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Let's talk about this new movie called Dirty Work.
Dirty Work.
Somebody's got to do it.
I read the synopsis of it.
It sounds like a lot of fun.
Two guys who just can't seem to get it together, right?
Yeah, we can't get it together.
So the only thing we're good at is getting back at people.
So we open a revenge for hire business.
Uh-huh.
I like this.
Yeah, this is good.
So if you need revenge, you see, you'd come to me and I'd figure out a revenge.
Let's suppose there was somebody that was getting, you know, was a mean, you
know.
Treating you unfairly.
Exactly.
Well, I would come to you and say, I want revenge.
Yes, and I'd figure out a way to get you revenge.
Well, you do this in the movie to Don Rickles, don't you?
Yeah, Don Rickles was great.
Well, what did he do to deserve some revenge?
He was just Don Rickles.
What I love is that I read that you wrote insults for him.
He didn't like him at all.
He wrote his own insults.
Yeah, he just did.
We just said, do whatever you want.
Yeah, you can't.
And he just insulted us.
It was great because he, uh, it's funny when he insults you and it makes no
sense.
Yeah.
You know?
Like, you'll just grab you and go, listen, why don't you go to, why don't you
go to,
why don't you go to Alaska and live in a shed with a rake?
And you go, what is that?
Look, you're talking to the right person.
He thinks he loves Don Rickles.
I love Don Rickles.
I love Don Rickles.
I love Don Rickles.
Oh, God.
So you like acting, huh?
So this could be the beginning of a whole new career for you.
Yeah.
Just like Chevy left Saturday Night Live when out to Hollywood, became a big
star.
Well, acting is tough.
I mean, uh, one of the toughest things is you don't have your own name.
Like, my name's Norm, as you well know.
Sure.
And, uh, my character's name in the movie was Mitch.
You see?
Uh-huh.
So in the scenes, like, a guy would say to me, uh, would say, uh, uh, hey, we
better get
going, Mitch.
And I go, huh?
And then they go, cut, cut, you know?
You're not used to Mitch.
Right.
So then the next time they go, uh, uh, yeah, uh, let's get going, man.
We got to get going, Mitch.
And I go, yes, yes, me, Mitch.
Let's get going.
I'm Mitch.
And then they go, cut.
And Bob Saget directed this, right?
Yeah, well, you know, there's bad news in everything.
How is young Saget on?
Is he serious?
He's here.
Right over there.
Hey, Bob.
Come on over there.
Wow, Bob Saget.
Yes, you do.
Sit over there.
Sit over there, man.
Guys.
Good looking people.
Nice to see you two guys survive making this movie, too, Bob.
Bob's a great man.
Bob's a great man.
And a good woman.
We've been together for a while.
And now he's a big movie director.
He's a big movie director.
If it's a big movie.
Tell him what Rickles said to him when he first met you about what Scorsese.
Oh, Rickles actually said, uh, Bob, you're very, very tall.
You're very tall.
Martin's very short.
Very short man.
That was it.
No, man.
You remember when Scorsese made you when he first heard?
He said, I'll do it.
I don't remember.
He said, uh, you know, Rickles meets him.
And he goes, you know, because he did, uh, uh, casino with, uh, Martin Scorsese.
And he goes, uh, I just talked to Martin.
And I told him, uh, you were my next director.
And he went, ah!
He left me a message.
He left me a message.
He called me at my office and he said, uh, I don't understand.
He left Jesus' message.
He said, I hit two in pound and I hit three in pound.
I don't know how your Jew spaceship works.
He says, call me, Saget.
I miss you.
Don Rickles.
It's very funny.
How is he as an actor?
Uh, what do you think?
He's really good.
Yeah?
He is.
Yeah.
I think the man is incredibly talented.
I'm not just saying that because we have a movie opening on June 12th.
No, he's really, he's, he's in full commitment.
He says he wouldn't answer, you know, the name Mitch, but he did.
Not to me, but to, you know, to me.
Boy, you gave it a hundred percent, huh?
Yeah.
Did this guy become a romantic leading man in the movies?
