The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast - Listener Q&A Episode 10

Episode Date: January 20, 2026

On this episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, it’s another Q&A because we are not joking about how hard it is to schedule this pod. It’s Seth and Jorm answering your questions and listening to your voice notes! Find out what goes into an SNL table read, what it’s like to work on SNL and still have a life, whether The Lonely Island ever made a real song, and the real reason Jorm got burrito-brained. He wasn’t Winter Soldier-ing! You guys get it! If you don’t, you GOTTA go back to episode one. Send us an email: [e-mail] Send us a voice note: https://www.speakpipe.com/thelonelyisland Send us stuff: P.O. Box 4024 New York, NY 10185 Photos and everything else can be found by following us on Instagram @lonelymeyerspod Little Fox and the Wild Imagination: https://www.amazon.com/Little-Wild-Imagination-Jorma-Taccone/dp/1250212502 I’m Not Scared, You’re Scared: https://www.amazon.com/Im-Not-Scared-Youre/dp/0593352378?sr=8-1 Support our sponsors: Helix Go to https://helixsleep.com/island for 27% off site wide. Exclusive for listeners of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast Bombas Head over to https://bombas.com/island use code island for 20% off your first purchase at checkout. Chime Chime is not just smarter banking, it is the most rewarding way to bank. Join the millions who are already banking fee free today. It just takes a few minutes to sign up. Head to https://Chime.com/ISLAND Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, hey, it's the Lonely Island and Seth Myers podcast show. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Lonely Myers and Seth. Great. Ticconi podcast. Here's what's happening today. Yeah. It's me and Yorm, and you know what that means, Yoram?

You know what it means? Red Bull. No, it means you're the Alvin. There's literally no art now today. Yes, yes. Finally. Fuck, Joy. No theater are bullshit.

Hey, this is just a fun thing for you guys to know. Yorm and I are about a year into trying to plan a dinner. Yeah. Yeah. And the vasectomy, too. We got to work. Oh, yeah. Well, maybe that's it.

Maybe dinner straight to the vasectomy I pick you up the next morning. Or vasectomy, I pick you up. We go straight to dinner. Either way. That one. That's the second one. Because we're the New York boys on this pod. And we have a friend Adam Pally, who everybody who's listening probably knows.

And we've been trying to get dinner the three of us. And I feel like we're on the cusp. Seth, we're fucking it up. This podcast is fucking up our actual. friend in real life energy, you know? I know, but I do feel closer to you doing the pod than I would otherwise, so. Very true.

You know, the tradeoff's been good. Hey, you sent me the trailer to your movie over your dead body. Is that trailer public yet? It is not yet. What did you think of it, though? I thought it was outstanding. Yeah.

I'm really excited for people to watch it. I won't spoil it, but I will say that, you know, when Yorm was over in Finland, it wasn't all just saunas. We did some work. We did some actual work, and it's a full, it's also very funny to realize that, I know we talked about it.

This movie does not take place in Finland. It takes place in upstate New York. And I think I told you guys this, but when we were driving up to our temporary location, which is like two hours from Helsinki, I was like, fuck, this looks like upstate New York. Like, why couldn't we shoot in upstate New York? Yeah. My wife said that too. She was pretty pissed. Yeah, you can't send her pictures to prove how it could have been closer.

No, there are birch trees. It's different. Somebody said, and I'm a little worried. that you won't have the ability to do it on a two-man pod instead of a four-man pod. But there's been a lot of compliments, Yoram, in the comments for the little jokes you sort of mutter under the din of the cross talk. Give me an example of that. I don't know.

Nobody remembers them. I don't even remember the context, but somebody wrote, I laughed so hard when Yoram said, but that's what generals do. Oh, yeah. Again, don't quite remember the context. Well, just for our listeners to know, a lot of them get cut out. because there's more muttering that happens with me. And, yeah, I would say a majority get cut out.

And the ones that make it in, fucking winners. I also owe you a great deal of thanks because you sort of, you know, this was not the intention, but you gave people a lot of ideas as to what Spider-Man I should play in the next Spider-Verse movie. A lot of ideas? You'd call that a lot of ideas? No, I'm going to tell you the Spider-Man they think I should play, and you're going to realize why it was your idea.

Please. Seth should play the Spider-Man with two. teeth. Yeah, that's correct. You'll cut out. Almost never see his teeth. I would say if Spider-Man smiled while wearing the mask, it would be maybe the scariest thing that's ever been in one of those

movies. That is so funny. You almost never see his teeth. That is true. I mean, if they look, I'm just saying, if they want to hear me, I'll record one ADR line, which is like, yeah, I got teeth. And then they just animate that and all the kids scream. My God, I would love it.

By the way, by the way, fucking great. Like who we're talking to. is fucking Phil and Chris, Phil Lord Chris Miller. Those guys are going to hear this and it's all possible. Listen, everything is not an impossibility. Everything in that movie is already an Easter egg. Exactly, exactly. Just you need more.

I mean, again, I'm not asking to be the lead in the main universe. I'm just asking for a line in one of the many verses. Yeah, they've built in cameo fucking Supreme over there. There was a little shade for the Betty White episode. Somebody wrote, for anyone who just wants to hear about the digital short, skip to one hour and two minutes. We're getting, by the way, we're getting, this almost follows how bad we got with making the shorts.

Yeah. Every week we got like later and later until by the end, I think year seven, I remember distinctly like finish shooting at like 5 a.m. start editing at like seven after like resting for an hour and a half. I think that we're going that direction, like that we're barely covering. I, but I would just argue. And I should say some of the members of Kuwait Army in the comments pushed back on the snarkiness of that to say, at this point, if you're just listening to them talk about the shorts, you're sort of missing the point. And I like that we're kind of weaning ourselves off a reliance of talking about the shorts.

