Episode (Channel) 101

Summary

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The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast

Episode 101 (Channel 101)
Date: March 3, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Seth Meyers teams up with The Lonely Island’s Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone to reminisce about their early comedy shorts, especially those created for Channel 101 and their pre-SNL days. The group shares behind-the-scenes stories, listens to forgotten tracks, and reacts to old, rarely seen comedy sketches. Their conversation highlights the process of learning through unfiltered experimentation, the comedy scene's supportive community, and the accidental creation of future cult classics. This episode is packed with improv riffs, music samples, and affectionate ribbing, giving listeners a raw glimpse into The Lonely Island’s creative journey.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

A New (Chaotic) Podcast Theme Song

[00:18–02:00]

• Jorma surprises the group by creating a podcast theme live, “without hearing it,” just layering tracks as visual waveforms.
  • “You don't even need to look or hear what you're making. It just fucking comes out. That's the way to make art, guys.” — Jorma Taccone [07:32]
  • Everyone is amused by Jorma’s “blindfolded” approach to art: “It’s like doing a painting blindfolded. It’s just about the feeling.” — Andy Samberg [07:40]

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Early SNL Digital Shorts: Comments & Deep Cuts

[03:14–06:47]

• Responding to listener comments on obscure Lonely Island tracks and trivia, including “I Think I Killed the President” and MLB player Jock Peterson’s use of "I'm So Humble" as a walk-up song.
• Seth relishes in the British origins of the phrase "across the pond," which sparked discussion with UK listeners.
• Jorma and Andy discuss the process of sampling and licensing—citing the Rocky-sampled “I Feel Like Dynamite” by King Floyd.

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Revisiting “I Think I Killed the President” (Winter Soldier Song)

[09:05–16:53]

• The group listens to the early Lonely Island track “I Think I Killed the President,” breaking down its Fresh Prince-style beat and storytelling.
• “It's perfectly the lame version of one of the good Jazzy Jeff beats, in a great way that actually makes it kind of better.” — Andy Samberg [10:07]
• They discuss the evolution of jokes and references (including a now-awkward Pam Anderson punchline), with Andy expressing retroactive regret:
  • “Trigger warning, there’s a Pam Anderson joke in here that I do not stand by...the character did it and says that it gets a – oh, the audience loves this joke.” — Andy Samberg [10:07]
  • Seth reassures: “You are totally fine. You were totally fine. You’re in the clear, buddy. 100% in the clear.” [13:54]
• Hilarious aside on forgotten tracks being unearthed by fans and animated by others (“20 years ago, when YouTube was new…”).

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The Channel 101 & “Football Town” Retrospective

[22:30–48:46]

Channel 101 Origins

• The group discusses their involvement in Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab’s Channel 101, a monthly short film contest in LA, and its evolution.
• “You had this actual sense of validation at the end of the month of: you made something, people liked it, they voted you back...it was a really fun, fun time in our lives.” — Jorma Taccone [28:30]
• Emphasis on just-do-it creativity: filming without scripts, using whatever props were around, and rapidly shooting/learning with each project.

“Football Town” Pilot (FX Unpicked-Up Pilot)

• [30:09–47:46]
• “Football Town” was a five-minute short they created for an FX Channel 101 pilot, featuring deliberately bad acting, makeshift sets, recycled props, and familiar sitcom/teen drama tropes (e.g., Dawson’s Creek, The OC).
  • "It's the joy of it. You're not making polished TV so why fake it in that way?" — Andy Samberg [31:45]
• Loved detailing ridiculous production hacks (moving plants outside the car for motion, cardboard lockers).
• Constant switching of character roles and props due to lack of resources—and the fun in “leaning into” the roughness.
• Memorable Moment:
  • Discovery that the “Rice” family name was only used because they had a Jerry Rice jersey available. “That’s the long reveal of why was their last name Rice?” — Seth Meyers [44:51]
• Seth and crew note that many now-legendary comedians came up through Channel 101: Justin Roiland (Rick and Morty/House of Cosbys), Sarah Silverman, Randall Park, Drew Carey, Sarah Silverman, Steve Agee, Aziz Ansari, Kumail Nanjiani, and more.

