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You’ve spoken about your dream of being on SNL, and you’re certainly inching closer every day! You and Joe just appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers. Walk me through the moment you realized you guys booked that. And what was it like stepping on that stage?
Frank: Our team had heard from them back in January, and we’re like, “We’re available, let us know.” But then every step of the process, it just felt more like whoa, whoa, whoa. And Seth Meyers in particular…you know, Joe and I grew up idolizing Saturday Night Live, and comedy as a whole. We would sit there, go sketch by sketch, and talk about our favorite cast members, who the best guest hosts were, and stuff like that. So when we saw Seth Meyers, who had an incredible run on Saturday Night Live, we were just like, “Oh my god. This is crazy.” Also, because you know, [Late Night with Seth Meyers] is so close in proximity to where SNL tapes. It was nuts.
I tend to try to temper my excitement until something is happening. I don’t like to count my eggs before they hatch. But then we were getting picked up, going into the building, and stuff like that… The team over at Late Night with Seth Meyers was so cool and kind, and Seth himself was incredibly kind and took a moment to talk with us. He didn’t need to do that, but it’s so heartwarming. You grow up your whole life idolizing these people and seeing people on that stage, and thinking, well, it makes sense for those people, and then you get the opportunity to do it, and it’s just like, well, I don’t know if I deserve to be here. Here’s this guy we’ve watched for 20-odd years, and he’s being kind, talking to us and our partners about life, and congratulating us. It’s all crazy, and it’s heartwarming.
People have always said, “Don’t meet your heroes,” and you get afraid, wondering what it’s going to be like. But if this is just a glimpse into what meeting people we’ve idolized could be, boy oh boy, we can’t meet them quickly enough. The team, the experience, everything, was so incredible, and it felt validating. We don’t feel crazy for loving these people for what they did professionally. They’re seemingly good people, as well.
On the ride home with my wife, I got a little emotional because it’s validating. Everyone, as a kid, has these dreams and these hopes. Bottom of the ninth, game seven of the World Series, bases are loaded, you swing, and you hit a grand slam. Then, when that opportunity actually presents itself, and it’s happening, you’re like, “Oh man, I wasn’t crazy for thinking I could get there.”
Of course, it’s easy to say from our perspective because we have gotten to these opportunities, but I’d be lying if there weren’t times when I didn’t overthink, or think, “Maybe I’m just gassing myself up.” So it was validating, it was emotional, it was fun. If they ever had us back, that’d be incredible. I don’t even want to think about the possibility of Saturday Night Live because I might start convulsing and going into shock right here on the floor.
And my approach to the whole thing, as well as all of our live shows, is: The moment is coming. There’s nothing you can do to escape it. So, how are you going to approach it? Are you going to go out there and do your thing, or are you going to let the moment be bigger than you?