Yeah, he turns me on.
No, I, I think, I, I, all kidding aside, I've talked to a lot of, uh, ladies.
A lot of, a lot of ladies.
And they all say they find this man very sexy and they think he's.
What else do you mean?
His eyes, they like, they love his eyes.
His beautiful eyes.
Oh, his beautiful eyes, they twinkle.
And he's got those Tom Selleck dimple things happening.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is the new Tom Selleck, absolutely.
He's got the little wavy hair thing happening, yeah.
I think you're getting to Kathie Lee.
Oh, yeah, baby.
All right, so it opens on June 12th, right?
June 12th.
All right.
Friday.
Yeah.
They say revenge is sweet.
Bob Saget, Norm MacDonald are hoping it is also funny.
Saget makes his feature film directorial debut.
McDonald, his writing and starring debut in Dirty Work.
Basically, two guys who've never done this job before.
It's an irreverent comedy that proves getting even can lead to odd situations.
These are nice cars.
These are luxury automobiles.
I got a whole place.
They're fully loaded.
They're loaded with dead hookers.
I'm not either.
They're seeing things.
Don't shoot this.
This is not part of the commercial.
Is some jerk making your life miserable?
You want revenge?
Call 555-0187.
Let us do your dirty work.
Sort of like Ghostbusters.
Yeah, a little bit, but there's no ghosts.
Just hookers and trunks.
Hookers and trunks.
Which is good programming in the morning for your family.
You've never done this before.
You've never done this before.
Nervous at all?
Hookers and trunks?
Big funny directorial debut, comedy, you, starring role.
A lot of pressure.
Yeah, I'm nervous.
No, you're not.
No, I'm not because I take the Xanax.
Three, four cases a week, isn't it?
No, I like that.
I sell it to them.
Do you?
No.
Tell me about the movie.
Actually, he's a very, very funny man.
The movie?
Oh, I'm sorry.
I got crazy.
I was reading that.
The movie is two guys that start a revenge for hire business
because one of their dads, Jack Warden, needs a heart transplant.
He's my dad, too.
He's both of our dads.
You can't say that, though.
That's secret information.
Oh, yeah.
That's a big plot twist.
We give that away later.
Let me tell you how the exorcist ends now.
Silence of the lambs.
They kill that guy.
Revenge.
What do you know from revenge?
Do you have any experience in your own life with revenge?
Revenge?
Yeah, I always think of revenge as to get back at guys.
Like, if they screw me over, if they do something mean, you know?
Really?
All the time.
Like, this one guy, man.
He would always...
What's that?
What do you got there?
A little article about you and a little feud with another network.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
There's this character over on the NBC.
Yeah, he's the president, and he hates me.
And why?
He doesn't think I'm funny.
Sorry.
Actually, I shouldn't be laughing if you're not funny.
No, yeah.
I am funny.
He's very funny.
I think he just doesn't know you.
He's a jackass.
What about dirty work, though?
What about dirty work?
Yeah, it's a matter of fact.
That's a good thing.
Dirty work is...
What about it?
It's funny, don't you think?
Is it funny?
Have you ever done any revenge?
Little tricks?
Do little pranks to people to sort of get even?
When I was a little kid, I did this thing where I would phone people at random,
me and my brother.
And we'd go, hello?
We'd pretend to be all scary, and we'd go, my mommy gave this number to call
you in case there's an emergency.
There's someone at the door trying to get in.
There's someone at the door.
That's terrible.
Yeah, it was funny, though.
He did something to me two days ago.
I was driving.
One of the stars of the movie, Artie Lang, is very excited about everything
that's going on with this movie.
And he got a brand new Cadillac, beautiful black Cadillac.
We went golfing.
We played three holes, then went to the snack bar, and then we played two more
later.
And so Artie, we're driving back, and I plowed into a manhole, and I flatted
out his tire in the bottom of the car.
With his new caddy.
With his brand new caddy.
And he's, like, cracking up.
So what current kind of practical joke thing?
So this crazy Mexican tow truck driver comes, you know, to fix his car.
