The Naked Gun: A Preview

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Hey, Keeve, do you mind if we start off this sesh with like just a little bit of gushing?

Because both me and Andy have seen your movie and not blowing smoke here.

It's fucking great.

It's so funny.

It looks amazing.

It's kind of an action movie in parts and also just a hilarious comedy.

I just want to compliment you and I just want to say that I think I speak for both me and Andy when we say when I say we're both really proud of you man that's very heartwarming I didn't care for the film oh shit oh wow well you know what is what's good this is why people tune in because controversy thank you yarm that's very no of course it's very good we're all excited very excited and this is kind of a special episode because we finally got rid of the dead weight fucking Seth we all know and it's the three of us just kind of chatting about your movie and asking you some questions.

Yeah.

And Seth, to be fair to him, he wanted to join and his flight was just late, so he's not at a computer.

How dare you defend him?

That's fair.

He was flying to meet up with the Bezosists on their honeymoon, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

He loved the wedding so much.

He's like, I'll give you guys a couple weeks and then I got to see you again.

We got to run this back.

Yeah, Seth right now is helping Jeff Bezos figure out what color he wants his cup holders to be on his spaceship.

And so it's really important that he's not here.

Now, is plural of Bezos Bezos?

Bezos?

Or is it Bezai?

Oh.

Anyway, Keeve, tell him when the movie's coming out.

The movie's coming out this Friday, I guess Thursday night, right?

There'll be some Thursday night screenings.

And it was funny, me and Jor, we were texting just before this, and I called him real quick because I was like, the movie's about to come out.

This is the podcast episode that would promote it.

But on our podcast, it feels weird to just do actual promotion.

So that's why Jorm was starting by being so generous.

But I have been doing press all week.

I have genuine answers for people that would be interested in seeing the movie, but it's also a little odd to be that, I don't know, genuine.

Genuine and forward with promoting a movie.

Well, here's the thing.

It is

because I consider the Quaid Army my family.

Honestly, it is disgusting, which leads me to don't forget Digman's still airing on Comedy Central, which is a network on cable television.

And if you miss it on Comedy Central, don't worry because you'll be able to check it out on Paramount Plus.

And I don't have anything to promote, but I am going to do a Walmart commercial soon.

So be sure to check that out, guys.

Awesome.

Keith,

you shouldn't be shy about promoting your big-ass IP studio comedy in theaters.

That's the thing you have to get the word out.

Yeah.

And the other thing is, is that I'm genuinely interested in some of your answers to some of these questions.

And I'm sure we'll ask you a couple more because it's fun to actually find out about the movie making process and Andy and I will jump in and then anything you feel uncomfortable about because these are gonna be some fucking hard-hitting questions we can cut out.

Well, thank you.

I appreciate the hard-hitters.

I mean, what we all can speak to and have on this podcast is the feeling of when a movie is going to be in theaters in five days.

And it isn't,

you know, a Marvel Fantastic Four where there, you know, there's a certain built-in amount of people that are going to see it no matter what.

But, you know, like, how do you get the momentum?

I don't know.

So that's why it was important to promote to the Quades a little bit right now.

To be like,

go see it that first weekend so that it gets a little momentum potentially.

And I will also say, I've talked to many comedy people who are incredibly excited about it just based on all of the materials you've been releasing, but also in an extremely self-serving way, everyone's really excited that it does well so that comedies do well in general.

So

pressure, though.

Yeah, no pressure.

So it's just, but get out there, guys.

I mean, yeah, that's right.

Well, what do you want to ask me about it?

Because you already know.

Do you want me to tell you what the junket asks me over and over and then tell you my answer that I've given 20 times?

No, no.

The big first question that I do when I ask, and I think I was feeling when you were first starting to write it and just decided to do it, was just, like, we love the originals, all like all three of the originals, but really, like, we love them so much.

And it is such an undertaking to jump in and do something like that.

What was the process like of wanting to make this in 2025?

Okay, that's a genuine, a genuine good journalist question.

Thanks.

You wrote it.

I actually paraphrased it poorly.

Tell us the answer, Keith.

I mean, here's what I really learned that we all already knew, but in going back as super fans of Naked Gun, right?

But then going back and trying to be super analytical, going back and watching and going, why do I think this one works when other ones don't, right?

That was actually

way more about

the story of Naked Gun and how they broke down like the screenwriting of telling a detective story that has to be so easy to follow that you can put all the jokes on it and you're never confused, but at the same time, not be boring because then you'd be bored.

You know what I mean?

Because we all, we know when you're making a movie that's all jokes, it's why we were so happy to have Judd on Popstar, right?

Because we we were like, and he can make sure that we're making sure the story works and the emotional story works.

And at the end of the day, you're just like, you only care about Popstar if you're laughing the whole way through, but you're never going to be laughing if you're confused or bored.

Well, and that is truly how we had to think about McGruber, too, because like when you're quote unquote spoofing something, you kind of, you still need an original story to follow.

And I assume you probably learned a lot from doing Chippendale as well.

Yeah, but almost everything from Popstar applied to this in terms of, and then Magruber only, I wasn't writing Macruber with you guys, but the, remember on Popstar how we knew the run times of every movie in the genre and how they were all under 90 minutes.

And so on this, I re-looked at all them.

The first naked gun is 85 minutes and the second naked gun is 85 minutes.

Wow.

And so I.

How long is yours?

85 minutes.

All right.

Is that the perfect comedy length?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It might be.

And I mean, we, as we all know, all of our favorites, whether it's Borat or Airplane or whatever, they're all under 90 minutes.

And it really is part of it.

But also, it was like when I describe to you, like, remind you what the first plot of Naked Gun is, it's extremely complicated, yet it feels so simple when you watch it.

Because it's about like a real estate tycoon, pillar of the community, who is super rich, but also on the side is available to terrorists to come to him and pay him $10 million to assassinate the Queen of England.

He's doing both.

And it's because he has sleeper cells that like Manchurian candidate, telephon from Charles Bronson.

But you watch it and go, oh, the story was so, you know, whatever.

It's just the jokes.

But you're like, oh my God, they have all these complex ideas being told so simply.

Anyway, so in terms of your great question about taking something from the past, the main thing I was taking was figuring out how they pulled off like the magic trick of making it the way it is.

And then the other thing was just, you know, the spirit of who we all love, right?

Zaz.

What was your first Zaz thing you saw?

Zaz's Zuckers, Abraham Zuckers.

And they were David and Jerry Zucker, their brothers.

I think for me,

it was probably the first Naked Gun film.

Was it really?

It wasn't Top Secret?

Top Secret's mine.

No, Naked Gun.

And then realizing that you could also watch Police Squad and going back and being like, oh my God, there's more.

And then, yeah.

You guys were more up on Top Secret before me.

Top Secret was my introduction to it as well.

Yeah.

Just an interaction.

I didn't even know they, you know, there was no internet.

So it was just the VHS my parents brought home that like changed the synapses in my brain.

Top Secret was the first time that I found out that adults were allowed to be as funny as they are.

That's exactly one of the ways I've been putting it all week when people ask me, Yorn.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You watched it at home because we weren't old enough, right?

It was a VHS.

Yeah, I got it.

Was it a VH?

It must have been a VHS.

I feel like I saw it at like a camp thing.

Like they would like throw a video on at the end of like a camp thing.

And I remember being like almost scared for how funny it was, like just like giggling, being like, oh, this can't continue to be this funny.

Like the fucking pinto joke sticks out, the fucking the guy falling off of the castle and then breaking into a thousand pieces because he was actually made of glass.

Shattering like glass.

The one I always think about was the when they're on their like prone, like they're sneaking into the castle and they're in the grass and they're on their elbows and knees and really trying to stay really low.

And then it does that shot where it's tracking back.

So, as they track, all of a sudden a pair of boots is there, and you're like, oh, he's fucked.

And then he looks up and it pans it, the camera tilts up, and it's just a random pair of boots.

It's a camera movement joke.

It's a camera joke.

Yeah.

So good.

Yeah.

And then it was just, I mean, the thing I keep saying all week is like, then it was just trying to take the spirit of the originals and honor it and bring that forward into today while also trying to just make a new movie.

Because no offense to all the reboots and sequels and everything, but the ones, well, there's two reasons to not do this one, like fan service.

