The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast - Listener Q&A Episode 13

Episode Date: June 30, 2026

On this episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, we’re down an Andy so we’re talking some bullshit and doing some QA Q&A. First, a little more follow up on I Just Had Sex, the origins of Mistadobalina, using different actors in Lonely Island songs and they reminisce about Episode 11 of Season 36 hosted by the one and only Jim Carrey. Finally they get to about two questions...so thanks for all the emails! And don’t worry...Andy let us know his spelling bee status. I Just Had Sex - Live with Akon and The Roots - from the Comedy Awards | https://youtu.be/elcBrted4bY?si=1ZKN74hU4wZamGgK The Monkees - Zilch | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OedfVXal_Y8 Del Tha Funkee Homosapien | Mistadobalina | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQrdjT3GHwE Del Tha Funkee Homosapien | Eye Examination | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgJ8DqOfZBo Glirk | Awesome Town | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05Ey7S6Iogc Like a Boss | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH-KXk8PZc8 Jim Carrey at the Golden Globes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K2Fzfkx0xw Black Swan (Jim Carrey) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwby0YmAXVc Merryville Brothers: Trolley Ride (Jim Carrey) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqveE1MMZfE The Merryville Brothers: Haunted Castle (Tom Hanks) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbIL7kc3YUE I'm On A Boat - Classroom Instruments w Jimmy Fallon & The Roots | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDOIp8Gtx5Y 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 (Not all the clips we mention are available online; some never even aired.) If you want to see more photos and clips follow us on Instagram @lonelymeyerspod. Send us an email! [e-mail] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the lonely island answer. Liars podcast. I hope she recovers well. And Bethany, if you're listening, sorry that you got attacked by a bear. You did say before we start, so I wasn't recording. Neither.

I was, though, so it's fine. I mean, you guys weren't telling the story, so it doesn't matter. Yeah, but we were responding. I kept going, whoa. I just really felt strongly that you were asking us not to record. Yeah, saying before we start. And I said, okay.

Jump on, Seth, I only come in hot now. Oh, okay. What? That's a pretty cool thing. Thank you. Caliente. Caliente. Yarmacaliente. Hey, everybody.

Welcome to the show. And this week, Andy's on a little break. Andy just wrapped his movie and is back with his family and really has to do a little bit of work to get back in their good graces. I'm sure that's true. I mean, accurate. He shot two movies back to back. So, I mean, he's a beloved father. Don't get me wrong.

But sometimes you get to do a little extra work and not pop off. You know what, Seth? Money talks. Money does talk. What does it say? Thank you for, what does it say? You need me. Right? In America.

All right, here we go. First of all, there was a request by multiple quads asking for just a little bit of final wrap-up on I just had sex. In regards to how it was received afterwards, how mad was Lauren at the afterparty that Acon had said, Lonely Island. I don't think that was coming from Lauren. But in general, you had talked about Keev. This was one that you felt very confident about and you knew it was going to crush in the room. Were you then a little surprised by how much it crushed as a song?

Or was that also expectations? By the way, can I say I'm a little surprised to hear that Keev was as confident about this one because to me it's always been a little too basic to be successful. I was very surprised that it did as well as it did. You know what I don't have a memory of is how well it did, like, on the night. Whereas if you recall with, like, I'm in a boat. I remember being deflated a little bit by the room.

Oh, interesting. Where to, like, an S&L audience, it doesn't have the hard jokes you're looking for. I'm on a boat. This does, I would argue, have the hard jokes you're looking for for an S&L audience. Right. Although we didn't watch it again with the laughs, right? Yeah. Do we want to put a pin in it until we have Andy?

I mean, I do want to listen with laughs. and see how that goes. I don't know if that will make the podcast audience listen to it again. Right. But I am curious. And, yeah, what else? We've done it live a bunch of different times, sometimes with Acon, sometimes without. Where have you done it with Acon Live?

There was a short-lived award show on Comedy Central called the Comedy Awards. Wow. And I don't remember this year right when it came out. And so we did it there. I hope you can't even find the performance because I feel like it was so kind of thrown together. Oh, is this the one that? that like Tim and Eric were there, like there was a bunch of YouTube performances.

Like it was a bizarre little... No, that... No, we did the spring break anthem at a thing called the YouTube Awards. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, the YouTube Awards. Yeah, we went to a bunch of, like, fledgling award shows that did maybe two of them.

You know what I mean? They don't all work. No. Where else have we performed? We performed parts of it, maybe at the Emmys. The Spike Awards. By the way, I definitely was hoping that when you did, with Acon, it would be things like the Grammys.

Yeah, that'd be better. The Oscars. It was all bullshit. Oh, you know where we did it with Acon? Again, Andy should really be a part of this. But that was really fun, was an Acon concert at an arena in Long Island. Where would that be? It was NASA Coliseum.

And it was during, you know, it was within the next six months after it came out. It was a big concert. And it was a real Acon show. And it was Acon and Usher, I think. So it was a big sold-out arena. Yeah. And he asked us to come up. come do it. And of course, I don't think I even got on stage, but I just came because I'm not

really in it. No one needed me to come to a manicure or a pedicure. He didn't bring his top hat so he can... Yeah, so I wasn't even recognizable. I was out of character. Security wouldn't let you through despite Yorm and Andy Bouching. Yeah, he didn't have his Abe Lincoln looked. That's right. Yeah. Backstage, what I remember is that Acon was unapologetically smiling while doing a shake weight. That's right. Oh, my God. God, your memory's so good. He had one of those chin-up bars that you, like, put into a doorway. And it was, like, his pre-show, like, get pumped up kind of ritual.

By the way, when someone has a chin-up bar, to me, they should also have, like, a poster of, like, a Lamborghini and a babe on the Lamborghini. I mean, I'm pretty sure Acon's ripped. That's, like, such a 14-year-olds thing to have, like, a chin-up bar. When I would go on a sleepover at a kid's house and he had one of those chin-up bars, I was like, I don't feel like we're the same friends. Yeah, it's a qualifier. I don't think we're the same kind of dude. It's like I had a couple friends who had like snakes and I'm like, I'm never going to fully relate to. Now, I have a quick question.

