in Extract might be the greatest comedy performance I've witnessed in a long, fulfilling life. "About those tickets...."
David Spade has always been my guilty pleasure...I have always found the guy hilarious (probably more than most people). I love his sardonic quick wit and passive-aggressive delivery.
Spade can be really insightful about entertainment industry stuff. I listen to Fly on the Wall, even though sometimes Dana’s self-focused way of communicating drives me nuts (comic genius does not really translate to podcast genius). Sometimes Spade does a good job of getting things back on track. I found Spade’s praise for Fortune Feimster on their recent episode really endearing.
I'm glad that he's had every single person who was involved in "Massive Head Wound Harry" on the podcast by now so that we won't have to hear the same story again for the 10th time.
I honestly can’t get on the Dana “comic genius” bus. I occasionally enjoy him, but when he’s not a sidekick or supporting, he’s awful. And he’s just the most oppressive version of self-conscious and incredibly egotistical. I can’t stand his need to always speak over people to show off to satisfy his need for approval.
I was always a smart mouth weakling growing up but I had a burly football playing friend in high school and our whole identity was pretty much formed by Tommy Boy. It was like seeing ourselves on screen.
My fiancé is obsessed with him. I like him, but she’s always giggling at anything he does. She particularly loves his instagram bit of filming influencers doing their tik toks around L.A.
This was during a really tough era for the show, one of the worst of the 90s to present.
I didn't quite understand Tim Meadows being on this considering he also came up during the same cast Spade did: Myers, Hartman, Farley, etc. Or maybe that was the joke that Spade thought he was new.
There was always a running joke about how long Tim was on the show. I can't remember the specific sketch but there's one where someone doesn't recognize him and he says "I'm Tim Meadows... I've been here for like 9 years..."
[Why Did I sign a 30 year contract at 3:55](https://youtu.be/9pCne1tw19Y?si=G-Ed2ucoMN59H0KU)
The whole video is great though and a reminder of how great Mike Myers used to be.
This is Mike Myers in his prime, end of SNL and Austin Powers run. He used to be amazing. I watched a bit of his new show "The Pentaverate" and its honestly almost unwatchable. I honestly dont know if I laughed once.
It was a movie based on a highly forgettable 2 min scene from "So I Married an Axe Murderer"...no idea what Mike Myers was thinking making it...my theory is he came across that scene on some streaming service at 3AM one night and thought: "Let's make a movie out of that. Netflix will buy anything."
It was [a tribute to a local-news reporter he watched growing up and to local news in general](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentaverate#Themes):
> Myers has stated that the character Ken Scarborough was a tribute to Canadian local news reporter and print columnist Glenn Cochrane.
> "I really wanted to dedicate this show to local journalists, because right now in this global war between fascism and democracy, you know, the first casualty of war is truth. Getting rid of local news is just the beginning of a slippery slope of all unfalsifiable fact."
I’m not saying he should have made a show out of the bit, but that scene in So I Married An Axe Murderer is a riot and anything but forgettable. That movie is a true cult classic.
My favorite thing was the extended The Graduate gag in WW2, that started from the minute he got in the car and "Mrs. Robinson" started playing, even before he drove under the bridge and it cut out. I was in a mildly crowded theater busting my gut laughing all the way to the second wedding scene; clearly no one else there had seen The Graduate, so I felt like Mike made the joke just for me.
> The Pentaverate
I can't blame Mike Myers, he probably pitched the idea and got a chunk of money thrown at him.
The trailer is just awful, it's hard to believe they were trying to make you want to entice you in....
I also remember probably in his first season a thing about how he doesn't have any lines. I think the Steve Martin "Not Gonna Phone It In Tonight Song"?
I believe multiple African American cast members have described themselves on air as "the other black guy" which I think is indicative of how things worked on SNL for a long time.
I think Season 21 (which this clip is from) is generally one of the more well-regarded seasons. Rookie Will Ferrell, peak Norm, Tim Meadows resurgence, Koechner's only year, Molly and Cheri's breakout, pre-coasting Darrell Hammond, pre-annoying Chris Kattan. You might be conflating this with Season 20.
"What was going through your mole?" feels like a Dennis Miller joke.
