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Colin Jost
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Colin Jost
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Colin Jost
I can work with them.
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Colin Jost
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Seth Meyers
Question Can I to the producers? Can I give a bonus question if he doesn't get the first one?
Colin Jost
Yes. I think there's a room full of
Seth Meyers
producers all very upset. You know, my dad is very upset that the Pit, for all its success, there's literally no one, no one Pittsburgh accent. And I've explained it to him that if they were to have Pittsburgh accents, people would bring their TVs back to best Buy and say, this one's all, yeah, I want to come back. I really like this.
Colin Jost
Oh, you like it?
Seth Meyers
I want people to know that I came in. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Colin Jost
Mindy Kaling came in, hated it at first, and by the time she left, still hated it. So there you go. I love New York City. But with that said, I feel every now and then New York City should write a love letter to you. New York City's the spouse that should reach out to you and say, I'm sorry I left the trash in the street for a year. The man who said that quote is sitting right next to me.
Seth Meyers
What it was so much. I very thrown right off the bat. I did see a dead bird on the street on the way here. Like a well preserved robin. I almost took a picture of it, but it felt like not the right thing to do.
Colin Jost
That's the kind of story you can only get here in New York City, AKA the Big Apple.
Seth Meyers
Why do you have to look down for the Big Apple?
Colin Jost
This is my.
Seth Meyers
This is a trivia show you did. You had to double check if it was called the Big Apple.
Colin Jost
He was a bot. He is a writer, a comedian, host of his own Talk show for 12 years now and truly one of my closest friends.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, that is true.
Colin Jost
He also claims to know a little bit about DC Comics, the television series the Wire and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Seth Meyers
But I want to just say something only because you forced me to say three categories.
Colin Jost
I strong armed doing this.
Seth Meyers
You are such a dear friend of mine. Genuinely. I was trying to think of the friends that I would do a trivia based podcast with. And there might only be two other people.
Colin Jost
Who's the other two?
Seth Meyers
I don't know. I think Mike Scher.
Colin Jost
Sure.
Seth Meyers
If he asked me and no, I don't, I think I'd say no to Sandberg. It might be just the two of you. Like guys I love, guys I do genuinely anything for. But FYI, I don't like it when I think about the way I want to spend an hour with you. This is not near the top. I do any. I would spend an hour with you doing anything. I'm just saying on that list, this is near the bottom.
Colin Jost
Seth Meyers with that said welcome to funny you ask.
Seth Meyers
I'm just, I'm worried that. Here's the thing, I didn't jump. I didn't call you and be like, I got three things. You forced me. It took me like a month to come up with a third thing.
Colin Jost
I was gonna say you gave me two and then you sat on it for a while. Yeah, but I know you and I know what you know. And now everyone's gonna know what you know.
Seth Meyers
But I also wanna say something to the people who also know these three things. If you know more about it, that doesn't mean you love it more than me.
Colin Jost
I know. But honestly, if you're a specialist on any, any of these three things, you're a nerd. So who cares what you think?
Seth Meyers
I don't even think I'm. By the way, what I'm learning about even just being married and having children, I'm not even an expert on myself. Trivia of my own ability to remember things that have happened.
Colin Jost
Well, you have three kids like me, and I've learned that you get exponentially dumber with every kid. You know what I mean? You're just a little bit of your brain.
Seth Meyers
Do you think you get dumber or there's just. You keep adding people who call you dumb to your face.
Colin Jost
That's basically. I think that's what it is.
Seth Meyers
You just start losing confidence.
Colin Jost
This is our first podcast here in New York City, AKA the Big Apple. AKA the Big Apple. If you make it here, you can make it anywhere.
Seth Meyers
Except for that bird.
Colin Jost
Except for that dead robin that Seth did not photograph. We wanted to get some guests that symbolize New York City. Oh, we got you. We got Anthony Weiner.
Seth Meyers
Oh, that's a good one.
Colin Jost
And the Cannibal Cop.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, those are good ones.
Colin Jost
Yeah, those are three good. Yeah. The Cannibal Cop will be via Zoom at Rikers.
Seth Meyers
Right, right, right. Cause they caught him, right?
Colin Jost
Oh, they caught him. He's not eating anybody. The judge said you're not eating anybody. You lived in New York City for 25 years now.
Seth Meyers
That's crazy.
Colin Jost
That is crazy.
Seth Meyers
That is the craziest thing.
Colin Jost
You have become a true New York City fixture.
Seth Meyers
I feel like this is another. By the way, this is the best thing about New York City is I got off four blocks from here to walk to see you off the subway. And I 1 saw a dead bird and 2 passed a guy who said, colin Jo, still love ya. And then I said, Seth Meyers. And he went, ah, I don't like him.
Colin Jost
No, I don't like him. Who to you is like the quintessential New York celebrity sighting. Like when you see them, you're like,
Seth Meyers
I mean, the quintessential New York celebrity sighting for me. I mean, De Niro's right up there.
Colin Jost
That's a big one.
Seth Meyers
Stiller. Edie Falco.
Colin Jost
Edie Falco.
Seth Meyers
Those are some of the ones.
Colin Jost
I've seen Alec Baldwin before. My friend said he saw Alec Baldwin one time. He has like 16 kids and he said he saw Alec Baldwin and he was holding a bag and one of his kid's hand and he was holding a two year old, but he was holding it like a pizza. That's a New York sighting. Alec Baldwin carrying a child like a pizza.
Seth Meyers
I was walking my kids to school and I live in the same neighborhood as Alec Baldwin and obviously I've known him pretty well. The times he's done snl and I was doing times tables with my boys and we were walking. I was doing them, and then all of a sudden I heard a voice go, don't listen to your dad. He doesn't know what he's talking about. And they looked up and it was just Alec Bolland. And he did. I was like, hey, how are you? He's like, good. And then he looked back at him. He's like, ask your teacher. Don't listen to him. And then it was. He just kept. He stayed in character and never laughed. It was a very.
Colin Jost
9 times 9 is actually 82. So here's how this game is gonna work, my friend. We're gonna torture you. I'm gonna ask you a couple questions about one of your topics. Yep, we'll chat. You're gonna ask me a question from a completely random stack of questions that Annabelle has curated. We'll talk for a minute. We'll repeat that two times. And then we have the speed round.
Seth Meyers
Oh, my God, that's novel.
Colin Jost
Forget about it. Fucking forget about it. Are you ready to get to.
Seth Meyers
It's New York. We don't got time for the normal round.
Colin Jost
Every round is a speed round in this city, my friend. Are you ready for your first question?
Seth Meyers
Sure.
Colin Jost
It's about DC Comics.
Seth Meyers
Okay.
Colin Jost
This standup starred in Chappelle's show as Ashy Larry and hails from Washington, dc.
Seth Meyers
Sorry, what?
Colin Jost
You said one of your categories was DC Comics. I'm assuming that's comedians from the DC area.
Seth Meyers
I see, I see, I see what you've done here. I don't care for it. And I was starting upset, and now it's just so Dave Chappelle. That was your.
Colin Jost
The answer is Dave Chappelle. The answer is Danelle Rawlings.
Seth Meyers
And I'm joking, of course. I see. I see.
Colin Jost
I'm joking. You're talking about DC Comics. You mean like Superman?
Seth Meyers
I see.
Colin Jost
Batman. Here we go. Your real question is Boy. Question number one. Three years before the invention of Marvel's the Avengers, DC unveiled a comic about a group of superheroes. This all star collection of DC's top names was known as the Justice League. And the original lineup consisted of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, the Flash, Aquaman, and what green dude from another planet?
