The Questlove Show - Questlove Supreme: Cecily Strong

Episode Date: January 22, 2020

Saturday Night Live’s Cecily Strong chats with the team about ketchup on hot dogs, other city food trends, why the SNL house band probably hates Questlove, and more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Supreme. Sets, subrima roll car. Supriva. Suprema roll call Let's make you sound like nine people Supraima Subma role call Cecilia's arrived

Yeah And she'd be strong Yeah Oh my God I just messed up my own roll call Ha ha Broca Supra

Suprema Supriva That's how it is Suprema Suprema Role call My name is Sugar Yeah

Been waiting so long Yeah To profess my love for Cecilie von Ziggasar Suprema Subima Role Call Suprema

You cut Supraima Roca Call Islaeam Yeah With Cecily Yeah

Damn I messed up too I was gonna say horny to you What is going on Holck Is it Monday Suprema Suprema roll call Suprema

Suprema Well I'm Sessly Yeah Feel kind of dumb Yeah Hope I don't ruin this show Yeah Before it's even began.

Roll call. Suprema. Suprema. Suprema. Suprema. Wait a minute. Suprema. Suprema.

Stop the theme. No. We're breaking our own rules. Stop. Stop. Stop the theme. Just mute it. Yeah.

Or mute it. We just got murdered on our own. This is some Nage Z shit where like Eminem murdered us on our own shit. I feel good. I said Cessley-Ivon-Z-Z-Zar. I think you kind of fumbled the leg. I'm good. I'm good.

Can you pronounce it fully? Did, did my name or Von Zieg? That ain't her name? Steve just said. Oh, I thought you were referencing a middle name or something. No, Cessley von Ziegazar, if I'm pronouncing it correct. I don't know your middle name is. Oh, it's not bad.

Okay. That's not her. She wrote, Cessley von Zegazar wrote the novels that became Gossip Girl. How do he? Wait, how do you know that, Steve? I looked up famous Cecily's to try and get some ideas. You really be doing your, okay, roll call. Did you know this before he referenced it?

I did this take you by surprise as well? No, I mean, I forgot who should. There's a couple of Cessley's. Yeah, there's not that many in history, to be honest with you. No. My grandfather was Cecil. That's why I'm Cessly. And I don't know Cessly.

Well, yeah, this is a sad lobe for us on Questle of Supreme because messing up our theme is such a rarity. It's been three years. It makes me feel very comfortable. I will say, it makes me feel at home. You did awesome. Okay, well, I'll give you that point advantage, Steve. Leave me out of this. We messed up then.

Me and I'm here. Messed it up. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another edition of Anemic Supreme, brought to you by the only one. Questlove, we're at IHeartRadio, streaming on all formats that you get your podcast goodies. We have Lightya in the house, and we have Shoehlav. Sugar Steve. Shout out to unpaid Bill. And Fon Ticillo's out getting cigarette still.

He said he returned one day. Yeah, we're waiting. And Boss Bill. We're like three. Oh, Boss Bill, that's right. We're like half a six-pack. Yeah. So what rules can we break now that boss-buck?

We could eat. We could do. Can we eat? No, I'm supposed to be in charge. So I got to show some order. So no guys. We're sticking by the rules. We talked to Cessley and we don't go into the rabbit hole.

So I can't eat my breakfast. right now? Well, knowing you, you got some little birdseeds. So would you go to that? No, that's good. It's good. Anyway, ladies and gentlemen,

our guest today, I'm very, very honored to have. What I, when I mention my place of employment, I refer to it as 30 Rock University. I consider it a college, a post-grad school. I consider it life lessons.

And it's always an honor to pick the brain of fellow 30 Rockians, especially those that are in the upper echelon of the eighth floor of the institution, otherwise known as Saturday Night Live. I will say in the last eight years, our guest today has given me some of my favorite moments on the show ever. I try not to stalk her DMs with praise over that night's performance, but I'm a nerd that's always like somewhere in the audience, judging every show. your characters alone

I mean your stormy Daniels your Melania Trump your Lynn Manuel Yeah Was that's why I'm really mad that Fricking Bill's not here Bill's a fellow Hamilton night Anyway ladies and gentlemen

Please welcome the original Cessley Strong Oh thank you So happy to be here Yes we're very happy to How are you today? I'm right I'm cold It's cold

This weather is bad It is hell, especially where we work. Yeah. Getting to work. Are you a real New Yorker? I think it's like American Gladiator around this time of year. Like trying to get into that building. It is, yeah, it's the hardest thing in the world.

I try. They're firing at us. You know how they did that on American Gladiator? Yes, I know. Very familiar. Do you, are you a subway to work person? Are you a walk to work person? I'm a walk to work.

Oh, so I see. Oh, God. You, you, ooh. You followed the rules. Wow. Okay. So when I first started working here, I naturally thought, okay, I'll move to Brooklyn or whatever. Yeah.

And my management's like, nah, if it was up to them. Like, Steve wants to joke, like, they want you to live at 31 Rockefeller Plaza just, you know, just in case. Because it's almost like being on call to be a doctor or whatever. Like you have to immediately. And just as important. Yeah. No, well, it is. Actually, you, that's what you do.

I mean, you too, but I was just saying that what she does. Like, it's an institution, so yeah, it is. I feel like an on-call doctor. Like, you pretty much, if they call you, you have to be there within like a half hour for anything. I don't know if it's that way all year-round for you, though. I mean, once the season's over. Oh, yeah, no.

Then they're not allowed. You have something called a break? Yeah. You have two phones then? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They don't get the other number. Wow. Shut up.

out to two phones. See, I told you. I'm kidding. But I do have a burner number. That's kind of exciting. Oh, my God. You're like a character on the wire. Yeah. Did you get it from the bodega? No, it's on my phone. But it's because I use so many apps, like ordering things. I don't leave my house.

