Firelight (Taylor Swift)

1h 12m
This week The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers start off with a shocking update for one of their members. Don’t worry he’s okay...more or less. But despite the jokes…it is very serious and we all wish him well. IN ADDITION they talk about the 2009 Twilight-inspired digital short starring a young up-and-coming musician named Taylor Swift. Taylor has been in the news lately for her engagement to the Kansas City Chiefs’ Travis Kelce. And yes we put that in this description for dem clicks! They also talk about Taylor’s episode that started off with her own host-written monologue song and Seth apologizes for not understanding her songwriting skills. And then Andy gets to talk about the first part of one of his favorite recurring sketches Bunny Business. And Akiva shows some clips from Raw Deal with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dirty Harry with a farting dog. All that and more this week!

We love you Jorm!!

Firelight (Taylor Swift) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDmNUY2TKuM&t=1s

The Lonely Island falls off a horse | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWRlVrcz1OI

The Roses Trailer | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkgMaS5gbaA&t=4s

Digman! Season 2 Trailer | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knZyc7cVyhI

The Best of Stath | Stath Lets Flats | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBefactaTzg&t=2s

A Whole Lifetime with Jamie Demetriou | https://www.netflix.com/title/81326176

Sudden Impact Dog Fart | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XEjC8IDmKs

The 14 Best Tennis Scenes in Movies | https://www.vulture.com/article/best-tennis-movies-scenes-ranked.html

Seven Days in Hell Official Trailer | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpsMi3Q2fok

Peyton Manning United Way | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEEYbXVCoT0&t=1s

Frankenstein on Congressional Budget Cuts | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mawve_3NSj4

Taylor Swift Monologue Song | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2twcSFYlt0

Bunny Business | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6CTD0L154s

Horse Play Soundtrack | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VqqYj7UW3U

F1 The Album | https://open.spotify.com/album/2HwRKkEp7jXbxXwcGyZYHK?si=zIvpofUbTPGtaHyJ-nphAA

Special ""Andy's Corner"" piano composition and arrangement by Derek Porter

Not all the clips we mention are available online; some never even aired.

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Transcript

It's the lonely island

and Seth Meyer's podcast.

All right, we're just gonna get into it.

Hey, everybody.

This is Seth, and this is the Lonely Island podcast.

And we've had an incident with one of our members that we want to address right off the top.

Our dear friend Yorma, can we hand it over to you to explain?

I feel like the minute you said with one of our members, everyone was like, I know who it is

no here's the thing

I'm a very active guy as all of all of you guys know

I love

building things and why I do I do have a place up in Connecticut it's like this super old farmhouse it's built in 1739 it's very funky Keith's been there it's uh it's it's a vibe it's like very Calvin Hobbes it's very nice I feel like everybody assumed you like to make like t-shirts with weird things on them I like it

I don't think people jump to like Super Hit.

Right, right.

No, but you build big things there.

And a bear tore down.

I forget what that structure was you built.

Yeah, but

I built like during the pandemic, I built like a, you know, a tree house and a clubhouse and a dog house, like all kinds of shit.

This is the most casual windup for one of the craziest things that's ever happened.

I know.

Yes.

Yeah.

I feel like everybody's like, it can't be that bad.

Yeah.

So, yeah.

So, okay,

I'll try to condense it so it's funnier.

So,

you don't have to, buddy.

So, one of the projects that I wanted to do

this summer was I wanted to build, like, there's a barn, and the back half of the barn has this big white wall.

And I was like, oh, this is great.

We can do a big mural.

The mural would be very, very large at the top.

The apex of this barn is like 25 feet.

I was like, it'll look really cool if the whole thing in a very hippie fashion, very Berkeley, is completely like floor to ceiling is covered.

So I was working on that the the whole time.

Like I borrowed tons of ladders.

I think now people can start to guess where this is going.

So I like I was painting this barn and then I was like, oh, as a like as a final touch, I was like, oh, I should hang these lights that will go around like around the eve of the barn to like highlight the barn.

So I was doing that on the day.

This is right after I got back from LA.

I was doing the commercial with Stephanie.

I

flew back.

And then my daughter's birthday was going to be on a Sunday.

Sunday morning, my wife is like, why are we doing this now?

I was like, oh, well, it's good.

It'll be great.

It's gonna look really nice.

So I'm I'm using this ladder that my neighbor let me borrow and he was like, hey, this ladder is bad.

Like, you shouldn't use this ladder.

Like, it doesn't have like a footing thing.

And I was like, nah, it'll be good.

So then I lean it up against the thing.

I'm almost done with like, I've done most of the house.

When this happens, I'm probably 20 feet off the ground on this very rickety ladder and I have it diagonal.

So, if you can picture that the legs are not good, the base of the ladder is not good.

And that's like the key part you want to be good.

Yeah, my friend Morgan was offering to help me, but I was like, Ah, he's he went inside to get some water.

Oh, man.

So, I'll just do this myself.

So, I felt it give way.

Like, it's, it's starting out to go on, and I'm like, oh no.

Like in this moment, like my life flashes before my eyes, and I'm like, oh, no, I got to get off this ladder.

I literally have enough time as I'm falling to be like, I'm gonna die.

Like, and so I drop, I look over, I like literally see the yard, and I'm like, this is gonna hurt a lot.

And I fall straight on my butt, taking all of the impact on my butt.

Then I do a lot of screaming and cursing.

Keep in mind, it's my daughter's fifth birthday party, so I think so.

That wasn't, you know,

it wasn't the coolest way to start the day.

Oh, no.

And anyway, so I'm like, call an ambulance.

Like, it was very hot, rat, actually.

It was like the moment that the dude broke his femur and like immediately was like, I'm not good.

I'm not good.

Like, so yeah.

Anyway, so and I already feel like sort of numb, right?

So I hit the ground.

I'm tangled up in the ladder.

I'm like, I know something's really bad.

I go, I go to the hospital.

It turns out that I have

shattered my pelvis on my left-hand side

like pretty, pretty badly.

My sacrum has detached from my spine.

By the way, all of this sounds worse than it is.

Have we said, don't we told people he's he's in the hospital bed right now?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm in the hospital bed right now.

Yeah, this is, this is two days post-surgery, right?

And the surgery is, is, uh, well, okay, again, I wonder if at any point people were just, because of how long it took, were like, oh, I hope he's just stuck at the top of a ladder.

So I'm podcasting from the top of a ladder.

That'd certainly be better.

That would be better.

Like Rapunzel.

But

anyway, so a sacrum is shattered as well.

Detached from my spine.

I broke my L5 lumbar, like whatever.

A disc is like bad now.

So they got to chuck that out.

But basically, they have to like figure out, it takes a while to schedule surgery because they wanted to do like the front part and then the back part as well.

And anybody who's had like pelvis stuff happen, apparently, I mean, I do get a lot of credit here, which is nice.

Like everybody who talks to me is like, oh, wow.

Oh, wow.

That's real painful.

So it is truly like the most, I know I'm laughing about it right now, but like it is probably the most rugged thing I will ever experience.

And honestly,

it's been described as life-changing.

But then on the plus side, all the doctors have been like, yeah, but you'll be walking within like three to six months and you'll be back to like all of the stuff that you normally do.

And so

we shall see.

And I think a lot of it's going to have to be a lot of fun.

Was it, was that, were they that positive before the surgeries or was there a more...

The surgery couldn't have gotten better.

But like going into the surgery, was there a chance that it would have taken longer than six months?

Was this like a situation?

No,

I think that that was best case scenario.

Like everyone has said across the board, like, this is just some really fucking painful shit.

