Seth Meyers
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Dratch is in a haunted New England attic. It's very Dratch to join and then carry her laptop into every room in her home.
Dratch is putting her headphones on in a way, it's a 30% chance she strangles herself.
Yeah, I didn't even know this kind of cord could tangle like that.
It's been a great hang so far. It's an honor. I mean, everything's fine. What happened before the intro has been great.
I think it's very unfair that Dratch is using this time to record an episode of background noises with Rachel Dratch.
I haven't heard an old-timey doorbell like that.
Dratch, we're probably going to edit you out of this.
Also, Dratch, if you ordered from a second restaurant, you should tell us now.
Do you want me to ask her the dress question?
What dress are you going to wear? Hey, Sarna wants to know.
what I think you're very good at not letting sometimes you help turn people away from the negative narrative that they might want to lay out to you so you're really good friend and that you listen and I think you can tell when people just need to like unburden themselves or something but I feel like more than maybe anyone else I know you're very good at saying can I invite you to look at this a different way
Not even feedback. It's more like I just, you know, it's not like this is how you should. But, like, you're telling me something and I see how you're seeing it. But, like, can I just ask you to maybe see it this way where you won't be as hard on yourself and you won't be as sad about it? I don't know. I feel like you've always been very good that way.
I love you, and I have to go. I'm so sorry.
Which was an improvised game where somebody from the audience would come up. Somebody on stage would interview them about their day. And then the two improv teams.
teams would improvise what their dream would look like and I came up on stage and you interviewed me and it was not during a show with me and Tina it was I also saw the show with you and Tina oh you saw it okay right but we didn't call you up right so I interviewed about you about your day and we did not know each other we did not know each other I was a fan of yours and it was very exciting to get interviewed by you but then the next time the next time we spoke was after we both got hired yes
Can I tell you though something? Yesterday, I got the same Uber driver on back-to-back days in Giant City, Los Angeles. And I got in the car and I was like, can you believe this? And it meant nothing to him. And I was so, I was so disappointing.
No, I know. That's why I remember it. His name was Mush. Mush? M-U-S-H. So I might be saying it wrong, but like.
So that's one of the reasons. I was like, there can't be two.
Yeah. It did feel like a Curb episode where I was a very frustrated Larry David.
Get too emotional saying it. But I remember like getting hired at SNL was already. Cry, cry, cry.
I'm going to put on my glasses. That's what I'm going to do. No, but like I remember getting hired at SNL was like already. But they said, and Amy Poehler also got hired. And I was like, oh, I felt even elevated that I was like, oh, I'm in Amy Poehler's class. You know what I mean?
I also only cry historically about stuff that makes me happy.
Well, like, I don't think I cry a lot when I'm sad.
No, when I'm sad, I think it's like- Turn into a rock. Yeah, a little rock guy. A little rock guy that everybody loves. Loves the company of Rockman. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Myers podcast. It was only fair to put them first as we're really only talking about their work.
Cry, cry, cry, cry. But I would have guessed the two people who knew the most would have been you and Shoemaker. Okay. But I will say, I am happy that I kept it hidden the way that I did. Because I don't think, like, when you present the feelings that I was having at SNL, I think that that is not a vibe that people want to, like, be around.
I just felt as though they'd made a terrible mistake, right? Like just full imposter syndrome. And I showed up. And pretty quickly, I think, you know, to go back to what I said, like, I was so excited. You know, oh, my God, they're hiring me the same time as Amy Poehler.
And then you walk down the hallway and you're like, oh, my God, I'm in the same show as Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan and Tracy Morgan. And you're like, look, I'm one of them. And then you realize, like, no. Like, you then have to, like, do the work and show that you're, you know, at the same level. And those early years as well, I just had that sense of I can write for this show, but –
Like, I don't know if they actually like need what I bring as a performer to the show. And I don't feel like I was being hard on myself either.
Well, in the early days. It was, it felt as though I could see the road ahead of me because I forgot that thing, which is when people like Will Ferrell and Jimmy Fallon leave Catan, that doesn't mean like you get their parts because they also hire people behind you.
And that was for me, the real crisis of confidence was, and again, you know, I say this as these dear friends, these are people I'm huge fans of, but like when like Sudeikis and Sandberg and Fred and Will and Hater rolled through.
And I would be writing sketches for, knowing that if I was not a cast member, I would not write for me. Like if it wasn't my job to take care of myself and I just wanted my sketch to air, I would be my sixth choice too. So I, you know, early on, I kind of wanted to like blame the writing staff for not putting me in things.
And I'm like, oh, I mean, if you have this toolbox at your disposal, I understand that.
It would have been so funny if Shoemaker was like, I'm a little tired of talking about Seth.
I, by the way, called him on the way here.
And then I was like, oh, well, he's... And then when you said you were talking to him, like, obviously you called him before he was in the Cayman Islands, but no.
You know, like, if you believe in... I mean, I'm pretty good with what we are in this life. I think it's, I mean, he is as close as I... could be to a person. Yeah.
But, but he did while he was on with you, did the doorbell ring and a thousand dogs bark.
I feel like it's the movie I've been in that I get the most feedback on. I think that like, that's 60 seconds. The amount in the last month people have been like, oh my God, I can't stop watching the clip. I can't either. Where Dratch's headphones tangle and then the doorbell rings. It's like watching a one person show.
It's like somebody said, do noises off in a minute. Just you.
Yeah. And then her laptop died. She was carrying around like a pizza box around her whole apartment.
You have good acting. You have good acting. Oh, my God. This is what the show's always... If you have this, this is a trap.
Listen to everyone else. All it is with Jack Black is like, your joy. Talking to Ike about fucking restaurants. What is going on? Is this everything? Is this not even a podcast? This is like just six fake episode traps?
What do you mean, what is it? You know, this is all fake food. What is this podcast? I've listened to every episode. I have a real sense of it. I'm like, it's food-based.
This is very unfair. I feel, again, this is very unfair. Oh, well. I don't. I don't know. I mean, like, to be honest, like, one of the things that I feel most grateful for is I don't know. I didn't see it.
So, I know to this day, like, I don't make it on that show without you guys. And I think that I was very lucky that Lorne saw me through your eyes and Shebaker's eyes. Because I don't know if, you know what, again, like, I don't feel like, I feel like Lauren has been, is obviously a fan of mine now and has a lot of faith in me. But like that.
Lauren gave a quote in the New York Times about me yeah please say it again it's so genuine like two quotes that are like insanely it's all I heard from everybody in our world was how fucking funny the Lauren quotes were one was I love Seth or I care for him or whatever it is you're allowed to say these days which is it's the funniest I'm like I think you misunderstand whatever you think woke is you're allowed to say you love a male friend
Like, he's like, I love him. He, like, backtracked. Like, he's like, I don't want to get canceled.
And then the reporter was like, Seth's really good at it. I think Seth's a really gifted impressionist. And he's like, I don't know if I'd go that far. And I believe he said, I think he's fine. Which is the best.
Gifted was a little over the top.
We talked about this recently, I think in the Lonely Island pod, but I remember Andy wrote this sketch. called That'll Move the Chains, where he was a kid in the booth of a football game, and he kept saying, That'll Move the Chains. And it worked. It was fine. It was very funny. I'm underselling it. But then he came into my office a month later.
He goes, I think we're going to write another That'll Move the Chains. And I said, another? Because it just struck me. It didn't strike me as a recurring character. And I just said, another? And he goes, not everybody has Update every week. I was like, oh, right.
Because again, I got to go from that thing of desperately fighting to find a way to have a reason to get in hair and makeup on Saturday to having updates.
Got to say my name. Obviously not my middle name. Nope.
I feel like the most tense are... chemistry I ever had was mornings, update mornings, bagel times.
Because someone had pre-split the jokes. And then there were a few like leftover that we both wanted. And I feel like there was a real dance of... Interesting.
Here's how I saw it from you. It's like, hmm. That feels like an Amy joke. Do you want it? Do you want it? And I'd be like, I mean, I would love it. It would mean a lot to me as a friend. I'm asking for it. And you're like, it's a real Amy joke.
And then if the few times you let me have it, you would be off camera while I was telling it going.
That was it. It was just that, like, we're... We did argue.
That is like a way of- My favorite thing is when you and I feel very differently about a movie or a TV show.
Like when we have different opinions about something because it's very fun when you're mad about something.
Oh, I'm not a huge fan. I'm coming around on the beach just because my kids like it. But given a choice, it would be one of the last places I would be.
What are you going to do there that wouldn't be better anywhere else?
See the ocean. But you can see the ocean from a porch somewhere, right? True. There's a lot of vantage points in the ocean that are not in sand.
It's just, here's the thing. Everybody that wants to go to the beach, then I go to the beach. And then they're like, get the sand off. Like, the amount they're like, don't get sand in the car. I'm like, I didn't even want to come here. You know what I mean? Like, I was so happy. You could have left me where I was. Sand would never have been a problem.
Yeah, it seems like weird to not decorate the buckets.
Can I say that I think you might be the only person to have this bounce on ayahuasca is that they don't decorate the buckets?
There's also, I feel like I've known a few people who've done it and they tell you it's changed their life. And then you like talk to them three months later and they seem a lot like they were before.
They bounce right back. It turns out once the ayahuasca is out of their system.
Yeah. That's a good question. I turned 50 last year. Congrats. And thank you. I turned 51 this year. So I'm 51. I feel like you didn't celebrate prop. Look, I'm in that dead, no bars cell service, December 28th. There's no room for somebody like me to have a birthday. And I'm fine with it. It's been my whole life.
He lost his mind. I felt totally fine turning 50. But then I think part of it was because it was 50, I was like taking stock. And I'm like, you know what? I would be very happy if I knew all these things were going to happen. To me, by the time it's 50, this is really good. With that said, like, I think as it's like 51 and a half or whatever it is now, I'm like, oh, yeah.
No, I don't think this is much. Here's the thing that happened to me the other day. Stop pointing.
Yeah. I had a dream that I was being chased and I was crawling through one of those transom windows over a door. And then I woke up, my neck hurt. And I was like, I've officially, I hurt myself from a dream. Because I was trying to crawl through it.
I pulled my, and like, what happened? It's like, well, in my dream.
You could, I mean, you have a giant staff. What if one of them just stood over the bed with a little spray bottle? And just, I mean, so many, because when I see your staff, and I'm polite to them, by the way, which they seem to really appreciate.
But a lot of them are like, we feel like there's not enough for us to do.
Save Merry Christmas. That's right. It's really nice. What was I going to say? Oh, so yeah, I was shocked because I do have a hard time breathing through my nose. I feel like I've been stuffed up like almost the entirety of my life. And yet when you tape, it kind of forces you to like early in the night, you're just like breathing through your nose. You're keeping the airways open.
Now, I should say, and I hope this won't disabuse you of making the switch. One night a week, I wake up at 3 in the morning and do this. So if that sounds jarring... to you or whoever might be in the room.
By the way, do you, because you mentioned butt tape with Jack Black. Do you remember the Fred's Breathe Right?
It was a Breathe Right strip. It was a Fred commercial parody. It was a Breathe Right strip for your butt. That would pull the way, because Breathe Right pulls the nose apart to make it easier to breathe. And so this pulled the butt apart so that when you pass gas, it wouldn't be loud. And it wouldn't wake up the person in bed with you. But it has the best tag because it's him in bed with a wig.
And it's quiet. You just hear like, psst. But then she still goes, oh, what's that smell? Because it doesn't get rid of the smell. It just doesn't make noise anymore.
Yeah, really good. Really good disgusted wig.
I feel like you don't even care. I feel like this was another trap. Yeah, we get there very early. We never check.
Yeah, although we're- That's such a scam. By the way, we are now out well outside the zone of what they mean by if you're boarding with a young family.
And I think everybody realizes it is better for us to get on first. I don't know.
It's also nice for everybody else. I'm just saying, like, if they let you on before the boarding starts and are... The maniacs are in their seats.
The worst mistake I made, I took just Axel to visit my parents and we went to the airport and Axel just, who's the most unique of my kids, he just ran full speed and just slid across the airport floor. And I made the mistake of laughing and now he does it again.
And it's a bummer if I'm so sure the next time he does it, when we're with the whole family, Alexi will be like, as you should, because they're filthy floors. Right. Don't do that. And he'll be like, daddy liked it. Daddy liked it.
He kind of, without ever seeing an old- Did he end in like a- That's what I mean. Without seeing an old breakdancing video, he really ended- He ended with his head in his hands? Yeah.
You love it. What's good about it? Well, first of all, I really like John as a person. And so we have a friendship where we would never see each other socially. And so just because of our schedules. And now we get to hang out once a month. Like one Sunday a month, we hang out and we get there for soundcheck. And then we have like an hour together. to talk, which is great.
And Brooks Whelan, who used to be on SNL, is our opener. So the three of us have a very lovely relationship. The other thing is, especially now because I had a special come out, and so I'm doing new material, and it's lovely to know that the audience is getting John as well.
Can I say something? I feel like so few people have both notes and the laptop.
This is edible. When it's over.
I'm going to answer your question.
But I want to say. So you got that from an old submarine?
And that tells you where the nearest submarine is.
This is... I'm very excited about what's happening right now with this podcast.
No, but I think it's the purest form of you. Thanks. From the perspective of people who know you. Like, you've done great, like, work everywhere. But, like, the amount of people who said to me, like, oh, my God, is she really like that? Like, people love this so much. And it's such a joy to be like, yes, this podcast is... Pure polar. Thank you for saying that.
Leslie Knope's the best, but you're cooler than Leslie Doe.
Because you have complained a lot to me about how hard it is to do a podcast already. And you're like seven episodes in.
if anything you do to facilitate them being the best version of themselves is a joy.
No, I think I take that part. So you do. Yeah. I think the worst thing, my nightmare is, um, yeah, I've been there a couple of times already.
Well, there were two times where people said a really sad thing and you said, ha, ha, ha, that's hilarious.
The Reddit page of this podcast is already like, oh my God, she did it again.
It is the save. It's funny because you both times thought you saved it and everybody, what did you just see in your, you just saw something.
I think obviously the, it took a lot of battery to make that sound, those sound effects. That's just sucking the battery right out of that thing. Seth, what do you look up? You know what I like? We mentioned British people.
I like watching British people break.
There's that like Jimmy Carr show. There's like a panel show. I think it's called 8 Out of 10 Cats. I've never watched a full episode, but I keep getting served like short clips of like – like British panelists making other British panelists laugh. I just like watching British people break. I feel like, see, you're not better than us.
I mean, in general, I like, you know, it's like watching an old Carol Burnett. Yeah. But I do like, but I feel like, British people try really hard not to break. So when they break it, I don't know. It brings me more satisfaction.
That's it? I mean— This has been just lovely.
It's so fun because... One, I love them so much. And I can't remember the last time all four of us talked together. Yeah. Or even at a meal together.
And I've been saying like, you know, there's so much written about like how as men get older, they have no friendships. So you got to start a podcast to all lonely men. Start a podcast.
True story. During the pandemic- You remember my friend Doug Stradley. Stradley. Stradley the best. And Stradley and I are in a fantasy football league. We did a weekly podcast just about the fantasy football league that the other 10 guys would listen to. Wow. That was what we were doing during the pandemic.
And it was like, and then when I started doing professional podcasts, I had to stop that one. And like to those 10 guys, they're like, it's, I mean, we totally get it. You're doing real podcasts now, but man, we missed the, we missed the Stradley podcast.
I'm very, I got a good, and you know, improv friends. Like I feel very lucky.
I put a lot of work into cultivating.
I feel like it might be the thing I miss.
I just love having... I thought I was out of the woods. For those listening, I just want you to know his eyes are glistening again. I just love my friends and I've been so lucky to have them. It's just the best. I feel like I get so much more out of them than I put into it.
Well, I think that seen is a really good way to put it because I like the way I like who I am through the eyes of my friends. So it would break my heart to, you know, not be... held in high opinion by the people I care the most about.
Whenever I'm like, how am I doing as a person? Like when I take stock of who my friends are, I feel very good about who I am as a person.
It was, can I point out my favorite observations about you guys as a group?
You needed a second table for all your jackets. Yeah. And every one of you had two totes.
And most of the meal, again, I think if people saw the seven women that were there, they would be like, oh my God, how funny was it? And I would say mostly they were looking through their totes. And at no point were less than two people looking through a tote for something. Yeah.
Matching totes and puffy coats is how I would describe it. It was, I mean, it was the SNL 50th week and it was very cold.
Every coat was louder than the next coat. Just when you moved the coat, it was like the sale of a schooner. Which are like... Very hard to hear any conversation due to the rustling.
Also, Paula within, Paula Pell, within like five seconds had set up a home office at a third table.
It was during the show week. Real-time rewrites on SNL 50th. She was immediately had like a laptop and also like a TV monitor hooked up. Yeah.
There was a lot of talk about what you guys were going to get. And as soon as the server came over, the minute they spoke, everybody forgot everything that had been agreed upon. Yeah. Yeah. Because it went right back to square one.
They put us in a private room where you could have a wedding. That's how big it was.
And yet within like 10 minutes, I thought we might need a second room. The sprawl.
It was so, it was so much. Putting on and taking off coats, sometimes I think of an SNL sketch just at the table. That, for whatever reason, stays with me forever. Do you remember Fred did a sketch once where he was someone at a dinner party who kept taking off and putting on a scarf?
It was a really long scarf. And he kept being like, oh my God, it's so hot. And he would take it off. And it was like, he had to like loop it around his head. And he had a practical scarf. And he'd loop it around his head like 10 times while everybody waited. And then he'd start telling a story. He's like, oh my God, it gets so chilly. And then just looping. I think about it all the time.
No. No. But I can't, I think about it all the time.
Also, Fred, I think Anilda was his, do you remember his stenographer, court stenographer character?
I think Anilda. Anilda? I think. I'm not sure.
It was a lot like that. But also paused the trial a lot to look through her bag and just would say over and over, I can't find my chapstick. I can't find my chapstick. I would say I don't see a scarf without thinking about the first one or hear somebody say chapstick without thinking about the second.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got a cry guy. Yeah, you got a guy. He's going to make some cuts.
He's like a super jacked. He's like most... He makes my protein shakes every morning. And he's like, you got to stop crying on these pods, man.
And then the worst is he's so mean. And then I just start to tear up. Yeah. And then it's like, just... Awful. And then I will say he's like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. He's really sweet. He's really sweet. He's like, oh my God, I'm the root of the problem. I'm supposed to be here to solve the problem. I'm called the cry guy. Yeah, and then he gives me a big hug and like broke my rib. He's so jacked.
I'm going to take this with me because I know what people can do with DNA. Don't come back here next time.
I think people are disappointed that was just the one.
I don't feel like you respect other people's schedules.
Well... Hello. Same kind of... Pretty similar.
I did a great job. And I... I think it's easier to do crack cocaine once than wear reading glasses once. You know what I mean? The minute you put them on forever. I put them on for like two seconds. What's your prescription? Just a 1.5. What are you?
Maybe I'm partying too hard with the two. What do you listen to your podcasts on? Now that you're a podcaster, do you feel like that's an unfair question?
I once said to a podcaster that I listen to them. At 1.5 and they were hurt.
What? You listen to podcasts slower? You slow it down?
It is. It's our Update position.
I'm very grateful that it's this.
But I feel very strongly about having a good side.
That's why I thought you maybe did this for me.
I like this side. And if anybody wants to see our bad side, they can look at the Entertainment Weekly cover we did. Which is the worst photograph of either of us.
And I was so excited. That was a time in my life. I was so excited. We were on the cover of Entertainment Weekly.
And then I saw it and I felt unexcited.
I feel very strongly the thing we have in common is we have great faces that as long as they're moving – Got to keep moving. Got to keep moving. But once they stop – There's no good freeze frame as a whole.
Yeah. Don't feel like you're doing me a courtesy of being like, we barely touched it. I'm like, go nuts. Get your best touch guy in here.
A hundred percent. If you want to see the real thing, come see the real thing. But otherwise you're getting the retouch version.
Yeah. I had a heartbreaking GQ photo shoot where first I walked in and the photographer didn't know who I was for the GQ comedy issue. So that put me in a headspace where I maybe felt as though a mistake had been made.
And then I remember they had wanted, I think it was whipped cream from the like, and they wanted to spray it all over me. My face. And the amount I had to say, like, you know, this will just look like.
Yeah. You know what this also looks like on a face.
It is, by the way, like people who get talked into like young in their life, like maybe a pornographic photo shoot. Yeah, very easy. Could happen to me in a heartbeat. If anybody had ever shown a modicum of interest in that.
And I feel as though they should save those for the dramatic actors and just let us look nice for once.
Zachary Meyers. How many hints do you want?
You're going to get it without hints?
Again, there's hints. All right. Give me a hint. It's an A name.
No. No. I was so worried because I know these are only an hour, and I thought, oh, I think it's going to go by so fast. And now I'm so happy we're using the time. We're not going to cut this out.
Your family dog's name. By the way, my dad, you know, for those not in the know, we've had six old English Sheepdogs. They've all been named Albert. And then when we started giving all our kids A names, my dad was very, he admitted he was hopeful we were going to also name a kid Albert. Yeah. And I said, no, I think you took it away.
If all the dogs hadn't been named Albert, there was a chance. But we weren't going to name our kid after a living dog.
No, this is good. People will like this.
Especially because I think people were tuning in and being like, you know what? I can't wait because they know each other so well. They've been friends for so long. And then what they get to do is listen to you just without hints, try to guess my middle name.
That is what I do like to, that's what I answer to. That's my full email. Adam.
Well, I remember the first time we met probably better than you remember the first time we met, which is I was at I.O. ImprovOlympic.
And there used to be two different teams. In the middle, there would be The Dream.
It's the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast.
I've had so much job for you guys. So much fucking job.
And I think a great mistake has been made with this Obama. But love endures, love heals. Love will help temper the effects of putting a black man in office. But love abides, love abides.
Oh, yeah. I remember that place.
But we went to dinner there with, I remember, Lauren and Val. And I remember it because my wife's from Albuquerque. And so we go back. And so I've eaten at that restaurant since with, like, my in-laws and people I love. But I'm always acutely aware that this is a thousand times more boring than the time I was here with Val Kilmer. Yeah.
Who brought all these photos of his ranch in New Mexico and was just with like these beautiful photos. He's like, yeah, it's like 75 acres. IRS, I think might be taking it away tomorrow. Like he kept like, he was like the amount of like incredible land and deep tax trouble. Yeah. And he was talking about it. Didn't seem like his heart rate went up at all when he discussed it.
No, I think that that was like, like.
And I thought maybe we could talk about him some more on this here podcast today.
Usually, when you have that much land and you want to turn it into an artist's compound, that's usually a dead giveaway that the IRS is about to show up. Now... Uh, you wrote about this, Will, but I do remember that you thought he was maybe going to stay with you for a couple days. Yes. This is after MacGruber.
And I was like, ooh, this is... Books is the funniest thing.
I am glad. I was glad to read that you have regret about it, Forte, because buzz got out. I mean, again, we were all so happy to know that Val Kilmer was living with you. That was deeply funny to anybody. I mean, it just was so wonderful. Again, you're a particular guy. You like things a certain way. Val Kilmer is the loosest of canons. It was the comedy of it.
I mean, anytime somebody said, have you heard the latest about Will and Val? It was just a feast. But you guys dabbled with the idea of doing the Amazing Race together. Yes.
Mike White did it. It's going great for him. Yeah.
Solomon, do you remember those days? And did you go over to Will's place often when Val was living there?
Can we just start with the casting of Val Kilmer in MacGruber as a character, Dieter von Kunth? Yes. Dieter von Kunth. So in the very writing of the script, you have eliminated probably 85% of actors who just are going to hard no.
Whoa. I will tell you that John Lutz, who we all know who's a writer, at late night today told me that story. Because he went with you guys.
Then had breakfast at this house. And he said that you guys were all taking pictures. And then Val reached out like a day later and was like, hey, maybe delete all those pictures of the art. I think Val was constantly living in a world where the biggest villain for him was the IRS. Yes. And every friend he knew, the villain was the IRS. Yes.
Just north of Union Square. Yeah.
Yeah. And hey, Joram, you know what each month is. So if I said, what month is April? You would immediately say it's... Financial literacy month. You thought April was January?
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He was fascinating to look at as well. I mean, Val Kilmer is one of those genuine movie stars where in the way that you said, you just can't get used to him, no matter how sweet and human he is. I mean, intermittently over the years, he would send me, you know, very nice text and,
And, you know, again, we've all been lucky enough to meet people who are incredibly well known and incredibly accomplished. But I always sort of felt like I wanted to gasp when I got a text from Val Kilmer.
He was so magnetic. Yeah.
And then to also be the kind of guy who was game to do MacGruber, you know, I mean, he did great stuff after as well. But like that to me was like, oh, my God, this is everything you could possibly want.
Yeah.
Oh yeah. Cool thing. There's a very cool movie called Cinema Twain that captures Val playing Mark Twain, which is really, really special. Yeah. Can I shout out a couple of, I think, lesser known Val movies that I really love? There's a David Mamet movie called Spartan that I love Val in so much.
