The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast - Sushi Glory Hole

Episode Date: October 14, 2024

The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers talk about the new digital short, Sushi Glory Hole, that debuted on Oct. 5th on SNL! As the first Lonely Island song on “SNL” since 2018, they discussed how they came up with the idea for Sushi Glory Hole, what it was like returning to SNL, and so much more! Sushi Glory Hole - https://youtu.be/XbGchfT3yMs?si=HRuLMcuS6T1nILrSFinest Girl (Bin Laden Song) - https://youtu.be/Jr9Kaa1sycs?si=_BV36sBvySeyfBweAndy as Doug EmhoffVP Debate 2024 Cold Open 10/12/24- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E_WeuKkJ2sHarris and Trump Rallies Cold Open -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg4Z1M_GjhQ RIGHT NOW you can get $5 OFF any case of Liquid Death because you’re watching The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast. Go to your local grocery store, buy any case of Liquid Death Mountain Water, Flavored Sparkling Water, or Iced Tea and get $5 OFF instantly through Venmo when you text them your receipt. It’s super easy. Go to liquiddeath.com/ISLAND and you can get all the details 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

It's the Lovie Island Subwayers' contest! Hey everybody, this is really exciting. I'm talking to Andrew and Akiva just a few days after they dropped a new digital short. Hey yo. I already forgot everything. Oh man. Oh my God, that's how fast you're living these days? That's how it turned out, yeah. Oh, man. Oh, my God. That's how fast you're living these days?

That's how it turned out, yeah. Oh, it feels different. It feels different. It's not a nostalgia pod anymore, you know? Yeah, no, and now it's fresh. It's like the daily. Yeah. This is now officially turned into the daily for digital shorts.

Yeah. First of all, I had heard Sushi Glory Hole maybe 10 months ago. Yep. Driving around in Andy's car, and it's the hardest I've ever laughed, maybe, in my life. It worked on you, yeah. Also, the first time I'd ever been in a car that Andy was driving, which made it incredibly novel. Excellent driver, Rain Manriff.

And been looking forward to it for a long time, and I was just delighted. Keev, did you direct it as well? Mike Deva did a lot of heavy lifting lifting and I would say we did it together. And you had worked with Mike before. Yeah. So Mike Diva is a good friend of ours who we met back in LA and he helped us when we were about to go on tour.

He's just a really funny video director and so we had him do all the backgrounds. So anybody who saw us on tour, he did what was up on those LED screens. Did he do We Fell Off a Horse? He did. He did. I mean, another time that I laughed, baby. An unhealthy amount. A very quick tangent for those who didn't see the tour. The quickest way I'll tell it is basically we did a photo shoot for an album. It had a horse. We all three got on it bareback. It bucked a teeny bit, maybe five inches, but enough that none of us had anything to hold on

to and we all fell off the horse, and it was on video, and we gave the video to Mike Diva, and he made a beat with his brother, and it was a little interlude song called We Fell Off a Horse that played, and then it had a big metallic 3D horse shooting lasers by the end. Also, it is caught on camera,

but exactly how you want that moment caught. It wasn't being shot like it was a movie. No. Someone was just sort of getting BTS stuff of a photo shoot. Yeah, it was on an iPhone. And so it was really great. Yeah, you guys fall off the horse and it's like, immediately it's like... Yeah, and scream.

Oh, yeah. It's like Cloverfield style footage, foul footage. It was our Cloverfield. It was your Cloverfield. It was your Cloverfield. Then Mike, when me and Andy started doing Bash Brothers, we were like, this is a lot of heavy lifting, who could we bring on? We brought on Mike.

He co-directed all of Bash Brothers with me as well, and co-edited with me in everything. Then we recommended him to SNL, and he's been working there for three years now, two years? How many seasons has he done? Two or three. This is his third, I think. There you go.

Also, by the way, Jorm, I know you weren't in it, but are you just gonna sit here this whole podcast and not say anything? Oh yeah, Jorm's not here. I mean, Jesus. We should probably point out Jorm's not here. Jorm's not here. Let's forget that. I do like that people are listening being like,

oh fuck, Jorm must be mad. He wasn't in sushi. It is currently 4.35 PM, which means it's like 2.30 in the morning, Iorm must be mad. He wasn't in sushi. It is currently 4.35 p.m., which means it's like 2.30 in the morning, I think, in Finland. Yeah, it's not a good time to get a Finland Jorm for this podcast. He sends his regards.