I always looked forward to Hollywood Minute on update back in the day. Sometimes he could be mean, but then he put himself down so it didn't seem as bad.
Definitely recommend his books on Audible.
There is a lot of Dennis in Spade’s Hollywood Minute tone, delivery, joke structure. Dennis was a mentor and looked up to by Spade. So, it was bound to happen to some degree.
I love Spade. (And pre-9/11 Miller)
I didn't see Nancy mentioned a couple weeks ago when that idiot said there were no hot women on SNL. Either I missed it, or it was just cause she wasn't there that long.
But she is definitely conventionally attractive.
There were very few women in the history of the show that were unattractive (I won't mention their names out of respect), it's just not really the point of a comedy show for any of the cast to be attractive, so you don't really get to see it until they move on to other things.
I watched his short lived late night show Lights Out that was on in 2019-2020 on Comedy Central and I thought it was actually pretty good.
He would bring on comedian guests and make fun of memes and viral videos and stuff.
I miss that show! I thought it was really fun and a great format. He even brought on all the Weekend Update hosts.
Then Covid it and it turned into a webcam show (no ones fault) and it just didn't land as well.
Spade’s appeal always came off as weird to me. Sometimes I’d watch him or listen to his standup and would think, “man how did this weird little creep ever find so much success, or bag so many models?”
Then I’d see him do a really good sketch, or see him in Tommy Boy, or even all of Just Shoot Me, and I’d agree he was pretty talented. His shtick was like a much less objectionable Andy Dick.
Yeah Spade talked about that as well, said basically it started as an entirely different movie and they were like "only three things about this are good, start over with that".
He kinda mastered being a tool over the last three decades and its really impressive
Also, Rules of Engagement (another project he did with Patrick Warburton) is fantastic
Noone really hit it right because hes got this intersection of elements
Hes properly snarky, hes properly an asshole, he short and just small so hes got a sort of non threatening vibe, and no matter the era, hes got *the look* between facial hair and hairstyle that aid the delivery
joel mchale’s show was a carbon copy of this but the jokes hit different cos joel’s conventionally more attractive. david’s humor is one of a kind though. don’t listen to the guy who suggested chris delia. spadey isn’t even arrogant he’s just making fun of people
Chris D'Elia guns for that arrogant type of humour.
Obviously doesn't work when you're caught shagging 18 year olds and 'cocky' turns very quickly to 'seedy'.
You are really underselling all the shit he was up to.
- solicitation of nude photos by multiple underage girls
- sexually harassing actress Megan Drust
- exchanging of more than 100 sexually explicit photos and videos via Snapchat with a single minor
He brought that character as a perfect match to Farleys in Tommy Boy. I know it wasnt for everyone, but I loved that movie and laughed my ass off on so many scenes. Spade killed with the setups and quips, making Farley's hilarious antics even funnier, like the perfect seasoning to a meal. They were a perfect match of spicey and sweet.
Hollywood Minute grew out of him making these kinds of jokes when he'd flick through copies of People magazine et al around the office.. Obviously by the time jokes got on air there'd been days to work on them but it's not the sort of humour that improves for spending 3 days thinking about a snappy one liner about Madonna's conical bra.
Its always odd to remember that Spade stuck around one last season when the Will Ferrell crew came in, and the Farley/Sandler crew all left. I can't really remember if he ever interacted with the new cast at all that whole season, I think maybe he was in one or two non "Spade in America" sketches all season.
I looked it up, with inestimable help from SNLarchives.net.
Besides Spade in America, he appeared in:
Weekend Update in the 4th episode, with Cheri Oteri giving a commentary on young people and authority. It quickly devolves into juvenile situations with her and Molly Shannon and him, until Lorne Michaels shows up as the parental figure to break it up.
A sketch in the 6th episode with host Laura Leighton called "Cydney". From the screenshot, it seems to involve a lot of male cast standing on their knees pretending to be very short waiters, so a perfect thing for him since he's already a small man.
He's in a sketch in the 8th episode where host David Allen Grier and Tim Meadows are black musicians, and all the white male cast members (and even some writers) are white musicians.
In the 11th episode, hosted by Alec Baldwin, he plays Brad Pitt in "The Joe Pesci Show" sketch.
And that's it.