Reflections on Early Comedy

• The group celebrates how this “training ground” and creative freedom directly translated into their SNL success: “If we don’t judge and we do it, we’re gonna learn something every time.” — Andy [26:01]

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Music Deep Dives: “Arty Party” and Remixes

[50:26–63:17]

• Re-airing of the track “Arty Party,” a comedic diss/tribute to Andy that rapidly descends from party hype to absurd dark humor (addiction, gross-out jokes).
  • “He’s the life of the party…he’ll get everybody dancing. But then we just kind of slip in there that, by the way, he’ll…smoke a little bass.” — Andy Samberg [54:48]
• Andy provides a voice note with his thoughts on “Arty Party” and his sartorial choices (socks with Tevas), ending with a relatable story about a Halloween misfire. [56:39–58:57]
• The podcast plays two “Arty Party” remixes—one chiptune-inspired by Kid Icarus, the other using the Remo Williams theme. Both remixes receive genuine praise:
  • “This is great! This is basically like SoundCloud stuff before SoundCloud, right?” — Andy Samberg [62:06, 62:38]

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The Joy of Rediscovery and Looking Forward

[62:38–64:59]

• Discuss the fun of unearthing old tracks, not knowing what will be found or who has bootlegged or remixed their work.
• Jorma mentions his new movie “Over Your Dead Body” premiering at South by Southwest and encourages listeners to check out the trailer.
  • “It also is going to be premiering at SXSW March 14th. If you’re in Austin, come through.” — Jorma [63:43]
• Seth plugs their writer-producer Mike Scollins’ movie “Brian” also at SXSW.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “It’s like doing a painting blindfolded. It’s just about the feeling.” – Andy Samberg [07:40]
• “You made something, people liked it, they voted you back...it was a really fun, fun time in our lives.” — Jorma [28:30]
• “Delightful Lonely Islandism” – Seth describing their early shorts [25:52]
• “If we don’t judge and we do it, we’re gonna learn something every time.” — Andy [26:01]
• “That’s the long reveal of why was their last name Rice?” — Seth [44:51]
• “This is basically like SoundCloud stuff before SoundCloud, right?” — Andy [62:06, 62:38]

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Timestamps for Major Segments

| Segment | Timestamps | |------------------------------------------------------------|-------------| | New theme song & riffing | 00:18–02:00 | | Listener comments & early SNL short trivia | 03:14–06:47 | | “I Think I Killed the President” Listening Party | 09:05–16:53 | | Channel 101 origin story & creative process | 22:30–28:46 | | “Football Town” (Full walk-through & reactions) | 30:09–47:46 | | Channel 101's legacy & notable alumni | 47:09–48:46 | | “Arty Party” & Remixes (plus Andy voice note) | 50:26–58:57 | | Jorma’s new film & closing reflections | 62:38–64:59 |

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Tone & Chemistry

The episode’s tone is loose, friendly, self-deprecating, and highly collaborative. Seth and The Lonely Island’s long history and mutual comfort is endlessly apparent—and their warmth, quickness to laugh, and delight in each other’s company make for a truly engaging listen. Whether poking fun at low-budget ambition, dealing out gentle roasts, or sharing pride in creative “failures” that became foundational, the team exudes nostalgia and gratitude for their journey from Channel 101 to SNL and beyond.

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For First-Time Listeners

This episode is rich with inside stories, energetic banter, and hidden track reveals—perfect for fans of comedy history, Lonely Island deep cuts, and anyone curious about the DIY spirit behind much of the millennium’s most influential sketch comedy. The laughs, candor, and infectious joy offer a great entry point into the group’s legacy.

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Links & Related

• Jorma’s New Movie “Over Your Dead Body” Trailer (mentioned at [63:23])
• Channel 101 Archive
• Football Town (Fan Upload)
• [King Floyd “I Feel Like Dynamite” Sample Reference]
• [Run the Jewels / Killer Mike songs mentioned]

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Transcript

[Seth Meyers]

Hey, you're going to hear us talk about this at the end of the pod, but head over to YouTube over your dead body. Jorma's new movie has a fantastic trailer that you can watch now. And now we're going to just start the pod.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's the Lonely island and Seth Meyers podcast.

[Jorma Taccone]

This is Jorma. None of the other guys are here. I'm trying to basically, without looking at any of the tracks, make a new theme song for our podcast right now. Just dumping things on top of it. So just give me five minutes. I'll surprise the guys when they get on. This is going to be bad psyched

[Seth Meyers]

to see you guys. Let's fucking jam, Keev. Just FYI, Yoram is working on a new theme song for the podcast that we're currently already recording, which is pretty

[Jorma Taccone]

exciting, but I'm doing it without. I'm just looking at the tracks, so I'm doing it visually, so. So.

[Seth Meyers]

Got it. Hey, Keith.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

You just left to go turn off your air purifier. We got one of those. How much more purified would you say your air is now than the air you grew up breathing in your home?

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, the Bay Area has good air.

[Seth Meyers]

Got it.

[Andy Samberg]

So I'd imagine the air in the bay was probably still better than the air today.