It's that great David Mamet where everybody's just, he's so flat throughout the whole thing, but you can't take your eyes off him. And then he was in Port-A-Call New Orleans with Nicolas Cage, which is a movie we've talked about, a great Werner Herzog movie. And I believe that it kind of opens the two of them together. And you're just so happy those two lunatics were in a cast together.
Speaking of that, Thunderheart, another movie of Al's that I love a great deal. We talked about this a little bit. Of course, he and Powers Booth were both in Tombstone, and I just remember once watching the two of them have a conversation. They were talking about it the way you used to talk about if you had worked at a shirt factory together.
It was just like they were being so matter of fact about it, and you couldn't believe you got to stand next to it. And again, not to give away too much, MacGruber was not a big budget movie. And one of the cool things about when you have a Val, when you have a Powers Booth, guys who had been on those big things, like they just brought the same integrity day in and day out.
They never had any errors about them. They never acted like big shots. They just wanted to be a part of it. And that, I feel like, says so much about him as well. Yeah, that's really true.
God, it's so funny though that, you know, there was so little aggression to him, like to push against him was to just sort of like push air. Yeah, yeah. He wasn't gonna fight you back.
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That's rocketmoney.com slash island, rocketmoney.com slash island. He hosted SNL in 2000, and U2 was the musical guest. And it was before I was on the show, but I was in the audience. I had sort of begun my process of being someone that was on the radar of SNL. And Ayala Cohen, who worked in the talent department, invited me to come to New York to see the show.
Yeah. I think now it's especially a good decision on his part. Like, I don't think anybody... It would be even harder to talk about him now, had you guys made this poor person do this. I missed Top Secret, and I definitely saw Top Gun first. So to know him as Iceman first and then retroactively see Top Secret. I mean, those are like two of his first, what, three movies?
So I got to be in the audience and I was just so excited to see Val Kilmer live, which, you know, it was more than just SNL and obviously to see you two as well. But I was at the after party as well. And I remember just sort of going into the bathroom as he was coming out and talking way more than I had any right to as somebody who had been invited to the show and just saying.
Hey, I'm just a huge fan. You're so great. And I just remember how sweet and patient he was then at, you know, two in the morning at an SNL after party. But he was in a sketch that episode that took place on like a commuter airline where he is playing Iceman from Top Gun. 30 years later, with a bit of a paunch and thinning hair. And our friend Mike Schur wrote that sketch.
So I reached out to Schur to ask if he had any memories. And so he left us a voice note. So here is Mike's memory of the Top Gun 30 years later.
And he does the absolute opposite pulls of what you think someone is capable of doing. Like so deeply funny and so like heartbreakingly cool.
Love you guys. Bye. Thank you very much, Mike. The other thing that Val kept saying in that sketch to the co-pilot and the navigator was, you're dangerous. Yeah.
And he was a real delight every time. You're dangerous. Really, really fun. Just because I have you guys, and I know you have to go, but we didn't talk about all the MacGruber sketches the last time you were on. And maybe, to me, the perfect MacGruber three-parter ever is the Charles Barkley MacGruber, which I don't believe we talked about, did we? I don't know. I don't remember.
I'm glad to hear that.
I love him. I mean, Barkley's great. He's so funny. He was so funny in it because he's like a very patient person putting up with your sort of like... latent racist tendencies of MacGruber. But you keep calling him Darrell. Yes. MacGruber, this door is magnet locked. We're trapped.
To which you say, oh, like white Daryl, which I'll never forget.
He hands you a pen and you scream, he's got a gun.
Yeah. At the time he was telling his agent he would only do movies with Top in the title.
Maybe my favorite, you're giving a big speech about tolerance and how you're enlightened. And during the speech, Wig has told you there's 20 seconds. Vicky has told you there's 20 seconds. And you give a very long speech. And then she goes, 15 seconds. And then under her breath says, take your time. Like she appreciates what your, your moment of enlightenment is more important than the bomb.
Yeah. And then... Real genius. It was like two for me, one for you. Well, it was originally called Top Genius. Did he want you to change the name of MacGruber? He did. Yeah, we sucked him in by calling it Top Gruber Top. You know, you say, how do you get him at your table? Read like that is one of the things Lauren delivers on as he gets people, you know, valid hosted SNL in 2000.
And then maybe one of my favorite, just the tightest writing.
But it's, you know what, I will say, like, it's what saves it from being dark is the just, the sweetness of Barclay. Oh, totally. The Daryl he is in this sketch really does believe that MacGruber's gonna turn it around.
Yeah. Yeah.
Just a bad person. It's a perfect three-beat, I mean, all MacGruber's were, but that one, I never get tired of watching.
Thank you, Seth. Thank you. Well, it was really nice to have you guys join us for this one.
Yeah. Rest in peace, Val. Rest in peace. It will definitely be missed. Thank you guys for making... I mean, again, the guy had one hell of a career, but you guys know where I stand. I'm a grouper. And I'm really glad you made it with him.
We're very lucky. Honor for us. Love you guys. Love you. Love you. Love you. Love you, Val. Love you, Val. Love you, Val. Love you, Val.
I'm sure like a lot of people, he had an incredible experience and then felt indebted to Lauren. And so Lauren sort of probably pulled the strings to get him there. And then Will, knowing you, I would imagine during the read of MacGruber at the table, you're having a million other thoughts. You're performing. You're probably overanalyzing how the script is playing, what's good, what's bad.
Did you also give yourself space to be like, holy shit, Val Kilmer is crushing?
But that is what you learn from anybody who is in Top Secret, which is the comedy MacGruber is to play it like it's not comedy.
Which is, I think very few people, you know, I think it's always the risk when people, even when people who are known as serious actors get invited to host SNL, sometimes they push it too far as to what they think comedy is. But he really understood the game, which is, oh, I'll just play it super.
What did he, I feel like he screamed something in the last scene, which is one of my favorite moments in MacGruber. Do you know what I'm talking about?
He screams MacGruber and then keeps his mouth open.
I've seen MacGruber so many times and yet there's something so off the wall about the way he does that. It catches me by surprise every time. Oh God. You know what I mean? There's all, I always forget that he made that choice. Solomon, you probably were maybe more able to, at the table read, be judging how people were doing. Do you remember your bounce on what Val was like at the table?
All right. I'm going to jump in. Hey, everybody. Yes! I'm Andy. Oh, no. So, Jorm, just to clarify, I said I'm going to jump in and you took that as your opportunity to just start screaming in the microphone.
Well, I can't wait to get into the behind the scenes.
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We had always wanted you guys to come back on to talk about more MacGruber stuff, including the movie. And then very sadly, we had a reason to speed that process up. Our dear friend Val Kilmer passed away. I highly recommend everybody go and read a beautiful piece that Will had published in New York Magazine. It was very lovely, the way you talked about Val.
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I reached out to my friend Dave Stassen, who's a really talented writer in L.A. And we first moved in L.A. late 90s. It was just so exciting. Anytime anyone saw a famous person, none of us were in show business yet, but he was working at the Chateau Marmont and basically the kind of guy who would go out and help you unload your luggage.
And I remember he came home and said Val Kilmer and his assistant pulled up in like a Volvo station wagon and he was staying in the farthest away bungalow. So it was a long walk for anybody who's carrying his luggage. And he said it was just filled with like so many bags and so much junk. And he said, what do you need out of the car? And Val said, I guess bring it all.
And then he said there was like 100 loose tennis balls, too. And so it was a joke. Dave said, you want the tennis balls? And Val goes, yeah. I might need those. And so Dave said he had to make, like, multiple trips, like, holding his shirt open with just loose tennis balls.
And he said by the time he got to the bungalow, Val had taken, it was a two-bedroom bungalow, he had taken the mattresses off the bed and built, like, a mattress fort in front of the fireplace. It was, like, the speed in which this guy was crazier and, like, more memorable than anybody else. Oh, he was, yes, he was nothing but memorable.
I also, there's a place called, I think it's called the Artichoke Cafe in Albuquerque. I don't know if you guys remember that restaurant.
I have zero memory of that. I truly have like other. Yeah. I was like, was it? Because I have talked about this on the pod, I know that. But that short that we saw, that was just a musical short, that was a dance piece.
Yeah, the Mariachis versus Ballerinas. There's no joke to it, it was just a dance piece. It was on white and it was just very stark and cool.
I think it's a good point, though. And I think that sometimes we should even just sort of take a breath and take a pause and have this podcast not be. It doesn't necessarily need to be funny all the time. That's good, bud. That's so true. It's so true. Sometimes I just want to, you know, love you guys. I'm having a hard day. I don't know why you had to do that. I guess that's funny.
Does it cheer you up?
No, you're right. That did make me sad, yeah.
Keith, do you feel that it's possible that maybe they just enjoyed that it didn't have to be funny immediately?
I'd be curious to know what he thought of this short, because sometimes I feel like we let people down. Like, for instance, I just saw Tommy Hanks recently, and I was just immediately feeling terrible that we let him down so hard with a short.
That was a no and but. Improv.
For sure, no. Yeah, this is pre-computer graphics.
Did you break your foot when you dropped that name? It's part of the story. I'm just saying.
He said something and then.
Those are now your best friends.
I mean, I remember we had a conversation with him, but like- He made me promise not to tell anyone.
Yeah, no but.
Yeah, I don't think so. They shot a lot. I mean, and then on the day of the short, then they showed up. And at that point, I did know. And I assume that they knew that you had told me because then I went out into the hallway and. And then Joaquin pressed his body up against me and then very quietly into my ear was like, kick me out, kick me out. I'm going to come back in and kick me out.
And so I went back inside and then like a second later, they came in and like, we're acting a fool, like interrupting the short. And I ran a whole bit with him of being like, get the fuck out. Like, like you've been disrespectful this entire fucking week and ran a whole thing.
That's too many.
Oh, is that like what happens when your ears are full of blood?
No, no. They're faking it well.
That makes perfect sense.
Can I add a term to this? Sure. I think if there's any haters of the pod, my friend Jake pitched this, that they should be called housers.
Yeah, I think it's a perfect transition. And I'm very good at transitions.
No, I don't. And he's lying. Because it's chocolate? You would never know. You would never know. And he's lying, though.
Yes, Seth, and not because I practiced, but the word is pitiful. Nice work.
I think that's just proving my point.
I'll just say that I know it's ridiculous, but this is one of my favorite shorts.
Andy, do you remember, did I make that little stupid plinky beat? Yeah. Because it really sounds like it would be me, but I can't tell because it actually has a melody. So I'm like, how did I do that?
We requested, I think we requested an MPC.
Cookies can eat shit.
Yes, it was a great theme song, and this is an ode to that.
So how was your time away, Seth?
Do you know anyone who did?
Yeah, that was me. Your best pud. What are your best buds?
How it worked. Yeah.
Just keep it classy. Keep it classy. We're going to continue to keep it classy, guys.
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Oh, yeah.
Wait, wait, wait. This motherfucker. How'd it go? We're still doing it. Oh, God. Is it bad? Has it been bad?
Yeah, see, look, about to have a backyard bar mitzvah.
Well, yeah, we had to fly here, and then we just got here early.
I am. This is, let me stress, the one way I'm like Drake. I did have a late bar mitzvah.
There's probably a... Yeah, that's it. I guess there's... Well, you know what? It's probably 50-50 ways. I'm like Drake. But it's been bad, right?
I think there wasn't enough. Did you guys go over some of the vest burns or are we going to have to do that when I get back?
Yeah, that's true.
Thank you. You know, it's really special to hear that on the day I become a man. I should have invited you to make some speech about my special imagination.
Yeah. Well, it wasn't ideally supposed to be that way, but then the guy was only available at the same time. So, yeah.
Oh, this is good. Well, if this is the end then, we can just do a nice sign off, right?
Well, I love you guys.
See you next week. All right. Bye. Bye.
Bye, guys.
Hey dudes, it's Seth. I'm currently at the airport and just wanted to, you know, check in, hear how the pod is going without me. And I guess maybe a little curious as to whether it's better without me and if our listeners are going to Sort of say I'm a fourth wheel and I should get out of the way.
But then, you know, when you think about cars, a fourth wheel is almost essential to the engineering as far as making it safe on the roads. And I also can tell this is coming off as desperate and needy. And so, you know, I just wouldn't even play this. I think it's a huge mistake to play this. But I also think, you know, it's a huge mistake to do without me.
And I cannot believe you guys did this on the day that I'm at the airport and fucking spinning out right now.
I'm so mad. And I agree with Akiva. Space Olympics is a fucking pile of shit.
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Yeah. He wore a white suit.
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All right. I'm glad you asked about Dennis Franz's ass. First of all, I loved NYPD Blue. I was a huge fan of that show. Right. And I actually lived abroad during a couple years of that show, and my mom used to tape it and send me VHS tapes to Amsterdam so I could stay up to date on NYPD Blue. What a dweeb. I love it.
I think fully cried when Jimmy Smith's character, spoiler alert, dies on NYPD Blue. Oh my God, that's a huge spoiler. Dennis Franz was the best. Also, can I throw this out? Dennis Franz, guess what he's done since NYPD Blue? What? Not one thing. He said he was going to take a break and be with his family, and that was the last thing he did. He just retired.
He did the thing no one does, which he retires. He's a legend. A legend. I mean, I think he's still like a pretty famous butt model.
Well, somebody wrote this comment, which is helpful. The first butt on NYPD Blue was David Caruso's butt. And that was in the first episode. Whoa, what? He was on the first season of the show.
Yeah, they showed his butt.
All right, so it was a show where it was like, we're going to curse a little and we're going to show butts. And I think it was like, we're going to be the steamy ABC and we're going to get people back from cable watching networks again. But I think Franz's butt was a big deal because it was the first maybe time you saw a regular looking person's butt on TV. I don't even know what you mean by that.
I think of Mona Lisa. And again, one day we're going to get to Mona Lisa. I think about it all the time. I'm really happy sometimes because the run of lyrics that starts, I'm an American is maybe my favorite series of life.
It was just like regular Chicago beef. It was fly over butt. And nobody had seen fly over butt. I mean, the real scandal was that she starts J-ing him off. Is it? I think it was like, I'm going to soap you up. She's just washing him.
How naive are you, brother? Look, you guys. I refuse to believe that Sipowitz was getting his Sipowitzed. That works perfectly, and I thank you for bringing it.
Yeah, I think they said shit. And they wouldn't do that now. No, they wouldn't do it now. We've gone backwards. Do you think that's what it's all about? That's what the America we're trying to get back to, I think. You know why Dennis Franz could retire? Why?
I don't think that's right. But it's never right.
uh there was the most it used to be when you were driving into chicago i apologize that i don't know exactly what the product i feel like it was a suit store in chicago like baron holtz feel free to send in a voice don't tell me how wrong i am but it was the four chicago actors on this mural it was like black and white beautifully painting and it was dennis franz joe mantegna dennis farina by the way the fact there's two out of four dennises is the most chicago i was gonna say and uh bill peterson who is uh csi
He's an American. That's right.
It was just the best. It was just like four Chicago dudes come get suits and look like us. Fuck that rules. It was really cool.
I actually don't know if he does. Yeah. Okay.
Yeah, he's fantastic on that show. Also, I like that Ike is also clumsy and angry in real life, so it's pretty fun.
Well, he's got three daughters and I've actually like gone to like a nice restaurant in New York with his daughters. He and his wife and his daughters came to the city to like go to like Broadway shows and I met him for dinner. And Ike is the best because he just like he orders the way he would order for eight guys at a steakhouse for like him and his wife and three daughters.
yeah and they're much they're younger than the ones too they're just like yeah there's like four-year-olds in there being like i don't need lobster yeah they're like 10 to 4 and he's like i think we're gonna need uh two shrimp cocktails no you don't also like his first real moment in the pilot where he finds out he doesn't get the job and he's like hang on a second i forget who he says is calling him but it's like a famous actor
Yes, that's what it is. But listen to Mona Lisa. The other thing, the famous story, the lore about Mona Lisa is that you sent it to Shoemaker and I, we were in my office, and we laughed so hard that I threw up and he farted. I literally started choking and threw up into my trash can. That's wonderful. God damn.
He's a little sad, too. He's a little sad. He's super upset. Yes, it's unhinged. He's lost. Hey, Yorm isn't going to make it, but he did send in a voice note from his sister-in-law who has, I think, some thoughts about the Frasier theme song.
Again, this is now barely a podcast about digital shorts.
Yeah, certainly you're interested to speak. All right, it's 49 seconds. Here's Emily Heller, who's a very funny person.
I love that. That was so helpful. And I do feel like it just felt like a giant key turning in a lock. It felt satisfying to just be told definitively. Yeah.
Yeah. When we got asked that. I also feel like I'm surprised there's not an expression. Well, you can't untoss a salad.
Hey, Jorm sent that and said from Emily about the Frasier theme song, she's a massive fan. Do you think that means she's a massive fan of the Frasier theme song or the podcast?
Yeah, let's do it. I agree. And jack up the volume so we can actually hear how it's playing.
I just don't want Andy later to be like, the volume was low. Oh, my God.
I don't know if this is good podcast content, but should we just take one second to tell our listeners that while we love doing this, it's a fucking disaster to schedule. And so if it's ever like a day or two late or there just isn't one in the week, just know it's not from a lack of training. Yes, we are doing it for Quaid Army. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just not one of those levels is not laughs.
I also think this is a real gym going Lauren era. He's filling out that sweater real nicely. Oh, OK.
Yeah, very nice. But I will say there was not, obviously at this point, everyone knows a laser cat is coming. And yet there did not seem to be a gasp.
This is an audience hearing they're going to see a laser cat.
Laser Cats.
Back to Happier Times, the last five minutes of the previous pod was the happiest I've been in like five years. Well, that's good. A lot happened in five minutes. It was truly amazing. I feel like if we ever do have merch, I just think it should be a goose and it should say, not a gonk. Not a gonk.
Thanks, Vanessa.
And it's one of the most shockingly enjoyable things I remember ever seeing in a movie theater. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, RoboCop fucking shreds. Hey, quick Paul Verhoeven side note. Can I just jump in real quick?
You know, while you guys were talking about Hauser Hauser last week, somebody also said Paul Verhoeven directed Total Recall, also directed... Starship Troopers. Right. Starring... Neil Patrick Harris. Oh. And you know what his name was in that movie? No. Douglas.
All right. Now it says, meanwhile, on Mars. Best vacation ever. Can you pause it real quick? You're exactly the same position as you are in your Corona ads.
Basically, if hater with Snoop Dogg, it's your corona. So you're saying they owe me money. I'm saying somebody owes you money.
I can't believe you thought we had.
All right, so you guys are just chilling on a beach on Mars.
Also, I should note, the beach has sort of a red patina across it, so we know we're on Mars. Yeah, the beach on Mars. And you have shown half of a, what, necklace.
And I will say, I was taken out of Maverick because I had recently seen Annie. Right. I don't think you're alone in that. Yeah.
I never trusted Miles Teller's character in Maverick because I thought he was the son of Rooster, the con man from Annie.
That was all I had to say. All right. Gooster is your Guster cover band. But it's all, the parody lyrics make everything into Goose stuff.
Oh, a Gooster. When you travel with your geese, do you put them in gooster geests?
I did have a little... Shoemaker and I ran into Jost in the hallway and just basically described the last five minutes of the podcast just to tell him about not a gonk.
Can I also say one of my favorite things from the last podcast, and I know I'm interrupting the flow of Laser Cats 4. Another thing I really loved from the last pod was you just being shocked that two people are named Anthony Edwards, which are just like the most normie name.
Two famous people.
I was thinking like if a school assembly, if kids thought Anthony Edwards was coming, and then they were like, make some note, you know him as Mark Green from ER. Yeah. I guess still sign my basketball. Then do you think when he walks on stage and the other people on the stage are all the basketball, it's everybody in the basketball uniforms? And he's like, ah.
Back to Laser Cats 4.
not a gunk that's what they say because they're kind of half goose we also went back to the uh i just want to loop back to a real quick seth's corner in the rosario dawson show that was the appearance of larry the goose on update oh so we were on the right episode you were on the right episode that's crazy larry the goose for people who don't remember it was that andy was one of the surviving gooses from the chesley sellenberger miracle in the hudson crash geese
All right, so now you're immediately just, we do a hard cut from Mars to now you're just trying to find Cyberface.
I'm going to jump in now and defend laser cats, which I think we all agree is not something that comes as first nature to me. But second nature, I guess, is the way they say it. So I always think that cocking the cats deserves a laugh and it gets nothing here, which really makes me think this is based on the audience, not how this. Got it. All right, here we go.
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And I did say, yeah, I said, please welcome one of the geese. And I will just say biggest laugh was just you rolling out looking angry in a really good goose costume.
But my favorite thing this week was you guys asking if we could have a shot of Dennis Franz's butt in the YouTube video and Jeff saying we thought we might have a copyright issue.
Hands off the Sipowitz. Oh, yeah. I'm still trying, but it's not working. Double down on it. Respect. No, I like it. I like him getting his lawyers being like, They're using my dialogue. I used to be Quaid Army until they ripped me off.
I was very worried about it because I did the NBC upfronts. For those who don't know, this is at Radio City where NBC presents to 6,000 advertisers what their slate of shows and programming is going to be for the year. And I do five minutes of jokes at it. And I had a Chicago Pope joke that felt like
oh somebody's already made this joke and they probably did one on SNL and I like looked everywhere and then I thought I'll just go ahead with it and played hotter than any joke I had what was the joke Seth it was like it's a big year for NBC got the Olympics the NBA Chicago Pope people there lost their mind and then I said you know Dick Wolf's on the phone with the Vatican right now saying he wants a cut saying you never would have even thought about this
Not the hottest audience. 6,000 advertisers at 10.30 a.m. on a Monday morning in New York City. I enjoyed it, though. It's so low stakes in that way. It is low stakes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is like the least seen your material is going to be considering the venue. Yes.
Yeah, there's a lot of stuff in here. Every now and then you forget that another element of LaserCats is that it's poorly filmed.
This was early bird work. Now you can't go two weeks without an update bird. I mean, obviously, Paul Simon, trailblazer. That's true.
But it gets a nice laugh, I'm just saying.
Playtime is over.
No! Deactivating.
I do like this. It does have a nice arc here.
In the history of sketch. Right. So, but anyway, I will say that my favorite thing about Larry the Bird, there was a line where you said it was a lot like Top Gun. A plane went down and goose died. So really full circle. But I guess it was. We were talking about geese and goose. I really laughed hard when you were saying that Miles Teller character was originally turkey. And then...
It's very strange that he uses his time to not say you guys are brothers and instead gives half of it to Nitro and lets him figure it out. No, it's not strange.
I will say my favorite part, the self-destruct. You know he's going to blow up. It says two, one, self-destruct. And I had no memory of what happened. You guys get hit with the tiniest amount of blood. Like one ketchup packet's worth of blood.
He's a robot with a tiny little bit of blood.
I was giving it, I think it got two claps. Go back to just when it ends. When the laser cats ends and Steve says the line. That's maybe.
Right? Pretty mind-blowing, huh? That's like 10 claps.
All right. I will say it's a very well-crafted Lasercats, plot-wise.
And when you think about how integral the fact that you guys realized you were brothers is to the future Lasercats... It's pivotal. Well, I was going to mention this.
Definitely did a lot of world building in this one. It might get brought up again.
Wait, this is the NYPD Blue promo?
Oh, the butt promo. Oh my God. We're going to watch it, guys.
Right, famous SNL sketch, right. Yeah. But the funny thing was that the logic problem I had was that you kept doing like, so you'd sound like this and you would make a turkey noise. Right. Because, of course, in the original Top Gun, Goose never makes a noise like Goose.
He did. He left after one season. Then he did that weird movie, Jade, which was, I feel like, a Nicolas Cage movie. Didn't work. But then in the end, he laughed all the way to the bank because he did CSI.
And then when he first meets Jimmy Smith's character, he's like, what are you, the Lone Ranger? And then later in the promo, he says, you're going to see my ass soon. It's just a matter of time. That's how it works here in this precinct. The butts come out.
People would do NYPD blue screening parties. You would just have people come over to your house on Tuesday night at 10 p.m. Eastern, 9 p.m. Central. And as soon as a character would come on screen, people would just start going, show it, show it.
In case it wasn't clear, she wasn't just washing it. She was jerking it.
All right, let's set the record straight. Show of hands, who thought she was just putting a little soap on it, okay? Who thought she was giving it a full tug? There you go, you're in the right.
By the way, I went in the Criterion closet the other day.
Yee-haw! Something like that.
You guys. Also, maybe another shirt that I think maybe four people would buy, but I'd love to see in our merch store when we get it up and running. It's pronounced Douglas. Yeah, Douglas. I mean, Douglas.
Yeah, I think so.
I'm loathe to start this without Joram, but I just want to say that this entire podcast today could just be a recap of the last podcast. I was very, very delighted listening to the last podcast.
Oh, interesting.