First of all, it's awesome that Acon asked you to do it. Like, how quickly do you hear from Acon because he's not with you the night it airs? No. And does he reach out? Do you guys communicate with him the Sunday after? I mean, it might be more like his manager called our manager and we heard from our music manager being like, yo, Acon's camp is so psyched or whatever. So when is the first time, was that the first time you talked directly to Acon about how well it had gone?

Probably. Probably. You know what I really remembered is when we were at that downtown recording studio we talked about, and it was the night before we were about to shoot the video, but it was the first time we were meeting him face to face. And we were just going, yo, thank you so much for doing it. And he kept saying, of course, the song's a smash. It's a smash. And he kept saying it.

Is that why you were more confident with it? Because like when J.T. did that, I was like, oh, yeah. No, I think the reason I could be unapologetically confident, Yom, is because I'm not on it. I was more objective, and because I hadn't been there at the inception. I will say that that's exactly how I felt about Boat. When I walked in the room and you guys had completed it, I was like, that's a falking monster hit. I hate you guys. There's a clarity to not being part of the thing, because I could just be an audience member more.

I was like the exact opposite of how Neil Brennan perceived the song. Disposable. He was just like, no, you can't do it. Again, the most confident I ever felt at SNL were things that I was not in, but I had written because it was not my face, my voice. I just was like, oh, this is going to be great. It's just my words and like better hands. Love it. Exactly.

There's also a thing in writers' rooms that I think we've all had where you pitch a joke, it goes in, people like it, and then you immediately feel regret of like, that's a bad, like, that's a bad. And then you start shitting on it. And then people have to be like, no, it's fine. Right. Acon has so many hits. The other thing I remember from that show is because he was opening for Usher, his set was probably 30 minutes.

And he played like, it's like when you see one of those JZ shows where he played half of every song. Oh, I love that. Like chorus verse, chorus, go to the next song, just to be able to jam it in. And you don't realize how many you know. You know so many.

And so even with, I just had sex, it was definitely just within a nonstop almost like a DJ set of a thing where it just was one after another and then ours squeaked in. But it sounded good up there with everybody else's. By the way, it's so wild to think of these as like real songs

that anytime anybody wanted to do that, like, you know, T. Payne has performed both without us on stage before, right? Yeah, we've seen videos of that. And it's such an honor to be like, wow, these dudes who are like real recording artists put it on that level that they're willing to do it on.

stage. I'm pretty sure Michael Bolton started doing a version of Jack Sparrow. Yeah, which is also crazy. That's amazing. Did the audience, like, immediately recognize it as a hit when you started doing, I just had sex with Acon at that concert? They knew it. It fit in. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder what percentage of people, and again, obviously there's an SNL comedy audience that maybe doesn't know Acon through a lens other than I just had sex, but I wonder what percentage of Quaid Army. Maybe we'll put a poll wherever we put our polls. Yeah. The question to Quaid Army is, when you hear Acon is, I Just Had Sex, the first song you think of. And I know, obviously, this is an incredibly biased audience, but, you know. Yeah. I think he's also one of those artists that you know way more than you think you do if someone

started playing you the songs. I think that's true. Just like Maroon 5. But again, the question is, when you hear Acon is the first song you think of, I just had sex. And again, I know, you're a great army. Um, we talked about how the first time we saw you guys, maybe the makeup was a little hot. Yeah, just a little. But a few people said that they actually thought that was an active choice to give you guys a post-sex glow. Yeah, it was. It was definitely. We had thought about that. All right. Great. Somebody wrote the funniest part of this short is believing Blake lively and Jessica Alba could ever get with two Alvin's. Respect. By the way, thank you for calling us both Alvin, because I'm clearly terrible. Somebody said ACON still counts is a thing they think about all the

time. Yeah. It's like just a little thing he popped in. Really good. There, oh, I mentioned my friend, this is just a very side thing. I mentioned my friend Doug Stradley really likes Spacehawk. And somebody said, there's no way Doug Stradley is someone's actual name. That sounds like the name of a class nerd in every 90s Nickelodeo cartoon. Not only is it my friend's real name, but I did use it like seven times in sketches over the years because I think for that very reason that the person thought it was fake, kind of a perfect real name that sounds like a comedy name. My question is for you, Seth, how often did you put real people's names into sketches to be able to shout out your friends via television? Very little. That's not true. Five or six times. I don't love it as a move. I feel like the name has to fit in the premise.

Yes. So I would never do a name that didn't work originally as the thing that sounded like a name that would fit for that character. Okay. So the one that I did, the only time I ever did this was on, I think, Slots, the animated short. and Jason says, hi, my name is Mark Potzik, which is T.J. New Mark's real name. And it was because he was in the audience because I wanted to freak him out. But that's a good one.

Mark Pottsk is a great guy for his law. Yeah, that sounds like a real... Totally. You didn't mess with the integrity of the sketch. No. Hey, somebody wrote, and again, I really like the very short YouTube comments that just feel like the economy of the writing is really nice. Somebody wrote, I just had Seth.

I really enjoyed that. And I, I Jost hung out with Jost. We were both in Cannes, France, for Can Lion, which is like a brand festival. And so we were both there at the invitation of NBC. And obviously, nothing's better than hanging out with Jost anywhere, particularly entertaining in France. I will say about Jost. I've never met anybody as sort of successful and capable as Jost, who was, on just like a completely different clock.

And, like, moves so slowly. He is chilling. It was like an hour drive from the Nice airport to Cannes. And I knew that Jost knew this because he had arrived to Nice and driven to Cannes already. This is information he had for departure day. Sure. This is something he should know. We were on the same flight back to New York, 1240.

I got a text saying, meet in the lobby at 940 from the people who were arranging our travel, which seemed just right to me. Right. You know what I mean? Hour drive, two hours before an international flight. Sure. So I set an alarm early, went to the gym. Whoa.