[Seth Meyers]

Than purified LA air.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Although, you know, we have this feeling like things are always getting worse because, you know, with climate disaster, it is.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

But when you look at pictures of LA in the 70s, like with all those huge muscle cars and everything, it was horrendous. Horrendous. What they were breathing back then, much worse than today.

[Seth Meyers]

I actually saw on social media this week there was a picture of like LA with the snow capped mountains in the background and people saying like, exactly that point. Like, FYI, no way, shape or form. Do you see this in the 70s?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. And I don't know the details, so I'm just speaking that term, but I know there was like. It also is like the proof that regulations work.

[Seth Meyers]

There we go.

[Andy Samberg]

Because they made a point to change the laws about emissions and then it got way better.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, you know what I think is that it's all a hoax, right?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. I was going to say one of the reasons. One of the reasons we don't get political on the pod, and I wasn't going to name names, is there's one hardcore, like, maybe more MAGA than MAGA guy on the pod.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. You guys don't get it. I mean, it's hard to hang out with These libtards all day.

[Andy Samberg]

But we also, we want to present both sides, you know, and be really fair and so yor really presents that balance.

[Seth Meyers]

That is one of the big takeaways when people tell me how much that they're quate army. They like how even handed it's been.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Hey, I'm in Durham, North Carolina. I'm going to do a standup show. Got snowed out in January. I'm back here. I'm very excited. I'm going to see one of the names that gets dropped the most on the pod, our friend Emily Spivey. Tonight.

[Andy Samberg]

It's fun. But you're not technically promoting it because it will be. The show will be over by the time anyone hears this.

[Seth Meyers]

You guys have made it very clear that I was not to promote. You said I could only mention shows after it was too late for people to buy tickets.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

We didn't want you to like jam the stats. We needed to know how popular your standup is without you jamming it with promotions.

[Seth Meyers]

That's so funny. Yeah, I thought it was you guys. You didn't want me on your territory. But it was just jamming the stats.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, we don't like that.

[Jorma Taccone]

I don't like that. You are so left wing and so I don't want anyone to support you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Right.

[Seth Meyers]

Can I just race through? I did a very quick back of the envelope calculation of comments. That's not how you use back of the envelope. But I really did literally write it on the back of the envelope. Somebody said they did find I think I killed the President. That it is on your website.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, it's on an archive.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay, great.

[Andy Samberg]

I had that sent to us.

[Seth Meyers]

I did not have time to check this, but a baseball player named Jock Peterson, someone said that when he played for the San Francisco Giants his walk up song was I'm so humble. Literally have had no time to check

[Andy Samberg]

it, but I think I remember being sent something.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

It seemed too granular to be untrue.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

So that's very cool.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's very cool.

[Seth Meyers]

This was very hurtful. Somebody wrote in. Is there anything Seth won't say? Throwing shade at how often I use the expression. I will say. Just let me just say I didn't care for that.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's mean.

[Seth Meyers]

Salt and peppa. I don't know. Did we say salt and peppa? My mic sounds nice. That's what everybody sort of said was what they had. They had long taken.

[Andy Samberg]

Once we got off the pod and we started like remembering we were sending texts back and forth, and that was one of the ones. There's also a Black Sheep song that I think is referencing the salt and pepper song from Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. I forget the name of the song, but I listen to that album a lot, so I might have even been referencing the reference to some degree in my brain.

[Seth Meyers]

And then, I mean, if there was any catchphrase in the comment section from last week's episode, it was released. The balls cut. Everybody's very excited about the promise of,

[Andy Samberg]

you know, we're still back.

[Jorma Taccone]

Okay, this. This is gonna get me on hitting up some rappers. I feel like if we just had lp, so this will really.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, well, I think you put LP on there, and then we hit up Killer Mike and see if he'll do it. So it's a full feature around the Jewels.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, because I don't. I don't want him to feel left out.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

You know, a wonderful thing about my mom, Hilary Myers, is if she's enamored with you as a guest on my show, she will dive into the catalog. And I've had Killer Mike on my show a few times, and Killer Mike is an incredibly thoughtful guy. And, you know, he was promoting, like, a documentary about traveling around the country, and just really sweet and funny. And so then she said, where can I listen to his music? And I was like, well, you know, run the Jewels. Like, enjoy it. And she really, you know, to her credit, she really enjoyed how, for its filthiness, it's incredibly, obviously, intelligent, well written, good catching.

[Andy Samberg]

Good for her to give it a real shot.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, she gave it a real shot.

[Jorma Taccone]

Can I big up one song of his that I love? That is just a Killer Mike song, which is called that's Life Part one, because he did two. And it's samples that Frank Sinatra song. And it's. It's. It's real political, but it's. It's fantastic.

