Episode 112

Summary

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The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast

Episode 112 — May 20, 2026

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This episode is a loose, highly entertaining conversation between Seth Meyers and The Lonely Island (Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg [appearing late], and Jorma Taccone), joined by Kristen Wiig for much of the show. The group reminisces about SNL Digital Shorts, behind-the-scenes memories from their SNL years, and digresses into everything from sports nostalgia to inside jokes and audience engagement. Special voice notes from Jon Hamm and Kristen Wiig add a heartfelt and nostalgic dimension to the episode. While planned to cover the "Party at Mr. Bernard's" Digital Short, they decide to save it for Andy's full participation and instead launch into wide-ranging "minutiae," embracing their tangents and the organic joy of their friendship.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. SNL Memories & Nostalgia

• SNL Digital Shorts: The crew discusses the anticipation among cast members about new Digital Shorts and how groundbreaking and mysterious the process felt in the early internet era.
  • Kristen Wiig: "As a cast member, we didn’t really know what you guys were doing... we’d run to the monitors during the show and watch what you guys did. It was such a big part of the show." [40:47]
• SNL as the Ultimate College Experience: Wiig, Meyers, and the group fondly remember the SNL office as “dorm rooms” for the funniest people.
  • Kristen Wiig: "Going to SNL was like the college experience I wanted to have... with some of the greatest people I’ll ever know." [44:23]
• Watching Old SNL: None of the hosts watched their own sketches when they aired and are now discovering/reminiscing through the podcast.

2. Inside Baseball: Podcast Community & In-Jokes

• Listener Engagement: They discuss fan-maintained resources like the show’s ever-expanding dictionary on Reddit, filled with show-specific slang and running gags.
  • Seth Meyers: "Somebody needs to start a dictionary for this podcast...someone keeps an up to date dictionary. It’s a pinned post." [16:13]
  • Yoram (Jorma): "Whoever’s writing it is funny though... The way they were describing certain things made me laugh." [15:36]
• Community Polls & Lingo: Updates on ongoing polls ("Daiquiri Girl" vs. "What Was That?"), results stuck at 50/50, and playful debates about deep vs. shallow rap cuts.
  • Andy Samberg: On ranking rap deep-cuts — "Superthug is like a two...or a three? Let’s be real. Three or four." [65:02]
  • Commentary on “Eggplant emoji for 'dick' in the dictionary” and invented terms like “quump bump.”

3. Behind the Scenes: Showbiz & SNL Infrastructure

• Upfronts Explained: Seth gives a behind-the-scenes look at TV network “upfronts”—annual gatherings with advertisers—and how the tradition has evolved.
  • Seth: "It’s a fascinating thing to watch... I have been elevated... I asked if I could go at the end and I just basically make fun of how silly and dumb upfronts are." [30:16]
  • Anecdotes of celebrities (like Pitbull) performing for unenthusiastic corporate crowds.
• Comedy Process: The mechanics of pitching sketches, cut-for-time gems, and ‘almost made it’ stories (e.g., the "Mugless" sketch with Will Ferrell and the “Hornet’s Nest” song with Jack Black and Tenacious D).
  • Seth: Reading a note from Mike Schur on how “Hornet’s Nest” matched the energy of a Digital Short. [21:20]
  • Jorma: "We should have secret resubmitted [the sketch]. Get Kenward to put it in the table reading." [14:42]

4. Personal Updates & Tangents

• Andy’s Late Arrival: Andy enters late after sleeping in (battling a cold, shooting back-to-back movies). Friends joke with affection about “Lil Slugger” and are sincerely glad he got the rest.
• Contact Hoarding: Wiig claims the largest phone contact list (~3,300), the others tally up live.
• Parenting & Sports: The group waxes nostalgic about their own and their parents’ relationship with sports, background “game noise,” and how it defines family memories.
• SNL UK & "Sunset PI": Seth congratulates SNL UK’s successful first season and gives updates on Keev’s (Akiva’s) new NBC show "Sunset PI".

5. Listener Mail, Voice Notes & Celebrity Cameos

• Jon Hamm’s Voice Note [37:20]: Shares a funny Rihanna story and heartfelt gratitude for appearing in the "Shy Ronnie and Clyde" short, praising the era as the “goldenest of golden eras.” Calls the "audition sketch" with Wiig his all-time favorite SNL moment.
  • Jon Hamm: "The short Ronnie and Clyde — top notch production values, top notch song, top notch...penis work." [38:32]
• Kristen Wiig’s Voice Notes [40:47 & following]:
  • Reflects on the emotional resonance of their work together and the specialness of SNL friendships.
  • Sends a wild, intentionally beep-laden jokey note about ALF, playing with the pod’s running gags and bleep tradition.
  • Wiig (seriously): "I just need to tell you how much I love being a part of you guys going back in time with these years." [40:47]
  • Wiig (joking): "I don’t think I’ve ever been bleeped…I would just love my first time to be on the pod... I’m just shocked and appalled at the dead and how he smoked all the...and sucked all that...it’s pretty sick." [42:28]

6. Pop & Comedy Recommendations ("Dad’s Corner")

• TV & Movies Recommended:
  • Seth: Apple TV’s “Widow’s Bay” — "It’s really good." [67:54]
  • Yorm: Recommends the extended cut of “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves,” classic noir films on Criterion.
  • Andy: "The back half of T2...still great." Also loves the Martin Short doc; newly blown away by Maya Rudolph in the play "Oh Mary."
  • All: They all finally watched “A Knight’s Tale” at the community’s demand and discuss its pleasant surprises, especially Paul Bettany’s performance.

7. Rapid Fire: Jokes, Running Bits, and Interpersonal Play

• Nicknames fly (“Lil Slugger”—Andy when sick; “cul de sac” kids), recurring catchphrases (“good”), playful competitiveness with Wordle, Spelling Bee, Mini/Midi crossword speeds, and the show’s endless sidebar recaps (“recapping the recap”).
• Audience contributions referenced—a listener called ALF comments in the first person; polls and YouTube comments become playgrounds for further in-jokes.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• Kristen Wiig (on SNL’s magic):
  "Besides having kids, the best years of my life with all of you. And we all shared in something so rare." [40:47]
• Seth Meyers (on upfronts):
  "I just basically make fun of how silly and dumb upfronts are at the end." [30:16]
• Jon Hamm (Rihanna story):
  "Rihanna asked me to come in with her and her crew to get high... I said, 'No thanks, Rihanna. I have to work.' But she was very pretty." [37:35]
• Seth Meyers (on Maya Rudolph’s “Oh Mary”):
  “She’s just destroying the whole time...like watching someone at the absolute peak of their game, and it was a joy.” [55:43]
• Kristen Wiig (on her sprawling contacts list):
  "And you will not be surprised, guys, that I have 3,313.” [60:54]
• Andy Samberg (on being late):
  “I’m so tired...I was supposed to do something this morning, but I’m sick as a dog...then I woke up and we were a good 30 minutes into it. I had the good old fashioned ‘panel’.” [47:50]
• Andy Samberg (on crossword speed):
  “My best ever is 12 [seconds], I think.” [53:39]
• Kristen Wiig (summarizing SNL as college):
  “Like, our stupid room was covered in shitty fucking posters...it all feels like dorm rooms and you’re having a sleepover, basically every night.” [44:23]
• Seth Meyers (on Will Forte):
  "He is completely prepared, he is totally tireless and he is so funny. And it’s just like a shot of adrenaline to the entire operation." [27:12]
• Seth Meyers (to Andy, on Big Gulp partnership):
  "A possible 7-11 partnership with Andy Big Gulp Samberg." [50:50]
• Kristen Wiig (signing off):
  “Well, speaking of Dad, I gotta go race my son in a swimming race.” [71:41]

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Timestamped Highlights

• 00:30 – 07:15: Banter about podcast intros, sports nostalgia, Andy’s absence, Mexican restaurants, and the “we like sports” short.
• 09:34: Topic planned is “Party at Mr. Bernard’s” — but postponed to wait for Andy.
• 13:00: ALF references: The real ALF comments on YouTube, running gags about Melmac and '80s sitcoms.
• 16:15: Listener-maintained show dictionary praised and dissected.
• 21:20: Mike Schur’s email recalling Jack Black’s “Hornet’s Nest” sketch mentioned.
• 37:20: Jon Hamm’s voice note, including stories about Rihanna and favorite SNL memories.
• 39:47: Kristen Wiig’s heartfelt (and then wildly bleeped) voice notes.
• 44:23: Profound reflections on SNL as the ultimate found-family experience.
• 50:50: Andy’s return, big sleep-in, and the show riffs on being late, upcoming projects, and more.
• 53:08: Mini/Midi crossword and spelling bee rivalry revealed.
• 67:54 – 71:16: Recommendations segment: TV, Criterion picks, “Dad’s Corner.”
• 71:41: Wiig heads off to “race her son,” closing the episode’s loose, communal tone.

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Final Thoughts

This episode captures the relaxed, affectionate chaos and deep camaraderie of the group. Instead of a tightly structured breakdown of one SNL short, listeners are let into the kind of behind-the-scenes post-show hang where stories unfold organically, in-jokes are immediately spun into running bits, and admiration for SNL cast and crew oozes out, mingling with playful competition, pop culture tips, and genuine affection.

Listeners get:

• Nostalgic SNL tales and tributes
• Unfiltered, funny inside baseball on the comedy industry
• Joyous reverence for friendship and creativity
• A taste of the pod’s ever-growing web of in-jokes, polls, and community references

Episode vibe:
Warm, silly, self-aware, and densely packed with offbeat amusements—a perfect encapsulation of why The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers’ reunion is a gift for comedy and SNL fans.

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End of Summary

Transcript

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[Seth Meyers]

Well, it's the Lonely island and Seth Meyers podcast.

[Kristen Wiig]

I've been recording.

[Yoram]

Yeah, we're recording.

[Kristen Wiig]

I just feel like I am rolling now. I just feel like everything I. Everything I say is gold.

[Yoram]

You know, I don't know what Greg Chun intro they're playing now, but the one from last week that I only heard after, you know, we record the episode, we don't hear it. And then I heard it where it was like the.

[Kristen Wiig]

It was really good.

[Yoram]

Magellan Brothers.

[Seth Meyers]

It was exceptional.

[Yoram]

It was really good.

[Seth Meyers]

Can I say. And you guys, you guys know Greg better than me. I'm going to read a comment and you can tell me if this is something that you guys knew about Greg. Somebody wrote. It blows my mind that Greg Chun, the English voice actor for many great Japanese video games, has had such a long relationship with the boys. I wonder if they've played any of the video games he stars in. Did you know that detail about Greg Chun?

[Kristen Wiig]

Yeah, he does so much voiceover work. I believe he is also one of the main characters in Squid Game. Yeah.

[Yoram]

If you listen to Squid Game dubbed. If you watch. Sorry. If you watch. Well, I guess you would be listening. Technically.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, we're gonna let you have it.

[Yoram]

But if you watch it and listen to the dubbed version, then he is the main dude.

[Seth Meyers]

That was a delight. His song also Take it away Arnold. And getting Arnold to sing got a real belly laugh for me.