Technically, though, I wanna make something clear. This is not about Sushi Glory Hole. We've talked about it, but everything has to be in order on the Lonely Island of Seth Meyers podcast, correct? Yeah, so in about 85 episodes? In about 85 episodes, because now we could talk about it now and it would be fresh and probably like insightful,

but it's better to wait, I think a year and a half where it's just a lot of, maybe? I mean, we could talk about it a little more, don't you think? Okay, good, so I have a question about your look. I feel like I maybe had a different take on what your look was than what everybody then said what your look was. What everybody then said what your look was.

What was the look you asked for? Wall Street was the first reference. The original. You know what you guys look like to me? Is the dudes in a Guy Ritchie movie. Because you know a lot of Guy Ritchie movies are like 30 minute montages of people explaining like how they're making drugs underground. Yeah. And I feel like the Sushi Glory hole guys, I think there's a lot of like, basically the gentleman is Matthew McConaughey saying,

the first 30 minutes is like, hear me out. That's right. We do look like we're like some Savile Row, but kind of experimental. It's a little more colorful than I think of when I think of Wall Street. Yeah, well, we didn't just stop there. We basically pulled, you know,

Michael Douglas pictures from Wall Street. And then we also started pulling like, cool cool fashion forward stuff that ASAP Rocky does, but nobody would have that stuff because that's really right off the runway stuff. We said, we just want to seem off. We're Wall Street guys, but there's something wrong with us. Then they put it all together and we were both like, oh, these are just actually cool in an off way. It was a little bit back to the thing you said about I

Ran So Far, where Kanye thought you actually looked good. When Keev got dressed in his for the first time, I looked at him, this is going to be lost on almost everyone. But I was like, who do you look like? And then I realized it was the old Golden State Warriors color commentary guy, Jim Barnett. Oh, yeah. I love Jim Barnett, by the way.

Great color commentary. Do you want to say who else I look like Barnett by the way, great color commentary. Do you wanna say who else I look like in it? Art Crumb? No. It was Art Crumb if he actually like invested well. He looks like Art Crumb before he put the wig on. Yeah. I look like Eddie Murphy in White Like Me.

Oh, that was my favorite moment of the whole week. When he's in full white face. That's what he looks like. Yeah, there was a moment where the lighting was kind of low and I walked up and I was like, Keev, you look exactly like Eddie Murphy in white like me right now. And it was, we laughed a lot.

Yeah. Do you guys wanna talk about how there's a whole new streamlined process to shooting Shorts Now? Yeah, it was crazy. Cause there's basically just like a location now, correct? That they use every week? Yeah, it's a huge building. Yeah, they have sound stages now. Yeah, it was crazy. Because there's basically just like a location now, correct, that they use every week. Yeah, it's a huge building. Yeah, they have sound stages now

that was born of COVID when they needed somewhere to shoot when no one could be on the streets. So they rented huge sound stages and now they do everything there. The difference between when we did them and now is, let me just say people there might have got bored of hearing us go, whoa, this is so different. Yeah. But it is enormous. It is like the difference between five people and 400 people.

Like it is exponential. Were you jealous of it? In part, because it made certain things that were very difficult before very effortless. Like they just have assigned wardrobe people and assigned makeup people and assigned makeup people and assigned effects people for afterwards for when you're doing VFX. So there's a lot of things where there's just some machinery to get stuff done. And the SNL crew is so good. And I know I

always hear people say that and maybe I hadn't experienced the opposite, but having experienced the opposite or just having been in the real world maybe for 10 years experiencing other crews. When I went back, I was like, oh my God, they are amazing. This woman Jill who did the wardrobe, we gave two references quickly through other people, and we showed up and she had eight suits pulled for us, had her favorites laid out on the floor.

They're basically exactly what we wore in the video. Yeah. No notes. We just tried them on, did it, she understood, she put all the things. We'd be like, oh, should we have a tie clip? There'd be eight tie clips within a second. And that is not what it's like in the rest of show business.

