Cherry Battle

Summary

The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast

Episode: "Cherry Battle"

Date: December 16, 2025
Hosts: The Lonely Island (Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone) & Seth Meyers

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Episode Overview

This episode centers on the making of the "Cherry Battle" SNL Digital Short. The gang delves into the origins, shoot, and surreal artistry behind the sketch. With Andy absent for the main discussion (he chimes in via voice note later), Akiva, Jorma, and Seth reminisce about their time at SNL, break down the specifics of both the “Cherry Battle” short and other fan-favorite sketches, swap stories about cast gifts, impressions, life in the SNL trenches, and talk about the broader landscape of online comedy. Throughout, the hosts preserve their typical banter—warm, irreverent, and detail-rich.

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Main Discussion & Key Insights

Catching Up, Banter & Andy’s Absence

Timestamps: 03:24–14:13

• Seth gushes about the previous episode, emphasizing the podcast’s chaotic charm when he’s not present.
• The group jokes about substitute teaching analogies, riffing on the dynamic when someone's missing.
• Seth details recent time in London: Graham Norton appearance, Hot Rod producer Aaron David, and excitement about "SNL UK" coming in March.

  “SNL UK is officially happening in March of next year and it’s really exciting.” — Seth (07:06)

• They share celebrity car encounter stories—comparing Jason Statham’s "souped-up Roomba" (09:24) and The Rock's Maserati (10:21).

Spelling Bee Rivalry & Andy's Scheduling Woes

Timestamps: 14:13–16:38

• Andy is having a bad streak with the New York Times Spelling Bee, missing key words day after day.
• Jokes about whether personal stress impacts Bee performance or vice versa.
• Insight into Andy’s obsessive rules for “cleaning bees” (solving the Spelling Bee puzzle with/without hints).

  “He’s a savant. The way Andy is good at Spelling Bee is the way Ike [Barinholtz] is at Jeopardy!” — Seth (15:43)

• Quick congrats are exchanged for Critics’ Choice Nominations (13:04).

"Cherry Battle" SNL Digital Short: Deep Dive

Timestamps: 16:45–34:27

Genesis of the Concept

• Inspired by last-minute panic, Akiva pitches the idea to Andy during a late-night car ride home:

  “What if we use the Phantom camera … do super slow mo and put it in reverse so it looks like you guys are spitting cherries into each other's mouths from impossibly far lengths?” — Akiva (17:09)

• Emphasizes ‘Monday-to-air’ desperation for ideas.

Conceptual Approach and Execution

• Described as a “favorite-ish off-center short” because of its bizarre, artful style.
• Details on shooting:
  • Utilized SNL’s stage, requiring intense lighting for 500fps slow-motion (18:52).
  • No solid “plan” going in—highly experimental, pieced together in the edit suite.
  • Sets up a reverse narrative—making it look like cherries fly into mouths from afar.
• Brian Tucker’s response captured the team’s own satisfaction:

  “You guys still have some tricks up your sleeve… nothing like anything you did before.” — Akiva, paraphrasing Brian Tucker (19:15)

Artistry & Audience Reaction

• Seth: “Of everything we did, this is maybe the closest to art… If you were at MoMA… and it's two people spitting cherries in super slow mo.” (20:12)
• Jorma compares it to watching slow-mo art installations: “I once saw an exhibit of just rocks falling down a hill in slow mo. And I was like, this is captivating.” (20:28)

Technical Notes

• No visual effects save for the animated, singing cherry.
• Post-production was largely masked and composited in Final Cut Pro using layers and black backgrounds (28:04–29:19).
• Discussion on a minor continuity error:

  “There’s a moment where Andy looks smug in the single, and then it cuts to wide and he’s screaming…” — Seth’s “keef peeve” (27:22)

The Animated, Singing Cherry

• The addition came in late, inspired by choral music akin to “O Fortuna.” VFX for the singing cherry came from an in-house artist, and a child's voice was sourced hours before broadcast (30:00–31:04).
• Andy (via voice note): His favorite part is the cherry singing, likening it to “the bird flies away from Gandalf on the top of the tower in The Two Towers… I want it to be like that…” (32:28–33:51)

Gabourey Sidibe’s Involvement

• Effusive praise for Sidibe’s game attitude and collaborative energy.

  “She was an absolute delight and she was a total delight while shooting Cherry Battle and very, very fun to be around.” — Jorma (39:01)

Is it Criterion?

• The group semi-jokingly questions whether "Cherry Battle" is a “Criterion” short—a hallowed status among their work.

  “Is it Criterion? I don’t think so, but I would maybe posit that it’s like in the conversation for Kim’s video.” — Andy, voice note (34:27)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On SNL Cast Gifts:

  “Every Christmas when you get a jam jar, a blueberry jam from Lorne, every Christmas, I just picture him slaving over a stove making it… Oh, God, another 5,000 of these…” — Seth (34:44) “Before your time, the previous Lauren gift was lemons… When Lorne gives you lemons…” — Seth (36:05)

• On Mike Myers' Dr. Evil as Lorne:

  “It felt like he should have been stroking a hairless cat… 'that one’s not me.'” — Jorma (40:54) “He said Mike told me. [Dr. Evil] isn’t based on him.” — Jorma (40:25)

• Wirecutter Endorsement:

  “I need new smoke detectors, and I went on Wirecutter to find out which ones to get.” — Akiva (44:01)

• On Quoting Maya Rudolph:

  “She once said Hyundai… and I will say that I like it so much that I have trouble saying the actual name of the car brand.” — Seth (45:20)

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Audience Questions & Tangents

SNL Production & Behind-the-Scenes

Timestamps: 63:31–65:28

• How does the live SNL audience react to on-stage swaps (real person to prop/dummy, etc.)?
  • Most audience members watch the monitors, which makes magical swaps easier (64:03).
  • Akiva and Jorma break down specific sketches (“Quado”) where the switch is so drawn-out that it becomes a source of live humor.

SNL, Digital Shorts, & Album Rights

Timestamps: 60:16–63:08

• Songs were generally imagined as videos during writing, but “the real world” (budget, guest actor schedules, label negotiations) controlled what could be filmed.
• Ownership and licensing: Record label partnership allowed them to retain distribution and get content onto YouTube.

The Comedy Web Boom & Influence

Timestamps: 65:40–67:08

• They were aware of the burgeoning online comedy scene (CollegeHumor, Britanick, etc.), but not integrated since SNL was all-consuming.
• Cross-pollination happened: writers like Sarah Schneider and performers like Streeter Seidell from those platforms ended up at SNL.

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Notable Listener Interactions

• A listener reveals they almost said “hit us in the tittis” during a work meeting, a phrase from the show, drawing laughs from the group (58:50).
• Another writes in about listening to the podcast at bedtime and subconsciously absorbing medication names like “Gabapentin” (59:25).
• A question about song selection for digital shorts prompts a deep dive into how they matched album tracks to video ideas and navigated music rights (60:16).

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Memorable Callbacks & Running Jokes

• Lauren's Lemon Gift: Rachel Dratch’s reaction, “When Lorne gives you lemons…” (36:08)
• ‘Forney Numbskrulls’: Recollection of a classic Maya Rudolph/Rachel Dratch sketch and the joy of SNL’s invented words (46:19, 56:56)
• Spelling Bee Rivalry: Ongoing, playful competitiveness between Andy and Seth about who gets "Queen Bee" status (31:53).

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Conclusion

In classic Lonely Island and Seth Meyers fashion, this episode is a blend of deep-dive sketch craftsmanship, SNL folklore, and sharp, speedy banter. "Cherry Battle" emerges as perhaps their “art-iest” digital short; its creation is both a tale of creative emergency and happy accident. The group’s affection for each other, their SNL compatriots, and their fans is genuine and infectious, punctuated by stories of car gags, jam deliveries, celebrated guest stars, and the surprising places old inside jokes turn up.

To quote Akiva (on Cherry Battle):

“It doesn’t make any sense… but, yeah, it’s art.” (31:19)

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Quick Reference Timestamps

• 03:24 – Show proper begins, catching up
• 07:06 – SNL UK teased
• 09:24 – Jason Statham car story
• 16:45 – Cherry Battle discussion begins
• 17:09 – Origin pitch for Cherry Battle
• 28:04 – Technical breakdown (editing, VFX)
• 31:53 – Andy on Queen Bee rivalry
• 34:27 – Andy’s full voice note about Cherry Battle
• 39:01 – Praise for Gabourey Sidibe
• 44:01 – Wirecutter discussion
• 64:03 – SNL prop/dummy swaps

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Hosts Present

• Seth Meyers
• Akiva Schaffer
• Jorma Taccone
• Andy Samberg (voice note, selected commentary)

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End of Summary

Transcript

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[A]

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[B]

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[A]

Hey. Hey. It's the Lonely island and Seth Meyers podcast show. I'm gonna just start and say this. Really enjoyed the last pod so much.

