Strike Episode!

Speaker 1 The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast.

Speaker 2 We've now caught up. We are now actually recording this just a few days before people will hear it.
So, this is the most like podcasters we've ever been.

Speaker 3 Yeah, well, that was true of last week, too. That's why we were able to plug Andy being on your show and Harper and Will being on the show.

Speaker 4 Oh, and how'd that go, Seth?

Speaker 5 How did me being on your show go?

Speaker 5 And I hope everybody took the plug because it turns out the plug paid off.

Speaker 2 New York magazine, vulture.com,

Speaker 2 every week does who won late night. And I'm happy to say that Andy Samberg won late night this week.

Speaker 6 Hot off the press. Hot off the press.

Speaker 10 That's always your goal.

Speaker 3 Just for anybody, for your my guess, Andy's been on Seth's show before and has said as a joke, did we win late night, Seth?

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 13 I knew that.

Speaker 2 And I feel as though he would have won it before except for the fact that he called it out so hard. Yeah, they had to wait.

Speaker 2 By the way, half of the article is about them explaining, yeah, we know he said it, but that's not why.

Speaker 3 It's a conversation.

Speaker 2 The best thing about it is genuinely six weeks ago, maybe more. Definitely more, I think.
Andy Shoemaker and I started a text chain about how.

Speaker 2 Had the French pole vaulter who knocked the bar over with his dong happened when we were all at SNL together, we definitely would have done it on update with Andy as that dude.

Speaker 18 And

Speaker 2 then all three of us just kept texting jokes

Speaker 2 and then decided at the end of the text chain, well, we should just do this in eight weeks when you come on.

Speaker 2 And yesterday morning, all the script was, I went back in the text chain and transcribed the texts.

Speaker 20 Don't say anymore.

Speaker 21 No, no, I can't wait to watch this.

Speaker 4 It played just as you would hope.

Speaker 22 Oh, it played great. Wow, great.

Speaker 2 And it was the rarest case where you are making your friends laugh and then you say, we should just do this on TV.

Speaker 2 And then we did. And we won late night.

Speaker 2 Kevin Miller, who's both, you know, our old friend, a producer on this podcast, producer on late night, the segment producer who produced the segment. Andy, he did say to me.

Speaker 2 You know, Andy really grew up because when we were reading it, he said at one point, I think balls might be a little too rough a word. I did.
It was a little too dirty for you.

Speaker 4 It was about how he also knocked over the hurdles.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he couldn't do hurdles either because he has giant balls. Yeah, that his giant balls aren't going to.

Speaker 8 I was like, I think we should just keep it to dung.

Speaker 4 I think balls conjures too many weird visuals.

Speaker 24 And he was like, whoa.

Speaker 25 Yeah.

Speaker 3 That's a big moment.

Speaker 2 The dick in the box guy.

Speaker 4 Who's this stately gentleman?

Speaker 26 Yeah.

Speaker 27 Might as well be wearing a top hat.

Speaker 3 Parenthood really changed you.

Speaker 2 Also, we cut, there was a long bit in it that Andy wisely cut about the reason it had taken eight weeks to have the French guy on our show is that travel is really hard for him.

Speaker 24 It was pretty good.

Speaker 2 Because it gets caught in the.

Speaker 3 Where does it get caught in the airplane?

Speaker 2 The cabine door. The cabine door.

Speaker 4 And then he tried to take a boat, but it acted simply as an anchor.

Speaker 2 And if he puts it over on one side, the boat just goes in circles.

Speaker 11 That was the joke I was sad to lose.

Speaker 2 And then the late ad was that he got here because he just started swinging it over his head, came as a helicopter.

Speaker 4 Use it as a one-man helicopter.

Speaker 2 That was obviously the lowbrow part of the week. There was some highbrow as well.
The first segment of Andy was great. He talked about his movie Lee with Kate Winslet.

Speaker 2 And that was was also very funny because we had a whole segment about, what was it? Andy talks earnestly about the film.

Speaker 4 I had to answer questions earnestly to do right by the movie.

Speaker 3 I saw a teeny clip of it on Instagram last night, and it just everything you say seems more and more like a setup to a bit.

Speaker 15 I know.

Speaker 11 It's such a weird dynamic.

Speaker 23 It was really funny. Oh my God.

Speaker 2 But it was great. Definitely thread that needle.
Another wonderful highbrow. Will and Harper came on.
Everything I possibly could have wanted.

Speaker 2 They spoke very lovingly about their film and were also super funny.

Speaker 28 Oh my God.

Speaker 2 Harper did this great bit where she came out. I had just done a closer look and she said, you know, Will and I were watching the first act on TV.
And I said to him, you know what? Seth is smart.

Speaker 2 And the whole bit was, they just realized. I just got it.
And that Will lost a bet. Will had to pay $1,000 because it turned out.

Speaker 4 Because he was like, Seth's not smart.

Speaker 2 And then I went to the, by the time you're listening to this, you can go to Netflix now and watch this wonderful documentary. I went to a screening.
I moderated a panel at the Paris Theater.

Speaker 2 They did a New York premiere of the movie.

Speaker 2 And I went out and I asked Will the first question, and he answered in made-up French: Les chous pon, le gouguel, de péron, hapostille, bill, boton, le du le auto.

Speaker 2 And then I said, What are you doing? He said, Oh, I thought because it was the Paris Theater.

Speaker 15 Oh, my gosh, clearly.

Speaker 2 And the surprise for everyone there is that Wig and Paul Pell got up on stage and sang the closing song live.

Speaker 25 Really, really cool.

Speaker 24 That is a treat.

Speaker 3 Gunning for the Oscar already.

Speaker 27 Gunning. It's on Netflix now, right?

Speaker 2 It's on Netflix now.

Speaker 29 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Now, I saw Dratch at the Will and Harbor premiere and I was talking to her about the fact that my kids go to school near where she lives. And sometimes I see her on the street.

Speaker 2 And I hadn't seen her this year. And she said, what time do you come? And I said, 8.20.
She said, oh, that's usually what I'm doing. The New York Times spelling bee.

Speaker 2 And I said, you know, Samberg queen bees it every day. And you would have been so thrilled.

Speaker 7 She was like, what?

Speaker 14 Like, Dratch,

Speaker 2 Jatch spun out so hard by the fact that you queen bee. And all, she had all the questions you would have wanted her to ask.
Yeah. Does he use hints? Does he have the two-letter clues? Does he? And so.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 I mean, I came up one short yesterday, as you know, Seth.

Speaker 2 Yes. Alluvial was the word.

Speaker 3 You want to update everybody?

Speaker 5 It's just spelling B-wise.

Speaker 23 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 I mean, I got it most days again. I'm still in a crazy zone.

Speaker 29 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 I think I missed two since the last cast.

Speaker 4 And both times it was by one word. Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's really exciting for me.

Speaker 4 And then got it every other day. And, you know, obviously texted Seth.
And I text Keeve now too.

Speaker 24 And he very sweetly every time says, proud of you for real.

Speaker 4 And it's weird because I know he means it and also is making fun of me.

Speaker 15 And I really like that tone.

Speaker 30 It makes me feel gay. 50 50-50.