[Yoram]

Yeah, we're not AI guys, but I just. We needed it and I. No, no, he really sang that. That was on an old Carson Tonight Show.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. So let's make sure because I do feel like there was a fear that somebody had AI'd Schwarzenegger singing that song. That was not the case.

[Yoram]

No, I googled Schwarzenegger singing. No AI Real deal that came up.

[Seth Meyers]

But you did ask chatgpt to find it.

[Yoram]

Yeah, of course. Google's busted.

[Seth Meyers]

Google's busted. That was fantastic. Um, wait, I have some things to say. First of all, I also got caught off guard by Jonah's wonderful message and A lot of the Quaids were delighted. A lot of the Quaids are like, I can't believe those two dudes did not see the Chappelle show mention coming. I saw it from a mile away, but I really did.

[Kristen Wiig]

I feel like such a sucker every single time. Cause I really. It really. It's just that he's so good at the red herring.

[Seth Meyers]

He's so good at the red herring.

[Yoram]

There is a Mexican restaurant in Tarzana, and it got my brain just spinning trying to remember its name. And it was really good. But I don't know if we ever went with Jonah. And I was, like, trying to have a memory of that. He really sent me down a path.

[Seth Meyers]

And me knowing you guys, I could see you up talking a Mexican restaurant near your house.

[Yoram]

Yeah, of course.

[Seth Meyers]

And so my immediately was like, I don't remember. They never took me to one of the Tarzana Mexican restaurants. And then, I mean, also, just men in tights is still the funniest in to Chappelle.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I like, by the way, you guys made a comment about I don't even know who the song was by. We like sports, where you do your dog faces and you say that's a reference to something.

[Yoram]

Or mad dog faces.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah.

[Yoram]

Super Thug by Noriega.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. And there's this really funny thing for me, as somebody who is a fan of rap music, when you're like, we have deep cuts. I mean, they're not that deep, but they're deeper than most.

[Yoram]

That one's not that deep. That was a big one.

[Kristen Wiig]

No, that one's pretty basic.

[Seth Meyers]

I know, but you guys, you're so anti. Coming off as posers. And I like, every time you walk back, like, no, no, I know. The real ones know this one. The real ones?

[Yoram]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

You don't ever want to get caught.

[Yoram]

Yeah, well, we don't want to. Yeah. If we're like, this is super underground.

[Seth Meyers]

This is super deep.

[Yoram]

Right. Somebody would be like, that's not. That was on the radio all the time.

[Seth Meyers]

This is more my notes on listening to the wonderful. We like sports.

[Kristen Wiig]

Thanks.

[Seth Meyers]

I really like the line, Keev. You say you like whiskey, and Yoram thinks it's bitter. And then it's like the opposite of a yes.

[Yoram]

No, no, no, no, no. I just say, you think it's bitter. I don't think I'm talking to Yoram. I think I'm talking to the listener.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes, I understand. I always. Okay, right, so you guys are never really talking to each other. The. You.

[Kristen Wiig]

Yeah.

[Yoram]

The you is the listener is. Is those people at home that don't know what it's like to be a real one.

[Kristen Wiig]

The proverbial you.

[Yoram]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

The most revealing moment that you guys are actually just the we like sports guys is when Yorm immediately can't remember the right way to say throw the pigstin. Like in the podcast. Yoram's like, I love have the pig like you just immediately stumble on.

[Kristen Wiig]

Well, speaking. Speaking of that, though, and me not actually being a sports guy, when Keev kind of started actually watch baseball, it hurt. Genuinely. I was like. I was like, wait, is there only one? Is there only guy? Guy number two is holding it down.

[Yoram]

Well, I've stopped. I've stopped. Yeah. I did have a good. When my kids were young and I'd be in the house all day, I was like, sports is so good to have on. Because I remember it being kind of a comforting sound in my house.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, totally.

[Yoram]

It's not going to scare them. And you don't have to be paying attention to a story. So all of a sudden I was like, oh, my God, I'm going to have A's games on all the time. And the warriors were on that historic run.

[Kristen Wiig]

Yeah.

[Yoram]

So I did get it back to my childhood.

[Kristen Wiig]

Did your dads do this where they liked the local radio guy better, so you would watch the game, but he'd do the sound off and then have the radio announcers instead?

[Yoram]

Yeah.

[Kristen Wiig]

And that was too both our dad.

[Yoram]

That must be just something from their generation. Cause my dad definitely did that with the A's.

[Kristen Wiig]

They were good, though. The A's announcers were better on the radio.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. There is that thing about mean all day where you talk about when my team loses. I mean, all day. This is my. This is why I went the other way when I had kids, Keev, and didn't have the game on all the time. Like right before I care too much.

[Yoram]

For me, it was just background noise. And for you, you'd be there being like, oh, come on, you fucking idiots.

[Seth Meyers]

And the kids are like, we were. And I think maybe even Ash was a baby and Alexi had just put him down. I remember. I remember the game. It was the Steelers, Cowboys, regular season game, like, whatever. 11 years old.

[Yoram]

He was a real sports guy.

[Kristen Wiig]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And the Steelers, it looked like they pulled off this incredible comeback victory with like 45 seconds left. And then the Cowboys drove down on one. And it was one of those things where, like, Alexi would say, I threw the iPad. My recollection is I swiped it off the table because I was watching it on the iPad and I just. So it did. You know what? I'm going to let her be correct on this. And it hit the ground and she was very taken aback. And I remember the next day she's like, I'm not okay with that.

[Kristen Wiig]

It's so much worse when it's the next day.

[Seth Meyers]

And I'm not okay with that being a thing that I'm worried is going to happen when our kids are around that something will happen that will make you. And I was like, uh huh, yeah, yeah, that's right. That's right.

[Kristen Wiig]

It's so much worse when she thought about it for a day and was like, you know, it was painful for her for 24 hours.

[Yoram]

How do I approach this without making him even more angry?

[Seth Meyers]

Well, I want to give her credit and I really appreciate that she gave a full 12 hours to figure out if she was okay with it.

[Kristen Wiig]

Yeah.

[Yoram]

You know what I mean?

[Seth Meyers]

She's like, am I okay with that?

[Yoram]

And to let you cool down.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, well, exactly. Mean all day. I had a flashback as well for you guys talking about your air conditioner in Tarzana. That was my attic shows during COVID

[Yoram]

The Mexican season in Tarzana. Sorry, but go ahead.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, the Mexican restaurant.

[Kristen Wiig]

Is that how you did your show during COVID You had to like turn it on and then.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, so it was. We were in the attic, middle of summer.

[Kristen Wiig]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

So heat rises so hot. And I would have to like record. I would turn off the AC to do like a closer look, top to bottom, like 12 minutes. And by the end I'd be drenched.

[Yoram]

That room looks hot. I can picture it in my head. And I'm like, oh, everything is collecting up there.

[Kristen Wiig]

How great though? How great of an experience to remember that though.

[Seth Meyers]

Like.

[Yoram]

Right?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Kristen Wiig]

Isn't that great?

[Seth Meyers]

And then we had a day where Ethan Hawke was. I figured out during COVID was our neighbor. And I remember one day I was like, hey, do you want to like, do a bit where you're like in the closet behind me during a closer look and you just pop your head out and I don't even notice. I remember that. And I kept flubbing and he came out and again. So imagine how he must have. And now he's in a closet and he's wearing a mask and he's drenched. He's like, buddy, I think I only got one more in me.

[Yoram]

This is a guy that memorizes all of Blue Moon, you know, and he's

[Seth Meyers]

a workaholic, this guy. Has been through the wringer like a pro.

[Yoram]

You're taking me to my limit. Wait, should we specify that Andy's not here? He's not just super quiet doing spelling bee.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. So Andy. And by the way, this was around Andy's availability?

[Kristen Wiig]

Yes.

[Yoram]

He's east coast right now. Yeah, but that means. So it's not that early for me. It's nine in the morning. Yeah, but he has a cold.

[Seth Meyers]

Andy's shooting a movie.

[Yoram]

Yes. Yeah, a second movie.

[Seth Meyers]

So he has a very early start tomorrow. I want to give Andius grace.

[Yoram]

Yeah, but it is interesting that we scheduled it around him and then he's the only one not on it. But I'm assuming he's asleep.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, I will say, unless he's sound asleep, a courtesy text would have been, I think, somewhere in the realm of.

[Yoram]

Yeah, he wouldn't just blow it off.

[Kristen Wiig]

He must really have a cold.

[Seth Meyers]

So I'm kind of hoping he's.

[Yoram]

Yeah. Because he is fighting a cold and has to be on camera again tomorrow.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm sure I've said it before that Amy Poehler used to call him Lil Slugger. Cause he was always like, how you feeling, Lil Slugger? Yeah. Yeah, he was always a little slugger. Was always a little under the weather. So this might be a little Slugger Sunday.

[Yoram]

But the topic today is party at Mr. Bernard's. But we held it last week because we didn't have Andy because it's such an Andy centric and it's me and Andy, and you weren't even there. Arms.

[Kristen Wiig]

No, no, no. So I don't. I don't know if we.

[Yoram]

So I don't know that we should even do it without him. So, I mean, we're. How long we can bullshit. So keep going.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm feeling good. Look, I'm not even halfway through my bullshit list.

[Yoram]

Okay, well, then maybe you take that. We'll take that out potentially, and not name it.

[Seth Meyers]

That. I think it's good. I think we can name what we're doing. Okay, maybe don't call it a bullshit list. Maybe call it something.

[Yoram]

That's what I mean. So maybe we can just talk about other things that are more pressing than

[Seth Meyers]

the short bullet items on my bullshit list.

[Yoram]

Yeah, like I watched Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves this week, but I watched the extended version, and there were 12 minutes. It was like going back in time to learn so much more about Alan Rickman's Nottingham guy. Cher.

[Seth Meyers]

I have a theory that there's a moment where Alan Rickman. Sighs I haven't watched it. Since I think I saw it in the theater.

[Yoram]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Like he has a moment where he sighs because he realizes Robin Hood's not dead.

[Yoram]

Sure.

[Seth Meyers]

And it's one of the funniest movies from like a dramatic villain where it's just like. I feel like villains don't have that moment enough where they're just like.

[Yoram]

Well, he's the. And he's the master of it. I mean, it's Hans Gruber, but he's got huge 90s hair.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Yoram]

That is so rad. And he. All the scenes shot of Robin Hood and out in the forest are shot. Very traditional, beautiful photography. And every time it goes to Alan Rickman in his castle. It's super. Like Terry Gilliam wide angle handheld. So it has like this kind of 12 monkeys, I'm an insane person in an insane place vibe.

[Kristen Wiig]

Shit, I gotta see this again.

[Yoram]

Yeah. Anyways, it's a new film. Robin Hood, Men and Tights of Thieves. Check it out. It's hard not to say Men and tights every time. That's. That's how effective that title was.

[Seth Meyers]

Wait, I have a question though, for you. Who directed it?

[Yoram]

That guy. His name is Kevin Reynolds, I believe not Kevin Costner. Got it. But I think if you talk to someone who worked on the movie, I may have some insider info that I don't want to spill. Kevin Costner was a pretty. Pretty bossy. A bossy bottom, I think, is what they call when it's your lead actor and he's actually directing the mov from under you.