Went back to my room, packed up. Responsible guy. Walk into the elevator. It's 9.35 and walk to the elevator. I see Joe's didn't workout close. He's walking towards me. He's like, hey. And I'm like, what's up, bud?

Where's your suitcase? He's like, oh, I was going to go work out. And I said, oh, he's on his way to work out. That's even worse. Yeah, totally. And by the way, like, not a drop of sweat on him. And I was like, oh, yeah, we're supposed to leave now. And he said, oh, I thought it was 1040.

Um, okay. Well, let's go down and check. So again, he's not like, fuck, fuck, fuck. He's not like immediately running back to his hotel room. So then we go down to the elevator and we get in the lobby and our people are waiting. And he's like, what time are we leaving? And they're like, uh, now, right now. And he was like, oh, okay.

And then he looks at me and says, are you checking a bag? And I was like, no. And he's like, oh, I am. So again, everything like now you should get there even earlier. And so I have such travel anxiety. And I basically just announced to everybody who's listening. So is there a second car? Because I'm going to leave right now.

And they were like, yes. We actually have two cars for you guys. I'm like, great. And I'm like, I love you, Joe. And I wish you the best a lot. And I'm really based on everything I know about you, this is going to work out. And he's like, okay. All right.

I'll see you in a minute. And so then, again, nothing happening. Then we're boarding the flight, and it's one of those things where it's oversold. And they're like, we're looking for somebody to give up a seat. Oh, my God. And nobody's giving up the seat. And then I get a text from Joe's being like, hey, I'm checking in. They told me they gave up my seat.

I'm like, yeah, I think they might have just thought you weren't coming. So I'm like, all right, you know, there's another flight a couple hours later. You know, this is the price you pay. and so I get on the flight and I'm like, you know, getting my suitcase up and then like five minutes later, there's Joe's on the plane and he's like, yeah, they figured it out. Good for him.

I'm like, great. I knew that's how the story was going to end. Oh, yeah, for sure. That's in the fucking stars. Like, I don't believe in astrology, but he's fine. Yeah. That's why he's been rewarded or for this behavior his whole life. He's been afforded it.

It's just, but it's just going to work out. My brother's the exact same way. And, well, like, set a time for you, and you come over to meet him, and he's in the shower. And you're like, what? Like, he just got in. And you're like, how is this possible? Also, let me dump on my brother one more time. Two quick stories. He recently, this is like, within the last five years, was like, dude, I don't even know the months in order. First of all, that's not something you should be proud of. But he was like, he was like, September, November. And I was like, first of all, it's like sept, oct, no. Like, like, you should know that, I,

Whatever. And then, do you remember Amy Poller's reality star, Amber, who had one leg and was super confident that character? Yeah, yeah, yeah. She definitely sounds like one of her catchphrases was, I don't even know the Monsonore. 100%. Here's another one. In December, we were talking about New Year's, and we were talking about, like, December 15th for some reason. And my brother was like, yo, is that New Year's?

And I was like, no. No, it's at least at the end of the month. It's like a turn. That's really crazy. It's so funny. He also doesn't know my birthday. Also, the other thing is, just and I were both talking about how, which was true for both of us, we both had so much work to do. And we were both looking at the fact that we have this nine hour flight that was not a red eye.

And it does feel like stolen time. You know, you like leave Europe at one. You land at like 3.40. And yet you have nine hours to work. Yeah. And so for anybody who procrastinates, it's a dream coming true. And Joseph's like, oh, my God, I have so much work to do. And at one point, I got up to go to the bathroom.

and he was asleep watching the movie Speed Racer. I like that he could fall asleep to that particular movie. But he was like, I got so much work to do, but I do need to see a Speed Racer the way it was intended on a four-inch screen. If not now, when? Yeah. That movie's also like a connoption fit. Yeah.

And yet he's still, I get it. Somebody wrote, how is it that every time the Alvin's reference, Alf, they don't bring up or play Yorm's line from Semis. my colon. Oh, yeah. Good point. What's the line, you're on? I'm gonna let you say it. Oh, shit. But I'll eat all you cats. But I'll eat all you cats. Al. Yeah. Yeah. We had like three Alph references in our live show. Do you remember Seth? I don't remember what they were, but do you just remember feeling like it was Al. I kind of do you remember that Alph. Yeah. It does feel like you guys have a lot of Alfa ownership. People were disappointed. We said, um, Beetlejuice three times. You did Keeve and Andy didn't do his Beetlejuice impression. Oh yeah. I was summoning him with the trees.

And nobody was listening. And he never showed up. That's crazy. Can I do Andy's impression of Beetlejuice? As a Beetlejuice impressionist, he should always be counting the amount of times it's said.

He should always be counting the beetle juices. It's very disappointing when you did. Yeah. All right, Yoram, that was three. Go ahead. There's in order to do that, I got to get married.

Yeah, pretty good. I think we're in pretty good shape. I think we're in pretty good shape. I feel like we can go into Andy List's podcast knowing that we have a beetle juice on hand unless it happens again. No problem.

Sandworms. I don't know. I'm fucking. Um, This was a two-part comment. It's a comment and then equates comment on the comment. And both of them, I just enjoyed a great deal. Someone wrote, inform us in the yormus.

Ooh, and then the comment beneath it was really good, my man. See, some nice positivity. Yeah. It is absolutely the appropriate response to inform us in the yormus. It's really nice, my man. That's like I don't give a honk level support. Yeah, I agree. We talked a lot about should we play the August Alcina song

because we were worried it would get flagged. And Keev, do you want to explain to everybody what did get flagged? Well, I just had sex got flagged by the record label. Right. So that is an interesting way that this thing goes down, which is you guys have a podcast for your songs, but if you put, I Just Had Sex, YouTube will flag it because someone else owns the rights, correct?