Wait, time out. Okay. So I'm about to reveal my age. You're telling me that I can get a burner number and still on my phone? Absolutely for free. And have two numbers on this phone. Yeah. Now, I know you could do that with like, is that like the Google phone number thing you're saying, no? It's similar, but it's its own app. And you can just choose your-

So like if a Tinder date goes good, then you can give your real number. The real, exactly. And if it does it. It's great not having to give out your real number, yeah. Ah. Well, see, now's the point. My burner, my fake phone was, my bat phone was once the coveted phone. And then for some reason now, I've given.

everybody my bat number so my real number like no one calls that anymore. Oh yeah. So I dubbed that mom phone. That's 681 number. My, it's mainly your number out. I'm sorry. We learned quick. He was like, he ain't answering this. Yeah,

you know, I don't, yeah, that's mom phone. Only talked to my mother on that phone. Okay, so what got you here? Where were you born? I was born in Springfield, Illinois. Okay. So to outsiders of the Midwest, us East Coasters, in our minds, it's either Chicago or not Chicago? Right.

So it's definitely not Chicago. How not Chicago is it? It's very not Chicago. I mean, I only was there for a year and a half. Okay. So I can't say I remember much of Springfield. It's the capital of Illinois. Well, pretty exciting.

It's also where the Simpsons live. And I actually, I saw, that's, I think that's where Barack Obama. announced Joe Biden as his VP in 2008. And you were there to see it? You know it. Drew three and a half hours. I see. And Abraham.

Freezing. And Abraham Lincoln. You're on a roll. Gossip girl. I looked up famous Abraham's. So you only lived there a year and a half. And then where did you move? Right.

And then right outside of Chicago. Okay. Park. Are you, okay, anybody that's from... Dan Hess-Lennata. Did you say Simpson? I did it. I said because the Springfield.

Oh, so that's why Springfield. Well, no, that was just a weird coincidence. Segway. So, yeah, there's two questions about Chicago. One, as a resident, are you sort of dismayed at the sort of hashtag, what about Chicago staying that's on the city right now, or at least the kind of the cloud that looms over the idea of Chicago? Like, what is your version of Chicago?

It's weird because I, when I, I mean, I grew up, I did a lot of theater in Chicago as a kid. And then I was, my dad worked in PR in Chicago and did a lot for the Democratic Party. And again, when I think of Chicago, it's all like Obama for me because that's the years I was there. I think it's always, and I have a good friend, my little sister, she's my fake, little sister from the south side. So, of course, her experience was very different than mine growing up. But I think...

Wait a minute. I'm sorry. We have to acknowledge, like, I only felt like black people had, like, play cousins and family members. Unless it's in the program. Is she an official little sister? No. Okay. Then, yeah, you're right. There were quotations.

There were air quotes. I was like, oh, why do you got played cousins, too? Okay, good. No, you know what it was? It was like, I met her. I just, I lost a friend to a drug, overdose, and she lost her older brother, which is part of Chicago, too. And it was kind of like we had, like, the universe gave us to each other.

And your friends to this day? Oh, yeah. She's coming this weekend. How much younger is she? She feels like she's like 15 years younger sometimes, but she's about five years younger. So you're motherly? Well, I'm an older. I'm not motherly.

You're the designated driver? Never designated driver. Just older sister. Okay, I see. Actually, what I want to know, I don't think we've interviewed anyone in the comedy world from Chicago on this show.

I don't think we have. What is it? Does this have something to do with mustard and ketchup and hot dogs? No, that's a letter. I want to know why ketchup is not allowed on... You know, I don't even eat hot dogs or red meat, so I'm not.

the one to ask, but I do know you don't, you're not supposed to. Yeah, like you'll get kicked out of... No, mustard, only mustard. And whatever, what is it? I've heard some, I've heard some talk and I believe that this goes back to the Heinz family from nearby Pittsburgh

sort of having a beef with the, what's the billionaire family from Chicago? The Piaz. Pritz. Yeah. I'm hearing that the beef starts there. So when you order...

But then Heinz bought the mustard, too. Well, maybe then it was like, okay, well, I don't want to be the person who's like spreading false propaganda. What I do know is that you get laughed out of any establishment. If ketchup. I think it's just like Chicago has a couple of things they just like to be stubborn about, I think. Well, your pizza sucks. Not you, but I'm just saying I don't like Chicago pizza? I mean, it's going to kill you.

I've done some research. Most of the food there will kill you, but it's so good. Well, cheese steaks will kill us too, so let it, you know. There's really good. I will say it's my favorite city to eat, some of the best restaurants I've ever. Even just like a small, like little Greek restaurant and a little time, it's all so good. I've been, okay, so as of this taping, for some reason, I've been booked in Chicago every weekend for the last five weekends. Great time to be there.

Gorgeous weather. Yeah. No, no, no, actually, no, weird enough. The last time... You're jinxing yourself, now, I will say. You're going to be stuck there. I will say that both times in the winter, it was like 59 degrees for some reason. I came dressed for like, all right, where's it at?

Where's the cold? Where's the cold? And I was sweating. Like, it was spring weather. I mean, I will... It's probably unpredictable. Yeah, but it's the worst winters. Oh.

I have like... I have like nightmares about it. I know. Thinking about it. I know. I know. But I will say that I tried, okay, they told me not to call it the Illuminati.

Luminati. Oh, Lou Malnoughtis. Okay, but there has to. I love Melnottis. There has to be a connection to the Illuminati. Is that a food? It's a really good pizza. And I will say I know Willie Melnotti.

He has a podcast now, too. He's in New York. About pizza? No. Oh. No. It says entertainment, but he is a Melnadi, and I did a show with him when I was 12 or 13 at the Goodman. Really?

And it was during the summer, so Taste of Chicago was going on it. We got free pizza. Still never been a tasty. Yeah, it's my favorite. Lou Malnadi says my favorite pizza. I will have to say I was really impressed with that pizza. You can get it shipped. I know.

Yeah. I don't want to do that, though. I know. I'm with you. That's a rabbit hole. I don't want to fall down. It's like I happen to do it. to pizza, so I have to stay away.

So how do you feel about New York pizza? I mean, I'm pretty much like all pizza. No, you can't do that. I do. Have you taken a pizza tour of New York? No. I will say, you know what? I did have pizza I didn't like here.

And I don't want to say. I don't want to say it's from because I don't want to. Is it not raised? Or is it an established spot? It's an established spot. People sit on in Williamsburg. Grimaldis. I love that you're looking at me.

