The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast - The SNL 50th Recap

Episode Date: February 28, 2025

In this special bonus episode brought to you by Airbnb, The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers recap their weekend participating in the Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special! The Lonely Island: Musical Medley -  https://youtu.be/UV-RZYz8xTc?si=8IYmgJ8UEh4i2CM8Scared Straight - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNt1l2Kkfe4Lawrence Welk - https://youtu.be/DPeo-c0Fmfc?si=3codYph8jInkrvK1Black Jeopardy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qYM6bKl57ADebbie Downer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WNsYS1UN5kAdam Sandler's Song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXAbLeJyB0oIn Memoriam - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN0-SPKkgqgWeekend Update (Drunk Uncle, Bill Murray, Cecily Strong, Seth Meyes) - https://youtu.be/fqu5AFEvz7U?si=j3l1FRAv9a6RL8DVBronx Beat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdmwLumvI-EAnxiety - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k94SUJ8UMKk&t=30sv 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

Hey, everybody. This is the SNL 50th recap episode and is brought to you by our very special sponsor this week, Airbnb. It's the lonely island and Seth Meyers podcast. Hey, dudes. Seth. It's been eight days since the SNL 50th. Yeah. It's been eight days since the SNL 50th. Yeah. And I feel as though, based on my highs and lows,

I think I'm coming back to the middle. I'm coming back to Seth, the human being, before it all started. I'm still hungover. But I think I had some, like, lows going into it, super highs during, totally crashed after. Yeah. Yeah. Took stock of my life, felt like it had been a major, more than any other milestone

in my life, maybe was a bigger one. Felt way more midlife crisis-y than my 50th birthday. Right. You know what I mean? Oh, really? Yeah. Because it was such a milestone, you were like, oh, man, I guess I am old.

Yeah. It felt like afterwards, I just walked by a graveyard that had tombstones with all our names on it. But there was like a party in the graveyard. Yeah, which was a good way to remember we're all gonna live forever because we worked on a show that is as iconic as SNL. Yeah, I've definitely emotionally hung over,

but I bet it was a good emotional hangover. And Seth, let me ask you a question. Yeah. You still do it late night? I am. I'm on a two-week hiatus, maybe the most kindly scheduled hiatus I've ever had. Oh, yes.

I gotta say, you look great, Seth. You look kind of tan. Certainly wouldn't have been ready to go back the Monday after that very late after party. And still today on a Monday would not have been ready either. Quick trivia question. I do not know if this Instagram is true or not,

but I just saw an Instagram, screen time in the 50th anniversary special, can you guys name the top three screen time gathering people at the SNL 50th? Like who was on camera the most? Yeah, so you have to be actually in the shot. Okay, me number one. Yeah.

Lauren number two. Yeah. Andne, number two. Yeah. And Tina Fey, three. Great, so now we're gonna let a real person try. Thank you, you are. Oh, okay. I think Farrell has to be one of them, because he was in Two Things.

Number five. Ah, Marty Short? No. Was Jost just because of update? No, they're a little bit further down the list. In fact, they're both farther down the list, I believe, than our good friend Andy Samberg. Oh. Wow.

But Kenan Thompson. Number one? Number one. What was he in? He was in Scared Straight. He was a tiny part in Welk. And Black Jeopardy. Host of Black Jeopardy. Ah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just racking up the minutes.

I mean, it makes sense because he's the. Yeah, just racking up the minutes. I mean, it makes sense because he's the one who's been on the show the longest. He has the most screen time in the history of the show. It is very in line with the history of the show. Number two, Amy Poehler, who did the Q&A and Bronx beat. A lot of camera time there. Number three, fascinating, although it makes sense,

Sabrina Carpenter did Domingo. Oh, yeah. Which I kind of liked too, that a musician of the moment made their way in there. I love that people do this as a hobby. So there's someone with a stopwatch doing this out in the world. One would assume, although it would be super funny if someone, if we asked, how did you do it?

And they were like, I just kind of guessed, just guessed. Just like, that felt like 11 minutes, 13 seconds. We saw each other a lot in the run-up to this. We did. And we saw each other during some gnarly times. Well, gnarly relative. Relative, but we did not have the air about us of, oh, you know what's nice is all these years later,

I've learned not to take it seriously. You were in Up to Your Knees in the Short. Short and Medley. And Medley. Yeah. So you had a massive amount more on your plate than most people, Andy. Yeah, I mean, I wonder what my screen time total ranking

would have been if we included the Friday night show. Yeah, cause Kenan, noticeably absent, totally mailed it in on Friday. Well, he did an intro. Still, I don't think he would have caught you. Dang. No, definitely not. Well, although maybe those intros did sometimes. They were buying a lot of time.

Yeah, and by the way, Farrell and Anna on fire at the Friday show. Yeah. Oh my, that was my favorite thing that's ever happened. Yeah. I mean, we're going to jump all around, but the highlight for me, of the many highlights, and I do want to talk about the medley because that was certainly one of them, but Bobby and Marty crushing at Radio City was something to see. It was so fantastic.

I was jumbled over the entire time. It was so patient and so quiet. It was exactly what Bobby and Marty always were. It took no accounting of the room they were in. It made the entirety of the room come to them and meet them on Bobby and Marty's home court. The culps. Culps.

Everything in the long run up was so funny. And then the medley was so funny. And it was also updated and modern. And it was one of the moments where I made an effort to just look around and find the faces of people I loved who were just dying with laughter. Dying. Dying with laughter. I may have picked this up from hanging around Emily Spivey,

but Spivey I feel like does this occasionally where if something's funny enough, she makes this like, ugh, it's out and I was constantly doing that during it. I was just like, ugh, the wordage of that joke. Yeah. So good. Which is so deliciously horrible. It was crazy because it was like, what,

eight, nine minutes long? Yep. And every joke landed. Yeah. And Bobby and Marty is an era and a half ago, three years ago. Yeah. And so it wasn't necessarily that the audience

was immediately, oh my God, a Bobby and Marty, even for people who'd never seen it before, they taught them the game. It crushed with people who are fans of it. It crushed with new business. And I had the greatest conversation. I wrote Anna, who had one of the best weekends of anybody, on a gas tire. Oh, it's not perfect the best weekends of anybody. Truly. Anna Gostyer.

Oh, it's not perfect. Everything she was in, gold. Yeah. And she said that her and Will afterwards, they were talking about they felt really happy on behalf of the characters Bobby and Martin. Like, they weren't backstage saying, oh my god, Will and Anna just crushed it.

They just said it was like the perfect final act for these two losers. Yeah, what a nice thing for them. Not losers, but just like nerds. Yeah. Anna said it was also so funny to be backstage with like the coolest musicians in the world, dressed like Bobby and Mark.