[Seth Meyers]

And Ric Flair sampling old Ric Flair. Yeah, it's one of my favorite songs of all time.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[Jorma Taccone]

You got that one, too. You guys, I'm finished with the podcast theme.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, well, I'm. I have two more things to.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay, go.

[Jorma Taccone]

Keep, Keep. Keep going, Seth.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, I'll just finish the last thing. I feel like this is a good. Like this is the preamble, and I think people were really impressed that in the reading of last week's comments, Yoram had time to write a new theme song. King Floyd's I Feel Like Dynamite. Multiple people said. That is the sample from Rocky.

[Andy Samberg]

That does sound familiar. Should we listen to it.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, let's listen to that. Well, let's listen to that after Yoram's new song. But you get that ready, Keith and I will just finish with the last comment. Resoundingly was told that across the pond is a Britishism. And some of the Brits, some of the left tenants in Kuwait army were pretty upset that we would even deign to think an American came up with it.

[Andy Samberg]

But that was my theory, so I deserve a little credit. It didn't sound American.

[Seth Meyers]

It did not sound American. All right, so here's what we have. Yoram play the new Deep song and then a Kyiv. You queue up. I feel like dynamite.

[Jorma Taccone]

I just. Okay, I just dumped two tracks together and another thing. And then we're gonna see what it actually sounds like, so.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay. This is an interesting way to produce music.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Seth Meyer and Lily on a pachato.

[Andy Samberg]

Here we go. Great.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, really great.

[Jorma Taccone]

Thanks. Thanks, guys.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, we could start the next episode with that.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's like sight unseen, guys.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, that was really exciting to just see how the process worked.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yoram, you don't even need to look or hear what you're making. It just fucking, you know, comes out. That's the way to make art, guys.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, it's like doing a painting blindfolded. It's just about the feeling.

[Jorma Taccone]

Exactly. Looking at the waveforms.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, do you have the other one, Keith?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I do also look at this album cover.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

It's called well Done, and it's got a well done steak on a beautiful plate with a little tomato and a little garnish there.

[Seth Meyers]

And then it's a Lisa from Temecula Steak.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes, it is. It's got a matchbook for. I wonder what it says on there. Here comes King Floyd. The song is I feel like Dynamite.

[Jorma Taccone]

License not available.

[Andy Samberg]

Ooh. Well, no wonder we had to pay for it. It's fucking great.

[Seth Meyers]

It is really fucking great. By the way, the best thing is, while we were playing it and jamming it to us, Jeff, our producer, did drop it in the chat that we won't be able to play any of that on the podcast.

[Andy Samberg]

Zero. Probably not, but it's such a small amount.

[Jorma Taccone]

I mean, what did we fucking pay for?

[Andy Samberg]

And we paid for it. Well, in a certain context.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It is.

[Jorma Taccone]

It is so sad when. When you hear, like, real amazing music that was then sampled and it could have been sampled by, like a real rapper and, like, done some justice and then to hear what we've done with it and be like, oh, I don't know. I don't know. Is that worth it to do the.

[Seth Meyers]

Here's a comment. I mean, we mentioned I killed the president, but I did like that someone just said after a month of jokes, they just casually drop that there's been a Winter Soldier song this whole time.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, you don't remember. That's the whole point.

[Seth Meyers]

That's the whole problem about Winter Soldiering.

[Andy Samberg]

I can't. I honestly couldn't believe that that's something that was in my head 25 years ago whenever I made that song.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Which president was around? Keev.

[Andy Samberg]

I mean, the song doesn't date when it's. When it's. The story is happening.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Sure.

[Seth Meyers]

We know which one you would have picked. Yhorm.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, big time.

[Andy Samberg]

Did you hear it, Seth?

[Seth Meyers]

I haven't heard it yet, but I would love. Can we maybe should play it now? I do like the idea of a couple fighting and just hearing a guy be like. Cause I'm a winter soldier is why.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay. I found it right away on YouTube. I don't know why I had a trouble before.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, rock and roll.

[Andy Samberg]

So Jorm made this beat, and I just made this song one day. And Did I surprise you guys? Yorm, did you just come in and I went. I recorded lyrics to.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, because you requested me to make this beat. And so like. But I think a majority of your extra recording. I think we maybe came in, like, halfway through. But you asked me to make this beat.

[Andy Samberg]

I said, make a Fresh Prince style beat.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. And I nailed it. Boy, does this beat vamp.

[Andy Samberg]

It's perfectly the lame version of one of the good jazzy Jeff beats in a great way that actually makes it kind of better. Okay, now just trigger warning. There's a Pam Anderson joke in here that I do not stand by. But on the other hand, the joke was that it's a bad joke and the character did it and says that it gets a. Oh, the audience loves this joke.