Seth Meyers
Martian Manhunter.
Colin Jost
Boom. Seth Meyers.
Seth Meyers
Really nice.
Colin Jost
You are on the board.
Seth Meyers
That was a nice. That was a gentle first question.
Colin Jost
Seth Meyers, you're on the frigging board, my friend. How about that?
Seth Meyers
You used to bully me about the fact that I bought comics.
Colin Jost
Oh, and I still do. This is a form of that. Here's your bonus question.
Seth Meyers
Oh, boy.
Colin Jost
You got a bonus question. What is Martian Manhunter's real name?
Seth Meyers
Jon Jones. Boom boom. Spelled J, O, N, N, J, apostrophe O, N, N, Z, Z.
Colin Jost
It looks like Jon Jones.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Colin Jost
Like, if that was real, it would be like the director, Spike Johns.
Seth Meyers
Yeah. So. Because also he's sort of shape shifty. So Jon Jones would also sometimes present as not a big green dude.
Colin Jost
You picked comics as one of your subjects, as did Jimmy Kimmel, although he picked Marvel.
Seth Meyers
Yeah. That's good.
Colin Jost
My question is, why don't you two nerds fucking marry each other? Yeah, you know, right.
Seth Meyers
I guess because we're, like, happily married already.
Colin Jost
Hey, how happy would Donald Trump be if you and Jimmy Kimmel got married? I told you.
Seth Meyers
I think it would be a real one stone situation for him. Moving on. Not two birds.
Colin Jost
He would constantly.
Seth Meyers
Although we're down to one bird.
Colin Jost
He would call you guys in Beast Street Bird. But he would be like. He would call you guys like the lovebirds. The lovebirds are at it again. Nothing would make Donald Trump happier if you married another late night talk show host. How old were you when you started reading comics?
Seth Meyers
I probably eight or nine. Eight or nine years old.
Colin Jost
And you still read them?
Seth Meyers
Not with the same amount of regularity, but I do still. If I hear something's great, I will still go out and buy a comic.
Colin Jost
Follow up question. How much does your wife hate comics?
Seth Meyers
I think she doesn't. I think she. You know what? She really. She just hated that the boys got into superheroes because there was just a lot of, like, superhero, like, costumes and stuff.
Colin Jost
Sure. Okay.
Seth Meyers
And she sort of blamed the superhero stuff for the fact that they would just wail on each other. Yeah. I was like, dude, any kids, any boys are going to wail on each other. Any boys are going to wail like they don't need to as a reason to do it.
Colin Jost
Okay, who is your Justice League of friends? I'm not asking for your top tier of friends. I'm saying there's an evil force in the city.
Seth Meyers
Right.
Colin Jost
It's a man who is. He's big, but not like Galactus big, but he is made of gas and he can create explosions.
Seth Meyers
Sure.
Colin Jost
Who are you?
Seth Meyers
This is the first time you haven't looked at notes, and it's really evident.
Colin Jost
It was pretty good. Who are you calling to fight this evil force? We're gonna call him El Destructo.
Seth Meyers
Okay, but so you're. But like, you're saying, like, you have created a villain. As if I have friends who are Good at fighting. Like a gas base.
Colin Jost
No, maybe more. It's like we're all gonna die. Who are you gonna kind of call to hang out with us?
Seth Meyers
This isn't to stop.
Colin Jost
No, because you're right. We couldn't stop. Who do you call to be like, can you believe what's going on right now?
Seth Meyers
Gotcha. All right. So, like, you, Sandberg, you know? Sure.
Colin Jost
So you would be Superman. I would be maybe Batman. Sandberg. Aquaman.
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Seth Meyers
Sandberg, I feel, has a good Aquaman vibe to him. Sure. Sure is kind of like. More it's Marvel, but like Professor X. Like, kind of Brainiac.
Colin Jost
Yes, he's very Brainiac.
Seth Meyers
Y. There is a Brainiac in the DC universe, but he's a villain and I will not make sure.
Colin Jost
I have a question about him.
Seth Meyers
Later, we'll edit much about. I don't know much about him.
Colin Jost
Well, you're gonna.
Seth Meyers
We'll see. And yeah, I mean, that'd be fantastic.
Colin Jost
Obviously, I love superheroes too.
Seth Meyers
I think she's very big, huge fan.
Colin Jost
Do you remember when the movie Sisters was coming out and it was opening the same day as the first new Star wars and we all went on your show and you asked a Star wars question and Poehler goes, I don't know. Who fucking cares? Fuck Star Wars. I'm not a baby. That was really funny. We have a clip. We're gonna play that clip.
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Colin Jost
We actually did a superhero show together called Awesomes.
Seth Meyers
Three seasons on Hulu.
Colin Jost
Three seasons.
Seth Meyers
Very well.
Colin Jost
Early Hulu, kind of.
Seth Meyers
Yeah. Back when it was a big deal like we were, they treated us very well because they didn't have a lot of talent. A lot.
Colin Jost
We went to Comic Con.
Seth Meyers
We did.
Colin Jost
And I gotta go with Comic Con. I gotta go to Comic Con with Josh Meyers. Your brother. One of my dearest friends. Yep.
Seth Meyers
Old man.
Colin Jost
Emily Spivey. Yep.
Seth Meyers
One of the funniest people on earth.
Colin Jost
Two people who could not hate Comic Con more. Absolutely miserable the entire time. Like, Emily just kept going.
Seth Meyers
Ugh.
Colin Jost
Do you remember when we were in, they had a bus for us that was driving around and we were stuck in just horrible San Diego traffic. And Kenan was in the car with us. And there was a guy who was stuck in traffic driving some Comic Con vehicle. And Kenan just started doing his interior monologue. He said, man, fuck this. I don't even know what a Comic Con is. Anyway.
Seth Meyers
My most recent best of Spivey story is I did a. I was doing standup at a casino in Albuquerque and I saw that next week Patti LaBelle was playing. So immediately, already I had a Spivey friend of mine. Then when I went out on stage at this casino to my show, there was a Mr. Like, you know, like shooting mist behind me for like the. To sort of like as a lighting effect. This is the sound the mister was making. And I knew the audience couldn't hear it, but I Could hear the mister. And it was driving me crazy. And I made it 10 minutes into the show until I asked them if they could turn off the mister. Which they did.
Colin Jost
Right, right, right.
Seth Meyers
Then I texted Spivey and I said, I would like you to write a sketch where Maya Rudolph plays Patti LaBelle trying to get them to turn off the mister. And like, as soon as I hit send, I got a text back. There was a monologue, Patti LaBelle's monologue that was like, mister, who is doing the miss mister. Were you 86 the mist mister and it was just a real reminder of
Colin Jost
how she's the funniest person legitimately, one of the funniest human beings alive. What are. We finally are living in an era where they have good superhero movies, because growing up, they were kind of few in front of each other.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, there were no good one. I mean, the first Batman was a big. I mean, the first Superman.
Colin Jost
What are your top tier superhero movies?
Seth Meyers
Well, I'm going to tell you, maybe my favorite superhero movie is Unbreakable.
Colin Jost
Oh, wow. You really zig. Where? I thought you were going to zog.
Seth Meyers
I think that is a low. I think that's low key. Just a kind of perfect superhero.
Colin Jost
That is a very good superhero movie.
Seth Meyers
Ragnarok is just absolutely top tier. Best time.
Colin Jost
Absolutely. Superman 2. Very good.
