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Chapter 1: Who is Carol Leifer and what is her connection to comedy?
It's a good word for Obama. Folks are hurting. Folks, folks aren't sure how to pay the bill. That's what folks are doing. Folks are feeling the pinch. Folks are feeling the pain. Folks, it's definitely a lot of politicians use it. It's kind of a homey thing. But folks, we have a super guest today on super, super fly on the wall. Carol Leifer is with us, who's a mainstream of comedy host.
From 1981 or two, she was on David Letterman, and she's worked as a stand-up. And also, David, her writing career.
Huge writing career. Seinfeld. From Seinfeld to Hacks presently, where they're winning Emmys over. Hacks is always doing well. Yeah.
Good friends with Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, and she has some interesting takes on their relationship. Teaser alert.
She has a book out, Dana, it's called How to Write a Funny Speech for a Wedding, a Bar Mitzvah, or Birthday, or any other...
event you didn't want to go to in the first place by caroley for we laughed a lot during this one because she's a stand-up that you knew in the old days i've known her recently and i just saw her at the laugh factory actually so very funny uh great storyteller exactly what we want in this show
Yes. And also one last thing, the, the sort of famous season of 1985, she was there writing and she'll talk about at SNL, Robert Downey jr. At like 19 years of age, skating down the hall and stuff like that. So, so it's really fun. She's super likable. I've known her for longer than I want to remember. Please enjoy the one and only Carol. Leave her.
You mean the set that I did for The Tonight Show?
Yeah.
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Chapter 2: What was the 'Weird Year' of SNL and Carol Leifer's role?
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When did you audition, Spade? When was yours?
Thank you. I'll take this question, Dana.
I'm going to stay quiet because this is riveting.
Well, funny story. I was born in... No, I'm kidding. Going too far back. I went with Schneider. It's funny because you were mentioning New York clubs. I've never played them. And they had us audition off a young comedian special. They brought us in to audition at probably Catch Rising Star. If that sounds familiar.
Yeah.
And on a tough night and they all came in. From Downey to maybe Smigel to maybe Franken to not Lorne. I don't think Lorne is there. But I remember it was me, Schneider, Tom Kenny. I always say this like it's negative to Tom Kenny. It's not negative to Tom Kenny. He was a San Francisco act that was very just broader.
I knew him well. SpongeBob. Yeah. He became SpongeBob and he owns most of Nevada. Yeah.
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Chapter 3: How did Carol Leifer break into late-night television?
Please do.
John Lithgow was presenting this year, and I saw him, the writers hanging out in the green room, and I saw him and I said, you guest hosted the year that I wrote on SNL. And he was like, oh, you know, he like, well, he was very sweet. He was like, oh, you must have been a young child when you worked there. I said, yes, of course, child labor.
But no, I told him that, you know, he was such a great host. He learned every writer's name that week. And he was incredible. And he remembered the sketch that we had written for him.
That got on.
Yeah. Yeah. So he was he was amazing and still is.
Did you ever, so what other, can you tell us about the Oscars? You were at the Oscars? You read on them?
Yeah, I wrote on the Oscars.
And you wrote, so Conan's team brought you in or whatever, or how does it work?
And then this is my 11th time. I was part.
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