Ike Barinholtz
Appearances
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
I hung out with Farley a couple of good. I got I got to meet him a couple of times. And he was like my idol, you know, like I loved him so much. I remember one time he came, I was a bus boy at second city. Um, and I remember he would come in once in a while and he was always so nice.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
And one night he came up to me and was like, Hey, you know where, uh, where Johnny is, you know, his brother, John. Yeah. And I was like, oh yeah, he's, he was actually, he's at this party, uh, Lincoln.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Can you take me there? And I'll never forget. So he says that. Go ahead. Go ahead. Finish this story. Turn to my friend, my, my, my buddy, Brian from high school. It's like, Hey, do you, can you take me and Chris Farley to this party? And he was like, what, what? And we went there and we were, I remember we parked and we're walking right under the L tracks, train tracks.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
And Chris is like, I got to pee. I got to pee. And I was like, I got to pee too. And we started peeing. And I remember he turns to me, he goes, want to play swords? You know, and I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I kind of turn and we're kind of, you know, mixing our urine.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
And he just kind of turns and just, he's kind of on my foot. He goes, I cut your foot off. I remember laughing so hard I couldn't metabolize what was happening.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
I think, I'm not just saying this because I'm on this podcast right now. I think this weekend we're going to show, I have three daughters from six to,
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
You look, you look really good though, man. Like you're really hanging on. Like it's a lot of people, like they get smashed by the wall, but you're looking good.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
It's the beard. It's very good. It's working.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
I'll probably just hit a quick fast forward on the scene where you're Oh, that's right.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah, if you're watching it on TBS, that's not in there, but we're going to go ahead and pay the Apple TV. You'll probably be getting a little check in the mail. You're welcome.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
I think it's a prequel where you go back to the founding of Callahan Auto Parts. Oh, okay. And you have basically someone playing like young Brian Dennehy. Oh, you go way back. You go way back. Yeah. So this is way before Chris. This is really what you're looking for. Instead of looking for a modern day Chris Farley, which is impossible.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
You find a modern day Brian, a young Brian, which I think is doable. I think that is doable.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Do you like money? Do you like money? Do you like dollar bills?
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Do you want to do impressions of Joe Biden for the Saudi royal family?
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
I did not audition for SNL. In like 1998, I remember... people from NBC came to improv Olympic to watch, you know, to scout. And I remember, Oh my God. And it was the worst too. Cause the owner, God bless her Sharna. She like invited like 50 of us to go on stage at once. So like everyone was like, put your pushing people aside to like do a character.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
The little rascals own any rascals. And Eddie Murphy would have a bone to pick. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Buckley would get involved. It's whatever you want it to be. You could say running point. You could say running point. You could say running. Yeah.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
My sources told me we were picked up for another season.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah. Mindy, Mindy came to my partner, Dave Fast. And I was like, you guys love basketball. We worked together, the Mindy project. We have this show that I think could be a funny kind of family business show at a basketball club. And, and we were, we loved her. We had such a fun time working with her and it had been a while and we had just finished up a thing. And so we,
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
we kind of spent a long time kind of breaking the show and what it could be. And, and we kind of, it became very, very real when Kate Hudson was like, I want to play this part. Cause that was like, wow, that's a real, that's a real no fooling movie star. Yeah. Yeah.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Friend of the show. He's so cool. Friend of the show. One of the, my, he's my best dressed friend. He does dress cool. Yeah. And it's just like, I, if you, I think he has clothes that are like all bespoke, like little leather jackets that like are only made for him. Can I throw something?
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Oh my God. He looks so much like him.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Picture if you will. Picture if you will. He did Night Gallery. A tiny leather jacket.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
They would, like, have sex with the same woman at the same time. They were, like, very famously, like, Coxmen together. He was on that show, Husker Bros. I'm not mistaken.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
It was, it was just irreprehensible. But so then I, I, I moved to Amsterdam for a couple of years. And then when I came back, I was like, I want to do SNL. But before SNL, I even auditioned, I got cast on mad TV. And so I was kind of there.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
It was crazy. Like Paul McCartney, you know, was there. And at one point he looked over to Barack Obama and told him this. And when people tell you those stories, I'm like, what do I have? I'm like, oh, really?
