Ike Barinholtz
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519 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 28 Apr
Ike Barinholtz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But my Arnold was not great, especially that was a huge bummer because Will Sasso was on the show. I really kind of like replaced him and he did the funniest Arnold. So then I had to come in and do my kind of half-baked one that wasn't that great and it wasn't funny and it wasn't as good as Will's. Well, it's already good. But Will's was like a tour de force.
You know, I kind of look like Mark Wahlberg, so.
That was kind of, you know, but there was a lot of times too, where I would just get, I remember one time I got assigned, they were doing a Frazier parody of, And the writer's like, you're going to play John Mahoney, who was the father on Frager, who was a great actor. And I was like, I can't play. He's like an older man. And I remember sitting in. We did a lot of prosthetic makeup.
And I remember sitting in makeup for like two hours. as they're aging me and I was complaining so much and I was on set and I only had like three lines. And one of them was I'm John Mahoney. And, uh, I complained so much that they cut down my lines where I only said that in the sketch.
Five hours of prosthetic makeup, six hours to get it off, getting it off when I put that like alcohol directly in your eyeball. And they're like, Oh, don't worry. It's on my phone.
He was a baseball player for the Texas Rangers. And he was, He was like a big steroid guy and he kind of famously went in front of Congress and was like, I did not take steroids.
So we did like a parody called like, oops, I just took steroids or something. I can't remember what it was, but that was another impression that I still am getting a lot of love for. People are constantly asking me to do a baseball player who retired in 1996.
I loved it. Well, he became a senator. You know he became a senator.
So I was there. So there was a theater that a bunch of dudes in Chicago started because like Dutch comedy back in the day was Josh Myers, right? They love Josh Myers was was there. Seth Myers was there and I kind of came in right after him. But I was there with Brendan Hunt, who I don't know if you guys watched Ted Lasso. He's Coach Beard. Oh, yeah, yeah.
I love that guy. Yeah. And then, well, I was there for just about two years. And we had great people come through. Sudeikis came through there for a year. Sudeikis. Jordan Peele. Sudeikis was there. Jordan Peele.
Miss Kakowski. Kay Cannon, who directed me in blockers. Amber Ruffin.
um just all these really uh really funny people and it was a really fun time too because it was like before like it was like before 9-11 you know what i mean like it wasn't the euro yet it was it was uh the gilder yeah so it was really uh uh nice and i still talk to a lot of the sex workers i befriended while i was there we still keep in touch sex workers okay
Well, they just, they just really like Josh kind of went native for a while and dated like a Dutch woman for a long time. And yeah, the Dutch people as a people, they're very like reserved. They're very, but they're very honest. Like they're, they would come up to you after the show and be like, I did not think you were the funniest one. I thought your black friend was funnier.
The woman, the woman, the song about sex was very good as well. So congratulations and goodbye. Thank you.
I mean, my goal was Representative Lucknick when I was a child. But as I got older, I went to college. And I, I didn't, I knew I didn't want to be in politics. I was a terrible student in college and, and I, I kind of eventually got kicked out of college because I stopped going to class. And I was drawn to acting and I didn't, and I was drawn to comedy, but I didn't know where to start.
And my dad took us to see, uh, the improv Olympics. I think like they're maybe their fifth
year anniversary or their 10 year anniversary and i saw improv for the first time and i saw adam mckay and i saw uh amy poehler and specifically the person who made me laugh so hard that i was like i need to do this was tim meadows oh great like he is to me like one of just the funniest people in the world absolutely and watching him on stage just kind of enter a scene and
make a random joke and got such a big laugh i was like i'm signing up for improv classes i gotta do so that was that i was i was like 18 at the time and and i was i really kind of jumped all in it was so much fun and you're 18 at that point and how old were you when you got mad tv was that kind of your biggest break and then you went from oh that was my first break yeah i got mad tv i was probably 24
five ish yeah okay um wow it was great i was making that that late night money which when you're broke you're like uh i'm basically steve jobs uh and then as you learn you're like oh late night money is terrible it's not in the grand scheme of yes you know acting yeah but you're on a job you worked with dell close that was farley's guy he used to talk a lot yeah man Oh, yeah.
I hung out with Farley a couple of good. I got I got to meet him a couple of times. And he was like my idol, you know, like I loved him so much. I remember one time he came, I was a bus boy at second city. Um, and I remember he would come in once in a while and he was always so nice.
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