It's a fan service movie where it's just all nostalgia hits.

Is one, I've enjoyed every one of those and I can't remember any of them.

I don't even know all the ones I've watched because you just, they just go in one ear, out the other.

They're not movies.

They just are like weird fan fiction celebrations of the past, a lot of them, the way that they've been treated.

How early, how early in the process did you actually think about updating the style of the film?

Because it is more of a, like, I guess, what, what were your references and when did you decide to sort of do a more updated, like, visual version of it?

I mean, right away before I even, I mean, that's part of what excited me was to do it.

I mean, it's McGruber style, right?

Yeah.

I mean, just to say the things I've been saying all week, it's because of Liam, right?

Like, when they asked if I wanted to do a naked gun, immediately I was like, no.

Because when you're going to reboot or remake or do a legacy sequel, you're supposed to be be finding something that you felt had room for improvement, something that was a little broken, or that was just in such a different genre, like 21 Jumpstreets, a drama teen TV show.

And then you go, ooh, what if we made it into a movie comedy version?

That's just a whole other thing.

But otherwise, you're supposed to be looking for things that were made, had a good idea, but they didn't nail it, where you're like, ooh, now I can nail it.

And the original Naked Gun has no room for improvement.

It's perfect.

So it's a fool's errand to try to do it again.

And leslie nielsen is one of one irreplaceable so somebody chasing him would be set up for failure as well yeah again things i've been saying all week so i feel like a fraud here in my normal press i just say it again that's the secret with press guys why do we think lady gaga got so made fun of for repeating her press on um the stars born for the there can be one million people in a room but or whatever who say no you just need one to say yes andy you remember the quote i'm talking about Yeah, we did a joke about it at the Globes.

Right.

But what's funny is everybody does press junkets, gets asked the same five questions.

And if they gave you a different answer for every journalist, they'd be lying.

And if they're going to be an honest person, when you get asked the same question, you have the same answer.

So, and is it because it was too clever of a thought?

And she did it.

It was too sticky.

She was too good at it.

I think that everyone just is able to like immediately assemble a bunch of quotes and just show that someone said something over and over again.

But if I'm being honest, I haven't checked out your press stuff.

So this is all all new to me it most of it hasn't run it'll be next week okay gotcha and nothing i'm saying is a lie it's just you end up realizing you're saying the same stuff over and over because you're getting asked the same question and you're having the same answer but i don't mind saying it again because i think it's i want the quaid army to know the actual truth and hear from me and hopefully go support the movie because at this moment just like with pop star or with hot rod i'm afraid it'll be a movie that people discover two years from now and go, oh, you know what?

That thing was actually really good.

Well, we've certainly had that experience.

And I'm like, maybe this one has a shot to be the first one for us where people can learn that the week it comes out.

Wouldn't that be neat?

Instead of learning it later.

I feel like it's going to be a similar thing with Digman, but mostly because it won't be available for streaming for two years.

Digman, you're going to have this amazing library, and one day it will go on.

Maybe Paramount Plus will get really popular.

Yeah.

Skydance Plus.

Yellowstone would argue it already is.

Yes, but with the audience that you're looking for.

And,

you know, because even the South Park audience, which is a perfect audience, I think they're watching it on HBO.

You know what, though?

If you watch Digman and Yellowstone, hit us in the titties.

Let us know.

Yeah, let us know if there's any crossover things that you think would work that we haven't hit for promo.

Like,

what would it be like for Dutton to be on the farm, but then next to him is Digman and they're talking about like horses and stuff.

Oh my God.

Yeah, that would be sick as hell.

When I've watched comedies before, and I don't know how like everyone watches comedy, but to me, if there's one joke in a movie that I remember and I've laughed out loud at, it was kind of worth seeing that movie.

This movie has so many of those moments and moments that I think are incredibly memorable.

And I do want you to shout out your writers, obviously, because they're very funny guys and they wrote Chippendale with you.

Doug Manned Dan Greger.

Very funny fucking dude.

Doug and Dan.

Yeah, they're the fucking best and they're killers.

But there are moments in this movie that I'm not going to really because, or maybe this has already come out.

Maybe you've already seen it.

But there are moments that are so fucking funny and memorable and you will take away that that I feel like it's

we can just beep it if it's one of the well the moment uh montage is one of the funniest things I've seen in a really long time and it is like if it was just that moment but there's like 10 other moments like that that I was like dying laughing at.

So thank you like more than worth it to see this joint.

But will you go back to like who shot this fucking movie and

go back to it?

So I wouldn't think it would be a good idea to make it.

And I remember even texting you guys or at least Andy being like, oh my God, I just got asked about a naked gun.

I remember.

We all have the same reaction I think a lot of fans would have, which is like, oh, how are they going to ruin this thing on one hand?

But then also morbid curiosity.

I was like, well, I need to see what they did, you know, or what's going to happen.

But it was Liam Neeson, right?

They said, Liam Neeson's interested.

And that's the whole other thing.

So this is my long-winded way of saying you were talking about the visual references.

And it's all the moment it's him, I go, oh,

last 10 years, he's been doing taken style movies where he's made this iconic action persona.

And there's that clip of him from the cameo he did in the Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Warwick Davis show, where he is playing Liam Neeson in quotes.

But the version of Liam is nothing like the real Liam.

It is a version of of every one of those action stars where he's like a humorless, you know, badass and he comes and goes, I want to do some improv or whatever it is.

It's the funniest clip if you haven't seen it.

And that was all you need to see to know he could do this because he's clearly doing it in character and he's playing so dumb without letting you know that he knows he's dumb or knows that he's telling a joke.

It's all right there.

And so, as fans, as we all are, of the genre of noir and action and spy movies and detective procedurals, Like Naked Gun came out in'88.

They were doing 1950s TV, like M-Squad.

Yeah, they were doing a little bit of Dirty Harry, a little bit of Charles Bronson with Telephon, and then a little, and then things like Double Indemnity and stuff.

There's been 30 years of movies that we have been all watching whenever we can, of Jason Statham or Jack Reacher, or, you know, throw any others in here, but all the latest Bonds, all the Mission Impossibles, CSI, Miami, whatever you want to say.

You know, there's been so much.

And so

if it was any other actor, they would be maybe trying to go towards what Leslie did.

But Liam already had a thing.

So it was already going to be different.

And we can make him his son to even further separate from Leslie.

But anyway, so the visual things are just the shit that me and you like, though, right?

It's just 80s Tony Scott.

And it's

Top Gun and True Romance and Beverly Hills Cop 2.

Those are the Tony Scotts.

Were those ones that you and Brandon were kind of reffing?

And this is Brandon Trost who shot the movie, who has shot Popstar and he shot McGruber and he's been a friend of ours for a very long time.

You know what movie I kind of not discovered, but that I realized was like the perfect sweet spot was Tomorrow Never Dies, the Pierce Bronson like middle of his run.

Oh, really?

And it's because, remember how over the lockdown, COVID lockdown, do you remember how me and Matt?

Yeah.

This is Matt Ben Elliot Olpen, who originally lived as our fourth roommate with the three of us and is from Berkeley.

He was kind of original, a Lonely and Lonely Island.

It was certainly in like original Lonely Island videos with us.

And just to remind the audience, directed The Last Two Screams and Ready or Not with his buddy Tyler.

Radio Silence.

Yeah, that's their director team name.

Me and him started watching every James Bond movie in order from starting at the first one.

Do you remember we were doing that?

Yeah, and was that to make me and Andy jealous that you were like better friends with him now?

Or like, why'd you watch it?

No, you lived in New York.

Okay, well, he was never really good simultaneously.

Okay.

I was jealous for sure.

He did join us for one,

but it wasn't a Bond.

What did you join us for, Andy?

I couldn't tell you, but I do remember.

Okay, well, anyway, you made us jealous, and then I think it was a Dirty Harry.

Was it the first Dirty Harry?

Yeah, it was Dirty Harry.

Dirty Harry, too.

It was so fucking good.

Was it the first one?

Yeah, the first one.

So me and Matt watched every James Bond movie in order.

And when it got to Tomorrow Never Dies, it was like when the old way jumped forward.

It became a modern movie.

Like even the surround sound on my TV came alive.

