Daiquiri Girl

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Daiquiri Girl" Episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast

Introduction

In the December 2, 2024 episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, host Seth Meyers teams up with comedy-musical trio The Lonely Island—Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone—to delve into the creation and impact of their iconic SNL Digital Short, "Daiquiri Girl." This episode offers an engaging exploration of the challenges and triumphs behind one of their early and most unconventional sketches.

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Background on "Daiquiri Girl"

The conversation opens with reflections on the nostalgic experience of revisiting "Daiquiri Girl." Andy Samberg remarks on the personal significance of the short, noting, "Nostalgia alone, just for having been alive during the time it was occurring and had gone through that experience" [00:26]. The episode underscores the short's place in the evolution of SNL Digital Shorts, highlighting its unique position in the series' history.

Creation of "Daiquiri Girl"

The trio shares the backstory of how "Daiquiri Girl" came to be. Originally, they had plans to create a musical sketch featuring Gnarls Barkley. However, unforeseen circumstances led to the cancellation of their guest stars. Faced with this setback, Andy describes the improvisational spirit that drove them to create "Daiquiri Girl" on the spot:

"We were like, okay, well, everything we tried to do didn't work out. So I turned on a keyboard and Keev just rolled the camera and I riffed this shit out." [10:48] — Andy Samberg

Akiva adds, "It's like when you just hit, like, samba on a Casio keyboard and it starts playing whatever it starts playing" [11:04], emphasizing the spontaneous nature of the sketch's creation.

Filming in Kevin Miller's Apartment

The limited resources necessitated filming in producer Kevin Miller's apartment. Kevin recounts the logistical hurdles they faced, including sneaking equipment and managing the set-up without formal arrangements:

"We had to really get into a back entrance of the building and trying to play off like we weren't actually using it to shoot something on broadcast. Television." [44:14] — Kevin Miller

This setting contributed to the raw and unpolished aesthetic of "Daiquiri Girl," further distinguishing it from subsequent, more polished digital shorts.

Reception and Impact

"Daiquiri Girl" was met with unexpected airing on SNL, much to the team's surprise. Seth Meyers reflects on the mixed reactions the short received:

"I felt a great amount of, like, I don't know, like, I let you down." [21:33] — Seth Meyers

Despite initial reservations about its reception, the team acknowledges that "Daiquiri Girl" holds a special place in their repertoire as a testament to their creative resilience.

Behind the Scenes Anecdotes

The episode is rich with behind-the-scenes stories, including the cancellation of other sketches and the adaptability required during live television production. Akiva shares an anecdote about writing a non-musical sketch featuring Gnarls Barkley, which ultimately did not materialize:

"We wrote it. We're like. It had jokes. I'm sure it would have been a solid B." [04:48] — Akiva Schaffer

These stories highlight the unpredictable nature of television production and the necessity of improvisation, qualities that The Lonely Island exemplified in their work.

Supportive SNL Environment

A recurring theme is the supportive environment within SNL's top brass, which allowed for creative risks without fear of undue repercussions. Kevin Miller emphasizes this supportive culture:

"We can't say it enough, the amount of which we were positive it wasn't going to air." [22:54] — Akiva Schaffer

This environment fostered a space where even less successful sketches like "Daiquiri Girl" were valued as learning experiences rather than failures.

Legacy and Reflections

The hosts reflect on the lasting impact of "Daiquiri Girl" and its role in shaping their future projects. Seth Meyers muses on its audacity and how it remains a memorable, albeit unconventional, part of their SNL history:

"Daiquiri Girl is so unique, and it represents a thing that I feel like a lot of people at SNL have felt this was a forced to do a short." [02:22] — Seth Meyers

Andy and Akiva echo these sentiments, expressing pride in their ability to create something memorable under pressure.

Notable Quotes

• Andy Samberg [00:26]: "Nostalgia alone, just for having been alive during the time it was occurring and had gone through that experience."
• Akiva Schaffer [11:04]: "It's like when you just hit, like, samba on a Casio keyboard and it starts playing whatever it starts playing."
• Seth Meyers [21:33]: "I felt a great amount of, like, I don't know, like, I let you down."
• Kevin Miller [44:14]: "We had to really get into a back entrance of the building and trying to play off like we weren't actually using it to shoot something on broadcast. Television."

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Conclusion

The episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast provides an insightful and humorous exploration of "Daiquiri Girl," shedding light on the improvisational genius and camaraderie that define The Lonely Island. Through candid discussions and memorable anecdotes, the trio and Seth Meyers celebrate both the successes and the missteps that have contributed to their enduring legacy in comedy and music.

Transcript

[Seth Meyers]

It's the Lonely island and Seth Meyers podcast. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Lonely Island Seth Meyers podcast. This one, I've been looking forward to this one. It's the Ashton Kutcher episode. The name of the short is Daiquiri Girl. And I'm just going to tell you that right as we're doing this. Akiva is watching it right now. Andy just watched it. And, Andy, you had a big smile on your face.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

Which I was happy to see.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, nostalgia alone, just for having been alive during the time it was occurring and had gone through that experience.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It was so.

[Seth Meyers]

You were smiling about life. It was not about the actual work?

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, no. I don't know how to even approach my feelings.

[Seth Meyers]

I also want to note that when it ended, you said, jesus Christ.

[Andy Samberg]

I didn't, like, feel a big swelling of pride ever watching it. It was more just like, well, that was one week at the show.

[Seth Meyers]

Here's what I wanna say. Keeve, are you done? We'll wait for Keef. He's got a minute to go. This is also for those of you who have not gone back and watched Daiquiri girl. It is 90 seconds.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, a long 90.

[Seth Meyers]

It is a long 90, I will say. I think it is very fair to say It's a long 90, but for the time it spent on television.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

For a brief minute and a half. It has made a huge impact on my life.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, I love that.

[Seth Meyers]

For those who are there, Daiquiri Girl evokes a massive memory of a time at the show. Daiquiri Girl can be slang for a thing that happens at snl. And now I'm gonna wait for Keev, who I guess is maybe watching it at 0.5 speed.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. He likes to slow it down a little bit so he can really get granular. You know what? I'll say, Seth.

[Seth Meyers]

What's that?

[Andy Samberg]

I certainly don't think there has ever been something exactly like it before or since.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I think that's very true. Yeah. Keev, are you with us?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, I just watched it. It was a little slower than I remember.

[Seth Meyers]

Keev did not crack nary a smile.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, I was smiling the whole time.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, good.

[Andy Samberg]

By the way, Jorm's not on this episode. He's in Finland making his movie.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, good point, good point.