We're weaning ourselves off the premise of this podcast. Off the premise of the podcast. Great. Again, we're running out of road, York. So we got to do something. I don't know what's going to happen. And I know fucking Andy's thrilled about that. He can't wait to fucking hit the day.

And by the way, just for anybody who's like, when are they getting to the short? We're not getting to the short today because it's just two of us. This is going to be a little Q&A, a little listener notes. Do we talk about like sloths and like things that aren't like digital shorts, but like... We've talked about slots. Yeah, and drafts, right? We cover that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Can we get a database to Yorm that you could just Google? Can I just say, yesterday I went to my pain doctor and I told him how much Gabby Penton and I'm on and he was like, are there any side effects? And I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like he's like, my memory was bad before, but now it's... Oh, fuck. Also, we're six minutes into the podcast.

When you got on, you were drinking from the biggest thermos I've ever seen, and now you have a little coffee cup. What's going on? Do you know? Did you see what was in the coffee cup, though? Oh. Oh, you put a... But what was in the giant thermos you started with?

That's just water. And now you're drinking a coffee cup full of red ball. Oh, my God. My New Year's resolution is water and my, whatever the anti-new, like... What's the entire... For the YouTube video, Jeff, can Yorma's facebox be just the biggest thermos I've ever seen? It's so big. That likes my mugs.

Hey, somebody said, I will throw myself off a ladder in Yorm's honor if he creates a full 12-track normal guy album. I know you like a challenge. Can I tell you a fun normal guy story? I mean, they're all fun. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. I know it's one of your favorites.

So there is a, it's on one of Ice Cube's album. I think it's America's most wanted. I'm not sure. But like, and it might be death certificate. Yeah, it's definitely. So the. opening of the album is Ice Cube being led to his death in an electric chair. And it's a very sinister, dark, moody interlude that starts the album.

And I was somehow able to remove Ice Cube entirely from it and put normal guy in it. So it was him just saying, yeah. Like, you know, like, and the guy may like, open 12. Oh, hey, how's it going? And then he's being led down the hallway. And he's like, hey, man. Hey, man. I never did like you.

So, you know. And then he led to the electric chair and he's like getting strapped in and he's like, ah, it's like very pee-wee. And then it just ends with the ice cubes line but said normal guy style, which is like, you got any last words?

And he's like, yeah, yeah, I got some last words. Fuck all you guys. And then that was going to be the beginning of the album, which now, like, I can't find it anywhere. You know. So that's, I mean, although I guess that we kind of got the totality of it. Excellent performance.

It's always nice when normal guy stops by the pod. Red Bull gives you wings. Everybody agreed to Burrito Brain to Winter Soldier is the shirt we need and someone in YouTube

Vandal in the comments who claim credit and I believe correctly. Sorry, that's the person's name. Vandal? That's their handle. Vandall's the handle. You don't know that.

It could be. That's true. Could be Vandal. They have reported they're on a design. So hopefully soon they will share that with us as well. I'm going to

share the design that I sent to Jeff for a shirt because it was a fuck around thing that I did on my phone. It stinks. But I'll make a better design, but you can put that in the little show. Also, you know, speaking to Jeff, you know, people still very angry about the rerun episode. We tried to sneak by him. And, you know, I just want to say, like, we're not going to do it again. But, like, Jeff bullies us into it. Jeff is like, he's like a boy band manager.

He's like the Lou Pearlman of podcasts. Like, we're, you know. He's just like very pushy and aggressive and he makes us do things that we don't feel have integrity. Well, Seth, I offered to do this. Maybe he makes it worse or better, but I offered to do an episode solo. And he was like, yeah, I don't think we need that. It was, I was with, over the holiday, I was with my very funny sister-in-law, Emily Heller. And I was like, man, I got to do something with her.

And I was like, kind of kicking around it. And Jeff was like, nah, we good. No, that's good. You're two burrito brain to host is what. Oh, yeah. I think you can tell. We talked about the challenge coins and how I was a general on the challenge coin I was gifted and asked what your rank should be.

Somebody said clearly, Andy and Akiva's rank should be Admiral. Why, Yorm? Because of Admiral Spaceship? That's one version, but also that they're on a boat. Oh, nice. Yeah. But Admiral Spaceship is actually... I feel like we're crossing ranks, though.

is ad that's like now the navy because that's not army right that's that that's quade navy yeah that's great i would be buck private i'd say yeah that's probably that's probably fine what does the buck part mean i don't know and i'm not going to get to the bottom of it jeff look it up look it up jeff oh jeff well i got you actually a real question for you jeff a lot of people say the apple podcast upload keeps ending abruptly before we hear arnold people have to switch uh to youtube to hear his later quates i don't know if that's apple wide or just this one person's phone can i complain about the last episode. I thought it should end with us just being cut off. But I mean, Keeves says some last thing, but I always like it when Arnold closes it. I kind of agree. I think since we don't

have the other two here, I agreed with you when you said it. Oh, but if they were here, you wouldn't? No, I would take their side. I figured. I'm a coward when they're here, but I'm brave when it's just you and me. He's just so mean. Congrats to our friend Amy Poehler. She won the Golden Globe. First, the inaugural Golden Globe for podcasting. You knew she would, right? The minute they even said the award. I was like, well, Polar, it's getting in that. I do, I am hopeful, you know, for our behalf that you can't repeat in the podcast category. That's not going to be possible. I think we should just ask Amy to talk to Hans and Sven and everybody and put it on. You already. We talked about how Keeve maybe threw a little shade at old, uh, oh, wait, we have

bug private. Buck Private is in formal sling for a soldier at the absolute lowest rank. Yeah, I was right. So you're bucking for promotion. Ah. Yeah. This is a really informative podcast. It is. I mean, it's, you know, again, especially when we're not in the weeds on these dumb shorts. Keeve threw some shade at Lynn for constantly saying whether or not his kids liked or didn't like the shorts.

