The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast - Strike Episode!

Episode Date: September 30, 2024

The Lonely Island and Seth talk about what they remember during the Writer’s Strike that took place from November 5, 2007, to February 12, 2008. They chat all about the special un-aired show SNL put on at UCB to raise money for writers and crew members affected by the strike, and so much more! Rocket MoneyStop wasting money on things you don’t use. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to RocketMoney dot com slash ISLAND. Airbnb The Lonely Island Podcast is supported by Airbnb. Your home might be worth more than you think. Find out how much at airbnb.com/host Produced by Rabbit Grin ProductionsExecutive Producers Jeph Porter and Rob HolyszLead Producer Kevin MillerCreative Producer Samantha SkeltonCoordinating Producer Derek JohnsonCover Art by Olney AtwellMusic by Greg Chun and Brent AsburyEdit by Cheyenne JonesMix and Master by Jason Richards

The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast. We've now caught up. We're now actually recording this just a few days before people will hear it. So this is the most like podcasters we've ever been. Yeah. Well, that was true of last week too. That's why we were able to plug Andy being on your show and Harper and Will being on the show.

Oh, and how'd that go, Seth? How did me being on your show go? Well, that's the thing, Andy. I'm glad you brought that up. And I hope everybody took the plug, because it turns out the plug paid off. New York Magazine, vulture.com, every week does Who Won Late Night. And I'm happy to say that Andy Samberg won late night

this week. Hot off the press, hot off the press. That's always your goal. You, just for anybody, for your the press. That's always your goal. Just for anybody, for Yoram, I guess. Andy's been on Seth's show before and has said as a joke, "'Did we win late night, Seth?' Yeah. And I feel as though he would have won it before

except for the fact that he called it out so hard. They had to wait. By the way, half of the article is about them explaining, yeah, we know he said it, but that's not why. No. It's a conversation. The best thing about it is genuinely six weeks ago, maybe more. Definitely more, I think.

Andy Shoemaker and I started a text chain about how, had the French pole vaulter who knocked the bar over with his dong happened when we were all at SNL together, we definitely would have done it on update with Andy is that dude. And then all three of us just kept texting jokes. Yeah. And then decided at the end of the text chain,

well, we should just do this in eight weeks when you come on. And yesterday morning, all the script was, I went back in the text chain and transcribed the texts. Don't say anymore, no, no, I can't wait to watch this. It played just as you would hope. Oh, yeah, wow, great. And it was the rarest case where you are making your friends laugh

and then you say, we should just do this on TV. And then we did and we won late night. Kevin Miller, who's both, you know, our old friend, a producer in this podcast, a producer on Late Night, the segment producer who produced the segment. Andy, he did say to me, you know, Andy really grew up because when we were reading it, he said at one point, I think balls might be a little too rough a word.

I did. It was a little too dirty for you. It was about how he also knocked over the hurdles. Yeah, he couldn't do hurdles either, because he has giant balls. Yeah, that his giant balls are going to be like, I think we should just keep it to dung. I think balls conjures too many weird visuals.

And he was like, whoa. Yeah. That's a big moment. The dick in the box guy. Who's this stately gentleman? Yeah. Might as well be wearing a top hat. Heritage really changed you.

Also, we cut, there was a long bit in it that Andy wisely cut about the reason it had taken eight weeks to have the French guy on our show is that travel's really hard for him. It was pretty good. Because it gets caught in the, where does it get caught in the airplane? The cabine d'or.

The cabine d'or, and then he tried to take a boat, but it acted simply as an anchor. because it gets caught in the... Where does it get caught in the airplane? The cabin door. The cabin door, and then he tried to take a boat, but it acted simply as an anchor. And if he puts it over on one side, the boat just goes in circles. That was the joke I was sad to lose. And then the late ad was that he got here because he just started swinging it over his head,

came as a helicopter. Used it as a one-man helicopter. That was obviously the lowbrow part of the week. There was some highbrow as well. The first segment of Andy was great. He talked about his movie, Lee, with Kate Winslet. And that was also very funny because we had a whole segment about,

what was it, Andy talks earnestly about the film? I had to answer questions earnestly to do right by the movie. I saw a teeny clip of it on Instagram last night and it just, everything you say seems more and more like a set up to a bit. I know, it's such a weird dynamic. It was really fun. It was great. Definitely thread that needle. Another wonderful high route, Will and Harbour came on everything I possibly could have wanted. They spoke very lovingly about their film and

were also super funny. Oh my god yeah. Harbour did this great bit where she came out, I had just done a closer look, and she said, you know, Will and I were watching the first act on TV, and I said to him, you know what, Seth is smart. And the whole bit was, they just realized. And that Will lost a bet. Will had to pay $1,000, because it turned out all right. Because he was like, Seth's not smart. And then I went to the, by the time you're listening to this,

you can go to Netflix now and watch this wonderful documentary. I went to a screening. I moderated a panel at the Paris Theater. They did a New York premiere of the movie. And I went out and I asked Will the first question, and he answered in made up French. Le chusipron, le bourguet, le béchon, rapostille, le chompaton, le auto. Then I said, what are you doing?

He said, I thought because it was the Paris Theater. Oh my God. Clearly. Oh my God. The surprise for everyone there is that Wig and Paul Pell got up on stage and sang the closing song live. Really, really cool. That is a treat.

Gunning for the Oscar already. Gunning. It's on Netflix now, right? It's on Netflix now, yeah. Now, I saw Dratch at the Will and Harbor premiere, and I was talking to her about the fact that my kids go to school near where she lives, and sometimes I see her on the street,

and I hadn't seen her this year, and she said, what time do you come? And I said, 820. She said, oh, that's usually when I'm doing the New York Times Spelling Bee. And I said, you know, Samberg Queen bees it every day, and you would have been so thrilled. She was like, what?

Like, Jatch spun out so hard by the fact that you Queen Bee, and all, she had all the questions you would have wanted her to ask. Yeah. Does he use hints? Does he have the two-letter clues? Does he? And so. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, I came up one short yesterday, as you know, Seth. Yes. Alluvial was the word. Ooh, you want to update everybody? It's just spelling bee-wise? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I got it most days again.

