Mike O'Brien
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120 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
Mike O'Brien’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was fantastic in it and I actually can't go back and watch it because it is one of the sketches that I remember going a little bit better at dress. And so I'm still just a little mad at how, because it required a lot of choreography and a lot of really intense cutting. And it was just, it was not bad at air, but it was so perfect at dress. But then Mike was like, oh, Bruno Mars.
I know what that should do. Wear a full, full mouse costume and walk around Times Square being sad. Literally nothing about Bruno Mars makes you think he'd be good as a sad guy. It's just like a bottle of joy.
Yeah, right. I'm blaming it on other things. And it's just not. It was just a hotter audience.
It's really super fun.
I mean, I watched a bunch of yours today. Like there is a core sincerity that goes through all of them. So I feel like we are bearing the premise. So Sad Mouse starts with Bruno Mars. He's talking to Sudeikis about how bad things are going. I think his girlfriend broke up with him.
And then Sudeikis is sort of taking this in and you don't quite know their relationship. And then it turns out Sudeikis basically says, this is the easiest hundred bucks you're ever going to make. You're going to put on this patriotic mouse costume and walk around Times Square and take pictures and then people will pay you and we'll split it 50-50. And then, oh, he says you got to wave at people.
And Bruno, and I will say watching it back, I kind of can't believe Bruno hasn't been an actor. He's so good in it. And his face is so, I mean, it's so camera friendly.
But yeah. And then he says, you know, he wants the job, obviously, but he's really worried in his fragile state that if he waves at somebody, they don't wave back. It's going to be like the straw that broke the camel's back. We're all just watching and rooting. The one, of course, callback to the setup is Bruno Mars is sitting in Times Square. It's clearly just regular people.
Like you said, Mike, nobody is clocking that it's Bruno Mars. He's got a letter from his girlfriend and then he also has a letter from his dad. Which I feel like a dad who had a secret second family wouldn't send, wouldn't tell you with a photo of the new family.
But then it just resolves itself with, you know, he sees somebody in a frog costume and they just kind of wave at each other. There's no, there's not more than that. But it's genuinely, you can tell by the audience reaction, there was an emotional investment in it.
Oh, here we go. Let's hear it.
Oh my God, I want to see that so bad. I can't believe I have no memory of this and I'm sitting here praising you for your restraint.
Yeah, people like sincere. I wrote an episode of a documentary now called Globesman. It was based on salesmen. And the original ending was Fred and Bill get into a car and just get T-boned by this rival Atlas salesman. And so it was this real dark ending. And Bill, I wasn't on set. I was doing my show and they were filming it out in L.A.
And Bill was like, hey, man, Fred's playing it really sad because they were getting T-boned right after Fred had like a minor victory. And he's like, I think people are going to be super bummed out if it ends with him dying. And it was the same thing. Like, I didn't have the confidence to just let it end nice. Yeah.
And it was, thank God for Bill's good instincts, because it is the way it ends now. I love. And it's so crazy. I also think probably somebody was like, can you call Seth so we don't have to have a car accident?
Yeah. I think it helps that you tried the other. So you at least know. Yeah. You know, even if you got burned by your friends. Yeah. Well, even though like your friends are like, what was that? You're like, Lauren would let me do the furry stuff.
But it was one of those that was so different. I remember, and correct me if I'm wrong, it got really good feedback, right? People really liked it.
Yeah, no, I love it. I love it. It just makes it stand out immediately. Totally, completely to show your range here. So first of all, then I know this is a real burn on your and my other two co-hosts. They just fully, Lorne was like, yeah, you can put a Mike O'Brien film up there. It was okay for anybody else. It was so funny. Lorne held the line so hard on Digital Short.
Then he's like, call it what you want. Sure.
I don't know about the musical talent because this segues really nicely into the Jay-Z short. The Jay-Z one, I had a really funny thing, which is the first time I went looking for this today on YouTube, I wrote Mike O'Brien, and I think the third option was Jay-Z. Then later, I accidentally went and looked for it, and I wrote Jay-Z first, and your name does not pop up. Whoa, weird.
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