[B]

Did you? We didn't talk about it. I was worried that you hated it. Cause you didn't mention.

[A]

Yeah, the pod was great. Can I just say a few things that just delighted me to no end?

[B]

Oh, I thought you're gonna immediately go into criticisms, but okay.

[A]

Oh no, I was full delight. Okay. I liked how when I think to myself what's the podcast gonna be like when I'm not on it Within a minute. Yoram said amphibians don't have nipples. Right?

[B]

I had that same thought. I was like, I feel like it's already off the rails.

[A]

It was immediately off the rails. I knew it would be. And I feel like, I don't know, Keev is like a decent to. Okay substitute teacher.

[C]

That's fair.

[B]

I thought he was pretty good. I mean he was reading the class notes.

[A]

Yeah, no, he's great. Look, don't get me wrong, it's a great episode, but like I think he has a little. You're a little bit. You're not quite Jack Black in School of Rock, but I feel like you want these guys to rock.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And I'm not.

[C]

I'm not keeping the train. I'm keeping it on the tracks, but not on schedule.

[B]

He's one of the classmates who happens to be the teacher for that episode.

[A]

Well, I almost think that, like, you're like a substitute teacher. Right away is like, yeah, when we talk about science in here, we get in trouble. Let's rock.

[C]

I meant like a teacher assistant who maybe just graduated two years ago.

[A]

And, yeah, you're maybe like, friends with two of the kids in the class somehow. Or you used to babysit them.

[C]

Exactly.

[B]

Do you guys have that remembrance right? I know you did keep at Berkeley Higher. I remember actually doing the math later and being like, oh, our student teachers were only a couple years older than us. I went on a Spanish trip to Mexico and was joshing around with the student teachers and trying to get them to drink with us and being like, wait a minute, this is a mat. They're only a couple years older than us because they were considering it, you know? Not that you should drink in high school. You shouldn't drink at all, guys, until you're 21.

[A]

I had a fantastic time in foggy London Town, for what it's worth.

[B]

Oh, do tell. Give us some highlights.

[A]

As foggy as I wanted it to be, I went on Graham Norton's show for the first time, which is sort of a dream come true. A dream come less than true is that Graham Norton actually asked me why Andy was so mean to Frisbee and then showed a picture of Frisbee, which was, I felt, an unflattering photo of Frisbee. And then after the show, Kate Winslet, Andy's best friend, had her son there. And the son said, oh, I love Andy. And I said, yeah, but he's a little mean about my dog. Right. And he's like, nah.

[C]

So it was British Frisbee bashing over there.

[A]

He was like, whatever Andy says, I back him up. And I was like, I don't need this.

[C]

Oh.

[B]

I thought it was based on actually seeing the photo and being like, oh, no. Yeah, that tracks. That's fair.

[A]

I think it was more loyalty to Andy, but he certainly didn't feel as though Frisbee had been done dirty.

[B]

It did. Frisbee's picture doesn't do him any services.

[A]

I was also over there with Aaron David, producer on Hot Rod.

[C]

Of course, she still works for Broadway. She helped or she put together the 50th. The music side. Right. Special, wasn't that?

[A]

Yeah, she Did. She was a producer on that fantastic. Yeah, Radio City concert. I mean she's, as you guys know, all time great hang all time. And it was great. It was great being in London. I've been London so long. Really enjoyed it.

[B]

We went to a dinner with Aaron, David and it was with Lauren as well and wine was coming around the table and Aaron was like, oh no, none for me. And we were like, are you pregnant? And she was like, yep. We immediately like, oh, no wine for Aaron. She's pregnant.

[C]

Now. Seth, are you allowed to tell the other reason you were out there or is that kind of not a thing?

[A]

SNL UK is officially. I'm going to talk around it because I can't quite figure out what I'm supposed to say. But I will say this SNL UK is officially happening in March of next year and it's really exciting and if I was there for that, I would probably meet a bunch of different British comedians and I would even venture to say that more than one of them said Quaid army to me.

[C]

Oh, they're doing the. They in this hypothetical are doing their research about it.

[A]

I don't feel as though this was. It would have been an assignment. I think they would have found this independently and then been in a situation where it would be just a piece of good fortune if they ran into me to be able to position to say Quaid Army.

[B]

I'm going to go ahead and say that they were sucking up.

[A]

No suck ups, I'll tell you that much.

[B]

Yeah, English people don't do that as much.

[C]

Just young excited comedians ready to make their mark.

[A]

Young excited. Oh, speaking of, I got one. One other hot rod happen to me over there in foggy London town. Randomly ran into Hot Rod's Will Arnett at a restaurant.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[A]

Where are you going?

[C]

To New York. I mean in London. That's so cool because he's out there promoting the Bradley Cooper stand up.

[A]

Is this thing on? Yeah, is that what it's called? Is this thing on?

[C]

Y. I think so, yeah.

[A]

Yeah. He and Laura Dern. Yeah, they were out there doing screeners for the BAFTAs. What did you guys figure out the BAFTAs were last week? A guy who was taking a bath.

[B]

Oh, an award for baths. The best BAFTAs.

[C]

Yeah, they're like in Guy Ritchie movies and stuff.

[B]

That was the cleanest bath I've ever had.

[A]

Bafta. I'm gonna drown you in a bath and then say goodbye. Ta ta.

[C]

Yeah, well, because they're dying in the bath. So it's.

[A]

I'm Gonna drown you in a bath.

[C]

There's your bath.

[A]

Ta.

[B]

It's probably Ta. And then. Gunshot.

[C]

Ta.

[A]

The transporter, he's won like 25 straight Baftas.

[C]

They give them to the characters or the actors.

[B]

Yeah, because they're that sarcastic.

[C]

And the next BAFTA goes to the transporter for the 25th year in a row.

[A]

No, they give it to the. They want it. They were like, it's just going to be Statham every year, so we should get they wish. You start giving it to his character's name.

[C]

Got it. They're like, this year it was a tight race between the beekeeper and the. And the Transporter six.

[A]

Shit. Now, have I told. On this podcast, have I told the story about Shoemaker and I waiting for our valeted car in front of a hotel with Jason Statham in Beverly Hills?

[B]

No, I don't think so. But don't ask me. You know what I mean?

[A]

Shoemaker and I were waiting for our rental car, which was like, I'm pretty sure, like a Kia Optima or something along the lines. And I remember we were standing there and Jason Statham was standing next to us, and I just had this feeling of like, oh, please don't let our car come first. And Jason Statham's car came out, and my memory of it is it was like a foot off the ground and he like a giant door open and he just like lied down like you would in a bed and drove off. It was like. It was like the flattest, coolest car. I was like, what is this? It was like a souped up Roomba. And he just like, drove off and I was like, thank God it went in that order.

[C]

Then your car just pop.

[B]

Little Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car.

[C]

All right, I'll be. This is a professional podcast where it's very cool to just come in and out. So I'll. I'll be back in like three minutes. Just, you know, continue.

[B]

Okay, well, I'll. I'll tell his story while Keeb's gone. But me, Akiva and Andy had dinner with the Rock once and had a similar experience in that I don't know why we were having dinner with him, but it was us and our management trying to link us up for whatever reason. And this is early days, but he was still quite successful. And we had some super fancy place in the Valley and his car pulled up and it was a Maserati. And I did the joke of, oh, this is, I'll be taking my car now. And I thought it went over okay as a Joke. But, yeah, it was a pretty cool car.

[A]

It's kind of nuts for all. I mean, again, the rock's successes, every one of them, well earned. But I was just listening, you know, we were listening to him sing on the Moana soundtrack, which is a real favorite.

[B]

I don't know.

[A]

I don't know. No, I'm the opposite. Like, on top of everything else, he's got a banger musical number.

[B]

He does have a banger musical.

[A]

You're welcome is a great song. Hey, you mentioned. Here's something that I think would be. Since no one else is on, maybe this would be a fun thing for you to do. You mentioned that Carole King has a song called Ben to Canaan, right?

