Listener Q&A Episode 4

Hey, Andy, how are you, bud?

I'm good.

How are you, Sethi?

Good.

Jorm was just setting up his recording device.

We only caught the tail end of it for you guys, but that was kind of what the last five minutes of Andy and my life has been, right?

Yeah, but honestly, it was nice to have be someone else.

Someone else stressing out about their equipment.

Yeah.

Can I say the part that I was most thrown by is we got on and Jorm had a lot of audio questions.

And he said, I got a new setup from a kid down the street.

Exact words.

His name is Ted Parati.

Thanks, Ted.

But what?

You have your own equipment.

Why are you getting it from a kid down the street?

Because I'm in Connecticut.

No one meets more people with other recording equipment than Yorm.

That is full on true.

And I'm impressed with myself.

So you're away from your home, kit, and you had to find a guy in Nowheresville, Connecticut who had a recording setup.

You're not going to believe this, but I didn't know if we were going to record this week.

And so I forgot to bring my equipment.

I am going to believe it, Yorm, because every single text goes like this.

We're recording at one, and then you write back, are we doing this?

And then someone writes, yes, and then you say, I'm down to do it.

Just let me know.

It's I feel like you guys are just as much as fault for that as I am because what I'm saying is we're really, no one's going to bail, right?

No one's.

Sure, no one's going to bail, but I think that you have to build in the potential that no one will bail and you should have your audio equipment.

But I want to just point out that you called your buddy and he answered the phone and set you up.

So I'm really proud of you for fighting through it.

Thanks, Ted.

Shout out to Ted.

It's the Lonely Island Answer Meyers podcast.

Hi, gentlemen.

How are you?

Hello.

I'm pretty sleepy, but I feel happy inside my heart.

Yeah.

Are you guys still hungover from Sunday night's festivities?

I think I'm emotionally hungover and

way more than on any sort of substance intake.

I think it was a real emotional roller coaster, the old SNL 50.

And we are going to be doing a special recap episode about SNL 50 and all the festivities.

We're very excited to recap.

SNL's 50, you guys.

I think you're blowing out your mic just a little bit.

Somebody's on job.

Somebody's back on job.

I mean, it's pretty much been 50 the whole year, also.

Yeah.

It was weird timing.

I mean, the right timing, but it was 50 in October.

And then it's like, this is like a half birthday.

That's true.

Good point.

Lauren loves a half birthday.

Oh, yeah.

He's always like, it's my half birthday too.

You don't have to do anything.

Maybe a cupcake or something, something small.

Yeah.

Sorry if I'm not 100% here today.

It's my half birthday.

Oh, my God.

Why is that the best?

Super fuzzy.

He's super fuzzy today because everybody forgot it was his half birthday.

Kind of crazy that everyone forgot, but okay.

And you know, it's his half birthday because it's the day he's always like, Andy, when's your half birthday?

I'd remember if it was yours.

Oh, I'm not sure.

Well, I know what mine is.

No, he's always like, let me do the math on mine.

Carry the, oh, my God.

I think it might be today.

Oh, my God.

He's backing into it.

And nobody got a company.

Oh,

a scramble of Lauren's assistants to make it seem like there was a big

got to set up a surprise party in the lobby.

Half a cake.

Oh, you didn't have to.

Do you get half a cake on your half birthday, Seth, when you celebrate it every year?

I do have half a cake.

Yeah.

And do you like it to be like a gag cake where it looks like it's been eaten, or you like a clean slice?

Interesting question.

I do like a clean slice.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yep.

Your?

Oh, I like it to be cookie monstered out.

Yeah, like it got attacked.

And then I pretend like a monster was in here.

I'm like, oh, no.

And you like a blue cookie monster cake, right?

That's correct.

That like dyes your mouth.

You know me so well.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And you do a good cookie monster impression.

Can we hear that?

Cookie.

Yeah.

Oh, we can't clear it.

We can't clear it.

Oh, fuck.

You know what?

I've been doing with my kids, a Yoda impression because they're finally watching the Star Wars movies.

Can I tell you the massive downside of watching the Star Wars movies?

What?

They have so many questions about the Star Wars universe and lore.

And basically, I watched, you know, the three when we grew up.

And then I have no memory of Phantom Menace.

Those middle three?

Yeah.

No, none.

And so they'll watch that and be like, hey, what does, and I'm like, I don't know.

I don't know.

Yeah.

They're clones and there's a war.

Yeah.

The chancellor, dad, is the chancellor when they call the senate.

Yeah.

Is Amadala also Naboo?

I'm like, I don't know.

I don't care.

How does a chancellor get voted in?

You're just like, oh, man.

Oh, it's complicated.

It's complicated.

Yeah.

I also, have I told you guys the big bummer about your kids watching Star Wars is there's no kid.

They're also the last kids their age to watch it.

And there's no eight-year-old who hasn't been told by another eight-year-old that Darth Vader is Luke's father.

No, it's like worse than Santa.

So they know that from the jump.

Did Seth just spoil that for you?

Sound off in the comments.

And they have so many questions about like co-parenting.

Like

the movie starts and they're like, so wait, why doesn't he live with him?

And I'm like, I don't think they have a good situation.

Why does he, why doesn't Luke live with Darth Vader?

Well, they just can't conceive of the fact he wouldn't live with your dad.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, did he like swing by with half a cake on his half birthday?

I know I don't get to see you much.

I made it look like Cookie Monster attacks.

It's a lot of fun.

He loses his mind.

Okay, gotta go.

Did no one remind me it was Skywalker's half birthday?

He like sleigh chokes the Imperial Baker from

across the ship.

Oh my goodness.

This is a QA episode, and we kind of jumped into it, like answering unasked questions.

Like, does Laurence celebrate his half birthday?

What is your bounce on Star Wars?

When Yorm travels without equipment, who does he get it from?

And does it work right away?

Ted Product.

How old do you think your kids need to be to enjoy Pat and Oswald's bit about the prequels, which is one of my favorite things of all time?

I think it ruins it for them.

I tried to do it actually, and nobody appreciated it.

They were like, hey, I like it.