[Andy Samberg]

I don't think he was there that week either, though.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. So here's the thing. Daiquiri Girl is so unique, and it represents a thing that I feel like a lot of people at SNL have felt this was a forced to do a short. Short correct.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

And oftentimes you are. And again, it's the price of victory. You guys were now a thing that Lauren was excited to have in the show. He depended on you, and everybody, when they started the show wants to be that. But then every now and then, you have that situation where, like, we need one. And this is what it looks like when you got nothing. So daiquiri girl could just, like, be a stand in for any. Like, I feel as though it never took off as slang, but I feel like you could be like, oh, let's just say it was a real daiquiri girl of a week.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my God.

[Seth Meyers]

You know what I mean? Because we've all been there.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We could try to get that going now.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But most people's daiquiri girls don't end up on the show.

[Andy Samberg]

We definitely thought it was not gonna air.

[Seth Meyers]

Guys, I'm gonna admit something to you. I thought it hadn't. I thought that daiquiri girl lived in my mind's eye as something that we just had gone back and watched from old dress rehearsal.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I cannot believe. Not only did it air, it aired so high in the show it aired. I feel almost like it was Lorne making you smoke a whole pack of cigarettes. Like it was that punishment. It is deeply audacious in its shittiness.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I remembered it being so mercifully short, and then it did not feel that way to me. Now watching it felt. It felt everything could have been a double time, and I was watching at regular time. For the record, I heard your comments, but that's how long it felt. When you guys were watching me watch, you're like, it couldn't possibly be this long, but it is.

[Seth Meyers]

I feel as though you can hear in the audience what I felt watching it, which is everybody at this point had a real trust in what you guys were gonna do. And they were waiting for the second shoe to drop. And so there was some early laughs that were the kind of laughs that were, oh, I can't wait to see where this is gonna go. And then it just was that. So backstory at first. Again, you were in the corner.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I mean, we were definitely in the corner, but no more so than any of the other weeks that we are constantly.

[Seth Meyers]

But you had something else planned.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes, we did, Andy. You can correct me if you felt differently. We wrote a sketch for Gnarles Barkley. It would have been our friend Brian, who's Danger Mouse, and then Cee Lo, and they were roommates. With Andy, et cetera. Et. But even that one, I will admit, I was so, so on. But it was one of those ones where it's like, all right, we gotta write something. We wrote it. We're like. It had jokes. I'm sure it would have been a.

[Seth Meyers]

Solid B. Oh, so it wasn't a song.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It was not a song.

[Seth Meyers]

No. Okay.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It was not a song.

[Seth Meyers]

In my head. It was always a song. Because it was Danger Mouse and CeeLo.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, it was a sketch. And I remember thinking, this is not one of our strongest, but let's go through with it. And sometimes those end up being surprises as we've gone over. But I definitely remember when they called. It was. I mean, it was late. How late do you think it was? Friday night at 9pm that they pulled the rug out. Like, we were already on the location or on the way to the location.

[Andy Samberg]

Correct.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And on some level, I remember feeling relief. Like, oh, wow, we just got the next 24 hours. Instead of staying up all night and having to do a short, we're cruising. They just gave us the day off. And then in another way, I don't remember if. Did we. Andy, do you remember what happened at that point? Did we call Loren? What happened?

[Andy Samberg]

I think we were told, like, you need to give us something.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Like, we're counting on you having something and us being like, we don't have it. It was a. By the way, the original idea was flimsy. I don't know if you just said that, Keith.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, that's what Keef was saying. Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

I think it was called, like, Gnarls Barkley as my roommate. And it was some, like, the specificity of, like, roommates eating each other's food or something. I can't even remember what it was. It was, like, sort of funny. It was already gonna be like, yeah, yeah. It'd just be fun. And it's fun to see them. Cause they were red hot. And like, Keef said, we were friends with Brian and it was gonna be just like a fun little dalliance.

[Seth Meyers]

Super fun look. I mean, Narls Barkley. You like the look of the two of them?

[Andy Samberg]

You're happy to see them.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. That's the most Lauren thing I've said on this podcast, Jess.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And then there's the look. And then you see them, and it's Gnarls Barkley. And you're happy. And they're there, and they're there. And the audience says, good. Lauren often talks like he's speaking to someone who just learned English. And then two men come in. Men are there. So you guys are on location and you basically here. You have to do one.

[Andy Samberg]

By the way, on location was just Kevin's apartment.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. So Kevin Miller, who's a producer of this podcast, is he on the Zoom right now? I would imagine Kev's on the Zoom. He's not here.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He's almost always on him.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, you know what? You know what Kevin's doing right now? Because Kevin is a producer on Late Night with Seth Meyers. We just wrapped. Kevin is doing an edit.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is his big moment, though.

[Seth Meyers]

I know. This is Kevin's apartment and Lindsay Shook is his Daiquiri Girl. And Kevin and Lindsay used to be married.

[Andy Samberg]

That's right.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Which is how it came to pass that she was Daiquiri Girl. Because we were there at their apartment and suddenly we had nothing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wait, I just saw Kevin Miller joined as guest. Kevin, are you there? Can you turn on your mic?

[Kevin Miller]

I am here, Kevin. Hi, guys.

[Seth Meyers]

So what was it like all these years later? Your apartment is the apartment for Daiquiri Girl. How quickly did you start hosting tours?

[Kevin Miller]

I was just going to say there's a bus that goes by on the Big Apple tour. You can get the green Lacoste shirt just like Daiquiri Girl wore. It is bananas. It's so funny to watch that because I forget what the premise of the original sketch was, but I just remember somebody asking if I had any weed in my apartment. And I think they were looking for, like a low rent apartment to do something with Gnarls Barkley. And then they just never showed up.

[Seth Meyers]

Right.

[Kevin Miller]

But it's just a real. You can see it's a real dump of a place.

[Seth Meyers]

I like the idea. That really says something about SNL where they're like, are there any employees of ours, two of them who live together, who we pay enough that they will have a shitty apartment?

[Kevin Miller]

Oh, we weren't even living together at this time. I had two roommates. This was like early days living in New York.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, wow. This is pre. Pre. Yeah, yeah. Pre, pre, pre.

[Andy Samberg]

So, Kevin, do you remember the moment when we pivoted to seeing your or one of your roommate's keyboards lying against the wall?

[Kevin Miller]

Yes, that's my Casio keyboard with a little drumbeat. I still have it. And it was that in the. There was a smoothie machine that I think my brother got me for Christmas that was lying there and it was just like. It was almost like a MacGruber thing where you looked around the room to see, oh, my God. What can we make from this disaster?

[Akiva Schaffer]

You MacGyvered it.

[Seth Meyers]

So you were in the apartment and you did not even have a Daiquiri Girl at that point?

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, there was nothing.

[Kevin Miller]

No.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And no crew. It's just us.