[Seth Meyers]

It's like a. Yeah, I like that. Now you actually, like, literally stand by the actual Pam Anderson.

[Andy Samberg]

I've seen. I'm against this, and I'm.

[Seth Meyers]

When I'm with her physically, you stand with her. You don't stand by the joke. You stand with.

[Andy Samberg]

No. Emotionally and physically.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Now, also, this does not go with The Lonely Island. 2:20 max song length either.

[Seth Meyers]

It's longer.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Significant.

[Seth Meyers]

This is great.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's also because of the tempo.

[Andy Samberg]

If you're making it for yourself. And just to make Andy and Jorm laugh. Nobody else is ever going to hear it as far as you're concerned.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, but the tempo doesn't help you.

[Seth Meyers]

Now, my question before you play it. Do you think Andy will be bummed or happy that he missed a discussion about I think I might have killed the President?

[Andy Samberg]

Bummed because we texted. We all listened to it. Me, Andy and Yorm since the last pod after someone pointed out that we found it. And Yorm and Andy were being very complimentary on the text chain.

[Jorma Taccone]

All right, great. I love it.

[Andy Samberg]

All right, here we go.

[Akiva Schaffer]

La.

[Andy Samberg]

It starts with Las. Oh.

[Jorma Taccone]

Just you warming up the pipes.

[Andy Samberg]

La La.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It all started last week when I went on a date. She was beautiful, long hair. I picked her up at 8. I decided to take her to a mag. My mom said I shouldn't, but what does she know? A lobster for my lady friend cooked extra nice, and some amaretto afterward would be just right. Thank you, garcon. This is gonna be magnificent. Oh, the lights went down. Time for the entertainment. A magician took the stage and sawed a lady in half. I could see her legs. So fake. Made me laugh. Then they asked for a volunteer from the audience. I hid my face.

[Andy Samberg]

No way.

[Jorma Taccone]

Leaf Keef. Was this based on us going to the Magic Castle?

[Andy Samberg]

I don't know if we had been at that time.

[Seth Meyers]

First of all, I love sketch premise. I love that we're just starting. Obviously something's going to happen to you in the magic show, but this is not a voice. I feel like you did again.

[Andy Samberg]

No, I did not.

[Seth Meyers]

I really enjoy it.

[Andy Samberg]

I don't know who this goofy guy is.

[Seth Meyers]

I know, but I like that you were like, this voice is for this song and no other songs.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

Like, it only fit in this keyhole.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes. There's something wonderfully hateful, really, really happy

[Seth Meyers]

about everything that's happening for this guy.

[Andy Samberg]

It's a full character and this guy is.

[Jorma Taccone]

Leave me out of it.

[Andy Samberg]

He's trying to be like a smug Zack Morris type. I'll. I mean, I've never seen these visuals. Seth. Just for.

[Seth Meyers]

I know somebody is like, somebody has animated this. How many years ago did they do this animation?

[Andy Samberg]

20 years ago.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay.

[Andy Samberg]

So right when YouTube was new, they pulled up our song from our website, Aaron X. Murray. If anybody's YouTuber and made, like, some very simple PC art to it, that is. It's a great time here. But if it starts going into weird, like, Nazi stuff or anything, it's not

[Seth Meyers]

like, take it up with Aaron.

[Jorma Taccone]

All right, well, I'd be into that.

[Seth Meyers]

Jesus.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Next Thing I know my girl is volunteering for me. She tells me she thinks men on stage are very sex. So I play along and go up on stage, hoping that the stunt will get me, you know. So now they want to hypnotize me. They'll ring a bell and I'll cluck like a turkey. I say, yeah, right. Do your best. This whole thing is faker than Pam Anderson's chest. Big laugh from the audience. They love that joke. Then appears h in a cloud of smoke.

[Andy Samberg]

So you see, Seth, I wasn't a. Never thought that was funny.

[Seth Meyers]

It's this character they scare 100%. You are totally fine. You were totally fine.

[Andy Samberg]

Hanging fruit for him. He does a bad joke.

[Seth Meyers]

You are in the clear, buddy. You are 100% in the clear.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay, I'm still. I'm going to send her an apology anyways because she's probably. She's probably heard this.

[Jorma Taccone]

Definitely listening.

[Seth Meyers]

Huge fan of the podcast.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The sound of a bell. You'll close your eyes and be under my spell. Ready?

[Andy Samberg]

Here we go.

[Akiva Schaffer]

One, two, three, Ding. I open my eyes and nothing but wherever I looked, the crowd wouldn't stop laughing. What had I done to elicit this reaction? Now hold on, y'. All. This is the beginning of our story and I promise later on it's gonna get gory. So parents, grab your kids and tuck em off into bed because I think I might have killed the President.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh.

