Dear Sister

Speaker 1 Seth, can I start with that? I'm looking at the Sweet 16 that we talked about last week because it's on vulture.com and so it's there for anybody to look at. And we were not there for the record.

Speaker 1 Me, Andy, and Yorm had left the show at this point.

Speaker 3 I hadn't left the show. Oh, you were still there? Yeah,

Speaker 4 it was my last season.

Speaker 1 Did you vote?

Speaker 5 Yes.

Speaker 6 Really? Wow.

Speaker 4 It was the end of my last season. It was like a really, Seth was very nicely, it was kind of like a final send-off to our being there.

Speaker 1 Now I'm going back through the seeds to find it because it must have been seeded against some really

Speaker 5 I think, dear sister.

Speaker 9 All right.

Speaker 10 Well, I can't decide if this is the podcast yet, or should we just start and talk about it?

Speaker 1 It's the podcast.

Speaker 5 I didn't interrupt, by the way. That was all Kiva.

Speaker 10 I feel like we need to start the podcast.

Speaker 11 Yeah, fine.

Speaker 12 I just want to say that Andy said last episode that I was interrupting a lot, and I don't do that.

Speaker 13 So it's the lonely island and Seth Meyer's podcast.

Speaker 10 Hey, everybody. It's Seth.
It's the Lonely Island. I feel like maybe this podcast is starting right now, or maybe it started three minutes ago.

Speaker 5 Can you just say this episode? Like, why do you have to call it this podcast?

Speaker 16 It feels so gross.

Speaker 10 Just say the episode.

Speaker 4 Because podcasts are so bad as a medium.

Speaker 11 Okay, gotcha. Not this one.

Speaker 10 Hey, this episode of a certain medium, which will remove

Speaker 13 nameless.

Speaker 10 Yeah, now they might, you think now they might know it's a podcast? Anyway, it's very exciting because Dear Sister is the digital short. I went back and watched Dear Sister.

Speaker 5 You know, Gordian Slip.

Speaker 10 And is it Schister?

Speaker 3 Dear Sister.

Speaker 10 40 million views on YouTube.

Speaker 5 But wasn't wasn't it off YouTube for a while?

Speaker 1 Yes. Yeah.
We put it on way later.

Speaker 9 Dear Sister holds up real good as a piece of comedy.

Speaker 10 Agreed?

Speaker 11 Yes, sure. Yes.
Yeah. We like it.

Speaker 12 Very proud of it. We're the lonely island.

Speaker 6 Stamp of approval.

Speaker 10 I did not know the source material of Dear Sister.

Speaker 12 That's even better. You said you thought we were geniuses.

Speaker 10 I knew it was based on something. I knew you weren't that smart.

Speaker 8 Dagwood. Damn.

Speaker 10 Burn.

Speaker 10 Talk a little bit about where this idea came from.

Speaker 16 So we were huge OC heads.

Speaker 17 We watched every episode the OC.

Speaker 10 One of the most memorable began before you were on the show.

Speaker 9 Correct.

Speaker 4 And in fact, your sister, we shot the beginning of before we worked on the show. Okay.
With different players.

Speaker 12 Sure. Yeah.
The Lonely Island player.

Speaker 9 It was the end.

Speaker 4 I forget which season, but it was a very memorable.

Speaker 20 Season two.

Speaker 10 Looked it up today. Season two.
Of the OC?

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 12 Very last episode of season two.

Speaker 4 God damn, it escalated fast. That's why we love that show so much.
The OC, every episode, so much crazy shit happened on the OC.

Speaker 4 It was like peak soap opera storytelling but in a really like horny teen way anyway we loved it still do uh the end of that second season then ends with a moment it was basically the very first moment of crank slow-mo with the image and heap song

Speaker 5 please leave that in

Speaker 4 where the there's a gunshot slow-mo slow turn you realize someone's been shot you didn't even know there was a gun uh and we from that moment had just become obsessed with with that song because we had never heard that song before.

Speaker 4 I remember even working on the movie awards the night we were shooting with Fallon, big night in our lives, more than we even realized, because it ended up leading to us getting the show.

Speaker 4 We kept listening to that image and heap song on our headphones and talking about how amazing it was.

Speaker 4 And then it was you, me and

Speaker 4 Chester Yorm tried to shoot it and then bailed on it because we got busy.

Speaker 10 We didn't think of the ending, but we had the first few beats, which was essentially the first few beats of Dear Sister, of it happening over and over again yes i'm getting shot first i'm writing a letter to my sister right and then you shoot me i think i can't was it actually writing a letter yeah i thought maybe we came up with that at snl anyway but how many years after then this episode is the digital short what season is this for us third it's so seven end of second and close to the end of the second so our second season so it was two years it was probably two years exactly yeah we never finished the short right so two years like for you guys, like two years is like five seconds because like, again, you're otherwise watching writing about like total recall.

Speaker 5 Oh, I see. Right.
Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 10 Like, this is an incredibly quick turnaround for you guys as far as culture.

Speaker 4 Cultural turnaround. Yeah.
It was within 20 years.

Speaker 1 Very topical. Yeah.

Speaker 19 So for you, you were like, I'll allow it.

Speaker 10 But certainly, I also want to say, I don't think it works. The short doesn't work as a parody of the OC.