Speaker 20 It's a quality key 50-50.

Speaker 3 I know it's important to you, and so I care about it because I know you care about it, and I love you.

Speaker 2 We had curriculum night at our school, and a dad worked for New York Times Games, and he wanted to thank us for the constant shout-outs.

Speaker 25 Are you serious? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Also, we did a thing. We did a you burnt on our show where he talked about the New York Times games, and I feel like it made it over to them.

Speaker 2 And so they also told me there's a new sports connections-you type game. Whoa.

Speaker 4 So, just real quick, Seth, I actually just thought of this. I I do have screen grabs because of things I sent you that they didn't accept in spelling bee that we were pissed off about.

Speaker 2 Yeah, these are words that are not acceptable words.

Speaker 4 Yeah, and I take a screen grab right when it says not in word list and send it to you and go, duh fuck.

Speaker 7 That's usually the text.

Speaker 2 Yep, so what are some of the ones?

Speaker 25 Uh, quado.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's fucked.

Speaker 4 They did not accept wank room on June 27th.

Speaker 5 Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 15 Um,

Speaker 10 doink, well, that's true.

Speaker 25 And that's classic.

Speaker 19 That's January 15th.

Speaker 4 No doink.

Speaker 4 Uh, that might it.

Speaker 31 There's a chance that

Speaker 2 maybe based on the pod, you know how at the end of every year, I feel like Merriam-Webster adds a few words of the year? Yeah.

Speaker 2 You know, like TikToker all of a sudden is a word, but you wouldn't have been. And so maybe Quatto, just based on

Speaker 17 sure you were going to say doink.

Speaker 24 No.

Speaker 11 Quatto is so much more difficult to get in.

Speaker 4 Can I say one other thing just because it came up in my screen grabs?

Speaker 15 Yeah.

Speaker 32 I'm such a fucking cool guy.

Speaker 4 I got the mini in 13. That's my all-time high.

Speaker 19 13 seconds? Yeah, that's good. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I don't think you can impress me with anything about the mini.

Speaker 3 Here's the thing about the mini, though, is that some people do it on their laptop, I think, and can get like five seconds because they're typing.

Speaker 17 Which is crazy.

Speaker 3 This is iPhone specific. And honestly, it got more difficult with some of the updates when the iPhone got a little sloppier.

Speaker 2 Today is Friday. People will be listening to this pod on Monday.

Speaker 2 You will have appeared on SNL.

Speaker 16 Oh.

Speaker 4 Unless I get cut.

Speaker 2 Unless you get cut. So this is an interesting thing.
Yeah. Our listeners right now are in the future.
They know the answer answer to what we are talking about now. We don't know the answer.

Speaker 11 Exactly.

Speaker 2 I think you're not going to get cut.

Speaker 4 I think it's highly unlikely, but like we'll see how it goes at dress.

Speaker 2 Right after you finished our taping, you went over to the SNL table read.

Speaker 19 I did.

Speaker 2 And the sketch that we're talking about played red hot in the room.

Speaker 26 I think so. Yeah.

Speaker 4 There were, I mean, it's a big old piece with a lot of really funny people in it.

Speaker 4 And it was, first off, I know I'm like a broken record, all the ex-SNLers, but it was super bizarre to do the table read on eight in the main studio for me.

Speaker 24 Yeah. I know everyone's used to it now.

Speaker 27 I was going to say, where do they do it now?

Speaker 2 Yeah. So they moved it from a tiny room to the studio floor during COVID, and I think people liked it.
And that's what they still do. But it does feel crazy.

Speaker 4 And everyone at the table has a little microphone in front of them, which was not the case for us, right?

Speaker 2 No, we have nothing.

Speaker 3 It was recorded, but it was not amplified. Yeah.

Speaker 4 So it's like, on the one hand, when I walked in, I was like, oh, you can really hear people. That's kind of cool.
Like, it sounds the way it would sound in the sketch way more.

Speaker 2 But yeah, it was trippy it was trippy but also fun and i hope it went well yeah wouldn't it be funny if all the headlines are saturday night dead and we're like it was good in the room

Speaker 3 andy i could tell you're trying to not spoil it but we can't spoil it for them right they're in the future good point they could spoil it for us right yeah write in and tell us what you thought of it yeah i always hesitate though because if things change so much there

Speaker 4 like it's friday by the time the show show happens tomorrow, it might be completely different for all I know.

Speaker 4 And then I was the one who gave up all the beans on what it was supposed to be and then got changed, and people are like mad or embarrassed.

Speaker 3 Yeah, okay. Well, next week, we could ask you how accurate it was.
Okay, great.

Speaker 24 Yeah, all right, so we'll do that.

Speaker 2 Pro call for next week. Um, anybody else have any housekeeping? Yorm, you told us you just had an argument about American politics in a Finnish sauna, yeah.

Speaker 27 Well, naked, which is just a weird way to have an argument, yeah, sitting between two pretty big Finnish guys who are also naked. I just haven't done that before.

Speaker 3 Towels around your waist or just butt naked exposed? Butt naked.

Speaker 27 Yeah.

Speaker 3 And it's just like a cedar planked room with steam in it or like hot air and you just sit with your bare butt onto the wood where someone else's bare butt just was?

Speaker 27 No, no. You have little like courtesy towels that you bring in with you that you sit on, but you're naked.

Speaker 27 And then they were drinking beers pretty heavily and listening to like kind of loud EDM music, which not too many people in the sauna do that. It's kind of frowned upon.

Speaker 27 Even I know that, you know, as an American, I learned pretty quick.

Speaker 2 But I feel like you have the energy where you would conjure that.

Speaker 27 Conjure those two guys.

Speaker 21 Yeah.

Speaker 2 You have a sauna energy where I feel as though if they watched you walk in, they would say, I think that guy is going to be okay with our vibe.

Speaker 27 Oh, 100%. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Was this a sauna you had been recommended or did you just like walk down the street and go, I'm going to go in this place?

Speaker 22 They're everywhere, Keith.

Speaker 27 I'm surprised there's not one in my room. It's the land of saunas.
Yeah. Right.

Speaker 3 And is that the one you did, the one in your hotel?

Speaker 27 Yeah. And to give a little shout out, there's a restaurant called Le,

Speaker 27 which means steam. It's talking about the essence of steam that comes from the sauna.
And there's like four saunas in that restaurant. And I happen to know Jasper, who's the owner of that restaurant.

Speaker 27 And I went to all of those four saunas. I learned all about the history of saunas and all the different kinds of them.
And it was great. But this wasn't that sauna.

Speaker 27 This was a different sauna with two naked guys that I had a very aggressive argument with.

Speaker 3 Did each sauna have a different? You had to tour all four. Did they? Was it like one was with tile and one's wood and one has eucalyptus or something?

Speaker 27 Was that they're all wood, but there's different kinds of smoke. Or le.

Speaker 24 Oh, my God.

Speaker 10 There's a smoke sauna.

Speaker 14 So bumming antios.

Speaker 17 Your pronunciation is bumming antioxidants.

Speaker 4 So excited to say it every time.

Speaker 3 I'm so excited for it.

Speaker 27 I think my pronunciation might be right.

