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Hey, everybody.

Welcome back to the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast.

This is really thrilling.

Can I explain, do you guys know why it's all thrilling?

Why, Seth?

I know why.

i have a guess we're actually recording this a week before people will hear it as opposed to the way we've been doing this which is recording it 18 months before people hear it yeah we caught up so now for the first time the sort of cherished topical comedy of the lonely island is going to find its way into the pod yep here we go kamala there we go see that would have been nonsense but nonsense

now it makes the most sense and look i want to say something one of the reasons we've taken a giant pause and thankfully not run out of episodes, although shout out to Yorma and Fortan Solomon, who did us a huge salad with the Magruber episode.

Thank you.

How'd it go, Yorm?

Oh, it was terrible.

Everybody hated it.

I assume.

I haven't gotten the results back, but I have to assume.

The results.

A predictive review.

I do get a printout of results after each episode has gone.

But one of the reasons we've been on pause, Andy's been overseas working on a movie.

Foggy London town.

That's what they call it.

How is foggy is it as foggy as they lead you to believe in the ads well sethly in the summertime it was less foggy than i was expecting and frankly hoping for yeah uh one thing i learned brits do not love it when you refer to it as foggy london town that's weird well it's funny i don't even know why you would even need to refer to it once you're there uh well i disagree Because i would say that I say New York City the least maybe when I'm physically in New York City.

But when you're in New York City, you're always like, here we are at the Big Apple.

But again,

I'm not going to claim that I minted it.

I feel like somebody else got there first.

I'll just say this.

I remember Miki Van Yorm calling it the Big Apple a lot when we left.

Oh, yeah.

And you got to walk down the street with your friend and point out the Empire State Building and go, look, the Empire State Building.

Really excited.

I want to say something.

Don't take this the wrong way.

No one was sad to see any of you go.

The natives.

The natives.

The native New Yorkers.

We're pretty upset when you guys were walking around calling it the big owl.

Yeah, they're like, who the fuck are these Zarks?

Zarks, classic New York slang.

That sounded like a real local.

The lonely islands of Mars Market.

So, Andy, you were in Foggy London Town.

It's lovely to have you back.

Thank you.

Keith, you want to mention what movie you worked on or what do you think?

It's already been mentioned on the podcast.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, tell us how it went.

The Naked Gun, you guys.

Yeah, it was Naked Gun.

Guess your Rotten Tomato score.

Yeah, guess it.

And be right.

83.

all right oh look at you sounds good all right

certified fresh but you know nothing to really brag about yeah let's be honest 83 for a comedy is like a 250 for a drama that's right that's right that's the highest i would ever jinx us to so you just sat with liam neeson in atlanta yeah he's playing frank drevin junior junior liam neeson who also was on the show atlanta coincidence oh wow right yeah he's a local higher

local hire at that point oh you got him as a local hire Yeah.

That's the only reason you got him.

He's because of the Atlanta episode.

He has what's known as an Atlanta brogue.

Is that correct?

That is right.

Yes.

We're going down to Magic City.

You got him for the cost savings.

Oh, you're in foggy Atlantatown.

Oh, yeah.

It does get a little foggy down there in Atlantatown.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

With the weed smoke.

Am I right, guys?

Brain fog, my dude.

Pamela Anderson also.

I mean, I don't want to, you know, this is for the junk it a year from now.

Our release date is July of next year.

Gotcha.

I just started editing.

But yeah, it went well.

It was exciting.

It's great.

And it was lonely, guys.

It was lonely.

It was lonely.

Oh, yeah, Christ.

This is the sort of enthusiasm, the white-hot enthusiasm you tend to hear from Keeve after finishing a project.

Yeah, it's just like these shorts.

If you're wondering if he's a little too hot on how it went, he's always like this.

I think they've established that in this podcast.

Every episode you bring up one and say, but Akiva knew it was shitty, right?

And I go, yep.

I called it right from jump.

Our friend just texted us being like, loving the podcast.

It's just Seth dunking on you guys.

I don't think, do I dunk?

I don't know, but that was his impression of it.

I wouldn't have thought so, but I like that that's how it's being perceived.

Let me just stress something because I believe that the podcast is allowing me to dunk on myself for how many times I was dead wrong with stuff.

I agree with that.

Andy wrote back, he's a square living in a comedy prison of his own design.

Yeah, that was to a group thread of like 12 of our friends from high school.

I like, by the way, that you literally jumped in to defend me.

I'm like, yeah, no, I think you do dunk on yourself.

And then Keith reads the text about that.

You're like, wait a minute.

What's a friendly rivalry?

Oh, Jiminy Glick showed up.

Can we just say Jiminy Glick kind of stole the summer?

Oh, my God.

Song of the summer, Jiminy Glick.

The song of the summer, Jiminy Glick and Bill Hayter.

No diggity, no doubt.

Just killer.

I mean, everybody.

Give yourself a minute.

If you're not a fan of Peyton Manning and the United Way digital short, go watch Jiminy Glick interview Bill Hater.

God damn it.

He really just did a week of every day.

There was a new fantastic thing.

And you realize it is a weird blind spot for a lot of people because, in my mind, Jiminy Glick is a legendary character.

And yet, a lot of guys my age who I feel like like comedy said, I've never seen that character before.

Oh, really?

That's shocking.

There's a really nice glick hole you can fall down on YouTube because, I mean, Marty's been crushing that for almost a quarter century.

A glick hole is a great comment.

I hated a glick hole.

It's so invasive.

Yeah.

It's a glick hole.

I hated that.

Sounds like we should turn it into something else.

Yeah.

All our faces just froze.

People say the monoculture is dead, but we all hated glick hole.

What was your favorite moment in the hater glick interview?

There was a hard left turn.

There were so many hard left turns.

I said to hater, it was like watching a boxing match where you can't believe the referee hadn't called it.

Because Bill was laughing really hard at one thing well then he said willie mays died that was

yeah to bill who of all people on earth is like the least the person you would bring that up to yeah and then the other one in the kill me is he just all of a sudden started talking about willie nelson just so he could say more like first of the mohicans oh that was great

Yeah, that was maybe, that was maybe my favorite.