Speaker 10 You know, for example, I not having seen it. Yeah.
I just thought it was very funny independent of that.

Speaker 12 It works, i would argue as both yeah yes i think that's fair too for people who had seen the oc unlike yourself they were very excited about the reference got it but it feels like most people don't know the reference anymore at the time though a lot of people did yeah it also is probably one of the shorts then that we didn't have an idea for because we also shot at flat hotel i remember and anything that was shot at flat hotel it was usually that we were like we're out of ideas Let's do something.

Speaker 12 And I remember we didn't have an ending for it. And we were like, let's just get up there and do it.
And came up with the ending on set too.

Speaker 5 Isn't that right?

Speaker 13 Wait, you came up with the police officer ending on set or very, very close to it.

Speaker 12 Yeah, the very last part of it we did.

Speaker 15 It seems pretty written.

Speaker 12 No, there was some editing joke that it became at the end that we didn't really have until like we were editing, I believe.

Speaker 4 The only thing that wasn't written was how overlappy it gets at the end, where there's four different versions of the song playing at once.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that was in editing where we're just like, let's just leave them on and have them build on top of each other, et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 4 But we had written out that then cops come in and then it happens with them also.

Speaker 1 I remember poor Sidakis and Fred just sitting in the hotel room next to our hotel room that we were filming in till 4 a.m., just so tired, just being like, are you going to use us sometime soon?

Speaker 1 Because we probably, what time of night do you think we started filming this?

Speaker 1 Wait. This was definitely a Friday night, late night shoot.
Yeah. Like definitely less than 24 hours.

Speaker 10 Just because Keenan just told this story on our show about staying, I was with him at a nightclub until 4.30 in the morning.

Speaker 12 What day, though?

Speaker 10 It was Thursday night. Keenan had a 5 a.m.
call time to go do a short film.

Speaker 10 And then a poller was saying that on set, Keenan was doing a bit where he was getting calls from himself. Oh, no, he was on set trying to call himself at the club to tell him to go home.

Speaker 10 And so he was just standing, and they were like literally shooting on the side of the highway. And Keenan was yelling at his phone, like, go outside.

Speaker 13 The music's too loud.

Speaker 22 You got to go home, man.

Speaker 12 Oh, my God.

Speaker 10 So again, it's Bill and Andy. Bill's writing a letter.
And then all of a sudden, you hear a gunshot and you see that Andy has shot Bill.

Speaker 8 Hey, man.

Speaker 4 What you doing?

Speaker 4 Nothing.

Speaker 23 Just writing a letter to my sister.

Speaker 4 Cool.

Speaker 23 It's pretty crazy.

Speaker 23 I haven't seen her in years.

Speaker 23 It's weird because...

Speaker 24 What you say?

Speaker 10 Then Andy has sort of a meltdown, right? Like an oh shit, oh shit, what have I done? Yeah. Gunshot song again.
Bill has shot Andy.

Speaker 7 Yeah, he was still kicking.

Speaker 10 Slow-mo, hit the ground, heads on the carpet. And by the way, we've established that Bill was writing a letter to his sister.
Wig comes in, rolly suitcase, starts reading the letter.

Speaker 5 Shia. Oh, no, I'm sorry.
You're right.

Speaker 10 Shaya first.

Speaker 9 Shia comes in next.

Speaker 10 Shia comes in with a lot of energy, which is really funny.

Speaker 25 Guys, I just thought of the funniest thing.

Speaker 24 What you said?

Speaker 4 I think that was Chester's part in the original.

Speaker 16 Yes.

Speaker 10 Yeah, it's very funny because you guys are very, you have a real OC vibe about the way you're acting.

Speaker 12 Oh, and it's the same thing, right?

Speaker 1 Chester, that's what Chester says.

Speaker 5 You guys, this is the funniest or the funniest thing.

Speaker 4 Yeah, shout out Chester. Laid the groundwork for Shia there.
Chester Tim.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 10 Then Wig comes in, roll his suitcase, starts reading the letter. Yeah.
Now you, as an audience, think you're going to hear what the letter says. Basically, starts, dear sister.

Speaker 10 She gets like one line into it. Not even.

Speaker 4 Dear sister, by the time you read this.

Speaker 24 What you say

Speaker 24 that you only meant

Speaker 24 what you said.

Speaker 10 Then cops, right?

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 10 Then it's Fred and Sudakis. And Fred picks up the letter and he reads the whole letter.
And it basically is Bill saying, dear sister, here's what I think is going to happen.

Speaker 6 Oh, right.

Speaker 5 And describes the sketch.

Speaker 4 Hey, Sarge, listen to this.

Speaker 27 Dear sister, by the time you read this, I'll be dead. This is how I think it's going to happen.
Dave will shoot me, then I'll shoot Dave, then Eric will enter and get shot by Dave.

Speaker 27 Then you'll come in and get shot by Eric, Dave, and I, multiple times.

Speaker 10 Love your brother Keith. And the end of it is two cops come in and then they shoot each other.

Speaker 10 You see Jason with a gun out. Then a really funny junk cut because the second ago, Fred was holding a letter.
Then it just cuts to him shooting.

Speaker 5 He's just got the gun in his hand.