And all those movies were shot on 35 millimeter, but before you could color time them in a computer and like crush all the blacks.

So the atmosphere is still there, but they're gorgeously shot.

They look amazing by today's standards, but they also give you a hint of nostalgia.

They make you feel good in the way that's what those Tony Scott movies do.

And that's what Tomorrow Never Dies, which is kind of right there.

And then the more modern ones that are obviously incredible in terms of how they look and are is Casino Royale and like Mission Possible Fallout.

So we would look at those, but they were slicker than we knew we could accomplish with our time and our budget.

And they were

even just a teeny bit slicker than we need to do.

Because we were talking about how, like, you look at John Wick or Taken, they look really good.

Like, John Wick is specifically incredibly shot, but it's so shadowy and dark, I don't think it would help with comedy.

Is that what you mean by the lightness?

Like, like when you compare it to Tony Scott, is it just you can see more of the frame and Tony Scott stuff that like that kind of relates to

Tomorrow Never Dies, you can see everything all the time, yet it still is very clearly a big blockbuster action adventure movie.

Right.

Whereas when you get into like John Wick, you can barely see things half the time in a really artistic, cool way.

That would not, that would feel suffocating in a comedy, I think.

That's that's funny because I was just doing color on our it was the exact same thing of uncrushing the blacks just a little bit.

That just means the compression and how deep the actual blacks are.

The contrast.

Yeah, yeah, that's just a way of saying contrast, I guess.

But like, but doing the same thing where I just wanted to see some detail in the shadows, basically.

Yeah, I went the opposite way.

The way actually Andy always wants us to go more of, like, whenever we're in color correction on anything we've ever done, Andy's like, it's too dark.

You're making it too much.

Andy would have loved color correcting this.

It's the first one where I was you in there and we were just like, no, no, no, lift it.

Lift it a little bit.

Yeah, lift it.

Allow more smoke in the air.

Allow me to see everything a little more.

I wanted like the creases in his jacket because I was just trying to give you that nostalgic feeling while being super modern so that it just feels good.

In a way, I think that actually relates to your writing process of like you being able to see everything actually helps the audience just sort of like feel comfortable.

Exactly.

But we don't want it to look like just some shitty overlit comedy that has no point of view.

Yeah.

We want it to be a noir, you know,

spy thriller, whatever you want to call it thing.

But me and Matt also,

we watched, like, we started with Death Wish.

Oh, you did something else together?

With him?

This is how many movies we went.

We watched all five Death Wishes, and then we watched like 25 other Charles Bronson movies movies from the 70s and 80s.

That sounds like a lot of time that you guys spent together.

It's great.

Yeah.

Be more available, Jor.

Yeah, I'll move.

And then we did all the dirty hairies after Andy watched the first one.

Did not make it to two through five, I guess.

Jesus.

Yeah, I didn't.

You missed out.

At one point, there's a close-up of a dog and he farts.

I wonder if we can find that on YouTube.

You sent me a clip, though, on your phone, and I did get to enjoy it.

Whenever something amazing would happen in one of these movies, I would take a video of the TV.

It's like by the fourth one, he's like meeting a girl he likes or something, and she has a dog, and and then all of a sudden to like get out of the scene, it just cuts to the bulldog and it farts, and then it cuts to Clint, and he gives like a classic Clint snarl that used to be reserved for like bureaucracy and pencil pushers, but now could just be applied to a dog farting.

There's one of the Charles Bronson ones that I'm blanking.

It might be Tendo Midnight, where he's like got a dildo in his hand and he keeps flopping it around, but he's seriously trying to reprimand.

Like, what is this?

What are you doing?

But it's just a dildo,

but it's legit.

I do, I do love that in comedies, like you couldn't do that.

Well, you probably could maybe get away with that and make a gun, but those are the kind of things that I feel like you could have done in movies of the past.

And we like, like, I always referenced Tango and Cash because there's a giant trailer truck, like an oil tanker trailer truck, like filled with cocaine.

And I'm like, you couldn't do that now because it would seem like a fucking joke, but that was a serious movie.

Like, we couldn't do that in McGruber, certainly.

Just like fucking the cocaine tanker.

Like, it's the best because he also shoots at it and everyone everyone thinks it'll explode, but he's so confident that they didn't like hide it in a, like the reality is there'd be like a tank within the tank and there'd be gasoline.

So if they get pulled over, gas comes out and then there'd be cocaine in the center.

And if you shot it, it would still explode.

Also, that you would have that much cocaine.

Like that means it's like 50 tons worth of cocaine.

It's all the cocaine that's ever been made in the history of mankind.

Okay, here's another question.

And then I will have made it through all of the questions that you floated me.

And I'm actually surprised by this question.

It says, how do you feel about the marketing?

I'm trying to remember how someone phrased that to me.

They would be like, you know what it would be?

It would be, they would talk about the trailer, the teaser.

And the teaser is the one that I really love that they did, which is the first thing that came out.

That was just the simple one at the bank.

They would talk about how they felt watching the teaser trailer and the OJ joke in the teaser trailer.

And then I would talk about, and I can just paraphrase now, about how I was really happy with that teaser because it was basically all the stuff we wrote in the first week of writing the movie because it answered all the big questions, which is one, what is, you know, is Liam Frank Drebin?

Are we erasing your childhood legacy or what is our, what's its, the movie's relation to the past?

And it was right away like, nope, there's a moment that I will spoil.

So in the trail, you see Frank, he's at the like shrine to Leslie Nielsen saying, you know, hi, dad, I love you.

In the movie, he says, I want to be just like you, but at the same time, completely different and original.

So he just says, like, the whole thesis for the entire movie there.

And that's one of the very first scenes we wrote.

And the second thing is, what will it look like and feel like?

Is it going to feel like it's some movie from the 80s, or are we doing a modern version?

And the bank and the way I shot the bank and Tros shot the bank and the music let you know, no, no, no, we have a new take.

And then the third thing is everybody that I would be like, oh, yeah, I'm thinking, we're thinking about writing a new naked gun.

They'd say, what are you going to do about OJ?

And then that's the answer to that question is at the end of that.

And that's really what people have asked about.

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You were made to outdo your holidays.

We were made to help organize the competition.

Expedia, made to travel.

Oh, I texted you, Jordan, the soundtrack because you haven't heard the real music yet.

You haven't seen the final cut of the movie.

I did not have a chance to see it.

You don't have to listen to it.

It's just movie music.

But this guy, Lorne Balf, did the soundtrack and he did the last three Mission Impossible movies and he killed it.

So me and Jorm, when we were texting earlier about a screening he's going to go to, or the premiere rather, I was like, oh, the thing I'm excited for you to see besides just everything finished is the color correction looking correct because as director to director.

Yeah.

And now with having a real orchestra and the real score in there, it just elevated the whole thing.

I do want to talk about the score for a second because Keeve was sending us all of these videos.

Like as we talked about in the pod, while his dog was humping his leg, he's checking out the score being composed, recomposed, because that's how you do it.

You do it in the box, right?

So to speak.

It's all on computers.

It's all digital.

And then once that's all done and it's approved and

then Keeve has gotten to on several movies now, I think, right?

Is it three movies now that you've gotten to do this?

Yeah, we did on Hot Rod.

I did on Neighborhood Watch.

And we did it on this.

We did not do it on Pop Star because we didn't have an orchestra

because the music in that was all, you know, pop.

But just describe what that process is.

Oh, and Rescue Rangers.

I got to.

Yeah, yeah.

So you've done it before time.

I mean, I feel like everybody's seen those little videos, but it's hard for a video to capture what it's like.

But it's incredible getting a private orchestra thing that is bespoke to your movie.

But you really do have these 50 string players in there.

And the moment they all start playing, it's emotional.

No matter what the movie it's doing it for, you're in a room with, and you can't believe how incredible.

you know, an entire string section starting to play sounds.

It just blows your mind every time.

And they're going exactly to the score, right?

Like they're playing exactly to what was done in a computer, basically.

Like, I don't even know how they do the timing.

Well, no, it gets, it all gets broken down.

I wish I had images, but maybe we can pull some.

But it all gets, you know, once it's all been approved, then they have weeks of working with these orchestrators who are taking all the music and creating all the sheet music for every, because every section needs its own sheet music, right?

Like the violinist needs to be looking at a different one from the cello.