Yeah, they like it.

I tried to do it for an adult recently, and my adult friend just got silent and angry.

Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of love for the prequels, and I feel like I've come around.

We wrote that song for Natalie when she came back, and I wrote that whole section about say something about the motherfucking prequels, bitch.

Yeah.

And I did enjoy watching her say it.

Watching it the way they watched it, which was kind of, they had the immediacy of going right from Jedi to the next.

Yes.

I think it was a far healthier way to watch it.

Yes, not having to wait like 20 years and then being like, Why is it different?

Yeah, and also the real thing is, Why am I different?

Yeah, you know what I mean?

So much of it

for them, they're going from like straight from Ewoks to Jar Jar, and they're still little kids and they love it all, yeah, yeah.

Wait, so did you appreciate it more though, Steph?

Were you like, Oh, yeah, I guess so?

A little bit, but I will also admit that I wasn't fully watching, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's better.

When I get the boys on the train, they watch an iPad together, and it's just two hours for me to look out the window and try to see my past.

You know, so I

see myself going to Copenhagen alone.

Yeah, I don't want Jar Jar in my, you know, messing that up for me.

Oh, my God.

Thanks for sharing something so personal.

Oh,

terrific.

Just that clickety clack as I watch the past fade.

Look, I don't want to say I'm distracted, but I have one word left in spelling B and it's a seven and I just tried frog fan and it didn't work, obviously.

But when you tried frog what frog fan it's not a word frog fan yeah oh andy when we were just hanging out when andy was doing the show recently i i was helping him with um with his wordle for the first time or not wordle what is it called whatever wordle

yeah spelling bee and pee be man wasn't a word too so that's uh yeah yeah i was gonna say helping is a pretty loose application there did you did you try pee be man before that uh no i had never tried peepee man well there you go although get this i missed by one word yesterday yorm and it's crazy.

The word was cockade.

Cockade.

Yeah.

Cockade.

Do you even know what it means, Andy?

Have you ever looked it up, or do you just care about winning the beef?

You don't care.

Of course I know what it means.

What is it?

It's a rosette or knot of ribbons worn in a hat as a badge of office or party or as part of a

livery.

The cap bore the traditional cockade in silver, blue, and red.

This podcast is very educational.

Livery or livery?

I've only read it my whole life and never said it.

I think it's livery.

I know it's Blake Liverly.

All right.

I have some questions.

Okay.

First off, thanks for sending in queries.

Seth, thank you for your query.

This is Yorma.

I borrowed my mic.

I just wanted to thank everyone for giving us questions.

Oh, it's Hamilton slash me.

All right, here we go.

Good evening, Lonely Island and Seth Myers.

Listening to the podcast, this is from Andres,

has inspired me to listen to Incredibad again after probably a decade.

And it was so funny that I also listened to the other albums.

I don't understand lyrics so well.

So while listening to Meet the Crew from the WAC album, I scrolled to see the lyrics Spotify provides.

Unfortunately, Music Match did not provide accurate lyrics to the song at all.

It heard Keeve as Keith and Yorm as Worm.

Oh, dear.

Keith, I can understand, but why would his name be worm?

Can I tell you the funniest misunderstanding of my name ever?

Because I've obviously had everything under the sun said to me of like, what'd you just say?

And the funniest one was, what'd you just say?

Urine?

Oh, yeah.

I was like, no, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't say urine.

Like, that's not my name.

Like, it's not urine, it's pee-pee man.

Hey, question about, and we're going to obviously talk about this short when we do our 50th recap, but Andy, somebody wrote, question about anxiety.

Rewatching the short, the building's marquee flashed on the screen with 30 Rockefeller Plaza

in Neon instead of Rockefeller.

So there was an A instead of an E.

Did I miss a joke or am I just being a jackal?

Whoa, they maybe misspelled it.

Oh, really?

It was an accidental misspell?

That might be a fuck-up.

Yeah, because

the current sign, I think, says Jimmy Fallon on it or something.

So we had to change it.

Yeah.

Oh, so that's the best kind of jackal.

So you are a jackal, but you're the correct kind of jackal.

I'm going to text Mike Diva about that right now.

He's the director of the short.

Bing-bong.

Jackals for the uninformed are the people who leave pedantic comments on the Late Night with Seth Myers YouTube page.

But sometimes they're right.

Sometimes they're right.

I mean, more often than not, they're right.

So that is a real jackal catch.

Really very funny in the SNL 50th that your short misspelled Rockefeller Plaza.

I mean, I didn't even think about even looking at it to check.

Of course not.

We changed the Peptobismol labels to say SNL, and I noticed that those were spelled right.

That's good.

Yep.

Here's one for me.

The question is for Seth.

I listen listen to your numerous podcasts, and I should note in quotes, that's a burn, that you repeatedly compliment an old SNL joke by saying, I think about it a lot.

The question is, do you actually, like, what do you do all day?

I don't know how you have time to constantly be thinking about old jokes.

I know you have a busy full-time gig and four podcasts and three kids.

So I'm genuinely curious if you're otherwise just reminiscing and laughing at yourself all day.

That was from Zach.

Yeah, I like Zach.

Zach, that's a very fair question.

Maybe I should tone it down a little bit on I think about it a lot.

But every time it rains, I do think I wish it would rain.

That's good.

That's a lot.

Yeah.

That is a lot.

All right.

So there are a lot of triggers.

And my YouTube page algorithmically is pushing old things to me all the time.

It pushes you a lot of SNL stuff.

It's like, hey, do you like this?

Yeah.

And I think mostly from a lot of stuff from Anne Golden era.

Yeah, Rockfeller with an A.

Oh, I thought you were were doing spelling B.

You were looking down so much.

It would be amazing if that was also the missing spelling B word.

Oh, my God, that'd be crazy.

And it's not spelled enough like Rockefeller records to be that.

Right.

Right.

That's where you can't even say, oh, that was the joke.

Yep.

You would have got by on a joke.

Very nice catch on that one.

Yeah.

Shout out to James on the catch.

I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if we try and go back in there and fix it.

Yeah.

