The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast - Doogie Howser Theme

Episode Date: May 6, 2025

This week The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers talk about the digital short, Doogie Howser Theme, starring Neil Patrick Harris! Plus they talk about other memorable sketches during the episode where Harris was the host, including Two First Names, Save Broadway, and more! We also hear a special voice note from Rob Klein about the sketch, Lamps! Doogie Howser Theme (real) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNSIaURIiMM Frasier Theme - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xutnAwOU3FU Joaquin on Letterman - https://youtu.be/L2M6hRfCp0k?si=G8XQo32I55qBKb7T I’m Still Here Trailer - https://youtu.be/cDwdYsOeSXw?si=Vdc_JWK9uQyuWyu_ Support our sponsors: Rocket Money Cancel your unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster with Rocket Money. Go to RocketMoney.com/island today. Aura Frames Aura has a great deal for Mother’s Day. For a limited time, listeners can save on the perfect gift by visiting AuraFrames.com use promo code ISLAND to get $35-off plus free shipping on their best-selling Carver Mat frame. Terms and conditions apply. Nutrafol Start your hair growth journey with Nutrafol. For a limited time, Nutrafol is offering our listeners ten dollars off your first month’s subscription and free shipping when you go to Nutrafol.com and enter the promo code island.

The bummer about us not showing videos that Yoram's got a big old piece of lettuce in his front tooth. No I don't. Andy's lying. Because it's chocolate? You would never know. You would never know. Andy's lying though. Oh I see.

It's a who do you think they're going to believe situation. That was a no and but improv. That's the opposite of a yes and. Yeah, no but. It's the lonely island and Seth Meyers podcast. Yeah. All right, I'm going to jump into it right away. Andy, I have a question.

OK. What was the word we asked you to listen for in the last podcast that you weren't there for? Oh, I definitely didn't listen to it. Honest to a fault. I don't listen to podcasts. Why would I listen to this one? I don't have time.

I barely have time to do it. Wait, okay, so then Yoram, Yoram, I hate to do this to you. Yoram, do you remember what the word was? Yes, and not because I practiced, but the word is pettie four. Nice work. All right, Yoram, show us something. I guess I don't need that MRI.

I did have massive doubts about whether or not you'd listen to the podcast with your three dear friends talking about work you did 15 years ago. What was it about? Which episode? Well, I guess that's the problem. You weren't in Cookies, so you had no interest. Oh, Cookies can eat shit. I don't know nothing about that. Actually, kind of the end of Cookies. It turned out the Cookies were stool samplers. Oh, right. Was it a James and Fred? Stool softeners, not stool.

Stool, yeah. Oh my God, if cookies was nice. Cookies can eat shit. Yeah. Uh, well, did you listen to the one before though, Seth? Did you know the word was periwinkle? Yes, that was how we started the last podcast. If you had listened, you would have known that, Andy.

But I never said I was going to and feel no shame about skipping. Well, that's coming across, the lack of shame in your voice. I didn't know I was expected to. It's your friends. Yeah, I don't care. Well, here's the thing, though. Then, I mean, again, we're gonna get to the short

in the Neil Patrick Harris episode, which is a Dookie Howser-inspired short. That might actually even be the title of it. But the thing you missed out on, Andy, is a five minute voice note from Rob Klein about the sketch Lamps. Oh, classic. It was a good voice note. Now, obviously we've heard and everyone listening to this podcast has heard.

Yeah. So this is fun. What's your take on Lamps? Super underrated, obviously. I'm guessing by your tone you shat on it because what else would you have done? I didn't. He just described it, I'll say,

because I barely remembered it until I saw a photo of it. He just described it. By the way, it was a deeply traumatic experience for Klein. Yeah, Klein was saying so much crazy stuff that I thought maybe he was doing a bit on the voice note. Because I had no memory. I didn't remember that it was a sketch that was derided

at the show for months to come. Do you remember it that way? No, I just have memories that it aired and was a nice little confection and came and went. And then I was happy about it. And that we would always joke about how we were going to make the Lambs movie. So as an actor on the show, you were

shielded from the criticism. We're really, yeah, we're really learning the difference between being a writer and being a performer. Was it, it was getting shat on in the writer's room? Is that what I'm to understand? Basically, Shoemaker told Klein, Lorne hates Lambs. Oh. Yeah, it was more in that room.

Why did he pick it? Though he could hate it. You know, a lot of people sounding off in the comments this week saying, we don't understand Lauren. Why would he pick something and then pass it aggressively, make Klein feel bad all week? It didn't make sense.

We also looked at the rundown and there were eight things cut. Oh, that's why. Between dress and air. Yeah. But does that mean it was the, there were eight things worse than Lamps and he was stuck with it? Clearly.