They need to have same parts for some, but different for others because the cello is not playing what the violin is playing.

So it's this huge, the amount, it looks like an SNL table read.

The amount of papers, it's a stacks and stacks and stacks because everyone needs these giant sheet music for every cue in the movie separately.

How long does it take to record an entire score?

For a movie like this that's a short movie but has a lot of score, it's two days.

And I think we did two days on Havrod, two days on Rescue Rangers.

I think it's pretty standard.

For one of these, you know, for a Chris Nolan, two hours and 30 minutes, I would have to ask, but I had imagined it, it would need to be more than that.

Follow-up question.

Can we show the video of

Virginia, your dog, humping your leg while you check out the score?

I'll have to revisit.

So that one was, they did this in LA at the Eastwood stage, speaking of Clint again.

I think he actually donated a bunch of money to Warner Brothers to save a sound, a giant, because these stages are getting torn down because they're such, they take so much real estate that they get changed into office buildings.

And this is one of the few remaining classic LA one where, you know, thousands of your favorite movies music have been recorded in.

And I was there a lot while we were recording, but then sometimes I'd go home because it's not far from my house.

And then I had a live feed on my computer.

And Andy came over and I'm listening to the brass recording classic like

Naked Gun themes.

And I have a live feed where I can give a note or do anything back.

And yes, the dog came up and started humping my ankle to Andy's delight.

Probably turned on by the theme.

Yeah, Yeah, the jazz got her going.

That's understandable.

So you're kind of saying that the theme to Naked Gun is like sex music for dogs.

It's burlesque for dogs, yeah.

Don't put it on your house, you want to, unless you're ready for things to get very weird.

The theme song for Naked Gun is burlesque for dogs.

I feel like it could be the title of the episode.

Right.

All right.

Well, thank you guys for talking about Naked Gun this much, but I do feel like after Seth sees it, maybe we could do an episode that is just all spoilers where we can actually talk about the movie itself.

And I feel like I've made my case to the Quids

about trying to get some momentum.

Yeah, Quids.

See that shit, Quids.

Or, you know, or it'll just be another one, another Hot Rod pop star in our caps.

But it's up to the Quids.

As everyone knows, they're a lot like the Swifties.

They can move the election.

Oh, man.

Anyways, I've done my due diligence.

I did text Liam and Pam to send me a voice note, and they didn't do it yet.

So mainly I've just been stalling the whole time, hoping to get a good one.

Hoping you were going to get one in real time.

Yeah, but it didn't happen.

We'll see if that happens by the end of this episode.

By the way, I can probably just

riff you one out real quick.

Ready?

Yeah, are you doing it in Liam's voice?

Eva, it's Liam.

I wanted to just say you're the best director I've ever worked with, including Steven Spielberg.

In my opinion, compared to you, he's a piece of crap.

Okay, I gotta go.

I can't wait till some clickbait thing is like Liam calls Spielberg a piece of crap.

She just takes that as real.

I mean, they might as well write it up because it happened.

It just happened.

IRL.

They say crap a lot over in Belfast, and so

you chose words that sounded very Belfastian.

Yeah, exactly.

Let's go to the pub and crap.

That guy's from Belfast.

What a cool fucking dude.

Okay.

But, anyways, they have their marching orders.

They know what they're doing.

Let's just not worry about it.

And buy your tickets ahead on Fandango.

So other people say and go, ooh, I better buy my ticket now because the seats are filling in.

Oh, yeah, do that.

This guy loves Fandango.

Do that shit.

Listen, the guy from Fandango, who is like their head guy, not a reviewer or something, but somebody

saw it early and wrote to the studio about how much he loved it.

So I'm a Fandango now, man.

I'm a Fandango now, man.

I'm a man who loves Fandango now.

Do you think every time somebody uses the website Fandango, the band queen gets a residual?

Yes.

God, that's such a tough question.

Yorm, that was a big, like exhausted, exasperated sigh because you were thinking about it so hard.

Yeah.

His brain couldn't take it.

You were like, ugh.

No, man, no.

You were like, oh, what a good question.

How to answer.

Hey, we said there were going to be a lot of hard-hitting questions, and there were from Andy about Fandang

and Queen.

Andy, you went to Comic-Con.

Did you see the naked gun

big installation?

What do they call it?

Activation.

I didn't see the activation.

I saw some posters and billboard action that looked pretty rad.

Okay.

I definitely got some Quaid Armies out there.

So respect to everybody.

Also, P.S.

Last night at a restaurant, someone just yelled Quaid Army.

In the restaurant?

Like a quiet restaurant?

Yeah.

Like almost like yelling fire.

We were out on a patio.

It was like as they were leaving.

And I was like, what was that?

Somebody just said

Quaid Army.

And I was like, oh, oh, sorry, that's me.

Righteous kill.

Oh, Jesus.

And they went, woo!

Almost missed it.

Everyone at my table was like, what the fuck was that?

Just special code.

Oh, God.

Oh, sorry.

Sorry.

Oh, my God.

That was my cue.

I am so sorry.

Oh, my God.

You were like, you'd always gone home.

Oh, rude.

I went up on my line there.

Felt great.

NGL.

NGL felt great.

Oh, that's fucked.

That's a killer.

But yeah, Comic-Con, you know, was Liddy.

I was on a panel with Matt and Trey and Mike Judge.

Oh, shit.

Four legends of animation together, finally.

If you're out there and you heard this was happening and you wondered why I was on there, the answer is same network, and that's where it ends.

Wow.

But it was really fun and everyone was nice.

I saw an article today that had a picture of Matt Groening at a panel like yesterday.

He would have made more sense on the panel, but unfortunately, his show is not on the cable channel Comedy Central.

Right.

So I got his slot.

So you're saying this is like a corporate thing?

I got his legend slot.

Yeah.

Legends only.

Simpsons is approaching 800 episodes, right?

I think that they're close, guys.

It's pretty fucking incredible.

I'm just full of compliments today.

Andy, were you like Chris Farley up on the panel just going to guttle?

Yeah, remember?

Remember Mr.

Hankey?

So awesome.

He was a poop.

Yeah.

And what about that blanket, Towley?

He was like on weed.

I would

say that the others on the panel knew knew the deal and were incredibly gracious, considering.

But it was cool just to be up there and like, like, they've done so much incredible work.

It was good to just be up there and like kind of draft on their fan base and feel the energy of that of being like, right, right.

South Park's been on forever.

Beefs and Butted's been forever.

Like these dudes have made so much shit.

And we should just say, in case there's any question, we are big fans.

Big time.

Oh, yeah.

You know, I even, you'll be shocked to know, mentioned it during the panel.

That's nice of you.

Now, did you talk about the Mexican restaurant in Colorado at all?

I didn't talk about it on the panel, but I did talk to Trey about it because our friend Jake Zymansky actually went and I told him that Jake told me that it was like one of the greatest experiences of his life.

He went with his family.

I mean, Keith, you were going to change your flights to fly in there for like six hours and go there, right?

I am dying to check it out.

I had a layover last summer.

I was with my family and we were leaving having seen Yorm on the East Coast.

And And because of the airport we had to fly out of, because we flew out of the one near you, it doesn't have non-stop LA and it already was stopping in Denver.

Yeah.

And I was like, oh my God, it can happen.

This can be it.

And I did,

you know, we are not close with Matter Trey, but they are always very nice and we are just such huge fans.

And I just reached out to Matt Cold and was like, dude, how do I get in?

Because this one was really hard to get in, or maybe it still is.

And he was so nice, hooked me up with the manager, got it all set up for me.

And then I convinced my family: I know it's weird, but we're just going to move our flight a little because it was like a two-hour layover, and then we had to make it four hours.

I'm like, I think if we leave right when we get there, spend two hours at a restaurant, and then you have to do the gate check back in, back through security, you know, we get all our bags, it would have been a big pain in the ass.

And then our flight was late and it just wiped it right off.

God damn it.

By the way, that was a reason.

I really do get it.

Yeah.

Like, for anyone out there wondering, the whole of the Lonely Island fucks with a themed restaurant.

I mean, I've looked at the like YouTube videos of people going there.

Casa Bonita.

Yes.

If we haven't said the name yet.

Straight up cliff diving inside the restaurant.

