welcome to dennis miller plus one today's guest is comedian will sasso and comedians fall in with each other right away wouldn't sit here before we go on. the commute is that short head we know each other and we know each other's level of needs and we know what what makes people laugh and stuff like that so it's easy to fall in with a good cat well was one of the main cast members on mad t.v. for 5 seasons starting back in 1997 boys clip and by he also came back for the 20th anniversary special series in 2016 where was the longtime host of the 10 minute podcast love that concept from 2012 to 2018 and his new film inside game is currently available on v o d and digital platforms like i tunes and amazon prime it is a a great curriculum a welcome will sasso how are you my friend i'm good thanks remy how are you good we'll talk comedy in a 2nd but let's talk let's sell the soap here baby tell me about inside game i know

what it's about from the notes that. tell the folks what the movie's about well it's about the 2007 to 2008 ish m.b. a gambling scandal tim dunn he was a ref was a ref because he did some inside gambling with a couple of his buddies that he sort of knew from way back when i play one of those guys was a bookie and basically it's the behind the scenes of of their lives of them trying to pull this off thinking that they would get away with it there's a lot of snapping birder phones all of breaking bad so it's sort of thing in they did not get away with it whoops it's not much of a spoiler because you can read about it but it was was done ahead. he went on he donaghy and i think they called was he just trying to get fat and happy off of the survey had he been leveraged by. the guys you play he well he tim will say that he was seen leveraged it's a good word for it and. you know i mean look there was a lie. there was some involvement with organized crime and once you know the money

starts getting big and they start running those numbers there's people who want their hands on it and certainly the guy that i play james but he is a bookie he knew this new thing inside now. you know it's been a film but he went out there and he has these connections and so he was i believe i mean i believe it was equal parts him you know wanting to do it and there of course there's some greed involved when you're doing something like that but past a certain point it would have been unwise for him to back out i'm sure he felt so so horribly research that great jimmy caan film to ever see the gambler from years ago oh you've got to go watch it now that you've been in this place i think he's a columbia professor named axel freed and he gets in over his head and he starts getting leverage and it's jimmy caan right at the peak of his powers he's so freakin good in this movie to give it a watch it's called the gambler now this sounds like i'm trying to think is your is

your guy. strictly drama this is your guy have a funny side mr no no no but there is some like i mean you just kind of can't not laugh at some of the things but yeah i know it's a drama it's a drama but you had definitely actually scott wolf who doesn't amazing job as. you know he's the in-between guy in the air but eric maybe is plays plays tim donaghy and scott actually playing tommy martino is a real guy who's been around us through all the push in the film and stuff it's amazing to be around these real guys and. scott wolf just cracked me up. because the character it's kind of like. i would say. it's a good thing. you know wrong so there's some stuff that would be yeah but it's not dismemberment in the trunk goodfellas you know there's actually no no there's there's no trying to think there's any bloody appendages or anything you know and

james battista the fellow that i play we did have a conversation late in the making of this film so i was already done with my actor stuff like ok i think i think i'm sounding like him and watching all the things and i'm like marty doing it then he gets in touch with me because he hears it's your it's going all right so you want to talk to me and it was kind of like. i don't believe. i have to think it is. only on a screw that not you're not going to get in trouble say any of this stuff but there was a little bit of a concern that it wasn't too over the top but i think i found out from him that it was nice it was that on the level thing as far as the violence goes. listen i know when i was on s n l early on i remember thinking i should just do than the because i'm in the sketches i'm going to be the 4th or 5th guy because phil is a killer dane is a killer mcguire's is a killer i'm going to be the bartender pushing the gimlet in and i got a blockage for 4 hours so i stayed out of it literally but as i watch their chops over the years. for you acting now think like mad t.v.

