Andy Samberg
Appearances
Fresh Air
Sterling K. Brown Was Told By Hollywood To Lose The "Smart-Guy Thing"
Okay. So the night of the murder, you met with Robert in the surgical suite. Why there? Why not your office? I was just preparing for the next day's surgeries. Don't you have an assistant who does that? I'm a meticulous person. I'm careful how I do things.
Fresh Air
Sterling K. Brown Was Told By Hollywood To Lose The "Smart-Guy Thing"
I forgot what I was going to say. Come back to me. Now, we did a sweep of the room where you and Robert fought. Talked. Right, talked. The entire room had been scrubbed. It had been cleaned. It had undergone industrial sterilization to remove all traces of blood and DNA. It's a surgical sweep.
Fresh Air
Sterling K. Brown Was Told By Hollywood To Lose The "Smart-Guy Thing"
If you had said yes, I would have had you. So, after you and Robert fought, you left the office, but you didn't take your car? I went to a bar with Scotchman.
Fresh Air
Sterling K. Brown Was Told By Hollywood To Lose The "Smart-Guy Thing"
Oh, man, if I go ten minutes without looking at my phone, my pumpkin crop dies on my little farm. This is not the time for stories about your digital squash, Peralta. Fine.
Fresh Air
Sterling K. Brown Was Told By Hollywood To Lose The "Smart-Guy Thing"
So you took a cab to this bar, but we talked to the employees of the Scotchman. Nobody saw you there. Nobody remembers seeing me.
Fresh Air
Sterling K. Brown Was Told By Hollywood To Lose The "Smart-Guy Thing"
Oh, so you said. But when we ran all the credit card receipts, nobody named Dana bought any drinks that night. Hey, trust me. Dana wasn't buying her own drinks.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
And we were like, we're cooked. That was our shot. And we were writing together, splitting a single writing check, working on the MTV Movie Awards for the second year in a row. The three of you? Yeah. Wow. And the first year we wrote for it, it was Lindsay Lohan. And then the second year we did it, it was Fallon. And so Fallon came in hosting and he brought all the SNL people with him.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
And we just hung out with them basically for three or four straight weeks and loved them and hit it off. And Higgins and Shoemaker were there who were, you know, one is still a big producer there and the other now runs Seth's show. But they were high up there. And Jimmy was obviously.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
The SNL guy. And so we, me, Keevan Yoram, and some others were responsible for writing a few of the, like, pre-tapes where you put the host in the movies from that year. Right. And we wrote a Star Wars one and a Batman one that both got picked. So we were just hanging out with everyone on set, pitching jokes. And they were like, hey, these guys seem like they love comedy a lot.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
In a way that, you know, you sometimes are shocked to realize that people don't.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Invited to audition. I had done stand-up at that point for six or seven years, on and off, starting in college, and I'd been on Premium Blend on Comedy Central, which was a thing.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Yes. I wouldn't say I was like... H-O-T in the biz, but... Yeah, H-O-T. I was at the edge of it, though. I had just gotten to the point where I went in for the meeting at the Improv on Melrose to be like, hey, you could come start doing real spots.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
I auditioned first, and it went pretty good. And they said, we want you to come back. And then at that time, they asked Keeva and Jorm if they also wanted to audition. And so Jorm did, and Akiva said, no, I don't want to be on camera. And then the three of us also submitted a writing packet on behalf of the three of us. So we were kind of hedging our bets in all directions. Yeah.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
We weren't hired for that, interestingly. We had been doing it. Like we'd even made a few joke raps. Thank you very much.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
That's right. That's right. Forgive me. And Smigel? Much less frequently, but his were great, obviously.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
But tell people what Lazy Sunday is. Yeah, yeah. Lazy Sunday was our first hashtag comedy rap that we aired on the show.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
It was me and Parnell, the great Chris Parnell. Chris Parnell. Who everyone on earth loves.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
know we had done like i said we had done stuff on our own like that um for like thelonelyisland.com um and like tried to get it put on other websites that had bandwidth for streaming before youtube existed but you got you guys emerged at the same time you youtube was created which was yes phenomenal yeah and crazy it was very fortuitous for us where it was like oh youtube became a thing at the moment we had this song people wanted to share yeah
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Keevan Yorm had done one. on their own, which was an idea we'd had for a while, I left town to do some general meetings.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
I mean, obviously, we're familiar with your work. Sure. Not going to say any of it because we're not.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
They're gonna call. Yeah. Anyways, they made a little music video thing called Bing Bong Brothers, which was a send-up of this song by the Yin Yang twins, and we showed it to Shoemaker and Higgins, and they were like, this is great, but we have so much cast right now. Our first season, I think we had, like, 17 or 18 cast members.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
And they were like, if you can do stuff like this but put the cast in it, you don't even have to ask our permission. Just go shoot something. And if it's good, then we can try and use it at dress to change sets. Because we always need pre-tape pieces to change over sets during commercial breaks. And stuff is not enough always. And it can save other people's live sketches if you have a pre-tape.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, right. That was kind of honestly why they were pushing us to do it. And so then... We did one that was based on an idea Forte had had called Lettuce, where it's just me and him dramatically having a conversation and taking huge bites out of heads of lettuce on the stoop. And that was the first one that aired. Yes, yes. That's so good. Just the most Forte shit ever.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
I forgot about that. I'm just going to be so serious. Yeah, that's his entire life. And then we did another one that was basically that one again called Peyote that didn't air until the end of that season. And then the third one we shot was Lazy Sunday, which was a dork rap about me and Parnell having a lazy Sunday going to see the Chronicles of Narnia.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Lazy Sunday was very similar to a song Keev and Jorm had done before we were on SNL called The Heist, which was about them, you know, talking about chamomile tea and stuff. So it was totally very like, this is our version of that, you know, which now we feel slightly guilty about because everyone and their mom has done that and still some are doing it. And it feels a little like, okay, we get it.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
And then... Like Dick in a Box was Timberlake hosted and was like, we were chatting with him in our office and sort of realized we all had come up on the same music in the early 90s, like that early 90s R&B. And that we loved that style. And he was obviously capable of singing it really, really well.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
You know, I look back at it now, I'm like, oh, this is like almost fully back in style.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
No. Yeah. Not me. I mean, High Rod, you know all about because you're in it. Sure. And you're fantastic in it, and we were so grateful you did it. Yes.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Yeah. I mean, we were psyched, and we knew that it was a window that had opened and you got to go through it, but it was also like... I mean, I had been on someone's desk like a year and a half before that.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Dreaming of this happening. And then all of a sudden it's like, boom. And it's happening so fast. This is the thing I've really thought about more as we've gotten older is it never occurred to me how anyone else was perceiving us because we were so in it and like shot out of a cannon. And now I'm like, oh, if that happened to someone now, I'd be like, who the fuck are these guys? Yeah.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Yes. Also, we were still, like, not just actually young, but, like, young in the industry. So for us, we still had the, like, no, man, we're going to make it this.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
And we wanted, like, Wet Hot American Summer. Right. And I think Hot Rod ended up somewhere in between.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
That must have been... But, you know, we had shot... Keeve had directed basically everything we had done for five straight years leading up to that. Like, we moved to L.A. together and just started shooting stuff because we both went to film school.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
And that was the plan. Like, we're just gonna keep shooting stuff and show people why we're funny and not try to tell them.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, it couldn't be more serious. He's like, say babe three more times.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
And I feel like I'm a creative producer if that's a thing. For sure. And it's not for everyone.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Like a hardcore producer-producer is the person who's actually talking to all the production heads and putting together a movie or a show and dealing with the studio or network on a daily basis. And it's a grind and it's a specific skill set and it's a specific personality type that is really valuable and rare to find someone that's great at it. And then for me, I'm like...
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
I am heavily involved in the creative decisions of everything I'm in, basically.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
If whoever I'm working with is amenable. Right. But like, that to me is, that was my role with the guys, with Keev and Jorm. So that's kind of how I developed.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
I mean, I was technically directing, but I didn't enjoy it because it's just so much multitasking. And I also wanted to be acting in stuff. I mean, I don't know. I am blown away by people like yourself that can act in it while directing. That to me is such a head fuck. I don't know how.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
But the one thing that worries me more than anything is giving notes to the actors I'm in a scene with.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Like, I have this, like, insecurity as soon as I'm like, can you do it more like this? And they're like, what you do wasn't so great. Yeah, you do it more.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Yes, we did eight seasons of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, for example, and I was a producer on that. And as the show went on, I would definitely be on set as a producer, not just an actor, a lot creatively and making sure scenes were working and being a big part of editing with Dan Gore and knowing like... we're going to need like some alts on the end of this scene because this isn't playing.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
You can just feel it in the room. It's not landing right. And then you powwow and you pitch a couple extra jokes and then you have each cast member try a different thing and then you know you have options and blah, blah, blah.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Well, thanks. I grew up in a house that music was always playing. And me and one of my two sisters were both kind of just always obsessed with music. I... I don't know exactly why. I think, you know, I had a father who had a great appreciation of it, had a big record collection. And then when I hit like junior high and high school, I pretty much just went to the record store all the time.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
I grew up in Berkeley, California, where the first Amiibo music was built. And I was at Amiibo Records in high school two or three times a week. Just DITC, which is Digging Through the Crates.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
You can go backwards, actually. It was definitely all kinds of music. I mean, I think a lot of people that grew up in the Bay Area would say the same thing, which is music is just a big part of the culture there for no matter who you are as a kid there. So like there were definitely people who were like, we're punks and we listen to punk and like we're backpackers and we listen to hip hop.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
But most people were like, I listen to 12 genres of music and I love the history of all of them. And we were certainly that. And my friend group was that where we'd be like super into dance hall and reggae, but also super into contemporary hip hop and punk.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
old hip-hop and old funk soul because of hip-hop because we chased down the samples from our favorite hip-hop songs and yeah yeah but also like i love bob dylan and grew up listening to bob dylan and wore my mom's purple scarf to try and look like bob dylan in high school that's
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
did as kind of just like as like a side project because yorm was unavailable so we didn't want to do a proper lonely island album without him uh concept album and then we did like a visual poem kind of like lemonade and very quietly released it on netflix and it's really funny he was mark mcguire and i'm jose can say go and the whole thing is an album of if the two of them had made a rap record in the late 80s that they're during their heyday what would it sound
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Those summers were so fun. And everyone, the coolest thing about it was how much space we had, and we just put out, like, everyone in comedy come over.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
And it really happened. Like, we have photos of so many of the people that are just the biggest names in comedy now that swung by because they were like, hey, I heard those Lonely Island guys have this stupid house in Encino. Oh, that's great. And we would just drink and have fun and then record songs and knew we were banking them for the next season of SNL. That's so cool.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
I don't know that we'll do another house rental ever unless it's like a compound for all the kids to run around in. Do that. Right. But I definitely think we're going to try and make more music. I don't think we're done.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Can we get a time check on how long it was since the last dick joke? I just want to point out, I didn't start that one. That was not me. I was not the instigator. I jumped right in. How hard is it for you to not talk about dicks?
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Yes. I mean, I have said forever, and it's really genuinely true, that at eight I just said that I wanted to be on SNL specifically. Oh, my God. That's great. I love that. That's amazing. I was into WWF wrestling, and there was that show called Saturday Night's Main Event, which was on once a month.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
But yeah, so the nights that it wasn't on was SNL. So I found it by accident as a kid and watched it. And it was, you know, Lovett's Carvey era. And you wrote a letter saying doing, like what, of goals or something? Oh, no, I think it was like a school assignment where it was like fill in the blank thing. And it was like, when I am older, I will be. And I was like, a comedian, obviously.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
And now I'm friends with people that I would meet in my dreams. Right. That were cast members on the show and then I got on the show and they were still working there because we watched every episode. It was my absolute obsession. That's so great. And then now I'm like, oh yeah, now I just like chat with them whenever.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
I think it was similar to what I was expecting. Yeah. because I had read so much about it. But the thing I wasn't expecting was for it, and I genuinely mean this, for it to go so well for us.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Like having watched it and having seen how hard it is, especially in terms of like how quickly, because the thing about SNL generally, unless you're like one of 10 people, is you have to like ingratiate yourself to the SNL audience and give them time and space to figure out what you do that is funny and why.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
And so for us, speaking to what we were just talking about with Lazy Sunday, that was a crazy shortcut to the path I thought we were on. Like when Lazy Sunday aired, Will, you asked, and I didn't answer it, what was it like when you guys were in the studio when that aired? We were not thinking like, we did it! We were just like, oh, we got something on. I'm so relieved.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
We're not going to get fired. Right. Because we're halfway into our first season.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Yes. And the press part of it. Like, we immediately were, like, in touch with the NBC PR people. Wow. Which I was like, oh, I don't know anything about this world. And they're like, hey, New York Times wants to talk to you. You guys free right now? We were just like, okay. Jeez. Sure.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
for me nick cage because he came on and did it with me yes i remember that and the cage thing and he you know he was so cool about it and he did not have to be because we were like doing a psychotic character and saying it was nick cage you know what i mean it was like right and i was and and still am and we all are a massive fan of nick cage and i've seen so many of his movies and that's how it ended up being something i could do because i was like i've seen him talk so much
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
And by the way, when you're on SNL, this is the thing I always think about because I'm like... I never got into comedy to, like, do impressions or make fun of anyone. Obviously, amongst my friends, we'll talk shit about literally anything. Sure. And anybody. But, like, when you're on the show, impressions are such a... It's such currency, right?
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
And you know it plays, and you know it'll get on, and you're just desperately trying to get on. So if you do one that works and everyone's laughing at, it's hard to be like, no, I'm not going to do that. I don't feel good about it morally. Did you have to do it for your audition? Did you have to do impressions? Yes. For your audition, they asked you to do characters and impressions.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
And when I got asked, by the way, I had been doing stand-up, but I had no impressions or characters. So we wrote them all leading up to the audition.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Honestly, by chance, it was Fallon, because I did the temp Fallon voice on the movie awards for the storyboards of the pre-tape we wrote. And then Jimmy, who is, you know, the nicest and was so nice to us. He really helped put us on.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
But he heard me, like, in the temp VO of the, like, animatic, which is, you know, the storyboards of, like, whatever it was, and it was me being like, oh, my God, we gotta go, Batman, you know? And he was like, who's doing my voice?
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
And so they were like, even Higgins was like, hey, when you audition, you should do Jimmy. And I was like, oh. Oh, yeah. Really? So I did Jimmy Fallon at a funeral, but he was like, oh, my God, so sad. LAUGHTER
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
And I made up a few other ones that were like, I knew I couldn't do them, so the joke was that they were one word. So I did like, this is like Alan Rickman in Die Hard. And I just went, McClay and... And you're like, okay. This guy can't do impressions.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
um we don't work on music together because yeah yeah mine's pretend and hers is arguably amongst the best ever yeah in my opinion she's tell me about her what what is it did she's is she playing innocent in an orchestra No, no, her name's Joanna Newsom. She's a singer-songwriter who plays harp and piano and sings at the same time. Yeah, Jay, you would love it.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Yes. I mean, we met because I was at her concert with Fred and our friend Matt Murray because I was obsessed with her music.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Yeah. Wait, who's the panther? our writer friend matt murray i forget who dubbed him the panther maybe like spivey or someone somebody like that or dratch possibly that he would sit in the corner quietly and then yeah when somebody goes like oh that's the panther like that but because he would lay in the cut and wait and then strike with his joke that would kill everybody after right so funny yeah
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
No, it wasn't. She, uh, we just met and hung out all together that night, just friendly style. But Fred had met her and her friends at a, at a music festival that he had been at, I guess in the summer previous. And, uh, And it just worked out. I had been listening to her albums for years and been to her show before even.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
But when I met her, it turned out she and her siblings had watched Lonely Island stuff. So it was very comfortable and not as creepy as I was.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
the the main part of the bleachers like the main walk that you do towards the main stage and seinfeld was on i think he did really with seth on update and he stopped and started talking to me and i was like holy so we were just chatting and i was like oh yeah it's like yeah this and that and then i was like i looked up at you know they have monitors all backstage showing you what's airing and i just like casually look up and i'm like
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
oh, I'm in this sketch and it just started. Oh my God, no way. I was like, I'm so sorry. And just like took off running. And it was a courtroom sketch. I missed getting on before it started. They stopped me and said, no, because I was going to try and run on. Totally by fortune's fucking hell, who knows.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
I had had one line at the top of the sketch, and they had cut it between dress and air, and no one had told me. So I actually didn't screw up the sketch. But I did have my nightmare that I had had every week that time working there and still now have where I'm backstage and I can't find the set.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
I can't find stage and I'm in a sketch and I can't get there and I see it on the monitor and it actually happened. But I got very lucky.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Well, me and Keev and Jorm forever, especially during COVID, and we didn't jump on it like you smart guys... We're like, we should do one. It'll make it that we get to see each other and talk all the time. We should do one where we talk about the digital shorts and every episode can be a digital short and what was going on in our lives and at SNL that week when we did the digital short.
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"Andy Samberg"
And then because we're us, we kind of just let it drift. And then Seth called us and was like, hey, I just had an idea. How would you guys feel about doing a podcast where every episode is about one of the digital shorts and what was going on at the show that week? And I'll host it and my team will organize it and you guys just show up and do it.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Yeah. Yeah. And he'll take, yeah. He's got his good 80%. But I mean, he's late night. No, but it's late night. He's a good guy. Like when other people aren't around, he's nice to me. I love that.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
I'm on a boat, I think, is the biggest selling song we ever did. Is it really? Yeah. I'm on a boat. What's your personal favorite? Double platinum or something stupid. That's incredible. My favorite, if I had to just pick one out of thin air, probably Jack Sparrow with Michael Bolton. Yeah, sure.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
And the reason I would give, and we do generally say this one, and the reason is because it's sort of a confluence of all the ones. So it's like people who really love comedy ride for it. Like I've been told that like writer's rooms have watched it all together and enjoyed it, which is the highest compliment.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
And then also it sounds pretty good and the video's big and slick and it feels like big business, which is something else that we were able to pull off for a short while.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Dear Sister was an idea that we had started shooting before we got SNL. Oh, wow. Yeah, me and Jorm, I think, and my friend Chester, Chester Tam. Because it's originally based on this moment from the end of an episode of that show, The O.C., which we loved. Of course.
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"Andy Samberg"
Where the character, Marissa, shoots someone and it cranks into slow-mo and that song comes on and it's those slow-mo shots of everyone's face being shocked that it's happened and someone falls out of frame and you're like, oh my God, what just happened? And a slow reveal. And I remember us being like, that was fucking good TV. And what is that song? So then I was like, you know, what do we do?
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"Andy Samberg"
We do the same thing over and over again and then make it go faster and faster. So we started doing it, but never even finished it. And then I love that that is one that you like, Will, because for us that week, it was like out of desperation, we said... Oh, man, let's just try that, and then we'll just write an ending for it."
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
And we wrote, like, way more and actually ended up, like... Well, the cast, first of all, the cast, if you look at it on paper, is insane.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
This has been life-affirming, frankly. I wasn't expecting it to be this nice.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Well, guess what? We didn't talk about the box office on Hot Rod. We just skimmed right past that. Oh, we didn't. Yeah, that's true. You know when you set out to make a cult classic?
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"Andy Samberg"
Thank you, guys. You're the greatest. Yeah, keep on keeping on. You are this. And let's just be friends now and hang out, Jason.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
I'll put you guys in touch. Please do. Yes, please. I will. Yes, please. Definitely will. Okay. And Sean, love you.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Oh, so you knew. The retelling. Yeah. This is a major Rashomon. That's pretty true.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
You said something like... No, I said, hey... First off, hadn't seen you in years. I know. Right? Yeah. Hey, I'm about to be on your very successful podcast. That's literally what I said. And you went, no! You're not supposed to tell me! And stormed off. Going like this, la, la, la, la. And I was like, all right. You have a foot on me, first off. Very intimidating.
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"Andy Samberg"
And then I spent the rest of the night at the Vanity Fair party, like, sulking because I ruined your night. You were there? I didn't see you there. I was there. I saw you guys all together promoting the show.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Nice to see you. When I was five, I changed my name to Andy from David. My middle name... It was my first name was David, and then... And we get it.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
I mean, my mom was just cool about it, is basically the short version of the story. Why do you hate David so much? What's wrong with David? I don't know. I just felt like an Andy is the... Are you serious?
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
But honestly, like, when you look at me, the first name you think, personality-wise, obviously, is Adam. That's what everyone calls me on accident. But then... Then after that.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
By the way, everyone has someone that they get the name of that person for. And I always think you get big enough and it stops. But then everyone I talk to has someone.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
jason and will and one of them is notorious for having like a massive wang yeah that's it old 50 pound yeah unit yeah that's pretty good that's how long it took me to bring up dicks wait so let's talk about i'm all what if you hit a stopwatch as soon as you said it in my defense i was i was on ice for a while while you guys chatted about t-shirts and stuff
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
This is nice. It's thrilling to have you. If you could just quiet down, Will. Sorry, Will, we're talking, dude. Just give us one second.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
That's true. I think probably your kids are older than mine, so that decreases our odds.
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"Andy Samberg"
Andy, go. No. I think it was me and Cross, right, Will? Yeah, it was you and Cross. Which, first off, Arrested Development was our favorite show. Like, me, Keith, and Jorm sat around talking about it.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
It was how it was like, this is the first time ever on American television that comedy has been allowed to move this fast and be this funny, and every single person on it destroys, and we were obsessed with it.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Which showed, but like... It felt super different. And we were super big fans of Mr. Show also. So like the cross pollination of those things was making our brains explode. So I was not in SAG. Really? I was doing stand up and we were shooting our own videos and sort of like trying to cobble it together. And then I got the call to come do this like one line.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
I think I was an usher at Blue Man Group. No way. And it was the like next week on the show thing that's not real. Right. And it was me talking across. I think I had one line.
SmartLess
"Andy Samberg"
Yeah. And my hair was just massive. Seth Meyers said when he first met me, it looked like my hair was trying to eat my head. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Cookies w/ Amy Poehler
Okay. Lamps, I appreciate, Seth, this chance to tell me and Andy's side of the story. The first thing I remember, my favorite thing about Lamps, which I have not rewatched, is I think it's one of the first sketches Andy and I wrote together. And I remember being really fun It was like my second season. The one thing I remember for sure about the writing process is we wrote the title.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Cookies w/ Amy Poehler
I think Andy wrote the title and we wrote the first page of it before we had any idea that the lamps were going to sing. So at a certain point.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Cookies w/ Amy Poehler
andy as a lamp just started singing and we were having a blast uh little did we know that the sense of fun was going to soon be replaced by one of the darkest weeks of my professional life wednesday morning they put out the rundown of sketches that are going to get read people see that one is called lamps they're already pissed off uh was that um you know if we had called it lamp store i think they would have been like that's normal we called it lamps it's a sketch about talking lamps
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Cookies w/ Amy Poehler
There's some unease. Was the title chosen to provoke that response? I would say 100%. Yes. It was a really hot table in my recollection. Like you could have picked a whole second show out of the good sketches. So, you know, Lamps did okay at the table and then it got picked. And that's when I feel like there was more of a sense of playful mockery maybe before that. And, oh, you guys are silly.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Cookies w/ Amy Poehler
And then a lot of people had just seen their sketches kill at the table and then not get picked, but lamps got picked. And so people are angry. There's a growing anger. And soon I find out no one is angrier about the sketch lamps than Lorne Michaels, who... I thought picked it. So I'm not sure what happened, but I came in the next day on Thursday for rewrites.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Cookies w/ Amy Poehler
And I remember Shoemaker was telling someone like, yeah, Lauren can't like tell about this one, this one thing in your sketch. And they're like, oh, does he just not want to do this sketch? And Shoemaker's like, no, the sketch he hates is lamps. And he looked at me and he's like, yeah, Lauren hates lamps. He doesn't think it makes sense. He doesn't understand why the lamps are singing.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Cookies w/ Amy Poehler
And I would say we absolutely had no response to that. There was no, if you're looking for an explanation, we simply didn't have it. We never did. Then it blocked, right, Thursday or Friday. And that was when it started to feel like, okay, not only is there for some reason a target on our backs because of lamps,
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Cookies w/ Amy Poehler
It now began to feel like I was being set up to be fired as people came into the control room while it's blocking and are like, so you're okay with the way that looks? And you think this is acceptable, what's happening here? I remember at one point, Steve Higgins, who was always extremely generous and helpful, he came into the control room while the sketch was blocking.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Cookies w/ Amy Poehler
And instead of suggesting something, he just said, you know, this is kind of a mess, right? And then he just got the hell out of there, out of the blast zone. Lauren also came to the control room while it was blocking, which was very rare. And he just said to me, why does the first song have the same melody as Food, Glorious Food from Oliver? Yeah. And I think I impressed him with my response.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Cookies w/ Amy Poehler
I said, I don't know. And he left. And that was my first time I talked to him probably at least another year until I would talk to him again based on on my performance there. The last thing I remember about it blocking. is the lamp costumes weighed approximately 800 pounds and were unbelievably hot and suffocating. So I'm watching on the monitor. I already know I'm on thin ice with Lauren.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Cookies w/ Amy Poehler
I'm watching on the monitor as Kristen Wiig, who is a pro of pros and an absolute trooper always, I just see the life draining from her face as she's being forced to wear an 800-pound costume. We shouldn't have blocked it with the costumes, but we did so that we would get the shots right. Life is draining from Kristen's eyes. At some point, people run in to be like, get it off her.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Cookies w/ Amy Poehler
So anyway, I see this message is already way too long. I'll chop it there. But we got to Saturday. It was fine. I think the expectations had been lowered so much that Lauren was like, oh, okay, whatever, run it. And then to this day, that's lamps. One will never live down.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Doogie Howser Theme
It's the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast. Yeah!
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And with me as always are my band leaders, Jamie Lynn Spears.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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And last but not least, Daniel Dave Lewis. It's actually Daniel Day Lewis, not Daniel Dave Lewis. Oh, I apologize. No trouble at all. Let me get the hell out of here. Excuse me? Take your one first name and get the hell off the show.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Doogie Howser Theme
Okay. Upside down guy on update. Definitely a few of our trademarks here. The first clearly being Andy upside down at the update desk as he was essentially the whole season we wrote, he was upside down on everything we wrote. Also, I would say the fact that the entire piece is about 20 seconds long and
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Doogie Howser Theme
but definitely took at least an hour, probably multiple hours to block and get the timing of Andy's entrance right. So extreme logistical headache for, at best, medium payoff. And then the other trademark, of course, being that it was cut after dress. Bicep, cruelly, you could say. The audience didn't like it. They didn't laugh at it, but that doesn't mean you have to cut it.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Doogie Howser Theme
You could stand up for your friends. Or you could take the audience's side, which is what Seth did, and he made his choice. There you go. Excellent.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
I'm On a Boat
It says here you run a PR firm in Cedar Rapids. I sure do. Terrific. And I understand you brought your wife in here tonight. I sure did. Hi, honey. That's great. That's great. That's great. Now, Ron, I'm going to have sex with your wife. I'd like to see you try it.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Everyone's a Critic
Just try and wait until after Tuesday to wear them, okay? Because I am not going anywhere. And I'm certainly not going back to Alaska.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
They just felt like it was minimizing what they did.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
I think he might have just introduced it since someone else did a set. No way. No way.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
It was Connor. Oh, really? I bet it was super right down the middle, too.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Jeff, you're exposing us and ruining our fucking careers, dude.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
There's a link in the Instagram bio.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
He did the song we did for the Oscars that ended up not getting made. Oh, yeah. It's on our YouTube channel.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Did you just refer to yourself as a character on the show? He's not being himself. You know that.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
We're going to burn through these. Also something that everyone at home couldn't see while you were doing that. Handsome. Oh, wow. Not to step on your arms. Confused your arms.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Like a really uptight medical school.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Edie? Oh, I thought it was Edie Amin. That was Edie Falco, guys. Edie Amin sounded really kind of pleasant.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Edie, thank you for the wonderful note.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Yeah, it's going to be a mess. I know. We're into the unknown. Yeah. But wait, Jorm, what's your real voice then if you're playing a character most of the time?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Do you think it's the longest on-camera fart ever recorded? Like in something that's narrative?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Yeah, that might be the longest fart. What about Blazing Saddles? That's the most tonnage, but probably not length fart.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
We have to discern now? Yeah. Your next movie won Best Picture.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
You guys, when the cat's away, the fart mice will play. Am I right? The mice will drive the three-wheeled car. The mice will drive the three-wheeled car right into convos about screen farts.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
I would never even heard of it. So that's, Yorm wins.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
I mean, it makes more sense actually in the Brit way because that's where it would go.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
I mean, this is the whole fanny versus fanny situation.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
What a fucking dream that people are now sending messages with righteous kill in it. Yeah, so many dreams. Your dream is alive. Yeah, we brought it back.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
No, it was trousers. It was trousers. It was. We would have said in my underpants.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Pants just is the clean single syllable that you need. Everything else is multisyllabic.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Jizz in my underpants. Jizz in my underpants. You're actually selling me. Jizz in my tighty-whities. Jizz in my boxers. You could have said jeans. Jizz in, well, we have punch you in the jeans. That was overlap. We didn't want to cannibalize ourselves on the same album. Dodged a bullet.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Jizz in, what if it used to be jeans and then we changed it? It was actually originally jeans, but then we wrote punch you in the jeans and we were like, we can't cannibalize. Oh, come on.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Thanks for that. Love you. I think Seth would know this better than us. But for me, my guess would be when he's around his old buddies from Canada, the same way like anyone, when they go back to their hometown, that regional thing comes back more. That would be my guess.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
No, I feel like maybe you're rousing from your nap a little bit here and things are starting to flood back in.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Ah. Fuck yeah. I was right. Oh, man. You know what? Let me be the first person to congratulate Lorne.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Do you think you wrote it for Matthew Fox because he has the word math in his name?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
You're so busted. About that part of it. Not the part where he admitted to ripping off. No, not the rip-off part. It was the math in Matthew. Yep, you got it. Try living that one down.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
I don't know. For like required comedy? What else do we have to gauge? I mean like when we were kids, which ones we liked?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
I know. I was immediately very jealous.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
It's a fun thing to ride, too. I know that you're not talking about a real one. No, he is.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
He's just rebuilding one. He's just having to find the parts. He's making a little miniature Lego-sized one, right? I don't think so. I think he's making a real one. I'm not backing off this. Okay, got it. Copy.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
I have one of the full rod jumpsuit and cape outfits in my closet.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
That was the most comfortable thing I've ever worn in anything.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Yeah, not because I don't want to dress up as a character in a movie I played. I also have, this is not our proper comedy stuff, but I do have one of the outfits from Palm Springs too, which is another movie where I wear the exact same thing the whole time. Right.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
You guys, that segment was brought to you by Black Moon. Who got the props? Thanks so much.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
very very flattering very nice the answer is a resounding no yeah like a one thousand percent no no no real rapper i think that's in the title though like if you're a real rapper i don't think you're going to us i mean we're we're open to it obviously if somebody wants to have their stuff be worse but the closest we ever got was while we were making our third album uh
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
who reached, it was Dan, the automator reached out, right? They were making the, the new Deltron. Oh yeah. Yeah. The Deltron 3030. But we did like a, it was still a very goofy. It was a comedy sketch. Yeah. Like a skit. But that's the most like legitimate thing we've ever been on.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Were we disappointed not to be included on Handsome Boy Modeling School's white people? Sure. But we hadn't made a name for ourselves yet. So it was out of the question. If there's a white people too, would we like the call? Yeah, man, we'd like the call.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
People are taking this real legit. Sadat X. Yoram just found that funny. We were like, I don't know, man. Seems like he's pretty about it. Yoram, kick your most serious rhyme.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
They were huge. Two hands. Weigh in on the comments. Weigh in on the comments how much a Dos Manos cost?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
No, we don't have that capability cue.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Before we respond to that at all, I looked it up. And Jorm, guess how much a Dos Manos burrito cost at Baja Fresh now?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
I saw it already. He held it up to his camera. Oh, shit. It's over $21. No, it isn't. Hold on. Yes. No way. What? That's what Google AI said. Do they even still do it, though? Was it guessing what it would be with inflation?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
I'm anti-IP. You don't like just general intellectual property. Do sketches count as IP? I think so.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
You know, I guess a recurring sketch could be considered IP.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Like it sure as hell was IP when Wayne's World movie was coming out. I was like, oh, fuck.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
No, they're really funny people and making things full of jokes.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
overall bill like if someone were to do that to bring back like laugh a minute comedy with a studio picture like this summer I would maybe bring that guy a burrito I'd Venmo 15 bucks to like whatever hotel he was staying at to go against the overall charges at the end of the stay right so you get like some chicken fingers at like 2am yeah
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Again, gluten-free, so put that in the mix when you get it. So like a green salad? This is the worst, Keev. Listen.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
And look, we apologize to all the hand models out there for not going natural. No makeup. Hashtag no makeup.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Is that real? That was fake. That was put on. Let me see your arm, Keef. Do you have more hair on your arm than Jorm? He does. He's a real man.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
And obviously, yes, they photoshopped out all of our needle prick tattoos that we had been doing the whole summer. Oh, yeah. Our henna.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
I mean, first off, you don't use hints very often. I try not to use any hints.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
We have two really important meanings for Spelling Bee on this podcast. One is one of our favorite sketches ever written, Spelling Bee.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
And one is, yeah, like a really important thing that proves that you're smart or not.
