The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast - Here I Go

Episode Date: November 25, 2024

The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers talk about the new digital short, Here I Go (ft. Charli xcx) that debuted on Nov. 16th 2024 on SNL! They talk about how fast the short came together, what filming day was like, the fun cameos in the short, and so much more! Here I Go (ft. Charli xcx) - Uncensored Version - https://youtu.be/kHwpS0LakeU?si=TsTJoF_XP1ToLJ9RHero Song - https://youtu.be/GF5_rdUmdYY?si=4PstpEnX1kRnb21R (Not all the clips we mention are available online; some never even aired.) If you want to see more photos and clips follow us on Instagram @thelonelymeyerspod. Send us an email! [e-mail] Support our sponsors:Sony Pictures Saturday NightBring home the movie everyone is talking about—Saturday Night, the hilarious and zany story capturing the chaotic moments right before the very first episode of SNL made it to air, where everything that could go wrong did. Grab your friends, get ready to laugh, and make every night Saturday Night. Available to buy or rent on digital now from Sony Home Entertainment. Rated R Public RecFor a very limited time, upgrade your wardrobe instantly and save 25% OFF during the @PublicRec Holiday Sale at https://www.publicrec.com/ISLAND #publicrecpod AirbnbVisit Airbnb.com today and book a guest favorite.  These are the most beloved homes on Airbnb. Produced by Rabbit Grin ProductionsExecutive Producers Jeph Porter and Rob HolyszLead Producer Kevin MillerCreative Producer Samantha SkeltonCoordinating Producer Derek JohnsonCover Art by Olney AtwellMusic by Greg Chun and Brent AsburyEdit by Cheyenne JonesMix and Master by Jason Richards

The Lonely Island Seth Meyers Podcast. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast minus Jorma, who's currently in Finland. And it's probably 6 a.m. in Finland right now. I think it's 2.30 a.m. So it's not his fault. And I know a lot of people who listen to the pod just want to unload on Jorma for his inability to make the. But, I mean, he's really pulled a fast one because there's just a lot of promo going on for his movie he's shooting in Finland

that nobody has to pay for. Each week is basically just a long live ad for his Finland movie. That's right. This is my fault, though, because I went away from my movie and we had banked so many episodes that they just rolled on by and I got by scot-free.

It's true. And now you're on there's no banking. But you guys were not just finding time to do this podcast. You found time to go back to SNL and do your second new digital short. And nobody expected this when the podcast started that there would be new digital shorts. Certainly not.

No, certainly not. And I sort of expected post Doug Emhoff's relevancy. Was that a good way to tip what happened on November 6th? But Andy, I didn't think you would go back out to New York. So how did this one come across? I wasn't really scheduled to, but I was so in the rhythm of being there. And then they announced that Charlie was going to be there and we're huge fans.

And we had a couple songs, frankly, that I was like, Charlie might be D-O-P-E on these. And I asked if it was cool to reach out and ask, and they said, yeah, go for it. So I got put in touch with her and I sent her the song we ended up doing, Here I Go, and she was like, I'm with it, not those exact words, but she had clarity on it, let's just say that.

Yeah. We were off and running, shot back out of the cannon across the country. There's been something on my mind for a long time, a special passion of mine, I do it every chance that I find. So you said there was a couple, you picked this one for Charlie, obviously, out of a few. What was the reason you were like, this is the one for Charlie?

She was musical guest and host. Yeah. And we knew in this one that she wouldn't be in the duration of the video and the song. Gotcha, so you needed somebody to do one verse at the end. Lower time commitment from her. Obviously we would have loved her to be all over it. But I had a feeling, energy-wise, comedy-wise,

and time commitment-wise, it was a nice Venn diagram. She heard two though, she did hear two, we gave her a choice. Oh, you did? Yeah, she would have been on the other one more. But regardless of that, just in terms of the premise, she just much preferred the one we did. And I should say, even though she obviously is in less of it,

she does feel like she's all over it. Correct. You know what I mean? Yeah. It does feel like a two-hander because she, you guys finished together, and so it's very well done. When did you guys write this one? The strike, right?

During the strike? Yeah, I wrote it. It's a beat by Yoram's brother, Asa Takoni. And he was in there with me and helped me a little bit. Yeah, this isn't all Andy though. I mean, I will say I got to, we obviously changed the stuff for Charlie that I did help with, but I got to walk in,

however long, let's say it was nine months ago and just get to come in from the other room and be like, and hear, you know, in stages as it progressed. But yeah, it was awesome. What would you say, what is the style of this song? Like, what is this supposed to evoke? Who is making a song like this that is not a comedy version?

I mean, once again, when we got to the video, I was aiming at K-pop stuff. Yeah. When me and Asa were recording, I was asking him to help me record and stack vocals and do vocal turns and things like that that would be pure pop in that way. I asked him to add strings in places to make it more like some of those songs that I really like.

