Jim Breuer | Full Episode | Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade 

I KNEW IT 💩 Talk about a blood sport

Here's Adam McKay's version of the story from an improv4humans podcast episode in 2013. Jim sounds like a paranoid unreliable narrator to me, and the grudge he clearly still holds is kind of pathetic. And much like the rest of the interview, Jim refuses to consider that maybe his own actions have consequences and that he is not just a perpetual victim. "The network made Lorne hire Jim Breuer when we came on. It was when the show’s ratings were getting kind of low. So Jim then comes on the show, and Jim’s a great guy. I had no problem with Jim whatsoever. Completely cool guy, wrote sketches, [I] put him in sketches. Zero problem with him at all. And he actually has a good run on the show. He does “Joe Pesci Show,” which was a huge hit, he did this “Goat Boy” thing. Very popular … he has a good run and then he starts doing Half Baked and I think he has another movie in development. And you see this with people sometimes on there; they’re like halfway out the door.And Jim kind of hit that point, so Lorne started saying, “What about Jim Breuer? It seems like he’s not totally here, and some of the writers were complaining. He’s not fully committed to the show, and I was like, “Yeah, seems like he’s had his run.” … Really what was happening was Lorne never got over that he was forced to hire him, was happy that he did well, and was going to the room, “Does anyone agree?” And I was like, “Yeah, I agree,” kind of naively. So I think when the word got passed to Jim, it was like, “McKay did this.” Now, in fairness to Jim, I definitely thought it was time for him to move on, there’s no question about it." "They never really tell you why when you get fired. You get a call from your agent saying they’re not picking up your contract and then, maybe you can talk to one of the producers under Lorne and that’s kind of all you get and it’s always really vague … I did want to just make the simple point clear that I did not hire or fire people. That was Lorne Michaels. I wish I had; I argued sometimes that I should have been able to, and Lorne would go, “What the fuck are you talking about? It’s my show,” and he was right." Link to the Vulture article with these quotes: www.vulture.com/2013/11/adam-mckay-responds-to-jim-breuer-saying-he-got-him-fired-from-snl.html

​@@talktodankYeah, I'm believing McKay on this one. Jim doesn't exactly have the best track record when it comes to anything that involves factual information.

I believe McKay too, but even if they hated each other, McKay has more talent in his pinkie toe than Breuer has in his whole body so he was the one to keep.

@@talktodank Jim Breuer and Norm MacDonald were just about the ONLY two funny cast members of the new mid and late '90s cast. It was a huge mistake to get rid of both of them. SNL has been unfunny GARBAGE since 1995 except for rare exceptions like those two men. The show has been so bad that I'm not surprised that Lorne and all the people greenlighting the dreck they put on agreed that it was a good idea to fire some of their only funny cast members.

Disappointing but i can see it

Thanks for the post. I was definitely looking for someone that would know. I was happy it wasn’t John Manley. I like him and didn’t want to have a back story about him being a dick.

It was cool to hear Jim again. His old show from the Sirius show got me through a lot of driving times

I was just thinking it might have been Adam McKay .

Was most likely political prejudice and cancel culture. McKay is a raging leftist and Breuer obviously is not. I don't know how political Breuer was back then but I'm sure he hated political correctness. it's not surprising that the two most anti-PC guys from that era, Jim and Norm, were fired. This was the beginning of the entertainment industry getting woke and soft.

Agreed!

Same! I just WISH it was video'd!

Read the comment above that tells the whole story.

Man I miss that Sirius show.

Just got on RU-vid. Guaranteed someone's put them together. If not, they're definitely individually up there.

Me too. Hate that

Touchstone made a pilot for Clerks: The TV Show in 1995. They didn't even ask Kevin Smith to help develop it. He eventually got involved, but they rejected a script he wrote. The actors who did Dante and Randal in the movie auditioned for their parts, but were rejected in favor of Andrew Lowery and Jim Breuer.

Not even close to the same thing.

I liked the part when he screeched out his asshole for 5 minutes and then called his microphone a retard. Jim truly is a brave hero patriot.

A swing and a miss.

Are you a bot or just evil?

@@TatumHildebrand maybe COVID denialism is also a low thing to joke about. Over 1 million dead. Proportionately, making fun of one person having cancer is nothing compared to that.

Who got him fired? No, it was Adam McKay. He’s named him in other interviews.

BDS much?

butthurt much?@@Geronimo_Jehoshaphat

@@pleasantfuryrecords I don't run in those circles, my perpetually prolapsed pervert.

You sound like a brainwashed Biden voter.

Going full MAGA is a good thing, the opposite is full lefty/liberal...not a good look these days.

He’s awake to the evils of the pharma dictatorship, so good on him.

I don't think he went full MAGA but he went full common sense against big pharma one narrative BS

Conspiracy theorists in 2024= people who can still think for themselves.

What bullshit? A Vaccine?

What are you talking about? Psycho.

Woke woke woke? Woke woke Hillary's e mails woke woke! Woke woke woke Hunter Biden woke. Woke woke woke woke woke woke!

He's a brilliant storyteller and has a couple specials up on RU-vid.

I believe there was a time he opened & warmed up the Metallica concerts! He’s the best 😅

Extraordinary men, tells it like it is, best son, husband, dad and very talented and caring and independent thinker

You fell for the hoax, lol.

You like trump? He’s a celebrity.

@@hokahey7236 you like him, huh?

@@hokahey7236 you American? Who did you vote for?

Ya I was cracking up…Jim has his own opinions and his own comedy…I guess call Dana or David up and tell them how disappointed you are in them.

@@Joy-gx8fq we don’t have to, they’ll read it