Incredible.

I'm not going to, I won't say who it is so it's not a name-dropping on here, but we have another friend for their birthday just took the entire family from L.A.

to Denver, caught a Dodgers Rockies game, went to Casabonita, stayed at a hotel, and then came back to L.A.

And that was the full birthday party agenda.

And I quizzed about after, like, well, and they were like, five stars, one of the best vacations.

We've like truly was like, no regrets.

That's the best.

It was the best.

They loved it.

To shout out Matt Stone for a second, he gave me one of the best cuts in an early version of Magruber.

And I will always remember how quickly he was like, now go from here to here.

And I was like, oh, yep, that was fucking smart.

That was the end of my story.

That's a good person to be able to show things to and get advice from.

Yeah, we didn't get into it, but I will will say I've maybe learned more about editing and brevity from the South Park dudes than even comedy, which is saying a lot because they're easily some of the funniest to ever do it.

But when we like started looking at song length for pop star and even shorts and stuff, we'd be like, What about like, what are the song lengths in the South Park movie?

And they're all like under two minutes.

And I remember realizing they were so short and having our minds blown because they pack so much in.

They're like jokes, story, and it sounds good and flies and you're like fuck they're not wasting a second their efficiency is maybe all-time best yeah yeah and by learn from them you mean learn just from their work just from watching it yeah yeah 100 i wonder what the runtime on that one is going back to our conversation about the pop star and about us knowing that these kinds of movies are the best when they're so tight dude 81 with credits yeah that shit flies that's amazing yeah it's so good There you go.

And that's why those songs, it's like, it's like you're getting a two-hour movie in 81 minutes.

So everything has compressed.

So everything's so fast and entertaining.

So those songs are a minute 45 instead of three minutes because everything's going at that clip.

Dude, the Team America Sex scene and the vomit scene.

I was doubled over in the theater and I just remember it so well because my mother-in-law was sitting next to me and being like, I don't know if I can laugh this hard.

Like I was like almost gonna like, it felt like I was was gonna cough up a lung.

I was like, I don't think I should laugh this hard.

Throw up scene in the alley.

Did I see?

I think I saw that with you, Keeve.

Is that possible?

Yeah, for sure.

You gave up a life, didn't you?

Or whatever it is.

Yeah, yeah.

It was the only time I can remember being in a movie theater where I was laughing so hard that I actually took a knee.

Like I was out of my chair.

Yeah.

I was like leaning forward, laughing so hard that I was like, oh, I have to like brace myself.

And I put a knee down like I was about to give a pep talk in a football game.

You gave up a life, didn't you?

and the way that they like the music comes down and then when he starts throwing up again the music comes up full blast again it's fucking incredible

what i remember though and i don't remember who this was but meeting with crew members like um for i would have to look at the timing but for whatever project we were doing that was like a year after that project tell me if either of you were in the room and it was like you know so we're just meeting with like random grizzled old crew guys to see who you're hiring for your project and one of them we were like yo you worked on Team America.

That's so amazing.

He's like, oh, yeah, it was such a good movie.

And then they did this reshoot and they added this terrible puking scene.

Just ruined the whole movie.

And I remember like two things in my mind at the same time.

One, it was, oh my God, that was our favorite scene in the whole movie.

I don't remember if we told him or not.

Obviously, we're not hiring this person who thinks that that's the worst scene in the movie.

And then it was also just reminding me how subjective it is, right?

Like if that guy had wrote the first tweet about the movie about how there's this horrible scene and that was what matt and tray read at first they'd get so sad not real you know what i mean like yeah it's all

you can do something that we thought was just obviously the funniest thing in the whole movie and they did it as a reshoot which makes sense to me because or additional photography yes because it makes sense because you'd be like let's just go crazy right here i mean it it's not dissimilar from on pop star one of our reshoots was the limo scene yeah we went back and put the craziest or most edgy thing in or whatever.

Yes, but I mean, it was for story purpose, but when we did our test screening, it was the most liked scene in the movie and also some people their least favorite scene in the movie.

Yes, well, famously of comedy testing, whatever scene is your most liked usually is also the most disliked.

Yes.

Because it's also just a part of it being the most memorable.

Right.

But it's also probably because it's the part that goes for it the most.

Like in Bridesmaids, I'm 90% sure that Judd said it was the throw-up diarrhea.

But the trick is for it to be, you know, 10 times more liked than disliked.

Yes, which was the case on ours.

It was way more people liked the scene that didn't, but it was also a lot of people's least liked scene.

Yes.

And I feel like at that moment, we were like, oh, we did it.

Yeah.

No, but like Cool Beans was the same too, right?

Like most like, most disliked.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it's just across the board.

Definitely.

Okay.

The only other like housekeeping we had is that we didn't quite get through movie awards.

Oh, right.

You know, movie awards, we talked about it a great deal, but there was a lot left.

We have more voice notes.

Yeah.

It feels only fair if we bothered someone to record one that we listen to it and it will spark a memory.

Yeah.

And you know what?

Sorry to those people for not doing it on the movie awards episode.

Agreed.

But yeah, let's let's get into it.

Should we just pop a couple off?

Yeah, intro, intro one.

All right.

Let's see.

First up, we got Paul Rust, who you know from the world of comedy, both as a writer and a performer.

He was a writer on the MTV Movie Awards.

Let's hear what he has to say.

Hey, everybody.

I have many, many, many, many fond memories of writing on the 2009 MTV Movie Awards.

I'll just share a couple here.

Like any writer's room, we would order food for lunch or for dinner.

I can vouch for that.

That is true.

And I remember after everybody would put their orders in every time, Andy and Akiva would ask the staff, hey, is there any food we want to order for everybody to share, you know, for the table?

This really stuck with people.

And by the end of the first day, for the table got abbreviated down to for the tades.

Him and Neil, this is a big takeaway.

For the tags.

Ever since, anytime I'm with a group of people and we order food for everyone to share, I think for the Tades.

My second memory, and gosh, I don't know if it's going to be able to top that first memory because that one's really good and I'm sure you're

going to love it.

My second memory is the writer's room was actually in the dressing room of whoever performed at the Universal Amphitheater.

And it was a really cool dressing room.

It was like all decked out, and it had this massive bathroom, you know, with like a shower and, of course, toilet sink.

But it also had this

big, glittery, red jacuzzi.

And I remember we all went in there, we're checking it out.

And Andy said, gosh, just imagine all of the stars who have been in this bathroom.

And he pointed at the jacuzzi and he said, to think Ben folds got blown there

okay fine i have no memory of saying that

dude we went to some the universal amphitheater alone brings back so many memories that was one of the premier venues to see cool music in la yeah it was such a cool venue and i believe it's where hogwarts is now oh really that's what they took down i think that that's the real estate somebody's gonna know oh wow hold on we're getting it in the i'm getting it live in the chat, in the feed.

Oh, man.

Wizarding.

The Universal Amphitheater closed September 6th of 2013 and was demolished for the wizarding world of Harry Potter.

My mankeef was right.

Man, we got hit in the tittis immediately.

So that means that Ben Folds presumably got blown right in Olivanders, maybe.

We don't know.

Right in the Olivanders wand shop.

Yeah.

I wonder why I conjured that name.

Maybe there was pictures of who had performed on the wall.

I think the Austrian.

Because any of those venues have on the walls when you're walking in, all the photos of people that have performed there.

That's so funny.

All right.

Should we listen to another one?

Yeah, let's roll them in.

Thank you, Paul Rust.

Yeah, thank Rusty.

Nice of you to send.

We love you, Paul.

All right.

Should we go to Matt Murray?

Oh, Panther Panther?

Fuck yeah.

Yes.

He's been on here before.

He wrote with us for a couple years at SNL and then came to LA and on the movie awards, obviously.

That's right.

Let's see.

Hey, what's up, guys?

Matt Murray here.

We're talking movie awards.

This is actually sort of near and dear to my heart because this is where I met you guys.

We all were writers for the 2004 movie awards hosted by, that's right, Lindsay Lohan.

And I remember thinking, like, oh, who are these dudes?

They're my age, and we all listen to the same music, and we all skateboarded.

And I was like, these guys are awesome.

They make these awesome shorts.

And you guys were my friends from day one.

