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Dan: I'd love to do gags for guests,
Which is just what you would do with a guest to throw them off,
Engage them, the stupider the better,
Could be interactive, it could be a [bleep] great word.
Derrick: The delightful thing about the writer's room
For "the eric andre show" is there's, like, a trust
And respect, I think, amongst everybody in the room.
Doug: A hole opens in the desk, and then this butt comes up.
And then it farts, and he blows bubbles with the fart.
[ chatter ]
It's bulletproof.
The microphone has a little mouth
That keeps biting eric's face.
I like that.
The other guy would be more, you, sproingy, sproingy,
And then, you would, like, cannonball under your desk.
Caroline: Maybe, like, an animal trainer comes out,
A snake expert. He gets a snake bite,
And he makes the guest suck out the venom.
He's like, "you got to suck it out."
You write it, and you're like, "this is gonna be so funny,"
And then you're just, like -- you're putting yourself
Through the seventh gate of hell.
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Ronnie: It's, like, you're almost coming out of the water,
Like, with some issues and a fish on your shoulder.
-Oh, yeah. -Like, "they tried to kill me!"
You coming from home? That shit concrete, bro?
A wrecking ball that just, in the middle of the interview...
You know civic engineers when they, like,
Have those tripods set up...
Man: Yeah, yeah, the land surveyors.
Survey says it's time for surveys.
Just another god in the quad...
Looking for a warm bod... ...To watch with todd.
[ laughs ]
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Boo-yah!
♪♪
Griffin: Exterior -- a new york city street,
And mark is moving fragile boxes into an apartment building.
Eric's head pops out of hidden hole in the bench.
[ high-pitched voice ] hey, it's me, the bench mensch.
[ tools whirring ]
Eric: Don't take the stairs, take the bench.
Don't worry, I brought you some sandwiches.
They're a little soggy.
Man: And mark tells eric that they don't need any help.
This is for real my mom. This is my mom.
My mom takes a wrong turn on the highway, she goes,
"well, the car is getting exercise."
Kitao: We do all the pranks in new york,
And this year, we shot a couple days in newark.
People are not expecting pranks
To, like, be going off in newark.
Man: There's a camera here, one in the corner, one up there,
And then there will be three cameras on the street manned.
Let's do it. Lock down, lock down.
And action, eric.
Eric: Hello! Oh, my god.
I'm the bench...
Maybe she reminds you of your daughter.
You remind me of my daughter.
What's been, like, the craziest thing so far?
You know, like, his, like, sprite character?
That's my son calling. Okay.
Dan: [ high-pitched voice ] but george says
I'm not allowed to talk to daddy on weekends.
Kitao: And then, like, we had all these, like, hoses,
And he was, like, peeing blood
And, like, diarrhea on people,
And people were, like, freaking out.
Like, that was great. Lizzo: That's disgusting.
That was great. What are we watching?
Bird up!
That's it.
[ both laugh ]
That's a beautiful theme song.
It's hard to find on the music library stuff that's this good.
[ upbeat music playing ]
Why is he bald and golden?
Every season, eric changes his look significantly.
Eric: This was dan's idea.
He goes, "one year, you should have long hair,
And one year, you should pick getting bald."
So this year, he's going to gain weight...
Pizza is [bleep] good. [ laughs ]
...Shave his head... It's very, like, "holy mountain," like...
...Tan his whole body.
You want to get my back, sweetheart?
He's gonna go to the spa every week
And get a mani and pedi.
He's also going to whiten his teeth.
Some people get extreme discomfort.
Some people feel nothing. [ groans ]
We're gonna use nair on his legs,
And he's gonna go and get waxed.
Just take a deep breath and count from one to three for me.
Whoa! Breathe out!
You didn't even count.
Oh, one, two, three for you.
Great, great.
Get the roots out. Uh-huh.
You want something to hold, yeah?
Yeah, like a teddy bear?
Yeah. Oh, thank you.
The counting is gonna start soon, huh?
I can tell.
When do you want me to start counting?
Start counting. Three, two, one.
Oh!
Oh, yeah.
What did you do?
My mom goes, "what did you do?"
It's for season five of "the eric andre show."
Oh.
Yeah, and I'm getting a spray tan right now.
Why? Oh, it's part of the show.
Okay, you want me to hang up?
Sure. Okay.
Alright, I love you, mom, talk to you tomorrow.
I'm not sure how to hang up.
[ laughs ]
Eric as a kid was a handful.
He was, like, in the terrible 2s
From 6 months to 6 years.
Yes.
You're gonna edit this, I assume.
[ upright bass playing ]
$120,000 worth of music school.
I don't do [bleep] a thing with it.
Yeah, you wanted me to go to medical school, too.
Boring.
Eric is really different
Than the character he plays on the show.
He's, like, much more serious, and he, like, works way harder,
But he did really set himself on fire.