I'm still in a crazy zone. Yeah. I think I missed two since the last cast. And both times it was by one word. Yeah, it's really exciting. And then got it every other day. And, you know, obviously texted Seth. And I text Keev now too, and he very sweetly

every time says, proud of you, for real. And it's weird, because I know he means it and also is making fun of me. And I really like that tone. It makes me feel good. 50-50. That's a quality key 50-50. I know it's important to you, and so I care about it

because I know you care about it, and I love you. We had curriculum night at our school and a dad worked for New York Times Games, and he wanted to thank us for the constant shout-outs. Are you serious? Yeah, also we did a thing, we did a ya burnt on our show where he talked about New York Times Games and I feel like it made it over to them.

And so they also told me that there's a new sports connections type game. Whoa, so just real quick Seth, I actually just thought of this. I do have screen grabs because of things I sent you that they didn't accept in spelling bee that we were pissed off about. Yeah, these are words that are not acceptable words. Yeah, and I take a screen grabs because of things I sent you that they didn't accept in spelling bee that we were pissed off about. Yeah, these are words that are not acceptable words.

Yeah, and I take a screen grab right when it says not in word list and send it to you and go, duh fuck. That's usually the text. Yep, so what are some of the ones? Quado. Yep. That's fucked.

They did not accept wank room on June 27th. Yeah, that's right. Doink. Well, that's heartbreaking. That's January 15th, no doink. Uh, that might be it. There's a chance that maybe based on the pod, you know how at the end of every year, I feel like Merriam-Webster adds a few, like,

words of the year? Yeah. You know, like, TikTokker all of a sudden is a word, but you wouldn't have been. And so maybe Quado just based. I thought for sure you were going to say doink. I didn't know that. No.

Quado is so much more difficult to get in. Can I say one other thing? Just because it came up in my screen grabs? Yeah. I'm such a fucking cool guy. I got the mini in 13. That's my all-time high. 13 seconds?

Yeah, that's good. Yeah. I don't think you can impress me with anything about the mini. Here's the thing about the mini, though, is that some people do it on their laptop, I mean, that's my all time high. 13 seconds. Yeah, that's good. I don't think you can impress me with anything about the mini. Here's the thing about the mini though, is that some people do it on their laptop, I think, and can get like five seconds, because they're typing. Yeah, which is crazy.

This is iPhone specific. And honestly, it got more difficult with some of the updates when the iPhone got a little sloppier. Today is Friday. People will be listening to this pod on Monday. You will have appeared on SNL. Unless I get cut.

Unless you get cut. So this is an interesting thing. Yeah. Our listeners right now are in the future. They know the answer to what we are talking about now. We don't know the answer. Exactly. I think you're not gonna get cut.

I think it's highly unlikely, but like we'll see how it goes at dress. Right after you finished our taping, you went over to the SNL table read. I did. And the sketch that we're talking about played red hot in the room. I think so, yeah.

There were, I mean, it's a big old piece with a lot of really funny people in it. And it was, first off, I know I'm like a broken record, all the ex-SNLers, but it was super bizarre to do the table read on eight in the main studio for me. Yeah. I know everyone's used to it now. I was gonna say, where do they do it now?

Yeah, so they moved it from a tiny room to the studio floor during COVID, and I think people liked it, and that's what they still do. But it does feel crazy. And everyone at the table has a little microphone in front of them, which was not the case for us, right? No, we had nothing. It was recorded, but it was not amplified.

Yeah. So it's like, on the one hand, when I walked in, I was like, oh, you can really hear people. That's kind of cool. Like, it sounds the way it would sound in the sketch way more. But yeah, it was trippy It was trippy, but also fun and I hope it went well Yeah, wouldn't it be funny if all the headlines are Saturday Night Dead and we're like it was good in the room Andy I could tell you're trying to not spoil it, but we can't spoil it for them. Right. They're in the future.

Good point. They could spoil it for us. Right. Yeah, write in and tell us what you thought of it. I always hesitate though because things change so much there. It's like, it's Friday, by the time the show happens tomorrow, it might be completely different for all I know. And then I was the one who gave up all the beans on what it was supposed to be and then

got changed and people are like mad or embarrassed. Yeah. Okay. Well, next week we could ask you how accurate it was. Okay, great. Yeah. All right. So we'll do that.

Perfect. Good call for next week. Anybody else have any housekeeping? Jorm, you told us you just had an argument about American politics in a Finnish sauna. Yeah. Well, naked, which is just a weird way to have an argument. Yeah. Sitting between two pretty big Finnish guys who are also naked.

I just, I haven't done that before. Towels around your waist or just butt naked exposed? Butt naked, yeah. And it's just like a cedar planked room with steam in it or like hot air and you just sit with your bare butt onto the wood where someone else's bare butt just was? No, no. You have little like courtesy towels that you bring in with you that you sit on, but you're naked. And then they were drinking beers pretty heavily and listening to loud EDM music,

which not too many people in the sauna do that. It's frowned upon. Even I know that as an American. I learned pretty quick. But I feel like you have the energy where you would conjure that. Conjure those two guys. Yeah. You have a sauna energy where I feel as though if they watch you walk in, they would say, I think that guy is gonna be okay with our vibe.

Oh, 100%. Was this a sauna you had been recommended or did you just like walk down the street and go, I'm gonna go in this place? They're everywhere, Keith. I'm surprised there's not one in my room. It's the land of saunas. Yeah.

Right. And is that the one you did, the one in your hotel? Yeah. And to give a little shout out, there's a restaurant called L'Ole, which means steam. It's talking about the essence of steam that comes from the sauna. And there's like four saunas in that restaurant. And I happen to know Jasper, who's the owner of that restaurant. And I went to all of those four saunas.

