The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast - Great Day

Episode Date: February 3, 2026

On the episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast it's a great day because Andy is back! And totally unrelated, we're discussing Great Day from Season 35, Episode 22. It's the season finale with host Alec Baldwin and musical guest Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. In addition they discuss a few favorite sketches from the episode including a few gems from Kristen Wiig, Arizona Evenings, Swim Team Awards, and also a sketch from John Lutz (who calls in to defend himself), Timecrowave. Plus, find out the meaning of 56th and Lennox from the Chester (Tam) himself. Enjoy! Great Day | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRu_-9MBpd4 Great Day (with laughs) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNgZJrdTCug Alicia Keys - You Don't Know My Name | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ST6ZRbhGiA Arizona Evenings | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEAXl6upu7s Swim Team Awards | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncFMVxZhCNM Timecrowave | https://youtu.be/VUVPx09BCBE?si=bbjLsr5uJ1BnxJY3 Hellmann's 2026 Big Game Longform | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaejIbCmqEk Send us an email: [e-mail] Send us a voice note: https://www.speakpipe.com/thelonelyisland Send us stuff: P.O. Box 4024 New York, NY 10185 Photos and everything else can be found by following us on Instagram @lonelymeyerspod Grow Therapy Visit https://GrowTherapy.com/ISLAND today to get started. Grow accepts over 100 insurance plans, including Medicaid in some states. Sessions average about $21 with insurance and some pay as little as $0, depending on their plan. Availability and coverage vary by state and insurance plan. HomeChef For a limited time, Home Chef is offering our listeners 50% off and free shipping for your first box PLUS free dessert for life! Go to https://HomeChef.com/ISLAND Must be an active subscriber to receive free dessert. AG1 For a limited time only, go to https://DRINKAG1.com/ISLAND to get a FREE AG1 Flavor Sampler and AGZ Sampler to try all the flavors, plus FREE Vitamin D3+K2 and AG1 Welcome Kit with your first AG1 subscription order Coop Let Coop help you show up feeling rejuvenated and ready to go. Get 20% off your first order and try Coop risk-free with a 100-night sleep-better guarantee at https://coopsleepgoods.com/ISLAND Vuori Get 20% off your FIRST purchase and free shipping and free returns at https://vuori.com/ISLAND. Get yourself some of the most comfortable and versatile clothing on the planet! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey everybody. Welcome to the pod. This is so exciting. I can't remember the last time it was all four of us. Hey, oh. Hey ho. Andy, you're under the weather and, like, observably so. And now I feel a little bit bad about the way I talked about how you were sick because you're so sick. And I'm really sorry. It's a throwback sick to like the S&L days where I just can't shake it. Do you think talking about S&L in the pod is just getting you sick again? It's like soul cancer. I don't know. I got really sick and my ears get stopped up. Yeah. And I bought a thing.

I was really excited about it at CVS, which is supposed to help you pop your nose, like after like airplane rides. Hop your nose. No, pop your ears. Sorry, pop your ears. I think you're just talking about poppers. And then you get like stupid.

You have this moment of like just euphoria. Yeah. And then it's fun in a club. Yeah, you were down on Christopher Street. Yeah, and airplane. And there was this guy on the corner. Talking about doing poppers and watching euphoria? No, it makes you feel euphoric and then you watch euphoria.

Yeah, yeah, like we do. But you stick it in your nose and you, by the way, like, you know, I bought it a CVS. This isn't like, you know, high-end medical warehouse stuff. But you stick a thing in your nose and you press the button, you have to plug your other nose with your finger. And it basically just like creates all this pressure in your head. And you're supposed to then have a mouthful of water that you then swallow and it pops your ear. and I can tell you that not only did I not get it to work, but like when I swallowed the water,

like nothing popped and instead I just like spit the water out. It was like, what is it pushing into your nose? Air to just like fill your head. Like by the way, the minute I started it, I'm like, this isn't what you're supposed to do. I thought you were going to say like you did it. It didn't work. You spit the water out and then a little like thing rolled out

and it said, fooled you. You look like an idiot. fooled you it was a little a little tiny little gnome a tiny European gnome a gunk

a little lord helmet who said fooled you and then he jumped into the sink and I haven't seen him since he data also Andy just we do want to let you

clean it up we've had backed about a podcast with a guy named Connor who about to be deployed talked about like what a huge fan of yours he is

and wanted you to wish him a happy birthday. We basically just kept saying that we had reached out to you and you said no. No. Happy birthday, Connor. Also, it wasn't. There's no we, Seth. Don't rope me and Yorm into your, into your meanness.

Yeah, it was pretty much mainly, Seth. I appreciate you also assuming I did not listen to the ones I missed, which is the case. Oh, we were certain. Yeah. Happy birthday, Connor. I'm sorry it took me so long, buddy. Yeah. I guess Andy is a good dude.

I also just, uh, wait, Yorm, is Connor engaged? Or not engaged yet? He is engaged now because of my encouragement for him to tip off the question. This is the week where he did it. So congratulations, guys. Andy, to fill you in on the podcast, your host up. I was going to say, I feel like someone just starting to listen to the pod from like, the fuck is a quaid.

What is a quaint? Do you know that there was, here's one of the takeaways of last week is that we think, the movie Venom should have been called Venom colon Spider-Man with teeth. That was like seven minutes. That was about seven minutes of our digital short rewatch pod. It does sound a lot to me like a conversation I would have enjoyed being a part of. We checked in with Ruben Flesher. He did say that he had seriously considered it.

Oh, good. And then the fucking powers would be. Now I'm now a Jeff, either Jeff or Kevin. It turns out it was Connor's girlfriend's birthday. Are you saying there might be a problem with answering Q&A questions three weeks after they're asked? I just think it's great that they got engaged on her birthday. So do I need to say happy birthday to her? And we don't remember Conner's girlfriend's name?

She had as a name. Let's say Lauren for this week and then we'll clean it up next week. Happy birthday, Connor's girlfriend. Fiancé. Fiancé now, per your mom. That's the only way. That's the only way we see her. Only through the lens of Connor.

I'll be there. Andy Andy is, here's how sick Andy is. He started taking off his sweatshirt and just stopped. I ran out of one arm out. It's so sad to look at it.

