The comedian reflected on his time playing the Minnesota governor during an interview withDana CarveyandDavid Spadeon theirpodcastSuperfly.
Dana, were you secretly hoping like I was?
“I don’t want him to humiliate himself.
Jim Gaffigan as Tim Walz on ‘Saturday Night Live’.Will Heath/NBC via Getty
He’ll, you know, be in some [sketches], but they’re competing for attention.
“To me, Tim Walz has been not around that much,” he said.
“I just saw a speech or two or whatever.
Tim Walz.Chip Somodevilla/Getty
So I couldn’t, when I see you, I see, ‘It’s Tim Walz.’
I mean, no one knows the idiosyncratic speech things he has.
I mean, you have the prayer hands and pounding the heart.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Gaffigan explained that hisSNLcasting stemmed from a little white lie from his manager.
“And I go, ‘Really?’
And he goes, ‘Yes.
So, now they’re kind of saying, Can I see those videos?'”
I actually love the last minute aspect of it,” he explained.
The comedian said that he was left to his own devices when shaping his impression.
“It wasn’t like people were like, ‘Tim Walz does this.
Can you add it?’
It was left up to me, which I know is surprising.
Listen to the full conversation between Gaffigan, Carvey, and Spade above.