I learned all about the history of saunas and all the different kinds of them. It was great. But this wasn't that sauna. This was a different sauna with two naked guys that I had a very aggressive argument with. Did each sauna have a different... You had to tour all four, did they? Was it like one was with tile and one's wood and one has eucalyptus or something? They're all wood, but there's different kinds of smoke. Or lul. Oh, my gosh. So there's a smoke sauna. So bumming out. Your pronunciation is bumming in.

So excited to say it every time. I'm so excited for it. I think my pronunciation might be right. Yoram, forgive this, but I think it's probably what everyone listening wants me to ask. Sure. So is everyone hard, semi, fully flass? We were all flaccid.

Can you imagine if you had said anything else? Such an earnest answer. Very, very clearly what it was supposed to be. Oh, oh, good question, Andy. If you're like, I mean, I was hard. I did my part. I was full tilt. Well, we were listening to EDM though, Andy.

So anything could have gone, you know. Yeah, that's hard. I can get you excited I was full tilt. Well, we were listening to EDM though, Andy, so anything could have gone, you know? Yeah, that's hard. That can get you excited. Oh, dag, yeah. And then last question about it. So they're drinking beers, like ice cold beers. That actually sounds fantastic. But is that part of... No. Because in America, you would never do that because it's thought of as a place where you're

like detoxing. If you really want to know about this, these guys were rural Finnish dudes who were doing a work thing. They were like in the Coast Guard or something like that, from what I understood. And they were getting wrecked before their like physicals the next day. Right, they're having fun. Yeah. Def talked about it when Andy came to Helsinki to watch me run a marathon. The day after the marathon, we went to a place.

Josh found a restaurant. And remember he said it was like, the concierge says it's like Finnish tapas. It's called slapas. Yeah. I really don't think that's right. But the whole time we kept tapas, it's called slapas. And everybody don't think that's right. But the whole time we kept saying, this is really good slapas. And I don't, to this day, I don't know.

So maybe while you're there, dig into it. Yes, I'll try to find it, slapas. I bet Josh will be able to find the restaurant. We're gonna send you to get some slapas because it really was great. Yeah, I'll go tomorrow. This episode, we're gonna talk about the 2007, 2008 writer's strike,

which was announced at the after party for the Brian Williams Feist show. Do you guys have any memory of finding out that the strike was officially on? No, I don't. I do remember, I was very upset, and I remember the switch being thrown of a super fun after party.

I had felt like the start of the season had been so hot hot and then I think Steve Higgins came over and told me the strike is on and I just felt my bones immediately hurt. The strike starts. It does end up going 100 days. We have a strike show in November. November 17th, Amy Poehler pulls together a fundraiser at UCB Theatre, her theatre in New York City. It is very exciting to just get back together and talk about doing a show. It was all sketches that had previously been written in honor of Pencil Down.

And we asked all the writers to pick a sketch that they had never produced on the show and whether or not they would want to produce it. And we had to make our own cue cards, which was a lot harder than I think any of us thought it would be. Who had the best handwriting? I don't even remember. But I don't, it wasn't Wally. It's not like Wally came in and did cue cards for us. Did you all, because I watched the little video, which is great and very nostalgic, and I will say made me cry three times, which is something about my state of mind.

But Seth, did you actually hold the cue cards? Like it was mentioned at one point that you were holding cue cards. I believe I maybe did hold cue cards at some point. I think different people had to hold cue cards for different sketches. Yeah, I think you held them for your sketch that you wrote. That's pretty cool. I think. So now you know how Wally feels.

I do finally know how Wally feels. I do want to how Wally feels. I do want to take a quick step back and say that the course of that 100 days was very depressing and very sad, and it was also way worse timed than the last strike, which was over the course of the summer. This was the end of the fall, all through the winter.

We were picketing, and it was like gray and miserable and slushy and gross. With that said, we all hung out a ton and looking back, I kind of think it was fun. Well, the fact also that everyone went to UCB to just put on a show because everyone was like, it just shows that everyone that was working there would do SNL for free. There's not a lot of jobs that if you were forced to go on strike, the autoworkers don't go, I'm still going to put some windshields in over the break.

So it just shows how lucky we all were to work there. Yeah, for real. So I asked Polar because she really was in charge of this, and it did raise money. Did you just say that it was for charity? It was for the Writers Guild fund. She had to get permission from Lauren who actually attended and watched the show and I believe had a lovely night. She had to get permission from Lauren, who actually attended and watched the show, and I believe had a lovely night.

And she had to get permission from NBC and from the Writers Guild and everything, I think. And I believe NBC was not super cool about it. Oh, is that right? I believe. I asked Shoemaker. Shoemaker said Jeff Zucker was not happy that we were doing it.

Oh. But also, when NBC is part of the system that's being on strike, and then you're asking them a favor while you're in a legal battle essentially. Yeah. All right. Here we go. All we did to prompt these was I said, do you have a memory of the UCB? Tell me anything you can remember because we don't remember anything. Here's Amy. Hey guys, Amy Poehler here.

Long time listener, first time caller. I love your podcast so much and love all of you so much. Okay, UCB Strike Show. Yeah, like Yorma, I don't really remember anything, but I know we got permission to do it, or I don't even know if we did need to get permission. Let's just say we did. But it was really exciting because first of all,

Lauren came, which was, I don't know, just really nice. And we all just kind of put on a show. I remember getting props and costumes together and making a running list and going over who was going to do what scenes. I have incredible pictures from that night. I think I made it into some kind of iBook, like a flip book. And it's just the best goof around.

I remember Michael Cera was the fictional host, Yolotengo was the fictional band, and Yolotengo, the members were friends of mine. And I guess in a way so was Michael, so they all did us a favor. And the writers wrote their own cue cards and held them up and came out on stage. And it was one of those nights where the writers and actors were all working together to get the scene ready. And everybody just put up the stuff they wish

they had been able to get on the show. Or maybe they put up the stuff they wish they had been able to get on the show. Or maybe they put up the stuff that they were glad America never saw. The thing I remember the most though is Seth and I did Weekend Update and I think Fred did Nicholas Fane, that character who reads from the news but doesn't have any takes. And we raised money for the WGA, I know that. And it was just an amazing time. Uh, I was stressed during the strike like you, Seth, but then I also had some awesome, amazing times

during the strike, too, like you, Lily Island. So I'm straddling right in the middle. That's what she said. I mean, first of all, can I just compliment how good a podcast voice Amy has? So I'm straddling right in the middle. That's what she said. I mean, first of all, can I just compliment how good a podcast voice Amy has developed? Really, really good. Soothing as f.