And same with Jodie. That's just less surprising because Jodie, we've always known is amazing. Yeah. But shout out to Jill. Jodie's hair, extraordinary. Yeah, Jodi's hair and killed it with those wigs right away. But there's no learning curve.

They all know what you're getting at and can jump to it. Whereas anywhere else in the world, there's so many rounds of notes and things move in slow motion. I also think everybody gets better by working with the department heads, but also the department heads are so good because they are constantly working with very green writers and cast members. And so because Lauren empowers even the newest writer to be in charge of their sketches, the department heads are like, oh, we can't learn how to talk like this person. We have to teach this person how to talk like us.

And so very quickly when you're at SNL, I think you learn how you can just give a little bit of information and the department heads will go off and like make the best choices. Yeah, it's really amazing. It was nice to be back. Yeah. Who came up with the idea of sushi, Glory Hole to begin with? That would be Akiva. I don't know why.

He just came in and just said it. Yeah, I just said it. And then I was like, okay. And then he kept saying it. Yeah. I was like, all right, let's try it then. Did I say hear me out? He didn't say hear me out. No. And we tried a whole version saying it. I was like, all right, let's try it then. Did I say Hear Me Out? He didn't say Hear Me Out, no.

And we tried a whole version of it that didn't have any of the Hear Me Out stuff on a different beat. And it just felt kind of like, yeah, feels like what Chad GPT would do if we punched in Lonely Island Sushi Glory Hole, and we were like, yeah, it's fine. And then we were like, we do like some of these lines and some of these ideas.

And then so we started it on a different beat that we ended up using. And then once we were like, we do like some of these lines and some of these ideas. And then so we started it on a different beat that we ended up using. And then once we started writing, the Hear Me Outs just happened organically. Because of course those guys would say that before you would even react because they've pitched this a hundred times and it's gone bad every time.

Yeah, they know. But what I like is for guys who it's gone bad every time, they still walk in with a real douchey energy. They're real cocky. Oh yeah, they know they're about to kill it. I wanna see almost the pre-scene where the two of you like, this time we do not show fear. We can do this too, it is a good idea.

Good idea, I love good idea. That's definitely Andy writing that for me, I have to think. You got nothing to fear, sushi glory hole, it's a good idea. And it's not weird. So hear us out while we tell you what the concept's all about. It's sushi being fed through a hole in the wall. Where you going?

I love hard Akiva. I love when Akiva's like just like the ice water in his veins rap persona. Mean mugging? Yeah. Brain dead is how I would call it. But thank you for... What do you call it? Brain dead. Okay. Like half the time I'm in there like rap persona. Mean mugging. Yeah. Brain dead is how I would call it, but thank you for- What do you call it? Brain dead.

Okay. Like half the time I'm in there like, oh. There's definitely a little Jose and Mark dynamic on this one. Yeah, some of the Mark McGuire has infected other things now. Who is the very intelligent man IRL. Yes, my characterization.

Exactly. I did love, cause again, you explain it, what it is. And then as soon as you hear Sushi Glitter Hole, certainly for me, you explain it what it is. And then as soon as you hear sushi glower holes, certainly for me, you like mind's eye it. And yet so funny the first time somebody puts their mouth up and sushi comes out, because it looks just enough like it might be a penis. We've purposely left a few extra frames of anticipation

on the first one of James, where it's just, he's sitting there waiting and you're like, wait a second, what's coming through that hole? And then just like a little bit of salmon, a little bit of salmon right away. You're like, is it? By the way, it looked nice once it came out. Yeah, it did.

Again, the quality is worth the risk, right? I mean, that's kind of, I think, harder to hear me out. Yeah, that is it. The quality of the fish is worth the risk, as you say. Yeah, yeah. There's not a lot of our songs where we come out the gate and the first three words are the entire premise. You'll never really learn more than in the first three words.

Yeah. And then the rest is like backtracking and explaining. I think the dumbest, I mean, again, my favorite thing is like maybe the worst selling points of the business plan, Sushi Glory Hole, are the last two. Don't leave. At a sex club when you need stamina for sex but forgot to eat back soon. Sushi Glory Hole.