Well, because the show's so anemic now, there's only two people left. You better look at Steve for Brooklyn references. I don't leave Manhattan. I've been to Brooklyn three times. What is going to be in? I mean, there's plenty of shitty pizza in New York. But there's great spots too. Yeah.

It's the best pizza. But it's not like every slice you get is going to be like, New York City. See, for me, though, it's like, as far as the Korean Food Fair, Chinatown, even soul food, Jamaican spots in Brooklyn. I've... That's what a culture is. I've slowed up...

Well, I've just discovered that Queens is like... I might have to do my next book strictly on restaurants in Queens. Like, some of the best restaurants in New York are those family restaurants. Really?

Yes, in Queens. You got to venture out of the city. See, I have a car. I don't know. Yeah, you don't have a vehicle. Right. No. See, yeah.

If you... You need a Maybach. I'm just joking. What? You said the car. Anyway. I got you off track. You were going to say something about Chicago comedians before I brought up community.

We often rabbit hole on the show. Oh, sure. No, let's go back to Queen. Anyway, you need a car to explore the city for a proper food to. I have such bad anxiety. I could, I would, I could never. I never drive in this city. Really?

Well, this is the hardest city to drive in the country. Yeah. Yeah. I'm terrified about it. If you learn to drive in New York, you can drive anywhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. I feel like I can drive anywhere now.

They have the rickshaws now, too, with the bicycles. Yeah, I can probably do that. Those are really expensive. They're like, like $15 for 15 seconds. I can't. I don't, I will never feel okay about a person acting like a horse to me. It just makes, it feels like I, I would, the whole time I'd be apologizing, I'd be asking if I could help.

It would just make me, it makes me feel. I'd be watching a meter. Let me interject. All right. So, Laiae is clowning me about my swanky car choice. You still think about that. I was just joking. I coach which in Philadelphia, I would never let my friends see me in such a swanky,

swanky car. So I had like my very first cyan, a beat-up cyan. You still got, oh, my God. I will never divorce. You never give up your first car. Like, I'm keeping that shit forever. I love that car. However, yes, I have a swank-alicious car in New York because I got to get around and go to point A and point B.

The reason why I got that swanky car was because I learned the hard way, and this is pre-Uber, how cabs really won't stop for people of color. And I was rushing to Penn Station, and a poor Rickshaw guy had to take me. And this is when I was like 400 pounds. P-S. That was 200 pounds ago, people. I'm there. I'm almost there. I got 60 pounds on. All right.

So, yeah, 400 pound me and two big giant Kipling luggage bags. And the poor kid, I was like, are you going to make it to Penn Station an hour? Since I got this and cut to, like, oh. Like, he was, and the thing was, on my Twitter timeline,

literally on my Twitter timeline, there was like the narrative of the story, like, guys, I could have sworn I just saw a question. inside of a bicycle rickshaw on Fifth Avenue. It looked like him. Yo, dude, I'm on 42nd Street. I just saw question. Yo, dog, I'm on 32nd Street.

I think, best love. You know, the poor guy, like, listen, I missed the train. So it took him that long to haul, like, 500 pounds worth of, yeah. What was that tip of me, you had to do? You blessed him, right? I am addicted to over tipping.

Okay. That's one of my, and that's not even a humble brag. I'm one of those people that gets into those like you know the pretty woman that watch costs $2,000. Oh yeah I'll buy $95 billion.

Like I'm one of them people that will like defy you like I have money that sort of thing. You know sound engineers accept tips by the way. That's what Derek said behind you. That's what Derek said. Thank you. Steve is our sound engineer at 30 Rock. Anyway, so

why is Chicago the who dubbed it the or who christened it as the comedy epicenter like why does one have to go to Chicago Yeah I think

it just sir I think well there's a lot of theater in Chicago it's cheaper than New York and L.A. to live Is it? Yeah. It's like $5 probably Oh my apartment

cheaper or $5 cheaper for me. Well, I was living in, it was a weird little artist studio, and this was a lot of money for me, but it was like $600 a month, my rent. What year was that? That was 2000. Was it the Williamsburg of Chicago?

No, this was Old Town. Wow. I don't know the section, so, like, what would Old Town be here? So that's, oh, God, I would never know. That's where Second City was, like, a nice neighborhood. And my first apartment, it was a two-bedroom, It was big, and it was like we paid $700.

Uh-uh, uh-uh. I had a roommate. Yeah, so we each paid. You got to check in with your friends. I'm curious what if it's gone up. That's interesting. I mean, I'm sure it's. Right?

It's been a while, but yeah. We're here now. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care where you're saying. Yep, that's me, Cliver Taylor the 4th. You might have seen the skits, the reactions, my journey from basketball to college football, or my career in sports media.

Well, somewhere along the way, this platform became bigger. than I ever imagined. And now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifford Show. This is a place for raw, unfiltered conversations with some of your favorite athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. One week, I'll take you behind the scenes

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And we've got a special guest. The director of the NFL's East West Shrine Bowl, Eric Galco, joins the Sports Slice podcast to break down what really matters when evaluating draft prospects. From hidden traits teams look for to the biggest mistakes franchises make, to the players flying under the radar. This is the insight you won't hear anywhere else. If you want to understand the draft like an insider, you don't want to miss this episode.

Listen to the Sports Slice Podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, for wherever you get your podcast. And for more, follow Timbo Slica Life 12 and TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok. So you, what was your childhood like? What was your come-to-Jesus moment? with flirting with comedy. Because I don't, like, when do people finally admit, like,

I want to be in comedy? Was it that you wanted to be an actress for us? Yeah, I was, I did a lot of, like, straight theater growing up, and I did a lot, in Chicago, I did my first professional show. And they were all, like, dramatic musicals growing up. And then I went to college. It wasn't until college. I went to Cal Arts, and I had a teacher.

I was doing a scene from Angels in America because when I was 18, everybody wanted to do Angels and Ames. So good. And people were laughing. I was like, I'm being dramatic right now. And then the teacher suggests that I take a class at the ground legs. And that was like, I'd always, I mean, I thought I was funny, but I was also like, but I'm a serious actor. That's what it is too. So you really wanted to be serious instead it came off.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I think even now, that's how I started. I think like a lot of comedy is just human beings. human beings feeling anything can be funny. That reminds me. Speaking of S&L, I didn't realize this until maybe a week and half ago that Will Ferrell and Kristen Wigg actually did a lifetime movie. Yes.