[Jorma Taccone]

Instrumental break. Really good.

[Akiva Schaffer]

One week later. I haven't seen the girls since. And I get to school and we're having a field trip. Class participation is a must. The sign said Washington, D.C. or bust. First thing on the agenda, the reflecting cool. And it made me remember that America's pretty cool. Then off to the White House for a special hour. Our guide with the very knowledgeable in American people. She told us about Lincoln and George Washington and even let us go into the room that they smoked pipes in time to go downstairs. She called the elevator up. It arrived. I heard a ding and felt my eyes shut. I awoke on the floor. The walls felt all curvy. I was soaking wet and my stomach topsy turvy. I was covered in blood, holding a knife. I dropped it. I looked around. I was in the Oval Office. What had I done? I couldn't remember a thing. But then some memories came back to me. I remember finding the president and stabbing him. Then cutting him into little pieces and stuffing him in his desk. Oh me, oh my. I didn't mean to just.

[Andy Samberg]

The rapper casual gets a shout out here. He has A very famous song called Me oh my, oh Me oh my.

[Jorma Taccone]

I didn't mean Dude. Yeah, really good deep cut.

[Andy Samberg]

Never been said this whack

[Jorma Taccone]

oh mio. I didn't mean to.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He must have been that hypnotist and his evil voodoo. Now some things are bad, like not paying your rent, but I think I might have killed the President.

[Andy Samberg]

These big whack instrumental breaks so joyful.

[Jorma Taccone]

Also, I believe these like drumroll things was a reference to Parents just don't understand.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, it's been a year now since that fateful event. I framed a hobo to take the cops off my scent and every time I hear a bell, I stab someone in the face. But besides that, I say that everything is going great. Please learn from my story. Don't be a fool and never let a communist hypnotize you or you might kill the President.

[Jorma Taccone]

I mean, dude, we. We must have done parts of this together because the beat is responding to you. Unless you like did it and then I made the beat afterwards. I have no idea.

[Andy Samberg]

You definitely collabed at a certain point. Yeah, yeah. I mean, obviously the best line is about seeing the reflecting pool and remembering that America's pretty cool.

[Seth Meyers]

And then also remembering you killed the President.

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[Seth Meyers]

I see Football Town is right up next. Should we just roll right into Football Town?

[Andy Samberg]

Is that the one you're interested in seeing? Cause someone mentioned it.

[Seth Meyers]

You guys mentioned it on the text chain today. By now, I think everybody's realized Andy's not here. And so, although you never know, like, Andy could have his head buried in the old beat.

[Andy Samberg]

He is. He's shooting his movie. Kudos to him for getting on the pod last week. It was a weekend, but we chose a Friday. We could have chose tomorrow in hopes he could do it.

[Seth Meyers]

But mean of us, you know, we are. We're very proud of Andy for working on this movie. Very happy for him. But we were talking about what else we could talk about. Maybe Football Town. Because I don't know what Football Town is, and I really enjoy this little piece of yhorm art.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, we don't have to go in any kind of chronological order, but basically those like 10 that I texted you this morning that you probably haven't watched yet.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I watched a couple.

[Andy Samberg]

Those are the one hour ones where we were just like, no script. What can we do right now? Let's just start filming something. So there's like a morsel of an idea, even if it's just one interesting shot. That we wanted to try to do in each one, even though they're just clearly being discovered as they go in a different kind of a way. And I think I was, too. I'll just say me, but Yorm, if you want to. I think I was too precious, like, in the beginning, in terms of. That's why they're not even on our YouTube channel. Because I was like, hey, we have SNL audience eyes looking at our YouTube channel because we've had Lazy Sunday. And that's why you can't find them on ours, because they were on our website where it was just like, no one will ever see these. And then we were deciding what to put on our YouTube channel. But that felt like a big new platform, and they were too messy for me to.

[Seth Meyers]

I don't know.

[Jorma Taccone]

I mean, like, yes, yes, for sure. Like, I'm. I'm the guy in the group who's like, fuck it, put it out.