[Kevin Miller]

Yeah, there were, like, a few people. I think there was maybe. Was there hair and makeup there? I seem to remember hair and makeup and maybe some crew there.

[Seth Meyers]

There were wigs, so.

[Kevin Miller]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Was that going to be your wig, Andy, as their bad roommate?

[Andy Samberg]

It must have been.

[Kevin Miller]

Oh, that was the original idea. Bad roommate.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Where I was an annoying guy.

[Seth Meyers]

You know, we talked last week about how. Here I Go. What is last week's. What's the name of the song? Yeah, yeah, Here I Go. That. That was maybe, you know, a sequel to Hero Song. Someone wrote in the comments of the YouTube video that this looked like shy Ronnie the night he had his first beer.

[Andy Samberg]

You talking about Clementine?

[Seth Meyers]

Clementine.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It is the Chyrani wig kind of. Right? Just. But pre Chirani, they might have recycled it.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. I mean, Clementine is way more extroverted than Shay Rani, though he is.

[Seth Meyers]

Clementine feels like he's got the goods. Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Clementine is going for it, pursuing his dream.

[Seth Meyers]

Daiquiri Girl starts, and it's on. Terrible, terrible video quality.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And we see the old MTV like, corner info. Clementine is the artist. Daiquiri Girl is the song. The name of the album is Songs to Funk To. And then I felt like this was.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Can you imagine trying to funk to this? That would be almost impossible to funk to this song.

[Andy Samberg]

It would be tough to funk to this. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I feel like this was you guys attacking. This was your rage at Lauren is that the label is Broadway Video Records. There's a real. Your company. Put this out, sir.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is what you like. This is what you wanted.

[Seth Meyers]

Now, I want to go back because my memory is you guys are pretty angry about having to do it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I don't know. I think we just thought it was silly.

[Seth Meyers]

Or was this. Are you still too new to be like.

[Andy Samberg]

No, I think it's neither, Seth. I think we were very much, like, throwing our hands up. You know what I mean? We were like, okay, well, everything we tried to do didn't work out. So I turned on a keyboard and Keev just rolled the camera and I riffed this shit out.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's the demo. It's like when you just hit, like, samba on a Casio keyboard and it starts playing whatever it starts playing.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean. Yeah. The whole thing is. And I don't say this in a way Where I expect you to be impressed. A oner. Like there was automatic little automated beat in there, you know, little samba or whatever.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

And then I just sang exactly what you're seeing.

[Seth Meyers]

And you made it up, or had you written. Had you kind of scribbled it out?

[Andy Samberg]

No, no, just. It's freestyled. I mean, it's terrible.

[Seth Meyers]

It's terrible. I will say. And we're going to talk through all of Daiquiri Girl, but the comedy comes in a scroll to the point that you kind of don't listen to the lyrics. And so then I listened to it a second time through today, where I just listened to the lyrics and I was really laughing at how deeply shitty they were.

[Akiva Schaffer]

She's made of daiquiris.

[Seth Meyers]

I think, well, that's the crazy jump is it's daiquiri girl and she's making daiquiris. So you just think she's a girl who likes daiquiris. But then clementine sings. When I first met you, you were not a daiquiri. And I'm like, wait, yeah, is this about a girl? This girl is a daiquiri. It kind.

[Andy Samberg]

Then it becomes a weird science, right?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Yeah, she's one.

[Andy Samberg]

Then I went and made a scientific discovery. Girl, you're made of daiquiris. When I first met you, you were not a daiquiri. Then you went and had a scientific discovery. One part rum, two parts ice, three parts love. You are so Now.

[Seth Meyers]

Now, by the way, I will say, if this is freestyle, this is very good. Freestyle. One part rum, two parts ice, three parts love. You are so nice. That's not bad.

[Andy Samberg]

Not bad.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's generous.

[Andy Samberg]

You are so nice.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The whole thing is the equivalent if I just turned to you right now and said, make a song with what's near you, and you would honestly be like, podcast mic on my head. What are you doing?

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, but it is like. It is like rum parts. Like he's giving the instruction of a daiquiri. It's something. It's something.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Wyatt is impressive, and Wyatt is different. Is. So there's this terrible thing. And again, the audience is kind of like, being a little patient. They want to see where Daiquiri Girl goes. Then the scroll starts. I also had a moment where I. Because again, we've talked about how Lauren wouldn't let you guys call yourself the Lonely island, right?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

You were digital shorts. And it begins. The scroll begins. We at the digital shorts. And I have to think, at least at that moment, you were psyched that you didn't have to say the lonely is.

[Andy Samberg]

You know what, Seth? Yes. But happily would have made the trade.

[Seth Meyers]

You would have made the trade. Here comes the scroll. We at the Digital Shortens would like to apologize for this video. We pride ourselves on making quality work and recognize that this one's just not up to par. I mean, it is enjoyable. And we're still watching Clementine just suck. He's on a couch. Everything about it is terrible.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And then a second scroll, and this is pulling back the curtain. This is really just fully being honest as to what happened. In our defense, we had a whole other video lined up with the famous musical act, but they bailed at the last minute. So we did what anyone would do in that situation. We got drunk. Now, were you guys actually drinking, or is that just comedy?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I don't think we were really drinking.

[Andy Samberg]

I think maybe we had, like, a little sip of something, but we weren't actually partying or anything. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And then there's a little bit more of Clementine, and then the scroll comes back. You know what, though? Have you been watching this? It might be pretty good. And right as that ends, Clementine does. Will you do it? The deed?

[Andy Samberg]

Like, I think it's basically.

[Seth Meyers]

And then scroll comes back up and says, nope, still terrible. And then. But you know what? Back to the scroll. But you know what's cool about working for snl? The top brass here really get it very much. Enjoy the top brass. That's a classic.

[Andy Samberg]

Andy, can I say something?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

I don't know that we even had the idea for the scroll while we were shooting. Whatever we shot.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm pretty sure we didn't.

[Andy Samberg]

And then I believe I came in and Keef had been cutting for a few hours and had written the entire scroll and added it, and I started laughing so hard.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, really?

[Andy Samberg]

I think you wrote every word of it, Keeve.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, God. I don't remember anything now.

[Seth Meyers]

This is shocking to me that you sat down to edit that without knowing the scroll move.

[Andy Samberg]

I don't think we had thought of that until you started editing.

[Seth Meyers]

Right. That's unbelievable.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We definitely had not thought of it till editing. I just don't remember that I just did it or not.

[Seth Meyers]

This is not. Is never gonna be Criterion Collection.

[Andy Samberg]

What?

[Seth Meyers]

Without the scroll, it's straight to the garbage can.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my God. Yeah. Yeah. The scroll is the only thing that is happening.