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Listener Q&A Episode 6
I'm curious. I never look at comments. No kind of comment hints. On a day when I use hints, I always disclose to whomever I'm sharing my score with how many hints I used. Many days, it's none. Often, though, and I don't consider this a proper hint, but feel free to disagree with me out there, I will look at total number of words, total score. Because you want to know where the goalposts are.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
As my guide rails, I'll take it as far as I can. I'm almost always well past, this is their word, not mine, the genius distinction before I look at that. And then sometimes if I'm really hung up, I will then go into the actual proper hints, which is how many words that start with each letter. And if you're really fucked, you look at how many of the first letter and second letter underneath that.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
No, no. It's in the upper right, there's a more pull-down screen, and then you hit hints. And then I often will scroll down real slow so I don't see the big grid. So I just see number of words, points, number of pangrams.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Yes, I'm very strict about it with myself because I like to know that I'm doing it as clean as possible.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Just throwing gate around willy nilly.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
I think it's probably some sort of like OCD, ADHD, something like that. Yeah, but you haven't been properly assessed. No, no, no, I wouldn't dare. It might derail the whole enterprise. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
I only used cheat like 30 times. Andy, ha ha. I did respond, you fucking C word. Oh, geez.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
you know what i want to apologize to you so vindicated that it was worth calling you the c word but not saying it but saying c word but if i was british i would have said it but i'm not if only it were nine o'clock too harsh but i just want you to know you were wrong hey uh fyi this is this is from jeff fyi we also got an email from the new york times games saying they're fans of the pod well that's wonderful oh no
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Have I talked about how I've expanded the games I do? My friend Dan Gore, apparently he does this with his brother, try to get letterboxed in two words. That's my new thing I've added. Oh my God.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
I get it. At least half the time, maybe most days at this point.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
But then do you remember he was to you, he was like, what do you read? And you were like, motherfucker, I don't read books. I read scripts. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
And I was like, whoa. First off, the voice was inappropriate.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Yeah, I was just like, Keev, you're well out of school, obviously.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
And then secondly, he just was like, okay, and like walked off.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
This is what we like to call an idling while Seth attends a bar mitzvah in Texas kind of an episode.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
I think it easily could. It just depends who they cast, as always, right? If you get rad comics that have cool ideas and fresh voices and good writers, no reason why not. The format is proven.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
The thing that takes me off the most, fellas, is the number of bar mitzvah invites I turn down in order to be here. Oh, my God. And then Seth just turns right around and just... fucks us. You know what I mean?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
I would love to see that. I would as well. I mean, immediately it made me think maybe that's our chance to be musical guest on SNL. Oh, yeah. They might actually let it happen. Especially in the early times.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
I know. We thought he was the most turbo white. Turns out he's really just...
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
So rad. That's amazing. Well, joke's on you. I could not have missed a dance move because there were none planned.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Random flailing. I was going to say it was all just sort of freeform, yeah. That's what I mean. It can't be wrong. Oh, it can't be. Yeah, yeah, you're right. That's a wonderful story and congratulations on your engagement. And I hope it's a wonderful wedding. And I'm assuming your first dance is going to be the finest girl?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Oh, man, you better make sure that the guest list is going to be all right with that. Yeah, that's going to be bad news.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
But that was the first and only time we ever, quote unquote, performed the song Incredibad. That's right. First and last.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Yeah, yeah. Periwinkle's the right color also. Great. That's great. What color is Periwinkle, though? It's like a light blue. It's kind of like a lavender, bluish lavender.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
So to recap, next week we're going to get people weighing in on what color periwinkle is and how much a Dos Matos burrito, which has been discontinued at Baja Fresh, costs.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Oh, on the vest alone? Also, Seth, if on the flight back you want to just write some new ones, that would be nice too. Okay.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
You don't have to. You don't have to. I think we covered it. Seth has an active imagination. I just feel like we should put him to good use.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Seth, you doing circumcision right after in front of everybody? Are you going to do that like?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Right on. Righteous kill, I should say. Sorry, Quaid Army. Righteous kill. Apologies to Quaid Army for not saying righteous kill the first time.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Just one long ramble. Wait, without Seth giving us structure? Look, we had been debating doing a podcast for a long time, and we were like, we can't do it. And then Seth was like, I'll do it with you. And we were like, oh, then that would be something, because then there'd be a person who would make it be a thing. That's right. That is what talked us into it.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
He's probably dancing the horror right now while we're floundering. Now we're all playing like a game of chicken of who's going to take the lead.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
all these years he finally said it that's just the tag now oh thank well thanks caller for weighing in one of the quaid army it was wild that he like voiced his concern that we were going to be better without him right as we were spiraling about having no clue how to do it without him it shows you that we're actually the perfect team yeah what a great what a great uh metaphor you know we are a car and thanks so much for keeping us on the tracks seth uh let's see what happens next
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
So, yeah. Ah, this is post-nap, Jorm.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Well, I heard there's a big falling out between Mike White and the guy who does the music. That's probably what it was about. Mike's like, you can't do that. You're just ripping off everyone's creative music. You took it a different way. I was going to say, Mike, call Keeve and Joram. They're readily available to fill in if you guys are going to that guy next time.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
If it was season four and the opening credits hit and it was just you guys going...
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
For some reason, this season seems worse.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
I think it's not like at 9, the one word you can now say is jizz. I think it's like all dirty stuff. Yeah, like it turns into HBO on their broadcast TV. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Yeah. You know, it's an interesting thing about foggy London town. Everyone's like, oh, spot a tea, you know, England. Yeah, they really they really do drink a ton of tea. They do. It's not like a nasty thing that people say about it. You know, it's like actually very, very quaint and nice.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
You wrote way in on the comments. Yeah. I actually just got an email from everyone involved in Watergate and they said they're offended that you used the gate. Well, now I'm offended by that. Phrasing for vest gate. That they know what they did was bad, but to compare them to this was really hurtful, which is weird because this is not live. How do they know?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
Well, I get them confused with, you know, what hobbits do. Right. But they probably do it too.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 6
There's elevensies, second breakfast. Elevensies.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 4-ever
It was your brother's, but it felt like it was mine because I had such a nice time.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 4-ever
Yeah. Tell me about it. That's not what you want at a wedding.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 4-ever
I have a question for you, Seth. It's a little off topic, but did you go watch a video of Dennis Franz's ass after the video? Oh, yeah. That's a key question.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 4-ever
Do you then, as a massive fan, have insight into how we all knew in the time when it was airing, like, hey, tonight there's going to show a butt?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 4-ever
It would just be the one we would remember for obvious reasons.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 4-ever
Yeah, but she's touching his privates with her hands. Come on, Seth.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 4-ever
No, no, no, no, no, no. You appreciated trying, right? Yes, yes. And they said shit on the show, maybe? That was the curse word?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 4-ever
Because he got paid a fortune to be on the show for 10 years.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 4-ever
I'm going to go 25. This is saying 35. Right in between.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 4-ever
So maybe that's a no. I just saw him. He was at my house like two days ago.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 4-ever
Yeah. When he says, obviously get the fuck out of the way. It's one of the best moments I've seen on TV in a long time.
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Well, if it's just about Frasier and Dennis Franz, that's a podcast I'm interested in.
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A comic and comedy writer in her own right. Yes. Here we go.
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That sounds like, if you just said that in a sentence, I would have believed it was a pre-existing thing. It's you just can't, what is the real one? Like you can't crack an egg? No. There's a real one that is basically the same thing, but...
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No, Frasier. Oh, Frasier. She is, for sure. I'm not even joking. I don't know much about Emily personally. I mean, we've hung out many times, but I don't know that many details except that she loves Frasier. It's like a main tenant of the things I know about her, for real.
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All right, so back to Lasercats. Should we rewatch it to remember? Because we watched it a week ago, just to remember all the details. Yeah, yeah. Let's do an old-fashioned stop and pause.
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Oh, yes, we can hear the single laughs. We want to hear each individual audience member.
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I like that there's the Three Amigos poster in the background that's always been in Lorne's office as long as I've ever known him.
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Very cool. Uno Amigo. It's already playing on multiple levels. That's how deep and cool this thing is. Yeah.
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Yeah. Agreed. And we've got an odd, you know, we don't like light these things. So there's a purple light coming through the window. Is that is that Radio City? What is that? Must be. It's beautiful.
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Appreciate the Huey, Dewey, Louie blocking of you guys in this doorway on top of each other.
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Let's go back and listen for it. I won't talk over it.
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Yeah, it does get a small laugh on the actual joke of this guy mispronouncing something, but it does not get a recognition. Woo! Clap, clap. No, it gets like eight people laugh. Yeah, okay.
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Sometimes people in the past had even just clapped on this part, being like, yeah, it's the opening credits. Right. Nothing this time. It's real quiet.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Yeah. It's getting a little in there. That was a executive produced by Steve Martin shoved in there. And that gets a, you know, these are tepid laughs. It's a laugh, but that's a laugh.
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It's a solid laugh. You're right. The volume's too low. On the mics that recorded the audience back then.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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So we saw Kenan came out of the elevator as a RoboCop, but he's got like Gatling guns. Is that what they're called? Yeah. Like six cats on each arm. It is that moment from the first RoboCop or second RoboCop? I think first one. First. Where he's doing a demo and it goes bad.
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You do not think things are going to just go terribly wrong right in the first... And it's really bloody and gruesome.
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That would change things in my mind on how the world works.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Right. We haven't done the Weekend at Bernie's, whatever it's called, De Niro one yet, right? Oh, Party at Mr. Bernard's? Yeah, yeah. Thank you for remembering the title.
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Listen, I think about that one constantly. So in my mind. I love that one. I stand by that one. Yeah.
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This is the prototype for it. This vibe that Bill especially and you have of like 80s bros.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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I'm liking it. Yeah. And then floating chairs and there's real story. We've had a very clean cold open that is set up. This is very clean, like movie storytelling here.
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It's like a Best Friends Forever necklace. Yeah. It's like we're in Annie territory again, like last week. Right. With Rooster.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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You're like, this is the guy that grows up to try to steal Annie? Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Got it. Goose had a small Rooster-style mustache. Rooster meaning Tim Curry in Annie-style mustache, right? Yeah. Didn't Goose? Yeah. Did Rooster also have a mustache?
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I like your wardrobe. I'm just going to say, we're doing a beach scene, and all we did was put Hawaiian shirts on top of your heavy, normal wardrobe. You're still wearing a jumpsuit. You're wearing arm pads and knee pads. Yeah. The whole deal. All right, here we go.
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Yeah, you got the call to action. Here we are. These guys are, they're cops and they got their case.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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The fire extinguisher is shooting out of the cat, for those people not watching along with us, and it freezes a lock on the door, and the lock falls off, and then he blows on the top of the cat, and it makes the sound of an empty beer bottle.
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It wasn't even in the YouTube. It was that I just wanted the sound in the background when we're describing the butts. I wanted to hear very quietly the sound of the shower and of her saying, getting in him going, whoa, I'm usually just me in here. Not used to being cleaned there by someone else either. I usually do that part myself.
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There you go. Did he have his Chicago accent in the show? He kind of did. He weirdly kind of did. Was he supposed to be from New York or did they just write that he was from Chicago? I think he was just from Chicago. Yeah. Why not?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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When we went to the Fox ones, I think, when Brooklyn Nine-Nine was still on Fox, I think Pitbull came out and did like four songs.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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That was a funny way to see Pitbull doing four songs.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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And then he sees himself and reframes the shot. The detail there.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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But I like that we had to cast Simon Rich. It would make more sense if it was, I guess, you or Bill, but you're on camera, and then me and Jorm is not. It just was funnier having it be Simon for some reason. I don't know why.
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This is another cameo from Rachel Lynn's brother. Yeah, Joe. From Joe. Pretending like he walked into the shot. Yeah, runs in and walks out. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Yeah, well, it went from kill mode to love mode. There was something about your face. The facial recognition kicked in.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Because he's part human. He still has a human part deep inside, like the Robocop in the movie.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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The whole editorial staff there has stormtrooper types.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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All right, so they're shooting Keenan, the Cybertron, right at the moment when he had just turned good.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Yeah. It's human-side work. No. No. Take off his robo helmet. It was just a mask. Now it's Steve Martin.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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His cheek is a self-destruct button, I guess. Good thing he's never done that before.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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But I don't have a brother. This is great. This is good storytelling. But I don't have a brother and then looks down at it and the music and the other half of the Annie necklace.
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Yeah, he has a flair for the dramatic. He grows forever. He's got a rocket ship.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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No context, no explanation. It was one of our only, besides Tim Olyphant, one of our only in-person guests. Which is very exciting.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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A controlled little squirt. He's a robot, but he still had some blood.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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That's fine. Classic Steve. I don't know. It's not two claps at the end, Seth. You misremembered. That's the real deal.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Yeah, but it's not allowing you 10 because the visuals are continuing.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Reset it. Yeah. Hold on. Hold the phone. We got a really important link coming in hot. Oh. Jeff writes, someone found the promo. Sharing screen. Hold a moment.
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So it showed him in the shower with her. So you knew things were going to be, it showed Jimmy Smith's roughing people up. So you're like, damn, this guy's going to be violent. And then it showed him in the shower and it says, due to adult language and partial nudity, viewer discretion is advised. Yeah. So that was, they were going to say shit. They were going to show butt.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Named after Paul Simon's famous SNL debut.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Well, because this is only Smith's second episode. Right. And Caruso famously left after one season. He kind of Chevy chased it. And there was a lot of similar sentiment of like, why are you leaving? You have one season of a hit show and you're out of here. I believe he left after one season, right?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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So this is a bit of a bait and switch because they were like, hey, you like David Caruso's ass? Come on back. And then they're like, for this ass, it's just as good. It's a regular ass. What? You don't think it's regular? What's regular to you? Yeah. Something like that.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Lone Ranger, you better be working on your butt because it's coming up next season.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Oh, fuck. On set, it was interesting. I was actually just wearing swimsuit, and she just moved her hand in front. And I kept being like, whoa. But it was, yeah, that's movie making for you. I was pretending.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Only if the age-old question of do they all go in one category together.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Oh, you did a thing? You recorded a deal? Yeah. That's exciting. What'd you pick? All right, guys, I got to go. That was it. Time's up. When you hear the kids, that was it. All right, well, we could sign off.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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It's very difficult, but we do it for the Quades. We're just like Gaga doing it for her monsters, you know?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Well, because geese are famous wingmen, right? But he does say yee-haw probably, right? Probably says something along the lines of yee-haw.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Oh, thank you, man. I think you're the funniest.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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All right, Seth's back, but he can't find the mic. He's literally, his headphones on, he can hear me, but he's scrambling, looking around. Somehow the mic has totally disappeared.
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All right. Well, you know, I was tired this one. Like I said to you guys at the beginning, I didn't sleep much last night. And so, you know, that's what it is when we do podcasts and everyone's just kind of living together. It is. Hey, maybe some of the Quades were tired. Write in with your comments. Were you tired this week listening?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Was this a sleepy thing? Yeah. There's plenty of room for these to be sleepy.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Would it be the shot of Doogie, but it says Douglas Hauser?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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I did see some of the comments and I saw that people were correcting us that the alter ego of Douglas Quaid is actually Carl Hauser. Did really pop my balloon a little afterwards, honestly. Yeah. I'd like to say the Quaid Army, if you have a correction like that, just keep it to yourself. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Yeah, it's just a tease. It's cool. When he does show up, we'll want him so much more.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Yeah, connected wrong again. I can't think of what version of connecting to Zoom is wrong where you're like, oh, now I got to disconnect again.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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What happened again? I think about you a lot while we're recording, being like, oh boy, Seth's going to hear this.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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That's awesome. I genuinely didn't know. I mean, I get emailed that type of thing like, hey, here's some stuff we're working on. But I didn't realize anything was live besides the main teaser trailer and the main one sheet poster. So are you seeing those like on sidebars of YouTube or wherever, like just online? I just probably got it on Instagram, I think, just as like a little tasty reel.
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Oh, oh, oh, like on the main one. Yeah, yeah. Great. Yeah. I mean, we never really talked about that teaser, but I was very happy with it. I feel like almost everything in that teaser was stuff we wrote the first week of writing. It like answered all the big questions. Yeah, that's great. And so I was glad to tell the audience the story like that.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Like a... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, are you guys ready?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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I like that he trusted us enough to do a laser cats for, I mean, the forte close talkers, two inches sketch went totally well. So maybe that pre-tape kind of made him be like, yeah, but the pre-tapes are okay.
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You know, I watched it last week because we thought we were going to do it last week.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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They were actually less. I wouldn't be surprised if we will go look at all seven LaserCats opens and this was the most tepid response to it starting. Is that fair to say, Andy, if you were just going to guess?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Yeah, but I was expecting, usually when it starts, there's some kids in the audience who are like, hey, yeah, one of these. This one was like nothing. And I was surprised. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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I believe that was his, correct? Well, yeah, he's Steve Martin.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
God, I wish it was better. I wish it was not just disappointing.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
No. No, we'd know it, but our listeners might not, so continue.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
That was my idea, actually. These guys were thinking about not doing it, and I was like, we should.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
Well, I kept saying, I want to mark this day with a maker's mark, and you guys kept saying, what does that mean? I was like, it means a toast, guys.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
Yeah, I mean, Fartface, did Fartface play badly? Because I will say playing it for my 10-year-old son played pretty gangbusters.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
Right. But I was in the room, so it was even worse. Yeah. We could see you. Yeah, it sucked.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
By the way, the level that they're selling it at feels like a guy who just said that to his team. Like, let's fucking go! Like, it is 150% that each of them is screaming the word Fartface for like five minutes.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
That's as much Yorm as anybody wants. Also, can I just say, in that particular episode, too, because that was, you guys, my favorite episode of the pod. Like, with or without me, I thought it was so informative. I know a lot about dancehall and reggae. I do, but, like, I learned. I was so impressed at how on point you guys were with all the references. You and me.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Oh my God. I love that this also, this clearly came from actually doing this too. Going up, leaf peeping, right? Which is a thing on the East Coast in particular.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
I know a lot of those things, obviously. I was there writing the dog with you guys.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
Can I say something even more controversial? I think they make great movies.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
I popped in, you know, said that I forgot and then left.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
Oh, that you mentioned. Oh, my God. That's like the reason to do the podcast for just that moment.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Yeah, that's good stuff. It's a beauty. To be clear, that's on the short side of a SNL sketch. They can get up there.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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I also, in addition to being informative though, it was like on an ego tip just to be like, hey, this is how much we care. And that's what I also felt like listening to it again. It was like, right, we really like every single, the fact that it was a stop down every second. I'm just like, oh, sorry, this means this.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
Don't like it complicated. I like things simple. Tell me this is simple.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
I do. It's interesting that you say that because I like variety, Keith, and that's why Home Chef is number one in my book.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
that's great shit i have i have a question for you cast guys uh when it was a big cold open like that and everyone's in makeup and sometimes difficult makeup did it make the the next part of the show really exciting because then everyone has to like break out and get into like crazy quick changes it's fun everybody takes off running yeah like anytime there was like a what up with that where there's like
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
It's our friend Xiomara Nadira Batin in Berkeley, California, who was just sitting there, except for that she likes it so much that she was like, right on, guys.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
That's fucking cool. Pretty good. Yeah. What'd you order?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
How long did it take you to write, Seth, be honest?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
i will also say in re-watching it too because it's live and whatever light they have on him and gleaming in his eyes he's so fucking handsome in this too and i'm partially saying this because i know he listens to the pot but i was happy it was live it also feels like you know it's like a cheap product that you don't necessarily need to do you know the cinematography on or anything that's true but yeah he looks good
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
Fuck, loaded up. Yeah, that's pretty saucy.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
I'm going to make you a t-shirt that says that, Seth.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
No, I looked at my sleeve and it says, Andy's handsome.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
No, I read it on my arm, guys, so I could tell you guys apart. Oh, it's your mnemonic device. Andy's handsome. Lower left.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
I already love it. I already love whatever it is.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
Andy's speaking again. The handsome one's speaking.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
I just looked at your face. You do have teeth. Yeah, you have them. It's true, though.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
You don't think that was a game of telephone? Like we said what it was and then they were like, ah, this is fucking right.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
And now Andy's got one of his little songs. Right between the eyes, Keith.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
Oh, my God. Thank you for that reference, Keith. E-Bombs World. Oh, boy.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
Yeah, piecing together that I know I'm friends with these guys. They're laughing, so I must be friends with them.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
Even though it was happening. I did. It's the best part of the podcast and no one will ever hear it.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
No, it stank. It stank. Also, I had a five-minute audio clip that didn't go anywhere with Mr. Beck Bennett. It stunk.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
That was my only grievance that I had was that that was my idea. And you fucking credited a key with that, Andy.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
I was. We were just walking down the street, and I was like, hey, that'll be cool. And you were smoking a cigarette, Andy, and you didn't like it.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
Yeah, there you go. Thanks, man. Also, I don't think that that Cold Stone was in Times Square. I think it was closer to where we shot Boombox, a little farther down near the West Side Highway.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
Memento, I wrote it down on my chest. It was carved into my chest.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
Or are they making fun? Maybe I'm the enemy of the podcast.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
Yeah, I think so too. Just for the specificity of everything that was pointed out last episode and how much it is a part of our lives and growing up as the three of us in Berkeley, to me, yes. And the fact that Rihanna liked it so much. Because I don't know if you guys remember this, but we did play it for her. in the room with a bunch of her friends. And she was laughing really hard.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
Yeah, I'm assuming that happened later, but we definitely showed it to her.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
And there was definitely like a huge level of her going from like, who are these guys? To like, oh, okay.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
And guess who recommended that and sent it to me? My friend, Xiomara Nadirabatine, that I was talking about, who loves dancing.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
I mean, it's definitely stuff we personally love. You remember thinking that at the time, KVU? Like at the time, you're like, this stinks.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
Have they ever reused a word while doing this? You don't even know what you're talking about. Yeah, this is crazy for you to even chime in. What does that even mean? Oh, spelling bee. Sorry. I thought we were talking about your thing. Whatever, that thing that you like to do.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
I also loved The MacGruber so much that I don't think I felt like that at the time, but maybe I was just being... I think I maybe was wrong, or maybe I'm remembering wrong.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
Can we also just talk about how at the Emmys, at the particular Emmys that you go to for these awards, they tend to do the biggest groups, like all the writers from SNL, big, big writing staffs at the end because people will leave if they don't win. So you have to stay till the very end. Yeah, it was really late. And also you can't drink alcohol, so it stinks.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
Did he really? Not that anyone can see that, but you do it for us? I don't know how it... Really?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
I want him to know. How was his lifetime achievement? Because I will say the WGA award, this is real ego-y and shitty, but it's the nicest looking award to me. I like that award.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
A Couple of Homies
Yeah, here I am. I've got a big vacation coming up, and I know you like to vacation with your family. Tell me what I should do.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
A Couple of Homies
I know his name is Jonathan. I know his last name is Mulaney. Around L.A. and New York, there are billboards.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
A Couple of Homies
Now, did you stay near that bar? And I can't remember his name. It's like Schlotzky's. It's like a dive bar with a pool table in the back.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
A Couple of Homies
That's not what it's called. Somebody's going to write in and know. Okay, good. But it has a great name, like Snoobies or something.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
A Couple of Homies
Sometimes I need something that just hits a little different.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
A Couple of Homies
Honestly, sounds very good. I personally would probably be a gentle microdose. Maybe a perfect buzz, but probably the gentle one. Yeah, you're a gentle fellow.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
A Couple of Homies
Support comes from Viore, incredibly versatile and comfortable, perfect for whatever your day brings. Now, I was just talking to Andy and he was telling me the same thing I told Seth last week, which is that people in our lives genuinely hear this ad and hit us up all the time saying, hey, can I get free Viore? Because they actually wear it and they actually love it.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
A Couple of Homies
And it is a real thing that people really like.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
A Couple of Homies
Exactly, but that only gets you your first purchase, and these people, let's just say, are addicts. And some things about Biori that I want to tell you, Jorm, it's designed to look great beyond the gym, whether you're running errands, heading to the office, or meeting up with friends. And if you're on the website, shopping is easy.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
A Couple of Homies
Finding what you need on the website takes no time, and it's great for any workout or, as they said, outside of workout activity. You want your bod to look like Jeremy Allen White in the Calvin Klein ads, right, Jorm? It's not too late for you. Oh, yeah. And when you're out there pumping and dumping whatever you're doing in the gym.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
A Couple of Homies
Well, you're dumping calories. That's true. And sweat.
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Go to Viore.com slash island and discover the versatility of Viore clothing. Exclusions apply. Visit the full website for full terms and conditions. All right, I'm gonna screen share. You guys seen this?
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Oh, thanks. At one point, because I only could kind of half watch because I was with my kids. And at one point I looked over and there was a puff of smoke coming out of your mouth. What was that about?
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then pants to bill but forte's there today too and then i like that you forgot andy forgot that's a genuine andy genuinely forgot i did not remember that that got me
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Yeah, you can't rip a sax, but it really sounds good. It sounds legitimately like you're doing it.
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That's on YouTube. Anybody wants to find it, just type in Yorm Dances to Fleet Foxes. It's sitting right there.
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This is what I'd be the most excited for that week. I'd be doing this, and I'd write, this is what I wrote on the caption, secret stolen footage from SNL. I caught this totally private moment of Jorma with Fleet Foxes on January 17th, 2009.
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Yeah, I think we talked about this last time we talked about these, but it was, I have the camera here in my closet. It's one of those little silver point and shoot cameras that had a video mode.
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No, that's the, those were called flip. Those were called flip cameras. And I don't even think I had that yet. This was like a point and shoot for stills that had a video mode. That was like one of those ones that could fit in your pocket. Here's what one of the comments from 10 years ago. He didn't interrupt the song.
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It was replying to people who were like mad that you were or not bad, but like shocked you would interrupt. They always do the Yorm dances videos during rehearsals. So the band is playing just for the video. It is rehearsals, but it's not they're not playing for us. They're genuinely rehearsing. And then we're just doing it.
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i just like that each of these bands we had to be like hey do you mind if we go just stand like while you're rehearsing for your big scary live show like that's not this track can your dancer hat it's also they're about to be on live tv in like four hours fleet foxes were not tripping though they were very no no they're delightful yeah cool guys they sounded very good too i love their music yep i'm just reading through the comments in case there was anything good was there anything about my bod and how tight it was back in the day
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15 years from now, he'll be happy he has this because it is not going to stay this way.
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Have you ever taken a hit of a vape before?
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Yeah. You remember the Quaid army? Oh boy. He's coming back. Nevermind. Go ahead.
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Yeah. It was pleasant. You did it like a pro, like that would make me think, oh, this guy kind of smokes. But I know for a fact you definitely don't. And so it was very funny.
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Wow. It takes really being good at music to be off in that specific of a good way.
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I'm sure it's not that hard in this day and age. Or maybe it's impossible and they've locked it out. I haven't tried in a decade.
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Yeah, somebody can tell us how to do it. Send us a voice note in, and we'll play it in its entirety, step by step, of how to create an iPhone ringtone. So I think that we kind of brushed past the most important part of what Seth found out from one of our Quaid Army, which is his name was Douglas Quaid. Yeah. Slash Douglas Hauser. And I'm looking online, and it is true. Dr. Douglas Doogie Hauser.
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Full name. That's incredible. That's huge. Yeah. Like, we could make a shirt that says Douglas Hauser, and it could have both Schwarzenegger and NPH next to each other.
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Yeah, he's a kid in the first one, so he could get buff. So in terms of also just timeline of release, it's bizarre because September 19th, 1989 is the pilot premiere of Doogie Howser, M.D. And then the movie came out in 1990 at some point.
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Yeah, but not often in these days. So even that would have been surprising.
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Well, that means that they... So, it came out June 1st, 1990. So, you know, in the summer. That means they were likely filming around the same time. So, the question is, what event happened a year or two years before then that affected both the writers of Total Recall and Douglas Hauser, M.D.? Or Akiva.
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Oh, and this was their little breadcrumbs they were leaving. Yes. That only we finally picked up.
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They've been waiting 35 years for somebody to finally piece together.
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So he starts as a kid doctor. Then he grows up and is with Sharon Stone, I believe. And then he gets bored with life because obviously he's so brilliant that life can't compete. So he goes to the place to like, he lost his whole childhood being a doctor in an ER and shit. And so he's like, Jesus, I never lived.
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Well, he goes to that place for... I haven't watched Total Recall in decades either, but he goes to a video game place for a virtual reality experience to see what could life have been like if I hadn't sold my childhood to a hospital.
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That's part of his exciting fantasy, right? That's not what's really happening. Or is it?
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But let me put it this way. If you were a 12 year old who became a doctor and miss your entire adolescence, you might be like into like, oh, what if a girl had three tits? Like you missed a crucial part of growing up and being a teenager and kind of maturing. Right.
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I'm just saying there's some pretty immature stuff in Total Recall that Quaid's mind is thinking up.
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Yeah, he didn't get to go to college and experiment and do stuff. Yes. And that's why he needs excitement. That all tracks. It's his gap year recall. That's what it is. It's his rumspringa.
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No, but that's another great shirt. Doogie Quaid. Because Sharon Stone, like, as a term of endearment, can be like, Doogie, why do you need to go to the mind-altering place? Our life's exciting enough as it is, Doogie. Yes. Has anyone else named Douglas ever been called Doogie, I guess?
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We did it. Crack the code. Seth would have never allowed this level of investigating.
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Well, he read a comment and then would have moved past briskly to keep the show car on the tracks. No way. We can keep a car on the tracks because guess what? I saw another comment that said, I've seen a car on the tracks. It's a DeLorean in Back to the Future 3. So that's obviously what Jorm was referencing. So thank you, commenter. Thank you for making Jorm's comment make perfect sense.
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Be real. The rapper. Yeah, he doesn't. He's just gone. I'm telling you, he's probably checking his phone looking at sports scores.
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Thank you, Seth. Thanks for calling in.
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Adult puzzling while watching b-ball. Doesn't get much better. Nope. All right. Well, we have a special voice note from a true Quaid. A real Quaid. A double down Quaid. How's that? A member of the Quaid army and a Quaid by birth.
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Imagine him getting to be called Quade.
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Really great to hear from a double Quaid. Double Quaid. Those are rare. He might be the only one.
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Let's hear what Seth said. Please play it. Love and heart.
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I know you've been going for that Jeremy Allen white bod, so I knew you're the right guy to talk to here. And I know you have a little bit of self-conscious stuff about how great you looked in that Fleet Foxes video and that it's been a lot of years. So this is something that's even more detailed than it may be embarrassing.
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The exercise is great, but managing the sweat and odor has been, let's say, a challenge. Okay. Yesterday, I had to pick up some body care stuff, but the scents were so boring. Men's products need more variety. How many times have I said that, Jorm?
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Yeah, well, I have body odor problems, let's just say. And then it gets worse when I try to cover it up and it's boring. So part of the problem is just boring scents.
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Okay, and then the other one is called Palo Santo, and it's deep, smoky, and refined, featuring notes of Palo Santo, bright cardamom, and dry papyrus.
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Well, they use enhanced multi-layered scent technology for a longer lasting experience. So you can apply it once and enjoy how you smell all day. And your one last little note I'd like to share is that deodorant isn't just for smelling good or avoiding sweat. The scent you choose sets the tone for how you present yourself. Cremo helps men make an unforgettable impression every time.
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That was a big deal. Dennis Fran's butt. And that show was on from 10 to 11 on primetime. So this definitely could do it.
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No way they teased it ahead of time. They just dropped that on us.
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God damn. We don't have actors like Dennis Franz anymore. I miss that. Look at that guy.
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I don't think there was production, but he might have went and grabbed a dance belt of some sort.
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I was trying to find an ad really fast of Sipowitz. Tune into NYPD Blue tonight, where I'm going to be showing full ass.
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Because wasn't it on Thursdays after Friends and Cheers and stuff, right? So this would have been right between Friends and Cheers. He'd be like, hey, this is pretty funny stuff, huh? Don't turn your TVs off because at 10 p.m. I'm showing full ass. Oh, it was ABC. So it was Disney. That's definitely how they promoted it. It was like Step by Step or Boy Meets World was on or something.
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He's like, hey, stay tuned after Boy Meets World tonight. Well, Boy Meets World would have been way earlier, right? That's more like a 5 p.m. or something. Well, yeah. Or what are the ABC shows, Step by Step or something? Well, that was TGIF, right?
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Was it TGIF? It couldn't have been. Yeah, and my people was part of TGIF. No, it was Wednesdays. No, it was on Wednesdays, but I don't know what was before it. It was like, after this day, after Freaks and Geeks, stay tuned. I think that was Fox, no?
