The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast - Listener Episode #1 (Repost)

Episode Date: August 12, 2025

This week we're re-releasing the very first listener Q&A episode! This originally aired in September 2024 so some of the references are dated but the laughs are still fresh. Seth and the guys answer some of your burning questions (slightly smoldering almost a year later) about the making of some of their digital shorts, Andy’s Spelling Bee tactics, and so so so much more! Sorry for the Hauser move this week but we'll be back next week with another righteous kill! Andy on Late Night | https://youtu.be/Qsh-omNj_Ng?si=KY11fMVmWtNctU93LEE | Official Theatrical Trailer | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmFYkiUAAA8Mandy bathroom sceneWill Ferrell and Harper Steele n Late Night | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODWt_CLcRpoNot all the clips we mention are available online; some never even aired.Photos and anything else mentioned in the episode can be found by following us on Instagram @thelonelyislandpod Please support our sponsors: VuoriGet 20% off your FIRST purchase. Get yourself some of the most comfortable and versatile clothing on the planet at http://www.vuori.com/ISLAND Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, everybody, it's Seth here, and it's August. And you know what August means a lot of people are on vacation, including the Lonely Island and Seth Myers. So unfortunately, we do not have a new episode for you this week, but we are going to replay one of our Q&A episodes before we will return to you a week from now with a new one. Also, Kiv is totally unavailable now that he says. like a big time Hollywood director on the back of his hit film, Naked Gun. You know, with that said, why don't you fill the week by going to see that for the first time or maybe the second or third time? Anyway, sorry that we're not with you and we'll make it up to you soon. All the best. Righteous Kill. Welcome to another lonely island Seth Myers podcast. So here's the plan, guys. I'm really excited. I have the little housekeeping and then we have some Q&A and then we're going to see where we're at and we'll go from there. Can I start with my housekeeping? Yes. Last time I asked a, whatever you call them, rhetorical question,

you all just stared at me. Yeah. Okay. Guys, the news is out. Our long national nightmare of waiting is over. Lorne has announced he's going to stay at S&L through the 50s. Yay, yes. That's great. He finally did an interview that unburdened the world. from having to play who should replace Lorne. So congratulations to Lorne on what I'm sure will be another 50. I was worried it was me. You were, weren't you? Yeah, I thought I was me.

Because you never got mentioned, and I feel like it's often one of the people that never gets mentioned. That's exactly right. Every time they didn't say my name, I went, shit, it's me. Wait, not that I'm out of it, which you guys all know that I'm in it.

I'm never out of it. Yeah. But who were like the top dogs? Like, who keeps getting mentioned? I'd say Tina got mentioned the most. Tina got mentioned the most. I had my name out there

a perfect amount, which was flattering to say it was not going to be me, but I liked hearing it. And yeah, you know, and then I think there were like the people who were working there. Speaking of,

moving on to our next topic, which is Steve Higgins. We talked a lot about Higgins and I went to the Emmys, didn't win, but I had a wonderful time. Got to present with Wig, Bowen, and Maya.

Always a joy to be with our family. I watched it. It was very funny. I didn't, but I bet it was good. I missed that. We were pitched as we're going to be an S&L reunion. It really hurts you in your soul when you realize you've been gone so long that you're now part of the reunion.

Like when you're with three people that you've worked with, it's now a reunion. It's not just like, hey, those guys, are you guys still on the show? Everybody knows we're not, and it's a reunion. I mean, technically, this is a reunion, you know what I mean? Now it is, yeah. But it was a fun bit. The bit was we went out and talked about how many Emmys Lauren has lost over the years. And I knew that he would laugh at Maya and Whig and Bowen telling him that he's not a loser and he does have value.

And writing for Maya is the greatest thing in the world because you write that, Lauren, you were robbed. And you spell robbed R-O-B-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-U-B-A, dash A. And she does it exactly not. That's awesome. But afterwards had dinner with Lauren and Higgins, and I have three things Higgins did that I thought you guys would enjoy. I'm going to love all three They brought rolls And I had to reach a little bit past Higgins

To get a roll And he slapped my hand so hard It still hurts Yeah That's checks The waiter asked Lauren what he wanted For dinner He said do you know what you would like to order

And Higgins went Cheese sandwich Well he's on fire And then immediately turned to me And said such a weird I mean there's so many good things here But okay Did he say

do it like a Vanchilic was like Lauren was his puppet? Yeah. Yeah, good. Yeah, but like not Lauren's voice. Yeah. I love that in a not spot on and brush it at all. Cheese sandwich. Great. That's a weird call. And then immediately then starts criticizing him. Okay. Captain Weird Order. God. Miss him. Anyway, that was the housekeeping I had. That's wonderful. Oh, I have one more thing.