At a sushi restaurant where you don't like the food in the back of the bathroom. Sushi Glory Hole. We're offering a five-star Omakase, like, really good stuff and you might be at kind of a cheap place. Yeah. And Devin and Chloe got those things. Like, they expressed them perfectly, because we've all been there. You have all been there.

I will say I really like the way Chloe sort of leaned her head against the side of the bathroom stall in pleasure. Yeah. She was like, that's some good sush. That's a really good sush. Honestly, there's some urgent poop energy, some diarrhea energy, if I'm going to say the gross word, from all of them. Like, Dismukes had some real, like, I'm going to go shit'm gonna say the gross word, from all of them.

Dismukes had some real, like, I'm gonna go shit my pants. He has to get in there. He's slamming the door open, he's flopping down on the thing. He needs the relief of good sushi in his mouth. Well, yeah, because he forgot to eat. I don't wanna poke holes in sushi glory hole,

but it did seem like- It's airtight, good luck. You can't be eating omakase in the middle of the street. I feel like Dismukes ate it a little sloppier than like a normal person would be able to. In the middle of the street? Yeah, no, but I mean, like, if you got, say, deli sushi or whatever, you'd be able to pick it up and put it in your mouth, right, without it just, like,

crumbling everywhere? Uh, I mean, I think it depends on the piece. You know what I'm doing right now? I'm realizing what I'm doing. I'm hearing you out. Here you go. Thank you. You immediately spoke in a way that made me hear you out. You haven't left. How were the NBC censors?

Was it a run and a back again with beloved Betsy Torres? I did get her on the horn once. OK. When there was a note that we weren't sure about, and I was like, let me just talk to her. So I took it that one extra step. And? She was delightful, let me just talk to her. And so I took it that one extra step. And? She was delightful, honestly.

And the reason she quote unquote won the thing that I was asking about where I was like, oh, okay, is because it airs in prime time on the West Coast now. Gotcha. And that is a big difference. What, can you tell me what it was that she went on? Basically we had an alternate for the sake. So there's a moment where he looks down at his phone

and he chooses, oh, I'll have a sake. And then you see him drinking from a little cup of sake. Yeah. We had an alternate where it was like essentially shooting through with like a water gun. Gotcha. So it appeared kind of reminiscent of someone was pissing through the hole into his mouth. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it was a bathroom. And the phone is very clear and we made it very big. So you would not miss it. But when she was like, this is going to be on it, you know, 9 o'clock PM in Los Angeles, I was like, OK. We were on the fence about it anyway,

because we did really like how adorable the little sake cup sip was. It's true. Yeah. I guess I was dumb of me when I heard the song. I guess I kind of thought that the sushi would come through the glory hole and then you would take it in your own hand.

See, we talked about that. Yeah, we talked about it, about it being just, you're being fed. Yeah, well, cause then- It was always my understanding that it would be shoved straight in. Yeah, and as my understanding, and again, of glory holes, I'm pretty sure that's-

You know, sometimes- It's almost hands-free. I feel like there's an expectation that most of your glory hole stuff will be hands-free. It would be nice though, if anything that came through a glory hole was presented on a flat hand, you know? Yeah, it's true. Seth, have you ever seen a glory hole in real life?

I haven't. Neither have we, yeah. Yeah, I also have not. No. Always hoped to, but never happened upon one. Just going to the wrong places. It's possible that I've seen them, but didn't know about it yet.

You know what I mean? Yeah. And didn't put it together and was like, hey, weird. When you were just as tall as one, a little peephole. You were like, ha ha. Oh yeah. Before my growth spurt last year. Yeah.

Well, bravo. Do you guys have anything else? And again, we're going to obviously revisit this in 85 episodes, but do you, anything else to add about, oh, what did Lauren think of Sushi Glory Hole? He said good job and shook my hand at the after party. He liked it. Yeah. You know, it played later in the hand at the after party. He liked it. It played later in the show than maybe we would have hoped for, but we understood that

it was a little dirty. A little dirty. When we made the song, we were like, will this ever get a video? Videos are expensive. We don't have an outlet for it. So it was just kind of there being like, man, it'd be so cool to do one. And shout out to Lauren because Andy brought it up to him since he's there doing Doug. Yeah, yeah.