But then it's my voice. So it just feels like its own genre. Yeah, but the style of music is like, I don't know what you call that. It's what Aesop's band, Electric Guest does. And I don't know what you call that style of music. It's also what like the Portugal the Man song that Aesop co-wrote, the

1986 boy, whatever that one is, that has the same style. What do you call it? Where it's like, it's a band with like funky band instrumentation. It's like retro funk pop. Yeah, there you go. Retro funk pop. But I would say that when we started working on it, Keev, like it was more that, and then we raised the tempo a ton and added other elements to it to, in my opinion,

in my hope to make it more current pop. Sure, but it still holds on to that as its core genre, I would say. As a outside listener. Well, sign off in the comments. When Charli listens to it, who's singing her part when she first hears it? There was no wife when I sent it to her,

but I told her that if she wanted to do it, that that's the pivot we would make, and I'm so glad that she was down because I like it so much more now. It was just the journey of this one snitch. Oh, his wife joining is the best. His wife joining is the best. So we flipped that one line. It was, you know, gonna sleep like a mother fucking baby snitch. Oh, his wife joining is the best. His wife joining is the best.

So we flipped that one line. It was, you know, going to sleep like a motherfucking baby tonight. Night, night. And then I just went into now hold up. Wait a minute. But instead we added make way for my wife. And then she took those lines and then we added a whole breakdown

that we had Aysa make. I literally dare you to put within two centimeters of my driveway, bitch. And in this crazy world, I can't believe I found someone like you, who shows love the way we do, by calling the cops instead of sex. When I grab my vernacular rose, I see you through them and my eyes not rolled. This was on Wednesday. This was on Tuesday and Wednesday, by the way. On Tuesday and Wednesday. And then Akiva helped me write the breakdown part, which is, you know,

piggy piggy through the like space setup with all the stars. And then it comes back out and it used to be just me, but then we did trading off for binocularos. Binocularos. Yeah. All right, I have a question. Or I have an observation.

Okay. When I heard Sushi Glory Hole, and Andy, you were with me so you can confirm this, I laughed the minute it started till the minute it ended. Like deep seizing laughs. I think and I love this so much, I don't think I would have laughed as hard at this one without the visual element.

I feel like this is a perfect one that the video and the song worked so well together in concert. I would agree with that. Yeah. I mean also Sushi Glory Hole, the video and the song worked so well together in concert. I would agree with that. Yeah. I mean, also Sushi Glory Hole, we say the hook, premise, joke, punchline of it the second the song starts. Yes.

It's a funnier song. It's going for funny right away. This one's telling a story. I think you need to see what this singer looks like. Right. Because the minute it starts, you're such a happy dickhead. And your house, everything about you, the first look at you, just that little gray streak in your hair, the shittiest pajamas, that robe, and the way you're just delightfully dancing, it's just perfect. And then you, and you can't get that without,

by listening to the song. True, absolutely true. I got the smile on your face by listening, I will say that. Like you can, there's a smile in the singing, but it is, I mean, both of them are strengthened by the video. That's always been the thing with all of,

the amount of people we played on, on a boat for, they went, oh yeah, good, what else you got? And then the video came out and they were like, whoa! And we were like, it's the same song. Like, and now they liked it. Our stuff just, it's hard for people to picture audio jokes the way that the video just spoon feeds you. It's also, a lot of these are,

you're learning who the character is in a different way when you see them. You know what I mean? Whereas the way that it works when you have no video is you're waiting to find out what the joke is, especially on Here I Go. And even when there's the first chorus when you're just listening to it, we always found, and it was true in the video as well, but less so, you laugh at the first chorus, but then you don't really laugh until we tell you that it was a white person and you are allowed to relax literally in the video as well, but less so. You laugh at the first chorus, but then you don't really laugh until we tell you that it was a white person and you are allowed to relax,

literally, in the song. It's so funny. It's such a good, the same thing where you enjoy it because you're a shitty guy. So you know you're not the hero of the song, but it still makes you a little sad if it's about race. Yes, and it's just not. It's not. It's just, it truly becomes, it's like race. Yes, and it's certain it's just not. It's not. It's just, it truly becomes a, it's like the anthem for,

I feel like every single person I talk to grew up in a neighborhood where there was one fucking jerk on their block who was always calling the cops on people. And the people in the neighborhood don't like him, and the cops don't like him, and it's just a universally reviled neighborhood character. Yeah, and it's delightful, his lack of awareness. Although later in the song, there's a little awareness

because right in the beginning, he does say that his neighbors really, they like him for it. Yes. Then we see that the neighbors don't. Yes, but again, you gotta see that in the video. Yeah. Or else you might believe him.

I do think if you listen to the song, you'd be like, I don't think his neighbors actually like him. No, I know, I know. It was very new for me the way he looked in this video, except then I realized, I do think maybe this is a continuation of the guy from Hero Song who after, cause he looks a little bit like that. Like after he got the shit kicked out of him

and he gave up being a superhero, he just kind of went to the suburbs. And now this is the way he fights crime, is just calling the cops and not putting himself in danger. Oh my God, I didn't think of that. Someone else said that they thought it might have been the guy from Great Day who has act together. Yeah.

I was gonna say that one too. So those are the two. There's one of two prequels for this guy. Yeah, musically it's more connected to Great Day, I think, just in terms of like the fast cutting and the manic energy. You think he's exhibiting kind of ex-addict energy? Yeah, like he's gotta put that,

what used to be cocaine now has to be just calling the cops. Yeah. I'll be honest, that's not the intention. He's getting the same high. No, no. I think we've learned a lot about how, if there's a long internal rhyme from doing this podcast, that Andy wrote it, and obviously, He's getting the same high. No, no. Right. I think we've learned a lot about how, if there's a long internal rhyme

from doing this podcast that Andy wrote it, and obviously we've already established you wrote it, but itching to do some snitching in my kitchen. Like, even if I didn't know you had written it, I would say that was definitely an Andy line. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. It reeks.

