Transcript
Amy Poehler (0:00)
Hey everyone. Welcome to another episode of Good Hang. I'm really excited about our guest today. My old dear friend Seth Meyers is joining us today and talking about friendship. Seth is such a good friend and I talk to him about what friendship means to him. I try to guess his middle name and we get tears, people. I get him crying more than once. So bingo. It's that kind of episode. But before we get started, we're always trying to ask people who know our guest to tell me questions to ask them. And joining me from the Cayman Islands on his vacation is the great producer of Late Night with Seth Meyers and ex producer at Saturday Night Live, Mike Shoemaker. Shoe can you hear me? Woo hoo hoo. This episode is presented by Athleta. Summer is here. It's time to get outside and get active. And Athleta has just what women need to move the way they want. That's shorts for every type of run from a casual jog on the beach to a competitive road race. There's skorts for on the court and pants for cool stretching. And there's always a matchback bra and top to complete your outfit. For stylish, innovative activewear, the choice can only be athleta power of she shop now@ athleta.com get up. What do you say athlete? Other one who works a really good hate shoo. Hi.
Seth Meyers (1:25)
Hi.
Mike Shoemaker (1:26)
How are you?
Amy Poehler (1:27)
Oh my God. Where are we talking to you from?
Mike Shoemaker (1:30)
Grand Cayman. The beach is over there.
Amy Poehler (1:33)
Now before we get into Seth Shu, when I arrived at SNL in 2001, what was your job? What was the, what was your title?
Mike Shoemaker (1:40)
I think I was producer. I had, you know, I was there already 15 years so I was, you know, I knew what I was doing. Finally I had had my thousand hours of. So you didn't meet young up shoemaker.
Amy Poehler (1:55)
And how, where did young shoemaker get started at SNL? How did young Shoemaker get his started.
Mike Shoemaker (2:01)
Script PA My first job there was in 1986 which is a change overcast. Dana, Victoria, Jan and first thing was came in and the job was to take us a yellow legal pad written script out of a bin and, and type it up so that everyone can read it because it's free computers so big old selector typewriters and I was actually hired because I had typing skills and I could type fast and not make mistakes. So the first thing was a church chat. So I had to like read Dana's scroll with no punctuation. I always read the script first. Even when the time you were there I would put the read through order in. So I got to read everything before performance. So I got better at understanding everyone's performance style. Like the way, like, I could never guess how Maya would pronounce a word still to this day, because she always will change it.