Speaker 4 Yoram, forgive this, but I think it's probably what everyone listening wants me to ask. Sure.

Speaker 5 So is like everyone hard, semi, fully flaccid.

Speaker 22 We were all flaccid.

Speaker 18 Can you imagine if you had said anything else?

Speaker 10 It was such earnest answer. Okay.

Speaker 11 Very, very clearly what it was supposed to be.

Speaker 2 Oh, good question, Andy. If you're like, I mean, I was hard.
I did my part. I was full.

Speaker 27 We were listening to EDM, though, Andy, so anything could have gone, you know?

Speaker 10 Yeah, that's hard.

Speaker 26 That can get you excited. Oh, dag, yeah.

Speaker 3 And then, last question about it. So they're drinking beers, like ice-cold beers.
That actually sounds fantastic, but is that part of

Speaker 3 because in America, you would never do that because it's thought of as a place where you're like detoxing.

Speaker 27 If you really want to know about this, these guys were rural Finnish dudes who were doing a work thing.

Speaker 27 They were like in the Coast Guard or something like that, from what I understood, and they were getting wrecked before they're like physicals the next day.

Speaker 21 Right.

Speaker 23 They're having fun.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Def talked about it.
When Andy came to Helsinki to watch me run a marathon the day after a marathon, we went to a place. Josh found a restaurant.

Speaker 2 Remember, he said it was like the concierge says it's like Finnish tapas. It's called slapis.

Speaker 31 I don't think that's right.

Speaker 17 But the whole time we kept saying, this is really good slopis.

Speaker 2 And I don't, to this day, I don't know. So maybe while you're there, dig into it.
Yeah,

Speaker 27 I'll try to find it.

Speaker 2 Slapas. I bet Josh will be able to find the restaurant.
We're going to send you to get some sloppis because it really was great.

Speaker 23 Yeah, go tomorrow.

Speaker 2 This episode, we're going to talk about the 2007-2008 writer's strike, which was announced at the after party for the Brian Williams Feist show.

Speaker 2 Do you guys have any memory of finding out that the strike was officially on? No. I don't.
I do remember I was very upset and I like remember the switch being thrown of like a super fun after party.

Speaker 2 I had felt like the start of the season had been so hot and then I think Steve Higgins came over and told me the strike is on and I just felt my bones immediately hurt.

Speaker 2 The strike starts. It does end up going 100 days.
And we have a strike show

Speaker 2 in November. November 17th, Amy Poehler pulls together a fundraiser at UCB Theater, her theater in New York City.

Speaker 13 It is

Speaker 2 very exciting to just get back together and talk about doing a show. It was all sketches that had previously been written in honor of Pencil Down.

Speaker 2 And we asked all the writers to pick a sketch that they had never produced on the show and whether or not they would want to produce it.

Speaker 2 And we had to make our own cue cards, which was a lot harder than I think any of us thought it would be.

Speaker 27 Who had the best handwriting?

Speaker 24 I don't even remember, but I don't.

Speaker 2 It wasn't Wally. It's not like Wally came in and did cue cards for us.

Speaker 27 Because I watched the little video, which is great and very nostalgic, and I will say, made me cry three times, which is always something about my state of mind.

Speaker 27 But Seth, did you actually hold the cue cards? Like, it was mentioned at one point that you were holding cue cards.

Speaker 2 I believe I maybe did hold cue cards at some point. I think different people had to hold cue cards for different sketches.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I think you held them for your sketch that you wrote.

Speaker 9 That's pretty cool.

Speaker 27 I think. So now you know how Wally feels.

Speaker 2 I do finally know how Wally feels. I do want to take a quick step back and say that the course of that 100 days was very depressing and very sad.

Speaker 2 And it was also way worse timed than the last strike, which was over the course of the summer. This was the end of the fall, all through the winter.

Speaker 2 We were picketing and it was like gray and miserable and slushy and gross. With that said, we all hung out a ton.
And looking back, I kind of think it was fun.

Speaker 3 Well, the fact also that everyone went to UCB to just put on a show because everyone was like, it just shows that everyone that was working there would do SNL for free. Right.

Speaker 8 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 There's not a lot of jobs that if you were forced to go on strike, the auto workers don't go, I'm still going to put some windshields in over the break.

Speaker 3 And so it just shows how lucky we all were to work there.

Speaker 2 Yeah, for real.

Speaker 3 So I asked Polar, because she really was in charge of this, and it did raise money. Did you just say that it was for charity? It was for the Writers Guild fund.

Speaker 3 And she had to get permission from Lauren, who actually attended and watched the show. And I believe had a lovely night.

Speaker 3 And she had to get permission from NBC and from the Writers Guild and everything, I think.

Speaker 2 And I believe NBC was not super cool about it.

Speaker 25 Oh, is that right?

Speaker 2 I believe I asked Shoemaker. Shoemaker said Jeff Zucker was not happy that we were doing it.

Speaker 3 But also, when NBC is part of the system that's being on strike, and then you're asking them a favor while you're in a legal battle, essentially. Yeah.
All right, here we go.

Speaker 3 So all we did to prompt these was I said, you know, do you have a memory of the UCB? Tell me anything you can remember because we don't remember anything.

Speaker 25 Here's Amy.

Speaker 34 Hey, guys, Amy Poehler here, longtime listener, first time caller.

Speaker 34 I love your podcast so much and love all of you so much.

Speaker 34 Okay, UCB strike show. Yeah, like Yorma, I don't really remember anything, but

Speaker 34 I know we got permission to do it, or I don't even know if we did need to get permission.

Speaker 34 Let's just say we did. But it was really exciting because first of all, Lauren came, which was, I don't know, just really nice.
And

Speaker 34 we all just kind of put on a show. I remember getting props and costumes together and making a running list and going over who was going to do what scenes.
I have incredible pictures from that night.

Speaker 34 I think I made it into a some kind of eye book, like a flip book.

Speaker 34 And it's just the best goof around.

Speaker 34 I remember Michael Sarah was the fictional host. Yola Tengo was the fictional band.

Speaker 34 And Yola Tengo, the members were friends of mine, so and I guess in a way so was Michael's, so they all did us a favor.

Speaker 34 And the writers wrote their own cue cards and held them up and came out on stage. And it was one of those nights where the writers and actors were all working together to get the scene ready.

Speaker 34 And everybody just put up the stuff they wish they had been able to get on the show. Or maybe they put up the stuff that they were glad America never saw.

Speaker 34 The thing I remember the most, though, is Seth and I did Weekend Update, and I think Fred did Nicholas Fane, that character who reads from the news but doesn't have any takes.

Speaker 34 And we raised money for the WGA, I know that. And it was just an amazing time.

Speaker 34 I was stressed during the strike like you, Seth, but then I also had some awesome, amazing times during the strike, too, like you.

Speaker 34 Lonely island so i'm uh straddling right in the middle that's what she said

Speaker 2 i mean first of all can i just compliment how good a podcast voice amy has developed

Speaker 16 soothing it yes so soothing a real pro yeah that was a as mr am i saying that right yeah oh wait jorm said it almost made him feel like he was in a sauna but which one that one the lull for that one um is

Speaker 2 so it was that one that's all of them no no the lull describes the only keep saying keep saying four and then only have a word for one. Yeah, smoke.