You're listening this on a Monday. On Wednesday, Andy's going to be on late night. Oh, that's a tofer. This is a nice situation where we're out. actually now recording these close enough to the present that I can plug that Andy's going to be on the show. Yeah. If you're listening on Monday. Should we be doing a deep dive because it comes out when? The movie Lee? Yeah. Yeah, it comes out Friday. So this Friday in theaters, Andy took a little dramatic turn and he's awesome in it. Yeah. And truly, all the reviewers take a moment to point out that Andy's very good in it. Oh, that's nice. It's true. And he looks very handsome. Do you feel as though you missed your window of when you were best suited

for just sort of looks in fashion. I don't know, because like 40s Sandberg looks really good. I mean, part of the reason I was like, ooh, I bet I could do this part is because I look like I'm from then. Yeah, especially when you get your haircut a little bit. Yeah, a New York guy from there with that haircut. When they did the haircut, I was like, oh, it's going to be all right. For listeners that have no clue what we're talking about,

and Andy won't pump up his own balloon, that's a phrase. Yeah. It's called Lee. It's a World War II movie, and it's a Kate Winslet movie, and it has Alexander Scarsguard, and it has Marion Cotillard. Andrew Reisbro, Josh O'Connor. And it's a serious not-joke movie. And it was a little bit of a leap for Andy,

and he had to go film in Budapest. And he had a great time and had a little fun experience outside of our normal comedy world. Andy, when you get interviewed for these things, do you also say, and it's not a joke, and the movie's not a joke? Yeah, I'll go like, oh, man, it was such an honor to work with Kate. It's not a joke.

I'm not being so much. That's good. I have to say it after everything, yeah. And obviously, yeah, Keith mentioned, I shot it in Foggy Budapestown. Foggy Bootestown. And it's September for people listening out of order, late night, 25th movie Friday the 27th. Yeah. It's pretty exciting. Andrea Reisbrough has now accomplished something that those in the no call getting in the cage, which is she has now worked with both you and Nicholas Cage. Whoa. That's high praise. That is high praise. High praise indeed. Now, Andy, do you know what movie Andrea Reisbrose and Nick Cage were in together?

No. Mandy. Have you seen Mandy? Oh, yes. And if you haven't seen Mandy, there's one scene that everyone will know if you've seen Mandy that is worth seeing just to see Mandy. If you only see it up to this one bathroom scene.

Oh, great. I was about to ask you what the location was, not to give anything away. And I'm super psyched it was the bathroom because that's definitely the scene. And the only thing I will say is I really wish, even bringing up Mandy, that Nick Cage right now was doing a Nick Cage movie's rewatch pod because I would just be waiting for,

man. Oh, God, it's so good. It's so good. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Before we move on. What? Seth. Yeah. When you were doing the Lorne bit at the Emmys,

I couldn't help it feel like I had seen that blocking before. A shot at Lorne, back up at the stage over Lorne. And then I remembered it was me and you at the Emmys when we did a bit with Lorne. It was like that we got him a mug that said World's Greatest Boss or something. Oh, my God. No, literally no memory. I think you're right It was a similar idea

It was not that he was a loser But it was like He's accomplished so much We have to acknowledge him And to do that Here's a cup Man It's been a fulsome career

That we're completely forgetting It's so crazy How forgetful You guys all are You all you guys are forgetful Anyway my point is You guys ripped off our bit Oh you ripped off our bit

Oh I ripped off a bit That I had previously done with you Exactly Andy What award did we give out Together at the SPs No clue We gave out best play

At the SPs in Hamlet one? Boy. Hey, Higbones is here. By the way, we should have done that bit at the Espies. I know, we blew it. Just to have a bit die harder than any bit. And the best play goes to.

And I'm like, Andy, no, no, no, no. Hamlet. Oh, my God. It was very special to me because I'm a big Steelers fan. We gave Best Play to Santonio Holmes and Ben Rothesberger for a Super Bowl winning catch. Oh, for that insane catch, yeah. And then the only reason I bring it up is last year, I told Andy this last year I met at San Antonio Holmes.

And I said, you probably don't remember this. Andy Sandberg and I gave you an S.B. for Best Play. And he said, I remember Andy, which is a really funny burn. Which couldn't have made me happier because it's usually the other way. SB's after parties were so fun because the amount of people that came up to me, these were athletes who would say, man, I had never heard of you. Yes. I had no idea who you were.

And you're really funny. But I'm like, just say you're really funny, the amount of it was like. you are not on my radar at all you need a little bit of that in your life yeah it's not bad look at it I feel like we're really just growing into podcasters because that was a real top of show banter um what do you got for us now kev yeah I've got a little special guest who had some corrections for us oh hey guys this is former SNL writer rob klein and this message is mostly for Seth Seth I just had a couple of little quibbles about things that you said recently on the pod Number one, last week you said I was given the name flip-flop because I wore them on the first day of work. That's not totally accurate. I was actually called flip-flop because I wore them every day to work for my entire first month on the job until eventually Steve Higgins asked me to stop doing it because it was making Lauren feel sick to his stomach. So that's one correction.

