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We did have a lot going for us, but it didn’t land that hard. I remember that distinctly.ĭC: The gap teeth. Lorne gave it a shot, but he put it on at the very end of the show. It must have done well enough, and they had a lot of confidence in you guys by then to deliver it. Smigel would come in later on and riff with us. We could have done it all night, right, Dana?ĭana Carvey: We would do it for hours. We established an outline, and we were just kind of riffing on it and cracking up. I don’t remember specifically pitching it, but Dana and I went back to our office we were sharing and threw ideas around. Kevin Nealon: It was like any other sketch.

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Also, they do a lot of voices! Read some excerpts from the interview below, or listen to the full episode of Good One wherever you get your podcasts.

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On Good One, Carvey, Nealon, and Smigel talk about how the characters were born, how the movie was written, and what it was like revisiting the project.

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Until now! Carvey, Nealon, Schwarzenegger (voiced by Smigel), and O’Brien have reunited to read scenes from the previously lost-to-time screenplay, and you can listen to “The Lost Hans & Franz Movie” episodes on Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend when the series drops on May 17. But once Schwarzenegger backed out, the project fell apart, and the movie became just something the four writers would bring up occasionally in interviews and on each other’s podcasts. The result was Hans & Franz: The Girlyman Dilemma, a road-trip comedy/show-business satire/musical starring the duo and Schwarzenegger himself. The frequency of their appearances and placement in the show - Hans and Franz often showed up during cold opens - is incredible by today’s standards, in which big characters might appear only a few times over the course of a cast member’s entire run on the show and, increasingly, on “Weekend Update.” So, after a few years on the show, Carvey and Nealon decided it was time to take Hans and Franz to Hollywood, and they wrote a movie with the help of Robert Smigel and Conan O’Brien. In the late ’80s, Hans and Franz, Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon’s muscle-bound cousins of Arnold Schwarzenegger, were an SNL sensation. The special podcast miniseries is now in its third episode, which aired May 30, with a fourth promised to be arriving soon.Photo-Illustration: Vulture. O’Brien reads the stage directions, and Smigel’s impression of Schwarzenegger adds a nice touch (even if it does just sound like he’s doing his classic Triumph the Insult Comic Dog character). The group doesn’t get too deep into the weeds of why the film wasn’t made, but much of the script revolves around Schwarzenegger’s involvement, and despite his enthusiasm on “SNL,” a panned performance in “Last Action Hero” apparently made him weary of tackling another self-parody.Īlthough a feature film would’ve been a welcome piece of the often-uneven “SNL” film canon, the podcast format lends itself well to the source material, with Carvey and Nealon stepping back into the exaggerated accents and tough guy braggadocio that made the sketch such a hit.

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