Because that's pretty.

That seems like the kind of thing you would do.

Oh, for sure.

Yeah.

Definitely didn't notice is the short answer.

Here's one from Greg.

It sounds like the host has the authority to say, I'll do this, but I won't do that.

I was wondering, do cast members have the same authority?

Has there ever been an instance when everyone believed they had a great sketch on their hands, but an actor refused based solely on the fact they didn't think it was funny?

Assuming that's allowed, do you have any examples of that actor being so right or so wrong?

Very, very insightful question.

There was that great joke in Sandler's song about a sketch killing at the read-through table, but then it doesn't go because the host didn't want to take his shirt off.

Oh, my God.

that made me laugh so fucking hard.

That whole song is fucking wonderful.

Hyper specific.

Also, you know, Sandler specifically wrote like a hundred things where the host took her shirt off.

I don't think it happens a lot that an actor asks not to be in something, a cast member.

Mostly because you're so afraid that if you do that, the writer won't put you in anything ever again.

I've heard since we left, people ask to be taken out of things way way more, and it's to do with like personal beliefs.

Interesting.

Because politically, things have gotten so charged and social media-wise, I think things have gotten so intense for people where like they have to like answer to their followers or whatever.

Right.

I think that has become much more commonplace.

It's something we did not need to think about nearly as much when we were there.

Wait, things have gotten charged?

But it was a different era.

In our time, the reason you would ask out, I think, would be kind of that Sandler thing.

Like, I don't feel comfortable doing something physically.

Yes.

But it did not happen a lot.

I definitely would ask to change things sometimes if I was uncomfortable with them.

Yeah.

I have a question, though, because actually I love that question.

And I was never allowed to be in the room where it happens, the room where it happens, the room where it happens.

But would you guys argue for things?

And were you ever successful?

Like Seth in particular, like were you able to, how would that work?

Or would you occasionally be scared if you you were like, I'm throwing down for this thing, and if it doesn't work, then I'm going to be embarrassed.

There were certainly hesitations to throw down for something because

that boldness was,

I wouldn't say super rewarded.

No, I wouldn't think so.

But if I felt a host really wanted to do something, you know, we've talked about how like a Jonah or a Seth Rogan would fight for something that was really writerly.

And if Lauren was maybe against it, it was fun to sort of push the host's point of view and be the win behind their back as they tried to get something in.

Yeah, gotcha.

Well, because I would imagine those were weirder sketches that would be on the fence.

The one kind of unwritten rule that I would say not everybody lived by, but I was pretty good at living by was don't fight for your own thing.

Yeah.

Gotcha.

In the picks room.

Yeah.

Because at the end of the day, there was always like three things left.

And Lauren would go around and ask everybody to pick two.

And that would be a thing where you would try very hard not to say yours.

Right.

The only time I was ever in that meeting, Jorm, was when I hosted.

And how weird was it?

Like, just like how behind the curtains, or were you just like, yeah, this is about what I expected?

The thing that I learned from it that was nice was how much Lorne genuinely cares about giving the cast things to do in the show and wanting them to have a good show.

Nice.

Even though it doesn't always go that way, because there's a million factors, it was like the front of his mind of trying to make sure it happened.

And I think he especially was my week because we had so many guests come back.

And he was like, it's the finale of the season.

It'd be nice for the cast to have things to do.

That's awesome.

That's really cool to hear.

Yeah.

He did it pretty well in the 50th, too, considering

like his ability to keep his current cast alive on a night that was.

Well, are we allowed to talk about the 50th?

I mean, I just, these are like nice little teasers.

They're just like, I'm just, you know, this is a moose bouche of comments.

I remember the first time Will Farrell came back and hosted, and that was the first time he'd been in the room, you know, between dress and air.

And he turned to Lauren and said, oh,

okay.

So it is pretty merit-based.

You know,

you spend so long being outside the room and you don't watch the conversation and you just assume it's personal or it's this or it's that.

And all the conversation is

what played and what will make the best show.

Right.

No one's ever like, you know, this cast members thing eat shit, but I like them more than the guy who killed it dress.

Well, it was interesting because in the one time that I did host, what it came down to was there was one piece that had played better than another piece, but the other piece had a bunch of cast in it.

Yeah.

And Lauren was like, I'd really like to do this one so that the cast is in the show more.

And everyone else was like, it didn't work.

Yeah.

You know, like, I wish that it had because I agree.

And that's what ended up happening.

And was Lauren like, fucking fine then.

He's like, it's my fucking half birthday.

It's like fucking fine.

Happy half birthday to me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He was like, okay.

That's what he was like.

Gotcha.

He also gets like those little half candles.

Quickly, sing quickly, you guys.

All right.

This was from Tom.

Often Seth mentions the time he bombed so hard trying a new bit on update.

I think it involved a British accent.

It did.

That Lauren told Alex Baze under the bleachers, burn the tape.

Recently, Baze told Vulture that his most embarrassing moment on SNL is the time he wrote a bit for Update the Bomb Really Hard.

And afterwards, Lauren said to him, do you want me to help you bury the tape?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The question Tom asks is, is this the same incident?

It is.

Lauren only said it once, but Bayes, of course, remembers the better wording.

Yeah, yeah.

That's really funny.

It's way funnier that he offered to help.

Yeah, that's great.

Like,

you want me to help you bury the tape is a really funny passive-aggressive thing.

Again, I know Andy's going to get all hot under the collar as I allude to the 50th again, but I remember at the 40th, as we're talking about under the bleachers, Lauren, at the 40th after Celebrity Jeopardy, which I'd worked on, I walked under the bleachers and had a nice moment with Lauren.

And I feel like at the 50th, Lauren was fully in his seat the whole time.

I feel like Lauren decided for the 50th, like, oh, I'm just going to be in the audience.

Kind of makes sense.

Yeah.

There was no dress rehearsal for either, right?

I don't think so.

Yeah.

No.

But you couldn't tell.

I thought it was a pretty solid show.

Not that we're talking about this because we're not.

Not that we're talking about it.

Can we talk about all the documentaries?

You know?