And so then I tell Saget, I go, hey, man, that guy wants your autograph, you
know?
For his kid.
For his kid.
So then the guy, like, fixes our car and then Saget like a jackass.
He comes up afterwards, and he goes, yeah, I'll sign anything for you.
And the guy goes, no, cash.
He says, I said, you want an autograph?
He says, no, $50.
And then he and Artie are, like, on the ground, because I was like, you want my
autograph for your kid, right?
And he goes, no.
Was this movie fun to make?
I mean, is it more fun to make comedies and to make dramas?
Because you've made dramas before.
I made a drama about his sister died of a bad disease.
Right.
I mean, you've done the other thing.
Is this a whole...
You know, it's interesting that you told us both.
I forgot I'd done it till now.
But you've also done some other directing as well.
I mean, a lot of people don't know.
You started back in college doing directing projects and things.
But this thing, you know, comedy is a collaborative thing.
And Norm and the writers, Norm wrote it with Frank Sebastiano and Fred Wolf and
our producer Bob Simons.
Everybody was working together to get the funniest stuff that we could get out
of it.
And Norm, it's Norm's sensibilities, a lot of it.
And it's really, because of that, I fell on the floor.
I don't know what he's talking about.
But we've got funny people, isn't it?
I was driving on the coast of California.
We've got, you know, great, the great Don Rickles, Chevy Chase, Chris Farley.
All the funniest guys I know are in the movie.
So it makes it, you know.
Are you happy to be doing movies and not TV anymore?
No, I love TV the best.
Do you?
Yeah.
Maybe one day I could fill in for Spencer Christian if he's over in Atlantic
City.
Do you think?
He always is, you know.
I know, I saw him there once.
Did you?
How much did he lose?
He had a feverish look on his face.
Norm MacDonald, Bob Saget.
We're done.
Best of luck with Dirty Work.
Thanks, Lisa.
You and Kevin are great, man.
Thank you.
Cheers.
But you wrote a sequel for Dirty Work.
I did.
And we had the money?
Yeah, we were going.
That's unbelievable to me.
Yeah, and Norm, I didn't think he was going to die, and I didn't know.
I was going to say, did you know?
I mean, you know, writing a sequel that stars a guy who's got leukemia is not a
smart move.
Well, nobody knew, and he wanted it that way.
And I think it was also him being a gambler at heart, you know, with life.
He thought he could get through it.
And by the way, he was told he was going to.
So I think it's those last few weeks, I think he was really thinking he was
going to beat it, and we were set to go.
And so you were going to be getting the phone call.
Yeah.
And I told you that when I was in New York.
And it was, it's a really good script.
And he and Lojo, Lori Jo Hoekstra, who I love.
Yeah, Lojo, the great LJ.
She's just great.
I guess when we did Dirty Work, I was more the guy that wanted to be liked.
And that ain't the club you do it with, you know.
You don't have, you know, Frank Sebastiano and Fred Wolf.
It ain't social.
It's making the best movie you can make.
That movie was, you know, people that love it have to know that writing good
comedy is hell.
You know, it's really hard work.
And that's why I think the movie resonated.
Right now, I'm trying.
We'll see what happens.
I'm trying to make the R-rated cut for Norm, you know.
Right.
To do that, because seven minutes are missing.
Oh, no kidding.
Yeah.
Remember you guys had, oh, I can't give it away if it comes out.
Well, it involves donuts.
The donut scene.
Yeah, exactly.
And there's more, there's more than that.
But, you know, the prison scene's a little bit different.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I can say what it is.
The prison scene, Norm gets fucked in the ass.
As you do in prison.
Listen, I've been there.
No one, no one always gets fucked in the ass.
Believe me.
There'll be a, I'd be a hard date to deal with if that happened.
Well, for you, it's like looking for Waldo once I get in there.
But, yeah.
Anyway, you know, Norm, Norm says after he gets fucked in the ass.
You know what, you know what hurts the most is the lack of respect.
That's what hurts the most.
The other thing hurts the most, the anal rape.
Right.
And that, that we looked it.