Seriously. Like, they did it. Yeah, I think I remember this. They did it seriously. But as a tongue-in-cheek thing to be funny. Really smart. Yeah. Oh, I love it.

Yeah. I mean, they're both. Are they alumni? From, no. No, they're groundlings. See, between groundlings and second city. Bloods and crips. Yo, they got both, so of course.

Well, I will say, L.A., like, groundlings is very character-based. Right. And Chicago, there's like, you know. So break it down to people, because somebody's listening who has no idea of it either. I feel like I'm the worst to break it down. So this will be very simplified and probably comedy nerds will yell at me. But so L.A., groundlings, it's all very charactery. And then New York improv is very, like, fast.

It's closer to, like, what I would think of is, like, when you hear British comedy or English comedy, you know. And then Chicago does weird, you do, like, the, you know, we do slower artsy-fartsy sometimes. But I would say, like, improv is more Chicago and sketch. It would be more L.A. And it feels like when you're doing it in L.A., you're doing it to get.

Apart. TV jobs, yeah. So was there an endgame for you and entering Second City? Pretty much people know that the road that leads to SNL. I would never have ever said that because I just don't like to set myself up to be let down. I like to set the bar very low.

But I was just like, you know, if this is what my, if I get to do like some shows every now and then at Second City and at I. If this is like where the top that I get, I'd be happy. So what is the process? I'm only asking because, oh, God, how do I say this? Okay, so I once dated a comedian. Okay.

And I felt, see, I have. So it was miserable. I have. I have a relationship with failure, not as an F word, but as a learning experience. And I feel like in your years of comedy, it's almost like if you stay in your comfort zone and only perform for your friends or like this one bar, you're not going to grow. And I kind of have to tell her, like, you have to go, like, stop going to your normal spot where you know your peeps are and go to other spots to see if it works there as well. and was kind of hard-headed about it. And then really got a life lesson.

So she went to Second City. Yeah. That was her experimental spot? Well, you know, she left and went to Second City. And I guess under the hopes of I'm ready, so I know I'm going to go to Second City. And then in three years, I too can be Tina Faye, like that sort of thing.

Or, and maybe she's, like oh you can stay there for like that you can just chill and yeah people do because that's i mean after a while you're getting paid for shows so yeah i guess that's your lifestyle yeah and what what i want to know is that when people come first of all what is the process of second city is it a school is it just like what's the rehearsal process most people when they say they're they've done second city it's not that they've been on a stage it's that they've taken class there or done their own shows there. There's two main theaters.

I mean, it could be totally different now. And I was on a touring company for a while and I did a cruise ship for four months with the region. So a second city cruise ship? That was my first job with it, so it was very exciting. But then it's like

you're on this ship for four months. You're just like, I was never on land at night time which sounds crazy to say, but I really was like I just want to have a night on ground. But it was so it's like by two months in, I was like, I can't tell if it's prisoner vacation. And you're doing like very watered down sketch comedy for.

What's the age range? It was, well, we ported in New York. Was it billed as the second city players or? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think they have the contract anymore, but. It was like the first job most people do at Second City. So that's the entry level of... Yeah, yeah.

Were there any other notable... So I was on the ship with Alex Moffat, who's... Wow. Yeah. Yo, his Trump's son. Yeah, yeah, Eric. That's my all-time favorite show. Like, even when, like, I'll rewatch his facial expressions while everyone...

It's some of the best shit I've ever seen ever. Yeah. I love that. Yeah. Okay. And so how long was it until I'm assuming either Higgins or someone discovers you and suggests? Well, actually, I went, I got hired through I.O. So there's a couple of theaters in Provalentic, but they have to be called I.

There was like some lawsuit or the Olympics. You have to say I.O. Yeah. Okay. But it was IEO where I got my, I did my showcase for Lauren and some of the writers. Oh, so you didn't have to go through the audition process that everyone? No, no, I did. But it just was there.

Like, they go to different theaters. Because at Second City, it's only the people that are on the stages that'll be seen by SNL. So wait, this is this, I'm sorry, I'm going to ask you like a five-year-old. So this is a special show that y'all will do because you know that they're coming. Yeah, and they do it in LA, I think at different theaters. They'll just be showcases, pretty much. And it will it be showcases

for SNL or just... With people or... Yeah, yeah, for SNL. Okay. Okay. But is it with other people in the audience or just the seven of them in the audience? Oh, no, other people. Okay. Yeah. My family was there and I thought I bombed because they were so

they were so nervous because they were sitting near and Lauren. So their faces were just like they were like ghosts after I was like wow that bad huh did you remember what you did like do you remember your I I did like a lady from the cruise shit I did her trying to bring a pineapple on the boat or something I think I did Sophia Vergara nothing great I don't know it was and I had never done like I wasn't an impressionist really but it was to get like oh I'm going to do something that scares me and just kind of try this out.

And I took a workshop on solo characters. I would imagine that probably the best way to get on the show is to be moldable to be anything. You know what I mean? Like it's instead of like, okay, I do a very specific Donald Trump. And then like what happens four years later if that's out like. But you can be moldable to be anything. So I almost feel as though some people go into the process. Like I know people that have tried to go through the process that were kind of stuck in a category in a corner and they weren't moldable.

Yeah. Because I believe it's malleable. I let this first two times I let's go away with it. The third time I'm like, it's malleable, bro. I thought I just didn't know what he was saying. No, no, no. I didn't even, I wasn't even reaching for malleable. Just playing around, but it's malleable.

Right. I wasn't reaching for malleable. I actually thought moldable. It's not a word. Okay, sort of like imaginate's not a word either. Right. Okay, thank you. Like 78 other words I hear you say every day.

That's all the words. See, the spirit of bill is always here. Here we go. Malleable. Thank you. I wasn't even reaching for that. But, yes, malleable. All right.