I don't, yeah, that, we didn't understand why. Maybe Hugh Laurie liked it? Maybe Hugh Laurie was Team Lamps? I remember thinking it was very light and fun. By the way, you literally murder people in it. Oh. I like that you're light and fun. Lightly and fun.

That was a light and fun way. Yeah, but it's still a goof. It's still, it is a goof. We're dressed like giant lamps. Klein claims a lot of people were just mad that the title was Lamps. Including Laura. And that that really stuck in everybody's crotch.

Honestly, I don't remember very well. Were we singing? You were singing, yes. I'm singing. It was like a Toy Story situation. Oh, I see. You know, we've talked about it, but Jost has never lived down that he wrote a sketch

about people being stuck on JetBlue called Jet Blues. Oh. You know, people are still mad at being stuck on JetBlue called Jet Blues. Oh. You know, people are still mad at Jost about Jet Blues. But Lamps has nothing. That's just the- I know. That's just the- Lamps has no opinion. That's true. It's just Lamps.

Guys, I have a little bit of housekeeping before we get to the episode. I went to see Othello on Broadway. Fancy. Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal, amazing. Jake Gyllenhaal, Iago. Iago, one of the most juiciest roles, I would say, of all of Shakespeare. But this is really cool. I read in the Playbill, Jake is the first actor to play Iago who was also in a Laser Cats.

That was in the Playbill? Yeah, that was in the Playbill. And then most of you, they do this thing in Playbills now where like for all the actors, they end it with whether or not they were or weren't in Laser Cats. Oh, so they'll even say like wasn't in Laser, for Denzel it was like.

The last thing in Denzel's was, has never appeared in Laser Cats. Yeah, it was like glory training day, wasn't in Laser Cats. Sad face emoji. Yeah. Has not yet been featured. Got it.

But I'm in Othello, intermission of Othello, walk into the bathroom, dude leans in, gives me a Kuwait army. Oh man. Kuwait army. Wow. It's a high class crowd. It is exciting.

So I put a lot of thought into this because I was like, oh, there should just be like a call and response. And I think obviously the obvious thing from now on is if anybody says Kuwait army to you, I think you just say, righteous kill. Righteous kill. Like that's- Yeah, of course. That makes perfect sense. That's the other half of that coin.

Can I add a term to this? Sure. I think if there's any haters of the pod, my friend Jake pitched this, that they should be called Housers. Oh, why is that? Is that the other character from Total Recall? Yeah, that's the bad guy from,

so any Housers out there. Definitely weird to have that first come out on the Doogie Houser episode. That's why I got confused too. Yeah, I think it's a perfect transition and I'm very good at transitions. I didn't know it was spelled H-A-U and not H-O-W. In that case, Andy has established firmly he's a Howser.

He opened the pod by firmly putting both feet into. Cause oh yeah, well now I'm getting confused cause I'm like, no, I love Total Recall but they're like, no, cause I hate the pod. Right, yeah, right. So what would a Hauser say if they wanted to go out of their way to let you know they hate the pod?

I would just whatever comes off the top of your head. Just like, stop talking about, oh, a lot of people want us to stop talking about spelling bee Andy. But then I mentioned that at the last pod and a lot of people ran to the defense and even a bunch of people said they only have started playing spelling bee

because of the pod. Dang. It's educational. Factions. Well, apologies to those of us who want us to stop, but I do want to just mention really quickly that I got Queen Bee today and said, how do you use hands?

Cause he's a dumb dumb. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. The editor of the Spelling Bee has reached out to the pod, Andy. Really? Sam Bierserksy. You're kidding. And the question is whether we have him on

or just have him give us a voice note. But it's very exciting news, obviously. Or should we let him watch Yoram's Dorito ad? Oh. Just react. I think we should definitely send that back. Yeah, and just ask him, if you worked at Frito-Lay, would you let this air?

Yeah. And then also while you're here, how many words can you make with Frito-Lay? Yeah, or just be like, were there any lob lollies in that? That's a spelling bee joke, guys. That's a big spelling bee word, guys, loblolly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's been some requests for merch.

And I do feel like if you make a shirt that says Quaid Army, you don't actually want to see a Quado, right? No, they're gross. They're so gross. And this was a very bad idea, but I did enjoy the creativity, which is I think the shirt should be the three-breasted prostitute from Total Recall

with Seth as her head and the other three with faces on the breasts. Oh. That's an interesting idea. You think someone would wear that like out of the house? I don't know. You think that's better than showing guato? I know, this was creativity. I said it's better than showing guado. I know, I'm just, this was creativity.

I said it's better. What if it does do that one voice noter's thing and we just put Dennis, Randy, and I guess Jack Quaid on it and it says Quaid Army just to throw off people from sniffing it. Oh, I see, I see. Like a really subtle. So it says Quaid Army and has all the Quaids.

