"Seth Meyers"
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
You know, I've heard this for years, uh, being in the Hollywood business, that for every one hundred auditions, you'll book one job. So just keep going and keep going. And I thought, gosh, for every hundred episodes of Smartless. There's always one good one. So we got about three in the can. Welcome to Smartless.
Nice. Guys, guess what's coming up in a couple of days? Yeah, yeah, I
know. We gotta mention that Hollywood Bowl.
We're gonna be at the Hollywood Bowl October 17th.
And not just there, like not hanging out, actually doing a show at the end. We're gonna be
on the stage. Yeah,
yeah, we're not.
And if you don't have tickets yet, you go to smartless.com slash live. Is that right? Wait, what's it? What is it? Smartless.com slash live.
Oh my gosh, that's pretty easy. And and for that, they're gonna they're gonna get a double guest. Is that right?
Yep.
Two guests. Yeah, and we got
some fun we got some fun surprises. Really? Yeah, we got some fun surprises.
All for the price of one ticket. Yeah, all for the price of one ticket. And a nice, beautiful October October seventeenth. Correct. Right? A fall night out there under the stone. It's
gonna be gorgeous. And and you yeah, you g you buy a ticket and you can't you can't put a price tag on a smile. What
a great sell. You know. Will you're the best. Anyway, it's gonna be a great night. Yes.
What’s the big announcement about the Hollywood Bowl show?
Hopefully as great as this next guest coming up. Guys, let's get to the episode. You can hear me now? There he is. Listen listener and you've just spent you
spent all night on your computer in incognito mode for we don't know why, but we just I had to
change all my settings, all my usernames.
Sorry. Um If you got hacked, it would be the most boring hack for a hacker. It would just be all baseball stats. Yeah. And list of list of like movie stuff.
Yeah. And i I I you know, when I get all the the cookie al alerts, you know, would you like to reject all cookies or whatnot? And I and I and I I do. I do reject them. I know Sean you question
Sean, have you ever cooked yet? Um but um
But um I don't have any I don't have any secrets. And uh you know, so like uh my my my instinct is to accept the cookies because then I don't get ads for things that I don't need, you know, like uh um you know skin skin skin rashes and things like that. I I I get I get ads for
J B, but you you don't have secrets, but you used to be you there was a time where you were just built on secrets. Yeah.
Well, I No, I think I was I was I I was do I was doing things at a time when we didn't have uh phones and things to to photograph us. And even then I wasn't do I was I was never a bad boy. It's so boring. Even my bad days were boring.
When you say bad boy, like the idea of you like like in a leather jacket and then you flip the collar up, you know. Or like could
you imagine me ever trying to like mix it up with like a paparazzi guy that gets too close to my face and I take a swing at him like Sean Penn? And then I just get my ass beaten, you know,
repeatedly. I could see I could actually see that wait, have you ever owned a leather jacket quickly, either of you? Of course. Yeah, I I have. Yeah, yeah. I have. But they
were they were they were soft soft and suede. They weren't even like manly. Lamb skin. Mine was lamb skin back in the eighties or nineties. No, no, no. I'm I'm
saying leather jacket. Yeah.
Oh, I see. Okay. Okay. I think I had like a veal skin uh vest.
Uh tonight we got a beautiful veal skin. Uh what else have we got? Chef is preparing a beautiful veal skin. Yeah. Um now
uh Will uh we I feel like it's been a while since we've had an update on your uh on your love life and domestic life. Oh
yeah. What's going on there? What's going on there? I always talk about
Sean and I's personal life. What about what's going on with your personal life? It's going
it's going really well. Oh that's nice.
What what's happening? What first of all talk about secrets.
How do the hosts discuss tech habits, cookies, and online security?
Talk about secrets. Yeah, what are the deeds on that?
Both of you know exactly what's happening and this is just I'm not gonna walk into your trip. But is you're you're happy.
Let's suffice to say you're happy.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:05–1:36
2
What’s the big announcement about the Hollywood Bowl show?
1:36–4:27
3
How do the hosts discuss tech habits, cookies, and online security?
4:27–13:52
4
What early career stories do they share about improv and comedy school?
13:52–30:02
5
How did the move to Boom Chicago and Amsterdam shape their comedy path?
30:02–49:17
6
What insights do they give about writing and being a head writer on SNL?
49:17–56:23
7
How do they compare the workload of SNL versus late‑night hosting?
56:23–57:51
8
What sports teams do they root for and how does that influence their life?
57:51–59:28