Seth Meyers
Is Superman 2 very good.
Colin Jost
Superman 2 is where the phantom zone gets very, very good.
Seth Meyers
And I mean, I really. I mean, I do really like the Michael Keaton Batman a great deal as well. Yes.
Colin Jost
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Incredibles is a great superhero movie.
Colin Jost
Very good superhero. I hung out. I worked with Michael Keaton recently, and we were talking and I was like, who are you? Like, your Hollywood friends? And he was like, oh, this guy. And this guy. And he goes, and you know Jedd Nicholson? Cause you know Batman. So cool.
Seth Meyers
Have I done my Michael Keaton brush for you? Ask me a yes or no question.
Colin Jost
Are you hungry? It's really good. Hey, fix your posture. Come on, stand up. Stand up straight. Stand up straight. What is the single greatest comic of all time?
Seth Meyers
The single. Oh, my God. What a wonderful question. Single greatest comic of all time. So I'm gonna say first eight issues of Grant Morrison's Animal man.
Colin Jost
Ooh, wow. Grant Morrison. One of the goats.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Colin Jost
That's really good.
Seth Meyers
And that. That. And again, I think a lot. It's a little bit. I think comic books are a little bit like, you know, Lauren always says about SNL casts. It's like when you first, like, your favorite cast is like, yeah. And so I was I think when I was a kid reading that Animal Man, I read comic books enough, and it was a little bit. It had this deconstruction to it that I found, like, groundbreaking. Yeah. It endures. And I would say, like, if you're reading, like, one issue. If you had to read one issue, I think Killing Joke.
Colin Jost
Killing Joke's mine. It's crazy. I did love watchmen. Okay, question two about comics. Here we go. Of the top 20 comic book characters with the most issue appearances, Batman is number one and Superman is number two. Both DC characters.
Seth Meyers
Right.
Colin Jost
The rest are mostly Marvel, except for two more DC heroes.
Seth Meyers
I credit the writing of this.
Colin Jost
Thank you. Yeah.
Seth Meyers
This is a wonderful question.
Colin Jost
Thank you.
Seth Meyers
So I'm gonna. As a hint, have you said their names already? Were any of them.
Colin Jost
I've said one of their names already.
Seth Meyers
Okay.
Colin Jost
And the other sometimes works in conjunction,
Seth Meyers
so it's Robin and Wonder Woman.
Colin Jost
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Seth Meyers.
Seth Meyers
You didn't have to say the conjunction thing. That would. I think I would have got it.
Colin Jost
I would have edit that out.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Colin Jost
You knew it. You knew Dick Grayson.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, yeah. Jason. Dick Grayson. Jason Todd, Damian Wayne. These are other Robins.
Colin Jost
Robin, very fun character to me. First of all, it's a ridiculous name. It's just like. Robin is just like a cute little sweet bird. Robin's origin story. If people don't know. His parents were famous trapeze artists.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Colin Jost
And the owner of the circus got extorted by, like, local mobsters. And, like, he wouldn't pay, so he, like, rigged the ropes and the Grayson family died.
Seth Meyers
Yeah. I wasn't at the. Mom getting revenge on the owner of the circus. It seems like. Right. Like.
Colin Jost
Yeah, Well, I mean, it's just.
Seth Meyers
It was like, nice circus. Shame if something happened to him. Yeah.
Colin Jost
It's a beautiful circus around here. Oh, that's a nice lion tamer. It would be sad if he died.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Colin Jost
What other celebs are comic boys? And I say boys because I don't think, like, fucking Dakota Johnson's like, oh, I love Grant Morrison's Animal Man.
Seth Meyers
I mean, Patton Oswalt.
Colin Jost
Yes. Recently beat him in jeopardy.
Seth Meyers
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Look at you.
Colin Jost
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Who is that not true of, though?
Colin Jost
Mina Kimes
Seth Meyers
and I don't know who else. Who the others are. Nick Cage. Remember he used to own like. Yeah.
Colin Jost
Oh, yeah. Action Comics. Not wrong. Really good. I assholed it. Who is your favorite DC villain?
Seth Meyers
Who is my favorite DC villain? It's really hard for it. Not. I mean, I know it's a real basic Normie, answer. But the Joker is an exceptional.
Colin Jost
I've worked with the Joker. I've worked with the J man.
Seth Meyers
Really? Oh, right. Of course you do.
Colin Jost
I was in the movie Suicide Squad.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Colin Jost
Academy Award winner for best picture 2017.
Seth Meyers
And everybody's favorite Joker.
Colin Jost
Everyone's favorite Joker. I remember I had to do this scene with him, and he was actually nice, even though he was in character. But he was supposed to be menacing me in the scene, so I was acting scared. I was like, oh, no, please. And at one point, he was like, oh, he's straddling me. And he's like, oh, did someone piss their pants? And I'm a yes, Ander. So I was like, yes. Yeah. And it's just like, yeah. That's a rough improv to say to someone. It's like, oh, someone shit themselves. It's not cool.
Seth Meyers
I will say, as a collection of heroes, I'm. Because they are sort of dumb. The Flash villains are known as the Rogues Gallery. And they're like. Like, Mirror Master and Captain Boomerang. And like, yeah, those are. They're just like. They're all like, yeah, like, cold. There's one guy does cold, one guy does weather. Just a little.
Colin Jost
I was also a big fan of Ra's Al Ghul.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, Ra's Al.
Colin Jost
Like, he was very funny, especially when he's played by Liam Neeson. I have a particular set of Skittles. If you were a supervillain, what would your deal be?
Seth Meyers
I mean, perfect world. Parents die under trapeze.
Colin Jost
At least too close to home.
Seth Meyers
My parents are trapezo. I would love to just hear Larry and Hillary bickering on their way down.
Colin Jost
Oh, I told you to check the grips before he went on.
Seth Meyers
We know my. My dad for, like, his. It was like a big birthday. He's like, I've always wanted to go up in a hot air balloon. And I refused.
Colin Jost
No, no, no.
Seth Meyers
I refused. And I explained it that, like, I don't think anything's going to go wrong, but if anything did, like, I think we would have. We would have too much time on the way down for mom to blame you for our deaths.
Colin Jost
Also, you can never put yourself in a position where you die in a funny way. Whereas people are like, seth Meyers and his whole family went down a water balloon. Like, it's like, that's not cool.
Seth Meyers
Also, no upside of being in a high.
Colin Jost
No, no, I can go on a plane. It's much safer. Okay, Seth Meyers, ask me question number one, please.
Seth Meyers
What's the Olympic sport that combines cross country skiing and rifle shooting.
Colin Jost
Oh, I know this. Hold on, hold on. Everyone, everyone chill. Fucking calm down. It's.
Seth Meyers
It's.
Colin Jost
It's. It's when you're. You're skiing and you have the rifle and you stop and you shoot and then you get back on your skis.
Seth Meyers
That's a good rephrasing of what I've said.
Colin Jost
God damn it.
Seth Meyers
I'm a surprise.
Colin Jost
No, no, no, no, no. I know it. I know it. Listen, this is not an excuse. We wrapped at 10am this morning. I'm not on a ton of sleep.
Seth Meyers
It's called from this. He shot one of these till 10 in the morning.
Colin Jost
We do him with June squib. It took a long time. It's not. It's not ski shooting. That's a totally different thing.
Seth Meyers
Ski shooting.
Colin Jost
Oh, oh, oh, okay, give me a hint. Is there a hint?
Seth Meyers
So what is it called when you run, bike and swim?