And you got, you got to like just do a lot of work.

So I'm just going to have to to like fight through the pain.

I mean, I've already gotten up.

I've I've gone to the bathroom, but I mean, like with help and all that sort of stuff, but I'm gonna have to go to like acute rehab.

And,

you know, it's like, it's definitely no joke.

And I know that this is, maybe it's not the funniest way to start a podcast.

I appreciate your saying it all with a smile on your face, but as someone from afar that has just been hearing about it, it's been horrible.

Like, not for me, but I'm just saying.

It's been a really rough start.

Just to be super clear.

That's kind of why I was sending you guys videos because I was like, you know, I don't want you guys to think I'm, you know, and you are on, I assume, a lot of pain medication right now.

Yes, yes.

But I try to keep it as sarcastic as possible, Keith.

No, and I, and we love you, but I also just want to say that we've all been worried sick.

You already know.

So I'm not saying this for your own sake.

I'm trying to say it for the audience's sake.

Like that it has been a really scary week.

And we're glad that you didn't hit your head and that you're not dead.

Oh, dude.

I'm, I'm, it's so weird to say this, but I'm like insanely lucky.

And then the craziest thing was that like, uh, um, my doctor came in this morning and was like, I was like, oh yeah, if you had hit your heels, like if you'd landed on both your heels, that would have been 10 times worse.

I'm like, 10 times worse.

Like, I didn't, I don't know if pain that, like, that level was possible.

Like, it's like, it's, it's pretty rugged.

To echo Keeve and stress how scared we've all been, there's also that really unique thing when you have a group of friends like ours who have just this pattern of sort of glib sarcastic texting.

When news like this breaks, it takes a minute to just like fully have it register.

What happened?

Because Jeff, our producer, had texted Yorm and I, hey, you guys have to record, one of you has to record those ads today.

And then like we got the text pack was like, hi, this is Mari, who's Yorm's wife.

Hi, this is Mari texting from Yorm's phone.

And then basically gave us the gist of what Yorm just told us, which is

20-foot fall.

Yeah.

There is that question when you're, you know, comedy people, like, how long you let it go before you say something kind of shitty.

Well, I mean, like, don't you think it should be instantaneous?

For me, that was until last night.

Oh, what did you lay on him last night?

We were texting last night, and this is, what, a day and a half, two days post-op?

Yeah.

I said, not sure if this is the best time to bring up, but do we think the door is officially closed on you dunking now?

Right.

And then I immediately panicked and said, dice roll to try a joke this soon.

Apologies if that was too soon.

Honestly, I didn't even remember that me laughing on this pod is like a, oh shit, I read that.

I don't know if I can do that.

It's going to hurt to laugh.

I mean, I think all our listeners will certainly be keyed in to see if your fall has given you sort of now like a limitless style memory.

You know, if everything is flipped.

Actually, I feel like my memory, my memory's been a little bit better.

Like, I certainly remember, there are so many nurses and doctors, and everyone's been so, so nice.

Shout out to Sarah in particular, my nurse.

Hey, shout out to Sarah?

Yeah, she's a shit.

Shout out to everybody over there.

Yeah.

This is not a joke I told you.

And hopefully nobody here thinks it's inappropriate.

And it's not even a joke.

I will just tell you, due to your earworm type success over the years and how much I love your work, that I often, when I think about this horrible thing in my head

here, Jorm fell off a ladder.

Jorm fell off a ladder.

Fuck.

I mean, it's so hard because as a comedy person, so what Seth's reference is that when we did this photo shoot and we may have talked about this.

We've talked about it.

We have horse.

But us falling up

this horse and just being all three of us being so glad that we filmed it.

Like, but it is so hard just as a comedy person not to be like, fuck, I wish I had, like, because my kid immediately asked me, he was like, do you think that it would have been funny to see it if it was on video?

And I was like, yeah, definitely.

Like, without the, without the audio, yes.

I think it would have been hilarious.

Oh, God.

Hurting yourself in a real way.

I tore my ACL and I, I can't remember if I talked to you guys about it, but you immediately do the Will Farrell bit of like narrating your own pain.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like, oh, God, that is so bad.

That is so bad.

Yeah.

It's not, that's, call call an ambulance.

Call me.

And like one time I cut my finger really badly.

And when I think about it, it was with Chester.

We were roommates in college and I cut my finger really bad and I immediately was like, within a week after it happening, imagining how you responded and the things you said immediately is funny to you.

Yeah.

Because it's so heightened and cartoony.

It's, it's also great because it's so, it's so exactly you.

Yeah.

You're like, oh, I guess that's the type of shit.

I guess that's my pure self was like, oh, God, I don't want to lose my finger.

I had early, early early COVID Axel like tripped and hit his like chin on a, on a stone step.

Yeah.

And it was just like a gusher of blood.

Yeah.

And I was losing my mind.

And Alexi was like, he's going to be fine.

I'm like, he's not going to be fine.

And you can't go to the ER because it's fucking COVID.

And then like literally six minutes later, fully cleared up, little tiny scratch.

I was like, God damn it.

Fucking really, really rolled in too hot on that.

Wait, did I tell you guys like, cause this is almost like force majeure level embarrassing where we had this, like, like, grease fire in our apartment in New York, and this fucking toaster was going off.

And I threw a like a greasy rag.

I didn't realize that, like, there was grease on it, sort of thing.

I made it worse.

Fucking flames shoot out of this toaster.

And the first thing I said was, grab the cats, let's get out of here.

Like, and there's people above us in our apartment.

Like, so, like, I'm like willing to like let everyone die, I guess.

And, and, and Mari just closes the door of the toaster oven.

The oxygen goes out and it turns off.

But I had just said,

I just revealed,

I just revealed who I was as a person.

I was like, oh, I guess, or that.

You could do that too.

Oh, yeah, no, you're right.

Because oxygen and whatnot.

Fucking boggers.

We're all hilarious cowards.

Oh, totally.

More importantly, how are you guys?

Like, how's everyone doing?

Thanks for checking in.

Yeah.

So sick.

Do you want to stay on for this whole thing, Yorgi?

Or you maybe want to.

Yeah, I mean, I, dude, I probably should bounce because I do have to get into regimens of taking drugs and whatnot.

We weren't expecting you to come on the cast at all, post-breaking every bone in your midsection.

I also just want to show a certain level of dedication to be like, this is what it takes.

This fucks me in perpetuity now because that's my goal.

Anytime I'm like, oh, I can't.

And you're going to be like, why?

Are you in the hospital?

Are you bedridden?

Back in three places.

Yeah.

How many metal rods did you just get put into your butt?

You're already trying to figure out how expensive it's going to be to build a hospital bed set.

Just so you can send us pictures of a little backdrop.

We're like, we want to see your feet.

I actually broke three pedelvices.

Pelvi.

Pelvi.

Oh, shit.

All right, Yormi, we love you.

Yes, I will probably jump off.

You know what?

Next week, though, I think I'll be able to make it because I'm not doing much, guys.

Do hate to be this guy.

Yeah.

Feel like a thank you is in order for the fact that after I got that text from your wife, I did the ads.

Oh, my God.

Oh, you know what?

That's the real reason.

I mean, again, we can do it, or we can do it next week, or whatever.

That's the real reason I got on, Seth.

It was just a thank you for doing the ads.

If this had happened to any of the rest of us, we would not be on this pod.

So Jorm really has trumped us.

Yorm loves you.

Yorm is really, I mean, you're general of the the Quake Army.

It's official now.

Yeah.

Well, we love you.

We've already talked to you off.

