The Hans and Franz Movie (with Dana Carvey, Kevin Nealon, and Robert Smigel)

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

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Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

On this weeks episode of Good One, host Jesse David Fox is joined by three SNL legends: Dana Carvey, Kevin Nealon, and Robert Smigel. Dana and Kevin left many memorable recurring characters behind when they left SNL, but there was one pair that stuck with them enough to make a movie about. Together with some friends (Robert and Conan O'Brien), they wrote the silliest script they could imagine. And then, like many a script, it didn't get made. This is the story of that script. Follow Dana Carvey on Instagram and Twitter, and Kevin Nealon on Instagram and Twitter. Follow Robert Smigel on Instagram and Twitter and Follow Jesse David Fox on Twitter and Instagram. Subscribe to the Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend feed @ https://listen.teamcoco.com/hansfranz to be the first to hear The Lost Hans & Franz Movie episodes when they drop on 5/17/23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Good One, a podcast about jokes.
0:12.8	I'm your host, Jesse David Fox.
0:15.3	What happens to a movie deferred?
0:17.6	Usually nothing.
0:18.6	Every year, many great hilarious comedy scripts get written, only to die in the vine at some
0:22.9	point in the pre-production process and get lost forever.
0:26.8	That was the case when Dana Carvey and Kevin Neillin, with the help of Robert's Michael
0:30.4	and Conan O'Brien, tried to write a movie around their hit SNL Muslim characters, Hans
0:34.8	and Franz in the early 90s.
0:37.0	A road trip, slash Hollywood send up, slash musical, co-starring Arnold Schwarzenegger,
0:42.1	the movie was an attempt by all four to write the most all-out funny movie they could.
0:47.1	And as such, the project has always stuck with them, commonly coming up when they are
0:51.2	on each other's podcast.
0:52.9	Finally, they decided to do something about it.
0:55.4	On May 17th, Conan O'Brien needs a friend who will be airing a mini series in which
0:59.4	the four read excerpts from the script and reminisce about the craziest silly thing they've
1:03.6	ever written.
1:05.2	On this week's episode of Good One, we offer a sneak peek at the project and a conversation
1:09.4	with Dana Kevin and Robert about what it was like creating and revisiting the Hans and
1:13.2	Franz movie.
1:15.0	So we're going to start with the gang reading a section from the first act.
1:18.4	After Hans and Franz lose their jobs, hosting a public access show, they decide to embark
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