Keev
Appearances
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
So, Keev, you noticed something, which is we've been receiving and not using some really fun different jingles for the pod.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
Yeah. I feel like that's the key. When you've got your full Christian name in the title of the podcast as opposed to your made-up band name, it's really important to distinguish yourself.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
So the thing, the reason I said, it does feel like what a rich kid would think a cool house is. Like he would have his friends over and be like, come look at the stables. Yes. I went there once and I feel like I got the tour you gave everybody where it sort of ended as you walked way in the back and it was like the stables and you'd show off the track.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
And I kind of got the sense you were only back there for the purposes of saying, and look at this.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
Well, that I was going to get there. We Like Sports is one of the tracks on this album. It is also a YouTube video. You guys want to guess how many views We Like Sports has?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
32 million. That's a lot for what it is. That's a lot for what it is. It is a delight, and it is, while we're talking about this house, it is a really good representation of what this house was.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
It uses all the parts. We used every part of the buffalo. Because when you're standing in front of the TV, I think that is the best version of what that house, that tells you everything about the house. It's like a big TV in a room with kind of a shitty couch. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
I have an update via text. Okay. The first tattoo Michael Bryan got was a bucket of chicken from the Kurt Vonnegut book Breakfast of Champions. And the lyric is, into your heart, I'll beat again, Dave Matthews, man.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
You have three months to make this album, and I want to talk real quick about the fact that you go into it. On the track listing, there are three songs that you have recorded for SNL already. Natalie's Rap, Lazy Sunday, Dick in a Box.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
There are six by my count that go on to be digital shorts, so I don't want to talk about them too much now. Fair?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
You can mention them, but... I'm going to mention the six, but just to give people a sense of what the weight of this album is. Jizz In My Pants, I'm On A Boat, Boombox Like A Boss, Ross Trent, Space Olympics. Those are the six that you will record for this album that will eventually be digital shorts.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
Now, this is a different process than the way you guys have to work on SNL where you're under the gun week in and week out. But what was the process? Did it feel completely different than when you were writing songs for SNL or was it ultimately the same?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
The job wore off. I'm just going to take a quick five-minute nap. Did you see the sad thing is you watch the job light go out in one eye first, and then you see he's out cold.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
I like that you don't see that as someone letting their freak flag fly, but rather just their personality dwindling.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
I can't like work. Well, and again, when I say nine to five, this is judgment free zone. I think that's noon to eight for you, Andy.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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But you had people over as well. At night, you could socialize in a way that you can at SNL.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Because you feel that giant ticking clock.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
We were texting last night about whether or not, and I have ruled in favor that it is not name-droppy to say the friends of ours that visited you guys that summer because you would have parties. And it was a real snapshot of the sort of late aughts comedy scene.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
And, you know, these people, you know, obviously collaborate with friends of ours now, but, you know. Yes. Rudd, Hater, Danny Bride, Tim and Eric, you were saying Janine Garofalo. Yeah. Danger Mouse.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
There's that Laurel Canyon documentary about that music scene. And it's so crazy when you see pictures of, say, Jackson Browne and Joni Mitchell and Eric Clapton all in a backyard with guitars. Right. It was like that. It was exactly like that. It was like that. I mean, it's like a less, you know, a lesser version, but it was that.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
I mean, if you loved the comedy that you guys were making as much as people love that music scene, you sort of look, I mean, you guys were sending photos, the comedy that would be in one hot tub at a given time. The stew. The comedy stew. You could tell just from the upper body strength that it had to be comedy.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
Definitely went to that house a few times. Nowhere near as much looking back as I wish I had. I don't think I was in LA much that summer. I don't quite know where I was, because obviously I would have been over there all the time. But as you guys were sending those pictures around, I really had this pang of, I don't know what I was thinking.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
The idea of like, oh, I'm sure every summer, the rest of my life, my friends will be making an album at a giant house with no responsibility.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
