Dana Carvey and David Spade Roast Woody Allen’s ‘Club Random’ Appearance
It wasn’t exactly dueling banjos, but Fly on the Wall cohosts Dana Carvey and David Spade busted out competing Woody Allen impressions on their podcast, roasting both Allen and Bill Maher after Allen’s appearance on Club Random this week.
The two Saturday Night Live alums pointed out the absurdity of the 89-year-old director showing up at a place called Club Random. “It’s a club, but it’s a basically just a bedroom, you know, you’re calling a clubhouse,” stammered Carvey’s Woody.
“It’s quite random,” replied Spade’s Woody (surprisingly more spot-on than Carvey’s). “I thought I was in a professional show. I’m in a treehouse.”
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“I don’t want to be pedantic,” said Woody Carvey.
“I don’t mean to be didactic or facetious,” agreed Woody Spade.
Woody Carvey assured Maher he was doing a good job. “You’re a wonderful podcast host,” he spluttered. “You know, y-y-you’re very informative, and you’re asking questions that maybe two people in Nebraska care about.”
The guys riffed on Maher’s penchant for loosening up guests with pot and booze. “The smell of weed,” complained Woody Spade. “I thought it was in Wiz Khalifa’s chimney.”
“By the time the fourth cocktail came, I felt you were speaking a foreign language of some type,” Woody Carvey told a hypothetical Maher. “Or maybe some alien came down and taught you how to speak.”
The Fly on the Wall guys laughed at the absurdity of Maher and Allen living on entirely different pop-culture planets. “Bill’s like, ‘Have you seen Alien: Earth yet?” laughed Spade. “How many episodes?”
“I’ve seen one television show in the last 19 years,” answered Woody Carvey. “You know, it’s just, Ivm reading War and Peace for the eleventh time.”
“What’s Hulu?” wondered Woody Spade. “Hulu hoop?”
“What’s this Downton Abbey everybody’s talking about?” asked Woody Carvey.
“But I do love Love Island U.K.,” admitted Woody Spade.
Boy, Carvey wished he could have been, well, a fly on the wall for the Club Random conversation, if only because he was dying to ask Allen some questions about one of his favorite movies, Midnight in Paris. Carvey thought the lead actor, Owen Wilson, was a perfect Woody Allen surrogate in the film. Trying to break into his Wilson imitation, Carvey got hilariously stuck, unable to shake free of the Allen impression that was so fresh in his mind.
Carvey and Spade being Carvey and Spade, the conversation quickly devolved into a stream-of-consciousness name-dropping game, pinballing from Paul Thomas Anderson to Maya Rudolph to Adam Sandler to Paul Simon. But Allen was never far from their minds, like when Carvey complained about his pre-show hairstyle losing its lift.
“It’s like a bundt cake that’s flattened,” lamented Woody Carvey in his sad-sack stutter.