[Andy Samberg]

Like, well, in hindsight, now they could all be on there. But I'm saying at the time, that's why they were.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, but, but, but I always appreciated that both you and Andy were more discerning about everything, and I think. I think that's fine. I also do sort of like, somewhere that you can't see certain things, such as the Doritos commercial or, you know, I mean, like, it's kind of nice that, like, not everything exists, but they

[Andy Samberg]

all are online because they were on our site and other people uploaded them. So I was going around finding them all. But that's what that group of, like, really early. And they have the dates on them. They have the day we shot them on there, which I really appreciate, because the point is that they were just that day and what we were goofing around on, and that is the true date we shot them.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, can I also say that, like, that the other thing I appreciated was that, you know, we all bought a computer. We went to ucla, used my, like, last moment of being a student to get a student discount price to buy a computer together, and we were gonna edit on it and make shit like this. But I did always appreciate that you were so motivated to be like, let's fucking do it. Like, who gives a shit what it is? Like, we're gonna figure some shit out.

[Andy Samberg]

So for the people listening that don't know these, they're called, like, Lethal Objection is one Oops. Oh, my. Is one Thuggish Ruggish Bone is one. Vanilla Sky. And they start with a shot of the apartment we lived in. It's the same shot every time at night. And so if you find one that looks like that. But I do think it's gonna be worth showing those to you, Seth, and talking about them.

[Seth Meyers]

But maybe I watched a couple. I will say I'm very happy to hear some of them were an hour,

[Andy Samberg]

yes, no or less. Like, we wouldn't type anything out. There was never like a physical script. It was just.

[Jorma Taccone]

He means like start to finish, like editing.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, they're delightful. Every one of them has like a delightful Lonely Islandism. And I also that that is the Lonely island apartment building. Right. So like, that's a visual.

[Andy Samberg]

You get to really see it. But it's the thing that's interesting in hindsight is that we knew the value of doing them and it turned out to be the truth. Where we would be like, if we don't judge and we do it, we're gonna learn something every time. And then you watch them and you're like, yeah, there's a bunch of real premises in these that are being thrown away in shitty ways. But like, there are discoveries happening in each one that we would use those skills later in different ways.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, yeah, for sure. And I'm doing one of those right now with my daughter. I'm literally like trying to figure out how to make a pinata into like a four story pinata. Like pinata monster.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

And like it's partially exactly that. Like, I'm like just trying to figure out how to do it and you know, who knows what?

[Andy Samberg]

It'll come back and help you at some point. Okay, so then let's do football then. Let me tell you, Seth, what Football Town is. Football Town is that we were doing channel 101, right. With Dan Harmon and Rob Schrob and a bunch of other people. And Jeff Davis and like Jack Black would come. Do you know, the ones that Harmon was doing? And blah, blah, blah. And at a certain point, it had enough momentum that those guys sold an FX pilot for channel 101 to be on FX. And it was going to be just truly a version of the same exact thing we had been doing, but broadcast. And the new addition was that there'd be like sports commentators kind of walking you through the evening. But we even shot it at the same place, which was called Cinespace, which was just kind of like an event space that had tables and chairs and a projector where you could watch things. But it was like Jack Black and Jeff Davis wearing like sport coats behind a table. Now was the addition so that they could give you the play by play before one starts and go like, all right, our next competitors are blah, blah, blah, They're a team from here. They got their start doing this. They have a new pilot for us tonight. Or, you know, they're coming back with their second episode of this. Let's check it out. Then everybody watches. And afterwards they would even like do John Madden style. Like, oh, I especially like when he says he's from here, but it's clearly a closet. Like I remember them dissecting this after. And so they asked us to be a part of it. And so this was a new TV show, quote unquote, TV show, you know, five minute pilot for that. And it was part like, if we ever could find that 22 minute episode, this would be in that. But with those guys it was basically Battlebots.

[Seth Meyers]

But you know, for short films it truly is.

[Andy Samberg]

There you go.

[Seth Meyers]

Was it, was it exc. At the time when you were doing this, like, I would imagine the invitation felt like very much the next step in a ladder that you guys felt like you were on.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I think we were.

[Jorma Taccone]

We'd been, we'd been doing this for like over a year with these guys because we made up, made different shows for them. We were lucky enough to get like voted back and Cine space was right on Hollywood Boulevard. It was so fun to have all these fun nerdy, like minded filmmakers get together and really like the impetus for originally doing this was just to, as we were already doing, keep active as you're waiting for shit to happen. Not waiting for fucking Hollywood to approve, but like, you know, people like Tim and Eric, people like like just wanting to make shit and like you kind of had this actual sense of validation at the end of the month of like, you made something, people liked it, they voted you back. And so like, yeah, it was, it was great. It was a really fun, fun time in our lives.

[Seth Meyers]

Did you feel like, oh my God, we've been spending our time with the right guys because like, look at this, there's an actual like pilot that is celebrating the sort of work we've been doing for the last year.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, it was so cool. I couldn't believe that they had sold it as a real thing. I mean, like, you know, and then we were like making it. I mean, we were still making the same stupid shit, but it was like, you know, like Jack and fucking Jeff Davis are fucking. Like, it was so, it was so real.