is just perfect place to incubus isn't a perfect place to grow yeah i mean it's the most it's so much fun and that's what i always dug growing up in the stuff that i watched and satellite live being one of those shows i was always blown away by how much i kind of feel like i was on the opposite side of like oh look they get to do a bunch a little different and that was my thing but most of those guys feel used to say i'm a pig and slump this is perfect the enemy is a lot of fun although i should give credit where credit's to i was literally and before this book so i want you to know that this was a natural thing i was just telling. i got it and i couldn't find it on you tube but i got to back and find it was a sketch that you were in where it was just dolly parton was the guest you were sitting around and still in a some wax story about like you know for the black mountains and blah blah blah and i was like dennis miller is the only guy who would like who would find moments in that everyone was just sort of playing off or it's like well then we would just play guitar and entertain each other and you'd like turn right and camera with yeah

it occasionally give me that if somebody had to be like the pissy greek chorus i would play and i remember when we did aliens reshoot i played the lead cedric's and character who was ripped in half by the alias area and i had the white suit out of me and they had me in a box. and everybody else was act in there because and they would just pull the blocks man hey somebody in a gym and yeah it was like no matter where you put me i'm doing the same attitude that i did on the news and they're not in a hurry to get you out of all that make up 2 more segment until updates that are going to go well you know it's funny when you we were just talking to cheryl hines from curb your enthusiasm she was on the guest before you you did curb did you i did i did band i did i did curb which was a gas of course everyone wants to go into it but i always say that the most fun thing for me was auditioning for 3 times and not getting it because that that's the real fun when you're like is that larry just larry or somebody you know and larry jeff garlin sitting there cheryl hines is sitting there they're all producers and

if they're going to come in on a day and couple times they were they're wonderful lovely audience and what were they looking at you for the 1st time i was already in and they didn't even know you obs i was too i remember i was auditioning for a bit it was an exterminator kevin farley ended up doing it i remember because i love the show and and he did a great job and basically he's overhearing that there's a high school production of grease while he's exterminating in the house and he loves grease and he wants to go and then he stomps on a rat the show and you know but yeah i just remember doing it and doing it for larry and it's just you and larry david and i've never met him and i was like a little. terrible he's look at you know you do it and then lovely man i'm just saying and i've worked with him since some of these are images and scare and you know and he goes you do it and it's going to stop you. you know you really want to go you really want to go to greece yes or you really want to go ok ok try to

completely honestly like to know what i overheard grease and do it again on a level then you stop again. and you really want to go and i'm like yeah yeah yeah and i'm like oh my god is he doing this on purpose and jeff garlin like he's doing it for my family don't you know in a sketch yeah but when you're in the show getting to your edit and you're aware of it you're like is he is this you know and then you don't get it and you're like ok well that was fun it wasn't a bit i really just suck. but yeah and you go there and then by the way the room the waiting room is a bunch of people who are like hello hello hello like i know i love you from that i love you from this or there's a friend and so murders are out because everybody wants to be in that group but so yeah it's almost more fun to just go there and get by larry. but it's like meat recalls the 1st time i want to. do that i need to go to. you

as i go through here i see how many credits you have you must to master the auditioning process at some point killing things so here's i still suck at it i really don't like it you know i don't know i don't know of an actor who does i don't really exhibiting something in there because you get the hunger either and i don't write i appreciate it i prepare in the car on my way there and sometimes you're just the guy and that's what i'm hoping for because i'm just again preparing in the car there's a lot of good apps you can live with a player line an actor's life is quite boring. but yet somehow they figured out that i had you know nobody has figured out that i don't have any. you know real long lasting talent but it's fine you can just go and get around town for a few such as self-effacing canadian bugs kick the can and i think well listen i married a canadian girl so you know i'm fond of the country you know what i love about it is i make so many comedic geniuses who come out of their i think of ackroyd right away and you know the lord and they're all sort of self-effacing in

