The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast - People Getting Punched Just Before Eating

Episode Date: September 9, 2024

This week The Lonely Island and Seth discuss their digital short, People Getting Punched Just Before Eating! Plus, they talk about memorable sketches like Amy Poehler’s House, Ohhhh! Game Show, what it was like working with Bon Jovi, and more! People Getting Punched Just Before Eating - https://youtu.be/3ct68JZKsZ8?si=nb2LK61rbs3I3afIAmy's Bedroom - https://youtu.be/UKEzWzGE74I?si=N4uViddfe3hpWWabNew Jersey Game Show - https://youtu.be/B3L2xd5lNrw?si=RxXPcxEJMrgX7RjTNaked Guy on Update - https://youtu.be/Ip4SOvtZAsw?si=_HLC8wGi2scITYlA(Not all the clips we mention are available online; some never even aired.)If you want to see more photos and clips follow us on Instagram @thelonelymeyerspod.Send us an email! [e-mail] Sponsors:MandoControl Body Odor ANYWHERE with @shop.mando and get $5 off off your Starter Pack (that’s over 40% off) with promo code ISLAND at shopmando.com! #mandopod VuoriVuori is offering 20% off your FIRST purchase. Get yourself some of the most comfortable and versatile clothing on the planet at vuori.com/ISLAND.  Not only will you receive 20% off your first purchase, but enjoy free shipping on any U.S. orders over $75 and free returns. Rocket MoneyStop wasting money on things you don’t use. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to RocketMoney dot com slash ISLAND.    Produced by Rabbit Grin ProductionsExecutive Producers Jeph Porter and Rob HolyszLead Producer Kevin MillerCreative Producer Samantha SkeltonCoordinating Producer Derek JohnsonCover Art by Olney AtwellMusic by Greg Chun and Brent AsburyEdit by Cheyenne JonesMix and Master by Jason Richards

I'm officially starting the pod right now because I want everybody to hear what we're talking about. Basically, I want everybody who's listening. Think if Andy had an outfit he wanted to run by the group, who would be the person that he would want that opinion of? All right, everybody listening, if you have your answers. And now Andy, tell them what your answer is. Akiva. Yeah.

But it's not because I'm a fashion maven, it's just because I pay attention to stuff. I wouldn't even say you're the most stylish dresser of us. I would say Yhorm is. Yeah. Yhorm puts the most effort and takes the most risks, style-wise, in terms of what he'll wear. Really? This is new information that you think that. I would think that Akiva takes the most risks

in sneaker, his sneaker game. I didn't say sneaker game. And so I guess I'm on the outside looking in on both counts. Even right now, your t-shirt is like a wider wider necked t-shirt with little rips in it. That's why I'm drinking an Aperol Spritz in the middle of the night. Oh, that looks delicious. Yeah, yeah. Seth, look, you're a late night talk show host. You wear suits, you know? I actually don't.

Not anymore. But only for like the last three years. I do wish you would. Three piece. Dress up, man. Come on, respect the craft. Respect the late night craft. Come on, respect the craft. Respect the latest. Just for the job you want.

No, I'm just talking about like, Akiva is probably the only one of us that would click through on a red carpet photo gallery and be like, what are people wearing? Yes, that's right. Yeah, I think that's right. And be able to process it and remember. That's right.

Yeah, and be like, here's what people are doing and what's like more trendy right now. I also can't deny somewhere inside, I wish I dressed really cool, but I don't have the patience or think I'm cool enough to pull it off. I'd be self-conscious. But I see people dress cool.

I see like Chalamet dress cool and I go, oh, I wish I could dress like that. That's cool. I'm jealous of it. Somewhere deep down. Oh, yeah. I think the older I got, the more I realized I missed the time in my life where I could make those big choices, and I'm so jealous of people who appreciate

in their youth to go for it. Exactly. Seth, what's like the most... I mean, you generally would wear like, sambas. I stunk the whole time. But I have a theory. Don't you think I always kind of... I don't feel like I was ever the kid.

You know what I mean? Like, right. You have a stately way about you. You're the older brother. Yeah. But you know what else though? You know what I will say? Sambas came all the way back last few years.

But by the time they came back, I wasn't wearing them anymore. Right, it would have been weird for you to wear them now. I moved on to hokas. Oh, wow. So tight. I let the fashion flag touch the ground, as they say.

Now, Yhorm just walked away and I'm wondering if he's about to come back in a dazzling outfit. No, same outfit. No, no. God damn it. Yhorm might take big old fashion choices, but Yhorm's backdrop, he looks like he's living in the home of like an old dowager who passed away and left it to him. It's so great that people can't see this, but that's accurate. What did he say? It does.'t see this, but that's accurate. What he said.