Yeah, he got, he got, he got, Keith basically was like, we don't care. That fucking backfired pretty hard on him. But Lynn did say that, uh, just wanted us know his 11-year-old did love the Betty White short, which I think actually will like, that almost like served. Keeves' premise. But Lynn also sent a video of his son not liking Ross Trent, which I did appreciate. But it was kind of a burnback. Because honestly, there's nothing like the eye roll of an 11-year-old to make me like shit.

I said a, I mean, this is, I'm sorry to talk about the spelling bee. I'm almost on to our listeners here. You know, we have to do, we got to clean out. I said it should be called a queen squeak when Andy gets a queen bee clean. and then everybody pointed out it should be a squeaky clean. Sorry, a squeaky queen. A squeaky queen. And then somebody wrote,

A squeaky queen is the andiest thing Andy didn't say. And I think that's actually a really good way of putting it. Anytime you hear any one of our songs and there's like over fucking wordplay like shit, it's always Andy. And just know, me and Akiva took it down a notch because we're like, you can't fucking understand even what you're talking about because it's so detailed, but, you know, I love the guy. People are still wondering where you land on Andy.

Now you've at least put your flag in the guy. Well, I love him and I hate him. Somebody was commenting on just like the level of talent we've had on our criterion judges and worried that we might never be able to top it. And then someone said, who are they going to have next? PTA. No, they said PTA. And guess what?

I bet he might do it. Yeah, I bet he would. I mean, it's what a great idea. All those fucking guys that have to like do real interviews and talk about like, like art, like I'm sure are pretty pumped to like, you know, talk about some bullshit for a while. Well, especially like we know, I mean, PTA was like present at creation during, I was not probably, he was there when it aired, when Dick in a Box aired when the world changed. Yeah.

Hey, we have a voice note, our first voice note. Wait, wait, wait, wait, before you get to the noise notes, I want to just mention this was sent to us and it's definitely for you. It's a bunch of, it's a bunch of Pittsburgh Steelers football cards. I'm going to send this to you regardless of whether you put or not. Yeah, I like when you know who they're for. Oh, yeah. Those were my notes. and now our first voice note is from Greg Chun

who composes our theme songs and, oh no. I haven't heard it. I'm very excited. Let's give it a roll. Shit. Make way for the Quaid Army. Say, hey, it's the Quaid Army.

Hey, fellas. It's Greg Chun here, you're a jingle writing guy. And I wanted to send in my own voice note because I too have amusing little tidbits from the past, dating back to awesome town days. And I wanted to thank you for letting me write for the pod and for continuing to let me work with you from time to time because I actually have given you each a specific reason

to not want to ever work with me ever again. Andes is probably the most innocuous. It's just a case of mistaken identity. When you all called me to write the opening movie musical for the Emmys when Andy hosted, and he thought I was somebody else. And we got on the meeting and he's just like, hey man, like, excited to work with you on this.

We really enjoyed the work he did for us on and it was some short that I did not work on. And I was like faced with a moment of, well, do I tell him that it's not me and risk? Like, I really want to do this job with them. But in the end, I was such a rule follower. I was like, okay, Andy, well, I appreciate that. I'm actually, I didn't work on that one.

So if there's like a certain special, something that you wanted from that one in particular. I'm not your guy. And Andy actually could not have even cared less. You were just like, oh, okay, well, for this one, we're going to do this. I'm like, oh, few. Okay. And a clear conscience.

How awesome. Akiva's is worse, a lot worse. In fact, it's probably the most epic career fail I've ever had. And we were working on the Bolton special, the sexy Valentine's Day special. And I think we sweetened the orchestra on 12 months. till Christmas or 10 months till Christmas. And we were coming down to like the final mix and like time was running out. So you gave me very specific instructions.

Like for this number, for this number, I want you to have this one file that we had sort of like mostly approved before. I want it on deck and I know we made these other changes, but if I don't have time to approve them, like I want you to have that one. And I basically lost it. And so when it came time to it, like you had to sit and re-approve and take all this time that you didn't have, continue to work on it. And we were all getting no sleep, and so it was really horrible.

I felt pretty bad about that, but you were very gracious about it. In fact, I think what you said verbatim in the very key, diplomatic way was, yeah, I'm just trying to figure out what happened to that whole conversation. Very curious. Very much, eh? I'm not mad. I'm disappointed moment, and I felt really shitty. Yorms is probably the worst and the most embarrassing,

because back in the day, like, after we had finished the Awesome Town pilot and everything, I was like, oh, okay, you know, cool guys, whatever. Hey, Yoram, I'm having a party where we're going to be watching the Holyfield fight on pay-per-view. And you're like, oh, cool, sick, I'll be there. And so I swear to God, like, I'm not some loser. But for some reason, everyone else I invited that day, like, bailed at the last minute. And so Yoram shows up with a six-pack of beer at my apartment in Glendale. And there's nobody there except for me and a television.

And we're supposed to sit there and watch this fight. and stuff, and it was just really, I was just super mortified or whatever. And so I thought you just figured I was this freak who had no friends, and it was very awful. So yeah, well, that's it. Despite all that, you guys still let me play in the sandbox, and I really appreciated.

Seth, unfortunately, I haven't worked with enough to have stories, but I will put out my two favorite Seth moments like in history that live Renfrey in my head. One is Zing Jackpot, and the other is total replacement. Okay. So that's it. You guys are awesome.

Bye. Oh, my God. First of all, I love having a better mic come on than any hard. It's like so smooth. So smooth. Somebody actually, which was really funny,

said like, hey, I just want to note how much better Lynn and Quest's mics are than sure and Tappers. And it's like, yeah. Yeah. I mean,

but yeah, that was the best mic we've ever seen. That was a little surprising, though. Yeah. Yeah. Greg is the best. It's so funny to even like, Awesome Town. That means we've been working with him for over 20 years. How did you come across him in Awesome Town? What was the first connection with him?