And y'all would just go let me just say it. I thought it was a word that made all here every time. Yeah. This reminds me. Well, I appreciate this. This reminds me. me the time when the roots let me go all day wearing a shirt backwards and inside out. So when I got home and went in the mirror, I was like, wait a minute. Oh, shit. And then next day,

I was like, yo, why the fucking y'all tell me my shirt was backwards and inside out? And they were like, oh, we thought you're trying to get a different. Yeah. Staping. Moldable's cool. I'm down. I'll start saying it if you want me to. No, but I will not, I, I now know that moldable. is not a word. Good to know they're the same meaning, though, moldable and malleable, that's the same meaning? It's not, one's not a word,

so they're... Okay, well, you're right. Okay, gotcha. Let's go back to Chicago Pizzo. So, anyway, so... No, well, what I'm asking is, I believe, correct me if I'm wrong,

wasn't your first show the Mick Jagger season closer? I remember your entry. I remember... Oh, no. That was Kate who did, like, five episodes of that season, I think. Yeah, but you did a, you did, I could have sworn I saw you on a season closer.

Like, I thought it was weird that I tweeted out, wait, who's this person? I don't know this person. And then someone said, you, well, you're not a cast member. What is it called? The feature player. A feature player. But when did you come into the show? Was it the tail end of a previous season?

No, it was the start of season 38, 2008, 2000. 12. How many seasons? Lord, that's a, this beautiful. We're on 45 now. That's beautiful. Yeah. Yeah.

So, okay, so you didn't have to go through the process of just being in the room with seven people and. No, I still had. So I, we had that showcase and then we did like a weird speed dating thing in Chicago where a couple of us from that showcase went to go sit with the producers and pretend that was normal. And then, uh, then we got flown. out, 80 and I. I sort of got to go through everything with 80 though. Okay. Which was really nice. Because I was going to ask you, because Lauren is a very,

I don't know him at all. I've been in a room where he is. And he seems like someone who is, he could be intimidating. Yeah. So when you first met, because you just said, like, you know, I'm sitting, I did speed dating, Lauren was there. But really, you weren't intimidating at how I would have. Oh, no, I definitely was. I couldn't

tell you what I said at that table. I remember talking about Trader Joe's. Really? That's where I go. I'm not going to imitate Lauren right now. Wait, I mean, are you allowed to, okay, this is the tester. This is how I know if a person is cool or not.

Oh, no. I'm going to fail. Are you allowed to have popcorn? His popcorn? Yes. Everyone is, yeah. Oh, okay. Well, then, I'm not everyone.

Well, when we have, like, the meeting in between, the meeting in between dress and air, there's a big basket of popcorn. Right. Yeah. Okay, but that's show time, but I'm talking about off show hours. He got it in his office or something? He keeps it in an office? Yeah.

Yes. Yeah, that's important. I mean, I'm sure he let me just so he wouldn't have to say no. But I don't know that I'd go knocking his door and ask for his popcorn. Okay. I was the type of person. That's where you went wrong, yeah. No, actually, I brought, well, I purchased three.

three big ass bags of popcorn and brought him in Lawrence. That was my first meeting with Lauren. You purchased? There was once on 48th Street, like, House of Popcorn. He didn't charge you for his popcorn, though. No. Okay, just checking. He brought his own shirt.

Just in case he's in. I brought my own. No, I brought it for him because I knew that the popcorn was a big thing. Kissed some more ass. Yeah, better you say it then. That was great smart. That's a good move. Great move.

He's the ass to kiss, shit, right? I mean, right? I think the room, we all agree. So in eight years, do you feel comfortable now? Is there still tense if he's, if you know he's in proximity watching? And, I mean, eight years, you're very established. No, yeah. Do you feel established?

I mean, yes and no. Who can ever fully. You always feel like there's a hand on the guillotine button, like. Oh, no, I don't feel like he'll. I guess it's more about the audience where I'm like I still don't know what they find funny if it's sort of like it's still a

I don't know what's going to work at dress so some things work to dress that didn't work on the show in the opposite Yeah yeah yeah Or things that like I find very funny That it turns out it's not like me So how does this work?

Because you're a writer so how often do you do your the things that you write get to be a part of the show Like what's the percentage of that? Um, if it's usually like if there's something on update, then it's something I've written. And then I've gotten a lot to dress this year and not a lot to air. What is that? You know you got to break that down for the dummies.

Okay. So we get things cut for time. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I have a question about the schedule. Because actually, like, he and I sort of quasi-quized sort of follow this schedule.

I'll schedule my life during the S&L season to sort of coincide with, what you guys are doing. So, like, Steve and I will, like, work Saturday afternoons in my studio downstairs in my dressing room, and usually I'll be done in time to go watch the taping. Yeah. So... Usually our schedule is pretty moldable,

but around SNL season, we're trying to moldable it. That's nice. That's a multiple. Anyway, so I know that... From striking up a friendship with a... Tim Robinson. Yeah. When he was writing on the show, he explained to us that you guys do, what, eight, dress or eight-thirty dress?

Eight. Eight. Eight dress, which is a longer show. Y'all are so cute. Dress short for dress rehearsal? A dress rehearsal. Okay. Thank you.

Not just for me, just for, you know. For camera. Yeah. There's eight o'clock dress rehearsal. Yes. You forget. I know. He does.

Oh, this is not a normal. It's not your fault. Language. With more sketches in it. And I guess who is the deciding committee on who makes it or doesn't make it to the final 1130 show? There's a room that I've only been in once. And it's the people in that room. But it's mainly it's Lauren.

Higgins and crew. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So is there like the high school, all right, so what word am I looking for where they place the Ziegazar? No, the high school, where you put the tackboard? There is a bulletin board. A bulletin board. A bulletin board.

Yeah. That's what I was looking for. So, or is it now with technology, you guys just get alerts of what your schedule is? No. And I wouldn't know how to get that anyway. There is, people have like an app where they can watch their sketches and I'm blown away by that. I'll never get it. Okay.

I just won't know how. I have the burner number and that's it. So when they put up, when the person puts up. up the bulletin board notice, then you all run like it's high school to see what made it, what didn't made it. Well, we all go into, it's called a meeting and we'll get notes. And you just kind of look at it and you try not to show too much how heartbroken you are when your schedule is on that side.