That's right. Universal Music Group, UMG, owns the rights to the master. That's how capitalism works. That's how it works. Also, the August Alcena one did get flagged as well. Right, they both got flagged. But it wouldn't have mattered. If we had left out the-

They're splitting the money from the ads on that post. And again, if anybody notices there's too many ads, take it up with UMG. Right. This is exactly what Karl Marx was talking about. In fact, after he talked about like the whole front line of the proletariat and everything like that, it was all copyright stuff and why it should be just more open. Who owns what songs? Yeah, exactly.

Hey, this is just a good filmmaker question. Because you guys are talking about how you, you did the cafe shots and I just had sex. It was mentioned there was probably a whole shot of Andy walking over to the counter, but in the edit, there was a decision made to add in a shot with Blake instead. My question is, do you film the entirety of the song in every location so that you have options when you're doing the edit? Cave one, two, three. Yes.

Yeah. Most of the time, yes. There's occasionally when it's really a story song, like I just had sex, where maybe we did everything from, you know, Andy's entrance out of the women's room. what's his line there? Oh, hey, didn't see you there. Guess what I just did? We probably did playback starting from that, and then definitely would always let it play

to the end of the song. I doubt we went back to the beginning. You wouldn't do it at the beginning, no, because it's a reveal. But once you establish that location, why not just do it all the way through? You go, it's another 40 seconds or whatever it is.

That is, by the way, the same logic that you have with almost all of filmmaking and movies, and, like, you might as well do the rest of the same. There's so much work to get to the moment when you can actually say action and film. Yeah, right. And so many people are so worried about making their day that they rushed through that part.

And that's not a good idea. It's crazy. Like, literally, like, that is what you learn as a fledgling filmmaker into being a little bit more seasoned of just, like, calming everybody down and being like, nope, this is more important. One of the first music videos for other artists I did, the We Are Scientists one, I remember being on set. And we had really specific, like, well, just see this part of the song. in performance and this part in performance. And I remember, to her credit, this woman that worked for their record label going, because they're up there doing performance, you have the cameras, you just have them do the

whole song, right? And I went, oh, yeah, yeah. And in my brain went, oh, my God, no, duh. What the hell was I thinking? I was really not going to. And that has rung in my head for like 25 years. I've probably said this, but I will reiterate that what I love about filmmaking is that there usually are enough smart people that something will be caused.

like that where like somebody will suggest something and you will get credit as the director but it's that somebody is like we'll be like hey should you get that footage and you will and then sometimes not but like most of the time there's enough smart people on set to catch those things um and it is the truest thing in the world that it will take about two and a half hours or more to light a scene and get everything looking the best way and it is uh definitely to your benefit to use a little bit extra time to get more shots that you can actually fall back on in the edit. Somebody said, welcome back to three Clifford's and a Groton podcast. Fair.

That's a person who saw it. My kids watch Clifford. It's a rainy day. They watch Clifford this afternoon. And I will get their review for next week. The one with the red sweater or the one with the red dog? Red sweater. Okay.

Wait, did they actually? They did. I went downstairs and, by the way, I didn't even recommend it. They made it through it? By the way, it's very rare for my kids to bail on a movie. Okay. Really? They don't get a lot of movies.

So when a movie starts, they're like, whatever we're going to do. We're not going to get a second movie. I would love to put that on for my kids and time how far they make it before they turn it off and yell at me for turning it on. For next week, I will get my kids to review Clifford. Please. Please, do. Oh, my God. That's well worth.

Speaking of, we're going to get, at some point during this week's episode, we're going to get a dumps bump. A quump, a quump, dumps, dumps, bump. What? Yeah. What is, sorry with you. I don't know what you're talking about and I love it. You went dumping. You went dumpling making.

Oh, yeah, I went dumping. That's going to be on this episode. So one of the commercial breaks here will be about my dump quump bump. So stand by for a real genuine. We were talking about kids and it made me think, oh my God, you guys are getting a very special surprise at this episode. There's going to be a dumps, quumps, bump, and you don't know what I'm talking about now. Oh, my God, great. You know, for years we've called dumplings dumps.

And then this week, because we went and made some dumplings with my family, you know, like had a little dumpling making class and I kept calling them dumps. I got called out on a lot. And I wasn't even thinking it was a joke or funny. I was just being like, yeah, let's make some dumps. Was your family? Have you used dumps with your family or just like your friends? Not really.

I think it's just in the Andy and your thing. Oh, God, I hate it. I hate it so much. Yeah. There's a phrase in the English language, which is arose by any other name. And I feel like dumps is one of those things of like, is it worse? Yeah, fucking, I don't want to eat that dumpling. Let me bring it back to Will Forte.

Big order of dumps. Will Forte has a dog named Mudbutt, and I hate that name so much. And I was thinking, like, he's a pretty cute dog. I'm like, would a dog buy any other name? Fuck, yes. Like, my God, if you just called him anything but mud butt, I would like that dog way more. Yeah, mud butt's bad. It's horrendous.

Mubut's real bad. Frisbee was the same way, though. I got out of a second. I have to listen, but I guess Mr. Dobelina. is a sample from a monkey's song called Zils. Is it really? The music or the Mr. Dobelino, Mr. Bob Davalina? I think that must be the part that is sampled.

I didn't get to say this last week, but I have the Mr. Dobelina record. It's a single. It's one of my pride and joys because on the B side of Mr. Dobelina, it might be Mr. Bombay, but I think it has Doubling as well, is the song Eye Examination,

which I think is my favorite hip-hop song ever made. So if you can find... That was a hard to find Dell's song back before the internet because it was not on his album and it was one of the hardest, coolest ones. And fun fact, Dell, the Funky Homesambian, is from the Bay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And the Bay is what? And the Bay is what, Yorm? Area. Oh, it's an area. Oh, that's very interesting. It's a whole area. All right, here's Mr. Bob Dobelina.

The Monkey's song is called Zilch. It's got a parliament. sample and a James Brown sample. Yeah, it's vocals, lyrics. Are you looking at a thing that tells you who does what on songs? Yeah, it's a website called Who Sampled. Oh, cool. And it'll tell you the samples on any song.