Yes. So soothing. A real pro. Yeah. That was an ASMR? Am I saying that right? Yeah. Oh, wait, Yoram said it almost made him feel

like he was in a sauna, but which one? That one, the Lula for that one is like. So it was that one. That's all of them. No, one, the Lola for that one is like... So it was that one. That's all of them. No, no, the Lola describes the steam. It was the only, keep saying, keep saying four and then only have a word for one. Yeah, smoke, we all know smoke.

No, no, Lola is the steam. We know Lola, that's the answer every time. No, Lola is the thing. No, Lola is this type of steam. There's different kinds of Lolas. People listening right now are so mad we got back to Saanen as soon as Amy was done.

They're like, oh, we're just finally getting some strike stuff. By the way, can I say listening to that was the same as watching? I was tearing up hearing her talk about it. It's very emotional and I felt very sweet and nostalgic. That's very nice, Jorm. Also, I think you're not doing great. Like it's too easily. You're crying too much. That's too easy.

Yeah, that's... But we love you. Well, also, and I know I'm about to do the thing I just criticized you guys for doing. I also feel like the fact that you're crying after being in a sauna where you should be, everything should be out of you, and yet you're still generating tears.

Seth, this is interesting, because you just said Jorm is sensitive, like he came out of a sauna, but I'm curious which sauna. Don't do this! He doesn't know the other ones. I'm saying the cedar one, and then there's also one that they make, which is like anybody can buy it. Bradley Cooper just got one. I don't know if I should put him on glass like that.

We should go to his house and use that one. Oh yeah, let's go there now. Boombox Berry. I actually asked. Hang on, we're walking to Bradley Cooper's house. Hey, it's me, Jackson Maine. Welcome to my house. Hey, just got out of the sauna.

Hey, there you are. Weird that you answered the door in character, Brad, but I mean Jackson. Awesome Philadelphia Eagles jersey. Can we use your sauna? Is it perhaps the same method they use in Alola? Come on in. We don't listen to any EDM here.

Only good old country rock. Oh, so he's doing... He talks like his character. So Bradley Cooper's still in character. Yeah, yes, and I just want to say this may be all was worth it to get Keev to rock his Jackson Mayden. Well, now we're gonna take the biggest tangent. Andy hosted the Golden Globes,

and I'm still heartbroken to this day, Andy had tangent. Andy hosted the Golden Globes. And I'm still heartbroken to this day. Andy had a bit cut from the Golden Globes. He hosted it with Sandra Oh. It was fantastic. It was the year of A Star Is Born. And of course, the thing that Andy most was drawn to in that film is when Jackson Maine pisses himself on stage. Yeah, at the Grammys. Yeah. So fucking dope. So sad and funny at the same time.

A very effective scene. And one that you have never seen in a movie before, certainly. Yep. And so we were gonna do our version of it where Sandra and I would come out, and I was dressed like Jackson Mane. And she was like, our next category is mobile, and I would be like,

yo, did we win? Did we win, baby?'' And then she's like, ''Oh no, he's been drinking again.'' So, yeah, and her baby, ''Did we win it?'' And then I had a pee rig in my pants and we blocked it. It was everyone in the, as far as I was concerned, that was working on it in the writing room.

We were all very excited about the piece. Yeah. And then the P-Rig didn't fire at our one rehearsal. And then the network basically killed it. Because they were like, it's too low, bro, we don't want to do that on the Globes. And I'm like, yeah, the Globes are super hammered. Everyone's drunk and looking at their phone the whole show.

They really don't think it's gonna matter. Oh, wait. Andy, I will say two things. One, you must have been so mad when the pee rig didn't fire the one time you had a chance to show it off. True. Also, I was wearing... They gave me pants that were, like, water-resistant. I'm not kidding. So you couldn't see.

They were, like, khakis that were water-resistant. So it didn't show up, and everyone was like, it didn't work! And I was like, well, I'm soaking wet. The other thing is, wasn't there a second pee rig? Didn't you pee yourself twice on like different sides? Uh, I think, yeah. I think you told me that like, you peed yourself once.

Yes. And then there was a second rig. Oh, and then more was supposed to come out. But down the different leg. And so then Sandra was like, oh, man. That's right. Oh, that's boy. Oh, yeah, I was like, oh, here comes more.

Yes. Oh, that's real deja vu. I like the amount of prep I put into like making sure I have a run list of things for us to talk about on this podcast and the fact that Bradley Cooper maybe or maybe didn't buy the sauna that Yoram was talking about, let us down this path. Yeah, that's fair. You can check up on that. I think Amy and I did cut jokes at Update, which played pretty hot, like jokes that had

bombed but were funny jokes. How do you think people got to come in, like the audience? That would be a question I would have asked at Pollard's. Because the UCB theater, how many people do you think it even fit? 80? No, more than 80, probably 200. Well, and a lot of it was like people from the show too, right? I think some of them were people that worked at SNL.

Is that what you're saying, Arum? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. By the way, I think the night raised like $1,800. Yeah, because it's not like they can charge a lot. You don't have to say that. I'm just saying, like, because we gave seats away to like friends and family like it was.

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that then was a sketch on SNL, which is very telling that the writers all were given a chance to put stuff on its feet that they thought had been given a raw deal, and only one turned out to be good enough to be in the show. What was in the show? Jean Qu'Ejarn, the first time Jean Qu'Ejarn performed, which was Keenan as a French comedian. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Written by Tucker, and it crushed Zutelors. Oh, my God. Oh, yeah. I love that. In Crayable. He would say Zutelors. he was like a black French comedian. So it was like basically like a earthquake type character.