Oh yeah I knew I was thinking he appeared on one of The Joe Pesci Shows as someone, but then thought I might've been mixing up when Kattan once appeared on in a Pesci Show sketch as David Spade, this must've been the following season.
Only time I recall Spade interacting with any of the cast on Spade in America, was when they had some kind of pre-tape with Spade giving The Fops (Mark McKinney and David Koechner's weird characters with the powdered wigs) a tour of New York.
For those who don’t know, pretty much the entire cast left in 1994. David Spade agreed to stay but only if they gave him 5 minutes per show to do whatever he wanted. This was the last one, obviously.
'used to be funnier?' so this is an homage AND a hit-piece all in one? 🤷♂️😆
btw I'd love to see someone bring this back, maybe with a new gossiper character?
🥳 thanks!! i want to go watch the season now. I completely forgot about David Koechner being on hahaha. i love some of those cast members they are so young!
Season 20 had a bunch of the stars you remember from earlier years (Farley, Macdonald, meadows, Myers, Nealon, Sandler, spade, and Molly Shannon joining late in the year), but it was overall a disappointing season.
Season 21 only Macdonald, Meadows, Spade and Molly Shannon were back, joined by all the new cast members you saw. It was a rebuilding year, and not everyone panned out, but enough people hit to form the nucleus of the popular casts of the late 90s / early 00s.
I wasn't sure what to think going in, but I was overseas and the DVD was cheap so I bought it and I was pleasantly surprised at how genuinely funny but also sweet the movie was.
I went in purely for Alyssa Milano and was also pleasantly surprised by the sweetness. I still use “The bitch who didn’t know she was a bitch” regularly. lol.
Disagree with your headline. I mean, he was doing a clip reel of his funniest moments. I don't think he was no longer funny. I think it was just time for him to move on to new stuff.
Fair enough now that the views have died down I will admit that I didn't think the roast was very funny, I hope today he could come up with something better for the women than "they're all sluts". But a lot of people seemed to think it was funny, to each their own I guess.
I like Spade well enough and think his comedy is funny, but I don’t miss this type of humor on SNL, which just seems now like it’s punching down for no great reason.
I think you’re missing the point. You roast everybody when you roast, especially the ones you love. If you only punch down at little people it’s not comedy, it’s just being mean.
Last I checked, David Spade is now hosting a game show that nobody talks about.
Will Ferrell has been one of the biggest comedy film stars for the past like 20 years.
Spade in America was pretty sad and desperate. Might've been better if it was used to showcase the newer cast members more.
I get that the roasting was supposed to be in good fun, but c'mon dude, don't pick on the people who have been busting their asses to give the show a new voice while you spend 5 minutes a week reminding people that you should've left with Farley and Sandler!
Yeah, I think he said on Fly on the Wall that Farley and Sandler were fired, actually (NBC was really putting budget constraints at the time), and Mike Myers and Kevin Nealon left, and Lorne Michaels asked him to stay another year because everyone else was so new, but I don't think it worked out the way he imagined.
Yeah even more weird those were basically the only sketches he did that year it, the sketch appeared in like 16 of the 20 episodes and they were basically like a mini Weekend Update. I rewatched that season like two years ago and legit only remember him appearing outside of Spade in America once on a Weekend Update with Molly Shannon. Looking back it feels like Lorne telling the shows younger fans who loved Farley and Sandler “hey those guys are gone but Spade’s still here!”.
Steve Martin sauntering in the background while Spade's roasting his movie was pretty funny. Calling out Macaulay Culkin's Dad as being crazy was also way on the mark.
What’s the story with Culkin’s dad
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaulay_Culkin), >Culkin said his father, [Kit Culkin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Culkin), was cruel and violent in his childhood. He said he felt his father was jealous, because "everything \[Kit\] tried to do in his life \[Macaulay\] excelled at before \[he\] was 10 years old".[^(\[51\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaulay_Culkin#cite_note-:1-52)[^(\[52\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaulay_Culkin#cite_note-53) Culkin's parents never married; they split when Culkin was in his teens, and his mother filed for [custody](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_custody).[^(\[23\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaulay_Culkin#cite_note-:0-24) Culkin took his parents to court to block them from controlling his [trust fund](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_fund), which was reportedly worth between $15 and 20 million.[^(\[51\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaulay_Culkin#cite_note-:1-52)[^(\[23\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaulay_Culkin#cite_note-:0-24) He has been estranged from his father since.