It reeks of me. This is Andy all over it, but yes. I've been itching to do some snitching. I'm in my kitchen listenin' to my conditioning and then pickin' up that phone. It's really a funny dance the whole way through. The track really moves me, you know? It does, well that's the thing, you actually look like

you're having a lot of fun and then it is also a lot of fun to listen to and then it's a lot of fun to watch you. And sometimes I think there's a mistake in comedy, which is to make people look like they're not having fun, and the reality is it's really, it's just a good time. This whole thing is a good time. Well, good. Good, good, good.

I mean, we had fun. It was a psychotic schedule because of how late it came together, but I'm really glad it happened and exists. What was your shoot day? Friday. Friday. We were still in LA Thursday morning.

Jesus. So we lost all of Thursday flying and traveling and then got there. Andy got to do some wardrobe fittings at like eight o'clock on Thursday night, right? And then, so again, big shout out to Mike Deva because these would not be at all possible without him because he's able to get on the Zooms. Also, can I say Andy wrote the treatment for the first time in our long career here. He wrote the treatment for the video.

Well, alone, yeah, first time I ever. Yeah, yeah, you always contribute to the treatment and you always work on together and whatever, but I'm usually the one that goes like, here we go and then we talk about and stuff But because I'm too busy he he did who came up with the hands through the wall holding the phone That was my idea. I had that idea when we were writing the song. It's beautiful. It's really great I mean Diva and then the production designer and the the people at SNL brought it to life even cooler than I was imagining. But yeah, that was my pitch.

Where did you shoot the exteriors? In Ditmus Park, Brooklyn. Okay. It was nice to be outside. It was a nice day and we were just- Just having fun. Got Jost out there for a couple minutes. Exactly.

I also like, there's a detail early on that you're mad just that he used your trash can. Yeah. Oh, for sure, yeah. But he, cause he also, there's a detail early on that you're mad just that he used your trash can. Yeah. Oh, for sure. Yeah. But he, cause he also, there's a nice detail that he is actually using the right trash can. Yeah, he's doing, but those belong to Andy's household. It's not even that he's putting the wrong thing in recycling. He's recycling a coffee cup in the neighborhood. Yeah, but that's that guy's bin. That's not for other people.

Can I say that I bring in my bins faster now? Because sometimes I would bring them in and there'd be little bags of dog shit in them from like people walking their dogs and going, oh, I don't wanna carry this, I'm gonna put it in there. And then it would rain, but they were left open because when the trash truck does it, and then I would have floating bags of dog shit

in the bottom, is this interesting? It is interesting. I do think it's interesting. I've experienced the same thing, and I think people who throw of dog shit in the bottom. Is this interesting? It is interesting. I do think it's interesting. I've experienced the same thing and I think people who throw their dog shit into strangers bins need to hear it. Yeah, exactly. Well, I think that it's important to note too

that if you had pitched that, Keef, it would have been a terrible thing for the video because you might have actually been on Andy's side. Right, been on Andy's side. Yeah. Too relatable. And then this guy, you're literally like, why is he even calling?

Are you supposed to tip over your trash can when it has rainwater in it so all your trash isn't getting wet? And then you'd let all that bag dog shit? After a big rain, I will hand dry my own trash. Yeah, you climb in there? I like pin it up. One piece by piece? Yeah, piece by piece.

I bring out my hairdryer. Yeah, just like, you know, look, you think that trash guys want to pick up my wet trash? We're part of a community. You pitch in. You're a concerned person. Real shitty arm folding, looking out the window just to watch the cops. And then the way when you dance up to Jost,

great when you put your head right next to him on the hood of the car. Fantastic. Thank you. How did you settle on Jost to ask Jost? I, by the way, asked Jost to record a voicemail about getting the request, but in his defense, it was only 12 hours ago. Yeah. The thing you're pointing out was a concern when we cast him.

That he might not show up. Yeah, we're like, is he going to show? Yeah. Or will it be just at such the wrong time that we're like completely not set up for it? The idea for it to be Jost was actually my wife, Joanna's. So funny. She was like, you know who would actually be really funny for the white reveal?

And as soon as she said it, I was like, I love that. It's really good. It was really nice to get to ask him. I've been seeing Jostie a lot coming back so much this season and we're obviously old buds. We got hired the same season and it was cool to be like, oh, I don't think we ever have put him in one before. No, I don't think so.

Yeah. He does like his comic persona on the show is representing that white. Yes, exactly. It's like a shorthand. The response isn't just to that. It's a great joke in the song. It's, I believe, a Jost recognition response. Yes. I wanted that font to look like White Clouds. That's, I believe, a Jost recognition response. Yes.

And I wanted that font to look like white clouds. That's been in my notes app for a long time. Oh, that's great. Ha ha ha. Hey, guys. Yorm here. Did you think you weren't going to hear my voice in this episode? Well, lucky you.

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like, that's very, I would have enjoyed listening to that on a sonic level, but like the fast cuts of the different ways you're having the cake, like, just so funny. That's Mike Devo level, but like the fast cuts of the different ways you're having the, like just so funny. That's Mike Deva. Yes, although that was part of the treatment and then he just made it better. Right, connecting them in a really nice way

where your head goes down and then over. You should drop out of frame here and then come into frame here so it feels all kind of like. That's what I mean, he pre-viz the kineticness of it. Yeah, Deva killed it. You always knew you'd be baking a cake and eating a cake. And then you talked about laying over multiple tracks.