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I think it was him like waking up in the morning and going to get his, put his pants on. Really?
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Oh, Jeff says he thinks he was in the shower. I mean. Oh, yeah. Shower. Okay.
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Why do you think there was a promo? How did they possibly promo?
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I almost just spit my coffee out. Absolutely not, Andy.
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It's not like he's got some great ass. The water cooler aftermath I get. The promo of being like, you gotta watch for... Anybody listening to this right now who doesn't remember or doesn't know who Dennis Franz was, look him up.
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Yes. And I'm genuinely a fan. But like, let's say he looks like a character that would be on I Think You Should Leave. It is not what you would think of as the stereotypical sex symbol where you'd be like, oh, wow, we got to tune in and see his butt. Yeah.
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This is what, listen, Jay's in bed. Oh, my God. Mikey's trying to fall asleep, but he's hearing this. This is what she tunes in for.
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I could have been talking to anybody. Oh, I found it.
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Yeah. Just any Quaid. That was you just disturbing him in his apartment. Any real Quaid. Any double Quaid. Quaid-o! He said they say Quaid-o. We would never say that until now.
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Hey, Quaid-o, make like Dennis Friends and show me that butt. Hey, I think I found the clip. You did?
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All right, so he's wearing his usual button-up shirt with short sleeves, which I always call the Dennis Franz look.
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His girlfriend or wife is coming in. He's having small talk. Bam. There's his butt.
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That was full ass. It looked great. It did. Yeah. He's been chasing down perps. He keeps it tight. Smooth. Oh. Why was there a gratuitous? Well, there's two butts. There's another butt. There was a gratuitous pan down to his butt a second time and then a girl butt.
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Oh, it's because he hasn't had a girlfriend much before, so he's never showered with somebody. It's about intimacy.
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It's about him learning about intimacy.
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I can't believe it showed his butt twice and panned to his butt. Whoa, that actually is crazy to be on TV, that last one. This guy doesn't understand sex.
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Who did the shower jerk-off scene? Was that Eisner or Iger? That shook me, actually. That was, like, HBO level. I can't believe that was on network TV.
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I'm usually in the shower just one person. This is weird, because you're a second person in here.
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Jack Quaid? These are just Jack Quaid. But also, I'm just saying, Jay. All right. These were some other comments. Ready? Kelly Bowes from last week said, Neil Patrick Harris has three first names and so should not have been eligible for the two first names club.
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Yeah, it can be. But is it more commonly a last name? I hear you.
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Oh, good to know. I'm sure people were shouting at their TV screens back then. There just wasn't as much social media to really get it out.
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And we don't need him, but we need him for what we've established on the Seth Meyers Lonely Island podcast. That's part of the equation. But we could make a Lonely Island podcast without him, and we'd be just fine.
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We have a pitch for merch, which would be a box of smints, but the logo says Quaid Army. Love. That'd be good. Yeah. A little insight. You could also do a Molson. Oh, yeah. Molson label that says Quaid Army, like a Molson bottle.
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Well, that's right. They do come hand in hand.
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This is from, hey guys, big Frasier file here. Part of the crane train. Cool. What part is sadder? The tossed salads or the scrambled eggs? Something to think about.
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He does say, baby, I hear the blues are calling, right?
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Out the window. Yeah, so there is a sadness there.
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I've never actually thought about it, but he is a psychologist on the air. People are calling who are sad. And is tossed salads and scrambled eggs like a really callous, rude way of calling people's brains? Yeah. Okay, this one's important. Sorry, I was fucking totally checked out because I was trying to read through to find a good one.
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Hey, Quaids, Jake Gyllenhaal isn't the only LaserCat alum to play Iago in Othello. This is really to Seth. In the early 90s, Christopher Walken, star of LaserCats 3D, played Iago in a production of Othello in Central Park for Shakespeare in the Park.
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But I'm sure it will say it in the playbill for anything Walken has done post-LaserCat.
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I got what I wanted in terms of I knew somebody was going to be able to tell me about the Pittsburgh bar I was talking about. I love that Pittsburgh bar. As a card-carrying member of the Quaid Army here in Pittsburgh, I'm like 90% sure the bar Akiva is referencing is Gooski's in Polish Hill.
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It's a punk bar that serves pierogies all night as is customary. Add many a normal ones there. A normal ones.
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You're right. I did not feel entirely. Me and Liz were playing pool in the back and I didn't feel 100% physically safe.
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I've got stuff. Andy, what are you doing on your phone right now, though? Obviously spelling bee. It's a hard one today.
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Wait, I do have an actual question. So it ended with, had many a normal ones there? Is that a Pittsburgh slang, or is normal ones a Pittsburgh beer, or is that a way to say?
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Yeah, or like a good night, like I had many a normal ones there.
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Yeah, yins weigh in. What do yins think? I'll chug down an icy light, you know what I mean?
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Yeah, that's the icy light I was talking about. But this guy that wrote in talking about the Gooskies, which was the bar I was referencing, said had many a normal ones there. Interesting. And we were saying, oh, is that a cool Pittsburgh way of having had a Brewski? I do feel like you should know this, Seth.
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Seth, how hard do you think Andy was sighing at your voice notes?
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We did get into that a little. I had to stop everything to go, whoa.
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You know what? It's always a good podcast episode is you do the whole thing for an hour and then someone comes on and you do like a five minute recap of that hour for the audience. So, Seth, next week, though, when we have you, we can talk about the actual episodes as well as the thing. But I like, for instance, we don't have to talk about now, but I see something called Gitmo ad.
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And on here, at least, it's claiming that it's Solomon Tocconi Kenward Schaffer. Of course, these things sometimes get the credits wrong.
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I don't know what that is. I'm very curious if we helped because it's a videotape. So maybe we helped because it's pre-taped.
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But I have no clue what that is. I mean, obviously, it didn't come from us. My name's last. You're second, Jorm. I don't know what.
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I know Jorm had a lot of Guantanamo Bay takes. He would always come in and be like, and we'd be like, take it somewhere else, Jorm. That's not our brand.
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I gotta get this Gitmo thing started. Yeah, he thought he had a franchise. He would come in and he's like, do you think it's a good week for Gitmo or Sloth?
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And wouldn't even answer how many dollars he had on weed back in high school. The answer was zero. We only smoked other people's weed.
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Yeah. This guy's all sports. We already covered in the Seth. You'll learn.
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Andy's been half defocused the whole time, and I'm like, we can't have that today because we don't have Seth keeping things moving.
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He's gone back to it hard as soon as you popped on.
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Oh, he really dropped off. Okay. All right. Love you too. Bye. That was a great episode. Okay, color. That's always what I'll say, I guess. Do you guys want any other? Jeff did compile a bunch of questions. Do you want to hit one more and then we'll say goodbye?
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Drug dealers. Some of them even grew illegally. Oh, yeah. And got busted. Yeah.
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Well, it's a little long, so I'll just read one, but I have not read it all the way through. This is from Isabel. Hi, Akiva, Andy, Jorma, and Seth. I have been a fan for a while and enjoy most everything you guys do. Something I have noticed over the years and across several Lonely Island projects are mentions of geese.
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After the big jump in Hot Rod, Scrooge comes out with a cooked goose for everyone in Boombox. Obviously, several mentions of boiled goose. There's another song featuring geese called I Don't Give a Honk. It's the sound that a goose makes. A stretch, but we'll accept it. And also did an update feature. Andy did an update feature with Seth as Larry the goose.
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And most recently in the Hot Rod episode of The Pod, I believe you mentioned that you were goose guys. Yes.
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I was just wondering what draws you to geese specifically. What is their comedic appeal? Well, I can't explain it.
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Yeah, I think that's all it is. This is a really nice observation and really makes us look in the mirror. So really, we just say thank you, I think, to this.
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All right, goose army. Wait, are we changing it?
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Yeah, we're just goose. We're just Anthony Edwards. We're just goose heads here. Sorry, Anthony, that I didn't remember your name off the top. When they were really trying to write Maverick and they're sitting there and they're like, wait, Anthony Edwards is the basketball player.
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I forgot I was dealing with two sports nuts here. We're not going to remember.
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You think we got another Dookie Houser situation here?
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It's like the Will Smith who plays for the Dodgers. Every time they introduce Will Smith at the Dodger game, everyone goes, oh, here he comes, men in black. And then, no, it's just a Dodgers player. And then you're like, that makes more sense.
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So they call Anthony Edwards the sports player Ant-Man.
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A Couple of Homies
That's interesting because there's another Ant-Man. Did you know that? Mr. Paul Rudd. That's right. It's a comic book character. But that's just coincidence. They called him Ant-Man before that comic book was written.
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A Couple of Homies
And someone says, hey, Ant-Man? Yeah. Hey, Ant-Man. They all three go, yes.
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A Couple of Homies
What I was going to ask, though, and it's really important before we sign off, is how long until they came to rooster for what goose's son's name would be? Oh, yeah.
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A Couple of Homies
Miles Teller plays Anthony Edwards' son in Maverick. And his name is Rooster.
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They're like, he's got to be another type of bird. Another kind of farm bird. Fowl. Another fowl.
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A Couple of Homies
Yes, sir. I wonder if we can find a picture of that car.
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A Couple of Homies
Pheasant. Turkey. Turkey. Should have been call sign turkey. Oh, yeah.
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A Couple of Homies
We got him. That would have been perfect. Hey, Miles Teller, member of the Quaid Army, send in your voice note. Let us know when you got them to change it from Turkey and how you talked old Tommy Cruise into it. Hey, Tom, Tom, I'm loving it. Thank you for including me in the project. Legacy grew up such a big deal. Oh, it's good to see you. Just want to talk about my call sign, Turkey.
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A Couple of Homies
It's just like, it's just not exactly what I feel like is maybe in the vein of like tough, you know, smart, iconic characters like Iceman and Maverick. Right. And then here I am, Turkey. Okay. So, I mean, we spent a lot of time brainstorming it, but what'd you have in mind?
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A Couple of Homies
Yeah, right. The Tim Curry character. He's like, everyone will be confused. Yeah, they'll think you're the con artist from Annie. Exactly. That's right. Hear me out. I don't think they will. Done. Listen, Tommy, while we're on the subject of just simple rewrites, you think you could give me one of those shower scenes like DF had in season three of NYPD Blue?
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Hit me with three shots of my butt. All right. Love you guys. See you next week. Love you guys.
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A Couple of Homies
Yes, the driver of the car was neither Shot Callin' or Big Ballin'.
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A Couple of Homies
Wait, I have something that's Naked Gun related, which is I just have a special message to somebody. Hey, Jay, I know you're laying in your bed next to your husband, and... I hear that you like listening. So Andy and Jorm, say hello to Jay. Hi, Jay. She falls asleep to our wonderful, silky voices while her husband, who happens to be a high-level Paramount exec, is laying in bed next to her.
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A Couple of Homies
Yeah, I wanted to read our text thread. You're really on top of it.
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A Couple of Homies
The kind of exec that might have to approve overages as a movie nears completion and might have to approve some music that might come in above the approved amount in the budget and might...
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A Couple of Homies
VFX sometimes comes in a little hotter than you think. But you want it to look real. Somebody has to just sign at the bottom line.
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A Couple of Homies
That's how little the studio wanted to spend on Popstar after it had come out and they knew it wasn't making money. That they refused to pay for the nominal cost it would have to have Yorma at a microphone. A real microphone.
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A Couple of Homies
No, but you could have got on a mic. It was they wouldn't pay for it. So we were like, all right, just call in. There was one mic. That's it. That was it. And it was before the technology would allow for just, you know, this.
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A Couple of Homies
Yeah, you were just in New York. There's plenty of mics there that would work.
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A Couple of Homies
We can really race by a couple of homies, in my humble opinion.
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It is just, you got to do something. It's Friday night at 930 and then by midnight. How did it air? If you had asked me if this aired. That's the most surprising part. This is the one I thought did not air. I was sure this didn't air.
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A Couple of Homies
We're all texting trying to figure out if Seth could make the pod today. Spoiler alert, he couldn't. And Andy said, I'm about to do Mulaney. This was at 6.59 p.m. It's a live show that starts at 7, I believe.
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A Couple of Homies
Yeah, maybe. Not only did it air, but it aired in like a primo digital short spot, like in the third act before the first musical guest, before Fleet Foxes did their first song. You know what I really do like from the show is there's a Yoram dances to Fleet Foxes. That's one of my favorite Yoram dances, just because I remember having a great vibe.
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A Couple of Homies
Oh, so we didn't air. We made it way before. And then this show needed something to get between an Aladdin sketch and a ghillie.
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A Couple of Homies
And then they threw it in and we must have been blindsided.
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A Couple of Homies
So I believe what happened is we obviously had nothing. And when I was like, probably asked Forte, like begging him, like, what do you got? And he came up with an idea of doing like improv songs, describing what's happening when nothing important is happening, I guess. Oh, is this a Forte idea? I think so. Just because otherwise, wouldn't it have been you singing?
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A Couple of Homies
I'm like, I definitely blame it on him. Yeah, that's why I said we need Forte to defend himself.
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A Couple of Homies
So Jorm came in at nine like, I've got it, guys.
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A Couple of Homies
And then Yorm wrote, I know you'll all be shocked to hear this, but I don't know what that means. Does Mulaney have a show? He's been doing it for over two months now, maybe a month and a half at least. Many, many episodes. One could even argue it's the talk of the town. It also is a sequel to him having done it before. So it's also less surprising because it's already happened in the past.
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A Couple of Homies
You'd think that if he's going to bother interjecting, he would have recorded on his podcast mic, not like in a wind tunnel, you kind of like with a lot of background sound.
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A Couple of Homies
Oh, yeah, that's why. He's doing a callback to Yorm's pop star commentary. Oh, how savvy of him. It's actually very kind of meta.
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Let me say, it's too soon. It's too soon for him to be gone? Yeah, we just did our very first No Seth episode. It went over great. Everyone loved it. And it's way too soon for a sequel. And this is because he couldn't make it work this week. It's not because of us. He had another bar mitzvah.
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A Couple of Homies
Yeah, I actually, you know, really thanking Seth. This is really thoughtful. He put some time in. Those were interesting factoids he had.
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Ras Trent
So your first joke is really just for like nine people you know.
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Ras Trent
Yeah. Okay, so that's fair. And a lot of people in London. You are making a joke that you can have zero confidence is going to play with the SNL house.
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Ras Trent
Yeah. Now wait, did Rihanna ever bring this up to you guys? We played it for her when we were making Shy Ronnie. All right, so she had not heard it yet. Wait, had she seen it?
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Ras Trent
I guess I thought I deserved a little bit more grace from our listeners.
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Ras Trent
Oh, that might be. That's why I'm remembering it not being right away. By the way, could you ask for a better way for it to come across her radar?
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Ras Trent
That's really funny. I wish they had asked you to do that.
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Ras Trent
All righty, so let's keep going here with The Establish. All right, we've got roller skates.
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Ras Trent
Here I Come, yeah. Now, I will say that is a perfect example on the Natalie's rap parallel, which is but a ding, ding, whoa, is just very funny coming out of Andy's mouth, even if you don't know that that's an actual famous moment.
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Ras Trent
What are you holding, Andy, at this point in the song? What is that?
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Ras Trent
And were they having so much fun doing it together? Yes, absolutely.
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Ras Trent
And you knew right away, and was it exactly what you wanted it to be the first time you put the CD in and listened?
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Ras Trent
So I got that it was his juices. Yeah. I mean, reading it back, it is kind of... I wish I had written it. Oh. You know what I mean?
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Ras Trent
I'm already so heartbroken how much more you guys know about rap music than me.
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Ras Trent
and this is just everything about this so far has been just heartbreaking because part of what I've you know the bargaining I've made in my own head is well of course they know more about rap than you Seth it's all they listen to it was high school and we would just listen all the time when we'd be rolling around when you had nothing else to do we didn't have smartphones you remember this is also what we filled our brain with while you were learning about politics and history yeah well guess what I made the wrong choice
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Ras Trent
It's the combination of... I mean, you look at it now and it's a very short line, but... To have pumping juice and throat all in one, it was kind of asking for it.
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Ras Trent
I mean, the fact that he called and then it couldn't roll with it. He said, you're calling into the podcast. I forgot.
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Ras Trent
Yeah. Like that was a perfect time to adjust and say, hey guys, so proud of you for doing it. Love you.
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Ras Trent
It looks like a pretty normie dorm. It looks pretty nice, honestly.
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Ras Trent
Didn't flag that one. yeah yeah seemed pretty psyched when you were telling your parents definitely did not seem to understand how bad that word was yeah and we're loving these we're loving casting on these parents also is loving when you were reading the book a week ago Andy you're reading by the docks it seems or you're on like a pier yeah it's a mother it's kind of a dick in a box location yeah
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Ras Trent
But you have a moment where you sort of hit the book with the back of your hand as if everything just made sense to you. Everything finally makes sense.
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Ras Trent
And I apologize to Mr. Martin, who is nothing but an absolute gentleman. Yeah, he's your Cool Jacket inspiration. He got you through Update. Yeah. By the way, this is the episode.
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Ras Trent
Also, I like you doing a little just juggling of soccer balls.
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Ras Trent
And the visual now is you're just smelling your dreadlocks and even you are having a hard time with the odor.
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Ras Trent
The epilet... The epiletisode? The epilotsisode.
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Ras Trent
And I love the look that like Ross Trent's horn section is the guys who are just like band guys.
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Ras Trent
Oh yeah, Finkelstein. Now we got a very important cameo coming up. Okay. Yeah, bald heads suck. Now you're playing three extras like bongos. And then Kevin Miller. Kevin, are you on?
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Ras Trent
The epiletisode. This is it. This is Amy does not make it to this show. In the Josh Brolin show, which was the week before, she does her very pregnant, hardcore rap as Sarah Palin, one of the great moments for My Money, Best in All History. Andy, you're in it.
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Ras Trent
And you had your own duck. That helped? I did, yes.
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Ras Trent
So there's two of my favorite shots are coming up here. One, you guys walk up to what just looks like a giant bong coming out of the street. I don't even know to this day. You still see it in New York, what it is. Yeah, what's the purpose of that? It's like a thing you put over a manhole cover, I guess, when the earth is leaking. If you know there's going to be an exorbitant amount of steam.
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Ras Trent
Yeah, so it's just not to have the steam pouring out, I guess, directly on the street. It's from the subway? Yeah, it's from the subway, but it's a giant orange cone that Ross Trent goes over and it looks like he takes a bong hit off it. So amazing that you just got lucky you guys saw it.
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Ras Trent
And then the next time we see Ross Trent, he is behind the counter of a Cold Stone Creamery, an actual Cold Stone Creamery, which is a wonderful place to find out he's toiling part-time.
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Ras Trent
Wait, really? This was not prearranged? You just got behind the Cold Stone Creamery like that?
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Ras Trent
That's like when people are like, you know, before 9-11, you could just walk on a plane. Like, that's how this feels now. The idea that you could just walk into a Goldstone Creamery and shoot something for us.
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Ras Trent
Amy did a lot of, I think wrote most of that by herself, and it's a real killer. She did a great job, and it played hot. H-O-T, hot. In Wasilla, we chill baby chilla, but in the bedroom, it's drill baby drilla, I believe, some version of that. Yeah. Wow.
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Ras Trent
Yeah, which is even Ross Trent is incredibly obtuse. But even he knows... not to be full Rasta in front of those dudes.
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Ras Trent
He knows he's a poser somewhere. And so obviously, yeah, when you recorded in the summer, you didn't have a moment. It would have made no sense to have you just mumble.
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Ras Trent
It's just like four or five actual... Yeah, here, let's get to them real quick.
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Ras Trent
I do feel like I remember it, but I don't feel like I'll be able to sing it. I do remember Jessica was on a bike. I feel like it was instrumental, and she was going through a little New England town where all the murders happened.
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Ras Trent
Are you talking about the theme song to Murder, She Wrote? Yeah. I like that you said Jessica.
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Murder, she wrote. How did it go? That's close. Murder, she wrote. Murder, she wrote. No, I wasn't. That's it. I do remember that song. Yeah. Support comes from Nutrafol. Hey, gentlemen. Hi. You know what? There's nothing. This year, 2025, there's nothing holding you back from loving your hair again, and you guys got some good hair. Thanks, Seth.
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Oh, so they have all different meats from different animals. Beef... Sticks and also venison. I was recently eating a venison stick and I'm feeling like a real fancy gentleman. Like I've just gotten back from the hunt. What part of the deer is the stick? Oh, that's a good question. I think they take the best part of the deer and then they make it, they get that into the stick shape.
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Somewhere in Manhattan. It's very fun to see these three. I mean, I'd say with love. These three nerds rocking it out.
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Ras Trent
Yeah. He said he can't make the pod, but he is going to, they are going to pause the commercial shoot so he can jump on and do the ad reads.
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Ras Trent
And I guess he's like yelled pretty hard at the actual, you know, the commercial, the client, as they call him in the ad world. And he's like, you're going to tell me I can't go do my ads while I'm doing your ads? I directed a MacGruber ad on the Super Bowl. A Super Bowl, a three-parter. They only aired one part. Yeah, so there you go.
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Ras Trent
The real, the real Ross, the real McCoy is the real Russians. And this is from Kevin Miller. I texted Dina. And she said Joe Lynn got permission to shoot in his classroom and in his dorm room. Fordham University. There you go. Shout out to Joe. Yeah.
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Ras Trent
And you guys just rolled up to you just rolled up on Stone Cold Stone in Times Square and asked if you could shoot and that you guys were real cowboys.
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Ras Trent
Yeah, that's the nice thing about the Times. The Times Square Cold Stone does not have the head of corporate on site.
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Ras Trent
Yoram's not here, in case everybody's wondering, but he's not here. But this is, I'm just going to say off the top, we're going to talk about Ross Trent today. Ross Trent, I have nothing but great things to say about, is in the body of one of the best shows I think we ever did in and golden era. It's really, I think it's a Mount Rushmore and golden era show.
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Ras Trent
It is a very ship-in-a-bottle construction. It's a very funny idea. Very nice of you to share with us all. It is a real credit to your knowledge of the genre. I know you love when I say stuff like that.
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Ras Trent
If he comes into your house. Yes. Hi, guys. Hi, bud. What's up, Yoram? Well, that was an abrupt ending. Hi, everybody. This is Seth, and what I'm doing right now is called a post-record, where days after I return to the podcast studio to leave some final thoughts. We got a little off the rails at the end of this episode. Basically, what happened is...
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Ras Trent
Yorm realized he had missed the podcast and then drove over to Akiva's house. He then came into Akiva's house, and Andy and I, needless to say, were relentlessly busting on him for that choice, but he couldn't hear us because he didn't have headphones in, so Akiva would have to hear our burns and then repeat them to Yorma.
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Ras Trent
The reality is, it was a lot of fun, it was happening, but it did not make for a very good podcast. It was an abrupt end. So I'm here to tell you that, yes, we did not get to any of the Jon Hamm episode, which is an golden episode from that era. So we're going to talk about that in our next episode.
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Ras Trent
It's going to be a standalone episode about everything else in that marvelous 90 minutes of television. We did not discuss if Ross Trent was a Criterion episode. We'll get to that as well. But you know what? Sound off in the comments. Why not do that as well? Thank you, everybody. We love you too. See you soon. Next week, why not?
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Ras Trent
Ham. First John Ham. Oh. Wow. First Jon Hamm. And it's kind of crazy because the show is so good in no small part due to Jon Hamm. But then we have this lovely Ross Trent, which, of course, he's not in. And I think that adds a great deal as well.
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Ras Trent
Now is as good a time as ever to jump in and say, I love Ross Trent, and I still... I rewatched it today and realized I'm still not even halfway there in the references.
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Ras Trent
Hey guys, can I just start by saying I held our listeners in higher regard than they have revealed themselves to be. I thought we had sort of an elevated listenership. People whose minds were not in the gutter. And yet multiple people commented because I talked about how Chris Martin gave me his throat spray when I lost my throat. And maybe I... worded it in a way that was a little eggy.
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Ras Trent
I've got a few years on you guys, and I don't think the hyper-specificity to Rastafarianism was anything I'd seen before, but we definitely had guys I was in college with who looked exactly like Ross Trent. Yes. So I enjoyed it on that level, but I was always aware there was a second and third level that was beyond my...
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Ras Trent
So your hyper specificity is not like a deep thing. observation about Rastafarianism. Your only observation was about the dudes who were Pretending to be Rastafarianists. Correct.
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Ras Trent
And this is so much worse than an accent because it is a truly different way of talking.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Ras Trent
Because it's not even a foreign language. It's the language you know, just like in a different order.
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Ras Trent
Oh, how'd you word it? I said I was just pumping the Chris Martin juice into my throat. Oh, now I see. And the amount of people that took to the comments to say not only, I can't believe that's how he said it, and I can't believe everybody just let it pass.
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Ras Trent
I do think your idea is right, Keev. We should do a rewatch together in pieces. But before we start it, Trent is really just the perfect name. Just shout out to the choice of Trent. Thanks. I mean, it seemed like.
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Ras Trent
Yeah. You are in many ways as trailblazing as Margie Samuels-Yorm. And I often said that.
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Property of the Queen
Hey you guys, Andy here. I'm recording.
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Property of the Queen
Yeah, we wanted the dunce. Well, no, we leaned into that to answer that question because we were like, we're not going to be able to cut around to a bunch of funny shots like in a video. So we need a comedy game here. And obviously there is a clear one. And me being mean to me is a game to you. Yes, but to circle back, getting to perform that with The Roots was fucking incredible.
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Property of the Queen
By the way, speaking of Popstar, it just went back on Netflix.
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And again, to everyone listening, I apologize. This is Seth's fault.
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Thank you for asking that question exactly the right way. Yeah. You know, for a long time, I was a Tay guy. Tays all day. Me and my wife, then girlfriend.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Tays all day. And, you know, in New York, I would get Tays. And we would get Tays in the office. We would get Blue Bottle. I think we've talked about that before. And now I get my beans from Go Get Em Tiger. All right. Look at that. That's a really good answer.
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The loudest foods. You wanna get into it, son? You wanna get into it? 9.30am here. Had to get my kids out the door for school. Have something after this. Had to take a shower. This is what I'm eating.
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I mean, are we jumping right into it? Because I can tell you how it all came together, and I'm guessing Keeve remembers pretty well, too. I would like to not jump into it because, again, I came in with a plan.
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She didn't specify this, but I assume she meant Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking. Yeah, of course.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Keith, I thought your favorite Jackal was Allison Janney's performance in The West Wing.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Well, I know about it because of Keeve and Liz. They love that.
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Seth, are we are we ignoring the fact that there's another kind of jackal? You mean the people who comment on my YouTube page?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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I feel like if you ignore them after talking a lot about jackals, that it might be a bad move on your part.
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Yeah, so take that, Jackals. I would take a big bite of my apple right now, but it's done.
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Hey, if you're out there and your name is Daniel Radcliffe and you're listening to this right now, all apologies, Nirvana Ref. Quaid, what are you cooking? What's on the stove, Quaid?
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I will say on the Alvin and the Chipmunks thing, it's an interesting process getting older, and I would argue maturing. I know that's hard to believe right now. But when I was a kid, I'd be like, man, you want to be Alvin. Yeah. Front and center. He's the guy. Yeah. And then now when you watch Alvin and the Chipmunks, you're like, oh, this kid is fucking annoying. Yeah. You know who I like?
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Strangle you to death, you piece of shit. Oh, am I not allowed to say that now, modern parenting? That's Dave saying.
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I mean, I once had a thing on the street where a guy was walking with his daughter and she was like 10. She was like, hey, Andy. I just jizzed in my pants. Oh, no. And I ran the opposite direction.
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That did actually happen. Bless her.
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There you go, me likey dat. So you implemented it.
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Can you imagine how irritating? And it starts as a bit, and then you find yourself in these moments where we're like... I'm actually thinking at that moment, and then all of us together go, half a dibble? Yes! I was also thinking just half a dibble, just a little nudgeroo.
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Reading between the lines, I think Jorm's saying anything is possible. Believe in your dreams. Is that right, Jorm? That's right, Andy. We are so simpatico. I love doing this.
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You and me, bro. Ah, another bite of my apple.
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Making the butts bigger. He makes butts big.
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I mean, also, we were there, so there's maybe subconsciously that. I don't remember it, but that's a... I definitely don't.
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Well, it's also like I try to remind myself this now because I still watch SNL every week. And when I get in the like viewer mode of like, man, I wish that had been this, this and that. I'm like, who knows what circumstances led to this existing? Who knows what else was at the table? Or if there's like any laughs, I'm just like, great. Everyone did a great job. It's so stressful.
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A million things are working against you at all times because it's putting together a show in three days, which makes no sense. This was an instance of the Jonas Brothers were coming in. They were red hot. We didn't know much about them, but we knew it was like a thing. Yeah. They wanted to do a short, which we were happy to do. We met them and they were absolutely lovely.
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And they had all these songs already written, pretty much. They're like, when we're like hanging out and goofing around in the studio or on tour, we write these like glam band songs and we have them all done.
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They're the meat of the thing because it's what they already had done and what they wanted to do. And we were like, who am I to blow against the wind?
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I mean, it's also it's not like we had some idea for it. We were like, great. So I think they had the songs and we backed into the premise based on those songs because they were clearly from another era and that's why they thought it was fun and funny and that they were doing it specifically because their real music was pop and not like those songs. Yeah.
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There's like a funk band and a disco band. And then there's like an old timey band. And then maybe, you know, like 80s electro thing. So you come in.
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We don't know right now. Please let me be Theodore just to be free like that. Not have to think about anything or worry. I'm so tired. I'm so tired of being the Alvin. I can't fucking do it anymore. Just put me out of my fucking overacting misery.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Oh, y'all, I forgot to mention, we all took truth serum at the top of this. Truth serum.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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FBI loaned us some truth serum CIA FBI I literally thought FBI was slang and then I was like oh no he means the FBI gave him truth serum doesn't FBI have truth serum or is it CIA Seth you're the guy I don't know I don't think there's such a thing as truth serum I bet there is what it's probably like a version of ecstasy or something okay all right who's gonna play this for us I got it right here merciful 235 all right dressing room on nine Andy what's up Andy horrible lighting what's up
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Seven hours later. You turds got anything to say before I play this?
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Bobby Monahan on the drums. Bobby Keenan and Forte doing really good work here.
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Yeah. I like commenting on the sort of mini trend of writing songs about Africa in the 70s and 80s.
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I just stated everything I did before Yeah, that's true Do you take your kids to school every day? No
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What if I said, that's sure going to be clean?
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Didn't get a laugh, though. No. Bill's a very good wizard.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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I don't want your money. I just want to know how you stayed so young. This guy. What up, dude? How are you? It's crazy, right?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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I like the bill reveal. I like the song saying the exact episode we are currently in is when they were going to rock on SNL. Ask the Wizard is a song that I like hearing. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Yeah, it's not Criterion, it's not Kim's video, but it's nice, and we like them, and they did a good job.
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I remembered another Yorma-ism that he says a lot that we say in our circle, which is when things are awesome, he'll go, oh, it's like an AM, PM situation. Right. Then people go, what? And he goes, too much good stuff. Yeah.
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Yeah, A.M.P.M. Mini Marts. That was their slogan for a really long time. They're catchphrases. That's too much good stuff. Too much good stuff, right? A.M.P.M.
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Oh, yeah. I have gone on long, long stretches of time where I like to talk about being a breakfast defector.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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We do live moss. We're not afraid to live moss. But when you're doing something crazy edgy, Seth, you're like, I guess I'm just a breakfast defector. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Commercial parodies used to air like three times a year.
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You've been saying stuff ever since. I'll get it. But I've been laughing at that the whole time.
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Love you. Take care. Take care out there. Be safe out there. Be safe out there. Be good. Be well.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Just on days you have a morning pod. Oh, my God. We did one yesterday. What do you want from me, my blood? By the way, this is two days in a row.
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weigh in on the comments i don't know what it actually is uh kaj is the name of the band nice work guys yeah really fun i do think that owes a lot to sigh also like the choreo and the type of song yeah so there's some gung-hum style yeah am i saying that right
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We do that all the time. Yeah. Oh, you know, you should check out this thing that I have nothing to do with.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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I mean, Jorm's basically from Finland, so he's allowed. Yeah, totally.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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All three of us know him pretty good, though. Yeah.
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Boat. Boat. Boat. Let's hit a couple extra boats because Keef had to leave early.
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First pictures on Google. Yeah. Next, next question. Is that cleared and okay?
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Uh, well, we were legitimately fucking excited. We had met the roots a little bit because they were, you know, the band for Jimmy and they knew, I think we were massive fans and had like grown up listening to them and going to their shows. And Keeve maybe even promoted one of their shows in Santa Cruz.
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It felt like they were always touring. For me, that was true, and now there's a different musical act I've seen more. Can you guess who it is? Oh, God, what's her name?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Keeve, just real quick, though, what were a few of the acts that you promoted shows for?
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Hey, what's up? It's Keevan Yor from Up in the Cut. You think you maybe want to play a show at like a dinky-ass venue in Santa Cruz?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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No. No, we'd know it. But our listeners might not. So continue.