[Seth Meyers]

Wait, I have two more things from my. Listen. One, I was an actual cul de sac kid. But before you judge me is like living. Living the high life how I picture you. I was a cul de sac at the top of a hill. So it was actually a terrible place to play sports because there was just enough incline down.

[Yoram]

Were you the end of the cul de sac and it was the top of the hill. Like it.

[Seth Meyers]

Like so top of the hill. And then there was a cul de sac. So there were like four houses ringing it. But like we had a basketball hoop and like, it would just rebound. The balls would start to roll. Yeah. So, yeah, it was a rough life.

[Kristen Wiig]

I mean, you're kind of. You're kind of cul de sac right now.

[Yoram]

Yeah, technically my kids are cul de sac kids. My street is cul de sac here in la. There's just no other children on the street. So there's no joy to it. Except for that there's not a lot of traffic. So it doesn't really have that feeling as much.

[Seth Meyers]

We were kid heavy cul de sac. That was good. And then guy number one. Guy number two had a has a real cat in the hat feel to it. That was my other observation.

[Yoram]

Oh, like thing one, thing two.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. And then they're really kind of cat in the hat. Y ly as well. Like the rhyme structure is right. Cat in the hat.

[Yoram]

Yeah. There's some Dr. Seuss.

[Kristen Wiig]

I did not think about that. Yeah, I suppose it is.

[Yoram]

Well, we missed you, Seth. We know you had done all your prep.

[Seth Meyers]

I tried to do my prep. Hey, the ALF TV official YouTube comment or whatever. The ALPH TV official account.

[Yoram]

Someone who has the ALF ALF TV

[Seth Meyers]

official left the comment verified ALPH account. Yeah. And they wrote, heard you guys want to watch my pilot. Great taste. I mean, obviously, check it out right here on the Alf official YouTube channel. Pilot Alf original broadcast full episode season one, episode one. You're welcome.

[Yoram]

From the perspective of Alf. Alf wrote that comment, by the way. He said my pilot.

[Seth Meyers]

My pilot. And just to hammer it home. The last comment, Keev. Or the last sentences. Now if you'll excuse me. Lucky isn't going to chase himself. Oh, shit.

[Yoram]

He left to go chase the cat. So the world of ALF is still happening. That's really encouraging.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, it's very encouraging. I didn't even think about how encouraging it was.

[Kristen Wiig]

I'm surprised there wasn't like a parliament alf, you know, crossover thing. You know what I mean?

[Yoram]

Yeah, well, we're going to do that, so thank you, alf. I'm not going to click your link quite yet because I'm saving it for when we do a whole episode. But shout out to alf.

[Seth Meyers]

Thank you, alf. Glad to hear you're still kicking and haven't gone back to melmac. Oh. Although I think we've established melmac maybe blew up and so we can't go back to melmac. Some people in the comments were like, hey, man, that's actually very insensitive to say go back to melmac.

[Kristen Wiig]

Oh, right.

[Seth Meyers]

That's true.

[Kristen Wiig]

Yeah.

[Yoram]

If it even existed. If it wasn't just the plates.

[Kristen Wiig]

Right.

[Yoram]

If it wasn't, that seems pretty convenient. He's like, oh. They're like, well, why don't we go visit Alvin?

[Seth Meyers]

He's like, whoa, whoa. I keep forgetting. He's.

[Yoram]

It blew up. It blew up, dude, we can't.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, Keev. A lot of people were wondering and it's maybe just me. I haven't watched yet. Did Will Ferrell do Mugless last night? Oh, I mean, he hosted again. It was a season finale when you submitted mugless and it went to dress and I'm wondering.

[Yoram]

Oh, you said Keev. You meant Yorm.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, sorry. Yorm. Yeah. Geez Louise, I should have sent it

[Kristen Wiig]

in like, I blew it.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, I mean, resubmit.

[Yoram]

You should have secretly resubmitted. Got Kenward to put it in the

[Kristen Wiig]

table reading, oh, my God, blew it next time.

[Yoram]

Yeah, I haven't watched last night either. Yeah, I'm gonna maybe never watch and just assume he did it and it went to air and it went.

[Seth Meyers]

Assume he did mug that Maybe it was. But then because McCartney was hosting. McCartney played the Abby Elliott part. He was the one who got his mug stolen. Oh, yeah, let's none of us watch it. And Yorm, that'll be the happy ending. He was like, hey, where's my. I can't find my mug.

[Kristen Wiig]

Has anyone seen it? By the way, somebody made me a really nice mug that says mugless.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, that's nice. Somebody in the comments said, somebody needs to start a dictionary for this podcast. And then a Quaid wrote, if you go to the show subreddit, someone keeps an up to date dictionary. It's a pinned post.

[Yoram]

So, yeah, we saw that a few months ago and I was delighted somebody texted me the link to that determination.

[Kristen Wiig]

How many times do we have so far on there?

[Yoram]

We should put that in the show notes. This wonderful dictionary that really, whoever's writing it is funny though. There was like, funny way. Did you flip through it ever since I looked at it yet there's like, I forget it was months ago, but there was the way he was describing certain things or she was making me laugh.

[Seth Meyers]

What's the name of the arcade? Oh, what was that?

[Yoram]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. How did your thing go? Didn't you have an entire poll? You did Daiquiri girl versus what was that?

[Seth Meyers]

Maybe Jeff knows the answer. Jeff, do you know the answer?

[Yoram]

Do you have the finals of that poll?

[Andy Samberg]

Last time I checked, it was 50. 50.

[Seth Meyers]

Let me check right now. Oh, wait. Jeff actually sent it to me. And Jeff maybe thought the Quaids were doing that on purpose, like every Quaid who went to vote.

[Yoram]

You think they're that organized?

[Seth Meyers]

They might be. I mean, they're an army.

[Yoram]

Oh, that's.

[Seth Meyers]

They are an army.

[Kristen Wiig]

An army of conflict.

[Yoram]

Oh, wow. So the lonely island in Seth Meyer's dictionary has a. An eggplant emoji for the word dick in dictionary. It's an eggplant emoji. Oh, wow.

[Kristen Wiig]

This is really well done.

[Yoram]

Yeah, it's got graphics. Am, PM situation, of course, starts with an A. It's first.

[Kristen Wiig]

There's a lot of terms and golden.

[Yoram]

Wow. This is. This is good.

[Kristen Wiig]

That's great.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, my God.

[Yoram]

The two bad hang. When Amy Puller, host of the podcast Good Hang, attempts to sabotage another podcast with a lackluster contribution, that's called a bad.

[Seth Meyers]

A bad hang.

[Yoram]

Yeah, that's a bad hang. She's bad hanging us. That was a quote from episode 104.

[Kristen Wiig]

This is really good.

[Yoram]

Here's. But Jason. Oh, well, I have a comment for.

[Kristen Wiig]

Who wrote.

[Yoram]

Who made this? Whoever made this. Oh, yeah. Nick Ricardo.

[Kristen Wiig]

Thank you, Nick.

[Yoram]

Nick Ricardo. I have a comment. You wrote bad adjacent for abbreviation of B adjacent.

[Kristen Wiig]

Yes.

[Yoram]

Bjacent. I would argue that it's probably ba. Apostrophe Jason.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, okay.

[Yoram]

Like bjacent.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm almost certain he's listening. And also, just a genuine thank you, Nick.

[Yoram]

This feels thorough and in a really nice way.

[Kristen Wiig]

I love that Breakfast defector is on here.

[Yoram]

Bbs an abbreviation for. Yeah, this is Justin Thorough Breakfast Effecter.

[Kristen Wiig]

Dem Cliff.

[Yoram]

Crumb. Bum, Quump. But we did say crumb bump.

[Kristen Wiig]

Bump.

[Yoram]

But he understood that that would be the quump bump involves the bump. So it'd be.

[Seth Meyers]

Somebody signed off on a comment on YouTube with party on quain. I approve. Oh, I said Jensen Ackles was the actor on the Boys who said, Cool it, MacGruber. It was Jared Padlecki. And then he plays a character named Soldier Boy, who, as a play on Captain America, was frozen for years. And so again, his line was cool at MacGruber. Right. Someone said, take a second to realize how funny it is that Soldier Boy was frozen for years. And then when he got defrosted, he decided to watch MacGruber. Somebody told him he was frozen when MacGruber came out, and he got thought out. And they were like, you got to see McGrew. You know that.

[Yoram]

That scene in Austin Powers where they're filling him in and he sits there and he watches all the news of the last. They put together a clip to, like, get him up to speed, and he has to watch everything, and he can't believe how much the world has changed. Somebody put that together for him and was like, here are the important things for you to see. Yeah. They're like, here's like, footage of 9, 11. The Berlin Wall came down while you were frozen. And here is the film MacGruber.

[Kristen Wiig]

It's like the Fifth Element when she has to ingest all of the pain of, you know, everything that's ever been.

[Yoram]

Yeah. A moment that you brought up more than once. You must have had a. Oh, I love it.

[Kristen Wiig]

I love it. Just the single tier.

[Yoram]

Are there. Wait, eight. So 85. About 85. 8,400 people voted on Daiquiri Girl verse. What was that? And it still came out 50.

[Seth Meyers]

58, by the way, an odd number. 8405. So it. Somebody won. But like YouTube is.

[Yoram]

It's a rounding error. Will you put the link in for that? Because are there comments under the poll

[Seth Meyers]

while he's doing that? Here's another one. You guys were talking about the font issue in We Like Sports, how the font changed, and somebody pointed out, like a font changing without your knowledge is a bit chaotic. Almost feels like a prankster type move. They referred to it as a Tim Oliphant. Oh, that's when your font just fucks up.

[Yoram]

Cause he's a prankster.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, he's just a fucking. He a Loki. He's a little Loki.

[Yoram]

Yeah, he's a real Loki. A merry prankster.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Somebody else read. Hearing Jonah Hill call you guys two Michelangelos made me realize that another good name for the pod is Three Michelangelos and Splinter. I do not care for that.

[Yoram]

I like that. That person's. He was referring to the painter. But they went to Ninja Turtle immediately.

[Seth Meyers]

They immediately went to Ninja Turtle.

[Yoram]

I also like Jonah pronouncing Michelangelo, which was. I really appreciated.

[Seth Meyers]

Hey, so we were talking about one of the problems about. What was that? That's the name of it, right? Is that it was just, like, too much of a bummer to talk about bummer things.

[Kristen Wiig]

Oh, yeah. Well, yeah. Doesn't help it.

[Seth Meyers]

So Mike Scher wrote in. Well, he wrote into Andy and I the first time Jack Black hosted Higgins and I and others. Question Mark wrote him and Kyle from Tenacious D an update feature where he brought up whatever awful thing was happening in the world or whatever, and said that the politics of the region were really confusing. And they had written a song to help everyone understand what was happening. Then Kyle played a cat. Classic Tenacious D Driving, strumming beat. And Jack just kept singing, Hornet's Nest. Hornet's Nest. The Middle east is such a fricking hornet's. Nest. And then it was like a call and response where he would call out to the audience, like, Middle East. And they'd all call back, hornet's Nest.