I'm like actively dizzy and out of my body. Oh, it's so sad to look at it. Thank you for jumping on here, though. Yeah, look. Yeah. That's commitment. You fell off a roof or something,

so I figured I should try. It's true. I showed up in the hospital, Andy showed up to this and you fucking, yes, nicely done. Yeah, and you couldn't tell. You didn't skip a beat. I had never seen the back seats men.

Oh. want to thank our, there was a Q&A about the backseatsman, Andy, so I just watched that. Yes. Back Seatsman was a me and Chester joint. Yeah, and it came up. I haven't seen it in 20 years. Did you guys even help us at all with that one? I don't know if does it hold up is appropriate

because it never held up. I feel like it was just me and Chester, right? Yes. Me and the key did not want to be playing for that one. It's delightful. But I might have had to hold a camera at some point or something. Jonah helped us a lot. Jonah Goldstein. Oh, Jonah. Jonah, yeah. Never mind. Jonah Goldstein.

Hang, I got to take out my headphones so I can take off the sweatshirt, part two of that saga. It has to get over your head. This is my version of The Odyssey. What's interesting, though, because Andy's getting ready for his movie, so he has gotten, like, a haircut. So he actually looks more put together than he usually does.

Oh, this isn't that one. It's this one. With the director of Venom, aka Spider-Man With Teeth. Yeah. Directed by Spider-Man with Teeth himself. Ruben. Is it really? Riven Fletcher is directing it? Ruben, Spider-Man With Teeth, Fleischer.

as he is going to be known from here on his birth name he's in the junket it's so crazy they asked me to do venom because my middle name he had it before that pre-dated he was like Tom Holland going into his Spider-Man audition showing pictures of himself dressed at Spider-Man when he was a little boy yeah yeah but he went in and was like and I'm the one that's always been called Spider-Man with teeth

since I was a little boy I don't want to overstate it but look at my life I'm pretty sure I'm your man. So the backseatsman. Well, we did get, right? Yeah, Chester sent a voice note. Yeah, Chester sent a voice note. So I texted the voice note from the quade. I don't remember the name, who sent in the question to Chester so that he could answer it.

And was it about the address? Was that the question? Like, why is it? Yeah, it was about 56 in Lennox. Everybody wanted a ride in Chester's car was going to 56 in Atlanta. Oh, right. Yes. And so here's Chester's answer. My guess was that it was based on a non-song. Hey, everybody, it's Chester. I'm here to answer a question from one of your callers.

A guy by the name of Edwin called in asking about the backseatsman. He wanted to know why was everyone going to 56th and Lennox? What was happening at that address? Why did everyone need to go there? And I'm here to answer that question. The answer is very simple. I wish it was more complicated and I wish there was more to it. But simply, we are not that smart. So when we shot the backseatsman, Alicia Keys had a song called You Don't Know My Name. And we all love this song. We're big fans of the song. And for everyone who doesn't know, it's a throwback soul song.

And in the song, Alicia Keys sings on it and in the middle that she stops singing to talk to the man that she's in love with. Oh, by the way, played by none other than the Mighty Most Deaf style fresh like baby breath in the video. And in the song, she says, oh, I'm that waitress who works at that coffee shop over on 39th in Lennox. And at the time, we all thought it was hilarious, the fact that she said 39th in Lennox.

Like, we thought the specificity of her saying that in a love song was very funny. Now when I listen back to it, I don't know if it's that funny. At the time, we thought it was hilarious. So fast forward to us shooting the back seats men, we all thought it was really funny for everyone. to say the same address to where they were going. And Andy said, oh, what's that street that Alicia says in her song? And I blurted out, 56 in Lennox. Mind you, we didn't have access to Genius.com.

We didn't have access to just information. We had cell phones that we just couldn't get access to stuff online. It was all based on memory. And we didn't have any scripts because, you know, who needs a script when you're shooting that? The backseatsman. That just comes from the soul. So I messed up.

up the joke and and then in retrospect i started thinking like had we said 39th on lenox properly would people have gotten that reference would they have also thought that was funny or does nobody think that part is funny in the song and maybe that was just something that we thought it was funny i have no idea so maybe it doesn't really matter um anyway i hope that answers your question i hope you can get 20 years of fabulous sleep knowing that uh there was a joke that was messed up and that was my fault. All right. Thanks, everyone. Love you. Bye. Wonderful. Love you, Chester. Okay, so first of all, big ups to Chester, the fucking fantastic here, hear his voice on the pod and we love you very much. With the betting thing that

we were talking about of how you can bet on anything now. Yeah, polymarket or the other one. Do you get credit for half bets or like, because I feel like I am right in that? What did you put your money on? I said it was like from a rap lyric. That's what I thought was in it. Yeah, I think you got that It was from a popular song. Yeah, but I said Nas, though, too. And as you mentioned, there was a rapper in the video. That's true, my most deaf. I also really appreciate, like, Chester just owning, like, seven different flubs.

Beginning with, I now realize it's not even that funny what she said. Then I referenced it wrong. But also, if I'd referenced it right, nobody would have even seen it or heard it as a joke. Yeah, I mean, suffice to say, we never thought we would be talking about it on a podcast like 50 years later on it. I will say the payoff for Chester is that last week on the pod, like fucking Yorne and Keeve were doing like Google Earth on that street. He was like, I don't see anything.

Yeah. I was going to go there. I was going to go to it. It exists. There is a 56 in Lennox in Brooklyn and it is just residential. No, no. But we got to check out that diner at 39th in Lennox. Yeah, really.

Backseat, can I say one thing about backseatzman? Because I haven't watched it since then, probably. Yeah. All I remember is us making it. I'm pretty sure a lot of the stuff with him as the driver was sort of based on collateral. I think that had just come out. Okay. Yep.

And then just doffing it hard, but thinking it was so funny that at the end I had him in the V-O-go, I guess we were all just living in our own teenage waistline. And then smashing that song on when it had absolutely nothing to do with it. It made no sense in the voiceover. You're like, we're not. teenagers. That's not what it was about in the slightest. And that joke to me, I remember, made me laugh really hard. At the time, and I don't know if we talked specifically about this when we did our very first episode of this pod when we were talking about how it came to be. But I remember us talking about, like, challenging ourselves to try to record a video every day. And that really wasn't doable. So it became like a one a week or something because we all had day jobs. But where it was like, it doesn't matter even if the script exists or is good. We're trying to be.

trying to put in time. Yeah. You know, it wasn't, there wasn't the Malcolm Gladwell stuff yet, so we didn't know to say our 10,000 hours, but that's what we meant. That we were trying to like, that even the worst thing, there'll be like one cut in it that was good and we'll learn something. And so we would, Chester's not lying when he says there's no script. Like we would just go, okay, how about, I'm a cab driver, you're a thing.