There's that great moment at the table where you say, hell yeah, motherfucker. And then six of you do it. And Shoemaker was saying, I can't believe you haven't done that before. And you were saying, not technically possible back in your day. We could have probably pulled that off.

It would have been a little harder. Have we ever done it before, Keev? I feel like I'm gonna be wrong and we forgot. Where there's multiple of us in the thing? I feel like we have. I don't feel like that was a new move. But it was motivated by your song, the fact that you put one motherfucker

into a bunch of motherfuckers. Diva sent a voice note. Do we wanna listen to it? Yeah, let's listen to Diva and then I wanna go through because I have a bunch more. This is our buddy Mike Diva who directed the video. Hey guys, so stoked to be on here. I love the pod

I love all you guys So the here I go shoot Was truly so long ago. I barely remember half of it, but it was For what I remember like an hour ago. You'd expect from a shoot that came together super last minute I scouted the house on Thursday and planned all the setups while Andy and Keev were literally mid-flight to New York. We had two performance setups in this super musty old church a few blocks away. Andy came up with this awesome idea

for the phone wall performance setup where hands would stick out of the wall holding phones doing this light choreography. But when we got to that set with like an hour left in our day, we still had to figure out where the dancers could stand behind the wall to fit their hands through the holes at different heights. And it was such a puzzle that it turned into this situation where guys were very loudly sawing holes into this wall while I was shooting

Andy performing on a different set just a few feet away. And we managed to squeeze that foam wall scene in with like truly 10 minutes left in the day. And I just got to say our DP, Lance Koons, did a fantastic job. Like it gets dark in New York at around four and pretty much all the interior stuff was shot at night, but you would never know.

Andrea Persigliotti, the production designer and the rest of her team did an incredible job bringing this all together. Jill Bream absolutely crushed it with the wardrobe. Shannon Lewis, the choreographer, fully ate, as they say. Emily Janender and Dina Molls produced the hell out of it and helped make what should have been a kind of impossible day relatively smooth overall. And that's it.

Okay, love you guys, bye. Nice. Great. So good. There was a lot of debate about how high my shorts should be. Yeah. And I kept being like, well, Charlie's are gonna be

pretty high, because that's how she rolls. So I should really have mine high. And I was like, should I be in the exact same outfit as her? And then I was like, well, no. I don't think anyone actually wants to see that, despite what they may think. And then I was like, so okay, so just cut them higher. And they cut them. And then I was like, well, no, I don't think anyone actually wants to see that despite what they may think. And then I was like, so, okay, so just cut them higher.

And they cut them higher and I was like, I don't know, maybe I should go higher. And then as soon as we started like really dancing, I really almost flopped out. I was like, oh no. I was like, thank God we did not make it any higher because it would have been really bad. I thought it was just perfectly, perfect height for that dude.

Yeah, it made sense for his character. That's what that dude wanted everybody to see. Yes, but yes, the other thing Diva mentioned there, which was really funny was we were doing a full performance on that cool setup he thought of with all the people peeking through the blinds in the background, like light wall. And it was right behind the cameras was the wall they were building for the hands

coming through the other wall. And he was like, hey, we got to stop. We got to stop the noise. We're about to roll. And I was like, how much time do we have? He was like, honestly, like 30 minutes left in the day. And I was like, just tell them to keep going. I can just lip sync to this fucking song.

Just turn it way up so the whole take, you can just hear them going like, vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom. Vroom, vroom, vroom. It was just pure chaos, but you know, you do what you gotta do. It is very funny that it was not originally written to have a wife in it because it is so perfect.

I love the reveal, just knowing that Charlie XCX was standing behind you. It's just really funny to think about like a giant musical superstar at that level, like agreeing to do something like this. And then her reveal is just sort of like crouching behind Andy. Oh, welcome to showbiz. It's the best. Just the best.

She came in having just recorded it Thursday afternoon, right? Evening, yeah. The amount of times we've made one of these songs and the pop star involved does not know any of the lyrics because they recorded for, you know, half hour and never thought about it again. She came in, she knew every word and she had little like choreographed things, not by anybody else, just herself. Like she knew how to present the jokes and pantomime

and do things that would make them play and be in the spirit. And she kind of was the character, that blonde lady that's your wife. Like it wasn't her, it was this character. And she fully, from very first take, was better at this than almost anybody I would say we've worked with.

There's other good ones. I don't want to disparage it, but I want to give her her props that she was very good. She was as good as anyone we've ever worked with, certainly. And I made a note about that, Keef, because that, you know, because basically she's, it's a close up of her doing that piggy piggy babe in the city. When I smell bacon, I will get it right. But the way her face on Giddy is such a performance.

Agreed. And there's no cuts in that stuff. When most people would have to do some cuts and on the driveway line, she destroyed it. I mean- Oh yeah. When she's creeping down with a tape measure. Just perfect. She has full takes where from start to finish

it would be usable if you wanted to use it as a full take where she's hitting moves and is perfect on all of it. I was really impressed. All of this to say, heading into it, we were expecting to really like her and we liked her even more than we expected. She was super good at the jokes, but also was super fun and just a good hang and delightful.

Agreed. My favorite bit of writing in the entire thing is the extra syllable in invented. That's AD as well. Invented-ed it? Yeah. Oh, oh, oh. Yes.