And he said, okay, give it a go. But you did go over to the table and say like, we got you, man, you paid for it. Yeah, of course. We got you to pay for it, dude. You know where we were when we got the news, Seth? That it was gonna be on, that like, oh, you're on. And we had to go make the path to 8H

and go to where we always stood right under the main stage. We were in a dressing room in your show. Oh yeah, you were the overflow dressing room. Yeah, and you know what was interesting about it? What's that? No hand soap. Yeah, no hand soap. No hand soap?

No. And no paper towels. And went out of the room, went to that sink that's kind of communal in the like bullpen area of the dressing rooms. No hand soap, went into like three other unoccupied, couldn't get it. No way to wash hands.

So what's up with that? Is that something you do on purpose? Is that the same at your show or is that just for SNL on the weekends? You know, it's one of the many budget cuts that is affecting late night television. But thanks. First it was the band, they did go first?

First it was the band. Oh, go first? First it was the band. Oh, they got rid of the band first, then the hand soap? Yeah, well the problem was like, what can you cut from the budget? And we cut hand soap and they came back and they're like, not even close. Oh man. Not even close.

Seth, I don't want this to make you feel weird if you don't know this, but do you know what they do to your main studio during an SNL night? I would imagine they fill it with sort of, maybe makeshift hair and makeup stations for extras. That's right. Yeah. And all the extras were sitting in your audience. Yeah.

Cause I went in there to take a prank photo for you of like, oh shit, the studio is open. I'm gonna go goof around on the desk. And then there was immediately 200 people staring at me. And I was like, oh, never mind, I'm out of here. That's such a burn because you love a prank photo. That's my main thing. It was taken from you.

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on a Friday in New York. Oh right, and I was like, I don't even know if I'm gonna be on or not. Yeah, you didn't wanna give spoilers because you didn't even know if you'd get cut or what it would be. Yep. And in hindsight, we've seen things on Instagram

that one thing you weren't and did get cut, which was a kind of Game of Thrones. Yeah, House of the Dragon piece, Joe Strode. Exactly. Got to do my Legolas. Next to Jelly Roll. Got to do my Legolas. Next to Jelly Roll. Got to do my Legolas, and Seth got to say Mordor the way they say it in all Rings of Power

and all the movies. And it was very satisfying for me. Give us that real quick. Mordor. So good. And they're all so proud that they're doing it right. And it's like really the way that you're supposed to do it from the books and stuff.

Yeah. And it made me really happy to get to partake. Do you think that Jost only wrote it because he was so excited to get your Lego loss back out there? I think no. Okay. But I was happy to get to do it again.

But now Andy, this is a very kind of opposite of your experience on the show, which is you are basically, they've got you there for the purposes of being in the cold open. Yeah, political cold opens. This was not your life at SNL. No.

You were not a guy where like, I'm definitely gonna be in the cold open. Correct, and in fact, I got to say, live from New York with Maya and Dana a couple days ago on the second show, and I was thinking about it and I was like, that might only be like the fifth time I've ever done it. Yeah, there's definitely some people that keep a count online.

You could tell you who's done it the most. I bet we could find out how many times you've live from New York. Do you remember your first live from New Yorking? No. Yeah. Seth, your point though about that, we always were the ones that couldn't go to dinner and couldn't do anything because we were always making the shorts. Andy got to have one of those nice normal SNL weeks where he just had, you know, two sketches blocking in normal times.

And I heard about that there was like a pretty good dinner that was had that last week. Oh, so good. We had a really good dinner. We had a good dinner. I heard about it like four times. Andy's honestly kind of reeling from it. I think it hit on all cylinders for him in a way

he'd had an experience, which is New York City, amazing ambiance and amazing food with perfect buds. And perfect old-fashioned. Oh my God, yeah. I've heard of them. Yeah, they're really good. And we had a seven o'clock res. This is our new life.

I would say we probably never, in the seven years we overlapped at SNL, we probably never had dinner at seven. Definitely not. Maybe a couple of late lunches started at seven. It was heavenly. And then- Divine. We sat down, we ate a ton of food.

I think I had three old fashions. I only think you had two, is that right? Two, I capped at two. Yeah. I mean, that was a work week. It was a work week, but then we rolled out maybe at 9.30 and Andy was like, should we go get a drink? And I really had to say, no.