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I was like, we should.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Well, I kept saying, I want to mark this day with a maker's mark. And you guys kept saying, what does that mean? I was like, it means a toast, guys.
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Thank you, Sammy.
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No, I'm losing money, if anything. I've been paying for people's sessions.
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What a waste of money. Everyone notices them right away.
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I will say, I, one, didn't think we should air it with the word jizz. I was like a little bit like, you know, there's still potentially kids watching this show. And I was like, we can't. We definitely can't. And then, two, I thought that the censored version might have been funnier. I don't know how you guys felt, but it was pretty funny.
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Sure. And do you want to explain why we were somehow allowed to actually air the nonsense?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Didn't he happen to be in town, too, that day? Like, I feel like he was in New York.
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Yeah, I feel like I remember because I remember Betsy Torres, our lovely censor, being like, absolutely not. And we were like, we sort of agree with you.
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jizz means piss right yeah yeah i think so yeah it's fine it's fine i don't know why they're so worried about we did hear that from multiple parents is that what you want to thank you because i remember distinctly people being like my kid thought it was piss and then i had to back it all the way up and explain sex and everything to them and then get to and then this joke you don't have to
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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I think the kid was the right age. You're like, let me go.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Wait, when did we actually make this, Keith and Andy? It must have been an off week, right? It was the week before.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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It was like a one and a half day. I think like we actually had money for the first time, which was amazing and everything that everybody said, but we were still like borrowing the Mercedes from a friend.
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Yeah, Rob, who we still work with a lot.
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Andy's still the handsome one to me.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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No, we definitely were writing together, like, verses, because I remember we, like, split apart and wrote our verses separately at the same time. Because also, we had made some other fucking early Lonely Island song where I had been doing a British, because I'm like, I spent some time in England, guys, I'm really Anglophile.
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And like, but I did some thing and we had liked that tone of the, like, sexy British guy who's talking about the, like, and then we're both together writing in that style.
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Time to slam bam. It's a Jimmy Jam.
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What song was it? I can't remember. That was my verse from whatever song it was.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Oh, God, that one.
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We still say it to each other.
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We may have said this already, but we do tend to purposely write very visually and think of locations as we're writing. So all of those things were very purposely thought out, even in the back half of the song of like, I'm over here now. I'm over here. I'm in a movie. I'm in a car. I'm in a car.
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As it gets more and more premature.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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How can they not get it cleared? I feel like they know the lady who would be responsible for that, you know?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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This is a real thumb.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Oh, man. Immediately handsome.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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I look a little, like, strokesy or something. I have beetles.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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We do look like two European DJs to me.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Also, can I just say that like what I loved about your editing, Keeve, was you had watched some video where on the bass hits, you would push in and blur as if the speakers were like rattling the image. And it looks really cool.
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Because then later, when you hired me to help you out with a teaser trailer for the movie The Watch, you wanted me to replicate that shot in the rearview mirror.
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It's a great little thing.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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It's my favorite part of the song. Just that these guys are so petty that it's immediately your fault.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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But because this was, like, us on our own with a record company, and yes, we had done stuff on SNL, I remember thinking, like, oh, is it going to be way harder to get people? And remember just being so happy when people said yes. Like, she was so nice, too. She was great.
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Justin, what was he doing in town? How did we get Timberlake? I can't remember how that happened either. He was just in town, right?
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But did we do that with a dolly? That shot? Because I remember shooting it super fast. But like, is that a dolly or is that steady?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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I definitely always remember being like when we would do videos like this and me not being on the show or Akiva not being on the show, being like, do people want to be in it with me? No, it's not Andy. And like being a little bit like, oh, God, I hope she doesn't quit.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Uh, Keith, it was, I do remember that we, we did do a, like, it was in like a shopping cart that we got that shot, I believe. Pretty sure.
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Cash or credit. And then I do remember that, Andy, I think you wrote the line, one more thing, I'm going to pay by check. Which I think is probably the funniest part of my verse.
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Wow, this has been watched 176 million times. That's pretty good. That's pretty good.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Just the current doing. By the way, that money that Akiba was talking about, that like 10 grand in cash or however much they had, I think that went to things like us passing by a movie theater and being like, hey, can you put up a horror film? Like, that's real, right? Is that CG? I don't think it is.
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When I soar a face. Yeah, maybe these are just guys who say soar-a.
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It's so ingrained in me because I spent, you know, eight months. Yeah, it was established. College, Lancaster University. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Yeah, the DJ makes a nice appearance. The DJ stuff's great. Yeah, DPG.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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He doesn't jizz, though.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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I'm driving a Mercedes and I think I may have driven a Mercedes only one other time in my life. And I remember thinking like, this is pretty cool. Look at this drop top Mercedes.
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Yeah. And then we got the, we got the side shot and yeah, bing bong. We probably did it in, you know, 20 minutes. Yeah.
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I remember thinking that I'm such a small man that I might look slightly ridiculous driving a big luxury car. And I think I might, as I look at this shot, like slightly ridiculous, but you know, maybe that's part of the joke. I think you look cool.
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I've told you guys my jizz story that we're never going to hear on this podcast.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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I won't. But it's a great story. And it's so sad that no one will ever hear it.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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So yeah, it's getting faster. Yeah. Good editing. Yeah. Fun wiping.
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That's a cool ass building.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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And this was where we shot the roof as well. Didn't we go up to the roof and do the roof shots there?
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We know it.
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Cuts to another later Andy.
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Open my window and a breeze rolls in. That's definitely my best jizz reaction.
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That guy doesn't have books.
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Yeah, I love that movie. That's the most controversial part of this video.
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I love picturing your dad doing that.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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That's hilarious. I think that's just Andy. I'm not even sure I'm singing it. You're not.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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This is some good editing. I like that little solar flare at the end there.
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It's lovely. Bookended.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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I'm just in that same grocery store.
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They were always surprising.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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That's fine. It should be platinum by this point. I think we only have a gold record on that, but I believe it is platinum.
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We do.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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I was like, having the plaques is so funny. It makes the song so funny because it is so incongruous to be like, what? Why? Jizz in my pants?
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I remember loving this one. And this was the one, Keith, where you got the props email.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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About your job being great.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Oh, I got to say, you know, I thought breaking down jizz in my pants was going to be fun, but I think that I love this way more. Like, I loved watching every frame of that. It was joyful.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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It's like Just Two Guys character level of awkwardness.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Jizz in My Pants and Virgania Horsen's Pony Express
Just couldn't be more awkward and great.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Jizz in My Pants and Virgania Horsen's Pony Express
Her walking past the mail trucks, though. Yeah, right. That terrorist can stop that. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, wait, can I just ask a question? We edited a lot together and occasionally we would do it in different rooms and then join sessions. This feels like a ton of my style of animation, but you may have done some of it.
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Yeah. But you definitely did a bunch of like. Yeah, the hitting the mail into the.
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And then it cuts.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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I also like that the audio is looping. The screams are like... We hadn't perfected it yet because we...
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Yeah, but I want to know because I forgot.
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I'm doing great because the last couple weeks I've been really on fire, you know.
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Yeah, my version of red hot, yeah.
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This is a real question. Do you guys ever think he actually said that in real life?
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He's got like a cool bar he told me about. I think it should be up in there. Oh, yeah, upstate. If you guys know Paul, definitely encourage him to put that painting up, put it in the bar. People are going to love it.
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Thanks, thanks Seth.
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That's true.
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I was telling these guys before we started this podcast that I have some Finnish friends staying with me. For lack of a better term, he's sort of a shaman, and she's a clairvoyant, but they do body work. I'm kind of running a spa out of my house.
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Another one.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah. Our day is done if we don't have to do that. Yeah. I mean, it's also because if it isn't quite right and you're like, they look off into the sunset, a tear rolls down their cheek in a comedy setting, you can get crucified.
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Like the audience and your friends will talk about it forever. I mean, you're like that one for some reason doesn't work. And you text your friends about it. Yeah. You never want to be the one who got texted about.
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He was blushing.
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Yeah, I think generally it did. Like I say, I felt when I rewatched it, like the audience wasn't going crazy. But I think people around the building were nice about it.
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Some big empty room with the auditor sitting even further away than when I came back in 2009.
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It wasn't film. I don't know if it was reds or whatever, but what I loved was that there were obviously no lights ever and just relying on those like humongous building sized billboards that'll go from white to black as they're flashing different ads. made for this like moody, weird lighting.
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I mean, and Matt and Oz were utilizing it well, but it was kind of a lot of found cool shots because of the crazy lighting of that place at night.
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Yeah. It's 2009. And then yet that's the one we hold up the highest is Lonely Island. Everyone knows that term. No one says like, oh, are you the guy behind Mike O'Brien pictures? If that even was what the thing was. But I also would be remiss if I didn't say, what's your go-to, Seth, that you're trying to lose the expression? Oh, yeah, I should know. Yeah, I'm going to try to make mine.
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Same. I was going to show them what an artiste from Chicago is all about. you did it years later at one point i i did improv oh no i got out of guinness book of world records and i flipped and i said tell me when to stop and i'll try to break that record and they weren't saying stop i kept going all the way through and finally tina was like she probably said stop like please stop
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I'd be remiss if I didn't say... It was very cringy whenever anyone, once I did a couple, would say anything about Lonely Island and that. I was like, this is not going to be Lonely Island. I can't do Lonely Island. They did 110, 120 amazing shorts. They have musical talent. They have rhythm. They're funny. Please don't. Yeah, they were more like, these might be Albert Brooks-y or something.
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You're saying I might be benefiting more from the relationship than he is?
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Oh, I don't really know. I think the general feeling that I felt on the show, like I was bad at the show in my first year on the cast and that I can't do impressions. I can't sing all these things that I was seeing all the people around me do really well. I can't do. And it was almost like just make that the joke. I feel like Andy doing impressions next to Hader early in his time. Yeah.
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Might be the same move of like, fuck it. Just yeah, look, I can't. I can't do it with a smile.
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Cocaine? Cocaine for sale. Cocaine, want to buy some cocaine? Hello, walked right by me. Hey, you seem a little down. What's on your mind, man? I think I might try to stop selling cocaine. Do what? I think I want to try to be a rapper. The amount of fact checking that went on during that, like crew members coming up to me and saying like his first album wasn't the black album.
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And I'm like, I know that this is not a good biopic. Also, it was thrust upon J.K. Simmons. It had been to the table many times and did well, but wasn't picked for whatever reasons. And then Lauren was just like, just shoot it on Tuesday with J.K. Simmons. So he walked into this world and was like, you're Jay-Z. And I was like, yeah. He goes, and I'm Nas.
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He had never heard the laughs that had gotten at Taylor. And he goes, and is it a problem that I don't know who the fuck Nas is? Yeah. And I said, no, no, it's much better. It's way better.
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I think so sometimes because, yeah, it would be Lorne reading pages and pages of silent work. Stage directions. Stage directions. The mouse goes up to a couple. He tries to get them to take a photo of him, but instead they want him to take a photo, you know. But there was one or two times where they got, like, championed. You know how, like—
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Hater during this era, like a Leslie would get behind a sketch and almost like get the room going. Yeah. And one or two may have gotten over the hump because of that.
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Yeah, I think that's right. But he would even like slap the table, just like waking up the hair department or whatever.
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I mean, I guess this is sort of a breakthrough moment for me because in my mind, I'm a version of myself, like which maybe my inner persona is a teenage girl. Yeah, just blushing because I'm just like, what if someone handed me a magazine? I was on the cover. I might be like giddy. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. And I think I read that that is rumored to be how he got his name and it's incorrect. So we put it in. I should head back to Marcy Projects. You know what trains are around here? You should take the J or the Z.
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Right, right. Yeah, and then I did have to wrap by speaking to what you were saying, Jorma, and that was how... Really good, really good. They had me come back. I kept getting a text like, hey, can you swing back again? And they'd be like, can you just do it again? It's not... It's not on the beat.
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No. He's saying, I'm so humble and I got to the top because of luck and all that. But I had to redo that, I think with Eli at that time. He was like, okay, I'm going to play it again. I'm going to point to you when you start.
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Oh, man. He gave you peanut butter like they give to dogs to make your mouth move.
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You've been making some fantastic beats for me lately, Kanye. Oh. Hey, where do you see yourself in five years? I want to be a rapper, like you. I think that could be amazing.
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Your brain works like no one's I've ever met, truly.
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I know. And she's got like the fan effect. I think it was, of course, longer than all these are so much longer than Lonely Island videos. But there were other beats. He goes to Annie and he's like, oh, my gosh, this hard knock life song. Yeah.
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could actually be a rap and people are like no that's impossible so everything was going to be accurate except kanye was the only other one and then naz got added in and other beats got cut to give the host something to do and so then it became almost like well now more than half the world are white guys so but that wasn't exactly planned
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And he pitches me the song Empire State of Mind doing a great Jay-Z. And I think he'd done it on the show.
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Right. And then, by the way, jump forward to the 40th. Leslie Jones, who knows Jay-Z, saw me and him in proximity and was like, oh, this is going to happen. And I was like, I don't know. I don't know. And she made me go up and talk to him. And it became clear, but it took me way too long to understand this, that he had never seen the video.
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I assumed it not because I thought it was so amazing, but like assistants and people almost always show the person. Yeah.
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like they're like hey there's a thing that literally was shot where you grew up and stuff like we're at marcy projects and stuff and he just i i said i think leslie wants me to say you know i'm the guy and that i played you you know and he just was kind of blank stare scanning the room for anyone else to talk to and just kept going it's all good man it's all good and then ariana grande
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I replayed it and he's like, I have no idea what that was, but he probably has psychopaths come up to him once a day and say something like that. Right. You and me, we're the same. Right.
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Yeah, it was a guy I was teaching spoons. And all I remember about it was that it was based on my freshman college roommate who would play guitar with headphones on and the amp plugged in. So it was not disturbing us. But what he didn't know is when he started playing speed metal, he'd go like this.
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I don't remember talking to him at the after party, but I'll say that that was the only one where I got what the Lonely Island got for five years, which was for a couple of weeks, hosts came in saying they wanted to do something.
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And one of them that obviously leave unnamed said, what if you and I are N.W.A.? And it was like the next week. And I was like, well, that feels similar. But I was like, I think that's too soon, too close. But then there were general other ones, like the Michael Keaton short happened because he came in and said, I'll do a short with the Jay-Z guy, which was cool.
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Yeah, he's like a top tenner for me as well. And for Andy to not be on here when there's an organic Beetlejuice Avenue exit ramp. But yeah, we, of course, got him from midnight till 4 a.m. Friday night. Should I do it? Should I be the guy who does Beetlejuice?
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Yeah, so anyway. So it was this, maybe this is still the case, but a crazy time on the show where the host would usually have to shoot three or four videos on Friday. It was crazy.
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It's insane. They handed us this American icon at midnight and he was just broken. And we were just about to start shooting. And of course, we didn't get him till four. And so the thing we had to cut from Prom Queen was the prom scene.
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Yeah. Yeah. I don't remember if there was like jokes I loved in it or whatever, but watching it already again, it's too long and it's fine with it just going like, and he won anyone. So who cares?
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Yeah. Kate is set up very clearly to be a taming of the shrew or whatever. Yeah. She's got headgear and everything.
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Yeah. She had one line in it and got like four laughs.
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And this was I mean, I did this as a 10 minute play at a place called Stage Left in Chicago. This was late in the game. And I was still like, let's bring theater to SNL, hence the having to cut it down a lot. But but that was from that, too. And I think it was something to do with having the blocking of it. And I was like, just say your next class is in there.
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Yeah. She's hitting the sack at like 7.30. She's going to do her Vicks.
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I was so impressed when I watched it this morning at a look she gives when she's leaving the room. That's really quick. And it's like a little like, what the hell is this tutoring session? Like she kind of senses it. She still goes off to bed. It doesn't become a story.
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But there's a tiny look from Vanessa that is really like says a ton where she's like, well, we have a dead marriage, but I don't know that I love this.
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Well, there is a longer version address where no. We get into big teddy bear costumes and fuck.
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Yeah, we got him, I think till like 3.30 he got in the car probably. But yeah, another thing that I like that we didn't do was that we had a kiss in the rain. And he's like, I don't think we need it. I don't remember if he said this, but it's that thing I feel like you guys have talked about of like, what is the laugh based on? And he's like, tell you what, let's do it.
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But if you want my vote when you get into the edit, look at not having it. So I got to kiss Michael Keaton five times and then agreed with him and took it out.
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We still, when you get together with people, Tim Robinson, who, by the way, this is late in the game to be mentioning, he co-wrote a lot of the videos that we're talking about. But when I see him, we talk about the same five weeks. So you never go like the example I feel like you and I always use is, remember when Paul Rudd hosted the second time and it was super smooth and Paul was great?
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Yeah, I'd been I think I'd been in L.A. for six months. And then when you go back and you're so excited to be back and be like, what are the bits this week? And everyone's like, we're furious. And you're like, whoa, why are you mad? Life is great. And that smells the best.
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Well, I was a character for most of a year, that final year. I was, I claimed that the reason I'd been taken out of the live cast was that Lauren found out my age and he was mad that I was old. Yeah. And that he screamed, at least start fucking acting and dressing young and get a fucking nickname. And then so I was OB and I bought all this hip hop clothing.
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But I remember that moment, too, because Tim loves ripping on bunions. So I wear wide shoes. And I was wearing Merrells. And he was like, one thing Obi can't be cool about, though, is his wide Merrells. And do you remember what you said right away? You're like, we made sure MacGruber always had Merrells because we thought they were so dumb.
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And how absurd it was like sitting in the pitch room. It was always, uh, that was the time it was, I had to really kind of like steal myself because wandering around or just writing with one person and like, who cares that you have a sideways baseball cap on, but, um, but sitting down in the room and I was at that point sitting like right next to Lorne and he'd never would acknowledge it.
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He'd just be like, how was your Sunday? And, uh, we'd talk with me having a sideways baseball cap on.
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I don't think so, no. Yeah. I would have been happy to tell him it, but I don't remember ever doing that.
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Yeah, this is now we're hitting the Timmy stuff. But one of his favorite things is SNL 34 year olds playing high schoolers, which happens every week. Yeah. Yeah, every week they're like, if you throw a striped shirt and backwards baseball hat on Mikey Day, he's 14.
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And it's just the nature of sketch comedy, but it looks so dumb. And me sitting next to what, 23 year old Pete Davidson also makes it stand out and a bunch of other like teenagers. And I mean, we have a joke in there where I'm a six year senior, but I'm clearly 34 or whatever I was.
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Yeah, I think this one was because my college housemate Fred had sea monkeys. Did you guys have these? Yeah, I mean, not in college. as a small child. But for people who don't know it, they're like a powder you buy out of the back of a comic book or something. And when you put it in water, they come to life. They're like little brine shrimp or whatever. But I was like, how is that a living thing?
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And what if someone doesn't buy the package? Does that thing never live? So the premise is that there's a guy. And by the way, this is one of my favorite Beck performances ever. It's unbelievable. Beck Bennett. It's unbelievable. It's wonderful.
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Yeah. He tapped into some kind of like awful Naperville guy he knew growing up, I think, or something. And we're all hanging out and you can tell he just hates me. I'm kind of the quieter, nerdier guy in the group. And he's just kind of staring at me as we're all having fun. And then his burn, he decides, is do you have any other friends besides us?
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Yeah. I mean, he didn't celebrate it to me.
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Which is confusing because he is saying that we are friends, but he knows that a real person should have many groups of friends. And I clearly don't. And so I noticed in the back of a magazine, you can get a powder where you grow a guy and I grow a fake guy. played by James Franco and bring him to show back. And the guy does great.
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I crash course him in all pop culture and all things to joke about. And he does great until he asks about hashtags, which are a real thing that were bothering me at the time.
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He said one time after season one, we'd done Tina Fey is a nine inch tall hooker. And he's like, the only thing it was missing was a single joke.
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It was a valid thing that it was bothering me. And immediately Beck is like, you're a fucking Grobo guy. I know it. And then everyone starts self-destructing and it turns out, yeah, spoiler, everyone's a crow guy because it became fun to do that blow-up effect. The blow-up effect was great.
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Yeah, oatmeal plus something. But yeah, it was some guy with a bucket of it throwing it on the cast members. I mean, that's another shout-out I have to give, although it's not in this one, but Taryn's in so many of these because... You're kind of asking a lot to be in shorts. I feel like everyone was excited to be in Lonely Island shorts because you might be in the next dick in the box.
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But people weren't banged on the door to be in my shorts. And they're in Brooklyn and it's the night before you're doing a live show and all this. So one person you could always count on to be like really good in it and never complain and add a little bit more was Taron. And that's why he's in almost all of them. But yeah, and this one, you know, Beck and Vanessa and
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Pete and everybody are so good and so sheer and they all had to at some point get stuff splashed on them and all these little things where you're like, this isn't even their baby. Yeah.
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Straight to camera.
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He's thrilled. He kicks up his legs and says, peace, down the lens, and then blows up. It made me laugh so hard and was obviously not what I'd pictured.
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This one is a truly 50-50 with Tim. And I don't remember how we got to it being an animated, you know, dragon movie, but, um... Because it started out as a bit we always talked about writing where for some reason to promote his new show, Dennis Franz is going to play one play of football in the NFL. Oh, and look at this. It's the star of the brand new also on the same network, you know, cop show.
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Dennis Franz is in safety. And then he rushes the passer against the orders of the defensive coordinator and breaks Brady's leg. And then I think it was a lot of post-game interviews or something that Dennis Franz always promoting the show while talking about his one play or whatever. And then I don't know how it got to maybe just Dennis Franz owes.
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I mean, the director owes him a favor and puts him in as a voice of a little dragon. And then we dropped the Dennis Franz. But you can tell that that's what we told hair and makeup.
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Yeah, that's great.
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I feel like this is an experience I had 12 times or whatever many videos there are that Lonely Island never maybe had, which is every host was like, what the fuck is going on? Because this also wasn't at the table for Charlize. We read it like six months earlier, giving it to an animation studio. And then they're like, it's ready to go now. And it happens to be Charlize.
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And they're like, Charlize, go over here. And now you like this guy. Yeah. and say these, and they're always like, I'm just gonna do two of these. I don't know what this is. I don't like this. It's late. Yeah.
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Oh, yeah. No, she did not. I wouldn't say she fought against it, but it wasn't at the table read or anything. She just was lightly confused. Fairly so.
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The pure comedy of them saying, I'm into that guy. But yeah, and Taryn's great. Cecily's great. It's got a lot of fun performances in it.
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And then they left that in. Yeah, a lot of crazy logic. He kind of yes ands the fact that his dragon finally breathes fire by shooting a gun into the floor of the studio, accidentally killing another person.
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Yeah. Yeah. The fact that I don't remember how we got into this. I wonder if there was more of an explanation ever of how he got the Madagascar. Because this was his, he was the AA sponsor for Taron. So how did he get that other one? But he said he got fired on the first day. So whatever- However he got it, they immediately were like, oh, whoops, no, no, no.
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But yeah, that guy, it's that, yeah, I don't know how this will play in description, but he's... It's very unfair to ask you to do a wordless visual sketch on a podcast. He's housing some Chips Ahoy cookies, and he's gotten it so it's half empty. And then there's a knock at the door that was usually our friend Peter Gross.
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It's really good. And it was some outside thing. And so this was, like, a little bit of a coup where I think it did fine at the table. I don't remember. But... Probably like Eric Kenward or someone was like, well, let's kind of start to figure out if the animation would work or whatever and didn't get the proper Wednesday night picked. They just got the wheels in motion.
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And then it truly was like six months later, I'd forgotten about it. And they came back to me and Tim and they were like, OK, we have that animation done. And so then someone must have gone to Lauren and been like, hey, there's a sketch that's done that's animated. Wow. Yeah. That's awesome.
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Oh, great. That was another thing. He was always like, you know, wants first year cast members to not have super heavy disguises because you're trying to get to know them and everything. So, yeah, he's like, oh, great. A heavily disguised first year cast member disguised. And a thing that wasn't at the table as Charlize has got probably a great show. But yeah, they let it on.
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Bill probably laughed really hard at the table.
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Never got Jorm. I got Seth. Yeah.
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Yeah. And we were all genuinely alone in the closet for each episode. They'd close the door and there were little cameras on tripods or whatever. Hi, this is 7 Minutes in Heaven with Mike O'Brien. I'm here today with Andy Samberg. What's up, Andy? We're here.
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And we're homies. Yep. And I know this guy's pretty cocky about this. Everything's going to work out. Oh, man. Watch your back, everybody.
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I forgot my first question. So, Andy, are these new glasses? They are. Yeah. I just got them. Do you like them? I've got a couple other Lonely Island adjacent recommendations that we don't need to discuss. But Jorma did all the voiceovers in the underground festivals.
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And that always helped sell them at the table and sounded great. And those are very fun, silly Sudeikis and Nassim.
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Oh, the only thing I truly am able to enjoy watching of my own stuff when I look back is called We're Going to Make Technology Hump.
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Yeah, love that. And I think part of it is that no one ever talks about it or has ever high-fived me about it. And I'm like, these are good. And part of it is Andy and the host, there's two, and he's so good. He's like so chipper that it makes it, I don't know, it has no context. They're a show that makes technology items hump.
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And so he thinks he's being clever by taking the tray out and turning it around. So I guess this person...
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And then people are mad that they're doing long vignettes before they hump.
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Get a load of that. Hey, we've got some viewer email. Ryan from Sacramento says, we don't want your dumbass soap opera scene. Just show clean, close-up shots of tech humping. Call me a hopeless romantic, but this lady needs a little dialogue before the action. I hear that . Now for our third tech hump, Colleen and I are going to be a GPS nav screen and a curling iron.
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Just anything. Those I see trims and stuff. And I just mean technology is it feels OK. But yeah, those were with Jost and those were the most fun to write. We did like seven episodes. Lorne hated them by the end, I think, rightfully so, but they were so easy.
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will not notice that he's eaten 20 cookies or whatever and then it just was a minute and a half of the knocking getting more frantic and the struggle to get if you ever try to get those plastic trays back in the yeah and and then a slow fade and then and kind of a realization from the audience of like oh we're never gonna know who was at the door or what's going on okay
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Jost would finish all his real work and come and kind of sleep on my couch in my office and like wake up every 10 minutes and go like, Barney, the dinosaur shoots you with a BB gun. Go back to sleep and I'd type that in. This was based off the jugglers. Yes. Yeah. They had insane videos. And you did go to one of those? I did. I went with my friend, Brad Morris, and it was horrifying.
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And we went dressed in like khakis and golf shirts intentionally. We were like being dorks and shooting a video and Brad got punched in the nuts. And it was, it's everyone is on meth.
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Yeah. They, a representative for ICP picked us up in a golf cart and she was like, you want to go meet the boys? And we're like, yeah, sure. And then she got a walkie talkie call and she's like, fuck, they can't meet you guys right now. And she turned and went to a warehouse and like unlocked the door and it was just, tables of insane clown posse sweatshirts and stuff as far as the eye could see.
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She goes, go nuts, take whatever you want. And we're like, well, I don't need like a basketball jersey that says insane clown posse.
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It was basically not much story here, but AP Bio had just been canceled from Peacock after four seasons. They said they didn't have the budget for our show. And then the premiere of MacGruber was like the next week. And we showed up and there were like five actual helicopters as you walk up the red carpet.
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There was a tank. They'd gotten his Miata.
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I mean, I love the show. The premiere, I was like, this is for AP Bio episodes for sure. There was fire everywhere. There were like 150 waiters all dressed as MacGruber.
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It's kind of what MacGruber needs. It's a nice bump. And yeah, Seth was an EP and he and Shoemaker were great during that four years. So thank you for that.
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Well, thanks for having me. I love the podcast. I've listened to them all. I'll probably skip this one. And it's my Monday morning dog walk thing. I look forward to you.
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I'd have to look again at what is in, but the one that hit me the hardest, because I wasn't really watching SNL when I was making art around the clock in Chicago. Art just was taking it out of me. Yeah, you do really lean into it being art. Yeah, yeah, it was truly what, no, but there wasn't even DVR then. So I just wasn't home watching it.
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And I obviously saw like Dick in a Box and On a Boat got through to me. But getting there to SNL and then going back to things was really fun. And sharing an office with Sudeikis, he'd be like, watch this one, watch that one. And Hero Song was my favorite for like a year. And I just didn't see the turn coming and then loved it so much and then would rewatch and rewatch.
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So I assume that one was on everybody's list, wasn't it?
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It probably wasn't his package of cookies, I'm guessing.
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It's so funny, too, to compare those two because Mirror is like wringing Sponge out. It's amazing how many moves happened for the fact that it's like sometimes they love this move where people close a cabinet. And Hero Song is one move and they're like tied. It's just two different ways to do it. But yeah, one long move. One, yeah, kind of two moves. What if we watch Andy in a tuxedo singing?
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It might be called its own move, but then kind of one move after that.
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Yeah, yeah, it's perfect. I mean, I was going to say also briefly about you guys not being at the table is that when I was at the show overlapping with you, it made it for a very fun. What are they up to buzz around the writers? So like my first week, it was through it on the ground. And I experienced that for the first time.
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I remember talking to Hannibal Buress and he's like, I heard the song and I'm like, oh, it's a song. And, you know, people were like talking about that. It was very fun.
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Yeah, then a hybrid demotion.
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Love you guys. Thanks for having me. This was great. Love you, too. It was great seeing you, man.
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Yeah, if you call cast a promotion, which I always resented as a writer. Right. But yeah, so I did four years of writing. Fifth year was in the cast. Sixth year, they said, you're back to a writer, but you can be in your own videos.
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Yeah, that's true. Right. Yeah. And mine, I would have remembered almost any call because I was on an elevator at Northwestern Hospital going up to meet my nephew, Liam, who had been born a day before. So it was already a very memorable day. And then I was like, I don't know if I'd known New York number. I was like, weird number. Yeah.
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And I don't think it had that card. Right. I think it was the first Matt and Oz directed anything as well. I don't know if they'd done a commercial parody or what. Matt Valines and Oz Rodriguez are the pair that you see at the beginning and end of these. And yeah, Sad Mouse was the first. It was in my fourth writing year.
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I don't know. Maybe just one or two. It might have just been that. Yeah, I think there there was that and then a long pause and then maybe grow a guy, which was when I was on the cast. But I remember at some point, Seth, you being like, do you have another sad mouse? It's like. I can't think of anything, no. That's pretty great.
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2009 was when I got the Seth Meyers call. But jumping back real quick, I was flown out from Chicago in 2004, waiting to go in and do an in-studio audition next to a young Yorma. and we were chitchatting and talking about calling our parents or something. Do you have any recollection of it? It'd be a book.
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Oh, was it? No, no, no. We got him to take his head off a few times. And it was like too crazy that it would be Bruno Mars from the neck down mouse costume. So tourists were walking right by just like, get out of the way, dude.
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No, because it was becoming like, you know, 1 a.m. or whatever. But yeah, then there was a guy from the film department that did the rest. But oh, I rewatched. I keep calling it Spotify and it does Google that way. But yeah, it's Pandora. And it was so good. I thought Sad Mouse was also better at dress. So maybe that was a hotter audience, too.
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Because the Michael Jackson lean and everything were still really tight. I thought. And Sudeikis is great in it.
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Yeah, girlfriend played by Sarah Schneider in a photo. Oh, right, in the photo of my friend Sarah Schneider.
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And here's where you can't rewatch these. It drives me crazy that we didn't stay on him for the word smarter. And when you get into camera angles, when you're rewatching, then it's not fun. But anyway.
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Yeah. Very. He's handsome. And he's crying hard, which is a really hard thing as an actor to do. And I give him all the credit. And Sudeikis, too, who was, of course. Sitting straight. And Bruno was nervous about, like,
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crying and everything and they were just in their own little world and Jason was kind of talking to him quietly and there was as much directing probably from him as Matt and Oz but Bruno killed it. Yeah, he probably, has he not been in stuff?
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They do that with any popular singer. So how did he not?
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Well, it was never that, but it was a different ending.
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we've thrown the praise out of now let's hear his terrible first instincts spill the tea get ready for the horrible ending because i i wouldn't have written something where it's like they hold hands and walk off the end okay all right so i'm giving you a lot of credit yeah for the sincerity i know no i i feel like that wasn't our job at snl um but they get into a pretty um sexual furry relationship
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And there's a scene in the alley where he, like, undoes the frog's bra thing under the bleachers. The audience had cheered so hard when they walked off holding hands. And then this added minute, Lauren just, like, looked over at him. Do you think maybe the ending was that last part? And I'm like, okay, okay, okay.
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Yeah, no, there wasn't restraint. I was like, we got to get a laugh at the end. So good. Wow. Well, there you go. Margins, man. It comes back to Sudeikis and there's something where they're like, so you guys are fucking though? Yeah, we're fucking. There it is. That was all just met with silence.
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I feel like we have. I don't feel like that was a new move. But it was motivated by your song, the fact that you put one motherfucker into a bunch of motherfuckers.