Colin Jost
Triathlon? Snow Athlon.
Seth Meyers
Oh, wow. No, it's just called a biathlon.
Colin Jost
It's called the biathlon.
Seth Meyers
Yeah. Isn't that weird?
Colin Jost
It shouldn't be called the biathlon. A biathlon should just be running and swimming or running and biking.
Seth Meyers
It's crazy that the triathlon. You would think the biathlon is just two minus one.
Colin Jost
Who did this?
Seth Meyers
Do you want. Can I give a question to the producers? Can I give a bonus question if he doesn't get the first one?
Colin Jost
Yes. I think there's a room. We can do it.
Seth Meyers
Full of producers all very upset. They said, go from the top. That's the easy one. What country has dominated Olympic biathlon historically, winning more medals than any other?
Colin Jost
I mean, it's gotta be like Switzerland.
Seth Meyers
Switzerland. It doesn't have to be.
Colin Jost
Would it be Russia?
Seth Meyers
Norway?
Colin Jost
Norway. Well, that. That sucks.
Seth Meyers
You want another one?
Colin Jost
No, no, no, no, no. Listen. Because otherwise it's just like, you know, sometimes.
Seth Meyers
Listen, this is where really the tables are turned. I was so worried about Mr. Jeopardy. And me, and I've gotten all mine. Right. And you're over too.
Colin Jost
I remind my friends I am stupid. I am stupid. Annabelle likes to torture me and write questions that I. She's like, I don't think he knows this. Great. And I'm having a panic attack right now.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Colin Jost
Do you ski? Do you guys ski?
Seth Meyers
We do.
Colin Jost
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, we ski, but we ski like little New England mountains while the kids learn. But it's great. I love. I actually don't.
Colin Jost
You love it? You really love it?
Seth Meyers
No, I don't like skiing at all.
Colin Jost
Yeah, it sucks.
Seth Meyers
But I love skiing with my children. I like having them on. I like having gravity push them without me having to.
Colin Jost
I like gravity pushing my kids, too. As long as I'm down the mountain and I'm sitting and having, like, an Old Fashioned while they ski towards me.
Seth Meyers
Where we go, it's on, like, state land, so there's no alcohol in the lodge. But with that said, it's like nine to noon. They do ski school. And I still can sit with my laptop, get work done, have a coffee. It's not bad.
Colin Jost
Okay. Because we go up to Whistler, which they encourage drinking. That is amazing. Whistler. Oh, my good. Good God. Okay. Hey, I'm going to ask Seth Meyers. Okay. Question number two. This subject is about the HBO prestige drama the Wire. The Wire?
Seth Meyers
Yes.
Colin Jost
The Wire focused on both the cops and the criminals. They were going after two of the cops, Bunk and McNulty, are part of an investigative unit for one point per member. Who else is in the unit?
Seth Meyers
Oh, my God. Sydnor.
Colin Jost
Which one? Oh, Sydnor. Yeah. Okay. He came in later.
Seth Meyers
Yep.
Colin Jost
Yep. Yeah. Wow. I didn't even put Sydnor down. That's one point.
Seth Meyers
Oh, my God. Like, I mean, Dominic Lombardozzi, whoever. He played Seth Gillum, Herk and Carver. Yep.
Colin Jost
Clark, Peters, Daniels.
Seth Meyers
Okay, I'm sorry.
Colin Jost
That's. Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Lester Freeman. Yeah. Lester Freeman. Yep.
Colin Jost
You got three more.
Seth Meyers
Sonja Sohn, character.
Medical Ad Announcer
Yes.
Colin Jost
Kima Greggs.
Seth Meyers
Kima Greggs.
Colin Jost
The.
Seth Meyers
The teacher. The guy who goes back to teacher.
Colin Jost
Jim True Presbylowski.
Seth Meyers
I can't remember any. I can only remember the actors.
Colin Jost
And who's the. Who's the smart guy?
Seth Meyers
Wait, I thought.
Colin Jost
Oh, no, no. Who's the main kind of authority figure?
Seth Meyers
Not Landsman. No, wait. Who's the main?
Colin Jost
Passed away a couple years ago. Great actor.
Seth Meyers
Wait, wait. How am I not thinking about who ran the unit?
Colin Jost
You'll be mad when you don't remember this.
Seth Meyers
Yeah. Hold on, hold on. Who is it?
Colin Jost
Daniels.
Seth Meyers
Oh, my God, that's it.
Colin Jost
By the great Lance Reddick Rest Gang. Hey, man, you got like, eight points on that one. So it's like nine to nothing right now. So you can chill for a bonus question. Yeah. Some of the main antagonists of the series were Avon Barksdale and Stringer Bell.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Colin Jost
Who was number three in the Barksdale organization?
Seth Meyers
Oh, my goodness. Who was number three?
Colin Jost
And I have a hint that I don't think we'll give it away.
Seth Meyers
Was it Slim Charles?
Colin Jost
It was not Slim Charles.
Seth Meyers
Okay.
Colin Jost
It was a guy who. He Got justice. He ended up in jail. And he is part of a pretty famous reaction.
Seth Meyers
Oh, yeah, A wee bay boom.
Colin Jost
Seth Meyers. You have, like, I don't know, what, 10 points? Yep.
Seth Meyers
Okay, great.
Colin Jost
That is ridiculous that you're beating me by that much. It's not cool. I was so happy when you said the Wire was one of your categories. And normally I spend like a couple hours kind of writing these questions for guests. And this took me like six hours because I just watched so many wire clips on YouTube, just for hours and hours.
Seth Meyers
So I remember when the Wire premiered, I loved the show. Homicide Life on the Streets.
Colin Jost
Yes, you were.
Seth Meyers
I was an early, early nerd for that show and used to rewatch it when it aired on whatever. What was like the Sci Fi Channel, but for, like, Sleuth. Sleuth, Yeah, I used to watch it on Sleuth. And so I was so excited that a show with David Simon's involvement was happening. And I remember also that first scene was just McNulty and a guy in the street. And they're talking about how a guy got killed named, like, Snot Boogie or something. And it's just this great, like, three minute scene. And then it said directed by Clark
Colin Jost
Peters, who played Mel Dream Homicide.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, Taylor. On the Wire. And on Homicide. Sorry. And I was just like, all in. And I feel like when I think about, like, shows where the cold open of the first episode made me realize a show that I have been waiting for is happening right now is the British Office. And that where it's like, oh, there's this. I'm gonna be here for the run of it.
Colin Jost
You got me into that. I bought all the DVDs. I loved it. What was your favorite season of the Wire? This is a big question.
Seth Meyers
I think it might be 3.
Colin Jost
Amsterdam.
Seth Meyers
The fall of Stringer Bell is, to me, just still great cinema.
Colin Jost
I was a Big four guy. It was so heartbreaking, but so good. More importantly, what is your favorite season opening theme song? Because every year, every season, the Wire did the same song, down in the Hole, which I think a Tom Waits song. And they had different singers and styles, I think.
Seth Meyers
Doesn't Tom Waits do season two? I feel like the original Waits does the doc.
Colin Jost
Steve Rule does the last one.
Seth Meyers
Right.
Colin Jost
I was a big fan of four, which is like. It's a lady singing. Like when you walked in. That one was really good.
Seth Meyers
Very, very, very cool idea to have different people singing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Colin Jost
Be cool if they did that for Cheers. There's like a hard rock one. Sometimes you Want. You know, it'd be kind of nice. What cast members of the Wire have you met?