Yeah. It was like a Def Jam set, but if he was French. If he was French. Two things, Seth. We had made those little short that I guess we'll talk about on the Tina Fey episode, which is the first episode back from the strike. But I had made the little thing called Virginia Horsens, Virginia Horsens with Wig just before the strike, but it hadn't aired because it was just a little throwaway piece.

So we had one piece of tape that no one had ever seen. So we did put it up at this, and then it did air the first show back. Great. Also, Virginia Horsens rewatching at Keev is the most I've ever seen a friend of ours act like you. Yeah. There's literally like moves that she does that I'm like, oh my God, that's so key of doing a comedy bit.

It's really fun. I was just doing it for her. I'm like, it's this guy, and he does this and I was like, make sure your hands are like so nervous and sweaty. There's some hand gesture that she made that was very Just Two Guys. It was like, what is this? To be clear, it's not me in real life. It's a character I do. Yeah, sure. It's my Just Two Guys, too. It was like, uh, hm. Just like, what is this? To be clear, it's not me in real life.

It's a character I do. Yeah, sure. It's my Just Two Guys. I said you do in comedy. Yeah, just like your classic Jackson Man. Exactly. I'm not going to do it again. I'm not going to get goaded into it. It comes when it comes.

It has to happen authentically. Please? But just like, what would you say if I asked, like, hey, where'd you get the sound out? I don't do it on demand. Oh, man. Ah! I'm not a monkey like you guys.

I don't need it. Oh, man. I like how you make it about what we are and what you're not. More of a director over here. This guy's in post, you know? He's very directory right now. He's in post.

Throw on a voice note, Yoram. Yeah, throw on a voice note. Okay, I have a voice note from the incomparable Michael Cera, who was the host that evening, and I haven't listened to it yet, so I'm going to cue it up. Hey guys, it's Mike. Thank you so much for asking me to be on the show.

I'm going to try and keep it brief because I'm in a movie theater. My fellow patrons around me. Oh my God. Wow. I mean, it's 16 years ago that we did this show, but I just remember being so, so delighted and so honored to be asked by Amy Poehler to do it. She just sent me a text said, ''Hey, we're doing this and would you come and do it?''

I had to assume I was the very first person to be asked to do it. So I took it that way and I was very pleased. Anyway, I'm going to wrap it up soon. But my memories are, you know, I don't really remember much because it's so long ago, but I had the best night ever. I remember Seth holding the two cards for me and how much, well how, how incredible that seemed and surreal. And it was just so funny. That was good.

Obviously I only just showed up and rehearsed. You got beat up. I just went right on. So you guys could speak obviously much better to what it's like to work at SNL than I could, because that was really the only experience I had during the show. All right, that was far better than I thought it was going to be. Oh my God. Did anyone recognize what the movie was? It sounded like, like, screamer.

I mean, not screamer, like speed or something. It had some urgency to it. It might have been like Master and Commander. Really great. Really funny. It sounded like maybe like a ship at sea under duress. People were having to yell to get over the din of noise. But people were also yelling at him to shut up.

Yeah. He was ruining the movie. That was really well done. Well, thank you, Michael. That was lovely. Yeah, thanks, Mike. Michael was just on my show, and we actually talked about this.

And the thing I had forgot was his monologue, because we couldn't write a new monologue for him. Ah, right. Was old monologues. And so we had picked monologues that would be funny for him to read. So it was like Snoop Dogg and- I feel like it was Paris Hilton.

Paris Hilton and then the craziest, it was Trump. It was Donald Trump's 2005 because if you can imagine in 2007 it was very funny to listen to Michael Cera read the very bombastic, braggadocious intro that Donald Trump had when he had hosted in 05. It's great to be here at Saturday Night Live. And I'll be completely honest, it's even better for Saturday Night Live than I'm here. Should we keep listening to more voice notes? Yeah, you do one.

OK, so here is one from a writer that we've mentioned multiple times, Emily Spivey. That strike show was so fun because we got to do sketches that didn't air on SNL. But the thing I remember most about it was having to write our own cue cards. And it felt like an endless endless Herculean nightmare. And I had such a new respect for Wally

and the cue card guys after that. Because I remember sitting on the floor at UCB with a big marker writing these cue cards and it just felt like it was never going to end. There you go. It's funny how writers are so loathe to make cuts, but when you were doing your own cue cards, I think they really dawned on you. I might not need this chunk.

I think we can cut it. We can take this middle out. I feel like rule of twos gets it across. I'll say something else about the night. Being together was so much fun. It was way too long. We let every writer pick a sketch. Very few of them crushed.

Yeah. We remember the ones that did. There were some real long draggy ones. Did you have a sketch besides Weekend Update that you chose? I did have a sketch. I remember late in the show, I cut it. I said, you know what? I can feel the audience flagging. I'm going to cut my sketch.

Then I went over to a couple of other writers and said, hey, what do you think? Should we just cut ours? I swear to you know what, I can feel the audience flagging. I'm going to cut my sketch. And then I went over to a couple other writers and said, hey, what do you think? Should we just cut ours? And I swear to God, not going to name names. Every one of them said, God, I'd love to get it up on its feet. That was so, so math. No regards for the audience whatsoever. I'm going to ask Yorma this. Yorma, do you remember what we did besides the Virginia Horsens?

Well, I watched at least a half an hour version, which was why I was crying. So you got reminded. But I ran so far, I thought it was great. And then we had a special guest do the Adam Levine singing parts, which was Nora Jones. Yeah. Yes. Wow. Also made me tear up as well. Because just honestly, just for the sheer like seeing us so young and being like, oh, wow, we've all been friends for so long.

It's really sweet. And people showing up just to have a nice time. Yoram, seeing us at that age, does it make you forgive us? ALL LAUGHING Oh, man, that's such a complicated... Here he goes. Waterworks. Because I can just say, I'm sorry, and it's not your fault. ALL LAUGHING

It's gonna get him. Oh, he's falling apart. Because fuck him, that's why. Oh. Ah, fuck him, that's why. Oh, fuck him, that's why. Still good. How did we know she was game for this kind of stuff? How did we met her at the show?