Another mistake, Seth, I noticed, was on the Harpoon Man episode. You stated that Harpoon Man is bad. that is not correct Harpoon man is actually very good Maybe a little dated But still very funny And if you guys actually believe that that's Andy's worst vocal performance

Then you've clearly never seen a little short Called the best look in the world So that's all I wanted to say Harpoon Man is good And I am officially putting it in the criterion Okay, love you guys Wow To call in

I make a case Respect, he had things he needed to get off his chest I mean, just to use data on your phone to defend Harpoon Man. I mean, keep in mind also, Rob at this point, has four kids, two of which are twin babies. So, like, he's not, like, swimming in free time. Yeah, that was important to him. It sounded like he recorded that late night, too. So I saw Rob last night.

And the only thing I'll add to it is because it started with him just telling me it. And then I was like, wait, you have to make me a voice note, is that he said on Harpoon Man, he watched at home. He was not an employee at S&L yet. So his opinion is, like, very valid as an impartial audience member. And he was just watching at home and went, I love that. And then he was hearing Seth shit on it and was like, no, stop. I watched at home and I like that. Don't take that away from me.

I do like he kind of did me a solid, though, because right before he told the audience of our podcast that I was wrong, he did admit to wearing flip flops to a job for a year. He said a month. He said a month. They said it much. So, like, sure, sure, take Rob's judgment. And that is a very valuable thing because I would say, and I think Rob would agree, no one was more delighted by Sandberg's wheelhouse than Klein.

We got on famously. You got on famously. So the fact that he was like pro harpoon man before you had like laid on your charms one-on-one. Maybe that's why he was so pro. Wait, did Lauren actually say, though, that his shoewear was grossing him out? Like, is that true? No, I bet he said basically, like, is anyone going to talk to Rob about his footwear?

But he said it in a way that you could tell he'd wanted to make him puke. Oh, my God. Guys, I got a follow-up voice note from someone. Okay. I think there's a lot of confusion about this person's first voice note. Okay. They were doing kind of a weird voice. A voice.

Oh, yeah, I remember. And everyone was like, what the fuck is this? It was a real dud. Yeah, it didn't play. and it also sort of helped, like factually. Anyways, I think... He'd like to give it another chance. So let's just check it out.

Okay. Oh, hey, guys. It's Colin. I just wanted to follow up about my previous message and explain that I actually wasn't peeing while I sent that message about Roy Rules and how I worked on it and came up with the line. And my dong is his peg leg. so that's it just checking in and signing off and I wasn't peeing so that clarifies it

I mean so yeah so he was peeing this time well that's I think we might now need another one the best thing about this is anyone who's hearing them will finally put to bed that question that's been nagging them which is why doesn't Colin do more characters on us and it's also funny to me that for how easy it is to do that voice that he also loses it a little bit at the end well you got to remember he's definitely standing with some

sort of I mean the amount of rigging I'm sure there's like a stainless steel bucket next to him he's got a hose and he's barely turned on high quality fully work yeah phone in his hand that is harder knows he's out of his comfort zone doing the voice yeah there's some tension in there

he's an odd duck he's an odd duck you know what Joe's clarify it for us will you was that peeing I mean maybe this becomes our podcast runner you know oh we'd love a runner like hey our apologies to Matt Damon

was Joe's peeing oh you know what I mean you guys could use that yes yeah comedy media content content hey I had one other I didn't get a voice note but we all got this and I feel like I should share it

John Hamm fan of the pod was very disappointed that we did not call the Brian William short Life of Brian. Yeah. And I think he was right. Oh, yeah. I think we were still in a place where we didn't think the public would ever see the titles. Right. They were just for the rundown list.

That's why so many of the titles are so lackluster. Hey, I know that we do need to get to some stuff. Yeah. But I need to talk about spelling B. Oh, the New York Times game or the Will Forte sketch? The New York Times game. And you know why, Seth. I'd almost preferred if you told them.

that you went on the hottest streak that maybe anyone's ever been on with spelling me. I think seven days in a row, you Queen Beat. I mean, I want to say like six in a row, but like nine out of ten days. Now, Andy, believe it or not, as we transition to Q&A, this is helpful because a lot of people have asked questions about you

and spelling me. Oh, yeah, good. That's all I like to talk about. So this is a question, and I mean, we know the answer, but some of our listeners are frustrated because we talk about shorts that are not readily findable online. Someone wrote,

I'm interested in how you guys are able to access videos like the Talking Dog Short that aren't available on YouTube. Also, how are you able to find archival material about SNL episodes from 2007 such as scripts, rundowns, etc.? Is there an NBC server that you have access to

that contains all these videos and documents or did you meticulously preserve it all in a series of USB thumb drives like a machine? Who is that from? Is that from Hacker 147 or something like that? That's from Melinda. And it is, you know, there's a server. And there's a Kevin Miller.

Kevin is a producer on this podcast and a former writer's assistant at S&L, current producer at Late Night with Seth Myers. And we have an ability to go back in time and pull all this stuff. I have a question for you. When you first started at S&L, what was a sketch you went straight to the server to watch? Give up the ham. For me and Yorma was that Kelsey Grammer one that now we know Mike Scher and Matt Piedmont wrote that I believe we falsely attributed on this podcast to Adam McKay and then got a text from

Mike Scher being like, actually, it was me and Matt Piedmont. He was very, very flattered that we liked it so much. And it is a great sketch. It was the burrito noir one. Yeah. Andy just went and looked at old music performances from the 70s. I did. Yeah.