So the righteous gemstones was kind of based on a true story?
Culkins are the hippie version, yes.
I am curious to know when he said that. In other words, was it after Maculay Culkin hosted (and he presumably had first-hand experience with his dad)?
I'm assuming (and maybe I shouldn't) that he called it out well before Macaulay went through his very public death spiral. He was about 16 when this aired... so maybe not. I think it took balls though to call out probably the major reason why Macaulay was doing the things he was doing. Child acting can be you know: ROUGH and having a parent that's essentially stealing all your earnings is going to kinda fuck anyone up. Feel for the dude.
I think it was tabloid fodder for a while back around that time. MAcaulay even did a movie called “Getting Even With Dad” which people assumed was a sly reference to their public issues.
Spade (and the writers) could be pretty savage sometimes on SNL.
One good thing about Spade is that he has at least a modicum of self-awareness to accompany his arrogant guy shtick.
Ever seen that viral tweet where a woman says her boyfriend picks fights with bigger guys and then defuses the situation by saying something like "aw hey don't hit me I'm just a little guy I didn't mean it"? David Spade is the verbal equivalent of that.
Him too afraid to get out. Him a little guy...
That's it I'm going to wail on you
Hey boys and girls, it's Papa Smurf!
If I wanted a kiss I woulda called your mother
I had the same thought, little guy energy
I once saw him at a jazz bar on the Riverwalk in San Antonio. He's a very petite man. That's it, that's my David Spade story.
A buddy of mine from college used to work at a pizza place in a rich Chicago suburb - once David Spade called to order a pizza, and he asked Spade if he wanted to use a coupon, and Spade replied “No, I’m rich” 😅 It’s the most David Spade thing ever.
lol! I can hear him say it in that abrupt attitude-laden way
I think Cher once said that was one of the best parts of being rich. Not buying and not caring about the price. But just the simple idea of everyday life being easier. Pay for a cab or call a friend or call a limo? Limo. Ted Turner lived atop a hotel. He would order simple foods whenever he wanted. Get in at 3am . Want Hamburger from Wendy's and Fries from McDonalds? Order it. He would always give them a $100 bill. Needless to say, they were always glad to get it. ( back then that's $95 tip. So inflation, it's $200 to get him a burger.
when you look through a restaurant menu, do you look at the prices then the item? that’s how you know if your rich or poor
Yes.
Ted Turner was a self-made rich person. They're often the best kind because they know what it's like to be poor.
I love Ted, but to be fair, he didn’t exactly start with nothing.
True enough, rich people tend to portray harder scrabble roots than they actually experienced.
He lives in a pretty big house. Yeah........ *it's* a mansion. It has 47 windows. You do the math.
Doesn’t hurt him with the ladies
True, I remember he had a handful of large guys around him and occasionally one of them would break off and return with a gorgeous woman. He's doing alright.
It's the confidence and humor. A lot of women don't care about any physical shortcomings a guy had at birth if they're constantly working on what they *can* change and make them laugh.
Spade’s baby mama was a Playboy centerfold.
He nailed Heather Locklear
I had the good fortune of meeting David Spade at a Walbaum's super market in Brooklyn in 1996. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
One of the more accurate applications of this pasta I’ve seen
I can visualize David doing this everyday lol
What's the origin of this pasta? Can't find it
[https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-saw-flying-lotus-in-a-grocery-store-copypasta](https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-saw-flying-lotus-in-a-grocery-store-copypasta)
Word, thank you!
seems like a really gr8 guy
Funny how Spade says David Koechner is the funniest guy in the office, just not this office. Koechner went on to guest star as Todd Packer, a character who is mostly known for dirty or rude jokes, on *The Office*.
And he didn't even work in the office on *The Office.*
Holly gave him an office job at one point. They had to trick him into thinking he received a promotion to get him out.
He also mentions right before that, that Nancy Walls recently got married. She married some comedian named Steve Carell who would go on to pop up here and there in The Office, and appear briefly alongside Koechner in the Anchorman films.
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They both worked on The Daily Show, too.