We're back, guys. I'm so excited to be on the Zoom with the three of you. A quick shout out to Mike O'Brien, who joined us last week. Thank you, Mike. It was a full delight to talk to him. Mike O'Brien, knee pat. Nay, Pat. No, nay, Mike. Pat O'Brien. No, I think he was born Mike O'Brien. Now we got to get him back on the product. Is it nay? It's nay because it's French, right?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
Hami. So I listened to the album last night. And I realized I hadn't listened to the album all the way through since it came out. And then, you know, lost to my memory were the ones that weren't in the end shorts.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
And it was so fun to listen to those again. It's 19 songs, 42 minutes. Nobody's going to complain about that yield that's outstanding over the course of a summer. I don't know if I would call them all songs, however. There's not. There's a couple of skits, but I would like to, with your permission, talk through the ones that we will not talk through later as shorts. Oh my God, yes. Yes, please.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
Right off the bat, and it's a real statement of intent. Who said we're whack? Who said we're whack? By the way, I think if my ear is correct, that's Chester in the beginning. Yeah, he kicks it off. And this is a beat that I made. I noticed. I noticed on the Wikipedia page, Jorm, you get a lot of credit. You produced quite a few of these.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
Well, I think, you know, maybe we thought it would be more fun to wait for you to be back. But for our listeners, this is a new little, what would you call it, an Easter egg, an earwig? What would you call this little amuse-bouche for the ears?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
Who Said We're Whack is a great beat, and it's a very funny song about, Chester tells you that somebody said you guys were whack, and you are, it's very aggressive, like who said we're whack, but it's immediately clear there's a great deal of insecurity. Yeah. And it's really spinning you guys out that someone called you whack. Yeah, for sure.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
Yeah, there's a real, I think this really hammers it home. Keeve, you have one of my favorites, which is, I am not whack no matter what you say. What did you say? Question mark. Did you say I'm whack? So that's a guy. We can't even stand our own conviction. Yeah, he can't even like back away from it doesn't matter what you say.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
And if he could tee it up like that, I mean, what a great way to start it.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
There's also a lot of rhyme. The rhyme scheme is everything rhymes with whack. And a lot of times whack is rhyming with whack. But then you have a real great four liner, Andy.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
That's exactly what I was thinking. All right. As I understand it, Mike was born Mike O'Brien. And maybe, probably, I'm almost certain his middle name is Pat.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
But the other really nice moment is that it ends with you guys having all the ladies putting their hands up, all the guys putting their hands up, everybody called us whack, put your hands up, and then everybody else put your hands down. So you do in the end find the guy. We catch the person. We're detectives.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
I mean, I understand it does not, it was never going to be an SNL short.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
But I'm assuming your heart is warm for this song.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
And then he moved to Chicago and decided, I'm going to be Pat O'Brien now.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
Hey, everybody, this is Seth. We are going to split up our Incredibad episode into two parts. This was the end of part one, and we look forward to joining you again in a week for part two. Thanks, everybody.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
And so he told everybody in Chicago, and when I was introduced to him, he was Pat O'Brien.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
And then the crazy thing, though, is he came to SNL. I knew him. I was so excited. And the first Writer's Day, I said, hey, this is one of our new writers, Pat O'Brien. And he said, oh, actually, it's Mike. And so he decided he was going to switch back in New York, but forgot to tell me the head writer who hired him right before I introduced him.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
So then instead of getting away with it, his first day was him being like, well, so I decided to change it. Oh, God. Although it's a very good education into Michael Patrick O'Brien to have that right off the bat.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
He's the king of firm decisions, and we should do a special episode of this podcast just talking about the tattoos he has.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
I feel like he got, so he wanted to get a tattoo because he had always thought about getting a tattoo and he was worried he'd get a bad one. And so he thought it would be better to get a bad one. And so he got, I think it was a bucket of chicken that was a Kurt Vonnegut drawing. But then because he's Mike O'Brien or Pat O'Brien, depending on what year you met him. Tough to know.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
Then he did Calvin peeing on the bucket of chicken. He added a Calvin peeing on it. Like a hot rod. That's good. I think he did do a full hot rod.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
Yeah. I believe he got either a full Dave Matthew lyric tattooed on his full back. No, he did not. He did. I'm assuming Crash. No, I think it was a different one. Two-step? This is real? We could see photos of this? Yeah. And then he also, I think he dedicated one of his tattoos like on the actual tattoo. It's like two and it was like the meanest nun in his Catholic school.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