Yeah. Wait a minute, because I'm about to snitch like I invented-ed it. I'm about to snitch like I invented-ed it. Yeah. Because you feel like you think you heard it wrong or a mistake was made, and then you're like, no, it's just the funniest way to say it. Yeah, I was doing a lot of just taking liberties with syllables. Same on when I grab my binocularos.

You know what I mean? Like, it's not for any reason. It was just making me feel... I just said it that way, and Asa was in there just being posse vibes. Like, yeah, dude, just do that shit, that was fire. I'm just like, oogie doogie. That's a great diva shot of getting, like on the porch, getting you guys dancing. Of the whole video, I mean, he shot the hell out of it.

That shot was all him, truly. And the choreographer who he just gave the shout out to. That's right, Shannon, the choreographer, she helped him with the little moves. But he heard that part of the song and just saw it. It's always weird to talk about these things so soon after they've come out. People haven't even decided if they like it or not, but that's what we're doing. That shot is super cool to me, so I feel good about giving him props on it.

It's a moment in it where you're like, I could just be in a real Sabrina Carpenter video right now. It just feels so slick and in control. He was evoking something we all remember and could not remember what it's from, where it's a bunch of women in like an old school beauty salon with like the hairdryer things over their heads and they're doing choreography while they can't really move their heads because they're sitting in a beauty salon. But I can't, none of it, we thought maybe it was Little Shop of Horrors, but we weren't sure if that was true.

It could have been Hairspray too. I mentioned Sabrina Carpenter doesn't have that new pop song thing too, where it's very bubblegummy sounding, but also a little hard. Having the motherfuckers in there, it catches you off guard because you thought it was a different kind of song. Yes. I do feel like that's a thing that like these are

the great new modern pop singers are doing where they trick you in with like a, I don't know, like a softer sound and then they like, it's really funny and fun. Drop a motherfucker. That juxtaposition when they're doing it is intentionally funny and it is funny. Yeah, it's great. Motherfucker is just really like with a big smile on your face. I'm glad we were finally able to have people here without the bleeps, as much as I love being on the SNL.

I was very excited to hear without the bleeps, bleeps. The bleeps, the sweeps, and the creeps, baseballs. The bleeps, the sweeps, and the creeps. But even with the bleeps, I heard motherfucker. Oh, good. That's good. You knew it was the right word. Yeah. Yeah, that's good.

Did you always know it was gonna be handcuffs on white guy, white lady, Girl Scout, dog? No, I had a list of dreams for others getting arrested and I had a feeling we'd keep cutting back to it and have it escalate as it went. But baby dog handcuffs, I believe I requested Thursday night. And I was like, Diva, is that... Do you think that'd be cool? He's like, dude,

there's never a bad time for little fucking doggy handcuffs. ALL LAUGH So, yeah, and once again, props to, well, frankly, props. For making them, because they were funny. You know, obviously, I don't have to tell the whole world that I do a digital-only thing on my show called Corrections. But I last Thursday at like 11, not even like at noon, wrote the head of our design department and said, I need three limp ferrets and a tiny circus setup

you would have for like trained dogs. And they managed to get it in three hours. The ferrets were like limp stuffed animals? Yeah, they were like limp stuffed animals. I was like, they don't have to ask you, do they need to look like taxidermied ferrets? I'm like, no, for this joke, it's fine if they're stuffed animal ferrets.

Oh, by the way, Seth, congrats on all your success. Yeah, love corrections. Yeah, not just corrections, the show too. Congrats, man. You know, it's so nice. I feel like when Jorm is not here, there's a door is open for me to receive a little incoming. Jorm and Keeva and I spoke earlier today when it was not an ungodly hour in Finland.

And after we've been chatting about something else for a while, he goes, you guys, can I actually tell you something? I was drunk last week when I called in. I was actually pretty drunk and we were like, no shit. Have you guys read comments to people? Were people enjoying that one? Is it a fun, loving, fun thing? Are we happy?

My only feedback is from Shoemaker, who enjoyed it a great deal. But also said that at one point, Yorma said something that made no sense. I mean, you can't go wrong with Oliphant. I think it's very funny, like that the core of Yorm is such sweetness that he both believes he got away with it. And also because he didn't tell us in the moment,

we had faith in him that he wasn't drunk. Also like for all three of us, but especially for me and Keev, who have spent so much time with him since literally junior high and high school, we were like, we can tell. The moment he opened his mouth, we were like, oh boy, it's this version of him. We know exactly.

I was actually, I have a good yorm story I was thinking about this weekend, which exactly. I was actually, a good Yoram story I was thinking about this weekend, which is I was in Pittsburgh this last weekend with my parents and my brother. We go to a football game once a year. And we one time did it when Mari, Yoram's wife, was shooting the Mr. Rogers movie. So they were living in Pittsburgh.

And I reached out to Yoram, I'm like, hey, we're all going out to dinner. Do you want to join us? And he was like, ah, yeah, blah, blah, blah. And so she out to Yoram, I'm like, hey, we're all going out to dinner, do you wanna join us? And he was like, yeah, blah, blah, blah. And so he came to dinner and I told him it was my mom's birthday. Now Yoram has never met my mom or like met her in passing, but he brought her a birthday present that I still have,

which is, what's the, like, when they make paint t-shirts in the mall? Airbrush. Airbrush. Airbrush. He had gotten a picture of my mom and he got a giant, like a XXL white t-shirts in the mall. Airbrushed. Airbrushed. Airbrushed. He had gotten a picture of my mom, and he got a giant, like a XXL white t-shirt with an airbrushed picture of my mom's face that just, and then it said,

Jeez, move in silence. Yeah, that's good. And the best part of it was just my mom, who was so sweet and like couldn't believe someone got her a gift, like while trying to process what the reaction to it should be. Geeze, move in silence is so fucking funny. Oh my God.