That's the better looking shirt, I'll tell you that. Yeah. You guys I feel like know all the like sort of visual design people. So maybe let's start working on some like mock-ups of the shirt. This won't surprise you Seth, but I'm already on it. But I was doing a much like the worst version you can possibly imagine. People did say last week when you missed Andy that Yoram opened up about how

Fred's impression of him was incredibly traumatic. And you maybe missed it, but also a lot of people said Yoram has had this exact same conversation on the pod. I was going to say he's talked about it before, yeah. OK. Doesn't make it less true. That's how traumatic it is. Makes it double true.

I think it's just, that's just proving my point. Ooh, accidental Lazy Sunday reference, Keith. Oh, shit. But here's the thing. None of you caught it, though, either. That's true. That's true. You're all equally complicit. I like. But here's the thing, none of you caught it though either. That's true, that's true. You're all equally complicit. I like this was a nice observation about,

I think you should leave. Keith said it was that one, the one with Tim where he has the hot dog. And someone said like that only eliminates half of the, I think you should use it. No, how many are there? I think there's two main ones. There's two killer ones. Two hot dog ones.

Oh no, three. Cause there's a, there's definitely main ones. There's two kills. Two hot dog ones. Oh no, three. Cause there's a, there's definitely a third hot dog one. That's like an ad. But the ad, the vacuum ad is a second part of the first one. Yeah, that's just a part two. That's just same sketch. You're right, you're right. We talked about Forte's Hamilton Whiteman

speech at my wedding. Oh, yeah. I just liked the wording in this comment. What quay does Guado have to blow to get the full Hamilton Whiteman speech from Seth's wedding? And then the very nice ending, I'll take my answer off the air. Amy Poehler joined the podcast last week, Andy.

I heard that that was happening and was, that was honestly the only reason I considered listening was because I was curious to hear Amy. If she was talking shit. No, just because she's like someone that I actually care about. Care about what she thinks about you? I was waiting for this shoot to drop. Well, it's interesting you should frame it that way. Another quick comment, I love how gentle Seth's voice is when he talks to Amy, a person he respects and admires

versus when it's just two quads, he sounds like he's smoking a cigar and coaching shooting your tee ball. Oh my God. Maybe I do need to listen to this app. Interesting observation. Oh, God. I like her listeners a lot to this app. Interesting observation. Oh God. I like our listeners a lot.

Yeah, they're really good. Chuck Cookies. All right, dudes. This isn't gonna be, you know, the chunkiest short to talk about, but it is Doogie Howser. And we had Neil Patrick Harris on. Now, did you guys rewatch this? Because I did not have time. I was on.

I just don't want to brag. Another zoom right to the last second. Oh my man. My guy Keef be Zooming. I do wanna watch this. Can I mute for one second? And, uh... Yeah, we'll start talking about it while you watch it. Okay, great.

I'll just say that I know it's ridiculous, but this is one of my favorite shorts. I liked it a lot, rewatching. Yeah, I think it's really good. It's very sweet. It's sweet, it's got a couple of yucks, it's got a good vibe, it's very well shot and cut, and it all just good. It's very sweet. Yeah. It's sweet. It's got a couple of yucks. It's got a good vibe. It's very well shot and cut, and it all just kind of flows and is nice. Andy, do you remember, did I make that little stupid plinky beat?

Yeah. Because it really sounds like it would be me, but I can't tell because it actually has a melody. So I'm like, how did I do that? You're saying when me and Fred come in? Yeah. It made me laugh so hard. I was watchingbio, burbio, burbio. It made me laugh so hard. I was watching it being like, I know

I arrive in this at some point doing something. And I did not remember. So that's you and Fred on the keytars? No, on the, we're like, what would you call those here? On the little drum pad? Oh, you had an MPC, I think. Yeah, MPCs, thank you. We requested, I think we requested an MPC.

It's very specific. And I forgot everyone was dressed like Doogie, which is also obviously a lovely touch. Yeah. Support for the Lonely Island of Seth Meyers podcast comes from Airbnb. Oh, Akiva. Yeah, here I am.

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rockofmoney.com slash island. All right, first of all, before we talk about the idea, should we talk about the actual Doogie Howser theme song? Yes, it was a great theme song. And this is an ode to that. How long do you think the actual Doogie Howser theme song was every episode of Doogie Howser? Uh, one solid minute, exactly, maybe?

Is that right? You're exactly right. It's one solid minute start to finish. Wow. The same minute every week you watch the show. Yeah. It was an hour show? No, half an hour.

Oh, wow. That's crazy. Well, by the way, they, there was nothing else to watch when it was network television. They have you hostage. If you want to watch the show, you'll sit through, and it's a way for them to, like, cut a couple pages of workout. I mean, it's 22 minutes of show.