This isn't, you know, we don't need a podcast to publicly do things like, I don't know what you call it, performative, weird shit.

I'm going to do it.

We're trying to shuffle you off the pod now for you to get the care you need.

Jorm, we love you.

You're our brother.

We're so glad you're okay.

This is me being performative.

Thank you.

Okay, so you're cool with the performative stuff.

It's the being performative, but I mean it.

So it doesn't matter.

It counts.

I just got a really good good Instagram post ready.

We're going to get so many likes.

It's going to be so.

Oh, yeah.

What if you're not going to be able to do that?

Here's the thing.

Here's the thing.

Like, we also talked about how, like, I wasn't really involved in this episode, right?

Yeah.

Oh, Firelight.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So you maybe timed it intentionally this way.

I did.

I did.

Yeah.

You were like, oh, should I climb the ladder?

Well, I wasn't really involved in Firelight.

In the ambulance, I was like, oh, thank God.

I was just checking text from Kim.

I mean, it does seem like, I mean, I mean, I feel like, I mean, obviously not a happy Gilmore amount of time, but like a hot rod too where Kevin falls off a ladder

does feel like certainly like Act 1.

Kevin does seem like a character that would have like a rear window situation.

You guys heard it here first.

Seth hated Happy Gilmore too.

What the hell?

Dude.

Oh, clicks.

Just because you are shirt doesn't mean we don't need him.

Kick.

Oh my God.

I'm so excited about this turn.

Clicks, bro.

He's the clicks guy.

A lot of people in the comments have realized that Andy is now just a full podcast guy.

I love pods.

I love press and I love pods.

All right, we love you, Jorn.

Love you, buddy.

Love you too.

I'll talk to you guys soon.

All right.

Love you, Yorn.

All right.

Bye, dude.

Bye, guys.

Seth, do we want to throw to commercial regroup and then firelight it?

Let's throw to a commercial.

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All right, welcome back, everybody.

While Yorn was talking, you were texting me, Andy, about how, when are we going to talk about my movie that's coming out?

I was not.

And I was like, now it's not appropriate.

Just wave, we'll do a commercial and we'll regroup.

I never said that, but I will say I did text you while he was talking and said he's not condensing it,

but that it's okay because he's clearly on a ton of painkillers.

He's like, let me try and tell it in a way that condenses it.

And I was like, oh, here we go.

I thought he did fantastic for the record because Mari texted me right before he jumped on.

He's very dizzy and out of it.

I couldn't.

Keith.

So he was actually very good.

It's gallows humor, baby.

Yeah.

I can't believe he came on at all.

When he said he was going to, I was like, please don't.

That's insanity.

And then he was just a pure joy.

Yeah.

He had a smile on his face the whole time.

But it is funny to rip on a guy who just had surgery and is on major painkillers for not keeping it brief.

Yeah.

Only when that person is Yorm.

Of course.

It was.

I was referring to the fact that you have a movie, Roses, coming out, Andy.

I'm very excited to see it.

Yeah, it was.

It did sort of extend the tale of Frisbee Press.

It did.

It is.

And Roses, when this, by the time people hear this, is out.

Great.

Yeah.

Yeah, I got to talk a lot more about Frizz, which was nice.

Yeah.

And we were saying Andy did Digman press right into Roses Press.

So he's just out there a lot right now.

Yeah.

Feeling a little exposed, frankly.

Do you feel like the questions have gotten a little bit better?

And I'm just saying that because, look, look, there was some like TikTok-y video stuff where like Kate was asking you questions, our friend Kate McKinnon.

Yeah.

And they were good questions and it was actually good content.

And I know we give like we bust on like press tour stuff all the time, but I felt like there was some fun stuff.

I think people have gotten better.

I mean, getting to do it all with Kate and then a tiny bit with Benedict and Olivia was wonderful.

It's what you want.

You can do things that are actually hypothetically funny and fun.

Yeah.

Andy, for people that don't follow what movies are coming out, will you give me the 30-second, tell me who's in this movie and how big your player is?

The Roses?

Yeah.

The Roses is Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Coleman are starring in it.

Me and Kate McKinnon play their friends.

We play a married couple.

And it's written by Tony McNamara, who wrote Poor Things and The Favorite and created the show The Great.

And it's directed by Jay Roach, who you probably have heard of because he directed all the Austin Powers and Meet the Parents movies.

And it was an absolute treat to make, and I really like it, and it's out.

Check it out.

And it's why you were in Foggy London Town.

That is why I was in Foggy London Town shooting.

Yeah, when I was in Foggy London Town, it's because I was there shooting this.

I also want to shout out because I was texting Andy about him today.

Jamie Demetrius in the movie.

Oh, yeah, Jamie's the best.

Super funny British actors in a great show, which I think is on whatever they call HBO streaming platform now.

Stathets Flats.

Stath Let's Flats, which is an A-plus show.

He also has a really funny comedy special, which I think is on Netflix.

Yes, it's great.

And yeah.

So I'm very excited.

And you were in New York, but it was heartbreaking because I wasn't.

And we were very, we were very upset to not.

I did end up getting dinner with Shoemaker and some other buds, which was great.

And Seth, you helped me get a res.

And then you paid for dinner, even though you weren't there.

Whoa, from afar?

Yeah.

Did they now?

Did they say who paid for it when they brought it over?

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

You want to tell everybody?

Oh, they didn't say.

I asked them to say that Frisbee bought dinner.

Oh, they did not say that.

Oh, they blew the the bit.

They blew the bit.

They blew the bit.

That was,

I did want them to make a big show of, but again, like, I'd already had to, like, completely bend the knee to get a resurrection at that point.

I can't believe that.

I'm not going to say where we ate, but I will say we ate a burger, prime rib, and a French dip.

Yeah.

You figured out.

Pretty sure anyone in the New York area can figure that out pretty quickly.

Yeah.

It was so good.

And thank you, buddy.

Even though they blew the bit, it was such a nice night.

I mean, again, the act was more important than the bit.

It would have been great if I was like, oh my God, thanks for the res.

Oh, my God.

Also, I I want to pay.

Also, can you wear these little ears?

And can the rest of the staff make ghost noises?

But by the way, I mean, not to rewind, but the whole time we were there, we're just thinking about the fact that Yorm is like going through surgery.

Yeah, yeah.

And like, we were there, you know, the other folks we were there with, Jake Zymansky, Brandon Trost are both friends of Yorm's also.

And we were all like.

toasting to Yorm and being like, I hope he's fucking okay.

And the whole press days, it was all happening in the background.

And it was so fucking stressful and scary um so we're just so so happy is all right yeah yeah today is definitely the first day last night and today where where it feels at all safe in any way By the way, if it was me, it would be another month before I would acknowledge anything else on planet Earth.

Yorm's just so bounce back, Teflon guy and wants to be social.

And he just is out there.

He is, I mean, if...

Man of the people.

If an optimistic outlook is important for this kind of recovery, I mean, he is the best of us.

Yeah.

You know, for that.

Of the four of us, I'd say he would definitely take falling and breaking his pelvis the best.

Yeah, definitely.

Definitely, definitely.

So back to New York, a lot of Kwaid armies hurled at me out there.

It's a real Kwaid Army city.

And again, you're amongst the people again.

It felt real nice.

So anyone who hit me with a Quaid Army, I appreciate it.

It made me look real cool in front of my peers.

Humber Bash is your peer?

Well,

comedically.

What about on the payroll side?

I guess it depends on the project.

Are we talking like Doctor Strange or anything else?

The Roses?

All of them know.

Okay, good.

Great.

I have a clip.

This is a really short clip.

It's Arnold.

That's why I think.