[B]

No. Are you gonna rip on Where My House is?

[A]

No, no, no. I'm gonna rip on the fact that she wrote a song about the place where you fell off the ladder.

[B]

Oh, okay.

[A]

You said that. Your words, man. I feel like you should, in that great Yormuth sound. M. Yeah. Make a version where we hear you fall off a ladder in the background of that song.

[B]

Oh, yes. Like the way that Harper Steele added herself to the Tom Waits songs. Yes.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Can you hear me? I need an ambulance. Like, basically that.

[A]

Yeah. And what say to the guys? Like, you'll be like, hey, remember I said that? It's really cool. Because if you actually listen, there's like a very subtle moment where it almost like, predicts my fall.

[B]

Very subtle.

[C]

Carol.

[D]

Oh, no.

[A]

Carol.

[B]

Call an ambulance. Don't get back on the microphone. I need you.

[A]

Carol. Carol. These fucking fairy lights, by the way.

[B]

I went up there finally, to Canaan, to the scene of the crime. Nobody had put up the lights, Seth. I'd been promised that they would. And who?

[A]

Who would make that promise to you? Somebody who thought you were gonna. My wife.

[B]

Yeah, Me and my wife.

[A]

I feel like that's only a promise you make to somebody who's never gonna make it back to look at it. I mean, I thought the promise would be, no one will ever try to hang lights there ever again.

[B]

I gotta tell you, Seth, the minute I saw it, like, a strand of lights sitting there not being put up, I wanted to get back up there immediately.

[A]

You have not learned what's known as yhorm's Lesson.

[B]

Oh, is that what it's called?

[A]

Yeah. Keeve.

[B]

In the parlance of our podcast, Keeve.

[A]

Congrats on your Critics Choice nomination.

[C]

Oh, well, thank you.

[A]

Mentioned in the last pod.

[C]

Right back at you, Seth.

[A]

Oh, my God. Thanks, Keev. You spared me the indignity. Of having to mention it myself.

[B]

And I got solid today.

[A]

Oh, nice.

[B]

Thanks.

[A]

It's a real. It's an honor to be nominated. I feel like. Well, I don't want to throw a jinx on anything. We got no shot. But I like getting the old nomination. My last thing I want to say about the last pot. I laughed the hardest, I think, at Andy's Fuck Mary killed.

[B]

It wasn't Winter Soldier.

[A]

It was Winter Soldier, Noodle Arms. Captain America before the serum and a hot lady.

[C]

That's a tough one. Even now it's just like, oof, don't make me choose.

[B]

Yeah, Noodle arms is such a handy phrase too. It's very.

[A]

It's the best.

[B]

Yeah, it's really good.

[A]

Noodle arms. Yeah, he's said noodle arms a lot.

[C]

Do we need to quickly do a little pickup where we say Andy's not on the pod today at the top of the show?

[B]

I think they can.

[A]

Well, why don't I do the pickup later in my closet with bad audio?

[C]

Okay, great. Just come in all of a sudden, be like Seth interrupting here to say Andy's not on the hook. Oh.

[A]

But I think I might know why he's been so hard to schedule. Jack Black, real quick, spelling B.

[B]

Spelling bee.

[A]

Andy's on a bit of a bad tear in the old B. I can tell you that Today he bailed five short, and yesterday he bailed seven short.

[B]

Oh, no wonder.

[C]

Is this. Cause he's stressed about work, Stu. I know he's been a little stressed right now.

[A]

Oh, I don't. I think that he might be stressed because he bailed seven short and he bailed five short. Like, you think his stress is getting in the way of his spelling bee. But I think his spelling bee failures are making seem stressed out.

[B]

Yeah, that's difficult to say.

[A]

Oh, somebody, today I got a real specific question, which during my Q and A, somebody, you know, they opened Quaid Army. I gave them a righteous kill, and they said, I want to apologize to everybody else here. I have a hyper specific question about New York Times games. And I said, great. And they said, when Andy cleaned bees, does that mean he didn't do any hints at all? And I was like, that is correct. It was just like everybody in the room being like, what the hell's going on?

[C]

But by the way, we've covered this on the pod, and I don't think that's entirely true. It's his own set of rules. Like he.

[A]

Oh, 100%.

[C]

He allows himself the hint of how many Words are there total, right?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And I think some people would consider that a hint. He said he's gotten it absolutely clean, zero anything a few times, but that it would take up his entire life if he tried to do that every day. He needs a little bit of a parameter of how many words are left.

[A]

I feel like, again, he is. He's a savant. We had Ike Barinholtz on the show today, and as I explained to the audience, like, the way Andy is good at spelling bee is the way that Ike is really good at Jeopardy. Which is. It's not what you would think.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He. He won the celebrity Jeopardy. We won a million bucks for a charity.

[E]

Oh, wow.

[C]

It was televised. You can watch it.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

It's multiple episodes where he has to win each episode to get to the final one.

[A]

And I will tell you from having spent a lot of time in Ike's company when Jeopardy. Aired, like, spending summers living in the same house as him, he was a Jeopardy. Savant years before he got a chance to be famous enough to be on celebrity Jeopardy.

[C]

Did he win who Wants to be a Millionaire as well?

[A]

He did. He won it with his dad.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

So he's done both.

[A]

Yeah. He basically is, you know, a trivia savant.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

That's like me too.

[A]

Yep.

[C]

Steel trap.

[B]

Yep. Just move on to the next thing. We're talking about you.

[A]

You won. Who wants to be here for a nice time?

[B]

Yep.

[A]

And I.

[C]

You got to the top level.

[B]

I got middling results on that, actually.

[A]

So I've got a lot of questions to read. But also, should we just like, knock out cherry battle?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. It's only weird for us to do it because Andy's not here, because, I mean, it was my idea, so it's not like it his, but it was like, yorm were you there that week? It was like magruber time. You were there.

[B]

I was there.

[C]

But are we going to do it just without him?

[A]

Let's just do a quick cherry battle and then go into a Q and A.

[C]

Well, I'll tell you, it was similar to a lot of these. It was, I think Thursday night, but maybe it was Wednesday night. Me and Andy would share a car service because we lived like a block away from each other. And it was in, like, the last block. I have a very, very distinct memory, and it was like 3:34am because we've been trying to think of something, and all of a sudden, right as it was pulling up to my house, I was just like, what if we use the Phantom camera from my throat on the ground again, do super slow mo and put it all in reverse so it looks like you guys are spitting cherries into each other's mouths from impossibly far lengths. And he was like, yeah. And I was like, oh, okay. And then we just got out and then we got to work early the next day to just put it all in motion. I think I wrote some emails.

[B]

Wait, can you, can you explain your, like, your thought process of like, why, why, why that idea?

[C]

You know how it is when we've just been trying to think of a short idea for three days straight and staying up way too late?

[B]

Yeah. And I mean, I'm sure we did for three days, like up to up until that point.

[C]

Like, exactly. Because I think it might have been even Thursday night. I don't know what night it was late in the week, and I have no idea.

[B]

We would, we would start that process on Mondays usually, like, of like at least trying to smash our brains against a rock. Like, you know, and sometimes it would work and sometimes it didn't.

[C]

It's not a good enough idea that if you came up with it on Monday, you'd go. That's being at the last minute where you just need something where you can go, okay, let's give that a go.

[B]

Yeah. And by the way, this is one of my more favorite ish off center shorts.

[A]

There is a moment in it where I wonder, Keev, have you watched it today?

[C]

No, I'm pulling it up right now so we can.

[A]

I bet there's something. I'm not this kind of guy. There's a shot that bothers me, Keith. Oh, interesting.

[C]

Well, so again, like, throw it on the ground. We were, I think, on your stage, Seth, where you do your show now.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[C]

Yeah. And we had to blast so much light for it to shoot at 500 frames a second to be able to see everything. Like it was boiling hot because we have all these lights and it's getting so hot. And it was a little hard to.

[A]

See certain things and heavy costume.

[C]

Yeah. We didn't quite have a plan, a total plan of what it was gonna be because we didn't know if it was even gonna work. It was definitely experimental. But I do remember Brian Tucker, the writer, after it aired or after dressing, saying something really nice that stuck with me. That kind of made it, you know, when you hear someone else's opinion, it becomes your opinion in the nice way. He was just like, you guys still have some tricks up your sleeve. Like, this was nothing like Anything you did before, even this late in the game, and that was kind of what I took. I went, yeah, it was good. And so I have a fond feeling of it because of that.