Awesome Town, I believe, was Greg from, you know, it all becomes a blur, obviously to me. Especially, yeah. One of the best things about, like, you have Blurrito Brain. I do. I do. I do. Like, always. And more and more so. But like, one of the best things about it being a triad between the three of us is that we are constantly collecting people. So I can't remember if Greg was from, I think it was MTV Music Awards, that we picked him up from like something that we had done with him. And then Akiva, I think Akiva was the one who like scooped him as a friend and like, we're working together forever. And we've just worked with him since, I think that's right. But Keev will know better than I will

because I'm a mess. I really, I was very a pro that Kuwait Army thing we heard at the top too. But by the way, we do that though all the time. There's a guy named David Nenagel, who we work with all the time, who is like from Akiva doing the watch, only Atwell, who's a fucking incredible person. And these people that we go to all the time for like they're incredible. And Greg is one of those people. I think it's very nice and I think it happens at SNL all the time. Like right, anytime you meet somebody that you enjoy collaborating with, you're like, oh yeah, what's the point of moving on from this? By the way, David Nienoggle, who does special effects, we have been completely fucked over by like Mike Scher. Anybody who meets him, just like,

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I'm sorry, Keith. You aren't. You can't. You can't get a bad night's sleep, right? It fucks you up. Oh, I hate it. I hate it. Like, I'm bad on the pod if I don't get my 14 hours.

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Somebody wrote in, Natasha. She was very delighted to learn that Yorma's daughter's favorite song is a Riloh-Kiley song. What song was it? The song is called Better Son slash Daughter. I don't know why it's called that, but it has a lyric that she loves, loves singing. also Kim wrote in how we were talking about how both Andy and Yorm have been in Spider-Man

to add to the connectedness Jack Quaid was also a Spider-Man and uh Hey yeah Jack I can't do that thing But what do you're looking at You're looking at I'm Andy

What's you cooking Jack What's you cooking Jack? Wait Hold on I want to talk about a cool music hipster shit because of Riley When my son was four we were looking shit up on YouTube. I can't remember why I asked him what song he wants to hear.

And he just said, Mama's Gun. That's what he said. That happens to actually be a song. I just said, like, name two words. And that's what he came up with, right? Mama's Gun is a song by Glass Animals, who then had this massive fucking hit in Heatwaves, like years and years later.

So we were super into Glass Animals, and in particular this song called Mama's Gun forever. And there would be moments where, Like at one point I was looking at something else up on YouTube and I was like, oh, you want to check out some animals or something like that? Yeah, glass animals. And I was like, that's the most fucking hipster thing ever. And then super weirdly, then they had this massive hit years later.

And I was like, oh, this guy's like a maven. My son. He was ahead of it. He was ahead of the game. Yeah, head of the curve. This, I feel like Shelley, this might be some bad news for Shelley, but I'm going to just read this. And you, knowing the current state of the music industry, I would like your answer, okay?

Okay, cool. Yeah. Question for the Lonely Island with the 10th anniversary of Pop Stars release coming up, is there a possibility of the soundtrack getting a re-release? It's almost impossible to find a CD copy of the soundtrack, and I desperately want to get my hands on it. I would say we can press for trying to get some vinyl, but I don't know if we have. Yeah, that's true. Vinyl, I feel like is the way, because it's, you know, at this point, you're re-releasing it for connoisseurs. But, you know, like a lot of music industry people listen to this podcast, and I would imagine Monty

Litman, the head of Universal Records, does too. I mean, I can't imagine that he listens to any other podcast. No, this would be the one. Yeah. Oh, he probably stopped after it took so long to get to the short last time. It'll probably happen without us even, like, doing anything. Yeah. Also, Shelley was very kind about how hard it is to put my appreciation into words for the

work that you and your cohort have done. This is the work. This is the work that we're doing. Hey, I mean, we can talk about this one. Emily wanted to know. She's been a huge fan since Awesome Town. I love you guys. Something I'd love to hear to talk more about the pod is what family life looks like for

people at SNL, how does that work with crazy schedules? How about now? Did most of you start your families after SNL? Had you meet your spouses? As a working mom, I'm always curious about work, life balance, especially within your industry. Thank you. P.S. Hot Rod is a masterpiece. I, yes, please. I mean, I met my wife when I was at SNL, but I can't even comprehend having kids when I was still at SNL. I mean, we didn't get married until I was done. And I don't think I would have been a particularly good husband. You were married while you were still on SNL. I got married while we were at SNL, and you came to my wedding and the law. A lot of SNLers did as well.

It was very, very lovely. But when Mari got to the show, I remember her first show, she went into the writer's room, and there were a bunch of spouses in the writer's room, and one of them leaned over to her and was like, us, you're part of the S&L widows. And I was like, that was accurate, because you're basically dead to the world. Yeah. When you're at the show. And it is a bummer, actually, because, like, having somebody friends on the show,

I still have the sense of, like, I don't want to. bother them because the level of anxiety that you have during a show week, you just do not want to add to that in any way, shape, form. So the idea of like hanging out with anybody, especially on a show week is like a nightmare. And there were many moments, I would say, this is the most distinct memory I have of being a failure as a husband, was getting a call from Mari. We're shooting with Natalie Portman. It was right before we shot with you, Seth, that was in her apartment. And I was holding playback for the song, and I was having to be like, I'm sorry, I'm not like, I'm shooting with Natalie Portman right now.

And she was like, I just fell on the stairs, my back. And she hurt herself really badly. I was like, I gotta go. But it was just, and it's still to this day between the two of us, a failure for our marriage. I mean, we always talk about, you know, because Alexi and I were, and by the way, I met Alexi at Chris Katan's wedding.

So SNL had a key role in every part of my life. But she would come to SNL every week. And you realize now, like, she talks about it, like, to pace your day that on Saturday you will get in a taxi at, like, 11 o'clock at night to go. And again, like, working at the show, your adrenaline has kicked in. Like, I never felt tired at 11 on a Saturday. Yeah.