[Yoram]

I do vaguely remember that now.

[Seth Meyers]

And he then wrote. It went over exactly like your digital short. Like, I bet if audio technicians measured the decibel level in the studio for those two performances, it would be identical. So it aired because I think Andy wrote back that he remembered it as well.

[Yoram]

Yeah, I do vaguely remember that.

[Seth Meyers]

This is exactly what's going on over there.

[Andy Samberg]

It's called Hornet's Nest.

[Seth Meyers]

Hornet, Hornet. What you gonna do about a hornet? Hornet, Hornet. What you gonna do? Hornet's Nest, Hornet's nest. The Middle east is just a crazy hornet's nest. Hornet's nest, Hornet's nest. Hatchy down at you. And Andy also wrote back. I remember it and I remember liking it a bit, little lot. So no one.

[Yoram]

Well, the. And also the. Well, that Jack Black, the first one. We were still, you know, in LA and watching the show every week and it was so good. I remember thinking that was a very, very good episode.

[Kristen Wiig]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Yoram]

That's where the inspiration was. Here's a nice comment underneath the daiquiri girl. What was that? 50. 50 it says what was that was a swing and a mission. Daiquiri girl was a miss and a swing. Thanks banana dog152 got a genuine laugh

[Seth Meyers]

out of me in that. What was that episode? I really like when people oftentimes put a timestamp of Somebody had a timestamp at 24:51. Keev had a really good groan and then also Yoram made an ill timed tumbleweed joke at 45, 39 and Keev had a really good deflated and long.

[Kristen Wiig]

Good.

[Yoram]

I like that. That's becoming my catchphrase.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, you know, speaking of McGruber, I was in New Mexico doing standup and I had lunch and then after my show I had drinks with John Solomon. Co writer McGregor.

[Kristen Wiig]

Yeah, I was impressed that he flew out for that. He loves you too.

[Seth Meyers]

And his wife Alexis. It was fantastic.

[Yoram]

Wait, why were they there? They just came out.

[Seth Meyers]

They came out to see the show. They came out to have a parents weekend without their kids in New Mexico. Beautiful place to go.

[Yoram]

They just kind of used it as a let's get out of here, let's find. And they went, why not do that? That's as good as anything else.

[Seth Meyers]

It's great. I had an awesome lunch with him and he's one of the best. And I will say I thought of it. Cause John Solomon has that really nice way of saying good when you tell Him a story like. Good.

[Yoram]

Yeah, yeah. That is his catchphrase. I guess I stole it. Dang.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. But it's a very funny thing he says when you tell him something insane has happened. Good. Yes, yes. It's very.

[Yoram]

It really is.

[Kristen Wiig]

He can get pretty dry.

[Yoram]

Did he tell you about having just been with. I guess we could ask Andy, but I mean, we were trying to not blow up his spot before, but he's not there anymore, so. Yeah, his Hawaii Times.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, did who tell Solomon?

[Yoram]

Because Solomon co wrote the movie, so he was out there a bunch.

[Seth Meyers]

He did. He talked about it. Solomon had a very sweet story. Because again, Solomon and Forte have known each other since college. They're collaborators now for like almost probably 30 years. Right.

[Kristen Wiig]

They're very similar people in terms of the way that they annoy people.

[Seth Meyers]

But. But Forte came out to do like a very small part in the movie and John said to have written a movie that Will came to show up to do. It was the first time I saw through different eyes what it means to have Will Forte show up on your movie, which is he's completely prepared. He is totally tireless and he is so funny. And it's just like a shot of adrenaline to the entire operation.

[Yoram]

Well, that's so nice.

[Kristen Wiig]

Oh, yeah.

[Yoram]

That could have gone the other way. When you started the sentence, I didn't know if you were gonna be like, he's so annoying.

[Kristen Wiig]

No, he is. He is.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Kristen Wiig]

He always gives 150% no matter what he does.

[Yoram]

That's awesome. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And I will say if there's another person who I believe that is true about, it's Fred. And I think there's a reason, like Fred and Will, you know, a hundred movies where they show up for one scene and just murder it. And it is really true also.

[Kristen Wiig]

I mean, Forte showing up to play bagpipes for Popstar, you know, it's a thankless role and he did a fucking amazing job.

[Yoram]

Well, we did shoot. We shot another scene that's on the deleted scenes with him. Do you remember? And it's pretty true where they're like in the living room and Andy's drinking and he's like staring at him. Is he asking to be paid? I can't remember what the joke was.

[Seth Meyers]

He shows up in the Will and Harper documentary. He shows up in New Mexico and goes up on a hot air balloon with those two. Yeah. Forte will show up for anybody. But it was very sweet to hear, like, somebody be like, yeah, no, I. I can't believe all these years in I'm like, oh, God, you're even.

[Yoram]

That's. It's his true, like best friend to a degree. Most adults don't have a best friend. As close as those two friends are,

[Kristen Wiig]

they're very sweet together.

[Yoram]

So back to this dictionary. Off the job. The definition be abstaining from Jav on the job to be hopped up on Jav. He's definitely.

[Seth Meyers]

He does have a real economy of language. That is exceptional, this one. I mean, I was kind of saving it for Andy, but British Quaids should be called quies because Jamiroquai are from England. I don't know if that seems like. I think quids is still better.

[Kristen Wiig]

Yeah, Quids.

[Seth Meyers]

Hey, speaking of our quids, SNL UK had their finale last night and also got picked up. Picked up for another season.

[Yoram]

So how many apps was that that felt like they just premiered? Is it like an 8 episode season? They did very British. How British of them?

[Seth Meyers]

Very well, it was actually. It was six, which is the true British. And then it got the American quump to eight. But I think next year it might be even more so. It's a success.

[Yoram]

That's so exciting.

[Seth Meyers]

It's a success. And they really. It was really cool to watch because they. I think they had a lot of obviously the infrastructure that comes with SNL us, but they also immediately made it their own and it's just been a joy to watch. So congrats to everybody over there.

[Yoram]

Seth, how were upfronts? Did you get any good advertisers this year?

[Seth Meyers]

Thanks for asking. I did upfronts. So for those who don't know, upfronts is. Have we talked about upfronts?

[Yoram]

I don't think so, no.

[Kristen Wiig]

But I just saw Forte because he was in town for upfronts.

[Seth Meyers]

All the advertisers come to New York City 20 years ago, 25 years ago, when I started in this business is a way sort of bigger thing, of course, but it's still big for NBC, which is. NBC has the Monday slot. They've had the Monday slot for the entirety of my time at the network.

[Kristen Wiig]

Cool. Is that a good slot?

[Seth Meyers]

All the advertisers come in. There's a show at Radio City full. A packed radio city from 10am to noon, where basically NBC leadership and then talent come out on stage for the purposes of convincing advertisers to buy time on their shows. It's a fascinating thing to watch. It's not for the public. There's no clips of it online. I do it every year and I have been elevated To I used to open it and it was too hard to open it. And so I asked if I could go at the end. And I just basically make fun of how silly and dumb upfronts are at the end. And I feel like everybody really enjoys it.

[Yoram]

Like just 15 years ago, let's say, and anytime before there was cable, but really there was the four really big networks and they would each have their presentation and there would be billions of dollars worth of advertising to be had. And I think those advertisers probably knew some percentage that they were. Let's say you were Palmolive. What's that big, you know, Unilever. You probably have $500 million to spend an advertising something insane.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Yoram]

And you probably have already know that you're going to do at least let's say 50 million to each of the four, but then you have another 200 that you really would look at the slates and go, hmm, where do I want to. Oh, that show looks like that's going to be perfect for our Dove campaign. And this one's gonna be perfect. And you really could win advertisers there. And now it is just not this. It can't be.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, now I feel like they're pitching whatever a holistic approach, like we'll put your shows everywhere and we do digital and like where it really used to be like this show. If you wanna buy space on this show. I remember in fact Keev like, so NBC used to then throw a huge party at night and all the advertisers would be there and all the talent would be there. I remember the year Modern Family showed clips at the ABC up front and it was amazing.

[Yoram]

The show hadn't come out yet.

[Seth Meyers]

It hadn't come out yet. But everyone I talked to was like, ABC has this show and it was that thing that used to happen where a pilot would blow people away. Like advertisers who by the way were every one of them to a person was right. Their instinct was like, this is where we want our product. Modern fans.

[Kristen Wiig]

But Seth, when you're there and when like Forte goes up for four seasons and things like that, is it to try and win that?

[Seth Meyers]

To like, don't. It does seem like a weird. I don't know, it seems like this ceremonial thing that you kind of can't figure out, like.

[Kristen Wiig]

But it's like a courting thing. But it doesn't seem like the people who like the famous people that are there really would potentially benefit from it. But I guess if people.

[Yoram]

No, no, you have to do it. It's part of your job to sell it to these advertisers as the actor.

[Seth Meyers]

But it's very funny to watch that like six, like, for example, six incredible actors will come out on stage and they all look wonderful. But, like, once you learn the rhythm of other runs, each one of them says one line about the show they're about to, you know.

[Andy Samberg]

Right.

[Seth Meyers]

And it's not scripted like banter. It's kind of like, well, don't the

[Yoram]

drama actors just get to be like, a man who, you know, fight fires, has one get too close to his house and, like, they just get to say it. Whereas. And then the comedy people have to come out and be like, hey, buddy, like, I'm doing a bit, you know, do some bad patter.

[Seth Meyers]

But either way, it's a little hard. I feel like if there was a catchphrase this year at NBC upfronts, it was a lot of shows about women running from their demons.

[Yoram]

Okay, well, that's something to look forward to this fall. I once went to the Fox up fronts when we had our overall yorm with fox and Pitbull. Mr. Worldwide 305.

[Kristen Wiig]

Oh, yeah.

[Yoram]

Performed on the stage at Radio City, you know, but at 11:30 in the morning for a bunch of TV affiliates and advertisers from across America.

[Kristen Wiig]

Yeah. And the audience was just going, ham, I would imagine.

[Yoram]

And he had, like, six backup dancers, and he was. It made me laugh the whole time. It was just wonderful.

[Seth Meyers]

But I think. I mean, I genuinely think, you know, the advertisers. I mean, it's a great reason to come to New York City for, like, four, three and a half days. Like, Matt and Bowen did, like, an opening song. It was really fun. Jane Krakowski did a song in the middle. It's not like I don't want to. It's just like a weird. And by the way, I love that it's holding on because I think it's fascinating.

[Yoram]

Well, it's coming back. I mean, NBC has some really great shows to look out for.

[Seth Meyers]

I feel like I finally realized what Keeve was fishing for. Keeve, you guys, they showed a clip from Keeve's show that he directed. And you have a name for it? You have a title for it now?

[Yoram]

Yeah, it's called Sunset PI.

[Seth Meyers]

Sunset PI.

[Yoram]

But it won't be out till, like, February.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Kristen Wiig]

Wait, so did they invite you to the upfronts then for it?

[Yoram]

You know, they didn't. They didn't. Because I'm, you know, I'm in the wind now. You know, will I even do more?