It does. It's like a Dowager's chair. There's a lot of like Lego figurines behind me, though. That that youngifies me. It's like that boy, Yorma was nice to be once. I shall leave him my house. Welcome to another lonely island. Seth Meyers podcast. This was the cold open to this episode's podcast, and much like an SNL cold open,

it's probably a little unsatisfying, but it's important. It's time for the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast. Yay. Hey, um, it's Bon Jovi Week. Ah, yeah, the Jov, finally. By Jov. By Jov it is.

I'm gonna ask a question right out of the gate. Ooh, please. Not short-related. Had John Bovi already aired? Yeah, it had aired. I'm gonna ask a question right out of the gate. Ooh. Please. Not short related. Had John Bovy already aired? Yeah, it had aired. So when it was announced he was coming, Suds and Will were like, oh!

Yeah, that was a treasure trove to them. They definitely wrote one. Yeah. And he definitely didn't want to do it. Oh, did it not happen? It didn't. Wow. It's a burn.

I mean, it wasn't the right time for it. I guess, or it was the most right. Bon Jovi, God love him. I really enjoyed my week with Bon Jovi, but I think it might be a lot to ask for him to get the comedy of a Bon Jovi opposite band that hates Bon Jovi. But they don't really hate them. They're just saying they hate them so they don't get in trouble for stealing all their stuff.

Yeah, but they're pretty mean about... I'm just saying it's asking a lot. They're constantly talking about how they hate him. Well, because people are like... Yeah, people are like, you're ripping off a song. He's like, no, man, we hate Bon Jovi. You could ease off that stuff, though, for the real him. Yeah, those two.

(*ALL LAUGHING*) Does anyone remember what Bon Jovi was promoting that would make him just randomly... I think it was just being Bon Jovi was promoting that would make him just randomly? I think it was just being Bon Jovi. It's 2007. The Bon Jovi opposite band that Forde and Sadegas played that is really truly one of my favorites.

That they're called John Bovi. I double clutch every time I say it, because of course his name is also John. I also double clutched. Did you hear my double clutch? Yeah. I was like, wait, that can't be right, because his name is John Bon Jovi. Yes.

There's a lot of problems with it. Well, when they were writing it, there was always a lot of, wait a minute, is that the opposite? Yes. There's always a lot of second guessing on what's the opposite. I remember John Bovi would do a lot of other songs, not just Bon Jovi songs.

Right. That's what Friends are for? Is that what has the line for sure? Yes. Do you remember what the opposite of for sure was? That's what enemies are not for? For sure was five speed stick. Yeah.

Five speed stick. Flawless. Five is the opposite of four. Flawless logic. Speed stick is the opposite of sure. But I will say, and again, this speaks to why I love that sketch. So the premise was simple. What are the opposite words of things?

And of course they immediately diverged into a crazier place that made it. Five instead of four. I thought it'd be negative four. The opposite of four is five and the opposite of sure is speed stick. Not even eight, not even like a multiple. Yeah.

Just one more. Trying to pitch that to Bon Jovi and be like a multiple. Yeah. Just one more. Trying to pitch that to Bon Jovi and be like, yeah, this. What do you think? I believe John Bovi was like Stefan, which is it had one sketch before it became an update staple. Right. You guys remember the cold open of the Bon Jovi show? No.

Well, I remember it because it was a rarity. The cold open was young Amy Poehler playing Amy Poehler, looking at a poster of John Bon Jovi from the 80s. Oh, that's right. And then he walked out of the poster as himself from the 80s and gave her advice about her future self. You gotta find your passion. You gotta follow your heart. You gotta find that dream.

You have any big dreams, Amy? Yeah, I got some pretty big dreams. I don't want to just shop at the Limited. I want to work at the Limited. And at night, I want to have people over for beers at my apartment that I rent. That's okay. That's okay. But what do you really love to do? Well, I kind of like acting. I did a monologue for the eighth grade recital and it got a lot of laughs. That's good. It was from the diarrhea and Frank

Didn't that kind of become a running sketch they do about posters talking people out of posters I always liked it. There's a new there's a definitely a new poster sketch, but this one was For me there was such a palpable relief when the cold open was something that A, the audience would enjoy and B, not a politics thing that I had to write on Friday. And I think it broke pretty early in the week that everybody agreed that would be a fun thing to do. Yeah. And it was her as herself, which is fun. Yes. And you mean that because if it had broken later in the week, you still would have had to have written one. So this way, you still would have had to have written one.

So this way you didn't have to write one at all? I think that sometimes, I believe this was the case. Sometimes if you see a non-political sketch in the cold open, it means that the political sketch in the cold open, eight shit so hard to dress, Lauren basically agreed to do something else. Had no choice to get rid of it, yeah.

