Andrew Santino on Working with Jim Carrey, Auditioning for SNL - The Joe Rogan Experience

Hello freak bitches. That's amazing. What do you think he walked away with? Oh, he took ten up front to make it. He probably got a ton of money. I don't know how it works. Points? He's probably got 30 million out of that maybe? As well as balling out of control. Bruce, hit us up dude. Yeah, he's good friends with Dom Irera. Is he? Yeah. Those two, that's so funny. I would love to see them two in a diner having a conversation. I know, right? Just Bruce and Dom Irera. Dom Irera is still doing the deal. Yeah, dude, I fucking love him. He did a bunch of episodes on the Showtime show I did. Did he? Yeah, dude. It's fucking so awesome that they got like real comics, man. The Showtime show looks great, man. I love how authentic everybody looks and the hairstyles. They killed it. It went with real comics. Now, magical, you, Jaron. Me, Eric Griffin, Jaron, fucking Dom. Earl Skakel does a few pop-ins on it. Oh my god, I'm drawing such a blank. There's so many other guys that came in and left. Judy fucking Gold. Yeah, that's awesome. Look at that, man. That's crazy. Who was it? Melissa fucking Leo. I feel like an extreme amount of responsibility while you were doing this because you're doing a movie that's based on the most important comedy club, in my opinion, ever. Yeah, TV show. But yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. What are you doing a show? Yeah, we did. Well, the pressure was fucking... Yeah, man, I felt the pressure. The responsibility was fucking huge. Wow. We premiered last night and it'll air this Sunday and Jim Carrey said some amazing things, man. Yeah, that's our cast photo. That one that you clicked, that one, yeah. Did it feel weird to be on that? I mean, it must have been like... I can tell you from the bottom of my honest heart, it was the most important thing I've done so far. Wow. Dude, I mean, we were paying homage to the world that we love and respect so much and it was a big effort on Jim's part and his producing partner, Michael Aguilar, to tell real stories. A lot of the stories that people will see if you watch the show, and I hope you do, come from Jim's real life. Two dudes from Boston move. They live in a fucking dude's closet in West Hollywood and they used to be a guy that would jerk off and watch Jim change. Jim put that story in the show, man. He wanted all these little great tidbits. There's a great moment about jokes stealing in there and a fucking huge fistfight that breaks out that was real from Jim's personal life about guys who used to come in from the fucking radio, from talk radio. In the morning, they'd come to the club at night, come to the store, steal shit. The next morning, comics would fucking hear it. Yeah, that's a real common thing. Yeah, man. That was always going on. You know what else was going on? A big one was writers for sitcoms would come. Yep, same shit. And they would watch people do sets and then they would wind up putting their bits in, even in fucking Seinfeld. Like Kevin James' signature bits got used on Seinfeld. After he had a bunch of meetings and then they came to see him perform, a bunch of top writers came to see him perform at an NBC showcase. It was like when Kevin was getting a development deal and they came down and watched him and then the next season, his muffin bit was on a Seinfeld episode. Oh, yeah. And he was like, what the fuck, man? The nowadays, they fucking, they're blatant, they tell you. Like I tested for Saturday Night Live and you sign a form that says these characters can be used after the audition. Whoa. And this is crazy. I'm not calling out anybody or saying anything, but they did. There was a character that ended up on the show that Vanessa Baer did fucking hilariously that I did something similar in my audition. I was like, damn, that was really good. What? Wait a minute. So you audition. You have a character you audition with. Yeah, I did this character. I did this fake sports cast. They can steal that. They own that now. Yeah. Cause you audition. Fuck you. When you audition, you surrender to the character. Fuck you, man. Yeah, you sign a piece of paper, man. That's crazy. They're not even giving you money and they're stealing your ideas. Yeah. When you get the, that, that's the respect that the SNL has earned in that community. Fuck you. You don't, you don't have that respect. It's crazy. That's stealing. You're stealing. Well, I signed the form, man. Oh my God, dude, that's so awful. I signed that sheet because of the, because you can almost taste it, you know? But they're making you sign something saying we're going to steal from you. Totally. That's insane. We're going to steal from you. We're not going to pay you anything. We're going to use this thing. It might be a fucking Mike Myers movie someday. And you'd have to say, yes, sir. It may have another. Take it. Take it. Take it. I'd take it. God, it's so crazy. I took it, man. I took it. It was a wild process. But the fact that some hugely successful business wouldn't want to compensate people for creating those ideas. Fly you out to, to show yourself off. Even if you, I mean, even if you just don't hire them, but you like that character, you, there should be like an established rate that you have to pay for things. But I mean, you don't, and my whole thing is like, I'm not saying what they did was what I did, but it was, there was just some similarities in the nuances of the character that I thought were either just, you know, a confluence of great ideas. But it is hard. You think about that stuff. You're like, man, is that close to what I did? Because, you know, like we said back in the day, like our show shows, people were blatantly, people have been blatantly stealing in comedy for fucking ever. It's been like the beginning of time. And especially in the 70s, which I think is what we tried to show was like, they would steal these radio guys and fucking show up again and be like, hey, like it was like, it didn't happen. Come on, buddy. I told them that was one of your shit jokes from last night. We always, we always promote you whenever you're in town.