I think that, you know, Quaid Army, this is a place where we try to stay positive. And ultimately, we're going to have a few flubs here and there. Yoram showed up. Hi, Yoram. Nope, he's gone. Yoram has popped in twice onto the Zoom and disappeared. Yeah.
i i'm kevin uh put in the chat the name of that sketch and then maybe throw the sketch in there but i probably just didn't notice the name of the sketch it might be worth taking a peek and looking at a couple of the lines gotcha that's all i'm saying so now tell me you remember how it played to silence i mean my memory as always is that it killed and then we were robbed
So you don't feel like you ever took a fair beat in the entirety of your time on the show.
Well, I mean, there is at this point we're entering the audacity of Klein and Sandberg era where we're just sort of excited to see what you guys got. Table read heroes, you might say. Yoram has now entered the Zoom and left for a third time.
He definitely is having technical difficulties.
I better sign off. Since he's not here, Keev, I've enjoyed, I keep seeing new digital assets for your new Naked Gun film. Oh, I love the digital assets. Some really good stuff. The long legs, I kind of forgot about that from the original Naked Gun. It's fantastic.
Well, can I say I'm a little jealous? Because you get the best Andy. Andy fully admitted he's not doing Spelling Bee when I'm not there.
I'm very excited. It is so funny when you watch the teaser and you realize just the rhythm of these jokes is something you haven't seen in so long.
All right. Bachelorette party. We got a classic. Here's to Jenny, the bride to be. We love you so much, girl. That's why we got you a special surprise. You guys, I say I want to keep this mellow. Okay, what is it? I hope you save room for dessert. Giant cake. So you're that kind of stripper. You guys, that cake is huge. Wait a minute. Please tell me that's not what I think it is. Oh, it is.
And then some. Hit it, Lorraine. Do you remember the music you danced to? I just opened it. Okay. It's Paradise City. Andy pops out of the top of the cake.
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I'm guessing that was the voice. Starts to dance. The girls cheer. Wow. Nice call, girls. He's hot. She's super into it. She's not been turned off by anything yet. Not yet. Casey's like, yeah, I guess. Casey is turned off. She goes, yeah, I guess.
Okay, keep going.
Well, feast your eyes on me, because this is what it looks like when I have sex. Andy locks his arms to his side and does a pained dance. Stage direction, whimpering. Girls, half-hearted, woo, okay, sure. All right, now Rosario's turning against you. Where do you guys find this guy? I'm having second thoughts about this. Abby, yeah, sorry, he just kind of fit our budget.
Oh, wait, I'm sorry, it was the nice turn. No, Rosario, no, I mean I'm having second thoughts about getting married because this guy's such a sexy stud.
Girls, eh, Rosario, yeah. All right, here I come. Tries to lift his legs up to get out of the cake. He can't. Ooh, here we go. Is he stuck in the cake? It looks like it. Rosario, no, he's just a tease. Quick tease and sexy. I'm coming for you. I'm going to show you everything, girl. By the way, it's page five, and we have not had our big reveal. Top of page eight.
Ye, spelled Y-E. Andy removes his vest, revealing two super long dangly nipples. There we go. Girls react.
girls react gross did somebody order the slim jims andy and his slim jim comedy no i heard the bachelorette has a sweet tooth for pink taffy who wants to chew no and now for my signature move the human car wash here i come spins his nipples then immediately trips and falls through a table oh my god is he dead yes perfect want to go see marley and me again Does Carrie Bradshaw like stilettos?
Let's go.
It's real bad, and it's good that it didn't go. Yeah, I think that's one where you're sort of happy there's no visual proof. In your memory, did the dangly nipples come out way earlier? Earlier, and it was funny. Steve Martin comes back. This is his first time hosting since Surf Meeting, and Keeve, Liz just jumped on right before we started recording, and she asked a very good question.
Somebody wrote in about the last episode, Andy. See if this jogs your memory. Finally, I've been tuning in to hear about the ABC TV rundown of the mid-90s. Yep. Yeah. That makes sense. It was full Dennis Franz. Like, you guys talked about Dennis Franz. A lot of butt chat. It was amazing. And I kind of couldn't believe you guys talked about Dennis Franz for that long.
Did Steve Martin joke about Surf Meeting when he came back to do the show for the first time after Surf Meeting? I think it was too soon. I think it was way too soon.
Yeah, I think it was too fresh. We were hoping he forgot and we didn't want to bring it up. Yeah. Right. We were saying maybe Lauren had to work him for like three years and be like, they're better now. It was safe to come back. Most of their stuff is pre-tapes.
Yeah. So he put himself back in your hands again and he did laser cats for, have you guys watched it today?
Yeah, me too. Yeah. So you have memories of it. I will say, can I tell you my first bounce on LaserCats 4? Please. The audience is still not that excited when a LaserCats starts.
It also maybe wouldn't be worth watching the whole show. It just might have been like a chill air audience. But it is weird. Like even when it ends, there's maybe only like two people clap. Yeah. But I watched it. At the very end of the sketch? At the end of the sketch. And it's also like one of those like endings because there's an emotional ending to Laser Cats.
And I think a couple of people get caught like thinking you're supposed to clap at that part. Oh, I see. So there's really like two claps.
He also tells Lauren in the beginning that he has a new thing he wants to show him called Lizard Cats. Yeah, and we correct him. So he doesn't even know.
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I'll just say it both ways because I'm not sure which one's right. It did mention that the Dennis Franz line in Mona Lisa is the hardest I've ever laughed at a Lonely Island.
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How many queen bees did I get?
Oh, let's shut these fuckers up.
Buttery browns, but that's what I mean. It still gets quotes. It still gets quoted. By us, not by the audience. By people who work there.
That's like a buttery rust.
Fun fact, this was the week that Noah Baumbach came by just to do one of those guest director, guest writer weeks. And him and Fred and Bill had been cooking up some little short, and they filmed a short called New York Underground that I can't actually remember what it was about. But I know they had been chatting for like weeks or months about like, we should do something. And then Noah came in.
There was a history of this through the years. Like Andy Warhol did one once. And before we were there, PTA directed one. And Sometimes people just come in who want to experience the week.
Is it more like guns holstered? Gun holstered, as opposed to shots fired. Oh, yeah, because it's the opposite. Oh, gun holstered. Because it was like the most peaceful, nice thing.
Exactly.
We didn't take this seriously.
I'll tell you how unseriously I took it. As a writer, I'm like, He doesn't know who I am. I just will leave the room. And I didn't dress at all and just made myself scarce. I didn't want to mess up the bit, but I was like, no one's going to notice if I'm not there. So I was not.
Yeah. That's true. Is your arm in there?
Oh, yeah, there you are.
So, yeah, I just hid for the picture. Like, well, I'm not going to ruin their picture, but I'm also not going to put on a tie. I'm too tired.
Yeah, Seds does look great.
Yeah, Bobby could. And Bill down there with his wig on.
After the Kendrick Super Bowl, it's all in his closet now.
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They're not written in traditional screenplay format for those at home paying attention who know that stuff. It's its own kind of format that does stretch the page a little longer.
Jesus Christ.
Those are very comfortable.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I was afraid of people seeing from my internet too. Yeah, same here. That's my problem too.
I find Home Chef a bit overwhelming because there's over 30 options every week and it can serve every dietary need. And I just, it's so many choices. But Jorm, you like that?
Quickly rank this for me. What's your favorite part? Is it quick 30-minute recipes?
Oven-ready options?
Microwave meals?
You know how I feel about that. I like it. And I've talked about that. I've made these meals with my family and I've liked them.
Yeah. Food is the way to the heart. That's what my big Italian family always says.
New York Times.
I read it.
Seth, correct me if I'm wrong, but when we worked there, that was a secret.
Yeah, the fact that there's paparazzi outside now and stuff, it was so low-key when we worked there.
And you've seen West Wing now, too. So you would have been like, that's Bartlett's daughter. Exactly.
I had that same experience in that regard.
his first time doing it, doing it live on air. I remember everybody talking about that and being like, oh, not people at home, but at the show being like, oh my God, like that's even a step beyond a dream host where it was like, oh, that's like something very difficult for even a really good cast member to do and really cementing his status as like someone who's going to be asked back frequently.
And he had just realized it and was upset. He looked over at your Zoom square for the first time and went, oh, Andy's handsome? God damn it. I also thought he said it.
Yeah, that's what he read. And it disappointed him. Because then he deduced which one was Andy and went, that's what I wrote? That's the tattoo? Okay, I guess it worked. Andy's handsome. Oh, my God.
But your tone was with disdain and disappointment.
I'm looking at the real rundown that you've been looking at Seth now. And I just want to point out that Ross Trent, Ross Trent was called digital short colon Rasta man. We would never say Rasta man.
No, somebody watched it and went, Oh, put in that Rasta man sketch.
We must have not given one and they needed one to put in there and they didn't bother to ask us.
When we were just back for Sushi Glory Hole, the rundown just said Digital Short or Andy's song. Aw. And I was like, yeah, that's about right. You've been there, you know, doing your political, you know, soft shoe for them. Oh, wow. Oh, wow.
I don't want to interrupt the flow.
He's like, where's that guy from that Just Two Guys sketch? I've been on E-Bombs World watching Just Two Guys for the last three days prepping together.
Oh, like a Chris Nolan memento. Yeah, Yorm's memory is such that he's just- He's piecing together the day.
I haven't seen that one.
Yeah, I think so. There was a lot of confusion.
Oh, those things were, those were the tattoos.
Ross Trent, I think yes, 100%.
So both stories were true. We really needed Jorm. We didn't know what Jorm brought to this with his memory. Yeah.
Oh, my God. That's maybe the deepest burn of any burn.
Of course. I think more than a little. I love that idea.
But before you even get into the ham episode, did you have anything else on the Brolin episode that we also went right past? Because these were, is it the two last episodes of the Sarah Palin, all eyes on the show kind of hotspot, especially for you, Seth?
And was there anything, I know we touched on the Brolin, so I don't need us to go in super slow-mo here, but was there other stuff?
Oh, he says MacGruber's fart face. That was all in that app.
Oh, that might have been Fall Foliage.
I remember thinking that the Brolin show was a not good show, that it had the amazing politics at the top, that it had all eyes on the show. Everyone was watching and that we kind of blew it. But in hindsight, as we mentioned all the sketches on it, now I think maybe it was a fantastic show.
I remember feeling like, wow, we have the attention of the entire country on us because of the stuff, the politics stuff that Seth was working on and that nobody had brought our A game, that something had gone wrong. And even though Brolin was great.
Yeah, so it's like an all-time episode.
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And, you know, I don't see my parents that much. I don't see my brother that much. But, you know, like a lot of families, we used to all live together. And when we do an Airbnb trip, we feel like we live together again.
You know what I'm talking about? I don't. But next time I'll stay next to Schlotzky's.
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To make your evening more enjoyable. I think for Andy, obviously it's Jav.
But it can't be Jav for all of us.
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We talked in the last episode about how Hauser is also Douglas Quaid's real name in Total Recall. And what a coincidence that was that you would bring it up in the Doogie Hauser episode. Well, also, Douglas Quaid's real name is Houser, just like Doogie Houser. Doogie's real name is Douglas. So this really has turned into a real puzzle. Is that real? And this has Total Recall style plot twists.
When did Total Recall come in? I'm just going to slide into my next point. Well, well, well. We were talking about merch and hopefully both your arms on it to make some merch that nobody wants and then some professionals on it to make some merch people might one day buy. All right, bear with me. We were talking about merch, but we were also talking about Kangles.
What if our podcast made Quatto-themed Kangles called Quangles? Oh, God. Andy, can you please, as Billy Bob Thornton, say Quangles three times and then react as though Quatto is bursting out of your stomach?
We'll just maybe play. Cause we don't need to rerecord it. We'll just get Forte's Joey pants saying dare to best at the end of that. And then I would assume the quangles will just start flying off the shelves. You know what, Jeff, just play dare to best for me real quick. They're the best. All right. So last but not least, I did get a voice recording for us, guys.
We talked about Shoemaker's final week and that we had a party for him and that Fred Armisen played his version of Blackbird for Shoemaker. And Fred was kind enough to record it. So here is the promised Fred Armisen singing a poor version of Blackbird.
I'm going to host a talk show now. You guys are going to talk about a couple of homies. Norm had a fun little sidebar. Obviously heartbroken not to be there for this, but you know, you guys did it. It's your victory lap to take. What I wouldn't give to say I had something to do with a couple of homies, but it was you guys. You were the homies. You were the trio of homies.
And Keeve, I think it's probably best if you take the lead. And I love you guys. Okay. Love you, Seth.
Hey everybody, I'm Seth Meyers, and you're listening to the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast. Boo! So here's the thing, everyone is here today, except me. But because I care deeply about this podcast, I have pre-recorded my part of it. And to make it feel authentic, this is the first time the guys are hearing it, but I do think it might work. Hey, Andy. Go fuck yourself. Hey, Keith.
Hey, Seth. How's it going, Yoram? Get bent, Turbot. See? As long as everyone listens, this should be fine. It should feel like a normal pod. And I should say I'm stepping in and doing this because there were some notes about how my last absence caused the pod to feel a little rudderless. Yeah. So while this isn't ideal, it's better than nothing. Andy, I'm going to start with you.
Do you think this will work? Me pre-recording my part of the podcast? I will give you five uninterrupted minutes to give your answer.
I just got a text that I heard you were still going.
What did normal ones mean?
I would not. I will admit that my connection to Pittsburgh is as a child visiting my grandparents, so we weren't doing a lot of brews.
Yeah, but I only drink, you know, red wines when I'm at the game. Understood. Irregular ones.
I think he was sighing because they were going better than he thought they would.
Well, I mean, I'm deeply excited to hear, you know, the outcome of my efforts. How much did you talk about Hausers, the two Hausers?
It'll be fun to watch.
I don't know what Kimoad's going to be.
He would always say, if it's not a MacGruber week, I think it's probably a Gitmo week for me.
I gotta go. I just wanted to check in on you guys. Oh, what are you up to, man? Everyone wants to know why you're too busy. Because I host a talk show. It's hard to do both. No, you're the one who wanted to do the podcast. Get your priorities straight. I know. I did agree to it when there was a strike, and it obviously ended a lot sooner than I thought it would.
What hat are you wearing, Jorma?
It's the weirdest Mets hat I've ever seen. Is that the font for the Mets? I would believe it was for the Metropolitan Opera.
Today's is a disaster. It's one of those days where... It's really... It's a bad one. I mean, I'm like 10 away. I hated it.
Oh, I see. When I'm around, Andy can sort of one-eye on the bee, but... Yeah, but today it's a problem.
The thing I wanted to come on and say, and then I'm going to hang up immediately, is I love you guys.
Just one quade. Great point, Sandy.
No. You three have done a podcast equivalent in the past. You did a DVD commentary for your fantastic film, Popstar. And someone in our YouTube comments wrote this. I recently listened to the Popstar DVD commentary, and it's very funny how close it is to the vibe of the podcast. Akiva tries to keep the train on the tracks. Andy doesn't want to be there.
And Yorm is calling in from a phone submerged in water. Is that how you three remembered the DVD commentary? I'll give you six minutes for your answer. I'm so annoyed how well this is working.
Got to make room for Brunson stats. Andy, we had multiple comments about Upside Down Naked Skier. Most of our listeners agreed with you that it was an unfair cut based on how it played. Someone said their favorite comment in the last episode was when you, Andy, said you couldn't hear if Upside Down Naked Skier was playing.
But that, quote, might have been because my ears were full of blood, end quote. Someone also, though, asked a technical question. Andy, when you were upside down, do they hold the cue cards upside down, too? I'll give you two seconds for your answer.
And now I'll give you another minute if you would like to expand on that.
But your ears are full of blood.
Once again, great answer, Andy. And let me just say, your vibe is fantastic today. I feel like you finally got that job setting right. Whatever you did today, try to keep replicating it. Yorm. Yorm, you still with us, bud?
Okay, Yorm. Get ready to have your mind blown. And by the way, if you guys ever want to pause this pre-recording of me, I did work something out with Jeff earlier. The code word, if you want him to pause this, is just anyone of you scream, pause it, Jeff!
Sports nut. I'm up on that. Support for the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast comes from Airbnb. Oh, Akiva.
Or Bob Marley even. Like any live concert you ever heard of any Rasta reggae artist.
I think it was when she came back to do the second Shy Ronnie. She said that she had friends that had like a rhythm shop in Manhattan somewhere and that they loved Ross Trent and that she had watched it with them or something like that.
She said what they wanted to do, and it never came about, but I was so fucking hyped to do it, was to have Ross Trent be like the dude who's yelling out over like a mixtape throughout the whole time. You know what I mean? Yes, I. Yeah, exactly. No, Rihanna. Yeah.
Yes, that's what they wanted to put together, a real one. That's way funnier. With actually cool songs, but have me be like the Funkmaster Flex or whatever. Yeah, doing the pow, pow, pow, pow.
I was just, you know, doing research for this episode of the pod. But I will say, Seth, I didn't blink at it because I assumed you just meant the Chris Martin gist in your throat. Right. Down your throat. Into a down your throat. I see.
It's just like a... A staff? Yeah, like a walking staff. Okay, good. That's standard Ross culture stuff.
All right, do you want to talk about that background vocals there, Andy? Background vocals. We got Casey Wilson and Wig doing the background vocals, but the actual recording is... Maya Rudolph and my wife, Joanna Newsome. Really? Yes. So we were obviously all living together in the valley and Maya would come hang out a bunch because her and Paul were close by and Joanna was there.
So wait, so Joanna and Maya were the I3, but they were an I2. They were the I2. And they obviously made it sound a lot better than what we had and wrote their own harmonies and sounded fantastic. Like if you isolate those tracks, they actually sounded fucking fantastic.
Great. Absolutely. They're buds. So yes, who'd M is Capleton, who's a dance hall artist. Oh, wait.
Yes, but I think we immediately started vibing to the one that it was. But the one thing I'll say is we added horns, Keev. Do you remember? Yeah, you hummed them. I hummed the horn part.
Yeah, you went... Yeah, it's basically the Spider-Man.
Basically the Spider-Man theme song.
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
God, that is something. But who is that by? The Champion Sound? Well, they're Super Beagle. But I knew Champion Sound of Super Beagle first because it was on a Smith and Wesson song called Sound Boy Burial, which was one of my favorite rap songs in high school. Right, it was sampled on that.
I think it's worked out pretty good. Yeah, I guess that's true.
I knew he forgot.
Oh, it's even better that he can't hear me. Slandering. Well, I just wrapped, but I don't have my recording equipment. Are you at the house?
All right, see you. Oh, my God. If Yorm's life was a movie, he'd be like, I pulled off the heist, got away with the murder. It was the perfect crime. Now I'm going to walk to the police station and confess.
He could have pretended like, oh, I'm busy, but I'm calling in as contribute.
No, he is too honest. He is too honest. He's too honest slash forgot. All right, here we go.
Firepond Babylon is something that is said a lot. I think that's Capleton again. I was listening to a lot of Capleton at this time.
They don't like Babylon.
Living in the shanty dorm sucks so hard. It's so fucking disrespectful.
It's a nice dorm.
My roommate Nick is an ignorant bald head. So that's Rachel Lynn's- So what's bald head? Bald head is like a way of describing like a devil, white devil, basically. Okay, gotcha. Is how I would describe it.
And yes, this is Rachel Lynn who helped us with all our videos, brother Joe. He might have really been the college student still and been the one that got us into it. Oh, this might have been his actual dorm room.
Still there. Shout out Joe. We love Joe. So there he is. And we love Rach. Saw her at the 50th.
I mean, Chant Down Babylon is a Bob Marley song. Everyone knows that.
Great song. We all made a pipe out of a soda can. Yeah, Sprite can. Nice choice. Yeah, just mixing college stuff. Yeah.
You're a real kid. Oh, there's a kid. Yes. So here's excuse I.
Which I also had when I, by the way, I mean, I auditioned for SNL and did Ross Trent in the audition. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And it was a totally different version of it because it wasn't a song. It was like the way that you would have done it if it was a character in like the late 90s where it had a jingle.
And he was a guy who worked at an office and said, excuse I. It was these exact same jokes, but just with way less energy and a lot more space in between them.
But do you guys remember Tom Harkin?
Yeah, that's some Bob Marley. Everyone had the Bob Marley playing soccer poster in college.
Yes, I appreciated that.
I knew, there was a time I knew this a lot more.
Yes, that's a moment of him getting his dreads right and then realizing he's making his head smell bad.
Ross Trent is... Is the epilet episode? It's Cool Jacket. It is the episode.
Yeah, it's like white boy dreads traditionally are not well kept and are funky.
I'm sure there are white men out there who have nice dreads. I'm sure that exists. But Ross Trentz. But wait, so Skylarking, obviously, I can't believe I forgot this. It's Horace Andy, my main man. Oh, yeah.
Has a song called Skylarking. But the phrase Skylarking is used in many, many songs.
is more Capleton. He has a song called Jaja City, which is one of my favorite dancehall songs ever.
It actually looks small on my screen and I can't see their faces. Kevin, can you help us out? Matt Finkelstein, worked in talent, still has a big job at NBC.
The epiletisode. Let's go with the epiletisode.
This is Ross Trent taking the phrase crazy bald head literally. There's a song by Bob Marley called Crazy Bald Head. We're going to chase those crazy bald heads out of town.
He has no reason to dislike bald heads other than he keeps hearing it.
But that would be like a self-deprecating joke we would do.
I helped Amy write one line of that rap, and it was the least funny line in the whole thing. That's very nice of you to admit. I tried to make it like a good rhyme, but it was not a good laugh, and then I felt guilty afterwards.
Well, anyway, yeah, we were walking down the street and saw, I think we were driving past and you were like, stop!
I don't know if anyone called ahead, but we definitely just walked in.
Yeah, great. But this is maybe my favorite line in the song. Yeah, you toil. Me toil part-time at Jock Coldstone Creamery.
Every single part of it is wrong. It makes me happy.
I feel like Lee Scratch Perry did a lot of dub. Yeah. But yeah, it's like real stony stuff where it's a lot of like echo on everything. Roller skates again. Now, a DVD of Cool Runnings is one of two things that Jost pitched. Great. And here's what happened. We wrote the song in the summer when we were making our album. And then we started putting it together to do the video at SNL.
And we ourselves said, this could use a few more SNL audience-friendly jokes. And maybe even took it to the table or maybe just played it for Jost and a few people and they pitched us a few ideas. One of the things he pitched us was a DVD of Cool Runnings, which we were like, yes, perfect. Something that everyone watching will know what it is.
And it's also incredibly off base, so it fits the character.
We must have had something there. We did. I don't remember what it was, though. And then we'll talk about Murder, She Wrote in a second. But the other one is the biggest laugh in the audience by far, which is when Ross Trent walks past the real dreads and lowers his voice for Bike Path of Righteousness. And that was the other thing Joe's pitched.
And I remember after it aired, going up to him and being like, thank you, that was such a great pitch. And him going, oh, yeah.
And then I think it still is that on the album, right? Or no, did we go with the lower version? Oh, I don't know. That's a good question. I know we debated that. And what is it?
You would know it. I do.
I do know it. Yeah.
So, Seth, I was going to say, will you sing Murder, She Wrote real quick?
Okay. I mean, he's a sellout. That's a reunion, because they did all those other commercials together.
Yagga, yagga, yagga, yow.
I think that might be Anthony B. Yeah, it's Dancehall for sure.
Yeah, it's Anthony B.
I don't know where they all are now, but thank you. It was perfect.
But again, that is something Ross Trent would have in his wheelhouse, you know what I mean? Yeah, he definitely knows that book. That's a reference for him. Hoping his boobs come in, you know? There were about five seconds where we debated calling the song, Are You There, Ja? It's Me, Ross Trent. And then we were like, what are you talking about? It's way too long.
Oh, new location for our horn section.
Well, leaning into that, leaning into being nerdy.
I remember them being like, yeah, we're cool, it's funny. But then after we did the first take of it, them really laughing because they fully understood that They were like, we know this guy. Yeah.
No, they were great. Yeah.
so stan ahoy i think is michael rose from black uhuru yeah i think that's right yeah i can't remember at this time exactly but that's my memory of it oh because i also almost picture barrett and levy doing it in black roses but no quick thing uh in the most played section of the song it is uh on youtube it is definitely you walking by the uh
I wonder if we got a shot of me outside of Cold Stone first, Keev. Probably, in case we got the boot. Yeah.
And so this line is two songs. We're just smushing them all together at the end here, all stuff we love. Night Nurse is a song by Gregory Isaacs that we love. Plant the Corn is an Anthony B song. I think, is it called Plant the Corn or is it called Raid the Barn?
Yeah, Skiddily Woes, Barrington Levy. I mean, there's a hint of Ika Mouse throughout the song, but no overt reference in that same way. But if you thought Ika Mouse, you're not off.
It makes us so happy.
Yeah. And Ross Trent played good. Yeah. And we were happy. But we also knew going into it that Ross Trent was like, brimming with references that a normal SNL crowd might not immediately go crazy for.
A lot of the fun of it for us was just referencing reggae and dancehall songs we've loved throughout the years. Yeah. And doing it through the lens of so many... people that we actually would come across growing up in the Bay Area and going to UC Santa Cruz for college for two years and going to the Reggae on the River Festival in Northern California and et cetera, et cetera.