Seth Meyers
IRL the most exciting was. I met Seth Gillum, Dominic McNulty, and Andre Rojo.
Colin Jost
Oh, Bubbles.
Seth Meyers
At the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Colin Jost
What?
Seth Meyers
Like, not when we were there. Like, I went back with Andrew Moscos, who started Boom Chicago, and they were literally doing an improv show there.
Colin Jost
Right? Those three guys? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Seth Meyers
And we. I went. It was after the first season had aired, and they were pretty. Like, they were not recognizable. And I went over, and I will say I geeked out so hard that at one point, Dominic west had been like, hey, we're gonna. And I was like, okay, yeah, I've overdone it.
Colin Jost
Sorry. Herc. You have the power to time travel, and you can control David Simon's mind. He's gonna create a character for you on the Wire. Okay, what is the character?
Seth Meyers
Be whatever you want. I think I'm kind of a sort of a d. A. ADA who's maybe a little incompetent, but, like, better at playing politics.
Colin Jost
Yes.
Seth Meyers
Than Rhonda. Is that her name?
Colin Jost
Rhonda was the.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so, you know, because I feel like the Wire needs people who are doing. Who are kind of, like, accelerating past what they're. I think I'd be good at playing, like, a sort of Weasley. Yeah.
Colin Jost
I have. I wrote down lawyer for myself, too. I would want to be, like, the Greeks lawyer.
Seth Meyers
Oh, that'd be good.
Colin Jost
Who, like, goes and, like, meets Frank Sabaca and, like, gives him, like, a. Like, a threat.
Seth Meyers
I think this is a great casting. I think I'm good as a lawyer who's, like, not good at being a lawyer, and I think you're a good lawyer for bad people.
Colin Jost
Yes, yes, that's exactly.
Seth Meyers
You're good at it.
Colin Jost
Okay, I'm gonna ask you your second question about the Wire.
Seth Meyers
Okay.
Colin Jost
Season three of the Wire introduced a new bad guy, the terrifying Marlo Stanfield.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Colin Jost
Marlo had two lieutenants.
Seth Meyers
Name one of Snoop.
Colin Jost
That's two points right there. Dude, you're beating me fucking 12 to nothing. This isn't cool.
Seth Meyers
Oh, this is not.
Colin Jost
All right. Okay, well, here's your bonus question that you're not gonna get. You're not gonna get this one. In one of the most shocking moments in TV history, Omar Little is gunned down inside a Baltimore corner store. Who fires the fatal shot?
Seth Meyers
Oh, it's that little fella.
Colin Jost
Yeah. You're not gonna. I know his name, though. I can Give you a hint. I have a really funny hint if you want it.
Seth Meyers
What is it?
Colin Jost
His name kind of sounds like a longtime writer on SNL who's currently there.
Seth Meyers
I give up.
Colin Jost
Canard.
Seth Meyers
Oh. Boom. One of my favorite things about Kennard is when they put him into the police guard. You remember this moment? No. You know how cops push the head of the perp down so they don't bang their head? And they do it to him, even though he's so little. He wouldn't. And it's just. It's like the muscle memory.
Colin Jost
Yeah. Ooh. What was the saddest death for you on the Wire?
Seth Meyers
What was the saddest death? Wallace.
Colin Jost
I have Wallace, too. I mean, I. I saw Michael B. At, like, the SAG Awards or whatever, and, like, whenever I see him, I'm just like. I just have to hug him.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, yeah.
Colin Jost
Bodhi was a really sad death too, because Bo, like the last bastion of, like, in. You know. That was a really, really, really rough one. Also, Michael Jordan, I wrote down.
Seth Meyers
He's.
Colin Jost
He's friggin hot. Michael B. Jordan in real life, he's a hottie.
Seth Meyers
You don't see it on screen.
Colin Jost
No, no, no.
Seth Meyers
You met him in person.
Colin Jost
Met him in person. Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Because I will say on screen.
Colin Jost
Ugly.
Seth Meyers
Flat. Everything flattens out.
Colin Jost
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, last question about the Wire. Is there a grosser accent in this country than Baltimore?
Seth Meyers
Well, you know, it's pretty.
Colin Jost
Bow wow.
Seth Meyers
I love Pittsburgh, obviously.
Colin Jost
You do, right?
Seth Meyers
That would be, I think, the argument and which. But again, the Pittsburgh accent, to me, is music.
Colin Jost
Yeah, it's like a Chicago accent to me.
Seth Meyers
My, you know, my dad is very upset that the Pit, for all its success, there's literally no one.
Colin Jost
No one has a Pittsburgh accent.
Seth Meyers
I've explained it to him that if they were to have Pittsburgh accent, people bring their TVs back to best Buy and say, this one's all fucked up. Something's all fucked up with me.
Colin Jost
Hey, did you watch Task, by the way? Yeah, I just watched it.
Seth Meyers
Task is great.
Colin Jost
It was great.
Seth Meyers
It was great.
Colin Jost
That guy's a good actor.
Seth Meyers
That guy's a very good actor.
Colin Jost
Oh, my goodness.
Seth Meyers
And they're doing good. That's a good Philly. Nobody's pushing the Philly.
Colin Jost
No one's pushing it. It's just kind of there.
Seth Meyers
Yep.
Colin Jost
Okay. Speaking of good actors, it's my turn to ask. It's my turn for you to ask me a question. Question number eight.
Seth Meyers
It's a real bummer that you opened that with speaking to good Actors and then immediately flubbed your line. I'm gonna go middle of the thing.
Colin Jost
Because I feel like, do whatever you want, man. Do whatever you want.
Seth Meyers
The spirit absinthe was banned in the US from 1912 to 2007 because it supposedly caused hallucinations and madness, which isn't true. What is the main ingredient in absinthe?
Colin Jost
Wormwood.
Seth Meyers
Yeah. I wouldn't have gotten that.
Colin Jost
Yes.
Seth Meyers
Way harder than biathlon.
Colin Jost
Okay, so I'm on the board now.
Seth Meyers
You are.
Colin Jost
So I feel good. All right. We drank absinthe together. We did in London.
Seth Meyers
Yeah. And it was. For all the run up, it was just. It felt like just a drink.
Colin Jost
This was like in like 1999, when there was still a mythology about absinthe,
Seth Meyers
where they were a lot of like, we're gonna go to a place where you can get absinthe.
Colin Jost
Right. And I just remember it tasted bad. And I was just more drunk than I already was.
Seth Meyers
I wasn't like seeing drunk, but I was only one. I was only one drink drunker. You know what I mean? It didn't accelerate.
Colin Jost
It had. No. No.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, we definitely pretty drunk, which maybe is not the plan.
Colin Jost
I was just in London last week. It's a. It's a. It's very hard to not be drunk in that city. Okay, I'm going to ask you a question, Seth Meyers, about your third category.
Seth Meyers
The Pittsburgh Steelers.
Colin Jost
The Pittsburgh Steelers. The Steelers have won a record tying six Super Bowls. In those games, five men have won the super bowl mvp. Three in the seventies.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Colin Jost
Bradshaw, Franco Harris and Lynn Stewart. Lyn Swan. Two or Lynn Swan. Not Lynn Stewart. Two have won it this century.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Colin Jost
Who are the other two MVPs?
Seth Meyers
Hines Ward and Santonio Homes.
Colin Jost
I mean, come on, guys. Like, these are not easy questions.
Seth Meyers
I would have gotten the. The ones in the 70s for bonus.