That's one minute out of the way. That's amazing. Yeah, exactly. There's also, I want to say, two more. It opens on just a lot of headlock, like clippings, sort of telling you about how Doogie Howser was this, you know, sort of whiz kid. And I'd say there's like two more headlines than you need to. You feel like you're like, no, no, I get it.

Genius kid doctor, good, good, good. Good, good, good, good, good, good, good. It's so good, cause this song is sad, but it's, there was a whole like taxi, remember the taxi theme? Yeah. And like Hill Street Blues and stuff. There's like a whole genre of like comedy half hours that have really melancholy instrumental

only openings. Oh yeah, Frasier. Frasier's real sad. I love you thinking about Yoram being like, I just lost someone really close to me and I just went to the beach and I put on my headphones and listened to the Frasier theme. I'm baby out here on the mountain calling it. Just crying.

All right, so do you guys remember how you came up with it? I have, and you guys can correct me, but I believe it was almost like Young Chuck Norris, which was that there was a different sketch at the table and he played a little bit of it and the sketch did not work out, but we were like, whoa, he really can play it. Everyone in the world will be tickled to know

that Neil Patrick Harris can play the Doogie Howser theme on a keyboard. I didn't realize he was actually playing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. His fingers are doing the right thing. That's why I remember when we were shooting it, me being like, make sure the camera's high enough to see his fingers on every shot when we can

to try to show off like he's doing it. Yeah, I have no clue what the sketch was or who wrote it, but it definitely was when it didn't get picked, it was inspired by that, I believe. Does that sound right, guys? I have zero memory of that. I truly have like other, yeah. I was like, was it?

Cause I have talked about this on the pod, I know that. But that short that we saw, that was just a musical short, that was a dance piece. The Gary Weiss one? Yeah, the Mariachis versus ballerinas. Like, there was no joke to it. It was just sort of a dance piece. And it was on white.

And it was just very stark and, like, cool. Yeah. We also had a lot of long conversations. I don't know how long they were. But with Lorne at dinners, where we talk about the old shorts and how they didn't seem to feel the responsibility to be funny all the time.

Yeah, right. And you talk about, well, it's a variety show, you know, the musical guest isn't funny. And you go, there is room. And back, I think, in early days, people didn't feel the onus to deliver laughs on every second, then they could just do interesting stuff. I think we talked about this on a very early one.

Which is weird, because just a week before this episode, he was running around saying, could somebody tell Klein the sketches are supposed to be fucking funny? Right. I got lamps out there, kids killing me. I think it's a good point though, and I think that sometimes we should even just sort of

take a breath and take a pause, and now that this podcast not be, it doesn't necessarily need to be funny all the time. That's good, bud. That's so true. It's so true. Sometimes I just want to, I love you guys, I'm having a hard day. Baby, I hear the blues are calling,

nothing else is real, nobody. I don't know why you had to do that, but I guess that's funny. Does it cheer you up? That's your sad song. No, you're right. That did make me sad, yeah. How come I can't find lamps online? What's your sad song. No, you're right. That did make me sad, yeah. How come I can't find lamps online? What's up with that?

I'm sure because the songs were to the melody of Uncleared Other Songs. Yeah. Do you think that's why? I don't think you guys were starting from the studs up with your lamp songs. Well, let me say this. As someone who doesn't remember what this sketch was really about or what songs were aped, I think the artists who wouldn't clear them are fucking bitches. Oh, you think that?

Whoever you are. Now, for people who are not watching right now, it sort of opens Neil Patrick Harris in a sort of black limbo out of piano, and he starts playing the Doogie House with Me theme song, and the audience is delighted. They are delighted. Oh, yeah. And you milk it really nicely at the top. Because you're like, what's this gonna be? Yeah. Yeah.

When they realize he's really playing, I think is when they applaud. Like, it gets a first reaction and then a second reaction. And it's shocking because it's a pre-tape. And pre-tapes, like you pointed out last week, where there was, I forget which one we were talking about, but there was one where you were like, whoa, and they actually, oh no, it was on your show this week

because you had Adam Levine on. It was the clip I watched of your show. Where you were talking about that, his was one where you were like, whoa, and they actually, oh no, it was on your show this week because you had Adam Levine on. It was the clip I watched of your show. Where you were talking about that, his appearance in I Ran So Far, the one we talked about a ton where he spins, is so powerful that the audience actually applause for it, whereas they usually don't engage with the pre-tapes in that way.