Speaker 4 Can I just say something about it in general? Yes. Obviously, the drama of it and the music music of it and the slow-mo of it all make it what it is.

Speaker 4 There's something to me that is so funny in the context of comedy about the what have I done face. Yeah.
And everyone gets to over and over do the what have I done face?

Speaker 14 Which is, it's such a like trope that we like love.

Speaker 12 There's that, but then there's also the shocked to be shot too, of just like, oh, what have I done?

Speaker 8 What did you do?

Speaker 5 Both communicating with that.

Speaker 7 Everyone just keeps doing this.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 10 Also, there's a, and I have a question about this, Keith. There seems to be a fair amount of restraint in like not showing the gun.
It's not particularly bloody.

Speaker 10 Is that like lack of budget or is that you didn't have enough guns?

Speaker 1 It's the same gun and it's not even one from SNL. It's a like one of those ones that shoots plastic pellets that we I bought in like on a Europe backpacking trip when I was 17.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 12 Is that the one that we used when we shot the original too? It might be. Yeah, it must have been.

Speaker 1 It's the only gun we ever used because we never even would ask for one. It's just from our closet.

Speaker 12 So, yeah, lack of budget, the fact that there were no props.

Speaker 1 But it's also because there was nobody to ask for anything except for, I guess, wardrobe because we're just in the hotel room on Friday night. So we just went and got it from our house.

Speaker 1 And then the lack of blood, I guess, I mean, we had some that we would just sprinkle on people's hands, I guess.

Speaker 5 I don't know.

Speaker 4 But it is a conscious choice that we didn't want it to be gory. It wasn't like we were doing like a Tarantino spoof or something.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you don't want to confuse the joke.

Speaker 5 The joke isn't that. No, but in the OC, there is blood, I feel like, right?

Speaker 4 But it's not gratuitous.

Speaker 1 There's a blood on the close of Ashia's hand or your hand when you're holding your stomach and you see it kind of trickling outside of your.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 3 It's,

Speaker 4 you know, network television amount of gore. Yeah.

Speaker 12 Yeah. More about the emotion than anything else.

Speaker 4 Why is that so funny, Seth?

Speaker 10 I have moved on to laughing about a different thing.

Speaker 6 Okay, whatever.

Speaker 10 I'm doing prep for other parts of this episode forward.

Speaker 5 Oh, move.

Speaker 6 Drag. Okay.

Speaker 1 He's in the future.

Speaker 10 Well, do we, I feel like there's also,

Speaker 10 and we can decide later if this is too much of a drag to have in the podcast, but this kind of got scrubbed from the show.

Speaker 2 Because there was a shooting, right?

Speaker 10 There was a shooting the Monday after this. Yes.
And it was incredibly tragic, a lot of casualties.

Speaker 10 And for what it's worth, I think more than maybe people think, SNL tries to be on the right side of an issue like this when cultural sensitivities come into play. Absolutely.

Speaker 10 And it just seemed maybe inappropriate, even though one didn't really have anything to do with the other. So it wasn't in reruns maybe the rest of that year.

Speaker 20 And then did it come offline, Keeve, or was it not online?

Speaker 1 I really don't know know what the 2007 online SNL show policy was. I don't think that they certainly weren't putting things on YouTube yet.
That didn't happen until after we even left the show.

Speaker 1 So maybe it was NBC.com and it got pulled.

Speaker 8 I'm not sure.

Speaker 10 But it was kind of one of the harder ones to see for a long time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but we did clear the song so that it could be seen. But I don't know if that happened the night of or not.

Speaker 12 Maybe that's why it became kind of so popular because the same thing with what happened with Mona Lisa. Like it was stolen and people couldn't see it.

Speaker 12 And so it became, and that was newspapers were just coming out. Same thing, new media.

Speaker 12 And then it became one of the most printed images around the world of the Mona Lisa. And there everyone's like, oh, this is a fucking big paint.
Same thing here where people can find it.

Speaker 1 This is our Mona Lisa.

Speaker 10 Maybe. Andy, how'd you feel about that tangent? Do you want to give us a quick bounce on the Mona Lisa tangent?

Speaker 4 I was sitting there just being like, oh, we're for sure going to cut that.

Speaker 11 That's why none of us interrupted because we were like, just let him get it out.

Speaker 12 Now it's on the fence that you said that.

Speaker 20 It's a clean lift.

Speaker 4 There won't be any ins and outs to like starting.

Speaker 10 You were just making it easier for the editors not to have to cut a second audio track when it comes to cutting your arm.

Speaker 4 I'm always just trying to make it easy on the edit. Nice.

Speaker 8 That's kind of you.

Speaker 10 Although, I was confused because you guys have like one of my favorite one of your songs is called Mona Lisa.

Speaker 4 Yep, yeah, right. But no mention.

Speaker 10 So my headspace was there for a minute before.

Speaker 12 I was telling me the original, the OG Mona Lisa.

Speaker 10 Yeah, no, I realized like 20 episodes in now, you do little history tangents.

Speaker 4 So my memory of Dear Sister, the reason it started becoming a thing past just a sketch that aired was there were a lot of quote-unquote fan-made videos redoing it and using other footage from other TV shows and other movies that had similar moments in them, but putting in the image in heapsong and cutting it the way we had cut ours.

