Rob Schneider, a desert backdrop and the Hollywood cruelty Richard Dreyfuss explained
Andrew Gold's talk with the former SNL star is about fame, loyalty and being forgotten, and the comments keep returning to one line and a few cacti.
The Daily HereticStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 997,658 views a day, 60 times a normal first day on this channel (16,599).
Richard Dreyfuss Showed Me Hollywood's True Cruelty – Rob Schneider
Is Richard Dreyfuss the cruel one in the title? He is not, and quite a few commenters stop to say so. The cruelty in "Richard Dreyfuss Showed Me Hollywood's True Cruelty – Rob Schneider" belongs to the industry. In the description, Schneider looks back on his conversations with Dreyfuss and what they taught him about fame and reputation. He also explains why he thinks Hollywood rewards popularity over loyalty and forgets talented people too quickly.
That conversation has carried The Daily Heretic, Andrew Gold's channel, somewhere it rarely goes. In its first 18 hours the interview drew close to 900,000 views, far beyond what a new upload here usually gathers in a full day. The comments came in about twenty times faster than usual.
Many of them repeat one thought of Schneider's, about how a person who comes at life from a sense of lack will never feel full. Others enjoy his Dreyfuss impression, or the desert behind the two men: some viewers say they missed the cacti until someone pointed them out, and a few say they spotted a coyote running past. And plenty go back to the old films, with Schneider's "You can do it" from The Waterboy and hopeful jokes about another Deuce Bigalow.
Schneider came up on Saturday Night Live in the early nineties, where his office worker by the copy machine became a catchphrase of its own. Dreyfuss is the man from Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Gold posted other interviews the same day, including Justin Hawkins on the rumor that Simon Cowell invented The Darkness, and Lauren The Insider, whose Naomi Campbell talk opened strongly a few days earlier, as we reported here, on George Michael and the tabloids. Both are still far behind. Of all the showbiz stories on the channel this week, the one that took off is the one about kindness and loyalty.
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What viewers say
“If you come at life from a place of lacking you’re never going to be filled.” Thank you, Rob.
@cjparenziniSee it on YouTubeRichard Dreyfuss is one of my favorite actors. I am relieved this story wasn't about him *being* cruel.
@carlmanvers5009See it on YouTubeI did not notice the cacti at all until it was mentioned and then I couldn't see anything else. I love that Rob Schneider laughed at that. How funny!😆😆
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- Channel
- The Daily Heretic
- Subscribers
- 308,000 ▲ 4,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 3,254,307
- Channel views, pace per day
- 642,837 (on a normal day: 458,931)
- Video published
- October 2, 2026
- Video views so far
- 883,868 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 997,658
The numbers
Here is how the Schneider interview's first hours compare with a usual opening day on Andrew Gold's channel.
💡 Test your knowledge
In which 1999 comedy does Rob Schneider play a fish tank cleaner who becomes an unlikely gigolo?
Schneider starred as Deuce Bigalow, an aquarium cleaner pushed into the gigolo business, in the 1999 comedy produced by Adam Sandler's company.
