Mike Shoemaker
Appearances
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Seth Meyers
I think I was producer. I had, you know, I was there already 15 years. So I was, you know, I knew what I was doing finally. I had had my thousand hours of, so you didn't meet young, fuck up Shoemaker.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Seth Meyers
Script PA. My first job there was in 1986, which is a changeover cast. Dana- Victoria, Jan. And first thing was I came in and the job was to take a yellow legal pad written script out of a bin and type it up so that everyone could read it because it's free computers. So big old selector typewriters. And I was actually hired because I had typing skills. and I could type fast and not make mistakes.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Seth Meyers
So the first thing was a church chat. So I had to like read Dana's scrawl with no punctuation. I always read the scripts first. Even one time you were there, I would put the read through order in. So I got to read everything before a performance. So I got better at understanding everyone's performance style.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Seth Meyers
Like the way, like I could never guess how Maya would pronounce a word still to this day because she always will change it.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Seth Meyers
Literally you could not find a period or a comma in it. Like he didn't know how to do them.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Seth Meyers
Yeah, so it's 11 years with Seth. 11 years. So Amy and I left the same day, basically.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Seth Meyers
Yes, that is called like my surprise party because Amy set it up and didn't want to call it hers, but it was really ours.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Seth Meyers
Those blue eyes would turn black saying, when are you booking these fucking people? No one ever heard of them. Just keep going with it. Famous people.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Seth Meyers
So the question that I want you to ask is that I think the reason that we all became a unit is because you and I saw him first. And by that, I mean he felt seen by us. before everyone else there did.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Seth Meyers
I think that's accurate because you were kind of famous and I was a producer there 15 years, but he was like a feature player that you don't necessarily invest in in the first year because you don't know what's going to happen. But we did. So we were the first people that he felt seen by. So my question would be, what does he think we saw? What does he think that we saw in him?
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Seth Meyers
Like that just might be like, that might be what also, you know, he's a talk show host. So like compliments, like when people come on and compliment him, he has to end it and turn it around. So he will like say nice things about us and say like, we were perceptive. Now you should allow that. And don't, don't edit that out.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Seth Meyers
But, but also like put it to the fire, make them say like, what qualities did he have? Cause I think that will be a nice thing to hear out of him. Cause he doesn't talk nicely about himself.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Seth Meyers
I would much rather talk about- No, it's hard to get you to do it too. Yeah. Say something nice about yourself.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Seth Meyers
I don't know. I don't know. Is this TV? It'll be like this, maybe. Is this TV? It is a TV. It is a TV.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Seth Meyers
They're already on the beach. Okay, great. Okay, go to the beach.