Speaker 4 And it turned into kind of its own YouTube thing, which was really awesome.

Speaker 1 A meme, if you will. Yeah.
Early meme. Early meme.

Speaker 10 It seems as though it would have thrived on TikTok today.

Speaker 11 Yes.

Speaker 1 The same exact culture of TikTok is what propelled it into success.

Speaker 10 We actually have a special voice note from one of the stars of the OC, Rachel Bilson, with her take.

Speaker 8 Oh,

Speaker 12 this is a surprise for us.

Speaker 28 Okay, so I actually had never seen the dear sister skit until a while ago. Hater showed it to me for the first time.
And I much prefer it to the actual scene of Trey shooting his brother.

Speaker 3 Wait, did he shoot his brother?

Speaker 28 It was hilarious. Definitely my favorite version of anything OC related, but you didn't hear that from me.

Speaker 5 Okay, I had to pause it and come back.

Speaker 28 Of course, it was Marissa

Speaker 28 that shot Trey.

Speaker 13 That's the famous scene.

Speaker 28 I swear I was on the show.

Speaker 5 I promise you.

Speaker 28 And this kid is hilarious.

Speaker 3 And I really appreciated it.

Speaker 28 Obviously, the best head writer was on the case.

Speaker 10 Well, I think one thing to take away from that message is if there's ever an OC rewatch podcast, Rachel's going to be the Yorma. Yeah.

Speaker 8 She doesn't remember, which I relate to.

Speaker 17 I bet it was because her job was so stressful.

Speaker 1 She wasn't in that scene, you know, she wasn't there.

Speaker 8 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 7 All over the road, but delightful.

Speaker 4 And thank you, Rachel.

Speaker 2 Yes, thank you.

Speaker 5 Thank you, Rachel.

Speaker 12 I only disagree with one thing, which is not what she said, which is that the original, it's just the original scene is not as good.

Speaker 4 And I do think the original scene is pretty, pretty fucking great.

Speaker 6 Of course.

Speaker 3 Oh yeah, it inspired us.

Speaker 1 Now, why wasn't it in the Sweet 16, Seth? What happened?

Speaker 10 I don't know. I mean, was it in the Final 64?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 What did it run up against? That's the real question.

Speaker 1 Well, in its seed in the Final 64, one moment,

Speaker 1 was

Speaker 1 it was seed number six, Dear Sister, Japanese Office, Doogie Hauser theme, and Zach stops by the set.

Speaker 10 So what did it lose to? Can you not tell?

Speaker 12 Maybe Doogie Hauser took it out because it's so artsy?

Speaker 1 None of that seed made it into the Sweet 16.

Speaker 4 This was only people that worked at SNL at that exact moment that voted.

Speaker 10 I basically picked 64 out of the 100 and I gave them seeds. And yeah, but the number six seeds would have gone up against the number

Speaker 10 11 seeds, Keeve.

Speaker 1 But you know what? You know what, though? When I look at the Sweet 16, there's nothing I see on there that I would necessarily bump off for Dear Sister.

Speaker 10 Well, by giving it a six seed, I didn't think it would make the Sweet 16 because the Sweet 16 would be four seeds or higher unless there was an upset.

Speaker 10 Anyway, I think it's important to note that it did have, this had a nice long tail, dear sister, and it's really fun to watch. It is a very well-executed idea.

Speaker 4 Thanks, Ethel.

Speaker 10 Were you guys happy when it aired? Is this one where, especially when it was one, an idea you had before the show?

Speaker 4 I was really happy. The first version of it was my idea, and I was really excited about it.

Speaker 4 Obviously, we were all obsessed with it, but I remember vividly being like, oh, that thing that we started, but never finished. Let's try it.

Speaker 4 And also just having loved that moment on the OC and loving that song so much, it was just really fun to play around with the style of it.

Speaker 12 It's one of the few songs, too, that I feel like I've never gotten over. Like I still love it the same way I did when I first heard it.

Speaker 1 It was also an act of desperation, clearly. Yeah.
Because we had obviously spent the whole week trying to come up with something new and then on Friday went shit.

Speaker 5 Correct.

Speaker 21 Which happened multiple times.

Speaker 5 But I'll also say like, we'll get there.

Speaker 4 But like there were other ones we had done before. Like we did a digital short that was a sketch I did in college eventually, the get out one, you know, the get out of here.
Oh, right.

Speaker 4 And that was not received as well as Dear Sister.

Speaker 13 So it was. That's what I mean.

Speaker 1 It was a desperation, but then it was a success.

Speaker 4 It was like a huge relief that we were like scraping the barrel, but we elevated it from what it had originally been and people liked it.

Speaker 10 Did you guys ever hear from Image and Heap?

Speaker 2 I don't think we did.

Speaker 4 Wish we had.

Speaker 17 Big fan.

Speaker 4 Keith, favorite Image and Heap song?

Speaker 17 Hide and Seek.

Speaker 21 Yep, Hide and Seek.

Speaker 13 I was going to say the same.

Speaker 8 Yorm?

Speaker 15 Oh, man, I didn't have enough time to look up another one, hide and seek.

Speaker 17 Okay, Seth, would you say hide and seek is your favorite image?