And that's not the best outcome for a fellow like me. So I don't think it had anything to do with else. Had no choice to get rid of it, yeah. And that's not the best outcome for a fella like me. So I don't think they had anything to do with my failure. I just think it was the joy of Polar getting that done. And then there was a questions Q&A in the monologue. I love a questions Q&A. I've always loved a questions Q&A. I know we've talked about this. Some people think they're super hacky.

I love it very much. I don't think they're hacky. You know who the first person to ask a question was, Keith? I'm gonna guess my wife because you're asking me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Little cameo, little Liz cameo. Little Liz cameo. I liked it when she did those.

And the comedy of the monologue was him saying, I've been a musical guest on this show a bunch of times, but this is the first time I'm just hosting. And Liz stands up and says, so you're not doing music? And he's like, no, just comedy. And she's like, oh, okay. I remember something about that monologue. Oh, I do too.

His main man, Richie. Richie Sambora. Was in the monologue. Yeah. I believe it went great at dress. Killed at dress. Richie Sambora killed at dress because he stood up and he also was curious

why he wasn't doing music. Yes. The comedy being Richie was left on the outside if he's just hosting. Yes. And when it went live, he raised his hand. Yeah, I got a question. Just fully ready to rip it again

because he knew it worked. People were super psyched to see him. And then it was just like, yeah, you and you're like, here we go. And then Richie Sambora just lost the cards. He lost the cards. He's just like, oh, you. And you're like, here we go. And then Richie Zambora just lost the cards. He lost the cards. He's just like, uh, oh. He started squinting, like, looking around.

He cuts back to John, and he's like, he's fucking doing it again. Hey, hey, hey, I got a question. Yes? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Don't we have a new album? Yes. Don't we have a new album? Yes, yes. Any other questions? Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,

hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, I love that. Any other questions? Hey. Did I ever consider your feelings? Oh, did you ever consider my feelings? Did you ever consider Ben's feelings? It looks like John even went so far as to say,

hey, Richie, were you maybe gonna ask me? That is what he did. Would you like to ask me if I something something, Mr. Sambora? Like fucking my whole fucking life in this moment. That was... I do want to play from the cold open, because I don't want to read it,

because I think that I won't do it justice, but after John says, well, I got to get to the gig and stands back into his poster, it's a very memorable exchange between him and Amy. Oh, my God! Listen, I got to get to the gig. Wait, John Bon Jovi, am I ever gonna get boobs? You just keep working on that personality, okay?

Yeah, okay, but and then boobs? Eventually, you're gonna get a great set of personality. Wait! So, John Bon Jovi show off to a very fun, very novel start. What did Jack Nicholson do? I'm looking at the rundown, it says special guest, Jack Nicholson. I'm so glad you asked. I was going to ask it as a trivia question later in the show.

Oh, okay. Can I guess? Yeah, go. Musical guest. Yeah. Well, it's interesting because that would be where you would use a special guest if John Bon Jovi was hosting and doing music.

Yes, that's what I thought. But Foo Fighters were music. At the very end of the show though, it weirdly ended with Good Nights went into a Bon Jovi song. So Nicholson was standing center stage at Good Nights and threw it over to Bon Jovi. If you had asked me, was Jack Nicholson ever on the SNL stage while you worked there, I would have been like, no way. And I would have said, I would remember if I had seen Jack Nicholson ever on the SNL stage while you worked there, I would have been like, no way. And I would have said, I would remember

if I had seen Jack Nicholson in person on our stage. And yet... I watched it. My only regret is that I wasn't just standing right next to Jack Nicholson waiting for a hug. Yeah. Just like, hey, if you're on home base... Arms out. This is a hug zone.

Yeah. Hey, big guy. Just forcing it. And Seth, if you went for that hug and he responded, I think it would sound a little something like, go. Go, Seth. Oh, me? Yeah, a little something like, Seth. Uh... Oh.

All right, I'll be you. Hey, Mr. Nicholson. Oh, so nice to meet you. Can I get a hug? Don't tell me you want a hug. Oh, yeah! Oh, that's pretty good. It was worth it. Um, I, uh, let me say,

I hope you'll let me keep this in your, do you remember that Lauren originally thought that Jack Nicholson was gonna be a MacGruber in the Val Kilmer part? Oh. Oh man, there were so many things that Lauren said about MacGruber. He also said that our budget was gonna be like $30 million.

So, you know, we could all be wrong about stuff. It's just really funny. By the way, I would have been super bummed if it wasn't Val Kilmer. But the fact that Lauren thought he could convince Jack Nicholson to play a character named Cunt. That's just a testament to their friendship. Testament to their friendship that Jack was like, no. Support for the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast is brought to you by Viori.