Look,

we're not here to laud and applaud Martin Shorty, but he does deserve it.

Hey, we're going to get to a digital short that I think we're all on the same page on, right?

Yeah.

United Way is a winner.

Oh, yeah.

We love United Way.

Oh, that's shit.

Yorm came correct.

I didn't know if I should do that right now, but I wanted to test it out.

Yeah.

You wanted to test it for the appropriate time?

Can I just.

Yeah, it works great.

Yeah.

Hold it a little closer to the mic, though.

Okay, like that.

Yeah.

That's better.

That's louder.

Hold it a little.

Hold it a little closer to the window and then drop it out.

What were you going to say, Andy?

I was just saying closer.

Seth was critiquing in real time his technique, which was terrible.

We all saw that.

Heard it, I should say.

Heard it.

But the second time, Jorm, with my direction, I'm not a director, not in the DJ, but I do sometimes, you know, dabble.

You dabble.

When you held it closer, it was a lot better and it felt a little more like a classic mixtape.

So I think we got that sussed.

Okay, great.

Great.

More organic.

More organic.

United Way made it to the Sweet 16, I believe, of the digital short brackets when we voted on the best one ever.

Wow.

This is a big one.

Wait, have we explained the brackets before?

Because it's been so long since we recorded.

We'll eventually get to the brackets.

But we, at one point, the entire SNL cast and writing staff voted on the best digital short of all time.

And it was right near the end of things.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Wow, it's the end of the thing.

Sweet 16, though.

That's very good.

I would say the other Suite 16ers we've had so far are Dick in a Box and Natalie Rapp and Lonely Island.

I think are the only

Sunday.

Oh, right.

Right.

Sorry.

What did I say?

What was the lonely?

The first time we said Lonely Island, the name of our group.

They are interchangeable to me.

I I mean, technically, he's right.

They all made it.

Tidbit, we talked about maybe naming our group Incredibad.

Really?

But then Keeva and Yorm, they liked Lonely Island more.

I also liked it.

I don't want to say I didn't like it.

Gotcha.

But it was between those two.

It was.

And then we ended up calling our first album Incredibad instead.

Tidbit.

That's a big decision, choosing the name the Lonely Island.

Was it Frock when you guys that was the Tidbit?

But it was a little late, I gotta admit.

I'm gonna do that every time you say Tidbit, but 48 seconds after.

You said it.

You know what?

I'll stop.

Got it.

Get some coffee.

What's the coffee situation here?

And straight up, get something to interrupt you.

I got job dregs.

Job dregs.

What kind of, what are you doing?

Is it a French press?

Why?

How do you get the dregs in your

you're picking?

He's picking out his tongue like he's got hair on his tongue.

We use go get them beans.

They're delicious.

Shout out, go get them.

I got so many dregs.

It's got to be a sponsor.

I should have known.

You reacted like you've never gotten a dreg before.

It was an especially beefy dreg.

Yeah.

You had two fingers in the bottom of the coffee cup and you were tasting it like you were worried it was poison.

Although that would be the wrong approach.

I was trying to milk the job for as much as it was in the cup and I forgot about the dreaded dregs.

The dregs is the grounds that fell in?

Yeah.

Using like a paper filter in a drip coffee machine?

Yeah, bro.

You got something to say?

Unorthodox.

Yeah, I think I said it all just with the question and my tone.

Swear to God, this guy goes to Atlanta.

We're going to get to to our good friend, Peyton Manning United Way.

I want to talk real quickly about the Julie Louis Dreyfus episode.

There was a digital short called Roy Rules, which we'll eventually get to because it airs a couple weeks later.

Classic Scarlett 1919.

2016, I bet.

No, didn't make it into Sweet 64.

No, I don't think Roy Rules even made the final field of 64.

I don't think Roy Rules made it out of the first round.

Aw,

that's weird.

There were 100 digital shorts, and I had to pick the top 64 for the brackets.

And Roy Rules, I'm going to tell you right now, did not make it.

Knowing Seth, it didn't make it to this.

No way.

Yeah.

No way.

Roy the man rules.

Yeah, he does rule.

I just saw him.

Great.

Give my love to Roy.

Hey, a couple quick things about the Julie Louis Dreyfus show.

There was a sketch called Monax.

Wig and Siblet wrote.

Do you remember this?

It was an ad for gold.

Vague, vaguely.

A lot of cable news will have ads for gold as an investment vehicle.

Yes, of course.

Yeah.

And I only bring it up because it was a beautiful pre-tape and it was Wig just saying gold in a funny way.

Call Monax

Did you know that in the past 12 years, the value of gold has gone up a little bit?

I love touching gold.

You know what else?

As we've established, I can't remember who established it.

One of us keeps pressing real hard on the idea that this was an golden era, but we're starting to see, we're starting to see first-time sketches become sort of like little backbones of the era.

The first Vinnie Vedecci was Julie Louis Dreyfus.

Ah, that's good too.

Vinnie Vedecci, which Bill auditioned with.

Bill auditioned with?

It was the spine of his audition, right?

Yes.

He did Vinnie Vedecci as a character, and then his impressions and other characters spun off of Vinny.

Like he was hosting a show, and Vinny did all of those things on his show, right?

Yeah.

It was an Italian guy who, and again, Bill does that really good thing.

Do a little of itself?

Moriatio.

So not like better than that, but

tenfold.

It is funny when you think to yourself, oh, it's easy to do fake Italian, and then you watch, and Bill really does good fake Italian, yes, like Sid Caesar level, good, yeah.

And then, yeah, he would do impressions of American people within the body of the oppression.

It took a long time to figure out how Vinnie Vedecci would be a sketch, and uh, I ended up working on it with them.

I can't quite remember how we figured it out, but me and Matt Murray and Bill worked on Vinny, and it's a very fun sketch with uh Julie Dreyfus.

It was always the concept was that it was an actor who was on an Italian talk show who was shocked to find out that the entire thing would be conducted in Italian.

Julia.

Quiestiando cara pandro son dra pice.

E comparo campice a pandos.

E pon paro so rebiendiandos.

Eh e comparo se diandos.

Eh e American déquetti.

Picier robandos.