Speaker 5 I'd say hide and seek. I would say hide and seek.

Speaker 10 Great.

Speaker 10 There's

Speaker 10 the most Higginsy sketch of all Higginsy sketches in this show.

Speaker 17 Oh, I remember.

Speaker 21 What is it?

Speaker 3 It's

Speaker 10 a, they don't, they're not selling couches, Andy.

Speaker 5 No.

Speaker 7 Sofa King.

Speaker 25 Here at Sofa King, we have all kinds of sofas. Leather, leather, convertible, sleeper sofas, sectionals, indoor, outdoor, conversation pits.

Speaker 25 All here at Sofa King.

Speaker 25 How great is that?

Speaker 24 It's

Speaker 25 Sofa King Great.

Speaker 5 I think I was in it, right?

Speaker 18 Yeah, yeah, you were definitely in it.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 4 I remember having a big show because Shia was young and looked young, and I was one of the few younger-looking people.

Speaker 1 We did fun promos, too. Yeah.
I remember the Tuesday promos had just been instituted.

Speaker 4 Tuesday were the pre-taped ones.

Speaker 10 Oh, yeah, the pre-taped ones.

Speaker 1 When was the normal ones? Tuesday. Yeah, but that didn't exist before.

Speaker 10 Thursday were the ones, the classic ones standing up.

Speaker 4 Thursday were and still are the in-studio.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 1 When we started, there were no Tuesday promos.

Speaker 1 And I don't know what happened behind the scenes, but at some point right around this time, Lauren came and said, will you guys film some promos on Tuesdays?

Speaker 4 I remember, I believe, Shookus saying, you guys have been told to do it.

Speaker 5 Well, sure.

Speaker 12 So we get credit for that then, right? Too?

Speaker 17 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we invented the Tuesday promo.

Speaker 17 That is true.

Speaker 12 So you're welcome.

Speaker 1 I was like, Lauren, why don't we sell the show on Tuesdays? It's never too early.

Speaker 12 You said it while smugging a cigar, too, right?

Speaker 10 Why aren't we sleepwalking through the first half of the week? There's a sketch that I sometimes will pop up on my social media that

Speaker 10 I think this was a Harper Steele idea that I was lucky enough to work with her on, which is under 21. Do you remember this sketch, Andy?

Speaker 17 Yes. Buying beer.
It's a great sketch.

Speaker 4 Yeah, we're like pretending to be construction workers. Is it that?

Speaker 10 Yeah, it's really nice Harper writing because it is an idea. It is a trope we've seen a bunch, which is underage dudes trying to buy beer.
You're both wearing fake mustaches.

Speaker 10 You're dressed as construction guys. Oh, you know, excuse me.
You're dressed as a businessman.

Speaker 5 He's dressed as a construction guy.

Speaker 17 Got it. Yeah, but we met up after work, probably, presumably.

Speaker 10 Well, immediately you walk in. Keenan's behind the counter.

Speaker 25 What a hard day at the office.

Speaker 25 How was your job at the factory? Hard and long. Long day down at the factory where I've worked for years.
How How long has it been? What, me? Down at the factory? I'd have to say six, seven years.

Speaker 25 Since you were 18? That's right. And I'm 24 now, so that makes six years down at the factory working.
Huh. Wow.
I'm still one year older than you. That makes me 25.

Speaker 1 And very fun.

Speaker 10 And it's a very, very good game. Well executed.
Here's a fun moment. So Keenan, by the way, Keenan's not sold on you guys, being of age.

Speaker 5 He's skeptical.

Speaker 25 You guys got some ID?

Speaker 25 You bet.

Speaker 25 Oh, shoot. I just remembered something.
I was on the golf course this morning with some business associates, and we were exchanging business cards.

Speaker 25 And I must have given one of the guys my driver's license by mistake.

Speaker 25 It's a true story, or else, how could I have these three business cards from real businesses?

Speaker 24 I ask you that.

Speaker 11 Good backstories for these.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 10 They really, these guys put the work in. I I think that's the joy of the sketch: all the work.

Speaker 8 Yeah, you're like, just give them the beer.

Speaker 4 And, you know, for me, to be just handed a live sketch to be in with laughs in it, still a dream.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Now, can we go to Yorm's corner for something called Slice Co.

Speaker 5 Knives?

Speaker 10 Yorm, any memory of Slice Co knives?

Speaker 12 Like zero. I honestly, the saddest part of doing this show is me feeling like I'm almost brain dead with my memories.

Speaker 13 I remember being tired.

Speaker 13 Okay, great.

Speaker 10 Well, your brain used to be as sharp as a slice co knife. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You're the first name on here credited.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 10 Here's how sharp your brain used to be.

Speaker 18 Please.

Speaker 10 I'm not going to tell you anything about the sketch, but I'm going to tell you the three character names because I looked it up and I'm pretty happy about it.

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Speaker 10 Will is a nice salesman named Blade P. Cutsworth.

Speaker 12 Oh, that sounds good.

Speaker 10 He does say after he introduces himself, not my legal name. So he's owning up right away to the fact that he has renamed himself Blade P.
Cutsworth.