Yeah, I think we can talk about the docs.

Have we talked about any of them yet?

The fucking Questlove one.

We alluded to the music one.

I should

point out that I have not watched many of them.

Is there a great one?

I haven't either.

But the music one I've heard is real solid.

I liked all of them.

I mean, Quest Loves is like a real triumph.

Yeah.

Just the opening sequence took years to make, apparently, and it's just mind-blowing.

And it also makes you feel so inspired by like what.

the art humanity has created over the last 50 years.

Yeah.

And I mean, I'm biased because there was a section on us and it made me feel really affirmed, but like, you know, he's a killer.

His documentaries are so good.

So it was really cool to see him give it that treatment.

But they were all really fun to watch for me.

I mean, all of them.

That's awesome.

Alan, gentlemen, longtime listener, first-time writer, I've apparently been living a lie for the last 16 years.

I would have bet all, I would have bet all my Santana DVX, all my boats, and all my Christmas geese that the old saloon interlude was a clear parody of the Bone Thugs and Harmony masterpiece Ghetto Cowboy from the year before.

Please tell me I didn't get this wrong and I will be forgiven.

Oh, sorry, Alan, to say that I don't remember that at all.

Wow.

It's definitely not.

I don't either.

It's definitely not inspired by it.

Actually, I do remember it now that you mention it, but that was not our reference.

No, it was inspired by that beat.

Yeah.

The beat came on the Newmark beat, right?

Yeah, it's Newmark.

And we were just started doing that, which is how so many of our songs begin.

It is great how beat-driven the ideas are as opposed to having a premise and finding a beat.

I think a lot of rappers do it that way, not just rappers.

Since you mentioned rappers, Andy, we have some voice notes too.

And this one is from, I believe the name is a miracle.

Hey, I just want to say that I really love y'all music, and I really don't fuck with how y'all be saying that y'all fake rappers because y'all got bars, y'all got a flow, y'all got a nice beat, and the rappers fuck with y'all, and the culture fuck with y'all.

So stop saying y'all fake rappers because y'all dope as fuck.

Well, that's nice.

That was so nice.

I'm never going to stop saying that, but it was so nice to hear.

Yes.

But I appreciate both that you're not going to change the way you say it, but I do want you guys to take it in because I echo that sentiment.

Here's what I'll say.

At the end of Incredibad, our wish is to be the, what is it, the dopest fake MCs on the greatest fake MCs.

The greatest fake MCs in art.

I still want that crown.

Yes.

I have a competition in me, Daniel Plainview, about that.

Yeah.

I don't want to to go up against real rappers that can like actually spit.

We love it.

It's our fucking life.

We love that music.

We came up on that music.

We still check in on the music the whole time.

And we also know what it actually is when people can actually do it.

Yes.

It's just that when you would see somebody spit for real, it's a very different thing than how we record.

Yeah.

It is not over and over and getting it perfectly aligned and aligning our vocals and da-da-da-da.

I think it's just like point to anyone else doing fraps that fucks with us.

Yeah.

In that sense, I'm like, maybe we do have frat bars.

Frap bars.

We have frat bars.

Lauren asked for a frap bar set up for his last half birthday.

We're just like, you know, and then there'll be toppings and Jimmy.

Austin has a question.

I listened to the whole podcast at work, and I have two questions.

Firstly, why didn't Smorgasboard from Scarlett Johansson's 2006 show Make Seth's Corner?

I'm shocked it didn't even mention because not only is it Seth and Scarlett on screen doing a kind of Swedish accent, but we also get Andy's Swedish chef promoting ringtones.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, so we probably should have mentioned that.

That's a sketch I like very much.

How does one go about making pickled herring and go slowly for us beginners?

First, take the herring, place in a jar of brine,

wait for herring to be pickled.

How long must I wait?

45 minutes of daylight.

So five days?

Yeah.

Yeah.

That looks delicious.

And now a word from our sponsor.

You asked for it.

You wanted it.

Now here it is with the chef ring tones.

Schmork, morgue, smorgamark, smorg, morg, morg, morg, smorkimor, mark, mark, smorgorg, mark, more, get more, give more, smork, more.

I don't remember what I did.

I just remember it was one of the many times Seth slid me into one of his bigger pieces doing a little thing that I was able to do.

And I was happy.

I was like, hey, I got to do Swedish Chef.

It was a very fun sketch that looked very beautiful.

It was like an Ingmar Bergman sketch, which made a Swedish chef appearance mid-sketch a good time.

You also did that with my Billy Bob selling Kangles and something, right?

I didn't write, that was Joe Strote Two First Names.

Oh, Two First Names.

And I was Billy Bob's, and I was the commercial break.

And I'm going to say something.

And hold on, I want to look back to say,

Zach.

I think about that all the time.

I'm not lying.

I think about Andy doing Billy Bob Thornton in Two First Names all the time.

Every time I see a Kangle.

So the sketch was Two First Names, and I think maybe Julie Louis Dreyfus was the host.

And it was about people with two first names.

David Lee Roth was in it, but the song was Two Foes Names, Two Foes Names.

Oh, yeah.

I was like to say my name, say my name.

Didn't he do it multiple times?

I can only remember one because I remember the commercial midway through was Billy Bob Thornton for Kangles.

Yeah, this money, Billy Bob Thornton for Kangles.

I forget what it is.

You basically just went Kangles.

Kangles.

Kangles.

Yeah.

But the highlight is that Forte was in it.

Joe Panaliano.

As Joey Pants, Joe Panaliano.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And you had this really good Billy Bob Thornton.

And

then his only line was, dad the best.

Yeah, because he had no impression.

No impression.

What do you think, Joe Panaliano?

Dad the best.

Just not even trying.

But also 100% trying.

Forte incapable of mailing it in.

Forte probably spent the entirety of the week listening to Joey Pants.

Oh my God.

That was the best.

Watching.

Well, just watching an incredible performer like Forte know that he puts all this time into it and the best he could get was, dad, the best.

It's like when he does Australian.

Whenever he does Australian, you're like, whoa, you've been there.

I know.

