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| DG: I'll have to give him shit. We did a movie together, the remake of The Love Bug. ZM: I have to say I did miss that. I'm sorry. DG: Well, let me tell you how little you missed. ZM: Herbie: The Love Bug was just not a film I thought was crying out to be -- DG: The original, the Scorsese cut, was great. It was originally The Love Bug Driver, with Robert De Niro driving a white VW Bug, and it just didn't work. They went back, and used a cab. ZM: You've got this TV gig now. How much time is that taking each day? DG: That's like having a real job. I'm up in the morning and work all afternoon; it's exactly the opposite of stand-up. You're up in the morning, you work during the day and you work with people. Stand-up, you're alone, you work at night, much like a vampire. You leave at night, you come back in the morning, nobody talks to you. I had Darren McGavin lurking in my yard, and I knew it was time to get a TV gig. ZM: I guess Working is getting decent ratings, isn't it? DG: Working is doing very well, and I hope it goes for another year. We'll find out sometime in May. ZM: Do I understand correctly that you have an album? DG: I have an album called "Funhouse" that's coming out at the end of this month. I'm trying to do everything at once and then die. Do a life's work and spend my last 30 years quivering. ZM: How much of an impact has it had on the stand-up? DG: Well, it's sort of put it on a screeching, dead halt. You work Monday to Friday, you're up every day at 7:30. The first three days of the week, you're done by like 3 or 4. The last two days of the week are 14-hour days. You get two [weeks] one, one off, three on, one off. On your week off, you're just jelly. You don't want to go out on the road. I'm also doing these other projects. I have a pilot I did for MTV, again with Rob Cohen, called Super Adventure Team. It's a parody of Thunderbirds. ZM: Is that the '60s British -- DG: Puppet show? Basically, it's Thunderbirds 90210. I finish Working on March 27th, I deliver my MTV pilot on March 31st, I do Conan O'Brien April 1st, and I start stand-up April 2nd. I'm picking it right back up. After doing all these very collaborative things, it's fun to go back and do stand-up because it's so non-collaborative. Much like my sex life. I prefer stand-up to be one part of the plate. I don't like it when it's the whole deal. I like it to be the peas. ZM: Have you started referring to yourself in the third person yet? DG: I have, in the sense of "Officer, I'm not Dana Gould, if
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