Oh, you don't want to go anywhere at 11 fucking o'clock. Oh, and, like, driving into the heart, the maw of Times Square. mess of it. When I went back and hosted in 2017 and I at that point had two, maybe just one. Yeah, one kid. But I remember having to make time

to like go to the people. Like my biggest memories were like people like Tucker, Brian Tucker is great writer at SNL, Steve Higgins, producer at SNL, sort of say like, hey, I want to retroactively apologize for the times in my head. I thought it was like busted

that you left to go see your kid in a school play. Yeah. You know what I mean? I realize now that I was a total piece of shit and you had your priorities in order, and I cannot believe you did this job while also being a good parent because both of them did. Another massive regret that I have was Akiva's, like first week of having had his kid, his friend's first kid. And we were shooting, I think it was with Nikki Minaj.

And both me and Andy were like, get over here. Like we're just like the best moment of his life of having his daughter. us just being like this fucking lazy piece of shit. Yeah. Like just unbearable. And then I, we can maybe cut this out because maybe it's talking about it too much. But like, but I also remember on the flip side of just my life revolving entirely around S&L, sleeping there almost twice a week, like basically like on a Tuesday, working with Forte

until fucking 3 p.m. on a sketch that's never going to get picked. So sleeping over on Tuesday into Wednesday and then sleeping again at the show on shitty couch is like we should have invested in cots or something but like sleeping on forte's couch which was a dumpy like picture the dumpiest couch yeah but i remember having this conversation with marie where we went to some play on some off week was like some black box theater and i was like this is so fucking cool man like this is like a east village crazy little play like and she was like have you never been here and i was like no like how many times have you been here and she was like ten and i was like okay like you're actually having a life in new york and my entire life

was like shooting in different places in New York. Yeah. But like even Lorne isn't, I remember saying in the week of the 50th, like I remember like when I moved to New York, I was like, oh, my God, maybe one day I'll be able to get the keys to Lorne Michaels, New York City. And then I realized it's just 30 rock, three restaurants and Yankee Stadium. You got the keys. You got the keys quick.

Like someone's like, we don't know where Lauren is. I'm like, I'll check the three places. Yeah, did you turn on the Yankee game? There is. Yeah. He's probably right. If you've ever watched the Yankees on Yes, Lauren, if he's at the game, you can see him. Hey, Jeff, you want to play a voice note for us?

I like these voice notes. Hey, Quades, my name is Andrea, and I am a preschool teacher in Sunny SoCal. First, I have to give a shout out to Yorma for a little fox and the wild imagination. Woo! I love this book. The artwork explodes off the page, and I get to perform it with voices, which is super fun for the kids and for me. But it also gets them excited about reading. So, Bravo. I love it. Thank you.

I run a music, dance, and theater program for preschoolers as well. And I have drawn so much inspiration from the Lonely Island over the years. You sincerely inspire me to embrace my humor, be brave, remain open to collaboration. But most of all, to be resilient because failure, just like. preschoolers sometimes will catch you with a sucker punch left and a sucker punch right and then 22 consecutive sucker punch rights so my question is how do you re-center yourselves when you're up against the ropes I really hope this reaches your ear holes I love you guys thank you so much and later quades oh I want I want you to answer this question well I just want to start by saying like

I'm going to test in real time because I'm on fucking tilt right now now because I also read a kid's book that went unmentioned. Yes. Oh, fuck you, Steph. Don't look his up. What is it called? What's it called? It's called, I'm not scared.

You're scared. But, I mean, I don't know, man. It's so funny. Like, I wish there was a way to give this advice better. Okay. But, I mean, don't you kind of think? And it feels like that question comes from somebody who is wired the same way we are. That it's just kind of this, like, fight or flight thing with failure.

You know, and ultimately, if you just want to do what we're doing more than anything else, you just keep trying because, like, the only other thing is to, like, run away from it. And you're like, but I know this is where I want to be. I know this is what I want to be doing. Yeah, but I'll give concrete the example. Like, like, what is one of your biggest failures or, like, the moment that you actually would have bailed on or should have a normal person would have bailed on that, do you have one? I mean, again, like, I wasn't going to, like, I wasn't going to, like, say at SNL, like, I'm bad at this, I'm out. Yeah. But I certainly like, you know. You felt it. Felt it.

And like, you know, no one has ever gone into Lauren's office and been like, I'm going to save you the trouble. But had they, I might have. But I wasn't going to because like I was like, I just, I will. And that was a thing too because, you know, I've talked about it so much in the pod. But like, again, failing at the table is like an incredible bruising of the ego. You know, especially the longer you're there and the more you like like the people you're around. Yeah. it doesn't get easier to eat shit.

But you know how it feels to have it work at the table. And you just chasing that, I think, keeps you going back for more. I think it really depends, though, too, because there are people who have had, and really, really fucking funny people who have come to the show. And for whatever reason, like, it doesn't work out in terms of, like, maybe they have a purity of tone that just doesn't translate to, like, reading out loud in front of them.

Right. Or people are, like, whatever. Like, there are really, really successful people who have been at SNL And I think we both, Seth and us have been incredibly lucky to like, you know, because that was sort of the case with us as well of like there were things that probably wouldn't translate to the table. And then we were allowed to do it on our own and sort of, you know, proof of concept, make these things. But I would say mine is that the cheat code is the group that I was in. Yeah. It was three friends.

And so we're a little insulated from failure in that like we liked what we were making. and so we were even joking around with each other and laughing about stuff, even when it was maybe considered a failure or didn't quite work, it's not one person with a bull's eye on their back as three. And that's been the case with me working with

John Solomon and Will Forte too. I've always been in sort of groups. Like there's a movie that I'm trying to get off the ground right now and it is just me and it's fucking scary. It's like really, it's a different kind of and that's now something I'm very excited about of just like level of fear

of like, you live and die by what you fucking wrote. And, you know, muggless was that for me. You know, mine, I think there's also one, like, you are, the target's not uniquely on your back. I also think there's something about working with people who, you know, they don't have to explicitly say it every day, but, like, you know they're working with you because they believe in you and they trust you and you trust their taste. And so sometimes you take esteem through them. Yeah.