Because we had not made IncrediBad yet. That was the summer to come. Yes. She hadn't recorded Dream Girl, our album track. Yes. I think we bumped into her through Mutual Friends in New York, because she was doing shows in New York and living there. Just the nicest.

And we couldn't believe she said yes, and it was so nice and cool of her to come do it. It was. And for the Andrew Harry butt line, I believe we put tons of hair glued to Fred's butt, right? And he pulled his pants down in front of everybody and it was all hair. Yeah, that's right. Maybe just like a wig back there. Yeah. That's the beauty of doing it live without the cameras, is you can go uncensored, no blurs.

You can show an actual hairy butt. Yeah, no blurs, no beeps. You guys, this is the brilliance of us doing this real time. I now just got a text from Nora Jones of her memories. Oh, exciting. That's awesome. Hey, yeah, I just remember you guys asked me to be there and sing and I was really excited

and I always felt kind of like an outsider and I didn't know anybody well enough to feel completely comfortable, but I was so excited to be there. And I just remember it being really fun and YOLO Tango played and at the end when you guys all go up to the front to say the goodnights, I was kind of shy. And I think I dipped out because I was embarrassed or something. I don't know why. But I didn't realize that it was such a big deal to do the goodnights.

Even though I'd done the show twice, I remember always wanting to be in the back and everybody pushed me to the front. But I'm really bummed I missed the goodnights. That's all. At least I think I did. I just want you to know, Nora, tears are pouring out of your miss eyes right now.

Thank you, Nora. She's got obviously maybe the best podcast voice of anybody. If you imagine a Nora and Amy podcast, then I mean. It was good almost that she was late because I think everybody would have hated every other voice they heard this episode, including ours. That's right. A podcast with Amy, Nora, and you as Jackson Maine, now you've got my money. Oh yeah, now you're talking.

Oh, he did it. Do the first line. Oh yeah, no, I don't take requests. Do it. Seth did it. You're proving that everybody can Do it. Seth did it. You're proving that everybody can do it. Told you guys. It's more the spirit and joy in which you do it.

You know Forte and Wig do it at karaoke. Oh, do they? But Forte does the Lady Gaga part. Oh, that's nice. That makes sense. And just screams. Oh my God, imagining Will going, ha ha, oh wow, wow.

Doing that whole rise part. I was worried my wife was going to die. She was laughing so hard. Sounds great. It's a very fun song to sing. I'm not going to front. Yeah. Maybe we could actually do a reading of my sketch, the one I cut.

Oh, yeah. I don't think it's good, but I do remember it was a Christmas ad. I think, by the way, the only good part is the beginning, which was what do you get for the man who has everything a second penis. Oh wow. Which is a joke my friend Pete Gross once said when we were watching TV and I was like, oh I'm gonna try to write a sketch about that. So I didn't even come up with the best joke.

Maybe the only time in an episode where you had something that was a dick joke and we didn't. Yeah, and I will say sometimes people will say when I do a Q&A at my show, they're like, does there's something you wrote in SNL that you wish they'd done? My answer is always no, but there are 10 that I wish we hadn't. Yeah, that's right. Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah. I've got another one I'm going to throw up right now.

Hey, y'all. This is Jack McBrayer from such things as 30 Rock and this voice message right here. I was talking to Akiva about the UCB live shows we did doing the writer's strike of ours is 2007. The one we did for 30 Rock was November 19th, 2007. And I think y'all had actually done y'alls before that. I don't remember the exact date. I remember Michael Cera hosted. I remember seeing Will Forte in Gold Lamey? But of course, as I was just a spectator, it was really just so fun to see y'all doing

your thing because of the love that y'all had for it. I always like just tagging along to all the SNL folks because I got to see y'all doing your phenomenal job. And I was telling Akiva, I got to see how the sausage was made without having to actually make the sausage. So that was always such a fun thing for me to witness. And yeah, y'all were just hustling. There was just love for what you were doing. You know, it felt kind of scrappy.

All these network TV people who had clearly succeeded, I mean, you were at the pinnacle of what comedy was, and then you were able to just like get down and dirty in an improv theater basement. And all the proceeds were helping out people who'd become unemployed. So I thought that was very special. I was honored that I got to be a part of that. And yeah, let's hope we don't have to do that again. All right, I hope this is helpful, y'all. I'll talk to y'all later, bye.

Can I just say something real quick? Yeah. Don't be fooled anyone who's listening to this podcast. Jack McPher is a fucking asshole, okay? Bad guy. Classic bad guy. You ask anyone in the know, bad guy. The Will Forte one, to someone just very, I don't want to ruin his,

the truth is he could still use that bit. Odie, you have a Forte one. Why don't you play the Forte voice note as a reply to this voice note? Okay, great. This is like an oral history, guys. Yeah. Okay, here it is. I don't really have any major memories from the Strike Show.

Oh boy, here we go. That was it. Thank you. That was the end. I didn't, that's the first time I listened to it. This is a poorly sequenced oral history. Yeah, I like it. I remember it. He auditioned with it. He plays one of those robotic gold men

that would sort of in Times Square. Spray paint themselves gold. Spray paint themselves gold. He auditioned with it and it was one of those things that when I saw it, I thought, oh no, he's so much funnier than I am. It's amazing. There was a moment where there was four or five just white guys with brown hair who were brand new and you were one of them.

Yeah. That was a little tricky for you guys when no one knew the difference between Sudeikis, Hader, Forte, Seth. It was a tough time to be one of the brown hairs. Yeah. It was a tough time. You left me out of that? I left out because your hair was big.

Yeah. But then Hader and Sudeikis had, I remember once one of my fake pitches on Monday was that the three of you were doctors and it was called Shaggy MDs. Right, they were a little Shaggy too. They were a little Shaggy. Can I just say another thing about two things that are both wedding related.

Forte, we've talked about, gave a speech at my rehearsal dinner, and then Andy's rehearsal dinner at Hamilton. And we only showed a little clip of it on my show one time, because the rest of it's so inappropriate. Yes. And that clip, just this week, somebody posted it on TikTok, and it's been making the rounds.