It was definitely like, this is a character in our lives and in our world. And it was our hope to sort of make this sort of the quintessential that guy song.
I think I talked about it in one of those SNL docs, but the story was me and my friends in high school, we went to Berkeley High School in the Bay. We're really into dance hall and reggae, as we've said a million times, but we went out to this city called Petaluma to see a show with this band, the Itals, who are, you know, roots reggae bands.
Not household names in the States, but we were obsessed with them, and it was so cool that they were playing this tiny venue out in Petaluma. And we went all out there together, and it was incredible, and they sounded great. And after the show, it was in this old movie theater almost, like old theater, and it had stairs in the lobby that went up to the bathrooms.
And me and all my friends were sitting in the stairwell there. And this dude who had been at the show walked out dressed like he was straight out of office space. You know what I mean? Like khakis tucked in, button up, and glasses. And he just walked up to us and clearly needed to get by. And he just went, excuse I. And we all were like, what? And we were just like, oh, of course. Yeah, man.
Went to the side and he walked up into the bathroom. And we were all just like. Oh my God, I can't fucking believe he just said that. We're like, is he actually Arasta? Or was he like thinking he was talking to us in a way we would understand? Because we were clearly just like young scrubby white kids and not Rastafarians. You know what I mean? But I guess maybe some of my friends a little bit.
I really, we still to this day don't know the answer. It was a big mystery. But that quote became like a running joke with my friend group for the next like 20 years or whatever. where we'd see each other and go, excuse I, in the most businessman voice you could come up with, basically.
I mean, so many white dudes we knew, and some of them we knew from elementary school. You know what I mean? Growing up in Berkeley and in the Bay Area. And then all of a sudden... And by the way, this was me for about a month and a half. All of a sudden... Big of you to admit that. They have dreads. You know what I'm saying?
And are like... I'm like, we're all smoking a little bit of weed, but all of a sudden... And I never did this level, but there would be people you know that were just speaking in patois and like basically saying they were Rastafarian. And you're just like, what? Like our parents hang out. Like it's not, you can't do that. You can't just do that.
Yes, yes. Who were adopting it as their personality as like a quirk in high school and college.
But also like because it's connected to the music, for them it's like being like, now I'm goth. You know what I mean? But I'm like, yeah, that's a religion though. Like, that's really crazy. You shouldn't be doing that. There's a lot that goes into that.
Yes. And also just any time a person like comes back after summer break and talks completely different. It's like a hilarious and sad thing.
Oh, my God. Yeah. The first time you're like white friend, you know, from elementary school is like I and I were going to go. And you're like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
And it's all just ripped from the records we like. You know what I mean? Like we all love that music. It's so fucking dope. And there's a million great records. And we were, it was like, we listened to hip hop. We listened to old soul and funk. We listened to reggae and dancehall. We listened to grunge. We listened to everything.
And there was a stretch of time where like, we really got deep into that and stayed into it. and it just stuck a little too sticky, I think, for a couple people.
Yeah, it was someone connected to the crew.
Yeah, had to be. We had to be on the quad.
He's betraying the entire thing right out of the gate by saying it wrong.
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Well, I guess everybody's in there on Monday at pitch. So everyone gets a chance to kind of look up there, even if they're not the type of cast or writer that just wanders into Lauren's often. Oh, the talent office, Kevin writes, also has a board with hosts and musical guests if you're the type that wanders into theirs.
Yeah, just depends what kind of employee you are, if you're the kind that goes in there and chats a lot or not.
We were definitely a more chat with Lorne right off the bat than most people because of Hot Rod.
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You think I haven't been humiliated enough already today with the Ben Stein thing? But I do feel like maybe D'Artagnan is a fourth guy that isn't one of them that shows up and kind of steals the show.
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Well, he's notorious for just ripping on people's outfits when they show up at the table.
They don't know you're not a vest guy and haven't been for 20 years. They don't know you well enough. I'll ask, though. Okay, bye. Bye. Goodbye.
A little bit of trivia on the John Malkovich one is if you watch those recent SNL docs, the four-parter Peacock one, there were sometimes really good like mini-DV looking footage of behind the scenes. And it was of this era. And it was all from that episode because there was a camera crew allowed to film a bunch behind the scenes.
Well, there's two things we're talking about. One was a documentary called Saturday Night from 10 years ago or more, right? That me and you saw, actually, Seth. Yes, we did, right. We were at South by Southwest for MacGruber. So this must've been 2010 or 2011 or something. And we went for MacGruber and then we were like, oh my God, that doc is airing. Let's go over and see ourselves in it.
And then went and then they kept asking questions. And then the moderator just looked up at us in the audience. It was like, can you guys answer these? And then we had to start answering questions, even though we were just ticket buyers in the crowd. But that footage got re-licensed into the docs from the 50th, from a month ago.
So it's the same footage.
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We also aren't in it almost at all, especially me and Jorm, because we were editing Jizz in My Pants the whole week. And every time the camera crew would come in, we would just stop because we didn't want them seeing it. And we would just, like, stare and do funny, like, we never let them see the process. We would stop the process and, like, look at the camera and be awkward.
So we're not in the doc at all because we didn't let them see.
You'd be like, hold on a second, guys. I've got to go get in this hot tub and do some bullshit. I'll be right back.
That's my part?
No, he jumped. I mean, the one that you were remembering was the hot tub.
Your part was in a hot tub fencing or something. Was I actually in the hot tub?
What's the first one you think of for him? I have mine, and it's not a joke.
Yeah, when someone says Malkovich, that isn't the first one I think of. I just have a specific one that comes to my mind. I just had one pop into my head.
Yeah. Yeah. Basically, it's 3D printing guns before 3D printers. He's like making it out of like a composite plasticky thing.
Yeah, exactly. It's got those weird springs. That movie, I must have been at just, I was definitely the right age for it where, you know, I had never seen other assassin movies like The Day of the Jackal or anything. And so I was just watching it, having my mind blown by every element of it. And it's genuinely good. And it's like weirdly funny. It has like real joke jokes in it.
Like, do you remember there's a scene with Clint Eastwood and Rene Russo? It's the sex scene. And the way it introduces, like it's a tracking shot on the floor with their legs as they're making their way across the bedroom undressing. And it could literally be a naked gun joke. Their clothes are coming off and then guns are coming off.
And then more guns and then more and then knives and like handcuffs. It's like a because they're both cops. And so it's like the amount of gear that comes off on the way to the bedroom is genuinely a joke played as a joke. Yeah. And the movie's deadly serious.
By the way, they didn't take the money from our charity. No. Yeah. He's being generous. But nice to hear from you again. And it was very memorable. We were at the Super Bowl. Of course we remember.
Don't open it back up.
Right.
Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That makes sense. Within the context of this podcast, it's a safe place, right? So I understand why the current exec is like, oh, that'd be fun to discuss it. And people within the podcast discussing is fun. But if it then catches on as a news story and then the thing is out there, then it is why they didn't want it airing in the first place. It's just happening now.
And I get that.
An accusation.
It's worth some investigation, I guess, is my point.
Like a follow-up comment might help from us. Like, wow, thanks. What was your favorite part? Something like that. That's what I mean by investigation.
Oh, yeah.
Did you guys call on Quaid Army? Weigh in. Get over to thewebby.com. Let's get those votes.
It was a reoccurring bit. Like even after lazy Sunday, when we had Parnell there, Parnell would be like, Oh, thanks for having me fellas. And if anybody here would like to fuck, and it was always verbatim, it had to be the exact same. There was a paragraph. Once a fuck me, I'll be a blah, blah, blah. Bad bitches only. Thank you.
Yeah, that was that one. Yeah. And it always, the Just Two Guys guys would do it like after their whole like, we like sports. Thank you. And they go, thank you. If anybody wants to fuck us, we'll be at every, multiple times in the show, it'd be on the screen. And then if you went. We always had one of our roadie PAs.
We basically made a T-shirt that said, I went to fuck the Lonely Island at blank, blank, blank, blank, blank. And it had blank spaces. And we would personally in Sharpie write in like the key information, like Pontiac, Metro PCS, Pontiac Superdome, the date. And if you went there, you should have been met with a random person with a big box of T-shirts to give you.
Yeah. Yeah. We were like by the hot dog stand in this thing and this thing. Yeah.
But there'd always be, there'd be a group. We'd get a photo from somebody being like, look at all these people.
Ooh.
Let's see it. There we are.
To keep on here. As a bit?
This whole time has been Bjork. I thought it was Danish, I'll be honest, the accent.
Oh, that's nice. Damn. I love that. Seth, I love that. So that's what a German speaking English sounds like. It didn't sound like jizz in my pants. Yeah.
Yeah, I guess let's commit.
It'll start with that voice note. The first thing would be us listening to that voice note and going, oh, shit, the clock's ticking.
MARK MANDELMAN- I like these international listeners. MARK MANDELMAN- Kyiv. MARK MANDELMAN- God. Yeah, I really would have to think for a second. Is there one that we would redo? I don't actually want to redo Like a Boss because it is what it is and it was very well received and we're very happy with it. But at the time... It is on those old cameras. Yeah, and I guess we haven't gotten to it yet.
But it was this weird in-between where we had made things like Jizz in My Pants that looked all fancy and new and 24 frames per second on the right kind of camera. And then Like a Boss, we were like, no, we'll do it the old way. But it actually kind of became almost the new way. Like we spent more money and we had more setups, but it still looked funky in that weird old way.
So it was neither here nor there a little bit. And I remember once I saw the budget for it, I was like, for that amount of money, we could have just done it the right way. And so that at the time I was like annoyed. I thought we could have done it better.
Exactly. And I don't, and as everyone knows, I like that stuff when it's intentional and you lean in, but it was not intentional.
And we can look into finding the clip and seeing if it's OK with people to let's take a look at it. We'll take a look. Yeah. Yeah.
He did Minority Report and then Queen's Gambit and moved right on to this.
I know. Well, you know Yorm's wife, Mari, is in it.
She's the mom in Queen's Gambit.
Just talking about Ross Trent, our voices were smooth like butter?
I remember right before we went on tour, we were like, is there stuff we're supposed to know so we don't lose our voice between shows and stuff? Yes. And we had one time where this woman, I forget her name, but who's very well known in those circles as a vocal coach.
just came to the rehearsal space and kind of spent 20 minutes with each of us just kind of confirming that we weren't going to blow our voices out.
And I remember one thing she said is like, if you're worried about like losing your breath and stuff, why don't you get on like your elliptical machine or treadmill or whatever you have at home and just try basically speed walking while you do all your songs to your phone, basically, and see if you can not lose your voice while you're doing stuff like that. That's for a live performance.
Yeah. And I don't know. Did we do it a little bit backstage? I think we barely did it. Yeah. We were too busy in the bathroom. You know what I mean? Whoa. Say more.
Oh, my God. Well, she went to a knockoff, obviously. Ours was only the highest grade fish.
The Jimmy Jam.
Yeah, I do remember that. I wonder if we have those. I wonder if I'd look in my iTunes if I'd find things like that.
Yeah, he's in the escape ship.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Wait, are they bifocals or are they just reading glasses?
My readers.
Oh, that's Zoom cutting it out, but it'll hear it on the... Yeah.
Yeah, they don't want anything cut out, so this is what they want.
Every year when like Merriam-Webster does their big announcement of the new word of the year, like slay or swag or whatever it ends up being. They drop like 10 words. Yeah, something else has to get dropped.
Yep. Doesn't make sense.
That doesn't make sense.
Am I? What time could you say jizz in Lancaster?
Your vest is interesting because vests are obviously have been very popular in Silicon Valley as like a tech bro thing, like the micro, whatever you call them, Patagonia style ones. And when you go to the Bay, every other person's in like either a fleece or a micro, what do you call it? But yours is not that. Yours is not a tech vest. No. Yours is like shiny nylon.
It's kind of baggy at the bottom. Like a windbreaker box cut windbreaker vest.
It looks like J. Rue the Damager could have worn it back in 98. Mm-hmm.
I always am. Yeah, you could come clean. You know what I mean? That one's just for Questlove. Seth Coact, I tried today. Unaccepted.
This is part of the Wokification of America, guys. Slays in there and Coact's gone. What's the world coming to?
We can't say anything.
Yeah. We don't know who taught you English. It could have been your German, but your English teacher had an English accent.
Usually it's when you're just in Lorne's office to ask him a question and you happen to glance up at the board and see that a new card is up there in the future and you go, oh, shit. Yes. It really is like that.
No one tells you. No one announces it. It's just none of your business. And then if you just happen to be in there, you might clock it.
Oh, what a pleasant guy. What a nice guy who just shows up. Yeah, I'm pretty happy. So, uh, who does our wonderful theme songs I know you've mentioned?
I have a request for Greg. Now you're doing an apple?
Well, part of it is I felt as though if we just winged it with this short, it would be a pretty dog episode. I think it's wunged it.
How much longer after was Classroom Instruments? That was for Popstar Press. Okay, so that said, whose idea was it to do that song as part of Classroom Instruments? Who came up with the arrangement? How many takes did you have to do? Was it difficult to sing without cursing? That was all them, right?
All right. Question answered. Thanks. I also just want to shout out Classroom Instruments. It's a fantastic late night bit. Agreed. And really inventive and unique and cool.
And again, I rewatched it. How would you describe it via text, Andy?
Shout out to Popstar. Check it out, guys.
Where has it been? Where have people streamed it when they've wanted to stream it?
You guys, your opening weekend really established that big wouldn't have to be much.
And you were even saying that before Suits was a hit on Netflix.
I remember I go, how is your opening weekend? And you said, it's not Suits. And I was like, the USA show? Yeah, it was like USA Suits numbers. Yeah.
Yeah, I think that's right. There's nothing terrible about it. It is totally fine. Did not make the final 64. I think it's interesting anytime I watch one where I don't actually remember what's going to happen because I don't think you guys made many that were forgettable.
Oh, great. He's to the quiet part of the apple.
All right, and I also apologize to everybody who has to get to work before 9.30 for the way Andy's behaving. Twisting my words. This is great because there's a question at the end of it, but it's a real right turn. It feels like a story with a question, so I'm just going to read it. This is from Jace. Hey, guys, huge fan.
I actually threw my boyfriend, who is now my husband, a Lonely Island birthday-themed party in 2011, and we all dressed up from our favorite short. The best part was the guys whose house who hosted had a deep-sea fishing boat in the front yard because he was from the Mississippi Coast Guard. So, of course, we all sang, I'm on a boat dressed as creeps having threesomes.
Anyways, I've got to know, what kind of job does Andy drink? What a great turn.
Whoa. Burn, really? An Alex Baze-esque burn from Yhorm.
Okay.
Yes. My memory, Keeve, was that she told me that that was the hottest she'd ever seen you was in I'm on a Boat. And I asked her to record a voice note.
Yeah, and they're not bad songs, but I agree. But let's get to that.
Also, I'd love to go back. Were you bummed, Keeve, when she was like, I think Keeve's hot. Now I'm going to do a list of other people I think are hot. Were you like, no, no, no, no, no.
Yeah, yeah, just Burns.
I was just shocked. Eddie Redmayne, I thought very handsome in Jackal. Haven't seen. It's good.
Allison Janney, that maybe is a deeper cut than Sipowitz in The Shower.
Oh, okay. Yeah, let's stick to the plan. Seth, take it away. Finally prepared for your job, Seth. We were saying, you know, you can't untoss a salad. And Keith and I could not come up with a similar expression, which is the one people use. A couple of listeners. You can't unring a bell. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. That's a classic. That one's the real one. That's the one.
Yeah, that's right.
I kind of wanted to like maybe teach him a lesson that like sometimes people are going to talk about jackals and it's not about you.
Jackals, everybody, corrections. Watch it on YouTube. It's the favorite thing I do in my late night talk show, and it's not even on TV.
Oh, they're hyenas.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Keep that. Hey, can you go back to just when Liz says Daniel Radcliffe? She puts a T on the end.
Yeah, maybe there's a Radcliffe.
Oh, oh, oh.
She was like, oh, she's into Keeves, so the regular Daniel Radcliffe is way too ripped for her.
It is really crystal clear.
It is really crystal clear who's who. I kind of like that. I want to think that like years ago, you guys weren't put together because you grew up together, but a manager put you together and he was like, look, here's how it works. What do you use it, Alvin? What do you use it, Simon? What do you use it, Theodore? That's how it works. You can't even blurs. Nobody likes it.
We're all three Alvins. You guys all thought you were Alvins.
Yeah, keep going, man.
Is it bad that I'm like, you know who I associate myself with? Dave.
Come on, you guys.
Oh my God, the amount. I will sometimes say to my kids, but you hear me, right? You hear me. I just am now, I'm like checking on your ears. Yeah. And they're like, yeah, we hear you.
I wanted to shout out Jeff, who's not a member of this pod and will not get a five-way split with us, but he's been compiling I'm on a boat questions over the course of this pod. And so it's been very helpful. All right. Stephen wrote this comment in September of 2024. As a 47 year old adult, I've always called them flippy floppies post I'm on a boat.
Uh, Alan Sepinwall, friend of the pod.
To me, it's one of the biggest cultural phrases the group you put out there to the masses. Any other examples come to mind that people say while you are walking around foggy London town or heading to the Indigo Girls? I feel like I mean, I know that flippy floppies is impossible not to think when I see a pair of flip flops now.
Yeah, I would say that's the opposite of what Steve was asking about.
I mean, weirdly, Quade Army is like top three right now.
I see, yeah.
Yeah, he's saying is there anything else from your stuff that is gone?
It's arduous.
We're like, half a peg, right? So good. Yeah. This is from Nikki. She even says, not a question, story. My son, Cohen, now 13. Huge Brooklyn Nine-Nine fan since he was seven or eight. He knows more about Brooklyn Nine-Nine than I've ever met. In grade four, dressed like Jake Peralta every day for months. Hot Rod is his Desert Island movie.
Anyway, about four or five years ago, I told him Andy was part of the Lone Lamb and they had songs he could listen to. He was beyond jazz. Lazy Sunday was the intro as I felt it was the most PG. He listened to it on repeat and I mean repeat. I love you guys, but it was brutal. Yeah.
Then he found a radio edit version of I'm on a Boat, which was cool because hearing my then nine-year-old singing about fucking a mermaid just wasn't in the cards. I'm on a Boat became the new Lazy Sunday, number one song on Spotify Roundup, whopping 300-plus listens. Oh, my God.
But then a few years ago, when he got a bit older, he came to me and laid out his case saying he was old and mature enough to handle the unedited version.
impressed with his moxie i led him later that night while he was having a shower and singing along to i'm on a boat uncut version and the part about the mermaid was nearing he sang right up to it paused and then continued when it was over so he did not sing good boy kid she said it was cute as hell anyway just wanted to pass along how much love lonely island into a greater stand comedy for her kids uh you guys have been a part of
We were looking for I'm on a boat censored and it's harder to find. That's a good tip.
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Do you think you can do it on just the title?
Sir Mix-a-Lot's Photoshop.
Yeah. See, you underestimated yourself.
That's a layup.
It's actually a... It's a Jost and someone.
I will say, it gets a little off in the beginning, but by the end, it's pretty delightful. Like, just because he's singing lyrics, new lyrics to the song. They also, early on, rhyme Fonder with Rounder, which hits my ears pretty bad. Yeah, it's unacceptable.
Gosh, 9.30. For our listeners, they're just gonna be blown away that you're at work at 9.30 in the morning.
Jerry and Carl return. I kind of forgot that post-Fartface, they would do another one. Oh. And what's this one? That means I also forgot that Forte can hear an audience and think that things are going any way other than how it's going in his brain.
It was still, Carol, hold my calls. There was not a phrase. It was all about that it was him, Bill, and Alec were trying to schedule a meeting. And I would say the comedy was about what they had planned that they couldn't all meet on those days. It's a little bit, you know what, you should watch it, Andy, because I think it'll really plug into your frustrations on us scheduling the pod.
Will comes out with a tiny tuft of hair on the front of his bald head. And then way later in the sketch than you think they would address it, he says...
What patience. I wouldn't say it plays, but there's some really good writing in it. At one point they say, how's Saturday for you? And Forte says, oh, that depends. How long does an autopsy take? And Bill says, I don't know, about four hours? And he goes, four times five? No, Saturday's not gonna work.
And I will say, based on the reaction, I feel like maybe it does prove the point that not everybody knows what a Gloriol is. And then we got a real quick Seth's Corner. Norm?
Fourth Jonas Brother. Alec played the fourth Jonas Brother. It's about as down the middle as Sir Mix-a-Lots Photoshop. We'll leave it at that. All right, here we go. What is the name of this digital short again? Property of the Queen. Property of the Queen. Because that's the name of the band. I just want to start by saying, and then I'll turn it over to you guys.
Stephen Bochco and Bob Iger literally drew sketches that they passed back and forth to figure out what was and wasn't allowable. They could say asshole, but not fuck. And it was only a brief window where they were allowed to say shit. Then something changed the game, which has a nice little tie into the podcast. Then Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake happened at the Super Bowl halftime show.
The really funny thing about this short is that it's the first short after I'm on a boat. That is really funny. Like I'm on a boat is so big and beautiful and an immediate hit. And it is such a I mean, I really kind of want everybody who writes comedy to know that the biggest mistake you can make is thinking of the last thing you do is going to be the next thing you do.
Like it's never it's not any easier to do it after you did a good one.
God, I didn't remember that part. Because they were good. They're like good. I was going to compliment you guys and now I'm very happy that I can give it to someone else.
Yeah. Yeah. I think a different version of this where maybe they don't come in with this catalog of music you write through the years, different styles.
They say, hey, Andy, what's up? And you say, the jig. The jig is up.
Because you've caught them dead to rights. We don't know why. You take out a VHS tape. And then there's a very nice laugh where you lean down and there's only a DVD player.
I don't think it is online, and I don't quite know why.
It would be fun to see how many less views it has than the finished sauna song.
I will say a lot of compliments on Stop Start in the YouTube comments.
And suddenly the language and the nudity got dialed way back. Thank God. Wow. I got more. And yes, Sylvia is giving Sipowitz a handy.
Yeah, let's do it.
Did you guys also find it haunting when you realized now that's a DVD player is as old as a VHS player was when you made this? Yeah, people still wouldn't understand what that other machine is either.
As Dennis Franz says, his line is, that's sure going to be clean.
They do look a little bit now, knowing that. Maybe they are Highlanders.
And then the name of, hold on, I got to look it up again. The Finnish. There was a good song. I want to give them their shout out.
Yeah, I did think that was. And again, if it's credit to them, I'm impressed. It is. Mercifully short, that one. Yeah.
A little extreme, right? Is that what we're doing here? Yeah, a little more than we're doing.
By the way, David Milch, NYPD Blue Writer, went on to do Deadwood. So one of the great TV writers of all time. Also, Sipowitz was a native New Yorker on the show. They never bothered to explain his Chicago accent. Sepinwall coming with the heat. And you can read, Sepinwall did write a fantastic book, and I feel like it's only fair to plug it.
Yeah. I mean, Bill, not a lot to work with and just an exceptional delivery and gets a nice laugh. Basically one of his old buddies from Tulsa in a wizard costume with a beard.
I think it's so funny you said that when you're like, well, how does somebody like Bill Hader turn out to be Bill Hader? And I think the answer is like he's from Tulsa and his best friend was a wizard. Just like a laid back wizard. All right, so, you know, it is what it is.
And it also is a very nice host service. I'm sorry, not host service, musical guest service. And I think it was a show where people were really excited to see them. I mean, it's kind of weird. They were, you know, in a sketch, and then also in a short, and then also had two songs. Credit to Alec for making room for that.
Also, Jack McBrayer is in the monologue because the monologue is about 30 Rock. And I believe that's when Jack met the Jonas Brothers, and they are all friends to this day. In fact, they're such good friends that we did a day drinking with the Jonas Brothers, with me, my brother, and Jack McBrayer. Oh, right. I remember that.
Oh, now they're fine. Yeah, Vin's fine now. At the time, not okay. Well, I mean, I feel like that's about as fast as we're ever going to go through a short, but I feel like there was some real meat on the bone before that. You know what?
It's No Ifs, Ands, But Plenty of Buts, The NYPD Blue Story. Oh, my God. So he's well-versed. By the way, I made up the title. That's not the title. Oh, damn it. But is it too late to change it? Why didn't you just leave it at that? You bid on that harder than you chow down on that apple, Sam Berg. Did someone say apple? Apple.
Wait, why is A.M.P.M. too much good stuff?
You're remaking the Robin Williams movie of Moscow and the Hudson, but you're just defecting from breakfast. That's right. If you're loco.
We already made a hit ad for Doritos. We like doing ads we don't get paid for.
I remember, now that you mention it, Keith, they realized last minute they needed Horsons and nobody could find it. And Lorne was like, I'll get it. And he was like running down the hallway. It was like Joan Cusack in broadcast news. And he had to, like, just, like, dodging people. It's in my desk. And it was just.
It's got to be in here somewhere. And he just, I mean, I remember he made it. And it's maybe the happiest. Like, second to the 50th, it's the happiest I've seen him. Like, he was like, I can't believe I got it.