a weird way or marty short isn't just a brilliant i think that it's they don't like it if you step beyond yourself like they like you to self humble yourself or something it's a it's a thing it's a comedian thing you have to we're just socialized to keep it yes keep it play close to the vest and just you know keep it it's an interesting thing it's interesting it's and i have a i have a connection with the place and i'm from i'm there a lot and you know when you've got your old pals and the folks that it's like a village doesn't matter where i go yeah they don't want to know that and they're happy that you came back yeah i don't want you to come back change you're going to go what are you kidding yes your home we know they yeah and they don't want to hear a whole lot about what's going on down here they want to talk about. which is that the president of the united states another they. everybody wants to talk about if you're mad t.v. i'm trying to think who was the guru over there we had lorna that sent out and i'm

telling you at the beginning i was so intimidated by the lauren i often couldn't really isolate what his particular genius was and then i realized it was such a. it was such an literate recondite a sense of salon that he had he was very good at putting together it was almost like cocktail parties that were being filmed on the area at great notes who was the guru over at med t.v. to just have one well i think it's. a great thing about mad t.v. but one of the things that separates from s n l no guru railing no we don't need that will just kind of hang out on the air on fox because it's cheaper than tales from the christening as a was everybody pulling their own or in that yeah yeah it was it was nice in a way and then there's there's things that air look we had great producers and i'm not saying you know but the but the producers were all people that there were incredible writers on the show and sort of rose up to run the show of course at i'm at i'm small in fact barr who were formerly writer producers at the old in living

color they put the package together to do the show which was sort of a lot like it was ran the same way as in living color and they basically took him in ivory wayans blueprint and structure. you know they came back in 2016 i think celebrate 20 years they did they were they reboot the show at that point i can't imagine they must have felt like it might as well be a different planet just from the beginning of this century so right now comedically it is a minefield yeah you couldn't do it they and i'm saying this with love and respect to the show the new cast who were all home run hitters all of them were great a lot of the writers came back to new writers were fantastic i don't know how the hell they would do it 1st of all they were not on fox or on a different network during the week at around 10 pm she didn't get away with anything any that and then it happens to be 2. 1016 no you can't i mean it was it was rough it was a rough summer they just did a few in the summer some of us came back but we were used to the ninety's in the

early 2000 and whatever when you could really they not only did they did the network let us play back then. you could do i mean she just i was trying to think of sam kinison walking off the ship. it would feel like they would be looking for the sixes behind his ear for god's sakes and it was one of the bloodiest dunes i've ever met i often think what god's name would he make of it what would they make of him today different planet a after the break we'll say as a returns we're going to answer some rapid fire questions it's our rorschach test to get a glimpse of what makes him tick the delightful with seth so stick with us right after this. from donald trump in 2016 to 2020 there is part of the electorate that response to war anti interventionist rhetoric in fact there is evidence this significantly

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hey welcome back to dennis miller plus one my guest is so good kat not a guy let's just say i was wondering who who are who are you thinking out there comedically i know you're not a stand up yourself but somebody who is somebody who you like. i mean yeah i'll try to. i mean i kind of watch the stuff that. if someone makes enough noise i'll go ok i'm going to enough friends go no really watch this but then i don't really have anything i mean so i kind of feel like i watched these new things i love that he's a great and he's fantastic. as a killer you know sebastian oh i've never seen any of this here plays well yeah stone killer ok i mean reagan and meniscal are the and john johns are good but yeah those 2 sebastian minuscule possibly the killer comic on the

planet yet yeah plus he put together 6 or 7 specials in the space 2 years and i'm telling a number 6 in never going to be as good as one or 2 but it's in the ballpark is a comedian i just sit there go wow god bless your brother but you've got to watch it i know it's a quirky name m a n i c a l c oh he's he's graduated to where he's just known by one name among comedians list so check him out zeroed out 4 nights at the guard 4 consecutive nights of medicine that's were very it's 80000 seats for had its say let's look at the pope's and sound i thought i should say i love i love reagan and i work on a on a show with him that he's been able to do with you know what's going on a lot of out loud about yeah and let's see play when people see what brian regan is doing you know the show is on audience network which now doesn't it doesn't want to have more than able to find out i don't know i think the show is going to have to find a new home but we just finished shooting the 3rd season in the summer hasn't aired yet when people who were brought in reagan is doing i mean of course he's hilarious

