will ferrell's the obvious example of that, janeane garofalo, david cross, karen kilgariff, there were a number of other people who were associated with that scene in san francisco or los angeles who went on to be part of either mr. show or the ben stiller show. before that, some of the people who were associated later with larry sanders, as you were, that's some extraordinary comedy you're mining. those people, and to see how that scene has become kind of the mainstream scene...it's been a realransition. and of course, you ended up on one of the most popular network shows of our lifetimes, right? - [mary lynn] yes, that was... - [evan] hard to imagine? - also, unexpected. - something you didn't necessarily set out to do. - i was around for a lot of those early mr. shows. i don't know how much it really happens like this anymore, with the internet and people filming their own things and having the ability to quickly do that, but it was bob odenkirk and david cross doing live shows to test the material that would become that tv show. and they would throw me in there and i was almost kin