And just see if you can guess what movie this is.

If either of you can guess, I don't know what you'll get.

Joseph P.

Brenner, what's a peace stand?

Pussy.

Excuse me?

I'm sorry, what was that?

The music, the music dropping and the scene moving on.

Yeah.

And the guy just rolling with it.

He was fine with it.

And he's all, you're in.

He has the round.

He gets my point that you're approved.

What is the context?

And then he, and then he just walks away and those violins, those big, all the all the string sections.

He nailed it.

What movie is it?

The movie is called Raw Deal.

Oh, I remember Raw Deal.

Early Arnold.

Yeah, with the slip back.

I don't remember the context or what has happened in the movie.

I was going through, I tried right before I got on here.

I had 10 extra minutes and I was like, I'm going to find, I wanted to find the dog farting that we talked about from Dirty Harry to present it to you guys.

Yeah, yeah.

And I didn't find that, but I found this random one that I

want to believe that was an Arnold improv on the spot.

It's hard, though.

It's all set up.

But no, what if it was like, what if they had other people?

What I'm saying for he's like, payback to a bitch.

Right.

And then he's like, could I do one for me?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And they're like, I think pussy is pretty good.

The smirk on his face, he liked it.

They We'd probably use that one.

And the guy's just like, all right.

Yeah,

they didn't tell him, and that guy rolled with it.

Great.

They're in the attic.

He walks away.

Wow, I don't remember that.

Dude, that was all Arnold.

Yeah.

I mean, it doesn't make sense, but it's fine, right?

Yeah, people will remember it.

Okay, Jeff's saying he just found a YouTube clip of the dog farting.

Do you?

Are you guys curious to see it?

Yeah.

Oh, man.

You know, I've never seen a dog fart before, so let's check this out.

Oh, you seem to be all right.

I'm fine, but you better get it together.

Quiet.

The clip should have gone another shot, I think.

He tells the dog to be quiet and it far turns around,

exposing its anus to camera, and then lays a fake fire.

Big old dog dick, too.

I think Clint Eastwood has one other line or a look after that.

There's no way it doesn't cut to the next scene.

It's good that you mentioned it, Seth, because we were all thinking it.

That's Sandra, that's Sandra Locke, the actress, and they were a long-term couple, Clinton and her.

It's from Sudden Impact, which I think is the fifth one.

Yeah, where they're just like.

I'm willing to wager that that fart wasn't in the script also.

I'm going to guess they had footage of the dog.

It wouldn't face forward.

It kept turning away from camera.

And the editor was like, you know what?

I'm just going to roll with it.

Yeah, they actually famously had one of the editors from Tim and Eric Awesome show, Good Job.

They said an impact.

And yeah, and they would just find the comedy out of the dog.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There was one edit of it where the dog farted like 17 times in a row in succession the same clue.

Every time they said, quiet, they used every take of them saying quiet.

So they went, quiet, and then it went, fart, quiet, fart, quiet.

And the dog went, spaghett.

Fuck.

Andy, real quick.

Yeah.

Did you see Vulture top 14 tennis scenes in movie history?

No.

All right.

Would you be surprised to know Seven Days in Hell made a list?

I would certainly hope it did.

How many tennis things are?

That would be interesting.

Yeah, okay.

How many tennis things are there even?

Well, congratulations.

Seven Days in Hell, which is a real reminder to me.

Cause I have a lot of friends with kids now who like your work.

Right.

And they like that the podcast is pointing sort of Brooklyn 99 fans towards the digital shorts.

Right.

I'm excited to say, oh, well, guess what?

Your next class is Seven Days in Hell.

Yeah, except it's not for kids.

Well, that's what I mean.

I feel like once they get through the shorts, it's like, you know what I mean?

Like Brooklyn 9-9 kids who then do, you know, they get through Jizz in My Pants and whatnot.

And then it's like, now it's time.

Jizz in My Pants famously is for kids.

Well, right, because

Seven Days in Hell

is full-on, yeah, dirt fest.

It's HBO all day.

What number do we land?

11.

So seven landed at 11 out of 14.

Yeah, that's correct.

Now, did they not put Challengers first just because it's too recent and

they didn't want to have a recency bias?

And so they thought they had to bury it.

100%.

Literally, what they said in the entry was: the only thing that's keeping this is number one is: we think everybody will blame us for recency bias.

But it's very clearly.

It should be number one.

It should be number one.

What was number one?

Blowout, that Antonini movie that

fuck Antonini.

But in the same blowout, it's great.

It seems seems like an arty tennis scene of like mimes playing tennis, like miming tennis.

And then is it the, what was it, Paul Bettany and Dunst movie?

That made it.

That beat, that beat Samberg.

That's Wimbledon.

You beat Annie Hall.

That's insane that they beat us, though.

Wimbledon beat Seven Days in Hell.

Go to hell.

Oh, Annie Hall, but that's just like a scene, isn't it?

Yeah, they give it Annie Hall.

And what's his other tennis movie?

Matchpoint.

Yeah, that.

They put those like 12 and 13.

Annie Hall's, they're like playing in those indoor courts, right?

Yeah.

And then kind of the same in Squid and the Whale.

Was that also on there?

Squid and the Whale, very high.

Yeah.

Maybe three.

Rushmore.

Oh, yeah.

When he has the meltdown on

so good.

Isn't that Ten and Bombs?

Oh, Tennon Bombs.

You're right.

Seth.

All right.

I blame Seth.

Battle of the Sexes.

Yeah.

Oh, sure.

So, yep.

It's going to be good tennis movies and some fun times.

That's fun.

Yeah.

You know what I say is tennis is like a relationship.

Oh, in what way?

Well, this is a new take.

Keep going.

We want to hear more about this.

Yeah.

Just like the conversation between you and your opponent, the mind games and the back and forth.

You know, the back and forth.

Yeah, exactly.

It's a conversation.

It's a relationship.

Keep your angles covered, that sort of thing.

Every time me and Andy play at the end, I jump over the net and I kind of spread eagle my arms and legs and I land in his arms and he catches me.

But he knows it's coming, so he's like got his center of gravity right.

He throws his racket to the side and he

and we hug it out.

Keeve, did you know that Seth has another version of that?

What's that?

Seth says tennis is like a relationship because once you score, there's no more love.

Damn.

That's really good.

I mean, I know I say it, but it still makes me make that noise when I hear it.

I'm just so proud of myself for coming out.

Kind of disgusting.

That's your personality, dude.

I don't know what to tell you.

I love it.

That it has always been and still is and always will be your personality.

Hey, this is Andy.

I'm interrupting the pod wherever is deemed fit.

No one asked me if I got Queen Bee on the pod when we recorded, and I did.

So I just wanted to make sure that that was covered.

I'm not sure.

I'd leave it to our crew and our whole team to drop it in wherever they think is appropriate.

But yeah, I quibbied.

Thanks for nothing, everybody.

You are meer off the hook, obviously, for this one.

The Twilight movies were giant movies.

Taylor Swift was and is now even a bigger star.

And yet we're, once again, just not racing into the short.

No, we're not.

Keeve, do you want to congratulate Taylor and Kelsey and get some of that?

Apologize

Well, people have been next to the Frisbee passing away, people were like, I wonder what the take's going to be from this pod.

Yeah.

And it's just a hearty congratulations.

Yeah.

Seth, you want to congratulate him?

Maybe double down on our odds of some clicks?

I mean, a hearty congratulations indeed for me as well.

I almost feel, you know, and again, I know the two are not connected, but was Frisbee's death in some way sort of a cosmic tipping point for their love to bloom?