[Seth Meyers]

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

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

You love to try to pass as a local when you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, that's my thing. If I go to Rome, first thing I do the first day is just try to look at what people are wearing, what kind of hats they're wearing. And I go to the local haberdashery, and I try to, like, really get in there. And if I'm going back to a hotel, I feel like the gig is up.

[Seth Meyers]

So I think it's a dead giveaway. When you walk to a hotel, they know. They're like, this guy's from the States despite his local hat.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Exactly.

[Andy Samberg]

Keeves known to just, like, go to the local city and get a local Airbnb and then just get, like, a Coney Dog in Detroit.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's right, A Coney Dog in Detroit.

[Andy Samberg]

So they know you're from there.

[Seth Meyers]

And so the reality for you, Keev, is that some trips are better at an Airbnb because you're traveling with a group of friends, you want to hang out in a way that they don't let you hang out at a hotel.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's right.

[Seth Meyers]

And Airbnb ticks those boxes for you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Plus, I'm just into some weird shit, you know, and it's just better when no one's around.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, Keef, I'm going to start yelling out cities. Tell me what you do when you're there to make you feel like a local.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Paris.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The Paris baseball team's local hat.

[Seth Meyers]

The Paris baseball team's local hat. Here's the thing, you guys. I'm in a real talk right now in Airbnb. What I love is my kids. Bedtime doesn't need to be my bedtime, Keev. We were just at my brother's wedding. Yeah, you stayed at a hotel? Yeah, Well, I stayed at Airbnb because I had my kids with me, and the hotel was where the wedding was and the music was loud, and instead, I was at Airbnb two minutes away. My kids stayed there. The music didn't wake them up.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You had room to kind of spread out and be comfortable. I was just jammed in a room.

[Seth Meyers]

You were just jammed in a room like a sardine.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, exactly.

[Seth Meyers]

I had so much sympathy for you. So, anyway, thanks to Airbnb for my brother's wedding weekend and also for sponsoring the podcast support for Lonely island and Seth Meyers podcast comes from Viori. Hey, what's up, Keev?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Hey, what's up? You know that I always show up for Viori when I hear that there's an ad read for Viori going down.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm there because they draw inspiration from the coastal California lifestyle, which is where you were born and bred. And Viori makes products that stand the test of time. They hope to inspire others to live vibrant, healthy lives. And I know that's your goal, Keith.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I was just telling my wife about that earlier today. I saw her outfit and I was like, is that all Viori? Because it is reeking of the the California lifestyle and she's not from California. So I was shocked.

[Seth Meyers]

But she's active and your wife is someone who is stylish and she might go play tennis. I know Liz. We've talked about Liz on the podcast. She might go play tennis, then she might meet her friends for high tee. And the nice thing about Viori, it checks both boxes. Super soft, lightweight, relaxed fit, 89% recycled materials, four way performance stretch, moisture, wicking. It's great for stretching, it's great for lounging and, you know, high impact, low impact workouts. It's going to work for both.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You said it perfectly, Seth. I just loved hearing it.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

Kevin Miller just wrote something which is correct. He wrote, I remember that there was a panic that it was actually going to air once we saw it on there. We went to that meeting and you see what's going to air. We were like, what? Like true.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, I finished the scroll because I have something else to say. So anyway, the brass at snl, they don't care if you fail as long as you give it your best effort. Nothing could be less true. Correct. Just such a funny thing that SNL is like, you know what? We tried. They certainly wouldn't fire you for something that's not your fault. Like if the stars of your video never showed up, even though you had a verbal agreement. Gnarls Barkley. Now you take their name to the streets.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Would you have done that if you weren't friends. Friends with Brian?

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, I don't think so. Definitely not.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. I mean, I think at the Time. I remember recappers saying, oh, my God, Norris Barkley backed out in Lonely island so mad. But that was right, right?

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. But that was a friend move.

[Andy Samberg]

100%. Also, it was funny. I don't think now it matters. Like, Brian was, like, it was Cee Lo. It wasn't. There was no. I don't remember what the reason was. I'm sure whatever. It was either reasonable or unreasonable.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But that also could have been Brian's excuse.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, could have been. But I remember him just being like, yeah, he just decided he didn't want to or something. I don't know what it even was. But, like, I think partially because we had been doing it all through a friend thing, it didn't feel super official.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Maybe that's true.

[Andy Samberg]

And P.S. they would have shown up at Kevin Miller's apartment with his roommates and realized they were correct, if that was the assumption.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

So I don't know why exactly, but it was all very, like, laid back and loose, and we were not really worried about it. That bad.

[Seth Meyers]

It ends. Please, once again, our deepest apologies. Please enjoy the rest of Daiquiri Girl. It wraps up pretty quick. Mm. Yeah. The last look that Clementine gives the camera. I feel as though you're saying to us, andy, why didn't you help me? You look like a. You look like a dog getting pulled into the vet's office. Yeah. Yeah. Like, it's so pained. It's so pained. And I felt a great amount of, like. I don't know, like, I let you down.

[Andy Samberg]

Looking straight down the barrel of America.

[Seth Meyers]

Just straight down with that, like, Andy face of, like, this was not our.

[Andy Samberg]

Not our choice.

[Seth Meyers]

Now, the other thing that's shocking about it airing is this episode had Jason Reitman, who recently directed Saturday Night, was guest writing. He wrote and directed a runner three different shorts called Death by Chocolate, where Ashton Kutcher was a wonderful costume as a chocolate bar who was killing people. It was called Death by Chocolate. If there was ever a week Lorne did not need a short, it was this week.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's right.

[Seth Meyers]

And it's crazy to me that Daiquiri girl made the show.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I can only speak for myself. And we kind of just already covered this, but I really was not angry at all. For whatever reason. It was so nice to not to just have someone else to blame and to just be like. And I remember this. We really were. And this is what Kevin just wrote on the note. Friday night attitude was like, we tried. Oh, well. Well, they're saying they still need something. So let's give them something for dress so that they can get from one set to the other. Like, we felt an obligation at that point to give them 90 seconds to change sets or change wigs. And I remember that's why we filmed you doing it. And then I was like, well, I'll just cut it together to give him something, and was putting all those shitty effects on it to just make it all of a piece and then wrote that thing. But truly, I mean, we can't say it enough, the amount of which we were positive it wasn't going to air.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And the shock we felt when it was on the rundown and the shock we felt when it aired out, it was kind of exhilarating. A little bit of just like, oh, this is. Anything can happen.