That got cut out.
But we used a wide shot and amazing that it worked that and the other thing.
Right.
And I had Norm loop it and he went, God, did I, looks like I said that.
So you didn't, you said, you said anal rape, Norm.
And so hopefully we'll put anal rape back in where it belongs in Dirty Work.
Anal rape belongs no, no further than your friendly podcast and your friendly
movie makers.

Bob Saget and Norm Macdonald on Dirty Work

Let's talk about this new movie called Dirty Work.
Dirty Work.
Somebody's got to do it.
I read the synopsis of it.
It sounds like a lot of fun.
Two guys who just can't seem to get it together, right?
Yeah, we can't get it together.
So the only thing we're good at is getting back at people.
So we open a revenge for hire business.
Uh-huh.
I like this.
Yeah, this is good.
So if you need revenge, you see, you'd come to me and I'd figure out a revenge.
Let's suppose there was somebody that was getting, you know, was a mean, you
know.
Treating you unfairly.
Exactly.
Well, I would come to you and say, I want revenge.
Yes, and I'd figure out a way to get you revenge.
Well, you do this in the movie to Don Rickles, don't you?
Yeah, Don Rickles was great.
Well, what did he do to deserve some revenge?
He was just Don Rickles.
What I love is that I read that you wrote insults for him.
He didn't like him at all.
He wrote his own insults.
Yeah, he just did.
We just said, do whatever you want.
Yeah, you can't.
And he just insulted us.
It was great because he, uh, it's funny when he insults you and it makes no
sense.
Yeah.
You know?
Like, you'll just grab you and go, listen, why don't you go to, why don't you
go to,
why don't you go to Alaska and live in a shed with a rake?
And you go, what is that?
Look, you're talking to the right person.
He thinks he loves Don Rickles.
I love Don Rickles.
I love Don Rickles.
I love Don Rickles.
Oh, God.
So you like acting, huh?
So this could be the beginning of a whole new career for you.
Yeah.
Just like Chevy left Saturday Night Live when out to Hollywood, became a big
star.
Well, acting is tough.
I mean, uh, one of the toughest things is you don't have your own name.
Like, my name's Norm, as you well know.
Sure.
And, uh, my character's name in the movie was Mitch.
You see?
Uh-huh.
So in the scenes, like, a guy would say to me, uh, would say, uh, uh, hey, we
better get
going, Mitch.
And I go, huh?
And then they go, cut, cut, you know?
You're not used to Mitch.
Right.
So then the next time they go, uh, uh, yeah, uh, let's get going, man.
We got to get going, Mitch.
And I go, yes, yes, me, Mitch.
Let's get going.
I'm Mitch.
And then they go, cut.
And Bob Saget directed this, right?
Yeah, well, you know, there's bad news in everything.
How is young Saget on?
Is he serious?
He's here.
Right over there.
Hey, Bob.
Come on over there.
Wow, Bob Saget.
Yes, you do.
Sit over there.
Sit over there, man.
Guys.
Good looking people.
Nice to see you two guys survive making this movie, too, Bob.
Bob's a great man.
Bob's a great man.
And a good woman.
We've been together for a while.
And now he's a big movie director.
He's a big movie director.
If it's a big movie.
Tell him what Rickles said to him when he first met you about what Scorsese.
Oh, Rickles actually said, uh, Bob, you're very, very tall.
You're very tall.
Martin's very short.
Very short man.
That was it.
No, man.
You remember when Scorsese made you when he first heard?
He said, I'll do it.
I don't remember.
He said, uh, you know, Rickles meets him.
And he goes, you know, because he did, uh, uh, casino with, uh, Martin Scorsese.
And he goes, uh, I just talked to Martin.
And I told him, uh, you were my next director.
And he went, ah!
He left me a message.
He left me a message.
He called me at my office and he said, uh, I don't understand.
He left Jesus' message.
He said, I hit two in pound and I hit three in pound.
I don't know how your Jew spaceship works.
He says, call me, Saget.
I miss you.
Don Rickles.
It's very funny.
How is he as an actor?