I mean, Andy, come on. The morning pod worked out well for you. This is it. This is great. Let's always do it this early. This is great. Work it out for me, I'll tell you that.
yeah New York 130 I feel like Andy was in such a good mood about this Lorne bit he forgot he was on a pod for a second and then you brought him don't say it I said it and I the light just went out of his eyes he was like oh right that's what this is yeah right fuck you guys that's right It was like the end of the movie Brazil where you think Jonathan Braz escaped and then you're like, oh.
Spoiler! Yeah, come on. Well, it was a pleasure. That was really fun. All right. Love you guys. Love you, buds.
Oh, this is so good. I'm running on fumes. 7-Eleven did write a great book called The Revolution Was Televised that I highly recommend. So I do want to give a shout out. Another thing that somebody just in the comments said, have you guys seen the Eurovision song from Finland? No. This year?
Should we watch the Finland one right now? Yeah, I'm going to ask Jeff to screen share and show it, because there's a couple things. One, somebody said, first of all, it's three dudes. Looks like it could be the Lonely Island from Finland. One of them fully looks like the creep, like he's dressed from the music video The Creep.
And also, again, tie into Jorm's time away from us, it's called Barabarabastu, which means just sauna. Yeah. Wow. Does it really? Yeah. Yeah, well, they do love it. It's basically a Lonely Island comedy song.
Wait, so Greg Chun, I have a request. Can you guys get to him? I would like a song, if he's willing to, inspired by the Frasier theme. Ooh, I love that. Just a nice little Lonely Island jingle.
They are from Finland. They're part of the Swedish minority in Finland. So they are Swedish dudes, but they were the Finnish entry for Eurovision. Sick. And they finished fourth overall. The song has gone number one in both Sweden and Finland.
And the video, which is from two months ago, that video I just sent, has 16 million views.
No, I think that was it. That looked like Euro. They finished fourth.
Oh, maybe it's two weeks ago. I think that's from Eurovision, though.
Well... Here's just a Kevin sent us a translation. The clock strikes. Now is the time. All worries will soon disappear. The best cure for body and soul for wood paneled walls. A little on the nose. We're going to have a sauna sauna steam up and release all stress today. Sauna brothers. We're the ones who glow 100 degrees. Well, then just having a sauna sauna throw water on.
So the sweat just whirls around. Oh, sauna bathing. Yeah, we're going to have a sauna sauna steam up. You know, a lot of these lyrics would tie in very nicely to the Dennis Franz shower scene.
So anyway, they crushed it. Congratulations. And also thank you for the listener who suggested we watch that because that was a good time.
Now that I realize that English was a little wonky. I think you should check out this new video. His video you should watch.
I don't know.
Now I'm going to choose your own adventure for you guys. Do you want questions we received about I'm on a boat over the course of this podcast? Or do you want to move on to the Alec Baldwin episode in the short?
Yeah. All right. This is interesting. Greetings from Australia. This is Matt. Big fan of everything you do. I have a question for the Lonely Island. I just noticed in the video for I'm on a Boat when T-Pain sings Poseidon, look at me. The portrait of Poseidon on the wall is from the 2002 video game Age of Mythology, which I played when I was a kid.
By all means, have a stranger ask.
Was someone else a fan of the game or did someone just take one of the first pictures that came up on Google?
Yeah, I'm sure it's fine. All right, here we go. I absolutely love the podcast. I look forward to it every week. I want to ask you to address the two performances on Jimmy Fallon, the full performance and the classroom instruments performance. Full performance with The Roots, Jimmy introduces you and says it's your live debut. Please go into detail about what that was like.
What was it like performing with The Roots? Had you met them before? How did you decide to go so hard at YORM?
Yeah, old-timey trumpet. Like it's like a French horn, though. Celine Dion.
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Hey, there were just a couple sketches I wanted to mention that I completely forgot about. One is called Clear Ripe, and it's Wig doing a commercial for basically like an invisible retainer that you can't see. And she's talking about how great it is, but you can definitely see it.
Hey, fellas. Hi. What up? We're going to talk about two episodes. One episode has two shorts, but there's an episode with no shorts I want to talk about as well, but just a little bit of housekeeping off the top. Hit us. From the comments, people were very excited about the mention of the Phoenix Theater in Ross Trent.
And she has to keep stopping while she's talking just to either keep it in her mouth or just swallow the saliva that's building up. Yeah. And it's a real tour de force-y wig performance. And it's also so great because I feel as though it would be a pre-tape today. And the fact that it's live makes it just a delight because she has the audience completely on a string.
And she is taking longer and longer each time she has to pause mid-sentence to sort of manage her mouth.
I do remember that performance, yes. And then Tim McGraw comes out at the end, and she's definitely hallucinating the commercial.
You got to Google Clear Right. And then Dateline. You know, Dateline was haters. Keith Morrison, just always great.
I feel like that was a very fun impression that was right up Bill's alley. Yes. And then another crazy thing in this sketch, we obviously talked about Jeff Montgomery and the Halloween show, the Jon Hamm Halloween show, and what a great episode that was and what a perfect sketch it is. Only a couple episodes later, Jeff Montgomery is back in Trick or Turkey. Oh.
And now it is immediately abandoned the perfect premise of a sex offender dressing like a sex offender for Halloween. And now it's just a crazy sketch where Forte is at somebody's Thanksgiving table. He's actually invited. He's invited into the room. He's not invited. It turns out like very quickly, nobody knows why he's there.
And it's a lot of like, who knows how people get to Thanksgiving dinner.
Yeah, in Petaluma. Everybody was sort of shouting out in the comics, oh my God, the Phoenix. I love that place. I can't believe they mentioned it.
The end of this sketch is that he ate the family dog. It does not play in the same way that the first one played. But it aired. It aired. That's all that matters.
Did it air? All right, so now we're moving on. Tim McGraw also, what a delightful person to be around. Okay, guys, it's the Malkovich Show, and it's a really, what a pairing of digital shorts. We have Virginia Horson's Pony Express. and we have Jizz in My Pants. Which one aired first? Virginia Horson. Virginia. Yeah, Virginia.
And now, is the reason that Jizz in My Pants is so dirty?
One of our friends released an album this week. And I feel like we should give a quick shout out to Kyle Mooney.
Put down your phone. What is the name of that song?
Now, what are the odds, when you guys walked out of the room, what are the odds that Lauren and Jeff had this conversation? Yeah.
Yeah. Kyle Mooney, I highly recommend first going to watch a YouTube video, which is basically a release video talking about the release of his album. The album is called The Real Me. Yeah. It's dry as a bone. Dry as a bone. So really, the cover is great. It does look like a singer-songwriter album from the 70s. It's a beautifully taken photograph.
You can just let them think it's piss. That's a weird choice. You don't have to do that.
The Birds and the Bees. This was also in your Sex Ed album called The Birds and the Bees. You guys repurposed this for that.
Yes.
That's funny. I would not know that, Andy. Do you think that's true, that even the glossy videos we see, someone had to borrow a car?
New York City, baby.
Andy just threw his phone, mid-spelling bee, Andy just threw his phone over his shoulder.
fucking clean too unlike you who didn't specify meaning you used hints hey can I ask just because I think it's a fun one and I'll maybe give Keev control can we watch it all together and Keev maybe you stop and start as we go yep sure I have not I don't know did any of you guys rewatch it
No. I rewatched it. And let me just say, because this is not a visual medium, Andy and Jorm both look handsome. What? In a way that would be problematic when I got my memento tattoo.
My favorite thing about the release video is he's talking about he finally gets to show the real him. And then he keeps having you hear his side of a conversation where it seems like maybe his manager is angrily calling and saying, you can't let people see the real you. And it's a delight. Somebody asked why Single Ladies isn't online and it is music clearance. Oh, I didn't know it wasn't.
You're both really handsome.
People are very happy about the mnemonic device.
A lot of people have just been writing, even on my regular show comment section, people just write, Seth has teeth now. Sorry. I feel like if graffiti came back and I was like tagging subway cars, that would be my tag now.
So we're going to do a watch together. But first, give me your inspiration for your look and your sound.
What was that one from?
I love the streets too. This is a case where I'm not, well, no, I don't think liking the streets doesn't make you a turbo white. No. It might actually make you. Streets is great. Super turbo white. Just makes you a British turbo white. Yeah.
I didn't actually double check this person's work, but I assume our listeners are good enough at Googling.
And how quickly did you guys come up with the idea that basically each verse would get shorter due to the fact that the releases were coming?
Yeah, either that or just like zit in it. Just don't do medium. Never do medium. Never do medium.
We'll get there. We'll get there. We'll get there. Stop teasing it. Yeah. And now. Teasing my pants. Yeah, so let's watch. Keeve, take over. Let's watch this bad boy. All right. You guys are so handsome.
It is. You guys are immediately handsome. This is not a bit. They're immediately handsome.
You look as though you have had a stroke. Is that what you mean? Yeah, sure.
Yeah. And then somebody wrote this comment, which I just enjoyed the wording. Excuse I, Seth, I had to stop the episode to comment and say that you are a turbo white bald head for not thinking Ross Trent was criterion.
But it also then is very helpful to the premise of the thing, which is you're about to jizz in your pants. So you had to start from a place of very cool and cocksure.
Who are these confident gents?
Molly Sims? Oh, yeah.
Molly Sims, perfect casting. Immediately looks like Molly Sims.
Yeah, very well phrased. Seth, by the way, your shirt is on the way. I designed it. It's coming. Oh, great. I mean, that would be your move to actually make the shirt. Yeah. I do fully believe you.
It's really great how quickly you blame her and then threaten her.
It's your fault. And then if you tell anyone, I'll tell them you're a slut.
But it's really, it's also very, the end of the verse being like, and I'll go home and change is great. Thanks. Like you're filling your head on just like the logistics of the rest of your night. Yeah.
And can I just say, I really like grocery and mostly. Yeah, that's a good one. Yes. Yorm's good with the British stuff.
Mostly. Jamie Lynn Sigler is now our next cameo. Also just wonderful. It was so great.
How did this one come about? Was it the same thing? You were just like, do you think she'd do it? I have no clue.
It is also great. I mean, he's just playing a guy. He's a janitor. We're basically implying that his job is going to be to clean up Yorm's jizz. And I just really want to layer in how cool it was that he was a hard yes on this. A lot of people might say, what's the part? And then, as you explained it, be like, I don't want to do that.
Speaking of quades, there was a very long comment from a gentleman who asked if we could give a shout out for his daughter's birthday in a future podcast. Her name is Susie. And then her dad, whose name is Gabe, wrote a long email about. And again, who knows if this is true or not, but it does seem like they're big fans of The Lonely Island.
Let's not bury, before we continue, let's not bury that what made your jizz was that she said cash or credit.
Support for the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast comes from Airbnb. I was very excited when my brother finally got married. He waited a very long time to do it. So long that I had children. And then I had to bring my children to his wedding. And I didn't want to have my children in a hotel room. And we were really lucky that there was an Airbnb.
nearby so that I didn't have to have my kids at the hotel where everybody was loud and staying up late. And instead, they got to stay at a wonderful A-frame. And if you don't have kids, let me tell you, they love it when a house is shaped like a letter. It was fantastic. We had a great time. They did not wake us up early because they had their own rooms.
And it was just so much better than being in a common space with everybody who was in full revelry for my brother's wedding. Hey, Yoram, were you at that wedding? Oh, no, I wasn't invited. So, you know what? Thanks to my brother for finally getting married. And more importantly, thanks to Airbnb.
I just saw that number. That seems insane. I was like, whoa, is that right? Pretty good.
And he did say, for her birthday, I got her and myself matching shirts with Andy's face from the famous SNL skit, Cuado. With the caption, hey Quade, got any smints? Oh my God. If you were walking down the street, Andy, and saw a father-daughter wearing t-shirts that said, hey, Quaid, got any smits, would you?
That is one of my favorite Lonely Island lines. And I was so happy when I rewatched it earlier today. And I was like, oh, God, I always remember. Because, again, it's not just that.
And it was, if I recall, it was a horror film. And you're like, oh, if you recall, because I feel like you knew based on how you said Sora.
Oh, is that how they say it?
They're from a part of England where that's how they say it.
Were you so excited about being in a Mercedes and driving it that you almost jizzed just independent of that?
I think you're rocking it pretty good, bud. Thanks, man. Thanks. Yeah. I got no issue.
That's fine. Leave in that part.
Release the tape. He's got one that he can't tell you, but he's told us already. And Andy stopped him from telling us again.
So no visual effects. That means practical jizz. Practical jizz.
All right, so this is just a comment.
Also, I really like, Joram, just on a costuming note, that you've taken a bow tie off recently. Do you have an untied bow tie?
Yeah, happy birthday to Susie.
tuxedo kind of vibe like a colonial soldier or something yeah yeah yeah almost like a sergeant peppers undershirt but if it was like a less bright color yeah it's just fun to imagine this guy just like rocked a night where he was just a fashion icon and then just a cool breeze
No one had to know that, Keeve. This could have been a totally different location. I do like that the end of Sixth Sense made you jizz in your pants.
So spoilers are a roller coaster, you're saying? Of like, it's fine and then it's not? I think it's a wonderful point. Yeah, there's an arc. And I think Keeve's right. That at some point it becomes not okay.
I'm going to also jump in to say, if you're watching Sixth Sense, you might think, based on what Andy said here, that he dies at the end. You know what I mean? Well, don't spoil it further. Oh, yeah, now.
I mean, Righteous Kill. Righteous Kill on Quaid Army. Oh, Righteous Kill.
That was where Betsy Torres drew the line. She's like, you can have one or the other. You can either have jizz or you can ruin Sixth Sense.
Oh, I have, this just jogged my memory. We showed up late to Sixth Sense. And so we missed the first scene. Oh. And I remember it was me and my friend, Jill Benjamin, who we were in Amsterdam and we just got a little bit late. And it wasn't until the second time I saw Sixth Sense that I realized, ow. Yeah.
The first scene is him, Wahlberg, right? Donnie Wahlberg?
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Back then. Back then. And then you hear he says, my brother wants me to say hi to your mother. Oh, that's it. And then you hear a gunshot and it cuts to. All right. I'm hitting play. Oh, wait. Hey, can we just take a screen grab, though, of when you paused it? What we're all seeing right now is just a fantastic Andy face. This is maybe one of your best.
No notes.
I like that when Jorm is having a grape, he seems to be in a wine shop. He's not eating the grape at a grocery store.
I mean, jizz in my pants makes me laugh on premise. That made me laugh on just tickling my ear.
No, no, we have a platinum record on that.
And is that on that song or that album?
Because it's not, you're not like funny platinum. You're platinum platinum, you know?
Yeah, that's way funnier than if they gave you, like, a goofy, like, platinum fucking rubber chicken or something.
Platinum rubber chicken?
That's the thing. Comedians, you're like, what would be funny to give him? The fucking realest shit is the funniest.
Everything is awesome. Yeah.
And then I remember Handlebar and Lobster Claw is a copper piece of shit.
And when you pick it up, your finger, it's soft clay. It's not cooked. To even pick it up shows that you put your hands on it.
And then they come in and they say, like, you touched it. And you're like, no, I didn't. And they're like, your fucking fingerprints are...
You're like, get out of my house. And they're like, no, you touched it.
Who? Wait, Virginia Horson. Who came up with that name? I think that was all Kiva.
That's a real best of Jost to come in and be like, hey, remember that thing you did about balloon rides? I was thinking you could do Pony Express next.
Yeah.
It's really good. I mean, put in a long list of Kristen Wiig's tour de forces. She's a delight. The way she walks. It's so like Akiva.
I like that her hair is just a mess. Yeah. Like there's a nice braid, but the rest of it's just a disaster. She just seems like, and then the weird thing is twice she plays male characters who ask her to mail something for them.
So then they flirt. So she's flirting with a male and then she seems super into it. That also takes a lot of unpacking.
No, we didn't see it. We saw the back of it. We saw her reaction to the painting. But in the Will one, you actually saw the painting.
Whoa, whoa. Everybody needs to just stop what you're doing and watch Virginia Horson's Pony Express because it is very fun.
I do feel like 40 years from now, Keeve is like barking over like a big desk in a studio being like, we did jizz that week. And I still have time for Virginia Horson. And you're telling me you can't make your days?
Yeah, when you take over SNL.
Somebody tell these kids I did jizz and Horson in the same week.
And then you're reminding everybody like, you know who the DJ was in Jizz. It was a character I played. It wasn't me. Character. What was that guy's name? Gray shirt DJ.
We're going to have this same problem again, which we're just going to have to pick up next week because I know we're running short on time. We've done, this is a full app. This is a chock full app. It's a full app, but I would like, we're going to have to do some cleanup because there's a lot to talk about the Malkovich episode. It is for me.
Doesn't hurt? I love you guys.
Love you.
Wow.
Big app.
Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast. We just got off to the best start and we had to stop Jorm because we thought everybody here should hear it as well.
We decided to cut bait on it so we never smoothed it out. My favorite sound design is the clapping when you guys come in. They're so unenthused. Just like a classroom clapping.
But you got a perfect, perfect direction there. So Andy, should you have kept it in or was it a good cut?
You have been red hot.
It's spelled M-I-S-O?
No, genuinely. I feel as though you've been the glue guy the last couple episodes, Jorm.
Did Hitler ever say miso horny spelled M-I-S-O? I think the waiter that night ran into the kitchen and was like, the Quaid Army's here. And just FYI, they have definitely noticed the historical figure saying miso horny, and I bet it's going to turn up in one of their shorts. Hey, this is just a tie-in, and I kind of feel like I should have started with this.
I went day drinking with Paul Rudd yesterday. Oh, fun. How'd it go? I'm so hungover.
I've been to the Paul Rudd bar, and I feel like I would remember if I saw it. Did you go to the bathroom in there? It could have been in the bathroom. I did go in the bathroom.
But then, you just, you are a collector of people, Jorm.
How many times in your life, Andy, or what percentage of the time when people say, I went to the bathroom, do you feel you say number one or number two? Do you feel like it's 95% or higher?
I think that's probably right.
Yeah.
Yeah. Oh, so people you don't know well, there's a higher likelihood you would say. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You might slow down with people who've said it to you so many times it feels hackneyed.
But the people you collect are like Mad Lib entries.
All right, so we just loop back to Everyone's a Critic. We do have a Jon Hamm voice note. We asked for Jon to record a voice note. Oh. Oh, and let me add, he's coming back to host. Yes. Yes, SNL, not this. How many times is that? This will be his fourth time. He did three in three years, and it's been a real gap. And it's very exciting that he's back. He was one of the best to ever do it.
Let's hear his note.
Thank you.
Only problem with that very sweet message is what we asked John is, did you remember that Andy had a shitty costume for the Mad Men thing? And did you remember that Akiva didn't show up? So we will be needing a second voice note. That'll be a follow-up, Hammer. Don't just freestyle. We asked you questions.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then if you could also, with your phone, get a voice note from Lauren asking if he knows that this is a podcast.
Really? All right. Well, I'm so happy he's coming back to host. You know who else is coming back to host?
An equally long break. Jack Black. Jack Black.
Awesome. It's just like an 18-year break or something crazy. Yeah. Hey, Tim McGraw, Ludacris, and T-Pain. And then we're going to get to the Malkovich episode, which has two shorts. Tim McGraw. Oh, there was a Blizzard man. Blizz showed up. Yeah. We didn't do any shorts? Is that right? Yeah, there was nothing. There was no short. T-Pain was in Blizzard Man. Was he? Who was the musical guest?
So the musical guest was Ludacris and T-Pain. Got it.
First song was definitely both, and I can't remember the second. But the thrust of this Blizzard Man is that T-Pain is finding out he's being replaced by Blizzard Man.
Gotcha. So you directed a film in the great nation of Finland. You had enough time while you're doing this to befriend a shaman and his clairvoyant wife. Yes. And now it sounds as though you're running an illegal spa out of your home.
What'd it do? Is it the first Blizzard Man? Is it the first Blizzard Man? Wait, is it the first Blizzard Man? No, we wouldn't have done. No, it wasn't the first Blizzard Man because Tim McGraw joins as your manager and I feel like it feels very much like a second one.
I think it maybe was, yeah.
When he hosted, when he hosted in 2006. That's why I got confused. Some of these lyrics are pretty good. I'm jumping ahead now. I mean, I really like the second Blizz. The Chris Blizzard Man.
We always would, yeah. But didn't give him writing credit, apparently. There's a thing about Liz that I want to give him credit for because he, later in the song, I dig smooching babes, I squeeze their butts. And, you know, that's a little problematic, except his very next line, if they give their consent.
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And then you talked about laying over multiple tracks. There's that great moment at the table where you say, hell yeah, motherfucker, and then six of you do it. And Shoemaker was saying, I can't believe you haven't done that before. And you were saying, not technically possible back in your day?
I thought it was just perfectly perfect height for that dude. Yeah, it made sense for his character. That's what that dude wanted everybody to see.
It is very funny that it was not originally written to have a wife in it because it is so perfect. I love the reveal, just knowing that Charli XCX was standing behind you.
It's just really funny to think about, like, a giant musical superstar at that level, like, agreeing to do something like this, and then her reveal is just sort of, like, crouching behind Andy.
It's the best. Just the best.
She was as good as anyone we've ever worked with, certainly. I made a note about that, Keeve, because that, you know, because basically she's, it's a close-up of her doing that piggy, piggy, babe in the city thing. When I smell bacon, I won't get it right. But the way her face on Giddy is such a performance.
Oh, yeah, when she's creeping down with the tape measure? Just perfect.
Agreed. My favorite bit of writing in the entire thing is the extra syllable in invented. That's 80 as well. Invented it.
I'm about to snitch like I invented it.
It's because you feel like you, you think you heard it wrong or a mistake was made. And then you're like, no, it's just the funniest way to say it.
That's a great diva shot of getting, like, on the porch, getting you guys dancing.
So you said there was a couple. You picked this one for Charlie, obviously, out of a few. What was the reason you were like, this is the one for Charlie?
I mentioned Sabrina Carpenter does have that, like, new pop song thing, too, where it's, like, very, like, bubblegum-y sounding, but also a little hard. Like, you know, having the motherfuckers in there, like, catches you off guard because you thought it was a different kind of song.
But I do feel like that's a thing that, like, these really great new modern pop singers are doing, where they kind of trick you in with, like, a, I don't know, like, a softer sound, and then they, like... It's really funny and fun.
I was very excited to hear without the beeps, bleeps. The bleeps, the sweeps, and the creeps, baseballs. Bleeps, the sweeps. But even with the bleeps, I heard motherfucker.
Yeah. Yeah, that's good. Did you always know it was going to be handcuffs on white guy, white lady, Girl Scout, dog? No.
and like tiny and a tiny like circus setup you would have for like trained dogs and they managed to get it in like three hours like the ferrets were like limp stuffed animals yeah they were like limp stuffed animals I was like they don't have to she was like do they need to look like taxidermied ferrets I'm like no for this joke it's fine if they're like stuffed animal ferrets oh by the way Seth congrats on all your success yeah love corrections yeah not just corrections the show too congrats man
Gotcha. So you needed somebody to do one verse at the end.
You know, it's so nice. I feel like when Jorm is not here, a door is open for me to receive a little incoming.
My only feedback is from Shoemaker, who enjoyed it a great deal. But also said that at one point, Jorma said something that made no sense. I mean, you can't go wrong with Oliphant. I think it's very funny that the core of Jorm is such sweetness that he both believes he got away with it, and also because he didn't tell us in the moment, we had faith in him that he wasn't drunk.
I was actually, I have a good Yoram story I was thinking about this weekend, which is I was in Pittsburgh this last weekend with my parents and my brother. We go to a football game once a year. And we one time did it when Mari, Yoram's wife, was shooting the Mr. Rogers movie. So they were living in Pittsburgh.
And it, I reached out to your arm. I'm like, Hey, uh, we're all going out to dinner. Do you want to join us? And he was like, and so he came to dinner and I told him it was my mom's birthday. Now your arm has never met my mom or like met her in passing, but he brought her a birthday present that I still have, which is, what's it like when they make paint t-shirts in the mall? Airbrushed.
Airbrush. Airbrush. He had gotten a picture of my mom and he got a giant, like a XXL white t-shirt with an airbrushed picture of my mom's face that just, and then it said, geez, move in silence. Yeah, that's good. And the best part of it was just my mom, who was so sweet and couldn't believe someone got her a gift, trying to process what the reaction to it should be.
And then my mom was like, what is G for? Is it for grandma? I go, I don't think it's for anything, mom. It's for gangsters. It's for gangsters. But I'm like, I don't think like, don't think that this was like Yorm thinking about what would fit for Hillary. Oh yeah, Gammy. It's just, what's the funniest? It's so funny. And it's so big. It's like, you could fly it as a flag on a ship.
And I remember at the end of the week, my mom was like, do you maybe want this?
You know what? I feel as though the best thing to say here is honesty. It was the one thing I did not understand as well.
Yeah. And I should say, even though she obviously is in less of it, she does feel like she's all over it.
And then you got Jorma's phone guy in to do a sound test.