You know who would not be into that? Premier. Yeah, he's always gatekeeping his samples. Stop snitching, violating, straight up and down. It's from the premiere sketch. Let's see, what else do I have from our, let's just like, another pitch for the name of your van, Van Whalen. Just going to throw that out.

Okay. We had an ad for NPR in the show last week. Yeah, we're classy. We're classy. Somebody said hearing an NPR ad, but this podcast is that weird feeling when your old high school friends meet your college adult friends. I love that. Also, people thought you at the top hat looked like a guy who was about, this is back to you, Keith, and I just had sex, that you were about to lift up Pung Satani Phil. Oh, I should be so lucky.

I know exactly who they're talking about. Isn't that Brian Doyle Murphy in the movie? Yeah, yeah. Hello, everybody, Akiva here. This ad break is going to be a little different because, in partnership with Airbnb, I just attended my first Airbnb experience with my family. We took a cooking class at a restaurant called Men and Beasts,

which is in Echo Park in Los Angeles, where we learned how to make dumplings. The restaurant is entirely vegan. That's true. Thank you for chiming in. We're going to start with our white, though. We have two different colors just for fun. Later on, we're going to experiment some two-tone dumplings.

We're going to try and learn the basics first. So first off, you just go on the Airbnb website. There's a list of experiences in any cities. So if you're a tourist there or if you watch us something fun to do with your family. But we went on there and we chose something at a local vegan Chinese restaurant to make dumplings. And it honestly ended up pretty fun. Would you agree with that, Liz? Yeah, I love the whole thing.

and it was also on Father's Day, which was an extra little special something, don't you think? Yeah, it was really nice. We went as a whole family. How about you? It was really nice. I got to learn how to make something. I didn't know. I got to explore different ways to make a doubling. I got to learn different folds. And, you know, honestly, it felt a little bit like being on vacation. The owner of the restaurant is also the head chef, and he gave us the full lesson, and he was lovely, and it was really fun. We got to, to make the dough into little circles ourselves. And tell me about the circle.

What did you have to leave? So you got your dough. And it was almost like in this almost marshmallow kind of shape. And you put it down and you pressed it. And then it was time to start rolling. And as you were rolling, you kind of held it in your hand a certain way. So then you left a thicker part of the dough towards the middle. All right.

So our first chunk of dough. And we did that not to just keep like the fill. but also to find the shape. Yeah, and we asked, and it's so that the dumpling has a little bit of a more sturdy bottom. Roll the sound to the cylinder. You're looking for about a one inch diameter here? Because if you leave the center a little thicker

than when you're doing all your folds, it can hold all the vegan fake meat inside it. And it was delicious. The length is going to depend on how much dough you put off long as about one inch. And then we also ordered a little from the menu before we left. Obviously, we got to eat our own dumplings and take them home,

and we got to try some of the food there and everything we tasted there was really inventive and delicious. And one more things to add at the restaurant, Ben and Beast, they have this really good oolong tea. Yeah, that they just brought out, and we got to wear silly chef hats. And afterwards, I had a nice coffee. What else do you want? I don't know.

It was a really nice way to spend that an afternoon. And there was lots of other versions of these kind of experiences. It's not all just making vegan Chinese dumplings. That's just what we chose. Yeah, like I think, you know, especially for families, you kind of can get in a pattern of always going to the same places and all that stuff. And so this was kind of cool to be like, oh, what else is in our own city to go do and learn something and be in a different part of town than we usually go to?

And it made me like appreciate L.A. Whether you're traveling or simply exploring your own city, Airbnb experiences are an easy way to meet new people, build real world connections. The things you do on a trip, those are what stay with you. Find thousands of others at Airbnb.com slash experiences. It's been brought to my attention that our Comedy Award performance

if I Just Had Sex is on our YouTube channel. Oh, wow. April 10th, 2011, so it was four months after the video. That's very cool. And let's see. That's about all I had... You want to do this Greg Chun? He's a listener, and he had a genuine question.

Oh, yeah, Greg Chun send something in. Thanks, bud. Let's hear from Greg Chun. This is a genuine question he had, and I said, you know what? Send it to me. Hey guys, it's Greg. Not messing with you this time. This is a legitimate question. Um, Instagram fed me one of my favorite SNL sketches of all time. It's the crossing over one where

Will Ferrell's, um, he's doing the psychic who just can't get anything right. And, um, so I'm watching it and the resolution on Instagram was so bad. I wanted to see the actual show. So I fired up peacock and I realized as I was watching it that the Instagram one is a totally different cut of the sketch than the one that's on peacock. So I was wondering, and I thought this would be illuminating for the quades too. Do they ever go back for whatever reason and replace with like a dress rehearsal run or another run? This was like different costuming and everything.

So I was I was super confused. So if you could tell us, that would be amazing. Keeve, Seth, you do it. I mean, yes. Yeah. The answer is yes. His guess was exactly right. I feel like we maybe even talked about it on a very early episode of this pod.

But sometimes if the performers or producers of the show, fuel that dress rehearsal went better than air, they'll make a note of it and go, hey, for reruns, put in the dress rehearsal version. And then that'll become the official version. And if anything gets put online or anywhere, obviously this Instagram one, it's a VHS recording. So somebody recorded it off air and put it on Instagram. So this is probably the only existing one besides at S&L of the air version. I will say this. I disagree with doing that. It's called Saturday Night Live. And I feel like it should just be mistakes and all.

I kind of agree with you. And there's probably, honestly, other things they fixed are made better between dress and error. And they just had a different audience. And it just didn't probably play as well. So they think that dress was better. But the truth is, I bet you air is. But the sketch is a parody of crossing over with John Edward, which was, I guess, a show back then. Okay, we're going to listen to this for two seconds.