I saw it. Uh-oh. But again, it's fine. We showed it on NBC, so it's been making the rounds. I saw it. Uh-oh. But again, it's fine. We showed it on NBC, so it's fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Alexi, my lovely bride, said you should really read the comments, because it's well edited by our wedding video company.

It cuts back and forth from Forte to she and I laughing. And she said most of the comments are about how nice I look and how you're just wearing your shitty show sweater. So nothing to do with 14. It's so funny, I'm like, I bet there's some, I bet my comments are different. By the way, couldn't be a better result. No, good result, a good result for the comments.

And you really can hear you and Hader and Sudeikis are three very audible laughs that you can hear. Then the other wedding thing I'll say, that Jack McBrayer, just in a couple of weeks, is going to officiate my brother's wedding. Oh, that's going to be a good wedding. You ask for a better person to just be the voice of which love will be discussed, I really truly can.

It's a great choice. Yeah. All right. Do we have another? Yeah. I've got one from SN It's a great choice. Yeah. All right. Do we have another? Yeah. I've got one from SNL's own Fred Armisen. Let's see what he said. I did not listen to this.

Here we go. Hey, I'm recording from baggage claim in Istanbul. So apologies for all the background noise. What I remember from the UCB strike show is first of all, that it was really exciting. And I remember it had been quite a few weeks since the strike started so it was felt really good to perform and I remember Amy Poehler organized a lot of it and then I remember I think the cold open was I played someone representing the AMPTP

and it was written for me so it was one of those things it's almost like when someone writes a political sketch, like it's something that I don't know how to do. I don't know how to write that way. I remember Yola Tango was the musical guest and that was really cool. And then I also remember, I think we all did our makeup, meaning I have like a memory of having like, you know, spirit gum or glue and like, you know, fake mustaches and stuff

and everyone's sort of helping each other out do that kind of thing. Did we have, I know we had wigs, but I don't know how we did that. Or did we not have wigs? That's the part I don't remember. I don't, there's a lot I don't remember from it, but it was really fun and really exciting. And hi, I hope this works. Did you guys watch the video at all? I saw a little, yeah. Because I don't remember this, but when he's talking about do your own makeup, I don't remember doing this,

but there's a shot of me putting spirit gum on Fred's butt for- Oh, for the hairy butt. Yeah, for the hairy butt. But I don't remember just putting so sticking hair onto his butt. So, you know. When Fred's talking about that he played the AMPTP president in some sort of a spoof of him, I just had a memory that I shot a whole video. Was it for the WGA?

Do you remember this, Seth? I'm sure, yeah. Of Fred as that guy and it was like an industrial or something and it was for the WGA. He did it on update right before the strike, which is, I will say, shout out to, you know, it was him basically saying, NBC is bad, and we did it on the show. Yeah, you have to. That's what SNL's for. That's what SNL's for.

And for those who don't know, he's also in, he's in Istanbul, he's currently on The Lamb. I feel like we should say that about Fred as well. What is he doing there? He's just on The Lamb. Oh, the Lamb. FYI, yeah. I get it, should say that. What is he doing there? He's just on The Lamb. He's at The Lamb. FYI, yeah. I get it.

Actually, check out Fred's tour dates, because if you are in Europe right now, Fred is doing some shows in some kick-ass places. I wonder if he'll come to Helsinki. So yeah, Maggie Carey filmed the whole night, and we were able to see a little bit of it. And the thing that struck me immediately was how exactly of the moment the music was. It's like the first song is Silver Sun Pickups,

and then it goes straight into Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. I was just like, fuck, these songs are great. It's taking me back. But that's also why I was so emotional because they're very manipulative. Yeah. Like, oh my God, I remember. Those songs had just come out,

so it was the coolest shit you could ever put in. It was just making me laugh. But your finger's still on the pulse of music if that's still the only thing you could ever put in. It was just making me laugh. But you're still like on, your finger's still on the pulse of music if that's still the only thing you listen to, right? Yeah. Like I'm still a cool guy. Yeah, I didn't do nostalgia for you, Seth,

because that's what your iPod playlist is when you're jogging. No, I'm still like, you know, when I see like the youths at the park, I'm always like, have you been listening to Clamp Your Hand? Oh, yeah. And man. Seth, this is what I always say.

A good song is always a good song, and that includes songs that are goofs. Oh yeah. Like fake songs. Yeah, fake goof songs. Yeah, they don't lose their worth. They don't lose their worth. Sometimes those are even better than real songs.

You could argue they're better. Thanks for saying that, Jorm. Oh. We're also talking about a video that we will, I think Shoemaker will give us permission to share. Shoemaker just took like a two minute video backstage that I sent to you guys today and it's really crazy because he really just sort of walks through this tiny

little like storage closet of a backstage where everybody's getting ready for the show. And it's pretty amazing because we were never, for everything SNL is, it's never that. It's never DIY with the writers and cast. Yeah, I teared up watching it. I mean, our shorts were in the beginning if you've been paying attention to the podcast. Sure, I teared up. You got your me. I gotared up watching it. I mean, our shorts were in the beginning, if you've been paying attention to the podcast.

Jorm teared up. You got Jorm again. Jorm is really... I do not think Finland is a fit for Jorm. Oh, man. I don't know. He hasn't seen his family. Jorm's molecules are just vibrating, y'all. It's gotta come out.

The guy is channeling. Who do we got next? The next one I got is a writer who was there that evening and a very accomplished young man, even at the time, had probably written 14 books or something. This is Simon Rich. I remember the audience was completely on our side. Like, a lot of them were our friends.

They were really supportive of our strike. Like, they could not be more aligned with us in every way. And still my sketch only played okay. That's what I'm saying. A perfect memory. That's what I'm saying. Seth, was he one of the ones that was like, I'd really like to see it on his feet? No, no, no.