Speaker 10 Shia, his protege, is Bernard Throttlehunt, and they're having trouble selling knives to Kristen, which, on like page fucking 100,

Speaker 13 it becomes clear the issue.

Speaker 25 I already have a paper cleaver. But do you have a paper cleaver cleaver? Yes.
But do you have a paper cleaver cleaver cleaver? I am Melanie Ginsu. I have like every knife in existence.

Speaker 25 But do you have a knife that can effortlessly cut through a grown man's pinky finger?

Speaker 25 Actually, I don't. Bernard, please effortlessly cut through your pinky finger.

Speaker 18 Ah, that's very funny.

Speaker 12 Yeah, I'm going to say that this was all based on me and my wife's goddaughter selling us cut code knives, which had just happened.

Speaker 12 And then clearly it got out of control and I don't remember any of that. Like zero.

Speaker 1 Now, Yorm, you have another cut after dress one that we've, I think, spoke about on the podcast or in real life out of embarrassment. Okay.

Speaker 7 Monkey business.

Speaker 15 Ooh, now I do remember that.

Speaker 12 I will say this, that me and Joe's had a thing where we were trying for a while to write half a sketch and then hand it off and have the other guy write the other half.

Speaker 11 And then we'd find out at the table what the other guy had written.

Speaker 12 And this was not part of that. This was like, we were sort of coming up with the worst ideas, I think.

Speaker 12 I don't know how it actually happened, but the premise, you'll not be surprised, is that Shia has been told by his parents to cut out the monkey business.

Speaker 12 And then, of course, he goes upstairs and there's a bunch of monkeys and he's like, pack it up, guys.

Speaker 5 It's over.

Speaker 3 Did we have real monkeys at Dream Dress or people?

Speaker 12 Oh, it was the flying monkeys from Wizard of Oz.

Speaker 10 A lot of screeching Fred.

Speaker 17 Yeah. You know what I'll say, though?

Speaker 4 Like, if that was like a one-off joke in like airplane or something,

Speaker 4 and they just cut to all the monkeys, all right, guys, pack it up. And then you cut to the next.

Speaker 12 Sure, but not for like seven and a half H pages, though, right?

Speaker 5 Right. Exactly.

Speaker 4 But it's a good, like, one joke.

Speaker 12 Yes, but it did become one of those things where you were like, we got it into dress, and then I remember praying that it wouldn't go to air.

Speaker 15 I'm just like, please don't have this be a thing I did.

Speaker 2 Yeah, well, as we know, her John Lutz's voice voice notes last week.

Speaker 4 Everyone knows the writers that write every sketch.

Speaker 5 That's true.

Speaker 2 Well, that's why you have podcasts, right?

Speaker 1 Wait, do you have the roommate meeting script up, Seth?

Speaker 10 Monkey Business?

Speaker 1 No, there is a Samberg-Tacone joint cut after dress called Roommate Meeting.

Speaker 5 Oh, no. Let's get it up here.

Speaker 12 I bet this one's good. Kevin's going to grab it.

Speaker 1 Because, again, we've discussed how SNL people, we always made the titles super vague so you wouldn't spoil any joke or tip anything for the room. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But then that's why you have things called called roommate meeting that no one can remember.

Speaker 12 And then you have monkey business, which is in the title.

Speaker 10 Hey, while we're waiting, I feel like I had a good dinner party bon mot the other night.

Speaker 8 Dinner party what?

Speaker 10 Bon mot.

Speaker 10 Like a bon motte.

Speaker 5 A quip.

Speaker 10 Oh, yeah. Like a bit of a quip, if you will.

Speaker 20 Oh, okay.

Speaker 10 A bit of whimsy, a bit of wordplay.

Speaker 12 Yeah, gotcha. You go to those kind of dinner parties.
That's very cool.

Speaker 5 You guys ready? Yeah, hit us.

Speaker 10 Someone said,

Speaker 10 where do you live to somebody at the table? And they said, I live between New York and L.A.

Speaker 10 And I said, Tulsa?

Speaker 6 Yeah. I got it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I loved it.

Speaker 2 That's a real bono. Yeah.

Speaker 4 It didn't get an immediate laugh for me because I was confused by the person phrasing it that way. I thought maybe they were actually saying they lived somewhere between New York and L.A.

Speaker 1 Yeah, your setup made your answer seem logical. Whereas you wanted to be like, oh, you know, I live between New York and L.A.
You know, you needed a little of those same songs.

Speaker 5 I got a little too, right.

Speaker 10 I got a little too excited about my punchline. I was a little too technical with the setup.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you actually set your punchline up. You did it a disservice by setting it up plainly.

Speaker 10 I did a disservice.

Speaker 18 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 13 But it's a good, it's a good bon ma.

Speaker 10 I mean, I don't know if I'd make it a recurring schedule.

Speaker 5 Tulsa?

Speaker 1 I mean, it's a dad joke in a good way. I like it.
Yeah.

Speaker 17 But is it pronounced Bon Mot or Bon Ma?

Speaker 22 Sound off in the comments.

Speaker 5 Well, both. You said it the same way.

Speaker 8 Bon Mo, I would say.

Speaker 10 Bon Mo. Bon Mo.
Again, we're just doing this. Oh, fucking.
Finally, roommate meeting.

Speaker 8 Here we go.