And then let's get the camera and what's your, and like, we talk for a half hour and then go, oh, that's enough, just start filming. And we would start filming and then get to another point and go, oh, what if I come in? And we would just make it up as we go and then go edit it and add music. And they seem a little more polished because we were good at editing. But there was, they were not truly nothing just to try to teach ourselves how to do stuff. Definitely. So Seth, you did watch it, Seth?

I did watch it. It also predates the algorithm. Like you weren't chasing a thing to try to get likes or clicks. No, there was no version that anyone was going to see it ever. Yeah. Well, and therefore it's still some of my favorite stuff because it's truly for us and Oh, my God. Some of our very, very first stuff has lines I still quote.

Yorm going, whoa, my beer's gone. And Chester going, look around, Yorma. The world is a beautiful place, Yerma. I think of them often. There's another one, which is, well, they exploded. They exploded. Now it's just you, me, and paradise. We've got a lot of them.

Oh, my God. Yeah, we never thought anybody would see any of those because they weren't. And I think we would have, it's good because it made us not give a shit when we were making them. They were just for us. Again, now that we've established, you know, there were times where you couldn't get rap lyrics at the tip of your finger. But are kids doing that now? Is any kid like filming something like just without that burden of like you can get it out in the world right now and you do want everybody to see it immediately? I bet you there is some kid that we'll talk to in 25 years that's like, oh yeah, I would make videos.

and everyone would be like, put it online, and he'd be like, no. Right. There's probably somebody out there doing it. You don't have to post stuff, Seth. Yeah. Well, I hope kids know that. I'm making an epic adventure with my daughter that's truly for no one right now. Zero people.

I bet you're going to make us watch it. We've seen it. We've seen it. These guys have seen it. I have seen it. His daughter plays two different characters, so she's doing dialogue with herself. Oh, with herself. I have seen clips.

It's very good. Yeah, but it's got Yorm's production level of iPhone footage in his house, shot from his hospital bed. Yeah, she's clumsing it. Oh, she's clumsing. Yeah. Climpsing, yeah. She's also the old Jewish guy at the barber shop.

She's very good, though. She does it very tastefully. I posted it. I did put it on my Instagram because I sent it to you guys first, but it was very funny the other morning where independent of the pod, both my sons dressed up in Captain America outfits and walked into my bedroom at like 6 a.m. That's nothing better than that. Because it really did feel like they were making sure that I wasn't too burrito brain

to Winter Soldier. Those are top-notch costume. Did they yell something? Hey, did you rid your soldier last night? Bucky! Bucky! Bucky, yeah. Bucky!

Wake up, Bucky! I'm bringing you in, Bucky! You're like, oh, man. So, marito-brained. See, now these are jokes I know. They're like, why are their black beans in bed? What else did Andy miss? Anything else we need to clean up with them?

Or do we just get right into this one? Well, quick thing. But do we talk about most deaf and, his actual name, like his birth name. We have talked about it on this part, right? Oh, Mostel Defries? No. Yeah, Mostel Deffres.

I don't know if we've ever talked about Mustel Deffries. That's what we used to call Mostef. Yeah, but that feels like it's in a response to Yassine Bay, which it is not. This was back. Way before. Way before when he first was on deaf jucks doing his stuff, and we're the hugest fans, and Black Star with him and Talib Kwelly, and we were just loving it, loving it. And we would call him Mostel DeFries.

Oh, did you know what's actually short for? Mosdel Deffreys. It was also before we started telling people that T. Payne, his real name was Trent Paynevich. Which I believe we've said to his face. Oh, he likes it. Just for kids out there that only know the words most deaf, short for most definitely. Yeah. In real life.

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Do you remember when she played a script supervisor? Oh my God, is this, that one? Do you remember her name? Yes, Starfish. Oh, yeah. I'm Starfish, I'll just script supervisor. Wasn't it like top of the show? It's too early for this sketch.

It's like something went wrong, but it's like, Best of Wig and James and Kent. It's like, takes place on a soap. popper called Arizona Evenings, I think. You're in it, Andy. I'm in it, I know. I mean, it is one of the weirdest. So crazy.

It's so clearly like a five to one. It's like, at one point, her teeth are in the shot. That's the part I remember being like, holy shit, this is funny. There's like seven moves. One, her name is Starfish. Two, she has like really crazy teeth. She's just, uh, she's just replaced the former script supervisor.

Kevin, can you send me this script? And it's a lot of like, she is dead. Like she speaks in a weird way. This aired. This is in the air rundown. So it's out there. Alec keeps calling her teeth.

Like, it's like a little bit like that mole bit in Austin Powers where her teeth are so big. He keeps saying teeth. Yeah. It's a crazy sketch. It's one of those things where, like, you hear Jenna, the stage manager, laughing the most because of the audacity of it. Crazy Boy. crazy look, crazy idea.

Like the very fact that she's a script supervisor, which is a job, I feel like most Americans have no idea what that is. Yes. And I believe she says, I'm Starfish on the script supervisor like 10 times. Yep. That's sort of a catchphrase.

Wait, it didn't go to commercial after the monologue? Doesn't it usually or no? Is there a wait? It had to do something. It went to Great Day. Oh, so there you go. Great Day was... Did that ever happen?

Wow. Oh, wow. Yeah, fucking Primo. Where it goes, Monologue, great day into an Arizona evening. And then a commercial, as opposed to the monologue, hey, we'll be right back. We have a great show tonight.

That's what you call a stamp of approval. I mean, I think back of the old day, you would sometimes go monologue into commercial parody into a sketch. Right. Yes. Yeah, it's the commercial parody spot. I mean, for what it's worth, I can't remember if I've told this once before.

This was one of the few times, Lorne. We knew he really liked it because after dress in the meeting between dress and air, he went out of his way in front of everybody to be like, that was very funny. And I remember like us all being like, nice. Yes, he's not usually giving out compliments in that meeting. Not the most abusive dude on the planet. But also not, in that meeting's, that's when the shit is hitting the fan.