See, now we're crossing some click streams.

Yeah, a little bit of click world that I'm wanting.

I want

a little credit

crossing that click face.

Yeah, well, you heard it here first.

Seth thinks Frisbee's death was the reason that Taylor and Travis got engaged.

Cosmically.

I don't think they heard about it.

I just think those who pulled the strings in the cosmos,

yeah.

Yeah, energy is finite.

Yin yang-wise, without a zero-sum game, it moves around in mysterious ways.

Yeah, Frisbee's positive energy returning to the void was then available

for the Kelsey Swifts.

That's airtight.

Airtight.

And that's, I think, a perfect segue into this week's short firelight that Seth wrote.

This is another Seth Akiva Calabo.

We did.

There's only a few in the whole course of the thing.

We had the Peyton Manning United Way.

Am I forgetting maybe me helping on one of those monologues or something?

Yeah.

This, I will say, I remember the beginning of this, which is really fun.

I was a little disappointed in my failure to find like a fun second or third beat because the air comes out of it because it's really just kind of beat for beat, the actual Twilight trailer.

I haven't re-watched it.

Do I need to?

Well, let's watch it.

Here's another question.

Yeah.

Do we need a Seth's corner if you're the architect of the short?

No, we do not.

I've talked about this a lot with our producers.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

I was begging for it and they shut me down.

You were mulling this all week.

They're like, bro, you're the main event, brother.

Yeah.

But did Pain Manning from the United Way have the SNL digital short logo?

Yeah.

Okay.

Did.

And thank you.

Thank God.

Yeah.

Because otherwise it was just fucking lobster claw.

I had to do something to get myself out of that fucking jackpot I put myself in.

But here's the thing.

Taylor Swift's really good.

Her Christmas story is really good.

She kind of keeps biting her lip in a way that's really fun.

Hater.

Great Frankenstein makeup across the board.

Andy, you're in it twice.

Oh.

Any guesses as to it?

Two different characters, you mean?

Yeah.

Oh, it's exciting.

One's going to be the Taylor Lautner role, maybe.

Yeah, but what's he?

Because remember, Taylor Lautner in the movie is a werewolf.

So what's Andy in this?

Oh.

A dog?

No.

A mummy?

A mummy, yeah.

And your name is Lomax, which is just such a fucking funny thing to just give you your name of a character you tried to get on that you couldn't.

Yeah, you had to be like, here's your Lomax.

You're like, but he's a mummy now.

Like, that's not Lomax, though.

All right, so I'm watching it today, Keeve, and we're going to watch it together.

I'm watching it today, and I'm just kind of like disappointed at like Andy is,

Andy shows up as a mummy, and like, I know that's because, oh, Taylor Lauderner was a werewolf.

So in a Frankenstein movie, Andy would be a mummy.

But then, like, I don't come up with anything funny for Andy to do, even just like,

we should have him walking.

You know what I mean?

Like, there's no, I just feel like.

It's just the ideas on parade of like, what if Twilight was instead of this, it was this.

So what are the other monsters?

Then none of the fun of like, and then because it wasn't like somebody was saying, like, but don't do any comedy on top of it.

Yeah, yeah.

So, this is just a little soft.

It's a little soft.

And Joram, again, as we said, picked a great week to not be on the pod because I can't, I have no memory of what he was doing.

He was probably writing something.

No, because I see, I don't, I'm looking through the rundown.

I don't see what, I don't see what he was up to.

Again, saying picked is pretty loaded, but yeah.

We'll get to this.

We'll get to this, but bunny business wouldn't exist without firelight because this opened up the space for bunny business.

That's my point.

And that's what I'm kind of getting at is that you have Taylor Swift, massive.

Twilight, massive.

You got Keeve at the helm, looks great.

And yet I don't think about it at all.

And I think about Bunny Business all the time.

I think about Bunny Business all the time.

I watched them both back to back today.

Yeah.

Bunny Business is so rad.

Well, thanks.

I love Bunny Business.

And we went on to do Horse Sense and one other one even, I think.

Was it Horse Sense?

It wasn't like Horse Play or something?

Horseplay.

I mean, what does Horse Sense mean?

No, you can have a horse sense about something.

Isn't that a good thing?

Horse Sense is a thing.

Yeah.

Okay.

It's a thing.

It's just not what we chose, you know.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We chose horseplay because it was horses playing baseball.

Oh, right, right, right.

Yeah, it's a colloquial phrase from the late 1800s that's still used fairly often today.

Horse sense.

I think I had it on my mind because there's a movie called Horse Sense.

Sound practical judgment.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I feel like it wasn't Horse Sense.

I mean, Bunny Business, right away, people know what that movie's going to be.

Horse Sense, Disney.

Okay.

That one's probably interesting because it's probably about horses and it's kind of a play on words.

Let's just say I've seen it and it wasn't my choice.

Oh, you've seen it.

Oh, right.

There's a lot of horses in your house.

Yeah, my daughter likes movies with horses in them.

So I saw a later career Joey Lawrence tearing it up.

Wow.

What was his horse movie?

Horse Sense, bro.

God damn it, Seth.

It's like, you fucking hate my guts, dude.

oh god damn that was joey lawrence in the picture you just showed us yeah i mean they were in profile and he was a lot older i thought it was a young sam neil for what it's worth i'm sure both of them would be flattered to hear that yeah why not i mean look joey lawrence i think you lost track of after blossom yeah totally but not me what did he say when he wanted the horse to slow down

man whoa

man i was thank you i mean i just had to i it was hard for me i was like i gotta get out of the way of this one because this is like watching magic at work oh you mean do one of my main best impressions?

Yeah.

Let's just say me and Keith hook each other up.

Do you think that's why they cast it?

No joke.

They were like, What is the character saying when he's teaching horse thing?

It's like where he's, you can't even see his mouth.

He's just like a wide shot of a stunt guy on a horse going, whoa, whoa.

Do you think a producer was like reading it, like, you know, spouse in bed next to the producer?

They're just like reading the script and they see that like, whoa, is in it a lot.

And then the next morning they're like, is this crazy?

Yeah, you've been.

Is this the the craziest idea for those that don't know the sitcom blossom from the 80s or 90s uh joey lawrence was the heartthrob kind of guy on it yeah and he played the kind of dumb guy and his catchphrase was whoa right and then blossom's uh catchphrase was i'm gonna host jeopardy remember i do remember her saying that yeah she kept saying that she kept being like i have this theory about how the universe was created

um there was like this interview this somebody posted recently and it was uh sam neal and jeff goldman were getting interviewed together talking about Jurassic Park and Sam Neal's like I remember we had the premiere was in England and I sat next to Princess Diana and my son was on the other side of me and the whole movie he was just ripping like the foulest farts

and i was just like watching the movie like devastated that she thought it was this was what she was smelling and that she would think it was me yeah and then it's like this really long story and at the end and it's that great thing when you read an interview and somebody like it's like a whole paragraph and then the other person just has one line, and it's Goldbloom's like, and I'm just so impressed that all these years later, Sam's still trying to pin it on his kid.

It's really good, perfect.

Two dudes that are good times.

Um, all right, so I'd like to talk more about bunny business than Firelight, but again, it's fine, it's fine.

Can I pitch something?

What can I pitch something?

Yeah, let's go into Firelight and then maybe Andy's Corner.

Great.

Oh, love it.

Good.

We'll switch them ups.

All right.

I'm going to play this.

Who's that?

Who?

Him?

No.

Them.

Those are the Franks.

They don't hang out with anyone else.

But you were also a fake out Edward Cullen.

Yeah.

It does look better than I was expecting right off the bat.