And, you know, I talked about this when I did a good hang. you know, Amy, like, almost like made me cry talking about, like, how my early days of the show, like, the fact that, like, her and Shoemaker kind of, like, continued to believe that they had not made a terrible mistake hiring me. Like, I don't think I would have survived without that. So it does help to have. And then, and then cut to my interpretation of you as, like, head writer and, like, watching you, like, be able to go to sleep on a, on a writing night and then wake up and bang out, like two sketches that could like start the show. Like honestly, like, we've talked about this

when we were writing High Rod, but like your ability to like push through and like just write, it was like me and Andy like grogly waking up still at Lawrence office on the Paramount lot and Seth just like, bing, p, parding, here's another scene, here's another, I was like, fuck, this guy is fucking amazing. Like we're pieces of shit compared to.

Well, you guys are always a little tired. So let's not forget. You're always a little tired. But anyway, hopefully that was helpful. But I think the most important thing is it sounds like you love what you do. And I cannot stress how important that is. I also thought that when she was saying it was a dance and music. Like, I'm like, are you playing Lonely Island songs for people?

That's inappropriate. But, you know, okay. Oh, there was a good inappropriate. Somebody showed their kid cherry battle. And then the kid really liked it. And they were like, I'm going to show another one. And so they were like correctly steering around the one. ones that are sort of explicitly dirty and they were like oh you know what laser cat seems fine

and they forgot the first laser cat you guys are both like uh they're both asking lindsay lahan if they'll have sex with them yeah that was a bumer he said so that has now been the reason a seven year well just so you know that also happened to me i also forgot that joke yeah uh memento is one of those yorm comments that people are going to find funny later memento uh uh do all right here you go yeah this is nice hillary i just like this i like when a couple connects over the pod. I just got from work today and told my husband I was super tired and asked if he knew why. So he said, likely from winter soldiering. And that is what she was trying to get him to say. Fuck yeah. That was that was her joke and he beat her to it. Can I, can I go back though to the,

there was a person who was saying that they were listening to. Oh yeah. On headphones. Like that was how they go to bed to us talking. And I would like to say, you know, cuddle with each other. Don't do that. Just fucking hold each other and, uh, and turn. us off. You know what I mean? Yeah. Oh, that's good. Thanks. Michael was the one who now is to talk to their seven-year-old about sex because of laser cats. But Michael started his email with maybe my favorite opening. Okay.

Longtime goose, first-time gongk. It makes me like humans so much. It really makes me like humans too. Yeah. It's like fun. It's fun. Look, there's a lot of things this podcast isn't doing. But, you know, I will say a year ago, nobody would have written the sentence long-time goose first-time gong. By the way, did you have, because I feel like what S&L also gave me was like, there's so many moments at S&L where you're like, well, that sentence has never been said.

It's the best. Like on earth. Like it's the best. It was very funny too because, you know, Mike Schibeg who we obviously talk about a lot on the pod is a loyal listener to this. And he was saying he missed, he goes, just by accident, he missed one episode. He goes, if you miss one episode, you have no idea what's going on. He goes, there was something you guys kept saying last episode. And I was like, what is this?

And I was like, was it too burrito brain to Winter Soldier? He's like, yeah, that was what it was. And again, like, Shoemaker is as comedy-coded as any brain has ever been. And even he was like, it's impenetrable. Okay, here's the thing to bring it back to comedy in general. This is a little bit like what it's like to be in a writer's room where you're like, Jokes just get piggybacked on until they no longer resemble anything fucking normal or, yeah. So this is what it is.

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Yeah. We got another voice note. Yeah. Fucking killer. I love these voices. Hey guys, it's Cameron from the Pacific Northwest. Two questions. One, there's a video where Brian Tucker wraps about fucking each of you

and pantomimes it while each of you are trying to work for use the urinal. Correct. On YouTube is Tucker's song re-uploaded. I don't remember if it was 2005 or 2006 when it first showed up online that it instantly became my all-time favorite YouTube clip. The line,

Ah, Fakta, Akiva Schaefer, pops into my head multiple times a week even all these years later. And even after what must be hundreds of rewatches, the extra V and the text overlay of government still makes me laugh out loud. Please talk about how this video came to me. Two, did Yorma get that bisectomy in October? No.

Or did the latter take care of it for him? Love you guys. Okay, first of all, one of the jokes that me and my wife did when I first fell off the ladder and I was in the first trauma two center, and they were realizing that they couldn't do the surgery because it was too difficult for them to do there, and I had to go to trauma one. One of the jokes that me and my wife were doing was this doctor came in, and, and, And she was, uh,

oh my God, what did he just say? I'm really fucking brain dead. Keith. Jesus Christ. Cut this all out. No, keep, leave it all in.

No. Leave it on. Do not leave it in. He did get a vasectomy with the doctor. He was upside down. So the doctor took out of part of his brain. That was okay. He came out.

We're cutting this out. We're getting his brain off. But like one of the jokes. One of the jokes. Me and Mari were doing. There were two different jokes. One was about Jeremy Allen White. and that's why I got confused.

Yeah. It was that we kept like pitching that to people of like, can I still look like Jeremy Allen White? People did not understand it. And then the other one was, if they're going in there already, can I also get a vasectomy? Like just a two-for.

You might as well do it. Right, right, right. People didn't like that joke either. Gotcha. And then Tucker's song came about by Tucker coming into our office and just doing that, just saying, ah, fuck that, key machine, I bet the shit over and I went to work.