Exactly. So it was notable. It was notable. Just in case you're wondering, here's a line. Alec, okay, did you say your name was Starfish? I thought I heard you say Starfish. Also, it makes me really happy. This is the line that was added between dress and air. So this was the first time this line was said was on air. Oh, okay. Did you say your name was Starfish?

I thought I heard you say Starfish. I got that name when my parents, they made me when my dad had gone inside my mom at Myrtle Beach. Oh. I just shot a commercial in Myrtle Beach for a conjoint and joint pain product. Well, last time I was there, I guess I was in my mom's belly, so I was just a little worm. No, I was going to try.

Hold on. I want to see what happened to Elaine. Yeah, the reason she's in is Elaine got hit by a Frito Lay truck. Her legs are all bent. They twist, curled up under that truck like a calamari. Oh, God. Man, oh, man. God love it. All right.

Also in this show was a sketch called Swim Team Awards. Do you remember Swim Team Awards, Andy? I'm certain you were in it as well. I don't remember. Alec was a mad swim coach who was giving out awards at the end of the year to a terrible swim team. And it was just a really funny Baldwin sketch because he kind of had a Boston accent. And I just want to show, if you guys can see. Can you guys see that a little?

Like, I don't know what was going on between Dress and Air, but every sketch had like massive rewrites. Oh. Like everything between Dress and Air was like, we're going to do this sketch, but none of the jokes worked. Interesting. So scary. So scary. The idea of like reading shit for the first time while it's being broadcast. It's quite common, though. Yeah. I was trying to explain it to my son when I was taking around as an elf. Here were some of the things he said about the people that were coming out to get awards.

This kid couldn't float in outer space. He swallowed more water than the filter. I call this kid instant drowning victim just to add water. And then Fred came up. Luke Summers. The kid has two things in common with Greg Luganus. He hit his head on the diving board and I'll let you figure out the second thing. Anyway, and then John Lutz,

who was John Lutz's last show ever as a writer on S&L, and he wrote a sketch called Time Curwave, which was a microwave that was also a time travel device. And over the course of the commercial, a bunch of paradoxes started happening. And it was a really fun sketch, and it was kind of in the five-to-one spot. Wow, that looks delicious.

But where did that food come from? The future. Come on. I'm serious. Later on, when I'm done eating the roast beef dinner, all I have to do is take a roast beef dinner out of the freezer, put it in the time, and send it back in time to the exact moment that I pulled out the hot meal earlier.

Sounds simple. Now, what happens if you forget to send your meal back in time? Well, Penny, if you forget to send the exact meal you ate back in time, you'll create a paradox, All differences may start to occur in the space time continuum. Oh, boy. I think there's something to be said where sometimes everybody writes a five to one sketch and then Starfish is like top of show.

By the way, our short being that high and it's all about being an insane cokehead. Yes. A little surprising for top show for sure. And then Lord's like, no, we got to do it right away. We do have a voice note from Lutz. This is the week of the writer's party where you made the crisis. to conformity shirt. Yeah.

I'm just going through the photos. That's why I texted a few good photos from it. I'm just seeing that the show is May 15th. The writer's party's May 13th. And I think we were shooting this that day. Oh, wow. I think we shot this all day and then went to the party. You thought we shot Thursday, not Friday?

If the date on the photo is right. Hard to say. It probably is. Oh, no. I mean, well, I don't know. One of these says May 11th, but that's not even possible. I think we did. I think we shot it.

I asked Lutz for a voice note, Andy, and he did say, Like, I feel like he was a little upset. Last time he gave a voice note, you were very critical of his energy level. Oh, okay. So is he going to come in hot? I haven't listened, but that's going to be my expectation. Hello, Loli Islands.

It's John Lutz. And if I'm correct, Andy Sandberg just went, ugh. Seth asked me to come here today on the pod to talk about one of my signature sketches, Time Curl Wave. Now, TimeCrowave was a sketch that I think it started off as a fake pitch. I think I didn't have anything for pitch and just went, what are two words that I can combine in time and microwave, time curwave? And so I pitched it and got a bit of a laugh.

So then I was like, oh, I should write that up. The basic idea of TimeCrowave is that when you're hungry, your food is ready right away, take it out of the microwave, you eat your food, but then you have to put your food, back in time after you're done eating it to the exact moment when you sent it to yourself earlier. And then if you don't do it exactly, paradoxes start and things get crazy. So I originally, I did some research on this. I think I originally pitched it or put it to the table for the Tom Hanks show in 2005.

And it was not picked. I held on to it for a while, continued to bug Seth about it. I think I brought it up every once in a while where it's like, I think it's a week for time for wave. And he would always be like, no, it's not. Because Lauren gets mad when you resubmit things too much. But I did eventually resubmit it for a perfect host. And it was in 2007, I believe, that I did it for, you guessed it, Jeremy Piven. Because if there's anybody who's like Hanks, it's the Piven.

It was not picked again. And so just held on to it and held on to it and kept bugging Seth about it. And finally, on my last show, the host was Alec Baldwin. I went up to Seth and I said, I think, I think this is the week. This is the one for TimeCrowave to Seth. And he was like, I just want to make sure that you are writing it so that it can be live. And I'm like, it's all mapped out in my head of how to do it live. So you can assure Lauren that I've thought this through.

And it got picked. And so I was very excited about it. One of the most fun things about it is things kept changing because they ended up putting the wrong. They sent a chicken dinner back in time instead of a beef dinner. And so the hosts kept, you know, like they would have a mustache in one shot. And then the next shot, they'd have horns. Well, in one shot, Alec turned into Dr. Zeyas from the planet of the apes. because things had just gone horribly wrong.

And the person who was playing Dr. Zeyas was Mike O'Brien. So Mike O'Brien had to be dressed as Dr. Zeyas all night long from dress rehearsal on because it got picked. And I have a great picture of him giving notes to Nassim in between dress and air. And also him sitting on the floor in Lorne's room while we're getting notes dressed as Dr. Zeyas. And it really just made me laugh. And then the scene went on the air, my final show, and it went fine. It got some laughs. But, you know, that's the TimeCrowave story.

