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Sometimes, well have a hiatus week and people will say, Are you gonna relax?
Now I have to bring my kid to karate class.Thatsfucking stressful.
There were a lot of times when I laughed really hard at something that didnt get picked.
It was just such a bald attempt by Andy to do his Beetlejuice impression onSNL.
I laughed very hard, and I think Lorne laughed not at all.
Toughest hosting gig to kill at
Weirdly, the Emmys was the toughest.
For an athlete, an ESPY is never the crowning achievement of their year.
Theyve already won the most important thing.
I think it will endure as being accurate to the moment.
I just felt very proud to work with someone like Sal and proud of him for writing it.
I want to see it after its been fixed.
So the button was that we had to pull off the back half of the sketch in real time.
The first half, when it aired, wentfine.
I feel like it was a very soft, middle-of-the-roadSNLsketch that felt a little half-baked.
I was very happy with how it resolved itself.
And the next day, he FaceTimed me and said, My team told me we playedJumanji.
I have no memory of it.
And I said, I am here to tell you that I also have no memory of it.
It wasnt in the final cut, so I asked, What happened to theJumanjisection?
And everybody said, Oh, it was bad.
I think you rolled the dice and then Kevin tackled you, and it did not feel likeJumanjiat all.
Even worse, it was makeup sex.
I thought that was too much time, but he was 100 percent right.
In fact, it was so important, he told someone else to tell me.
I had to say, Oh, no, I am going to leave that in.
I think you should probably learn that were both bad dancers and we can have full lives despite that.
Idontlove watching them walk to the stage.
I wanted to do the same thing with the new special.
InAdam Sandlers last special, he did maybe the best version of it.
I think you could probably retire it since he did one that was genuinely cinematic and gripping.
I think he might not get or enjoy jokes.
And for Maya, I wrote, Lorne, you were robbed.
But I spelled it rob-buh-ed.
My hack for Maya is to add one or two syllables to a word everyone knows how to say.
Because the way she makes a meal of a word a delicious, seven-course meal is something to see.
You cant get caught looking like youre thinking about your next question.
He did not want to go to school.
He started running back to the apartment, and I had to chase him down.
I dont know how to get home from here.