Oh, I am

so sorry.

I didn't know that this would be in Italian.

I don't really speak.

I don't speak Italian.

And there was a joyous cut-to, which was Fred was the producer, and he was always sitting at a table with Forte eating pasta.

And he and Bill would just scream at each other.

But really, the star of the show was the way that Will would just quietly eat pasta and never look up.

It was a very fun choice.

Committed.

A good comedic actor.

There was also two other things I want to mention from the Julia show before we move on.

Judge Seidelin.

Do you guys remember Judge Larry Seidlin?

Not a character.

It was a real dude who I think was in the Anna Nicole Smith judge.

And he sort of famously once cried on stand.

And then Fred played him on update as a judge who would get choked up talking about stuff.

This one I watched, it really, there was almost no reason to have Judge Larry Seidland on, except for obviously we'd become enamored with Fred doing it.

But he tells a story about getting fired at his first job at the zoo.

And he gets really choked up talking about how the monkeys got out and they weren't the regular kind of monkeys they were the monkeys with the plastic asses

it was so mean to me you know these monkeys the one with the plastic asses the the red ones the red asses you know what i'm talking about set

yeah i think so you know which monkeys they are baby yes yeah i know the mean is hell

another thing every now and then something happened in my tenure on the show i never don't think that about those monkeys.

Yeah.

Hard to unhear it.

Then there was a really, mostly because I saw it in the rundown.

I had no memory.

Joe's wrote a sketch called Household Robot for Julie Lou Dreyfus.

Do you guys have any memory of the sketch Household Robot?

I had none.

Basically, Julie Lou Dreyfus and Sudeikis have won the lottery and Wig and Bill are at their house for a dinner party and they're talking about how they're not going to change.

They're going to be the same as they always were.

But then when Wig goes to clean up the plates on the thing, they go, oh, our robot will do that.

And they're like, You bought a robot.

And they say, Well, yeah, we're going to allow ourselves one luxury.

And then Forte comes in as a robot.

And the first joke is how slow he is.

Lowering robot torso.

Extending robot arm.

Initiating grasp mode.

It really keeps you informed.

Counting down to plate acquisition.

T minus five,

four,

three,

two,

one.

Plate acquisition successful.

Then Fred comes in as the repair robot robot, and then he fixes them.

And then to reward Fred for fixing them, they just start fucking.

Oh.

Yeah.

It's wait.

Who starts fucking?

The two robots.

Oh, okay.

Gotcha.

Yeah.

Gotcha.

So Fred's reward is that the two robots start having sex.

Gotcha.

Bill and Kristen don't want to see it.

How's that framed up?

So, they're first.

I mean, it's late night, but you can't.

Like, Fred goes and like sits on a dresser

and puts his legs up.

Yeah.

They're in like big boxy robot suits, it should be noted.

Yeah, of course.

That's how we pictured it.

But then Jason says, Oh, well, we can make them go in the kitchen, so you don't have to watch it.

Homebot, repair bot, go-to kitchen.

Yeah.

Oh, thank God.

I thought they were actually going to have sex.

Oh, they will.

Initiating 45-minute robot intercourse.

I'm sorry, but do we have to sit here and listen to this?

Oh, just relax.

You can just ignore them.

Does this make Joe's criterion collection, you think?

His top 64?

You know, it is that nice Joe's thing where there's a few different sketches and that you kind of like all of them and none of them go on too long.

There's a sketch where the robot's slow, and then right when you're sort of over that, it's the robots like, don't worry, we're changing it.

Yeah, yeah, it's like now they're actually that they have sex.

Yeah, now there's a second robot.

Now they're gonna have sex.

So, anyway, that sounds really good.

I will say everything, it really made me laugh.

And it's, you know, give it a look.

Um, Peyton Manning showed up.

First, I have a trivial question.

I've done very little research, but I think there's four NFL quarterbacks who have hosted us now in the history of the show.

Excuse me, five.

I can definitely get this.

You can get all five?

I don't think you can.

No.

Hayton Manning.

Yep.

Yep.

Eli Manning.

Yep.

Joe Montana.

Yep.

Tom Brady.

Yep.

And Travis Kelsey.

Just kidding.

He's not a quarterback.

Who's the fifth?

It's 70s.

It's weird.

You're not going to get it.

Is it like Dan Fouts or something?

It's Fran Tarkington.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, the Tark.

I appreciate you letting me off the hook instead of guessing like 50 quarterbacks from the modern era.

I could have gone for five minutes of that.

And I vividly remember Joe Montana because we're from the Bay and it was a huge deal when he hosted.

And there was that awesome sketch where you hear his thoughts.

Oh, that's true.

That was it, right?

I can remember one thing from that show, except that incredible sketch where he has one incredibly memorable line.

Yes, they won't bother me.

I'll be masturbating.

I'm going to go upstairs and masturbate.

And his thought is, I'm going to go upstairs and masturbate.

His internal thought is the exact same.

He's a simple guy.

But for clarity, it starts off where you're hearing a couple's thoughts as they're like getting ready to hook up.

And then he comes in and you hear his thoughts and they're all really straightforward.

There's no exactly what he's saying.

There's no subtext.

No subtext.

Yeah.

He co-hosted, I believe, correct?

With whom?

Jerry Wright.

Walter Payton?

Is that true?

Yeah.

It was Walter Payton and Joe Montana.

All time.

I can't believe I didn't remember that.

Yeah, Walter Payton was in that sketch with him.

Oh.

What the fuck?

Really crazy, right?

I mean, I was a big Walter Payton fan, too.

I mean,

based solely on Techmobol and his ability to destroy the competition.

I just liked him because he was a sports figure and I all across the board.

Every one of them.

All the sports.

You like all the sports guys?

All the sports, all the guys.

And girls.

Seth, be real.

Would you rather be Walter Payton or Bo Jackson in Tecmo Bowl?

Be real.

Be real.

Be real, though.

Bo Jackson.

Yeah, same.

Walter Payton was faster, but Bo Jackson, you couldn't tackle him.

All right, let's move on.

Let's move on.

Can I tell a little tangent story since this whole episode has been a tangent and not talking about the short?