My kids are deaf up at seven. And do you remember what I said? What'd you say? Oh, thank God. Well, then the next day, I mean, again, I did have to wake up at like 6.30, get my kids to school, go to work. And then I think at 11 a.m. Andy texted She-Maker and I

and said, oh my God, been up so long. Just kidding, just woke up. First time in a while. Had a great morning, been out and about, just kidding, just woke up. First time in a while. Had a great morning, been out and about, just kidding. Just opening my eyes, so glad we didn't get drinks. Got queen bee though. You did queen bee it. But you know, Keev, that was the problem.

Like you came out, but it was old digital short time. So you guys were a break neck. Oh yeah, it felt weird. It was Tuesday, I was in the middle of, I'm on deadline on naked gun, I'm trying to get the edit in right now. And all of a sudden had to drop everything. Because Andy was like, it's on. We're on a flight tomorrow morning. Let's go. Yeah. And it's, you're in it. You're the other guy.

And I had a great time, but it was a whirlwind. And then we were back Sunday. So it felt crazy. The other nice thing I'll say that me and Andy, when we were out on the stage, and we're watching it play live, and we're looking up at the monitors and looking up at the audience and it was playing really, really well, we were both like, left that thing being like, wow, I didn't know if I'd ever have that feeling again. So it's appropriate for this podcast of us being like, oh my God, it genuinely felt special. Then it did feel different. My relationship to all of it felt a little different in a good way, I think, in a healthier

way. Yeah, it was a little bit like time travel also, of like, oh, we're just back in the same spot, praying that it lands, and then when it starts to work, you're like, oh, thank fucking God. Yeah. Also a couple, like, touchstones to the past, where you have Maya and Keenan. But I thought the current cast was all super funny in it.

They were. Agreed. Did you have any sense, I know I'm putting you in a possible situation, did you have any sense that I know I'm putting you in a possible situation, did you have any sense that anyone was like, oh wow, this is so cool, I get to do a short? A lot of them would say it a lot, and honestly it was really heartening and nice.

I really liked it. I felt a lot of warmth from people in a way I wasn't expecting. That's really great. Andy? Yeah, I mean, there's always the thing of like, being super flattered versus being like, oh my God, how old are we? Yeah. I mean, there's always the thing of like being super flattered versus being like, oh my God, how old are we?

When we came back in 2016 and did the Finest Girl from Popstar, it felt like people were still in competition with us. Yeah. And it was a little like, hey, what's up guys? And now it's been long enough that everyone there is not. Yeah. They're just like, oh, they were here before a while ago, which is correct. Exactly. So there was more, I felt a lot here before a while ago, which is correct. Exactly.

So there was more, I felt a lot more just friendly warmth from all the new cast members and writers that I met. That was like my first year. I remember, uh, Ackroyd came back to do something and I was like, hey, this is my show now. Yeah. Yeah. It hadn't been long enough. Get out of my shit, man.

It was, I misplayed it. Yeah, it might've been an oversight. I was, I was like, the fourth show. What was I doing? I'm out of my shit, man. That was, I misplayed it. Yeah, it might have been an oversight. I was, I was like, the fourth show. What was I doing? Apropos of not, well, except for the fact that I made up a story.

Ackroyd was one of those guys, every time he came back, he would come over to you and tell you something he loved that you did that was such a piece of minutia. Yeah. Like it wasn't like, hey, I love that hit sketch you did. It was like, oh, there was that scene. You did a voice. You did a voice from the Atlantic Midwest.

You know, the sort of like, you know, the Atlantic coast accent. You never hear it. You nailed it. And it's just like crazy. That's the beautiful thing about it coming from people that have actually worked there, though. Like, that has happened organically for me going back. When I talk to the cast that are there now, and the writers even, too, that I know, stuff they've written, it's never what most people would say to them

because we work there, so the things that excite us are much more like what you're describing. Yeah. Well, you actually, I feel like you're getting it both ways, Andy, because you're both working with the current cast and you get to do sketches of Dana Carvey every week. I know, by the way, that is the coolest. Also, it's not heyday Dana. It is Dana now has a all-new, super-cracking impression that nobody figured out except him. That's right. And he got lose with the ice cream, too, in episode two.