and pete farrelly you know loved brian regan and wanted him in the show is that who the pretty have to keep in barber disassembly of the director's no no pete pete strict oh you know and then and then bob bob fairly also a bit but brian is so on real and and other people macassar like i don't even want to know where he's pulling this from because they're. some look i've course we could talk for 5 days about how you know comedians have something down there that's yeah but he's got some chops really something i want to ask of these russia in a 2nd but i'm doing a podcast though i find it cathartic i love the idea of a 10 minute podcast is yeah you do it for 6 years you must've been in the ball well i would just wanted to bail out just grew tired of it well you know it's interesting i did that i did that podcast with a couple of buddy buddies of mine who are comedians cristal ian bryan so it's a keep it's easy we had a blast and we're buddies and we did it and then you know we all got busy we were brick i mean it's like back when podcasting was where we're just doing it at my

house and then you know they're busy guys and we're still good buddies and we're talking about doing another one again like that but yeah just then i ended up doing it with a couple writer producer pals of mine tommy blodget and chad gulch and we did that for like 3 years so the whole thing went for like 6 years and and now there's like a podcast thing happening now and i'm going to get 3 comics together you can't say hi and 10 minutes so that must've been easiest lifting you did to some degree it was it was fun for that reason and also because the 3 of us are actually friends we could we know where each other's line is so we could literally for hundreds of episodes just get ruthless when each other right up on it yeah and then right away you know there's 10 minutes is going to be about this and you know a lot of times i'm just which is the best all right we're going to play the right shot quick glimpse quick answers quick question someone or something that inspires you. i mean it's funny laughter itself yeah

i think the further i go in show business or whatever you're doing comedy stuff it's shocking to me that something that will still make me laugh can make me passionate and keep me going and really nothing else gets a good grade to chase you know i always thought boy did i did i get blessed with the mother load your comedy is the thing i can do ok yeah this is what a gift that is and it's a great. and i think it feeds if it's comedy and people like just laugh at what you laugh at and especially now where it's like everyone's looking around going can i say i kind of feel like it's the responsibility of funny people to let it fly and to me when i hear something or are you know come up with some or whatever it's really funny that just gets me excited yeah guilty pleasure. i grew up watching wrestling and love wrestling and now i've got to know what's going on with wrestling all the time even if i don't watch wrestling i might have to listen to

a podcast about wrestling or read some crap online about what these guys are doing in wrestling and it's nuts and that's why i was ringside at jerry jones a stadium 100000 people. what's that why am i blanking on the head guy vince mcmahon son came off the top of the kid and will remember the yes oh you are just the i was here and folks i'm telling you i know it's not real i know it is a bit like opera in a way as there is a villain and it's not you have see it's not a boxy but in a way it has its own charm and i'm telling you some of the things that jericho and those guys do you just look at she says this is like watching a violent. big top circus act or something there the pain is real now you know and it's like vince mcmahon 4647 years old timers 30 think the onto a cough or. like a poker table salute i'm just there to see if they're not it's their nuts and if

they don't do it every day i would imagine their it's like football players their bodies start to calcify and then they can't do it again so these guys are shane mcmahon who's basically should just be running numbers and back and back in coupons minutes cable deals in china instead he's anyway yeah stranded on a deserted island what 3 things do you bring with you will sasso. and. i'm going to bring shovel i was thinking clean water but i did well you know. what else would i like to bring and maybe. cassette player so you have some music and nice to see that you're up on the latest technology. bring a reel to reel sets now and then just a weird al tape may be good to. the other than that it looks. he was being interviewed on some show in black and white and he looked good he was always a sweet soul used to hang out with victoria jackson i know him way beyond that it was a lovely guy show you something still on your bucket list you got