As Andy knows, all my stories end with a... So, I hope you enjoyed the story of my TimeCrowave sketch. Goodbye, Lonely Islands. I feel like we're saying goodbye to Lutz since that's his last show. You know? He'll be back. He'll be back. Let's be honest.

All right, great day. Kick it off, guys. So Great Day was an idea that I had for a while. It was this one and people getting punched before eating were two ideas I had that were just like one sentence in my notes app or whatever BlackBerry equivalent of that was. And I had pitched it to Akiva a few times. And he's like, okay, tell it to me. And I told him basically the first shot. I was like, exactly the shot it ended up being and me popping up with Coke all over my face. and going, I don't know why, but he's like, it's like, it's going to be a great day.

And he's like, and that's what, why? And he was like, okay, and then what? And I was like, I don't know. And he was like, it seems like a really funny shot and beginning, and I don't know where it goes. And I was like, okay. And then it just sort of got pushed aside because of that. And then this week, I brought it up again, and everyone feel free to disagree, but this is my remembrance, my recollection.

I brought it up again and Keith said the same thing. And Yorne was like, let's just. just start writing it. So I was like, okay, I'm down with that. And so I went to Catrice, who was in charge of all the music, and I sang her the first line in basically the melody that it ended up being. She made us the track. I actually just went through the old folder, and it was,

there's the original one. We could even play a snippet of it if we'd like here. Yeah, why don't we just do that right now. I don't know why, but I think it's going to be a great day. Do do, do, do, do de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, we'll shine. And it was so, then, no, no, no, and it's bad to do, do, do, do do do, do in every way. And it was way too slow. It's so, you know, Catrice tragically passed away, and it is so beautiful and sweet and sad to hear her singing one of your dumb songs.

Yep, for sure. We worked with her a lot. Because she's such a talent. She was so, so great. Yeah, she really, she really was, and she helped us with so many things, and it was, we were lucky. And it's very funny too that like her instinct of course would her first instinct was to always make it a great song. Yes. And so the funny song is too fast.

But like her first version, you're like, oh, this is a great song. Maybe I would pop that on you. So I realized in the folder, my great day folder, I had started organizing by this time. There were like seven versions of it going faster and faster and faster and faster and faster. And I'm sure me and you're both being like, no, no, it has to be like fucking crazy fast. Yeah, he's on Coke. And also, just so, you know, like halfway through, it has to go double-time that.

So she made it, and we loved it. And we just started recording in the office. My main memory of it was me and Yorm were, like, locked into the manicness of it. And I had written out a document with a bunch of ideas in it that I also sent. But we kind of just started doing it stream of consciousness like line by line.

And it took us where it took us, and it was really fun. Which I think is a lesson. I don't know if I can pinpoint that. And that's when we learned the lesson. But now, when we are brainstorming songs, if one of us has a really strong first line that matches with music that we either have or have made, that's all we need now.

We never, we never overthink that now. Sure. We don't go, where does it go? Like, we go, well, that's funny. Can we add another thing on top of that? Like, where does, what's the next sentence? All right, well, we have three great sentences now. What's the fourth sentence?

Like we go, and that's like, when you described it, Andy, I was like, right, we didn't know that necessarily at that time. But that became like our process, I would say. I would agree, especially in the last like 10 or 12 years, a lot of that has led to some of the songs I like the most. It's hilarious to call that a process, but. It is a process. By the way, it's how most, not most, but it's how a lot of people make music now. Like, I just saw like a whole, like, punching in, as they call it, on Pro Tools where you just. do a line until it sounds good and then just go,

all right, what's the next line? Punch me in. Exactly. As opposed to knowing a whole song and recording. Exactly. It's a way to do it, especially now that you have such access to great recording equipment

that's not as expensive and blah, blah, blah. So anyway, we had a blast doing it, and I remember we got like halfway through and Keev, I don't know if you were there the whole time, Keeve or if you like check back in on us and you're like, it's good. To your credit, like always super like, oh yeah, it's working.

You guys did it. great job like it was always very posy and uh i don't think it took very long i think you guys got a little deeper in to where i was like oh oh yeah this is rad and then i and then i helped and then i helped i helped i mean i clearly hadn't mapped out the rest of what i saw being but it was basically just like what if this guy whose life is falling apart was singing a super upbeat musical song we were always very good about that like if two of us saw something then the other person would just extract themselves until they got it and then whatever notes came in after would always make it a much, much better process with the three of us.

And also, like every one of your great songs, there's like 12 different moves. Like everybody knows what the premise is. The premise is so clean. Everybody knows what it is. And nobody in the audience can guess what the next move is going to be. Like it's never. And so it's everything is a delight because it also, you never betrayed the premise. Yeah.

It's just like really great leaps. Also, I think that thing with you walking. and then looking at camera. Like you walking ahead, but looking at the cameras it tracks along with you is one of my favorite Andy moves. And I feel like

was like your Emmy song. We have reproduced Great Day energy in my estimation a few times since. The Emmy opening song for sure. Honestly, the Hellman's commercial I just did that just came out for the Super Bowl.

Oh, yeah. Very much so. And it's fun. I love playing that energy. It's like a way to be like full tilt like chasing Jim Carrey energy within the context of what we really know how to do in control, which is the songs and the fast cutting and all that stuff.

It just makes me happy to see something move that fast, honestly. Yeah. And it's not so fast that you can't understand it. Well, we found out this time that it wasn't. Yeah. There was discussion about that, though, of like, fuck, this thing is breakneck. It's breakneck. But I do think that the style of the song and there's enough openness

to Catrice's insubitation too and the crispness of your you're being you're being very there's it wasn't overwritten in terms of like like there was no word play and it was also like the diction was very clear I felt like which helps good diction oh he's a big big part of our

he's a businessman yeah two days ago I was walking out of 30 Rock and bumped into Bobby Moynihan who is I think in the new Tracy Morgan show right yeah and that's not you're going to say that's so he was doing press for that who I think is in the news Dude. You couldn't tell?