Uh, what do you think?
He's really good.
Yeah?
He is.
Yeah.
I think the man is incredibly talented.
I'm not just saying that because we have a movie opening on June 12th.
No, he's really, he's, he's in full commitment.
He says he wouldn't answer, you know, the name Mitch, but he did.
Not to me, but to, you know, to me.
Boy, you gave it a hundred percent, huh?
Yeah.
Did this guy become a romantic leading man in the movies?
Yeah, he turns me on.
No, I, I think, I, I, all kidding aside, I've talked to a lot of, uh, ladies.
A lot of, a lot of ladies.
And they all say they find this man very sexy and they think he's.
What else do you mean?
His eyes, they like, they love his eyes.
His beautiful eyes.
Oh, his beautiful eyes, they twinkle.
And he's got those Tom Selleck dimple things happening.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is the new Tom Selleck, absolutely.
He's got the little wavy hair thing happening, yeah.
I think you're getting to Kathie Lee.
Oh, yeah, baby.
All right, so it opens on June 12th, right?
June 12th.
All right.
Friday.
Yeah.
They say revenge is sweet.
Bob Saget, Norm MacDonald are hoping it is also funny.
Saget makes his feature film directorial debut.
McDonald, his writing and starring debut in Dirty Work.
Basically, two guys who've never done this job before.
It's an irreverent comedy that proves getting even can lead to odd situations.
These are nice cars.
These are luxury automobiles.
I got a whole place.
They're fully loaded.
They're loaded with dead hookers.
I'm not either.
They're seeing things.
Don't shoot this.
This is not part of the commercial.
Is some jerk making your life miserable?
You want revenge?
Call 555-0187.
Let us do your dirty work.
Sort of like Ghostbusters.
Yeah, a little bit, but there's no ghosts.
Just hookers and trunks.
Hookers and trunks.
Which is good programming in the morning for your family.
You've never done this before.
You've never done this before.
Nervous at all?
Hookers and trunks?
Big funny directorial debut, comedy, you, starring role.
A lot of pressure.
Yeah, I'm nervous.
No, you're not.
No, I'm not because I take the Xanax.
Three, four cases a week, isn't it?
No, I like that.
I sell it to them.
Do you?
No.
Tell me about the movie.
Actually, he's a very, very funny man.
The movie?
Oh, I'm sorry.
I got crazy.
I was reading that.
The movie is two guys that start a revenge for hire business
because one of their dads, Jack Warden, needs a heart transplant.
He's my dad, too.
He's both of our dads.
You can't say that, though.
That's secret information.
Oh, yeah.
That's a big plot twist.
We give that away later.
Let me tell you how the exorcist ends now.
Silence of the lambs.
They kill that guy.
Revenge.
What do you know from revenge?
Do you have any experience in your own life with revenge?
Revenge?
Yeah, I always think of revenge as to get back at guys.
Like, if they screw me over, if they do something mean, you know?
Really?
All the time.
Like, this one guy, man.
He would always...
What's that?
What do you got there?
A little article about you and a little feud with another network.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
There's this character over on the NBC.
Yeah, he's the president, and he hates me.
And why?
He doesn't think I'm funny.
Sorry.
Actually, I shouldn't be laughing if you're not funny.
No, yeah.
I am funny.
He's very funny.
I think he just doesn't know you.
He's a jackass.
What about dirty work, though?
What about dirty work?
Yeah, it's a matter of fact.
That's a good thing.
Dirty work is...
What about it?
It's funny, don't you think?
Is it funny?
Have you ever done any revenge?
Little tricks?
Do little pranks to people to sort of get even?
When I was a little kid, I did this thing where I would phone people at random,
me and my brother.
And we'd go, hello?
We'd pretend to be all scary, and we'd go, my mommy gave this number to call
you in case there's an emergency.
There's someone at the door trying to get in.
There's someone at the door.
That's terrible.
Yeah, it was funny, though.
He did something to me two days ago.
I was driving.
One of the stars of the movie, Artie Lang, is very excited about everything
that's going on with this movie.