A woman who's got a woman with a J. Drew Barrymore, Maya Rudolph in the crowd. Maybe K. K or J? A woman with a K or J. I love this. Or R. This is a question from Ryan, which I feel like we've, in a weird way,

kind of covered a little bit based on how you're a key part of I'm on a boat and you're a key part of I just had sex. which is a bore Keeve in your arm. When you each make your first substantial appearances in digital shorts, how were you feeling leading up to it airing? And while it played, were you excited, nervous, worried people would be like, who the heck is this guy? Yeah.

Yeah, like Keeb, you go first. Yeah, I think because we weren't actually on the show, there was a little level of self-conscious embarrassment, I would say, not embarrassed in the work, but embarrassed at the office, knowing like, hey, we put ourselves in is kind of feels a little. little self-indulgent maybe? It felt a bit thirsty, yes. Yeah, a little thirsty. That's a good word for it.

But, you know, we had made the songs and they were ours, and so it would also not have felt right to give the parts to other people in the cast. Which we also did occasionally, and that was cool, too. Like, we did this short glerk for our pilot for Fox called Awesome Town. Yeah, or Seth Rogen. We replaced me with Seth Rogen on Like a Boss. Like, if you hear the album, it's me, and then it felt appropriate it was.

But like, I just had sex or I'm on a boat would be very different, just plopping a cast member who didn't write it into it. So it felt a little embarrassing, but then it also felt awesome on the outside because we would leave the show and, you know, there's all the people outside

waiting to meet the cast and take pictures with the cast. And then all of a sudden they knew who we were and wanted our picture too. And that feels kind of cool. Like, oh, thank you. Yeah, and that still happens at the show. And you were very,

I remember you guys would walk in very slowly in hopes that people would take your picture. Yeah, yeah, I'd give them a lot of opportunities. A lot of. Like, they'd had to get through, like, Hater and Forte and Siddakis. And I'd be there. I remember go through the revolving door and often come back out again and do this thing where you go, I don't guess I missed my spot.

Yeah. Well, me and Keev also got very good at. Stop. I said you missed my spot. What the fuck is wrong with me? Jesus crazy. It's the drinking. It's a very good at ventriloquism. So as you'd leave, you'd do like a,

oh, Kiva. Oh, my God. Oh, dear. And so that helps. Yeah, we'd wait for the wig wave. If we'd call it the wig wave is for Kristen, and we'd be like, wait for the wig wave. We would just wait right inside the doors, waiting for her to leave. And then we'd be like, okay, it's our spot. Yeah.

Yeah, it's like surfing. You don't get on the wave. You would say, let's, I'm hoping to catch a little splash from the wig wave. Yeah, exactly. Got a little wet from the wig wave, let's just say. We're drafting. We were drafting. We got very good at drafting.

Got a little sea spray off that wig wave. Yeah. We have a short coming up, which is Andy and Peewee. Yeah, I came back for that one. There's a non-short show in the middle, which I want to talk about for a second, which is Jim Carrey came and hosted the show. And that was a huge deal for me to see Jim Carrey do SNL up close and in person. I think it would have been for me and Yom if either of us was there. Were you there?

Neither was there. No. Andy probably has some good memories of this. Oh, Jim Carrey. Yeah. No, no. I'm jealous. I didn't fucking stop by for that shit.

Yeah. So this is Yorm still on his sabbatical. where he had left the show. I'm in Africa. I'm probably in Africa. And I, it's January 8th, and my daughter was born January 2nd. And so I am definitely not there.

I'm home with that. I'm just being completely lazy. Exactly. I'm home with a six-day-old. Unbelievable. But let's see. Yeah, it feels like maybe we want to talk about this one with Andy there,

because we were all huge Jim Carrey heads, and I'm sure Andy was geeking out the whole week that he was there. One of the things that Andy quotes from Jim Carrey all the time, which I think is a really fun quote, is whenever it's really hot out, Andy says from Ace Ventura to, Pretty hot in these rhinos.

And Yorm has this really interesting one. It's, oh, righty then. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's a deep cut. Yeah, exactly. I will say my memory, and I will get Andy's memories next week when he's here, is that Jim Carrey in person is so much like Jim Carrey

that you kind of can't believe it, in that he can do things. that only Jim Carrey can do, and it feels as though it is almost... It's the definition of a God-given talent and that it looks like magic, the way he, like, has control over his face and body and voice and everything he can do.

Because, again, every one of us has pitched and fucking eating shit on Monday in the Monday pitch, right? Of course. It's an impossible thing to do. I will say that when Jim Carrey was there, the first person who pitched had like just... And again, no judgment. I've had this a hundred times.

had a pitch that just was a lead balloon. And there was this brief pause. And again, this is the first time this room, most of us had ever sort of perceived him in person. Yeah. And he's just sitting in that chair so close. And I remember lead balloon. And then Jim Carrey just literally made the crack of the bat noise.

Like someone had just hit a ball really hard. And of course, he did it better than I could ever do. And then he just started doing like people cheering. He goes, it's a homerunt. Like just a hole. And it was like everybody, I just remember everybody was gasping because the fact that the first pitch he decided to do a long bit about how well it had gone. And it was just like, he's rounding the basis. You're like, you know what?

I think this week's going to go all right regardless. I mean, everybody was just like, holy, holy. Because, you know, when you think about it sometimes, sometimes you're, you're going to, you're going to be. at charity events in Hollywood, and one of the auction items is like, Al Pacino will leave an outgoing voicemail for you. Like, I just remember sitting there being like, I would have paid so much money to see this. This thing that I'm getting to witness right now,

I would have paid so much money to actually get to witness. And so the fact that I'm getting it for free, my job is really amazing. That sounds amazing. And it was equally amazing just changing a dirty diaper, probably for me at that exact moment, you know? And also for a child that had yet to make eye contact in a meaningful way. Yeah, we were having the same experience, basically.

There's a chance, six days in, which is what this would be when this aired and when your daughter was born. Good math. That's a very good math. Jim Carrey still might have meant more to you than your daughter did. There was like a small window. But I have a real favorite from this episode, which is Taryn Killam's Maryville brothers. And it is such a good use of Jim Carrey. and it is also a sketch that starts immediately. It does not waste any time getting into its game.