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She came in having just recorded it Thursday afternoon, right? Evening, yeah. The amount of times we've made one of these songs and the pop star involved does not know any of the lyrics because they recorded for half hour and never thought about it again. She came in, she knew every word, and she had little... like choreographed things, not by anybody else, just herself.
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Like she knew how to present the jokes and pantomime and do things that would make them play and be in the spirit. And she kind of was the character, that blonde lady, that's your wife. Like it wasn't her, it was this character. And she fully from very first take was better at this than almost anybody I would say we've worked with. There's other good ones.
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I don't want to disparage it, but I want to give her her props that she was very good.
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Agreed. And there's no cuts in that stuff. And most people, we'd have to do some cuts. And on the driveway line, she destroyed it.
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She has full takes where from start to finish, it would be usable if you wanted to use it as a full take, where she's hitting moves and is perfect on all of it. I was really impressed.
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He was evoking something we all remember and could not remember what it's from, where... It's a bunch of women in like an old school beauty salon with like the hair dryer things over their heads. And they're doing choreography while they can't really move their heads because they're sitting in a beauty salon. But I can't. None of it.
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We thought maybe it was Little Shop of Horrors, but we weren't sure if that was true. Could have been Hairspray, too.
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Oh, good. That's good. You knew it was the right word.
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Have you guys read comments? Were people enjoying that one? Is it a fun-loving, is it a fun thing? Are we happy with it?
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The moment he opened his mouth, we were like, oh boy. It's this version of him. We know exactly.
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Maybe I'm alone in that. I will say the first time I couldn't hear it, Andy, the mix was so demo-y that I literally didn't understand the words you were saying. Oh, I see. Now it's very clear because our mix is so good. Agreed. And so I wonder if I would have figured it out on the first time because my first time I was just going, what are you saying? I see, I see.
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Because we keep calling them pigs? That was the funniest, in my opinion, when Andy played me an early version. That was the moment for me. All the different, like, coppity cops. Yeah, the fucking pigs. Yeah, the coppity cops. And you're like, wait a second. He loves this. It's his favorite part of his day. He's calling the cops on people. But then he's also calling them pigs. He's just so excited.
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Once I got my grubby hands on the song and there was a new bridge to be written, opening it up for a Charlie bridge there, I was like, oop, it's my contribution. Here's what I like. That's why she starts her verse with, piggy, piggy, baby in the city. When I smell bacon, it always makes me feel giddy. Because I was like, that's all I want. Calling them bacon. She's giddy for bacon.
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She loves it, but she's still calling them bacon.
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Yeah. They're like, yay, the fucking pigs are here.
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This isn't, this isn't all Andy though. I mean, I will say I got to, we obviously changed the stuff for Charlie on that I did help with, but I got to walk in, you know, however long, let's say it was nine months ago and just get to come in from the other room and be like, and here, you know, in stages as it progressed. But yeah, it was awesome.
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Yeah, I'm a neighbor. I'm seeing a little dog being arrested by the police. And I'm like, I better get this in case anything, I don't want to see any funny business. And I'm just going to record it just in case.
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No. One or? You did it a bunch of times. I mean, I stood up there for like, oh, you're right. I went back in. Never mind. Yeah. He just never cut. That's the default. Yeah.
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I know the car picked us up at 7 AM and we got back at 11 PM.
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I actually left the set before the last set up at the old church that he was talking about. I skipped that one so I could get back and already start editing. So I had been editing for maybe an hour and a half. When Andy joined me at like 1130 PM and we went to maybe one 30 and then we're like, sleep is going to have to happen between now and 23 hours from now.
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So it might as well, but now we're, we'll feel better about it than staying up till 6 00 AM and then trying to sleep. So we went to sleep and then I got back in there at like 8 30 AM. And then we just went straight from 8 30 to air midnight, 11 30. Yeah.
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And we get to double team it, which is also nice with Diva and his whole crew of great VFX people and all their infrastructure they have now. So I'm in there doing kind of the core edit that tells the whole story and kind of does the Lonely Island, makes it feel like one of our videos.
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And then in the other room, he's able to put together the cake thing and put together the stars thing and put together all the touches that are... his things. He's making sure they're all really working. And then he's also able to take my edits and go, what if you use this shot? And this is like, I'm laying down the base coat so that it feels like it's our video.
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We're going to keep going back. What if we did a short every episode?
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He ate it like in a prison movie when they have that one elbow in front of the cake so people can't eat it. And then he's eating it with his left hand, like holding the whole fork with his fist.
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Just keep him on his toes. That might not be cake. Exactly. Do they ever do ones that look exactly like a birthday cake and then you cut into it and it's like a tire or something? Probably. Is it ever the reverse?
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Yeah, and they go, is that a cake? And they're like, well, it looks like a cake. And they're like, yeah, it is a cake.
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Why would you not think this is a cake? It has literally icing and sprinkles on it. You don't think that's a cake? What's wrong with you? We don't have to include this at all, Seth.
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I just want to tell you that four episodes, five episodes ago, I was talking about how I was just reeling about Sweden and about how fart is in Sweden and how it really shook up my world learning this and why didn't I know it this whole time. And then since then, I've gotten fed on Instagram and Twitter
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somebody's tweet saying, I was today years old when I learned this, and it has pictures from it, and it keeps popping up on my feed as a comedy person, and it was posted eight hours after our podcast went live. And then the ultimate insult to injury was Diva going, oh, yeah, I figured you had, because he had been fed it.
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And he was like, oh, yeah, I figured you had seen that tweet, and that's what had made you talk about it. Unbelievable. Really burned me. Yeah, really burned me.
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Yeah, that I just saw a meme and was like, I got to talk about this and not give the meme any credit. Hey, have you guys seen this thing's dancing baby? Yeah.
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There was also a technical issue not to throw the sound team under the bus because they corrected it. And at air, it was wonderful. But they, for whatever reason, didn't realize what volume it was going to be at. So it played incredibly quiet. Right. So it was very difficult to hear the first 30 seconds of the video in the room.
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Oh. You mean in the very beginning, 10 years ago?
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Yeah, she would have been like 22 or something at that point.
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Yeah, but the style of music is like, I don't know what you call that. It's what Asa's band, Electric Guest, does. And I don't know what you call that style of music. It's also what like the Portugal the Man song that Asa co-wrote, the 1986, boy, whatever that one is, that has the same style. What do you call it where it's like, it's a band with like funky band instrumentation.
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In 10 years, we'll do it again. We'll talk mad shit.
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Not sorry. When it gets to the midnight hour, we get spicy.
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It's like retro funk pop. Yeah, there you go. Retro funk pop.
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This was on, this was on Wednesday. This was on Tuesday and Wednesday, by the way.
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This is my fault, though, because I went away from my movie, and we had banked so many episodes that they just rolled on by, and I got by scot-free.
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Yes. It's a funnier song. It's going for funny right away. This one's telling a story.
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True. Absolutely true. I got the smile on your face by listening. I will say that. Like you can, there's a smile in the singing, but it is, I mean, both of them are strengthened by the video. That's always been the thing with all of, the amount of people we played I'm on a boat for that went, oh yeah, good. What else you got? And then the video came out and they were like, whoa.
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And we were like, it's the same song. And now they liked it. It's hard for people to picture audio jokes the way that the video just spoon feeds you.
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You think he's exhibiting kind of ex-addict energy?
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We were still in LA Thursday morning. Jesus. So we lost all of Thursday flying and traveling and then got there. Andy got to do some wardrobe fittings at like 8 o'clock on Thursday night, right? And then, so again, big shout out to Mike Diva because these would not be at all possible without him because he's able to get on the Zooms.
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Also, can I say, Andy wrote the treatment for the first time in our... In our long, long career here, he wrote the treatment for the video. Well, alone, yeah. First time I've ever done it. Yeah, yeah. You always contribute to the treatment and we always work on together and whatever. But I'm usually the one that goes like, oh, here we go. And then we talk about it and stuff.
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It was a good, a nice day. And we were just, just, just having fun.
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Yeah, but that's that guy's thing. That's not for other people. Can I say that I bring in my bins faster now? Because sometimes I would bring them in and there'd be little bags of dog shit in them from like people walking their dogs and going, oh, I don't want to carry this. I'm going to put it in there. And then it would rain, but they were left open because when the trash truck does it.
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Are you supposed to tip over your trash can when it has rainwater in it so all your trash isn't getting wet? And then you let all that bag dog shit?
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The thing you're pointing out was a concern when we cast him. That he might not show up. Yeah, we're like, is he going to show? Or will it be just at such the wrong time that we're like completely not set up for it?
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Yes, exactly. It's like a shorthand. The response isn't just to that. It's a great joke in the song. It's, I believe, a Jost recognition response. Yes.
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Right, connecting them in a really nice way where your head goes down and then over.
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He pre-vis the kineticness of it. Yes, you always knew you'd be baking a cake and eating a cake.
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I remember the first time Will Ferrell came back and hosted, and that was the first time he'd been in the room between Dressed In Air. And he turned to Lauren and said, oh, okay. So it is pretty merit-based. You know, you spend so long being outside the room and you don't watch the conversation and you just assume it's personal or it's this or it's that. And all the conversation is.
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is what played and what will make the best show. Right. No one's ever like, you know, this cast member's thing eats shit, but I like them more than the guy who killed at dress.
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Okay, fucking fine. Happy half birthday to me.
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I think I'm emotionally hungover and way more than on any sort of substance intake. I think it was a real emotional rollercoaster, the old SNL 50. And we are going to be doing a special recap episode about SNL 50 and all the festivities. We're very excited to recap.
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That's what he was like. Gotcha. He also gets like those little half candles.
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All right. This was from Tom. Often, Seth mentions the time he bombed so hard trying a new bit on Update. I think it involved a British accent. It did. That Lorne told Alex Baze under the bleachers, burn the tape. Recently, Baze told Vulture that his most embarrassing moment on SNL is the time he wrote a bit for Update that bombed really hard.
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And afterwards, Lorne said to him, do you want me to help you bury the tape? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The question Tom asks is, is this the same incident? It is. Lorne only said it once. But Baze, of course, remembers the better wording. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's really funny. It's way funnier than he offered to help. Yeah, that's great.
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Like, you want me to help you bury the tape is a really funny, passive-aggressive thing. Again, I know Andy's going to get all hot under the collar as I allude to the 50th again. But I remember at the 40th, as we're talking about Under the Bleachers, Lauren, at the 40th after Celebrity Jeopardy, which I'd worked on, I walked Under the Bleachers and had a nice moment with Lauren.
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And I feel like at the 50th, Lauren was fully in his seat the whole time.
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I feel like Lauren decided for the 50th, like, oh, I'm just going to be in the audience. Kind of makes sense.
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Yeah, I think we can talk about the docs.
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We alluded to the music one. I should point out that I have not watched many of them. Is there a great one?
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That's awesome. Alan, gentleman, longtime listener, first time writer. I've apparently been living a lie for the last 16 years. I would have bet all I would have bet all my Santana DVX. all my boats, and all my Christmas geese that the old saloon interlude was a clear parody of the Bone Thugs and Harmony masterpiece Ghetto Cowboy from the year before.
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Please tell me I didn't get this wrong and I will be forgiven.
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It is great how beat driven the ideas are as opposed to having a premise and finding a beat.
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Uh-huh. Since you mentioned frappers, Andy, we have some voice notes, too. And this one is from, I believe the name is A Miracle.
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But I appreciate both that you're not going to change the way you say it, but I do want you guys to take it in because I echo that sentiment.
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Frat bars, we have frat bars. Lauren asked for a frat bar set up for his last half birthday. Yeah. We're just like, you know, and then there'll be toppings and jimmies. Austin has a question. I listen to the whole podcast at work, and I have two questions. Firstly, why didn't Smorgasbord from Scarlett Johansson's 2006 show make Seth's corner?
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I'm shocked it didn't give it a mention, because not only is it Seth and Scarlett on screen doing a kind of Swedish accents, but we also get Andy's Swedish chef promoting ringtones. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so we probably should mention that. That's a sketch I like very much.
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Yeah. It was weird timing. I mean, the right timing, but it was 50 in October. And then it's like, this is like a half birthday. That's true. Good point. Lauren loves a half birthday.
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I was like, hey, I got to do Swedish Chef. It was a very fun sketch that looked very beautiful. It was like an Ingmar Bergman sketch, which made a Swedish Chef appearance mid-sketch a good time.
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I didn't write. That was Jost wrote Two First Names.
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And I'm going to say something, and hold on, I want to look back to say, Zach, I think about that all the time. I'm not lying. I think about Andy doing Billy Bob Thornton in Two First Names all the time, every time I see a Kangol. So the sketch was Two First Names, and I think maybe Julie Louis-Dreyfus was the host, and it was about people with two first names.
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David Lee Roth was in it, but the song was, two first names, two first names. Oh, yeah. It was like to say my name, say my name. Didn't he do it multiple times? I can only remember one. Because I remember the commercial midway through was Billy Bob Thornton for Kangles.
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Someone else stressing out about their equipment?
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But the highlight is that Forte was in it. Joe Pantoliano. As Joey Pants. Joe Pantoliano. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you had this really good Billy Bob Thornton. And then his only line was, They're the best.
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But also, 100% trying. Forte, incapable of mailing it in. Forte had probably spent the entirety of the week listening to Joey Pants. Oh, my God. That was the best. Oh, is that right? Well, just watching an incredible performer like Forte know that he puts all this time into it and the best he could get was, yeah, the best.
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I know. Well, he spent six months in Ireland, six months in Australia, and he still can't do impressions to save his life. Sometimes things just elude you, you know? This recently came up. The second half of Austin's question is, my second question is one that I hope is not completely unrelated to the podcast.
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Which sketch does the picture of Kristen Wiig playing piano on her sleeve in the opening package of Second Chance Theater come from, and is it available to watch anywhere? All right, it is not available to watch anywhere. It got cut from Dress. But you can go back on my show. Amy Schumer and Jillian Bell were just on my show promoting Kind of Pregnant. And Jillian Bell wrote that sketch.
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And we talked about it because it is one of my favorite cut from dress sketches of all time. Andy, you were in it. Which one? It's called Grief Counselors. And you are in an office where half the staff died from bad food at a picnic. And they brought in some grief counselors. And it's Wig and Charles Barkley. Yeah. And they're really bad grief counselors.
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And Wig has piano keys on her sleeve and Barkley has guitar strings on his sleeve. Yeah. And the way they want people to get over their grief is they like do little where she plays piano to a piano track and then he strums his sleeve.
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Super fuzzy. He's super fuzzy today because everybody forgot it was his half birthday. Kind of crazy that everyone forgot, but okay. And you know it's his half birthday because it's the day he's always like, Andy, when's your half birthday? I'd remember if it was yours. Oh, I'm not sure.
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And then the thing I also remember is they need to take a break. Again, it's a five-minute sketch. So like a minute into it, they say they need to take a quick break for water. And while we're taking a break, you can think about your grief while you watch these wind-up teeth. And they just like wind up teeth and set them on a desk. And they're like chattering.
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And the two of them are miming having a conversation. And Barkley's really good at it. The two of them are just like really invested. And every now and then, Wig just looks at everybody and points at the teeth. Like as a reminder that that's what you should do. Don't forget. Pretty good. And it died a real bad death. It was not even close. And they also walked in clapping and saying, come on.
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Oh, I remember that. Come on. Come on. Come on.
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Can I say the part that I was most thrown by is we got on and Yoram had a lot of audio questions and he said, I got a new setup from a kid down the street. Exact words. His name is Ted Perotti. Thanks, Ted. But what? You have your own equipment. Why are you getting it from a kid down the street? Because I'm in Connecticut. Also, no one meets more people with other recording equipment than you are.
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Yeah. Here's one. Big fan, love the pod. This is Dan. I've always had this question and felt it was appropriate to ask after listening to the Incredibad episodes. How much thought did you all put into your fake rap personas style? Personally, I've always gotten a lot of enjoyment out of how hard Akiva goes on the mic.
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It always makes me think of him as the more tough, streetwise member of the group, but curious how intentional that was. Thanks, guys, and appreciate all the laughs over the years.
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It would be so great in the Questlove doc if there was just three different talking heads of each of you being like, and then I'm obviously the hard guy.
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I think that Keeve to me has always been the farthest from who he is in real life.
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Yeah, because even I don't even feel like Keeve does hard bits, whereas I feel like you guys do hard bits all the time. Keeve is just so analytical. And so I think the switch of who he is off and on the mic is the biggest gap.
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No, he's always like, let me do the math on mine. Oh, my God. I think it might be today.
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And the first time I saw him do anything short-wise was, you know, the Bing Bong Brothers and then Just Two Guys. And so I also thought that was his move.
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Because that's very... That's what you would guess as Q's wheelhouse. Yeah.
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Yeah. High register angry is very fun.
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Keith, he's an all-time frapper. All right, look. We're going to have to do some digging here and find out if this is real. But just buckle up, guys.
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Because this is the one I wanted to really read to you guys. Oh, shit. James, in parentheses, Senior Director of Marketing at Doritos. Oh, no. No.
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Oh, a scramble of Lauren's assistants to make it seem like there was got to set up a surprise party in the lobby. Half a cake. Oh, you didn't have to.
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We literally just brought back that consumer contest after a decade absence. P.S., I'm going a bit rogue sending this email directly and would love to work with you all in any capacity. That can't be real. I will pay to be treated like Chex Mix. Love you, James. Is that real? I don't know.
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I will say I just Googled senior director of marketing for Doritos, and it is James.
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Oh my God, James, this is wonderful. And I do think it was not, I do think they intentionally kept sloppy records from that time. I think there was a lot of, I think Lauren might've shown up with a shovel and said, do you need help burying the tape?
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Good. Yoram was just setting up his recording device. We only caught the tail end of it for you guys, but that was kind of what the last five minutes of Andy in my life has been, right?
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It would be really funny if they showed it today and it went so bad, they went and just like took all the books out of the library.
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All right. Really good questions. Wouldn't you guys agree? Yes. We have some voice notes I'd like to play. Great. I'd like to start with AJ.
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And it's a great question. Thank you, AJ.
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I think as a 16-year-old boy, if I was 16 when Jizz in My Pants came out, I would feel very seen. Yeah. You would feel very seen. I would feel very seen, and I would be very happy that cool guys were making a song about that.
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Yeah, it's just a normal thing that happens.
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All the time. It just happens all the time.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good point. I mean, we were very into hip hop when I was 16 as well. So I think, you know, Lazy Sunday would have been massive.
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All right. I'm going to say this is a little melancholy, but very sweet. And I think it's worth listening to.
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Interesting question. I do like a clean slice.
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Again, Yoram, I've been talking to this, like, Andy is in this position where he's not, when Frisbee dies, which, again, don't be shocked if it's tomorrow. She's very old.
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Andy, it's going to be this real, like, you know, two roads diverge in the woods for Andy, because he's either going to have to be like, hey, man, it was all jokes. I loved her just as much as everybody. Or he's just going to have to fucking double down. I think we're in a double down era.
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Yeah. I mean, it's very interesting you say it that way. Since we mentioned Alexi, let's listen to Caitlin's.
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Just a little teaser. I really liked watching Andy and Joanna grooving out to Lil Wayne.
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It's maybe the most to the bone verse in any Lonely Island song. If you're the parents of the said wife. Just anyone. Let's see. Megan, it seems like she might have a question about Mike O'Brien's Bugs, which I don't know if we're going to be able to answer, but let's see if it's fun.
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Oh, fine. You know what I've been doing with my kids? A Yoda impression, because they're finally watching the Star Wars movies. Can I tell you the massive downside of watching the Star Wars movies? What? They have so many questions about the Star Wars universe and lore. And basically, I watched the three when we grew up, and then I have no memory of Phantom Menace. Those middle three?
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Thanks, guys. Oh, gosh. I have recently watched Bugs, and I can't believe I didn't talk about it. I love Bugs so much. I don't think I've seen it.
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But it's a crazy sketch because he is interviewing bugs, asking them where they're going. At one point, a bug is walking along like a railing and he comes over with his microphone. He's like, where are you going? And the bug actually, because it's a real bug, the bug falls. And Mike goes, oh, he jumped. I didn't do it.
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But my memory and what we have to get a voice note from Micah is like, even when it was just Bugs, they had to get like an animal handler. No. But my goodness, Bugs is really funny. The other thing is the package of him and his brother interviewing Bugs. It's like one of those local news packages where it shows him like running, trying to hail a cab, that sort of thing.
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And I remember one of them was like a porta potty at a construction site. The door opens and they both walk out together. And so you're like, why would they put that in the opening package? These guys like... Using the same port-a-pocky. They're busy guys. They don't have time to waste. Kev, can you look at it and tell me what Josh Hutcherson's name is in it?
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Because he, Josh, I feel like shows up for one second in it. It was that thing where a host had a second and they just like came down to set and like walked around with a microphone asking bugs questions and then- Forgot it ever happened. Laughed. Yeah. So O'Brien's name in Bugs is Winston Sam Bass. Right. Investigative reporter. And he has really thick fake black eyebrows.
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Winston Sam Bass is not a joke, right? But then Josh Hutcherson shows up at his brother and his brother's name is Lance Sam Bass. Right. Right. Like also kind of meaningless, but pretty funny that his name is Lance Bass, but with the salmon middle. That's a great question. All right. Another one I wanted to listen to. Laura. Laura has something and she's really standing up for you guys. Oh my God.
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No, none. Zero. And so they'll watch that and be like... Hey, what does... And I'm like, I don't know.
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So ultimately, I don't think they would burn laser cats in the dark. Oh, there was another question I wanted to ask. It was not really about anything we did, but this is from Corey. Question from a long time ago, so not sure if you want to go back. There's an SNL sketch with Hugh Laurie where he's a ghost hunter. Do you guys remember it? I was there.
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Hugh Laurie's character farts and they keep replaying it over and over because they think it's a ghost. Yeah. Because they're shooting it with one of those infrared cameras.
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And they keep looking at it, and it's very clear. And he doesn't want to look at it anymore. My question is, who wrote this genius sketch? I actually first saw it on a family trip. My mom, dad, sister. I was sharing a hotel room. We got up at 4 a.m. the next morning to watch a flight. My dad was laughing so hard at the ghost fart sketch that he was crying.
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For the next few hours, every 30 minutes, he'd start laughing again and wake us up. James Anderson. I was going to guess James. Yeah. Yeah, I should have let you guess. Yeah.
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And it's a wonderful, wonderful piece of writing. James Anderson was just on my show last week. I had some favorite SNL writers from my era on the show, our era on the show, come as guests. Spivey, Paula, Harper Steele, and our buddy James. So rad. Very, very lovely.
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The chancellor. Dad, is the chancellor... When they call the Senate, is Amidala also Naboo? I'm like, I don't know.
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Oh, I got Farago, and I'm like eight short. Do you know what it means? It's another way to say cockade.
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Just know I got every other word clean. Wow. All right. We have one last voice note. Okay. It's from an actor named Steve Agee. Do you know Steve? Yeah, of course. Yeah, of course. All right. Well, I think you're going to enjoy this message.
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Yeah, I have a question because you guys are way more in the movie world than I've ever been. How often does that happen where you've gone to a table read with a movie and then sort of based on the table read?
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I also, I told you guys the big bummer about your kids watching Star Wars is there's no kid. They're also the last kids their age to watch it. And there's no eight year old who hasn't been told by another eight year old that Darth Vader is Luke's father.
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Can I ask, if I had checked in with you halfway through the table read, would you have guessed that they were thinking nah? Or did you feel like it was going so well?
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Hottest table read you've ever been at for a movie?
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I was at the MacGruber table read. I feel like the MacGruber table read was a super long script.
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I did not love giving hosts notes before like table reads at SNL. Yeah, no. I always was sort of believed, you know what? I'm going to let their instincts take it. I would go to them and say, hey, you're playing a character like this. And I always thought it was fun to see what they do. And then like seven times I would think to myself exactly that. Oh, I did a huge disservice here.
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Yeah. Well, what delightful questions, both via voice note and email. Yeah, thank you, everybody. We're going to reach out to our head of marketing at Doritos, and I think if it's a real guy, we should probably have him on the podcast and make him real-time watch the Doritos app. Yeah, just... I mean, right? Like, that's what you want to do.
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Like, have a guy be like... I think that's fair. Because you want him to be like, I love you guys. I'm so sorry they thought it was bad. I'm sure it was great. And then he'll watch and be like, all right, I would like to...
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So they know that from the jump. Did Seth just spoil that for you? Sound off in the comments. And they have so many questions about co-parenting. The movie starts and they're like, so wait, why doesn't he live with him? And I'm like, I don't think they have a good situation.
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All right. Well, it was a very successful time. We're very excited to talk to everybody about the 50th. We're going to do that on our next episode. It's going to be a special episode. How about that? A bonus episode, if you will. And gentlemen, it's always such a delight to see you. It was well, Seth Lee.
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Yeah. And by the way, you know what else was wonderful about it?
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We weren't always seeing each other at our best. And I liked that too. Yeah. You know what I mean? I genuinely liked that part too.
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Oh my God. Watching Andy edit a short, it was like, take out, if you took away, if you took your favorite digital short and you sucked out all the joy. The experience. The experience.
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Well, they just can't conceive of the fact that he wouldn't live with your dad. Yeah. So did he swing by with half a cake on his half birthday?
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It's a lot of fun. He loses his mind. Okay, gotta go. Did no one remind me it was Skywalker's half birthday? He, like, slay chokes the Imperial baker from across the ship.
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This is a Q&A episode, and we kind of jumped into it, like, answering unasked questions, like, does Laurence celebrate his half-birthday? What is your bounce on Star Wars? When your arm travels without equipment, who does he get it from, and does it work right away?
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Watching it the way they watched it, which was kind of, they had the immediacy of going right from Jedi to the next. Yes. I think it was a far healthier way to watch it.
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Yeah, and also the real thing is, why am I different? You know what I mean? Right, right, right. So much of it.
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So you're away from your home, Kit, and you had to find a guy in Nowheresville, Connecticut, who had a recording set up.
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A little bit, but I will also admit that I wasn't fully watching.
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When I get the boys on the train, they watch an iPad together and it's just two hours for me to, I look out the window and try to see my past. Yeah.
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Yeah, I don't want Jar Jar messing that up for me.
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Terrific. Just that clickety-clack as I watch the past fade.
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Well, there you go. Although, get this, I missed by one word yesterday, Jorm, and it's crazy. The word was cockade. Cockade. Cockade. Do you even know what it means, Andy? Have you ever looked it up or do you just care about winning the B?
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Oh, it's Hamilton slash me. All right. Here we go. Good evening, Lonely Island and Seth Meyers. Listening to the podcast, this is from Andres. Okay. has inspired me to listen to Incredibad again after probably a decade. And it was so funny that I also listened to the other albums.
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I am gonna believe it, Jorm, because every single text goes like this. We're recording at one, and then you write back, are we doing this? And then someone writes yes, and then you say, I'm down to do it, just let me know. It's crazy.
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I don't understand lyrics so well, so while listening to Meet the Crew from the Wack Alm, I scrolled to see the lyrics Spotify provides. Unfortunately, Music Match did not provide accurate lyrics to the song, like at all. It heard Keeve as Keith and Yorm as Worm. Oh dear. Keith I can understand, but why would his name be Worm?
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It's not urine, it's pee-pee man. Thanks, Seth. Hey, question about, and we're going to obviously talk about this short when we do our 50th recap, but Andy, somebody wrote a question about anxiety. Rewatching the short, the building's marquee flashed on the screen with 30 Rockefeller Plaza in neon instead of Rockefeller.
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So there was an A instead of an E. Did I miss a joke or am I just being a jackal?
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Jackals for the uninformed are the people who leave pedantic comments on the Late Night with Seth Meyers YouTube page. But sometimes they're right. Sometimes they're right. I mean, more often than not, they're right. So that is a real jackal catch. Really very funny in the SNL 50th that your short misspelled Rockefeller Plaza.
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That's good. Here's one for me. The question is for Seth. I listen to your numerous podcasts, and I should note, in quotes, that's a burn, that you repeatedly compliment an old SNL joke by saying, I think about it a lot. The question is, do you actually? Like, what do you do all day? I don't know how you have time to constantly be thinking about old jokes.
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I know you have a busy full-time gig and four podcasts and three kids. So I'm genuinely curious if you're otherwise just reminiscing and laughing yourself all day. That was from Zach. Zach, that's a very fair question. Maybe I should tone it down a little bit on I think about it a lot. But every time it rains, I do think I wish it would rain. That's good. That's a lot. Yeah. That is a lot.
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All right. So there are a lot of triggers. And my YouTube page algorithmically is pushing old things to me all the time.
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Yeah. And I think mostly from a lot of stuff from Ann Golden era. Yeah.
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It would be amazing if that was also the missing spelling bee word.
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Right, that's where you can't even say, oh, that was the joke. Yeah, you would have got by on a joke. Very nice catch on that one.
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Here's one from Greg. It sounds like the host has the authority to say, I'll do this, but I won't do that. I was wondering, do cast members have the same authority? Has there ever been an instance when everyone believed they had a great sketch on their hands, but an actor refused based solely on the fact they didn't think it was funny?
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No one's going to bail. Sure, no one's going to bail. But I think that you have to build in the potential that no one will bail and you should have your audio equipment. But I want to just point out that you called your buddy and he answered the phone and set you up. So I'm really proud of you for fighting through it. Thanks, Ted. Shout out to Ted.
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Assuming that's allowed, do you have any examples of that actor being so right or so wrong? Very, very insightful question. There was that great joke in Sandler's song about a sketch killing at the read-through table, but then it doesn't go because the host didn't want to take his shirt off. Oh my God, that made me laugh so fucking hard.
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I don't think it happens a lot that an actor asks not to be in something. A cast member. Mostly because you're so afraid that if you do that, the writer won't put you in anything ever again.
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Listener Q&A Episode 4
But it was a different era. In our time, the reason you would ask out, I think would be kind of that Sandler thing. Like, I don't feel comfortable doing something physically.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 4
There were certainly hesitations to throw down for something because that boldness was, I wouldn't say super rewarded. No, I wouldn't think so. But if I felt a host really wanted to do something, you know, we've talked about how like a Jonah or Seth Rogen would fight for something that was really writerly. And if Lorne was maybe against it, it was fun to sort of push the host's point of view.
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Listener Q&A Episode 4
and be the wind behind their back as they tried to get something in.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 4
The one kind of unwritten rule that I would say not everybody lived by, but I was pretty good at living by, was don't fight for your own thing.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 4
Yeah, because at the end of the day, there was always like three things left, and Lauren would go around and ask everybody to pick two, and that would be a thing where you would try very hard not to say yours.
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Listener Q&A Episode 4
He did it pretty well in the 50th too, considering his ability to keep his current cast alive on a night that was- Well, are we allowed to talk about the 50th? No. These are nice little teasers.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Criterion Episode
Dear sister. By the time you read this. Do what you say.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
I feel like, in my opinion, it's just an all-time great sketch. Yeah, it's great. I remember even at the table being like, ooh, that is very funny. And for whatever reason, just strikes a specific tone that makes me be like, that's kind of like what SNL feels like to me in general.
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Laser Cats! 3D
Yes. And him saying googly eyes like he keeps saying.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
Got it, got it. What do they say in Finland instead of TGIF? Thank God it's not Russia. Oh. It's right nearby. That's almost like I can't believe it's not butter.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
By the way, Ken would mention it, but I do want to talk about The Continental because growing up, I saw that sketch many times, and it's so unique. I think I was told later that it's based on an old show or an old movie or something, but the whole sketch is from the POV of a woman that is in The Continental's apartment, right?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
Just stylistically on SNL feels like I don't think anything else has ever been that, right?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
He won't let her leave. He keeps jumping in front of the door and shit. He's like Pepe Le Pew, basically. But the performance is so funny. And there's lines from that I remember for my whole life too. Like, you are a fiery vixen. As a little kid being like, oh, this is the first time I've ever heard anything like this.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
I went into it with an open mind. I thought it had a couple of yucks and it didn't blow me away. I think I preferred the two prior. And I think that it's sort of a stopgap one that then gets to a different phase of LaserCats where it gets better again, in my opinion.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
Somehow talking about the minutia of sketches from 20 years ago is making your energy wane.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
Clearly. Yeah, we were like, hey, Lorne. Is there any, we know it's a long shot, but we, let's say 30 year olds who work on a sketch show, have a dream.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
I'm sure we were like, could there be someone else here having dinner? And he was like, well, Dodd's in town and we were going to get dinner. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
Yeah. I will say another little detail I forgot that I liked was the cat gun salute at the end during the funeral. Yeah, yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
You point a fucking Glock point blank at a live cat's forehead. And we loved them, too. We're like, see you later, buddy, or something.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
He must have known you guys were coming to do the cast. Right. Sorry, don't misquote me. I'm up to date on all the streamers.