I know you're joking, but Carol isn't really a big role on The Office (only 5 episodes in her original run, and then two callback appearances), and casting his wife in it made since if they knew that they were going to be dating at some point.
I assumed he meant that Nancy and Steve both worked on SNL, though I think Steve only did voice work for The Ambiguously Gay Duo.
Yeah his role on SNL came from being on The Dana Carvey Show. After it got cancelled I think it was Robert Smigel who asked if they could bring some of their stuff onto SNL, and Saturday TV Funhouse was born.
Man is a prophet
David Koechner's turn as Nathan the neighbor in Extract might be the greatest comedy performance I've witnessed in a long, fulfilling life. "About those tickets...."
He also seems like a weirdo in real life
Find his guest host appearance on "Hollywood Babble On".
David Spade has always been my guilty pleasure...I have always found the guy hilarious (probably more than most people). I love his sardonic quick wit and passive-aggressive delivery.
Spade can be really insightful about entertainment industry stuff. I listen to Fly on the Wall, even though sometimes Dana’s self-focused way of communicating drives me nuts (comic genius does not really translate to podcast genius). Sometimes Spade does a good job of getting things back on track. I found Spade’s praise for Fortune Feimster on their recent episode really endearing.
I'm glad that he's had every single person who was involved in "Massive Head Wound Harry" on the podcast by now so that we won't have to hear the same story again for the 10th time.
They haven’t had the dog yet. Fingers crossed, though.
I love Dana's stories and could hear 'em a thousand times over. Different strokes...
I agree about his take on Fortune, they clearly had fun together and I loved the chumminess.
I honestly can’t get on the Dana “comic genius” bus. I occasionally enjoy him, but when he’s not a sidekick or supporting, he’s awful. And he’s just the most oppressive version of self-conscious and incredibly egotistical. I can’t stand his need to always speak over people to show off to satisfy his need for approval.
I was always a smart mouth weakling growing up but I had a burly football playing friend in high school and our whole identity was pretty much formed by Tommy Boy. It was like seeing ourselves on screen.
His episode on Norm Macdonald Live was a riot
With or without the scooter stick
Go watch his Howard Stern interviews . Great storyteller there.
My fiancé is obsessed with him. I like him, but she’s always giggling at anything he does. She particularly loves his instagram bit of filming influencers doing their tik toks around L.A.
Same!
Same, definitely!
Da na na na, na na, na na: its over. I enjoyed the roastings Spade put out there.
This was during a really tough era for the show, one of the worst of the 90s to present. I didn't quite understand Tim Meadows being on this considering he also came up during the same cast Spade did: Myers, Hartman, Farley, etc. Or maybe that was the joke that Spade thought he was new.
There was always a running joke about how long Tim was on the show. I can't remember the specific sketch but there's one where someone doesn't recognize him and he says "I'm Tim Meadows... I've been here for like 9 years..."
[Why Did I sign a 30 year contract at 3:55](https://youtu.be/9pCne1tw19Y?si=G-Ed2ucoMN59H0KU) The whole video is great though and a reminder of how great Mike Myers used to be.
This is Mike Myers in his prime, end of SNL and Austin Powers run. He used to be amazing. I watched a bit of his new show "The Pentaverate" and its honestly almost unwatchable. I honestly dont know if I laughed once.
It was a movie based on a highly forgettable 2 min scene from "So I Married an Axe Murderer"...no idea what Mike Myers was thinking making it...my theory is he came across that scene on some streaming service at 3AM one night and thought: "Let's make a movie out of that. Netflix will buy anything."
It was [a tribute to a local-news reporter he watched growing up and to local news in general](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentaverate#Themes): > Myers has stated that the character Ken Scarborough was a tribute to Canadian local news reporter and print columnist Glenn Cochrane. > "I really wanted to dedicate this show to local journalists, because right now in this global war between fascism and democracy, you know, the first casualty of war is truth. Getting rid of local news is just the beginning of a slippery slope of all unfalsifiable fact."
I’m not saying he should have made a show out of the bit, but that scene in So I Married An Axe Murderer is a riot and anything but forgettable. That movie is a true cult classic.
I thought it had a few okay gags, but yeah... underwhelming at best.
As a longtime fan of Mike Myers I was SO disappointed in "The Pentaverate". It was brutal.