And then we all came back the next year, 2005 Movie Awards, when Jimmy hosted, and that's where you met Higgins and Jimmy and Shoemaker and all those dudes.

And that's when you got hired at SNL, despite my, I guess I would say, strenuous objections.

But that's okay.

So, yeah, flash forward to 2009.

They asked Annie to host again over my objections, but you know what?

It's okay.

And I don't remember too much from the show.

I remember you guys had already done so much by the time I got there.

I think you already had the idea for Cool Guys, Don't Look at Explosions, which, to me,

would rank pretty high on

the SNL digital shortlist.

I think that could have easily just been on SNL and been one of the all-time classics.

I helped out on the opening film,

which I remember that was the year of Slum Dog Millionaire, which had a scene where a guy jumps in a big old pile of poop.

So

that really wrote itself once we had that that in our pocket.

The only other thing I remember from that show was there was that bit with Sasha and Eminem where they pretended to get in a big fight, which was itself a reference to something that I witnessed when Jimmy hosted the VMAs in 2002.

Triumph, the insult comic dog, sort of accosted Eminem, not planned, and Eminem did not take it well.

And I remember because all the writers were in a sort of a green room, and after it happened, Eminem and his entourage just sort sort of stormed in, and like we were, they were like, You guys got to get out of here, and he was like freaking out and melting down.

Uh, and I remember it being very funny because Smeigel was there, who we all worked with at SNL, Voice of Triumph.

And uh, I remember when it was happening, Eminem and all of his friends like got up and stood up and gutted Triumph's face, and they were like, Hey, knock it off, but they only talked to the puppet, like Smeigel was there with the puppet on his hand, like saying all the words, but like they were really mad at the puppet.

They were like, Stop it, stop it.

But yeah, that wasn't your show.

That was a different show.

Anyway, that's it.

I love you guys.

Bye.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

All right.

Good.

That's one man's account.

You know, we don't know nothing about it.

Yeah, we weren't there.

We were, we were just in our apartment.

We had no clue.

But this is a spicy take.

That's definitely going to make some headlines now in 2025.

We didn't say it.

23 years later, they're like, remember when it looked like he was really mad about that?

I do remember that Eminem was, because I remember what he was saying I was trying to lean forward and it was him saying I did my TV time I did my TV time and I was like that was an interesting way to phrase that

you remember watching the 2002 movie awards as a fan back in LA there's a lot I don't remember cuve but I remember that that's an I mean surprising it is there's so much

you know what's so great is we've known each other for so many years but it's just like peeling a layer of an onion you know what I mean it just keeps going yeah you never know what's going to stick with any of us.

Yeah.

And the coolest thing about peeling back an onion is underneath, same thing.

More onion.

More onion.

Still smelling.

Still smelling.

Still smelling onion.

All right.

We do have two more.

Yeah, let's rock them.

Crank them.

Okay.

Yo, hey guys, it's Tim Kalpakis, writer.

That was my first job ever, so I was really shy in the room.

And one day, Fred Armison popped in, and he was going around to all of us like,

hey, guys, how are the bits?

How are the bits?

We got good bits.

And uh, in front of all of you, I answered him earnestly, and I was like, Yeah, Fred, oh, oh, we got great bits, Fred, oh, it's gonna be a great show.

And I realized Fred Armison doesn't give a fuck about the bits, he's just being Fred.

And I'm kind of sweating right now, even just recalling that moment.

Uh, I also remember watching

the Kings of Leon sound check, and then I felt somebody take my hand, and I looked down, and it was Andy, and then we just sat there holding hands.

You know that I could use somebody.

Beautiful.

And also, lastly, there was a joke we kept repeating around the room.

It didn't get in, but Paul Rust pitched that Andy would be standing on stage, confused, looking into his hand, and say, Huh?

That's weird.

It says that my next presenters are here.

Oh, never mind.

Sorry.

I thought that the L's were H's from Land of the Lost.

Please welcome Will Farrell and Danny McBride.

Hand of the host.

So,

just giving the audience the credit to do the math with no explanation.

That if L's are H's, Land of the Lost is Hand of the Host,

and the presenters are teeny little shrunken guys in Andy's hand.

And I'll pitch that.

And Andy was like, Yeah, pretty good.

Put it on the board.

That's good.

The math is so difficult.

I was trying to do it the whole time he's talking, but both of those stories about you, Andy, make me like like you as a person.

One, that you would hold, you just go to the

guy's hand, just hold a guy's hand while Kings and Leon are singing this song.

And then two, that you'd be like, yeah, put it on the board.

Let's do that joke.

Like the most complicated.

Oh, my God.

Hand of the host.

Now, Kalpakis writes on a show called Digman now, I believe.

That's right.

Amongst many other things.

That's interesting.

I love that show.

Funny, man.

We love Kalpakis, one of the funniest dudes.

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Charlie Sheen is an icon of decadence.

I lit the fuse and my life turns into everything it wasn't supposed to be.

He's going the distance.

He was the highest paid TV star of all time.

When it started to change, it was quick.

He kept saying, no, no, no, I'm in the hospital now, but next week I'll be ready for the show.

Now, Charlie's sober.

He's going to tell you the truth.

How do I present this with any class?

I think we're past that, Charlie.

We're past that, yeah.

Somebody call action.

Aka Charlie Sheen, only on Netflix, September 10th.

All right, so Ackerman sent a very long one last time, so we just listened to a teeny bit of it.

Yeah, we've got Ockerman's snippets because he sent us a 17-minute, we can say the length, 17 minutes.

It was a 17-minute voice note.

And to his credit, he was like, hey, sorry if this is too long.

Take what you want.

Yeah, but it's a fourth of the bigger, longer, uncut movie, South Parks movie.

All right, let's check out some of it.

We've got Scott's down to three snippets, so let's roll snippet one.

First of all, we had to do a lot of research about what was happening in movies at the time, just looking at like, what was a box office hit?

And then Jason Manzukas, I believe, found a list of every movie that was released and how much money they made.

And down there at the bottom was this movie called Delgo,

which was an animated fantasy movie.

And it made something like $500 when it was released.

It was just a huge disaster.

And I think it cost a lot of money.

And Jason just would not let Delgo go.

And he tried tried inserting delgo into every punchline which made us all laugh in the room so much

and

you know and he never uh asked us to stop doing the delgo jokes he liked them himself and in fact i don't think we used any of them maybe we used one but uh a month after we did the show i rented a movie theater and we all watched delgo all of the people who worked on the show and um surprisingly was not incredibly fun it's not not one of those movies that's so bad it's fun It was just kind of bad.

So, Delgo was a huge thing, guaranteed to make us all crack up in the room.

Yeah, so I do remember this.

I believe it was Manzukas wrote a huge musical opening number all about Delgo.

And it made us laugh so much that we actually, for like 10 minutes, were like, could we do that?

Like, what would the response be?

Like, we went through the motions of like how it would land.

We were like, obviously, no one would know what we're talking about, but like the tale of this, like, how would it play out after the show?

Like, would it be something actually really memorable by doing a huge opening number about an independent animated film that bombed?

And no one knew what it was.

That is one of my favorite fucking things about Writer's Rooms.

I'm just like, that joke is so funny, but it's for no one, but is so funny that it might make it on.

And again, you as a host, Andy, and being a real writer yourself and a very funny guy, like you just being like,

yeah, maybe the idea that you would fucking entertain that is insane.

I mean, it's textbook writer's room stuff, though.

I mean, the funniest things in context in the writer's room never make it out.

No.

That's just kind of stupid.

And probably shouldn't.

No, because it's confusing to people.

Delgo.

But I will say, it was very appreciated.

It's also just a great name.

Delgo.

So we were just having so much fun saying it in the room.

Yeah.

And I do remember going to that screening.

I believe it was at the Silent Theater on Fairfax and us all being like drinking.

Like we had done those, I think we talked about on this before, how we had done like Beowulf screenings and from Paris with Love and things like that, where we'd have a bunch of drinks.

Whoopie boys, certainly.

Just movies we enjoyed that we wanted to share with our friends and family.

And we thought Delgo might be one of those.

And I think, yeah, about halfway through, everyone was like, this doesn't have quite the right energy for what this is.

Even though we're a bunch of drunk writers.

Yeah, yeah.

Andy, quiz.