And everybody should just go to YouTube and watch Mariville Brothers because this is a physical comedy sketch. But I'm just going to show the beginning to Kiev and Yorm and then let them speak to the skills of Jim Carrey and how smart Taryn Killen was to rate this for him with Klein. Yeah, your sister told me it was your favorite. Oh, look, here come the Maryville Brothers. If you join with a friend in a friendly song,

if you'll have friendship all day long, so come along and sing all day because that's the Maryville brother away. It's so impressive. God, they do it perfect. Oh, that is great. It's incredibly... That's so good.

Nobody's overdoing it. It is absolutely how animatronic people would look. You go to Jim Carrey, maybe because he's Jim Carrey, but looking at everyone, they're all pretty fucking flawless. That's great. Yeah.

Taryn and Jim Carrey and Bill Hader are the three Maryville brothers. They are animatronic. And they are really good at it. And it's just very fun to watch. And it's also a three-minute sketch. And that was the first 34 seconds. And you know the game and you're enjoying yourself. And it's just very fun.

Does it get dark after that? Yeah, of course, bud. You know how it works. No, it's great. Everybody's happy. They love the Maryville brothers. Okay, good. Doesn't get weird.

After that, it doesn't get weird. Yeah. It's just normal from that. It is a reminder. You watch it and you see there is a little bit of David S. Pumpkins in that it's a reminder of how fucking funny Taryn can be physically and wordlessly. I saw him perform Hamilton as the king, right? Didn't he do that?

Yeah. He was King Dr. Yeah. And he was fucking great. I just saw Rachel Dratch in a Rocky Horror picture show. And it was fantastic. You're a Broadway guy. You're a fucking classy guy, Seth.

We've been talking a lot about Broadway because you guys go a lot. Julia at Lewis, like, because I know she's fantastic in that show too, but she was amazing. She, the minute I saw her for overreuted, but she was like, Dratch is like a revelation. She was like, she's fucking built for this in a way that is like so impressive. I reached out to Taryn and asked him for his, if he had any memories about Maryville. Oh, great. Oh, this better be good.

Quaid Army. Yay. Righteous kill. Good start. Such an honor. to be asked to leave my first of at least two voice notes for the podcast. As we all know, the Quadoes are frothing at the mouth in anticipation of Andy and I's often forgotten, uh, goatee sketch.

Oh yeah, coming up. Maryville Brothers was a really cool week. Jim Carrey is my comedy idol, always has been. And, um, that sketch was based off of like a physical thing I'd done at Groundlings that two other comedians had written Ryan Gall and Greg Roman and I got their blessing to kind of put it in a new format and so I wrote Maryville brothers with Rob Klein and Kent Sublet the dream team truly and kind of the story of note is from dress rehearsal uh it went well at the table it got picked we rehearsed it but then at dress rehearsal um the first time we come up we do the physicality and then we

duck back behind this like plywood wall. And we actually got like an applause break, which was a new experience for a young, overwhelmed cast member. But I remember looking to the left and seeing like Jim Carrey, my hero, kind of giving me a look of like, oh, not bad, cool. And then looking to my right and Bill Hater, who was also in the sketch, giving me a thumbs up. And he kind of whispered like, it's going really good.

That's awesome, man. It's a good, Bill. And that felt great. Very accurate. And then on Monday. where I often found myself like, you know, trying to play it cool but so desperate for any mention or validation of the work you'd done the week before. Hig Bones, Steve Higgins, told me that Tom Hanks had texted him during the show and was like, that was such a good sketch who did that. And so that felt really nice.

And we ultimately got Tom in a Maryville Brothers sketch. We did four or five of them. But yeah, really cool, really exciting. I love you guys. I love the podcast. I've listened to every episode. I've been listening since it was a Monday podcast. Oh, we don't.

Burn. How dare you. And let me know when you guys want to do the grown-ups-2 car wash scene episode. Yes. Later dudes. The grown-ups two episode, that's got to be a big one.

People are probably waiting for the grown-ups two episode. Oh, my God. Thanks, Taryn. That was great. Thank you, Sharon. That made me smile thinking about that moment. Yes. And how much those.

first ones mean. The first time you feel like... Something's working. You can do it. It doesn't mean you're going to be able to do it next week. But just to know you can do it is exactly how I felt with mugglers. Sure. Yeah. Sure. Good. Yeah. Must have been amazing. So jealous. Also, talk about an approval sandwich that you want to be in the middle of, Hater and Carrie. That's amazing. I thought you were to say Hanks, but yeah, absolutely. fucking, you know what I mean? It's like a nice little

topper to have Vitomics. Be like, that was great. Also, great work by Higgins to pass it along. That's a job well done. Good job. I'm looking through these questions. This is an easy one for me and Yorm to do a very quick version of,

which is Zane says, hello, I absolutely love the podcast, look forward to every week. I want to ask you to address the two performances on Jimmy Fallon. One, the full performance, and two classroom instruments. Full performance was with the roots.

Jimmy introduces you as your live debut, go into detail about what that was like, performing with the roots, had you met them before, how did you decide to go so hard at Yorm? So that's talking about when we did, I'm on a boat when he was doing the late show, not the show you do now, Seth. Yes.

And it was a thrill, as we've talked about many times on the pod, how we had seen the roots in concert so many times, and we had had some nice interactions with them already, especially Amir was so kind about like Lazy Sunday and stuff. But it was amazing to have them doing the song, and then for us to figure out how to work Yorm into it live, which once we did it for that, that's kind of how we did it at all our concerts many years later,

like just the idea of putting Yorm... Was that the first time we figured the Dunst Cap? The Dunst Cap and putting him on a little stool in the center of the stage. Dunscap's coming back. And it helps me in Andy, so we're not just up there, like, flailing with nothing to do. It gives us somebody to perform the song, too. And it makes the joke of the song way more obvious

when you're not able to cut to joke shots. Here's the thing. With all comedy, you need an audience member who's actually witnessing some of this to really sell jokes sometimes. And when you do that part well, which I do very, very, very well, I feel like that role doesn't usually get enough credit. And so it's really nice for you to acknowledge me, Keith. Would you consider yourself the straight man of the song? I would. I would. And I think it's a very difficult job, and I think I perform it ably. And so thank you for bringing it up. Also, Tarique, aka Black Thought, learned the whole T. Payne thing that day and did it so well. So it was just really fun. And then for Classroom Instruments, whose idea was it to do the song as part of Classroom Instruments series, who came up with the arrangement, how many takes did you have to do? Was it difficult to sing without cursing? Sorry, real quick.