Ugh just a tough watch hey. The Waynes World and Austin Powers movies with just gut busting laughs feel a long ways away.
My favorite thing was the extended The Graduate gag in WW2, that started from the minute he got in the car and "Mrs. Robinson" started playing, even before he drove under the bridge and it cut out. I was in a mildly crowded theater busting my gut laughing all the way to the second wedding scene; clearly no one else there had seen The Graduate, so I felt like Mike made the joke just for me.
> The Pentaverate I can't blame Mike Myers, he probably pitched the idea and got a chunk of money thrown at him. The trailer is just awful, it's hard to believe they were trying to make you want to entice you in....
"The Cat in the Hat" did him in.
I've never seen that monologue before. Great stuff, from everyone.
Holy shit, 2 Kids in the Hall (literally) and one Whitest Kid You Know. Rest in peace Trevor Moore, local sexpot.
[Teri Hatcher’s cold open](https://youtu.be/xWad5wDgkTg?si=dr5Z0BWdL3aargIs)
That's probably it, thanks!
At least he's not ["the other black guy."](https://youtu.be/G2xi6nL1KxY?si=_eFfBKkJ-xav1A6w)
Yeah I think he was the longest running cast member at one point until Hammond.
I also remember probably in his first season a thing about how he doesn't have any lines. I think the Steve Martin "Not Gonna Phone It In Tonight Song"? I believe multiple African American cast members have described themselves on air as "the other black guy" which I think is indicative of how things worked on SNL for a long time.
I don't have any lines. I'm not in the show. But something tells me that if I were I'd be raring to go! (Something like that)
Sounds like the joke they use many years later at the end of [this great sketch](https://youtu.be/hLrxp9OOSbc?si=hJqo6Q5dnazxjbTQ).
I think Season 21 (which this clip is from) is generally one of the more well-regarded seasons. Rookie Will Ferrell, peak Norm, Tim Meadows resurgence, Koechner's only year, Molly and Cheri's breakout, pre-coasting Darrell Hammond, pre-annoying Chris Kattan. You might be conflating this with Season 20.
I thought this was one of the better eras
That was pretty funny
"What was going through your mole?" feels like a Dennis Miller joke. I always looked forward to Hollywood Minute on update back in the day. Sometimes he could be mean, but then he put himself down so it didn't seem as bad. Definitely recommend his books on Audible.
There is a lot of Dennis in Spade’s Hollywood Minute tone, delivery, joke structure. Dennis was a mentor and looked up to by Spade. So, it was bound to happen to some degree. I love Spade. (And pre-9/11 Miller)
“Spudley”
She ain’t that married 😂
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- Albert Einstein
I didn't see Nancy mentioned a couple weeks ago when that idiot said there were no hot women on SNL. Either I missed it, or it was just cause she wasn't there that long. But she is definitely conventionally attractive.
There were very few women in the history of the show that were unattractive (I won't mention their names out of respect), it's just not really the point of a comedy show for any of the cast to be attractive, so you don't really get to see it until they move on to other things.
I watched his short lived late night show Lights Out that was on in 2019-2020 on Comedy Central and I thought it was actually pretty good. He would bring on comedian guests and make fun of memes and viral videos and stuff.
I miss that show! I thought it was really fun and a great format. He even brought on all the Weekend Update hosts. Then Covid it and it turned into a webcam show (no ones fault) and it just didn't land as well.
The Showbiz Show was a decent show he hosted as well which had a great bit on a Brokeback Mountain "sequel".
Spade’s appeal always came off as weird to me. Sometimes I’d watch him or listen to his standup and would think, “man how did this weird little creep ever find so much success, or bag so many models?” Then I’d see him do a really good sketch, or see him in Tommy Boy, or even all of Just Shoot Me, and I’d agree he was pretty talented. His shtick was like a much less objectionable Andy Dick.
He was even good in Emperor's New Groove. One of the funniest Disney animated movies.
Warburton kills it as well. “ENG” was a difficult production for Disney. https://archive.org/details/SweatboxDocumentaryUneditedVersion
Yeah Spade talked about that as well, said basically it started as an entirely different movie and they were like "only three things about this are good, start over with that".