I watched like, you know, the Talking Heads performance in the 80s and Stevie Nicks and stuff like that. But give up the ham. We wanted to see Give Up the Ham. Oh, yeah. I remember doing that and seeing it at Dress also. Yeah, it was really fun to go watch the dress, the one that you've never seen before. Even just to go, like, look at Cowbell, but from dress, like, famous sketches, but see it performed in an uncanny kind of alternate universe.

I feel like maybe we, like, went back and, like, watch the first Wayne's world, stuff like that. It's also just kind of amazing because you can just type in vampires. And it'll be like, these are the six vampire sketches that come up from, like, starting in 1970. Like, so it's a pretty amazing, I kept thinking, like, they should make this. public if there wasn't so much music that they had to clear or whatever. But it would, I think people would pay a subscription. Well, they can. It's at peacock.com. Yeah. And you can see a lot of great stuff. And Peacock has just an incredible search function. It's so easy. You type in Vampires and Peacock. You can do it back in the day, though? You can do like all the ones? No, I'm being

sarcastic. They just have a lot of stuff. Oh, okay. Oh, I understand sarcasm. Hey, I know we've sort of exited the plug zone, but because Harper Steele wrote, Give Up the Ham, I should note Harper and Will are actually going to be on the show this week as well, promoting their documentary. Take advantage of that. We're doing a last-minute one, and you can actually say things like that. It's amazing. Yeah, we've got a plug. I'm very excited. I have not seen Will and Harper yet. It is a road trip movie about Harper Steel, who is a writer at S&O, and Will Ferrell, who I do not have to explain to anybody here. And it is supposedly incredible.

It's a hundred percent rotten tomatoes, 100%. What did you say, Andy? Seth, you're in it, right? I'm in it. I'm in an early scene. It is about how Harper transitioned, and it is her allowing Will to ask all the questions he might have, and it sounds like it's something special. I cannot wait. I'm very excited to see it. They're on the show this week. They're on Tuesday.

Sick, bro. This is going to be a hot week. Jessica asks, so when Seth and Andy say they got Queen Bee clean with no hints, does that mean they didn't even look to see how many words they were or look at the two-letter list or does it just mean they don't look at the community hints? I play the Bee Daily, and I'm no slouch, but damn, Raw dog in the puzzle, the completion with nothing be on the regular puzzle screen and do it on the regular seems implausible.

I feel like I should come clean. I do look at total score and total words. Okay. So the two hints, two basic guidelines. But you don't look at the two letter hints. You just know how many words there are. How many words? What's total score?

What does that mean? Total score is the total sum of all the words you get. Oh, because you get points on each word for how big the words are? Mm-hmm. But I will say, her name was Jessica that asked. Yeah. Jessica, I will say, if I'm being totally truthful, maybe like 10 times a year, I get it without even looking at that. In those moments, you feel like, frankly, a genius.

Oh, I thought you were going to say, a queen. Well, I was about to amend it. You feel a lot better than a genius. You feel like a queen bee. There you go. Thank you. Sorry to interrupt that flow. And Jessica, when I get it, I'm using not only all the two-letter hints.

I also am looking at a list I keep on my phone of all the words I didn't know. it's just like the cheapest success possible. But me and Seth admit it to each other when we use hints and we use list words. We're very honest. Jordan asks in a few episodes, one of y'all can be heard laughing so hard that you snort, who's the snorter?

Samberg. I think it's me, yeah. Oh, yeah. Sandberg's a great old school snorter. I'll snort. I don't give a goddamn. The best. That's actually weird to me

because I know Andy pretty well at this point. And I don't actually know what that sounds. So I'm not immediately like, oh, yeah, he snorts. Like, what do you do when you snort? I mean, make me laugh really hard, and you'll find out, brother. Okay, okay, okay, this, okay, let me just tell you a quick quick. No, no, no, it's too, this too sweaty. You're not going to snort at this.

I feel like we've answered this, but I do like the phrasing of the question from Kevin. Hey, Quades. I love hearing Lonely Island stories about cutting quarters to make a short. AFX twin sample, for example. I actually work for an agency that manages the NBC store website. As you can imagine, I've received many scoldings from NBCU's legal team myself. So my question, what's the most trouble the Lonely Island got in during their tenure at S&L? I mean, AFX Twins feels like it.

I maybe feel like you shot a few times in places you weren't supposed to. That's the biggest one. And then we'll talk about a short in the future that we spent a lot of money on called. I wish it would have rained, which I think we've already mentioned. I mean, I can't wait. We didn't get in trouble for it, but I got a very sarcastic response from Lauren after we made it. And that made me feel bad about myself. Yeah, we got bullied into making it and then basically

shamed, shamed for making it also. But, you know, we'll get there, we'll get there. I will only say about I wish it would rain is I wish today we were doing, I wish it would rain. I'm almost only, I'm only doing this podcast to just get to I wish it would rain. Every week we would get, not every week, but a lot on times on the songs with the bad words.