Like even if they were dressed like Will and Anna, it would have been a marked difference. Yeah. But to be dressed as, and then to go out and kill. It was so funny. It was great. When she dropped into the Dochi, I was like, all right, this is, they're taking out places I was not even guessing.

There were people in the audience too, that I was looking over, in addition to looking around and finding people that I loved enjoying it, I was also clocking some like pretty young kids just being psyched about the song choices too. Just being like, oh my god. Well, that was always the secret sauce of that was that it was whatever was popular and pop at that moment. It was incredible.

And then the funny part is if you only know Will and Anna, you think to yourself, well, I'm sure the writer then must be this super young plugged in person. And then we know it's Paula Pell. And so it weirdly looks like even higher level of difficulty to make something so perfectly modern. It was great. Kudos, yeah. I also thought on that same level of just total patience,

Fred and Maya as Prince and Beyoncé. Just spectacular. Again, just, yeah. Also just the fun of being like, oh, I wasn't sure I was ever gonna get to see these things again. Yeah. That was a lot of the experience of my weekend. Yeah.

And I think part of it, the hangover afterwards, was knowing that even while you're watching it, even if you could be aware, oh, I never thought I was gonna see this again, you also at the same time were sad that it might be the last time. Right, right. I had that so many times over the course of the weekend.

Yeah. You know what's weird that I forgot to tell you? Lauren asked me to take over the show. Oh. Oh, and you turned it down? Yeah, I was like, I don't want it. Again? Yeah, I was like, no thanks. I'm busy.

Yeah. So weird, because I saw him talking to you. I didn't hear what he said, but I saw you say no thanks. I'm busy. Yeah. So weird, because I saw him talking to you. I didn't hear what he said, but I saw you say, no thanks. And I saw him shrug, and he walked by me, and I tried to make eye contact with him, and he just went, brr, brr, brr, and then just walked right by. Oh, interesting.

I don't think those were words. That's weird timing. Yeah. One more thing I want to say, though, again, those performances were incredible. But both Mai and Fred, Anna and Will, they were remembering the muscle memory of how to do those things they've done live before,

and they did not get knocked off their game. You, Andy, had a much harder level of difficulty doing a whole new medley of your songs with totally different people. How long was that process? I mean, the hardest part was done, which is the songs were already written. So in a way, it's similar. But I think it was like we started working on it the week before.

And I mean, the trickiest part was, you know, originally we started talking about it. We were hoping that it would be all other music people doing all the songs. Yeah. And then I guess Aaron David and some of the folks on the SNL side had reached out to Lady Gaga and she said she wanted to do it with me. Right. And I was like, well, I'll do whatever she wants. So I said, of course, but then I was like, oh shit.

Yeah. Now I have to actually, like I didn't think about until honestly like the day before that I was going to have to actually do like a singing duet with Lady Gaga and then I was like, uh-oh. You sounded good. I mean, I had the easy part as I did with Justin. Obviously Justin was on tour. That's why the whole thing started the way it started.

But she was great and was so game and we got so lucky that everyone who agreed to do it did it. I mean, obviously Parnell, it was really fun to be back with him. But like fucking Bad Bunny, T-Pain, and Eddie Vedder as Jack Sparrow was like. That was fucking killer. Yeah, it was nuts.

It was so special. Like just couldn't have made us feel more like the show was making what we did feel special, you know? It was very, very exciting for me. There's that thing where it elevates people in my eyes so much when they agree to do something like that and then approach it with the same musical integrity. They approach their own performances.

Yeah. Like Bad Bunny and Eddie Vedder performed with exactly as much heart that they had in their earlier performances. And that is like that when they get the game, which is not to be winking at it. Yes. You know, just Eddie Vedder just belting with wearing a pirate cap. I felt like that when we were rehearsing and Gaga was learning. David Dabin, is that am I pronouncing that right, was part of composing that medley.

She was needing to learn the piano parts and how difficult they actually were made me realize, one, how seriously you're taking this, but also just the musicality of it. Because even seeing the sheet music is fun to be like on the island medley and seeing it written out in sheet music. So funny. So great, but it required learning it. to be like Lonely Island medley and seeing it written out and sheet music is so great. But it required like learning it.

It's not just like a given that even Gaga is gonna be able to just nail it immediately. I mean, secret bonus for me too, you as Jackson Maine, kind of a dream come true for me. Long been waiting for the moment. I mean, yeah, it had it snatched from me at the Globes when we had the P-Rig bit go awry. It turned out, you know, in the end you didn't need we had the P-Rig bit go awry.

It turned out, you know, in the end you didn't need, like the P-Rig was sort of Dumbo's feather. You didn't need that. You could fly on your own. Thank you for saying it exactly that way. I'm gonna use that now. While we're on, I mean, I think Parnell a little bit like Bobby and Marty, right?

There's a whole generation of people who have no idea, you know, the roots of Lazy Sunday. Sure. And yet, you know, 20 years older, Parnell is just as funny doing hardcore rap as he was. Yes. Because also, Parnell was kind of always 50. Yes.

You know? The comedy of Parnell was his stoicism. When we were rehearsing it, I wasn't sure if he was like saving his voice or if he was just trying it out different ways, but he was doing Lazy Sunday a little more, like, conversationally. Yeah. And before the real one, Yoram and I were like,

hey, uh, do it the angry way. Yeah. Don't forget, like, that that's really, you're very funny doing that. And, like, I was like, you like, take it back to your Britney rap. Yeah. Oh, okay, yeah. Oh, I love life, that's what you'd like.

I'm really angry. And then he came out. I mean, by the way, one of my favorite moments of the entire 50th was explaining to Chris Parnell what screaming Mustard was. Yeah. And where playing him TV off and explaining who Mustard was and why it's a thing that everyone talked about

and how I was like, did you see the Super Bowl halftime show? He's like, I did not. I was just like, oh shit, okay, we're starting from zero. I will say it's a good reveal in that you go from him screaming Mustard and then pull wide to a shaking bottle of Mustard. Back, back, back. Yeah, have you watched it, Andy?

You were saying that you were maybe a little nervous to watch it. I didn't watch it. Yeah, but you felt great about it. I felt great. The response was better than I ever dreamed of, from people around the show and people texting me and stuff. Yeah.

Um, so I wanted to just let it be what it felt like. Well, I'll tell you, Andy, it was better than I thought it was gonna be on the cuts, because obviously it's always the nerve-wracking part of just when it goes into that booth and someone's going, camera one, camera two, camera three, camera four. A big thank you to Beth McCarthy-Miller who directed the whole thing and

had basically two run-throughs of that. It's nuts. Was very receptive to all of our requests and it was a big huge mess of a piece, so thank you, Beth. Top to bottom, what a concert it was. Oh, my God. Dude, Lauryn Hill. Lauryn Hill alone.