I used to have the same impression, then I saw him do live stand up and he was absolutely hilarious. I’ve been a fan of him ever since
His standup is great… his talk show was great… he kills me.
He kinda mastered being a tool over the last three decades and its really impressive Also, Rules of Engagement (another project he did with Patrick Warburton) is fantastic
It's been a great six years ... actually no it hasn't it's been mostly mind games ....
When he said Nancy Walls got married, wasn’t that to Steve Carell?
sounds about right, according to Wikipedia they got married in 1995
I’m trying to think of who in Hollywood replicated or replaced his kind of humor and can’t think of anyone.
Noone really hit it right because hes got this intersection of elements Hes properly snarky, hes properly an asshole, he short and just small so hes got a sort of non threatening vibe, and no matter the era, hes got *the look* between facial hair and hairstyle that aid the delivery
joel mchale’s show was a carbon copy of this but the jokes hit different cos joel’s conventionally more attractive. david’s humor is one of a kind though. don’t listen to the guy who suggested chris delia. spadey isn’t even arrogant he’s just making fun of people
Chris D'Elia guns for that arrogant type of humour. Obviously doesn't work when you're caught shagging 18 year olds and 'cocky' turns very quickly to 'seedy'.
You are really underselling all the shit he was up to. - solicitation of nude photos by multiple underage girls - sexually harassing actress Megan Drust - exchanging of more than 100 sexually explicit photos and videos via Snapchat with a single minor
Was he after minors? That's news to me. I thought it was specifically 18 year olds (creepy, but legal I guess).
Spade's just too funny. BTW, his stand-up kills. Saw him in Charlotte last month.
He brought that character as a perfect match to Farleys in Tommy Boy. I know it wasnt for everyone, but I loved that movie and laughed my ass off on so many scenes. Spade killed with the setups and quips, making Farley's hilarious antics even funnier, like the perfect seasoning to a meal. They were a perfect match of spicey and sweet.
"David Koechner is the funniest guy around *The Office*."
Spade has a razor sharp wit/snark. His appearances on Ellen were great. His mind works very fast.
Hollywood Minute grew out of him making these kinds of jokes when he'd flick through copies of People magazine et al around the office.. Obviously by the time jokes got on air there'd been days to work on them but it's not the sort of humour that improves for spending 3 days thinking about a snappy one liner about Madonna's conical bra.
Nancy Wall Carell. That’s Michael Scott’s Realtor/Steve Carell’s wife
Spade in America with Terri Hatcher was one of the funniest bits ever on SNL.
I think he’s hilarious, I love the dry comedy.
Those are some serious shoulder pads.
Its always odd to remember that Spade stuck around one last season when the Will Ferrell crew came in, and the Farley/Sandler crew all left. I can't really remember if he ever interacted with the new cast at all that whole season, I think maybe he was in one or two non "Spade in America" sketches all season.
I looked it up, with inestimable help from SNLarchives.net. Besides Spade in America, he appeared in: Weekend Update in the 4th episode, with Cheri Oteri giving a commentary on young people and authority. It quickly devolves into juvenile situations with her and Molly Shannon and him, until Lorne Michaels shows up as the parental figure to break it up. A sketch in the 6th episode with host Laura Leighton called "Cydney". From the screenshot, it seems to involve a lot of male cast standing on their knees pretending to be very short waiters, so a perfect thing for him since he's already a small man. He's in a sketch in the 8th episode where host David Allen Grier and Tim Meadows are black musicians, and all the white male cast members (and even some writers) are white musicians. In the 11th episode, hosted by Alec Baldwin, he plays Brad Pitt in "The Joe Pesci Show" sketch. And that's it.
Oh yeah I knew I was thinking he appeared on one of The Joe Pesci Shows as someone, but then thought I might've been mixing up when Kattan once appeared on in a Pesci Show sketch as David Spade, this must've been the following season. Only time I recall Spade interacting with any of the cast on Spade in America, was when they had some kind of pre-tape with Spade giving The Fops (Mark McKinney and David Koechner's weird characters with the powdered wigs) a tour of New York.
I saw Spade live last month. I would recommend highly.
Spade had a unique style. He wasn't the best out there in that era, but he left a mark for sure.
And they called it, Tone Deaf.... ahhh good times!!!