We'll touch on each one as we get there, but there'd be a lot of touch-and-go stuff to the point where, like, Like, for jizz of my pants, I'm sure we'll talk about this. But, like, they had to call Jeff Zucker who ran the network to get approval for it to air at the last minute. Let's not talk about that one, because there's a lot to talk about it. That is a lot to talk about. Which one was it, though, and we'll get to it.

There was a dude on West Coast that was her boss, or censor. Betsy Torres. I had to say, can I just talk to the boss? Because she kept saying, my boss won't allow it. And I said, can I talk to him? And they had to pull him out of a dinner because it was West Coast time at 8 p.m. on a Saturday night. And he was so mad at me on the phone, just unbridled anger at someone he had never met while we're trying to put a show on. And I'm like, hey, hi, how are you?

He's like, I'm in the middle of a dinner. It's 8.30 p.m. What is this? Like, just screaming at a stranger who's just trying to, like, put on a live TV show that's... Oh, just a kid. Just a kid trying to make comedy. Exactly. With the word... I think it might have been mother lover.

Just like to make something about, you know, fucking things on national TV. They put that scene, even though it was apocryphal, they put it in the Reitman movie. Oh, yeah, exactly. It was a flash forward. It does seem like a real errandsirkin. I never forgot because it's weird to have a stranger scream at you on the phone that you've never met, don't know their name, we'll never meet, and just feels okay screaming at a stranger. What L.A. restaurant did you most want to picture him in stepping outside to yell at you? Oh, Spago, obviously Spago.

I was going to say the Ivy, but sure. I was thinking of the Ivy. We were at the, that's where, you know, I'll restaurant drop. That's where Lauren, I feel like Lauren only eats at places that were, like, visa commercials in the 80s. They were like, when you go to Ivy, bring your visa because they don't take it. By the way, you just got, you just got a snort out of me. Oh, yeah. Totally involuntary.

We went to the Ivy and there's like, there's like outdoor seating right on the street, you know. Yeah. But like not on the street. Like, right, it's on the restaurant. A nice white picket fence. Yeah, right. And Sheemaker and I had super early flights. And so we left first.

And we had a driver because NBC gets you a driver when you get nominated for an Emmy. Cool. And we walked out and we thought he'd be right there and he wasn't. For like five minutes, we were standing five feet from our table, but on the other side of a picket fence. Yeah, that's embarrassing. And we definitely caught a lot of grief. Can I add on to that story? The first time we met Pam Brady, original writer of Hot Rod, we met at the Ivy.

I don't know if you guys remember this. And then when she was getting her car, another car story out front, a town car pulled up that would take you to the airport. And she was like, yeah, this is my car. She just thought it was super funny that she got a Lincoln town car to drive around. Yeah. She got a black, Lincoln, and she blacked out the window. So it looked, and she's like, I park in red zones because people just assume a driver is in there. Oh, that's so funny.

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You're going to be shocked to hear that I don't remember that. Yeah. I very distinctly remembered and I remember having to go through the feelings of like, are they making fun of it or are they making fun of people doing their version of it and like slowly coming to realize that Mike was our friend and liked what we were making and stuff and being like, oh, I see. Yeah. It was very much the latter.

Like that would be a thing that Michael. Scott would do. It was the phenomenon of of people like dressing up as the stuff and doing their own like our thing in our office and in our town and the fan vid version of it, right? Yeah. We were very flattered. Here's a good one

that I have no idea of the answer and I'm really hopeful that Andy can help out. Brianna, I'm loving the podcast despite Andy's disdain for the medium. I have a question about an SNL sketch from that era that has been driving me crazy for years. The premise of the sketch is Andy hater and maybe someone else

are water cooler delivery guys I'm gonna pause for a second there's a lot more Andy is this jogging anything yet no okay I don't remember how but the scene devolves into the guys needing to chug water from the giant water cooler bottles one of the ending lines was something to the effect

of I have a buddy at S&L we should tell him this story and he'll put it on the show do any of you remember this sketch it sort of feels like a fever dream but in so certain I saw it as one of the last sketches in the show of that episode that's a really funny I don't remember. That's a really funny thing.

It's such a funny line. Any sketch could end with that. It's also so funny because if like a friend of yours, you wrote an S&L and a friend told you this water bottle thing and you wrote it up as a sketch, it'd be so funny to think you also had to put in the line. We should tell my friend about it. Oh, my God. I do not remember this, but it sounds great.

