Doug Abeles

So there's a lot of just chatting with people

your colleagues that are also um sort of killing time and then occasionally if they know it's going to be a long time between setups between shots you know they'll send us all back to the holding area and then that's where i have my laptop and a book and and so on yeah so yeah and

Fortunately, yesterday there was very little downtime.

We weren't sitting around for a lot.

We were on set for most of the day.

So you watched Colin Farrell perform, did you?

Up close?

Very, very up close.

Yes.

Was he good?

Good actor?

Incredible.

Unrecognizable.

Just amazing.

i i did do that um for snl um i actually it it's funny i had sort of the first stuff i ever got on television what were jokes that i faxed in to snl to weekend update which is like the fake news segment

And I was in a sketch group, but I, at that time, I was working as a telemarketer and I had joined, I was in my 30s already.

So I came to this very late, but I kind of just

shits and giggles wanted to try something in comedy and um so i joined a sketch writing group and that led to a writing class and and and then that and then the writing class led to another sketch group and my colleagues were some of them started faxing in jokes to weekend update this is when the stand-up norm mcdonald was it normal donald's time was it

Yeah, so late, late, late 90s.

And they got, were getting jokes on.