Speaker 11 No, no. We all know smoke.

Speaker 26 Lola is the steam.

Speaker 33 We know Lola.

Speaker 31 Don't have the answer every time.

Speaker 3 No, Lil is the thing.

Speaker 27 No, Lola is this type of steam. There's different kinds of Lolas.

Speaker 2 People listening right now are so mad we got back to saunas as soon as Amy was done.

Speaker 35 They're like, oh, we were just finally getting some strike stuff.

Speaker 27 By the way, can I say listening to that was the same as watching. Like, I was tearing up hearing her talk about it.
It's very emotional, and I felt very sweet and nostalgic.

Speaker 4 It's very nice, Jorm. And also I think like you're not doing great.

Speaker 28 Like it's too easy.

Speaker 10 You're crying too much.

Speaker 8 That's too easy. Yeah.
That's.

Speaker 19 Yeah. But we love you.

Speaker 2 Well, also, and I know I'm about to do the thing I just criticized you guys for doing.

Speaker 2 I also feel like the fact that you're crying after being in a sauna where you should be, everything should be out of you and yet you're still generating tears.

Speaker 4 Seth, this is interesting because you just said Jorm is sensitive like he came out of a sauna, but I'm curious which sauna.

Speaker 9 Don't do this.

Speaker 18 He doesn't know the other ones.

Speaker 10 I'm saying the cedar, cedar, the cedar one.

Speaker 27 And then there's also one that they make, which is like anybody can buy it. Bradley Cooper just got one.

Speaker 27 I don't know if I should put him on glass like that.

Speaker 3 We should go to his house and use that one.

Speaker 24 Oh, yeah. Let's go there now.

Speaker 15 Boom, basketball.

Speaker 10 I actually asked. Hang on, we're walking in.

Speaker 18 We're walking to Bradley Cooper's house.

Speaker 8 Hey, it's me, Jackson Maine.

Speaker 15 Welcome to my house. I just got out of the sun.

Speaker 4 Hey, there you are. Weird that you answered the door in character, Brad, but I mean, Jackson.

Speaker 2 Awesome Philadelphia Eagles jersey.

Speaker 4 Can we use your sauna? Is it perhaps the same method they use in Hello Le?

Speaker 15 Come on in.

Speaker 8 We don't listen to any EDM here.

Speaker 6 Only good old country rock.

Speaker 2 Oh, so he's doing, he talks like his character. So Bradley Cooper's still in character.

Speaker 25 Yeah. Yes.

Speaker 4 And I just want to say this maybe all was worth it to get Keeve to rock his Jackson made of.

Speaker 2 Well, now we're going to take the biggest tangent. Andy hosted the Golden Globes.
And I'm still heartbroken to this day. Andy had a bit cut from the Golden Globes.
He hosted it with Sandra O.

Speaker 2 It was fantastic. It was the year of a star is born.

Speaker 2 And of course, the thing that Andy most was drawn to in that film is when Jackson Maine pisses himself on stage. Yeah.

Speaker 19 At the Grammys. Yeah.

Speaker 4 So fucking dope. So sad and funny at the same time.
A very effective scene and one that you have never seen in a movie before, certainly. Yep.

Speaker 4 And so we were going to do our version of it where Sandra and I would come out and I was dressed like Jackson Maine and she was like, our next category is Bubble and I would be like yo did we win did we win baby

Speaker 10 and then she's like oh no he's been drinking he's been drinking again

Speaker 15 Sandra Beebe did we win it or

Speaker 4 stars born and then I had a P-rig in my pants and we blocked it it was everyone in the as far as I was concerned that was working on it in the writing room we were all very excited about the piece yeah and then the P-rig didn't fire at our one rehearsal.

Speaker 4 And then the network basically killed it because they were like, it's too low, bro. We don't want to do that on the globes.

Speaker 5 And I'm like, yeah, the globes are super high, bro.

Speaker 24 Everyone's drunk and looking at their phone the whole show.

Speaker 15 They really don't think it's going to matter.

Speaker 2 Andy, I will say two things. One, you must have been so mad when the P-rig didn't fire the one time you had a chance to show it off.

Speaker 4 True. Also, I was wearing, they gave me pants that were like water resistant.
I'm not kidding. So you couldn't see.
They were like khakis that were water resistant.

Speaker 4 So it didn't show up and everyone was like, it didn't work. And I was like, well, I'm soaking wet.

Speaker 2 The other thing is, wasn't there a second pee rig? Didn't you pee yourself twice on like different sides?

Speaker 2 I think, yeah. I think you told me that like you peed yourself once.
Yes. And then there was a second rig.

Speaker 4 Oh, and then more was supposed to come out.

Speaker 2 Went down the different leg. And so then Sandra was like, oh, man.

Speaker 10 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 12 I was like, oh, here comes more.

Speaker 10 Oh, that's

Speaker 6 real deja vu.

Speaker 2 I like the amount of prep I put into like making sure I have a run run list of things for us to talk about on this podcast and the fact that Bradley Cooper maybe or maybe didn't buy the sauna that Yarm was talking about led us down this path.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's fair.

Speaker 27 You can you can check up on that.

Speaker 2 I think Amy and I did cut jokes at Update, which played pretty hot, like jokes that had bombed, but were funny jokes.

Speaker 3 How do you think people got to come in, like the audience? That would be a question I would have asked at Polars. Like, because the UCB theater, how many people do you think it even fit?

Speaker 2 80? No, more than 80, probably 200.

Speaker 2 Well, and a lot of it was like people from the show, too, right i think some of them were people that worked at snl is that what you're saying arm yeah yeah exactly yeah by the way i think the night raised like eighteen hundred dollars yeah because it's not like they can charge a lot you don't have to say that i'm just saying like because we gave seats away to like friends and family like it was oh i see yeah

Speaker 2 one thing happened in the show that then was a sketch on snl which is very telling that the writers all were given a chance to put stuff on its feet that they thought had been given a raw deal.

Speaker 2 And only one turned out to be good enough to be in the show. What was in the show? Jean Kay Jean, the first time Jean Kay Jean performed, which was Keenan as a French comedian.

Speaker 16 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 29 Written by Tucker, and it crushed Zootelors.

Speaker 9 Oh, my God. I love.

Speaker 15 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 He would say Zoo Tolores. He was like a black French comedian.
So it was like basically like a earthquake type character.

Speaker 4 It was like a death jam set, but if he was

Speaker 2 French.

Speaker 3 Two things, Seth. We had made those little shorts that I guess we'll talk about on the Tina Fey episode, which is the first episode back from the strike.

Speaker 3 But I had made the little thing called Virginia Horsens, Virginia Horsens, with Wig just before the strike, but it hadn't aired because it was just a little throwaway piece.

Speaker 3 So we had one piece of tape that no one had ever seen. So we did put it up at this, and then it did air the first show back.
Great.

Speaker 27 Also, Virginia Horsens rewatching at Cube is the most I've ever seen a friend of ours act like you.

Speaker 27 There's literally like moves that she does that I'm like, oh my God, that's so Keeve of doing a comedy bit.