[B]

It's also nice coming from Tucker, too, especially. I did always trust his opinion on shit.

[A]

I liked this very much when it aired. I liked it very much. Watching it again today, I felt the same way. Also, I really like the way the audience is laughing at it, because certain people are really tickled by it and they stay tickled by it. And that's a nice thing as well, which is it's not for everybody, but for a lot of people, they were just enjoying it so much.

[C]

Of everything we did, this is maybe the closest to art, where, like, if you were at moma and you were going through the different rooms and then there's the one that's playing a weird video, and you're like, what is this? And you can sit on one of those padded, you know, square stools for a second, and you look at it and it's two people spitting cherries in super slow mo.

[B]

And you're like, huh, that's very true. I once saw an exhibit of just rocks falling down a hill in slow mo. And I was like, this is captivating. So.

[C]

Yeah, exactly. So, you know, I don't know if.

[A]

You guys ever saw my documentary now episode that was based on Marina Abramovich.

[C]

Oh, God, yeah.

[A]

The Woman who Cate Blanchett.

[C]

I definitely did, but I don't remember it very well. But it was. I remember it being good, but I.

[A]

Was at an event recently and the real Marina Abramovich was there, and I had this moment of like, ah, fuck it, maybe I'll just try. So I walked over, I go, hey, I don't know if you ever saw this thing with Cate Blanchett, but I wrote that and it was the absolute a reaction from her. Meaning, like she had seen it and loved it.

[C]

Oh.

[A]

And was like, genuinely best.

[B]

Yeah, I thought you meant, like, just like, just staring through your head.

[A]

Totally. But she said, like, something along the lines of, like, you have a Balkan sense of humor. Fantastic.

[B]

That's fantastic. Real high praise.

[D]

Support for the Lonely island and Seth Meyers podcast comes from Airbnb.

[C]

Now it's just past Thanksgiving here, and Grandma and Grandpa, my in laws, were just in town, but because we don't have room in our house, they used Airbnb to find a house to stay at. Now you both visited it. It was nearby. What? What was some of the great parts about it that was different from if you were visiting them at a hotel.

[D]

They had a very nice, private outdoor patio. And on the inside they had, like, their own tv, many rooms. They had the kitchen. They had their own living room. They had their own bedroom. And they had, I think, maybe an extra room. I didn't see it.

[C]

What about bathrooms? What was the bathroom situation?

[D]

Well, very nice and private, but what I really liked was just how much extra space and how we had, like, privacy. So when I visited them, I didn't have to worry about, like, being too loud. I could, like, go crazy in there. You also get to skip the receptionist at the beginning to say, oh, our grandparents are staying here. We are here to visit them. You just skip that whole process and you're just gonna knock on the door and go right in.

[C]

What about the kitchen? It's so nice because hotels don't have have kitchens.

[D]

Yeah, it had a nicely working refrigerator sink. There were already plates and bowls there. So when I got there, I ate some fresh blueberries.

[C]

Now, what would you think of next time? We were using Airbnb to find a house, and then we wanted to offset that money by letting people use our house for Airbnb.

[D]

Well, we actually have some friends who do that. They have a nice house in Lake Arrowhead, and. And they only go there every now and then, so they let people stay there and it's right by the lake.

[C]

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[B]

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[A]

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[C]

I am.

[A]

I'm freaking out right now. I think I just peed a little.

[B]

It's an absolute riot. And the only movie that can be.

[A]

Described as so much weirder than the last time.

[B]

What last time? It's the Frequel.

[A]

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[B]

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[C]

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[A]

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[C]

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[A]

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[C]

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[A]

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[C]

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[A]

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[A]

Um, alrighty.

[C]

Alright. Oh, I am sharing. That's a greensaver. Oh, cool. A real effect. Yeah. Why are they. They're so on board in a lovely way.

[B]

It's already great. While the music is helpful, they're like.

[A]

Oh, even more than one.

[C]

Oh, I love the little thud sounds it's making.

[B]

Yeah. Remember, we did have to move the cherries over because they weren't reaching, obviously.

[C]

It's really funny how they. How she's able to catch them all.

[A]

And they're like they're versus each other. Yeah, but it seems like they're working together.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Well, yeah, it is a battle, but maybe the battle's them versus cherries. I don't know.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

So weird.

[A]

Andy faces.

[C]

Yeah, he's angry about that. So now what's it gonna be? Oh, just one. Right. Oh, right.

[A]

Now. Cherry with a face sing.

[C]

It's lovely.

[B]

She doesn't want to eat it.

[C]

She doesn't want to eat that one. That's your meowing, clearly.

[B]

What was your least favorite, Seth? I was trying to pick it up.

[C]

I missed your keef peeve.

[A]

My keef peeve is if you go back, there's a moment where Andy looks smug in the single and then it cuts to wide and he's screaming right before this, like, farther. Closer to the end. Go back to Like a self satisfied single guy.

[B]

Got the continuity or.

[A]

There, there, there. Yeah.

[C]

All right.

[B]

Oh, oh, yeah, sure.

[C]

You know what's interesting about that? Every piece of this is doctored, of course. You know, so I could have. We could have made any choice. It's no, like. Oh, yeah, it's. Cause he did that well.

[B]

And the edit's so slow too. It's not like there was like so many shots that we were rushing through it. Not like we ever.

[C]

No, no. We easily could have chosen earlier, even in this shot on his side, and just run it back to when he starts to scream. To give you a transitional moment.

[B]

Yeah, easily.

[C]

I don't know why we made that choice. There's a chance we cut something out between dress and air.

[A]

Ah, I bet that's it. There's a chance that's what it was.

[B]

Right. Cause they're never actually in these shots together, right? Or no. Were they?

[C]

No.

[B]

Like, was this an actual shot? This wasn't.

[C]

Right. Maybe. Maybe we did one where the two of them are facing each other, but I doubt it. Just for lighting wise, I don't think we lit that big a space. Oh, no. We must up for the cherry. So we probably did set up this two shot. But I don't. But none of what they're doing is at the same time. Like, they weren't spitting at each other. One of them would get out of the way and spit a bunch of cherries.

[B]

Exactly, exactly.

[C]

And then the other one would get out of the way and spit a bunch of cherries. And we were just like, is there. Is this even going to be vaguely aligned in a way that we could fit? What's cool about this is there's no vfx except for the animated face when he sings. There's no, like, we did this all in Final Cut Pro with like masks.

[B]

And things like that and like moving things over.

[C]

Yes. Cutting up multiple. Multiple layers of video and just moving them around on a space. Almost like a collage.

[B]

Well, because it was just black behind the cherries.

[C]

Yeah, because there was. Because of the lighting situation. The like when you throw up, you know, a big black wall or curtains behind people, usually you see little bits of gray where light hits it. But because we had to blast so much light, the background fell to pure black.

[B]

It looks really cool.

[C]

So we were able to just like those cherries flying in the air. We would just grab from six different takes of six different cherries and just cut them and put them all wherever we wanted them.

[B]

That's really good.

[A]

Now I Have a question. Did you guys have the song first? Did you listen to this song and say, oh, at that moment we should animate the cherries singing that line?

[C]

No, there's that song, the really famous. Is it called oh, Fortuna? You know, the really famous oh, Salome? Yeah, yeah. And I think at some point when we were editing, we were like, oh, this should be to a song that sounds like that. And then. I don't remember yhorm if it was Omega tracks.

[B]

I don't. I don't remember. Cause I feel like that kid was in it. Right.

[A]

But you had to have known before you were editing that you were gonna animate the singing cherry or when.

[C]

No, that was a. Midway through editing, we went, what if this guy starts singing along to the song? Like the order was just starting to edit with no. And just going, all right, and it's all happening at once and going, what would be a cool song? Oh, it should be like that. Somebody grabbing us like 10 songs that sound like that, choosing one, starting to edit to that music. And then we got. I remember it was. It was really last minute and I was so happy. Somebody from a visual effect, like now they have a team, a room full of VFX artists. This was. I don't know who did it, but it was somebody that, you know, Mike Poole and Matt Yonks could ask for, who was genuinely a VFX artist. And they did such a better job than I thought.

[B]

Or was it somebody through Signorelli's team potentially?

[C]

I don't think so. I wonder if. I wonder if Dina or Rachel Lim would remember the details. And when they see this, they'll get back to us. It can be in the next act so we can credit. But I remember being. It was so last minute. It could have been 2 or 3pm on Saturday and then that came back. But it was so awesome. And somebody had to figure out how to get a child voice that could sing along to it. And we managed to pull that off.