Well, he spent six months in Ireland, six months in Australia, and he still can't do impressions to save his life.

Sometimes things just elude you, you know?

This recently came up.

The second half of Austin's question is, my second question is one that I hope is not completely unrelated to the podcast.

Which sketch does the picture of Kristen Wigg playing piano on her sleeve in the opening package of Second Chance Theater come from?

And is it available to watch anywhere?

All right.

It is not available to watch anywhere.

I got cut from dress.

But you can go back on my show.

Amy Schumer and Jillian Bell were just on my show promoting Kind of Pregnant.

And Jillian Bell wrote that sketch.

And we talked about it because it is one of my favorite cut from dress sketches of all time.

Andy, you were in it.

Which one?

It's called Grief Counselors.

And you are in an office where half the staff died from bad food at a picnic.

And they brought in some grief counselors.

And it's Wig and Charles Barkley.

And they're really bad grief counselors.

And Wig has piano keys on her sleeve.

And Barkley has guitar strings on his sleeve.

Yeah.

And the way they want people to get over their grief is they like do little where she plays piano to a piano track and then he strums his sleeve.

All right.

Well, if you haven't guessed already, we are here to lift your spirits.

And speaking of lifted spirits, I heard a lot of y'all friends went to heaven over the weekend, and they're not coming back.

They're dead, people.

So many people died here, you guys.

Do you like my piano jacket?

Because Pistachio and I would like to show you something that we think is pretty

rocky.

And then the thing I also remember is they need to take a break.

Again, it's a five-minute sketch.

So like a minute into it, they say they need to take a quick break for water.

And while we're taking a break, you can think about your grief while you watch these wind up teeth.

And they just like wind up teeth and set them on a desk.

And they're like chattering.

And the two of them are miming, having a conversation.

And Barkley's really good at it.

Yeah.

The two of them are just like really invested.

And every now and then, Wig just looks at everybody and points at the teeth, like as a reminder that that's what you're doing.

Don't forget.

Pretty good.

And it died a real bad death.

It was not even close.

And they also walked in clapping and saying, come on.

Oh, I remember that.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Yep.

Come on.

Just the best.

I do remember that.

I know we're going to not talk about the 50th, but Dunise and Goulet together are like two of my all-time favorite things.

Yeah.

And it was so fucking funny and wonderful to watch.

It was also that, I mean, the way Will does Goulet.

It's just,

it's like, it's so hyper-present.

It feels not even a little bit rehearsed.

Correct.

It's happening in the moment.

You're like watching Goulet see Denise for the first time.

Oh, here's the other song.

They re-enter in Grief Counselors.

They walk off.

They're wearing angel headbands.

friends.

Oh, man, what's that?

Not good.

We still do, come on, though.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Oh, yeah.

You do do that.

Yeah.

Here's one.

Big fan love the pod.

This is Dan.

I've always had this question and felt it was appropriate to ask after listening to the Incredibad episodes.

How much thought did you all put into your fake rap personas style?

Personally, I've always gotten a lot of enjoyment out of how hard Akiva goes on the mic and always makes me think of him as the more tough streetwise member of the group, but curious how intentional that was.

Thanks, guys, and appreciate all the laughs over the years.

Is Akeev the hardest?

I don't know.

We all scream a lot, but I don't know.

I mean, now me and Yorm are offended, obviously.

Yeah.

I mean, it's hard for me to answer that question.

Visually, right now, you guys are on your heels.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We go hard on the MIC, you know?

Also, like, spiraling, like reconsidering my entire frat persona.

We all thought we were the hard guy.

Oh, that's so funny.

It would be so great in the Quest Love Doc Doc if there was just three different talking heads of each of you being like, and then I'm obviously the hard guy.

I mean, I mean, I don't know.

Seth, what do you think?

You're an outsider.

I think that Keeve, to me, has always been the farthest from who he is in real life.

That's fair.

Yeah, I think that's accurate.

He flips the switch for sure.

Yeah, because even

I don't even feel like Keeve does hard bits, whereas I feel like you guys do hard bits all the time.

Keeve is just so analytical.

And so I think the switch of who he is off and on the mic is the biggest gap.

Yes, he's a low-key dude and kind of a quiet killer with his comedy.

And then on the mic, he's like, I'm on a boating it going fucking ballistic.

Yes.

Yeah.

How many times does he curse in I'm on a boat?

He's like 16.

His second verse on I'm On a Boat is like half the words are the word folk.

Yeah.

Yes.

And you curse a little bit, but nowhere near as much as he does on that song.

I don't know that I curse.

I say get the fuck up.

This boat is real.

Yeah, but that might be your only curse word.

Yeah.

And the first time I saw him do anything shortwise was, you know, the Bing Bong Brothers and then just two guys.

And so I also thought that was his move.

Because that's very, that's what you would guess as Keith's wheelhouse.

Yeah.

And so I think it's so fun that his hard rapping is so.

I mean, I've always been, I always love hearing Keith because he has that upper register kind of like in an ad rock way, which it cuts through the beat really nice.

And I mean, we love him.

We love how he sounds.

Yeah.

Yeah.

High, high register angry is very fun.

Yeah.

Keith, he's an all-time frapper.

All right.

Look, we're going to have to do some digging here and find out if this is real, but just buckle up, guys, because this is the one I wanted to really read to you guys.

Oh, shit.

James, in parentheses, senior director of marketing at Doritos.

Oh, no.

Are we in trouble?

Okay, go ahead.

Dear the hosts of the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast, I am the current marketing head for Doritos and devoted listener to the pod.

I was beside myself when the Lost Dorito commercial and and Super Bowl partnership came up.

Just you guys and the Bing Bong Brothers shaped my early comedic tastes.

I followed everything you've done since.

Doritos kept surprisingly or intentionally poor records of that time.

So I don't have a copy of the spot.

You have my full permission to put it out into the world.

What?

He literally just brought back that consumer contest after a decade of absence.

P.S.

I'm going a bit rogue, sending this email directly and would love to work with you all in any capacity.

That can't be

to be treated like checks mix.

Love you, James.

Is that real?