Speaker 10 Yeah. It's really funny.

Speaker 3 I was just doing it for her. I'm like, it's this guy, you know, and he does this.
And I was like, make sure your hands are like so nervous and sweaty.

Speaker 27 And there was some hand gesture that she made that was very just two guys, too.

Speaker 3 To be clear, it's not me in real life. It's a character I do.

Speaker 30 Yeah, sure. It's my just two guys.

Speaker 27 What do you do in comedy?

Speaker 4 Yeah, just like your classic Jackson May.

Speaker 3 Exactly. I'm not going to do it again.
I'm not going to get goaded into it. It comes when it comes.

Speaker 7 It has to happen authentically.

Speaker 25 Please.

Speaker 4 But just like, what would you say if I asked, hey, where'd you get the sound?

Speaker 3 I don't do it on demand.

Speaker 3 I'm not a monkey like you guys.

Speaker 7 I don't need it.

Speaker 15 Oh man, you make it about what we are and what you're not.

Speaker 26 I'm more of a director over here.

Speaker 4 This guy's in post, you know. He's very directory-y right now.
He's in post.

Speaker 3 Throw on a voice note, Joram.

Speaker 2 Yeah, throw on a voice note.

Speaker 27 Okay, I have a voice note from the incomparable Michael Sarah, who was the host that evening, and I haven't listened to it yet. So I'm going to queue it up.

Speaker 36 Hey, guys, it's Mike.

Speaker 36 Thank you so much for asking me to be on the show. I'm going to try and keep it brief because I'm in a movie theater.

Speaker 36 My fellow patrons are me.

Speaker 9 But

Speaker 36 wow, I mean, it's 16 years ago that we did this show, but

Speaker 36 I just remember being so, so delighted and so honored.

Speaker 36 to be asked by Amy Poehler to do it. She just sent me a text said, hey, we're doing this and would you come and do it? And, you know,

Speaker 36 I had to assume I was the very first person to be asked to do it. So I took it that way, and I was very pleased.

Speaker 36 Anyway, I'm going to wrap it up soon, but my memories are, you know, I don't really remember much because it's so long ago, but I had the best night ever.

Speaker 36 I remember Seth holding the two cards for me and how much, well, how

Speaker 23 incredible that seemed and surreal.

Speaker 36 And it was just so funny.

Speaker 25 And

Speaker 25 that was good.

Speaker 36 Obviously, I only just showed up in a rehearsal.

Speaker 20 You didn't get beat up.

Speaker 36 I just went right on. So you guys could speak, obviously, much better to what it's like to work at SNL than I could because that was really my only experience I had during the show.

Speaker 10 All right.

Speaker 15 That was far better than I thought it would sound.

Speaker 12 Oh, my God.

Speaker 4 Did anyone recognize what the movie was?

Speaker 3 Sounded like Scream or not Scream, like Speed or something.

Speaker 3 It had some urgency to it.

Speaker 4 it might have been like master and commander really great really funny it sounded like maybe like a like a ship at sea under direction people were having to yell to get over the din of a noise but people were also yelling at him to shut up yeah

Speaker 2 that's really well done well thank you michael that was lovely thanks mike uh michael was just on my show and we actually talked about this and the thing i had forgot was his monologue because we couldn't write a new monologue for him

Speaker 2 was old monologues And so we had picked monologues that would be funny for him to read. So it was like Snoop Dogg and

Speaker 8 I feel like it was Paris Hilton.

Speaker 17 Paris Hilton.

Speaker 5 And then the craziest, it was Trump.

Speaker 2 It was Donald Trump's 2005.

Speaker 2 Because if you can imagine, in 2007, it was very funny to listen to Michael Sarah read the very bombastic braggadocious intro that Donald Trump had when he had hosted an 05.

Speaker 37 It's great to be here at Saturday Night Live.

Speaker 37 But I'll be completely honest, it's even better for Saturday Night Live than I'm here.

Speaker 3 Should we keep listening to more voice notes?

Speaker 32 Yeah, you doing.

Speaker 3 Okay, so here is one from a writer that we've mentioned multiple times, Emily Spivey.

Speaker 38 That strike show was so fun because we got to do sketches that didn't air on SNL.

Speaker 38 But the thing I remember most about it was having to write our own cue cards. And it felt like an endless Herculean nightmare.

Speaker 38 And I had such a new respect for Wally and the cue card guys after that because I remember sitting on the floor at UCB with a big marker writing these cue cards, and it just felt like it was never going to end.

Speaker 3 There you go.

Speaker 2 It's funny how writers are so loath to make cuts, but when you were doing your own cue cards, I think it really dawned on you. I might not need this chunk.

Speaker 17 Take this middle out.

Speaker 2 I'd be like, rule of twos gets it across.

Speaker 2 Well, I'll say something else about the night. Being together was so much fun.
It was way too long. We let every writer pick a sketch.
Very few of them crushed. Yeah.
We remember the ones that did.

Speaker 2 There were some real long, draggy ones.

Speaker 3 Did you have a sketch besides Weekend Update that you chose?

Speaker 2 I did have a sketch. And I remember late in the show, I cut it.
I said, you know what? I can feel the audience flagging. I'm going to cut my sketch.

Speaker 2 And then I went over to a couple other writers and said, hey, what do you think? Should we just cut ours? And I swear to God, I'm not going to name names.

Speaker 8 Every one of them said, God, I'd love to get it up on its feet.

Speaker 2 I was so, so mad.

Speaker 30 No regard for the audience whatsoever.

Speaker 3 I'm going to ask Yorma this. Yorma, do you remember what we did besides the Virginia Horsens?

Speaker 27 Well, I watched at least the half an hour version, which was why I was crying.

Speaker 21 So you got reminded.

Speaker 27 But I ran so far. I thought it was great.

Speaker 3 And then we had a special guest do the Adam Levine singing parts, which was Nora Jones. Yes.

Speaker 33 Wow.

Speaker 27 Also made me tear up as well, because just honestly, just for the sheer like seeing us so young and being like, oh, wow, we've all been friends for so long. It's really sweet.

Speaker 3 And people showing up just to have a nice time.

Speaker 4 You are seeing us at that age. Does it make you forgive us?

Speaker 33 Oh, man, that's the joke.

Speaker 27 There he goes.

Speaker 33 There he goes.

Speaker 9 Waterworks.

Speaker 4 Because I can just say, I'm sorry, and it's not your fault.

Speaker 11 This kid's going to get him.

Speaker 35 Oh, he's falling apart.

Speaker 39 Because fuck him.

Speaker 2 That's why.

Speaker 7 Fucked him. That's why.
Still good.

Speaker 3 How did we know she was game for this kind of stuff? How did we met her at the show? Because we had not made Incredibad yet. That was the summer to come.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 4 She hadn't recorded Dream Girl, our album track.

Speaker 24 Yes.

Speaker 4 I think we bumped into her through mutual friends in New York because she was doing shows in New York and living there.

Speaker 3 Just the nicest. And we couldn't believe she said yes.
And it was so nice and cool of her to come to it.

Speaker 4 It was. And for the Andrew Harry butt line, I believe we put tons of hair glued to Fred's butt, right? And he pulled his pants down in front of everybody and it was all hairy.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's right. Maybe just have like a wig back there.