And then my mom was like, what is G for? Is it for grandma? I go, I don't think it's for anything, mom. It's for gangsters. It's for gangsters. But I'm like, I don't think, I don't think that this was like, Yoram thinking about what would fit for Hillary. Gammie.

It's just what's the funniest. It's so funny, and it's so big. It's like you could fly it as a flag on a ship. And I remember at the end of the week, my mom was like, do you maybe want this? And I did. Frankly, yes, I'll frame that. That's very good.

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Big compliments on the short. I watched it in Finland. I showed most of the people on set, and everybody loved it. Big faves were obviously seeing Colin Jost, the little dog getting his handcuffs put on, the going up on octaves or whatever Andy loves doing at the end of the song when the song goes up, fantastic.

One question I had, which is, One goes up, fantastic. One question I had, which is, when, in Andy's overly written line, I'm in my kitchen listening to my conditioning. What does that mean, Andy? Like, I'm sure you have a logical response to this, so I would like to know what is listening to my conditioning. Obviously there was no visual to go along with it because I don't think it

actually makes sense, but I'm sure you have a response. Okay. Great job guys. Love you very much and it was lovely to see on the other side of the world. Okay, a couple things. First off, he's directing a movie that's the best sound quality you could get. Second, Keev also had confusion around this line. Seth, do you know what I am intending? You know what, I feel as though the best thing to say here is honesty. It was the one thing I did not understand as well.

Fascinating. A lot of other people I asked did, which is social conditioning, which to me is a shorthand thing. Like, there's even that sample on the Black Star album that's from like an old movie where they're like, it's my conditionant. You know, you're just listening to your condition

or whatever, it's not rhyming on theirs. But it's something I've heard often. But sound out in the comments, maybe I'm alone in that. I will say the first time I couldn't hear it, Andy, the mix was so demo-y that I literally didn't understand the words you were saying. Oh, I see. Now it's very clear because our mix is so good. Agreed.

And so I wonder if I would have figured it out on the first time because my first time I was just going, what are you saying? I see, I see. And then you got Yorma's phone guy in to do a sound test. Exactly. He's got a phone guy living with him in whatever apartment he's in in Finland. The one that doesn't have any beers. A couple of other things I enjoyed.

I like just the sort of indictment of a certain kind of clothes in this quilted vest and salmon pants. I think did not do well. I also liked that she had flowers on her raincoat at the end. Like that, her coat sucks so much. Yeah. And yet I love that outfit. I mean, yeah. I mean, it's Charlie. She could pull it off. She could pull it off. I can say things like, it's Charlie now because we're like best friends. We're all buds. I also really like that you, in your head, everybody knows it's you,

but they can't prove it because you are always anonymous. Report anonymously. That's like the final shitty detail about you, is you won't even put your name on it. Yeah, but I will show up for that court date. I think there were a lot of great cameo glances from the cast in this, but I liked Devin Walker's look at you when you said, they all know it's me.

That is a cop who has come to that house too many times. That was what our intention was, so I'm really glad. We were like, how do we make it that the story is that they're his neighborhood, you know, officers and he's called them a million times. And those cops definitely know it's easier just to arrest a dog than to hang up on you. The both of us, they're like, we don't want to deal

with that couple, they're bad news. Also, it's so funny to me too, that you guys clearly hate everybody you're calling the cops on, but you also don't really seem to respect cops that much. Well, because we keep calling them pigs. That was the funniest, in my opinion, when Andy played me an early version, that was the moment for me.

All the different coppity cops, you have the. All the different like, coppity cops, you have the fucking pigs, you have the coppity cops. And you're like, wait a second, he loves this. It's his favorite part of his day. He's calling the cops on people, but then he's also calling them pigs. And that's how excited, that's how I read it. He's like, once I got my-

You just killed the fucking pigs, man, yeah, they're coming. Once I got my grubby hands on the song, and there was a new bridge to be written, opening it up for a Charlie bridge there, I was like, oh, it's my contribution, here's what I like. That's why she starts her verse with, piggy piggy, page in the city, when I smell bacon always makes me feel giddy.

Cause I was like, that's all I want. Calling them bacon, she's giddy for bacon. She loves it, but she's still calling them bacon. Yeah, she loves them. Yes, no one's ever like the fucking pigs are here when they're the ones who called them. They're like, yay, the fucking pigs are here! Oh, thank goodness the fucking pigs are here that I called. Oh, my God. The fucking cops.

Uh, that guy, officer. Um, when you guys are sort of dancing in the stars, I like the additional detail that I feel like tells me everything I want to know about the couple that you guys never have sex. Correct the stars, I like the additional detail that I feel like tells me everything I want to know about the couple that you guys never have sex. Correct. This is how they get off. Yeah. So it's not just that it's also sexual. Yeah, which wasn't in the song originally,

that was something that we added. That was part of the new bridge. But I think it does explain and give it a nice backstory now. It ends, anyway, having watched it a couple of times, made me laugh each time a little bit more. It kind of lands like, it ends like, hell yeah, motherfucker. Oh, like it goes up at the end with that oh.