And I kinda had the same feeling on this when I was just watching, I was like, oh, they're acting like they're seeing a performance because they kind of are. It feels like it's happening live almost. Yeah. Yeah. Keith, do you, do you feel that it's possible that maybe they just enjoyed

that it didn't have to be funny immediately? I think right away, the relief they felt to not have to participate in that manner, to feel like the pressure to laugh made them applaud. They were applauding the relief. They were like, oh, I can lean back in my chair. Finally. I know an SNL audience, what can lean back in my chair finally. I get it. I know an SNL audience.

What they want most is to not laugh. It's late at night. They want something that's going to be more. Yeah. It's late. Just a fucking break. Have we talked? I feel like we haven't talked about when it's on

and how late it is. Yeah, I've been in the middle of an update feature before, and people will just yell, we're sleepy! Stop! We're tired. Shh. We do want the TV to be on, but we're tired. Do you have any idea how late it is? You're too loud.

It's tomorrow. It's so late, it's tomorrow. But yeah, then you sort of introduce, and it is a full caster. Yeah. One by one, people dress like Doogie Howser, and again, he's not dressed like Doogie Howser, he's in a tuxedo. But then other musicians sort of show up in this black limbo and they are all dressed like Doogie Howser, the doctor. And that is, you know, very sweet.

Not Quaid's alter ego. Thank you for clarifying. Doogie Howser, the doctor. Yes, Doogie Howser. Not Quaid's alter ego. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry, sorry guys. Really the wrong week to bring in another Howser. But again, you can't put the genie back in the bottle.

I can't help when these thoughts occur. Um, Andy, you show up with Fred? Yeah, we're like cool 80s electronic guys, you know? Everybody's just having a lot of fun. It's very sweet. And then it ends and Neil Patrick Harris turns to the camera and has a single tear running down his jaw. That was my favorite part. It was very, very wonderful. Second favorite is Wig shredding electric car, obviously, and that's a great shot. Yeah, that's what got a laugh out of me this time.

I forgot. The shot is perfect. And you think you've seen all the instruments at that point, and then one comes in with just shredding. Yeah, she's doing kind of her GE Smith. Yeah, it's like Jimi Hendrix playing the National Anthem level shred. Yeah. Also, going back and listening to the original theme, the original theme could have used a couple step-ups as far as adding more instruments. That's your opinion, Seth.

I think your point about its length is the reason this short also exists, because I think he started playing it, then we went because it kind of rips, and we went and hit play, and we're like, God, it just keeps going. And we realized there was a lot of potential there, I guess.

Yeah. A lot of room. Yeah, but a perfect piece for the host. I think it made everybody happy. He was posting for How I Met Your Mother. So he was no longer just living off of Doogie Howser, and it was just a cool thing for him to wink back at. I'd be curious to know what he thought of this short because sometimes I feel like we

let people down. Like for instance, I just saw Tommy Hanks recently and I was just immediately feeling terrible that we let him down so hard with the short. And then I was thinking- Oh, testicles! That's my impression of Tom Hanks when you bring it up. We should have got a voice note from him. Oh, testicle!

No, it was great. I'm very proud. Hey, Orm, did you break your foot dropping that name so hard? Oh, I fucking shredded you, you fucker. He was watching Forrest Gump, that's where he saw him. Oh, I see, he was just watching him on the silver screen. Yeah, and I was talking to him.

And you were talking to the screen. Yeah, I'm so sorry we let you down, brother. I'm fucked up. Damn, brother. I'm so sorry, brother. We were showing my kids for the first time, night at the museum, and the first time Ben Stiller showed up on screen,

my daughter Addie said, ah, Dada. Oh no. Wow. And then my sons told her, no, daddy's never been in a movie that worked. No, they didn't. They did, they were like, trust us. They're like, not box office, not critical, neither way.

Daddy is not a box office, a gold. They're like, but Shoemaker thinks his impressions are underrated. For the home audience who's interested in the Doogie Howser, it's not on SNL. I would do a Google search if you wanna watch it, not a YouTube search. Right. Can I say anything?

Yeah. I feel like, Seth, you'll know this best, but maybe not. Oh, why'd I say that? Fuck, I'm spiraling. This guy's lost. I feel like it's my fault somehow. It's because it's late in the afternoon. There's a sweet spot for the time of these.

The last one was too early, and this is way too late. This is well past job. It's 430. It's 430 p.m. in L.A. I'm in the East Coast! The schedule revolves around me and my nationally televised show. Fuck you, Seth.