a place you are and i venture you want to do on the bucket list. and traveler you dig that and i suck at traveling and my my heritage is the tally and maybe i should go to italy not now because i just saw my my uncle being chen so make it a state talk and then talian on facebook with a mask on of course they got you know. things are happening there so things you don't need to see the pope in a scuba help. see it's not right now. favorite show you're bingeing right now oh you were talking yeah a little wrestling well yeah but you know a show that we just started watching too which is fantastic and i missed it the 1st time around was in the light and laura dern in this mike white who created it is in the shop man it's really cool yes really give it a look favored. food you like to binge on while bingeing on enlightened. i have

been into soups lately yeah it was flu season and i've been making turkey it's the easiest thing in the world you guys just a few vegetables would you like and just dump it in there and let it cook that or also did some good split peas in the in the in the in the crockpot. growed up and eat unhealthy beautiful i thought you would say butter tarts or something coming can and get yourself a smoked pork shank leave it in the in the in this little cooker with the peas i was in an improv troupe called smoked pork shank once did you guys do what we never affirmed luxury you can't live without man there are so many there are so so many car guy or what you think i know but i need him you need one i have one. luxury i cannot live well air conditioning. on a big guy that's moved beyond luxury out here to work at 6 and up like alec guinness and bridge on the river kwai in the sweat box something someone from history would like to take to lunch. man i blank on that stuff but now that you

mention it i would like to get into lorne michaels head and figure out a few things that would be good yeah be an interesting lunch lines a super smart guy that it would be great you know if it was only since i get to see lauren once in a while now since i'm out from under his tutelage i can have a normal adult talk with them but that is like he freaked out it's like the monolith in 2001 you know you're dried up in the elevator with him and you think. if you can put on that show for your. sake i. see that would be the lunch too i wouldn't even say i don't know just sit there hope that he's super interesting stories split pea soup and leave and lastly will sasso is idea of a perfect day perfect day. what time it was it started when he get up on a perfect day i think i'm getting up around 930 but i get up around 11. go

outside the air smell sweet beautiful happens in canada happens here in l.a. sometimes. and then. just watch wrestling until they can split the suit going to sleep. let's look like. this. and it's funny all right social media questions we put up that you were coming on in your fans came to the fore brian newton on facebook how much prep did he put into playing the legendary stooge curly all a lot you know you look great in that cheers and tears it was a it's a lot of fun and it's like you know. again it's speaking of a perfect day you're sitting around watching the stooges and that's your work for the day so the yeah there was a lot of there was once i knew i was doing it i was just watching a watch and watching it and then it did start to turn into preparation now but yeah should i use the law hammer the ball peen hammer what's the best is it funnier if i

go with the clock and then. i'm sure and if they give us that done so much research on them was mowen fact the despotic leader was a benevolent leader i'm trying to think who is the easy going on was it larry connelly i think i think larry was the easiest going yeah mo was essentially their manager handled all the money and stuff so i think he was a pretty sweet guy i also loved his brother curly yeah he was the most was most humans like he was a really really good guy larry seems extremely laid back and i would imagine. the table set to be laid back to i don't know yet i remember things curly versus joe besser sham powered was the twilight werewolf or vampire of its day you had to pick one of those 2 camps to be had joe it and hewitt on facebook who is his favorite mad t.v. character that you did oh my favorite i remember he did something that was like a corollary to balancing like i had made a couple good. paul timmermans. that was just from that was just from speaking of

ackroyd that was just basically a way for me to do the julia child where it's like i remember watching that as a kid and what i always loved the batter's oh i seem to have cut the dickens out of my hand. and they did also that rhythm stuck in your totally and the monte python did a sketch called salad days where it's like ever anyone for tennis and he throws it . and then the guy at the thing on the piano and all but just nonplussed the way to tell you that he was the extent of the python sketch it went through him like great because be law yeah it's to completely shattered sort of it was just everyone sitting around in stripes. and then one guy said everyone and a ball gets thrown and hits like michael pale in the face he starts hemorrhaging blood like this old school with the and then everyone just gets taken apart and that's it and i had to go back and fight about it thanks to my guests and i will sasso for joining me today check out his new film about the. a and b. a betting scandal inside game on v o

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