Dennis Leary

Yeah.

Because we couldn't... The juniors and seniors would get the acting roles, rightfully so, before they graduated.

You had to...

wait in line there was a seniority system everybody had to play a major lead role in a play or a musical before you left the school to get your degree because it was acting and writing right so we got there like we're never going to get on stage then we found out you could for you can get money from the student government to form a theater group we were all comedy nerds we loved snl which is the beginning of snl at that time and python uh prior carlin um

We all loved those shows, like the Mary Tyler Moore, all those funny women on the Mary Tyler Moore show.

So a bunch of us formed the group, and it was packed with talent.

Lauren Dombrowski, who was my girlfriend at the time, ended up being one of the producers of Mad TV.

Mario Cantone was in the original group, who was just like, who was as funny...

At that time, when we were 18 years old, as he is now, there were so many talented people in that era.

And then there was a couple of guys later in the comedy workshop who ended up writing on The Simpsons.

John Frank.

Yep.

I know John Frank.

And my generation, after I left the comedy workshop, then it was David Cross and Laura Keitlinger.

I mean, there was an insane amount of talent at that school.

Well, it's the type of kids-

it's the theater kids from high school, the funny kids from high school, the, the best dancers, the film.

Those are the kinds of kids who go to a school like Emerson.

So that's like, it's more, you're finding people more like yourself.

Yeah.