Now, again, with failure being the F word or an education process, how should. one, in the most non-diplomatic way, you can do it without jeopardizing yourself, but like, how should one take failure as a writer or as a person on the show if their sketch doesn't make it to 1130? I mean, it always, it's funny, some hurt more than others, and it's so, like, embarrassing how much sketch comedy can be so emotional. And Tim and I used to joke because some things get cut during the show. You know, we usually go in a little long.

So you may be dressed just like a complete asshole waiting to go. You're like dressed as a pumpkin or something ready to do your sketch about farts. And then they say over the thing, like that's been cut. And you're just standing there like crying, dressed like a pumpkin. Is that because of overages? Okay. Overges. Case and point.

I was, I think that's a word, by the way. Thank you. I was watching, all right, I was watching a Debbie Downer sketch. Yeah. That obviously went way over, then it's a lot of time, but because of the laughter and all that stuff to get to the end. Somebody has to get sacrificed. Right. So are sketches based on a specific time hoping that it doesn't run over or?

Yeah. I mean, usually if you're like a. in the last or second to last spot, you're sort of just waiting to hear the whole night. And there'll be time, like during the chance show,

there was an issue with the wires. And I just remember I was dangling there for so long and I was like, something's getting cut for this. I was going to say, while I'm dangling here. I know something's getting cut for this. Which leads me to the Tuesday night pitch.

Now the one, the thing that I always, and let me explain for our listeners. Higgins on our show, Jimmy Sikik on our show, is one of the main producers of SNL. So him doing the Tonight Show is sort of like me doing a DJ gig from the roots. Like that's his side hustle. He doesn't have to do it, but, you know, it's something to do and it keeps him sharp comedy-wise or whatever.

However, the thing I always ask about Higgins, the thing that I'm most curious about are how sketches are pitched on Tuesday night to whoever this. designated host is, how do you do it in such a quickly executed time? How do you explain a sketch that really depends on physicality? Because that chance sketch that you speak of is, was really, I mean, what made it hilarious was the fact that you guys were trapped in mid-air in these wires crashing all over the place. So how is that conveyed at a table? That they say, yes, that'll work. I've never had to do that.

We have pitched Monday, but usually that's like you're just meeting the host sort of and seeing what they find funny or just hearing them speak or seeing them for the first time in person. And then we write on Tuesday. And I don't normally talk to the host on Tuesday because I think then they may say like, oh, that sounds fun. and what if I do this? And you're kind of like, oh. Are they there every day? Yeah. From Monday till Saturday.

Yeah. Now we can bring in the time lapse thing. Oh, wait, but before we will. Before we do that, does that mean that comedian host are harder? Oh, way harder. Way harder. Yeah. Okay.

So then this weekend would be really hard coming up. Okay. Well. Thank you. I don't know. I mean, the thing is, is that Eddie, Okay, we're obviously speaking before the, you know, the Eddie Murphy, the grand return of Eddie Murphy to SNL,

of which I think that because he's such, because he's such a maverick at his job, that he would know to sort of go along with the climate of the room as opposed to. Now, I was there. I was there. in the whole Chappelle hosting situation. And once I saw Neil Brennan in the hallway, I was like, oh, boy. Right, because even if you get the comedians bring their own, oh, my writers, that's the cluster fuck.

You know, it's, I don't. Sometimes. Yeah, I think, like, this week is actually, I feel like I can kind of sit back because it'll be very much about, and like, I think that's exciting. And what he wants to do, and I'll probably do, like, an update. Are you? Well, only, okay, what makes, in my opinion, what makes his Dolomite film work is he's actually kind of a straight guy. It's his, it's like the planets that, the stars that surround and the moons that surround his planet is what really makes that film funny. Like, and he's reacting to.

You're right. Because Wesley Snipes makes it fun. Yeah, you're right. Like other people. And, you know, I think that you guys are on such a role. Like, I now consider as an S&L expert that your era of S&L will be considered like a high mark cast season. The way that we looked at the 98 cast with Fallon and Tita Faye and the way that people look at the class of 91 or 75. Like people have specific eras of like.

That was the Chicago Bulls of that. You guys now have your own rhythm when you're comfortable with each other. So I think it would just behoove any host to join the gang as opposed to disrupt them. I don't know. What do you think, Seth, because I think that's it. I mean, I don't know what will happen, but I assume, I mean, because it's his first time coming back and he was just so. Wait, he's never hosted? No.

84 was the last time he hosted it when Beverly Hose Cop came out. Wow. And the first time he hosted it was inadvertently when Nick Nolte, Nick Nolte was the only person to drop out of this show like the Friday before. Like, fuck it. I'm not doing this. And so they were like, oh. Yeah, when he was on the cast.

Yeah. So they were like, well, you're in the movie too, so you host it. And that became a game changer for him. Wow. You really are an expert. I only know because Soul Train came on at 1 a.m. And Soul Train came on right after SNL. So it's like you watch SNL at 1130 and then 1 a.m.

Finally Soul Train comes on. But if there were VCR back then, I would have probably just recorded Soul Train and not cared about SNL as much. Wait, so on that note, just question to you, are you, were you a fan, were you a Jane Curtin, Gilder Ratner? Oh, yeah. You were all in. Yeah. We had, I definitely, my mom had me watch, like, Gilda's show, her Broadway show on tape. I had VHS of, like, S&L's commercials that I wore out pretty much.

I liked Tracy. I mean, I watched a bunch of different comedy growing up. Did you have a favorite class, like Amir just said? I really enjoyed every iteration, I think, up until, like, like, you know, like you're 18 or whatever and you're too cool for SNL for a while. You know. I'm never too cool for it. You're busy. Busy.

Yeah. Very busy. Cool, popular. Always out. The party gets started at 1130. Yeah. So, okay, I got to bring up two specific. I don't say Pacific.

Specific sketches that you did that I felt like were really mind-blowing. One, for the physical comedy. When you do Fox News as Janine. Yeah. Piero. I don't care if I mispronounce her. Yeah, we don't care. In dress rehearsal, did you go that hard with the spitakes and the falling on the floor?