I don't know.

We might need to actually have a behind-the-scenes combo about that because that would be so fucking exciting if it's real.

Yeah.

Jeff says

that his email is an official PepsiCo email address, so it could be real.

Oh,

unless it's someone who's just slick as hell.

Yeah.

Let's find out.

I mean, we could be in for like a really exciting moment.

I will say, I just Googled senior director marketing for Doritos, and it is James.

We'll look into it.

If it's real, thank you for reaching out.

Oh, my God, James.

this is wonderful.

And I do think it was not, I do think they intentionally kept sloppy records from that time.

I think there was a lot of, I think Lauren might have shown up with a shovel and said, do you need help burying the tape?

I just want to honor the legal system and what we agreed to.

You know what I mean?

I don't want to get anyone in trouble.

I don't want to get any money taken back from the Berkeley public school system.

It would be really funny if they showed it today and it went so bad, they went and just like took all the books out of the library.

They just raised the building.

All right.

Really good questions.

Wouldn't you guys agree?

Yes.

We have some voice notes I'd like to play.

Great.

I'd like to start with AJ.

Hi, guys.

I'm such a big fan of the podcast and the digital shorts and everything.

So I'm currently 16 and I'm just a giant comedy nerd.

And my question is: if somehow the digital shorts were put into a time machine and then sent back to when you guys were 16, Which one would be 16-year-old you's favorite?

I'm not sure how much sense that question made, but I'm just such a big fan of the podcast, and I hope you all have a very nice day.

Made perfect sense to me.

That made wonderful sense to me.

Yes.

And it's a great question.

Thank you, AJ.

I love you, AJ.

Thank you for that.

What a sweet, sweet question.

That's a good one.

I mean, I certainly think we would geek for Jack Sparrow.

Yeah.

I think, as a 16-year-old boy,

if I was 16 when Jizz in My Pants came out, I would feel very seen.

You would feel very seen.

I would feel very seen, and I would be very happy that cool guys were making a song about that.

Yeah.

Yeah, because we would all, Yorma included, know it's normal.

Yeah, it's just a normal thing that happens.

Yeah.

That happens all the time.

All the time.

It just happens all the time.

Those are two really good answers.

I still really have a soft spot for all the Just Two Guys

songs, even though those are not our slickest videos in the world.

But I like those characters a lot.

It's also not technically digital shorts.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Good point.

I mean, we were very into hip-hop when I was 16 as well.

So I think, you know, Lazy Sunday would have been massive.

Sure.

I bet you I would have loved We're Back.

Yeah.

Just thinking about like when I was 16, the amount I loved like Sandler's albums that were super like sexual and stupid and like self-effacing and stuff.

And I'm just like, I bet you I would have liked We're Back.

All right.

I'm going to say this is a little melancholy, but very sweet, and I think it's worth listening to.

Hey, guys, in your video for YOLO, Andy, during the segment where he buries all his money in the backyard like a beagle, about 12 years ago, my brother adopted a beagle puppy named Sammy, who was the beagle from that video, and received the very unfortunate news this morning that they finally had to put Sammy down.

She was a much loved member of the the family, and

her association with the lonely island and YOLO has always been an entertaining piece of family lore for us.

But I thought you might be interested to hear that.

Thanks a lot.

Oh, my gosh.

I remember how much I loved that dog.

I thought that was a beautiful dog.

That's really sad to hear, but also great that she's forever commemorated on film.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Rest in peace.

Yeah.

R.I.P.

Thanks for sending that in.

I mean, obviously, a much better dog than Frisbee, also, which is.

Oh, great point.

I'm so glad you sagged to that.

The whole time the note was being left, I was like, why Sammy and not Frisbee?

Again,

you are.

I've been talking to this.

Like, Andy is in this position where he's not.

When Frisbee dies, which, again, don't be shocked if it's tomorrow.

She's very old.

If there's a strong breeze, too, it's windy out.

Andy, it's going to be this real, like, you know, two roads diverge in the woods for Andy because he's either having to be like, hey, man,

it was all jokes.

I loved her just as much as everybody, or he's just going to have to fucking double down.

I mean, I think he's, I think we're in a double-down era.

I sat with you and your wife, Alexi, at the 50th, Seth.

Yeah.

And we talked a little bit about Frisbee's, you know, soon passing.

What would the word be?

Imminent passing.

Yeah.

And she didn't seem to care that much.

I'm just saying, I think it might just be you.

Yeah.

I mean, it's very interesting you say it that way.

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Since we mentioned Alexi, let's listen to Caitlin's.

Hello, Lonely Island.

I'm Seth Meyer's Pod.

My question for you is, are your wives fans of your comedy?

And do they have a favorite digital short?

The word fan is a little loaded.

I don't know if I would ever say my wife is a fan of my comedy.

I think she likes what we do.

Yeah.

I just don't know if I would use the word fan.

Mine is, but not as much as I am a fan of hers.

Yeah.

That's very sweet.

I would say that as well.

But it's enough that, you know, we stay together.

I can tell you that Alexi's favorite digital short is Jack Sparrow, for sure.

Oh, wonderful.

Loves Jack Sparrow.

I don't know what Joanna's favorite one is, but I know she really, I've mentioned this, really likes the song Punch You in the Jeans.

Oh, I love that.

She really likes Iran so far.

She very much liked Dick in a Box.

Anybody who likes Punch You in the Jeans, I got to say that I'm a fan of them.

Yeah.

Just a little teaser.

I really liked watching Andy and Joanna grooving out to Lil Wayne.

Oh, right.

Teaser.

Another teaser.

Yeah.

50th teaser.

Just a teaser.

My wife really does love Just Two Guys, those characters.

I think she just thinks they're kind of cute guys.

But I'm trying to think of ones that she doesn't like.

Oh, this is a sidebar, but the worst reaction has ever gone over for me was actually for Mari's family was the video Diaper Money because you think my verse is about wife pussy.

And for some reason, I was like thinking that they would think it was funny.

And I was like, oh my God, you got to check this new video out.

And then as soon as they were watching it, it didn't go over so hot.