Colin Jost
Terry Bradshaw and Ben Roethlisberger have won multiple Super Bowls for the Steelers. And as the quarterback, who is the only other quarterback to start in a Super Bowl?
Seth Meyers
Neil o'. Donnell.
Colin Jost
Neil o'. Donnell. Guys, come on.
Seth Meyers
And he should have won it.
Colin Jost
This is a massacre. Who'd they play? The Cowboys.
Seth Meyers
Cowboys. And Neil Adonna, who had a great year. He was a very good quarterback. Two very bad interceptions to Larry Brown.
Colin Jost
To Larry Brown, the former Clippers coach.
Seth Meyers
I can't remember if both were pick sixes. One was pick six. Yeah.
Colin Jost
You grew up in New Hampshire.
Seth Meyers
I did.
Colin Jost
But your dad, Larry, Friend of the pod. Is a lifelong Steelers fan.
Seth Meyers
I don't know if he's a friend of this, but he loves you. But I don't know if he's a friend of this.
Colin Jost
I think he would like.
Seth Meyers
I also want to say something, and I don't want to be a dick about it, but you said the Steelers have won a record tying six Super Bowls. The Steelers won six Super Bowls. First. Someone else tied the record.
Colin Jost
Okay, man, we get it. You like the team.
Seth Meyers
What about Larry? What were you saying?
Colin Jost
So he's a Steelers fan.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, he is.
Colin Jost
Were you ostracized growing up in New England for supporting the Patriots? Not like their rival, but a rivalry?
Seth Meyers
I feel like as a child of the 70s and the Patriots, we lived in Michigan for a little bit, and then we lived in New England. And the Lions were really bad when we lived there, and then the Patriots were really bad until, like, 1986 in
Colin Jost
which we handed them their asses.
Seth Meyers
But a lot of kids were either Cowboys or Steelers fans, so to be honest, there was no. We were not living. I think if you'd grown up in the 2000s, the 2010s, it would have been a little bit more. You were ostracized.
Colin Jost
Who was your favorite? Steeler as a boy? And by that I mean not when they were a boy, but when you were a boy.
Seth Meyers
That's great. Thank you for calling.
Colin Jost
Yeah, I just.
Seth Meyers
Yeah. Because I was gonna say young Elsie Greenwood, but I did not care for who he grew into. I think as a kid, the mythology of Mean Joe Green.
Colin Jost
Mean Joe Green had to be. The Steelers were originally called the Pittsburgh Pirates, but the baseball team was like, what the fuck? Not gonna have two Pirates a minute. They call themselves the Rooney Men. You know this because their owner was Mickey Rooney.
Seth Meyers
Mm. Mm.
Colin Jost
That's what I have here in my notes.
Seth Meyers
Pretty sure it was. Pretty sure it was art.
Colin Jost
It is funny calling them that. At one point they were like, we'll just go with the Rooney Men.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Colin Jost
It's like if I had a sports team. It's like the Barinholtz Boys. Why would it be the Cardinals? Yeah. The Myers men? All time favorite Steelers.
Seth Meyers
Troy Palomalu.
Colin Jost
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Colin Jost
Mine is that same team. I. And I've kind of become, like, online friends with James Harrison.
Seth Meyers
Oh, my God.
Colin Jost
Who's so cool.
Seth Meyers
Love, James.
Colin Jost
He sent me and Dave Stassen some of his hoodies. He's got this company called Debo. Like, he's. Do you follow him on Instagram?
Seth Meyers
No, but I've seen some of his videos.
Colin Jost
He's really good. It's just him, like, bench pressing, like, hundreds and hundreds of Pounds. And then he goes and gets acupuncture and the acupuncturist. I'm not exaggerating. Puts like a hundred needles in him because he's so massive and big. You got some real big time celebrity Steeler fans. The Morris sisters. Obviously they own the team. That'd be funny if they were like, where's Jacksonville?
Seth Meyers
Although they're a little bit. I think if you pressed either of them, they're more giants. Yeah. Yeah.
Colin Jost
Really? Both.
Seth Meyers
Well, they're. Yeah, they're mom's side of the family is giants.
Colin Jost
Wiz Khalifa.
Seth Meyers
Wiz Khalifa.
Colin Jost
Black and yellow. Personal favorite of yours, Rush Limbaugh.
Seth Meyers
Huge. Yep.
Colin Jost
He's right now he's looking up and enjoying watching your scouting. Verne Schroyer, AKA Mini Me.
Seth Meyers
Oh, I didn't know that.
Colin Jost
Another good friend of yours, Christina Aguilera.
Seth Meyers
I didn't know that one either.
Colin Jost
John Grisham.
Seth Meyers
Oh, that's exciting.
Colin Jost
That's pretty cool. And the God, the absolute boy, our friend Michael Keaton.
Seth Meyers
Keaton.
Colin Jost
The biggest. He's got to be the biggest.
Seth Meyers
Like most Snoop Dogg.
Colin Jost
Wait, who?
Seth Meyers
Snoop?
Colin Jost
Snoop is a Steelers fan. How did that happen?
Seth Meyers
I think, by the way, Same thing.
Colin Jost
Same thing. 70s.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Joe Manganiello.
Colin Jost
Joe Manganiello?
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Colin Jost
My Joe Manganiello.
Seth Meyers
Your Joe.
Colin Jost
Here's a bonus question.
Seth Meyers
Okay.
Colin Jost
The Steelers record for the most rushing touchdowns in a season is Franco Harris with 14. Three other players are tied for second with 13. Name em. Oh, wow, this is a tough one. I knew two of these.
Seth Meyers
Barry Foster.
Colin Jost
No.
Seth Meyers
Bam Morris.
Colin Jost
No.
Seth Meyers
Willie Parker. Yes. Jarumbettis.
Colin Jost
Yes.
Seth Meyers
And James Conner?
Colin Jost
No. I think he was the next one.
Seth Meyers
Hold on. Um, I want to get it. Do you have a year?
Colin Jost
No, I'm going to say he was like 2006 ish. 7 ish. I think he was right after Willie Parker. Maybe. Maybe the starting running back after Willie Parker or before. But right around that same time.
Seth Meyers
Mendenhall.
Colin Jost
Yes. Richard Mendenhall. That's pretty amazing.
Seth Meyers
I tried to go for deep cuts first, but I got.
Colin Jost
They made this movie. David O. Russell made this John Madden movie where Nic Cage is playing John Madden and Christian Bale is playing Al Davis. If you can produce a movie about the Steelers, what era is it about? Who are you casting? What's up?
Seth Meyers
Well, there's one of the great sports books of all time is three bricks shy of a load by Roy Blunt Jr. Who is this great?
Colin Jost
Sure.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, yeah. Golden era of long profile Sports Illustrated writers. And he covered the Steelers the year before. They won the Super Bowl. And so three brick shy of a load was basically, this team is just this close to being the team. And so that Steelers team was so full of personalities. But the most interesting time. It's a little bit like how. I feel like if you had made a documentary or. Sorry, a movie about us, you'd want to make it about our Amsterdam years. Because it was like, the percolation.
Colin Jost
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
And so that would be it.
Colin Jost
I think they should make a movie about us. I think they should make a movie. They're making a movie right now about the Beatles. Sam Mendes has made four separate movies. I think they should do that. About me and you and your brother and our friend Jill Benjamin. Yeah, four different. But we play our other. I play you.
Seth Meyers
Oh, interesting.
Colin Jost
Josh plays Jill. You didn't see that coming, did you? I didn't think so. If you couldn't be a Steelers fan and you couldn't be a Pats fan, because that's the area. From what team would you root for?