I will say that joke probably makes all of us laugh extra. hard in case it's not clear to anyone. If you work at S&L, your life immediately becomes every person you've ever met telling you what a great idea for a sketch is. And half the time, they just say, like, the setup of something with no actual comedic idea. You know, it'll be funny is like something at an office or, you know what I mean? You're like, oh, man, yeah, I'm going to take that into account. I remember my super ones, we were going down the stairs and he slipped down like two stairs and he said oh now that's going to be in the show isn't it yes that's usually what people say like what yeah oh boy this guy's you're gathering material and you're just like what that question

being on here now somebody out there will answer it for everybody yeah i'm sorry i don't remember but it sounds delightful we're going to do some digging i remember a different water bottle scene which i think wasn't a dane cook and forte and somebody from the water bottle company came and asked if they'd been returning the water bottles and they kept saying they had and then a closet opened and it was like a thousand water bottles like those pole and spring water bottles fell out. Right, didn't we talk about it where

it's the sound of the water bottles off camera? Yeah. Did that air? I think it did air. Here's one. Jill, I have a general SNL question. Have you ever had someone from the audience storm the stage or just do something crazy during a sketch with the big actors that come on the show? I find it hard to believe that we've never seen some kind of crazy person interrupting.

Never in my time. Yeah. strangely no yeah i feel like recently i even saw a headline of some article that like someone did it when sharon stone hosted and that lorne grabbed them really and like did like a weird like karate move on them like ah sweep the leg i can only assume yeah this was on loren's blog is this where you read that's all i read can i go back to the water bottle thing for a sec because heaven just sent all right so there was a sketch i'm looking at it playing on mute right now it was dain cook and so far it's Dan Cook and is it Forte and it's the one you were talking about but it starts with them chugging from like sparklets giant water jugs that you would have in a water cooler

and then they're trying to hide them and it feels like maybe this would be what she's talking about the fact that they're chugging because they're trying to get rid of the water in the beginning Kevin says it was this one okay it was this one it's on a random website right now daily motion so if you do a web search for water bottle Saturday Live I bet you might find what you're looking for all right and Forte says if they Don't use it. I have a friend at Studio 60. Natalie, saw that Andy did a letterboxed four favorites interview during the UK premiere of Lee recently. I was just wondering, what were your four favorites, bud?

I mean, look, I got asked in the middle of doing carpet press. Yeah, so I've seen some people get asked you. This is a red carpet question where letterbox basically asks you to name your four favorite movies. Kind of impossibly put you on the spot. I just was like, God, off the top of my head, and I think I said, uh, the jerk, Puey's Big Adventure, Alien and Aliens. That's a good four. Which are four of my favorite movies, but like... But if you had time. If I had time, I don't know they'd be my main four.

I can tell you, I was asked yesterday at Q&A, and said Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Chinatown, in Bruges, and I can't remember what else. Mine are all just Bergman films, and whatever that person's first name is. Whatever. Roger. Roger. Whatever is Roger Bergman. Little known, little known, auteur named Roger Boer.

You're not going to remember this, because it's impossible to pinpoint it, but maybe you do. But Albert wrote, when did the audible cheers from the audience begin when the SNL digital short card would appear? That's a good question. First one. People are like, ooh, I don't think I know the answer to that. Yeah. Albert guest dick in a box, and I do believe that post dick in a box, it certainly was happening. But I think, actually, you think if we go back, because again, we were saying, like, even Andy, people getting punched.

I know I'm going to butcher the title here. It's people getting punched and Seth Myers. Podcast. while eating. Yeah, but that's after Dickenbox. Yeah. Oh, right, right. Somebody wrote,

How does S&L pick extras for skits shorts in the first scene of people getting punched, my favorite short? Thank you, Kelly. Someone's peepaw gets their clock cleaned. That was an old guy first. That peepa was good. He was a real good.

He was very good. And I don't know the answer to that. We would just ask. And, I mean, on the live show, you see the same faces pop up a lot. I think whoever's casting extras for S&L has their trusted people that they know can be trusted to do a good performance live on air.

So the same background actors show up over and over and over in the background of like political sketches and stuff. People are quite good at their jobs at S&L. I can't remember if we were like often handed lists of extras. Like if you're making a movie or a TV show, you're handed lists of like pictures and you're circling them and did it up. But I feel like the show is moving fast enough that occasionally we would ask for just generally, right? Like would we always pick them?

Yeah, we wouldn't look from lists or anything. Yeah. We would just kind of say what we want and someone would show up and they were usually great really good uh here's some information from kevin there's someone in the talent department who books the background actors for the live show and sometimes they do it for the short if you want it that's from kevin thanks kevin also kevin was there when i gave my answer yesterday my fourth movie was raiders the lost ark now uh now that you haven't had time to think about a keve you're for go you're on the red carpet you don't have time to think hey keve we're so excited

to be it to make a gun premiere. Groundhog Day. Die hard. Shit. Notting Hill. Great. You just say genres. Do Groundhog Day again.

That's kind of funny. That's funny. Oh, yeah. Groundhog Day. Oh, yeah. That's good, thank you. That's better. I recently watched Notting Hill again.