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Laser Cats! 3D
You want to know probably my favorite detail of the whole thing, Keev? Yeah. Is the sound effect on the dog laser. Yeah. Because it's big and chunky.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
Did you say this, Jerem? Didn't we go to the premiere of that because you were in it, Seth, and we all hung out?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
Certainly opened some eyes when that tape measure came at him.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
Baby puppy pug. Well, my man Keith got the verbal dexterity on the M-I-C.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
Oh, that's the return of the five. Shut up.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
We did know that that was why it sucked and was funny for sure. But, you know, good stuff. Fine.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
I think that's right. Correct. Yeah. Not an embarrassment or anything.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
I just don't know that the first one would be the one I would pick. Got it.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
Well, he wanted to see. I mean, no one can say no. If you go, hey, it's 3D, you'd be like, oh, shit, really?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
Isn't that what you've been talking about this whole time? Our time at SNL was truly Nan Golden era.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
It's like the end of Swingers where Vince Vaughn thinks the woman's flirting with him, but she's talking to a baby.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
And then you lean on the motherfucking crowd.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
Did the guy that you guys met at the bar tell you that?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
He doesn't even know the difference between HBO and Mac.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
We'll text it to Jorn. He's not going to remember.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
If we can somehow make that something we say moving forward, Seth, I'd really like it. Like when someone's not all there. Sounds like they've been eating cloudberries straight off the bush.
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I love an original idiom. The goal of this podcast.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
So people were like, so he's not in the cage or?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Laser Cats! 3D
By pretending to be Nick Cage and getting celebrities to come on?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
I think it was a good time. It was Andy's birthday. We all went. I think it was like, what, six of us? I don't know how many it was. We had our own little table. We've had mutton, probably. I can't remember what else we had. We really cheered our hearts out for Azul. That was my favorite night. I loved Azul. You remember the name of one of the nights? That's impressive.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Is that just Rosie? Were we just shooting with Rosie on that one by that point?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Yeah. I do not just like disagree with you, Andy, but I do want to like have everyone hear that Andy said, I thought some of it looked really great. And then have people go watch it. Just go watch Space Olympics. And then see if you thought it looked great.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
I worry with you guys that my time is limited, so I try to give it back. I got 45 seconds to impress everybody with my drunkenness.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
No, no, there's clear effort there. I'll say this, that hearing these comments, I definitely just love humans.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
He's a lawyer. He's a lawyer. He has a briefcase.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Is it dying? Oh, boy. His limitless pill wore off. I get the New York Times. I actually get it delivered to my house.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Yeah, you can tell because we did Space Olympics.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
There you go. It is full on surfing. We went back to the well. Hey, what's up? What are we talking about?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
I don't know what you're talking about. I've been framed. I think it was that guy. I think it was the other guy. This guy asked me to hold this neon sign.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
We should get him on this pod just to see if he says I love you at the end to us.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Yeah. Made everything easier to do a Thursday show as well as a Saturday show.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
You guys, can I just say something before we end? I was just texting with Wig and she sent me a voice note. I haven't heard this. I'm just going to play this for you guys. Oh, great. Oh, that's exciting.
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Space Olympics
It's beautiful. That's great. I also like that she sounds like she's at a park.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Yeah, it's amazing what I do and don't remember, guys.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
I just remember screaming Azul at the top of my lungs and pounding on the cutlery. You could get like pots. Things came in pots and pounding on things. And everyone kept saying, stop. There was a lot of mead. Where do you feel like this is as far as a good story, Andy? Well, I got pretty drunk and then I stole a princess hat from the gift shop.
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Space Olympics
Yep. Just kind of grooving. I love that you're bringing this up, Q. Andy, now respond to that. Was that how you felt about it? That this was just like, fuck, I love this beat, love this shit ride. I'm making art.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Yes. It may have been, though, that the build just needed that build, though. You know? It just maybe needed that. Can I just say one thing? Because Andy brought up that he oftentimes was very late to get up. Out of the three of us, he is the late riser, usually.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
But I feel like this one was one that I remember walking into our little shitty room that we made all our music in, and he was like, I was halfway through. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
And then I jumped on someone's car in the parking lot, as I recall. Now I feel like you're just making stuff up. No, that all happened.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
It could have been three in the morning, too. Maybe I walked in late after doing something and been like, oh, shit, this guy's on fire.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
We're at the old Men in Black stomping grounds.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Yeah, that all happened. Also, they give you a picture of your group, and then they come over at the end to make sure that you want to pay for it. And I was like, I don't have it anymore.
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Space Olympics
Well, I think that that's a testament to like in watching it. I'm like, oh, I forgot how many stupid like fire and like shocking of like what lightning comes out of his fingertips. And you're just like, because nothing's happening. We just like put a bunch of extra shit in there. Be like, maybe this is entertaining.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Well, then I love that. Yeah. Yeah, I did a lot of that, yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
I liked the cutaways to the Junior Suite so much, I was really surprised we didn't get one of the minibar, because that's it.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
I'm sorry. This is Phil and Chris's favorite. Why don't you just admit that you hate it and that you hate me? Hold on. Is that true? For real?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Oh, you mean that it goes into a Justin Timberlake song? Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
And then he realized as he was writing it, I remember just being like, you know what this melody says a lot like Justin Timberlake.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
And luckily we knew Justin and it wasn't a problem to say that.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Oh, fuck. We're going to get fucked if you listen to this. Very funny to me.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
It was perfect for this guy's version of the Space Olympics. It's like everything's not good.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
I bet we did blue screen there, right? Just like knocked it all out. I mean, it doesn't look like we spent a shitload of time there.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
I'm going to start. Here's what's going on right now. It's a big day. Not only do we have a guest joining the pod, but also Jorm's back, everybody.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
And everybody obviously at SNL had and was a huge fan of it. And so we saw that comedy and the adaptation of it and the comedy of Ricky being like, they ripped it off. It's not as funny. Mine's the classic. Yeah. The audience, I feel like, doesn't have that moment of recognition for him, and they're also surprised he's being mean.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Now, even like a few years later from stuff at the Emmys, that was a running gag between Steve and Ricky that paid off. But this is sort of pre-Golden Globes Ricky, and pre-Giant Stand-Up Ricky, and even like the other, I feel like the other shows maybe. But we do have Ricky Gervais introduces it, and it's a very nice framework. Knowing that you added him late, it does help a great deal.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Last day tomorrow, guys, of the shoot. Oh. So back on the pod, still in Finland. And Jorm, let me just say, we missed you a lot. And I've heard from people who enjoy the pod, it was a nice dramatic built-in arc that you were sort of both in Finland and didn't understand time zones. It was all of a sudden our podcast had a like serial element to it.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
I'm so glad because no one could get burned worse than having to write up a fake pitch.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Especially if it's a premise sketch with a turn. You never want to burn the turn. I also think it's important to note, when you hear pitch meeting, there's this idea of everybody throwing ideas around and people adding to ideas and zing. Pitch is one-way traffic. The host sits there quietly, basically doesn't respond at all. And it's just this workmanlike rotation around the room.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
We've talked about it at length when he's been a guest on my show, but JB Smoove was the most entertaining pitcher. Because he would just sort of rotate through the same 10 pitches over the course of the year, and he would do five of them real fast. And they were all super funny premises that would never make good sketches, but would crush. And then he finally wrote one, right?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Butt pregnancy did air. And I would say it aired as a cautionary tale to not write up the other one.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
That's good money spent. That's easy money. By the way, as you were saying it, I was like, oh boy, how's this 50 buck dare going to age? And I'm pretty happy with it.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Yeah. They just bring you to the worst table and you're like, what happened? You're like, oh, I think I bribed a weirdo. Sorry.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
My biggest burn on, because again, getting caught, this is actually a happy ending of a fake pitch that you had to do. I, my first year pitched when Alec Baldwin was there, you have a jet ski on your lake and the lake just voted to ban jet skis. So it's a sketch about you taking one last crazy ride. And it got like a laugh in the room.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
And then he kept coming up to me for the next two days going, very excited about Jet Ski. How's Jet Ski coming? Can't wait to see Jet Ski. And then I like wrote it up. It was like, again, fun pitch, terrible sketch. And I wrote it up and it just died at the table. And then it was in the first half of the table read.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
And when I went to the break, he walked by and he goes, I expected more from Jet Ski.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
No. So in the end, there's a purpose is served from even the fake pitches.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
That's really good. I just watched it an hour ago. And in my mind's eye, you did build a set.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Yeah. Here's how long ago it was. Usher was the musical guest, and he looks exactly the same.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Please, let's get to Usher. Oh, we will get to Usher.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
By the way, this is another reason why it would have been a terrible live sketch, because you would never have had time to have that attention to getting the Japanese part right or as right as it was possible for non-Japanese speakers.
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Japanese Office
Support comes from Aura Frames. Keev, I've been talking about Aura Frames a lot, so you know it comes from the heart.
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Japanese Office
It's really fantastic. These are a perfect Christmas gift. I gave one to my parents. Really, my brother did. I don't know why I'm trying to take credit for it, but my brother gave it to my parents and he loaded it up with pictures and they're just changing all the time. And my parents are so happy because otherwise they're just like hounding me for pictures of my kids.
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Japanese Office
And this way I can just use my phone, upload it to their house, and then everybody wins. Guess how long it takes to set it up, Keith.
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Two minutes, bud. Whoa. Yeah. Also, guess what, Jorm? I know you're always like, you know, a lot of us are like save the trees and you're always like save the wrapping paper. Well, good news. Every frame comes packaged in a premium gift box. No price tag. Add unlimited photos, videos, invite as many people as you want to a frame. There are absolutely no hidden fees or subscriptions.
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Japanese Office
Yes, we could all do that for Lutz, which I think we would all do because we all love him equally. You could put any pictures you want on there, too. How many photos and videos could we put? Like three, four? It's unlimited. Whoa. And it's, by the way, not limited to even photos. Videos work as well.
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Japanese Office
So again, we were talking about Ricky Gervais introduces this as the American Office ripped off my show. Our show is based on this Japanese show, but you can tell it's pretty different. And of course, it is exactly the same with Steve Carell playing the Steve Carell part. And man, oh man, did our cast overlap with the cast of The Office incredibly well for the purposes of impressions.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
I think you could argue an alternate universe. Every one of those people could have been cast on The Office and the path of that show would have been almost exactly the same. That's a big thing to say. I'm just saying that, like, I mean, again, I say this like credit to everybody in The Office was amazing.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
But like the amount wig has the Jenna Fisher mannerisms down while she's also speaking in Japanese is.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Yeah, because it would have also worked as a parody of the British office.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
There's just really nice moments in this. Suds and Bill and Kristen are fantastic. Steve seems to be having a good time as well. Keenan is Stanley great. And also the audience just seems to very much enjoy it from the kickoff.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
That's what the first strike was for, was airplane residuals. Okay. You might have, honestly.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
So Lutz, this was a time in your life where you were sitting around in writer's room as a full-time job and then you would sometimes get days off and you would use those to go pretend to be a writer sitting in a writer's room all day.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Hey, this is really, I just had a feeling. Sometimes I look at sketches that get cut from dress and I go, I bet that one's fun to read. And I saw there was a sketch cut from dress called Paul and Jean that was written by Fred. So what does that make you think when you see Paul and Jean written by Fred?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Kiss is correct. So, open on Gene Simmons' office, it's decorated with gold records. Fred is Gene Simmons, Steve is Paul Stanley, another member of Kiss. Jason approaches them with a video camera. Thanks again for doing this, you guys. This tape's gonna make my son so happy. He's been in the hospital, he's a huge Kiss fan, so this is really gonna cheer him up. Fred, this is what we're all about.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Fred, of course, if you don't know, does an incredible Gene Simmons impression. Anything for a fan man. Jason, okay, I'm ready when you are. Fred, here we go, shoot. So now it looks like it's being recorded through a video camera finder.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Gene Simmons is bad for making a video for an eight-year-old.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Oh, my God. What else we got? You know what? I'll just say it. GOP nominee, Senator John McCain was on the show, did update, did a sketch as well. That was a gentleman I always enjoyed the company of. He was a fucking good guy and super funny and was a blast to be around.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
He was always good when he came on. He basically came on update and he made the argument, it was right around when Hillary was maybe gonna drop out, and he made the argument that both should stay in, Hillary and Obama should stay in as long as possible. And like basically saying like they just should beat each other up. But he was saying it as like very helpful advice.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
I wonder if those will air next time. They do. They do air next season. It's very fun. I love the way they look. These are the people that Amy and Fred play. Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker, Scorsese, Rosie Perez. And then it must be Gene Simmons and Kim Gordon.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Because it's a pre-tape. It's a pre-tape and it's sort of timelessly they were playing people from different eras. And no host. Yeah, no host. That's the key.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
By the way, last time I saw Salman Rushdie was at Lauren's apartment, FYI. So they are friends. Last time, meaning you've seen him a lot?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
It seems like the beginning of a Charlie Kaufman movie where you have a job playing yourself. After work, you go and play yourself on a TV show.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Yeah, it is. I think everybody knew you were stretching it. Solomon Rushdie is spelled almost exactly like salmon, which is crazy to me. Seth, are women allowed at your book club? We can see here. What's next? Won't answer it. Won't answer it. What's next? What's next? There's a really funny thing, because now we can still transition into Usher.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
It says, update cut, Usher, in parentheses, older women, and then obviously the name of the writer, nobody's certain, because it just says Tucker, question mark, question mark, and I want to be like, yeah. If there was a update feature that was called older women with Usher, that was Tucker. Yeah. It just seems like Tucker comedy right there. I'm just going to I texted him during this.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
See, I feel like this is all on you, Andy, for the Salman Rushdie thing, because now you've planted that in Lutz's head.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Now it's okay for everyone. Do you remember when MC Usher came out for the musical act and kept walking down the stairs but never got to the monologue? Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
By the way, that's what Usher basically does. Yeah. Wait, what else do you want to say about Usher? I mean, it was fantastic to have Usher around.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
It's really weird. And you never sleep. I mean, I guess you're a severance. Maybe you're ahead of the curve on severance. Are you a severance? I was a severance. You were a severance? Yes. So which LUTs did we get? Did we get above ground LUTs or below ground LUTs?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
He brings a little boombox and then it's car rating.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
So Usher got cut from Update. Obviously, he did both of his songs. He appeared in another sketch. Does anybody remember? He appeared in a sketch I wrote. Yes. Congratulations. It did not get cut. It did not get cut. CPR class. Talk us through CPR class. Samberg, Solomon, and Schaffer, this is Andy doing a live sketch. Because this ticks a lot of your boxes. Me, Akiva, and Sam and Rushdie.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
It's so weird that you're wheeled in because I feel like a normal assistant would get on the table. So now, Andy, why do you think you were wheeled in?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Just so clearly teeing it up. The rig is great. His hands go through your chest and a lot of blood.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Yeah, which was really good. You have to then give your dying speech while obviously I'm assuming you gave the instruction to the blood pump guy to just go nuts.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
And I just got a free watch from the coolest guy I know. And then the great thing is, do you think Usher was always in it or this had been a, hey, we cut you from update, but we have another really fun thing for you to do?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Basically, the sketch is over. O to the V to the E to the R. And Steve Carell says, you know, I can't help but think this is somehow my fault.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
And then he gives a thumbs up and it's over. And it is not a fit.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
It's a rare, nice shortcut. Actually, Kevin, while we're doing this, is there any way you can watch Dress and see if Usher was in Dress? It does make me very happy because just seeing it again, it was in golden era. And sometimes we just did dumb things at the end of sketches.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
And it certainly was better than what the ending of that sketch is without Usher coming in and looking like a million fucking dollars.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
04. February of 04. Do you remember going to a SNL after party where you were there with Liz Kikowski? And you were basically going to find, you were there almost being vetted to see if people liked you enough to be a writer on the show.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Just to kind of take care of you guys, you know. He called back to his local Olive Garden and asked if that guy could put a good word in for him at Pasta Lovers.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
I like that Lorne was the one who recommended it. You were like, we'd love to get dinner in New York. And he's like, what do you like? And you're like, we love pasta. He's like, Lorne and Pasta Lovers.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
I am not super happy, but it could have been a disaster, so I will take middle of the road. Here's what I'm least happy about my photo, Andy. Yeah. I mean, again, each one of us was in a photo with 10 absolute legends, right? And for whatever reason, I'm the only person who's looking off as if there's more interesting people elsewhere.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Any fun nick-dotes from Seth? Any fun nick-dotes that you want to dote upon us? Hey, America worked reception at SNL before she was a writer. Oh, yeah. We would receive, I remember in the dog days of summer, myself, Jost for a while, Harper, would read through like 200 submissions and select out which ones were good. And I remember we all liked Marica's before we realized it was Marica's.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
And it was this funny thing of like, oh, is that way? That's merit. That's that Sawyer. And when we hired her, it was one of the only cool ways to hire somebody. I remember I was in Higgins office with Shoemaker and he called reception and asked her to bring in a legal pad and some pencils. And then she came in and he's like, that's for you. You're a writer here now.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Really good. Pretty awesome. That's kind of like a Studio 60 moment.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
It's how Sorkin would write it. Yeah, exactly. Those are yours, kid. You're a writer now.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
I am saying that. Now, that one. Hey, move over, Nick Dotes. A recepto baby. Nobody's angry enough about recepto babies. Yeah, man.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Oh, my God. What else do we have to talk about here? What about some Seth's Corner? It was a very quiet day in Seth's Corner. You did the monologue. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did the monologue. Maybe the Senator John McCain something. I did. I think I wrote the update with McCain.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
I'm going to seed Seth's corner because I was so excited to see the opening. Cold Open was a Jim Downey, Jack Handy sketch, according to the names on it.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
And it was a very old school sketch, which is a commencement address where Carell is handing out diplomas and he gives a big wind up as to this is the kind of school. A lot of you came from other schools and were more than just faculty and students. We're family. This is not the kind of place where people get...
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
made fun of for the way they look or who they are, what their last name is, and then it's just one of those parades where all the names are just the most embarrassing names. Oh, I remember that one. Again, it's that real nice Jim Downey touch.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Where one of the names is Dick Hertz and no one comes up. The name before was like, hey, would you blow me? Somebody comes up and gets a diploma and he's like, Dick Hertz, Dick Hertz. You see Amy's behind him as faculty and she's a little concerned. Then she gets up and whispers in his ear,
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Oh, I love it. What is your problem with mine? No, I thought you looked totally fine. Clearly there's something. I did not like that I was looking off and it looks like I have like two chins.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
That's the one fake name at a school. After Hey, Would You Blow Me? Yeah, and the next name's like Buster Hyman. But I was like, ah, fucking A, man. That's great. Such a good time. And this is the end of a season. I bet we're all in a pretty good mood at the end of this one because, again, this is the end of the season where we went on and returned from strike.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Also, Usher's first song was This Ain't Sex. And it may not have been, but I watched it and I got pregnant from watching the performance. Lutz, is that the kind of joke that Tracy would make on 30 Rock? Yeah. That's a thousand percent it.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
One more thing to say about this. The 10 to 1 sketch is a perfect 10 to 1 sketch that does not get what it deserves. And I think it might be, I can't quite figure it out. It's called Bless This Child. Anybody remember Bless This Child? I did not until I watched it today. Wig and Carell are in it. written by Wig and Sublette. And they are putting their newborn child in a crib.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
It's very clearly a doll. And they start doing a prayer called Bless This Child that turns into a dance where they are just using the baby in the dance and like flipping it back and forth to one another.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
And it's so, I mean, it's so clearly a doll, but I do feel like the audience is like, oh, it ends with them each holding a leg of the baby upside down and singing into the feet like it's a microphone.
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Japanese Office
Yeah. I mean, I will say that David LaChapelle like blown out color thing that he's been doing for a long time. It's kind of fun to see my, I mean, that was the only way you and I were going to get photographed like that. Yeah. I tend to agree. Were you there at the same time? No. At SNL, yes, we worked with you.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
And I will just say real quick that Tucker has no memory of Usher older women. So that's an exciting way to end this.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Well, there's one more thing I have to add that I think chilled the audience as well. That's right before she said that, she said she's pregnant with another one.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
When we come back, we'll have a lot to talk about going into the next, which is you guys do an album in the summer.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Which is incredible. You rent a kick-ass house where you host parties like a bunch of guys who just got a big deal from a record company that intend to save none of it. Very much so. You have the room you record in, which I was lucky enough to visit a few times, was maybe one of the hottest rooms I've ever been in in my life.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
In all ways. Yeah. And then we return with Michael Phelps and Space Olympics, which is one of those that the first time you played it for me, Andy, I laughed all the way through because it is maybe a version of your comedy that I like the most.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Yeah. Which is super specificity of things that are maybe not going great. All right. So we're going to do a Q&A episode with questions everybody's written in with. And I can't wait to be back next week. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
The artists. Yeah, that was fun. They were so weird, you gave them 20 bucks and asked them for a good table. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
One more thing I'll say about Lutz. Lutz and I knew each other from Chicago, and when I got Late Night, Lutz was one of the first writers I hired. And Lutz still works for Late Night now. People might not know that, but I've been lucky enough to know you for almost 25 years.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
But Rob Janis was a Chicago improviser, and I remember a couple other guys brought him to a Beastie Boys concert, and he was like, well, I would just ask that we listen to their music on the way to the concert. I'd like to familiarize myself with their canon.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
there you go guys what a lovely time this was Lutz thanks for joining Lutz do you think you had more fun being here or America had more fun not I think she had more fun not yeah but I had a lot of fun so so it was up there
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Japanese Office
Yeah, there were a couple of airdroppers. I saw Steve Martin afterwards and he said, if you told people who was in that photo, they would all say, I bet it was so much fun. And it wasn't even a little bit fun. And that's really the true thing, because we're all standing there. By the way, I'm sure I got caught laughing at somebody off camera, which is why I'm looking the wrong way.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Andy, you hosted the Spirit Awards, right? I did once, yeah. If you were hosting it this year, would you be mad right now that you had blown the Beetlejuice joke?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Now it's like if Bill was like doing Stefan in interviews, he'd be like, it's a hit.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
All right. It's one of our classic double enders. Love you guys. Love you. Love you guys. Bye. Bye.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
You know, everybody's both in their head about they don't want to have a bad picture, but also they're around people that they want to be funny around. It was not fun. It was stressful.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
I do really like that when you get drunk, you will find the nearest celebrity and drag them to do a podcast.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Oh, it's Steve Martin. Yeah. Okay. I will say the other thing that was really fun, I was standing next to Tina and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. And again, David Lushbell, it's not surprising that he blasts music at his photo shoots.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
But also, at one point, they were both screaming, none of us can hear you. And it was just really fun to watch those two sort of take charge.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
And it's just in general, the idea that, I don't know, this group needs like music to have fun. And in general, we're also just less fun than I'm sure David LaChapelle thought. I'm sure people were saying to him like, oh, my God, was it so funny? And I'm sure he's like, no.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Did he play music while you took your single? Yeah, I'm sure. Disaster, because he's like, what kind of music do you like? And I'm like, I'm not going to tell you, and I don't want to do this. Wilco. Exactly. I'm like, no. You're like, now I'm in the mood. And then I'm like, I don't know, like 90s hip hop?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
And then he started playing it, and immediately someone, I won't say the name, was like, this is your music? What?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
So that was a real flashback to the early aughts.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
So just totally stressed out the whole time.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
I feel like there are nights you've been drunk where you have then texted us all, hey, you know, I could bring this person, too.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Wait, hold on, hold on. It deserved it. The other thing about that was Andy, again, really impressive that you put that second in the pop culture roundup. Yeah. Because, yeah, you're just like a Mexican jumping bean over there trying to get that joke out. And right after you said it, you took a big swig of water. Had to. That's what I was going to point out. Had to.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
I think it's the anticipation of it had just given you incredible dry mouth.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
You know what? Andy might be in the clear. We're on hiatus, so I think he's actually okay. Oh, that's true. But I will say it is 12-4 at 1.22 p.m. Eastern time, so if you hear somebody else make the Beetlejuice Spirit Award joke, I just want to timestamp when Andy did it.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
It's like you're at a bar talking to someone and being like, you want to do a podcast?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Yeah, I mean, we do have to find another category for like the, I don't know, the Criterion shitbox, which is like worth having, but not because it's good.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Yeah, I don't know. Shitbox, I don't feel like shitbox. Okay, let's stick with shitbox then. First thought, best thought. Well, extras? Oh, here's something from the last episode. You guys can just pile on as soon as I say this out loud. I have a book club. I have a monthly book club with some gentlemen. I go to my book club. Thank you. A little late. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Oh, bummer. That would have been good. I'll see you about tomorrow, then. Hey, Lutz, you want to say hi, and then we're going to do the intro to the show.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
I was taking another one of those famous sips of water. This has been one continuous sip since Beetlejuice. I spiked it. You've been talking out the side of your mouth a little bit last year. So we got a room at a restaurant, and we rotate who hosts, and we try to find a private place to have dinner and talk about a book.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
And I walked in, and one of the other guys goes, you have to grease a palm to get in here? And it was very nice to hear a lot of the book club guys had listened to the episode, and then we had a long conversation about palm greasing.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
There was one guy we all knew. We were like, you're the palm greaser. And he said, I grease in, I grease out. I like walk by a restaurant I'm not even having dinner at and I'll just grease a palm.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
I'm going to go on a limb. I'm going to say, John Lutz, you've never greased a palm.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Did he give it back and he was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy, when you're here, you're family.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Yeah. I bet when you grease a palm at Olive Garden, the waiter's like, oh, what the fuck? Oh, shit. God, that's never happened. Yeah. God, that's so good, Lutz. Can I just say something, Lutz? Thank you for sharing that. Yeah. Yeah, you're welcome. That paid off better than I think any of us could have hoped. Oh, and one other thing that I feel like is in the pop culture roundup.
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Japanese Office
Keeve, you just sent a text that Balenciaga has released their new line of shoes. Oh, yeah. Really cool looking shoes. Balenciaga unveils its bold new shoe that makes you feel barefoot. And if these motherfuckers aren't trying to get away with JJ casuals with heels. I don't know what the fuck they're doing. Wait, did it have heels on it? Yeah, it's heeled. Well, I can't. No, maybe not heels.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
No, I think that's just around the heel to adhere to the foot. Yeah, you're right. It's around the heel. I mean, better design than JJ Casuals. What? No offense. Yeah, it is. I just, it's hard for me to accept that they.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
Let's get to the question everybody's asking. Why Lutz? Why is Lutz here? The digital short this week is The Japanese Office. Is there a digital short title card? I can't remember now.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
And you were also on 30 Rock. And I never remember, what was your character's name? Lutz. Right. Yeah, it's a bit of a stretch.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
I think there is. Because it has an interesting framing.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
It does. There is, there is. Okay. So my first question, Lutz, did you guys know that you wanted Ricky Gervais to introduce it or did that happen late in the week? Well, I'll say that I talked to America right before this. So America Sawyer is your co-writer on this piece. Yes.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
I said, Marika, can I say you're not here because you hate the spotlight? And she said, you can say whatever you want. I'm on a high from getting out of this and will allow anything.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Japanese Office
I think we had cards. Yeah. It's interesting when you watch it back, you realize not everybody had seen The British Office.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
A Message From Seth: No Episode This Week
Bonsoir, Seth! Well, thanks for being here. Merci for having me. So, obviously, a bittersweet ending to your Olympic dream. Oui, oui, it was sad to not win the gold. But on the other hand, the entire world now saw my gift. Has this been a problem before? The size of my gift? Yeah. Ah, oui. And not just in the pole vault. I also tried hurdles, but I kept knocking them over.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
A Message From Seth: No Episode This Week
You see, the sum of my junk is quite grand, Seth. In French, grand means big. They are also grand English usage. Are you, uh, are you planning on... Are you planning on competing in the next Olympics? Oui, oui. Yeah, it is either that or go back to my old job. I was, how you say, a windshield wiper for trucks? Okay. Is that how you say?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
A Message From Seth: No Episode This Week
Yes, we say windshield wiper for trucks. Ah, bien, bien, bien. And to the people of France who I let down, let me say, I am sorry. Or as we say in France, pardon. Or as I say in my home, pardon. Or... As they say in the bullpen of the office where I work, holy crap, that guy just knocked everything off my desk with his giant wang.
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A Message From Seth: No Episode This Week
Yeah, I don't know. It's how you say, ah, bien, bien, bien. And to everyone out there who say, I should have talked, I did. Why, if I may ask, are you talking about this now? It happened so long ago. Do you know what else is so long? I do. I do. My gift. Yeah, yeah.
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A Message From Seth: No Episode This Week
As for right now, I left for New York as soon as the Olympics ended, but I travel very slowly on account of my, how you say, big old floppy wiener? Stop saying how you say. But is that how you say? Big old floppy wiener? Yes! That's how we say. Ah, bien, bien. Excusez-moi for a moment. I am so hungry, Seth. Oh, Seth, do you know what this reminds you of? It doesn't.
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A Message From Seth: No Episode This Week
It doesn't remind me of anything. I bet it does a little bit.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
A Message From Seth: No Episode This Week
I mean, if anyone can make jokes about people with huge dongs, it's a guy with a tiny one. Okay. Surprised you're willing to admit that.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
A Message From Seth: No Episode This Week
Hey, Seth. Yeah? Do you think this is going to win late night on Vulture.com this week? No, I do not. Okay. Oh, Seth, I saw your friend Colin Jost was at the Olympics. Is it true he lost a foot? No. No, he had an infection, but he didn't lose a foot. Ah, I see. Do you know how I could lose a foot? How? Cut off a third of my d***!
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
A Message From Seth: No Episode This Week
Seth. Yeah. I love the cast, but I'm going to hijack this real quick. You're going to hijack what? The interview? The whole show. Look, you remember when we were on SNL and I would sometimes come to your office because I saw a story that I thought would make a funny weekend update feature? Yeah, of course. Okay.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
A Message From Seth: No Episode This Week
Did you see that story this summer during the Olympics about the French pole vaulter who knocked the bar down with his giant dong? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I saw. That would have been good. Yeah, it would have been good. Should we do it now, though? Great. Wally, get the cards. Wait, what? That happened this summer! All right.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
Welcome to another Lonely Island Seth Meyers podcast. Are you guys ready? Hey, everybody, welcome back to the... You have something to say, Andy? Because I'd love to get this clean intro.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
You know, COVID, probably have a lot of time. I'm assuming you've used that time to watch my new HBO special because Andy's seen it.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
So everybody, this is Timothy Oliphant, who is truly one of my favorite guests on Late Night. And I'm a little heartbroken because we're text friends that he didn't give me a heads up that he was working with Jorm in Finland.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
They're like, all right, on. By the way, if anybody wants to know what it's like to be an actor for a living, that's it in a nutshell.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
You get praised, and then you immediately move on to, so, like, no one else?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
No one else. What am I now to do with the vacuum left in its wake? Exactly right. Oh, so now the arrow's pointing down the rest of my life? Exactly.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
And I think we're going to see a difference in the downloads, personally. A D in the D?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
Have fun out there. Bye. Bye. Oh, hey, before we move on from Benihana, I wrote down earlier one of my favorite lines, which I know I didn't pitch it. I think it was either a Jonah line or a Bill line, but it's maybe my favorite. He talks about how he can hear his divorced dad crying when he stays at his condo for the weekend.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who've come up with some really good ideas. So it's nice to know that sometimes it is just making your job coming up with them. Yeah, you just focus.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
Before we get to the short, I want to talk about Jackie Snad and Clancy T. Bachelorette, which is one of my favorite sketches ever. Same. This is one of the most uniquely wig and forte sketches of all time. Jonah plays a music producer. Do you remember his name? I do not. Tim Jackalpappy. Every name in this is fantastic. Tim Jackalpappy.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
And he talks about two of the best singers of country music. They are Clancy T. Baclarat and Jackie Snad. And they have something in common, which is all their songs reference four different things, which are Model T cars, jars of beer, toddlers, and spaceships. That's right. We hear one song from each of them. And you know what?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
I don't know. We did get a nice shout out. You sent it out. The cut. There was an interview with the person online who her Twitter handle is bald and out. She had a nice thing to say. So thank you very much for the nice shout out of the pod. But I do. I would hope that if anybody listens to this pod, they would go back to the beginning, especially since the first pod we did eight years ago.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
I don't think our listeners and mine kind of think we should play them. Agreed.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
So anyway, that's their solo work. And then Tim Jackalpappy is very excited because now they're working together. And now, again, this is one of my favorite premises of all time because you immediately get it, despite the fact that it makes no sense at all. But they just lay it out. They are country singers. All their songs have these four things. They sing about them in very unnatural ways.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
They're super catchy songs, though. Yeah. There's a song, for example, called Hey Clancy. And you know what? I think we should play it.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
There you go. Then there's a song called The Worst Day. It's one of those sad country songs. And by the way, when it starts, I remember when at the table when it starts and it's about a funeral, I was so worried.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
I was like, oh my God, because I feel like country songs do that thing where like sometimes they're about like a family member dying and I knew that they were going to have to mention toddlers. Oh, yeah. It was a funeral for a spaceship. The toddler does. Well, you know what? Just listen to The Worst Day.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
And then, oh, I do want to say something about The Worst Day. I think they cued the music early while Jonah was still talking. And Will and Kristen are so good that the music ends, but they still have a couplet to go. I remember that, yeah. And they just sing past the music because they're such pros. That's why the music stops and they're still singing. You know what they do?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
They go, motherfucker beat, I'm a duet a cappella. Yeah. Then a new national anthem, and new national anthem is wonderful because it does that thing that Forte does better than anybody, which is scream sings and the veins are popping in his neck and his temple. And it was shot with a really fun, like, that double profile move. Yes, yes.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
And even when it cuts back to Jonah, you can still hear Will screaming it.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
Welcome, everybody, to Lonely Island. It's Seth Meyers' podcast. Once again, Jorma is in Finland. You know, during Q&A at my show, my late night show the other day, somebody asked, when is Jorma going to be back from Finland? Because they missed him on the pod.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
Yeah. And one of the most fun things about it is Jonah's in a giddy state. Oh, yeah. The whole time. Well, because he loved the sketch. And again, he was both the presenter of it within the body of the sketch, but he also was sort of the presenter of it as the host of that week's SNL. And I think he took some real pride in the fact that it had made the show.