But he had a big bag. Yeah. So it's hard to tell. Like a big carrier bag. But he, I was like, oh, I was literally just watching a great day

and you're so funny as the mailman. And obviously we'll get into it. But like, he is very good. I, in rewatching it, I was like, first off,

you guys shot the shit out of it. It looks so fun. Gorgeous. Vibrant. The camera moves all rip. The cutting is so good. The steadyness is great. And again,

it's your, it's your cherry lane corner. Yeah. One of our favorite streets in all of New York City. I love the May. I don't want to talk about the weather every time we get to May,

but you feel it. You do feel it. Oh, yeah. And is this your farewell to that corner? Do you ever shoot there again? I don't think so. TBD on that. Put your bets in polymarker.

But I kind of feel like this was your best. I don't know. It's like a love song to that corner as well. It looks like a musical. That street is perfect. But you can see the Iran so far stoop for sure. Oh, yeah. Yes.

I will say in terms of like the very beginning, of this, I always knew I wanted it to be there, because it looks like a studio lot city, you know what I mean? Totally. Yeah. It looks fake. It looks fake. Exactly.

Yes. If we could have shot it on a lot, I would have been stoked. There's a very hard to get into a restaurant there now called Wild Cherry. Yeah. In the Cherry Lane Theater, right? I read about that. Yeah. Bit of a foodie.

Is the Cherry Lane Theater still open, though, as a theater? It is. It's like a second. I read the rags. Oh, you do keep up with New York restaurant. You put grease a palm. Get yourself in there. Oh, Seth.

You grease some pods, brother? Oh, my God, I love it. Seth, can we go there for the, can we go to our belly dinner? That's where you guys can go after the vasectomy dinner. Yeah, exactly. That wasn't happening. There's probably, I know it's really hard to get into, but weirdly they do have deals for people who had a vasectomy that day. If you can prove it.

Fantastic. But they're like, no, we can't prove it with the doctors. No. They make you prove it. Oh, they make you show. You have to whip it out. Is getting a vasectomy the opposite of popping your cherry? Just curious.

Oh, for cherry. Yeah, wild cherry. It is kind of, yeah. It's the reverse. It's the reverse of popping your cherry, so you go to wild cherry. That makes sense. Thanks for saying that, Seth. I didn't say it.

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Yeah, I got it here. Hold on. Anybody else feel like they're about to fall asleep? Yes. No, I'm good. Oh, that's right. It is like, this is maybe the latest we've ever done one. It is.

In terms of a pot. But it is TGIF. Oh, nice. Yeah, definitely going out after this. I wish Seth was here. He'd go have a drink with me. I would have a drink with you. Yeah.

He probably has like 100% less vertigo than me, too. All right, here we go. I don't know why, but today seems like it's going to be a great day. There's something in the air that makes me... Can we stop? I know it just started. No, no. Go for it.

I definitely remember us talking about how we want on the first line to have A, light streaming through and B, a bunch of Coke puff up off my face. The puff is great. So that you really get... Yeah, you just did the line. Yes, exactly. And I think we shot that like six or seven times. To get it that way.

It's perfect. That thing of like the saddest thing, because there's like, you know, Chinese food and pizza, the poorly cardboarded over window. I guess. Like somebody was like, no. He's had some, some episodes in here. There's the cabinets broken. Yes. But anyhow, I'm very happy with how it worked.

Now, obviously, I think if they weren't getting it, they would just do. digitally put in a puff, but I love that we got it. Also, we have them actually build us a little set here, which was unusual for us, which is nice. Yeah. That's why I do think it was early in the week, because there's more planning available to us. Okay, my man. It seems like it's going to be a great day. There's something in the air that makes me feel like things are going to go my way.

The birds are chirping, tweedily deep. Is that? I was so happy to get actual, like, cell animation-looking bluebirds. Really well done. Yeah. They did a great job. And it was hard to get it. Yes.

They really did it. They drew those and animated and it was expensive. And you think it's going to be so easy. You're like, yeah, they're just like, and now maybe it would be, but it was. But we wanted like those, what is it, Song of the South styles. Yeah, that's right. And I remember being personally very adamant about wanting it that way. And then when they did it, I was so happy.

So thanks again, many years later for everyone who did that. And then this immediately into what I imagine is exactly what you wanted on the light on your face. Yorn, we couldn't hear you. Why were you saying about the words? I was saying that there's two little things, just for like little filmmaking things. When Andy pops up, it's a little speed ramp as he like pops up just to make him even more insane as he pops up when he first seen.

Oh, yeah. And then when the door opens, I remember like in editing, adding, there's a very subtle sound of sizzling like it's sizzling his brain. You're saying on the sun shot. On the sun shot. Yeah. I remember you adding that. It's really funny.

Also, just a detail that's worth pointing out in the set direction. The fact that there are a stack of pizza slices on top of the fridge. So there's empty pizza. And then you also were like so like gacked out. You were like stacking pizza. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to eat these. No, I'm not.

I'll put him here. Nobody else is getting eaten. I'll put him here. I'll come back for those. I won't forget. Remind me. It's shining bright. There's a skipping my step.

A pep in my pep. And I don't know why. That move. Dude, that move. The camera pulling back as I'm like gliding forward or whatever and then landing at Bobby right at the right moment for the line. You watch it and you just take it all for granted because it's telling you the story well.

But for me, I'm just so appreciative of how fucking dope it is. It's very smooth. I mean, again, the choreography, both actual literal choreography and then the way the camera is moving is as good as you guys ever had it in this. And we're clearly on real lenses. and stuff, so it's in our more DP-based mode here. Yeah, absolutely. And I

think the entire thing's on SteadyCam. I always love that same thing, though, Andy, like the revealing foreground shots is always... It's a little Spielbergy, isn't it? Yeah, it is. He does do that. I don't know why. Hey there, Mailman, Fred. Any letters

for my ex-wife for the kids? No, fantastic news! Wonderful day, me. We feel so happy that my face is numb. My heart is racing along. Rapa, p, pab, pab, ha, bah. So many places and people to me now that I've lost my job. Shout out to Danielle, because isn't that her in the Wait Your South?

That is Danielle, yes, the choreographer. She was the longtime S&L choreographer who didn't always put herself in the dance only when she, I guess, thought it was appropriate and which it totally is here. She's in a bunch of, like, she's one of the zombies in. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah. Nice to see her on camera for sure. Parumpa bampum.

I would not have, before I watched it, I would not have remembered that line. But when I heard this setup to it, I knew it was coming. There's so many fucking good Andy moves just to show you on it. Like just the performance and the glee of the insanity. The first kind of big turn that's about to happen is one of my favorite things. Love the choreography of them all touching their face because their face is numb. It's just a pleasant musical. The dancers are just like, yay.