I know. I can't believe we're going to do it now. Anyway, but more importantly. Was it so much to say, Seth? I'm going to ask him. All right, here we go, though. Real quick. Was it too much? Your first summer. Was it ants marching? Was it satellite?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
You're reading off a website. So real quick. First summer, you guys shoot Hot Rod. Second summer, you react to the release of Hot Rod. This is your third summer on SNL, correct? Correct. Yes. You rent a house and you make an album.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
So are you mad that I took it? Yeah, you snatched it right out of my mouth. I tried to think what would Keith say, and that was what popped into my head.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
When did you decide you were going to do the album that summer?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
And then for a guy like me who's not in and has never been asked to join the music industry, are conversations happening during the writer's strike? Are people saying, hey, would you guys want to do this?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
The good news is this, Jorm. If you'd gone, I also think you'd have no memory of it, based on the fact that you don't even remember the last conversation about it.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
Yeah. You sound great. I can't really wear them because they're reading, but I did join the glasses squad finally. Hey, brown hair glasses. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
Afterwards, that A&R exec went back to the group and was like, I think that was the wrong place to take him. They really like the small tea sandwiches.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
Yeah. So to you guys, T&A is tea and apricot scones.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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The tea is actual tea. You were so disappointed. You were like, T&A, I don't know what the A is, but I do love a warm cup of English breakfast.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
All right, so at some point you realize you're going to do an album that summer. We'll get into the weeds a little bit on the track list. But you rent a house in Encino, which is an insane home.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
Yeah. It was like if you were making a movie where an orphan was finding out how good they had it now, you'd shoot it at this house.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
I am glad you mentioned that because the actual recording studio was a billion degrees and looked like it could have very easily been a room in the first apartment you guys lived in together, right? Yes.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Can you guys explain real quick how Record Deal works? Because the house looked like you got paid so much money. Yes. But you guys, I would imagine all that money has been gone for a long time.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
You could make it on camera look beautiful, but I will admit that being inside, it did seem a little not thought through.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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I did a big preamble to let's look at my glasses, and I don't want to just move on to Keev's face.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
I only reference movies that everyone has seen because this is a populist podcast. I would say if the kid from Menorah had a house in LA, it would be this house.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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That was kind of the irony of my setup, guys. The assumption that no one.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
Anyways, let me just say real quick, Don't Sleep on Anora, which is maybe one of my favorite movies of the year. I'm excited to see all of them.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Incredibad Part 1
Challengers, I'll tell you right now, I think Challengers might be my favorite movie of the year. There you go. It's very fun. But shut out by the Oscars. Shut out. I don't understand. I liked Night Bitch, but you know. Yeah, Night Bitch is great. I sat with Night Bitch's own Amy Adams at the Globes.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Seth, did you have fun with the gloves? I did, but hold on, I have a real good tag to this bit. Do you think when she tucks her kids in, they go, night, bitch. Yeah, comma. Did I have a fun time at the Globes? I had a wonderful time at the Globes. Thanks for asking. I sat next to the producer of Andy's movie, Lee, who was lovely. Yeah, Kate Solemn. I had a lot of nice people.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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My table sat next to Ali Wong, who is lovely, and I was with a high school friend of hers who was a delight. And then Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons, who kind of might be my favorite showbiz couple. Just on vibes and the work and the hang.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Yeah, but I feel like you guys, I kind of, I could never pick one of you because it would offend the other two.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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She's involved in that. Nobody knows her name. She's famously unknown. Clever. It's a macho thing.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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Wait. The way you get into Prince Harry is the guy who wrote Spare. Spare. The guy who wrote Spare and his wife, the lady from TBS. You know Suits and Spare.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
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This is the worst advertisement for quitting coffee. I quit coffee, and, you know, I feel a lot sharper mentally. You know Spare?