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Brian Tucker has something to say about The Dudes.
On this week’s Good One podcast, Kenan Thompson and his longtime SNL collaborator discuss creating characters out of impressions.
Kenan, is an impression like this just like creating a character for you, but just with a singular jumping-off point?
Kenan Thompson: 1,000 percent. Doing the voice is only half of it, as far as getting to page eight on an idea. You know what I’m saying? You have to figure out what your take is on it.
Bryan Tucker: There are people who do impressions and are great at impressions, but often the best SNL impressions go up to that level of character. Dana Carvey was the best at that. And Kenan always brings his own thing to it.
KT: Like, yeah, he doesn’t mispronounce words, but that makes it fun for me.
BT: Exactly, you bring some Kenan flavor to it. Or you do that high voice.
KT: Yeah, that’s an exaggerated version of what he does. He, like, pitches up, like, [higher pitched] “When? When did I do this?” I thought, How can I notch that up by ten and get to, like, Bobby’s character Anthony Crispino?
He has always been most comfortable as a supporting player. The longest tenure on the show and an Emmy nomination have helped change that state of mind.
Mr. Tucker said that Mr. Thompson’s abundant cheerfulness in these recurring segments were the likely source of their popularity.
“He’s just so good-natured inside,” Mr. Tucker said. “You can write something that’s somewhat controversial or might rub people the wrong way, but because he’s saying it, people take it a lot easier, because they know there’s no malice behind it.”
LJ: Sometimes when we’re doing stuff like that, we have to convince the host that it’s funny. Some hosts that come in are very open, just like, “Yeah, okay, we can do that.” But some hosts really want to know the basis of it. We get real actors, and you know actors, they’re in their head. They want to know where the character is. Who’s the character? And it’s not really that deep. It’s a comedy thing, it’s a timing thing. What I always tell the host when I talk to them is “submit.” Submit to this whole thing, because as soon as you submit you will have so much fun. When we’re rehearsing and we’re talking about the sketch, the host doesn’t hear the laughter. They don’t hear where the laughs are gonna come in. So what happened was, at first Chadwick was like, “I don’t know if this is gonna work, or if these jokes are gonna land. I don’t know if I’m doing this right.” Me and Kenan were like, “Yo, dude, just play it straight. You’re doing great.” Like, we know it’s gonna work, because we know what the crowd is gonna be like. But they don’t know that because they don’t see what we see. And I’m telling you, at dress rehearsal, when he finally got to say the lines and saw how the crowd laughed, it was just like, bam, bam, bam. It was so good.
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Above Average and SNL’s Bryan Tucker Launch Sports Comedy Focused Channel “The Kicker”
Above Average launched a new sports comedy website, "The Kicker" today
Above Average launched a new sports comedy website, “The Kicker” today
The virtual world is graced by the presence of yet another humor site. A new streaming-video site devoted to sports and comedy called The Kicker launched today under the wing of Above Average, a Lorne Michaels digital production unit. Comedy fans will be excited to know that the site is created by Bryan Tucker, a co-head writer from Saturday Night Live. It is being advertised as a site “built for…
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