Speaker 15 Yeah.

Speaker 4 That's the beauty of doing it live without the cameras, is you know, you can go uncensored, no blurs.

Speaker 2 You can show an actual hairy butt.

Speaker 40 Yeah, no blurs, no beeps you guys this is the brilliance of us doing this real time i now just got a text from nora jones of her memories oh exciting awesome hey yeah i just remember you guys asked me to be there and sing and i was really excited and um i always felt kind of like an outsider and i didn't know anybody well enough to feel completely comfortable but i was so excited to be there and um i just remember it being really fun and yola Tango played.

Speaker 40 And at the end, when you guys all go up to the front to say the good nights, I was kind of shy. And I think I dipped out because I was embarrassed or something.

Speaker 40 I don't know why, but I didn't realize that it was such a big deal to do the good nights.

Speaker 40 Even though I've done the show twice, I remember always wanting to be in the back, and everybody pushed me to the front. But I really bummed I missed the good nights.

Speaker 20 That's all.

Speaker 40 At least I think I did.

Speaker 2 I just want you to know, Nora, tears are pouring out of Yorma's eyes right now.

Speaker 25 Thank you, Nora.

Speaker 3 She's got obviously maybe the best podcast voice of anybody.

Speaker 2 If you imagine a Nora and Amy podcast, then I mean it was good almost that she was late because I think everybody would have hated every other voice they heard this episode, including ours.

Speaker 2 That's right.

Speaker 4 A podcast with Amy, Nora, and you as Jackson Maine. Now you've got my money.

Speaker 15 Yeah, now you're talking.

Speaker 13 Oh, he did it.

Speaker 4 Do the first line.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah. No.
I don't take requests.

Speaker 20 Do it.

Speaker 3 Seth did it. You're proving that everybody can do it.

Speaker 2 Told you guys.

Speaker 3 It's more of the spirit and joy in which you do it.

Speaker 2 You know, Forte and Wig do it at karaoke. Oh, do they? But Forte does the Lady Gaga part.

Speaker 7 Oh, that's nice.

Speaker 2 That makes sense. And just screams.

Speaker 5 Oh, my God. Imagining Will going, ha, ha, wow.

Speaker 2 Doing that whole rise part. I was worried my wife was going to die.
She was laughing so hard.

Speaker 3 great.

Speaker 4 It's a very fun song to sing. I'm not going to front.

Speaker 29 Yeah.

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Speaker 2 Maybe we could actually do a reading of my sketch, the one I cut. Oh, yeah.
I don't think it's good, but I do remember it was a Christmas ad.

Speaker 2 And I think, by the way, the only good part is the beginning, which was, what do you get for the man who has everything? A second penis.

Speaker 24 Oh, wow.

Speaker 2 Which is a joke my friend Pete Gross once said when we were watching TV. And I was like, oh, I'm going to try to write a sketch about that.
So I didn't even come up with the best joke.

Speaker 4 Maybe the only time in an episode where you had something that was a dick joke and we didn't.

Speaker 29 Yeah.

Speaker 2 And I will say, sometimes people will say, when I do a Q ⁇ A at my show, they're like, is there something you wrote at SNL that you wish they'd done?

Speaker 2 My answer is always no, but there are 10 that I wish we hadn't.

Speaker 24 Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 25 Oh, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I've got another one I'm going to throw up right now.

Speaker 42 Hey, y'all, this is Jack McBrair from Such Things as 30 Rock.

Speaker 11 And this voice message right here.

Speaker 42 I was talking to Akiva about the UCB live shows we did during the writer's strike of

Speaker 42 ours, is 2007. The one we did for 30 Rock was November 19th, 2007.
And I think y'all had actually done y'all's before that. I don't remember the exact date.

Speaker 42 I remember Michael Sarah hosted. I remember seeing Will Forte in Gold Lame,

Speaker 10 question mark.

Speaker 42 But of course, as I was just a spectator, it was really just so fun to see y'all doing your thing because of the love that y'all had for it.

Speaker 42 I always like just, you know, tagging along to all the SNL folks because I got to see y'all doing your phenomenal job.

Speaker 42 And I was telling Akiva, I got to see how the sausage was made without having to actually make the sausage. And so that was always such a fun thing for me to witness.

Speaker 42 And yeah, y'all were just a hustling. There was just love for what you were doing.
You know, it felt kind of scrappy. All these network TV people who had clearly succeeded.

Speaker 42 I mean, you were at the pinnacle of what comedy was. And then you were able to just like get down and dirty in an improv theater basement.

Speaker 42 And all the proceeds were helping out people who had become unemployed. So I thought that was very special.
I was honored that I got to be a part of that.

Speaker 42 And yeah, let's hope we don't have to do that again.

Speaker 21 All right.

Speaker 42 I hope this is helpful, y'all. I'll talk to y'all later.
Bye.

Speaker 27 Can I just say something real quick? Yeah. Don't be fooled, anyone who's listening to this podcast.

Speaker 24 Jack McBray is a fucking asshole.

Speaker 25 Okay.

Speaker 12 Bad guy.

Speaker 7 Classic bad guy.

Speaker 2 If you ask anyone in the know,

Speaker 9 bad guy.

Speaker 3 The Will Forte one to someone just very, I don't want to ruin his. The truth is he could still use that bit.
Oh, yeah, you have a forte one.

Speaker 3 Why don't you play the forte voice note as a reply to this voice note? Okay, great.

Speaker 30 This is like an oral history, guys. Yeah.

Speaker 32 Okay, here it is.

Speaker 3 I don't really have any major memories from the strike show.

Speaker 10 Oh, boy. Here we go.
That was it.

Speaker 21 Thank you.

Speaker 10 I didn't miss the first time I listened to this.

Speaker 2 This is a poorly sequenced oral history. Yeah, I like it.
I remember it. He auditioned with it.
He plays one of those robotic gold men that would sort of in Times Square, spray paint themselves, gold.

Speaker 7 Spray paint themselves gold.

Speaker 4 He auditioned with it, and it was one of those things that when I saw it, I thought, oh, no, he's so much funnier than I am.

Speaker 2 It's amazing.

Speaker 3 There was a moment where there was four or five just white guys with brown hair who were brand new, and you were one of them. Yeah.

Speaker 3 That was a little tricky for you guys when no one knew the difference between Sudaikis, Hayter, Forte, Seth.

Speaker 2 It was a tough time to be one of the brown hairs.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 2 It was a tough time.

Speaker 7 You left me out of that?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I left you out because your hair was big.

Speaker 28 Yeah.

Speaker 2 But then Hayter and Sudakis had a, I remember once one of my fake pitches on Monday was that the three of you were doctors and it was called Shaggy MDs.

Speaker 3 Right. They were a little shaggy, too.

Speaker 2 They were a little shaggy. Can I just say another thing about two things that are both wedding related?

Speaker 2 Forte, we've talked about, gave a speech at my rehearsal dinner and then Andy's rehearsal dinner is Hamilton. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And we only showed a little clip of it on my show one time because the rest of it's so inappropriate. Yes.
And that clip, just this week, somebody posted it on TikTok and it's been making the rounds.