Lauryn Hill coming out and just being like, what? Yeah. Bonnie Raitt. And Bonnie Raitt. I mean, we're going to, we can jump ahead just to say that Andy and I, if you're wondering who the most excited we were to meet any celebrity, Andy and I both met Bonnie Raitt and it was exceptional.

It's the coolest ever. The coolest. The coolest ever. You couldn't believe how cool. The only photo I took at the party was of me and my wife and Bonnie Raitt. Yeah. And what was her vibe? Just the coolest.

It was like, oh, well, hello. What an honor to meet you. It's a cool ass accent. Also, here's the thing. It was not just that was not her. That was me. That was Seth doing Bill Clinton to her. Also, here's the thing. It was not just... That was not her, that was me. That was Seth doing Bill Clinton to her. Oh, I see. Gotcha, gotcha. That makes a lot more sense,

because it was like very not southern. That's the only thing it could have been. Yeah. She goes, I feel your 50th. That was weird. Yeah, yeah. Her voice was not only good, it was like had fucking real attitude. Yeah. Yes. And at the same time, there's just no push. She's just such a veteran of killing it over and over a million times and she's destroying on

guitar. Yep. The songs are you know we know them and love them but they still feel new somehow because she's playing them so well. It was just like she rules. Shout out to Chris Martin for two things. First Chris Martin playing piano for Bonnie Raitt was a really awesome thing to see. Also, I heard that he said he would do it, and Bonnie Raitt was like, sure, but he has to talk to my piano player. Just to make, and he was like, whatever you need.

The other thing was I lost my voice. I didn't feel sick, but I lost my voice hardcore. Saturday night, there was an evening where people gave toasts to Lorne Michaels and Lexi, my wife and I, were talking to Chris Martin and she said, hey, what do you do when you lose your voice? And he said, oh, I do, he literally pulled out like drops he puts in his throat.

An elixir. An elixir, yeah, just a Coldplay elixir. And she said, can Seth have it? And he said, yeah, and he just gave it to me. And so I was just like pumping the Chris Martin juice into my throat. What do you think the over-under is that the thing he gave you is the stuff

that Eddie Redmayne's character in Jupiter Ascending is harvesting? I mean, obviously, I want it to be that. Yeah. And when you spritz it and go, juke! I'm definitely wondering at this point how many people paused the pod to go Google Jupiter Ascending. No, to watch Jupiter Ascending.

Do yourself a favor. Oh, you think they're going to watch the whole thing? They had to go Google Jupiter ascending? No, to watch Jupiter ascending. Do yourself a favor. Oh, you think they're gonna watch the whole thing? They had to go watch the whole thing. Well, once you start Jupiter ascending, I don't think you fucking stop. Did you go to the toasts, Andy? I was editing.

Yeah, you were editing. I wanted to so bad. Yeah. I had a real, you know, dark couple of hours of being grumpy, cause I was like, fucking pre-tapes. Wait, I have a question. Andy, did you go to any after party after music? No.

Yeah. Alexi and I also bailed that night. We had not been out past midnight, three nights in a row for a very long time, which we did. Yeah. I mean, I worked the whole time. Yeah. I got there the Sunday before the Sunday and worked round the clock the entire week, nonstop. And it was anxiety inducing,

much like the short would have implied. I also say though, it was worth it. Like everything that you put in, I think came out on screen and it was very good. Thanks. I hope you know that, Andy. We appreciate, on behalf of everyone, we appreciate what you put in.

But yeah, you were not. Well, we did see each other. We had a nice drink on- You're right, we snuck out. Wednesday night. Yeah, you put in. But yeah, you were not. Well, we did see each other. We had a nice drink on... You're right. We snuck out. Wednesday night. Yeah, you're right. But you weren't done until late, and you, me, Klein, and Jost had a lovely drink.

And you had two non-alcoholic beers, Yorm-style. I did. I was nabbing it. Yeah. Before I forget, Lin-Manuel said he would love to volunteer to do the next Criterion episode. He said the same to me, and how wonderful would that be? Can I just tell a quick story, and you can cut it out if we want to, but like-

Hi, you know, and by the way, Yoram, I feel like you do this a lot, where you, one, ask to tell a story on a podcast, of which you're a member. Yeah. And then you also give us permission to cut it out, and, you know, I just, be confident. Tell the story and know that the likelihood is we will cut it up. Well it's a little bit tangential but

because we mentioned Coldplay but it was one of my favorite SNL moments which is that when we're on the show my grandmother would try to stay up for the show to see our shorts and I just remember a moment where she was like I tried to stay up for this short but then I fell asleep during hot plate. And I was like, hot plate? I was like, oh, Coldplay. Coldplay, but I just like that she called it hot plate. Hot plate's pretty good.

I think, you know what, Andy, I'm gonna leave it in. I'm gonna leave that story in. Okay, great. And then the other funny one was that she would call our buddy Brian Danger Mouse, how's dragon mice? And then I told that to Brian, he was like, this is just as good a name, I should just change it. Dragon Mice is a good name, yeah.

Do we have anything else about Friday? The text I got sent the most, I had my arms around Alexi and we were swaying to Backstreet Boys and they cut to us. Oh, nice. And I could even sense the camera and I had a real moment like, oh, shoot, this is gonna be when I'm on.

I have a funny Backstreet Boys moment. Great. First off, love them. I loved them so much. It was one of my favorite moments of the night. They did the song that is very, I mean, obviously it's a hit for them, but it was a big thing on Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

It's a cold open where we have the perps in a lineup singing that song. I want it that way. And I was being ushered around for rehearsal by a woman who was working for the show. I was like, I really have to go to the bathroom. Number one, everybody relax. Okay.

She was like, you need to be on stage now. You need to be on stage now. I was like, okay. So we walked over where the bathroom was. One of the Backstreet Boys was about to go into the bathroom. She was like, he needs to go. We need him on stage. And he was super nice and he said hello and he was like, oh, we're doing your song. Because he knew the thing about Brooklyn Nine-Nine and I was like, oh, that's so awesome. I went to the bathroom, quickly left, went out on stage and then stood there for 45 minutes and Backstreet Boys went on

and rehearsed before us. And I was like, oh, man, he must think I'm a piece of shit. So anyway, I apologize for that. I bet he thought it was number two, by the way. It wasn't. I mean, if it was, it was the fastest number two in the history of humanity. I, when you said I had to go to the bathroom number one, I thought you were doing a list.

Not that you were saying number one, you have to go to the bathroom. So I thought you were going to be like, I had to go to the bathroom. So I thought you were gonna be like, I had to go to the bathroom, number one. It was a shit, number two. No! So I also thought the Backstreet Boys of everyone who performed,

on a night where the performances were, without exception, wonderful, they seemed to be the most joyous to me. Yeah, it was Kevin, just for the record. Gotcha. Robin and David Byrne, I found incredibly special. Robin and David Byrne, that, like, taught me how to dad dance. I was like, I gotta fuckin' practice my moves.