[B]

In the last few hours because that got added to like. It was actually added to the track. Track.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

I don't remember that. I don't remember actually.

[C]

And I don't even. We definitely added to the track and I'm not even sure if we added some of the music to the track there too, like, involved. The music department were like, wait, can you create a little bridge right here? It was all.

[B]

It would kind of make sense if we got it from a more mega tracksy kind of place.

[C]

Yeah. But, you know, it was all very Very last minute. But in my opinion, it doesn't make any sense. But, yeah, it's art.

[B]

I mean, I do like my VO for. For the guy.

[E]

What's up, fellas? Andy here, longtime shock jock, first time Quaid. Honestly, I don't know. Anyway, let's get to it. Hit us. Jack Black.

[B]

Spelling bee.

[A]

Spelling be.

[E]

Yeah. So the answer is, I got queen bee clean.

[C]

Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew.

[E]

In your face, Seth. You're not even hearing this, because I'm recording it after the pod. So you're probably not going to hear this until this comes out. Cause we're late in the game now. They're just gonna pop this on after everything's been, like, smoothed out and ready for delivery, and then you're gonna find out in the 11th hour, maybe, of your entire life. I don't know what your life expectancy is. That I got queen bee and you didn't, and you're a loser, and I reign supreme.

[C]

Cherry battle.

[E]

I remember we had nothing, and we were told we had to do one. It was one of those weeks. Me and Akiva lived really near each other. And we left late. We shared cars together often to save a buck or two for the show because we were thoughtful. And then I feel like right as we were getting out of the car, we had a conversation that was like, maybe do, like, that super slow mo Phantom camera thing again. And we're just, like, spitting cherries back and forth, and we both started kind of giggling, and we were like, yeah, that's probably enough. And then we'll just figure out ways to make it more interesting. And I think we even, right there, we're like, we'll make it kind of like a gladiator kind of theme and give it, like, high drama, and that might be enough. And I think that was kind of how it happened, but that was my memory. And then the shoot was super fun, and we started adding ideas to it. And my favorite part of it by far, obviously, is when that last cherry gets spit and we go to super close on it, and it starts singing in the, like, choir boy voice, kind of like. I believe I said I wanted it to be exactly like when the bird flies away from Gandalf on the top of the tower in the Two Towers. Or the moth, I think it's a moth. Anyway, goes and gets some help. But the score in that part, the Howard Shore score, is like. And I was like, I want it.

[B]

To be like that.

[E]

And I can't remember who's singing if it's me or maybe Yorm or somebody else, but that was my favorite part of it. And Gabbie Sedebe was awesome. She was super nice. We had a blast. We shot a it really fast because you get so much footage so fast because it's shooting at such high speed. And Keev chopped it together real quick and we gave her a little tidbits and it was great. And I have fond memories of Cherry Battle. Is it Criterion? I don't think so, but I would maybe posit that it's like in the conversation for Kim's video.

[A]

All right.

[B]

Right.

[E]

Love you guys.

[A]

Was Lauren mad that you didn't do blueberries and use them from his blueberry farm in May?

[C]

I don't know if he had that.

[A]

He didn't have any.

[B]

This actually inspired him to get the blueberry farm, I think. But we'd have to get a voice note from him confirming that he saw that.

[A]

And he was like, I just had the greatest idea.

[B]

By the way, every Christmas when you get a jam jar, a blueberry jam from Lauren, every Christmas, I just picture him slaving over a stove making it. It just the idea. I just love the idea of him being like, oh, God, another 5,000 of these.

[A]

And he just can't send him to all my friends. Oh, I. I forgot about Yorma. Another.

[B]

Get another pot out.

[A]

He doesn't write anything down. He just by mentally remembers everybody he's going to give jam to.

[C]

I've never gotten. I've never gotten the jam. You've never gotten it because it comes for Andy Lauren's blueberry jam.

[B]

Shocking. Well, this is a call to arms in my mind.

[C]

He just gives it to X cast. But apparently if Yorm gets it.

[B]

Well, I did TV show with him more recently that was super successful on Peacock.

[C]

Oh, right.

[A]

It's called McGr, right? You did Traders.

[C]

Were you getting blueberry jam before the McGruber TV show? Were you getting the jam?

[B]

Fuck no, Keith, no.

[C]

Okay, so it re put you on the jam.

[B]

Yeah, I got back on the jam list.

[A]

Do you think it was sympathy jam based on how the show had gone?

[B]

Yes.

[C]

There's no jam sweeter.

[B]

Yeah, he sends it to Sam Elliott and Laurence Fishman too.

[A]

He was like, look, Yoram, you can't read the reviews, but you can have some jam.

[B]

I'm sorry we convinced you to be.

[C]

A part of the show.

[B]

Lawrence and Sam.

[A]

Before your time. The previous Lauren gift was lemons.

[C]

I did get those Meyer lemons.

[A]

You got lemons?

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And I remember once Rachel Dratch opening a box of lemons. And saying when Lauren gives you lemons.

[C]

They were those really nice Meyer lemons, but it was really hard to know what to do with them.

[A]

Yeah, that is that thing where you're like, there's a level of wealth where you're like, oh, thank God, the lemons. You know what I mean?

[C]

When you hand it over to your baker and go, oh, we get to have the lemon meringue pie again. Our lemons have come in. But you need the baker that you hire your full time baker.

[A]

That's the thing where I always say Lauren doesn't realize. I sometimes worry Lauren doesn't know how little he pays you at snl.

[C]

Yes, yes.

[A]

You know, Cause he's always like. And then, you know, obviously just give those to your baker. I don't have a baker. I've got a roommate. I got a roommate who's not in show biz.

[B]

Whatever you call it.

[C]

We also had all had the grossest, teeniest New York kitchens that you had never used.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Ever.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

So you're all like, what am I doing?

[B]

Yeah, you never used because you're at SNL all the time.

[A]

Looking back, it would have been like, let's have a cocktail party and just like garnish the out of it. Just garnish the shit out of it. Just like solo cups full of gin, but with like the nicest lemon zest, just no ice. Solo cups full of gin.

[C]

I mean, a Meyer lemon rind is the best lemon garnish on a martini for sure.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

When you were in foggy London town, did you have a London martini?

[A]

I didn't have a London martini in foggy London town. I'm trying to think if I had any. My best thing in foggy London town is I walked into a place to get a coffee and then got like the greasiest sausage sandwich. Just cause I saw somebody ordering one in front of me.

[B]

It's hard to beat one of those. Yeah, yeah. If you see a good one, you're like, oh, yes, please.

[A]

The one other thing I'll say about the Gabouret Sidibe show is there's a Hamilton. I think it's the last Hamilton that aired. And the next Hamilton is the one he's gonna do at my wedding. And then Andy's wedding and then never again. But again, Hamilton was, as we described, a very. Let me rephrase this. I was gonna say a lovable white supremacist, but I feel like in this case. But there's a line in it that. Cause they were A couple. And he's trying to win Gaboure Sidibe back. And one of the ways he says he won her back is that he went and saw her movie Precious, which she was there promoting.

[C]

Oh, it's not her as a character. He's actually.

[A]

I think it's her as a gabaret. Yeah, right. Cause at the end, he sings Life is a Gabaret to the tune of Life is a Cabaret. I've never been more sure about anything in my life.

[B]

When I'm with you Life is a Gabare, my dear.

[A]

Life is a gab. She does take him back, but he says, I saw your movie. And she goes, you did? He goes, yes. He goes, I saw it at a Magic Johnson theater. I looked for a Larry Bird theater, but I couldn't find one.

[B]

Jesus Christ. Good writing. Good writing. Can we say something about Gabor? Just because she was an absolute delight and she was a total delight while shooting Cherry Battle and very, very fun to be around.

[C]

Yeah. We kind of skipped past some of the details on Cherry Battle, but that would have been a main one. It's Andy Gaboure Civade. Yeah. And not everybody would be down to just.

[B]

Well, because it was incredibly uncomfortable.

[C]

To be like, spitting cherries is not the most, you know, comfortable thing to be doing.

[B]

Like hot lights.

[C]

You don't know if you're gonna be made to look like a fool or, you know, you could have a lot of questions. And she just was super game.

[B]

Yeah, she was very fun to be around.