We owned a Nintendo together when we were all living together.

And then when I moved out, Andy and Keeve lived together off of Melrose, and we set up Excite Bike.

We were super jazzed on Excite Bike, and we made a course in Excite Bike and we played it over and over again.

It became this big competition between us and all of our friends.

And we got super, super good at it.

And you could do it in like nine seconds or something like that.

And then me and Keeve left for the weekend and Andy was so mad because he wasn't in the lead that what I remember was leaving their apartment on like a Friday and coming back two days later and Andy was still playing.

It looked like he hadn't slept in two days.

And he was like, I cracked it.

And we were like, what?

And he was like, it's down to four seconds.

And he was flying off the screen in ways that we, I had never seen before.

And he was like leaning into the like, like all the way to the left, like,

and I just remember being like, this dude's crazy.

Like, he cracked it, but like, at what cost?

At what cost?

At what cost?

I do remember this vividly.

And I will say, it was like the moment at the end of the first Matrix where Neo can see the Matrix.

Yes.

Yeah.

Where I was like, oh,

I got the bike to go off the top of the screen somehow it was like a double skip right before a jump i couldn't do it again to save my life but man oh man when it happened seth

well we but you also had to keep the machine on because otherwise it would erase the track so we had to keep it on well i had to keep it on to show you guys the score so that you knew i crushed you premature haunt so you basically you broke the record and then you became sort of a feral man beast who guarded the door and the and then

and then once they saw it i turned it off and collapsed.

Yeah.

Went to sleep for like 24 hours.

When Jorm said the record was nine seconds, I did not expect you got it all the way down to four.

That would be a little bit like if Roger Bannister ran a two-minute mile.

Yes, it was psychotic.

We had been whittling it down to nine seconds for like a month.

It took us forever.

And we were like, we've reached the ceiling.

It can't go anymore.

He truly cut it in half.

It didn't make any sense.

I was proud of him, but I was also like real concerned.

Yeah, don't leave me alone for the weekend with a Nintendo, I guess.

An original NES.

I should note, this is way, way after Original NES had come out.

Right.

Yeah, it was a very retro thing we were doing.

Oh, it was very cool.

Vintage.

We're not 80 years old.

It was a nostalgia trip.

I had a Smash Brothers joke on the show.

Like, it was a, we made a Smash Brothers joke in Closer Look or something.

Just a reference, really.

The joke was that I played Smash Brothers in college.

Someone wrote, Seth Meyers was definitely not in college when Smash Brothers came out.

I don't have to Google this.

I just know by looking.

And I was like, that's really good.

Harsh toke.

It's very unkind.

There's so many reasons why you're like, oh, I'm so glad the internet exists.

Also, I only missed, then I looked it up.

I only missed it by like three years.

Yeah.

It wasn't like.

That's a lifetime, though, when you're in college.

It wasn't like Call of Duty or something.

All right, guys.

Peyton Manning.

you know, gold standard athlete host of all time.

Yeah, he was really good.

If not the best ever, top three, right?

I mean, there's been some good ones in recent years, but he was really.

The old Michael Jordan, right?

The episode that was so classic.

Yeah.

With the Farley and everything.

That's true.

It was a great episode, but he was amazing.

I would argue, though, Keeve, just that Jordan's episode was incredible because he was so iconic and the writing around him really worked.

Peyton, I would argue, was driving comedy more.

Yes.

So I think that's what Seth's getting at.

I don't know that there was an athlete who generated comedy better than Peyton.

That's hosted.

Yeah, agreed.

Which he did in this short.

Indeed.

Yeah.

So a couple of things.

One, I will say that, and I said this before, but you know, all every SNL host is basically given a, you know, like sort of binder full of their sketches just to be able to go through over the course of a very short week where they have to learn a lot of things.

Peyton definitely approached the whole week like a quarterback.

If you went into his dressing room with notes, it was all like color coordinated, you know, like the right pens.

And it was just, he seems so like loose and easy on stage and so charismatic, but an incredible amount of work went into it, which is not a surprise.

That seems right for comedy.

That seems smart.

United Way idea basically came from him, Keeve.

My memory is that he said he thought it'd be funny if he did something where he was mean to kids because that was so contrary to who he was.

I remember you coming to me being like, what if we did one of those United Way things, but he's an asshole.

Yeah.

I still to this day feel confident that Peyton planted the seed.

I don't think he said, let's do United Way, but he certainly like gave us permission to go do this sketch that worked exactly as well as he thought it would.

Yeah.

So you're saying he, for the first time on SNL, flipped his image on its head.

You know what?

Somebody had to do it.

And, you know, ever since then, people have been trying to copy that model.

Um, Keeve, what do you remember about going out and shooting with Peyton?

Uh, I mean, it's the same park, I think, where Dick in a Box, where they're on the basketball.

I think if you go over to the basketball hoop, you would be exactly where Andy and Timberlake were hanging from it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know, there's a lot of repeats that are short.

I remember it being good weather after the winter.

What was this one?

March 24th.

So that stands up.

It might not have been hot, but I just remember being so happy to be outdoors when the sun was out because we get so stuck in there.

There's nothing like the big apple when the sun's out.

You know what I mean?

Oh, my God.

It's like the exact opposite of Foggy London Town.

Thank you for saying exactly that.

Yes, thank you for saying that.

Get yourself a nice slice of pizza.

We were celebrating the weather with big old slices of pizza.

Was that in my memory?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Big old slice of pizza, hot dogs, bagels.

Can I just say something?

One of the funniest things that Tracy Morgan says a lot is,

slicing a Coke, I'm a real New Yorker.

Have you ever heard him say that?

No.

All right.

Anyway, so there you go.

I've had coffee.

I've had coffee.

Keep going.

Please refer to it as Jav.

I also remember.

Do you remember this, Keith, that Dennis Leary pulled up?

Like, he was going somewhere, probably to go shoot his rescue me show, his fireman show.

And I think he saw Peyton Manning and pulled his car up and just like got out and walked over to Seth because he was like, oh, that's Peyton Manning.

I do not remember that.

Yeah.

You'd think I would.