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Andy's Dad
Real quick, and I feel like we'll maybe one day talk about it with Jorma, but before we get to the short, there were also a MacGruber in this Jonah. And I will say I had no memory of this MacGruber. And I went back and watched it. And I think the reason I had no memory is we only aired two of the three.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
And it was also, I feel like, right before they figured out they had to have a bigger premise. But the premise was that Jonah had talked shit behind MacGruber's back and he'd just heard. And then he had a bit of a crisis of confidence.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
You said that last night at dinner, and it was very important to hear that from you, and thank you.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
But I will say the third beat, which didn't air, I went back and watched. And it was, MacGruber had his life coach with him, which was Bill. And Bill was a really funny life coach. But MacGruber's confidence was rattled. And Bill was being really patient with him. And he very quietly asked for a chair to defuse the bomb.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
And it was a very funny little bit of just picking up a chair and using one of the legs to like gently push the bomb around. And it's funny to go back and be like, oh, two out of three MacGruber's, you can't do that. That don't work. All right, so Andy's dad. Let's talk.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
Yeah, no. We are going to do a full episode on your dad dad, but this is about this.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
I would hope you would want to watch it with Liz. That makes me happy, and I don't want you watching it with her now because you got the COVID.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
I'm very glad he mentioned getting hit in the balls, because obviously we're going to get to that. And that's one I rewatch a lot.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
There you go. I didn't remember that it was Jonah's idea. I did. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
But it also feels like a movie you want to watch.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
He's great in this scene, and it's really funny because he basically says, like, can I talk to you? You're in wardrobe. You guys sit down. You're both really great. There's some really nice flashbacks. He talks about meeting your family, and it's really funny because it's a mom, a sister, and Jim Downey is your dad.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
Yeah. How do you guys feel about your beloved Oakland A's uprooting?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
Yeah. I think that a really wonderful choice of words is Jonah telling you it's become extraordinarily physical. To put you at ease. Also, he takes a sip of coffee and he goes, I'm not usually a coffee guy. Ben has me trying so many new things. I believe that's after the kiss. The fact that he thinks you will find that interesting. Yeah.
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Andy's Dad
Yeah. Also, we talk about the patience of the sketch. One of the most patient performers of all time is Jim Downey. Yes. Jim Downey is never in a rush, and I think that's why so much of what he does endures. Jim Downey, if you don't know, the most recent great Jim Downey thing is on Conan O'Brien's podcast. Oh my God, yeah.
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Andy's Dad
He does not know about Jeffrey Epstein and what has happened, and he keeps referring to him as the financier.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
And Downey writes patient and performs patient. And of course, he's the teacher in, what would you call him? He's running.
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Andy's Dad
Season two. Like came in with Bill Murray. Oh my God. And, you know, over the years I wrote things with him and it felt like a MC Escher painting because I realized I learned so much about sketch comedy writing from watching sketches he had written when I was growing up. Yes. And then, you know, end up being with him.
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Andy's Dad
But it's also perfect casting because he is so, even the moments where he and Jonas sort of look at each other. Yes. Yes. No one ever reaches for like anything lecherous, anything.
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Andy's Dad
Jonas says he's aware that this is a difficult conversation.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
I will say, you know, if the Bash brothers special on Netflix couldn't keep the A's in Oakland, nothing could. You know who name dropped the Bash Brothers recently on my show? Who? Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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Andy's Dad
I gained a son. You're super bummed by that. So bummed. The outro is real memorable. Oh, my God. It did make me laugh. It made me laugh, too. Do you remember who came up with the outro? You're talking about the very final, the text on screen? Well, everything. I mean, so first then Jim comes in, Jim Downey comes in, and he wants to tell you, and Jonah lets him know that he's already told you. Yes.
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Andy's Dad
Why in the world? It's great. Yeah. Because I will say, Downey's involvement, I think, hamstrings Lorne a little bit in a great way because, you know, he's known Downey since season two. Downey's obviously blessed this thing with his involvement. It plays super hot. And then even I think Lorne has to be like, all right, you guys got me.
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Andy's Dad
Yeah. Also, Tim sent me a photo of Downey with him on set. And the other great thing about Downey is he's both great on camera and he also maybe has like the best hundred stories about SNL. Yeah. And it's so funny talking about sketches of his that he wrote that bombed. Because he wrote some really funny things that didn't work.
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Andy's Dad
If we can get Downey to explain the O.J. Simpson detective agency. Oh, wow. Okay, great. Yes, please.
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Andy's Dad
Because he was talking about how he was doing Brooklyn with you. That's right. The Nine-Nine. Yes. And he asked you what you were up to, and you said the Bash Brothers. That's right. And he just released this concept album based off the movie The Warriors. Yes. He said they were parallel ideas, which is it was hyper specificity based on a thing you loved for no audience whatsoever.
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Andy's Dad
But I will say, like, the point I was trying to make, you guys do four in a row where it's never, this is a catchy, good song. Because, like, Hero Song, the song is just set up.
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Andy's Dad
Right. Of course you would never. And so I just like for me, it was you guys came out of the strike. You had a lot of creativity. You didn't fall back on any of your crutches. And I was delighted.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
If anything, they're like teases for upcoming podcast episodes.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
One thing I do want to say, we've talked about the thrill of new people who then become part of the SNL family. Jonah was very much that. Things we didn't mention in this show, there was a Target lady, which is fantastic. Wig used to do a fantastic Susie Orman, that was in the show. Cut from this show was one of my favorite cut sketches ever.
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Andy's Dad
which only exists to watch as a second chance theater, which was Sudeikis' juggling flyer sketch. Oh, funny. Which he tried so many times. Yes, yes. The premise of juggling flyer was Sudeikis as a guy walked into a coffee shop wearing a t-shirt that said, ask me about juggling suspenders.
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Andy's Dad
And he went over to his flyer, which was basically free juggling lessons and went person to person in the coffee shop and asked why they weren't interested in that. And it was never going to work.
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Andy's Dad
It turns out that the audience doesn't love a sketch where it's just a person getting no's. Yeah, one person who's just desperate. Well, it's surf meeting, too.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
Well, it also was the Tour de Force performance by Suds. Like, there was a lot of moves in it as a guy getting a no on juggling lessons. All right, guys. I'm very excited. I'm going to tease the next episode. Please do. Walking. Ooh. And as great as it is to get a first timer like Jonah, it's thrilling to get one of the classic hosts to interact with a different cast. And I'm going to say it.
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Andy's Dad
We landed the plane. It was a great episode. There's a lot of fun things to talk about. Yeah. And I'm very excited to have that conversation with you guys. All right. I love you both very much. Love you too. And I, you both. Bye. Bye.
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Andy's Dad
It's also very fun to have somebody like I don't know. I think it's very cool. Lin-Manuel, who obviously made one of the great successes of both art and commerce with Hamilton, also appreciating that he has this, you know, monster to feed that's just art.
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Andy's Dad
That was nice. But also in the news, Andy is here once again because of SNL. As a fan, maybe. I'm not saying he's going to be on the show. Although, again, by the time you hear this, you'll know. But Andy and I had dinner last night with Mike Shoemaker and Maya Rudolph. And A+, right? It was a good time.
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Andy's Dad
Hey, so let's get into it. I was delighted to go back and visit everything about this episode with Jonah Hill. This is the first time Jonah hosted. Jonah would go on to host a great many times more. Jonah would join the Five Timers Club. But this first time was really very special. It was a great show.
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Andy's Dad
Yeah, he's funny. He's also, we'll get to the short, but even in the live stuff, he has that subtlety that works on film that sometimes doesn't work live. He manages to do. There is a game show sketch called, I think, What's Your Situation? Where he's the host and it's three female guests. And basically he asks a trivia question and then the follow-up is always, so like, what's your situation?
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Andy's Dad
It's a really hard shift that he does exceptionally well and I think was unique to him. A couple other things about this episode before I get to the short. I do remember Bill in the final hours before the show learning Elliot Spitzer impression for the cold open. And I often remember him like sort of talking about that was sort of a good example of how stressful the show was for him.
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Andy's Dad
The thing that's really hard to do and is always very cool when somebody pulls it off is a recurring character for a host. And Jonah showed up and brought a character called Adam Grossman, who was a six-year-old at Benihana. Bill was his dad. Fantastic sketch. And it was an idea that Jonah had, and I was lucky enough to sit in a room with him and Bill.
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Andy's Dad
I think he and Bill had talked about it before Jonah had showed up. And they had all these really funny beats. And it's just a great sketch. And I remember Fred plays the Benihana chef named Sushin. And I went back and watched it. And there's a line that really makes me laugh where he's basically a roast comic. And he's just roasting his dad, who's Bill, as a divorced dad.
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Andy's Dad
Yeah. It was another winter dinner. And the only thing that was sort of, I don't know, bagging on the vibe a little bit was Keeve was sending some very upsetting texts.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
And at one point he goes, Sushin, I'm joking, Sushin. Arigato and mazel tov. And it's just delightful.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
Well, Keeve, tell everybody what your current issue is that's limiting you from having cool dinners.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
It's a very funny bit, and I'm glad he is still leaning into it. Because, of course, with each passing year, it becomes a better bit. Yes.
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Andy's Dad
I do. It was a song called I'm Fancy and it was just about how he was a fancy fella. And I think one of the reasons I had the idea is he had a tattoo on his finger. Do you remember the tattoo he had on his finger? Oh yeah, it was a little mustache. A little fancy mustache. It was a little mustache. So he would hold his finger up to his lip and it looked like a mustache.
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Andy's Dad
And it was some version of I'm Fancy, oh so fancy.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
But it was a fun song and dance monologue. And I know that sometimes there's a little bit of a knock on them. But it also seemed very not what people would expect from Jonah. Yes. And that made it delightful. And there were backup dancers. Andy, what do you think the chances are you were one of the backup dancers?
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Andy's Dad
I mean, it's wonderful to me that you have no idea. You have no memory of it, clearly. Again, most of the stuff I did live is a blur.
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Andy's Dad
I would not. Okay. But yeah, I thought a very fun monologue and that was very sweet that Jonah remembered.
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Andy's Dad
Yeah, I mean, that does sound like something you'd say, Seth. It is a go-to, I think, when I'm trying to paint a picture of a situation. You know, and it's not that it wasn't true of Natalie, but I think it was super true of Jonah.
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Andy's Dad
Because I think because Jonah came from a world where so much conversation was about comedy, there was a boldness to the way he sort of stood up for things that was very impressive for someone his age.
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Andy's Dad
I feel like you held out for a long time and now you just get it constantly. Yeah.
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Andy's Dad
Also, he's famously sort of not fancy, which was also.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
And another thing that I think they're knocks on is game show sketches, which again, his was really funny because it was different and new. And so I think that's one. It's a shame to paint with a big brush there.
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Andy's Dad
Look, I'll venture to say that I think maybe people who recap SNL, and I think that they are fans, so I'm not being critical, but I think sometimes they will make the point that the show is falling back on a game show sketch, whereas I feel like... Because SNL is live, sometimes it looks the best when you mimic another type of show that's live.
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Andy's Dad
And so that's why game shows and new shows, I think that's why they look better as sketches. Whereas, you know, pre-tapes can cover things that, you know, look more cinematic, but it's hard to do that in the live format. Anyway, I've made my point.
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Andy's Dad
Now it's just like rolling COVID. But you were sending a lot of like sweaty COVID pics to Andy saying, you want me to join? That is true. Some version of that, right?
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Andy's Dad
I think the top hat they probably had to staple on.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Andy's Dad
But again, this is why it was a dream era for the show. We had no other options. They could have put me in a wig. The show was all starters, no bench. And so everybody played every down and it was super fucking fun.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
You know, for snack foods, they usually choose a mascot who's like extremely insecure and just desperate to be normal. And he clearly has something wrong with them. And he's just like, hey, we're all normal together, right? And we all love Doritos. You're like, yeah, that's who I want to be like. I want to eat what that guy's eating.
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Incredibad Part 2
It would have stood out, which is a big part of marketing.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
Yeah. Honestly, we've already talked about it too long. We're going to talk about it later because it's a whole thing. Because I'm in Atlanta shooting a movie. Yeah. They have to do it without me. I remember Seth calling going, well, I really see what you do in the group now.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
Did we talk about just two guys like probably early in this podcast when we were talking about our pre-SNL times?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
It might've been two days because again, it was just our friend Jonah Goldstein came over with the camera and it was just the three of us bopping around. Andy probably helped a little. It's as lo-fi as it looks like it is. And yeah, it probably takes two days because there's no crew.
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Incredibad Part 2
But also when there's no crew, it takes double long because if you need a shirt, you go, all right, let's go to Walmart and that's two hours. It actually takes longer when it's just three people goofing around. It's a lot of fun. When we went on tour, I loved doing We Like Sports because it is so pure and nerdy and the fact that the people who would pay for a Lonely Island show know every word.
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Incredibad Part 2
and they would sing it along and we would do a medley. I can't remember how we worked it, but we would do a thing where we at a certain point did lines from other real rap songs, like it went into a Drake song.
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Incredibad Part 2
What's the We Like Sportacus? The Nori song? Yeah.
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Incredibad Part 2
Yeah. Bong, bong, bong, bong, bong. But what did we do on tour? We did 21 Savage?
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Incredibad Part 2
Shy Ronnie. You came out doing Drake as Shy Ronnie. Yeah, I think it was God's Plan. Yeah, you're like, God's Plan.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
What's the name of the song, is it Pimps?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
But is it called Pimps, and then parenthetical, I'm looking, Freestylin' at the Fortune 500 Club?
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Incredibad Part 2
I feel like I should have just listened to it, but is it John Paul Getty and a Rockefeller? Yes.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
It makes perfect sense to me. What's confusing? She's leaning.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
It's actually the redeeming quality of the whole song. Agreed.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
Yeah, because it's doing mixtape style, right? Mixtape, yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
Uh, well. There's also a special guest at the very end, Seth, at the very end of the song while it's fading out.
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Incredibad Part 2
He's at the old saloon still, to be clear. Yeah. He's time traveled.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
I was like, should Punch You in the Jeans actually be a song? This is the only one I did nothing on, so I can speak really freely on it, that I love it. And it has stood the test of time to me personally. Well, thank you. Like, I find myself singing it more often. I find myself singing it to my children. I encourage them to listen. They haven't really taken me up on that, but they could.
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Incredibad Part 2
When I punch a gene, I like to imagine a face.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
got taste and it shows, my man. That made the other guy think he had taste.
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Incredibad Part 2
But you're going to turn the 501s into 499s, you know? Also, all the contradictions in it about like, it really doesn't matter as long as you're in them, but then they can be on the clothesline. Yeah.
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Incredibad Part 2
Yeah. Those samples are actually just Andy doing versions of the samples.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
Heck of punches. So we asked for a voice note from Edgar Wright. He's the director of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz. Scott Pilgrim. Scott Pilgrim, yes. Last Night in Soho. Anyways, he's a great dude. And he loves Punching the Jeans and told us about it all the time. That's the most positive Punching the Jeans feedback. So I thought he should weigh in.
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Incredibad Part 2
Yeah, the idea that we'd have our own Cristal to talk about, but ours is Santana DVX was a big joke for us. Yes. Just that alone. That's why it also is in I'm on a Boat. And is there even a third mention on the album? I can't remember.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
You're talking about I Don't Give a Honk.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
He brought up the lyric, the 501s that we talked about, that dipping your 501s in slime brings it down to 499. So slime is just a two-point reduction out of 501. You got to ask Jorma that, yeah.
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Incredibad Part 2
That's just- But it says gonna dip them in slime, turn them into, your lyric makes it seem like a slime- Yes, I know, you have to read between the lines, you have to read between the lines, Keith.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
I just think it's saying how layered the song is. 2007, when we did that strike show is when Hot Fuzz came out. I remember getting to go to some very early screening because we had met and being so excited. And then that movie obviously did not disappoint. But I remember being one of the only people that had seen it going, oh, my God, his follow up to Shot of the Dead is just as good. It's crazy.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
When we were making, like, Poblamo and Stork Patrol, and when we would make those songs, we would say the band name was Incredibad. That was making those songs.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
No, I think we just naturally came to doing a story track, an origin track, and then the lyrics led us there.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
Kind of a back in the day song or talking about what it was like being a little shorty is kind of a classic trope.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
Okay, so it is me. Why do I think it was Andy? Like, what have we done that's similar where it's always you, Andy?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
And then got E-40 to come on as Carlos Santana. Yes.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
And the beat's very good, Jorm. I was going to say.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
Yeah, he hasn't proven that this is true.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
He's also maybe from the 70s because he uses the word screw.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
It's a nice bookend to who said we're whack, just reminding you that we're fake and et cetera.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
The most famous one is probably Slick Rick, right? Yeah. Children's Story.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
Oh, yeah. Paul Revere was probably my favorite growing up.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
Well, it starts with that it's real, and this was before everybody had a liquor brand at all.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
That's not a story song. Yeah, that's the nursery rhyme.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
The fact that he did it and did such a good job. He's the best. Yeah, I mean, it made us so happy as people. We grew up, I mean, listening to every one of E-40's albums. We couldn't be bigger fans.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
It still sounds dope. He's so good. Yeah, he's great. You want to talk about the beat because Jay Zone made that beat, and he also is an amazing producer. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
No, we definitely have another J Zone song, but I'm not sure. Not on this album. You made the beat to Incredibad, right?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
No, with a bold-nosed champ. Bold-nosed. Bold-nosed champ. Yeah, yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
I bet you Andy helped with that, but yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
It was always a limited amount of it. It wasn't like it was something people knew. I only knew because I happened just to have been in Napa for the very first time in my life and had gone to like the Moet like winery for a tasting. And there was a big standee of Carlos Santana in there and he was holding the champagne.
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Incredibad Part 2
And we saved the best line for E40. Of course.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
Also, that's the way Santana's selling his champagne. He's like, it makes you get really fucked up. Yeah, yeah. That's not the way you sell a sparkling. We also do call it sparkling wine because it's made in California.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
And back then, before everybody had their own things, that was so out of the blue and crazy. I mean, it's so different now that E-40, who is the guest that I'm sure we'll get to in a second, he has a huge line of wines. That's right. In real life. And, you know, Alizé type drinks and food, goon with the spoon.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
It was so exciting to us. Of course, we've already covered that Jack Black we had met through Channel 101, and he had done Awesome Town intro for us when we were trying to get our own sketch show right before SNL. But still, we were just still in awe of Jack Black. I mean, we still are to this day, but we were just... So massive fans of him. And he had come to SNL to host.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
And obviously on the Lazy Sunday one, we had done Glirk. But still to just put out the call to him. And we had a whole demo version with Andy doing sax man. And we sent it to him. And the fact that he drove himself to our house in Encino and plopped down and recorded it. When he opens his mouth, his voice is so iconic and amazing. The moment he was like, well, it was a sax.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
We're just sitting in the room being like, holy shit. Yeah. He's in the room singing still. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
And it's just the real deal. We're faking everything. And you're like, oh, he just it's the moment when America fell in love with him in high fidelity when he was singing the Marvin Gaye song.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
When everyone was like, oh, shit, he can really sing.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
Contractually, we're not allowed to put it out. So no one could ever see it. But I guess they could hear parts of it.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
Visualize what you think he looks like. And then when we do that episode, we'll tell him what he actually looks like.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
So that's how much the world has changed since we made this in terms of like artists marketing products.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
But there was a real silver lining. Part of what enticed us to do it was they said, if our competition
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
ad won because it was the usa today or whatever poll the next day where it's the crash the super bowl thing they were going to give the million dollars that we would have won to a charity of our choice and we had chose the berkeley unified school district which is the public school district that we all went to and that was part of why we did the whole thing and by them saying hey your ad can't run they were essentially saying we were out of the running to win money for our charity which was a bummer now we knew that the thing that jorm and andy had made it was never going to win
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 2
But what was great is when they said, hey, it's not going to air, we'll just give $250,000 to your charity.
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Incredibad Part 2
And now we're getting a guaranteed donation, which was like, I believe Berkeley said it was the biggest donation they've ever gotten. And so it was a win-win, honestly.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Best Look in the World
Also, there's something very fun about a, are you ready for some football song? I remember a line you always pitched for, what was the Black Eyed Peas song that was Mazel Tov?
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The Best Look in the World
Yeah. Also, the moment on the porch we love so much with the guys crossing and uncrossing your legs, we sort of talked about the underneath the hair dryers at the salon. That was Bills, Bills, Bills by Destiny's Child. So that's just addressing some of the comments and also to prove that we read them. So, you know, do plant your flag in the ground and know that we'll get around to it.
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The Best Look in the World
You guys had a version of an I Got a Feeling song.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Best Look in the World
I know, but there was a line in it that always made me laugh. It was like a party anthem song that you could use forever. The observation being Mazel Tov is in it because then they would play it at bar mitzvahs forever.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Best Look in the World
And I remember you once said that one of the lines was, the Chargers won. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Best Look in the World
But it was based on you had explained it to me. It was based on Mazel Tov being in that song.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Best Look in the World
And the Chargers one always made me really laugh.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Best Look in the World
Hey, Eric Kenward, always been known among all of us as the reverse Jost in the fact that 20 minutes ago I texted him and said, hey, Andy said you had a lot to do with Best Look in the World. Can you record a voice note? 20 minutes ago.
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The Best Look in the World
He was not squandered. He was in MacGruber. And do you remember his MacGruber, Andy? You were in one of them. I was in a MacGruber? You were in a MacGruber because Shia played MacGruber's son, and it was dawning on MacGruber that Shia was gay. And one of the joyous things about MacGruber that people maybe forget is that MacGruber's a terrible person. Yes. Just genuinely a terrible person.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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He's a terrible person in the movie. And one of the great tricks the movie pulls off is that you root for MacGruber, even though he tells you throughout the movie he's the worst person in the world.
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And MacGruber is super upset that Shia, the son, is gay. And you are his boyfriend, who is, for some reason, locked in the whatever.
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Oh, man. We got to do that at the top of the episode. This is one I've been looking forward to as well. Daiquiri Girl last week, I was obviously like, best look in the world is a disaster.
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And then MacGruber's son insists that he is not gay and to prove it, he's dating Vicky, played by Kristen Wiig. And MacGruber doubts this and asks his son to kiss his girlfriend.
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Do you remember what happens when Shia kisses Vicky? No, I don't remember this at all. He throws up? He throws up. They kiss and he throws up out of his mouth while they're kissing and then the explosion happens.
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It's also a really funny thing because I feel like the gay panic move in comedy for so long is that like a dude throws up when they kiss another dude.
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And it was so great to turn the tables and be like a gay dude would throw up if he kissed a lady. And it's really great.
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Well, because I love it. I love everything Andy was trying to do. I think about lines from it all the time. Andy? Yeah. What's the nugget of the idea for best look in the world?
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A little criticism? This has all been criticism.
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So a couple of things, Jorm's criticism was that you guys didn't actually make the entire crew look at your exposed genitals. Correct.
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Jorm was saying you didn't have the balls to do it.
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Yeah. I feel like we broke new ground because that's the first time that Jorm has just, I feel like, fully been in the right in one of his comments. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, Jorm took the high ground and you can't argue with it.
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Yeah. You know what? I'm going to go out on a limb and say, if we're willing to, I feel like Hambone will join us for that pot.
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This is Jon Hamm and what a joy he is. When we get to Sergio, that'll be fun to talk about. I just want to go back and say, let me tell you about a look I know is one of my favorite first lines.
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I just think about it all the time.
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Because you're stating the premise and also revealing you're incapable of executing it.
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There's another thing I hate, but I also want to say I hate it. And when I watched it with Shoemaker, he laughed at it. So tell me if you would change it today, Andy.
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I hate that it goes back to you in the locker room.
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I'd rather it ended with you like up. And I hate you selling out. That's a bad look.
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Yes. It's not fun to have the last thing the audience sees be you agreeing it's bad.
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Here I go. And Jost basically said, I'm doing something. Can I get it to you tomorrow? And I said, yes, that is now eight days ago. I have actually written to him a couple more times being like, any chance? And radio silence. But just so you know, that is probably forthcoming at some point. We'll just run it whenever he gets it to us. Whenever it gets in.
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Just take the L. You're like a team that was down like 28-0, and you're like, oh, now we're off to overtime. And he's like, no. Yeah. I want to run through some things I enjoyed. Monologue, Shia was promoting Crystal Skull. Oh, wow. And Daryl came out as Sean Connery to complain about not being in this movie. And he was also, there was a crazy setup line. Yeah.
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Another great James Anderson sketch, which was a like match game show. And what I really liked about it is it wasn't the old match game, but it was a lot of like those archetypes. And Shia played like a Doug Henning magician. And Fred plays a Charles Nelson Riley archetype. And it's a match game theme, and they say, please welcome your host.
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And then the host doesn't come out, and you hear a scream. And then Hater comes out as basically a Columbo-type character to say that the host has been murdered.
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That's clever. It's just an incredibly fun James Anderson sketch. You know what else was in this shy episode, Andy? You were in it. Yeah? The first what? Recurring sketch. What? The first Scared Straight. Ah, Kenan. Scared Straight. If I thought I could get Colin Jost to make a voice note. Scared Straight is one of the most four-dimensional sketches that has ever been on SNL. You are three kids.
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You, Hater, and Shia. It was always you and Hater and the host are three kids who got in trouble. Sudeikis is a police officer. They have brought in a guy who's in prison. It's part of the Scared Straight program, which is an actual thing where they have felons come in and talk about how bad prison is. That's the premise. That's a very straight premise.
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On top of that, Kenan keeps saying this here is real, but he keeps explaining plots of old movies.
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No, they didn't actually steal a car.
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Now that's already a crazy jump. Then he'll charge over, get in your face, try to make you guys break. Right. Really close, like really manhandling you guys.
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Yeah. Then he will basically say a long, when you do this, they do that. When you do that, you do this. And it always ends in the most offensive, what could happen to you in prison. Yeah. And then Sudeikis has to tell him to chill.
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Lorenzo McIntosh. Go back and watch him. And we're going to talk about him more because a bunch of them happen. It is really a testament to Kenan the performer and Jost the writer because it is a fucking fever dream.
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Yeah, Sudeikis would, and it was funny to watch this one back, because he wasn't trying it.
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It was the way he would jump on the desk at the end of the sketch.
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I remember when Sudeikis left the show. there was a dinner and they had cut together a highlight reel of Sudeikis at the dinner that we showed. The tag of that video was the seven times he jumped on the desk and how fucking funny it was.
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The other thing, I'll get to it, but I'm going to say it now because I think it's worth saying. The hottest dress I was ever at was the Betty White show. And at some point, there was so much that was definitely in the show that Lorne left and went back up to his office early because he knew he had the show and the last two sketches, it didn't matter how well they went, he had his show.
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Fair to say that the take on it is a real Hank Williams Jr. Are you ready for some football vibe?
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Then I went to his office. And in that scared straight, Betty White was a felon with Keenan. And I remember it was one of those things. It was like a scene from a movie where I said to Lorne, Lorne, I think you might want to watch this. Because while he was picking the show, I was just watching the monitor and it was the audience was screaming.
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It destroyed at a level I've never seen. So Scared Straight. And again, Colin Jost is one of our closest friends. I love him so much. I can't get a fucking voice note from him to save my life, but I would love to get his bounce on how they came up with Scared Straight.
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There was a really fun Vinny Vadeci in this. Oh, Seth's Corner. I worked on this.
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The Vinny Vadeci thing was he only knew a few things about American culture and so Shai was promoting Crystal Skull. At one point Vinny in a lot of joy said, what does Indiana Jones hate? Finally got Shai to say, snakes. Vinny said, Indiana Jones hate snakes.
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And it was clearly a cue. Ah, yes, yes, yes. And then he moved on to the next thing. And it's one of those executions that makes me so happy to this day. He moved on to the next question and then like a thousand rubber snakes dropped.
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And then also in this episode, these are the cameos of people who were working on Vinny Vadecchi. Alex Bayes, Doug Ables, weekend update writers at the time. Alex Bayes currently head writer on Late Night with Seth Meyers. John Solomon, and then it cut to Lorne Michaels dressed like the Don who dies in Godfather II. Like all white. Yeah. White hat.
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And Lorne does the best like... And I can't... It was another reminder of how much fun we were having and how much Lorne was having fun during this era. Yeah. And golden. And golden. We got Lorne to do a Vadechi. Really fun. Now, was Mulaney hired yet? I don't think we have Mulaney on the show yet. I feel like we would have seen his name in the rundown.
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I think we're coming close to the... It's going to be soon. Wait, hold on. Yeah, no, we're not at the end of this. He begins the beginning of next season.
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Oh, yeah. I mean, I think that Bill was rounding into shape. It was like a perfect convergence of how good Bill was getting and how Mulaney and Bill were a perfect match.
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Yeah. Bill has said in interviews that one time we were writing it because I was working on those with Bill and there was a line for Liberace that Mullaney pitched which was like, go back to your windowless bars.
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Well, I wanted to prove the point. When you start singing in Here I Go, it immediately sounds great. Thanks. We've learned a lot. You're immediately the worst you've ever sounded. On Best Look in the World. Absolutely. It's out of your register. You're a mess. And there's no rest for the weary. Like, it's super fast, way too high. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. So here's the thing. It's not criterion, but it is on Seth's list, I would want best look in the world. Wow. Why? I just... I just love everything about it. Wait, what? It stinks, but Andy, you make me so happy.
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It stinks, and it makes me so happy. And I'm just like, I want to be around people who take a swing like that. And it's like what Klein said. Like, it didn't work. It wasn't lazy.
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You put too much in a too small a bag, and the bag burst. We all had to fucking clean it up, but it's there. And I'm telling you, do a fucking Taylor's version of this song.
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I love it. I love Best Look in the World. You know why? Because I also feel like, you know when, I don't know, there's scholars, you're like, what are you studying? And they're like, just Finnegan's Wake. You know, like they're just like a one-text professor. Yeah. I still feel like there are things within Best Look in the World that I have not uncovered. It's dense. It's the density of it.
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Liver spots. Flank steak thighs.
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You know what? It's a little bit like, I feel like let me tell you about a look I know is if Babe Ruth had called his shot and then just struck out on three pitches.
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Oh, one more other thing. I feel like a wig thing that at the time was a big hit and kind of lost to history because nobody talks about Suze Orman anymore. Oh, yeah, Suze, yeah. Wig had a really funny, and it was, again, it was Paula Pell, and it was just talking about how to save money because that was Suze Orman was like just saving money.
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But I feel like, again, it almost speaks to how many good things Wig has that nobody thinks about her Suzy Orman, but it was a fucking rock star bit.
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I think we could also say, and maybe our listeners don't know this, the level of integrity Wig had for quality. And so if she did something a second time, it always had to have like a new move in it. I would like to play now because I feel like it'll be less fun if I say it. But I think about it all the time. The way Wig Susie Orman said you could save money instead of buying maxi pads.
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Oh, Paula and wig. One of the many great combos of the era. All right, look at us. Best look in the world. Done and dusted.
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All right, dudes. Well, I love you both very much. I love you, Arma, too.
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You're both super fun. I like looking at you. The cutaways are great. Yep. It drills down to the premise. It's so hard to hear. It's so hard to hear. You're singing so fast, and the lyrics are so dense.
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And I could not... There were parts of it I could not parse. And so I went... to the old, on YouTube, the closed caption. Oh. Oh. And it was the best because it just said, closed captioning unavailable. It just pooped out.
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And by the way, also you're leaving out that it's like .
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Again, it's one I think about all the time. Now, we have a couple of voice notes today because there were people involved in it. One that I'm going to ask Jeff to play right now is Rob Klein loves this so much. He's always, I have not heard this, I just said to Rob, please record your thoughts about Best Look in the World.
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A couple of things I forgot to mention last week, which would have been a more opportune time to read some comments about Here I Go. Someone wrote in because obviously there was a great dog in Here I Go. Someone wrote in, was Frisbee ever in the running to be the dog? Now, obviously that listener knows the longstanding feud between you, Andy, and my Italian greyhound, Frisbee.