Um, so is this Neil, like, in his crazy run of, like, hosting the Tonys and the Oscars and everything where he was, like, red hot? And I remember him hosting SNL and killing. And there was this stretch of time where the world kind of realized like O'Neill Patrick Harris is fucking great, and he's a showman and can do all these incredible things. In my mind, it was after a little after that, but-

I think, I think it may be a little pre that. I was going to say pre if anything. But I think this is like, this is the ramping up of, I mean, again, everybody loved him on, um, How I Met Your Mother, and he had, of course, had that scene-stealing turn in Harold and Kumar. Right. But I think that people kind of forgot

that he was a Broadway showman as well. He hosted the Tonys four times. Wow. This was one of the only shorts we ever did where we had the entire cast at one moment, ever. I don't think it ever happened again. Correct. Where because there was one time where we wanted that nice wide, like throughout the day we could knock off individual shots of people, but then at the end we needed a wide

where it's everybody at once and we weren't going to comp it together. And so we said, we'll just wait till the end of Friday night. So it's like midnight and everyone just had to wait. And we just went, sorry, we just need everybody, and everyone came at once, which I cannot think of another time. We had the entire cast in one moment. For sure, yeah. Yeah, this is pre-computer graphics.

And it was kind of delightful, because everyone's dressed identical too. Somebody should have taken photos, a big group photo, because once again, so just rare, besides at good nights to have everybody standing together. Yeah, that's true. It's cool to have been on the show at the time and keep hearing everybody and realizing that I'm not in it, but keep going.

Why aren't you? Lauren wasn't in it too. Sorry, everyone who counts. Everyone who counts. Sorry, Seth. Yeah. Support comes from Aura Frames. Buddy.

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because there's some very fun stuff in the show as well. I would think that one of the reasons, probably not, but certainly if you loved Broadway and you watched this show, there's a fantastic, another cast sketch called Save Broadway, which is at the time, ticket sales were slow on Broadway. It was actually a lot like the opening to the actual Doogie Howser show. They were sort of spinning headlines

about how ticket sales were down. I should note that the sketch did in five seconds what took the Doogie Howser theme a full minute to do. Oh man, this guy does not like the opening of Doogie. But it's basically Sudeikis as Phantom of the Opera and Neil Patrick Harris as his character from Rent because he had done Rent. Oh wow.

Like a touring production of Rent, I hope I'm right with that. But I will tell you that my wife saw Neil Patrick Harris do Rent in Albuquerque when she was young and had a huge crush on him, which we wife saw Neil Patrick Harris do rent in Albuquerque when she was young and had a huge crush on him, which we like telling Neil Patrick Harris every time we see him, socially. Is he gracious about it or is he like, get the fuck off me? He kisses her on the lips.

Oh, okay. He's super gracious. A couple things about Save Broadway. So it's basically like, let's figure out ways to save Broadway. It's super funny all cast sketch and I'm impressed by something deeply, which is all cast sketch at the time that also had Darryl Hammond in it was sometimes a hard thing to pull off. Darryl Hammond, the greatest impressionist of all time. Sometimes nobody knew what to do with him in an actual sketch, but they cut to

him sitting, he's like guy from Stomp, and he just smashes two garbage can lids together. So wait, it's like a meeting of like everyone talking about how... It's the meeting of everybody on Broadway coming up with ideas on how to save Broadway. Andy, you're in it, you obviously have no memory of what you are in it. No, zero. Can we guess?

Yeah. I would guess like... A newsie? ...Blue Man Group or Cats or something? Blue Man, correct. Blue Man Group. You, Fred, who is an actual Blue Man. And our buddy, John Solomon, to fill it out. We later, and we'll get to this hopefully,

did a digital short about Stomp, that also had Blue Man stuff. That's right. Basically, Sudeikis and Neil running the show, and Sudeikis is exhausted, and he's very funny in it. And he also wrote it, and it's a great sketch, and it's a great all cast sketch. The musical guest of the show, Taylor Swift,

is in the sketch as Annie. Annie, Annie, Annie, Annie, sweetie, not the time, okay? Please. Hey, watch yourself, Phantom. How to hard knock life, okay? Someone steps to me, I break them. Okay, all right. Okay.

And you can tell she is a very able sketch performer If someone steps to me, I break them. Okay, all right. Okay. So. Okay. Okay. And you can tell she is a very able sketch performer and she would host the next season. So that was very cool. It's a super fun sketch that people should go back and watch on YouTube. Then there's a sketch I think about all the time.

Two first names. Oh yeah, you wrote that. I think my name's on it, but I think it's a more a Joe's joint than anything. Two First Names is very much again, who is the host? What is an idea that only this host can do? Neil Patrick Harris hosted a show called Two First Names where all the guests had two first names

like he did Neil Patrick Harris. It's a really good premise. It's a great premise. The theme song is two first names, two first names. Is it? Yeah. And it is the people who are singing the theme song are Abby Elliott as Jamie Lynn Spears, and Fred Armisen as David Lee Roth.