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
One time Bobby Lee and I went to Las Vegas together. That's your story.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
I've seen Bobby Lee naked more often than I've seen my own wife naked. So I've seen him naked three times.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
He is one of the all-time funniest. He's got a very funny thing about him.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
No, I'm not in it. I just kind of wrote it and was there while we were shooting it. My dad is in it. My dad is an actor. He plays the family attorney.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah, the judge. He played the judge on Jury Duty.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
That's cool. A reverse. I've never heard of that. Because a Nepo, I understand people get mad at Nepo babies. I don't, by the way. I think they're good a lot of the time.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Unnecessary evil. Everyone can get behind a Nepo dad.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Oh my God. That's something else. Someone says to me, it's like, I can't believe Chet Hanks is such a good actor. I'm like, his dad is Tom Hanks.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah. Yeah. I only have, I only have two. Best original score for the Brutalist.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
I did it. I did all of my little Casio keyboards.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
How many have you seen? I love both of them. I loved Conclave. I loved Dune 2. I loved Enora. And I loved The Brutalist. And I think that's all I thought.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah, it's really brutal. But I really did think it was cool.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
That's right. There's others, 2009 to, I mean, there's... I mean, it's a very important information, so it's natural there's going to be discrepancies online about it. Mine says 1886, too. It's got to be wrong. Oh, man, I did an amazing impression of Rutherford B. Hayes that really got me cast on it.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
No, I went against, who did I play? I played Jalen Rose. I played Constance Wu. I played Simu Liu. I played Shang-Chi.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Then in the finals for Celebrity Jeopardy, I went up against Pat Patton, who's a real smarty pants. Patton Oswalt. Oh, Patton Oswalt. Yeah.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah. He loves that. And then also Will Wheaton, who you might remember from Stand By Me, Star Trek. Yeah.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
He still gets Stand By Me. Next gen.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
I won that. So then I went back, they invited me on the tournament of champions, which I thought was just going to be like, not to do with celebrities.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
First time that happened. And I just, it was like a fait accompli that I wasn't going to win. So I was just going to have fun and let these kind of, you know, sweet nerds destroy me. And I just kind of by a fluke won my, the quarterfinal. And the final question was the final jeopardy category was,
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
roman poets i only know like one or two and then i read like this what the quote was and i just in my mind i was kind of weighing them and i thought of eyes wide shut because you remember the scene in eyes wide shut where nicole they're at the party they're at uh uh sydney pollack's party yeah yeah and and um nicole came in that like really creepy european guy is like Hello, how are you doing?
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
And I was like, oh, Ovid. Maybe it's Ovid. And so I credit Stanley Kubrick. Oh, my God.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
I watch it with the family. We watch it once a week.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Yes. Every Saturday with the kids, we watch it. We want them to understand that there is a Illuminati out there who are having secret sex parties.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
the moon landing moon landing the jfk he supposedly filmed it on dana that was oliver stone oh he filmed the moon i see okay you got it you got it um i i have been in a bit of a barry lyndon phase uh really really i don't know the last time you said it was i have i remember seeing it when i was young and i was like it's so long but now when you watch it it's it's it's hilarious first of all uh and it's so beautiful and ryan o'neill really was the
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
And it's also very sexy. Do you guys mind if we watch a couple hours of it real quick?