Ah, fuck that. Oh, my name you're my mind. So we were just like, yeah. Like, it was probably either Monday or Tuesday, but we were like, let's, uh, let's film that. Film that as a music video. And, uh, and we did. And that's- I think people should watch it because I always feel like, you know, the lore of Brian Tucker,

you never think he's going to look the way he does. It's extra funny when you see like Brian in person. He's like the whitest white man I've ever seen in my life. I just had Keenan on my show last night and he was talking about because Keenan and Tucker, they also just wrote a kid's book. What is it called? called um the unfunny bunny but uh you know they were they were collaborators and keenan said he goes you know one of the reasons i started working with tucker is like he he knew how to like write and

talk black like just from being a guy who like loved the culture like authentically and uh grew up around it's so funny because he also like he just like does not exude that in any way again he's like the whitest white man i i mean this is like he's he's not sure on a fucking front here no there's no No, he loves, he loves, but like he's pretty much, like, worked with and writes incredibly well for black comedians, Keenan included, and also Dave Chappelle. And he's just, yeah, he's an enigma. Connor wrote in, hello, my name is Connor. I have my girlfriend, Lauren and I are huge fans of Andy Sandberg.

Unfortunately, soon I will be going on a deployment and will miss our anniversary as well as her birthday. I was hoping you could send her something to make her feel special before leaving her favorite movie is Hot Rod. Connor, we reached out to Andy and it was a no. moving on. It's a burn. This is a real burn. Can I go back to the Tucker thing? Yeah, go back.

Yeah, great. It's our time. Yeah, finally. It's our time. Fucking finally. Andy's not here. So speaking of Tucker, me and Bill Hader did this back in the day. This is early days.

Again, I'm shocked that we had room for more comedy in our lives that like went nowhere or had no purpose. And there was this website called defamer back in the day. that was like a gossip shit for celebrities. And I thought it would be funny to have a website and a blog called Deflamer about a guy who wants to become a firefighter, hence deflaming. And it was him moving to New York, and it was just really depressing posts about him moving to New York. He's recently divorced.

And Brian Tucker was him. So I took a whole bunch of pictures with Brian Tucker because I just thought he was this, like really a person you would truly feel sorry for. And he moves to like sort of not a great area of New York. And he's always trying to put a positive spin on it. But me and Bill, like, worked out a lot of posts for this. And I don't know why we fucking did it. Like, like, I think it was that when your job is comedy,

you're like, the idea of doing comedy just for you becomes more appealing. I don't know. Anyway. So we're just going to move on from the last one. You're not getting any paraphernalia, like, you know, Anything from Hot Run? That's very sad. Look, I mean, when Andy's here, we'll run it back. But like I said, Connor, and I want to make sure I get your fiancés or girlfriend's name

right. Hold on. I got a lot of stuff in front of me, Connor. Here you go. My girlfriend, Lauren. Oh, I said fiancé, not yet. So maybe Connor, you know, while we're talking about what Andy's not getting you guys. Yeah, so Connor and Lauren, like I said, I reached out to Andy, and it was a hard no. Congratulations, guys. I love you guys. I don't know, but again, they actually don't have anything to be congratulations. I miss reddit.

Oh. He's going to deployment. He will miss their anniversary, I think, of meeting. And as well as a birthday. I mean, congrats on that. I mean, I will say, you know, look, I know Lauren's a huge fan of Andy Sandberg, but as friends of Andy, I would just like to say, happy birthday, Lauren. Stay safe, Connor.

And most importantly, Andy had nothing to say to either of you. Fucking sweet burn. Connor, help you get a challenge coin over there. Somebody wrote, we were wondering if you guys would consider doing an episode or two around Cablamo, Stork Patrol, the boo. I mean, I feel like, I mean, we've talked about it a little bit, but I think that would be a fun standalone episode. I think it was, yeah, we would actually have a lot to talk about

since we, you know, for many years, we did everything solo, like, and had, I think we've probably talked about this, but like, a microphone duct taped to an old broom handle. As are a boom, you know, like, those are fun early. Those are good old days. Yeah. Do we have another voice don't? Jeff! Jeff!

Hey, guys, long-time quaid. So I have kind of a general S&L question. Y'all in previous pods have talked about how your sketches can be in different locations in the studios and it has me wondering whether the update desk always stays where it is or if they take it off and bring it back on. Also, this is just a general thing. I've listened to so much of this podcast that now when I watch any SNL,

even episodes, y'all aren't there for, I can totally hear Seth just dryly describing sketches to me. Anyway, thanks for everything. Bye. Dryly. Dryly describing. I love that you've described my role so well. It's a great question.

They roll it in and out because that update area is the sweetest piece of real estate at S&L, known as Home Base. The desk would roll right in front of where the monologue is. The sweet spot. Why is it out at Home Base, Seth? Why is updated Home Base? Yeah, why? Because it plays out.

So anything that plays out where you don't have to cross-shoot anybody. So anytime it's a talk show sketch, you're going to be at Homebase. Homebase is a nice place to be. Anytime it's sort of like, if you think about a commercial where it's mostly testimonials, those testimonials be at Home Base, it's kind of though, really one of the few places where you have a direct line of sight if you are in the audience. Yeah, it does make sketches play better because people can actually like see what's going on, whereas if it's off to the way left or right, you can't. Yes, I know, I know I'm repeating myself, but. Did Andy ever have a sketch that was at Home Base?

Andy? Oh, yeah, like which sketches were. I don't know. I feel like we were always off the side. Yeah, you guys, yeah, you didn't write presentational stuff. No, no, no. Mark Wahlberg talks to animals.

Oh, yeah, that would be home base. And I know I've tied. The back left corner if you're facing home base was what Dratch called shit can alley. Yeah. But then I think Cal Bell was in shit can alley. So anytime anybody complained. Oh, really?

Anytime anybody complained, they'd be like, Mm, Cowbell. Hey, Cepley and the Islanders. Keeping with the Criterion theme, this is Mike. I wanted to share that Hot Rod actually makes it into my family's top five movies of all time. Before you get too excited,

figured I should share what other movies make up the list, and you can determine whether or not that's actually a good thing. I thought that was very nice. Yeah, that's true. Hot Rod, Secret Life of Walter Middy, really?