It was so fuckin' wonderful. Also, they played two of my favorite songs, period. Ever. Yep, 100%. Back to back and together and the suits and the vibe, it was just perfect. So fun. At the after vibe, it was just perfect. So fun. At the after party, I was taking a picture of Beck Bennett and Beck, the singer.

Love it. Sure. Because I accidentally called Beck, the singer, to do a bit to Beck Bennett like two hours earlier. And then I saw him and I was like, I'm so sorry. And then by chance, Beck Bennett walked up and I was like, let me get this Beck picture. So I was taking that picture and Robin, who we know because we did a song with her, but I haven't seen in years,

walked up to say hi to Beck, singer. I drunkenly as a joke was like, Robin, not right now, I'm taking a picture of the Beck's. She went, oh, okay. Turn around and walked away and I was like, wait, no. I don't care about the back picture, I wanna say hi! And then she was just gone and I never saw her again.

So I'm very hopeful she knew I was goofing and that I wasn't being a huge asshole for no reason. Always the risk. Yeah, always the risk. Always the risk. She was behind us for red carpet for the 50th. We ended up talking to her for like 15 minutes. So I got my Robin talking.

You know the famous story about George Harrison playing piano in the 17th floor writer's room. Like in the... Someone was like, can you fucking stop? Like as a bit? Yeah, Harrison was playing Beatle songs and everybody was like just coming out of their office on a Tuesday night and they couldn't believe it.

And then Al Franken came out and was like, people are trying to work! And George Harrison was like, oh, OK. But like he did it as a bit, but like George Harrison was like, people are trying to work. And George Harrison was like, oh, okay. But like he did it as a bit, but like George Harrison was like, okay, I'm sorry. That's a great bit. Also, it kind of makes sense that you'd be working.

Yeah. Oh my God, shut the fuck up. Oh, it's so funny. Hey everybody, this is Seth and we hope you're enjoying this SNL 50th episode of the Lonely Island Podcast brought to you courtesy of Airbnb. Obviously this podcast is about four friends hanging out, talking about old times.

And we have taken trips with our SNL writer friends. It was something we would do during our time at SNL. We went to Amsterdam once to hang out with my friends from Boom Chicago, which is the comedy theater I used to work at. And we went out of our way to make sure we booked an Airbnb because we knew that our evenings would end and we would want to go have a quiet hang with one another.

And the bars were going to be closed and the hotel lobby was going to be closed. But with an Airbnb, we could find our way into a nice living room. We would have a kitchen where we'd bought the snacks we wanted to eat, maybe had a fridge full of beverages, both adult and otherwise. And those times that hang

when we would all just settle in together was one of the things that made that trip extra special. And it was all thanks to Airbnb and what it provides that other places don't. So when you're looking for an authentic or local experience, book your next awesome trip today at airbnb.com. I gave a toast for Lauren and I will say, I think my toast for Lauren went well. And then Tina gave a toast that crushed. But I gave a toast that went well, but one joke didn't work at all.

And I just made eye contact with Al Franken. He was the perfect person because he also knew it hadn't gone well. And he just looked at me like, ha! It's like a big... I felt very seen by Al Franken. I mean, outside of The Friday Show, which was just pure joy,

every other moment of it was like tough room central. Oh, yeah. Like everyone there is the people that have seen and heard every joke their whole life. Yeah, because also Radio City had that, there was an anonymity to it as well. Yeah. Where at the 50th proper, you were both an audience,

and yet you felt you were on stage even in your seat. You also, they had built a new bleachers. So like, when I was in Domingo, I could like see people's faces in the audience. Yeah. Very clearly. Like I was like looking right at Steve Martin and Malaney. Yeah.

Wait, Andy, did you have any interactions after the short with any of the people that were in the short and their faces had been manipulated with the anxiety? I did. I was very happy I did. I got a chance to chat with Billy Crystal about it. And? And he was lovely.

I had recently met him, I think I had mentioned, at one of those SNL gathering photo shoots and was so happy to meet him. And I was like, I hope that was okay. And he was like, of course, of course it was fine. He was very, you know, gracious about all of it. And I was like, did you have anxiety when you worked at the show?

And he was like, yeah, a little. You know? Guy was giving me my follow-up was like, did Eddie Murphy have anxiety? Yeah, and I was like, yeah, but you. You know? Guy was giving me my follow-up was like, did Eddie Murphy have exactly that? Yeah, and I was like, yeah, but you guys, they were a different thing though, because they were the Ringer cast, where it was like they had all already had success on their own.

And he was like, you know, you have regular stage hitters, but it wasn't the fear of like, am I going to make it on the show? Because they were all already made. But I had an interesting thought talking to him, and I wonder if you guys have a feeling on this. I was like, I think that season might be one of, if not the most quotable, seasons of SNL ever. Interesting.

In terms of how many sketches happened for the first time during that season, where like- Give us some examples though. So Marvelous, obviously. You look marvelous. Yeah. Synchronized Swimmers. Yeah, examples, though. So, Marvelous, obviously. You look marvelous. Yeah. Uh, Synchronized Swimmers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And also, uh, Marty and the other pre-tape,

where he's like the nervous guy smoking. I didn't say that. Yeah, that one's great. And then Billy has another really famous one, right? Oh, is it, uh, I Hate It When That Happens? Yes, exactly. With Christopher Guest? Yes, exactly.

That's a great sketch. I mean, those are the ones that just pop into my mind, and I'm sure there's more. Yeah. And then Jackie Rogers, the Jackie Rogers sketch. Exactly. And what's the other Marty, Ed Grimley. Yeah, I must see. Yeah, that's...

Yeah, very good. I mean, just off the top of our heads, that's what, six or seven? That's a good amount, for first times. I mean, probably 80s times when there's like Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Schneider, like a lot of people doing very like, quotey characters is also in the mix. I was sorry to miss you, Saturday Toast,

but it was very funny because it was sort of a toast to Lauren. And Lauren got up and genuinely said, and it was about 11.30 at night, maybe a little bit earlier, but he said, well, thank you so much, but I've got to go back downstairs now because we have a show tomorrow. Yeah. And it was like the dream Lorne toast, which is Lorne always wants to be toasted as an inconvenience

to the work. That seems right. Yeah. I think it's the coolest way to exit. Yeah. It was trippy being in New York and seeing, like, every cab and surface covered with ads for the 50th while working on it.

Yeah. And also that the tagline was, a special 50 years in the making, knowing that everyone there had started working on it pretty much the week before or that week. Yeah. And I was like, I mean, we're pulling from the 50 years, but in terms of like the actual making.