But it was definitely, it was an interesting thing, which is Dennis Leary had the stature to just full-on walk onto an SNL set and just go over and shake hands with the host and talk to him.

Yeah.

How did he not remember that?

I don't know why I don't remember that.

You just were thinking about the weather, you know?

I was just staring in the clouds, head in the clouds.

That's me.

I'm trying to remember.

I feel like we were on the field and there's the joke with the porto-potties, as he calls them, portolettes, because of where he's from.

And I don't know whose idea it was, but I know it wasn't in the script.

And then it became one of the favorite parts of the whole thing to make a kid go sit in it.

Suck.

Let's go.

Let's go.

Get back in here.

Let's go.

Except you.

I can't even look at you.

You know what?

Let's sit in the portal for 20 minutes.

That's right.

You stay in there.

I have very embarrassing questions.

It's happened a few times in my run at SNL where I go up to a person who's the best in the world at a thing and say something along the lines of, could you throw a football and hit that kid in the back?

And he said, yeah.

I can hit someone on the other side of the highway in the back.

He hit him in the back.

It was so good because he hit that kid in the back.

And again, it was a nerve football.

It didn't hit the kid, but the kid did a great fall.

Yeah, agreed.

And that kid, Timothy Chalamet.

Was it Chalamet?

It was.

It could be.

We don't know.

It's not.

He did a lot of our early work.

Wait, I think there is a Lorne child in there somewhere, right?

Yeah.

Probably is a Lorne child.

I'll have to go re-watch it.

I feel like one of Lorne's kids is in there.

I think there was a new boom of athlete hosts because Lawrence boys were growing up and thought it was cool.

We do a lot of complaining on this podcast about how difficult things were, how bad we were at coming up with ideas or whatever.

This one I remember feeling a little bit effortless.

It was effortless.

And that's really rare.

Like you had a great idea.

We brainstormed a bunch of bits.

Yep.

We went down there and did them.

He came up with new ones on the fly.

It got better as we shot.

Yep.

And we only shot for a couple hours out in the sun.

It was super easy.

As I mentioned, beautiful day.

Beautiful.

The flows really nice.

And it was everything.

It was, you know, all jokes aside, like the subverting of a host image is a fun thing for people to watch.

And to some degree, they probably think it's coming.

And they loved it.

It was really fun.

This was first Peyton Manning hosting, right?

Yeah.

I think he only hosted once.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

I feel like this was definitely another one of the moments where it was like the fun discovery.

Yes.

Like after Peyton Manning hosted, he was in every commercial.

Right.

Because the world was like, oh, shit, he's funny.

There's a joke in the monologue about how he's in a lot of commercials, commercials, but I agree that you thought he was at his zenith, but like, I think you're right.

Like, he became comedy guy after this.

Yeah.

This had pep talk then as well.

Exactly.

That's a real good episode.

The show's really good.

I did want to mention Keeves' description of how well it went.

I have to point out, like, two crucial ingredients were missing.

Me and Yorm.

Yeah.

Right.

I think that's why it was so effortful.

And that's probably why it was such a nice experience.

Yeah.

That's honestly all I thought was like, yeah, that makes sense.

So Kevin, you're saying not having to answer to the two dudes you've known since junior high made it easier?

Yeah, we're like, really?

It took like a fucking vacation.

Wait a minute.

What about my boy?

That was not part of it.

No.

It was nice.

Me and Seth.

Seth, did we ever do just an Akiva Seth joint ever again?

Yes.

Firelight.

Oh, yeah, Firelight.

Yeah.

Was that another easy experience?

It was.

It honestly, it kind of was.

Oh, fuck off.

And it was well regarded on the show.

It doesn't stick around like this.

Yeah, great.

Congrats.

I remember Jorm and Andy were like, hey, we'll come and help out.

We know we didn't write this one, but we'd love to be part of the team.

And then you told him we were shooting it on Randall's Island.

We went all the way out there.

Give him the fake address.

Oh, yeah.

You could.

You could come.

I would love to, but Randall is mad at me.

Oh, boy.

You can't go to his island.

Oh, my God.

I can't believe you're coming up with Randall's Island comedy now that you live in L.A.

There's no audience for it.

Fuck your south batch.

Is there anything else you have to say about the shorts?

I mean, mean, it is kind of, it does sort of speak for itself.

Did anyone re-watch it?

I did.

I didn't re-watch it leading up.

I did.

I didn't because I felt less involved.

I have something to say.

I thought the sound design was exceptional and made a big difference.

It's really good sound design.

And the editing is always key.

Spectac.

Spectac so much.

I'm pretty sure I swung by and we talked it down and it was already pretty much done when I saw it.

We made a couple little titans.

I'm sure.

Andy loves titaning things.

A good use of a beep, a couple curse words at the end where a beep is just as good, if not better, than actually hearing him say.

Sometimes it's much better.

Yeah, it was a pure stroke.

The whole thing was just like hot knife through butter.

Yeah.

And it played great.

It destroyed.

And I was very happy to look through this run list because it was as

delightful as I remember.

I have a monologue memory.

The monologue.

Seth's Kona.

This is something about something that.

Oh, it's not.

Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

Give me a different song, Jorm, but it's a little bit more reflective about a memory I had.

Okay,

Seth's memories.

This is the part of of the show where Seth reflects.

Go ahead, Seth.

So, Jenna, the stage manager, was like, Peyton wants to talk to you backstage before the monologue.

And Andy, be honest, did you ever go behind the doors to the monologue before you did the monologue?

No.

And I didn't want to either, right?

Do you kind of think of that as a sacred place where only a host should stand?

No, it just never occurred to me that I could even look.

Right.

That makes sense too.

But it was trippy when I finally hosted to be like, this was here the whole time.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Isn't it also funny that we are working show business and I still kind of thought there would be a bigger space behind it, like

a full house.

It's like, oh, so it's just like a tiny wooden step.

This is dopey.

I mean, the thing I was shocked by was all the nudie pics up on the wall.

Oh, so many.

Oh, man.

But of men and women and women.

Oh, yeah.

And men.

Something for all.

But I got to call that.

And so I went backstage and Peyton had a suggestion.

He had a joke he wanted to add add at the last minute about Tom Brady.

Ooh.