That looks great.

And we're cutting in footage from the actual trailer, which was a yeah, those drone shots.

Wait, Keeve, you didn't get the helicopter shot of the forest.

You fucking cop-out artist guy.

But even this, I'm impressed with how because I was just doing stupid color correction using rudimentary tools.

I'm impressed that I even was able to get it this close.

And we're just in the NBC commissary.

Good job focus.

He's cute.

That's Philip.

Don't bother.

Listen,

don't bother.

Stella, please sit with Philip.

Wait, wait, wait.

Was that a plate?

Or did you build that set?

I think we built the set this time.

It looks identical to the movie.

It's amazing.

It's really amazing how good it looks.

And as we talked about for the movie awards episode, how bizarre it is that we are recreating this scene a second time.

Yeah.

I mean, I wasn't.

You guys were, but yeah.

Well, we recreated the other half of it because in the movie awards, the Troy Miller one was using footage from the movie for this angle that we're staring at right now.

Right.

And then it was a reverse angle we faked.

Right.

Just like in terms of like timeline, I did it before Seth.

But okay, so let's keep going.

Oh, I see.

I see.

Yeah.

Let's just keep going because now that that's settled and no one could disagree.

That's just the truth.

Hey.

Hey.

But it is shooting that direction in the scene again with Taylor again, but now playing a different part.

Yeah, correct.

Yeah, that's all right.

Sorry.

Everybody knows.

It's just Twilight Mania.

We were all there.

It is odd.

Hey, everyone.

Turn on your buns and burners.

Yeah, Frankenstein's scared of fire, Seth.

Frankenstein's scared of fire.

By the way, no problem with the first minute of the sketch.

Now, I don't know if I was worried because I think Phil Hartman's Frankenstein is one of the funniest SNL sketches of all time.

Quite good.

That going back to the fire well too many times would be infringing on that, but clearly that's the move.

There's no more fire in the course of this whole thing.

No, and that is a legit laugh.

And Bill, obviously, great at playing.

That's great.

And it's because it takes you out of like the way they act in Twilight.

Moody, the moody over dramatic sexiness.

And so I'm just so disappointed watching again.

And also, like, I got Andy shows up as a mummy, and like, there's no, like, that's clearly a moment.

Oh, let's see it.

I, well, yeah.

I know what you are.

Your skin is green you have bolts in your neck you freak out or on fire say it out loud

frankenstein

yeah they know it's not a joke why won't you kiss me because when i kiss people i tend to accidentally choke them to death i want you to try

I like that we use the footage of him climbing her up a tree and just put them up at the top of a tree.

Like, what the fuck is happening here?

Yeah,

they're zooming up a tree.

So last two beats were just doing stuff from the movie too much, right?

Yeah, there's no, and again, like, and it's not gonna get better.

We found a normal blind man strangled to death.

Looks like it was an accident.

Strangled by accident.

Hey, hey, Lomax.

Also good.

So you're hanging with Philip Frank now?

What do you have against the Franks?

Just

be careful.

Now, I watched that.

Like, she closes the locker.

You're a mummy.

Literally, today I'm watching it and I'm like, you say just be careful, which is, again, not a joke.

And then it just cuts.

I'm like, why didn't you then walk away and we see that you accidentally got one of your things caught in her locker and you just

start unraveling and you're like

anything

anything to do the rest of this the joke is the breaking of the the tension that is so overwrought yes the joke is not that we like are doing frankenstein for vampire she could have just been like oh your bandages smell like shit anything would have worked yeah

i do believe i'm gonna strangle someone by accident

that's not mad and i mean but it is relying on the repetition of accidentally strangle someone's funny it's fine it's just relying on the fact that everyone has seen the movie so it's a little cheap because you're just being like remember this part of the movie?

What if it was this part now?

You are my life now.

You're choking me.

Sorry.

Snacks, bed.

Okay.

I would love another shot at it.

That's what I'm going to say.

Were you on set, Seth, when we were shooting?

No, no.

Because actually, that's my fondest.

I don't have any, like, you know, anything to get those clicks, but that's my fond memory of it, actually, is that because we're really in a forest.

I have no clue where it was because I just got into the car and they're like, yeah, there's a forest.

But when you go to the house.

And they put a hood on your head.

When you go to SNL shoots, they do put a hood on your head.

They always, they always put the kidnap hood on.

And then you're magically at a forest.

But that was exciting alone, just to be, you're stuck in Manhattan all the time.

And all of a sudden, we were just in a real forest with a study cam.

And my dad was visiting randomly and had nothing to do because it was just him visiting alone.

And so he just came.

So I have these really fond memories of being in a forest.

And then Taylor, you know, she's, she brings her mom almost everywhere.

Right.

So her mom and my dad

straight up made out.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

But you never have parents on set ever.

Yeah.

And then we had two parents just like having craft, eating some sandwiches and like sitting in chairs.

And we would both go back to be like, how you doing, dad?

How you doing, mom?

Need anything?

Okay.

And it was very adorable having parents on set, not just one, but two.

Taylor, already, obviously, I keep saying this, already a huge deal, nowhere near as stratospheric as she is now.

And was over the course of that week, I wasn't on that set, was such a delight to be around and such a pro.

Agreed.

We had a lot of fun.

And then before Bunny Business, do you want to talk about the monologue thing?

Because I remember that's my only other memory.

I've talked about it.

I feel like I've talked about it on so many podcasts.

So to be brief.

I was there.

I was in that room.

When she came in.

Oh, yeah.

So you can speak to this because I'm glad somebody is there to sort of support my memory of it, which is she came in and said, I wrote a monologue song or she told me I wrote a song for the monologue.

And I said, great.

And she said, can I play it for you guys?

And I remember I've always felt my true nightmare in life is to be in a room where somebody close to me is playing guitar and singing a song while looking at me.

Literally.

So when it's the host that you have to keep in a really good mood, so the last thing you want to be is like, sorry, your song isn't good enough.

We're going to write something else.

So you're just dreading like, oh my God, how are we going to get out of this?

Shame on me, right?

Like I'm already jumping ahead to when the song's over and me being like, yeah, I mean, I think we'll do that.

And then maybe we'll work on something.

Like just already.

You've been working at the show a while, though.

Not shame on you.

Like,

you encounter every version of this at some point when you work there sometimes it works out sometimes it's not i just underestimated uh which would not be a mistake i would ever make again with her her incredible acumen as a songwriter and knowing exactly what the assignment was and writing a perfect song for the occasion yeah now you would have no doubts you would just know but she was like 20 and i was in there being like oh i'm so glad i'll get to be the one being like i don't know why they're not using it it's so good

i have no responsibility I do remember in front of her, she sang the song, and I went over to the phone and I called the writers who were working on the monologue.

And I was like, She just ate your fucking lunch.

There we go.

Whatever you're doing.

Pens down, everyone.

Rolling it, pencils down.

So you've told the story too much, but just the really fast reason is she came in, she played the song for us, and it is literally what the monologue is.

Like zero changes.

We just sat there, and it was an entire song that was her opening monologue.

We were like, okie-dokie.

that's it.

I really do believe Lauren was like, Yep, that's it.

I think it was just me, you, Lauren, and Higgins.

Yeah,

I like glitter and sparkly dresses, but I'm not gonna talk about that

in my monologue.

I like baking and things that smell like winter, but I'm not gonna talk about that.

In my monologue,

la la la,

la la la,

I like writing songs songs about douchebags who cheat on me, but I'm not going to stay back

in my monologue.

I like writing their names into songs so they're ashamed to go in public, but I'm not going to stay back.

In my monologue.