That is very accurate and thrown together last minute, just like the rest of the show. I wanna just shout out that people, certainly you more than me, Andy, as far as the work you put in, the people that work on the show now that also got drafted to work on the 50th, I feel like it's been 18 months of talking about it

while also not being able to start working on it because of the way the show is wired and Lorne is wired. So there was just this building pressure with no way to actually release it because the only thing that allowed release was just getting within a week of the show. That's right. Also, they were doing other shows of like almost all the way up till.

They were doing like Timmy Chalamet like two weeks before. And I think they maybe stretched it, like it was maybe two weeks of work as opposed to a normal one. Yeah. But there was a table read the week before and that was another, when it was over, I realized, oh, this was the last time.

Yeah. And it was so special because it was mostly writers. I was jealous of not getting to go to that table. That would have been cool. I really, one of the best parts of this entire ordeal for me was hanging out with current SNL writers and just that feeling of, you know, sitting on a couch in somebody's office

and just talking shop about the show. Um, because I feel like I knew a fair amount of them, but some I'd never met before, and I just got to hang out with them. But they just did such an incredible job. I love that it casually became an ordeal and no one blinked when you said that. Yeah.

This whole ordeal. It was an ordeal. It was totally, totally an ordeal. But do you guys know like that group like Bulla and Jake Nordman and Mike Tichenzo and Sierra and August and Sudi Green, Alison Gates? It's a great group of writers.

I know a lot of them now because I went back earlier this season and they're all great. Oh, right. And Streeter. Streeter and Mikey who do so much. I mean, all of them do great work on the show. Yeah, absolutely. Week in and week out.

But it was very cool to get to sort of sit at the table and see them up close and personal. And then so many of the people that are still there from our time like Ken Sublette and Brian Tucker and Kenward, but also the ringers they brought back, like, you know, Spivey and James Anderson and Paula Pell. Yeah. You know, obviously, Malaney and Tina.

Simon Rich. Simon Rich. Yeah. I thought the cut to the writers in the rain was a very nice moment in the Steve Martin monologues. It was funny. Oh, I wish that had been so many people. I liked the group that they had, but I wanted it to be like 500. It was a very nice moment in the Steve Martin monologue. It was funny. Oh, I wish that had been so many people. I liked the group that they had,

but I wanted it to be like 500. It was a good group. The other thing is that the fact that Jim Downey was wearing an eye patch because two days earlier, he fell off the stage at Radio City. He's fine, but had to be taken away in an ambulance. You know that's Jason Raipman's Saturday Night Movie. One of the things people say is,

they take a lot of events and like kind of compress them into the 90 minutes before the first show, but they happen over the course of years. That felt like a moment that you would fake to make happen the week of the 50th, which is like, and then down he fell off the stage and now he has an eye patch. You'd be like, yeah, that happened like seven years

before the 50th. That didn't real. That wasn't real. Seth Lee, Rob Klein also came back, helped me with the medley. He overs't real, that wasn't real. Seth Lee Robb Klein also came back, helped me with the medley, he oversaw that. It was great to see Klein. And honestly, I think maybe worth taking a moment to specifically point out Joast, right?

Joast. You and I were talking about this while it was all happening where I was like, Joast did so much fucking work on that thing and wrote so many- And took care. Yeah. Fed wrote so many. And took care. Yeah. Fed so many mouths. Truly.

And wrote really funny shit. Jost is wired, and it just speaks to his core sweetness. He's wired to take care of people. And, you know, he wrote that New York musical. And I think there were like 35 people in it? Yeah. And maybe my favorite line of the entire 50th

was David Spade being back in his seat. Same. It was my favorite line of the entire 50th was David Spade being back in his seat. Same. It was my favorite joke in the whole thing. Perfect line and exceptional delivery. Just hands down my favorite joke in the whole special. And that's saying a lot. I got a feel for it. Perfectly written, perfectly delivered.

And so SNL. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. It just keeps going. Yeah. Credit where credit's due, that New York musical is wonderful. It was so fun. Seeing fucking Nathan Lane doing a kuna matata about cocaine, Disney's going to be psyched.

It was another one of those jokes. I was like, fuck, that's good. Yeah, Nathan Lane was wonderful. And then Scared Street. Ugh. You know, that in a night where it takes a second to parse everything that is going on, the fact that Will and Eddie were in a sketch together.

So rad. So rad. And both just killing and both super loose. Super loose, super present. And that moment where all three of them with Keenan got mad and did a single file towards the camera. And they all buzzed the lens. It's so funny.

Yeah, that was the other pinnacle for me. Seeing Denise and Goulet together was special for me as those two characters are like two of my favorite characters. Is it, oh, okay, I'm gonna say some dumb. That hasn't happened before, right? No. Right, has not. But they're like made to go together.

It's just fucking fantastic. I've never been in the building for a Goulet. But before we worked on the show, and we've talked about this a lot, the Goulet stuff was so, so fucking beloved in our friend group. It's like we would quote it constantly. And it is the genius of the way Will

made famous people characters. Yes, exactly. Neil Diamond became a character, it wasn't actually based. He did a thing that was Goulet ringtones, I think. Yeah. And I went on the internet somehow and downloaded the ringtone and made it my ringtone

on my flip phone. Which one was it? Which one was it? Dingle dongle, dingle dongle, someone's calling you, Goulet. Dingle dongle. Stuff like that. Like a man who truly doesn't understand a cell phone. Dingle dongle, dingle dongle.

I want to say, because Spade had more in that sketch, for someone, you were in it as well, Andy, but I thought Kyle and Beck, who each had one moment in Domingo, were both so perfect and great. They were really good. And I really liked knowing, because there's also that level of difficulty

when you have one moment in a show like that. Kyle able to sing in his character, like, just kidding, Kyle. Also, your marriage is healthy. You're just like, oh, God, so weird. And Beck was so aggressive. Yeah, truly. The two of them together also,

it was that sweet moment where you realize, God, you guys are, I'm so glad you found each other because you don't overlap at all. They occupy the correct space for each other. In style and taste they do, 100%. Yeah. Also, Domingo has that, you know, the core premise of it is so funny.

The jokes in it are great. Yes. Scottsdale is a super funny joke. Yeah. That you're both from Scottsdale and it's also your name. They're the three Scots and I'm Dale. Merrill was great. Merrill in Close Encounters.

I mean, it's weird because you kind of expect it, and yet it's still amazing to see. Still very fun. The moment where she sort of turns and starts hitting on Pedro Pascal is when it took it up a notch. Yeah. She calls it mustache. Yeah. A very patient hitting on. Oh.

Our friend Rachel Dratch totally in the pocket as Debbie. Did we say this already, Seth, that we locked eyes when it started killing? We were like, oh, it's so fun. Yeah. I don't know if we did, but it was a moment. We're just like, oh my God, Debbie Downer's about to crush at the 50th, this is so thrilling. And De Niro.