Speaker 8 Leave all of that.

Speaker 15 I couldn't come soon.

Speaker 21 Thank you, Kevin.

Speaker 17 You saved Seth.

Speaker 10 Same thing. It's just firing monkeys.

Speaker 15 God damn it, I wish.

Speaker 8 Sometimes you got it. Sometimes you got it.

Speaker 10 No, I'm just going to, here's how it's going to work. I'm going to describe what it is as I read it as fast as I can.
Okay, good. But like, I'm not going to read every word.

Speaker 10 I'll be like, all right, it seems like crappy apartment, Shia's in the room. It's Shia, Bill, and Andy.
He seems upset. People are eating his food.
Andy and Bill.

Speaker 5 All right, well, I think I know.

Speaker 10 It is basically monkey business. Shia says, you guys have been eating my food.
Cut to Bill and Andy together on the couch in gigantic fat suits.

Speaker 8 Jesus Christ.

Speaker 6 Wow.

Speaker 8 Cool.

Speaker 10 And then that's it.

Speaker 1 This went to dress. We could see, we could get a freeze frame of this.

Speaker 5 Oh, my God.

Speaker 12 Wow, two to dress.

Speaker 20 Just Monty Pythoning it.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 10 Bill says, not a roommate, a friend. Yeah.
And not just a friend, a friend who plays the lion's share of the rent. Yeah, you're like a lion.
Row, row. Andy, row.

Speaker 8 I do remember. Bill, row, row.

Speaker 6 Yeah, you're like a lion.

Speaker 6 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 10 Oh, here's a good one. This, by the way, is also the same as, I mean, talk about a show full of bumps.

Speaker 13 This is basically the fake ID sketch.

Speaker 10 Just like guys being like, no,

Speaker 18 no, we are what we say.

Speaker 10 Here's some writing to be proud of. No, no, Shia.
Just a second ago,

Speaker 13 you said your food tastes so good.

Speaker 10 Bill, no, we didn't. Andy, yeah, we didn't.

Speaker 13 We said your mood is so wood.

Speaker 6 It's all coming back now.

Speaker 1 What would you call the genre of sketch? It's also like the, I think you should leave hot dog car

Speaker 3 where something happens.

Speaker 1 And basically, it's like somebody ate all my pie and you cut to someone with a bunch of pie on their face, right? And it's who crashed this hot dog car and you cut to the guy in the hot dog suit.

Speaker 1 Who ate all my food? And then the reveal is you guys in a fat suit.

Speaker 21 I would say it's called an obviously did-it sketch.

Speaker 3 Yeah. There you go.

Speaker 1 All right. Now there's a a YouTube video here called How Dear Sister Changed Comedy.

Speaker 5 Really?

Speaker 5 Let's just run that.

Speaker 15 We didn't write it, guys. We did not post this.

Speaker 1 Posted by Karsten Rundquist, four years ago.

Speaker 5 Monsieur Rundquist.

Speaker 15 What a smart guy.

Speaker 1 1.4 million views.

Speaker 10 What's the first comment, Keeve?

Speaker 1 Let's see. First comment up.

Speaker 1 Who the fuck moved the comment section? That's first comment because

Speaker 5 that's a classic.

Speaker 1 Rundquist is the lonely island had such a huge influence on modern comedy and not many people give them enough credit. Well, don't worry.

Speaker 6 We're going to make a whole podcast where we just do it for ourselves.

Speaker 20 Thanks at

Speaker 1 VASM650.

Speaker 4 Hey, real quick, dear sister criterion.

Speaker 11 Yes. Yeah.
I vote yes.

Speaker 12 I'm surprised it didn't make 16.

Speaker 2 I'm a little insulted.

Speaker 10 You guys,

Speaker 10 I just checked out a library book. The Dear Sister YouTube comment section.
Yeah. And I went, I thought it would be more interesting to say what the most recent comment was.

Speaker 10 And it's two, it's a two comment reply here, which is a day ago, someone said, who's here? July 2024. And then somebody immediately wrote, was that fast enough?

Speaker 5 God, that's nice.

Speaker 10 So there's some lively back and forth happening over at the Dear Sister comment section. I love that.

Speaker 4 What's the first, the top comment, top rated?

Speaker 10 Oh, top rated is, hold on. This is literally just every Shakespeare play ever.

Speaker 10 I love how there's just one gun and they're passing it around.

Speaker 8 Hey, they noticed.

Speaker 4 Oh, yeah, someone noticed.

Speaker 5 Our money's worth out of that gun.

Speaker 12 Or you did.

Speaker 10 Well, this is interesting. I remember watching this this sketch when it first came out and not really getting it.
Just watch the end of OC season two, and it finally clicked after all these years.

Speaker 10 That's somebody eight months ago finally got it.

Speaker 17 And that was you, Seth. You left that comment? Yeah, I did.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Active on the boards.

Speaker 10 All right. So it's agreed.
Criterion collection, dear sister.

Speaker 9 Yes.

Speaker 4 Yes, but I would categorize it as one, as we've sort of touched on, that felt like it was like...

Speaker 20 It was pretty good when it happened.

Speaker 4 And then over time became like it was one of the ones where we got told much later that it was that. Yes.