She

received the news very kindly and had to run.

I think she had to then go run down and rehearse something else.

And yeah, the four of us all sat there and we're like, were it always so easy?

Yeah, Lauren didn't have to be like, well, we'll consider it and we'll keep our writers working on other ideas just in case.

Truly never happens.

Never happens.

Yeah, because again, he said it.

It was like page to card.

It was like that joke we always make of like take it to cards.

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Great.

Just have Wally start writing it up.

And when Wally heard it, did he just fucking bust one in his jeans?

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Oh, that means another one's coming.

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Right, Jorm?

Oh, yeah, darling.

All right, bunny business.

You have an uh, Andy and Andy Corner's.

Oh, yeah.

Uh, Andy Corner.

Andy's corner.

Let's get excited.

It's a corner that we're rarely in because Andy's always doing digital shorts.

But this week he wasn't, so we had a time to work with Klein.

Finally,

it happened to you.

I just searched Bunny Business and horseplays right underneath it.

Horseplay?

Oh, that's definitely as common as horse sense.

Hit us in the titties, everybody, because I think it is.

Kick us in the titties if you think it isn't.

Hit us in the tittis.

If you think it is.

Well, all right.

So first of all, this is the first one of what will become a triptych, correct, Andy?

I want to say, yeah.

Well, what's the third?

At least two.

Horses playing baseball, and then there's a dog one.

We'll get there.

There's a courtroom one, maybe, or is this that one?

No, there's a courtroom.

This is not it.

This is bunny business.

These are bunnies who are in an office.

Yeah, yeah.

They're in pantsuits and they're in an office.

So there, it's a little bit, I mean, you, every song in this, it's a commercial for an album for an animated film.

It's a commercial for the soundtrack, but you know, this was a moment in time where there were a lot of like commissioned soundtracks where a lot of original songs were written for a soundtrack for a movie.

Yes.

Like F1.

Sure.

And

you didn't like the F1 soundtrack, Andy?

It was basically like six different steps of backing into me wanting to sing like Robert Smith for like 15 seconds.

Right.

Well, let's think about it because this one's Adam Durritz.

Adam Durritz.

Sorry.

So not then, then Robert Smith.

And then was there, who was the third one you did?

Boy George?

No.

No.

There was one of them where I was doing Morrissey at dress, and then we switched it between dress and air, and I can't remember which one it was.

Right.

What do you call this format, Beth, where everyone in the cast gets the shine?

I call it an impression parade, Keith.

Yeah, an impression parade.

It's an impression parade.

It's really great because each of the songs, we're only hearing clips from songs.

The most any of them are is like four four lines I think maybe Taylor gets a little bit longer for hers um and then also we know there's songs about uh doggy duty was the third one dogs which dogs and quarters are very funny like Jerry and uh you keep saying that the bunnies are wearing pantsuits and there's multiple references to the fact that they're sending faxes

should we watch it yeah i got it ready all right let me load it up and then we're gonna listen to the f1 soundtrack start to finish.

Start to finish.

This fall, there's only one movie that has kids hopping for joy: Bunny Business.

The story of a couple of bunnies with a lot of ambition.

And before you see the movie, buy the soundtrack, featuring an original song by Randy Newman.

Okay, let's stop.

So the graphics don't look like an animated film.

No.

But

we.

We'd have to look at the original script.

They look so shitty.

We wrote the sketch Tuesday night.

It was read on Wednesday.

It wasn't picked until Wednesday night late.

So, this was what, at this moment in human history at SNL,

this is what came back.

And I believe when we met with everyone on it, we were like, Yeah, we want it to look like a real animated feature that's coming out.

And I don't blame anyone involved.

They did great for the time constraint and for the technology available.

But looking at it now, it's so funny to be like, Yeah, this is a major motion picture.

Now, the other thing, though, is when you said that to them, like we're like, we want it to look like a real, like, sort of, you know, DreamWorks animated movie.

Did they look at you like, well, that's not gonna happen?

Yes, definitely.

We were, we were told, like, we don't do that.

And by the way, it's, I would actually argue that it's funnier to watch now how shitty it looks.

If it looked good, it would not make it any funnier.

And the fact that it looks bad does make it funnier.

Correct.

And in fact, now it probably would look really, really good.

And you'd almost be like, I want it to look less good.

Starting right at Randy Newman, so you're going right at Toy Story at this moment.

Yeah, Toy Story, Randy Newman.

That was sort of, you know.

And we did know Fred could do Randy Newman.

Featuring an original song by Randy Newman.

Bunny wearing suits.

Bunny center backs.

That was hilarious.

Tiny bunny beef cakes.

Bunny beef news.

These bunnies.

By the way, let me just say once again, exceptionally good.

And the fact that you and Klein appreciated, there was no, it was not going to get more fun than four lines.

Oh, yeah.

Just get the impression laugh and get out.

Yeah.

Yes.

I mean, the Randy Newman one, we were like, we have to start with it because we knew Fred could do it so well.

Randy Newman is a very good friend of Lauren.

Yeah.

So writer of three amigos.

Yeah.

Exactly.

And like, for example, I'd forgotten this, Keith.

Randy Newman, as a favorite of Lauren, came to the hot rod premiere.

Oh, yeah.

You know how fucking mind-blowing that is?

Like, Randy Newman's one of the greatest singer-songwriters of all time.

And that's that's just the SNL sphere stuff where Lauren's like, Randy, we're having a movie.

And he's like, All right, Lauren.

You're just like, Holy shit.

Anyway, worth noting.

These bunnies have a nose for business and a tail for the ages.

And now you can own the soundtrack featuring a brand new song by Natalie Merchant.

These

The 401ks, yeah.

Never before had Bonnet has worked

in a friend.

I mean, it's really perfect.

It's really sounds a lot like her.

I wish I had just read Flatly before we played it.

But that's those kind of lyrics.

It's almost anti-comedy because it's like purposefully

like flat.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But that's the thing though, but it's not anti-comedy because it's, I think that to overwork how little real estate you have would have made it tortured, right?

Like there was just no.

And by the way, I guarantee you that we wrote a version where the songs were longer and realized that this was better.

Yeah.

I mean, we're just weird alling it, except for not in a clever way on purpose.

Right.

But here is the flat read of what you handed Christenwig.

These are bunnies with 401ks.

Never before have bunnies worked in an office.

Yeah, but when sung like Natalie Merchant to These Are the Days.

I mean, by the way, track's great.

It was so much fun.

Yeah, it's a great song.

And we all know it.

And we all know the rhythm and the music of it.

Yeah.

And Wiggs, it's an exceptionally good impression.

And when you put all those things together, me and Rob are geniuses.

Yeah.

Excited for our next one here.

Bunny Business features over 30 original songs from some of the world's most successful singers, including Shakira.

so many bunnies on the floor tonight hardly changing their bonny kits to she bonny and all of us huh

jump on the dance floor don't be shy wear pants and send it back

on your bonnie boys

I mean sounds a lot A lot like what's that sounds a lot like

Shakira.

Yeah.

She's doing the wolf one it's nuts and also i i don't know if you remember not who you would probably jump to for her but i'm guessing that she said i have a shakira i think we probably asked and she said a few things that she thought she had a version on yeah and she said shakira we loved it but that was so fun because it's so far it's the most far afield from her that you could have whereas i'm sure she at the time where i think people thought of her more as country yeah like there would have been so many classic country choices to make and it was just such a blast to see her do shakira Yeah.

Let me just do a dry read on one of the lines you gave Taylor Smooth.

Wear pantsuits and send a fax.

Just sing that like Shakira.