The one that doesn't have any beers. A couple of other things I enjoyed. I like just the sort of indictment of a certain kind of clothes in this quilted vest and salmon pants. I think did not do well. I also liked that she had flowers on her raincoat at the end. Like that, her coat sucks so much. Yeah.
You know what I mean? Yeah. It does feel like a two-hander because you guys finished together. And so it's very well done. When did you guys write this one?
I also really like that you, in your head, everybody knows it's you, but they can't prove it because you are always anonymous. Report anonymously. That's like the final shitty detail about you is you won't even put your name on it. Yeah, but I will show up for that court date.
I think there were a lot of great cameo glances from the cast in this, but I liked Devin Walker's look at you when you said, they all know it's me. Like that is a cop who has come to that house too many times.
And those cops definitely know it's easier just to arrest a dog than to hang up on you.
Also, it's so funny to me, too, that you guys clearly hate everybody you're calling the cops on, but you also don't really seem to respect cops that much.
Yeah, she loves them. Yes, no one's ever like the fucking pigs are here when they're the ones who called them.
Oh, thank goodness the fucking pigs are here that I called. Oh, my God. It's the fucking cops. That guy, officer. Yeah. When you guys just started dancing in the stars, I like the additional detail that I feel like tells me everything I want to know about the couple, that you guys never have sex.
This is how they get off. Yeah. So it's not just that it's also sexual.
It ends in a way, having watched it a couple times, made me laugh each time a little bit more. It kind of lands like hell. It ends like hell yeah, motherfucker. Oh, like it goes up at the end with that O. She added that.
Yeah, we were like, whoa.
Yeah. There's our guy, little slimy snake snuck in. And so you're filming it, Keith. Your character is filming it.
I mean, we had one day to get it all. How many hours of shooting start to finish?
Just because I think people would be curious to hear it. Do you guys laugh at all in the edit or is it all just like the most workmanlike construction?
I really loved it. I have a question. Yeah. A theory. Okay. Did you guys do this short just to push off Daiquiri Girl another week?
Did you know that if you did a new short, it would buy you one more week before you had to talk about Daiquiri Girl? Daiquiri Girl.
It's going to be heat. I would imagine sometimes is the case. You guys don't have to talk about it, but I sometimes think when you have a musician of Charlie XCX's caliber that the party and the after party have a different feel to it that's a little bit more rock star.
What would you say? What is the style of this song? What is this supposed to evoke? Who is making a song like this that is not a comedy version?
I mean, I think you can say, I mean, you know, use your best judgment, but I don't think so.
We know that. Well, he also was probably worried, because I know he said to me, like, I hate when they bring out a birthday cake that everybody thinks they're going to get some, because it's my birthday. Oh, yeah. He didn't want to show the cake. He's always like, where's my cake?
But I mean, he's really pulled a fast one, because there's just a lot of promo going on for his movie he's shooting in Finland that nobody has to pay for. Each week is basically just a long live ad for his Finland movie. That's right.
And it's too much cake. And you keep saying you're going to have a tummy ache tomorrow, Lauren.
Yeah. But he doesn't. I'm an idiot. I can do what I want. He doesn't let anybody leave the party until the cake's gone. Oy, oy, oy.
I don't know. I think it only goes the other way. I think it's a non-cake and it's either a cake or not. They should do ones where it's just a cake.
Also, the fact that your buddy Diva thinks that you're using this podcast to tell us recent memes you've seen.
Ground zero for memes. Here's a comment I want to close this episode with because I do really want to get to Daiquiri Girl and, you know, you can't stop it. Somebody commented, I love that after years of nothing, Lonely Island starts filming videos again as soon as Yorm leaves the country.
It's probably a phony movie you guys set up just to get him over there. I thought it was a triumph. It's Criterion Collection for me. I know it's a little too early for that. Damn. Okay.
Yeah. Because I will say, I feel like this one definitely would work as a song, works even better as a song with visuals. Just visuals. I wouldn't have enjoyed it at all. That's right. I would have thought, I don't know why they think I can follow this. I don't like it.
She had been a guest on my show with Troye Sivan. They were fantastic together. Also, she was on my first week or two of shows.
Yeah, with Iggy Azalea singing on. Oh, fancy. Yeah. And it's so funny when you realize how young someone like she started. Yeah. Because that's so long ago, and she's still so young now.
Yeah. Our producer just said something really nice, Jeff, and I want to read it to you guys. Don't let it go to your heads. Should probably move on to the next ep, guys. You know what, Jeff?
All right, everybody. Thank you so much, mostly to you two and everybody over at SNL for giving us a fresh new short.
We're going to talk about this. Yeah, we're going to talk about this podcast episode. No, the SNL episode, man. I know, but I wasn't... Yeah, there's no Seth's corner. It's weird for me to talk about one that I... Only saw. Right, then we're just a fan podcast.
I'm really desperately trying to end this now, and you're doing that thing you do, Andy. That's why it's getting spicy. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
All right, we're going to stop. We're going to stop. All right. Goodbye, guys. I love you, and I'll see you next episode.
Love you, bye. Bye.
When Charlie listens to it, who's singing her part when she first hears it?
Or I have an observation. Okay. When I heard Sushi Glory Hole, and Andy, you were with me, so you can confirm this, I laughed the minute it started until the minute it ended. Like deep seizing laughs. I think, and I love this so much, I don't think I would have laughed as hard at this one without the visual element.
I feel like this is a perfect one that the video and the song worked so well together in concert.
I think you need to see what this singer looks like. Right. Because the minute it starts, you're such a happy dickhead. And your house, everything about you. The first look at you, just that little gray streak in your hair, the shittiest pajamas, that robe, and the way you're just delightfully dancing. It's just perfect. And you can't get that without by listening to the song.
It's true. And now, Jorm, there's no banking. But you guys were not just finding time to do this podcast. You found time to go back to SNL and do your second new digital short. And nobody expected this when the podcast started, that there would be new digital shorts. Certainly not. No. Certainly not. And I sort of expected post-Doug Emhoff's relevancy
It's such a good the same thing where you enjoy it because you're a shitty guy. So, you know, you're not the hero of the song, but it still makes you a little sad if it's about race.
Yeah. And it's delightful, his lack of awareness. Although later in the song, there's a little awareness. Because right in the beginning, he does say that his neighbors really, they like him for it. Yes. Then we see that the neighbors don't.
Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast, minus Jorma, who's currently in Finland. And it's probably 6 AM in Finland right now. I think it's 2.30 AM. So it's not his fault. And I know a lot of people who listen to the pod just want to unload on Jorma for his inability to make the pod.
Or else you might believe him. I do think if you listen to the song, you'd be like, I don't think his neighbor's actually like him. No, I know, I know.
It was very new for me, the way he looked in this video, except then I realized, I do think maybe this is a continuation of the guy from Hero Song, who after, because he looks a little bit like that, like after he got the shit kicked out of him and he gave up being a superhero, he just kind of went to the suburbs and now this is the way he fights crime, is just calling the cops and not putting himself in danger.
That was the act together, yeah. Yeah. I was going to say that one too, so those are the two. There's one of two prequels for this guy.
Yeah, like he's got to put that, what used to be cocaine now has to be just calling the cops.
I think we've learned a lot about how if there's a long internal rhyme from doing this podcast that Andy wrote it. And obviously we've already established you wrote it, but itching to do some stitching in my kitchen. Like even if I didn't know you had written it, I would say that was definitely an Andy line.
It does. Well, that's the thing. You actually look like you're having a lot of fun. And then it is also a lot of fun to listen to. And then it's a lot of fun to watch you. And sometimes I think there's a mistake in comedy, which is to make people look like they're not having fun. And the reality is it's really, it's just a good time. This whole thing is a good time.
Is that a good way to tip what happened on November 6th? But Andy, I didn't think you would go back out to New York. So how did this one come across?
Who came up with the hands through the wall holding the phone? That was my idea. I had that idea when we were writing the song. It's beautiful. It's really great.
I also like, there's a detail early on that you're mad just that he used your trash can.
Oh, for sure. Yeah. Because he also, there's a nice detail that he is actually using the right trash can.
That's right. But those belong to Andy's household. It's not even that he's putting the wrong thing in recycling. He's recycling a coffee cup in the neighborhood.
Too relatable. And then this guy, you're literally like, why is he even calling?
After a big rain, I will hand dry my own trash.
One piece by piece? Yeah, piece by piece. I bring out my hair dryer. Yeah. Yeah, just like, you know, look, you think that trash guys want to pick up my wet trash? We're part of a community. You pitch in. You're a considerate person. That's exactly right. Real shitty arm folding, looking out the window just to watch the cops. And then the way, when you dance up to Jost, great.
When you put your head right next to him on the hood of the car, fantastic. Thank you. How did you settle on Jost to ask Jost? I, by the way, asked Jost to record a voicemail about getting the request. But in his defense, it was only 12 hours ago.
And he now, he does like his comic persona on the show is representing that white.
Also, the having the cake, eating the cake, like that's very, I would have enjoyed listening to that on a sonic level, but like the fast cuts of the different ways you're having the cake, like just so funny.
I'm good. How are you, Sethi?
Well, it was interesting because in the one time that I did host, what it came down to was there was one piece that had played better than another piece, but the other piece had a bunch of cast in it.
And Lauren was like, I'd really like to do this one so that the cast is in the show more. And everyone else was like, it didn't work. Yeah. You know, like, I wish that it had because I agree. Yeah. And that's what ended up happening. And was Lauren like, fucking fine then? He's like, it's my fucking half birthday.
Yeah. Yeah, he was like, okay.
Yeah. There was no dress rehearsal for either, right? I don't think so.
Can we talk about all the documentaries, you know?
Have we talked about any of them yet? The fucking Questlove one.
I liked all of them. I mean, Questlove is like a real triumph. Yeah. Just the opening sequence took years to make apparently and it's just mind-blowing and it also makes you feel so inspired by what the art humanity has created over the last 50 years. Yeah. And I mean, I'm biased because there's a section on us and it made me feel really affirmed. But like, you know, he's a killer.
Yeah, but honestly, it was nice to have it be someone else.
His documentaries are so good. So it was really cool to see him give it that treatment. But they were all really fun to watch for me. I mean, all of them.
Oh, wow. I'm sorry, Alan, to say that I don't remember that at all. Wow. It's definitely not. I don't either. It's definitely not inspired by it.
No, it was inspired by that beat. Yeah. The beat came on the Newmark beat, right?
And we were just started doing that, which is how so many of our songs begin.
I think a lot of rappers do it that way, not just rappers.
I think you're blowing out your mic just a little bit. Somebody's on job.
Here's what I'll say. At the end of Incredibad, our wish is to be the, what is it? The dopest fake MCs on earth? The greatest fake MCs on earth. Greatest fake MCs on earth. I still want that crown. Yes. I have a competition in me, Daniel Plainview, about that. Yeah. I don't want to go up against real rappers that can like actually spit. We love it. It's our fucking life. We love that music.
We came up on that music. We still check in on the music the whole time. And we also know what it actually is when people can actually do it.
But again, point to anyone else doing fraps that fucks with us. Yeah. In that sense, I'm like, maybe we do have frat bars.
I mean, it's pretty much been 50 the whole year also.
I don't remember what I did. I just remember it was one of the many times Seth slid me into one of his bigger pieces doing a little thing that I was able to do, and I was happy.
You also did that with my Billy Bob selling Kangals and something, right?
Oh, Two First Names, and I was Billy Bob's, and I was the commercial break.
Yeah. That's me. Billy Bob Thornton for Kangles. I forget what it is.
Kangles.
Yeah.
Yeah, because he had no impression.
What do you think, Joe Panigliano?
Just not even trying.
Yeah.
It's my half birthday. Oh, my gosh. Why is that the best?
Yeah. Come on. Just the best. I do remember that. I know we're going to not talk about the 50th, but Denise and Goulet together are like two of my all-time favorite things. Yeah. And it was so fucking funny and wonderful to watch.
Not good. We still do Come On, though.
Come On. Come On.
I mean, now me and Jorm are offended, obviously. Yeah.
Also, like, spiraling, like, reconsidering my entire frat persona.
Well, I know what mine is.
I mean... I mean, I don't know. Seth, what do you think? You're an outsider.
That's fair. Yeah, I think that's accurate. He flips the switch for sure.
Yes, he's a low key dude and kind of a quiet killer with his comedy. And then on the mic, he's like, I'm on a boating it going fucking ballistic.
His second verse on I'm on a boat is like half the words are the word fuck.
I don't know that I curse. I say get the fuck up. This boat is real.
Oh, my God. He's backing into it? And nobody got a copy?
And so I think it's so fun that his hard rapping is so... I mean, I've always been... I always love hearing Q because he has that upper register kind of like in an ad-rock way. Yeah. Which... It cuts through the beat really nice. And, I mean, we love him. We love how he sounds.
Yeah.
Are we in trouble?
We might need to actually have a behind-the-scenes combo about that because that would be so fucking exciting if it's real. Yeah. Jeff says that his email is an official PepsiCo email address, so it could be real. Unless it's someone who's just slick as hell. Yeah. Let's find out. I mean, we could be in for, like, a really exciting moment.
We'll look into it. If it's real, thank you for reaching out.
I just want to honor the legal system and what we agreed to. You know what I mean? I don't want to get anyone in trouble. I don't want to get any money taken back from the Berkeley public school system.
It just razed the building.
Do you get half a cake on your half birthday, Seth, when you celebrate it every year? I do have half a cake. Yeah. And do you like it to be like a gag cake where like it looks like it's been eaten or you like a clean slice?
I love you, AJ. Thank you for that. What a sweet, sweet question. That's a good one. I mean, I certainly think we would geek for Jack Sparrow. Yeah.
Yeah, because we would all, Jorma included, know it's normal.
That happens all the time.
Also not technically digital shorts.
Sure. I bet you I would have loved We're Back. Yeah. Just thinking about like when I was 16, the amount I loved like Sandler's albums that were super like sexual and stupid and like self-effacing and stuff. And I'm just like, I bet you I would have liked We're Back.
Yeah. Jorm?
Yeah. Yeah. Rest in peace. Yeah. RIP. Thanks for sending that in. I mean, obviously a much better dog than Frisbee also, which is a great point. I'm so glad you said to that the whole time the note was being left. I was like, why Sammy and not Frisbee?
I sat with you and your wife, Alexi, at the 50th, Seth. Yeah. And we talked a little bit about Frisbee's, you know, soon passing. What would the word be? Imminent passing?
And she didn't seem to care that much. I'm just saying, I think it might just be you.
I'm like, oh, no. And you like a blue cookie monster cake, right? That's correct. That like dyes your mouth. You know me so well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you do a good cookie monster impression. Can we hear that?
Mine is, but not as much as I am a fan of hers. Yeah, that's very sweet. I would say that as well. But it's enough that we stay together. I can tell you that Alexi's favorite digital short is Jack Sparrow, for sure.
I don't know what Joanna's favorite one is, but I know she really, I've mentioned this, really likes the song Punch You in the Jeans. I love that. She really likes I Ran So Far. She very much liked Dick in a Box.
We can't clear it.
I thought maybe they were being cheeky of being like showing me and Bill sort of in the role of writers pitching an idea that people don't. Like, yeah, because it's like I I know what she means, that it could be inferring that that's one that is not good and didn't work. But it also is like the story of laser cats is that Bill and I are failing.
Yeah.
So I chose to believe that they were showing that sort of like winkly.
Yes, yes, yes. I do remember this.
Seth, I bailed one short on Spelling Bee. What was it? Farago.
It's a confused mixture. It's confused. A Farago of fact and myth about Abraham Lincoln.
I don't care. How does a chancellor get voted in? You're just like, oh, man. Oh, it's complicated. It's complicated. Yeah.
Thank you for your question, Steve, who lives really near me and I see. That movie didn't happen. That's why. Yeah. Yeah. Because of Steve. Yeah, it was a script called BFFs. Jorm helped me work on it and was attached to Direct, right?
And it was a Happy Madison movie. That was a fun table read, though.
It was really fun, fun table read. We're very, very grateful to everyone who came, including Steve and Charlie and everyone. It went pretty good, but it just didn't go quite good enough, I guess.
I mean, part of it is there are table reads for different reasons, right? Sometimes it's a table read like that one where it's like, let's see where we are. Right. And let's see what's working about it. And then there's other times you're like, we are shooting and we're starting on this date. Let's do a table read so we can do our production rewrite.
Well, I think we thought that because that's what the studio was saying. They were like, we're not sure if we're ready to green light this yet. We want to see it. And so we did it. And then they were like, no.
I thought it could have gone either way. Gotcha. Yeah. It didn't play crazy hot. No. But it was like, there were definitely parts of it that really worked.
I would often talk to them about it. Yeah. And then it would go good. And then they go, make a short.
I agree with what Seth said and then what Andy said. All right.
One of my favorite things about the 50th week. Yeah. Getting to see both of you a lot. It was wonderful.
What?
That was another teaser. Yeah. That was another teaser. Talk about how the short was ripped from the headlines of my real life.
No, they were nice moments. Nice moments. We'll talk about it next time.
I know I don't get to see you much.
Oh, my goodness.
Ted Proddy. How old do you think your kids need to be to enjoy Patton Oswalt's bit about the prequels, which is one of my favorite things of all time?
They were like, hey, I like it. Yeah, they like it.
Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of love for the prequels, and I feel like I've come around. We wrote that song for Natalie when she came back, and I wrote that whole section about say something about the motherfucking prequels, bitch. Yeah. And I did enjoy watching her say it.
Yes, not having to wait like 20 years and then being like, why is it different?
For them, they're going from like straight from Ewoks to Jar Jar and they're still little kids and they love it all.
Thanks for sharing something so personal.
Look, I don't want to say I'm distracted, but I have one word left in Spelling Bee, and it's a seven, and I just tried frog fan, and it didn't work, obviously. When you tried frog what? Frog fan. It's not a word. Frog fan.
Spelling bee.
Yeah, I was going to say helping is a pretty loose application there. Did you try pee-pee man before that? No, I had never tried pee-pee man.
Of course I know what it means.
It's a rosette or knot of ribbons worn in a hat as a badge of office or party or as part of a livery. The cap or the traditional cockade in silver, blue, and red?
Livery or livery? I've only read it my whole life and never said it. I think it's livery. I know it's Blake Liverly.
Whoa, they maybe misspelled it. Oh, really? It was an accidental misspell? That might be a fuck up. Yeah, because the current sign, I think, says Jimmy Fallon on it or something. So we had to change it.
I'm going to text Mike Diva about that right now. He's the director of the short. Bing bong.
I mean, I didn't even think about even looking at it to check. Of course not. We changed the Pepto-Bismol labels to say SNL, and I noticed that those were spelled right.
Yeah. Rockefeller with an A. Oh, I thought you were doing spelling bee.
Oh my God, that'd be crazy. And it's not spelled enough like Rockefeller Records to be that.
Yeah.
I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if we try and go back in there and fix it. Yeah. Because that's pretty... That seems like the kind of thing you would do. Oh, for sure. Yeah. Definitely didn't notice is the... The short answer.
Also, you know, Sandler specifically wrote like a hundred things where the host took their shirt off.
I've heard since we left, people ask to be taken out of things way more and it's to do with like personal beliefs.
Because politically things have gotten so charged and social media wise, I think things have gotten so intense for people where like they have to like answer to their followers or whatever. Right. I think that has become much more commonplace. It's something we did not need to think about nearly as much when we were there. Wait, things have gotten charged?
I definitely would ask to change things sometimes if I was uncomfortable with them.
Yeah, in the picks room.
The only time I was ever in that meeting, Jorm, was when I hosted.
The thing that I learned from it that was nice was how much Lorne genuinely cares about giving the cast things to do in the show and wanting them to have a good show. Nice. Even though it doesn't always go that way because there's a million factors, it was like the front of his mind of trying to make sure it happened. I think he especially was my week because we had so many guests come back.
Hi, gentlemen. How are you? Hello. I'm pretty sleepy, but I feel happy inside my heart.
He was like, it's the finale of the season, it'd be nice for the cast to have things to do.
100%.
On the contrary, my dear Miss Petite. I believe the killer is still in this very hot air balloon basket. How do you know, Professor? In due time, Admiral. But first, let's look at the facts.
3,000.
Did you bring a limo?
I'm up here just ringing out the old dungarees here. He's like, what? He's like, yeah, I must have had a bad jalapeno or something. wrapped in the inside of my pants.
Because it's just, the insides of my pants are just coated pockets to pockets.
Family trips with the Myers brothers
Seth Corner, you're all invited. Seth Corner, it's happening right now. Take it away, Seth.
So I take it you're not excited then? Being at work is like being asleep, Seth. Wake me up when I'm a size five.
Finding a good man is like trying to find something in my purse. Impossible chocolate eggs!
Wait a minute. I mean, you could also describe what Lutz did at Olive Garden as bribing a weirdo.
Did not hold back. Did not hold back. Nor should he. I mean, I feel like we've talked about this a lot, but my only time it happened was Pirate Convention. Right? I love that one. But the most famous one, obviously, is MacGruber.
Right. Yes.
So fake pitch to a movie and a TV show is pretty crazy.
And it's crazy how much it looks like it.
That back area.
I was looking at the comments and there was a lot of discussion about how they really are speaking Japanese, but their pronunciation's not good. Their accents are a little off, obviously, but yeah.
Yes. As right as it can be in a 48 hour span to be airing on SNL.
And so for our listeners, a principal, like as in the principal of a school.
And what is a principal's salary?
Private school, then public. Oh, you're still on that. Yeah.
How many seasons into the American office were we at this point?
Now we know what the premise is. Mm-hmm. Gene's not going to do well.
Yeah, yeah, he's missing the tone.
He was always good when he came on.
And Keeve, when you said Solomon directed, you meant Solomon Rushdie?
Didn't think that's what I was teeing up.
I was stretching it. It was John Solomon. It's completely different spelling.
He was married to or dating or married to someone who was much older than him. And he was like, this is all anyone talks about about me right now. He gets asked a lot about it. Yeah. He wanted to address it.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, MC Usher.
It's actually pronounced salmon.
This is me slow clapping for Seth.
I mean, Usher's the shit. We love Usher. And for me, just I was so excited that he did Love in this Club because I love that song. It was amazing. I believe Love in this Club, if you did like a mashup or whatever with Alphaville Forever Young, would be very close. And I really love both those songs.
Okay. This was a classic stupid live sketch CPR class. Carell is the instructor. Yep. And he wheels me in as his assistant.
I mean, it's obvious why I was wielding, because his hands need to go bursting through my chest and blood needs to spray everywhere. And I was clearly set up on a rig. The only thing that I really take issue with, because I did actually rewatch it, Seth, before this, because I saw it on the rundown. And I was like, what was that? And then now I totally remember. That's how I knew the Usher answer.
Full disclosure. It took so long to get to the moment. Yeah. That's what's inexcusable about me being wheeled in. If I'd been wheeled in and he immediately started doing it, it would have been fine. But there was still a lot of preamble.
So you're like, okay, so this is a rig and something's going to happen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're right. But I did like a couple of the moves in it. A lot of like, buddy, I'm a grown man. I can take it. You can do it the right way.
Yep, a lot of blood. Then he gives me CPR and a balloon lung starts inflating out of the hole, which was fun.
Yes, I said, please just keep shooting it right into my face and mouth, which they did.
That I don't remember.
I'm looking at that right now.
You see animals. I mean, we can't see it. So if you hadn't mentioned it, it would have just came and went. He doesn't understand podcasting. Seth, should we do a little pop culture roundup before we jump in? Yeah, let's do a pop culture roundup. All right, New York Magazine SNL cover came out. Seth, you happy with your photos in that?
Yeah, literally. It might be like a 51 to 49 percent situation, but yeah.
Now let's, what's the over under on you greasing a palm at Pasta Lover's?
John, I got to call bullshit. My best friend's wedding came out in 1997. No, no, not the movie. Not the movie. God damn it.
Yeah, I can tell what was happening. Sorry, brother. Sorry to have to nail you to the fucking wall.
We are going to bring this to Lorne.
What was the stand-up scene in My Best Friend's Wedding? That was a good nick-dote. We should start calling them that, right? You guys agree with me, gentlemen? A nick-dote. Yeah, sure. Seth, you should ask people that on the show.
Oh, that's fun. That's fucking awesome.
So, Seth, you're saying Mariko was a recepto baby? Yes. She was.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't start talking about it. We haven't done the song.
Heavy hitters.
Oh, is that the problem you have with it? Well, what do you got?
Yeah, also this was our second Carell, is that right? Second Carell. He was our very first episode. And, you know, goes without saying probably, but just the nicest dude ever and so funny. And we were always like, ooh, here comes a real comedy host.
Understood. I mean, I think the whole spread to me is like kind of a fun fever dream.
I'm just watching Bless This Child with no sound, and it does end with a wig dummy and Carell spinning it in a circle and knocking over all the curtains and stuff, which is pretty fucking incredible.
And then he starts spinning a dummy in a circle and knocking it in the gym. Nicely done, Kristen and Sublette.
Oh, wonderful.
There were a bunch of different days apparently shot in different groups. And then maybe even some people that couldn't make one of those days who were airdropped in or something.