It's maybe the most to the bone verse in any Lonely Island song.

If you're the parents of the said wife.

Yeah.

Because anyone.

Let's see.

Megan.

It seems like she might have a question about Mike O'Brien's bugs, which I don't know if we're going to be able able to answer, but let's see if it's fun.

Hey guys, this is Megan.

I'm the high school teacher that has the punched magnet on her whiteboard.

Nice.

Thanks for telling my story on the listener episode.

I actually have a question for someone who is probably not on the Zoom call right now.

I really enjoyed the Mike O'Brien episode.

I thought it was super brilliant to have him on, and it really unlocked a lot of memories for me of shorts that I had forgotten about, but really loved.

But I was really hoping that you would get to one in particular that just seems like it doesn't exist on the internet anymore.

So I'm hoping you could get a voice note from Mike for me and the like three or four other people who remember this short.

It was basically Mike O'Brien interviewing bugs about where they were going.

Like I think it was called Mike O'Brien Asks Bugs, where the heck do you gotta be?

Which is just a very funny question.

And I say all the time.

It was so stupid and so funny, I cannot find it anywhere, but I do remember a lot about it because I watched it a lot when it was on the internet.

So I remember that Mike was in a trench coat interviewing bugs on the street.

A significant amount of the short was him fat shaming a beetle and then feeling really guilty about it.

At one point he said, look at this fat ass.

In a way that I just can't help but repeat all the time.

Like I say that a lot, even when it's not relevant, because it was just so funny.

I'm pretty sure the host was Josh Hutcherson, and he was like also asking questions, sort of in the background, wearing the exact same thing as Mike, but he was like Mike Jr.

And the only bug I remember responding yelled, I'm going to the supermarket in a way that made it seem like in the script, there were no spaces in between the words.

So anyway, I don't have a specific question about the short.

I just didn't know how much I cared about it until your guys' episode of the pod was over and I realized I was really disappointed that y'all didn't talk about it.

So any voice note that you could give us would be great, me and the other like three fans.

Yeah.

Thanks, guys.

Oh, gosh.

I have recently watched Bugs, and I can't believe I didn't talk about it.

I love Bugs so much.

I don't think I've seen it.

I have seen it, and I really liked it at the time, but I have also forgotten about it.

Whoa, look at this fat ass.

Sir, let me guess.

Are you heading back for seconds?

Boom, baby.

Hey, maybe we add some tuba music.

But it's a crazy sketch because he is interviewing Bugs, asking them where they're going.

At one point, a bug is walking along like a railing, and he comes over with his microphone.

He's like, where are you going?

And the bug actually just, because it's a real bug, the bug falls and like Mike goes, oh, he jumped.

I didn't do it.

But my memory and what we have to get a voice note from Micah's, like, even when it was just bugs, they had to get like an animal handler.

No.

But my goodness, Bugs is really funny.

The other thing is the package of him and his brother interviewing bugs.

It's like one of those local news packages where it shows him like running, trying to hail a cab, that sort of thing.

And I remember one of them was a, like a port-a-potty at a construction site.

The door opens and they both walk out together.

And so you're like, why would they put that in the opening package?

These guys like using the same port-a-potty.

They're busy guys.

They don't have time to waste.

Kev, can you look at it and tell me what Josh Hutcherson's name is in it?

Because he, Josh, I feel like shows up for one second in it.

It was that thing where a host had a second and they just like came down to set and like walked around with a microphone asking Bugs questions and then forgot it ever happened.

Left.

Yeah.

O'Brien's name in Bugs is is winston sam bass right investigative reporter and he has really thick fake black eyebrows um winston sam bass is not a joke right but then josh hutcherson shows up at his brother and his brother's name is lance sam bass right

like also

kind of meaningless but pretty funny that his name is lance bass but with the same in the middle uh that's a great question uh all right there's another one i wanted to listen to uh laura laura has something, and she's really standing up for you guys.

Oh my God.

Finally.

Hey, Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast.

Love you guys.

Huge, huge fans of the pod.

I just watched the SNL 50th season documentary on Peacock, and there's an episode where they're talking about sketches that don't necessarily work, even though you think that they might.

And the example that they used was laser cats.

And I am so offended for all of you guys on your behalf.

Like, what is up with that?

Just wanted to see if you caught that and if you have any thoughts, because I had many angry ones.

Thanks, guys, for all you're doing.

Hope you're staying safe.

Bye.

So nice.

Andy, you've probably already seen this.

So I'm just going to weigh in because I haven't.

I mean, I did see it.

But are they talking about how we're presenting laser cats as if it doesn't work to Lauren?

I thought maybe they were being cheeky of being like showing me and Bill sort of in the role of writers pitching an idea that people don't like.

Yeah.

Because it's like,

I know what she means, that it could be inferring that that's one that is not good and didn't work.

But it also is like the story of Laser Cats is that Bill and I are failing.

So I chose to believe that they were showing that sort of like winkly.

So ultimately, I don't think they would burn Laser Cats in the dock.

Oh, there was another question I wanted to ask.

It was not really about anything we did, but this is from Corey.

Question from a long time ago.

So not sure if you want to go back.

There's an SNL sketch with Hugh Laurie where he's a ghost hunter.

Do you guys remember it?

I was there.

Hugh Laurie's character farts, and they keep replaying it over and over because they think it's a ghost because they're shooting it with one of those infrared cameras.

Yes, yes.

Yes, yes, I do.

And they keep looking at it, and it's very clear that he, and he doesn't want to look at it anymore.

My question is, who wrote this genius sketch?

I actually first saw it on a family trip.

My mom, dad, sister, I was sharing a hotel room.

We got up at 4 a.m.

next morning to watch flight.

My dad was laughing so hard at the ghost part sketch that he was crying.

For the next few hours, every 30 minutes, he'd start laughing again and wake us up.

James Anderson.

I was going to guess, James.

Yeah.

Yeah, I should have let you guess.

Yeah.

Speak to us.

Let your presence be known.

If you can hear us, give us a sign.

What was that?

Did anyone else hear that?

Yeah, I did.