Spicy.

And he said, do you think I should do this?

And I was like, oh, I don't know.

It was just really like, I was like, I don't process ideas this fast.

Wait, what was it?

And did he do it?

No, he didn't.

What was the joke?

Tell us the joke.

It was a soft burn that would have been the 200th hottest burn at the Tom Brady roast.

Whatever it was, my memory of it was, it seemed very quaint now.

And it was a friendly soft burn.

It should be noted.

Archie Archie Manning, Eli Manning, and his mom were all in the monologue.

Little cut-to's.

And then the show takes off.

There was a Bronx beat.

Really funny Bronx beat.

Great so far.

Was it the first Bronx beat, or had they done a bunch of Bronx beats already?

This was the third Bronx beat.

My favorite moment of this Bronx beat is Maya asks him, guess how many times my husband has flirted with me this week?

Sucks out of your relationship, the pizzazz.

Right.

X me how many times my husband's flirted with me.

None times.

None point none times

unless you count going to the bathroom with the door open

is bronxpeet also in my uh where amy said 1990 never yeah i'm sure oh god i say that i still say it all the time i say that because of you but i thought you made it up andy pretty sure it's from bronxpeet oh check move 1990 never and obviously we still say sweaterweather all the time sweataweather yeah i mean sweaterweather much like gold goo and plastic asses yeah you say it all the time in the Big Apple and Foggy Levels.

Here's a pitch.

It might be too late, but since we're like right up against our release date here and it's topical, it'd be cool to get Wigg to go to the Olympics.

And anytime someone was being given their gold medal, they could just have her right off camera on mic going, goo,

sort of under their national anthem.

It is a little late, but you're right.

There's, it's not like technically too late.

It just seems like.

A lot of people say, you know, four months isn't enough time for someone to mount a presidential campaign.

Yeah, here we are, right?

Here we are.

And if Jorm can do a predictive review of his Magruber episode of this podcast, we can certainly get Wig out to the Olympics.

Yeah, she'll go.

Paris.

Just using an algorithm.

NCAA Pool, classic Downey sketch.

Do you remember NCAA Pool?

No, what's it?

It was Peyton Manning and Amy Poehler were going through their NCAA pool picks, and Peyton was a sports expert.

And Amy was someone who didn't know anything about sports and had picked the games correctly based on mascots and the like.

That's just a real thing that happens.

Yes.

In real life.

It has a very nice downy move in it, which at one point, then Sadekis, who's the sort of sports anchor, is talking about the University of Arizona losing in the first round, and he calls them a classic.

It's a classic Peyton Manning.

And Peyton Manning is not playing Peyton Manning.

And then they just start burning Peyton Manning, and he starts being very offended on behalf of Peyton Manning.

Yes.

His characters.

Instead, once again, they turned out to be the tournament's Peyton Manning.

What do you mean?

Well, you know how every year Arizona comes in with impressive stats and all the hype and every year they fizzle out.

Yeah sure but why is that a Peyton Manning?

You know that expression.

No.

It's like, how do I put this?

When someone has this great reputation, but you always wonder why, because when it really counts, they can't deliver.

Exactly.

Exactly.

First Penelope.

The first Penelope is in this show.

Wow, she got a caterer.

It really went all out.

Never seen this many hors d'oeuvres.

I have.

Yeah, I've seen more hors d'oeuvres than this.

So I've just

really been to a lot of big parties before.

So just have seen all these before.

Oh, maybe you can help us out.

I don't even know what half these things are.

I do, and all of them.

So I've had all these before at other parties that I've been invited to.

So just been to a lot of parties.

That one has crab in it.

And it should be noted, this is a real credit to Baden Manning.

He is the funny one in a bunch of these sketches, and he also is a perfect service in a bunch of these sketches.

Gets to straighten it up in Bronx Beat and Penelope, and he's great.

And before we move on from Housewarming, that was a wonderful sketch with Kristen Wigg and John Lutz.

And we actually have a voice note from that writer, John Lutz.

Hi, Lonely Islands.

This is John Lutz.

I was a writer on SNL for seven seasons and was there during the same time that the Lonely Island was.

And I was there for the Peyton Manning episode, which actually was one of the busiest episodes of my career at SNL.

I had three sketches in that night.

The first sketch was a Penelope sketch, and it was the first time we'd ever tried Kristen Wigg's character, Penelope.

It's the character that always one-ups what other people are saying.

So if somebody said, I have a dollar bill, she'd say, I was on the dollar bill.

That's my eye.

So

that was the first time we'd ever done that character with Peyton Manning.

And it's always a little tense when you're trying out a character for the first time under the bleachers with Lauren.

But luckily, it did very well that night, and we did around eight or nine or ten more of them throughout the course of my time at SNL.

I also want to say that I feel like it probably went well under the bleachers because Lauren, Andy, you've always made this observation.

Lauren is a real Penelope, right?

I can't stop saying it.

He always is one-upping you.

In fact, just for our listeners, Andy, you be Lauren and I'll be someone.

Okay.

Yeah, so I'm going to go to Paris for the weekend.

Oh, I actually created Paris.

So I was there when it started because I created it and I made it.

Oh, yeah.

Well, I'm excited because I'm going to go to the Olympics.

Oh, yeah.

Well, I'm on the board of the Olympics and I decide who wins.

It's corrupt, and I decided that.

Really good.

Yeah, it's really accurate.

So he likes the character.

Do you think for the 50th, the whole 50th should just be classic SNL sketches, but everybody does it as Lorne?

Yes.

It was fucking fun to watch.

I love that.

I want to take a quick detour to update.

There's two notable things happened in Update.

One, there was a Tim Calhoun.

Tim Calhoun was Forte's slow-talking politician character.

Was that the first Tim Calhoun?

No, I think it was late, maybe the last Tim Calhoun.

He auditioned with Tim Calhoun as well.

Yes.

It's a great Forte slick.

And it sounds a little something like this.

Go, Keith.

Hello.

I'm Tim Calhoun.

Really close.

Is that close?

Really good.

Yeah.

Really close to a microphone.

I got a jab in a car.

I didn't say Yorm.

All right.

Yorm has a writing credit on it.