Do you remember where you lived during the summer?

And do you remember where I lived during the summer?

Oh, no, but you didn't, did you stay in LA all summer after the movie awards?

I think I was staying at the Sunset Tower Hotel.

But then after, after, did you go back to New York?

I don't know where you were all summer because I know where I was because of Magruber.

I don't know where I went after.

Do you remember where I lived?

Was it in Justin Long's house?

Yeah.

And I just wanted to give a shout out because I don't really know Justin Long almost at all.

Oh, I loved going over to that house, though.

They had a cool pool.

Exactly.

And he, I had met him with Jonah Hill because they were longtime friends.

And we had had a couple of nights where we had gone out and had drinks and stuff.

And he was always super nice.

And at some point, something came up where I was like, oh, I'm going to try to live in LA somewhere.

I don't know where.

And he's like, I have a house that I just emptied because I'm about to put it on the market, but the real estate agent told me to put it on the market in September.

So it's just sitting there for two months.

And he just let me go use this empty house.

And it was a beautiful house in the hills.

It was very small.

It was like a two-bedroom little house.

I had to rent furniture from like a business rental furniture place.

And so I just rented a few things, but I had a pool in the Hollywood Hills for two months, courtesy of Justin Long, no rent paid.

And I don't know that I've seen him since in 2009.

Anyway, shout out Justin Long for the hooks.

Yeah, I mean, I thanked him afterwards through text messages, but again, super fond memories of that house and of staying there.

And so if this gets to him, thank you to Justin Long again.

Because I was just, I was looking at the photos of the summer to remind myself myself of what we did.

I mean, Keith, you thanking him for that is shameless clickbait, but I'm here for it.

Oh, my God.

Gonna be

that house, having a barbecue and swimming at that house also, I recall, the first time I ever remember hearing Drake was on the jambox.

It had a great outdoor speakers outside, and I figured out how to rig my iPad to it.

And it was also the first time I've been in a house where you were like, this place has Sonos.

It's this new system.

Exactly.

Oh, yeah.

I totally know.

Where I can play stuff.

It had a little outdoor TV.

Yeah.

He had really done it up nice, and then he was selling it.

Yeah.

And to be clear, Eve or whoever was in charge of the music chose Drake.

It didn't come with the house.

Yeah, and you kept shouting, nothing will ever take him down.

You kept shouting that, right?

Nothing will ever take this guy out.

He's never going to be in a feud.

Don't wade into that.

We've already given Perez and just Jared enough juicy gas.

With you taking Justin.

They're already going to have their hands full with the fact that Jorm remembers watching the 2002 movie movie awards and that he was in fact not just pretending to be annoyed but was really annoyed per rust so many good stories here speaking of should we hit another awkward man yeah do another awkward man let's roll awkward man number two

um let's see what else the night of the show a couple of the stars who were presenting together their publicist snuck a look at the script i guess no one is supposed to read these scripts because that just opens up this can of worms where if the stars get to approve any joke you make about them, nothing will ever get on.

But this particular publicist like Snuck Backstage read the intro for the stars that he was representing and then came to us writers and said, Hey guys, I've talked to my clients and they hate their intro.

They just hate their intro.

So, you know, please just change it.

They're saying they're not going to do the show.

And I really liked Andy went, no, we're not going to change it.

And

then we actually saw those stars at the rap party afterwards, and they talked about how funny they thought the joke was.

So the publicist had obviously just never even talked to them about it.

He was just trying to sort of cover his or her ass.

I think I said it was a his already.

That kind of stuff happens on those things all the time.

And that's when, you know, the angry Keith that you guys were making fun of about balcony songs?

Yeah.

He really comes out at award shows when Andy's hosting and somebody tries to break and someone breaks the rules, the social contract.

Like a Vika came out.

I understand how it happens because a publicist can go back to check prompter or a person that is going to present to make sure like the stuff they're going to say is in there correctly.

And they could be snoopy and kind of look around.

But the idea that you get to approve what other people say about you, like imagine everyone at the Golden Globe is going to Ricky Gervais beforehand and approving the jokes he's about to say about their people in the crowd.

The whole system of comedy will collapse if people are shown jokes, making fun of them before you say them.

Like that is not how it works.

But there's a lot of people who attempt it every time at these shows.

I would also say there is a thing that goes on at a lot of award shows where if a joke is particularly harsh, sometimes the host or the writers will directly reach out if they know the person.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Like I've definitely reached out to people directly to be like, hey, just FYI, we're doing this joke.

And they'll be like, oh, okay, got it.

Like, it's nice to get a heads up.

Certain times it makes more sense than other times.

Well, you certainly don't want to get like blindsided and then be standing out there trying to read lines angry.

Like if it's a joke that's going to make you angry.

But I think you just reminded me because we reached out not for like little funny little witticisms that you were going to do, but if the camera was ever going to cut to somebody because you had said something, we wouldn't tip them off because we are not mean people that are trying to catch them.

Well, we also want them to have a funny reaction ready.

Exactly.

We want them ready and not get caught.

But I do remember one, and I think it was Megan Fox, where whatever the joke was was small and we were like, just look at Andy like he's a fucking idiot.

Like to us, that was the joke.

Like Andy's going to say something fucking dumb.

So, look at him like an idiot.

And she's good.

So, she did.

And then, I remember a few people being like, oh, Megan can't take a joke.

And me going, fuck that.

And me going, damn, did we sell her out?

Like, we should have let her laugh.

I remember that because she did it so well.

Because they don't know that anyone's ever tipped off.

So they assume it's real.

Right.

And to us, it was funny.

And she was doing her part as the straight man in a two-part joke.

But it's better to just let them laugh and show that they're a good sport.

Was it at this awards show or was it after?

I think it was.

Yeah, it was.

I don't remember what the joke was, but I remember that moment and learning a lesson in my head of like, right, don't do that.

We still could have tipped her off and let her choose her reaction, but giving her the direction of play.

Well, she came to SNL like right after that to host the next season.

So I think that's our next episode.

Yeah, I'm sure we got to apologize.

But yeah, sorry, Megan.

It wasn't like terrible or anything.

No, no, no.

But yeah, there's so much judgment on every single second of those shows.

It's crazy.

Exactly, exactly.

Yeah, it was fine.

And we did two shorts with her.

That'll be the next episode, I think.

But that did just bring back that memory.

All right, roll our last Ackerman clip, please.

We all,

you know, saw that Eminem Bruno thing, and we all thought, like, oh, funny bit.

And we didn't know anyone was trying to pretend it was real.

And I think, Andy, you said afterwards, after this whole thing blew up, you said, yeah, if anyone had asked me on camera after the show about it, I would have said, yeah, it was a really funny bit.

We saw it at rehearsal.

So

a friend of mine called me the next day saying, was that staged?

And I was like, yeah, of course it was.

And

I wrote on my blog

about the experience of working on the show.

And I put up some jokes that we had cut and all sorts of stuff.

And I was like, yeah, it was, that thing was staged.

We watched it in rehearsal, which blew up in my face.

And it was really, it was a great lesson.

in how the internet is not going to protect you on this.

You may think there's only a couple of hundred people who are your fans, but if they send it around to people, it suddenly became a huge news story.

And I got into so much trouble about it.

And Nandy, you were very kind about it and never held it against me, which I really appreciated.

But I just felt like such a dipshit.

And I remember I went to see with the human giant guys the day this all blew up.

I went to go see Drag Me to Hell.

And those guys like saw me and my face was ashen because it had all just blown up like two hours earlier.

And all those guys were like, hey, man, it's going to be okay.

Don't worry.

It was like one of the worst things to happen in my career, where it just got spread, it spread like wildfire throughout the internet and got on major news sites.

And so it was a terrible experience, and it is one that keeps kind of being repeated in a way.

Like, you'll think your podcast is just some sort of niche comedy podcast that only fans listen to, and you offhandedly say something, and then it becomes like a news headline.

It happened a few times on Comedy Bang Bang.

And it's one of those huge lessons you have to learn of like, oh, yeah, don't ever talk about any project you're involved in with that much detail without it getting cleared by anyone first.

Oh, fuck.

There you go.

Yeah.

We're going to learn about this Justin Long house stay.

Oof.

Be me to it.

Fucked up.

What is his response going to be, Keeve?