And he got a brand new Cadillac, beautiful black Cadillac.
We went golfing.
We played three holes, then went to the snack bar, and then we played two more
later.
And so Artie, we're driving back, and I plowed into a manhole, and I flatted
out his tire in the bottom of the car.
With his new caddy.
With his brand new caddy.
And he's, like, cracking up.
So what current kind of practical joke thing?
So this crazy Mexican tow truck driver comes, you know, to fix his car.
And so then I tell Saget, I go, hey, man, that guy wants your autograph, you
know?
For his kid.
For his kid.
So then the guy, like, fixes our car and then Saget like a jackass.
He comes up afterwards, and he goes, yeah, I'll sign anything for you.
And the guy goes, no, cash.
He says, I said, you want an autograph?
He says, no, $50.
And then he and Artie are, like, on the ground, because I was like, you want my
autograph for your kid, right?
And he goes, no.
Was this movie fun to make?
I mean, is it more fun to make comedies and to make dramas?
Because you've made dramas before.
I made a drama about his sister died of a bad disease.
Right.
I mean, you've done the other thing.
Is this a whole...
You know, it's interesting that you told us both.
I forgot I'd done it till now.
But you've also done some other directing as well.
I mean, a lot of people don't know.
You started back in college doing directing projects and things.
But this thing, you know, comedy is a collaborative thing.
And Norm and the writers, Norm wrote it with Frank Sebastiano and Fred Wolf and
our producer Bob Simons.
Everybody was working together to get the funniest stuff that we could get out
of it.
And Norm, it's Norm's sensibilities, a lot of it.
And it's really, because of that, I fell on the floor.
I don't know what he's talking about.
But we've got funny people, isn't it?
I was driving on the coast of California.
We've got, you know, great, the great Don Rickles, Chevy Chase, Chris Farley.
All the funniest guys I know are in the movie.
So it makes it, you know.
Are you happy to be doing movies and not TV anymore?
No, I love TV the best.
Do you?
Yeah.
Maybe one day I could fill in for Spencer Christian if he's over in Atlantic
City.
Do you think?
He always is, you know.
I know, I saw him there once.
Did you?
How much did he lose?
He had a feverish look on his face.
Norm MacDonald, Bob Saget.
We're done.
Best of luck with Dirty Work.
Thanks, Lisa.
You and Kevin are great, man.
Thank you.
Cheers.
But you wrote a sequel for Dirty Work.
I did.
And we had the money?
Yeah, we were going.
That's unbelievable to me.
Yeah, and Norm, I didn't think he was going to die, and I didn't know.
I was going to say, did you know?
I mean, you know, writing a sequel that stars a guy who's got leukemia is not a
smart move.
Well, nobody knew, and he wanted it that way.
And I think it was also him being a gambler at heart, you know, with life.
He thought he could get through it.
And by the way, he was told he was going to.
So I think it's those last few weeks, I think he was really thinking he was
going to beat it, and we were set to go.
And so you were going to be getting the phone call.
Yeah.
And I told you that when I was in New York.
And it was, it's a really good script.
And he and Lojo, Lori Jo Hoekstra, who I love.
Yeah, Lojo, the great LJ.
She's just great.
I guess when we did Dirty Work, I was more the guy that wanted to be liked.
And that ain't the club you do it with, you know.
You don't have, you know, Frank Sebastiano and Fred Wolf.
It ain't social.
It's making the best movie you can make.
That movie was, you know, people that love it have to know that writing good
comedy is hell.
You know, it's really hard work.
And that's why I think the movie resonated.
Right now, I'm trying.
We'll see what happens.
I'm trying to make the R-rated cut for Norm, you know.
Right.
To do that, because seven minutes are missing.
Oh, no kidding.
Yeah.
Remember you guys had, oh, I can't give it away if it comes out.
Well, it involves donuts.
The donut scene.
Yeah, exactly.
And there's more, there's more than that.
But, you know, the prison scene's a little bit different.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I can say what it is.
The prison scene, Norm gets fucked in the ass.
As you do in prison.
Listen, I've bee