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I mean, it's true. Pale stems, pea loafs for penny loafers. Penny loafers, yeah. And I should note. It's good. So in the beginning, Shia walks into a locker room. Andy's getting ready. Shia is taking it back. We only see that Andy's in a white button-up. We don't see his lower half. And Shia said, I thought you said you were ready to go. And you're like, I am ready to go.
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and i will say shia has that really natural acting style he says where are your pants it's such a perfect line read and then we see you're not wearing it and then you say it's the best look in the world and then we start the video it is mind-blowing how much pixelation is in this i mean that was part of the cell in our minds yeah the idea is that you're like not and not all the time it's just on certain moves it reveals itself because you're wearing a long white dress shirt
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Right. Without the jacket or the suit.
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You thought you had high hopes.
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What would you have thought about Frisbee being the dog in Here I Go?
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You thought that for the last 15 years, anytime anyone saw that, they would go,
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I think if the setup had been a dad, you would have been off to a much better start because a piece would have clicked.
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Because the fact there was two young dudes, it made it too hard to get in. And then immediately, as we said, it's so fast. The lyrics come so fast that there's no time to like.
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Well, the other problem is you and Shia then, while you're performing the song, don't actually have that look because you're also wearing like vests.
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And cowboy hats. Yeah. So it's like halfway between Hank Williams Jr. and The Best Look in the World.
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Won't ever have to see her again, yeah. Right. Yeah, yeah. Get her off the street. Somebody mentioned that song from Big Lebowski. I just checked in to see what condition my condition was in as a sort of backing up your use of condition. Ah. Yeah, they felt as though we missed the best example of it.
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We like that. Yeah. Can you read some of the other lyrics, Andy? Because you found some. And like I said, I did run into a brick wall today trying to.
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Hey everybody, welcome to the Lonely Island Seth Meyers podcast. And I want to start by saying with Here We Go, I reached out to Jost to get a voice note.
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Here it is. Wait. So Klein called out your Jimmy cap is crowned like a newborn, which is fantastic. Jimmy cap never been called that. Never been said. Amazing. It was one of those things where you said it with such confidence. I thought everybody was saying it and I was the last guy to hear.
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Then toned calves, cool attitude, and then you show the inside of an older gentleman's knee for the line, a soft breeze is tickling your knee pits. Tickling your knee pits.
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By the way, I bet a lot of our listeners are going to say that Seth is wrong. This is great. And I'm happy to be wrong. I don't know they will.
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I hated it. Okay, great. Disliked.
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Also, you undersell the premise when you're like, dads, best look in the world. Like, it should have only been dads. Correct. I mean, look, hindsight. Hindsight 2020. I will say, like, there's a lot of fun stuff here. And if you could hear the word, like, by the way, flank steak thighs should be yelled from the rooftops. That's fantastic. And yet.
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I stand by that. I mean, again, pale stems is great. Love it. By the way, I'm totally getting off topic. Very impressed that you got a clean B today, Sandberg. Thank you.
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I'm going to throw something out there because I know you guys are making new music. Give yourself permission to do a Taylor's version on this one. For real. Like, you've never done it. Take this back to the shop, because I do think there's something here. Okay.
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Yeah, more people had your back than didn't. Yeah.
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Well, it could be the same. I don't know. I still think it's Hank Williams. I just think you slow it down a little bit. I think, by the way, if you know what you knew now... you could do a great version of it with this speed. Agreed. Just better sound design. I will be honest, I don't want to hear it slowed down. I want this version, but I want to be able to hear the lyrics better. I'm with you.
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You would then have the same applications of the things you like in music that The Lonely Island does so well.
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Yeah. There's also a thing happening here, which is – and we'll talk about it a little, although I like this one much more with Extreme Activities – which is we're in the flow of the show enough now and being asked to do them every week enough now that we are doing arguably lesser versions of similar things, right? So like we've done Dear Sister, which is very clearly the same world.
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It's just like ended up being a stronger concept. And we did all of The Boo before we even worked at SNL. So like we're playing in the same sandbox to lesser effect. And that's what happens sometimes at SNL when you're exhausted and you're out of ideas and you're told you have to do something.
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And you got Wigs full attention and she's acting great. And, you know, by the way, same location as the I Ran So Far piano setup.
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I just remember in order to get there, you have to walk through someone's desk space and out the window.
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It's true. It's like, Susan, great news. We're moving you to the garden office, but also everyone at SNL will walk through your desk space every single week for promos and whatnot.
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I'm sorry. I was doing the spelling bee, and I lost track of what you were saying. Oh, this character does the spelling bee. Barvin.
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I feel irresponsible, but I haven't watched Extreme Activities Challenge.
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The variety of genre and eras represented on that Friday Night Radio City show that they backed basically all of was astounding and sounded, dare I say, tight.
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Did you watch it? I think if you cut like 30 seconds out of it, it would be delightful. Yeah, I just think it's too long. But there's certain moves in it. The pinning the chair down I love. Yeah, you guys are very fun. All of Wig's, you know, dancing and movement is great.
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You know what I would have done different on Extreme Activities events? What would you have done different on Extreme Activities, Andy? I would have cut three beats, and then I also would have cut three celebrations. I felt like we were committing the sin we always say not to, which is letting the music dictate the visuals instead of the other way around.
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Took the words right out of my mouth.
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I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, Wig busted out the baby hands at the table read. I believe that is correct. So everyone understood what they'd be looking at and everyone immediately was like, yep.
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I want to give a little, you can't see me, but I'm using a mug given to me by my Dear friend Akiva. I gave it to him. It was a gift from Akiva. It says Skywalker Sound.
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Job's wearing off. Oh, no. I hate podcasts again. Oh, fuck. Come on, buddy. Come back. Come back to us. Fucking everyone does them. It's why are we even doing this? So out of job. Out of job. You're out of job. The J tank is on E. The J tank.
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Just the best. That's the best. So, by the way, he did say it when he came and did SNL. Yeah. Yeah, when he did the bit with you. It's so good. Yes, exactly. But we're not there. We're not there. Now, can I clarify? We talked about this before, yes, that we tried Wahlberg Talks to Animals once. Harper and I wrote it. Yeah. And it was in Chican Alley and it didn't air, right?
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So this is when we moved it to center stage and it did air. Yeah. And did I say that I started doing the impression because Jonah Hill said I sounded like Mark Wahlberg one day? No. I was just doing a voice that I thought was more just like someone from the Bay.
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Handsome. That's very generous. Handsome. Very generous.
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Because I was very jealous that he was there and I wanted to come with him and I couldn't. He did it as a sweet friend favor.
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I would just argue that no matter how good you've done the week before, it's just the art of survival sometimes when you're in a long run of working there. And that's sort of the sad truth sometimes.
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Yeah, especially for me where impressions were hard to come by.
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Oh. I want to say chicken, goat, and one other. Is that right? I think that's right. Dog? No? Donkey. Kevin's saying donkey. I think that's right.
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How long did it take to write? Not long.
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Oh, that's nice. I did.
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You do get people on your side that way. I do remember feeling like in some strange way, it was like a companion piece to Out of Breath Jogger because it was like, here's the title of what you're about to see. And it's super short, one note concept. And then it turned into something else.
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Of course. Chums, monumental chums. God, guys, the fucking job is coursing through my veins. I should drink it every app. I should drink it every app. Peter Gabriel. This app is sponsored by Java.
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And has that ever happened again? It hasn't, right? That was unprecedented.
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No, not familiar.
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Nope. Well, he has gained weight.
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I feel like I remember this and it was kind of top of show, right?
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Googie Renee. Googie Renee.
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You guys, podcasts are the way of the future. I'm finally coming around, except for in five minutes when this crash happens. That's what I was going to say.
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Yeah. It was a good warning. He was a guy just by chance that likes really spicy hot links. Yeah. And in me trying to show him that he needs to register to vote, I made a mistake.
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Once again, playing in a trope. The, like, rock the vote. The whole attitude of that. The very, like, self-righteous.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
And the like MTV tone of like, it's actually rock and roll to vote. Yeah. Which was a thing during our childhood and teen years a lot. Yes. Which, you know, you understand why people were doing that because they're like, we want the president we like to be president.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
All right, well, we can cut all that out.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
Ah, fuck. I agree, Keev, that it was way too real-looking. It was very disgusting. But at the same time, re-watching it just now, I was laughing, so... Who's to say? I don't know what the answer is. I do like that we did that on the very serious political Thursday thing.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
But cut out me saying we can cut it out and then cut out me saying that. Fuck, I'm in the fucking spiral, you guys. I'm in the fucking cut spiral.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
Is that the universal Dwayne Reed purchase?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
Oh, yeah. Well, it went straight to the, it was the first ever online only release. So maybe that, right.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
So we were sitting near Tim Meadows and also Sarah Silverman, as you mentioned, Seth, at the 50th. And I saw Sarah and I was like, hey, there's Tim. And I went, hey, pop star reunion. And she was like, what? Really? And then she went, oh, oh, pop star reunion. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, man. That's cool. But it reminded me of what you're saying, Keith, which is people don't remember what we do.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
Yeah, please. Just because Keev couldn't make it for the 50th one. I just wanted Keev to have a chance to talk about the 50th.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
That's the moment.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
We never remember the stuff we do.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
I'm excited to hear about this. So if anyone out there doesn't like it. Yeah. Talk to Rihanna. She hates your guts. Take it up with her and Rocky. All right, guys. I love you. Love you. Love you too, Seth. Love you guys. Laters.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
And he's basically doing stand-up.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
It was also the sending back and forth thing where you're like, we never saw each other.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
I do think, though, you're shattering people's dream vision of us all together in the studio making a Lego 2 song.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
Such tension. Yes, that's just turbocharged. Like, oh, who's
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
Yeah. He pulls out a mic like your favorite short, Seth, Wish It Would Rain. Where all of a sudden there's just a mic.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
We're so fucking jaded now that we've been to the 50th.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
I mean, if it's so bad, Keeve, how come it's Phil Lord and Chris Miller and Seth Meyers' favorite digital short?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
Why don't you just admit that you hate it and that you hate me? Hold on. Is that true? For real? Just admit to me finally that you hate me and you hate this. Just admit both.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
Uh, I mean, I felt as if he correctly thought it was a little shaggy, but maybe was less interested in like the vibe and spirit of it as others.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
Maybe that's internalized. I don't know. Well, I hate it. Or maybe I'm like, I don't know how to read people. I don't know.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
I think it reassembles to Tragedy by the Bee Gees, right? You think you're right. Which is an all-time great jam.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
That's definitely true. I would never say that on the record, Seth. No, he wouldn't say that on a podcast. Not on this podcast. What do you think happened? Like, why did you think Phil and Chris loved it? I just had a memory of them coming and visiting us at the house in Encino and we were recording and playing it for them and them saying they loved it. But I could be wrong. Oh, the song, though.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
This is very generous.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
Well, anyways, I mean, the famous story internally amongst us, and I know this is jumping ahead, is... When we were making our second album, Turtle Lake and Chain, Lord and Miller, Phil and Chris to us, came and visited the house. And we played them a few songs we'd been working on, but we had a document open on our computer of song ideas.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
And Chris was just sort of absentmindedly looking at it, and he was like, what's I Just Had Sex? And we're like, oh, that's just like an idea we have written down. He was like, I want to hear that one. Okay. He's like, what's that song? Make that. And me and Jorm were like, okay. Yeah. And then we did. Great.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
Well, you gotta do that. You gotta do I Wish It Would Rain. You're talking about deconstructing a trope from fringe soul songs throughout the decades? People love that. With a really, really questionable singing tone?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
Who do we lean on to do an online-only release?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
I mean, the voice does.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
I didn't know he was your voice.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
Yeah. Yeah. And it just I remember even at the time. I mean, I don't want to talk too much about it because it was your arms.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
I remember you even being like, I guess let's just do this. Like we were at a gas that week. You were bailing us out by doing it. Yes, exactly.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Hey!, Extreme Challenge, and Jam the Vote
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Is the music in it from do we use that music on the boo?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
Also, it was funny. I don't think now it matters. Brian was like, it was CeeLo. I don't remember what the reason was. I'm sure whatever it was was either reasonable or unreasonable. That also could have been Brian's excuse. Yeah, could have been. But I remember him just being like, yeah, he just decided he didn't want to or something. I don't know what it even was.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
But I think partially because we had been doing it all through a friend thing, it didn't feel super official maybe.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
And P.S., they would have shown up at Kevin's. apartment with his roommates and realized they were correct, if that was the assumption. Yeah. So I don't know why exactly, but it was all very laid back and loose and we were not really worried about it that bad.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
Looking straight down the barrel of America.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
It did. Yeah. It felt a little more like early days of the show where the goal of it was different almost, you know? Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
By the way, Jorm's not on this episode. He's in Finland making his movie. Good point, good point. I don't think he was there that week either, though. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
I haven't watched it in a long time, but I have a lot of... Yeah, we'll see how we feel. I have a lot of... Shame? Shame, and yeah, I have bruising around that one because we thought it was going to be good. Right.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
Yeah, we'll get there. You know what's interesting about Kutcher? I don't remember if it was the time before this or a time after Kutcher, But we were really urged when we said we didn't have much to do a pre-tape for a different one of his episodes. And we did one, it was basically a commercial parody called Tudor. Oh, yeah, I remember that one.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
Right when Twitter was sort of dropping and he was like the spearhead of Twitter. And we wrote one called Tudor about every time you fart, it alerts all your followers, which was our social commentary. Yeah. And then they cut it. And I was so mad, not because I even cared about it that much, but because they had basically, everyone was like, you have to do one.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
And we're like, we don't have an idea. It was sort of that dance, you know? And then this one, which we were like, please cut it. We don't care, aired. So like the two Kutcher episodes were the inverse experience of a pre-tape.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
Why do they think they're the ones who decides?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
You know what? I'm not going to agree to that. Yeah. But I will say I'm very curious to know what they think and we can hold it up against ours.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
I love that. You know, I would love to just tune in and listen to that. Yeah. We're going to open it up to the listeners too, right?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
There can be infinite criteria collection choices being made as long as you and one other famous person. And then obviously we should have like a listener vote one.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
Also, I'll say it on Seth's behalf. Jorm's window from Finland is when Seth is making his network television show that's on every night.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
Oh, yeah, because they're two famous people.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
So at this moment in time, a lot of clubs happening. Yeah, a lot of clubs happening. Both in probably Ashton's life, but certainly in our own, as we've mentioned. Certainly in our own. So there's a lot of like ripped from the headlines kind of thing. Like we're like, man, can you imagine if Kutcher didn't get into the club?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
He always talks about that he can do an impression of someone singing, but can't sing as himself.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
Which is an odd thing, but is true for him. And it's very good. Is that the one where we had the foot five, where the two fake feet high five each other? Or was that the next one? Yeah, that's later. Foot five was maybe my favorite thing of all those. All those two, probably.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
You grease any palms? You slap a 20 in the super's hand?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
Okay, so then this leads me to something I've been thinking about and discussing with some other folks recently. Have you ever greased any palms? Anyone? Seth? Keith? I don't think I have.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
Exactly. I don't think I've ever greased a palm, and I think a lot of people grease palms. Yeah, I've never greased a palm.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
Based on what? Like, you're just totally speaking out of school right now and you sound like a lunatic.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
You're protecting yourself. Anyway, maybe it's something I'm like, maybe all of us should grease a palm and then report back.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
You going to tell me what was said or am I going to have to tune in?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
The stakes were just so low, and I feel as if we did all that we could, so no shame. No shame. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
I mean, I would guess they saw the video and saw the apartment and they were like, let's not roll the dice on him misusing this money. It's clear what is needed in this person's life.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
Yeah, Yoram, despite everything, we love you. Don't say it like that. No, don't. That's not the way to phrase it. It's not his fault. You know, he's just directing a movie.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
I mean, nostalgia alone, just for having been alive during the time it was occurring and had gone through that experience.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
I think we were told, like, you need to give us something. Yeah. Like, we're counting on you having something. And us being like, we don't have it. It was a... By the way, the original idea was flimsy. I don't know if you just said that, Keith.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
I think it was called, like, Gnarls Barkley is my roommate, and it was some, like, the specificity of, like, roommates eating each other's food or something. I can't even remember what it was. It was, like, sort of funny. It was already going to be, like, yeah, yeah, just be fun, and it's fun to see them because they were red hot, and like Keith said, we were friends with Brian, and...
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
It was going to be just like a fun little dalliance.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
By the way, on location was just Kevin's apartment.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
I don't know how to even approach my feelings.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
Which is how it came to pass that she was Daiquiri Girl, because we were there at their apartment, and suddenly we had nothing.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
I didn't, like, feel a big swelling of pride ever watching it. It was more just like, well, that was one week at the show.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
So, Kevin, do you remember the moment when we pivoted to seeing your or one of your roommates keyboards lying against the wall?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
Yeah. I mean, Clementine is way more extroverted than Shirani, though.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
Yeah, Clementine is going for it, pursuing his dream.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
I think we just thought it was silly. Or was this, are you still too like new to be like? No, I think it's neither, Seth. I think we were very much like throwing our hands up. You know what I mean? We were like, okay, well, everything we tried to do didn't work out. So I turned on a keyboard and Keev just rolled the camera and I have riffed this shit out.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
I mean, yeah, the whole thing is, and I don't say this in a way where I expect you to be impressed, a one-er. Like there was automatic little automated beat in there, you know, little samba or whatever. Yeah. And then I just sang exactly what you're seeing.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
This girl is a daiquiri? It kind of becomes a weird science, right? Yeah. Then I went and made a scientific discovery. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
You're made of daiquiris. When I first met you, you were not a daiquiri. Then you went and had a scientific discovery. One part rum, two parts ice. Three parts love. You are so nice.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
I don't think we were really drinking. I think maybe we had like a little sip of something, but we weren't actually partying or anything. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
I don't know that we even had the idea for the scroll while we were shooting whatever we shot. I'm pretty sure we didn't. And then I believe I came in and Keeve had been cutting for a few hours and had written the entire scroll and added it. And I started laughing so hard. Oh, really?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
Oh, my God. Yeah. Yeah. The scroll is the only thing that is happening.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Daiquiri Girl
Yeah, he likes to slow it down a little bit so he can really get granular. You know what I'll say, Seth? What's that? I certainly don't think there has ever been something exactly like it before or since.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
Yeah, I mean, I worked the whole time. I got there the Sunday before the Sunday and worked round the clock the entire week nonstop. And it was anxiety inducing, much like the short would have implied.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
He said the same to me, and how wonderful would that be?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
They did the song that is very, I mean, obviously it's a hit for them, but it was a big thing on Brooklyn Nine-Nine. It's a cold open where we have the perps in a lineup singing that song. I want it that way. And I was being ushered around for rehearsal by a woman who was working for the show. And I was like, I really have to go to the bathroom. Number one, everybody relax.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
And she was like, you need to be on stage now. You need to be on stage now. And I was like, okay. So we walked over to where the bathroom was and one of the Backstreet Boys was about to go into the bathroom and she was like, he needs to go. We need him on stage. And he was super nice and he said, hello. And he was like, oh, we're doing your song because he knew the thing about Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
And I was like, oh, that's so awesome. I went to the bathroom, quickly left, went out on stage and then stood there for 45 minutes and Backstreet Boys went on and rehearsed before us. And I was like, oh man, he must think I'm a piece of shit. So anyway, I apologize for that. I bet he thought it was number two, by the way. It wasn't.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
I mean, if it was, it was the fastest number two in the history of humanity.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
Yeah. It was Kevin, just for the record.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
It was so fucking wonderful. Yeah. Also, they played two of my favorite songs, period, ever. Yep, 100%. Back to back and together and the suits and the vibe. It was just perfect. So fun. At the after party, I was taking a picture of Beck Bennett and Beck, the singer.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
Because I accidentally called Beck, the singer, to do a bit to Beck Bennett like two hours earlier. And then I saw him and I was like, I'm so sorry. And then by chance, Beck Bennett walked up and I was like, let me get this Beck picture. So I was taking that picture and Robin, who we know because we did a song with her, but I haven't seen in years, walked up to say hi to Beck, singer.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
And I drunkenly as a joke was like, Robin, not right now. I'm taking a picture of the Becks. And she went, oh, okay. Turned around and walked away. And I was like, wait, no. I don't care about the back picture. I want to say hi. And then she was just gone and I never saw her again. So I'm very hopeful she knew I was goofing and that I wasn't being a huge asshole for no reason.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
I think Farrell has to be one of them because he was in two things. Number five. Ah, Marty Short? No.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
Someone was like, can you fucking stop? Like as a bit.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
Oh my God, shut the fuck up. Oh, it's so funny.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
I mean, outside of the Friday show, which was just pure joy, every other moment of it was like tough room central.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
Like everyone there is the people that have seen and heard every joke their whole life.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
You also, they had built a new bleachers. So like when I was in Domingo, I could like see people's faces in the audience. Yeah. Very clearly. Like I was like looking right at Steve Martin and Mulaney. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
I did. I was very happy. I did. I got a chance to chat with Billy Crystal about it. And? And he was lovely. I had recently met him, I think I mentioned, at one of those SNL gathering photo shoots and was so happy to meet him. And I was like, I hope that was okay. And he was like, of course, of course, it was fine. He was very, you know, gracious about all of it.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
And I was like, did you have anxiety when you worked at the show? And he was like, yeah, a little. That was going to be my follow up was like, did Eddie Murphy have anxiety? Yeah. And I was like, yeah, but you guys, they were a different thing, though, because they were the ringer cast. Yeah. Where it was like they had all already had success on their own.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
And he was like, you know, you have regular stage hitters, but it wasn't the fear of like, am I going to make it on the show? Because they were all already made. Right. But I had an interesting thought talking to him, and I wonder if you guys have a feeling on this. I was like, I think that season might be one of, if not the most quotable seasons of SNL ever. Interesting.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
What was he in? He was in Scared Straight. He was a tiny part in Welk.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
In terms of how many sketches happened for the first time during that season.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
You Look Marvelous. Yeah. Synchronized Swimmers. Yeah. And also Marty and the other pre-tape where he's like the nervous guy smoking. I didn't say that. Yeah, that one's great. And then Billy has another really famous one, right? Oh, is it I Hate It When That Happens?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
Yes, exactly. That's a great sketch. I mean, those are the ones that just pop into my mind and I'm sure there's more.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
I mean, just off the top of our heads, that's what, six or seven? That's a good amount for first times. I mean, probably 80s times when there's like Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Schneider, like a lot of people doing very like quotey characters is also in the mix.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
It was trippy being in New York and seeing like every cab and surface covered with ads for the 50th while working on it. Yeah. And also that the tagline was a special 50 years in the making, knowing that everyone there had started working on it pretty much the week before or that week. And I was like, I mean, we're pulling from the 50 years, but in terms of like the actual making.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
I mean, it makes sense because he's the one who's been on the show the longest.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
That's right. Also, they were doing other shows of like almost all the way up till it. They were doing like Timmy Chalamet like two weeks before.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
I love that it casually became an ordeal and no one blinked when you said that.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
I know a lot of them now because I went back earlier this season and they're all great. Oh, right. And Streeter.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
Seth Lee, Rob Klein also came back, helped me with the medley. He oversaw that. It was great to see Klein. And honestly, I think maybe worth taking a moment to specifically point out Jost.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
You and I were talking about this while it was all happening, where I was like, Jost did so much fucking work on that thing. Yes. And wrote so many.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
Same. It was my favorite joke in the whole thing.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
Just hands down my favorite joke in the whole special. And that's saying a lot. I got a feel for it. Perfectly written, perfectly delivered.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
Seeing Denise and Goulet together was special for me as those two characters are like two of my favorite characters.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
I've never been in the building for a Goulet, but before we worked on the show, and we've talked about this a lot, the Goulet stuff was so, so fucking beloved in our friend group. It's like we would quote it constantly.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
He did a thing that was Goulet ringtones, I think.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
And I went on the internet somehow and downloaded the ringtone and made it my ringtone on my flip phone. Which one was it? Dingle dongle, dingle dongle, someone's calling you Goulet. Dingle dongle. Stuff like that.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
Kyle able to sing in his character, like, just kidding, Kels. Your marriage is healthy. You're just like, oh God, so weird.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
The moment where she sort of turns and starts hitting on Pedro Pascal is when it took it up a notch. She calls it mustache.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
We were just like, oh my God, Debbie Downer's about to crush at the 50th.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
Because you know him and you trust him. So you're like, if he decided this is what it should be, then it's probably right. That was my favorite part of the show.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
Yeah, for sure. Which, by the way, that was the challenge of what he did and of what we did. Yeah. And arguably was a little more for people who worked there in moments for people who never did.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
cathartic was something that was said to me yeah a lot of people who worked at the show over the many generations which made me feel great yeah um little bts on sandler's song yep you wouldn't have seen this at home because we were in commercial break sandler walks out oh i know what you're gonna say people kind of people give him a little half cheer and then i was sitting right in front of rob schneider i was like oh boy here it comes here it comes and then we you can't do
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
Well, everyone laughs, but also it's like, we know you can do it. Everyone laughs. It settles back down. And then Sandler's like, ah, all right, buddy. And then it gets quiet. And then he's kind of just sitting there for a little while. And then again, he goes, too long. He was made to wait too long in front of the audience. And that made everyone laugh fucking hard. And it was very funny.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The SNL 50th Recap
Yeah, I mean, I wonder what my screen time total ranking would have been if we included the Friday night show.
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It was crazy. But there was a moment where it was so crowded that it got a little uncomfortable.
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Well, we and our respective wives and shoemaker went to your dressing room and had a nice nip of bourbon all together in sort of a peaceful, calm moment after the craziness.
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It was, and it filled me with a lot of happiness.
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Yeah, so we did find our way to a room that was a little bit quieter, but it was... But I heard after the next week, I heard there were rooms I never even saw. Really? It was a huge, big, open, sprawling thing with many, many caverns.
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You sent me a picture of it the next morning and I was like, holy shit.
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I mean, it's crazy that I was saying this. There were so many famous people that you see people that are, like, used to being the center of all gravitational pull at a party walking around by themselves, like, looking for someone to talk to. Yeah. Yes, which is always funny. It's so funny. We were like, oh, there goes a huge movie star saying, oh, I guess I'm just kind of nursing my drink. Yeah.
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Yeah. I mean, he literally says, like, come into your brown or something, right? Yeah, but it's a play on words. It is not. That one, I was like, holy shit, you can't say that?
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Yeah, and by the way, Pharrell and Anna on fire at the Friday show.
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That's perfect. Oh, by the way, I do think we should acknowledge every scared straight that we ever did, Sudeikis' hop back onto the desk got bigger and bigger and bigger. It just kills. And when it got to that moment in the sketch, me and you looked at each other, Seth, and we were like... Here we go. Is he going to do it? He jumped back like four feet.
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Yeah, it was great. I didn't see him. I didn't see Forte. I missed a ton of people. There were people that were there that I didn't even know were there until the next day when I was like seeing news. Yes.
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Asking this question is probably going to ruin the niceness of the moment.
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But really, did you, though? I mean, I think as soon as you said it, every single person listening to this was like, oh, did they get boners, though?
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And then he says really, really harsh shit.
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Really, really good. I feel like we're forgetting something. There was so much. There was so much.
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Yeah. Last special, the 40th, there was a legendary concert at the after-party. I was told people did perform at the 50th, but I kind of missed all of it somehow.
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The joke about Alex, I should have corrected people on that.
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I think, in retrospect, the one we made was more for the other studio room than the room we were even in. Yeah. Like, the room we were in, the biggest cheer of the night was Donna, because it was all hosts.
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Jason, my boy! By the way, did you already tell us that we saw the moment when they saw each other at the after party? No. Mo and Donna? And Donna. And he wrapped her up in a huge bear hug and was so sweet and funny and cute.
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I bailed 12 short. It's the worst showing I've had maybe in three years. It was a tough one. But it was nice to bounce back today with a full clean B. Clean B? Yeah. A clean B. It's shocking that we haven't heard that on this podcast.
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I will say it was satisfying because I was like, how is he not winded? And then as it ended, I was like, oh, I see. Yeah. He was an appropriate amount of wind.
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Mike Diva's brother, Dave, made that beat. And when he sent it, we went through a few iterations and I picked and chose things from a few different versions and put them together. I love that beat. I asked for a Billy Ocean-esque vibe and he delivered in spades. But he did the breakdown musically that turned into the every single person who ever worked at.
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I think there were maybe even hand claps in the beat that immediately made me be like, we should get everyone who's ever worked there saying this line and clapping or looking like they had anxiety and clapping.
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And then because we didn't want to dog out any of the crew that never get any camera time, we ended up putting you in a split screen with Will Ferrell and some other people.
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A number of people that went out of their way to mention that they connected with the IBS joke. Yeah, really? I was wondering about that. Look, I polled a bunch of people and then just inserted all the information into the song.
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I sent him a long voice note of the ideas I had had so far for the song before I'd even written a word of it. Um, and he wrote back or sent a voice note back being like, oh yeah. And at one point you could do this. It was basically the first three lines of the coal mine thing, and then we added notes from Lorne.
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Well, there we go. I mean... Well, wait. Save the best for last. Jorm, talk us through the cupcake. Yeah, talk us through the cupcake.
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So good. So deliciously horrible. It was crazy because it was like, what, eight, nine minutes long? Yep. And every joke landed.
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When she dropped into the doji, I was like, all right, this is. Yeah. They're taking it places I was not even guessing.
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Just being like, oh my god! Well, that was always the secret sauce of that, was that it was whatever was popular in pop at that moment. It was incredible.
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Also just the fun of being like, oh, I wasn't sure I was ever going to get to see these things again.
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Yeah. You know, it's weird that I forgot to tell you, Lauren asked me to take over the show. Oh. And you turned it down? Yeah, I was like, I don't want it. Again? Yeah, I was like, no thanks. I'm busy. Yeah.
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Uh... I mean, the hardest part was done, which is the songs were already written. So in a way, it's similar. But I think it was like we started working on it the week before. And I mean, the trickiest part was, you know, originally we started talking about it. It was crazy. we were hoping that it would be all other music people doing all the songs. Yeah.
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Then I guess Aaron David and some of the folks on the SNL side had reached out to Lady Gaga and she said she wanted to do it with me. Right. I was like, well, I'll do whatever she wants. I said, of course, but then I was like, oh shit. Yeah. I didn't think about until honestly the day before that I was going to have to actually do a singing duet with Lady Gaga and then I was like, Uh-oh.
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You sounded good. I mean, I had the easy part, as I did with Justin. Obviously, Justin was on tour. That's why the whole thing started the way it started. But she was great and was so game, and we got so lucky that everyone who agreed to do it did it. I mean, obviously Parnell. It was really fun to be back with him.
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But, like, fucking Bad Bunny, T-Pain, and Eddie Vedder as Jack Sparrow was, like... That was fucking killer. Yeah. It was nuts. It was so special. It, like, just couldn't have made us feel more like the show was making what we did feel special, you know? It was very, very exciting for me.
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I mean, yeah, it snatched from me at the Globes when we had the P-Rig bit go awry.
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Thank you for saying it exactly that way. I'm going to use that now.
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When we were rehearsing it, I wasn't sure if he was like saving his voice or if he was just trying it out different ways. But he was doing Lazy Sunday a little more like conversationally. Yeah. And before the real one, Yoram and I were like, hey, do it the angry way. Yeah. Don't forget like that that's really you're very funny doing that.
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And like, yeah, I was like, you know, take it back to your like Britney rap. He's like, oh, okay, yeah.
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And then he came out. I mean, by the way, one of my favorite moments of the entire 50th was explaining to Chris Parnell what Screaming Mustard was. Yeah. And where, like, playing him TV off and explaining who Mustard was and why it's a thing that everyone talked about and how, I was like, did you see the Super Bowl halftime show? He's like, I did not.
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I was just like, oh, shit, okay, we're starting from zero.
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Yeah, but you felt great about it. I felt great. The response was better than I ever dreamed of from people around the show and people texting me and stuff. Yeah. So I wanted to just let it be what it felt like.
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Yeah, of course. And a big thank you to Beth McCarthy Miller, who directed the whole thing and had basically two run throughs of that. It's nuts and was very receptive to all of our requests. And it was a big, huge mess of a piece. So thank you, Beth.
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Lauryn Hill coming out and just being like, what?
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The coolest ever. You couldn't believe how cool.
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That was Seth doing Bill Clinton. That was not her. That was me. That was Seth doing Bill Clinton to her. Oh, I see.
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That's the only thing it could have been.
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Yes. And at the same time, there's just no push. She's just such a veteran of killing it over and over a million times, and she's destroying on guitar. Yeah. The songs are, you know, we know them and love them, but they still feel new somehow because she's playing them so well. It was just like, she rules.
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What do you think the over under is that the thing he gave you is the stuff that Eddie Redmayne's character in Jupiter Ascending is harvesting?
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Yeah. And would you spritz it and go, Jupe!
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I was editing. Yeah, you were editing. I wanted to so bad. Yeah. I had a real dark couple of hours of being grumpy because I was like, fucking pre-tapes.