Yeah, yeah, definitely. You, all right, I was in the audience, and so to see you, it's one thing watching on television, if you're at home watching the angle of it. That's one thing. but to see you actually put yourself in physical danger, just like that second fall out the chair. There's two moments where she, you know, well, it's not a double take, but you threw yourself out the chair. Right.

I mean, I had a giant mat. I know, but even then. And I made sure to practice it a lot beforehand. And I was very, like, serious about it. Like, you promised me time to practice throwing myself out of a chair. And I need this time to do that. You did it on the floor or like elsewhere? On the floor.

Because you only have that. I just needed to see like the space, you know, seeing what you can do at that desk. You nailed it because it's close up. My shoe flew off on accident. I thought. Ah, I see. And then I was like, oh, I got to keep that. So then I had to try to flick my shoe off air.

Okay. I was a, it was spot on perfect. But the other thing is, um, You're Barbara Streisand Jingle Bell's Redition. Now, as a person whose band member is known for his breath control, the first thing I noticed was that you hardly. All these words. How do you, how long do you prepare a sketch or how long do you prepare bits? Well, that one, Brian Tucker, I got a text from him at like 2 a.m. with that song.

I just heard this in a cab, and I think this would be really funny if you want to do it. And so then I just, I was like, number one, that's very funny that Brian Tucker is sending me of Robert Streisand's song. And then if I, I just started practicing. I mean, it was just like, my neighbors probably think I'm insane because I'll just be singing things like that over and over. It's on repeat on loop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. At nighttime in my apartment. Yeah.

And so I'll be like 10,000. Malcolm Gladwell hours. Like, there's no way. Like, I put the, I put it on Spotify myself, and I was like, there's no way that she learned this in less than a month or year. Like, I thought that was something in your repertoire you had forever. No, it's just when you're a lunatic, I think, and you don't sleep. You've got all those hours in the night. You are a lunatic.

Yeah. Cessley, you never took singing like serious series? I mean, I sang. Because you sang. Right. But it was never like a singer-singer, no. And there's a lot of singing I can't do. Well.

So I'm more like, I can do sketch comedy singing. Speaking of which, what's the determining factor of when you guys warm up the crowd? Is it that in my mind I thought that was like, oh, this is when like you're new to the NBA and the freshmen on the new team had to carry all the bags. So when they warm up the crowd Keenan does his old soul review routine and usually three of the S&L ladies will be his Pips

so it'll be like his version of Glass Night and the Pips and they dress up for it and all this other And that's the same skit You never change? Well, no, no, it's just a warm-up thing Okay, and that's what I mean for the warm-up They always do the same warm-up Yeah, but I mean

The audience isn't crazy like me And be there every week True. It's new to everybody. Right. It's new to everyone. But what is the process of that? It's like if you're new, you have to sing, or is it like, how do you guys negotiate it? Are they told, like, well, it's my week to sing or? No, no.

I did it for four, five years or something. And then it was, but you sing, give me some leaven. Right. And there was like, now the newer girls do it, especially because of the, cold open is coming to do that warm up and then to go right into the cold open can be kind of tough and a lot of times Kate will be wearing crazy prosthetics or something so then yeah I was wondering how do you guys run with just three seconds left to right so it's uh but I was definitely like I am done to I broke my foot one year right before the show started so I got out of warm ups and then it was kind of like can I stay up? Speaking of Out, you were in the coveted anchor chair of Weekend Update. Yeah? Yeah, exactly.

Thank you. And then you, well, because of you, I guess we now have Michael Cheape. But why would you give up such a coveted spot? Well, I think it was doing it with Seth, who was so established, made it feel like I could just go. in and it was already a thing that I just could sort of slide into and then when he left

it was Colin and it was like clearly this needs to now we have to figure this whole new thing out and it was just like that what that would have taken if that was really exhausting and sort of

like I don't know that I want to spend my time now just figuring out what update's going to be So there were a lot of talks with Lauren and, you know, and it was, it wasn't an easy decision necessarily, but it was, I think, absolutely the right one. So would, would doing, does doing update require that you really have to have a chemistry with whoever your partner is on the show and? Well, I think it was, because he was so new too. So it was like two new people trying, and it was just like, I just like, I just. would rather, I missed, I just

want to do character. It's more fun. Yeah. See more fun to do the characters. So you can't do both. You can't do update and characters. I think if Seth had stayed longer, I would have I could have stayed longer because it was, I didn't, we didn't have to make something new. Yeah.

But is it rare though when we think about it? It feels like the folks who always do we can update do the least other stuff. Right. Because Amy did a lot. Right. Well, dang, you. Yeah. Amy did do a lot. But I think like once you But just to try to figure out what that new dynamic was going to be, it just felt like pretty daunting and exciting,

but not what I wanted to do on the show the most. I see. He's like so curious about SNL, man. I'm going to get past it. No, I mean, I'm not knocking it. I'm just saying it's a very cute, adorable childlike curiosity. It feels very good to go see a message. Now he sees like so many.

And it's like there's nothing. I truly am like it's very flattering and exciting. You can hear him laughing in the audience sometimes on TV. That's okay. What? Yeah. That's bad. No, I told them like, don't sit me.

The mic that they put me under. But the mic is as close to my seat as the microphone right now that I'm sitting in. Wow. And so occasionally Jimmy will hit me like a. I think like, really? You thought that Harry Potter joke was really that funny, Amir? Really? Yeah, I always get outed with my laughter, so I try to suppress it.

Have you done S&L Amir? Here's the weird thing. And speaking of when things get cut, we were, weird enough, yeah, always a bride's mate, never a bride. You and Tareke, like I see that. We were Busters band. Weird. enough, hosted by

Donald Trump? We were, yeah, we were, Buster Rhymes has been on his, on the 90, on his 99 show, I think hosted by a, oh damn, why don't I fall down this rabbit, all?

What's like woo-ha? No, no, that was his, give me some more, period. Okay, do I really want to try to figure out this host name? No, no, no, don't try to figure out. Just tell us what I was there. Oh, he's in Georgia the jungle.

Um, George. Which one? Wait, the last light, was he a voice? Oh, come on. I don't do this to me. Was he blue? He was also in the movie in which the woman was the devil. She's real sexy. She has an English accent. Elizabeth Hurley.