De Niro, perfect. Perfect. Black Jeopardy, which remains one of the great sketches in the history of the show, Michael Che. Was Eddie doing a better Tracy than Tracy? I know. Wait on the comments. Tracy, the moment where Eddie said, as Tracy, we do look like we could be related

and Tracy wouldn't look at him and said, I don't see it. It was rude. That's also, that's Brian Tucker and Michael Che, who write that thing. And also Che, I don't think would mind me saying, I saw him right after he had gotten off the phone with Eddie and they had talked about him doing Tracy Morgan and Eddie had just literally just started talking as Tracy

and Che was just transcribing. Amazing. Che said that four cheese lasagna was something that Eddie just said. When Che was like, do you want to do Tracy? And he just said that and it was like, okay, we're good. I guess so. Oh, Sandler's song.

Oh yeah. It's like someone calling their shot because he's done it so many times. Yeah. But the idea that he comes out with a guitar and you know it will be sentimental and deeply funny and it will not ever drift into Schmaltzy. It will just feel like he's speaking to your heart. Because you know him and you trust him.

So you're like, if he decided this is what it should be, then it's probably right. That was my favorite part of the show. I really teared up. Maybe my favorite observation in the entire show was that needle where you thread it, you make an inside joke that people on the outside immediately get why it's funny.

Yeah, for sure. Which, by the way, that was the challenge of what he did and of what we did. Yeah. And arguably was a little more for people who worked there in moments for people who never did. You had people approach you afterwards we were walking out, the people who worked on the show, Andy, who said it was their favorite thing.

Cathartic was something that was said to me by a lot of people who worked at the show over the many generations, which made me feel great. Little BTS on Sandler's song. You wouldn't have seen this at home because we were in commercial break. Sandler walks out. Oh, I know what you're going to say. People give him a little half cheer.

And then I was sitting right in front of Rob Schneider. I was like, oh, boy, here it comes. Here it comes. And then we, you can't do it. What are the bigger laughs of the night? Well, everyone laughs. But also it's like, we know you can do it. Everyone laughs, it settles back down,

and then Sandler's like, all right, buddy. And then it gets quiet, and then he's kind of just sitting there for a little while, and then again, he goes, too long. He was made to wait too long in front of the audience. And that made everyone laugh fucking hard. And it was very funny. It was great. The person who made me laugh the hardest

in between the commercial breaks was John Lovitz was one seat away from me. John Lovitz is so funny. And every time Chris Kelly, the stage manager, would say like 15 seconds back, he would go, hey, Seth. Like, loud enough for the people in our section here to be like, hey, Seth, did you for like the people in our section here he'd be like hey Seth did you audition for the show? I'm like yeah and he's like I'd love to hear the story I think we

all would. Really funny. Veterans. And every time I got up a few times and I had to walk past him and every time I'd come back in the island need him to move he would go, you again? I kept going down and bringing waters back, Andy. You did, and it was very appreciated. Because it's three and a half hour show, and I feel the freedom of movement because it's also the floor I work on. But most everybody was sort of glued to their seat.

And if I had a highlight moment, it was I was walking up with eight waters and Keith Richards was on the island. I said, hey, Keith, you need a water? He was like, oh, thanks, Oh nice. Yeah. You guys, not that I wasn't in your section, but I wasn't in your section because I wasn't allowed there. So I was in Seth's stage, which was the overflow. Oh yeah, how was vibes in the overflow room? It had a lot of hitters in there, I'm not going to name names. But we actually immediately fled and went up to Higgins' room and hung out with Sher and Dennis. And it was so nice to be back in that.

We spent a lot of shows in Higgins' office making gin and tonics, and it was just nice to be in the guts of the building again with everybody. But they did turn my studio into, there was a bar, there were seats. And I talked to people who said it was a pretty fun vibe in there. It was nice. It was nice. But you know, we bounced immediately. Were people watching the show in the other stage?

It was harder to, which is part of the reason why I wanted to watch in Higgins, honestly. It was just like to focus on it with like writers. Yeah. Oh, you went up for good nights, obviously. I did. That was a very fun stage to be on. It was crazy. But there was a moment where it was so crowded that it got a little uncomfortable. Yeah, but then it was lovely everywhere you turned there was somebody. I mean, I got a hug from Sir Paul McCartney.

Pretty good. Pretty good. Kind of top moment in life. You know who was one of my top moments who I talked to, who I'd never met, who was on the show, but my connection to him is his work outside the show was Anthony Michael Hall. Oh, wow, yeah. Who could not have been sweeter and was lovely to talk to. Oh, cool. Yeah, I've never met him. There was also, what did you and I do as soon as the show was over?

Well, we and our respective wives and Shoemaker went to your dressing room and had a nice nip of bourbon altogether in sort of a peaceful, calm moment after the craziness. We gave ourselves half an hour before we went over to the party and I think it was a necessary reset. It was and it filled me with a lot of happiness. Yeah. The party, which was amazing, was also so loud. Well, it was massive though. Yeah. so we did find our way to a room

that was a little bit quieter, but it was... But I heard after the next week, I heard there were rooms I never even saw. Really? It was a huge, big, open, sprawling thing with many, many caverns. Yeah. I'm gonna say, it might be the last great showbiz party.

Okay. I don't know what is ever gonna be like. Wait, how late did you guys stay at that Jamie Jam? I wanna say like till like four. 3.30 maybe? Okay. How about you know what is ever gonna be like. Wait, how late did you guys stay at that Jamie Jam? I wanna say like till like four. 3.30 maybe? Oh, okay. How about you, Yoram? Three, me and Mari were, we got fucking kids, bro.

Not like you guys. Yeah, it's true. I did take my kids. I poorly scheduled a trip to the Bluey experience. You sent me a picture of it the next morning and I was like, holy shit. What time did you go, Seth? 11 a.m. But we were up at 7 a.m.

Wait, what were your guys' best experiences with cool, famous people at the party? Well, we said Bonnie Raitt, that was a good one. Yeah, that was very cool. Bonnie Raitt was A+. I mean, it's crazy that I was saying this. There were so many famous people that you see people that are used to being the center

of all gravitational pull at a party, walking around by themselves, like looking for someone to talk to. Yeah. Yes, which is always funny. It's so funny. We're like, oh, they're going to be like, I guess I'm just kind of nursing my drink.

Yeah. I'm not just saying this, but it was an absolute joy to just see people who worked at the show. I loved running into Betsy Torres, who was our... We spent a lot of time with the censor at NBC. I believe I heard it was her last show. She retired. Yeah. That was her last show. She went out with that show.