You're mic clean.
It's not going to be an issue.
Yeah. Like not letting the episode end is very unprofessional. Oh no.
We've clearly reached an end point. To drag it out with like side quips. I mean, who are you? Today's Fred Armisen's birthday, I think.
No, I would just keep hitting it over and over throughout the show. And definitely come out as Beetlejuice for an extended period of time.
I heard people were talking about me.
It's weird to do it now that it's been on SNL, you know, because now it's like, oh, I'm doing my famous thing.
Yeah, that everyone loved and can't stop talking about.
Yeah, exactly. We know what it is, dude.
I had a nice, easy time. I was clumped with Billy Crystal and Lorraine Newman, both of whom had so much chill, it really put me at ease. Oh, that's nice to hear. And we just kind of gently chatted through the chaos and didn't do anything crazy pose-wise. And, you know, it was good to see people.
So we got to the bottom of that. They wanted a few five-timer hosts. Yeah. There's the two of them. There's Walken, Candice Bergen. Yeah. And is that four or five?
Well, also, they're like blasting like, we are family. Everyone in there is just like, we're the most cynical dead inside people on the planet.
Dunking all over you for your taste in music. Should have gone over and been like, I don't know, man. Just play whatever somebody else likes. You're like, they like it on Broad City, dude. Yeah, dude.
Okay, and then something else that happened today, Spirit Award nominations came out. I'm just wondering, how are they going to not nominate Beetlejuice? Seemed like the best spirit of the year to me.
It took a second. I was sitting on that for three hours. Yoram, where's the air horn, bro?
Post-bit goal. You got to wait for everyone to applaud.
That's what you're doing, man. You surfing the web? No, I'm listening to this gold.
Criterion extras, maybe?
And had? Had any of them greased a palm?
I was just really trying to... I want you to walk us through like your best case scenario post-grease. Like, what does this person do for you?
Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew. Yeah.
I feel like you did remember that, Seth. I maybe did. Typecasting.
Hey, everybody, this is Seth. We are not doing an episode of the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast this week due to the developing situations of the fires in Los Angeles. A great many people who work on this podcast, including two of our co-hosts, are in Los Angeles. And so we just didn't think it was the right time to figure out how to do a new episode.
In that case, please welcome the French pole vaulter... ...who knocked the bar down with his giant dong.
Is that how you say? Yes.
I would like to send out all of our best wishes and hopes for safety to anyone who is going through this terrible time right now and also send our gratitude to the Los Angeles Fire Department and the first responders and everyone who is making this difficult situation even a little bit better for the people who are affected.
Hey, this is, I'm just going to say, this is a real dude, right? I mean, are these jokes okay?
This is a very short episode, and we did hear your feedback loud and clear last time, and there will not be ads. And since there is no episode, I would like you to, if you care to, enjoy Andy the last time he was on Late Night with Seth Meyers, his performance as a French pole vaulter who made news at the Olympics. Thanks again for your understanding. We hope to be back together with you all soon.
I do want to talk about the fact that we do a podcast together. Yeah. The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast.
Can I say something? I guarantee you hair was like, let's put you in a wig so you could have like neat, tidy, fancy hair. And I was like, nah, I don't want to do that. And then trotted out looking like I was a little kid dressing up in my dad's clothes.
No, no, no, no, no, no. That's what we want. We want that. We need that.
It was right there.
Well, I hope he's directing well because he certainly is shitting the bed as a podcast host.
No, I don't think so. We don't even know. Yeah.
Thanks for dropping by the Zoo Crew. For one brief moment, we were five shock jocks.
Well, we'll hear you. You'll be in. Yeah, you'll be in. Trust me. Are you kidding me? A cameo? That's mana from heaven. That's huge for us.
I was just saying, I'm recording, because you asked if we were ready. Recording as well.
D in the D. That's our shorthand.
I think it's entirely likely. Oh, there you go. Yeah. And then they went back and wrote it, maybe?
That's what it seemed like. That'd be pretty fun to think about coming up with a bit. I mean, that happens all the time, though, where you're like, what am I going to write? And then you come up with a bit right then and there and just start.
She also gave a nice documentary now. Shut up. Yeah. Seth, have I talked about your special on the pod yet? No. It's so funny. Thank you, buddy. I mean, obviously, this seems just like buds stroking each other off, but I've told you so much in person. I loved it. But man, I was laughing. Giggling and laughing. It's a good time. You're very good at stand-up. I'm very proud of you.
When it goes to that sort of double dissolve shot or whatever, like the cable access cross dissolve shot, and they're just screaming and the audience is laughing. I definitely remember that as one of the moments from our time at the show when we were in such a comedy soup. Yeah. You know, where you're just like, it transcends the sum of its parts, right?
You're now just in a giddy state of psychoticness.
I think I even had mentioned this earlier. I know for a fact he fought for that sketch specifically, but let's see what he said.
The digital short, not my actual dad, right?
Yeah, I love you, buddy. Thanks for sending that in.
Okay, great. I mean, the thing that he points out in that that is my favorite thing upon rewatching it is the tone of it, which is decidedly Annie Hall. Keev, you did a really great job and obviously it seems like Joda wanted it this way and you guys conjured it that way together.
But the light touch on it and even with the cameras we were working with, the cinematic feeling to it and the music choice and the way it all flowed, really put me at ease. Also, it's just so rare on SNL to see a conversation scene with such deliberate pace to it, which was very much how he had originally pitched it.
Exactly. It feels like a movie. And I immediately felt very much put at ease. Also because Jonah's a great actor. So you're like, I'm watching Jonah in a movie.
They actually loved you. My mom thought you were hilarious.
Like, what kind of issue?
Dude, that fucking rules if it's true.
Yeah. There are a lot of turns in it that made me laugh still a lot.
So sad. It's a bummer. So sad. Yeah. I mean, obviously, Keeve and I and Jorm, of course, are big A's heads. We made an entire Netflix special about the Bash brothers. So it was pretty brutal.
I'll say this. I do remember the writing process, and I remember, not surprisingly, Jonah was in the zone on it. We were just kind of riffing out the scene, and he just kept saying the jokes, and then we would just write them down. Agreed. For the most part, yeah.
No, the meet cute stuff all really plays. And that's sort of what I was saying before too, Keev, about the way you directed and cut it. Like it feels lovely. Yeah. And it's funny because you know in the story that it's my father, but like it's working and is funny on that level because you are selling that this spark between them is actually happening and it just feels very real and lovely.
And then he turns to camera, freeze frame, and we get a graphic of text created by Lorne Michaels.
He's always great. It always pays to put Downey in.
Thanks, man. Yeah. I always do like seeing the trying things. That always was exciting for us. We always tried to really make a point of like, let's just try something different. If it doesn't work, it just doesn't work. But we would get bored of ourselves, I think, before anyone else would.
Surf meeting. Yeah. And it's always funny to us, and it always is a tough sell in that studio.
Yes. We played each other demos we were working on at the time on set, and that was years ago, obviously, but it was very fun.
You know, that's right. Yeah. By the way, because I had been clued into that he was doing Warriors a couple of months ago, he was like, hey, I'm going to do like a listening party in L.A. and we're going to play it for the director of the original Warriors movie. You should come." I was like, oh, awesome. I rolled down there in my sweats and got in there and was just like,
hey, you know Nas and RZA? And I was just like, what?
And they were just like, hey. Everyone very nice. And obviously the Warriors thing is super cool and trippy. It's a great lesson. Yeah, it's a love letter to New York as it always is with Lin. And it's just fun. And it goes so many places you're not expecting and spans like 15 genres. And dude doesn't fuck around.
Truly. And it was apparent immediately. I mean, we already knew Jonah and were friendly, but it was... There are certain hosts that come in from our perspective where you're like, oh, they're going to pick all the stuff I like. Yes. Which is to say the weird, like you are really into comedy stuff.
Can we stop it for a second?
Jonah's going straight to the well of an inside joke that he's had that is now running 15 years.
It was when we were recording one of our albums. He came and hung out with us in LA and he kept doing this exact bit where he was telling us about this new show called Chappelle's Show. And it was already just a smash hit. It was at the height of I'm Rick James bit. And we were like, yeah, no, we know about it. He's like, dude, it's so funny.
It's got like sketches and skits and he does some of it live and some of it goes into pre-taped stuff. And we're like, yeah, we know about Chappelle's Show, dude.
All right, well, let's keep going and see how much longer he talks about it.
I'd say 50-50 at least.
Yeah. Seth, you kind of casually mentioned that there sometimes are knocks against musical monologues.
I feel like that is such a in the eye of the beholder kind of a thing, though, because so many people I know are like, oh, my God, I love that, you know? Yes. And I think for us, it's very much depends who it is. Well, it's who it is. It's how it's executed, right? If it's someone who I'm like, they just want to show that they can sing, that to me, I'm less interested in.
But I also acknowledge that a lot of the world is interested in that. Yes. But for me, it's what you're getting at, which is Jonah is not known to have a strong singing voice, nor was he in the market to let everyone know he had a strong singing voice. So all of a sudden, I'm like, well, this is going to just be a goof.
Which I get excited about.
I feel like you keep bringing this up that people knock game show sketches, but I have never heard of anyone knocking game show sketches. Where are you getting that intel?
Yeah, I dig it. I mean, to me, that's an interesting thing to talk about. So that's why I asked. Thank you. I'm glad you did.
I'm looking at it, and my hair indeed looks like, as Seth said, it is eating my head.
This is fascinating. I mean, Jonah looks decidedly not fancy. Keenan, Forte, and Suds look quite done up and fancy, and I'm back there just ruining the illusion.
I'll say this. I'll say this. Our thinking was, if this airs, everyone will be like, what the hell was that? And I do stand by that thought.
Oh, it would have made news. People would have been like, what just aired on the Super Bowl? What the hell was that?
Yeah, but I get it. Did I see it winning the USA Today Best Commercial Voting Challenge? Yes.
He's being British orphans.
Is it Drew Campbell?
No, that's like not until our third album.
Anyway, it started playing and I just started screaming that, which is how half of our songs happened.
Yes. Structurally, the song is based on a song by The Coup, who people probably now more know Boots Riley from his directing. But The Coup is another Bay Area group, again, based off on the song.
I also will say, like, to me, it's an interesting time capsule because we were still young enough that I thought that was interesting. You know what I mean? Yeah. There was no like, you know, micro dosing or anything. Talking about doing shrooms was still something that was like, whoa.
It's true.
But to us and like in high school and college and stuff, like taking shrooms was a big deal.
A lot of people listening might be shocked by that, unless you're from foggy London town. Yeah, of course. Where it's pretty commonplace. We all know.
The one that was the big one for us was Genocide and Juice, yeah.
He's basically the same. He's even shyer than they are. Since I'm not on the song, can I say some of my favorite lines from You Like Sports? Please. Yeah, yeah.
So funny. It's so fucking funny to me.
It's getting to the root of why it's all so stupid. And I'm saying this as a sports fan. Yeah. But if you take a half step back, you're just like, yeah, it's the dumbest thing ever. Right. And then...
Smell our cars.
Yeah, we smoke cigars in the cars.
My one other line that I like is actually the very last line of the song.
Makes me think that that person definitely does not, it's the first time they ever heard it referred to as the rock. Hand me the rock? Will you hand me the rock? Yeah.
We all have called it the rock for many years, so I will now also say, give me the rock.
Yeah. Maybe the guys have weird taste.
Yeah, famously. It's a Santa Fe lean by way of being from Santa Fe. Got it.
Like the state in which she is leaning, or the city rather, is Santa Fe.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is definitely a Yhorm line and I love it. Some dude once said that love is a many funny things.
Yorm, I remember it vividly. He's like, should it be like, um? He like had it so clear in his mind, the exact ways it should be wrong. Oh, there's so many things wrong with that. Some dude once said that love is a many funny things. God. Love is a many funny things. All right.
Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The song's brought to you by Chex Mix. The song is brought to you by Chex Mix. God, I had forgotten.
It's a very funny song, intentionally so. It's a really funny song already and the message obviously is these guys are actually the biggest gangsters and them co-opting this style would make sense because they're fucking people up.
Definitely inspired by the beat.
De La Soul, famously.
Right. Like a big old party fuck around posse cut.
It didn't take very long to record, as I recall.
We were like, what if the DJ's name was just a weird sound?
I mean, I took a class on the Western in college in film.
I also like that it starts off more like it's going to actually be a rap song.
Yes. Ours was less prescient.
Well, I also think saying new shit is what everyone says on mixtapes.
It's also why I like all is forgiven so much. That would never be said.
I used to say I would do it to you at SNL.
Before we knew we had a record deal or before we had beats to choose from or anything, I just would walk up to Jorm and go, I'll punch you in the jeans.
Yeah. It was like our Andrew Dunn rap from Hot Rod, the DP. Yes. It was just something he did to me.
I will say it's definitely one of Joanna's favorite Lonely Island songs.
We agree with each other a lot. God damn, Eugene Brand got me throwing my hand. It's some of my favorite lyrics I've ever written, for sure.
That's right. Also, this was a moment in time where like talking about champagne and Cristal especially was relentless in hip hop. That's right. Like Cristal was just like, oh my God, Cristal.
He's been waiting. I remember being like, we're 50% doing this just for you. The sequel.
So the slime is actually completely unrelated.
I mean, Keith, I'm like on the song and wrote a lot of it and I didn't know that till just now. So that's why we're doing the podcast.
No, reverse.
Yes, because there was a period of time, I think we've mentioned this once, where we were debating what to call our group itself. And the two names we were debating between were The Lonely Island and Incredibad. So when we decided Lonely Island, I remember personally being like, but if we ever make an album, we should call it Incredibad.
And so as soon as we decided to do an album and actually took the record deal, I was very adamant that it should be called Incredibad.
No. No. No, I thought of it right around the same time as Keeve wrote his one-act play.
That's what Keevan Yorm's point was, and I was outvoted, and I'm glad. Gotcha.
Yes. One thing I will say, 99% of the time, group dynamic, is that if two out of three think something, it just goes. And it took us a couple of... Let's say it took us the first year of working together to find that rhythm. And then once we did, it just kept... becoming the right call. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like one of us would be grumpy about it.
I remember personally being like, no, I want it to be like this. And then they'd be like, no, dude, we both think this. And then we do it and people would be like, I love that it's this. And I'd be like, oh, I was wrong. You know what I mean? Like enough times happen where you see it play out and that the two against one thing almost every single time was the right way to go.
Yeah. I remember our only thing that we wanted to avoid was having it be too similar to Tribute, the Tenacious D song. Right. Which was kind of like an origin of getting their powers as like a super cool group thing. And then once we started writing it and came up with what our story was going to be, we were like, yeah, it's not, it's not too similar.
Aye. It's almost like we were all hoping that we were all going to say the same thing. We assumed the other ones were going to say no. I know my answers, yes, but let's vote.
I think I blocked out the whole song. Keep pumping away, my wife and family, thank you. He's really sticking to this narrative. He's not just trying to get triple teamed by some Earthling dudes.
yeah then strong i will say i want to just brush past the nwa thing because it is one of my favorite jokes on the whole album is saying surprise everyone like a birthday party yeah that is not what they say it's a reference to is that 100 miles running is that the end of 100 miles exactly uh do you guys have a favorite uh story rap song like a real from the real world of rap
Honestly, a little later on, It Was a Good Day, Ice Cube is pretty much that.
Oh, the song Shaky Dog.
Oh. I thought you were talking about the kind of story like a Shaggy Dog.
Love to see you. Love you, dudes.
Oh yeah, for sure.
There was a year where we got asked to run the Doritos Super Bowl ad competition thing, which happened a few times, where people all over the country sent in homemade commercials, and if yours got picked, it would air during the Super Bowl. And part of that deal was we would also make one that would air during the Super Bowl. And we made one that they decided not to air. Right.
And the reason they decided not to air it was that they tested it and it tested the worst of anything that had ever been tested by the testing company. I think.
I mean, it begs the question, do you think that E-40 doing that song with us influenced his decision to go into his own spirits?
Yes, because they thought we were going to be really upset that they weren't airing it. Yeah. But you were like, phew. No, the only reason we did it was for the donation to the school district.
So Carlos Santana, I believe, is Bay Area based, E40 Bay Area based. We're from the Bay. There was very much in our minds like this is like for the hometown in spirit.
I'm still proud. Yeah. It makes me laugh so hard. Now it's legendary.
We had also done those first Tuesday promos with him that had gone really well. I think this week was the first week of Tuesday promos, right?
Yeah. Or maybe it was the second week, but they were the ones that we liked. Now that's just a staple. Yeah. We've talked about them before, but I believe this was the week where we started and we really liked them because we did kind of like Andy popping into frame style, goofing off on the roof garden. Let's explore the roof garden. And it was these promos with Shia that just came back to me.
I'm pretty sure it was for this one. And so we were like, man, when this guy shows up, he's like, just one of the guys fits in right with us. We love this. I definitely felt like we let Shia down, even if he never said anything. I felt sad that we had squandered him.
By the way, Yorm's in Finland shooting. Have we said it this episode yet?
Oh my God.
Yeah.
I gotta go back and watch those. I'm just like a listener right now. Wait, you know what? You know what? I have a voice note from Jorm that we should play before you move on to too many things. Okay.
Do you look forward to bad ones more than good ones?
And get sued. Or to be fair, to do a better job of what we were faking. You could see the like dance belt underwear underneath the thing. Modern SNL would have VFX help where they would just quickly clean up something and then put the blur over it to make it at least more confusing.
He wanted you to go full Monty in front of everybody.
No. And he has a fair hit on me that I was saying when he was calling me out on it, which is, it is true. When I'm not there, sometimes I would see their shorts and I would just see the things that, in my opinion, they had done, quote unquote, wrong. You know, just like, oh, I see what you're getting at there, but that's not the way we do it. That's not the way I do it as us.
You did it a different way. And he's not wrong that at any moment when I had one of those criticisms, he should have just shown this video and been like, shit.
Well, that's the only one that burned me because it was so good and it could have been, in my opinion, then I have no clue what I was even referring to. So I don't have anything specific. Yeah, we'll get there. We'll get there. It was because I was like, oh, this is an A plus thing being done, in my opinion, B plus. And I saw all the places where it could have been.
The other ones where, you know, it's somewhere, it's just whatever you guys are doing. I'm like, yeah, yeah. But that one, I was like, oh, this could have been, I saw that it could have been just even better. Yeah. So that was why I cared more. I'm excited to talk about that.
Yes, they were good ones, though, because this is ending like a laser cat. To be fair, we'd only done, what, three laser cats, so it's okay. Yeah. But we're more mature now and try not to repeat ourselves and aren't in the moment. Yeah, now we're more mature. That was best look in the world.
Yes, exactly. We're mature now. If we had done it back then, it would have been just cheap sushi. Now it's five star omakase. So we've matured. We're a distinguished gentleman now.
Yeah.
Also, it just isn't worth it. It's not worth it. On Sushi Glory Hole, we just were like, oh, let's just take the win and get out. And on this, would you say we should have just taken the loss and gotten out?
Wonderful. That's fair. It's fair to some of his interviews if you ever go back and watch some Sean Connery interviews.
Yes. I remember how wide his legs would always be when he'd sit on the desk. When he always like his knees as far apart from each other as he could.
If you get one about Scared Straight for him, then you can just play it the next Scared Straight. It's true. That's a good call.
Got it. I was going to say, we're not quite to the end of the strike season yet.
You know what I mean? But us now, we could do so much better. So much better.
I think you're saying it's hopeful. There's a hopefulness.
It's a relief to have it behind us.
There's lighting rigs and stuff, you know what I mean? It's okay to sound bad like that sometimes when it's on purpose and it's the character and that's the point. But it isn't helping in this one. This one, I was surprised how much I liked all the jokes and how much I couldn't stand them right now when I just rewatched, I mean. because of the bad music.
And I really honestly wondered how much better it would be if we had moved it into your range and made it sound good. And then did the exact same lyrics, everything the same. It would be so much better. Yep.
Here's why we thought this was going to be something is because for us, that look is iconic.
Yeah, we thought because, you know, like as Jorm always used to call it or still does, porky pig in it.
Meaning the shirt with no pants or the Donald Duck, which is mentioned in the video with the Donald Duck strut that I'm sure you're going to get to, Seth. Yeah. Because you loved it, obviously.
But I think we thought, oh, we've identified a trope, much like even Dear Sister, the previous Shia one, identified a trope of like being shot and then not believing it and looking up and looking thing and holding it. And where we like, oh, we've identified a look
that everyone knows but hasn't put their finger on and we're going to plant a flag on it somewhere and that's going to be something that now belongs to us and this song and this moment. Everyone's going to relate to this and go, I recognize that now there's an anthem for it. Dads are going to come out at that slumber party and go, what? I'm doing my Donald Duck strut.
I don't think we've said any of this, but I'm saying I think that that's like somewhere in at least my subconscious when you're doing something like this.
Yeah, where you're like, oh, I think there's something sticky, as they would say it now in marketing.
That's the dream scenario. Yeah. Yeah. I'm saying the week we're making it, even if we're not saying these things out loud, when we think we're onto something, you know, oh, this could really be, we might be really onto something here. While we were shooting it, we thought it was so funny. That's why this is more humiliating.
Do you think the audience would have cheered seeing Frisbee being arrested? Like, get that dog off the road? Oh.
Honestly, the setup you said, Andy, should have been the setup. It should have been a slumber party. And they go, hey, keep it down in here. Okay. Dad, don't come in here with my friends. Put pants on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then the dad was like, this? This is the best look in the world. Yeah. Yeah, and then I'm immediately just happy seeing some dads do it more.
Yeah. I was surprised by that, but I was okay with it, just personally. Yes. Same. Obviously same. Well, I just mean right now when I just watched. Obviously back then we were just fine with it.
You're talking me into that this might be good.
Yeah. This is the right way to enjoy it.
Stop.
This is the way it was meant to be received. Somebody kind of with a little bit of a tone of hatred just reciting the lyrics.
It found its medium.
Oh, that should have been the headline. I know. Didn't send it to me.
Well, I am. That's a nice Monday. Great way to start the week for you.
Just whole new instrumentation on it. Whole new vibe. Slow it down. We now are all dads. You're all dads. Yep. New intro, new outro. Yeah. Just audio. And exact same lyrics, though, right?
They were also just probably the ones that would write in because they're like proud, like, I got it.
Happy New Year, souffle.
He's hanging out at a social thing and then notices the camera.
And no, the monster's still in the house!
Oh, we love her so much. Oh, my God. He's going to hate this. This is going to kill.
I'd be like, whoa, I didn't realize D was such a hot letter. Move on.
You know I do Swedish Chef, bro.
It's like that moment in My Fair Lady. Is this whole thing a bat?
And then he's like, yo, I told you, you can't make a hole into a housewife. And then they all just do a choreographed number. And you're like, wait, what the fuck?
Yeah, I did say that. And I stand by it.
Let's just say I've done well for myself, Mr. Mop.
You are ready for not being ready for primetime. Yeah, what kind of player are you? You're the type of player who's ready for not primetime. Yeah.
I come from Scranton, Pennsylvania. And that's as hardscrabble a place as you're going to find. I'll show you around sometime and you'll see. It's a hellhole. An absolute jerk water of a town. You couldn't stand to spend a weekend there. It's just an awful, awful sad place.
Good one.
Say the introductions, pal. I'm not gonna be here that long. Oh yeah? Why's that? Because I'm stealing second base. See you later, loseback! Foul ball! See you later, lose bag.
Seth's Corner, you're all invited. Seth's Corner, it's happening right now. Take it away, Seth.
Excuse me, good man. I'm a visiting businessman in my late 20s, and I was wondering if this was an establishment that served alcohol. Well, yes, sir. Enjoy your evening. Thank you, fellow adult.
Hey, I got a name, all right? I'm sorry, what's your name? Dode.
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Wait, I have a question. Andy, did you go to any after party after music? No. Yeah. Alexi and I also bailed that night. We had not been out past midnight three nights in a row for a very long time, which we did.
I do not know if this Instagram is true or not, but I just saw on Instagram screen time in the 50th anniversary special. Can you guys name the top three screen time gathering people at the SNL 50th? Like who was on camera the most? Yeah, so you have to be actually in the shot. Okay, me, number one. Yeah. Lauren, number two. Yeah. And Tina Fey, three.
Thanks. I hope you know that, Andy. We appreciate, on behalf of everyone, we appreciate what you put in. But yeah, you were not. Well, we did see each other. We had a nice drink on. You're right. We snuck out. Wednesday night. Yeah, you're right. But you weren't done until late. And you, me, Klein, and Jost had a lovely drink. That's right. And you had two non-alcoholic beers, Yorm style. I did.
I was nabbing it. Yeah. Before I forget, Lin-Manuel said he would love to volunteer to do the next Criterion episode.
By the way, Joram, I feel like you do this a lot, where you, one, ask to tell a story on a podcast, of which you're a member. Yeah. And then you also give us permission to cut it out. And, you know, just be confident. Tell the story and know that the likelihood is we will cut it out.
Hot plate's pretty good. I think, you know what, Andy, I'm going to leave it in.