Seth Meyers
I think it would be exciting just on that. Again, also being a Red Sox fan and like the. Nothing will feel better than the 2004 World Series. I think you'd want to get in on the ground floor of the Bills or the Lions.
Colin Jost
The answer was actually the Bears.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Colin Jost
But sure.
Seth Meyers
I kind of don't. You guys are a lot.
Colin Jost
What? We're a lot.
Seth Meyers
You're a lot.
Colin Jost
We're a lot. Yeah, we're a lot. You're saying Bears fans are a lot, even.
Seth Meyers
No, I'm saying you and Stassen and Hayes and the people that I would. I already consort with are a lot, and you don't need another guy to watch games.
Colin Jost
You're telling me that we're a lot and you are a Red Sox fan?
Seth Meyers
I'm. By the way, I'm not saying you should be a Red Sox fan. I know we're a lot.
Colin Jost
You are a lot.
Seth Meyers
100% a lot.
Colin Jost
Seth Meyers, are you ready for the speed round?
Seth Meyers
Wait, don't I get to ask you another question?
Colin Jost
Oh, yeah, yeah. Seth Meyers, ask me question number three,
Seth Meyers
because I was really impressed with how quickly you recovered.
Colin Jost
Thank you. Thank you.
Seth Meyers
All right, here we go. In the 20th century, this is a good segue.
Commercial Announcer
Okay.
Seth Meyers
In the 20th century, American football was so violent that around a dozen college players died every year.
Colin Jost
Jesus.
Seth Meyers
Making Americans outraged by the sport, nearly banning it for good. Which US President stepped in making safety reforms to save the sport instead of banning it. You said the 20s, I said the 20th century.
Colin Jost
20th century.
Seth Meyers
I was less specific than that.
Colin Jost
So who was the president that bridged the Leatherhead era to the modern helmet? Oh, God. I mean, usually, like, good things around that time were done by fdr, but I'm gonna say it was. No, no, no. It was before fdr. It was probably Hoover cool Hardy Wilson. Hold on. Well, let's just go through the fucking presidents.
Seth Meyers
George Washington, he was. It helped. Here's my hint. I'm gonna give you a different.
Colin Jost
Give me a hint.
Seth Meyers
He was a bully.
Colin Jost
Teddy Roosevelt. They were. They had helmets. I thought, like, that was later. I thought that was more like they were then. Helmets didn't really come into play until, like, the 20s or even the 30s.
Seth Meyers
No, I think. I think leather helmets. When you look back, if you see a leather helmet, it feels like Teddy Roosevelt. Eric.
Colin Jost
I guess so.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Colin Jost
I'm a big Teddy Roosevelt fan.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, I know.
Colin Jost
God, that.
Seth Meyers
That.
Colin Jost
That. That's a tough one, though. That's a tough one. I really. That's a tough question. I really. I mean, it's a good question. It's. You know what I call that question? Tough but fair.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Colin Jost
God, those Roosevelts did everything good in that era. All the presidents around them, dog shit. Those two guys did good things.
Seth Meyers
You. I do want to Note, of your three questions, 0 for 2 on sports and crushed the alcohol question.
Colin Jost
Yeah. First of all, that last question is not a sports question. That's a fucking presidential question. And the biathlon, I'm sorry, that's not sports. That's leisure activities.
Seth Meyers
Okay?
Colin Jost
Yeah. No one's got it.
Seth Meyers
Norway.
Colin Jost
Seth Meyers, are you ready for the speed round? Speed round, Seth Meyers. Here's how the speed round works, okay? I'm gonna ask you a bunch of questions. You answer as many as you can in 90 seconds, okay? If you don't know the answer, say pass. If you get it right, I will say yes. If you get it wrong, I will say no. And I will tell you the correct answers you got wrong at the end of the round. Are you ready to go?
Seth Meyers
Yes.
Colin Jost
We have 90 seconds on the clock.
Seth Meyers
So excited.
Colin Jost
He has appeared as the Flash the most in the com.
Seth Meyers
Barry Allen.
Medical Ad Announcer
Yes.
Colin Jost
He was the police major who oversaw Hamsterdam in season three of the Wire Pass. He was the Steelers QB from 1995 to 2002.
Seth Meyers
Cordell Stewart.
Colin Jost
Yes. This archenemy of Superman is a cyborg from the planet Kolu.
Seth Meyers
Brainiac.
Colin Jost
Yes. This man holds the Steelers career record for sax.
Seth Meyers
James Harrison.
Colin Jost
No.
Seth Meyers
T.J. watt.
Colin Jost
Too late. What DC comic was a major Crossover event that cleaned up various timelines in 1985.
Seth Meyers
Crisis of Infinite Earth.
Colin Jost
Yes. Andre Royo played this addict. Yes. In 1987, Green Arrow relocated to this American city, Seattle. Yes. He was the Steelers best linebacker of the 70s into the early 80s.
Seth Meyers
Lambert.
Colin Jost
Yes. Who was Frank Sabatka's rival? Who kickstarted season two?
Seth Meyers
Oh, the major. Major. D note.
Colin Jost
Say pass.
Seth Meyers
Pass.
Colin Jost
The supervillain hails from the planet Korugar.
Seth Meyers
Pass.
Colin Jost
This man is the Steelers all time leader in field goals.
Seth Meyers
Chris Boswell.
Colin Jost
No. To finish the quote.
Seth Meyers
Is you taking notes on a criminal conspiracy?
Colin Jost
Yes. He killed Superman.
Seth Meyers
Oh, my God. Pass.
Colin Jost
Steelers coach Mike Tomlins famously said the standard is the standard. Yes. Who was the mayor of Baltimore before Tommy Caretti? Royce. Yes. Oh, my God. Oh my God. Dude, dude, dude. Okay, real quick, finish your quote you got right. Is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy.
Seth Meyers
Wait, hold on. Give me. I know this doesn't count, but give me. Go by one more time.
Colin Jost
He killed Superman.
Seth Meyers
Like Apocalypto or something.
Colin Jost
Close. Doomsday. This man is the Steelers all time leader in field goals.
Seth Meyers
Gary Anderson.
Colin Jost
Yes.
Seth Meyers
Fuck.
Colin Jost
This super villain hails from the planet Korugar. He's a Green Hornet villain. Sinestro.
Seth Meyers
Okay.
Colin Jost
Who was Frank Sabaca's rival who kickstarted season two?
Seth Meyers
Major.
Colin Jost
Stan Valczyk.
Seth Meyers
I knew it was Polish.
Colin Jost
This man holds the Steelers career record for sacks as T.J. watt. He was in police major. Who oversaw Amsterdam in season three of the Wire.
Seth Meyers
It's a bunny.
Colin Jost
Bunny Colvin. Incredible job. Incredible job I have to do. Basically do like a generational run here.
Seth Meyers
Okay.
Colin Jost
All right, all right, all right. Lay it on me. When you're ready, we will start the clock.
Seth Meyers
What? 2021. Reddit driven short squeeze cost hedge funds billions of dollars.
Colin Jost
No.
Commercial Announcer
Stop.
Seth Meyers
What aircraft did Charles Lindbergh fly on the first 1926? Only Vice US Vice President to resign over criminal charges in the 70s. What breed dethroned? The Labrador is the AKC's number one dog in 2022.
Colin Jost
Bishhu.
Seth Meyers
Who? Wrong. Only US state that borders just one other.
Colin Jost
Florida.