[A]

This is based on the fact that we were just doing it. This is a question from Matty. Hey, dudes. Every time I hear one of you do a Lauren impression, it makes me wonder if Mike Myers modeled his Dr. E performance after him. They sound really similar. I figure if there were anyone who could maybe figure this out, it would be this crack team of Quaids. So it's interesting because I feel like generationally, we know that that's 100% what Mike Myers is doing, but it was.

[C]

Denied at the time because it was all the press.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

When those movies were coming out, the press did not miss that. Yeah, it was. It was talked about all the time on our.

[A]

Our.

[B]

I had a dinner when we were doing Hot Rod. I have no idea why it was me, Bill Hader, Aaron, David and Lauren at a four person dinner. I don't know why I was just me at the time, but I think you guys had an early call or.

[C]

Something, probably planning the blueberry stuff and wanted to make sure I wasn't there.

[B]

It's probably the list. But Lorne, we started talking about impressions that were done of him. And we were talking about Brain Candy. And he was like, well, that one was me. And he was like, but, no, the mike's in Dr. Evil. That's not. That's not based on me. And he. It felt like he should have been stroking a hairless cat with his pinky in the air, saying it. That one's not me. It wasn't like Mike. But he said Mike told me. He said Mike told me.

[C]

That's what I'm saying. Mike always denied it. I don't know what else he was basing it on. I mean, the look is not Lauren. The look is from what, Dr. No or something? One of those early Bond movies.

[A]

Blofeld. Right.

[B]

Does he continue to deny that?

[C]

Like, it seems. I don't know. But I was gonna bring up Brain Candy as well, because one of the most famous ones is Mark McKinney. And he is like, the big evil executive.

[A]

And he is doing Lauren to a Lauren wig, everything.

[B]

Oh, my God, it's so good.

[C]

For the record, Lorne was the producer of Straight Fucking. Why?

[A]

I'm blanking everything right now. New Kids on the Block.

[C]

New Kids on the Block.

[B]

New Kids on the Road. He wrote on the Road.

[C]

It's because he was road Hanging Tough. And so he gave it to them. Well, what's funny is I'm so tired and frazzled, I was kept just wanting to say Strangers With Candy over and over, which is just not what they were. It was Kids in the Hall.

[B]

If you told me that Hangin Tough was written about growing up on the streets of Canada somewhere, I'd be like, yeah, that makes sense.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And Lauren, it was a real surf meeting situation. Cause Lauren was originally in New Kids on the Block, and then they said we had a meeting, and it was a lot of him going around.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah, exactly.

[B]

Wait, who's out? Wait, who did he say was out of the band?

[C]

It's Donnie. Is Donnie Wahlberg out?

[B]

Oh, sorry, I missed something. I was getting a snack. Did we mention who was out?

[A]

Donnie? As we eat, as we reveal. Help you with the nuggets.

[B]

We know Buttfish.

[A]

Donnie, was it you?

[B]

Did we say Buttfish was out?

[A]

Hey, speaking of Strangers With Candy, I just had Amy Sedaris on the show who's truly one of the greatest people in the world.

[C]

That show was so funny. We got the box DVD set back before we had SNL and watched every.

[A]

Episode every time she's been on the Show. She has said diabetes, like her character on that show, and just, like, looks out in the audience and says it. And it's the funniest thing in the world. We're gonna be selling these at the Cure Thrift.

[C]

All the money goes to diabetes.

[A]

Cause it's a funny word. And then Cole whenever. But the other thing is, she was backstage giving out little, like, craft rings for people to give to their kids for the holiday season. And one of my producers told me I wasn't here for that, that he had a friend with him. And she turns to his friend and goes, do you have kids? Because she was gonna give him rings. And he goes, no. And she goes, oh, sterile. And it's such a great. Just knowing that, like, Amy Sedaris is that funny. Just take that big a swing. Hey, Shayna. I hope I said that right. Hi, guys. So I do love that you guys love NYT games. I also love NYT games. I work at the New York Times, but not at Games. I work at Wire Cutter. I'd love to hear you mention some other time sites, especially Wirecutter. I'm feeling a little left out. What product would you like to see reviewed? We actually. John Lutz. Although I learned last episode. John Lutz. John Lutz does a very Wirecuttery sketch on our show where he is a sort of overworked product tester. So maybe you should look that up, Shane. I think you'd enjoy it. John Lutz, a very talented comedic actor. And, yeah, I'm sorry that we have been sort of overlooking other parts of the New York Times, the venerable institutions.

[C]

I do go to Wirecutter.

[A]

Wirecutter is great.

[C]

I'll give you a recent example, even though this is not paid, and maybe it should be, is I need new smoke detectors. And I went on Wirecutter to find out which ones to get.

[A]

Did you find it helpful?

[B]

Did you listen to their advice?

[C]

Yeah. Because, I mean, how would I know what to get?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

So.

[A]

All right, there you go.

[C]

If I get back to you and my house is burned down, then no.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I will say that Akiva was always that guy. Like your entire family, Akiv. Like your. Your mom, your dad. Like, they would do research. They would, like, check things. And the fact that you're telling me that that's what you check now, that really bodes well for me to want to check it in the future. So big up Wirecutter.

[C]

It's really hard to get paid for this. After we did be like, hey, we did an ad. You give us a Little bit.

[B]

It's also hard not to get into ad reading mode when you start talking like this.

[C]

Yeah. About products.

[A]

I would just say real quick. I just can't imagine that could have gone any better for Shayna.

[C]

No, I was trying to. As a member of Quaid army, we look out for each other.

[A]

Know. This is from Daniel. And he said boiled goose was the line of his that Maya Rudolph quotes to him the most. You're all friends with her. What is the line of Maya's that you quote back to her the most?

[E]

Oof.

[B]

I don't think we try to quote Maya around.

[C]

I don't do good enough impressions to usually quote people's stuff. I feel like there might be a Bronx Beatty kind of thing.

[A]

She once said Hyundai. She pronounced the car Hyundai. And I will say that I like it so much that I have trouble saying the actual name of the car brand.

[B]

See, me and Renata do everything together, huh?

[A]

Mainly because Glenda doesn't have a car. Yeah, yeah. My stupid ex husband Barry got custody.

[B]

The Hyundai. That's a weird car brand because it does make you want to say it wrong because you're like. How do you say it?

[A]

Hyundai.

[B]

You know what? And this is shitty for me to say because it's our movie, but I do. In my mind, Deborah is like. It goes through my head all the time of her saying Deborah and then what's that based on? I believe Deborah is. But, you know, that's us quoting ourselves. So that's a pretty shitty response.

[C]

She has unlimited things you could quote. And by the way, the boiled goose she quotes is the boiled goose. Yeah.

[A]

Which is almost like, good, like, written for her as well.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

She also. What was the name of that character that was like, said Forney Numbskrull.

[B]

She has so many great.

[C]

Kevin wrote in Glenda Goodwin.

[A]

Oh, yeah. Glenda Goodwin and Kevin. Was it. Thorny Numscrolls. She was like a lady who was afraid of different monsters, like ghouls, goblins. And then she said, forney Numbscrulls.

[C]

What is that?

[A]

We might have to play a little Thorny Numster.

[C]

I'm trying to decode it. What is it?

[A]

I don't know. I think she just made it up. I think she told me that it was something that she said when they were kids that I made up.

[C]

Got it.

[A]

She definitely tried it as a talk show once. And can you try to find out also, Kev, what Dratch's name was when she was her friend? It's an Alzheimer. And then there Was definitely. I mean, I think the sketch I watched the most is her singing the national anthem, which is what Liz wrote. Remember, she, like, just making a meal of singing.

[B]

Can I add on to that last? Like, when quoting your friends who have made something funny, I think the only time that you do that to your funny friend is when you're trying to be a dick.

[A]

Right.

[B]

Like, I once put jizz in my pants as my ringtone so that people would call me around those guys just to be an asshole to Annie and Keefe. You know what I mean? Like, I'm not gonna like. It's rare to actually quote something your friend says in seriousness.

[A]

I think, though, Maya can do that very skillfully. Oh, and then there's TT And Mario is the other one of Maya's that I quote all the time. Time, which was with whom Kenan and Maya were soul singers named TT & Mario. Kind of based on, like, Ashford and.

[C]

Simpson.

[A]

Yeah. And there was this. The entirety of a song was. Let me put it in a little bit. Just the tip. All right. That was a full song. I know you're gonna know this.

[B]

One. Who didn't groove on this bad mama jama in.