No, no,

I just shifted my feet.

It was probably my tennis slippers scooting against the floor.

No, I'm sure that wasn't it.

Do we have playback on that?

Well, let me check.

No,

don't bother.

Don't bother.

Got it.

And it's a wonderful, wonderful piece of writing.

James Anderson was just on my show last week.

I had some favorite SNL writers from my era on the show, our era on the show, come as guests.

Spivey, Paula, Harper Steele, and our buddy James.

And it was really So rad.

Very, very lovely.

Yeah.

Should poach that idea.

Yeah.

Yep.

I also love when a dad like loves something and like laughs really hard.

I have very fond memories of stuff my dad loved.

It's true.

It's the best.

Even when you don't get it, I'm just like, wow, this guy loves this shit.

Seth?

Yep.

I bailed one short on Spelling B.

What was it?

Firago.

Oh, I got Firago, and I'm like eight short.

Do you know what it means?

It's another way to say cockade.

It's a confused mixture.

It's a confused.

A farago of fact and myth about Abraham Lincoln.

It's another way to say cockade.

I just wanted you to leave it at that.

Just know I got every other word clean.

Wow.

All right.

We have one last voice note.

Okay.

It's from an actor named Steve Agee.

Do you know Steve?

Yeah, of course.

Oh, yeah, of course.

All right.

Well, I think you're going to enjoy this message.

Hi, this is actor Steve Agee.

Years ago, I did a table read for The Lonely Island for for a movie that would have starred Andy and Charlie Day.

After the table read, I never heard anything.

What did I do wrong?

Thank you for your thank you for your question, Steve.

Who lives really near me and I see?

That movie didn't happen.

That's why.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But because of Steve.

Yeah, it was a script called BFFs.

Yorm helped me work on it and it was attached to direct, right?

Yeah,

it could have been my fault.

And it was a Happy Madison movie.

Uh-huh.

And it was a fun table read, though.

That was a big movie.

It was really fun, fun table read.

We're very, very grateful to everyone who came, including Steve and Charlie and everyone.

And it went pretty good, but it just didn't go quite good enough, I guess.

Yeah, I have a question because you guys are way more in the movie world than I've ever been.

How often has that happened where you've gone to a table read with a movie and then sort of based on the table read?

I don't know if it's necessarily based on the table read.

I think there's a million factors for why something does or doesn't happen.

Usually doesn't happen.

But I've definitely been a part of table reads that have, there's a movie that I was working on for 10 years.

It's still kicking around, but it's a different movie.

And we had a really nice table read with a lot of big names, a lot of fun people, and that never happened.

I mean, part of it is there are table reads for different reasons, right?

Sometimes it's a table read like that one where it's like, let's see where we are, right?

And let's see what's working about it.

And then there's other times you're like, we are shooting and we're starting on this date.

Let's do a table read so we can do our production rewrite.

Yeah.

I think BFF was a weirder one because I think you and I, Andy, were thinking of it as the former and it felt like the latter because it was so big business and a lot of people showed up for it.

But like in our minds, we were like, yeah, let's see how this is.

Well, I think we thought that because that's what the studio was saying.

They were like, we're not sure if we're ready to green light this yet.

We want to see it.

And so we did it.

And then they were like, nah.

Can I ask if I had checked in with you halfway through the table read, would you have guessed that they were thinking nah, or did you feel like it was going so well?

I thought it could have gone either way.

Gotcha.

Yeah.

It didn't play crazy hot.

No.

But it was like, there were definitely parts of it that really worked.

I didn't think it was going to go, but yes, I thought that there were sequences that were like really funny.

Hottest table read you've ever been at for a movie?

Definitely not McGruber.

We did do a table read for Pop Star and it was super fun.

I was at the Macruber table read.

I feel like the MacGruber table read was a super long script.

Well,

that was also Ray Liota, R.I.P.

was also playing the colonel character a little like he was not to do an impression of him, but it was like,

hey, Macroba, what are we going to do?

Macuoba, he was doing Forte's Joey Pants.

It was the moment that I was like, oh, you know what?

As the director, I should have talked to him beforehand.

And didn't.

I was just like, yeah, he'll get it.

It's on the page.

Guess what?

Not always on the page, guys.

You got to check in with people.

I did not love giving hosts notes before,

like table reads at SNL.

Yeah, no, no.

I always sort of believed, you know what?

I'm going to let their instincts take it.

I would go to them and say, hey, you're playing a character like this.

And I always thought it was fun to see what they do.

And then like seven times, I would think to myself, exactly that, oh, I did a huge disservice here.

I would often talk to them about it.

Yeah.

And then it would go good.

And then they'd go, make a short.

Yeah.

Well, what delightful questions, both via voice note and email.

Yeah, thank you, everybody.

We're going to reach out to our head of marketing at Doritos.

And I think if it's a real guy, we should probably have him on the podcast and make him real-time watch the Doritos app.

Yeah, just.

I mean, right?

Like, that's what you want to do.

Like, have a guy be like, I think that's fair.

Because you want him to be like, I love you guys.

I'm so sorry.

They thought it was bad.

I'm sure it was great.

And then he'll watch and be like, all right,

I'd like to apologize to my predecessors.

Rescind my offer.

All right.

Well, it was a very successful time.

We're very excited to talk to everybody about the 50th we're gonna do that on our next episode it's gonna be a special episode how about that a bonus episode if you will and gentlemen it's always such a delight to see you you as well sethly i agree with what seth said and then what andy said all right yeah it's one of my favorite things about the 50th week yeah getting to see both of you a lot it was wonderful yeah and by the way you know what else was wonderful about it what we weren't always seeing each other at our bests and i liked that too yeah you know what i mean i genuinely liked that part too that was another teaser

That was another teaser.

Talk about how the short was ripped from the headlines of my real life.

Oh, my God.

Watching Andy edit a short, it was like, take out, if you took away, if you took your favorite digital short and you sucked out all the joy,

the experience.

The experience.

No, there were nice moments.

Nice moments.

We'll talk about it next time.

All right.

Love you guys.

Love you, buddy.

Love you.