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Tonight, if I was going to watch something, I would watch Idiocracy.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Uh, I was just watching a little of it, uh, on a flight, uh, last week. And, uh, Not drug idiot parallels to the present, of course. But it is such a funny movie. And every time I watch it, it gets funnier and funnier.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Ah, that is a great movie, The Longest Day.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
That movie is really great. Like, for like a legal thriller, that's a great movie.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
No, that's the Pelican Brief. That's his next movie. David, what would you watch? And don't say Tommy Boy. Don't say Tommy Boy. Don't plug the 30 Panthers.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Hey, Dana, can I tell you something about Opportunity Knox? I saw that movie opening night.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
And a kid I went to school with, elementary school, was one of the kids, the karate kid who beats you up. Oh, really? Because you shot that movie. Yeah, Josh Livingston. I don't know if you remember him.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
In Chicago, yeah. So I saw that movie opening weekend, baby.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
And that checks out. Cause he was always like broke. So he would, whenever they were shooting a movie in town, he would get up, you know, the directors would call him he's teaching. And he was also like, you know, and,
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
heroin addict for a long time he wasn't like uh he wasn't like uh he didn't have his shit together so to speak uh but he was a really uh fascinating guy and uh and i learned a lot from him and and uh yeah for a guy who i think touched so many people he wasn't a name dropper around us he never was like oh one time bill murray uh told me he was just like very like uh he was yeah he was cool yeah mike myers always would refer to down close you know just so mike was big yeah
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Mike Myers, who, by the way, is an enemy of the state right now because he's Canadian. So you guys should reach out to him because... They're coming after him. Yeah.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah. And if you guys could shelter him, that would be nice because he's going to need help.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Do you mean the plandemic? Yeah. Let's look at a clip. Can I bring up a video of Anthony Fauci that I made? It's a jib jab where he kind of admits the whole thing was a hoax.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
My dream was to always be on SNL. We grew up in a very SNL heavy home and, Uh, like we, we, some of my earliest memories are watching like, uh, like Eddie Murphy, uh, the 83 year, uh, with like, uh, Billy Crystal and stuff. So we were obsessed with it in our house. And when you're in the comedy scene, especially the improv scene in Chicago in the nineties, that's your goal.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
He does. He's a doctor. He's supposed to be like, you know, have an academic voice. And he sounds like he's trying to sell you like an old Pontiac in New Jersey.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Wait, Kay Cannon directed Blockers. Oh, maybe. That's a lady.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Oh, yeah, no, there were other writers. Okay, it was one of the 40 people. Yeah, exactly.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
it was a i was trying to suck my own it was like it was an improv guys let me at one take keep the cameras going yeah it happens uh no it was it right when it happened you kind of don't even realize what's happening until before you know it you have a doctor being like hey you fucked up your neck oh and uh so i was really bummed you know but uh luckily like i i really took the um
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
I took like the rehab of it all really seriously. The worst part about hurting your neck besides the fact that you could possibly be paralyzed is you have to wear a neck brace, which we can all agree is an inherently comic thing. Like when you see people in a neck brace, you're thinking like Christopher on the Sopranos or like John Larroquette.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
It's like a funny, it's a funny bit because most of the times it's like nine times out of 10, when someone's wearing a neck brace, they were rear ended.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
and and but this one it was a more involved one that had braces and buckles oh no yeah that was rough that was really rough because like i would see friends of mine people on the street too who don't even i don't even know him would walk up to me like oh my god what happened they feel for you and like they feel for you which is nice but you're also like i don't want to can't tell this fucking story i don't want to talk about it yeah i don't i don't want you can tell us though so
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah. So no, it was, it was a bummer, but it, it, it really, uh, I, every morning I would wake up and they were like, you gotta do your, you gotta correct your posture, which is basically if you, if you shrug your shoulders and put your arms up and then drop your arms, that feels crazy. Right. But that means that's your proper posture. So I would
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
strap that brace on and put on like a giant sun hat and just like walk up and down my block for as long until my legs gave out. Basically I was committed to fixing it without surgery, trying to hold it. So, and I didn't have to have surgery. And now watch this. Ready for this?