[Andy Samberg]

It did, yeah. It felt a little more like early days of the show where the goal of it was different almost, you know.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. And again, I think that there's always something to be said for audacity and to this day feels audacious, especially because the timeline of it, you know, we're like 35 shorts in, right. Or something like that. But, you know, if you see it now out of context, you think it was like the third one. You know what I mean? Like, we know you can make the good ones now. We know you can make the glossy ones. We know you can make the ones that sort of rise above the smash and grab you were doing early on. And yet the return to it is this fantastic. And the fact that it was shot Friday night is so much fun.

[Andy Samberg]

Quite late.

[Seth Meyers]

Quite late.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. I will say I read some of the comments. The comments were not that hard on it, except for somebody who wrote, this is so bad, I needed to have a smint to get the taste out of my mouth.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, sure, yeah. Bless your heart.

[Seth Meyers]

But again, I think about it all the time. Like, Daiquiri Girl was one of the ones I was looking forward to when we started this. And by the way, Daiquiri Girl, I think about all the time. Best look in the world, which is next week. I think about all the time.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my God.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But that's so much more embarrassing than Daiquiri Girl. Daiquiri Girl's not embarrassing somehow, because it's not doing anything. It's just honest.

[Seth Meyers]

But again, I have nothing but love for Best look in the world.

[Andy Samberg]

I haven't watched it in a long time, but I have a lot.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We'll see how we feel.

[Andy Samberg]

I have a lot of shame.

[Seth Meyers]

Shame.

[Andy Samberg]

And, yeah, I feel I have, like, bruising around that one because we thought it was going to be good.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Right?

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, I mean, I don't want to spoil it. We're going to get to that next week.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, we'll get there. You know what's interesting about Kutcher? I don't remember if it was the time before this or a time after, but we were really urged when we said we didn't have much to do a pre tape for a different one of his episodes. And we did one. It was basically a commercial parody called Tudor.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yeah, I remember that one right.

[Andy Samberg]

When Twitter was sort of dropping and he was like, the spearhead first guy on Twitter. Of Twitter. Yeah. And we wrote one called tutor about every time you fart, it alerts all your followers, which was, you know, our social commentary. And then they cut it. And I was so mad, not because I even cared about it that much, but because they had basically.

[Seth Meyers]

Right.

[Andy Samberg]

Everyone was like, you have to do one. And we were like, we don't have an idea. It was sort of that dance, you know? And then this one, which we were like, please cut it. We don't care. Aired. So, like, the two Kutcher episodes were the inverse experience of a pre tape.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm going to go to flashback to just Kutcher 2003.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay.

[Seth Meyers]

Only because Scherr and I, our dear friend Mike Scherr and I, Michael Schur. Michael Schur wrote a sketch called Friendship in baseball where I was a first baseman and Ashton Kutcher was a guy leading off first who kept, like, basically telling me to suck it before he stole second. And it kept being a foul ball, and he kept having to walk back. I'm Gary, by the way. Yeah, save the introductions, pal. I'm not gonna be here that long. Oh, yeah? Why is that?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Cause I'm stealing second base.

[Kevin Miller]

See you later, lose bag.

[Andy Samberg]

Foul ball.

[Seth Meyers]

See you later, lose bag. Take it easy, man. Yo, you know what? I'm not gonna take it easy. And here's why. I'm not a loser. You don't know me. And I will say we mounted it. It went to dress, and it's, like, almost impossible to, like, stage what you think first base at a major league baseball stadium looks like. They tried their best, but it just, like, mind's eye. It's a funnier idea than actually seeing it. Yes, but then Shur and I did it one night at ucb. There was, like, a sketch night, and we actually did it where Shur and I did it. And I'm happy to say it. Crushed.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Should that be A pre tape.

[Seth Meyers]

In hindsight, it could have been a. Yeah, it could have been a decent pre tape, but it was lovely. Also, Scher And Jake Tapper, CNN's Jake Tapper and Mike Schur, our friend, have asked if they can be the final arbiters of what makes Criterion Collection.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, that's true.

[Andy Samberg]

Why do they think they're the ones who decides?

[Seth Meyers]

I don't know, but they wrote me a text and said we listen to the pod and we feel like we should decide what makes Criterion. You know what?

[Andy Samberg]

I'm not going to agree to that. But I will say I'm very curious to know what they think and we can hold it up against ours.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, you know what? I think maybe it's a bonus episode where it's just me and those two dudes and we just go through and get their take.

[Andy Samberg]

I love that. You know, I would love to just tune in and listen to that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, we're going to open it up to the listeners, too, right?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

By the way, any two famous people who want to pair up, you're welcome to join us for a bonus episode.

[Andy Samberg]

Any duos, there can be infinite criteria, collection choices being made as long as you and one other famous person. And then obviously we should have, like, a listener vote. 1.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're gonna do a lot of Criterion, but real quick, the three of us. Daiquiri Girl's not a criterion.

[Andy Samberg]

No.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay, great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

What if the listeners all gang up to review, bomb us, and make Daiquiri Girl our winner?

[Seth Meyers]

Just don't do that. Do you have a voice note from yhorm, Keef?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, yeah, I do.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, let's hear that.

[Yhorm]

Okay, this is a note from YHORM on Daiquiri Girl, which I remember watching in Los Angeles. As I remember it, I called you guys that week to ask about the short. I remember hearing about that Brian failed on you and that you had made something but you didn't want to tell me what it was because it should be a surprise. And boy, was it. When I was watching it while shooting Land of the Lost, some cool highlights for me, editing wipes. Were those in Final Cut? Are those built into Final Cut because they're so shitty. I assume they are, but that's Deep cut horribleness for Final Cut seven, I assume, Keith. Web Clip Empire. Is that beat from Web Clip?

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, it is not.

[Yhorm]

You maybe want to explain those cool CDs that we use for a thousand years, Keith? Love the clip. Art of the Daiquiris. Love that. It was kind of shy Ronnie Recursor.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, he called it, too.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Yhorm]

Same wig that we used.

[Seth Meyers]

Good eye, bud.

[Yhorm]

How did you end up at Kevin's house? I'm sure you guys have addressed that one already. And then lastly, I was just saying, like, it feels like in watching that, that Brian Danger Mouse Burton still owes us a favor, and I think we should figure out how to cash in on that. Okay, please stop doing these so late, because I can do them 10 hours ahead from LA. And that seems reasonable that you could do them in the afternoon and I wouldn't be asleep while you guys do these podcasts. Love you guys. Bye.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, it's very fair that yhorm wants to be awake for the podcast, but again, most of his feedback is, I remember watching this on tv.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's useful to get that perspective. That's most people's perspective, to be fair.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Also, I'll say it on Seth's behalf. Yhorm's window from Finland is when Seth is making his network television show that's on every night.