Can you guys ask just Axel a few questions about what he thought about Clifford? Oh, yes, please. My first question to you about Clifford, Axel, is what was your favorite part of the movie? I have no idea. Okay, good. I liked it a lot. And on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being your favorite movie, whatever that is, and one being a movie you don't like, where would you put it? Where would you rate this one?

Seven. A seven. Okay, that's pretty high. It's accurate. All right, I'll be out in a minute. So to answer these questions in order, we were there because Andy was going to be the guest to promote Popstar. And we were already all in New York also because we were doing a week of press before the pre-exam. premiere. And also I love it. And yeah, and also you want to live there. And go next. Hey guys,

I do have to run. Yeah. Say that you love us now and then we can put that in later. Say it like you mean it though. Okay. Yeah. Wrap it up. Love you guys. Oh, love you, Seth. Love you, Kiva. Leave that here and then repeat it later. So we get to hear it again. Yeah. All right. Love you guys genuinely. Not just Pod's talk. Love you, but. Yeah. We already said that. And we meant it. Okay. Bye to Seth. Bye, so Andy was going to be on it. And they proposed doing a classroom instrument. Tonight Show as a way to do more stuff, and they brought up, I'm on a boat. And so to answer all these questions, they did the arrangement. They had fully figured out everything, including the director had figured out the camera and the room, and all we had to do was practice doing it without the

bad words. And it was a little bit difficult without the cursing, just to remember them all. Like, we were like, shit, I'm going to slip. And we did two takes. Did you do Mickey Ficky instead of motherfucker? Yeah, which you, yeah, Mickey Ficky. We did Mickey Ficky. Shout out Spike Lee. I believe it's on our YouTube channel for anyone who wants to hear it. I think it's pretty good actually. And I was proud that with no production it sounded pretty good and we sounded like

the record and I was glad about that. I remember because you're just in a room shouting and the room is just miced. So there's no trickery. Which performance did we used? Do we use the second one or no? I think we did it first and everyone was like, got it. That's how it goes. Then we just did it a second time. So the whole thing was 10 minutes. Yeah.

And yeah. It's weird because you know that the roots have put in more hours of performing than maybe any other band on the planet. And yet it's still impressive to see them do stuff. It's so intimidating. They're like, they're still incredible. And you can't believe you just sit down there and they're that good at it.

Here, let's just... It's a very good performance. And again, thank you for bringing up my role in it, Keeb, because I do it excellently. Let's me and Yorm just take a little trip down memory line since we're talking about it. Oh, look at my wardrobe. Really good. Oh, shirt. Yeah, uh-shirt.

Good, good censored stuff. Your monkey-funky toes. What am I reading? The Joy of Land. This is tight. You're annoyed with. I'm doing great. Mommy Daddy.

I like this so much I would actually want to put it on a cassette tape on a mixtape for myself. Because of the van. has cassettes. It really is an awesome shout-out to do the right thing. And he curses. And there's a mermaid prop, too. Everybody looks at him judgmentally. Yeah.

Honestly, that might be the performance I'm the most proud of. That is great. Because it's super clean from start to finish. It's so good. It's so wild to be like we performed with them at all. And again, I'm not even, you know, I got to do yolo with them. Didn't get to do this exactly. Every comment is by you.

Yorm's commitment to making faces at the camera for two and a half minutes is everything. Quaid Army for life. Another one, I can feel Yorma looking into my soul and begging for help. Yorm reading the joy of land because he was not invited on the boat. Good to see he's working on acceptance. I'd love that for him. This is great. I'm so glad to get credit for doing zero.

Absolutely. By the way, it's always fun for me. And I do like that at the end of our concerts, at least, I get to join you guys because it is a joyful song. I'm still jealous. I'm not on it. I'm still mad at you, both of you, deep down, very, very angry. You're a much bigger part of it than I am if I just had sex, so. Sure. Yeah, yeah. Well, that's entirely because of you guys wanting to, you know, had a visual joke. So, appreciate you, Doug. All right. Well, I guess that's it for this Q&A. You know, I wish Andy was around, but I get it. He flew in just yesterday. So I'm going to afford him a little bit of grace to get reacquainted with his children and his wife.

Yeah, but I do want a voice note knowing about his Spelling Bee adventures this week, so I hope we can at least get that. I just saw that I missed a voice call from him 11 minutes. Okay, well, I'm assuming it was about spelling bee. So, Andy, how'd you do on Spelling Bee? Yeah, two hints. And frankly, I haven't gotten it clean since last Tuesday, so a bit of a cold streak. and it doesn't feel good. It doesn't feel good.

But you got to admit it when it's bad so that people know how much it means to you when it's good and they believe you, unless I'm lying about the whole thing and I've never once ever done it, which would truly be the most psychotic thing in the history of time, which kind of makes me now interested in that as an idea.

All right, I love you guys. Later, Arnold. Good job, Andy. I assume you cleaned it or whatever your thing is. And for everyone that's curious, I got solid. Solid. Pretty good.

All right. Well, love you, Your Honor. Love you, Keeve. Love you, Seth. Love you guys. Later, Arnold. Later, Arnold. Later, Quades.

Later, Don Draper. You want me to say, later, quads? Stop acting like children. Later, ghost face. Later, quades. Later, Jack, doing ghostface. Later, Quades.

Later, O'Brien. Oh, now you remember me.