So many places and people to me now that I've lost my job. They say young men. You hitting a little choreo is so key. Yeah. It's what like pop stars do where the dancers go nuts. And then they just hit like three things. And you're like, whoa, they know the whole thing. It's great.

Yes, yes. And truly. They say young man, the world's your oyster. Hey, hey, get the fuck on me. Just give me a second. Got that one ladder shot. I don't know why, but today seems like it's going to be a great day. Blah, blah, blah, blah.

I should spend more time with my kids. Today's Carp. D. I've got to seize the day. I'm going to move to Spain and roll with the bowls. And my wife and boss and kids and parents will say, we're wrong about you, Dennis. Hey, Dennis. That's my name. Are you really going to run with what you're going to? Come on, man.

That was like three days ago. Or was it? What I remember about that shot is Chrysel was still with us for the whole season, with S&L, working with the show. And we gave him the eyeball shot. Am I remembering correctly? Yes. Yes. Yeah, like he did that on,

what was the program he was used? Probably After Effects, maybe. Yeah, exactly. And then, I think this was one of the first, it couldn't be in the first times, but like, but that we do a little pop-in

close-up, and those were all digitally done. I remember being like, oh, yeah, we have like high enough quality. On you and him? No, when Andy's walking. Oh, just to keep it lively. Yeah.

Yeah, where we're just popping in on the same footage. Poping in and out because we were at such high-durf. Yeah. Yeah. I just because we mentioned Daniel, like all those dancers do a great job because there's no cuts there. They have to actually act through the entirety of your rage. And they're all really great because then they have to pop right back into the high energy just like you.

Definitely. And none of them get, you really, you watch it again. I'm like, oh yeah, none of them get caught acting there. They're all like so natural. It's really great. That's true. And then we come back in and the tempo's faster, which is delightful. And it's like halfway through.

It's just cooking. He's recharged. Also, it is, I mean, you talk about it. how they built you a set. You got a DP. It's on steady cams. Like this is like, this is Fat City times for Lonely Island.

Up to an including like, Kreitzel was just like on retainer to like make. Like a guy who fully could do a short on his own was like, yeah, I'll do eyes. They found other stuff for him to do at the show. Yeah, no. I know,

but it's just like so awesome. We know you're his greatest defender, Keev. We're starting to have a team of people we can count on, which is great. And then somebody in the VFX people did the Matrix stuff for us at the end, but I'm not going to remember their name. I'm pretty sure that was Art Jail. I think that's, I think that's Graham at Art Jail. Got it, yeah.

Hey, Dennis. That's my name. Are you really going to run with the Bulls? Why would I do that? Because you're going to. Come on, man. That was like three days ago. Or was it?

So, much of the ocean is still unexplored. How did I get out in this tree? Really good. Legs and arms. Yeah. We're just back in the, again, a different I ran so far location, the roof, right? Up of the roof. Come on, man, that was like three days ago, or was it?

Very happy to be reminded of that joke. Yeah. Oh, God. Really good. Also, very good casting on the family. Like, everybody is, like, and it sort of looks beautiful. Who's the dude sitting on you here? The portrait.

That's our wardrobe. Yeah, Brian Hemiseth. Oh, yeah. I did not notice it. I believe Brian works for a Sesame Street now. Yeah, he's for many years now has worked for Sesame Street doing their wardrobe, but he was our, that's another sign that we were more of a mainstay. we had our dedicated person

that would come in late in the week to handle our stuff. He would still be within the S&L infrastructure and wardrobe, but he would do our... Brian was my, I mean, the easiest job at SNL. He was great at it.

That was why he also had time for you guys. He was my dresser. On show night. Yeah. So he would, like, put your jacket on? Yeah. Nicely done. And sometimes the pants, if I wanted to.

You wore shorts. No, I'd wear, like, jeans. Like, sometimes I'd put on the full suit pants. Oh, I see. Yeah. Seth, be real. Bermuda shorts? Do you ever wear a Bermuda shorts? I went to Adam Sandler's warehouse.

Uh-huh. This was a lot of like long basketball shorts. This bench that were paused on as well, one of my favorite photos of the three of us is on this bench that we will have shared before us from shirts on the internet, but we can put it on our Instagram because I'll post it once a year if we want because I just like it so much.

Yeah, that's a goodie. I love it. But it's a very good picture. I think Rachel Lynn took it. I get up in this tree. Now I'm over here. Now I'm over there. Now I'm under this dude, now I'm back in the tree.

Now I'm hanging out backstage with my very best friends. El Colwyn and Tom Petty. Get the shit out of here. What? No. Tom. Why would they just me? Full tucks.

Just floating through that shit. Insane. Full tucks. I mean, at this point, we're inside his mind. Yeah. Oh, it is zooming. It's fucking I love the editing on that. Any memory of where we shot this?

I'm just curious. The audience doesn't give a shit. I think this is. this was on like maybe Seth's stage. I think this is such stage. Yeah, but you need Seth stage? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. It might have been down on one of the news stages. Remember we do that sometimes on like three or something?

Yeah, yeah. Like where we did boombox. Rachel, then will know. Rachel, tell us. Also, saying homies in this song is so wrong. It's the best. It's the best. It's definitely does not fit.

Oh, I love it. It's so lonely. That nasally, we added of just someone just trying to suck this shit. out of the nectar out of that rose. This guy snorts stuff. He's a snorting type. Any problem is solvable. We can't be the hungry at curses,

but all of that would be a huge waste of time because we land in the Matrix. What is wrong with him? He's on drugs. Oh. That metrics was hard to get, too. I mean, the little spit at the end is just perfect. Do you guys remember how hard it was to get that shot that?

Like it was like, it wasn't going to work. It wasn't me fucking $10,000. And then it just got talked down into like, no, we can get that Matrix shot. It's fine. They did a great job. Yeah. Yeah, that was awesome. Did you guys know we're actually living in the Matrix?

IRL. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Wasn't there something about the end shot, Keeve? With this bit? You can see the water on the ground from a different take or something.