[Seth Meyers]

Maybe, you know, playing a little koi?

[Yoram]

Well, I don't know. It'll depend on the schedule. Dan Gore went. I know that. Luke Deltrici went. And then those are the two creators and then three of our main stars of it, you know, Jake Johnson, Jane Levy, Keith David, they all went.

[Kristen Wiig]

Right.

[Seth Meyers]

I would lovely to see. Keith David is one of those guys that you're just very happy to see.

[Yoram]

Yeah. And did they just do some bad. Did they do some not bad, but did they do some painless banter up there?

[Seth Meyers]

Painless banter. Totally painless. But I mean, again, that's. The other thing is, like, I think you like to see the stars. They introduce the clip, but then the laughs come from the clips, which is better, you know, but who writes the.

[Kristen Wiig]

Are there writers then, or are they just making up their patter, basically?

[Seth Meyers]

No, I think they're writing it, and I bet they write it, and they probably send it to Dan Gore. Who knows, though, right?

[Kristen Wiig]

Okay, when I did Miracle Workers for tbs, I did like, a dog and pony show that was more like what we did for pop star Keev, where there were actual pictures of how we were going to present it. So I like, sort of was presenting the whole world to it. It was a very weird. And it was a smaller little. I don't know, it seemed like a very odd version of upfronts to me.

[Yoram]

That's interesting they had you do it too, because you just did the pilot. You weren't gonna be doing that world.

[Kristen Wiig]

I don't know. Yeah, it was a weird. It felt much more like presenting a movie like the way that you do when all the top brass come in and you're like, this is what this looks like.

[Yoram]

Here's the colors. You color before you shoot it. But you had already shot it, right?

[Kristen Wiig]

No, it was before we did it.

[Yoram]

Oh, that's different. That's different.

[Seth Meyers]

I feel like we should throw another poll up, which is, did you guys enjoy this upfront conversation or Keev and Yorms font conversation?

[Yoram]

Well, we skipped the most important thing. Seth, how did you like the follow up on the theater rake conversation?

[Seth Meyers]

I did like it. I did like the rake. I'm never gonna say no to a raid conversation.

[Yoram]

Okay, great.

[Seth Meyers]

We're gonna do a little housekeeping here, because I think Lil Slugger might be out cold. We are gonna do the second half of Turtleneck and Chain, but that requires all parties. Or maybe the three of you. If there's ever a three of you. You guys could go back and do some turtleneck and chain. But we do have the long promised Jon Hamm voice note about Shyranni too. And then we have some other voice notes as well.

[Yoram]

So this is from back when we asked for it.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Yoram]

And we just sat on it. We're really good.

[Kristen Wiig]

We have a backlog.

[Andy Samberg]

Hi, guys, it's Jon Hamm sending you guys a voice note as requested on the air. Curious method of requesting it. I mean, you guys have my number. You could have thrown it in the chat proves he.

[Yoram]

He's really listening.

[Andy Samberg]

Whatever. Happy to oblige. The Rihanna episode was amazing. Just to throw my 2 cents in on how much. Apparently we're all in love with Rihanna and how beautiful she is. As you know, the host's dressing room is right next to the musical acts dressing room. And I was in there running some lines and Higgins was in there or something and he left and I poked my head out just to see what was up. And Rihanna asked me to come in with her and her crew to get high. She said, hey, you want to toot it? And I said, no thanks, Rihanna. I have to work. But she was very pretty. And now I completely forgot why I'm supposed to be sending you guys any kind of voice note other than the fact that you guys did the audition sketch, which is and remains my favorite sketch I've ever done on snl. Wiig and Sudeikis top of their powers and it was tremendous.

[Yoram]

Oh, right.

[Andy Samberg]

The short Ronnie and Clyde. Top notch production values, top notch song, top notch Shyrani costuming, penis work. So much good stuff. And yes, I was only needed for like two shots, which was pretty fun and cool. But yes, it was a delightful time to be there and I treasure it. The goldenest of golden eras. Once again, Halloween cut for time, bringing back Jeff Montgomery, which we really missed.

[Yoram]

That'd be interesting to watch.

[Andy Samberg]

This was it.

[Kristen Wiig]

Oh my God, I love that one.

[Andy Samberg]

Love you guys. Later on.

[Yoram]

Well, he tried to later on. Unless you son of a bitch.

[Kristen Wiig]

Just play the.

[Seth Meyers]

I don't know if he's allowed to do that.

[Kristen Wiig]

Play the music.

[Seth Meyers]

You know, since we had a ham and he mentioned audition sketch and obviously we know whose co star in that sketch is Kristen Wiig. I got a voice note from Kristen and I was, you know, I think just because we do this, I'm recollecting about our friends that I wish I saw more often. And I was just walking down the street. I think I was going to the dentist and all of a sudden I saw a text from Wiig and It was the best kind of text because it was a voice note. And so let's give a listen to that. Hi, guys.

[Andy Samberg]

It's.

[Jon Hamm]

Oh, it's seven in the morning. You're getting a real early voice wig this morning. And this is. This is just a general voice note. It's not based on anything. I'm just recording this at my own will. And I will tell you, I don't feel confident in my voice note note skills for this because so far I don't have anything funny to say. And I'm just. You've asked me to do these in the past. I. I was just listening to you guys and thought, you know what? I just need to tell you how much I love being a part of you guys going back in time with these years. Like, you know, it was probably, I mean, besides having kids, the best years of my life with all of you. And we all shared in something so rare. And I don't know, I just listening because I. I never watched the shows when I was on. I don't know, it was like a weird OCD thing or something. I just. I couldn't do it. And, like, towards the end of my time there, I would maybe watch a sketch that I wasn't in, like, maybe. So I've never seen these. Most of these sketches that you're talking about, but I remember all of them. And then especially the shorts that, you know, that was just something that, as a cast member, we didn't really know what you guys were doing. Like, you would. You would tell us, and we know you were working on it, and we never got to see anything beforehand. So for us, it was also such a special time to, you know, run to the monitors during the show and watch what you guys did. And it was such a big part of the show, and it was just. I don't know, I'm just getting full of nostalgia in my later years. I guess I just wanted to reach out and just tell you that I love you all and listening to you. And anyway, that's it. I don't know how to end this, but I'll just say that I'm in

[Seth Meyers]

the Quaid army, guys.

[Jon Hamm]

I'm in it, and I love you.

[Kristen Wiig]

Oh, my God.

[Yoram]

Righteous kill.

[Seth Meyers]

Righteous killed.

[Kristen Wiig]

Me a little emotional at the end.

[Yoram]

It made me.

[Seth Meyers]

It was very emotional. I was walking down the street. It made me emotional. And also, it's a reminder for someone who has an ability to do some of the funniest voices known to man. Kristen Wiig has a beautiful speaking voice. I mean, it's just. It was like velvet. So calming.

[Kristen Wiig]

Velvet really, really sucked me in.

[Seth Meyers]

She did send a second voice note.

[Yoram]

Was like, just kidding. All that was you?

[Seth Meyers]

Well, you'll be surprised. Let's take a look.

[Jon Hamm]

Okay, one last thing. And it's about all the ALF stuff. Grew up watching that show and I, I don't think I've ever been bleeped and I would just love my first time to be on the pod. Sorry, Andy. I'm just shocked and appalled at the dead and how he smoked all the that and sucked all that. It's pretty sick.

[Kristen Wiig]

Oh, yep.

[Yoram]

Oh, wow.

[Seth Meyers]

Really nice. Really. I mean, Jonah Hillian use of the second. The follow up voice note.

[Yoram]

Follow up voice note is really a powerful tool.

[Seth Meyers]

You know, the members of the celebrity members of Quaid army really understand the game and I can't thank them enough.

[Kristen Wiig]

Well, can I go back to the realness of the first, please? I just, just when I went to college, I remember going to UCLA and being so disappointed about the dorm experience and being like, I thought it was going to be this like magical fucking, like what you think of when you think of like a movie version of college. And I had such a fucking great time in high school. All of my really close friends, I have a couple of friends from college that I'm close with. But going to SNL was like the college experience that I wanted to have. Like our stupid room was covered in shitty fucking posters. It was so sarcastic and ridiculous. And you're with some of the greatest people who are so fucking funny, like fortes across the hall from us. It all feels like dorm rooms and you're having a sleepover fucking basically every night, like on Tuesdays. And we spent a lot of time sleeping at the vet at SNL on shitty couches. But like, but it was, it felt like that to me of like this was the college experience that I wanted to have.

[Seth Meyers]

It's so true. You're right. It is the stereotypical captured on screen, I don't know, like college romp movies, but in real life.

[Kristen Wiig]

I remember like trying to ollie over a couch in the hallway, like on my skateboard. And like having that stupid jazzy scooter that Ozzy Osbourne gave to Horatio that was just in the hallway and we were driving that shit around. It's so great. It was such a great, I mean, you know, stressful, anxiety ridden for sure, all of that, but like, but just some of the greatest people that I will ever know and love, you know, experiencing that was just. It was the best thank you wig for sending that. Yeah, yeah.

[Yoram]

It made me want to go hang out with wig, which I know we both live in the same. I mean, she's here and I never

[Kristen Wiig]

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[Yoram]

Ooh, ooh, ooh.

[Kristen Wiig]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Kristen Wiig]

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[Yoram]

back to the dictionary one last time. Guys. Guys, there's one that's in bold for no reason. Like, like super bold. I don't know why it's bigger when Ben Stein's money guy. Ben Stein is the definition of that. And it's origin is from Sandberg. Episode 54 the Win Ben Stein's money guy.

[Kristen Wiig]

Well, not not surprisingly, Andy has a lot of these that are origins from Andy's joining.

[Yoram]

Andy, can you hear me right now?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Can you hear me? Yeah, we can hear.

[Yoram]

We found the dictionary that somebody's keeping of all the things that we talk about on the pod that need to catch up. But one of the words in it is Win Ben Stein's money guy. And the definition Is Ben Stein.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know the win. Ben Stein's money guy.

[Yoram]

Yeah, the grandma got run over by. What's that song about grandma getting run over by a Randy.

[Andy Samberg]

Literally. So embarrassing.

[Seth Meyers]

Andy, talk us through the late arrival.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, I'm shooting back to back movies. Do you want the long version?

[Yoram]

No, please.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, okay.

[Yoram]

No, I'll go soon. Yeah, dad, really get us into it.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I'm completely, completely overstretched. I was supposed to do something this morning, but I'm sick as a dog. And I canceled it after my alarm went off to do the morning thing. Knowing we had this at noon or 12:15.

[Kristen Wiig]

Yeah, weird time.

[Andy Samberg]

And I was like, oh, I don't have to do that morning thing now I get to just fall back asleep for let's say three hours. It'll be totally fine to make this. And then I woke up and we were a good 30 minutes into it and I had the good old fashioned panel.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm gonna tell you something and I want you to know this is sincere. I am so happy you got that sleep.

[Yoram]

Yeah, thrilled.

[Andy Samberg]

I appreciate it.

[Seth Meyers]

No, no hard feelings at all. You got what you needed.