Fantastic Mr. Fox. I agree with that. Wally, a knight's tail. Only one I agree with is fantastic Mr. Fox. Yeah, but I would just say it's an eclectic family. You know what I mean? That is very eclectic.

I have to assume that there are five of them and then they each have it had a different pick. I've never seen a knight's tale. I don't even know what that is. It's Heath Ledger, a Knight's Tale, 2001. Gotcha. Yeah. Oh, I did like this.

Another phrase coined only because of the pod. Somebody asked a question and then said, hit me in the titty. You know. I'm just saying it's a play on hit us and the titus. Again, I'm just shuffling notes here. Amy was the one who said, I'd love to hear you talk about prep work

for the Wednesday table read. It seems like scripts that are well-performed have a better chance to be picked. So how much prep do performers do? How much coaching do writers do? are cast members hosts ever surprised by the parts they read at the table, or do all scripts come from a fully collaborative process on Tuesday nights? She is the one who said, if you have any insights, hit me in the titty.

Oh. All right. So it's a great question. I think we hit on a little bit before, but the reality is you don't have a ton of time. Like, everybody goes to the host, and the host is sort of sitting in a room with a big stack of scripts, and you sort of take your time to go in. But you don't have a lot of time because there's like 40 sketches, and the host is already overwhelmed.

So you can give them a little bit of guidance, but you can't, like, run through it with them. So I would always say, like, hey, you're playing, like, you're playing like a snobbish person on an airplane and just, like, kind of lean into it. And then different cast members required different levels of guidance. I would say, like, Keenan, you just had to literally be like, you're in this. Yeah. Also, if you forgot to tell Keenan he was in this, he would still be reading along and probably give you just as good of a read as before. But I would say there's never any rehearsing.

So oftentimes when it's read at the table, that is for sure the only time you as the writer have heard it run through with the cast. To add on to that a little bit, Seth is not being hyperbolic when he says there's like 40 sketches. There are almost exactly like 40 sketches, 38, 40. That's like the number that you read through.

It's this massive stack of paper. It's so much for the host to get through. I'm sure they're nervous. As a young writer, because I'm sure Seth was more confident than I was, it was always a bit nerve-wracking to, like, go into the host and, like, try to give them, you know, a direction beforehand. I obviously got better at that over time, but it's like, you know, it's all sort of nerve-wracking and you're sleep-deprived and everything, and you're trying to, like, in as few amount of words

because you don't want to bug them, like, just give them direction. And then there have also been moments where I didn't do that, assuming that it was all on the page and it would be, a, okay, anyone's going to get this. Like, they're going to read through them once before they get to the table read, and it's going to be fine. And that is never the case. We should always give direction.

Yeah. I've also, like, a few times in the last 10 years, have, like, say, written something for a friend who comes back and hosts, and I try to, like, via text, like, tell new cast members, like, what to do because I'm on my floor instead of theirs. And, like, I just think you just can't do it. Lost and trade literally. And by the way, sometimes, and again, you don't have a lot of time,

but just like a little bit of eye contact, a little bit of like settling, like, hey, like, you know, when you pick one line, you're like, this is the one line where you need to, like, say it. I think as a writer you need to know which are the most important lines as opposed to, like, line for lining it with everybody. The interesting thing is if you write a song in a sketch, then you get a little bit of music rehearsal. So, you know, and again, this is a song that usually, you know,

in our era, it was the great Catrice Barnes, rest in peace. and you would like go in and she had composed the music, and any cast members who were singing a song knew that they would sort of be pulled into a room for the purposes of singing it through a couple of times. Because that, you know, obviously reading a line from a sketch, there's a lot of different ways to do it, but when you're singing a song that you've never heard before,

it's worth having a couple of dry runs. To Big Up, Catrice as well, like, you know, she did Dick and Box with us. She did every bit of music at the show with us in the early days, except for, you know, like one or two little things. here and there. You could also rely on her in this way of like, you could just write out the lyrics however you wanted to. And then she would be able to, like, figure out the melody. And that oftentimes people who weren't musically inclined or whatever, like, it made you a lazier writer because she was so

good at being able to, like, just create. So you could give her any kind of like era, any kind of, like, you know, genre of music. And she'd be able to, I'll pronounce it the way Keitha pronounce it, genre, genre of music. But she was incredible. And I would miss her. Yeah. Terrible. By the way,

if you've sent in a voice note, we did not even get to all of them. We didn't get to all your questions. We saved some because it felt like there was some value to Andy and Akiva, hearing them. Save for Connor and Lauren. I do want you to know he did hear your message and was just a hard know. You can fucking throw this guy out of the bottom.

And I was like, he's getting deployed, Andy. He's one of our nation's troops. Yeah. And Andy was like, I don't, I have no time for anyone, troops or not. Right. I don't care. Put that on the internet that I said it.

Yeah. Anyway, by the way, this is just, this is just me like honoring my dog. You know what I mean? What? I'm just like, he was shitty to Frisbee. Oh, God. Yeah, fuck that guy. Yeah, totally.

Yorm and I hopefully get a good dinner in the next month. Woo! Dinner and a vasectomy. You know what it is. New York City, baby. You were a great Alvin today, buddy. Thank you. Thank you.

Well, you know what? Although, you know what? You also were very thoughtful with your answers. You were also a very good Simon. And what I really appreciate is you were barely a theater. And sometimes you're too much of a theater. And so today, you were a real Simon Alvin, and it was really great. And your Dave was like on fucking blast.

I could Dave with my eyes closed at this point. I love you, buddy. I love you, Dave. And why do you give us the finale? Take us out, Arnold. What do we say? You say later, Arnold. Oh, yeah, later, Arnold.

Later quates