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
I can do the full Brady, but full Brady bunch mobility.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
I could crack my sternum a little bit. Okay. But I've read, I saw, I read about a crazy person on TikTok that said you should not be, you shouldn't be cracking and popping.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Um, but I, you know, listen, man, I, I, I was busing tables at Morton's on La Cienega, uh,
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
I get ones for dogs where it'll be like a guy. I don't like it. Like a hundred, 140 pound pit bull. And he's like, and you hear like a bomb go off and the dog is like,
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
I think that there's an owner holding a piece of bacon on camera. Yeah, they don't know. I don't buy it. I saw him do it to a gerbil.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
and i know the rest of them you know it's it's no longer there sadly uh bus boy i was a bus boy bus boy we've all been bus boys the hardest job in the world bus bussing tables it's so hard i'm especially there because there's like so many famous people you know and you you're like kind of like starstruck like one time i saw pete rose there and i was so excited you know then i walked past him and he grabbed my arm he goes hey give my wife a diet coke get out of here
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
She would do this in a second. She's very fun. She loves you guys. She's like me. Big ass and elf, man.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
But if you could do it as Johnny Carson, that would be amazing.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
So, yeah, and it was so much fun. It was such a fun job. We had, you know, such a fun cast and writers. It's like when a lot of my children were born while we were doing the show. And now it's so crazy. Now they're watching it on Netflix or it was on Netflix. And now they're watching it and it's really sweet because you do stuff like, and you, you just kind of don't rewatch it for a long time.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
And then it comes back to you one day with your kids and they get to see me, you know, like farting so hard that my pants fall down.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
They do, but I really am like, you're going to watch SNL and Wayne's World and Tommy Boy and the things that I loved. Because at some point, they're going to go online and watch some idiot online. As long as they're in my house.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
if i was right if i was i'm sorry if i was running for president uh i would uh sadly have to execute all tiktok pranksters or you're or you're putting a gulag like like because they're not even like clever pranks man it'll be like a guy like a like an older man in a home depot like trying to get like a bag of mulch and they walk up behind him and like give him a wet willy and the guy's like what the fuck and then they run away and i'm like
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
I got hit too. And it's like, you guys are now going to break rocks for five years. Yeah, please. Let's see some pranks about that.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
David, I have seen those and it's mother's milk to me where a guy just starts wailing.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Oh, sorry. I didn't realize you were disrupting my life for internet. For your own fame.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
This one's for the fans. I've never discussed this before. He's never been asked. I will never discuss it again after this. It's very private, but I will tell you. No, my real name is Isaac. And yeah, I know.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
It's very it's a Jewish bummer. But I had a I had a teacher, my favorite teacher, a guy named Kehoe, Mr. Kehoe. And he started kind of calling me Ike. And that's really when it just I kind of became Ike. And it's very rare. It's rare, and most Ikes, I think, are good. Ike Eisenhower was an amazing president.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Ike Turner is the rough one, but you also have Ike Austin. He's a good manager. He was very good. Listen, Ike Turner, early on, had a vision, and I think we can all agree he made some very bad decisions, and I don't like him. I think he's a bad guy.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
On the record, I want to just end the controversy.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
End the controversy. Ike Turner gets that. You both know. Thumbs down.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Dana, look at that. Wow. Heather, did you see that?
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
It's called Standing Remotely. Says it right on top of it. I always hate when shows tee themselves up for critics to slam it. Running Point is more like running.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
I just got to say when they, when I first heard your guys' podcast, I listened to it. I was so excited being on this show. So much fun. You guys have made me laugh so much over the years. It's wild. It's wild. I'm putting you in the hall of fame of guests because you were so lively.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Bet you can't finish that ribeye, Charlie. Oh, boy. But it was, you know, to get an offer to be on a TV show, especially a sketch comedy show, was just a dream. So I was just kind of like, great, let's do it. And there was really... Great writers there. Some great performers. A lot of great people came on.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah. Well, let's have a little competition.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Yeah. What are you going to keep? It's a foundation I've started. I've started a foundation. I wet my beak a little bit.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
That's the best. That's the best. All right, boss. Appreciate it.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Running Point. You guys are amazing.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Oh, my friend. I know you're friends with Bobby. You've been friends with Bobby for a very long time. Right.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