Speaker 12 Criterion based on the world, not us.

Speaker 10 I would say, like, when it aired, you didn't think there would be a YouTube video about how it changed comedy.

Speaker 5 Definitely. Definitely not.

Speaker 4 It was more like relief that we thought of one and it had a beginning, middle, and end, basically. And that people laughed and we were like, woof, did it.

Speaker 10 And then, Yor, you were relieved that Monkey Business didn't air because you were confident it would have had a YouTube video called How Monkey Business Ruined Comedy.

Speaker 12 Oh, changed, but yeah, but the subtext ruined.

Speaker 8 Changed, right?

Speaker 10 Changed with a big old red arrow down.

Speaker 10 Not all change is good. Correct.
That'd be so funny if you hated something being like, monkey business changed comedy. I used to enjoy it.

Speaker 8 Now I hate it. I hate every bit of it.

Speaker 5 It's a real massive change.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Hey, fellas.

Speaker 10 Yes. Back in the Payton Manning episode, our friend Lutz left us a few voice notes.

Speaker 11 He did.

Speaker 10 I gave him the bad news that Andy kind of thought they weren't good voice notes.

Speaker 6 Okay.

Speaker 10 He sent in a new voice note.

Speaker 8 Oh, good.

Speaker 6 Oh, you're in for it, bro. Oh, boy.
Hi, Lonely Islands.

Speaker 29 Oh, I'm so glad to be back with you today. I can almost hear Andy going,

Speaker 2 another Lutz story.

Speaker 14 Yes. So.

Speaker 29 Give a little context.

Speaker 23 I was asked to do a favor by Seth and send in a couple stories about the Peyton Manning episode.

Speaker 8 Well,

Speaker 14 my stories were boring.

Speaker 29 Now, as you know, one thing about me is that I love getting a note when I do a favor.

Speaker 8 So I'm going to take that note that Andy gave me, curl it up around me, and use it to make this

Speaker 14 little clip a little more exciting. So, Andy, this is for you.

Speaker 2 So, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, Samberg note.

Speaker 5 That was it.

Speaker 13 Love you, Andy.

Speaker 17 It was a lot more exciting.

Speaker 5 We'll give him that. Yeah.

Speaker 10 He did have a lot more energy there.

Speaker 1 I might have misread your note a little bit.

Speaker 17 Love you, Lutzy. Thank you.

Speaker 5 Thanks, Lutz.

Speaker 6 All right.

Speaker 10 Good episode of whatever this is.

Speaker 13 What? It could be anything.

Speaker 12 It's just a piece of media.

Speaker 10 I'm just saying what I don't want to say what this was or why we're doing this, but it was a good episode of whatever it is.

Speaker 12 Of recorded content.

Speaker 4 Oh, you don't want to say the word podcast because I was being that way about it.

Speaker 17 Yeah, it was just the way you were using it.

Speaker 21 Obviously, this is a podcast.

Speaker 10 Okay.

Speaker 10 By the way, I don't think you've been there the whole time, but it's nice to see you.

Speaker 4 It felt to me, Seth, like if you're about to have sex and you're like, should we commence with the sex?

Speaker 8 That's how you interpret it.

Speaker 5 You took the romance out of it.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Don't take the romance out of podcast.

Speaker 5 Just get into it, brother.

Speaker 13 Be a little smooth.

Speaker 8 Commence.

Speaker 10 By the way, I'd be a little bit, I mean, I can't speak for the ladies, but I wouldn't hate a guy who uses commence.

Speaker 5 Like, I think the flowery language.

Speaker 10 Look, you're the guy who just got back from Foggy London Town.

Speaker 18 Isn't that kind of how they lay it out?

Speaker 5 Yeah, that's how they all do it.

Speaker 20 I wouldn't know.

Speaker 10 But that's the problem about Foggy London Town. By the time you figure out what you're doing, it's so foggy.

Speaker 12 Yeah, maybe it did. It's too late.

Speaker 5 You're like,

Speaker 22 I couldn't see a thing.

Speaker 6 It was foggy.

Speaker 10 So many, so many Yanks, to use the term, come back from London and they're like, honey, I didn't know it was foggy.

Speaker 4 Oh, I thought you were saying, like, when you're alone in a hotel in Foggy London Town, there are so many Yanks.

Speaker 6 There are a lot of Yanks there.

Speaker 10 So you're in a tricky situation when you go to Foggy London Town because you do use the term Yanks all the time, just not the way they use it about America.

Speaker 21 I wouldn't say I use the term.

Speaker 6 He performs it.

Speaker 10 So it's a real who's on first for you in Floggy London.

Speaker 10 You walk into a pub with your American friend and they're like, oh, look, a couple of Yanks. And you're like, a couple?

Speaker 5 It usually takes me a few more than that.

Speaker 8 Oh, that's very good.

Speaker 1 That's kind of a naked gun joke, July 18th.

Speaker 10 All right. We'll be back in a week.

Speaker 5 Thanks, everybody. All right.

Speaker 13 Bye, guys. Wait, Seth.

Speaker 6 Seth, wait, wait, wait, wait. Whoa, what?

Speaker 17 You forgot to say I love you guys.

Speaker 5 I love you guys. Love you.

Speaker 5 Love you too.