[Yoram]

I mean, I'm also jealous and impressed that you're able to sleep. I know it's cause you have a cold, but it's also like. It's amazing to be able to sleep that much.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I mean I haven't done it probably in like three or four straight months. Which is, you know, generally parenting People would say that. But I've just been working so much, Seth. You know how it is.

[Seth Meyers]

I know how it is. My son came in this morning and woke me up at. My daughter had a fever. She slept in my bed with Alexi. I slept in my daughter's bed. So my son found me at 6:50 and woke me up and I was like, can you just give me five more minutes? And he was like, I'll give you two. And then he left and I fully fell back asleep. And then he poked me and he goes, I gave you seven.

[Andy Samberg]

I was like, sweetheart, relationships are a negotiation.

[Seth Meyers]

We've been reading a lot of. We actually. This has worked out fine. Cause I think we got a full episode out of just minutia, which I think is like a very. Yeah.

[Yoram]

We didn't go into party at Mr. Bernard's because we agreed that that was for all of us to get part

[Seth Meyers]

of extending the pod. We talked a lot about upfronts, so that's one of the issues upfronts talking

[Andy Samberg]

about how fucking fun they are.

[Kristen Wiig]

We should Call this episode Minutia.

[Yoram]

I did talk about when we saw Pitbull at the.

[Andy Samberg]

That was the first thing I was gonna say.

[Yoram]

Yeah. At the Fox upfronts, there's like, God

[Andy Samberg]

damn, I wonder how much they gave him.

[Yoram]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I've seen musicians come off, like, at Radio City, like, not Pitbull, but like that level of. And they just come off and they're like, fuck. Cause it's just impossible to get the audience going.

[Yoram]

He smiled and danced his way through it, and he knew exactly what the deal was. Like, you're paying me, and I know this is a corporate gig and I'll cash the check and I'll do a 15 minutes medley and hit the road.

[Andy Samberg]

It's definitely like a different version of performing for the Shah, right?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, it's a little perform for the Shah.

[Yoram]

He kept saying, how you doing, Saudi Arabia?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Yoram]

And we were like, no, no. It's like, Gaddafi. How you doing, Gaddafi?

[Seth Meyers]

Happy birthday.

[Andy Samberg]

Drinking is in ears. Pit. No.

[Seth Meyers]

Pit. Pit. No. No. Abc? No.

[Yoram]

Fox, Frito Lay and Unilever.

[Seth Meyers]

Hey, speaking of ads, I've saved a few comments for you, Andy.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay, please.

[Seth Meyers]

A possible 711 partnership with Andy Big Gulp Samberg.

[Yoram]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Cause I'd be gulping the big reviewers, by the way. I'm in the streets of New York, y'. All. I'm out there. Still zero suitors.

[Seth Meyers]

Still zero suitors. And do you want to put the caveat again on how they should approach if you're with your children?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I gotta be chill about it with the kids.

[Yoram]

No, it's that they bring a Nintendo Switch that they. To hand to the kids to play with.

[Seth Meyers]

So if you want the queen from Andy on the streets and he's with his kids, you gotta have a second person with you to watch the kids while you guys go around the corner. He will not leave his kids on the corner without a second adult.

[Andy Samberg]

And also, like, don't take forever. Like, don't show off,

[Seth Meyers]

Show up.

[Kristen Wiig]

Anyway, 711 tie in.

[Seth Meyers]

Are you the one that's supposed to be impressed, Andy?

[Yoram]

Yeah, I like kind of an episode like this that's just kind of recapping, talking about the past. And then have Andy come in late so we can recap. Recap this episode.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, we.

[Yoram]

Just to recap what he just missed. We got a great voice note from Wig. We went over one from Ham. You'll be able to check them all out on the. You know, on the pod where your podcast. Yeah. I don't know if you're on Apple or you go to the YouTube channel. Yeah, Spotify. Really? Anywhere that you find your podcast, Andy, when you're listening to yours, this is.

[Andy Samberg]

Everyone knows what this joke is because I don't care for podcasts.

[Seth Meyers]

She even, by the way, in her voice note, Kristin goes, I love the pod. Sorry, Andy. Like, she's so worried that you're gonna be offended that she likes the podcast you're on.

[Andy Samberg]

I appreciate that from her.

[Seth Meyers]

What a bud that your first tranche is. You hate podcasts, and your second tranche is you do one and you like when people like it.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, that's true.

[Seth Meyers]

Hey, somebody sent in another suggestion for Queen Beede. I'm a little worried. Cause, like, do you consider Queen Bee a quiz?

[Yoram]

No.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, that's the only issue. I did like it. Except that I don't.

[Kristen Wiig]

Yeah, it's a game.

[Seth Meyers]

Somebody said, like, you could say if you queen bead, you. You quizzed in your pants.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yeah, it's good.

[Seth Meyers]

Quibbed in your pants.

[Andy Samberg]

Quibbed in my pants, Yeah.

[Kristen Wiig]

I gotta say, because of you, Andy, I've been doing the Mini and trying to do it under two minutes, and that is a fun one. It's a midi or the mini. The Mini. The Mini.

[Andy Samberg]

Am I ni. Under two minutes?

[Yoram]

Yeah.

[Kristen Wiig]

Isn't that what I think?

[Seth Meyers]

That's. I think if it's over two minutes, that's failing a cognitive test.

[Yoram]

You want to get it in, like, under 30 seconds, if you can.

[Andy Samberg]

I got the mini in 19.

[Kristen Wiig]

You got it in 19 seconds?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Yoram]

He's also very good at typing in his phone. Because the keyboard. The keyboard.

[Andy Samberg]

If I can get the MIDI in under two, I feel good about myself.

[Kristen Wiig]

Wow.

[Yoram]

What's the midi?

[Andy Samberg]

The MIDI is somewhat new.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Yoram]

As we know. I don't subscribe to the game, so I don't even know what that is.

[Kristen Wiig]

You can do the Mini in 19 seconds. Seconds.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm gonna do the mini right now.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, no. I mean, my best ever is 12, I think.

[Kristen Wiig]

Jesus.

[Yoram]

But it's really. I used to do it, and me and Andy would send them to each other every night. This is years ago. And have the challenge. And sometimes it's also just the typing is hard.

[Seth Meyers]

Like, I just did it. There you go. That's my Mini.

[Andy Samberg]

Seth got it in 23.

[Kristen Wiig]

Shut the fuck up.

[Seth Meyers]

What was. What jam? What jam do you want?

[Yoram]

But at that point, half the skill is knowing how to, like, hit the buttons fast. Fast enough.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. But they're regular keyboard buttons. It's not a new keyboard for this. New York Times.

[Yoram]

The New York Times Keyboard works worse than other keyboards. Wait, sorry guys. If they're listening.

[Kristen Wiig]

Is this the Mini though? Is this it right now?

[Yoram]

No, that's what you just did, Seth.

[Seth Meyers]

No, that's. That's something.

[Kristen Wiig]

The Mini is like the really tiny one, right?

[Andy Samberg]

Is that the Saturday or is that.

[Kristen Wiig]

Oh, this is Saturday. Yeah. So.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Kristen Wiig]

It looks. It looks more like this, right? The.

[Seth Meyers]

This guy, right?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, that's the Mini.

[Kristen Wiig]

Okay. With four minutes.

[Yoram]

That's wonderful.

[Kristen Wiig]

That's four minutes.

[Seth Meyers]

Did you take a call in the middle?

[Kristen Wiig]

Yeah, occasionally I like, I come back to it. Fucking.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay.

[Kristen Wiig]

I thought you were doing it in under two minutes. And I was like, oh, okay, that's doable.

[Yoram]

A mole eyed cherry, just to remind you, is one who has poor undiscerning eyesight and or questionable taste in visual aesthetic.

[Seth Meyers]

That's great.

[Yoram]

I definitely don't remember that play on Eagle Eared Cherry. And in turn, Swedish musician Eagle Ey Cherry. This is an origin from episode 77. Quote, if you think yam's vest looks good, you're a real mole cherry.

[Kristen Wiig]

Oh, I gotta start wearing that vest again.

[Seth Meyers]

How was. How was the first week of the movie? And Andy?

[Andy Samberg]

It was great. I'm very excited and I'm so tired. I have not been on an episode since I saw Maya and Oh Mary.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, great.

[Andy Samberg]

Which was like, I don't want to overstate it, but like life changing.

[Yoram]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

She's so incredibly funny in it. It was like spectacular to behold.

[Kristen Wiig]

I can't wait to see it.

[Andy Samberg]

Like, I know you mentioned it on your show, Seth, when she was on, but like I went into it being like, oh, this will be cool, you know, and I get to say hi to Maya, my buddy. And then like about 30 minutes into it, I was like, oh my God. Yeah, she's just destroying the whole time.

[Seth Meyers]

I cannot wait.

[Kristen Wiig]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

And at the end of it, we were chatting. I was like. It almost felt like a full theatrical story length performance of the national anthem sketch.

[Seth Meyers]

Right.

[Andy Samberg]

Where it's just her doing every single move, but like it just never ends. There's just moves after moves after moves after moves where you're like, like it just felt like watching someone at the absolute like peak of their game and it was a joy.

[Kristen Wiig]

Yeah.

[Yoram]

I'm curious, Seth. You've seen the show a couple times with different actors doing it, right?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I've seen twice with Cole and once with Betty Gilpin.

[Yoram]

So that'll be. You'll be seeing it through a whole even other lens of like what she changed.

[Seth Meyers]

I had my doubts about seeing it with someone other than Cole. And I will say Betty was amazing and it was such a credit to Cole's role. Yeah.

[Kristen Wiig]

And I saw Titus and Cole and I just loved with Titus, like, how much they actually rewrote a bit. Like it. Like, it feels like it's actually tailored to a new performer and it's like, it's really fucking fun to see.

[Andy Samberg]

Wait, but let me go back, because I did say I should have caveated by saying I have never seen the show Omari before. So I also was having, like, just

[Yoram]

the comedic at Cole's writing experience of.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Of enjoying the show O Mary for the first time and understanding what all the hype was about.

[Seth Meyers]

It is one of those things where I originally worried you could over hype, and I think it might be incapable of being overhyped because the way it's audacious is beyond your.

[Yoram]

I think it's coming to the Pantages here in LA soon too. But I don't know who's going to be playing it, but I bet you

[Seth Meyers]

it's in London too.

[Yoram]

I bet you it'll be somebody good in la.

[Andy Samberg]

Seth, I know you would. You would say it for yourself, too, and probably we all would. You are my. No, you would. But, like, in terms of what we like in comedy, it's so right down our wheelhouse. Like, it's like relentlessly stupid, but also very deep and sharp and it just feels like a person in their room as a kid having the most fun you could possibly have. But also it has a lot of

[Kristen Wiig]

thought behind it and no overstaying any welcome. It's amazing.

[Seth Meyers]

That's. The part is that it's. You know, when Cole was on my show and said, you know, I wanted to write this show without doing any research about Mary Todd Lincoln, which is the funniest way to start. But that, like, From a Wide View is like, oh, that sounds lazy, but. But then it's like the structure of it, like, the payoff. Like, that part of it is just the best.