That's what I want to know.

But yeah, no, I do remember that all happening.

And I remember Scott being like mortified and being like, I didn't think anyone was going to read that.

And all of us being like, yeah, I never would have expected.

But it became like a global news story or at least country.

Andy, I think you came off as kind of a hero in your hosting duties.

You protected your writers from patterns.

Held their hands through a spooky thing of like

what were nice about an internet blog.

Well, they're all very nice.

For the people who don't even know what he's talking about, so they were kind of recreating the triumph moment.

Only now they were in on it.

i think we're safe to say 20 years later uh maybe not maybe this will be a huge headline that it's still not real but it was bruno kind of uh dangling from the ceiling dressed as an angel with wings and then it's like the um

you know the wiring is almost malfunctioning lowering him too much and he ends up upside down like in a 69 with his crotch right in eminem's face and eminem gets really really pissed and it's was awesome yeah but i agree that for people that know how bits go you go i mean it didn't look like it was an accident.

What it looked like was that Bruno was pranking Eminem.

Yes.

And that it would have been a surprise to Eminem.

And then Scott's slip was letting the world know that, oh, no, Eminem knew it was going to happen, which is a slip.

And they did a great job of it, too.

They like threw Sasha and he was like swinging around, dangling on the wires.

And he had like funny zingers to say.

And it all worked really well and went crazy.

And it was a red hot news story after.

Yeah, it's also funny, which happens now, we know at every award show, but we are so new.

new.

It's like we worked so hard on your thing and all your bits, and we're so proud of the show we had put together.

And then Sasha correctly goes, Oh, I'm gonna go, oh, I have a place to try to make, I'm gonna try to get the biggest story of the night and did.

Yes, but it was also a little like you see the next day, and you're like, oh, right, that's how you win one of these things.

You don't do all the work, you work really hard at one thing and come in and try to steal the show.

Like, that's if you want to make a splash, that's how to use this as a thing.

Well, Sasha always has been really good at doing doing that when he's on a press tour for his projects.

All right.

Well, those were some wonderful voice notes.

Thank you to every one of those writers and friends who sent them in.

Oh, wait, I had one movie award-related correction.

Oh, dear.

One correction.

So we talked a ton about the promos that Jason Carley, I incorrectly said, directed.

He was the writer.

There was a guy, and as soon as he said his name, I was like, right.

Aaron Stoller.

Oh, yeah.

Let's give credit.

We were all complimenting how they looked, how they were directed, how pro and awesome they were.

And Aaron Stoller was the director.

I hope he's doing great out there.

We haven't seen him since or before.

He was a person we met for that.

But a lot of times you go do these things and you meet the person of that day and leave unimpressed.

So props again to him for us to show up somewhere and be super impressed.

And doing such a great job.

Yeah, thanks.

And then there was also one that Seth sent us.

This was a comment on last week's episode that I'll read.

This is from at Patrick Clanton.

It's a YouTube comment, it looks like.

This is kind of random and unrelated to this particular episode, but I'm in the Moulin Rouge on Broadway, and Wayne Brady joins our cast tonight.

The other day, during rehearsal, I passed by his dressing room while he was on stage, and, like a boss, was blaring from the room.

Turns out, it's his ringtone.

Just thought you Quades would enjoy knowing that.

And Wayne, if you ever read this, I hope you don't mind me sharing.

Crying Laughing Emoji.

Wow, my God.

Fuck yeah, yeah, Wayne Brady.

Fuck yeah, Wayne Brady.

Love that.

That's awesome.

Congrats on being on Broadway to who wrote this to us, too.

Wayne Brady, who was in self-reliance.

That's right.

And it was fucking killer.

Yes.

No, I was not there on set that day at all.

Hooked it up, though.

Came through, and it's an awesome moment.

He did awesome things, yeah.

Yeah, it's a really special moment in the movie.

So thanks twice, Wayne.

That's rad.

Jeff, you have one comment we got a lot of about the movie words?

All right.

Why don't we end with this last question about the movie words?

Oh, this is this is another another correction from, I guess, multiple Quaid Army weighed in with this.

Jeff is telling us what Andy is doing in Pommel, the Bobby Brooks story, is technically vaulting, not Pommel.

Oh, yeah, obviously.

Because Pommel is what Pommel horse guy does.

It's with the two handles where you're going in circles and stuff.

This is a vault.

Oh, how embarrassing.

That's why I wondered what the actual block that you kiss is called.

Because we were like, you kiss the pommel, but I was like, I don't know what I'm saying.

Well, he's vaulting off a pommel, but he's not performing pommel.

You think that's called a pommel?

I bet you that also has a different What if he's in love with a character named Pommel who's a Pommel horse?

That's my only pushback.

Yeah, we don't see the whole movie.

We see a clip.

Yeah.

So, right.

Yorm has a hell of interesting question.

This guy also might be really good at Pommel horse, and now he was doing the vault, and he kisses the vault.

Could easily be that it's a romantic comedy about a man who's in love with a pommel horse and whose name is Pommel.

Right.

That was how I interpreted it.

Yeah.

This is really judging a book by its cover kind of situation.

Like, you saw 30 30 seconds.

You don't know what the movie's saying it is or isn't.

You have no clue.

Exactly.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm looking at like a still from the Olympics and it's definitely not a pommel horse that you bought off of.

No.

We just used a pommel for the vault.

No, I bet you we used a vault for the vault.

No, but doesn't it have handles on it?

No.

No.

A vault is a different thing, I think.

No, so we just got the event wrong straight up.

Yeah, that's it.

Yeah, you guys were definitely wrong.

I wasn't involved, so I wasn't wrong.

Well, not us.

Aaron Stoller, the guy I just gave all the credit to.

Yeah, Aaron Stoller, Stoller, who we immediately shouted out and now we're throwing him under the bus.

You fucking blew it, buddy.

You're going to get the credit.

You're going to get the blame.

It should have been called Vault, the Bobby Brooks story.

Vault.

Sometimes you show up and the guy just fucking blows.

I remember getting pissed on the day.

God damn it.

Our legacy is ruined, and it's all thanks to Aaron Stoller.

On the day, I remember coming and going, that's what you think a problem is?

My man, one day we're going to talk about this on a PCS.

You're getting ripped 16 years later.

We're going to sit on it till then.

We're going to just passive-aggressively stew about it, and then we're going to just rip you.

All right, we've gotten to the end of the show where we always talk about what's on your gindle, Andy?

What's on your gindle, yarn?

You guys go first.

Oh, we go first.

I've got the

book by Andy Weir, I believe, that Phil and Chris just made into a movie that they're still editing that I'm blanking the title of.

But I do have it, but I have it in my physical gindle, which is just one book at a time printed out on paper.

Project Hail Mary.

Project Hail Mary.

Well, I'm a populist, so I'm just reading The Let Them Theory, Sunrise on the Reaping, Onyx Storm, the Deluxe Edition, obviously.

Oh, my God.

And Big Jim Begins.

This is top five.

New York Times bestsellers.

Top five.

I gave him enough time to do some googling.

What's up, dude?

Nothing.

After Andy's done quibbing, he's on the NYT website.

He clocks clocks on over to the bestseller list.

Make sure he's got all the toppies in there.

Oh, Keeve, thanks for bringing it up.

I did get Queen Bee clean today.

Everyone thought they were going to get out of this without me talking about it.

We've definitely made it to the end of the show then.

Yes.

Well, we didn't want everyone to just sign off after hearing about the top.

But yeah, I got it today clean.

Seth didn't.

It felt great.

I was happy.

I let out a little yelp when I got the last word.

I was all, oh, oh, my God.

I can just picture fucking Seth and his little fucking fucking space pod with Jeff Bezos right now, just like kicking himself.

Just like, God damn it, there's four pangrams.

All right, gentlemen, this was how you say so-so.

Hey, you know what?

Go see Nick again and

loved talking to you guys.

It was really nice to see you.

Bring your sons, bring your daughters, bring your, or you know what, bring your parents.

Yeah.

Four quad.

That's what you call four quad.

All right, homies.

Love you.

Love you guys.

Later, Quaids, right?

Well, or it's going to be Arnold.

And he'll also say it.

He'll say it.

Yeah.

Later, Arnold.

Later, Quaids.