Yeah. He got me and Maya. We were not expecting that. He's very fun to watch. He's so good, man, and such a nice person. It's been really fun, honestly, hanging out with all of them. Gaffigan, too, is great. Like, everybody's so awesome. Have you ever met Barghetti?

Uh, no. We developed a show with him way back in the day. Our company. But I don't think I even met him during that time because we were so busy with other shit. Speaking of shows you've developed in the past, you have an animated show. Yes. Digman. Yes. I did a past, you have an animated show. Yes. Digman. Yes. I did a voice on it.

That's right. Coming this season. I'm very excited. But another person who did a voice was on my show today, Nathan Lane. Oh, amazing. Nathan Lane had very lovely things to say about you, Andy. That's so wonderful.

I have nothing but good things to say about Nathan Lane, the legend. He also had very nice things to say about the French pole vaulter you played on our show. Is that right? Yeah. Nathan Lane also asked, did you see their new digital short?

And he was like, sushi glory hole? Yes. It was just everything. No way. That's the best. It was generally great. Hey, since Yoram's here, and I know Yoram is the one who really hates plugs,

but you know what? Since we're real timing the podcast now, it was announced today, the release date of my HBO special. That's right. Yes. I saw the trailer, looks very funny. Saw the poster. Poster, yeah, October 26th on HBO.

Congratulations. Thank you. Chris Martin from Coldplay did come up and say, "'Where's the third one?' That's my best Chris Martin, but he did ask. Where's the third one, yeah. Yeah, that's what he calls your mouth, the third one. Yeah, well, he's like,

"'Isn't there supposed to be three of you guys? That's great. And he was barefoot in the halls, and Keefe told him about JJ Casuals. Did you really? Yeah. I was like, hey, you don't wear shoes on the stage. You know what?

Our very first sketch was just about that. We knew another singer who preferred to go barefoot on stage. I pitched him the whole sketch. Yeah, he was delightful. Yeah. I saw a supercut of different SNL hosts announcing, and now Coldplay.

And it is such a trip how long they have been doing SNL. Yeah. Like, sort of from, like, an early Baldwin on. Oh, wow. Longer than us. Yeah. Definitely, definitely did the show. Favorite Coldplay song, Seth? I think Yellow. Yeah. First thought, best thought, right?

Oh, but you know what? Here, wait. I have a Coldplay story. Can I tell my Coldplay story? Yeah, sure. And it's a genuine story. Remember, Polar had a baby, like, late Friday night before a show. I got a text from her, like, one in the morning, being like, you're on your own tomorrow, kid. Uh, because I had a host update by myself.

Ah, yes. And it was terrifying, the very idea of going out there and doing it by myself. And, uh, Coldplay was the musical guest that night. And the first musical guest is right before update. And the song was Viva La Vida. Remember the song? Yes.

And Chris Martin was wearing a very colorful jacket. Had a lot of weird patches. It was kind of jacket that he pulled off and I would never be able to pull off. Maybe some epaulettes. Yeah, there was a lot of garnishes on the jacket. And I was so nervous and I was watching Chris Martin and he seemed to be having such a good time

singing a song, wearing his kick-ass jacket. And I just said to myself, go have as much fun as he's having right now. Just pretend like you're Chris Martin and you're wearing the cool jacket. Yeah. And that's literally what I, that's like, I told Chris Martin that once, like how.

It gave you the focus. I just like was looking at him being like, you're allowed to be that happy when you perform. And so I'm gonna go do that. Did you feel that when you did it or were you consciously where I'm faking that? But then you faked it till you made it. Yeah, after every joke, I'm like,

good, that is how Chris Martin would have done it in the jacket. Good. The jacket. Think of the jacket after each joke. Again, it's fun to be like, that sounds like a story about like a 16-year-old giving an oral report in class. And I'm like doing the math. I'm like, 37? How old was I when I had to be like... Public speaking.

Just be the boy in the jacket. Oh, my God. You can also wear the jacket. Definitely too old to be saying that. Viva la vida. I do, before I let you guys go here, are you enjoying Doug? I'm enjoying Doug a great deal. I mean, my first pitch when I got asked to do Doug was can I first walk out to teach me how to Dougie?