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Fuck those people. I love them. I'm just saying, you haven't gotten to me. I love what I love. Same. New Jersey Game Show, the way you rang in was to yell, oh. And I don't remember much about the sketch

outside of the fact that it maybe was the crew's favorite thing in the entirety of my time on the show. Like for months after I'd walk was the crew's favorite thing in the entirety of my time on the show. Like, for months after, I'd walk by the crew, and they'd just go, oh! So there was a lot of value in it for me, and I have no regrets. First category up is food. Food. All right?

Yeah, you know, like, food. Come on. All right, we got it. Your wife's making your grandmother's recipe for baked ziti. She spreads a layer for baked ziti. She spreads a layer of cooked ziti in a casserole dish. She realizes she's out of regotte. So she reaches for a block of Velveeta.

Frank, you go first. Go! Oh, Velveeta and a ziti. What's next, prego? Here's an idea. Why don't you just go down to my grandmother's grave and spit on me. All right. Good answer, Frankie. Can I go back until one story that I was just looking up?

Yeah, go for it. So at the table read, this is just another McGruber story. At the table read of McGruber, we didn't get Jack Nicholson, but we had Ray Liotta playing Powers Booth's Colonel role. But the way he did it, we didn't talk before the read, and you should always talk to the actors before the read. And the way he did it was him just going, hey, McCruba, what do you think we're gonna do, McCruba? Oh, man, McCruba.

And I was like, oh, this is the most bizarre take ever. I wish I had talked to that guy. Rest in peace. Rest in peace. I was there, I forgot that completely. It was him doing that and then Ryan was doing a little bit more, I don't know what you'd call it. Rest in peace. I was there, I forgot that completely. It was him doing that and then Ryan was doing a little bit more, I don't know what you'd call it. Real hip hop.

A little more hip hop, a little like, all right, MacGruber, come on. Like just a little bit more like a guy from New York or something as well. They both had made kind of different New York choices. Ryan had just been in Stop Loss and he had played like a military dude who was kind of hip hop-y. So he was just going.

Like a street grunt. Yeah. Yeah. I just was watching a clip of MacGruber and was taken with how good Power is Booth was. What a legend. Yeah. It was my favorite. What a legend.

My favorite conversation I've maybe ever had on set was him saying like, so when he offers to fallatiate me, like how do I feel about it? And I was like, oh man, I mean, it's heartbreaking. I mean, this man, you know, you're his mentor and this is, you're seeing him at his lowest moment. It's really fucking painful. And I meant it. You know that.

It's perfect. And he plays it. That's the energy he plays. I will say one of my favorite things being on the set of MacGruber was Val Kilmer and Powers Booth standing with just a bunch of comedy nerds around them and telling stories about Tombstone. I was going to say they're both in Tombstone. They're both in Tombstone and I don't even know if they'd seen each other since Tombstone.

And I think for as wonderful a movie it is, a troubled set and they were just, they had great stories about Tombstone. So good. I mean, one of the funniest things that Val said at one point, which I don't know if I told any of you guys at one point, was that he was like, I've only been wrong about one movie before about how successful. He was like, this is going to be really successful. He was like, I've only been wrong one time before.

I was like, what movie was that? And he was like, Top Gun. I was like, you thought, Ty? He was like, Top Gun. I was going to eat shit. I love it. Oh, wow. Gun, I was gonna eat shit. I love it. Oh, wow. You were pretty wrong on that one. And then he was owed one movie to eat shit.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, MacGruber paid the bill for Top Gun. Seth, sorry. I know you're about to try moving on. I think I actually really quickly have a couple of corrections. Okay. Okay, please. I don't think fellatiate's a word. Okay, thank you.

I think it's fellate. What do you think? Oh, fellate. You're right. The urban dictionary says a fellatiate is one who relishes the art of fellatio, which I do kind of like. Like a sophisticate of fellatiate. Oh, that's very good.

Yeah. Thank you for this so far. And then on the Roy Ruhls episode, I had said I thought Matt Murray, the writer, Matt Murray, helped us with Roy Ruhls. And then Matt sent us a voice note saying, uh, was me, I don't think, I don't remember. This week we had dinner with a bunch of old SNL buds, including Colin Jost, who was all, that was me!

It was? Yeah. Including the line, what was the line you guys attributed to Panther? Well, here, I got Jost to send me a voice note. Oh, great. Oh, man, I feel so bad. Oh, hey, how's it going? I worked on, um, uh, I'm Colin. I worked on, um, the Roy rules and, uh, Peg leg.

There was a line about a Peg leg that I did, and I held, uh, boom bucks because I was there was there and I held it and it was kind of fun. Wow. That was his note. I'm sorry, was he peeing? He was peeing. That's like a, literally a Ray Liotta choice. Yeah, you should have talked to him before he gave the voice note.

You gotta give notes. Yeah. I don't understand why he was doing it that way. But anyway, that's his normal speaking voice. That's how he always sounds. If you go to dinner with him, that's how he sounds. He puts on that other voice for update. That's his normal voice.

