Word: everly
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...father is a very successful dentist, and I wanted to be a dentist. Well, I didn't want to, but I had no concept that I would ever be able to make a living doing what I did in high school. So I actually worked hard in high school to get into a good school, and I got to Cornell and I was a pre-dental student. I just could not handle serious science courses. After a couple years of that I went to NYU, took communications, realized communications is a joke to take in college, so I did damage...
...Conan, but he was such a good friend of mine that it was very hard to have to watch him deal with that stuff. It'll always be the thing I'm proudest of because it was such a bizarre challenge to succeed David Letterman, maybe the funniest ever to do that kind of work. But after a year and a half I just couldn't do the five-day-a-week grind. But I never really left the show. Then there was the Dana Carvey thing, which was a show that we all thought was funny but we obviously...
...Sandler is one of the funniest guys I ever worked with at "Saturday Night Live." Very underrated in his writing ability. You have to dig into the archives or pull out the best of tape of Chris Farley, and you see things that Adam wrote that were very inventive. He did a lot of funny stuff that played with the form of presentational sketch comedy that no one had done before. He dared the staff to like him. He was one of the first people who kind of stepped outside of conventional sketch comedy and commented...
...best. It's great. Ever since I left "Saturday Night Live" I've had this strange career where I bounce around between those two late-night shows. I'm the only person who gets to do that. And even when I was doing "Conan" I would occasionally have a sketch idea for "Saturday Night Live," and I had just built up enough credibility at that show that they were happy for me to submit stuff. And then when I left Conan I had a beautiful two-year period where I just had so much time with my wife...
...also indicated there was not going to be any surrender of one inch of ground - not to the courts, not to Al Gore. Not even to the reality that the rules of the game have changed, no matter if Bush ever finds a way to change them back...