This week on the pod Seth Meyers is joined by Jake Tapper, Mike Schur, and Alan Sepinwall for a special breakdown of which digital shorts make the Criterion collection! They discuss what other categories the digital shorts can fall into, including “additional reading” and “Kim’s videos,” plus they talk about some favorite memories of The Lonely Island and SNL over the years! Watch all the shorts (available on YouTube) that we talked about this year - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR9ZV6ngzoSrQAaFARYbI-zeBKGn8JcUI (Not all the clips we mention are available online; some never even aired.) If you want to see more photos and clips follow us on Instagram @lonelymeyerspod. Send us an email! [email protected] Support our sponsors: Airbnb Visit Airbnb.com today and book a guest favorite. These are the most beloved homes on Airbnb. Shopify Upgrade your business and get the same checkout Aviator Nation uses. Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at SHOPIFY.COM/lonelyisland Produced by Rabbit Grin ProductionsExecutive Producers Jeph Porter and Rob HolyszLead Producer Kevin MillerCreative Producer Samantha SkeltonCoordinating Producer Derek JohnsonCover Art by Olney AtwellMusic by Greg Chun and Brent AsburyEdit by Cheyenne Jones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What special episode are they discussing?
Hey, everybody.
Welcome to a very special episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast. Before we start, I want to stress that we've put exactly as much thought into this episode as all previous episodes, which is not much. but I am joined by two luminaries who are going to help us select the criterion collection of the first 34 shorts we have covered on the podcast.
We are joined by Mike Schur and Jake Tapper. Hello, gentlemen.
Chapter 2: Who are the guests joining Seth Meyers?
Thank you.
Hello, how are you, Seth? It's about time. I'm really good.
It's about time.
Yeah, okay. Slow your roll, Tapper. So real quick, just credits-wise, Mike Schur and I met at SNL. He then went on to work on The Office, played Mose on The Office. Thank you. He's created a bunch of shows, Parks and Rec, Good Place, Man on the Inside right now, Ted Danson on Netflix, just got picked up for season two. Congratulations.
Thank you very much.
Most importantly, though, for the purposes of this, Brooklyn Nine-Nine with Andy Samberg. So there is a connection, multiple connection points, really, considering the SNL time as well. And then Jake does news stuff. I do. So you guys reached out because you have some thoughts.
That's right. Jake actually reached out to me. I'll let him tell most of the story, but he reached out to me and basically said, I think you and I should be the official judges of what is and is not part of the criterion collection. And I have to say that when he said it, it made perfect sense for a couple of reasons. Number one, he and I have never actually met before. No, that's good.
And number two, as you put it, I mean, I worked at SNL, admittedly, before The Lonely Island showed up, and he is a newsman. Yeah. And so when you put all of that together, I think it makes perfect sense why he and I should be the official judge and jury of what is and is not criterion.
Agreed. I should also note that we were texting about the pod. We had been texting about the pod. We are fans of the pod. Right. Listeners, we should say, more discriminating than fans, but listeners to the pods, consistent listeners. I think, Mike, you and I have both listened to every single one as of today, correct?
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Chapter 3: What is the Criterion Collection and its significance?
It just made me laugh.
It was a four time because I will say it aired with Ian McKellen, who seemed like the perfect person for it.
Well, that was the trick. I don't remember who I wrote it for originally. I think I submitted it maybe three total times. But the third time was when Ian McKellen hosted and it was like, oh, my God, this is now undeniable. Now this will work.
he's doing it and uh i really loved it and everyone picked a different sort of archetypal british like mystery theater you were sort of james mason you went like james mason and uh it really delighted me and i thought of it as like it was one of the first things i wrote i sucked at this job uh not false modesty i sucked at the job for a good year and a half or so until i finally figured out how to
how to write and it was one of the first things I wrote that I was like oh my god this is like a legitimate sketch premise and it didn't get chosen and I was convinced it would work and I resubmitted it and it didn't get chosen and finally Ian McKellen did it and you were there and Polar had shown up and all these great people did it and it finally got to air with Ian McKellen playing the lead detective and it probably was like a what B minus B minus but age is great it's not any worse than a B minus now
Seth, you do a James Mason? You do a Mason accent?
I was our Mason until Hayter showed up.
Can we hear a little?
Yeah, a little. Pretty good. You know, again, I fell out of favor. I fell out of favor once. Bill did all the dead British people once he showed up.
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Chapter 4: Which digital shorts are being considered for the Criterion Collection?
And it was just him doing a farewell concert.
Yeah.
Because Seinfeld...
and then i remember writing in uh on by the way this was also a real paper turner and that that's all you heard whatever it'd be like also shout out to mike schur who's leaving leaving us all the same day i left paula pell and tracy morgan two other beloved figures of the show also left and i remember um i was very emotional the day i left for obvious reasons it had been six and a half years and tracy was at good nights and
And then people were holding up signs that were like, I love you, Paula Pell. And I was like, all right, well, yeah, I guess that's like a perfect SNL send-off is that you're really emotional and the show kind of flips you off a little bit. Like these two other people that people like more are leaving. Sure, what were you leaving to do? Go to work on The Office. Nice.
Season one of The Office was starting.
What? But when was the comeback?
So the office season one writing was from like June to October of 2004. Gotcha. And then they were editing it and it didn't air until March. So after we were done writing, I got hired to the comeback in December and I was there from like December through April. Then the office aired and then got picked up for season two. So then I went back to the office to do season two.
So it was between seasons one and two.
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Chapter 5: What are the categories for short films discussed?
And granted, he's literally playing himself and he's playing football. But the only things that come close to me are Tom Brady in the sexual harassment video, which is a very specific kind of, you don't have to act to act in this thing. Jeter in the Derek Jeter sucks. No, I don't. Thank you. Back and forth that you wrote. You, I believe. I think we wrote together. Yeah.
But I think this is the best athlete acting ever.
Payton uses football to teach valuable lessons of communication.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Get back in here. Let's go.
Except you. I can't even look at you. You know what? Let's save the portal after 20 minutes. That's right. You stay in there.
Dear sister. Yes. I agree. I'm not going to tell you much about the voters, but I will tell you they do too.
I agree.
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