He's always just like, hey, what's up? It's me, Colin. And then it's like action. He's like, hey, welcome to the Weekend Update. And it like, something snaps in. Yeah, it's a lot of work for him. When it's over, he's exhausted from just the vocal gymnastics. So you're saying that, Andy, on a first date,

it would be appropriate to just warn the person, I'm a bit of a fallatiot. Yeah, exactly. You should probably know of me. I'm a notorious fallatiot. I'm a man of many tastes. That doesn't mean I give it. I just enjoy it. I'm just a great fan of many tastes. That doesn't mean I give it. I just enjoy it.

I'm just a great fan of the act. Couple small things before we get to the short. There's a lot to say about the short, but I'm glad there's a lot of other stuff to say as well. Vinny Vedechi, Bon Jovi, I do remember this being a really fun one, because when we started realizing just to pull very random things from a person's biography and have Vidi be confused about them, Vidi at one point says the song Wanted, Dead or Alive is about a robot horse.

And Bon Jovi's like, oh no, that's a steel horse. That means like a tour bus. And then Bill's like, like cutting like, no, no, no. And then you turn around and just a robot horse is creeping up. That's right. like, no, no, no, and then you turn around and just a robot horse is creeping up. That's right. Also, really impressively, Bill sings, living on a prayer in just like made up Italian. And the really funny part is it cuts to Will and Fred while they're eating, just going, whoa. They do that part. The most Simon Rich sketch, it's called Band Name.

Based on it being a Simon Rich sketch and the sketch being called Band Name, do you guys remember it all? Or can you guess the premise? I'm guessing it's the meeting where they decided Bon Jovi and Bon Jovi's there just being like, well, I think trying to come up with like round about reasons why Bon Jovi is like a good idea for everybody

and would suit everybody well even though it's clearly his name. No offense, John, but we've already been here for 12 hours. You're not going to convince us. I don't get it. I mean, what's wrong with Bon Jovi? John, I wasn't going to say anything earlier, but I think that maybe the reason that some of us are having a problem with Bon Jovi is that it's your last name.

Guys, come on. I mean, it is not why I suggested Bon Jovi. I mean, honestly, it didn't even occur to me that Bon Jovi was my last name until you guys reminded me. Andy, would it surprise you to know you're in that sketch? No, that wouldn't surprise me. Yeah. Andy, tell me about Naked Guy on update. Very excited to have watched Naked Guy. Yeah. Andy, tell me about Naked Guy on Update. Very excited to have watched Naked Guy. I got some things to say about Naked Guy.

It was based on a real thing. Yeah, I told a joke. There was a guy in the New York Post, he was a naked guy in New York City on a cell phone had gone into a Tad steak. And I can't, the punchline was like, people knew something was wrong when a guy went into Tad Stakes.

But then you show up. Playing a naked guy, you're on your cell phone, and you're just talking, very rudely. And do you remember anything that the naked guy said? No. It's that naked guy. Oh, no. Oh, no.

Oh, here we go. What's up? Hey, hey, what's up? No, I'm at SNL. What? No, I'm still totally naked. Yeah. Yeah, all the squares are freaking. Oh, look, a quarter. Let me just bend down and pick this up.

Oh! We're squares. We're all squares, because we don't like a naked guy. But then you drop a quarter. Again, you're shot waist up. Then you drop a quarter. You go, oh, I dropped a quarter. And then you bend down to pick it up and just, like, shooting your butthole right at Amy and I.

Oh, yeah, yeah. We both recoil, but then Amy has a great move where she sort of reconsidered. She's like, oh. She sees something. She's not as put off as she thought. She's always keeping it posse. She's like, I'm not gonna be one of those

aforementioned squares. I could get into whatever. Um, the other thing that happens at Update is it's the first appearance of Fred as Nicolas Fane. Which is one of the more unique things in our run of the show. Agreed. Hard to explain Nicolas Fane, other than the fact that Fred is just,

it is 100 false starts in a row of a political comedian trying to make a salient point. And again, no one is more patient than Fred. No one knows what's going on, 100 false starts in a row of a political comedian trying to make a salient point. And, again, no one is more patient than Fred. No one knows what's going on. And then, by the end, there's sort of a rolling laugh as people appreciate that, oh, none of this is on cards. Fred, yeah.

This is great. New York Times. Ex-commander calls Iraq effort a nightmare by David S. Cloud. I mean, come on, you guys. There's no way. by David S. Cloud. I mean, come on, you guys. There's no way. No, man. Oh, can't do that. Oh, man.