[Seth Meyers]

Thanks, buddy. Thanks for having my back. Yeah. You know, he did say that Brian owes you a favor. So If Brian and CeeLo also want to do a Criterion episode with me. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Cause they're too famous people.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Too famous. Too famous. Couple other things from this show I just wanna go through. I don't know if it happened more than two times or three times, but James Anderson. I feel like we don't talk enough about James Anderson on the show.

[Andy Samberg]

Agreed. There's never enough.

[Seth Meyers]

One of the greatest comedy writers and one of the most unique voices I've ever been lucky enough to be in a room with. He wrote a sketch with our buddy John Solomon and Paul Lapel called the Cougars Den, which was Amy Wiig and Casey Wilson, and they were cougars. And this is just. This is a line I've never forgot, which, as Wiig said, they were talking about their younger boyfriends.

[Andy Samberg]

You are one hot cougar friend.

[Bill Hader]

Then later, I gave him a blowjoy on my wicker fan chair.

[Andy Samberg]

Blow, Joy.

[Bill Hader]

Well, it's certainly not a job.

[Seth Meyers]

And then. And I'm going to do this for another sketch later in the show. But one of my favorite things about asking Kevin to pull the sketches is I can see the crossouts. One of the things about the sketches between Dress and Air is you have your dress sketch and then you have to make changes and you literally write them in.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And then you bring it to the script department and they rewrite them in using their handwriting, which is a little Bit neater, but still just handwriting because there's no time to type in a new script. So when you see the script, also, there's great value to the director and the cameraman. Like, they want to see the messy changes because they want to know when they have to do a different thing. But it's so joyful to go back and see choices that were made. For example, Cameron Diaz did a cameo in this episode as a cougar. And in the draft that went to dress, she was the author of a book called Bagging a Younger Man. And between Dress and Air, James switched it from bagging a younger man to bagging the younger men's. So much better.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Logical.

[Seth Meyers]

So many good details. Also, here's another line. So Cameron Diaz's book about how to meet younger men when youn're a Cougar is go to a bar super late at night. Like, go like right at the end of the night. And wig says, I met my current boyfriend at 1:50am in a Bennigan's. I drove him to his dorm and we've been together ever since. That's basically the great American novel in two lines. And. Yeah, fantastic. Anyway, I'm going to make an effort to talk more about James Anderson because it will not let you down.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He deserves it.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, we love James. One of the greats.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, I know yhorm's not here, but can you one of you guys give me a Seth's Corner real quick.

[Andy Samberg]

Seth's Corner.

[Seth Meyers]

You're all invited.

[Andy Samberg]

Seth's Corner.

[Seth Meyers]

It's happening right now. Take it away, Seth. I read a sketch where Ashton Kutcher couldn't get into a nightclub, and the bouncer who was Keenan made him stand with Fred, who was a guy named Oliver. And then it was just a parade of our cast being bigger losers who all got in right away. Keenan's name is first, so Keenan must have had this idea.

[Andy Samberg]

Can I ask a question? So Kutcher has himself in the sketch.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, we don't find out until later in the sketch that he's Kutcher.

[Andy Samberg]

Got it.

[Seth Meyers]

But he looks like Kutcher. And then I was very happy. And again, I wrote this sketch. I had no memory of it other than what the set looked like. You were in it. Andy, do you remember what you entered the nightclub as?

[Andy Samberg]

You know, I don't.

[Seth Meyers]

You were in a trench coat where you were clearly a kid on another guy's shoulder. But we never showed the other guy. Yeah, so it was like the fun of. You were obviously on, like, a stunt Guy's shoulders.

[Andy Samberg]

I always love that you know that about me. Excuse me. Good man. I am a visiting businessman in my late 20s, and I was wondering if this was an establishment that served alcohol.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, yes, sir. Enjoy your evening. Thank you. Fellow adult suds came up and said, I'm with six. And Keenan said, ladies. He's like, no, dudes, super old ones. I work at a nursing home.

[Andy Samberg]

So at this moment in time, a lot of clubs happening.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, lot of clubs happening.

[Andy Samberg]

Both in probably Ashton's life, but certainly in our own, as we've mentioned.

[Seth Meyers]

Certainly in our own.

[Andy Samberg]

So there's a lot of, like, ripped from the headlines kind of thing. Like, we're like, man, can you imagine if Kutcher didn't get into the club?

[Seth Meyers]

And then every time he goes and stands with Fred, Fred keeps telling him, like Fred said, one time they didn't let me into a McDonald's. They made me go through the drive through on foot. But the thing that made me happy, there's two things that made me happy. And again, I wrote it and I have no memory of it. At one point, Kutcher gets super mad and says to Keenan, dude, hey, dude. Hey, I got a name.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, I'm sorry, what's your name?

[Seth Meyers]

Dode.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my God. Yeah, that's right.

[Seth Meyers]

Also, Ashton at one point says, all right, I don't want to do this. I'm Ashton Kutcher. At which point Fred goes, the Guardian. And I had to, of course, Google it. And the Guardian is a 2006 movie where he plays like a coast guard.

[Andy Samberg]

Got it.

[Seth Meyers]

Wow.

[Andy Samberg]

I definitely had forgotten. Based on our reaction. We had all forgotten.

[Seth Meyers]

Even at the time. I think the joke was that Fred knew him from his least popular thing.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes, of course.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Was there a reaction in the audience?

[Seth Meyers]

No idea. I feel like I like to read the script and appreciate my writing without remembering how stuff played, without sullying it with public opinion. The payoff was from the Guardian. Ashton goes, no, from that 70s show. And Katie goes, oh, I love the black guy in that. And Ashton goes, there wasn't a black guy in that. And Katie goes, now you're getting it. Maybe now he's getting it. Which is even a little bit better. Support comes from aura frames. Hey, Keev.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yo.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

Thank you for being honest. I know a lot of times that's hard for you.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm going to continue to be honest. Keev. It's named the number one digital photo frame by wirecutter Aura Frames are incredibly smart and easy to use, allowing you to upload unlimited photos and videos directly from your phone to the frame. And let me tell you, my parents, they love it Kyiv, because I got pictures of my kids on their picture frames now. And you got parents and you got kids. So why are you fighting this?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Honestly, I remember when these kind of things came out like 10 years ago and I can't imagine how much better they are now. This is genuinely piquing my curiosity.

[Seth Meyers]

The best thing is remotely keeve you can upload to your parents frame without having to be near it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, so this is for pranks?

[Seth Meyers]

No, Keev, it's for love.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay, but I'm gonna buy Andy one and insist it sits in his kitchen.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Seth Meyers]

You know what? For me, it's just the thing I see and I never think about the fact that there are people behind the thing I see. And that's a. You know what? It's a shortcoming. It's a flaw.

[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Seth Meyers]

Yes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Seth Meyers]

All right, we're out of Seth's Corner. Now we're back in Andy's Corner. Hmm. Do you remember what else is in this show?