Okay. Everything I know about Simon, who is truly one of the great cutters of all time, like Simon would cut a sketch from dress to air from like 10 pages to two. Yeah, I was gonna say, there's no way. And as an editor, and if you've ever read any of Simon's books, like, they are so precise. There's no fat on the bone. And so I think if I had gone to Simon,

he would have happily cut a sketch. Got it. Well, good on him. Good on him is for right. But I'm glad that his memory is mine as well, which is like, it wasn't like super hot. LAUGHS Okay, have you got another one? This is my last one. Harper Steel, a Late Night with Seth Meyers recent guest.

Here's what I remember. Everyone wrote original sketches for the UCB live strike show. The air was filled with electricity. Oh. I, on the other hand, submitted a sketch that I had already written that actually had already aired on SNL because I was lazy turd. Well, her memory is not exactly right because we did not do original stuff. Right. Yeah, we weren't allowed to.

I do now want to go back and see what Harper submitted. Was it the gynecologist one? I can't remember. It might have been. It had that vibe. Also, did we undermine what we said about No New Writing by acknowledging that Fred did a whole intro as the exec? I think that's within the bounds of what you're allowed to do. He wrote it for the show and not for television.

There you go. That is true. You are allowed to go write a play. When Harper and Will were on the show, we talked about a second chance theater, Unicorn Mountain, and this was a sketch they wrote together on SNL that they want to do the next time we do second chance theater on a show. The idea was each of them would write half of a sketch.

And Will wrote the first half, gave it to Harper. Harper wrote the second half, but Will had no idea what the second half was until the table. I just realized that that's why I was doing it with Jost because Harper had told me that she did that. And I was like, that's a great idea. I want to do that. And it was the whole first five minutes was Will wrote a song for a kid's show called Unicorn Mountain. That's all about how it's a wonderful place where all the

unicorns play and frolic and their magic. And then it hard cut to the next like episode 21 of Unicorn Mountain. And it was just Tracy Morgan and someone else eating a unicorn carcass and talking about how it had been so easy to catch. Yeah. So keep an eye out for that. Anybody who, do we have more? That's all my notes. I think I'm tapped out. I have a special one, you guys. Ooh.

I reached out to Lorne. Oh. You know, I remember being very upset about the timing of the strike because you know, I was really vibing with the lonely island at the time. I was sort of the fourth, the unofficial fourth, you know, member. Hmm. Dick in the Box was my idea. Wait, okay.

But I told them to keep that to themselves, you know, because... And it was good. It was good. Okay, all right. Yeah. It's kinda true. It's kinda true, though. So I'm not like 100% sure that was Lorne. You didn't really talk about the strike show either.

You got a little on the tangent there. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe when I asked him to do it, I didn't quite understand what exactly it was supposed to be. Got it. It was the wrong prompt. So does anyone have a guess as to who was doing their lorn there? Yeah, I think Seth was.

It's hard to say. Do you think it was Seth? Yeah, I think it was Seth. I tend to agree, Keith. Yeah, that's just my theory. That was a special one for sure. Yeah, that was very special. He didn't lie.

I didn't know we were allowed to get goofy on here. I like the idea of Lauren vibing with anyone. What gave it away, dudes? What gave it away? Oh, God. Um, well, I want to say that I remember I would pick it every day and then there was a place in the West Village that I would go, sometimes with polar and I have

like a ham and cheese quiche and a glass of red wine, and then I would just go back to my apartment and sleep. It was a pretty depressing time. By then I would wake up and we would go out really late. Yeah. That wasn't the worst thing in the world. Yes, but also everyone felt bad. We all felt bad.

Okay. Wait, this is the season though that the last eight shows or so did come back? Is that correct? Correct. That is correct. Okay, because the reason I don't remember hanging out with you guys at all is because I was doing Land of the Lost. So I was dressed as a little monkey boy during this whole period. I don't know how they must have gotten in. And I asked Lorne if it was okay because it was during the strike.

And then that's why I missed the last eight episodes of this season. So when we come back to do new episodes, I'll be like, what? That movie has a scene in it that is one of the hardest things I've ever laughed at though. When Farrell's convinced that they have to dump the dinosaur piss on themselves so it won't track them. And then it immediately starts burning all their eyes or something. Yeah, and he keeps saying, ooh, that's early morning stuff. Oh, yeah. That is good.

Ooh, yeah, that's early morning stuff. He doses himself again. Just one more little fucking smash. Oh, my God. There's a funny story to that movie. Land of the Lost, available wherever you get your movies. Yeah, and then it immediately, it doesn't work, right? The dinosaur immediately finds them. Oh, my God. There's a funny story in that movie. Land of the Lost, available wherever you get your movies. Yeah.

And then it immediately, it doesn't work, right? The dinosaur immediately finds the way. Oh, immediately. Immediately, he's like, he's attracted to it. He's like, oh, God, now we're covered in all this piss. How many hours did it take you to get into makeup for that movie, Yoram? It was three and a half hours to get into the Chaka makeup. I have some really funny photos of me just wearing the head and just buck naked underneath.

I also did receive a Razzie nomination for my performance. One thing that I'm bummed about that happened is that I was trying to get myself credited as Jermack Pichoni in that movie and my manager said, that's the dumbest idea I've ever heard. Then after I got the Razzie nomination, I was like, well, now. Oh, yeah. It would have been great if it just said Jermack Pich got the Razzie nomination, I was like, well, now. Oh, yeah, it would've been great if it just said Jermack Pichoni. Yeah, that's not me.

I don't know who that is. That's not me, that's not me. Didn't you just get a Razzie nomination? Nah, that's not me, check the name. Jermack Pichoni. Yeah, that's some Jermack guy. I don't even know. Landon Loss, these are the cast listed in order.

Will Ferrell, Anna Friel, Danny McBride, Yoram Itokoni, Matt Lauer, true story. Oh, great. There it is. Yep. All right, well, let's end it on that. Anyway, we are gonna come back and we do four shows in a row and they're four very different digital shorts. Shows the breadth of what you guys do.

Very excited to get into it. I love you guys. Same here, Seth. Love you. Love you guys.