[Yoram]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. And then getting to watch Maya do it, I was like, man, this is just heaven. I was like, I think maybe I like theater again.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, that is. I mean, you'd watch a two hour version of it, but, like, it is the right price to get in and out.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, it felt great.

[Seth Meyers]

I also don't think you could stretch it any longer than whatever, 80 minutes because it's so relaxing.

[Yoram]

Oh, it's nice and short.

[Kristen Wiig]

No, it's perfect. The length is absolutely perfect.

[Andy Samberg]

I Was sending people the, like, what's his face? Hitchcock from Waiting for Guffman. Gif. Afterwards, they're like, I just want to be on the show.

[Seth Meyers]

Also, shout out to Ana Gastar, Rachel Dratch. Both Tony nominated.

[Yoram]

I saw that. Pretty amazing that they're all on shows, too, at the same exact time.

[Kristen Wiig]

Fucking come out, Keev. Let's go see some theater.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, one other thing we talked about, Andy, is I ran into John Solomon, and he was saying how cool it was to observe what it's like to see his oldest friend, Will Forte, show up to do a small part in a movie.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And how delightful. He said for the first time, he kind of saw, like, oh, my God, Like, Will shows up super prepared, super game, super funny, and just, like, leaves everybody in a better mood than before he showed up.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I mean, I knew that was gonna be the case, but, yeah, he's such a killer. And the nicest ever, as we've discussed.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Pretty sure he has every single person in the crew's number now. And they have.

[Seth Meyers]

And now they're his burden to carry till the end of his days.

[Yoram]

You know what I just remembered? I had him do a part in Neighborhood Watch way back then, and he was the same, obviously, but also his co star was a guy named Mel Rodriguez, and then that guy ended up being on Last man on Earth with him.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yes, he did.

[Kristen Wiig]

Forte becomes friends with everybody for years

[Yoram]

and years and years, and it was so nice that they just. Just, like, had a good time hanging out there. He thought he was talented and was like, let's write him into the new TV show I'm doing.

[Kristen Wiig]

Okay. I want to. I want to do a little quiz for you guys here because of what we're talking about and Will Forte. I want to know this for Forte as well. Yeah, but how many contacts do you have in your phone right now?

[Yoram]

Oh, my God. Forte must have 10,000 at least, right? How do you know how many you have right away?

[Kristen Wiig]

Okay, so you go to. You. You go to your contacts, and then you go back one, and it'll be says all contacts.

[Yoram]

You mean to the very top?

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yeah.

[Yoram]

Oh, I see.

[Kristen Wiig]

How many of you guys have.

[Yoram]

Some people in here are dead, so.

[Kristen Wiig]

Yeah, of course.

[Yoram]

Does that still count?

[Kristen Wiig]

Yeah, it counts.

[Andy Samberg]

You have 1,475.

[Yoram]

Okay.

[Seth Meyers]

I have 1,615. Andy. And I feel such harmony with you right now, and I feel like it speaks to how we approach life, and

[Yoram]

I'm really happy you guys both did me. I have 1052 okay.

[Kristen Wiig]

And you'll. You will not be surprised, guys, that I have 3313.

[Seth Meyers]

Not at all.

[Yoram]

That's so perfect.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm not surprised in the slightest.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah.

[Yoram]

Let's say, like, I have, like, a math tutor for my daughter who Liz put me on a group text with. Do you immediately put it as a contact so you know what it is, or do you kind of go, I'm gonna let that ride for a little bit, where it's just like a random.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, clearly I do, Keev. You know what? To my great detriment, I let it ride.

[Yoram]

I let it ride too.

[Seth Meyers]

But it's shameful.

[Andy Samberg]

And it does bite me in the ass.

[Seth Meyers]

It bites me in the ass. And it's often. You know what? And it bites Alexi in the ass first. Yes. That is then a double bite.

[Yoram]

I think I'm gonn just immediately putting them in because also, I need to start building up my numbers, apparently.

[Andy Samberg]

But Yoram, when Yoram, especially if Yoram is drinking, it's like he'll get as many numbers in his phone as drinks he has had.

[Kristen Wiig]

That is true. Or was true. But I don't really drink anymore.

[Yoram]

So the better question that take too long to answer is if we started going through how many? Do you not even know who they are?

[Kristen Wiig]

Oh, no, no. I put in who they are. So most of them, I actually will

[Yoram]

have context for it, but for 3,000, there's gotta be a bunch where it'll even say, like, ad of this, and you go, I don't remember what that is.

[Seth Meyers]

No, no, no, no.

[Kristen Wiig]

I like there.

[Andy Samberg]

There's no, like, while we're doing this, can you maybe do a little scrolling to find, like, the funniest description of somebody?

[Kristen Wiig]

I can. I can try that.

[Andy Samberg]

Like, Jeff hot dog. Hey, look, we're in the era of the roast, you guys. This is all fair game now.

[Seth Meyers]

Wait, the roast. I will say I don't want to talk about the fucking cat. Williams was very funny. Really made me laugh, man. God damn it.

[Yoram]

Did you just watch a clip or you click the Netflix thing and watch an hour of a rock?

[Seth Meyers]

I kind of heard who was good and then scrolled and watched.

[Andy Samberg]

I watched most of it. I did some fast forwarding, but I did it in two chunks.

[Yoram]

This is the difference of what we spend our time on. I watch Robin Men and Thieves extended version to catch the extra 12. You guys do that.

[Seth Meyers]

But it'd been so long since you watched the first Men and Thieves, as you called it.

[Yoram]

Well, it's a hybrid of the tights and the men.

[Seth Meyers]

It must have been so long since you watched the. The first Prince of Thieves. Did you know that? Could you even notice what the 12 minutes, the new 12 minutes were?

[Yoram]

No, I didn't know what. I didn't know what they were. So I did a little googling. And it has a lot to do with. I don't know how well you know it, but there's a witch that kind of lives in the basement of the castle that the Sheriff of Nottingham, that Alan Rickman keeps going to for like Satan worshipy kind of black magic, fortune telling. And there's a lot more information with her. Again, this won't have meaning if you don't know the movie really well. Well, but suffice to say she says at some point that he came out of her. Oh, her words.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, you know, now it's a question of how much you're going to believe a basement witch. Right?

[Yoram]

Yeah, it seems pretty plausible because she says, like, I'm a freak, you're my damaged seed.

[Seth Meyers]

Interesting take.

[Yoram]

Yeah. She just can't believe she could get her like cursed seed into potentially royal blood. And she keeps saying that he has to stud Maid Marian. These are again, her words, not mine. Studies. Yeah. So that her seed will get. Yeah. Anyways. And they decided to cut that stuff. Can you believe it? Weird. There's also these holes in the wall that she's been spying on him through. And he sees it and he almost like barfs because he thinks about how she's been watching him fuck. Anyways, it's interesting cuts. Andy, how did you like me and Yorms? We like sports pod.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, bro, you know, I listen to that.

[Kristen Wiig]

Yeah, he listens to me.

[Yoram]

We should have talked so much shit about Andy and Yorm. It's a missed opportunity.

[Andy Samberg]

Did you give me credit for one contribution on it?

[Yoram]

I don't remember what it is.

[Andy Samberg]

I pitched doing the Nori thing at the end. The what?

[Seth Meyers]

What?

[Kristen Wiig]

What? There you go.

[Yoram]

Super Thug.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

And you guys did it. And I was like, I contributed to

[Seth Meyers]

one now, that Noriega song, Andy, like, so top tier, like 99 problems. That's the shallowest cut on rap, right? So that's a one. A ten is a super deep cut song.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay.

[Seth Meyers]

What is that? Noriega a song. How deep a cut would you call that? A one is something everyone's heard of like 99 problems. That's a one.

[Andy Samberg]

Super thug is like a two.

[Kristen Wiig]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, my God.

[Andy Samberg]

A two or a three?

[Yoram]

Wow, that's very popular. I thought I thought you'd put it at like a six.

[Andy Samberg]

Really?

[Yoram]

Or like a five.

[Kristen Wiig]

No way that that song was popping.

[Yoram]

If you.

[Andy Samberg]

If you listen to pop music at all. I feel like it's a three. Let's be real. Three or four. Three or four.

[Yoram]

So very popular.

[Andy Samberg]

I overranked it in the beginning.

[Yoram]

Okay, yeah, it's very popular, but it's not night night. What's that?

[Andy Samberg]

If you're of a certain age, which is our age, like Seth, the number of times we were out at a club during SNL that that played is many probably got it.

[Yoram]

You maybe just aren't recognizing it from me and Yorms rendition.

[Seth Meyers]

That might be the issue. Listening to the two guys do it. Guy one and guy two.

[Andy Samberg]

Should we listen to the whole thing right now? Can we clear it?

[Seth Meyers]

I don't think we can clear it.

[Yoram]

Oh, I actually had some housekeeping thing to say to the people who complain on YouTube about ads. Not that we've had that recently, but that was a. In the past, we turned them off to the best of what is possible to do occasionally because I went and looked at something on our We Like Sports post when I was looking at the comments and I saw there was ads, and I was like, huh. What happens occasionally when we put our music on is that UMG Republic, you know, like the record label that technically owns the master of that song flags it as if we are anybody posting owned music. And when they do that, they get control of it. So they're not taking down our podcast. But then they are deciding to monetize it because it has a song they own we like sports, in this case on it. So we can't control that they're adding ads because the ads go.

[Seth Meyers]

Although I am seeing in the chat, Keev, it was because of the Arnold clip, not you guys. It was the Arnold Schwarzenegger singing.

[Yoram]

Oh, that's the one that got. That got us flagged.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Yoram]

Well, regardless, lists we got flagged. And then they're putting ads on it and we can't control it and we're not making money from that either. So just for anybody who's annoyed at them, it's.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. And by the way, it was worth it for that Arnold song because that made me laugh.

[Yoram]

Doesn't know what we're talking about, but he'll. He'll. He'll listen. He.

[Andy Samberg]

I feel like for some reason I did hear that.

[Yoram]

Well, I. I had played a little bit of it when I found it, but yes.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, it was pretty spectac.

[Yoram]

Well, it was to honor yourms. Take it away, Arnold.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, so now when Yoram says, take it away, Arnold, Arnold sings a song,

[Kristen Wiig]

which is a very good song.

[Seth Meyers]

So I guess next time I have Arnold on the show, I should get him to sing a song so we can use it. The wheel.

[Yoram]

Yeah. Yes, that's right. But also make sure it's not a song. That is a cover. It has to be an original.

[Kristen Wiig]

He'll like to.

[Seth Meyers]

Can you sing two bars of an original song or a Lonely island song?

[Yoram]

Well, no, those aren't safe, as we know. Well, maybe it depends TBD on that, I guess.

[Seth Meyers]

I don't know if I've given a shout out yet to Widow's Bay. Big fan of Widow's Bay.

[Andy Samberg]

I keep being told I'd like it.

[Seth Meyers]

It's really good.

[Yoram]

What is it? Tell me.

[Seth Meyers]

It's that Matthew Reese, Apple TV show. Katie Dippold, showrunning creator. It's like a horror comedy that takes place on a New England. A haunted New England island. Stephen Richard Root. It's fantastic.

[Kristen Wiig]

He is a great actor.