There's some great stuff in here. Wall Street Journal, I thought of you guys. Venture capital meets Cosmetic Medicine. What? You know, I mean, no way. No. He would come out with a newspaper, is that right? And like, point to different stories and he's just improvising? And it was a lot of him that he was going to challenge you. It's like very challenging political comedy because he like talks about stuff other people don't dare to. And then

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But now I want to talk about punching people before eating. This is a companion piece to Andy Poppock in the frame. Would we agree? Sure. Yes. Isn't it called People Getting Punched Just Before Eating? Sure. Yeah, don't butcher our work.

Yeah, what was our official title? I mean, I don't want to get it wrong. It is called. People Getting Punched Right Before Eating. Right Before Eating. I'm going to say this. People Getting Punched Right before eating comes up, everybody's on board right out of the jump.

I do feel as though watching these in order, you sort of start to sense the goodwill you guys have built up. Yes. I have a correction and it's interesting because I'm on the YouTube channel where it's labeled exactly how I said it, right before eating.

Then you hit play on it and it comes up and the title says, People Getting Punched Just Before Eating. I was right! In big yellow letters. and you hit play on it and it comes up and the title says, people getting punched just before eating. I was right. In big yellow letters. So whoever did the YouTube post, wrote it wrong, but there it is. Yeah, I think right sounds better than just though.

So I think that they were right. Just is better. Fucking no. Just is better. If I was teaching a film school class called Introduction to Lonely Island, I think this would be on my syllabus. For a number of reasons.

I think because it's a seven or eight beat sketch where after the first two or three, it's very hard to predict what's going to happen next. Yes, the dinky beat is also just like very like cliche us and then the font as well is the impact yellow font and you're just like, yep, that's all Lonely Island. It was like Andy, you were like Cinderella at the ball and I ran so far and now it is fully after midnight

and you're just back in your rags. Back on my bullshit. Fully wearing clothes that were yours that you wore in like regular life. That's correct. I mean, this was a classic one of, I like got out of the shower on an off day and wrote down the phrase,

people getting punched just before eating, and then brought it in and Keef was like, God damn it. And then the three of us and probably other people came up with ideas that actually made it escalate and be interesting and funny. Opens on a guy in a park bench. And I think everybody is very excited because they have known now that you guys, you deliver on what you promise. The guy's about to take a bite of food and you just run in and punch him.

Yeah. Again, there's some fun moves right away. You just start to celebratory dance. The guy is taken aback but not particularly angry. Right. He's still there. He's just rubbing his face. He's like, if someone's that happy about it in dancing, like, it's kind of infectious, maybe.

Maybe infectious. It certainly is to the audience, or like, when I watched it again, I was like, oh, right. He's a really joyful guy. He loves this. He's almost not even a violent person. It's just that that's what the name of the short is. Yeah, it's like almost like he's like caught

in a premise volcano. Yeah, he's compelled. He's complying, that's all. Yeah. Beat two with Forte. Forte is eating pizza. And now immediately by the second beat, the audience appreciates that you're just gonna come running in and punch him.

And they're trying to guess what side of frame you're gonna come in on, how's it gonna go. How close will the pizza get to his mouth? Because it's also a race against time. There's a ticking clock. You're watching that food. If he eats it, Andy technically can't punch him. No, it's just before.

I really like the third beat, because you can see Andy coming in the reflection of the glass. And I almost feel like you can see Andy waiting for somebody to say, -"Go, go, go, go, go." -"Oh, yeah. I hadn't noticed that." This time it's two people, you punch one of the people, then you start dancing with the guy you didn't punch. Oh, yeah. And again, it is, there's something infectious.

I think he's a little bummed out you punched this friend, but he's also, you know. He's like, who is this mad popper? Yeah. Is that what you were gonna say to him? Yeah, this guy in rags. Now we have Foo Fighters and the commissary. It's Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins.

They are eating. Andy comes in on the left side of the frame, Dex Taylor Hawkins. Dave Grohl looks up, he's been reading, he looks up and sees this as an opportunity to get a free french fry. Very well played moment by Dave Grohl. And then Andy comes in from the opposite side

of the frame and punches him. So far everyone's doing a great job getting punched too. Yes. Like both Taylor and Dave. Can I ask a question to Keeven Yoram? Yeah. Did we do a cut, like an in-camera cut, or did I run around in the same take?

