Seth Meyers tried to take over this interview. Amy hangs with the 'Late Night' host and talks about starting at SNL at the same time, getting compliments from Lorne Michaels, and his feelings on Ayahuasca. Host: Amy PoehlerGuests: Mike Shoemaker and Seth MeyersExecutive Producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-BermanFor Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel LovellFor The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson, Chris Wohlers, and Aleya Zenieris; audio producer Kaya McMullen; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and booker Kat SpillaneOriginal Music: Amy Miles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who is Seth Meyers and what makes him a great friend?
Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Good Hang. I'm really excited about our guest today. My old dear friend, Seth Meyers, is joining us today. And talking about friendship, Seth is such a good friend. And I talk to him about what friendship means to him. I try to guess his middle name. And we get tears, people. I get him crying more than once. So bingo. It's that kind of episode.
But before we get started, we're always trying to ask people who know our guest to tell me questions to ask them. And joining me from the Cayman Islands on his vacation is the great producer of Late Night with Seth Meyers and ex-producer at Saturday Night Live, Mike Shoemaker. Shoe, can you hear me? This episode is presented by Athleta. Summer is here. It's time to get outside and get active.
Shoo!
Hi!
Hi! How are you? Oh, my God. Where are we talking to you from?
Grand Cayman. The beach is over there.
Now, before we get into Seth, Shoo, when I arrived at SNL in 2001, what was your title? I...
I think I was producer. I had, you know, I was there already 15 years. So I was, you know, I knew what I was doing finally. I had had my thousand hours of, so you didn't meet young, fuck up Shoemaker.
And how, where did young Shoemaker get started at SNL? How did young Shoemaker get his start at SNL?
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Chapter 2: What was Mike Shoemaker's role at SNL and how did he impact Seth Meyers?
Well, I hope someday you come on as a guest because I do want to continue to talk about... Amy, Amy, you have sponsors.
Yeah, that's true.
Bill Simmons would fucking say... Bill's never going to... No, there's no way he's going to let you on.
Those blue eyes would turn black saying, when are you booking these fucking people? No one ever heard of them. Just keep going with it. Famous people.
You're right. I'm sorry I even said that. There's no way you're going to be a guest. I mean, we literally just had Michelle Obama. Like, we just had Michelle Obama. Like, no offense to you, but... Yeah, yeah. Like, don't call us. We'll call you. I mean, it's... We're never going to get to you. Tell Bill that. Yeah. I'm sorry, Bill. I even mentioned it. Exactly.
But OK, so what do you think I should be? What would you want to hear me ask Seth today? What do you think we should talk about? Anything big or small?
So the question that I want you to ask is that I think the reason that we all became a unit is because you and I saw him first. And by that, I mean he felt seen by us. before everyone else there did.
I think that's accurate because you were kind of famous and I was a producer there 15 years, but he was like a feature player that you don't necessarily invest in in the first year because you don't know what's going to happen. But we did. So we were the first people that he felt seen by. So my question would be, what does he think we saw? What does he think that we saw in him?
What a great question. As early investors to the Seth Meyers Corporation, what does he think we saw in him? He is going to have, that's a deep question, dude. He might have, he might turn into sand. Like when he has to, he might just turn into a thousand crows and fly away.
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Chapter 3: How did Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler start their careers at SNL?
Yikes.
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.
Bad.
Yeah. You know what this also looks like on a face.
Yeah.
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.
Yes, absolutely.
I would have been 100%.
And I think the same thing happened to you that happened to you where you go to a photo shoot and it was like you turn the corner and there'd be a table of rubber chickens and clown noses and giant. And you just be like, oh God, I'm such, I'm, I'm, I'm. Yeah. I'm being pimped out. Yeah. Yeah.
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