Seth Meyers
Who Wrong? Who reached the south pole first in December 1911? Kendrick Lamar's 2024 German Drake diss track that hit.
Colin Jost
They're not like us.
Seth Meyers
What? June 1942 naval battle turned the tide of the Pacific World country added to NATO in March 2024. Its 32nd Ukraine. Who wrong. Sportswear giant founded in 1964 as Blue Ribbon sports champion. Wrong. Who wrote the Seagull? Uncle Vanya and the Cherry Orchard.
Colin Jost
Chekhov.
Seth Meyers
How many stars are in Orion's belt?
Colin Jost
Five.
Seth Meyers
Wrong. Picasso's 1937 black and white mirror of the bombing of a basketball town. Who became the first black woman on the U.S. supreme Court? Confirmed in 2022.
Colin Jost
K. Jackson.
Seth Meyers
Yes. Mike White's HBO analogy set at election. Come on. What is the only human disease ever declared eradicated worldwide?
Colin Jost
Smallpox.
Seth Meyers
Yes. What? 1803 land deal double the size of the United States.
Colin Jost
Louisiana Purchase.
Seth Meyers
Suffragist. Suffragist arrested in the 18th century nation. Who? No. What San Francisco company patented the first riveted blue jeans in 1873. Yes. Which president signed the 1947 National. Finish that question of 1947 National Security act creating the CIA and DOD.
Colin Jost
That is Truman.
Seth Meyers
Yes.
Colin Jost
Okay. I didn't. I can hold my head high, I think. What were the ones I got wrong?
Seth Meyers
U.S. state. The board is just one other Maine country added to NATO. 2024. Sweden.
Colin Jost
Sweden.
Seth Meyers
Yeah. Sportswear giant Nike.
Colin Jost
Nike.
Seth Meyers
Three stars in Orion's belt. And Susan B. Anthony was a three
Colin Jost
stars in Orion's belt.
Seth Meyers
You make a big deal. Not even a belt.
Colin Jost
Nothing.
Seth Meyers
So if somebody looked up there back in the day and, like, that's a
Colin Jost
belt, you know, that reminds me of a belt. What is a belt? What holds up my tunic? It would be more.
Seth Meyers
But I guess that's the thing. I mean, if you had a pair of pants with three belt loops, you'd be like, this isn't. This isn't enough.
Colin Jost
You would be incredibly skinny.
Seth Meyers
I want to come back. I really like this.
Colin Jost
Oh, you like.
Seth Meyers
I want people to know that I came in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I also am the kind who can admit when I was wrong.
Colin Jost
Mindy Kaling came in, hated it at first, and by the time she left, still hated it. So there you go, Seth Meyers. You have really done your family proud.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Colin Jost
No one leaves this show without a gift.
Seth Meyers
Oh, really?
Colin Jost
And we have a little something for you, my friend. Thank you, my dear. This is for you.
Seth Meyers
It's a dead bird, you guys. So you went out and got it.
Colin Jost
We kind of gleaned where it was based off of your conversation. What do we got here?
Seth Meyers
Oh, my.
Colin Jost
We have a nice T shirt.
Seth Meyers
You come at the King.
Colin Jost
You come at the King.
Seth Meyers
You best. You best not miss.
Colin Jost
And this is good. I think this is for next year's Met Gala.
Seth Meyers
Yep. Rest in peace, Michael K. Williams.
Colin Jost
Rest in peace, Michael K. Williams. Anna Winter just mentioned the other night that sees the next Met Gala. The theme is the Wire or, like,
Seth Meyers
just street T shirts. Shirts you'd get outside of stores. Shirts hung on hangers outside of New York bodegas.
Colin Jost
Hannah Winter shows up in a red I heart New York T shirt.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, she's doing no, she's doing the Lennon arrest photo.
Colin Jost
She's the only one that says new. Yuck. Shitty.
Seth Meyers
Oh, that's good.
Colin Jost
That's a good one. Seth Meyers, you're my friend and you've beat me.
Seth Meyers
You're my friend. I love you. This is wonderful.
Colin Jost
You're the greatest.
Seth Meyers
Thanks for being in the show.
Colin Jost
Thank you so much for doing this. Seth Meyers, ladies and gentlemen.
Seth Meyers
Mike Barnholz incre. Nobody like him. Best dude in the world.
Colin Jost
Hey, we would love to hear from you. Do you think you have a question that could stump me that you want us to read on this show? Go ahead, send me your toughest questions to funny you askorthandstudios.com we'll read it here on the show. I will not look at the answers so send me some questions. Thank you.
Seth Meyers
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Date: June 10, 2026
Guest: Seth Meyers
Host/Co-Player: Ike Barinholtz (with Colin Jost as a participant and side host throughout)
This episode places comedian and late-night host Seth Meyers under the comedic trivia microscope, quizzed by longtime friends Ike Barinholtz and Colin Jost. The focus: Seth’s self-professed areas of expertise—DC Comics, the HBO series The Wire, and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The trio swap memories, friendly roasts, and deep dives into each category, mixing real trivia with banter about friendship, parenthood, and pop culture obsessions. The tone is irreverent, nerdy, and delightfully affectionate, with plenty of inside SNL and comedy writer jokes alongside genuine passion for the topics.
[01:28 – 05:44]
"I'm not saying I wouldn't spend an hour with you doing anything... Just saying on that list, this is near the bottom."
— Seth Meyers (03:13)
[05:44 – 07:11]
[07:16 – 22:18]
Justice League, Martian Manhunter, Comic Book Fandom
Friendship “Justice League”:
Comic Con Memories:
Most Issue Appearances & Robins:
[26:03 – 34:48]
Seth’s love for David Simon’s work:
Favorite Wire seasons:
Best use of theme song variations by season; wishful jokes about “hard rock Cheers.”
Seth describes meeting Wire cast at Edinburgh Fringe and “geeking out so hard Dominic West had to tell me to calm down.” (Seth, 31:00)
If he could write himself into The Wire, Seth picks an incompetent ADA “better at playing politics than Rhonda.” Colin wants to be “the Greeks’ lawyer.”
Marlo Stanfield’s lieutenants: Seth names “Snoop” immediately (32:34).
Omar’s murderer: with a hint, Seth finally remembers “Kenard.” (33:14)
Saddest Wire death: both pick Wallace (Michael B. Jordan).
Extended riffing: “Is there a grosser accent in this country than Baltimore?” laughs about Pittsburgh and Philly accents.
[36:16 – 42:24]
[47:01 – 51:55]
Most Memorable Rapid-Fire Exchange:
Colin: "He killed Superman!"
Seth: "Apocalypto or something?"
Colin: "It’s Doomsday, you were so close!" (49:00-49:05)
[52:04 – End]
“Mindy Kaling came in, hated it at first, and by the time she left, still hated it. So there you go. Seth Meyers—you really did your family proud.”
— Colin Jost (52:15)
“Eight or nine. That’s when I started reading comics... If I hear something’s great, I still go get a comic.”
— Seth Meyers (09:55–10:02)
“The Joker is an exceptional villain.”
— Seth Meyers (20:47)
“The fall of Stringer Bell is still great cinema.”
— Seth Meyers (29:51)
“No upside to a hot air balloon. We’d have too much time on the way down for my mom to blame my dad for our deaths.”
— Seth Meyers (22:44)
Humorous, affectionate, and self-aware; the episode is a mix of sharp-witted banter, inside comedy references, and passionate geekery. Both trivia and conversation flow naturally, switching between roasting, nostalgia, and genuine delight at deep-cut knowledge.
End of Summary