I bet you ran around. There's no way that was an in-camera cut. You ran around, but if you want the real inside baseball and the timing, because it was one of the first times I ever did this, I split screen Dave off so I could retime it. So even though we did it in one take, exactly how you see it, I lost time in the center of it, so it timed out perfectly by making a split

right in the center. And Dave is on a different, you know, he's a little forward in the same clip you're watching at the same time. To nerd out even more too, this is also one of the times that I was like impressed with your editing, Keev, when you were like, oh yeah, in the movie Snatch,

you remove frames in a punch. So you'll start with punch and then skip a bunch of frames and then go later in the punch and it looks super savage. It really does actually. I feel like Keev, you discovered that when we were doing the boo back in Channel 101. Yeah. I discovered it sometime back in LA because it was that there was some punch in a trailer that I couldn't get over

why the punch looked so ferocious and I just framed through and the guy cocked his fist back and then the next frame it was way down like in a way that was impossible and I was almost like across the face and the second frame where you go, oh shit. Yeah. And so I would just copy that by framing through each one of these punches and removing the key. There's always one frame where it looks like the fist is still, where you really see it in focus. And if you get rid of that one, it's always a blur and it looks way better. This is why, and I'm not being sarcastic, this is why Keev is the one to ask for fashion

advice. He's a details guy. His eyes and his brain are just locked into images the way the rest of us are. I didn't realize, because they are great punches, and punches in live sketches look terrible. And yet these, I would have assumed, were the punches that were done, but of course, Keefe was sweetening the punches.

He was. That movie magic. Then Bon Jovi, he's about to take a bite of something. You punch him. He hits the ground, then he pops right up, holding a guitar. Speedy Recovery is flashed on the screen, then he pops right up holding a guitar. Speedy Recovery is flashed on the screen, and then he sort of blows a kiss to the camera.

He does a little tasty lick, a little... Yeah, I feel like he pitched that because he didn't want to get fully punched. I want to say it's full recovery. Full recovery. And I want to say adding that is how he agreed to get punched. Yes. Yeah, he was like, what if I... Everybody had different rules as he agreed to get punched. Yes. He was like, what if I?

Everybody had different rules as to how they get punched. Exactly. Yeah, if he hits me, I got hit him and neither of us can be hurt. Or I got to like pop right back up. But bless his heart, he was in it and it did get a laugh and Full Recovery gets a laugh. Also, Full Recovery and the guitar lick is definitely in keeping with the tone of like this celebrating the punches. Yes.

Now, a really nice performance here by both you and Sudeikis. Suds is about to take a bite of a burger, gets a phone call right as you're running up. You full Muppet arms. This is a Muppet if he was about to punch somebody and then he realized they saw him. It's a very good observation, and I actually remember it

the way I remember certain moves that, like, Homer Simpson does, where the way you spin around and he's like, I can't punch him because he's... This whole sketch is a cartoon. It is a cartoon. It's burned in my brain. It's fantastic. And then there's a really nice suds thing

where he hangs up the phone and he's so irritating the way he looks at his burger. He's a little eyebrow raised. He's a little like, ooh, and now to the burger. I mean, that's actually also equally Homer Simpson. Oh, my God. Totally. The guy who's like, ooh.

And now back to this. And so there is a little extra joy of him getting punched. Then there's a bunch of fast cuts, a lot of friendly faces from the past. Mike Poole, Matt Yonks, some other people getting decked. Then Forte, now he's got a black eye. He's back at the pizza place. He's very wary. I think he maybe is expecting

that this is gonna happen again. And he's ready for you, Andy. He cocks his fish, hands up, you're out of his way. You sort of recoud, you sort of slump off, but then you return behind him, and you strangle him to death. You kill him. Yeah, the rising up behind him is well done, too.

That's good framing. It's really well done. I also like seeing the streets of New York and no one giving a fuck. Well, it's the best. Yeah. And now it flashes murder, you do a little dig, and now it's like another, like, just fast cuts. A little YORM cameo. It happens, oh, YORM, you get decked? Yeah, I feel like my you do a little dig, and now it's like another like just fast cuts. A little YORM cameo. It happens, oh YORM, you get decked?

Yeah, I feel like my reaction's a little big, but you know, what are you gonna do? What, no, you're selling it. And then Fred gets punched, and it's only when you go back and know what happens that you realize, it happens so fast you don't realize, he's eating an arm. Yeah. Very nice.

And now this is when, I enjoyed it today, this is when I think at the time it maybe diverged from what Seth was looking for in a digital show. That's not surprising. Say it again, I'm not saying, I'm not proud of it, but I remember being like, what? It's the October 13th show I just wanna point out. Oh, yeah.

Are you trying to Halloween me? Yeah. You better believe it. You're trying to Halloween me? Now was there another episode after this closer to Halloween? Yeah, the next one This was it no October 20th, there's definitely a show this was definitely this was the Halloween I know I love you trying to push that who hosted on the 20th Brian Williams. No, sorry that air date is November 3rd 2007

after No, sorry, that air date is November 3rd, 2007. After Halloween. Seth, you fucking idiot. All right, so it's the Halloween trip. It is way before Halloween. Maybe we didn't need a Halloween episode that year, but this is it. This is the Halloween. So anyway, Fred is a zombie and you punked him.

Oh, so anyway. I will never let you end this down. I remember us saying, this will be our David S. Pumpkins. You will never let this down. Oh, this was the David S. Pumpkins of its day. Yeah, for sure. And we said that all the time.