She added that. It's so good. It's kind of like a hell yeah, motherfucker, ooh. Yeah. It shocked us. Yeah, we were like whoa. I've learned to love it. We got charleyed.

Wait, Seth, you skipped something pretty important. Yeah, something important you skipped, Seth. A cameo. Oh. Steve, you skipped something pretty important. Yeah, something important you skipped, Seth. A cameo. Keith, you're in it. Yay! There's our guy, little slimy snake, snuck in. And so you're filming it, Keith. Your character is filming it.

Yeah, I'm a neighbor. I'm seeing a little dog being arrested by the police. And I'm like, I better get this in case anything, I don't want to see any funny business. And I'm just going to record it just in case. Yeah, he's recording it. He's like, someone's gonna have to see what's going down over there.

We were happy to get Keef's shot in there. He was ready to bail on it. I was like, no, no, no. You'll be in it, dude, you'll be in it, I promise. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. My man Keef must be represented. I was ready to not be in it. So they know it's a TLI joint, as Seth says.

How many takes did they give you? You know, one. No. Did it in one or? You did it a bunch of times. I mean, I stood up there for like, oh you're right, I went back in. Never mind. Yeah.

He's never cut. That's the default. Well yeah, I mean we had one day to get it all in. How many hours of shooting start to finish? I know the car picked us up at 7 a.m. and we got back at 11 p.m. It's a long day. Right? I think they started shooting very shortly after we arrived.

So probably a little after eight, started shooting and we wrapped at, I want to say, 10.30 p.m. And then you started editing at what time? I actually left the set before the last set up at the old church that he was talking about. I skipped that one so I could get back and already start editing. So I had been editing for maybe an hour and a half when Andy joined me at like 1130 PM and we went to maybe 130. And then we're like, sleep is going to have to happen between now and 23 hours from now. So it might as well happen now where we'll feel better about it than staying up till 6 AM and then trying to sleep.

So we went to sleep and then I got back in there at like 8.30 a.m. and then we just went straight from 8.30 to midnight, 11.30. We were changing it after the show started. We were still working on a few last shots. And we get to double team it, which is also nice with Diva and his whole crew of great VFX people and all their infrastructure they have now. So I'm in there doing kind of the core edit

that tells the whole story and kind of does the lonely island, makes it feel like one of our videos. And then in the other room, they're able to, he's able to put together the cake thing and put together the stars thing and put together all the touches that are his things. He's making sure they're all really working.

And then he's also able to take my edits and go, what if you use this shot and this, like I'm laying down the base coat so that it feels like it's our video. Just because I think people would be curious to hear it, do you guys laugh at all in the edit or is it all just like the most workmanlike construction? No, we definitely laugh.

That's how we gauge if we think it's working. Okay, great. And when you pull off a moment, you know, who knows what anyone thinks outside of that room, but for us, it's the same as when we're writing, when you reach a moment in the video and a certain cut gives you that feeling and it makes you laugh again for like as if it's a new idea, even though you've been living with it for a while.

It's super exciting. It's like the whole fun of the whole thing is those moments. I really loved it. I have a question. Yeah. A theory. Okay. is those moments. I really loved it. I have a question. Yeah. A theory. Okay. Did you guys do this short just to push off Dackery Girl another week?

We're gonna keep going back. What if we do a short every episode? Did you know that if you did a new short, it would buy you one more week before you had to talk about Dackery Girl? Dackery Girl, I can't even wait to get into Dackery Girl. It's gonna be heat. I would imagine sometimes it's the case, you guys don't have to talk about it,

but I sometimes think when you have a musician of Charlie XCX's caliber, that the party and the after party have a different feel to it that's a little bit more rockstar. Definitely, 100%. Good time? There were lots of fun folks at the after.

Okay. I don't know, is that speaking out of school to talk about it? I don't even know how that works. I mean, I think you can say, I mean, you know, use your best judgment, but I don't think so. Well, we saw our old buddy Julian, Casablanca.

Oh, fantastic. We hadn't seen him in a while. It was so nice. A treat to see him. What a treat. I met Kurt Weill very briefly. Big fan of his. That's a good one.

Yeah. So Charlie is engaged to this dude, George, who's in that band, The 1975. So he was there and lead singer of that band was there, who we said hi. And he was there with that comedian, Alex Edelman, who was very nice. I met him for the first time. It was Lauren's birthday. Wow. It was Lauren's birthday. Wow. It was Lauren's birthday.

We sang Happy Birthday and brought out a cake. People brought out a cake. And sang to him and he seemed absolutely miserable. We know that. Well, he also was probably worried, because I know he said to me, like, I hate when they bring out a birthday cake that everybody thinks they're going to get some,

because it's my birthday. Oh, yeah. He didn't want to show the cake. He's always like, where's my cake? He ate it like in a prison movie when they're like have that one elbow in front of the cake so people can't eat it and then he's eating it with his left hand like holding the whole fork with his fist. It's too much cake and you keep saying you're gonna have a tummy ache tomorrow. You're gonna be sick. Yeah but he doesn't. I'm 80, I can do what I want. He doesn't let anybody leave the party

till the cake's gone. Oh, here you are. I mean, Keenan was the one holding it when they carried it out, but it does seem like a missed opportunity to not have had Mikey Day, you know? Oh yeah, is it cake? Cause then you might have been like it.

Just keep him on his toes. That might not be cake. Exactly. Do they ever do ones that look exactly like a birthday cake and then you cut into it and it's like a tire or something? Probably. Is it ever the reverse?