It's elegant lyrics.

Wait, I'm going to, Andy,

don't say until I read the lyrics who you think this is doing an impression of who.

Ready?

Yeah.

Bunny business song, Sha la La La, Bunnies in Pantsuits, Mr.

Jones.

Yeah, that's going to be me.

I forgot that you just put Mr.

Jones at the end of it.

Well, yeah.

Mr.

Jones, fellow Bay Area guy, I think, right?

Yeah.

You hear the words animated bunnies, you immediately think of Adam Duritz from the Counting Crows.

Bunny business song.

Sha la la la bunnies in cat suits.

Mr.

Jones.

Yeah, I'm threw up a deuce.

Not bad.

Yeah.

And nice to you did a fantastic job and you wrote the whole thing with Klein and buried yourself deep within.

And

that's being a team player, too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Serving the show.

Yeah, yeah, serving the show, just trying to get in there.

Little kids like bunnies, but they love Eddie Vetter and Christina Aguilera.

That one didn't even mention bunny business, but who cares?

The fact that they don't they don't duck Bill down.

When they cut to the next section of it, he's still screaming in the background of the trailer.

Also, the name of the song they're singing.

Did you see that?

No.

The bunny merger went through.

Also, Bill does his.

That's got to be Klein.

His Eddie Vetter face is like, feels like it shouldn't be able to.

No, it's like he has, it's like he has prosthetics, but he doesn't just like

that thing that haters' face is.

He's brushing his cheeks off and just holding them there.

It's amazing.

It's really, truly amazing.

A full freak of NH.

And by the way, Abby with pipes on her, I didn't even know about.

Yeah, no, Abby's got pipes.

I knew from balcony songs, but that's kind of behind the scenes.

Oh, my God.

I should have remembered.

I probably did, and that's why I was like, Aguilera all day.

It's ABS.

It's Ags.

Abs for Aghs.

So the title of the next one, it's Keenan as Jennifer Hudson, right?

That's the next one.

Oh, yeah.

And I just, I think about the title, I feel like more than I should, because the title of the song is, And I am telling you, you are a bunny.

And it's so clumsy.

You are a bunny.

Just completely missing everything here.

We never even finished the movie.

We were too busy enjoying this instant classic by Jennifer Hudson.

No, no, no, no way,

no, no, no, no way, we're not wearing passwords.

It's a whole big mess of funky bunny business.

And you, and you, and you,

you're gonna pay me

money.

The bunny business soundtrack.

Even if you buy it, our careers are over.

Yeah.

Trifle.

Can't front on the funk.

So much fun.

As Seth says.

Hey, it's Andy again interjecting here.

First off, I got Queen Bee again two days later after we recorded.

But more importantly, during our recording, I had asked Rob Klein to send a voice note about bunny business, and he wasn't able to do that at the time, but he did send one in late.

So here's that.

There won't be any reactions to it, obviously.

Okay, bye.

What's up?

This is Rob Klein with a late voice message about bunny business.

Um, I do remember that we had kind of pictured there being sort of these Pixar-style animations in between the interstitials, and then realizing that it would take like two years and $50 million to make those.

So, one member of the graphics team kind of like heroically stayed awake for like 72 straight hours just to even give us the graphics that we had, which turned out great and we appreciated.

And I also remember, I don't know what you guys said, except that it's, you know, was well respected and treated with respect and dignity.

Another thing I remember was sitting under the bleachers with Lauren and it started.

And then the first one is Randy Newman.

Fred is Randy Newman.

Obviously, Randy Newman is one of Lauren's friends.

I don't know how much we had like thought about that or processed that, but it started.

Fred got a laugh because it's Fred.

And And then Lauren just kind of looked at me sadly and is like, that's one of my best friends.

Like, and we were parodying him why?

Because he had like written a sweet song for Toy Story that people loved and was of a piece with his entire body of work.

I don't exactly know.

It's hard to, it's hard to retrace some of the thinking, but it was done lovingly, obviously.

So there you go.

Yeah, and it went so just fine that we did two more.

I'm excited to get to him, though, because

you're Robert Smith.

This is still Pinnacle Sandberg for me.

You're a nice man.

I like how the words you say and the way your face looks as you say them.

So cut off your dress.

We have a potato chip.

Yeah, but I feel like we talk about it when we go to Blake Lively.

Yeah, but interesting.

And Taylor Swift wanted to do it.

She was fighting for it.

Really?

When we do potato chip, let's dig up the dress.

Yeah.

Hey, Marine World Africa, we talked about it.

Was originally in Redwood City, then moved to Vallejo.

Yeah, Vallejo.

Redwood City, that's much closer.

It then changed to Six Flags Marine World, and it now is Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, still there.

Oh, on the same location.

Yep.

It's a Six Flags.

Well, guess what?

We will go there if they roll out the fucking red carpet.

I think they might.

Hey, this is exciting.

Brenda and Sean was at 76,000 views, you know, over 15 years after it came out.

And somebody checked.

It's over 87,000 now.

So plus 11K for Brenda.

Whoa, that's

the Quaid bump.

Bro, you got that Quaid bump.

You're welcome, Lorne.

You're welcome, Lorne.

Also, someone said, I'm a father who has shown my daughter's 7 and 10 hot rod a bunch.

And now every time they come back from a restroom, they say the bathroom here is nuts.

That is a dream.

That's a real good one.

Also, K-pop Demon Hunters got the Quaid bump this weekend in the theaters.

A lot of industry rags variety were giving us a lot of the the credit for that yeah a lot of the credit your welks on that one somebody said hey is it possible am i wrong does your idol from k-pop demon hunters yeah sounds a little bit like finest girl someone else texted me about this okay finest girl from pop star and the answer is per lynn manuel miranda i said all three for me he's just lynn guys yeah is just Be your idol and fuck bin Laden are the same.

Wow.

Got it.

That's per Lynn.

I'm not saying, like, oh, we got it.

We're not musicologists.

It's an interpolation.

You know, like, we're not going to go down that road.

We respect the art.

You know, and if you want to borrow,

have at it.

Our producer, Jeff, sent a comment on Spotify.

It's a verified account, so it seems legit.

That Questlove Amir commented on the pod.

This is literally Questlove's first comment on Spotify.

That's how much I love threw it on the ground.

He's the greatest.

I mean, Lynn, there's a lot of talk that like Lynn, we got to get Lynn and Quest to do the next, our next round of criterion.

I think they're down.

Yeah, they're down.

Okay.

I didn't even know you could comment on Spotify.

So is that another place where we call questions from Jeff, just for the listeners right now when they want to get a question answered?

Yes, Jeff says.

So what are the main places legitimately for us?

It's you guys look at YouTube comments.

You look at Spotify comments.

Instagram comments.

Instagram comments under the post.

Got it?

Yeah.

Email, YouTube, Instagram, Spotify.

Oh, and then there's the email.

What's the email again?

Yeah, throw it in.

The lonelyisland pod at gmail.com.

I say we just leave Jeff's voice in for that.

Definitely.

Yeah.

Great.

Thanks, Jeff.

I mean, we're running a little long, but I think we can probably just cut all the Yorm stuff, right?

I think we're kind of wrapping up here, but

I'm going to have some stuff I need to loop back on next app, but I got to bounce.

Okay.

All right.

Well, guys, I love you, But I'm going to, I, and I never pick favorites, but I will just say I love Yorm most of all this week.

And I hope, I hope he's on his road to recovery.

Likewise.

Yep.

Love you, Yormi.

Love you, Yorm.

And love you guys.

Love you guys.

Love you.

Later, Arnold.

Later, Quaids.