And even like, we were like, what do you mean? You're like, trust me, this will be David S. Pumpkins big. And then Fred looks up and then it turns out there's a bunch of zombies around 30 Rock. And then, I mean, the most cartoony thing, now they're chasing you just across frame. And one background is the Eiffel Tower. Then it's Mount Rushmore.

Yeah. Then it's the pyramids. Was that the last one? We're gonna see right now. We're playing it. Yeah, no, it's Moscow. Yeah. And you're all dancing together.

So at some point between the last frame and this one, now you're friends and you're all dancing together. And now maybe, I mean, I don't know. Do you want to tell everybody how it ends, Keev, and Andy, and Jorm, and tell us how you got there? It doesn't say Happy Halloween, I'll tell you that. Yeah. Good call. Oh, interesting that you chose.

Yeah, you could have said Happy Halloween here, and you went with something else, which I believe indicates you didn't think this was a Halloween digital short. There's no way we didn't think that. As Andy pointed out, this is a bit of the smile without the AIs that Andy likes doing. Yeah.

Yeah, that's the dead-eye smile. It's a little bit of a sad. He looks very, very scared, but he's trying to be happy. And it says, believe in your dreams across the screen. Which is actually pretty appropriate for the content that you just watched. Like, yeah, anything could happen. You might be on TV one day without deserving it. I do kind of think the subtext of it like, yeah, anything could happen. You might be on TV one day without deserving it.

I do kind of think the subtext of it is, yeah, that like we just made that. 100%. That was what we were saying. It's like, anything could happen. So that's why I argue it's worth showing in the intro to, it's not criterion for me, but it is like a very important piece in the syllabus of intro to digital shorts. Agreed.

I'll agree with that. It also, you could never make it through a table read. A bunch of series of events had happened to lead to us having the freedom to create something this, I don't know, hard to pin down. That and also what Seth mentioned when it started, because I remember actually starting to feel like, oh, they're on board when they shouldn't be. Like, it felt like a little quicker on this one where they were like, oh yeah, they like this already. Yeah, but I mean it is. The opening title card is definitely, hey, we have an idea

that is inherently funny and new. So I don't think they were like, it wasn't like, we laugh at everything they do. It was more like we're on board. Hey Kiva, can you open the YouTube backup? Because I like the new thing I'm gonna ask you to read the most recent comment. Yep. By the way, I don't know how I feel about it vis-a-vis criterion. You're okay with it being criterion?

I don't know that it's a for sure no for me, I'll say that. Yeah, I might put it in there for the same reasons you think it's part of the syllabus, but it might make its way there. Oh wow, blue rum from one day ago in all caps writes, yo, who's watching this in 2024 from foggy London town? Oh shit, y'all, we're in the culture. Oh shit.

Hey, Andy, I guess your dreams did come true. Believe in your dreams. Tenfold. Oh, this one's saying hi to did come true. Believe in your dreams. Tenfold. Oh, this one's saying hi to me. This is from four days ago. Haven't watched this in about 10 years, but man, it holds up. The track, the moves, the murder, no notes.

Hi Akiva. Hi. And then the next one is to Andy. It doesn't say his name. It just says, that wasn't even funny. But from four days ago. Wait, so that's directed at me? I don't know.

This next one also said from five days ago, this didn't age well, did it? Why didn't it age well? I don't know. I feel like there's nothing on the coof. By the way, somebody did call it Bon Jovi was like, I won't do this unless I can save face and look cool. You know what? Can I say something about Bon Jovi? Yeah. Because we haven't really addressed like I was something about Bon Jovi? Yeah. Because we haven't really addressed, like, I was a big Bon Jovi guy.

Yeah. Like fourth, fifth grade I had Slippery When Wet on cassette in my Walkman Sport. That and George Michael Faith were pretty much on like constant rotation. School bus ride, that's a good record. How dirty did you think Slippery When Wet was? I didn't understand quite how dirty it was. I think it even had skits in it that were kind of horny. It's so weird because it's, looking back now,

I don't think of them as a dangerous band of the era. But I do remember being like, whoa, Slippery When Wet. So good. And I didn't understand it either. My mom would have confiscated that immediately. I like songs that were super popular and super singalalong-y, like Living on a Prayer, that also had like a real blue collar, like used to work on the docs.

Like I like that right off the bat, like as a whatever 11-year-old, I was singing about dock workers and how the union's been on strike. Yeah, in bars. I feel like there's a lot of Springsteen songs like that too. Like Born in the USA is a great example of like, you're so excited about the chorus, you kind of Born in the USA is a great example of like,

you're so excited about the chorus, you kind of forget that the lyrics are a little gnarly. Oh yeah. All right, we're gonna wrap this one up. We're gonna be back next with more. More of this. I love you guys. Love you.

I love you. I love you.