I don't know. I think it only goes the other way. I think it's a non-cake and it's either a cake or not. They should do ones where it's just a cake. Yeah, and they go, is that a cake? And they're like, no. And they're like, well, it looks like a cake. And they're like, yeah, it is a cake.

It's dog shit with icing on it. It'd be a great episode if all of them were just cakes that were cakes. Why would you not think this is a cake? It has literally icing and sprinkles on it. It'd be a great episode if all of them were just cakes that were cakes. Why would you not think this is a cake? It has literally icing and sprinkles on it. You don't think that's a cake? What's wrong with you? We don't have to include this at all, Seth. I just want to tell you that four episodes,

five episodes ago, I was talking about how I was just reeling about Sweden and about how fart is in Sweden and how it really shook up my world learning this and why didn't I know it this whole time. And then since then I've gotten fed on Instagram and Twitter somebody's tweet saying I was today years old when I learned this and it has pictures from it and it keeps popping up on my feed as a comedy person

and it was posted eight hours after our podcast went live. And then the ultimate insult to injury was Diva going, oh yeah, I figured you had, because he had been fed it. And he was like, oh yeah, I figured you had seen that tweet and that's what had made you talk about it. Unbelievable. Really burned me. Yeah, really burned me.

Also the fact that your buddy Diva thinks that you're using this podcast to tell us recent memes you've seen. Yeah, that I just saw a meme and was like, I gotta talk about this and not give the meme any credit. Hey, have you guys seen this thing? It's Dancing Baby. Yeah. Took it back. That's the first meme. That's meme one. That's meme. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ground zero for memes.

Here's a comment I want to close this episode with, because I do really want to get to Dackery Girl and, you know, you can't stop it. Somebody commented, I love that after years of nothing, Lonely Island starts filming videos again as soon as Yhorm leaves the country. Not on purpose. Oh, sure. Probably, it's probably a phony movie you guys set up

just to get them over there. I thought it was a triumph. It's Criterion Collection for me. I know it's a little too early's Criterion Collection for me. I know it's a little too early for that, but. Dang, okay. Well, that's very kind of you. A little BTS.

Yeah. I was actually sweating it slightly after dress rehearsal. Oh. I think the audience was a little lackluster in general at dress. I think we had a theory maybe they were a lot of people that had camped out to see Charlie do her songs, which makes sense to me because they were dope.

Or maybe they just weren't feeling it that hard. Other people told us they thought it played great, but for me, wherever I was standing on the floor, I was like, uh-oh, did that not actually totally work? And then we finished it and then on air, it went immeasurably better in my opinion and I was hugely relieved and happy. There was also a technical issue

not to throw the sound team under the bus because they corrected it and at air it was wonderful but they for whatever reason didn't realize what volume it was going to be at so it played incredibly quiet. Right. So it was very difficult to hear the first 30 seconds of the video in the room. We were suspicious maybe they hadn't heard the words of the song also. Yeah. Which is the last thing you ought to be on the record saying when people don't laugh. They played it really loud. It's because they couldn't hear it probably. Yeah.

Because I will say, I feel like this one definitely would work as a song, works even better as a song with visuals, just visuals. I wouldn't have enjoyed it at all. That's right. I would have thought, I don't know enjoyed it at all. That's right. I would have been, I would have thought, I don't know why they think I can follow this. They don't like it. One last thing.

Just another Charlie compliment, really. I went out to the floor to watch both her songs, and they were so fucking dope. And I ended up on Sympathy as a Knife. I went out and was just watching and all of a sudden just started dancing. This is not a joke. I just, it's been a long time since I spontaneously just started dancing. And when that chorus came in and those fucking massive synths dropped in, I was joking that I like, suddenly I was like, like Neo dancing in my duster.

Like head down, just vibing. And it was, I felt very free and happy in that moment. And it's one of those magical things that happens at SNL sometimes just being in that studio is so fucking cool. She had been a guest on my show with Troy Savon. They were fantastic together. Also she was on my show with Troye Sivan. They were fantastic together. Also, she was on my first week or two of shows.

Oh, you mean in the very beginning, 10 years ago? Yeah, with Egy Azalea singing on- Oh, fancy. Yeah, and it's so funny when you realize how young someone like she started. Yeah. Because that's so long ago and she's still so young now. Yeah, she would have been like 22 or something at that point.

Our producer just said something really nice, Jeff, and I want to read it to you guys. Don't let it go to your heads. Should probably move on to the next app, guys. You know what, Jeff? Like wrap it up, fellas. All right, everybody. Thank you so much, mostly to you two. And everybody over at SNL for giving us a fresh new short.

In ten years, we'll do it again. We'll talk mad shit. We'll give you all the real dirt. So, Seth, are we going to talk about the episode itself in ten years when we do that episode again? Oh, we review this episode. We're going to talk about this podcast episode. No, the SNL episode, man.

I know, but I wasn't. Yeah, there's no Seth's Corner. It's weird for me to talk about one that I only saw. Right, then we're just a fan podcast. That's why I would be fucking hot tea, brother. Oh shit. I'm really desperately trying to end this now, and you're doing that thing you do, Andy.

That's why it's getting spicy. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, not sorry. When it gets to the midnight hour, we get spicy. All right, we're gonna stop. We're gonna stop. All right, goodbye guys. I love you and I'll see you next episode. All right, love you bud.

Love you, bye. Bye.