>> my name's macklemore, and welcome to my crib. >> reporter: we caught up with macklemore between showskled between appearances on "saturday night live" -- ♪ bought a broken keyboard >> reporter: -- and the billboard music awards. ♪ i'm just pumped about some stuff from the thrift shop ♪ >> how different is your bank account from what it was a cull couple of years ago? >> it's very different. we had no money at all. we were living at home. >> for ben his life has completely changed. he's a mega celebrity now. >> reporter: the man with the pipes behind "thrift shop" -- ♪ i'm gonna pop some tags ♪ only got $20 in my pocket -- is an endlessly friendly 51-year-old who'd dreamed but given up hope of a music career years ago and gone to work for microsoft. then macklemore called. >> for me this is rarefied air. this is dream come true stuff. i am living a dream that i've had literally since 1968. ♪ i wear your granddad's clothes ♪ ♪ i look incredible >> reporter: thrift shop would not be an obvious song for anybody to go this is going to do really, really well. >> i swaz surprised. everybody

thank you, miami heat center chris andersen, for looking like the love child of dennis rodman and macklemore♪ thank you, charlie sheen, for going by your real name, carlos estevez in an upcoming movie. maybe it's about time i go by my real name, jimmy falliente. [ whip cracks ] [ cheers and applause ] >> steve: that's your real name?! jimmy falliente? >> jimmy: jimmy falliente. >> steve: it sounds like caliente, but it's falliente, nice. ♪ >> jimmy: thank you, whale watchers, or as whales call you, stalkers. [ laughter and applause ] get away from me! [ whale sounds ] a whale impression? [ dolphin sounds ] >> steve: a dolphin comes in. >> jimmy: yeah, a dolphin comes over. very good. [ seagull sounds ] >> steve: seagull. [ fog horn noise ] fog horn. i've got a million of them. go ahead. >> jimmy: you're like the white michael winslow, i love it. ♪ thank you, people who say, "you're going to love this story" before telling a story, for warning me that i better be ready to fake laugh. [ laughter ] [ applause ] ♪ thank you, wind chimes, for letting me know that an ancient evil has just awoken i

. >> jimmy: "saturday night live" was great with macklemore. >> yep. >> jimmy: loved that.y: do you remember that day? >> yeah, jimmy, 'cause i didn't get it. thank you. [ laughter and applause ] no, no, no. this is going great, jimmy. thank you. this going great. >> jimmy: make you feel real good. >> no, way to bring me down. >> jimmy: no, it -- what went wrong? >> well, everything went wrong. here's the thing. and i talked about this when i did "snl." you know, they said, "kevin, do some impressions." now, my thing, people -- i didn't really do impressions at the time. i'm just a funny guy. so, i said, "okay, you want impressions." i assumed that i could do impressions. i chose to do avery johnson. [ light laughter ] here's the thing about doing avery johnson. nobody knew who avery johnson was. >> jimmy: who is -- [ laughter ] that's not a great impression to start with, yeah. >> avery johnson is a basketball coach now. at the time, he was a player, but i was the only one who followed his career at the time -- [ laughter ] -- because i remember doing the impression at the

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