The great Josh Myers. Yeah. Josh Myers and Michael McDonald was still there. Jordan Peel and Keegan-Michael Key came while we were there. Nicole Parker.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Beau Bice. Oh, my God. I mean, I'm still doing it a lot, obviously. I shouldn't say this, but I feel like Beau Bice, if you told me he stormed the Capitol, I'd be like, yeah.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
But yeah, we, you know, Mad TV definitely did a lot of impressions of the moment. Of course. We got stuck with that too.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Was there ever one that you guys were like bummed that you're like, this is obviously, this is a bad impression. I don't want to do it.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
But my Arnold was not great, especially that was a huge bummer because Will Sasso was on the show. I really kind of like replaced him and he did the funniest Arnold. So then I had to come in and do my kind of half-baked one that wasn't that great and it wasn't funny and it wasn't as good as Will's. Well, it's already good. But Will's was like a tour de force.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
You know, I kind of look like Mark Wahlberg, so.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
That was kind of, you know, but there was a lot of times too, where I would just get, I remember one time I got assigned, they were doing a Frazier parody of, And the writer's like, you're going to play John Mahoney, who was the father on Frager, who was a great actor. And I was like, I can't play. He's like an older man. And I remember sitting in. We did a lot of prosthetic makeup.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
And I remember sitting in makeup for like two hours. as they're aging me and I was complaining so much and I was on set and I only had like three lines. And one of them was I'm John Mahoney. And, uh, I complained so much that they cut down my lines where I only said that in the sketch.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Five hours of prosthetic makeup, six hours to get it off, getting it off when I put that like alcohol directly in your eyeball. And they're like, Oh, don't worry. It's on my phone.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
He was a baseball player for the Texas Rangers. And he was, He was like a big steroid guy and he kind of famously went in front of Congress and was like, I did not take steroids.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
So we did like a parody called like, oops, I just took steroids or something. I can't remember what it was, but that was another impression that I still am getting a lot of love for. People are constantly asking me to do a baseball player who retired in 1996.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
I loved it. Well, he became a senator. You know he became a senator.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
So I was there. So there was a theater that a bunch of dudes in Chicago started because like Dutch comedy back in the day was Josh Myers, right? They love Josh Myers was was there. Seth Myers was there and I kind of came in right after him. But I was there with Brendan Hunt, who I don't know if you guys watched Ted Lasso. He's Coach Beard. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
I love that guy. Yeah. And then, well, I was there for just about two years. And we had great people come through. Sudeikis came through there for a year. Sudeikis. Jordan Peele. Sudeikis was there. Jordan Peele.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Miss Kakowski. Kay Cannon, who directed me in blockers. Amber Ruffin.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
um just all these really uh really funny people and it was a really fun time too because it was like before like it was like before 9-11 you know what i mean like it wasn't the euro yet it was it was uh the gilder yeah so it was really uh uh nice and i still talk to a lot of the sex workers i befriended while i was there we still keep in touch sex workers okay
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
Well, they just, they just really like Josh kind of went native for a while and dated like a Dutch woman for a long time. And yeah, the Dutch people as a people, they're very like reserved. They're very, but they're very honest. Like they're, they would come up to you after the show and be like, I did not think you were the funniest one. I thought your black friend was funnier.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
I can't wait for the 50th anniversary of this podcast.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
The woman, the woman, the song about sex was very good as well. So congratulations and goodbye. Thank you.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
I mean, my goal was Representative Lucknick when I was a child. But as I got older, I went to college. And I, I didn't, I knew I didn't want to be in politics. I was a terrible student in college and, and I, I kind of eventually got kicked out of college because I stopped going to class. And I was drawn to acting and I didn't, and I was drawn to comedy, but I didn't know where to start.
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
And my dad took us to see, uh, the improv Olympics. I think like they're maybe their fifth
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
year anniversary or their 10 year anniversary and i saw improv for the first time and i saw adam mckay and i saw uh amy poehler and specifically the person who made me laugh so hard that i was like i need to do this was tim meadows oh great like he is to me like one of just the funniest people in the world absolutely and watching him on stage just kind of enter a scene and
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
make a random joke and got such a big laugh i was like i'm signing up for improv classes i gotta do so that was that i was i was like 18 at the time and and i was i really kind of jumped all in it was so much fun and you're 18 at that point and how old were you when you got mad tv was that kind of your biggest break and then you went from oh that was my first break yeah i got mad tv i was probably 24
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Ike Barinholtz
five ish yeah okay um wow it was great i was making that that late night money which when you're broke you're like uh i'm basically steve jobs uh and then as you learn you're like oh late night money is terrible it's not in the grand scheme of yes you know acting yeah but you're on a job you worked with dell close that was farley's guy he used to talk a lot yeah man Oh, yeah.