Yes, you're right. Huh? Yes, Brandon Fraser. Oh, okay. Nice thing. Wow. Yes. We can play trivia together.

We got Elizabeth Hurley. Yeah. No, no, it was Brandon Frazier. I hope you die. I hope you burned in hell. I love it movie. Anyway, so, yeah, the Brandon Fraser show. And then the Donald Trump show, in which we did an album with Toots and the May Tales.

I remember that. Okay. And Quinn Stefani. So does he know you want to be in a skit? Because I know. Chesson probably knows everybody else. No, I don't know. No, I, my love of the show is actually watching two things I love.

I love watching the panic. Whoever your wardrobe lady is that, or not the wardrobe. Yeah, the host. The one that wrangles. Yeah. That's my favorite thing to watch. Like to watch her grab after monologues done, she will grab you by the collar.

Donna. Yeah, that, to me, watching the machine run is my favorite shit ever. Which is still on some VIP shit, because I don't like other shows. S&L ain't the kind of show where you can be like, yes, can I get on the list for a next month's show? Okay. However, my second favorite thing is, I love

I love throwing off the audience clap when it's time for the end. So the band will try to teach them all the time. If they're ever off... Watching the band Just so disappointed in the audience every night. It's not the audience.

It's not the audience. It's me. Oh, because it's a... But it just speeds up, you know. They go so fast. I'm the guy. I'm the one in the audience. that speeding up the clap,

knowing that the nine people next to me. Oh, I love doing that. So what are you doing in me? Wow. I'm sitting in the audience and I'm speeding up the clap knowing that 13 to 14 people next to me are going to speed clap with me

and then so on and so on and so on. And then I mess it up. Every time it's messed up, you know. Now I'll know. You know to look up in the balcony be like, yeah. I got to tell the band.

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My last question is that most people use SNL as a springboard to other careers. We're actually now being on SNL is actually a cool end game. Yeah. I mean, Keenan's on his 20th year, I believe. Yeah. Yeah. So. Wow, has it been that long for Keenan?

Yeah, but it works for him. Straight from Good Burger. Just pimp. Yeah. I mean, he's a genius. Yeah, but that's amazing. He's made for it. It works for him.

Like, and so, but I mean, I'm certain that people had like, well, you know, Eddie Murphy did it. Sandler did it. You know, Tina Fey did it. Like, for you, do you have a vision board? And I'm not asking for, like, this is your last year, but do you have a vision board that you might consider, like, okay, the end of this particular sentence? will happen this particular year and then I'm going to develop either this show

or direct this movie or right? Yeah. I mean, I think there's a lot of things I'd like to be doing. Some things you can do at the same time. So it's sort of, it'll just depend on when it feels right to go. But there's a lot of things I'd like to be doing, like a lot of different things.

I think I brought up a project to you once that I wanted you. to do that I'm still hoping. Are you... Oh, we're propositing each other now? Yes. Yeah, yeah. Yes, I'm the king of yes.

And then Steve laughs at me, like, when are you going to fit this in my schedule? Can you be the king of follow-up? The schedule is always tough, yeah. It's the worst, yeah. So do you plan your summers early? Like, are you a... It's so hard to... Because so many things fall apart.

I mean, in this, just in this industry, you think you're doing one thing. So then you don't plan for something else. And then that falls apart. So it's really just like, it's very frustrating. And then to know that I am taken from September to May, that's really tough. So that'll sort of be the deciding factor. If there is an important enough offer, are you given leeway to take this week off and then?

I think now, they've been more lenient. I mean, maybe I shouldn't say that out loud. But it seems like it, that they're letting us sort of do that a little bit more. Does some seniority kind of? Yeah, and I think it's, I think he likes having an established cast and having people that know each other. And it's sort of like, if that's how to keep people, that maybe is the way to go. what's like

Lauren Scorsese's like I gotta have you as De Niro's daughter and the Irishman can you do it these three weeks? I think then Lauren would make me I would have to yeah that's what I was saying okay cool oh one last thing I was there

when you did the last I say the last White House correspondence dinner oh yeah what was that like for you it was so it was terrifying because they asked me in August or something, and it's not until April. So I had like months to doubt myself and think about failing. But it was like, again, I'm a big Obama head. And it was like, I just, and everyone was like, don't do it. Nobody like, you never win. You don't win in that room. The best you can do is break even. But I was like, but it's Obama, so I have to do it. For Chicago. Regular people or industry people. No, like, industry people.

Really? Yeah, yeah. We're definitely trying to talk me out of it. I don't think people remember that. People just remember that you did it. Or unless you really want to make a mark like Michelle Wolf and like really lay the gauntlet down. But I thought it was great.

It was a few in the past. I really killed it. But now did you say it? I'm like, I can't even remember who was. I killed it. So yeah, I mean, it's right. Well, I think Colbert had a big one. Yeah.

Which one was the year that Obama rapped? I don't know. But Keegan was there. That was the word. That was the word. And that was like, oh, great. That was right before I go on. Oh, that was the same one.

Yeah. That was a good night then. It was a good one. Yeah. I thought it was excellent. I thought it was tasteful. It was very, it was cool. And it was the first, it was a, I brought like 15 people, my entire family and my grandfather and grandmother on Arlington National Cemetery, Colonel Cecil Strong.

And it was the first time I went with my dad to his parents' graves. So that was, it was a very emotional trip as well. That's awesome. Well, I'm glad you made a decision and not to listen to anyone that helped you talk to yourself out of a great opportunity. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm always going to take the chance

to sit next to Michelle Obama. That's a small group of people who have been asked to do that, so that's a big honor. That's great. Well, Cecil, I thank you for coming to the show and molding. And being multiple.

We looked it up. Moldables. an actual word. Sorry. Oh. Thanks again, Derek. In the clinch. Derek, man.

You come through in the clutch, man. You're about to get that tip. Thank you. Todd Rundran would be very mad. Shut up, Steve. All right. Oh, thank you.

I appreciate you coming in the show. I'm so happy. Thank you. You're definitely one of my favorite players. I appreciate you enlightening our audience. All right, kids. That's another episode of

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