Great. And it cuts back to them later in the show and they sing it again and Fred goes, yeah. And then they have like a puppet leg do a big kick. Oh, I do remember. It's a huge laugh. And with me as always are my band leaders, Jamie Lynn Spears. Two first names, y'all. And David Lee Roth. Yeah! Two first names! Dave's! Uh, it is. Daryl Hammond is Tommy Lee Jones. Then they introduce Bill as Daniel Dave Lewis. And last but not least, Daniel Dave Lewis.

It's actually Daniel Day Lewis, not Daniel Dave Lewis. Oh, I apologize. No trouble at all. Let me get the hell out of here. Excuse me? Take your one first name and get the hell off the show. -♪ His first name's only one name. -♪

They booked him thinking his name was Daniel Dave, Lewis. It was Daniel Dave. There's some other ones I'm forgetting, but this is the part I think about probably once a month. You remember the sponsor. Oh, is it Billy Bob Thornton? Yeah, it's Kangles. It's Kangles. You finally got me in.

Yeah. You and Joe scouted me on. So it says now the sponsor of Two First Names, Billy Bob Thornton, and it cuts to you as Billy Bob Thornton. Really good fake teeth, I should note. Yep. Oh, and I'm with... Well, not... He enters. At the end. Yeah.

But he's not two first names. Well, that's... There's a huge logic problem here. So... Who is it, Joey Pantz? Forte is Joey Pantz. You as Billy Bob Thornton say... Kangles. Kangles. Kangles. Kangles.

Hi, I'm Billy Bob Thornton. Do you love fashion? I sure do. That's why I exclusively wear a leather vest with no undershirt. And my favorite hat, the Kangle. You can wear it forwards, backwards, to the side, and that's it. ALL LAUGHING Those are the options. Then you say, if you don't believe me,

take it from the bad guy in The Matrix, Joe Pantaleone. That's how I name check him. Well, I think there was a fear that maybe the audience wouldn't remember who Joey Pants was. Well, I just like to note that fear was not my fear. That was probably imposed on me. Well, again, it was probably our fear as well because Forte doesn't look anything like him

and doesn't have an impression. His impression is so bad. Damn. Joe Pantoliano is an incredible actor. He was, of course, the bad guy in The Matrix. He was amazing on The Sopranos. He's just all goonies. He's a fantastic actor.

Yes. Joey Pantz, as he's belovedly known. Yes. And I just remember Forte walking around the hallways, working on this Joey Pantz that he never had and never was gonna have. It is one line, right? Yeah.

Dare the best. Dare the best. Every word starting with a D. But yeah, I mean, it endures. And then again, just kindles, kindles. Kindles. Kindles, I was very patient. Straight out the audition.

Straight out the audition. Yeah, now I'm gonna call Samuel Jackson. Oh, this was another thing that we sometimes do, where people are playing the actors and then Keenan was Michael Clarke Duncan. Yeah. From the Green Mile. Yeah. We had this terrible habit of if we thought people didn't know who the actor was,

we just had them playing their character from the Green Mile. Right. Yeah. So like Daniel Day-Lewis is Daniel Day-Lewis, but Michael Clarke Duncan is like literally acting like he did in Green Mile. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So like Daniel Day-Lewis is Daniel Day-Lewis, but Michael Clarke Duncan is like, literally acting like he did in the Green Mile. From the Green Mile, Michael Clarke Duncan. Well hello there, Neil Patrick. Mighty fine day outside.

Mighty fine indeed. Can I ask a logistical question? Yeah. Is Michael Clarke Duncan technically three first names? Oh, interesting. I know a couple of Duncans. Yeah, so it doesn't work. Doesn't work.

He could have gotten kicked out too. That's too many. One too many. One too many. And then I'm gonna close with something I'm very excited about, Cut From Dress. Again, there's two names on, there's three names on this. My name is the third name, but I completely,

I absolve myself of any crimes here. Good to know going in. You and Klein. Yeah, Lamps Team. Upside down skier. Oh, fuck yeah, baby. And it didn't air? It didn't air, it went to dress.

Another eyeball popping, hanging upside down. You would fall off the ski lift. Yes, capillary bursting. Didn't that end up airing eventually? Oh, I don't know. It was a news story about a guy who like got caught upside down on a ski lift and his butt was showing. Yeah, it was.

It'll bring them joy. It's a genre of news story that you've really tapped into. Before we get to the actual script, which is a page and a half. We did reach out because people had a lot of nice things to say about Rob Klein's voice note last week.

So, Jeff, can you play the voice note? I asked him, give me all your memories from Upside Down Skier. Okay. Upside Down guy on update. Definitely a few of our trademarks here. The first clearly being Andy Upside Down at the update desk as he was essentially the whole season we wrote. He was upside down on everything we wrote.

Also, I would say the fact that the entire piece is about 20 seconds long, but definitely took at least an hour, probably multiple hours to block and get the timing of his entrance ride. So extreme logistical headache for at best medium payoff. And then the other trademark, of course, being that it was cut after dress. like extremely gistical headache for at best medium payoff. And then the other trademark, of course, being that it was cut after dress by Seth cruelly.