Oh, yeah. I think you can see Take 1 is in there. And we just, nowadays, you would easily, yeah, there is right there. Nowadays, you would just easily erase that in five seconds. How embarrassing. But it was the beginning, I think, of people being able to, like, because of everything being online and repeat viewing and stuff and getting videos dissected more of people being able to notice something like that, whereas in the, the Eldon times you would have just aired this and no one would have thought the diffi. Ooh, I'm tailing off. Yes, but your point is well taken. But it is there. Oh, and then it's gone. Oh, there. There you go. Yeah.

So it is dry at the end. It does appear correctly at the end. Yeah. But the shot of you matrix arming was clear. Yeah. But we easily could have even just using our rudimentary skills, done a little mat and just grabbed that piece of cement from the other shot, put it over it.

We didn't notice, you know? Because we're like, if that's what they're looking at, we've lost. I think we honestly didn't know us. We were in the zone, dude. We were so fucking zone out. It's often what's said on set, especially when you're moving particularly fast. And usually a scriptie will say,

like hold on like we need to make sure that this and you're like if people are paying attention to that then we've already lost is a phrase that I often say and that script supervisor what name was starfish she was starfish that's a nice full circle moment there had been a water in the previous shot starfish starfish um starfish um starfish um full circle on starfish that's perfect so shot list on thursday panning down to find a street early in the morning. I think Yorm, you type these up, is my guess. Yeah, I don't know. Like, like, dancers come in on so many places and people to meet.

I thought that, like, were you doing something this week? Why did I think that we weren't around as much? I don't know. I was there, maybe just from those first few hours that you guys crack the song without me. I think it was just that. Because I was there the whole time. Yeah. I have memory of every shot more than most because, again, springtime.

Oh, springtime. That's when the memories really are made for Akiva. I'm going to buy a plane ticket. to New York City on May 10th of this year and I'm gonna come out and just fucking hide about. The guy enjoys... Just walk down Cherry Lane. Oh, God. He likes to take

it, it's majesty. Schedule that vasectomy and I'll be there. Okay, you heard it here, Burke. You guys, Akiva's in. Get your wild cherry and I'll be there. You know what you don't want to be there, Keith? Right now. No, gray snow,

six degrees. It is brick. I thought about you guys today when I was outside because it was 80 degrees. And it was so nice and clear. And I was like, wow. Oh. This is when you don't want to be in New York. Andy, all right.

Like, Andy's fading. This is criterion collection 100%. I can't wait for the next few people before. I agree. I do want to say, we talked about Manny Manimal a lot last episode, Andy. I don't know if you even remember Manning Animal. It was a sketch that Joe's wrote for Taylor Lautner, where he was like a spider man, but got bit by a lot of different animals.

So he was the man of Manning Manimals. That sounds familiar. Mani Mani Animal. Then he resubmitted it for me in 2017. Then he resubmitted it for Finn Wolfhard last week. It got cut three times. And then we talked about it on the pod. And then I had to get permission from him to tell the story.

Got it. And he called me and laughing very hard. He was very happy. And he wants to come on the pod and talk to a whole Mani Mani Mani Animal episode. Because his argument is that he has made it better every single time. And like it definitely hasn't worked. That's what we want to chronicle through Mondo Butts style. He's like, it hasn't worked, but he's like, it is very different.

Yeah. In his mind, it's a Mondo butts. Yeah. He is a Mando Butz. Also, the thing that I had forgotten was that the man of many animals, Manny Mani Manimal. Also in the beginning voiceover, he was a janitor named Manny Emanuel. I told Joe's that I had forgotten that.

He goes, believe it or not, it's a huge part of the Finn Wolfhard version. And I'm like, oh, and nobody cared. He's like, no. Nobody cared. He zeroed in on a funny detail. He's like, oh, why don't they make more out of this? This is what it is. Where people are like, wait, your name was Mani,

your name is Mani Manuels, but it was before Emmanuelman? And still don't be like. No. Did you ask him about dinner, though? I know. I didn't. I didn't talk to him about Danny Manimal. I didn't talk to him about dinner.

But, well, I mean, obviously we'll grill him. I just want to know about the five people he was going to invite to dinner an hour before. You talked about our recent thing? Yeah. Well, because we were talking about Joseph. And I'm like, he invited us to dinner. And that didn't come. Oh, my God.

You put him on blast. Oh, so much. I thought it was fucking gangster. I love it. Well, it's funny. It's extra funny that he invited. He said, actually, can we make the reservation for 12 people? I'm bringing five more people an hour before.

And then was like, actually, I'm not coming at all. It was way less than an hour before. It was like 20 minutes before. That's when he told us he wasn't coming. It was crazy. It was crazy. We love him. Hey, just circling back to a great day for one second.

Guys, if you don't mind, I'm looking at the shot list. It was shot on Thursday because it's, says shotless Thursday. On Friday, it was the stuff in the stage of Alec and Tom Petty and the dramatic lighting stuff about you being dissed with the Rose, with the tucks, and the family portrait stuff. Wrong about you, Dennis. I'm going to say one last thing because I meant to say when we watched it. Also, fucking rad that Tom Petty was in this. Yeah, so cool. And that was not lost on us. We couldn't believe when he came in and sat down for a minute and was super nice and we did it. And I, there's a really nice photo of us with him

that even somebody printed out black and white copies of. Yeah, it was great. I mean, that's the S&L thing. You just like meet legendary people you love in passing super quickly. And they're like, okay, great, thanks. You're like, hey, that living legend was really cool. Hey, guys, it's Andy.

I realize we never got to whether or not I quibbied, which I think we can all agree is unacceptable because it's the most important part of the entire pod. I think everyone feels the same and is on board and is in agreement about that. Anyhow, the day we recorded, I needed two hints. But as fate would have it today, I did it clean. I got a full-on clean quibby, and there were 80 words, and I felt so proud. And, yeah, I think proud enough to pop in a little voice note.

Right, a little snuggler, a little duggler, right at the end. Just for all the heads. It was an annoying long one, but I persevered, and I made it. Up yours, Seth. It's Criterion, and I love you guys, and Andy, I hope you get better soon. Thanks, buddy. Let's do it again in the near future. Love you, Arnold.

No. Oh, no, sorry. Love you, Queds. Love you, Queds. Take it away, Arnold. And he goes, bo-dum, boom, boom, hey, there. He doesn't respond to that. Oh, he doesn't.

So you tell me what he responds to, Andy. Later, Arnold. Later quates.