She went out saying to Higgins, the lines in Scare Straight are not okay. Well, yeah. I mean, he literally says, like, come into your brown or something, right? Yeah, but it's a it's a play on words It is not That one I was like, holy shit you can't say that so that was her mic drop

She was like you can't say that dropped a mic see you later By the way in the first draft Joe showed me at one point They said something like that and Sadega said whoa Macintosh. come on. It's 7 p.m. I'm on the West Coast. Oh, they should have kept it. I know. I know. It was great. That's perfect. Oh, by the way, I want to I do think we should acknowledge

every scared straight that we ever did, Sudeikis' hop back onto the desk got bigger and bigger and bigger. Yeah. It just killed. And when it got to that moment in the sketch, me and you looked at each other, Seth, and we were like, here we go. Is he gonna do it?

He jumped back like four feet. It was a really good one. It was great. I missed him. One of the other things, the downsides of the after party is the people you realize you didn't see at the party. And that night, when I was in the car home and realized, oh man, I never saw a suds, and I rode him, I just want you to know how when I was in the car home and realized, oh man, I never saw Suds.

And I wrote him, I just want you to know how happy I was. Cause you really landed it. It was a real, he got like both cheeks, hit the desk at the same time. It was a real- He caught air. It was special.

Yeah, it was great. I didn't see him. I didn't see Forte. I missed a ton of people. There were people that were there that I didn't even know were there until the next day when I was like seeing news. Yes.

Like Lauren. Lauren. Yeah, Lauren was there. Oh, I do wanna, because it was pure joy to be at the Update Desk. Yeah, nice work. I was so, I mean, it's pretty much the same team that was running Update when I was there.

Wait, are we in Seth's Corner? Yeah, you know what, Yoram, sing us in. Seth's Corner, you're all invited. Seth's Corner, it's happening right now. Take it away, Seth. Jost, the best, as I said, he took care of a lot of people. He took care of me. He said, we'd love to get you an update.

Do you want to run a feature? The first time those guys used to do that was my era of update, Fred and Vanessa. It's very happy to see those characters back. So fun. And also, Lorne was slow to sign off on the premise of them being Lorne's friends. That is just a case where Lorne doesn't like to ask

or okay attention towards him. Sure. It's not his style. Sure. With that said, he gave it the okay. And the two great things, one, I mean, the best thing about my time hosting Update was just being close to people who were crushing.

I just loved it so much. And I had eyes on Lorne because much like you, when you were doing Domingo, you could see the faces of the people. I knew exactly where Lorne was. Lorne was laughing so hard at Fred and Vanessa. And he was also laughing in a way because they were talking about him,

and there's that part where they say he was going out to eat, and they're like, what about us? And he's like, you two don't look like you'd have much trouble finding food. And Lauren made a face like, no, I wouldn't. Like, even though he knew it was a joke, I felt like he had to make a look like, I would never.

I also had a great moment, which I was like, oh, there's no reason not to do this, which is, I was sitting next to Joe's and basically, you know, they do, you know how it works. They do a run, I'd say a line, they do another run, I'd say a line. And I just like reached over and put my hand on Joe's leg to be like, look at us.

Yeah, yeah. And he was like, just put his hand on top of my hand and it was just like one of the nicest moments to be like, oh, look at us. Yeah, yeah. And he was like, just put his hand on top of my hand. And it was just like one of the nicest moments to be like, oh, look at us. That's fantastic. Asking this question is probably gonna ruin the niceness of the moment. No, I feel very confident it won't.

No, we know what's coming, so it can't possibly ruin it. Y'all get boners. But really, did you though? I mean, I think as soon as you said it, every single person listening to this was like, oh, did they get did you though? I mean, I think as soon as you said it, every single person listening to this was like, oh, did they get boners though? Look, I already had one because I always got one when a feature was working.

That's it. That's how much you like comedy. Bobby, really fun to watch Bobby and Cecily. They were both wonderful. Bobby, again, it's Jost. I mean, Jost writes both of those too with the respective stars of it. Cecily and him, right girl, came to the party.

And then he writes Drunk Uncle with Bobby. And Drunk Uncle, you forget, has like a three-act structure. Yeah. Where he always comes out and is like, he's a blowhard. And then he starts admitting it all comes from a place of self-doubt. Then he cries. And then he says really, really harsh shit.

Yeah. But that thing where like, really harsh shit. Yeah. But like that thing where like, so maybe I'm not land shark. Like that was the most meta moment of the whole thing was like drunk uncle realizing, oh, I'm not a land shark. Love it. Really, really good. I feel like we're forgetting something. There was so much.

There was so much. It was like a wedding. It was just like a sprawling. You couldn't take it all in. Yeah. And when it's over, you couldn't take it all in. Yeah, and when it's over, you're like, oh, I wish I just could have slowed down time a little bit. Yeah.

It's almost as if you wished you could turn back time. Turn back time? Ooh, she did well too. She did great. Has she ever sung it not in the close from the video? That is to me the greatest part about it. It's so impressive. Like I was immediately like, God, I to look like that when I'm her age.

Is that what you were thinking? Yeah, like if I could be that fit, also Bonnie Raitt too. I'm like, oh my god, the two of them are like... Yoram's corner is just him like really into older women. Well, I bet Seth, I told this to Andy, but I bet my wife that I could look like Jeremy Allen White from his Calvin Klein photo shoot by the end of this year. So I'm very focused on health right now. Great. When did you place the bet?

January 1st. Okay, cause I was worried that was gonna be the answer. I have not seen much difference in the first two months. Well, to be fair on this podcast, we don't show people the video of the podcast, but I haven't done it shirtless. Yeah. It would explain why you've just been doing very slow curls. Yeah. Yes.

Another thing that's nuts to me as I talk about how happy I am that I'm not doing late night this week, they're back today. Yeah. The etch a sketch of like, hey, you did a great job, now do it again. Yeah. Last special, 40th, there was kind of like a legendary concert at the after party. Yeah. I was told people did perform at the 50th, but I kind of missed all of it somehow.

That's why I was jealous. I assumed you guys stayed for that because I heard there were some pretty good matchups. Like Forte performed with Eddie maybe and some other stuff. Oh, really? Yeah, some other good stuff happened and we missed it. Haim, I know Haim got up there. Yeah, I got to know Haim was there. I did, I hung out with him a lot.

Fine. I'm better friends with him than you. Well, I was in one of their videos. That's true, damn it. It also compared to the 40th, one difference, there were way more live sketches, which I thought was very cool and less reliance on, less reliance on montages, which I thought at the time I thought was great.

Yeah. And yet the amount of people I talked to who said, I wish there'd been more montages. I love those so much. And you just realize, oh, there's a reason. People love watching old montages. And like the commercial one, which was, again, Colin Jost wrote that really funny intro

with Alec Baldwin and Sarah Sherman. The joke about Alex, I should have corrected people on that. It was a very funny joke. It was a very good Joe's joke. And then the in-memoriam montage, which was Steve Higgins' brainchild, was so fun as well.