Speaker 2 I saw it. Uh-oh.
But again, it's fine. We showed it on NBC, so it's fine.
But

Speaker 2 Alexi, my lovely bride, said you should really read the comments because it's well edited by our wedding video company. It cuts back and forth from Forte to she and I laughing.

Speaker 2 And she said, most of the comments are about how nice I look and how you're just wearing your shitty show sweater.

Speaker 11 So nothing to do with Forte.

Speaker 31 It's so funny.

Speaker 14 I'm like, I bet there's some.

Speaker 2 I bet my comments are different.

Speaker 4 By the way, couldn't be a better result.

Speaker 2 No, good result. A good result for the comments.
And you really can hear you and Hater and Sudakis are three very audible laughs that you can hear.

Speaker 2 And then the other wedding thing I'll say, that Jack McBray, just in a couple weeks, is going to officiate my brother's wedding.

Speaker 10 Oh, that's going to be a good wedding.

Speaker 2 Can you ask for a better person to just be the voice of which love will be discussed? I really, truly can.

Speaker 3 It's a great choice. Yeah.

Speaker 2 All right. Do we have another?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I've got one from SNL's own Fred Armison. Let's see what he said.
I did not listen to this. Here we go.

Speaker 43 Hey, I'm recording from Baggage Claim in Istanbul, so apologies for all the background noise.

Speaker 43 What I remember from the UCB strike show is, first of all, that it was really exciting.

Speaker 43 And I remember it had been quite a few weeks since the strike started, so it felt really good to perform. And I remember Amy Poehler organized a lot of it.

Speaker 43 And then then I remember, I think the cold open was I played someone representing the AMPTP and it was written for me.

Speaker 43 So it was one of those things, it's almost like when someone writes a political sketch, like it's something that I don't know how to do. I don't know how to write that way.

Speaker 43 I remember Yola Tengo was the musical guest and that was really cool.

Speaker 43 And then I also remember, I think we all did our makeup, meaning I have like a memory of having like, you know, spirit gum or glue and like, you know, know fake mustaches and stuff and everyone's sort of helping each other out do that kind of thing did we have i know we had wigs but i don't know how we did that or did we not have wigs that's the part i don't remember i don't there's a lot i don't remember from it but it was really fun and really exciting and hi i hope this works Did you guys watch the video at all?

Speaker 4 I saw a little, yeah.

Speaker 27 Because I don't remember this, but when he's talking about do your own makeup, I don't remember doing this, but there's a shot of me putting spirit gum on Fred's butt for the hairy butt.

Speaker 22 Yeah, for the hairy butt, but I don't remember

Speaker 21 putting, so sticking hair onto his butt.

Speaker 3 So, you know, when Fred's talking about that he played the AMPTP president in some sort of a spoof of him, I just had a memory that I shot a whole video. Was it for the WGA?

Speaker 3 Do you remember this setup?

Speaker 23 I'm sure. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Of Fred as that guy, and it was like an industrial or something. And it was for the WGA.

Speaker 2 He did it on update right before the strike, which is, I will say, shout out to, you know, it was him basically saying NBC is bad, and we did it on the show. Yeah, it's Paul.

Speaker 27 You have to.

Speaker 4 That's what SNL's for.

Speaker 25 That's what SNL's for.

Speaker 2 And for those who don't know, he's also in, he's in Istanbul. He's on, he's currently on the lamb.
I feel like we should say that.

Speaker 27 What is he doing there?

Speaker 2 He's just on the lamb. He's at the lamb.

Speaker 24 I get it.

Speaker 2 Actually, check out Fred's tour dates because if you are in Europe right now, Fred is doing some shows and some kick-ass places.

Speaker 27 I wonder if he'll come to to Helsinki.

Speaker 4 So, yeah, Maggie Carey filmed the whole night and we were able to see a little bit of it. And the thing that struck me immediately was how exactly of the moment the music was.

Speaker 4 It's like the first song is Silver Sun Pickups, and then it goes straight into clap your hands, say yeah.

Speaker 8 And I was just like, fuck, these songs are great.

Speaker 18 Oh, it's taking me back.

Speaker 27 But that's also why I was so emotional because they're very manipulative.

Speaker 12 Like, yeah, like, oh my God, I remember.

Speaker 4 Like, those songs had just come out. So it was like the coolest shit you could ever put in.

Speaker 2 It was just making me laugh.

Speaker 2 But you're still still like on your finger's still on the pulse of music if that's still the only thing you listen to right yeah like i'm still a cool guy yeah it didn't do nostalgia for you seth because that's what your ipod playlist is when you're jogging no i'm still like you know when i see like the youths at the park i'm always like have you been listening to clamp here and

Speaker 4 seth This is what I always say. A good song is always a good song.
And that includes songs that are goofs.

Speaker 5 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 4 Like fake songs? Yeah, fake goofs.

Speaker 26 Yeah, they don't lose their words.

Speaker 27 Sometimes those are even better than real songs.

Speaker 4 You could argue they're better. Thanks for saying that, Yorm.

Speaker 2 We're also talking about a video that we will, I think Shoemaker will give us permission to share.

Speaker 2 Shoemaker just took like a two-minute video backstage that I sent to you guys today, and it's really crazy because he really just sort of walks through this tiny little like storage closet of backstage where everybody's getting ready for the show.

Speaker 2 And it's pretty amazing because we were never, for everything SNL is, it's never that. It's never DIY with the writers and cast.

Speaker 19 Yeah.

Speaker 32 I teared up watching it.

Speaker 25 I mean, our shorts were in the beginning, if if you've been paying attention to the podcast.

Speaker 11 Teared up.

Speaker 25 Oh, you got Yorm.

Speaker 7 You got it.

Speaker 24 Yorm is really.

Speaker 2 I do not think Finland is a fit for Jorm.

Speaker 3 He hasn't seen his family.

Speaker 4 Jorm's molecules are just vibrating, y'all.

Speaker 30 It's got to come out. The guy is channeling.

Speaker 2 Who do we got next?

Speaker 27 The next one I got is a writer who was there that evening and a very accomplished young man, even at the time, had probably written 14 books or something. This is Simon Rich.

Speaker 44 I remember the audience was completely on our side. Like a lot of them were our friends.
They were really supportive of our strike. Like they could not be more aligned with us in every way.

Speaker 44 And still, my sketch only played okay.

Speaker 15 That's what I'm saying. A perfect memory.

Speaker 7 That's what I'm saying. Seth, was he one of the ones that was like, I'd really like to see it on his feet? Okay.

Speaker 2 Everything I know about Simon, who is truly one of the great cutters of all time. Like Simon would cut a sketch from dress to air from like 10 pages to two.

Speaker 24 That was his age.

Speaker 2 There's no way. I know, as an editor, and if you've ever read any of Simon's books, like they are so precise.
There's no fat on the bone.

Speaker 2 And so I think if I had gone to Simon, he would have happily cut his sketch. Got it.

Speaker 4 Well, good on him.

Speaker 2 Good on him is fright. But I'm glad that his memory is mine as well, which is like, it wasn't like super hot.

Speaker 27 Keith, you got another one?

