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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If you go Jay-Z first, it turns out Jay-Z Mike O'Brien is not in the search, but Mike O'Brien Jay-Z is like the third.
I don't know. It's hard to say. All right. So it's the Jay-Z story and you play Jay-Z. And I have so many things to say about it. But first, just talk about where this one came from.
But it was fascinating to watch the audience process this. Because first, it's beautifully shot. Yeah. I mean, beautiful black and white. And it's the Jay-Z story. And then the first reveal is that you're Jay-Z. And there's a fear, I think. Because the worst thing that could happen is you're doing an impression, right? We don't want to actually hear you do an impression of Jay-Z. Right.
Which you quickly don't do. You're absolutely playing it like yourself, but you're not even saying things Jay-Z would say. You're super earnest and really sweet.
Yeah. Hater had put a lot of a lot of shoe leather into having taste. Yeah. And I think late in his time, Lauren had a lot of respect for Hader's taste. So if Hader was laughing louder than other people, it was almost extra cool points, I think.
It's also a very funny tone for the Jay-Z story, which is everybody in it is really sweet and encouraging. And I don't even know what your archetype is in this sketch because you're not even like a basic white guy. It's almost like, I don't know, like a movie about a teenage girl. Like it's such a weird.
You're really bashful. Right, bashful. You're on the cover of like a made up rap magazine and you just like clutch it to your chest and fall back on a couch and kick your feet. Which is called awesome rappers.
You, there's really fun moments where you ask how to get home and somebody says you can take the J or the Z. Classic, classic.
It's not a good rap.
I was editing and I couldn't get you on beat. We, I forget the Prince song. Let's go crazy. Maybe there was a network wide promo where they had all the talent on the network saying like one line of that song and Spike Lee directed it. And Spike Lee came to my studio, Studio HE. And I was like, look, I'm just real bad at singing. I'm just going to tell you right now. And he's like, don't worry.
I know how to get this. I've gotten it from a lot. Everybody tells me that. Fine. And we did it for like an hour. And then he walked over. He's like, we couldn't do it. You broke it. He really looked at me. He's like, you were right. He couldn't get it. He goes, you want to just shake your shoulders a little bit? We'll probably cover that.
But it was really, he was really sweet about it. Cause he was like, you know what? I thank you for your honesty early on. I should have listened to you.
At least you got it from the best. That's a, that's very exciting. Yeah. There's a very fun casting move, which is Beyonce comes in played by Sasheer. which then establishes, at least in my mind, when I was watching it, oh, Mike's the only one who's gonna be a white person playing anybody in the story. Then you go talking to Kanye, and then we reveal it's Sudeikis. Yeah.
And then you guys have a very sweet scene where Kanye tells Jay-Z he also wants to be a rapper, and you're incredibly encouraging.
It's so funny. It's so well acted. Was this the sheer thing laid in as a misdirect or was it just she's really good as Beyonce?
i will say if beyonce had also been white it feels like a different sketch right like it happily kind of grounds it back to the world yeah that's interesting with it being this year um there's also of course the really funny thing which i mean has made my favorite part is that jay pharaoh's in this and jay has a lights out jay-z impression yeah and jay must have been sitting there just wondering what had gone wrong
That he was playing Jay-Z's friend and you were the one playing Jay-Z. Yeah.
Yeah, he'd done Jay-Z at that point. So it was at least he didn't have to think, oh, now Mike's the Jay-Z.
I mean, to defend the man, if he hadn't seen it, what a weird moment.
You're like, well, okay. I thought the fact that Leslie set it up like it was a big moment. I do worry that you walked over with a little bit like, it's finally happening. Oh, 100%. The big moment we've both been waiting for. Give me a hug. Come on. Water under the bridge. Hey, no beef. No beef. No beef, man. Did you ever get the sense that after it aired... that J.K. Simmons appreciated.
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