It was definitely interesting to watch. Yeah. You know how you said, Andy, yours was for the room? That was the most not for the room. Right. I think, in retrospect, the one? That was the most not for the room. Right. I think in retrospect, the one we made was more for the other studio room than the room we were even in.

Yeah. Like the room we were in, the biggest cheer of the night was Donna because it was all hosts. Yeah, that was a great joke. And Donna was great. Her performance was great. Oh my God, Donna crushed the joke. The timing of that was fucking flawless.

Jason, my mom! God, Donna crushed the joke. The timing of that was fucking flawless. Jason Momoa! By the way, did you already tell us that we saw the moment when they saw each other at the after party? No. With Jason Momoa and Donna? And Donna, and he wrapped her up in a huge bear hug and it was so sweet and funny and cute. Did either of you guys get to hang out with Spimey at all?

I didn't get to see Spimey. I did, I got some good Spimey time. Oh, that's great. She also was on my show, which was really fun. Oh, yeah. Andy, I don't want to put you on the spot, but you ate shit super hard on the bee yesterday. Yeah, but I got Queen Bee clean today.

Yeah. By the way, I think I was like 19 off yesterday. I bailed 12 shorts. The worst showing I've had maybe in three years. It was a tough one. But it was nice to bounce back today with a full Queen Bee. Queen Bee? Yeah, a Queen Bee. It's shocking that we haven't heard that on this years. It was a tough one, but it was nice to bounce back today with a full clean B. Clean B?

Yeah, a clean B. It's shocking that we haven't heard that on this podcast. It really is shocking. I want to give a quick shout out to how the opening Blues Brothers number that Jimmy did was so high energy and fantastic and felt so authentic to the Blues Brothers. And then it was so funny to me how winded he was.

He was no wind. That was great. I will say it was so funny to me how winded he was. He was no wind. That was great. I will say it was satisfying because I was like, how's he not winded? And then as it ended, I was like, oh, I see. Yeah, he was inappropriate amount of winded, no shade. Yeah, I could have done a third of that. No.

Was that really him singing? It was good. It was great. It sounded like, it had to be, yeah. Couldn't fucking believe it. It was great and the dancing was so fantastic. So great. Wait, hold on, we haven't talked about my cupcake to be, yeah. Couldn't fucking believe it. It was great. And the dancing was so fantastic. So great. Wait, hold on.

We haven't talked about Mike Cupcake dancing, though, guys. That was really good, too. It was. You did a great job. Thanks, guys. Thank you. I met Diva for the first time, which was super exciting. Mike Diva directed the short. When did you decide to just start

grabbing people clapping? Pretty early on. OK, gotcha. So that was always the plan. Mike Diva's brother, Dave, made that beat. And when he sent it, we went through a few iterations and I picked and chose things from a few different versions and put them together.

I love that beat. Yeah. I asked for like a Billy Ocean-esque vibe and he delivered in spades. But he did the breakdown musically that turned into the every single person who ever worked it. And I think there were maybe even hand claps in the beat that immediately made me be like, oh, we should get everyone who's ever worked there saying this line and clapping or looking

like they had anxiety and clapping. I was very happy because we got called up to do it. And Shoemaker was just coming with me to come with me. Yeah. To go visit you as well. Then because he was there, you guys forced him to do it. Yes. Shoemaker, not in a million years,

would have said yes unless he was in a situation that he was in where he was susceptible to be bullied. Then because we didn't want to dog out any of the crew that never get any camera time, we ended up putting you in a split screen with Will Ferrell and some other people. Yeah. But it was great. The crew was, a lot of those guys work on my show and they were so psyched to have been in it. I mean, it was a love letter to everyone who ever worked there.

Love letters. We love a love letter. You love to love. Yeah, it's so weird that none of it's true, though, and it doesn't cause anxiety and it doesn't make you take anti-anxiety pills or anything like that. A number of people that went out of their way to mention that they connected with the IBS joke.

Yeah, really? I was wondering about that. Look, I polled a bunch of people and then just inserted all the information into the song. Uh, the pipes could talk was that. Oh, well, no, my favorite was the coal mine. I polled a bunch of people and then just inserted all the information into the song. The pipes could talk was that. Oh, well, no, my favorite was the coal mine break. Coal mine break was all Akiva Schaffer. I love it.

Did he have the setup? Had somebody said the coal mine thing first or was the entirety of it set up? Entirely was him. I sent him a long voice note of the ideas I had had so far for the song before I'd even written a word of it. He sent a voice note back being like, oh yeah, and at one point you could do this.

It was basically the first three lines of the coal mine thing and then we added notes from Lorne. The notes from Lorne was great. Drinking sweet tea. It was the coal miner tapping his knee nervously. That was my favorite. Well, there we go. I mean. Well, wait. Save the best for last. Yorm, talk us through my favorite. Well, there we go. I mean.

Well, wait. Save the best for last. Yorm, talk us through the cupcake. Yeah, talk us through the cupcake. Okay. So it was hot in there. The material was hot, but I persevered. I got into it.

I got into it early too when they wore like, you know, you have five minutes. No way. I'm in it early. So I'm ready to get on. I get the sleeves on. I get the tight things on, and the boots and everything. I had to practice the squeezing of the cat to make the smoke come out.

I actually stayed after rehearsal was over to make sure that I knew how to work the cat in the big gloves and everything like that. I was there, I made it happen, and I was so thankful to just be a part of this big celebration that was like honoring what this show meant over 50 years to so many people. And so I was there. I loved it. That was great. All right, until the next 50th.

I mean, do we think there's going to be a 55th? Well, we should probably pause until the next 50th. I think they should probably just do a 50 first. I mean, I just think they should. You know, you were saying about the taxicabs, and I, you know, it's kind of like life at SNL. Because again, I worked in the building. The entirety of the 30 Rock subway station

was postered with all of our faces. I didn't take a single picture of it. I realized today it's down. They kept it till last night. And I'm like, what was the point of any of this if you can't, like, document it? And I'm like, what was the point of any of this if you can't like document it? And the reality is you don't document it because the only way to be effectively a part of SNL

is to be hyper present on the work. Right. And I always felt like I'm jealous of people who, you know, the amount of people who did like photo dumps over the course of the weeks leading up to it. I feel like I did not take a single picture in the time I was there, almost because I thought it would jinx it. I didn't take any photos either and I think maybe I blew it.

Yeah. But again, nose to the grindstone, man. Yeah. Well, guys, we're going to move back in time for the next episode, but it was really, I mean, it was lovely seeing you both. It was very special. I feel like it's going to take a long time to process the old SNL 50th, but I'm glad that I have you guys to do it with.

It was nice to be there in person. All right. Well, I love you guys. Love you, buddy. Love you too, guys. Very special thanks to Airbnb for their help sponsoring this episode. It was a delight to record and we hope you enjoyed listening to it.