[Yoram]

Wow, that sounds very good.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Highly recommend.

[Yoram]

So are we all giving our recommendations? Because mine, beyond being, you know, the Prince of Thieves, obviously extended cut. Satanic mom cut. Yeah, the. I don't actually have another one. Andy, what's your.

[Andy Samberg]

I watched the back half of T2 yesterday and guess what? Still great.

[Kristen Wiig]

Yeah, can't wait to show my kids.

[Andy Samberg]

I watched the Martin Short documentary, which I loved, of course. Already loved him. Just makes you love him. Were just the best ever.

[Seth Meyers]

Best human being in the world.

[Yoram]

Oh, for the record, me and Seth have both done our homework and watched A Knight's Tale. I don't know if we want to talk about it, but there was a lot of chatter from the Quaids about that. We hadn't seen it and we both have now watched it recently.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, good for you guys.

[Yoram]

I thoroughly enjoyed it.

[Seth Meyers]

Thoroughly enjoyed it.

[Yoram]

The real star is Paul Bettany.

[Seth Meyers]

He really does. He steals it.

[Yoram]

Is that his first movie? I remember him being an unknown to me when I.

[Seth Meyers]

And he plays Jeffrey Chuck Chaucer. It's a little bit of a figure of history.

[Yoram]

Oh, he does, yeah. Is anybody else a figure of history in there?

[Seth Meyers]

I don't think so. I think it's a nice little piece of writing to make him.

[Yoram]

Jeffrey Chaucer, the guy who wrote it, also did the adaptation of LA Confidential, one of the best adaptations of all time. Yeah, he wrote and directed A Knight's Tale. He did that screenplay adaptation.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Very good. I'm Trying to think if I got any others to shout out.

[Andy Samberg]

You know what I watched last night? What's that 8 Berlantz special from 2022.

[Seth Meyers]

What's it called? It's a great name.

[Andy Samberg]

Cinnamon in the Wind.

[Seth Meyers]

That's it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

It was fantastic.

[Seth Meyers]

Obviously, dude, they. Have you seen that like YouTube clip of the two of them, Berlant and early, just like complimenting each other? Hold on, let me try to find it.

[Kristen Wiig]

They're incredible. I'm gonna have to go soon, guys. I gotta go swim.

[Yoram]

Wow.

[Andy Samberg]

Wow. This is Andy and I'm judging you. I can't believe that.

[Yoram]

Oh, you know what? I did watch Seth on the Criterion app. That is excellent. When you're looking for some nice, you know, old stuff to watch that are like 80 minutes. I watched three things. One was Bad Day at Blackrock, which I had never seen.

[Seth Meyers]

I just watched that. You know why I watched it? There was. Somebody had a clip on Twitter of. They said Paul Thomas Anderson said he learned more from the audio track of this than he did in film school.

[Yoram]

Oh, the director.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Yoram]

That's awesome. I just had always. It had been on my list and it just came on Criterion and someone pointed that out. So I watched it. It's like 80 minutes.

[Seth Meyers]

It's great.

[Yoram]

It's so rad. And then I also watched so you know out of the Past. The noir movie.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes. Which one is that?

[Yoram]

It has like Kirk Douglas in it and shit. It's like one of the classic noirs of all classic noirs. So I had seen that like a film print of that a few years back. But then, you know Criterion, they do like a little block where it'll have more from in a theme. That dude who did it's a French director, even though it's an American movie. He did. They put up three of his movies. So it's out of the past. This other one called Nightfall and this other one called Berlin Express. Express. They're all excellent, like crazy excellent, awesome watches. And they're all short and easy.

[Seth Meyers]

Out of the past. Great.

[Yoram]

Yeah. Out of the Past is an all time classic. But. But Nightfall and Berlin Express, I hadn't even heard of either of them. And they both are so fun and easy.

[Andy Samberg]

What, what, what what is this podcast?

[Yoram]

This is just our recommendations at the end of it. Always just like how polar does the polar plunge where she tells you about something that made her laugh. We talk about either westerns, prison movies, movies, black and white, old ones.

[Kristen Wiig]

It's like a great hang, you know,

[Yoram]

or like Car racing, like Ford versus Ferrari. It's called Dad's Corner, I think. Oh, yeah. There's got to be a more catchy, like, polar plunge, like. Like dad. Dad.

[Kristen Wiig]

Well, speaking of. Speaking of Dad, I gotta go race my son in a swimming race. That's what I gotta go do right now.

[Yoram]

Oh, you're gonna lose. All right.

[Seth Meyers]

We love you.

[Andy Samberg]

Let him win. Love you.

[Kristen Wiig]

Yeah, I gotta.

[Seth Meyers]

I love you, Lauren.

[Kristen Wiig]

Yep. Love you.

[Andy Samberg]

Love you, Lauren.

[Yoram]

Love you, Freddy.

[Seth Meyers]

And sleep. Love you, Lauren. Will you tell YM I said that?

[Yoram]

Perfect.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Kristen Wiig]

Bye.

[Seth Meyers]

Bye.

[Yoram]

What do you want me to share?

[Seth Meyers]

Will you share screen and play the clip I just put in the chat? It's from their 2022 special.

[Yoram]

Oh. Oh, the Twitter one.

[Andy Samberg]

Do you guys believe you are mad to leave early?

[Kristen Wiig]

Yeah. So selfish. You look.

[Seth Meyers]

I am looking at you.

[Yoram]

Oh, I remember this. It's so strange because you look 12, but you also look 60.

[Seth Meyers]

And it's.

[Yoram]

It's. I love the way you're the shading. And you finally got on a foundation that matches. You know, it's so funny.

[Seth Meyers]

Obviously, I haven't seen you in years.

[Kristen Wiig]

Yeah, I know.

[Seth Meyers]

Years.

[Yoram]

You know, I haven't seen you in person. Yeah, years.

[Kristen Wiig]

I haven't seen you in person, but

[Yoram]

I also haven't seen you just kind

[Andy Samberg]

of reflected anywhere in the culture.

[Yoram]

So what have you been up to?

[Seth Meyers]

I've been really good.

[Yoram]

I've been busy.

[Seth Meyers]

I've been in New York doing theater.

[Yoram]

Kind of a first love of mine. But mostly I'm busy with my foundations.

[Seth Meyers]

That is really what keeps me occupied. Pot.

[Yoram]

You have foundations?

[Seth Meyers]

I've started many foundations, and that's where I really pour my energy now.

[Andy Samberg]

What foundations?

[Seth Meyers]

My foundations.

[Yoram]

Which ones?

[Seth Meyers]

A lot of work, but it's so worth it.

[Andy Samberg]

Which foundation?

[Seth Meyers]

Which foundation?

[Andy Samberg]

Name one.

[Seth Meyers]

Which foundation would I name? Do you see? Start one of them. Switch foundation, you know, and if you come down.

[Yoram]

Which foundation?

[Seth Meyers]

I didn't go Irish at all with that.

[Yoram]

I didn't go Irish when I said foundation.

[Seth Meyers]

Now she's fully Irish. So you.

[Yoram]

Mr. I can't go anywhere without seeing your face.

[Seth Meyers]

I know.

[Yoram]

I saw you in the movie where

[Seth Meyers]

you play the genie.

[Yoram]

I walked in on my friend's dog watching it. The dog was completely fixated on you. That must have been hard, though.

[Seth Meyers]

I know you got a lot of

[Jon Hamm]

flack for playing the genie.

[Seth Meyers]

People are so vicious now.

[Kristen Wiig]

Oh, my God.

[Yoram]

I should have congratulated you on the kiosk. Should have loved that. Yes. Congrats on the kiosk. Kate has been selling candies oh, my God.

[Seth Meyers]

At the airport.

[Yoram]

This little kiosk at the airport with your candy.

[Seth Meyers]

I don't sell whoopsie daisies.

[Yoram]

Yeah, I don't sell candy at the airport.

[Seth Meyers]

It's just not what I heard.

[Yoram]

I don't think anyone's ever told you I do that.

[Seth Meyers]

I can't believe.

[Yoram]

And I am not attacking you.

[Seth Meyers]

It is just not what I heard. Well, I don't have a kiosk at the airport.

[Yoram]

Mutual friends have reported that you have

[Seth Meyers]

a kiosk at the airport where you sell candy. I do not sell candy at the airport.

[Yoram]

And no mutual friends have reported that.

[Seth Meyers]

Because that would be a lie. Sorry. These cold in here.

[Andy Samberg]

God damn it.

[Seth Meyers]

It's just fucking perfect.

[Yoram]

It's so good. That whole hour is pretty fun. Just like a sketch show that they do.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, they are the best.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, they really are. I do have to run. My kids are about done with their mountain biking class. This worked out perfectly.

[Yoram]

All right. A success.

[Seth Meyers]

Andy, I'm assuming we're off for tonight. And I love you.

[Andy Samberg]

I love you. And I don't have a spelling bee score to report. I was trying to do it while we recorded, but it wasn't even a full app for me, so I'm not even a genius yet.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay. Okay, well, let us know.

[Andy Samberg]

I'll send a voice note.

[Yoram]

Jeff, thank God.

[Andy Samberg]

Andy here with that quick spelling bee update. Yesterday I used one hint. It was for aortle. I was pissed. And then today, of course, got it clean. One of the pangrams was chutzpah. Seth also got it, but he didn't get it clean. I confirmed that via our text chain. I win, he loses. You may have noticed that during the duration of this episode, my audio was dog shit. It's because I forgot the to hit record on my recorder. So it was taken from the Zoom audio. I apologize to everyone again. I'm a mess, you guys, but I'm on the mend. I'm on the mend. I might just be on the mend. You never know. I could be on the mend. This episode wasn't long enough. So I'm gonna stretch it out. I'm gonna stretch it on out. Stretch it on out. Thanks for the voice notes, Jon Hamm and Kristen Wiig. Really appreciate you guys. I was in there when you were playing those, but just good stuff. And the fellas, my main mans, Keith, Yorm, Seth. I mean, who could ask for better friends? Just sitting through this whole thing the way you guys did and just listening to them yammer on about this and that it was really heartwarming. The guys are just good guys, you know, they're nice good guys. And that's the reason why it's important to recognize that and just talk about it, you know, right here at the end where it feels like it really should be. Oh. Over. And yet I persist. All right, well, probably gonna go ahead and pass out now.

[Yoram]

Love to all.

[Andy Samberg]

Peace and love, Ringo Star. Oh, also, one more thing. Next day, out on the streets of New York, Manhattan. The Big Apple just got queen bee again. It was a monster. 62 words, 2 pangrams. I snapped it off. Took me all damn day. Oh, man, it was worth it. Oh, yeah. I'm just feeling the vibes out here.

[Yoram]

The Big Apple.

[Andy Samberg]

Go, Nicks. But I did get it clean multiple times this week, much to Seth's chagrin.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, bummed me out. But I'm happy to talk to you when you haven't. All right. All right. Love you guys.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I love you guys. Sorry I was late.

[Seth Meyers]

That's all right.

[Yoram]

Love you.

[Andy Samberg]

Later, Arnold.

[Yoram]

Later, Quaid.