[Andy Samberg]

No.

[Seth Meyers]

Jack Johnson talk show.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, first one.

[Seth Meyers]

First one.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I remember that. Going well.

[Seth Meyers]

Went great. So much fun. By the way, JJ Casuals does get a shout out at the end of this sketch as the sponsor. It's the Mellow show with Jack Johnson. You play Jack Johnson. Bill plays Dave Matthews. Ashton plays John Mayer. Great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Interesting.

[Seth Meyers]

There's a very bold move in the Mellow show, which you right away. Cause you feel like this is, like, gonna be an upbeat, maybe fun, like, not the most edgy sketch. Mm. Returning viewers, this is. You say, returning viewers may notice the absence of my good friend Shasta, the golden retriever with a handkerchief. Sadly, Shasta was taken away this week. Seems that things got so casual around here that I forgot to feed him. And then a runner throughout the sketch is your pets keep dying.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, audiences love that.

[Seth Meyers]

But here's what really made me happy. And again, I promised another one of these. This is the D between dress and air. So at dress you say, Sadly, Shasta was taken away this week. Things got so casual around here, I forgot to feed him. And that made him noticeably angry. So much so that he chewed through the front gate and took off running down the highway after a sausage truck. C'est la vie. Little bit long. This is what you change it to address. Things got so cash around here that I forgot to feed him. And then you just sang Gross Negligence.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, that's decidedly better.

[Seth Meyers]

Decidedly, decidedly better. And a very fun sketch. I mean, Bill, who can't sing a lick, does a very good Dave Matthews.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes. So any new jams?

[Seth Meyers]

Sure. This one's called Snickerdoodle Cookies. I got a Snickerdoodle cookie, snickerdoodle cookie. I got a schnickle doodle cookie for you, pretty baby. Wow. And then later would do a very good John Mayer like. It just speaks to. Bill's skills as an impressionist are such that he can get past his lack of music.

[Andy Samberg]

He always talks about that he can do an impression of someone singing but can't sing as himself.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Which is an odd thing, but is true for him.

[Seth Meyers]

And it's very good.

[Andy Samberg]

Is that the one where we had the foot five where the two fake feet high five each other, or was that the next.

[Seth Meyers]

No, that's. Yeah, that's lighter.

[Andy Samberg]

Foot five is maybe my favorite thing of all those. All those two. Probably.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I think having that sketch in and I don't even remember if I worked on it or not or whatever, but it still makes it easier to even more feel like you don't need the short, you know, like.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. The more we're talking about is a good job.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You're just like, oh, well, you already have something in. You don't need another thing.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

So then your parakeet dies, and then later on in the sketch, you say to the other guests, you remember my iguana, Sonny? You may remember him. He always wore a mini Gore Tex vest. So at dress, this is the line. Bill. Did he die, too? No, he got arrested for selling nitrous balloons to kids at fish concerts. This is what had changed to at air. Did he die, too? He sure did.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Gotta give the people what they want.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Stand by. Both those upgrades.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, Good upgrades. What a memorable week. All right, I think we know the first Gnarlsparkly song. What was the second Gnarlesparkly song?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, I think it was that.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, actually, I take it back. They did not do crazy.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh. You know what? I'm having this vague memory of. They were gonna be on for crazy in the first album, but it was the end of the summer, and they stick to their guns so hard that they had vowed that they were done with crazy and they were moving on to the next thing. And SNL always likes to have the song of the summer.

[Seth Meyers]

Right.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Kind of come on as the season premiere of the fall. And because they refused to do crazy, they didn't get booked. And then this was for the second album. Is that true?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, that seems right. So, second album, two songs run. And who's Going to Save My Soul?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, who's Going to Save My Soul? Very good. Gnarles Barkley song. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm just gonna say it so that we can play a clip of it. This was a moment in history. Chris and Wiig, who had numerous great update characters over the years, this was the first Judy Grimes. And I will just say, on a pure execution level, as far as how fast she had to talk and how fast the cue cards were going, I think it was one of the more impressive things. I sat next to and watched remind.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Us who Judy Grimes was.

[Seth Meyers]

I remember the name, but Judy Grimes is. Just kidding. Just kidding.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Like incredible verbal dexterity that is unrivaled to this day.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes. It was more of like a physical feat.

[Bill Hader]

I'm not nervous. Just kidding. I've just never been on TV before. Just kidding. I have. I'm on TV all the time. Just kidding. I'm only on in the morning. Just kidding. It's my first time. Just kidding. I was on Ellen once. Just kidding. I was sitting in the audience. Just kidding. I was standing because I ran out of chairs. Just kidding. I had a chair and I brought it with me today. Just kidding. This is a different chair. Just kidding. I show you. But they told me not to stand up. Just kidding. They said I could do whatever I want. Just kidding. They said anything was implied. Just kidding. My tongue hurts so much from talking. Just kidding. It hurts because I ate hot cheese. Just kidding. It was hot soup.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Just kidding.

[Seth Meyers]

It was hot cheese soup.

[Bill Hader]

It was very expensive. Just kidding. It was cheap and I don't have a tongue. Just kidding. I do, but it's not mine. I borrowed it so I can come here today. Just kidding. My mom drove me here. Just kidding. She's missing. Just kidding. She's dead. Just kidding. She's alive, but I don't want to see her. Just kidding. I do, but I can't. She's invisible. Just kidding. She's not. Just kidding. She's sitting right next to me. Just kidding. Just kidding. Just kidding.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's awesome.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Like, they like fire. I did. Also, by the way, I wrote to Kevin, was this the first Judy Grimes? And he wrote back, no. Just kidding. It was pretty killer.

[Andy Samberg]

Touche.

[Seth Meyers]

Touche.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Kevin, anything else you wanted to add? Are you still listening? I mean, this is your. This is. This is really your episode.

[Kevin Miller]

Oh, wow. I mean, well, I just remember having to, like, call the doorman at the apartment and, like, making sure the right one was on to, like, sneak a lot of the gear upstairs. Like, we had to really get into a back entrance of the building and trying to play off like we weren't actually using it to shoot something on broadcast. Television. And I just. I do. Like I said, remember the panic the next day of this isn't going to air. Right. I mean, we did our best. We did what they were trying to do. It's not our fault they didn't show up.

[Andy Samberg]

Kev, can I ask you something? Follow up.

[Yhorm]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

You grease any palms?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, you slap a 20 in the super's hand?

[Kevin Miller]

Yeah, I didn't.

[Andy Samberg]

Didn't grease any palms. Okay, so then this leads me to something I've been thinking about and discussing with some other folks recently. Have you ever greased any palms? Anyone? Seth Keev?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I don't think I have.