Which disqualifies him.

I'm going to give you a setup.

Tim Calhoun was mostly one-liners.

Is that a fair way to say it?

Yes.

He mentioned a political name.

I'm going to say that political name from 2000 7, and I'm going to ask everybody here to guess what the punchline was.

Okay.

Jack Abramov.

It's something within the bottom of the bottom.

Something about Jack.

Jack.

What is it?

But I hardly know Abram.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that puts the forte in the one-liner.

Now, we got a bid on late night called You Burnt, and I'm not here to talk about You Burnt, but I will tell you, You Burnt always begins with a picture of a migrating tree frog, and then it is interrupted by a siren that lets people know it's you burnt.

This was stolen from my time at SNL where a migrating tree frog in the key was the signal to anybody who cared to figure it out that it was about to be interrupted.

And I believe I also took that from Amy and Jimmy's update.

Like, I think migrating tree frog might have been like sort of in the key before, for example, Gay Hitler came out.

Andy, you interrupted Update during a Migrating Tree Frog in the Peyton Emanning Show.

Do you know who has?

A naked guy?

Sanjaya.

Oh, Sanjaya.

Yeah, that was a moment.

Sanjaya was a very enthusiastic, not great contestant on American Idol.

Is that am I describing him?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Thank you.

I think so.

I think he was just, everyone loved him.

Was that it?

Everyone loved him.

There's a moment that, having worked on the show, you know exactly what happened, which is it cuts to while you're singing, Wig embraces crying, and you think to yourself, oh, that must have actually happened.

Then it pans to Fred Embraces crying, which, you know, I guess technically is a hyden.

And then it pans to Dan Aykroyd crying.

And that's when you realize, oh, Dan Aykroyd was there, and Lawrence said he wanted to be in something.

But the best part, and it really is a credit to your performance, Andy.

Ooh, I'm listening.

Because it's in line with what I remember about San Jaya.

You're performing, and I think I go, is he really sad or really happy?

It's very much, it is one of those things where until I say it, you don't think about it, but then it's that picture of, is it a really old woman or really young woman?

Smile without the eyes is what I'm guessing.

The yeah, there was a little bit of smile without the eyes.

And a little, like a little, maybe you were a little scared.

A little scared, yeah.

That is my favorite.

That's my favorite Andy look of all time.

What have we got into here?

Yeah, you do a lot of smile without the eyes.

Yeah, you do.

We did a whole sketch called He Likes You.

It was all Smile Without the Eyes.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, we'll get to that later.

I remember he likes you.

Yeah.

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And then, you guys, Halftime.

Oh, yeah.

Which is written with Will Forte and John Lutz, and it's one of the all-time great sketches.

And before we talk about it, here is a voice note from our friend, John Lutz.

The third sketch I got on on the Paint Manning episode was probably one of my favorite sketches I've ever worked on.

And it's the one people still talk about to me when they hear that I've written it.

They love it.

It's the one where he's a dancing coach with Will Forte,

and he's trying to rally the basketball team.

and he plays this piece of music which was a piece of music that I had.

It was a Herb Albert song that I brought to Forte and I said I want to do something with this and he said oh but I've been looking to write a sketch where a coach tries to motivate people in a weird way and it all kind of fell into place where it was just so much fun to write.

Also, watching Forte dance in it was amazing because he performed it the best he'd ever done on the live show.

And that doesn't always happen, but on the live show, he just knocked it out of the park.

And I probably saw him dance it in rehearsals in his office, in his dressing room, probably 30 times.

He just kept doing it over and over and over and over and over just so that he could nail it.

And he did.

All right.

I know we're here to toot our own horns.

No, Yorm?

Okay.

Oh, wait.

Oh, wait.

No, hold on.

Let's wait for it.

One time the word horn was said.

What'd you say?

Oh my god, his phone's locked.

It was ready to go at the end of Seth's memory.

He's really fumbling with it.

It's still happening.

Jesus.

Yeah.

Got it.

Still got it.

And we're not here to toot our own horns.

But I'm going to say maybe.

Well, the most memorable for me sketch of the night is the halftime sketch.

Also, real who's who of the men in the cast at the time.

It's a halftime at a basketball game.

Everybody loads in.

Forte's the coach.

And it's gone badly.

The first half has gone badly.

Peggy Mana gets the first big laugh when he says, basically, I just thought about going back out there and facing those guys in the second half.

And a little bit of P came out.

And people are real happy to hear him say it.

And remember, this was at a time when that had only been said like 50,000 times.

Yeah.

This is a pre, a little bit of pee, a little bit of throw up.

Taking them back.

Yeah, yeah.

No, I just threw up in my mouth.

None of that.

This is before that.

That's all before that.

Yeah.

Basically, Forte's the coach.

plays a song that he claims John Wooden played for him in his high school days when they had the biggest comeback in history.

It's by the Tijuana Brass, right?

It's the Tijuana Brass.

No lyrics, and it's just music, and it's just Forte doing a really funny, half-choreographed, half-improvised dance.

The background basketball players, I feel like, Andy, you might do the best keeping a straight face.

Thank you.

Both Peyton Manning and Keenan Thompson put towels in front of their faces.

Bill has a hand in front of his face most of the time.

And then a sort of classically stoic Fred and a classically stoic Jason have small moments where I feel as though Will has amped it up past where they were prepared for him to go.

Did Andy ever break?

Not that I didn't watch it again.

I will say I wasn't watching it on the highest res.

What do you think, Andy?

What are you going to give yourself?

I think by the end, I actually did.

It was really fucking funny.

It's really funny.

And I don't find Will funny in general.

So it was like, that's saying a lot.

No, he doesn't in general.

As a rule, Andy doesn't play in Will.

I will say the sort of subtext funniest part of the sketch is anytime Fred played an athlete to just fill out a sketch is one of the funniest things.

Like, Fred in a basketball uniform is super funny to me.

And I think Fred would admit that, too.

It's like Halloween.

Yeah, especially if you cross it up with like a high school musical situation.

Yeah, it's real good.

And then it should be noted, so Will does this dance that you sort of think only Will could do.

It seems very unique to him.

