Mike O'Brien
speaker
120 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
Mike O'Brien’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast. We're doing another special episode. It is very much due to all the turmoil in Los Angeles and just trying to figure out the logistics of doing this. But we have a very exciting guest today. First of all, I'm here with Jormel. What's up, Jorm? Woo!
I feel like terrible choice of vibe and energy right after I talked about. Yes.
We're also joined by Mike O'Brien. Hello, Mike. What's up, guys? I'm somber, too. Yeah, I feel like you're laid out a real what not to do. Sorry. All right. So, Mike, this is very exciting. You did a series of short films at SNL, most of which I realized when I went back to watch were after I left. But I was there when you got hired. What year did you start at the show?
She was like, stop. You built in a failstaff, which is you did a thing so terrible that you knew you'd get him to say stop at some point. Yes, exactly. Exactly. Oh, my God. Yeah. Good times. That is very bold. But it's interesting you said that because I am going to jump ahead. I was not in the decision-making team in 04, so I don't have the same recollection as you coming through then.
But I remember going to IO with Lorne in the lower room at the old IO when we were doing a showcase or we were seeing a showcase and you came out. I think the nice part of this is you did not learn your lesson. But Lauren sort of came around to appreciating what you're doing. Do you remember that bit you used to do about how you were going to come out and play the spoons?
And so I was a spoons guy who couldn't help but make those noises, I guess, or whatever. But you dragged a chair to the front of the stage. Lauren and I were pretty close to the front of the stage. And you're doing this spoons bit.
And it was very esoteric because I also feel like most other people that night, which probably would have been the advice I would have given you, did a way more classic SNL audition. Yeah. You did the spoons thing. You know, the moral of the story is one, your instincts were right. And two, it's a real credit to Lauren because I had known you. I was rooting for you to do well.
You were doing the spoons thing, which I thought was very funny. But seeing it through Lauren's eyes, I definitely thought, well, not going to happen for old Mike. And then we left. And I remember Lauren saying, you know, I think there was something to the spoons guy. Yeah. And he really did sort of see.
And then, I mean, it bore exactly the kind of fruit you would think from the person who did the spoon bit. Like you did do esoteric stuff that Lauren really celebrated your time on the show.
Yeah, he always surprises you. Solid burns. I always joke forward. Can I ask, this is unfair, because I always try to remember how to explain this bit I saw you do. I saw you do a one-person show in Chicago when I went back to visit. You did a wordless sketch, which was a guy eating cookies out of maybe like a Chips Ahoy package. Do you know the bit I'm talking about? Yeah.
You did a bit in that show, didn't you? Isn't that? I do remember sort of being backstage at one point.
Yeah, but what we did know was this has happened before. Yeah, yeah. You know what it means? Like, whoever's at the door and you have had issues over how many cookies you've eaten.
Yeah, so your order was writer, then cast member.
Okay, so you got a promotion.
Okay, that's good. Yeah, that's a that's a good spot. Not bad. I also do remember calling you to tell you you had the writer's job, which is very exciting because one, I was his fan, two, we were friends. And Jorm, I called him from the set of MacGruber. Oh, wow. I remember that's where I was. I was in New Mexico.
And that was it. And then your sister was probably like, not very cool how you just walked in and stole my thunder. I'm like, who wants a picture with me instead of the baby? You walked in and said, a lot of babies got born yesterday, but guess what only happened to me? It truly was the biggest thunder seal. All right. One year in the cast. So is Sad Mouse the first Mike O'Brien film? Yeah.
I wasn't in the cast. And so you also were not in this short. Right. So I think this is the only one we're going to talk about where I was still at the show.
Well, the best thing about Sad Mouse is, and Joram, can you sing us into Seth's Corner real quick?
So Bruno Mars is host to musical guest. And I think this tells you the difference between Mike and I and also how writers come from many different cloths. And the best writing staff you can have is a diversity of takes. So I sit in my room and I'm thinking, what could Bruno Mars do? And I realized he can sing in any genre. He could do all these voices.
And so I wrote a sketch where I think it was Pandora at the time, right? That's right. No, you're right. It was Pandora headquarters and Pandora went down and he was the janitor at Pandora and he had to sing all the music. Now that is a very good example of what can this guy do that no one else can do.
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