[A]

1977? Roller skate love. You are so.

[B]

Beautiful. And you are my knight in shining.

[A]

Armor. Let me put it in a little bit. Just a.

[C]

Tip. Yeah, it's just sexy innuendo. You don't know what they're really talking.

[B]

Good. When it's nice and.

[A]

Short. Spivey, by the way, Spivey, I'm really hopeful that you're listening. I know you're a big fan of the podcast. Still one of my favorite things ever of all.

[B]

Time. I would love to have Spivey on this.

[A]

Show. We should just have Spivey.

[C]

On. Yeah, she would be.

[B]

On. We should really just call her up right.

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Buddy? I'm so good. I can't wait for Christmas.

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Too. This is the most succinct description of what an aura frame is. And I am in. Seth.

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Thanks. You're very welcome. You know what else you're.

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In? Ooh, an aura.

[C]

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[A]

Seth? What are you gonna.

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[B]

Online. Well, it's also the pelvis thing, Seth. I mean, it's hard for me to get around, so. Yeah, sure. But yeah.

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[B]

Business. Seth, did you know that purple is my favorite color and it's because of.

[A]

Shopify? Oh, it wasn't.

[B]

Before. It was not. I didn't have a favorite color and now it's.

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[B]

Shopify? No, no, no. It's.

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[B]

One. No, but that's my. That's my.

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[B]

Name. That's.

[A]

Great. Perfect name. And then the next time was Goodwin and Goodwin. Oh, man. Rudolph Spivey and Mike Scher, who was the.

[C]

Host. Why would Mike. If Mike came back for.

[A]

Something. No, I think this was that old. Oh, Nia.

[C]

Vardalis. Oh, it's from both. So it's. Oh, got it. It's before our.

[A]

Time. Yeah. If you've been bothered by any.

[B]

Of the following such as cyborgs, Tyrannosaurus rexes, alien dudes, Count Dracula, Sleestacks, the Boogeyman, outlaws, hunchbacks, sea monkeys, minotaurs, Lou Ferrigno portraits with moving eyeballs, gremlins and phony num.

[A]

Scrolls. What year was this near Rod is like 2004. I want to say when's.

[C]

Big. So this predates the Land of Lost movie for the Swiss stacks. I mean, obviously the show was from the 70s, but somebody pulled that out of their.

[B]

Memory. That probably got the ball rolling for.

[C]

Me. 2002. Wow. That might have got it. They went, hey, we're in the culture check Turn on SNL right now. We're back in the culture. That's Sid calling Marty.

[B]

Croft. Say it one more time. Seth.

[A]

Forney. Forney Numbscrolls Forney F O R N E Y Like Forney, but Forney. Yeah. Numbscrulls Num N U and B.

[C]

I'm Skulls but yeah, numb the scrolls. Forney.

[A]

Numbskrulls oh man. Hey, speaking of gremlins is on there. Gremlins. What do you think? Nine and seven year old boys. Gremlins. Too scary or just.

[B]

Good? I think it might.

[C]

Be. It depends on the boys. Yeah, there's definitely some boys that they'd be fine and some boys where they'd be like, why'd you show me.

[B]

That? No, I think it's fine. I think it might be.

[A]

Fine. We just watched the trailer and I would love to watch it.

[B]

Again. It's pretty goofball.

[A]

Central. Yeah. Here was a question, a common question. Keith, did you consider that you were winter soldiering when you used your credit card at the bar you were banned.

[C]

From? Oh, that's interesting. Well, that implies a timeline. That would be kind of the timeline. Cause this is 2011 you're talking about, right? So if we're gonna go. I mean this would be before Kuait army, before the podcast. So that would imply that this has been happening well before New York Times games or any of this. So it's a can of worms certainly to think.

[B]

About. Well, when did you that sort of. I thought you meant timeline like because you were in a different state. Would it be possible for you to have flown there as a winter soldier? Stay asleep. Right. Or stay in a comatose?

[C]

Yeah. Well, it's obviously a highly financed thing and maybe they have future tech kind of flights like Concord Jet type things, you know, like the Avengers have. I don't know. You could probably get from Atlanta to LA in three hours using their tech tech. And so you could probably fall asleep at 9 and be back home by 6am if you're really going to do a ton of charges.

[B]

On. So the correct answer is it is.

[C]

Possible. Well, but then is only open through business hours, so I don't.

[A]

Know. Oh, you didn't. You finally mentioned it. You did beep.

[B]

It. Now we have to.

[C]

Beep. Beep is only open for normal business.

[B]

Hours. That beep just cost us fucking $15 by the.

[A]

Way. I definitely knew which place it was. When you said it was near ucb, I was like, click, here's one. I just wanna let you know, this is from Lennon. I just Wanna let you know I was conducting a work meeting. At the end I went to tell the team, hit me up if you have any questions. But it started to come out. Hit us in the tittis. I caught myself, but definitely bobbled the sentence. Does it make you feel good or bad to sabotage my meeting? I mean, good, good. And especially good that you caught.

[B]

It.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. I wouldn't want you to actually.

[B]

Get in trouble, but great name. That's a separate.

[A]

Note. Simon. Just a quick email from foggy London Town. My wife Sally and I are big fans and love the pod. We both seem to have included it in our nighttime routine, getting into bed with headphones and falling asleep to the podcast. A couple weeks back, we started being confused about how we know someone named Galvin Penton. And it took us quite a while to figure out that somehow, subliminally in our sleep, we'd absorbed info about Yoram's medications for his injury with the ladder and actually were thinking of.

[C]

Gabapentin. Oh, my old friend. I mean, that's what Yorm calls him. His old friend, Galvin.

[A]

Penton. I.

[B]

Do. My new and old.

[A]

Friend. Yeah, you're always like, excuse me, gentlemen, I need to text.

[B]

Gavin. Galvin.

[C]

Penton. Galvin.

[A]

Penton. Galvin.

[B]

Penton. Oh, happy about all these comments so.

[A]

Far? They're really good. Hey.

[B]

Boys.

[C]

Hi.

[A]

Hi. This is from James. One thing I'd love to hear more about is the process of picking songs from the albums for digital shorts. Did you have digital shorts in mind while writing tracks for the albums, or was it after an album was finished that you went through and chose which ones to use for shorts? How did that work with the usage rates between the label and snl? Always been curious about that. Sending love from here in foggy Australia.

[C]

Town. When we're writing the songs, like in the studio, goofing around, having a laugh, we are picturing a video, I would say 100% of the time for every song. Like we're in a fantasy world where we get to make videos for everything. And I will say also that the songs are much more are successful when they have videos and it would be really great if they all could have it to support it. I think some of the ones that on the album are probably the least listened to, might be the most fun as a video. But then the real world comes in and videos are very expensive to make or certain kinds of videos are. And so then it's a weird combo of trying to be responsible financially, like you don't want to Spend I'm gonna boat video money on the old saloon. That would be irresponsible. And so you're trying to figure out, you know, what the opportunities to make a video is and then which ones to do, which ones you can do, and which ones seem to be people's favorites. And then if it has a guest, that's a whole other problem of trying to figure out when that guest could show up to do the.

[B]

Video. And then Keev, what about the rights.

[C]

Issues? Oh, that's a. That's a whole other Galvin.

[B]

Penton. Oh, is it.

[C]

Indeed. I think we kinda touched on it on the incredibad one where. Because for years, of course, we weren't allowed and none of NBC put any of their videos on YouTube, but then they would put on NBC.com@a certain point and that could barely even run videos and on Hulu. And we always wanted them on YouTube where they'd be international. We made a record deal so that we could own the songs and license them to snl. And then it was always a negotiation. So certain videos got paid for by the record label and just licensed SNL for $1. Other videos, sometimes we got them to collab, like for instance with yolo. We got half the money from the record label and half from snl and they split it right down the middle. There was always something to figure out, but it's why they're on our YouTube channel to this day, the ones that are on there, because they were on the record first. So we controlled the music. And a lot of times our label had paid, so it was some. We owned some amount of it. And by we, I even mean me, us and Universal Music Music Group Republic Records. So we don't actually.

[B]

Own. No, no. I mean we own like basically the same amount they do. Right. Like it's a good deal. Right. Where. Let's pay 50.

[C]

50. No. Oh, God. Oh, it's not. Oh, they own like.

[B]

82%.