You could say, you know, the audience didn't like it. They didn't laugh at it, but that doesn't mean you have to cut it. You could stand up for your friends or you could take the audience's side, which is what Seth did and he made his choice. There you go. Excellent.

I remember it differently and it might've been because my ears were full of blood, but I remember it getting laughs. Am I wrong? Was it just hearing the blood rushing into my ear canals? We'd have to go check the tape. Is that like what happens when your ears are full of blood? Well, I mean, we might as well just play the entirety of it.

It is only three pages. So, you know what? Maybe our listeners are just gonna hear the entirety of it, and then they can sound off in the comments as to whether or not it was a fair kill. If it was a righteous kill. Sorry. Don't drag righteous kill into this. That's true. That's sacred ground, yeah.

A righteous kill is when Baez cuts a update feature with Kaws. Baez cuts it? You're gonna hide behind Baez just because he's like 15 feet tall? Well, anybody could hide behind Baez cuts a update feature with Cause. Baez cuts it? You're gonna hide behind Baez just cause he's like 15 feet tall? Well, anybody could hide behind Baez. The guy's like seven feet tall. I said 15 feet. And I said it first for the record. And you used hints and I got it clean.

You're the fucking piece of shit. Seriously though, you're one of my best friends and I fucking miss you. I hear the blues are calling. The tiles are all over the ground. Ding ding ding ding. I hear the blues are calling, and I'll say, I'll let it in the ground. Ding ding ding ding. Ding ding ding ding. Ding ding ding ding.

Ding ding ding ding. I mean, maybe we'll just close by watching, well, I'll watch this together. Okay. I do want to thank Rob for sending another voice note. Yeah. A lot of people like the way Rob sounds. He's a soothing person.

Yeah. I mean, we were saying best of soothing in our years on the show, Klein and Solomon. Yeah, two people that I've never seen get mad. But then I have talked to Solomon, and he was extremely anxious. Right. I'm just saying it doesn't come to the surface.

Yeah, he doesn't put it on anybody else. Exactly. I've never once been like, Whoa, they're pissed or, oh, they're... Yeah, no, no, no. They're faking it well. This week, a man in Vail, Colorado, who slipped after sitting on a ski lift, was photographed by other skiers as he hung from the lift with his pants around his ankle.

Here to comment on the ordeal, the naked guy from the ski lift. Happy to see you. Hey, quit it, Seth. Quit what? Quit looking at my blurries. Huge laugh. Huge laugh.

I'm not looking at your blurries. So, what happened exactly? Well, you know how sometimes you'll be sitting in a ski lift and then you fall out of it for no reason and it snags your pants, your long underwear, and your tighty-whities, and then your butt-weeder hanging out for the whole world to see?

No. Yeah, I've been getting that answer a lot. God, it's cold in here, right? It's cold in the studio, you guys? Well, no, but to be fair, we're all wearing pants. Oh, you know what? Don't laugh at me, Seth. I'm a good man! This will happen to you one day.

It happens to everyone. It's literally only happened to you. Yeah, yeah, maybe you're right. Well, anyways, I'm gonna roll. I think the lighting guy is looking at my tape. Oh! How is it? That was a damn fun, the ski lift naked guy, everybody.

I like it. I don't know. That seemed like... You can feel the disdain coming off Seth during it. He hates that it's killing. Why was that cut? That is maybe the issue. That should not have been cut. That should not have been cut at all. The audience loved it, and it was short and sweet

and just made this show have like pop. I agree. What happened? Vindicated! Bunch of fucking Housers make that decision. Damn. Yeah, it was real housing. So fucking vindicated right now, I hate podcast!

This must have been a very good update. This must have been a really hot update. I think we should watch the entire update and every joke that goes by go, was that better? Was that better? Everything better be better. Klein, Klein, if you're listening, we fucking did it baby. We fucking shamed Seth.

He's such a piece of shit and we're better than him. Fuck him and we're good. Well, I mean, I think there's no better way to end a podcast than with sweet vindication. So that's it. That's the Dooky Houser episode. And love you guys. Love you guys.

Love you. Even though I said a lot of bad things about podcasts, I do love you guys. Thanks. Thanks, Andy. We exist outside of it. Exactly. Yeah, we are outside. That's anti-podcast.

I think of you like separated from the medium. Great. That's smart. Makes sense. It's amazing that you managed to do that. Yeah, well, I can compartmentalize. All right. Great. That's smart. Makes sense, I guess. It's amazing that you managed to do that. Yeah, well I can compartmentalize. That's good for us. All right.

Goodbye. Bye guys. Bye.