[Seth Meyers]

I've over tipped for the purpose of next time being treated better, but I've never in the moment greased a palm for a table.

[Andy Samberg]

Exactly. I don't think I've ever greased a palm. And I think a lot of people grease palms.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I've never greased a palm. Be like, hey, I feel like I'd be bad at it. It's like, you know, you can get me over there. Yeah, you want to go over there?

[Andy Samberg]

Hey, maybe Benjamin Franklin will change your mind.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I think the people who are good at it know how to kind of agree on a number before the bill goes into the hand all greasy style. I don't think they're just like in a movie. It's always like, someone goes, maybe this will change your mind, like you just did Andy. And then the guy's like, nope. And then you're shelling out money, which is a really bad way to negotiate. I think in real life, people go like, what's it really gonna cost me? I got three guys with me, you know, they kind of get it aside and the guy goes 40 bucks ahead and he goes, all right. And then the palm gets greased. I think that's how it really happens.

[Andy Samberg]

Based on what? Like you're just totally speaking out of school right now and you sound like a lunatic.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I have an exact example in my head.

[Seth Meyers]

We only know it from mov. Like, we've never seen anybody do it in real life. I've never seen a Paul, but again, I will say, like, I realize there's a value to it. I mean, I've always been a very good tipper, but I think I've understood later in life, like, oh, you know, the Matrix.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I've seen you both tip very well. But that's also just in case they're gonna go on gawker.com after and talk shit.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yeah, I don't do it out of generosity.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, no, it's. You're protecting yourself.

[Andy Samberg]

Anyway, I just. Maybe it's something I'm like, maybe all of us should, like, grease a palm and then report back.

[Seth Meyers]

We should grease a palm and, like, let's just make a agreement to grease palms the next time we're together.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, okay. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

But, like, only one of us should be the greaser each time.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, I'd love to watch one of you go try to grease a palm.

[Seth Meyers]

It would be fun to watch. But don't be, like, shitty while someone's trying to grease their first palm. Don't be, like, snickering. It's hard enough.

[Andy Samberg]

Don't be, like, easy greasing your palm, like, while you're doing it, like, dude, shut up.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm greasing a palm trying to grease you. Do you think it's weird afterwards to ask the person how the greasing went?

[Andy Samberg]

Like, hey, was that a good palm grease?

[Seth Meyers]

I'd love feedback for my next grease.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's so embarrassing because, you know, if they're at a maitre d or a doorman at somewhere that's fancy enough to get greased, then, you know, they know everything about it. They see every kind of greasing coming in. They see the $100 bill. They see the $10 bill. They see the person that's, like, nervous, and, you know, they know it all. And then you're coming in there trying to compete as a total virgin to it. You have no clue what you're doing.

[Seth Meyers]

I do feel like they would like a coquettish vibe where I'm like, I never do this.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Right. Yeah. We should go to Vegas, guys.

[Seth Meyers]

I want to say, because we're talking about Kevin. One of the great things about Anne golden era is you continue to work with people you knew from Anne golden era. And one of the lovely things is that Kevin, who works on this podcast, is also a producer on Late Night. You meet good people, you keep good people around.

[Andy Samberg]

Damn straight.

[Seth Meyers]

Very lucky to have him. Also, Andy, you fully got mentioned in a closer look tonight. Did I? He did.

[Andy Samberg]

You gonna tell me what was said, or am I have to tune in?

[Seth Meyers]

I was talking about how Elon Musk doesn't want to hear other people's ideas. And I was like, yeah, man. Guy's got $300 billion. If I had $1 billion, all this show would be is me sitting with Andy making him do his Nic Cage. I loved you. Yeah, just. That would be my show. If I had that kind of money, fucking wouldn't do a show for you. Do a show for me.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, that's right.

[Seth Meyers]

Again, this was delightful to talk about Daiquiri Girl, which I think in the end landed on its feet more than I thought. I'm very happy that you guys don't feel rage about it. No, because some of those are coming up.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We'll see.

[Seth Meyers]

There are some ragers coming. And this. I mean, I kind of thought this was maybe the first of those. And there are many.

[Andy Samberg]

The stakes were just so low, and I feel as if we did all that we could. So no shame.

[Seth Meyers]

No shame.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

All right.

[Kevin Miller]

Speaking of grease palms, by the way, I remember instead of getting a location fee for using my apartment, somehow they thought a Crate and Barrel gift card for $500 would be the equival of cash. And so somehow our accounting department said, oh, here's $500 a Creighton barrel instead of money for a location fee. I don't know what the rationale was for that. I think maybe because it was just so bad, they just maybe had a gift card lying around.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, I would guess they saw the video and saw the apartment and they were like, let's not roll the dice on him misusing this money. It's clear what is needed in this person's life.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's implying that you can't be trusted with cash.

[Seth Meyers]

That's why they asked you if you had weed at your ap. They were worried you were spending. Based on this couch, can we assume most of your money is going to weed?

[Kevin Miller]

Also, the open closet door with just a laundry basket. Several shots of that was just.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Kevin Miller]

I was like, oh, my God, this is going to be seen on tv.

[Seth Meyers]

I will say to anybody who watches it and thinks, hey, man, that's my apartment now. Every one of us was the happiest in our lives when we lived in an apartment like that.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, yeah. So free.

[Kevin Miller]

Great memories.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, no one's complaining.

[Seth Meyers]

Enjoy it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Enjoy it. You're in a new apartment now or what? Does Seth pay you?

[Seth Meyers]

How are those dudes? They good? You still live with those dudes?

[Kevin Miller]

Yeah, man. Everybody's doing great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Everybody's doing. Greasing a lot of palms. Okay, great.

[Seth Meyers]

All right. Next week we're going to pre Grease the Palms because. Nice. Everyone is getting access to club Best look in the World.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, man.

[Seth Meyers]

Don't just save it. Save all your groaning for best look in the world.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I look forward to watching it again.

[Seth Meyers]

I do too.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, maybe it'll surprise us.

[Seth Meyers]

I love you both.

[Andy Samberg]

Love you, buddy.

[Seth Meyers]

I love Jorma. You know what? I know he's going to hear it. And I love him, so I'm going to say it. I love you, Jormun.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Yhorm. Despite everything, we love you.

[Seth Meyers]

Don't say it like that. No, don't.

[Andy Samberg]

That's not the way to phrase it. It's not his fault, you know, he's just directing a movie.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But also, now we'll know if he listened. It's good to throw a little grenade in here.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Otherwise we won't even know. He'll just be like, hey, great job on the episode. But he might not listen.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, I love you guys.

[Andy Samberg]

Love you, bud.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, love you.

[Seth Meyers]

See you next week. Bye.