Kind of perfect, right? I've never seen it. It's very good. Or I don't remember if I've seen it. I saw it for the first time recently, and it is very good. It's very good. It's the group of friends. I talk about it.

whenever people bring it up, but it's the group of friends that are so natural and you want to hang out with them. And it's that guy, the, like, his ex who's now in the wheelchair, who is with the guy and then the goofy friend and then the wacky sister. And there is something in those British,

it feels so warm and inviting when they're all hanging out. That's where I really feel like they've captured some sort of lightning in a bottle. Also, Alec Baldwin as her. Yeah, he wants him to audios those dishes. Yeah, we talk about that a lot. This is, I'm just going to say Josie, didn't really have a question,

but she did send in a photo of her wearing a Roy Rules T-shirt that she still owns. Fuck, that rules, frankly. She said, destroyed my college roommate's computer trying to download Awesome Town videos. Just wanted to say Roy Rules when I'm here of Doodle Shorts

and still have the T-shirt that my roommate got me. What a treat. Pretty awesome. Oh, wow, yeah, it's the nice font and everything. That's a great. shirt is really good. Wow. This is making me feel great. You should send that to Roy. Here's another one. Megan, did you guys ever have any say over merch? When I was in college, I bought a magnet with Andy's face on it that says punched in the signature yellow impact font. I'm a high school teacher in 12 years of having the punched magnet on my whiteboard. The only person to ever comment on it was a dad at back to school night who said, hot rod? To which I replied, yeah, basically. I think that was that official NBC store merch? I think it was.

I've ever seen that down in the store. That's great. Thanks for sharing and all the dumbness, everyone. Hey, I'm going to answer a hard yes for the group here, but you guys can talk mad at it. Would you guys ever do an episode about the Bash Brothers special from 2019, especially since this year's last season in Oakland? I would love to hear about what inspired the special,

and if they ever talk to Mark McGuire or Jose Can't Sayco about it. Definitely. I mean, going to bring me to one of my favorite stories of all time. I mean, I'll let you guys tell it. No, you have to tell that story, Seth. You tell it way better. We were in Minneapolis. One of the greatest days of my life.

I've always said this. The greatest day of my life. I had shot Lobby Baby the night before. And thank you. And like day after taping a special, you're just like the relief I felt, right? Palpable relief. One of my best friends lived in Minnesota, Brian Stanchfield, went out on his boat with my brother, Shoemaker, and Brooks Wheelan,

just like drank Coors Lights on a boat. We blasted I'm on a boat a lot. I was going to ask. I was going to ask. Because we were on our way to see the Lonely Island live at the Armory in Minneapolis. That sounds right. Giant awesome.

Yeah, it was a really big space. It was awesome. I'd already seen you guys do the live show in New York, so I was super excited to see it again. And I don't know why in Minnesota this was the case, but Jose Cansego came, the real Jose Cansego. Fuck, yeah. Yeah.

It was the second time he had joined us. He also had joined us in Milwaukee. at Summerfest up on stage, I believe, and then had so much fun with us, was like, oh, I do it again, what's your next concert? We're like tomorrow or day after tomorrow, we're here, and he was like, all right, I'll meet you there. And so he actually came and did it again. It was so awesome. He was wonderful. We haven't talked about this on the pod. I hope we haven't, because I will just say, the great thing is we're backstage, Jose Cansego looks fantastic. Yeah. Literally looks fantastic. And Yorma, maybe no one in the history of two-line scenes has put

something more on a tea says to Jose Cansego oh my god you look amazing what's your secret and Jose Canseco says steroids yeah wasn't it it's all those steroids man it was kind of a pause there was a nice pause in the air before he said it steroid but like he told it as a joke knowing it was a great joke but like I kind of I couldn't believe it it was so funny I rarely see Seth laugh that hard. Steroids. It also leaned in. Both of them played their part because also like

Yorma played the part of a guy who doesn't know a single thing about sports. No, I know stuff. I know stuff. Konseco reached out like day one when it came out because we didn't, we just put that thing out there and didn't know how they'd feel. And day one, he was on Twitter saying he liked

it and thought it was awesome. It meant a lot. And we immediately had management reaching out to him and started putting into the works, the idea I'm joining us on tour because we were happening to go on tour right then. And he was a delight the whole way through. And for people that didn't get to go to the tour, what he did on stage those two different nights was when me and Andy were in our jerseys. Let me make a tangent here. I can't believe people wear those sports jerseys to the events where these athletes are, because if you ever want to look the worst you can

look physically, put on the exact same clothes as like a six foot four muscle. bound hunk and then wear that same outfit pretending to be them and then get into the same vicinity as them we look so whack and so weak and just melted shitty and then there he is anyways and we're wearing the same dumb outfit and he came out so we're doing our dumb wraps to the crowd and then we were like you come behind us with a baseball bat and just start pacing the stage and we'll kind of pretend like we don't know you're back there but the whole audience will get ahead of us seeing you. And it was such a delight doing our dumb raps up there. And I could see all the crowd's faces. And then you saw when their eyes moved from watching us to looking at someone

behind us and kind of tuning out of the song being like, oh no, oh my God, that's him. You felt when we like lost the crowd. It's very much like a world wrestling move, but also an SNL move. But when you do it on SNL, you know, you're on cards and you're under the lights. And the concert setting, it's what Keith's saying, where you actually see like thousands of people all go, Oh, is the guy! That may be one of my favorite, and I, again, we will come back around to it when we do a special Bash Brothers episode. Your line about your names, what is it, my name's Mark and no it's not Mork? Yeah, Andy actually wrote that for me.