Speaker 3 This is my last one. Harper Steele, a late night with Seth Meyers recent guest.

Speaker 45 Here's what I remember. Everyone wrote original sketches for the UCB live strike show.

Speaker 45 The air was filled with electricity.

Speaker 29 Oh.

Speaker 45 I, on the other hand, submitted a sketch that I had already written that actually had already aired on SNL because I was lazy turd.

Speaker 3 Well, her memory is not exactly right because we did not do original stuff.

Speaker 7 Right.

Speaker 27 Yeah, Yeah, we weren't allowed to.

Speaker 2 I do now want to go back and see what Harper submitted.

Speaker 4 Was it the gynecologist one?

Speaker 2 I can't remember.

Speaker 27 It might have been. It had that vibe.

Speaker 4 Also, did we kind of undermine what we said about No New Writing by acknowledging that Fred did a whole intro as the exec?

Speaker 2 I think that's within the bounds of what you were allowed to do. He wrote it for the show and not for television.

Speaker 24 There you go.

Speaker 8 That is true.

Speaker 3 You are allowed to go write a play.

Speaker 2 When Harper and Will were on the show, we talked about a second chance theater, Unicorn Mountain.

Speaker 2 And this was a sketch they wrote together on SNL that they want to do the next time we do Second Chance Theater on a show. And the idea was each of them would write half of a sketch.

Speaker 2 And Will wrote the first half, gave it to Harper. Harper wrote the second half, but Will had no idea what the second half was until the table.

Speaker 27 I just realized that that's why I was doing it with Joast because Harper had told me that she did that. And I was like, that's a great idea.
I want to do that.

Speaker 2 And it was the whole first five minutes was Will wrote a song for a a kid's show called Unicorn Mountain.

Speaker 2 That's all about how it's a wonderful place where all the unicorns play and frolic and their magic. And then it hard cut to the next like episode 21 of Unicorn Mountain.

Speaker 2 And it was just Tracy Morgan and someone else eating a unicorn carcass

Speaker 2 and talking about how it had been so easy to catch.

Speaker 2 So keep an eye out for that.

Speaker 2 Anybody who, do we have more? That's all my notes.

Speaker 27 I think I'm tapped out.

Speaker 2 I have a special one, you guys.

Speaker 2 I reached out to Lauren.

Speaker 9 Oh.

Speaker 2 You know, I remember being very upset about the timing of the strike because, you know, I was really vibing with the lonely island at the time.

Speaker 2 I was sort of the fourth, the unofficial fourth, you know, member.

Speaker 4 Dick in a box was my idea.

Speaker 24 Wait. Okay.

Speaker 4 But I told them to keep that to themselves, you know, because.

Speaker 4 And

Speaker 2 it was good.

Speaker 26 It was good.

Speaker 6 Okay, all right.

Speaker 33 It's kind of trill.

Speaker 4 So I'm not like 100% sure that was Lauren.

Speaker 8 You didn't really talk about the strike show either.

Speaker 3 You got a little on a tangent there.

Speaker 24 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Maybe when I asked him to do it, I didn't quite understand what exactly it was supposed to be.

Speaker 28 Got it.

Speaker 25 It was the wrong prompt.

Speaker 7 So does anyone have a guess as to who was doing their Lauren there?

Speaker 21 Yeah, I think Seth was. Hard to say.

Speaker 11 Do you think it was Seth?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I think it was Seth.

Speaker 15 I tend to agree, Keith.

Speaker 8 Yeah, that's just my theory.

Speaker 11 That was a special one for sure.

Speaker 7 Yeah, that was very special.

Speaker 33 He didn't lie.

Speaker 7 I didn't know we were allowed to get goofy on here.

Speaker 21 I like the idea of Lauren vibing with anyone.

Speaker 18 What gave it away, dudes?

Speaker 13 What gave it away?

Speaker 13 Oh, God.

Speaker 2 Well, I want to say that I remember I would pick it every day.

Speaker 2 And then there was a place in the West Village that I would go sometimes with Polar and I would have like a ham and cheese quiche and a glass of red wine.

Speaker 2 And then I would just go back to my apartment and sleep. Like it was a pretty depressing time.
But then I would wake up and we would go out really late. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And that wasn't the worst thing in the world.

Speaker 23 Yes.

Speaker 16 But also everyone felt bad.

Speaker 2 We all felt bad.

Speaker 27 Okay, wait. This is the season, though, that the last eight shows or so did come back.

Speaker 10 Is that correct? Correct.

Speaker 26 That is correct.

Speaker 7 Okay.

Speaker 27 Because the reason I don't remember hanging out with you guys at all is because I was doing Land of the Lost. So I was dressed as a little monkey boy during this whole period.

Speaker 27 I don't know how they must have gotten in. And I asked Lauren if it was okay because it was during the strike.
And then that's why I missed the last eight episodes of the season.

Speaker 32 So when we come back to do new episodes, I'll be like, what?

Speaker 4 That movie has a scene in it that is one of the hardest things I've ever laughed at, though, when Ferrell's convinced that they have to dump the dinosaur piss on themselves so it won't track them.

Speaker 17 And then it immediately starts burning all their eyes or something yeah and he keeps saying ooh that's early morning stuff

Speaker 13 oh yeah that is good

Speaker 17 oh yeah that's early morning stuff dozes himself oh my gosh

Speaker 10 so

Speaker 2 there's a funny side of that movie land of the lost available wherever you get your movies yeah And then it immediately, it doesn't work, right?

Speaker 4 The dinosaur immediately,

Speaker 33 immediately.

Speaker 33 He's attracted to it.

Speaker 35 Like, oh, God, now we're covering all this piss.

Speaker 2 How many hours did it take you to get into makeup for that movie, Jorm?

Speaker 27 It was three and a half hours to get into the Taco makeup. I have some really funny photos of me just wearing the head and like just buck naked underneath.

Speaker 27 I also did receive a Razzie nomination for my performance. And one thing that I'm bummed about that happened is that I was trying to get myself credited as Germack Picconi in that movie.

Speaker 27 And my manager said, that's the dumbest idea I've ever heard. And then after I got the Razzie nomination, I was like, well, now.

Speaker 6 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 4 It would have been great if it just said Germack Piccioni.

Speaker 24 Razzie.

Speaker 9 That's not me. I don't know who that is.

Speaker 17 That's not me. That's not me.

Speaker 4 Didn't you just get a Razzie nomination?

Speaker 17 No, it's not me. Check the name.

Speaker 16 Germack Piccioni.

Speaker 11 Yeah, that's some Germack guy.

Speaker 16 I don't even know.

Speaker 2 Land of the Lost. These are the cast listed in order.
Will Farrell, Anna Friel, Danny McBride, Yormaticone, Matt Lauer.

Speaker 30 True story. Oh,

Speaker 10 great.

Speaker 10 All right.

Speaker 6 Well, let's end it on that.

Speaker 2 Anyway, we are going to come back and we do four shows in a row, and they're four very different digital shorts. Shows the breadth of what you guys do.
Very excited to get into it.

Speaker 17 I love you guys.

Speaker 27 Same here, Seth.

Speaker 11 Love you.

Speaker 7 Love you guys.