Okay, great.
How's Dragon Mice?
Do we have anything else about Friday? The text I got sent the most, I had my arms around Alexi, and we were swaying to Backstreet Boys, and they cut to us. Oh, nice. And I could even sense the camera, and I had a real moment like, oh, shoot. This is going to be when I'm on. I have a funny Backstreet Boys moment. Great. First off, love them. I loved them so much.
It was one of my favorite moments of the night.
When you said I had to go to the bathroom, number one, I thought you were doing a list, not that you were saying number one, you had to go to the bathroom. So I thought you were going to be like, I had to go to the bathroom, number one. It was a shit, number two. No.
So I also thought the Backstreet Boys of everyone who performed on a night where the performances were without exception wonderful, they seemed to be the most joyous to me.
Gotcha. Yeah. Robin and David Byrne, I found incredibly special.
Great, so now we're going to let a real person try. Thank you, you are. Oh, okay.
Always the risk.
Always the risk.
You know the famous story about George Harrison playing piano in the 17th floor writer's room.
Yeah, Harrison was playing Beatles songs and everybody was like just coming out of their office on a Tuesday night and they couldn't believe it. And then Al Franken came out and was like, people are trying to work. And George Harrison was like, oh, okay. But he did it as a bit, but George Harrison was like, okay, I'm sorry. That's a great bit.
Also, because it kind of makes sense that you'd be working.
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No, they're a little bit further down the list. In fact, they're both farther down the list, I believe, than our good friend Andy Samberg. Wow. But Kenan Thompson. Number one? Number one.
He was the perfect person, because he also knew it hadn't gone well, and he just looked at me and was like, ah! I felt very seen by Al Franken.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Because also Radio City had that. There was an anonymity to it as well. Yeah. Where at the 50th proper, you were both an audience and yet you felt you were on stage even in your seat.
Yes, exactly. With Christopher Guest?
Yeah, and then Jackie Rogers, the Jackie Rogers sketch. Exactly. And what's the other Marty, Ed Grimley?
Yeah, very good.
And Black Jeopardy, host of Black Jeopardy. Ah. Yeah. Just racking up the minutes.
I was sorry to miss you Saturday toast, but it was very funny because it was sort of a toast to Lauren and Lauren got up and genuinely said, and it was about 1130 at night, maybe a little bit earlier, but he said, well, thank you so much, but I've got to go back downstairs now because we have a show tomorrow.
And it was like the dream Lauren toast, which is Lauren always wants to be toasted as an inconvenience to the work. That seems right. Yeah. I think it's the coolest way to exit. Yeah.
I want to just shout out that people, certainly you more than me, Andy, as far as the work you put in. The people that work on the show now that also got drafted to work on the 50th. I feel like it's been 18 months of talking about it while also not being able to start working on it because of the way the show is wired and Lauren is wired.
He has the most screen time in the history of the show. It is very in line with the history of the show. Number two, Amy Poehler, who did the Q&A and Bronx Beat. A lot of camera time there. Wonderful. Number three, fascinating, although it makes sense, Sabrina Carpenter did Domingo. Oh, yeah. Which I kind of like too, that a musician of the moment made their way in there.
So there was just this building pressure with no way to actually release it because the only thing that allowed release was just getting within a week of the show.
And I think they maybe stretched it, like it was maybe two weeks of work as opposed to a normal one. Yeah. But there was a table read the week before, and that was another. When it was over, I realized, oh, this was the last time.
And it was so special because it was mostly writers. I was jealous of not getting to go to that table. That would have been cool. I really, one of the best parts of this entire ordeal for me was hanging out with current SNL writers and just that feeling of sitting on a couch in somebody's office and just talking shop about the show.
Because I feel like I knew a fair amount of them, but some I'd never met before and I just got to hang out with them. But they just did such an incredible job.
Yeah. This whole ordeal. It was an ordeal. It was totally, totally an ordeal. But do you guys know like that group like Bulla and Jake Nordwin and Mike DiCenzo and Sierra and August and Sudi Green, Allison Gates? Yeah. It's a great group of writers.
And Streeter and Mikey, who do so much. I mean, all of them do great work on the show.
Week in and week out. But it was very cool to get to sort of sit at the table and see them up close and personal. And then so many of, I mean, the people that are still there from our time, like Ken Somblet and Brian Tucker and Aaron Kenward, but also the ringers they brought back, like, you know, Spivey and James Anderson and... Paula Pell. Yeah. You know, obviously, Mulaney and Tina. Simon Rich.
Simon Rich. Yeah. I thought the cut to the writers in the rain was a very nice moment in the Steve Martin monologue. It was funny. Oh, I wish that had been so many people. I like the group that they had, but I wanted it to be like 500. It was a good group. The other thing is that the fact that Jim Downey was wearing an eye patch... Because two days earlier, he fell off the stage at Radio City.
He's fine, but had to be taken away in an ambulance. Yeah. You know, that's Jason Reitman's Saturday Night Movie. One of the things people say is, you know, they take a lot of events and, like, kind of compress them into the 90 minutes before the first show, but they happen over the course of years. That felt like a moment that you would fake to make happen the week of the 50th, which is like...
And then Downey fell off the stage and now he has an eye patch. He'd be like, yeah, that happened like seven years before the 50th. That didn't real. That wasn't real.
And took care. Yeah. Fed so many mouths. Truly. And wrote really funny shit. Jost is wired, and it just speaks to his core sweetness. He's wired to take care of people. And, you know, he wrote that New York musical, and I think there were like 35 people in it? Yeah. And maybe my favorite line of the entire 50th was David Spade being back in his seat.
Perfect line and exceptional delivering.
It's so SNL.
Seth. It's been eight days since the SNL 50th. Yeah. And I feel as though, based on my highs and lows, I think I'm coming back to the middle. I'm coming back to Seth the human being before it all started. I'm still hungover. But I think I had some lows going into it, super highs during, totally crashed after. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Took stock of my life.
Yeah. Credit where credit's due. That New York musical is wonderful. It was so fun.
Yeah, Nathan Lane was wonderful. And then Scared Straight, you know, that in a night where it takes a second to parse everything that is going on, the fact that Will and Eddie were in a sketch together. So rad. So rad. And both just killing and both super loose. Super loose, super present. Mm-hmm. And that moment where all three of them with Kenan got mad and did a single file towards the camera.
And they all buzzed the lens. It's so funny. Yeah, that was the other pinnacle for me.
One would assume, although it would be super funny if someone, if we asked, how did you do it? And they were like, I just kind of guessed. Just guessed. Like that felt like 11 minutes, 13 seconds. We saw each other a lot in the run up to this. We did. And we saw each other during some gnarly times. Well, gnarly relative.
And it is the genius of the way Will made famous people characters. Yes, exactly. Neil Diamond became a character, it wasn't actually based.
I want to say, because Spade had more in that sketch, for someone, you were in it as well, Andy, but I thought Kyle and Beck, who each had one moment in Domingo, were both so perfect and great. They were really good. And I really liked knowing, because there's also that level of difficulty when you have one moment in a show like that.
And Beck was so aggressive. Yeah, truly. The two of them together also, it was that sweet moment where you realize, God, you guys are, I'm so glad you found each other because you don't overlap at all. They occupy the correct space for each other. In style, in taste they do, 100%. Yeah. Also, Domingo has that, you know, the core premise of it is so funny. The jokes in it are great.
Scottsdale is a super funny joke.
That you're both from Scottsdale and it's also your name. They're the three Scotts and I'm Dale. Meryl was great. Meryl in Close Encounters. I mean, it's weird because you kind of expect it and yet it's still amazing to see. Still very fun.
Yeah. A very patient hitting on. Our friend Rachel Dratch, totally in the pocket as Debbie. Did we say this already, Seth, that we locked eyes when it started killing? We were like, ugh. I don't know if we did, but it was a moment.
This is so thrilling. And De Niro. De Niro, perfect. Perfect. Black Jeopardy, which remains one of the great sketches in the history of the show, Michael Che.
Tracy, the moment where Eddie said, as Tracy, we do look like we could be related and Tracy wouldn't look at him and said, I don't see it. That's also, that's Brian Tucker and Michael Che who write that thing. And also Che, I don't think would mind me saying, I saw him right after he had gotten off the phone with Eddie and they had talked about him doing Tracy Morgan.
And Eddie had just literally just started talking as Tracy and Che was just transcribing. Amazing. Che said that four cheese lasagna was something that Eddie just said. When Che was like, do you want to do Tracy? And he just said that. And it was like, okay, we're good. I guess so. Oh, Sandler song. Oh, yeah. It's like someone calling their shot because he's done it so many times. Yeah.
But the idea that he comes out with a guitar and you sort of know it will be sentimental and deeply funny and it will not ever drift into schmaltzy. It will just feel like he's speaking to your heart.
Relative, but we did not have the air about us of, you know what's nice is all these years later, I've learned not to take it seriously. You were up to your knees in the short. Short and medley. And medley. Yeah. So you had a massive amount more on your plate than most people, Andy.
Maybe my favorite observation in the entire show was that needle where you thread it, you make an inside joke that people on the outside immediately get why it's funny.
You had people approach you afterwards. We were walking out, the people who worked on the show, Andy, who said it was their favorite thing.
What are the bigger laughs of the night?
It was great. The person who made me laugh the hardest in between the commercial breaks was John Lovitz was one seat away from me. John Lovitz is so funny. And every time Chris Kelly, the stage manager, say like 15 seconds back, he would go, hey, Seth. Like loud enough for like the people in our section here. He'd be like, hey, Seth, did you audition for the show? I'm like, yeah.
And he's like, I'd love to hear the story. I think we all would. Really funny. Veterans. And every time I got up a few times and I had to walk past him and every time I'd come back in the aisle and need him to move, he would go, you again. I kept going down and bringing waters back, Andy. You did. And it was very appreciated.
Because it's a three-and-a-half-hour show, and I feel the freedom of movement because it's also the floor I work on.
But most everybody was sort of glued to their seat.
And if I had a highlight moment, it was I was walking up with eight waters, and Keith Richards was on the aisle, and I said, Hey, Keith, you need a water? He was like, Oh, thanks, mate. Oh, nice. Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
But they did sort of turn my studio into, there was a bar, there were seats, and I talked to some people who said it was a pretty fun vibe in there.
Were people watching the show in the other stage?
Yeah. Oh, you went up for good nights, obviously. I did. That was a very fun stage to be on.
Yeah. But then it was lovely. Everywhere you turned, there was somebody. I mean, I got a hug from Sir Paul McCartney. Pretty good. Pretty good. Kind of top moment in life. You know who was one of my top moments who I talked to, who I never met, who was on the show, but my connection to him is his work outside the show was Anthony Michael Hall.
who could not have been sweeter and was lovely to talk to. Oh, cool. Yeah, I've never met him. There was also, what did you and I do as soon as the show was over?
We gave ourselves half an hour before we went over to the party, and I think it was a necessary reset.
Yeah, because Kenan, noticeably absent, totally mailed it in on Friday. Well, he did an intro. Still, I don't think he would have caught you. No, definitely not. Although maybe those intros did sometimes. They were buying a lot of time.
Yeah. The party, which was amazing, was also so loud. Well, it was massive, though.
Yeah. I'm going to say it might be the last great showbiz party. Okay. I don't know what it's ever going to be like.
I want to say like till like four. 3.30 maybe? Okay. How about you, Jorn? Three. Me and Mari, we got fucking kids, bro. Not like you guys. Yeah, that's true. I did take my kids. I poorly scheduled a trip to the Bluey experience.
What time did you go, Seth? 11 a.m. But we were up at 7 a.m.
I believe I heard it was her last show. She retired. Yeah, that was her last show. She went out with that show. She went out saying to Higgins, the lines in Scare Straight are not OK. Well, yeah.
By the way, in the first draft Joe showed me, at one point they said something like that, and Seneca said, whoa, McIntosh, come on. It's 7 p.m. on the West Coast. Oh, they should have kept it. I know. That was great.
It was a really good one.
I missed him. One of the other things, the downsides of the after party is the people you realize you didn't see at the party. Yeah. And that night, I was in the car home and realized, oh, man, I never saw Suds. And I wrote him, I just want you to know how happy I was. Because you really landed it. It was a real, he got like both cheeks hit the desk at the same time. It was a real. He caught air.
I mean, we're going to jump all around, but the highlight for me of the many highlights, and I do want to talk about the medley because that was certainly one of them, but Bobby and Marty crushing at Radio City was something to see.
It was special.
Like Lorne. Lorne. Yeah, Lorne was there. Oh, I do want to, because it was pure joy to be at the update desk. Yeah, nice work. I was so, I mean, it's pretty much the same team that was running update when I was there. Wait, are we in Seth's corner? Yeah, you know what? Yoram, sing us in.
Jost, the best. As I said, he took care of a lot of people. He took care of me. He said, we'd love to get you an update. Do you want to run a feature? You know, the first time those guys used to do that was my era of update, Fred and Vanessa. I was very happy to see those characters back. So fun. And also, Lorne was slow to sign off on the premise of them being Lorne's friends.
That is just a case where Lorne doesn't like to ask or okay attention towards him.
It's not his style.
With that said, he gave it the okay. And the two great things. One, I mean, the best thing about my time hosting Update was just being close to people who were crushing. I just loved it so much.
And I had eyes on Lorne because much like you, when you were doing Domingo, you could see the faces of the people. I knew exactly where Lorne was. Lorne was laughing so hard at Fred and Vanessa. Yeah. And he was also laughing in a way because they were talking about him. And there's that part where they say he was going out to eat and they're like, what about us?
And he's like, you two don't look like you have much trouble finding food. And Lorne made a face like, no, I wouldn't. Like, even though he knew it was a joke, I felt like he had to make a look like, I would never.
I also had a great moment, which I was like, oh, there's no reason not to do this, which is, you know, I was sitting next to Joe, and basically, you know, they do, you know how it works. They do a run, I say a line, they do another run, I say a line. And I just, like, reached over and put my hand on Joe's leg to be like, Look at us. Yeah. And he was like, just put his hand on top of my hand.
And it was just like one of the nicest moments to be like, oh, that's fantastic.
Look, I already had one because I always got one when a feature was working. Dag to the wood. That's how much you like comedy. Bobby, really fun to watch Bobby and Cecily. They were both wonderful. Bobby, that, again, it's Jost. I mean, Jost writes both of those, too, with the respective stars of it. Cecily and him, right girl, came to party. And then he writes Drunk Uncle with Bobby.
It was so patient and so quiet. It was exactly what Bobby and Marty always were. It took no accounting of the room they were in. It made the entirety of the room come to them and meet them on Bobby and Marty's home court. The culps. Yeah. Culps. Everything in the long run up was so funny. And then the medley was so funny. And it was also updated and modern. Yep.
And Drunk Uncle, you forget, has like a three-act structure. Yeah. Where he always comes out and is like, he's a blowhard. And then he like starts like admitting, like it all comes from a place of like self-doubt. Then he cries.
Yeah. But like that thing where like, so maybe I'm not Landshark. Like that was the most meta moment of the whole thing was like drunk uncle realizing. I'm not Landshark.
And when it's over, you're like, oh, I wish I just could have slowed down time a little bit. Yeah. It's almost as if you wished you could turn back time. turn back times. Ooh, she did well, too. She did great. Has she ever sung it not in the clothes from the video? That is, to me, the greatest part about it. It's so impressive.
I'm like, oh, my God, the two of them were like... Yorm's corner is just him, like, I'm really into older women.
When did you place the bet? January 1st. Okay, because I was worried that was going to be the answer. I have not seen much difference in the first two months.
It would explain why you've just been doing very slow curls.
Another thing that's nuts to me as I talk about how happy I am that I'm not doing late night this week, they're back today.
The etch-a-sketch of like, hey, you did a great job, now do it again.
Haim, I know Haim got up there. Yeah, I got to know Haim was there.
It also, compared to the 40th, one difference, there were way more live sketches, which I thought was very cool, and less reliance on montages, which I thought, at the time, I thought was great. And yet, the amount of people I talked to who said, ah, I wish there'd been more montages. I love those so much. And you just realize, oh, there's a reason. People love watching old montages.
And the commercial one, which was, again, Colin Jost wrote that really funny intro with Alec Baldwin and Sarah Sherman.
It was a very funny joke. It's a very good Joe's joke. And then the In Memoriam montage, which was Steve Higgins' brainchild, was so fun as well. It was definitely interesting to watch. Yeah. Yeah. You know how you said, Andy, yours was for the room? That was the most not for the room. Right.
Yeah, that was a great joke. And Donna was great. Her performance was great. Oh, my God, Donna crushed the joke. The timing of that was fucking flawless.
And it was one of the moments where I made an effort to just look around and find the faces of people I loved who were just dying with laughter. Dying. Dying with laughter.
Oh, that's great. She also was on my show, which was really fun. Oh, yeah. Andy, I don't want to put you on the spot, but you ate shit super hard on the B yesterday. Yeah, but I got queen bee clean today. Yeah. By the way, I think I was like 19 off yesterday.
It really is shocking. I want to give a quick shout out to how the opening Blues Brothers number that Jimmy did was so high energy and fantastic and felt so authentic to the Blues Brothers. And then it was so funny to me how winded he was. He was so winded. That was great.
No shade. Yeah. I could have done a third of that. No. Was that really him singing? It was good. It was great. It sounded like it had to be. Yeah. Couldn't fucking believe it. It was great. And the dancing was so fantastic.
I met Diva for the first time, which was super exciting. Mike Diva directed the short. When did you decide to just start grabbing people clapping? Pretty early on. Okay, gotcha. So that was always the plan.
I was very happy because we got called up to do it and Shoemaker was just coming with me to come with me to go like visit you as well. And then because he was there, you guys forced him to do it. Yes. And Shoemaker, not in a million years, would have said yes, unless he was in a situation that he was in where he was susceptible to be bullied.
Yeah, but it was great. And the crew was, you know, a lot of those guys work on my show and they were so psyched to have been in it. I mean, it was a love letter to everyone who ever worked there. Love letters. We love a love letter. You love to love. Yeah.
Uh, the pipes could talk. Was that? Oh, well, no, my favorite was, uh, the coal mine break. Coal mine break was all Akiva Schaffer. I love it. Did he have the setup? Had somebody said the coal mine thing first or was the entirety of it set up? Entirety was him.
I think they should probably just do a 50 first. I mean, I just think they should. You know, you were saying about the taxi cabs and I, you know, it's kind of like life at SNL. Because again, I worked in the building. The entirety of the 30 Rock subway station was postered with all of our faces. Yeah. I didn't take a single picture of it. I realize today it's down. They kept it till last night.
And I'm like, what was the point of any of this if you can't document it? And the reality is you don't document it because the only way to be effectively a part of SNL is to be hyper-present on the work. Right. And I always feel like I'm jealous of people who, you know, the amount of people who did like photo dumps over the course of the weeks leading up to it.
I feel like I did not take a single picture in the time I was there, almost because I thought it would jinx it. I didn't take any photos either. And I think maybe I blew it.
But again, nose to the grindstone, man. Yeah. Well, guys, we're going to move back in time for the next episode. But it was really, I mean, it was lovely seeing you both. It was very special. I feel like it's going to take a long time to process the old SNL 50th, but I'm glad that I have you guys to do it with.
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Yeah. And Bobby and Marty is an era and a half ago, three years ago. Yeah. And so it wasn't necessarily that the audience was immediately, oh my God, a Bobby and Marty. Even for people who'd never seen it before, they taught them the game. Yeah. It crushed with people who are fans of it. It crushed with new business.
And I had the greatest conversation. I wrote Anna, who had one of the best weekends of anybody. Truly. Anna Gasteyer. All the time.
Everything she was in, gold. Yeah. And she said that her and Will afterwards, they were talking about they felt really happy on behalf of the characters Bobby and Martin. Okay. Like they weren't backstage saying, oh my God, Will and Anna just crushed it. They just said it was like the perfect final act for these two losers. Yeah. What a nice thing for them. Not losers, but just like nerds. Yeah.
Honestly, it was also so funny to be backstage with like the coolest musicians in the world. Yeah. Dressed like Bobby and Martin. Like, even if they were dressed like Will and Anna, it would have been a marked difference. Yeah. But to be dressed as, and then to go out and kill. It was so funny. It was great.
And then the funny part is if you only know Will and Anna, you think to yourself, well, I'm sure the writer then must be the super young plugged in person. And then we know it's Paula Pell. Yeah. And so it weirdly looks like even a higher level of difficulty to make something so perfectly modern. Yeah. It was great. Kudos, yeah.
Felt like it had been a major, more than any other milestone in my life, maybe was a bigger one. Felt way more midlife crisis-y than my 50th birthday. Right. You know what I mean? Oh, really? Yeah. Because it was such a milestone, you were like, oh man, I guess I am old. Yeah. It felt like afterwards, I just walked by a graveyard that had tombstones with all our names on it.
I also thought on that same level of just total patience, Fred and Maya as Prince and Beyonce. Just spectacular. Again, just... Yeah.
Yeah. That was a lot of the experience of my weekend. Yeah. And I think part of it, the hangover afterwards, was knowing that even while you're watching it, even if you could be aware, oh, I never thought I was going to see this again, you also at the same time were sad that it might be the last time. Right, right. I had that so many times over the course of the weekend.
So weird, because I saw him talking to you. I didn't hear what he said, but I saw you say no thanks. And I saw him shrug, and he walked by me, and I tried to make eye contact with him, and he just went, and then just walked right by. Oh, interesting. I don't think those were words. That's weird timing. Yeah. One more thing I want to say, though, again. Those performances were incredible.
But both Maya and Fred, Ana and Will, they were remembering the muscle memory of how to do those things they've done live before, and they did not get knocked off their game. You, Andy, had a much harder level of difficulty doing a whole new medley of your songs with totally different people. Sure. How long was that process?
There's that thing where it elevates people in my eyes so much when they agree to do something like that and then approach it with the same musical integrity. They approach their own performances. Yeah. Like Bad Bunny and Eddie Vedder performed with exactly as much heart. that they had in their earlier performances. And that is, like, when they get the game, which is not to be winking at it.
You know, just Eddie Vedder just belting with wearing a pirate cap.
But there was like a party in the graveyard. Yeah. Which was a good way to remember we're all going to live forever because we worked on a show that is as iconic as SNL.
I mean, secret bonus for me too, you as Jackson Maine, kind of a dream come true for me. Long been waiting for the moment.
It turned out, you know, in the end, you didn't need, like, the P-Rig was sort of Dumbo's feather. You didn't need that. You could fly on your own.
While we're on, I mean, I think Parnell a little bit like Bobby and Marty, right? There's a whole generation of people who have no idea, you know, the roots of Lazy Sunday. Sure. And yet, you know, 20 years older, Parnell is just as funny doing hardcore rap as he was back then. Because also, Parnell was kind of always 50. Yes. You know? The comedy of Parnell was his stoicism.
Definitely emotionally hungover.
Oh, if that's what you'd like, I can be angry.
Have you watched it, Andy? You were saying that you were maybe a little nervous to watch it. I didn't watch it.
And top to bottom, what a concert it was. Oh my God. Dude, Lauryn Hill. Lauryn Hill alone.
I'm on a two-week hiatus, maybe the most kindly scheduled hiatus I've ever had. Ah, yes. I gotta say, you look great, Seth. You look kind of tan. Certainly wouldn't have been ready to go back the Monday after that very late after-party, and still today on a Monday would not have been ready either. Quick trivia question.
Yeah. Bonnie Raitt. And Bonnie Raitt. I mean, we can jump ahead just to say that Andy and I, if you're wondering who the most excited we were to meet any celebrity, Andy and I both met Bonnie Raitt, and it was exceptional.
The coolest.
The only photo I took at the party was of me and my wife and Bonnie Raitt. Yeah. And what was her vibe? Just the coolest.
Oh, well, hello. What an honor to meet you.
Shout out to Chris Martin for two things. First, Chris Martin playing piano for Bonnie Raitt was a really awesome thing to see. Also, I heard that he said he would do it and Bonnie Raitt was like, sure, but he has to talk to my piano player. And he was like, whatever you need. The other thing was I lost my voice. I didn't feel sick, but I lost my voice hardcore.
And Saturday night, there was an evening where people gave toasts to Lorne Michaels. And Lexi, my wife and I, were talking to Chris Martin. And she said, hey, what do you do when you lose your voice? And he said, oh, I do. He literally pulled out like drops he puts in his throat. An elixir. An elixir. Yeah, just a Coldplay elixir. Mm-hmm. And she said, can Seth have it? And he said, yeah.
And he just gave it to me. And so I was just like pumping the Chris Martin juice into my throat.
I mean, obviously, I want it to be that.
I'm definitely wondering at this point how many people paused the pod to go Google Jupiter Ascending. No, to watch Jupiter Ascending. Do yourself a favor. Oh, you think they're going to watch the whole thing?
Did you go to the toasts, Andy?
No one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the Donald. And that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter. Like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac? You, Mr. Trump, recognize that the real problem was a lack of leadership, and so ultimately you didn't blame Little John or Meatloaf.
You fired Gary Busey. And these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night.