[C]

No. I hate to tell you how record deals work. So we. Yeah, so. But it did get them to be able to reach a lot of people. You know, there's whole generations of people out there that just saw them on YouTube. YouTube and didn't even know about SNL. And that's all because we were able to make that.

[A]

Deal. And then just think if you did not have the platform that you sort of earned from, you know, making those videos, you wouldn't be doing a four person podcast. That's like half.

[C]

Ads. Exactly. And that at the end of maybe two years we could afford to make one new music.

[B]

Video. That's what we're saving up for, guys. One music.

[A]

Video. But it's good as you be.

[C]

Japan.

[B]

Yeah. So we're really gonna blow it.

[C]

Out. I mean, we should all do it and.

[A]

Shrooms. Michael has a question. Hey. I've always wondered, watching snl. This is a very good question. I've always wondered, watching SNL on tv, when there is a camera cut and the skit swaps out a real person for a dummy or other prop to take its place, how does the studio audience react to that? Do they see what's happening? And does it ever take away from the live experience? Thanks for bringing a little light into my life every week. Again, not Andy. I should note, this started. Hey, Seth. Keevan Jorm. And not Andy. He sucks. So I don't know why Michael's coming hard for.

[C]

Andy. It's the perfect episode to ask this.

[A]

Question. Yeah. Yeah. Love you guys. So my take, and I wonder if you guys share it, is that most people, even at the live snl, are watching the monitor. And so you can kind of still switch something out. Now, again, like, maybe the one place that wouldn't be true is home base, which is when I say home base, that that's where the monologue is. And when you do a sketch that there. You want to do a sketch there, by the way, because people are watching it more than they're watching the monitors. But if you're in one of those corners, like, they're definitely watching on.

[B]

The monitor, I would say that is absolutely true. Or if it's a really long swap and people start to note, like, for instance, Quado is a long swap. It's so long that it actually has extra dialogue to facilitate the swap. And it's such a ridiculous looking swap in that people start to notice. I'm just like, wait, what.

[A]

Is. But I think in a good way, they start to.

[B]

Notice. Yes, 100% for that sketch in.

[C]

Particular. Sometimes you will hear a giggle when you're watching at home. I'll hear a giggle that is not motivated by anything you can see. And you know, something is happening off camera, you know, whatever. When the next cut comes, there's going to be a joke and they're getting ahead of it. Cause they can see and it.

[B]

Is potentially fun for the audience. Yes.

[A]

Yeah. I think that there's very little more enjoyable than that extra couplet of dialogue that has been added between dress and air to buy more time, certainly for.

[B]

Writers. Tell me more about that. Until we're ready to cut to the next chat.

[A]

Yes. Here's one from Avi. I'm a longtime Quaid, first time querier. So here's my Quaid.

[C]

Query. Ooh, a.

[A]

Qq. Aside from being golden era of snl, the lonely island blew up at the same time that a lot of comedy was flourishing online. College humor cracked five second films, Brittnick, et cetera. Some people in these sites even ended up working at snl. Sarah Schneider, Streeter side. How aware were all you guys of the other comedy groups and websites? Was that a time where you guys knew all those.

[B]

Dudes? Well, just quick shout out. The movie that I did in Finland was actually written by Nick and Brian.

[A]

Britannic. Oh.

[C]

Nice. And they have a movie that I think the guy that used to be our main exec at our company, Billy Rosenberg. Yes, I believe screened a Britannic movie at our office. Cause we have a little private theater in our office and they just came by and did a screening. I couldn't make it to it, but. Right, that was that.

[B]

One. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's.

[C]

Correct. But I will say we were not. We were sort of aware because that wasn't like. It's not like we went to comedy clubs or to comedy.

[A]

Shows.

[C]

Right. So if a video was really funny on college humor, we got texted it or, you know, emailed it the same way anybody.

[B]

Would. Yeah, like Derek. Derek comedy. I remember like watching the island of Daughters sketch and thinking that was really funny, that early, early Derek.

[C]

Comedy. And we knew the human giant guys, but they were. They had a show on tv, so that's like a little different. Yeah, but you know, some things would reach us, but it wasn't like our. It's not like the SNL circle also included all of those.

[B]

People. But also it was early days of YouTube too, so it wasn't like we were like scouring the site for a ton of shit too. Yeah, I don't know. We were working, I.

[C]

Guess. I mean, Charlie bit my finger was pretty.

[B]

Huge. I love that.

[A]

One. Oh, here's a question from Elizabeth. I've listened to your podcast for one year and eight months in the hopes of when to hear a vague anecdote about the sketch. Hip Hop Kids Bearcake with Ryan Philippe. And we talked about that episode and didn't talk about it. I gotta go back and watch it. And then I will briefly comment on Hip Hop.

[B]

Kids. Hip Hop.

[A]

Kids. I feel like that's a lot, right? This is.

[C]

Good. Yeah, I think that was.

[A]

Plenty. Okay. I think maybe the day this comes out. So we'll have day drinking with Sabrina.

[C]

Carpenter. I'm very excited. I'm jealous. You know, my daughter went to the.

[B]

Concert. I'm just jealous. Anytime you go day drinking, I'm.

[A]

A big fan, I will say real big fan of Sabrina Carpenter, the.

[B]

Person.

[A]

Why? Just. I think she's incredibly kind, nice, sharp.

[C]

Funny. I've heard all her music. Cause my daughters are such fans. And it's one of those ones where they're always like, put on some music. And I'm always like, oh, I'll put that one on. Cause I know it's genuinely.

[A]

Funny.

[C]

Yeah. It's too dirty for them to be listening to, but they've heard it all without me. So then I.

[B]

Wait. So how good was she at drinking, though, Seth?

[C]

Good.

[A]

Yeah. You know what? I'm also very happy to say she was cautious in a way that I respect and liked. Got it. Yeah. She wasn't trying to be a.

[C]

Hero. Okay. You pressured her properly. Right. And just was like, you fucking dick. Fucking. Yeah, exactly. You're gonna come on day drinking and not.

[A]

Drink. I told her my favorite thing when Julie Louis Dreyfuss did it. Which I, by the way, I say this to all of our guests, where I'm like, hey, by the way, you don't have to do any of this. You know what I mean? Like, I'll drink, but, like. Like, we can switch your shots to water. Like, don't do anything you don't want to do. And when Julie Louis drifted, I said, basically, that speech. I go, you know, you don't have to drink anything. You don't have to. And she's like, yeah, I.

[C]

Know. I am.

[A]

Julie. We drank. You think I'm gonna do any.

[C]

Of this stupid, but people really are drunk on your thing. So I just. I want to be. Make it clear that you're not faking your thing. Because when you watch the Julia Louis Dris one, you're like, oh, she didn't drink. She's very clear. And it's on camera that she's not.

[A]

Drinking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's not a secret. Most people do drink. And, yeah, nobody. I. I do think it's a very hard thing to act as drunk as we end up.

[C]

Sometimes. I did have to explain to my daughters, because they asked what exactly being wet meant because of Sabrina Carpenter.

[A]

Though.

[C]

Interesting. And I was the only one in the car, so my wife could not field that.

[A]

Question. I would like that you're like, liz was there, but I'm like, I.

[C]

Got this is I got this.

[A]

Honey.

[C]

They. I mean, they're old enough that they do. They're like, yeah, kids say it at school. Or like someone will say, like, oh, man, it's raining out. I just got so wet. And everyone will go, and so she knows it's something dirty, knows it's something she needs to know so she doesn't get made fun of. So she did need to know it at that.

[B]

Age. And you told her about doing.

[C]

Pcp? Yeah, about just getting wet. I'm like, when you're in the. If you're smoking angel dust, if you're smoking weed by itself, it's just smoking weed. If you sprinkle angel dust on top of it or on tobacco, it's called getting wet. And that's what it's all.

[B]

About. And you're like, now go out into the world and be confident, young.

[C]

Ladies. Exactly. Be confident. Yeah. So they're laughing because they think you went out in the rain and smoked pcp. It's exactly.

[A]

Right. Be confident, girls. Your daddy has made you confident.

[C]

Girls. Yeah, this is confident. Now you know exactly what it.

[A]

Means. Well, this was lovely. We wish Andy the best as he recovers from just eating shit back to back days on the.

[B]

Bee. Oh, that poor.

[A]

Bastard. Yeah, and this was a delight. I love you.

[B]

Guys. Love you very.

[C]

Much. Yeah, love you. Oh, who's gonna take it? All three of us at once. Three, two.

[A]

One. Later, Arnold. Later.