And then fucking Peyton Manning gets up and does it great.

I'm feeling it.

He says I'm feeling it.

And it's a really, he's a very, also at no point during the course of this show, in the way that he'd been funny, did you think he would also be physically funny or have moves at all, like dance moves.

And he's great.

And it's, it is one of those everybody cheers sketches.

I feel like everyone's got to go watch this because it's like describing it is like, you really don't get why it's so funny, but it is such a physical, like they are.

I know, I think it's funny.

I think the way I'm doing it is very funny.

I think the way Seth described it is incredibly funny.

It's very funny.

I'm right.

And I also don't think people need to to watch it.

And in fact, I'm wondering why you haven't been laughing more because this is very funny.

All right.

Fine.

Don't watch it.

Because it's going to pale in comparison.

If anything, you're going to be massively disappointed.

Don't watch it.

It's like, just read the book.

Don't watch the movie.

I used to love reading SNL.

The novelization of SNL.

Such a good episode to read.

Stay up late, read it.

There was another sketch.

Later in the show, we're going to stay with the Lutz theme because it was on the porch.

Do you remember on the porch?

Oh, yes.

I can visualize it, but I don't remember what the joke was.

I feel like it's a slow-burn one where people say crazier and crazier things as it goes.

It is basically again, it's one of those really nice in-ones.

By in-one, I mean, there's no cuts in the sketch, it's just the two of them sitting on a porch saying crazy things and taking sips of coffee after each crazy thing.

Right.

You know, I ran into Judy today.

Really?

She was wearing invisible braces.

I hadn't heard that.

Well, I say good for her.

This coffee is so rich and dark.

It's Mexican.

Oh, I saw Rick at the park today.

Oh, really?

Yes, he said he was jogging, but when I saw him, he was sitting on a bench.

Well, he did just have a heart attack.

He was stretching and wearing very short shorts.

I think I saw his butthole.

Well, that's Rick for you.

You know what I'm going to use to fertilize my garden?

Your own poop.

Once again, he mentioned he rode three.

Let's hear John Lutt's take on the porch.

The second sketch I got on on the Peyton Manning episode was one with Kristen Wigg and Peyton Manning again.

But they were on a porch sipping either, I think it was hot cocoa or could have been a hot cider because I think they used a cinnamon stick for a stir.

And basically, they would take sips, long pauses, and they'd say something really outlandish.

And things just got crazier and crazier.

And the pauses got longer and longer.

And it was just a really fun sketch to write because we wrote it in Kristen's office.

And late at night, we were just laughing at the stupid things we would say after we'd take a sip of coffee.

It's literally what we just said.

That was the driest voice note.

Like not a single interesting thing in that.

Well, the first one was good, really good, John.

And the second one, yeah, was a little dry.

I just could have used those.

Now, guys, you know, you're putting me in the jackpot here with John because I said, like, record these voice notes, like, 30 to 90 seconds.

I thought that was pretty good.

I mean, that was.

And then he said, how are these?

And I thought, you know what?

I'll just listen with the guys.

So I didn't know how bad they were.

God damn.

That first one was great.

I honestly thought at some point he was going to be like, and this was for the show Saturday Night Live, which aired on NBC.

Like, oh my God.

He did us a favor.

John, you did great.

Don't listen to Andy if you listen to I like it.

And we wrote it in Wig's office late at night.

There's no description other than that first sketch they wrote.

But they were laughing as they wrote it.

Was that helpful?

Yeah, he had a fond memory.

For me, I could picture Wig really enjoying doing that.

When he said me and Wig were laughing, I've never seen Andy look angrier.

Oh, gosh.

Like, I should fucking hope so.

Otherwise, why put it to the table?

John, thank you so much.

All right, wait.

I just looked at my phone, and there's one more.

There's one more Lutz message, and we're going to wrap it up.

So let's listen to what Lutz has to say.

So I guess what I'm saying is, you know, I had three sketches in the Peyton Manning episode.

And I could also see the flip side of it of how hard it must have been for the Lonely Island to come up with one idea and then do one sketch.

And also, I mean, the genius of it, like, like, I don't even know how they came up with the idea of Peyton Manning throwing a football.

That to me is like, how?

It's the genius of the lonely island and it's the hard work that they do that you really always hear about from them.

That's what I was looking for.

That was that was the thing that was necessary.

I mean, I do think throwing football was a little bit funnier than it gives it credit for.

It was your idea, Seth.

Yeah, kind of, I feel like.

So he's kind of burning you.

Now I'm regretting saying, and then do a fourth message where you burn them.

Yeah, because it was actually a veiled Seth burn.

The other funny part is somehow being called the lonely island is somehow funny to me.

I'm like, oh yeah, I I guess that's what we are.

People do not call us that at the show.

It would be really funny.

Yeah, never once.

It's like, has anybody seen the lonely island?

Never.

I think they did say that about like Good Neighbor, though, when people are like, where are the good neighbor guys?

Right?

Or no?

Maybe people have said guys.

If you say guys, it softens it.

We have a big episode coming up.

What is it?

Shia LaBeouf.

Oh, that's a good one.

Dear Sisters, the episode we're going to talk about.

And look at us.

We got back together.

We got the gang back together.

You guys, we're almost caught up.

Make a gun in theaters July 25th, 2025, or maybe the 18th.

Whoa.

Go see it.

Best thing I've ever made.

I'm so proud of this thing.

See you guys in Paris at the Olympics.

And I just want to say.

On Peacock.

Oh, boy.

When the lads didn't bring it home, it hurt.

Oh, you went to one of that?

Well, I was in foggy London town and the lads almost brought it home.

Oh,

you're talking about the Euro company?

The Euros, yeah.

I was there for the Euros.

I also was at Wimbledon.

That was fun.

Were you at a pub?

I was at a pub when the lads didn't bring it home.

Oh, the lads.

I was having some lemon pepper wet at the Magic City.

And we were watching the lads and really feeling that as well.

Oh, man.

And the pub that I was in in Foggy London Town, they were all like, another round of lemon pepper wet.

That's exactly right.

We were having some fish and chips at Magic City.

All right.

I love you guys.

I'll see you next week.

Love you.

Bye.