But yes, I eat pork. It's got internal rhymes again. Yeah, and yes, I eat pork because it's tasty on my fork. Because it's tasty on my fork. Something Mark was famous for, eating pork. wait yes I eat pork because it's tasty on my fork is that it yeah it's maybe a favorite thing ever impossible not to think about we would ask Kinsego we said do you think Mark likes it do you think he's okay with it do you think we'll ever hear from him and he would just be like no to all those

yeah it did make me feel a little bummed because we do love Mark McGuire I mean I had a poster of him on a wall but I will also say in the exact opposite direction Akiva as Mark McGuire is one of my favorite comedy things that has ever occurred ringer and I'm Mark I remember coming in two things one I remember coming in while you guys were doing the edit and it was that like one with all like the giant redwood trees

like where it got really beautiful some of the poems yeah just the pie like so I'm watching you guys doing poems and it looks gorgeous and I remember Andy you said how much Netflix pay you for your special and I told you and I go what about you guys for this and you said we're down 200 grand

It is true Dedication It was like When I saw what was on the screen I'm like yeah I would think so We made that thing For by TV standards

Nothing Yeah That whole thing for less than an episode If I think you should leave Which is the cheapest show on TV Get out of town really? Yeah It was just all labor love

And Mike Diva Who works at SNL doing the shorts Now did it with us And he knows visual effects really well And would hit up friends for favors And me and him Just edited the whole thing and it's not reproducible.

It's so good. It's so good. Now, I would say two things, I guess, are good there. One, it's true that it's not reproducible, and it's probably not a big deal because no one's asked you to reproduce it. Correct. I meant for something people wanted to watch.

Like, you couldn't do it for the same budget. So basically, you said to Sarandos, we can't do a sequel. Yeah, that is it. Stop calling. I'll be excited to do that episode to answer that question. Yeah. I know S&L actors audition for the show,

but could you explain how exactly writers get in? P.S., I took the ACT at Berkeley High School, and I guess it was a tradition to tap the mural of the Lonely Island for good luck on tests. Oh, my God. I failed the ACT that day, R-I-P. They said they guess. They guess.

They said they failed the SAT that day? And then they wrote, rest in peace, and had a skull-a-mote. Okay. That made me so happy and then so sad. It was Kate. Kate. Thank you, Kate. Fuck.

Great, Kate. People bring it. I'm sure she'd circled back and passed it. Writer is, some writer is, like Rob Klein from earlier in the pod. He was definitely someone we hired off his packet that he submitted. But then other writers, like obviously Akiva and Yorm, come through different channels. Mullaney was somebody who auditioned but was hired as a writer. I think in recent years, they've hired quite a few writers based on their auditions.

Lutz auditioned, had a really funny audition. John Lutz. And we had to write a packet, too. And we all worked on it together, too. Right. Cidacus was, I believe, initially, in audition. He became a writer, and then eventually. Sometimes they end up in the cast.

So there's a lot of different ways you can find yourself in the show. You know who I was always surprised, wasn't hired onto the cast because he was such a funny guy and was very, very good at pitching, was J.B. smooth. Oh, yeah. Worked out for him, though. Jillian Bell also. Yeah.

Yep. She was a writer. Very funny. I remember the first time I saw Larry David. I said, you did the thing. that everybody has been wanting somebody to do which is you figured out exactly how to make J.B. as funny on camera as he is off camera.

That's right. That's right. Which was basically just to let him be. Let him be exactly himself. Yeah. Go try to like fit him into a box. Just like make a bigger box on your show. Hannibal Burris was also a writer with us. Yeah. Who had a really funny audition. All right. Matt wrote. After watching

Hot Rod, I wrote to my member of parliament. So where does that mean he's from, Andy? Member of Parliament. Foggy London Town. I wrote to my member of parliament to ask him who would win in a fight between a grilled cheese sandwich and a taco. And he wrote back to say the taco. Then he lost the election. Do you think the election was a referendum on this issue?

It sort of depends on what country you're actually from. There's a lot of different places that have parliaments. But I'm going to say yes. Yep. Okay. It's kind of a theme of people following something we did and then failing miserably. at it, whether it's the ACT test or an election. It has not gone well for people who use you guys as their totems.

It gives them a good window into what it was like for us growing up. Yeah. Like that tone in the real world. Yeah, it doesn't land well. It doesn't usually play, yeah. Well, I'm very excited for our next run of episodes. I love you all very much. Same here, Seth.

I thought you guys were going to do it. Fuck. God damn it. Okay, ready one? Same here, Seth. Okay, now Andy's not doing it. Seth, love you. Love you.

Let me do. Bye. Later, quades.