And everything after that was icing. Yeah. So you really, you feel like you've captured the man. I mean, it's not a stretch for me. No. Just kind of like an upbeat dude who really loves his wife. It's true. Who really loves his uber-talented wife.

Who could like do things he couldn't even conceive of. Yeah, a lot of like, I can't believe this! Yeah. And I mean, I feel like the Maya Kamala doesn't get enough. I think it's getting an incredible amount of credit, and I still don't think it's enough credit. It's amazing. It's incredibly accurate while also being funny and has energy and moves and yeah.

The vocal range of moves she's recognized from Kamala is off the map. I mean, Maya's a killer. We know this. She's a stone cold killer. You two together is very winning, as Mr. Sheen would say. Thanks, Keith. Thanks for putting it exactly that way. Good callback. Yeah.

I also don't think that's how Charlie Sheen was using it. No, it's not. No, he was in the process of winning. Yeah, yeah. He was hitting like the jackpot. Yeah, it wasn't like a winning personality. Yeah. He was like, oh, I thought I was being winning. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like, I'm fucking Drake, Shark's Blood, or whatever. Winning personality is what I have, and also the people that I associate with have winning personalities. You know what I mean? Yeah, like just warm and confident and nice. Yeah. So I established that I heard this song 10 months ago in a car, and it was like fully,

like everything about it was done. It was this song 10 months ago in a car, and it was like fully, like everything about it was done. It was finished music 10 months ago. I'm assuming not one isolated song. Oh, Seth, what an interesting query. I'm querying. Well, truth be told, during the writer's strike, we were sitting on our hands a little bit. Yep.

Doing our proper nothing. And we were like, what can we do? So we did kind of hop back up in the studio, and we did make some songs. Unclear how many, because we're not sure how many we deem releasable, right, Keith? And there's still a bunch that are half songs that we're like, god, if we could get some time

to go back in the studio, we might be able to crack the rest of that one. Is there anything, and I'm putting it on the spot, is there anything you fully bailed on? Like, is there anything you'd be like, we tried it, bailed? Yes. Oh, yeah, for sure. Do you want to throw any out? Well, no, because like, what if we do like a deluxe edition?

Or what if we really do solve it? What if we crack it like we did with Sushi? Gloria-Hole, shorthand for that. Sushi-Gloria-Hole, we were very proud of ourselves because as Andy touched on earlier, we had a first chorus fully recorded. It's a full listenable chunk and it did feel as you put it, like it was made by ChatGPT. And we were like, that's the old us.

It doesn't sound new or like something else. But it's hard to go deep into something and put it aside after wasting an entire day on it and then start totally fresh next day on the same thing. The trick is figuring out what to do with them now, because we don't have an outlet like SNL, and that again was why it was so great that this dug came up and then this worked out where we were like, oh my God,

we figured out something to do with it. We were like, when is the time though? And then we were all, the time is nigh. The time is nigh. That's exactly right. Yeah, to go to Mordor, Mordor, Mordor, to the very depths of Mordor. That's exactly right. Yeah. To go to Mordorororor. Mordor. Mordor. To the very depths of Mordor.

Sorry for everyone listening, that's hard to listen to. I like that you guys keep saying, cause first came Doug and then I think that when you meet him, you can give him a real firm handshake and he'd be like, hey, without you, no sushi glory hole. Thanks man. You were the gateway in. I think that has to be a hundred percent accurate, yeah. Yeah, yeah, in. I think that has to be 100% accurate, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that's very exciting. New music. And it was really wonderful. I was very excited to see you guys doing a digital short again. Thank you, Seth Lington. Thank you. Yeah, we'll see what happens. Yeah. And again, this is going to be fun to talk about again

when we do the Sushi Glory Hole episode in two and a half years. Yeah, when it's further away in two and a half years. Yeah, when it's further away in two and a half years, that's when we're gonna dish all the fucking dirt. Well, that's when we're gonna get to hear what Yorm's take was. Oh no. He's gonna be like, it was wonderful.

I was knee deep in Lola. Lola, knee the pine. Knee the pines, little Lola. Alright, so I guess next week we'll talk about our first show back from the Rider Strike of Seven on Eight which is Tina Fey. And until then I love you guys.

Love you buddy. Love you. Bye.