So there's that.
So I started doing comedy in 2003...
Somebody hide us, hide us, hide us, hide us, hide us!
...Kept, like, fantasizing
About a totally insane talk show.
We found this abandoned bodega
That was being used as a punk rehearsal space,
And then we just hung drapes and, like, went for it.
Which had hannibal, and hannibal wasn't famous at the time.
After a while, I learned that I could just play to camera
And do my own thing,
And it could be completely independent of the scene.
But it's been a fun ride, man, but I'm almost 40.
It's time to do something else. [ laughs ]
What should I do?
Get yourself together, start all over,
Move to philly, buy a loft, just paint.
Everybody passed on it except adult swim.
They loved it. "the eric andre show"!
[ screaming ]
Doug: The show is only 11 minutes long,
And there's a lot of jokes in here.
It's like when bad brains came out.
They said they wanted to be the fastest band in the world.
I wanted the fastest show in the world.
[ screams ] [ coughs ]
Woman: I love his show.
I mean, I cringe at some of the on-the-street stuff.
It makes me nervous that he's gonna hurt himself.
If you squirt something at me again,
I'm gonna break your face. Dude, I'm saying that --
I'm warning you. Dude --
I don't care who you are. Dude, I'm like --
Walk away! Alright. Alright.
Alright. I've already pushed beyond.
You know, I've already been injured and been arrested.
Don't tase me, bro.
Oh, that [bleep] sucked.
Crystal figurines everywhere,
Glass shelf with fine china on it.
Dan: We discovered liberace this year.
He's been dead since 1987, and...
He's a strange [bleep]
Strange man from another era.
You like that? That looks pretty good.
A steel deck allows for so many more crazy, unexpected pranks
On these real celebrities,
And that's where the stakes of the studio comes from.
[ screams ]
Yeah!
[ screams ] oh, my god!
[ grunts ]
What the [bleep] is that?
Stop [bleep] with me, y'all!
Nice talking to you. I think some of the --
What I enjoy very much is some of the times
That he makes guests uncomfortable.
Sandy: There are times when I watch the show, and I'm like,
"I can't imagine what it must be like
To be on the receiving end of this bit."
How many eggs you got, man?
You got to be really easygoing
When you come do "the eric andre show."
Sandy: You would never see any other late-night
Show host make their guest feel uncomfortable.
Interviews can last between 45 minutes and an hour.
The reason why we shoot for so long
Is because celebrities aren't used to being in the hot seat
For such an extended period of time.
Their defenses just start breaking down,
And you start seeing the person behind the facade.
We call it pinwheeling, like when your computer freezes.
No, I wasn't expecting none of that.
One of the scariest moments of my life.
I didn't know what was going to happen next.
I didn't watch any of the episodes,
So I didn't know what to expect.
Chad: That was [bleep] crazy.
I honestly had no idea what to expect,
Like, each second to the next.
The minute I thought, like, "he's just [bleep] around,"
Then he pissed in the cup.
I was not ready for this.
They never told me to wear something with stain resistant.
And then my man with the beans and the corn?
Man: Do they ever leave, or can they not?
Ti left, and lauren conrad left.
I mean, two out of however many, that's pretty good odds.
We do 20 a season.
So 2 out of 80, that's not bad.
"rapper warrior ninja" is one of my favorite bits.
Man: Should we reprise "rapper warrior ninja?" 100%.
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I don't know what to expect.
But from watching this show,
I think it's best to not know what to expect.
They're spinning around.
We're cattle prodding them. No!
We're blowing them with a leaf blower with the toilet paper.
[bleep] eric andre.
I ain't never coming to this shit ever again, you bitch.
Carly: Alright. Here we go. Rehearsal is up.
This is a stunt.
♪♪
Alright, so today is day one of our set destruction.
Man: This pillar is made out of styrofoam.
There is a section that's got a load in it.
Breaking through the desk and breaking through hector.
Reminder that nudity and explicit language
Happen at any time,
So if you guys have any concerns with that,
Please talk to production.
And action, chainsaws. [ screaming ]
Yeah! [ groans ]
[ groans ]
that's a popcorn.
♪♪
We'll bring him back to life.
Your neck or anything? Eric: No, just my head.
Can I feel it? Yeah.
All around here? Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
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I have a [bleep] concussion.
Man: Yeah. My vision went blurry.
Doug was talking to me,
And I was having [bleep] crazy thoughts.
My brain is bruised.
I hurt myself every year. It sucks.
It has to end because it [bleep] with production.
What do we do if I'm not allowed to do stunts?
Woman: Why do you push yourself so hard?
Eric: Hey, let's give it up for...
[ cheers and applause ]
That's a series wrap on hannibal!
[ cheers and applause ]
I'd like to thank lorne michaels and android, steve martin!
♪♪
Man: Then my man with the beans.
♪ rachity rat, rat, rat ♪