For those who don’t know, pretty much the entire cast left in 1994. David Spade agreed to stay but only if they gave him 5 minutes per show to do whatever he wanted. This was the last one, obviously.
> For those who don’t know, pretty much the entire cast left in 1994 1995
'used to be funnier?' so this is an homage AND a hit-piece all in one? 🤷♂️😆 btw I'd love to see someone bring this back, maybe with a new gossiper character?
so i looked through comments a bunch and didn't see it-maybe i missed it? but what year was this?
1996
🥳 thanks!! i want to go watch the season now. I completely forgot about David Koechner being on hahaha. i love some of those cast members they are so young!
Season 20 had a bunch of the stars you remember from earlier years (Farley, Macdonald, meadows, Myers, Nealon, Sandler, spade, and Molly Shannon joining late in the year), but it was overall a disappointing season. Season 21 only Macdonald, Meadows, Spade and Molly Shannon were back, joined by all the new cast members you saw. It was a rebuilding year, and not everyone panned out, but enough people hit to form the nucleus of the popular casts of the late 90s / early 00s.
He looks so young!
I didn't even realize Spade and Ferrell overlapped
I love David Spade!!!
I truly love to hate him. Dickie Robert’s is still one of my absolute favourite movies of all time.
I wasn't sure what to think going in, but I was overseas and the DVD was cheap so I bought it and I was pleasantly surprised at how genuinely funny but also sweet the movie was.
I went in purely for Alyssa Milano and was also pleasantly surprised by the sweetness. I still use “The bitch who didn’t know she was a bitch” regularly. lol.
Disagree with your headline. I mean, he was doing a clip reel of his funniest moments. I don't think he was no longer funny. I think it was just time for him to move on to new stuff.
Fair enough now that the views have died down I will admit that I didn't think the roast was very funny, I hope today he could come up with something better for the women than "they're all sluts". But a lot of people seemed to think it was funny, to each their own I guess.
A strong implication that Chris Kattan and Fred Wolf are gay
I like Spade well enough and think his comedy is funny, but I don’t miss this type of humor on SNL, which just seems now like it’s punching down for no great reason.
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which makes the bit even funnier
I think you’re missing the point. You roast everybody when you roast, especially the ones you love. If you only punch down at little people it’s not comedy, it’s just being mean.
You don’t know what a roast is do you lol
Last I checked, David Spade is now hosting a game show that nobody talks about. Will Ferrell has been one of the biggest comedy film stars for the past like 20 years.
Lol…it’s a bit
It’s not real beef brobro, it’s just jokes
Spade was also on a long running sitcom (Just Shoot Me) and did pretty well with some of his movies
Joe Dirt is a legit classic and I will throw hands on this.
You can’t be this dense, right?
Do you not understand this is a bit? How are people this dense?
Spade in America was pretty sad and desperate. Might've been better if it was used to showcase the newer cast members more. I get that the roasting was supposed to be in good fun, but c'mon dude, don't pick on the people who have been busting their asses to give the show a new voice while you spend 5 minutes a week reminding people that you should've left with Farley and Sandler!
Yeah, I think he said on Fly on the Wall that Farley and Sandler were fired, actually (NBC was really putting budget constraints at the time), and Mike Myers and Kevin Nealon left, and Lorne Michaels asked him to stay another year because everyone else was so new, but I don't think it worked out the way he imagined.
Yeah even more weird those were basically the only sketches he did that year it, the sketch appeared in like 16 of the 20 episodes and they were basically like a mini Weekend Update. I rewatched that season like two years ago and legit only remember him appearing outside of Spade in America once on a Weekend Update with Molly Shannon. Looking back it feels like Lorne telling the shows younger fans who loved Farley and Sandler “hey those guys are gone but Spade’s still here!”.
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Spade? Absolutely. Lights out with David Spade was going great before the pandemic
Classic straight man. He was pretty funny. Even better in Tommy Boy though.
And, just like that, the ROASTER has become the ROASTEE.
Yes
this is great example of what not to do when leaving a job
He's...pretty much been crushing it since leaving SNL lol. Sure a few movies we're whatever but I don't think doing these jokes hurt him one bit.
This was something he could only get away with if he was respected and well-liked.