[Andy Samberg]

Jack Black, to be clear, was already a huge star. Like, it was, it was not like, this is early before people Knew who he was. It was so cool of him that he was, like, just down to do this stuff.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's so exactly who Jack is. But you still feel it with all of the stuff he makes is that he's just, like, a down dude who loves comedy.

[Andy Samberg]

It's like he's willing to, like, get on his bike and join a podcast for no reason.

[Jorma Taccone]

Exactly. But I will say I remember feeling cool. And this is embarrassing to say, but, like. But because we were, like, kind of like, people liked our shit. And this. I remember walking around channel 101 being like, people like our stuff. That's cool. Like, it was like, you know, for just this one room of people.

[Andy Samberg]

Once they sold it and had it, we were not surprised to be invited to be one of the people, because we were. We did have a little of the confidence of, like, yeah, we make good. We make good ones. We belong here.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Right?

[Seth Meyers]

That's still very cool.

[Andy Samberg]

All right, so you ready to see this one?

[Seth Meyers]

I'm in. I'm so excited.

[Andy Samberg]

And here's the pilot, the unpicked up pilot of Football Town. Are you seeing it?

[Seth Meyers]

I'm not seeing. Oh, I am. Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

You see a shot of Chester with a wig on?

[Seth Meyers]

Yep, yep, I do see it. If it's the one with Chester with a wig on, that's the one I'm getting.

[Andy Samberg]

Yep, yep. Oh, that's my other screen that I always have up of Chester in different

[Seth Meyers]

wigs, by the way, I wouldn't be surprised.

[Andy Samberg]

All right, that opera was good.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Which of our three sons do you love the most?

[Jorma Taccone]

Impossible to choose.

[Andy Samberg]

I love all three of the same.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, my God.

[Andy Samberg]

A truck full of oranges. Okay, hold on. I just want to point out that we were so happy to think of how to do car, because GoPros don't exist. So you can't, like, just, like, rig a car and then you don't have any money to, like, do fancy cameras in a car. And we were like, how do we shoot in a car? And we were like, oh, we'll just park it in the driveway and walk back and forth with a plant going by.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

So this was before my hip injury. This is before my hip injury. So that is me doing the plant coming by.

[Andy Samberg]

And it's also the only plant we own, so it's the same plant on both sides. And I'll just play this again for you, Seth, just on mute, just so you can enjoy watching this plant go by.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, my God. And you, by the way, like, just not even keeping the potted the Pot is in the shot.

[Andy Samberg]

Because part of the fun of this bad wigs things is the point of like, yeah, you can tell a story and those things, if anything, we are leaning in. You'll see. Because it's the joy of it. You know, you're not making polished tv, so why fake it in that way? Why not?

[Jorma Taccone]

But this also has to be within five minutes. So every scene has to be like, almost within five lines. You have to be like, okay, this is the story in five lines.

[Andy Samberg]

They have three sons and they get into a car crash. And it's the past. You can tell because it's black and white.

[Seth Meyers]

And they didn't have a favorite, which I really.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes. Norb, your clearly the short one. Yeah, kind of short. Like this is what Ethan Hawke was doing in Blue Moon, you know, and he really took this kind of as an acting choice to make himself shorter.

[Jorma Taccone]

This is our friend Shana Levy's song. Let's Go Sailing is the name of the band.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I really like that in Blue Moon they did all this work of just like, you know, digging out trenches. Basically. Like all this and you guys just had. You're slouch even more.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes. Like no one will see your legs are bent backwards.

[Jorma Taccone]

Baseball guy.

[Andy Samberg]

You're the youngest brother. We get it. You're sharing. We're back on the football field across from our house where you can see Fairfax, the Just Two Guys graduation field.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And then what does it say on the tombstones?

[Andy Samberg]

It says Charles Rice and Olivia Rice. Okay, gotcha. It's our parents. And you'll notice Andy's the football guy. He's got a chain and a football in his hand.

[Jorma Taccone]

But we did shoot at golden hour, so, you know, we were thinking about things.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. I mean, it's beautiful. Her song sounds perfectly the cue that would play on the OC or, you know, Dawson's Creek or something.

[Jorma Taccone]

I believe we later used her same music for that shitty ghost wiener short that we did with Blake Lively on the show too. It might have been the same song. It's not bringing you the attention. I forgot all about this.

[Andy Samberg]

Stolen clear.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, that's a nice shot.

[Andy Samberg]

That was Jonah, by the way, that we talk about.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, man, I'm playing a different character now. We didn't have enough people.

[Andy Samberg]

It really shows how you can create a vibe with nothing. Just zooming in on people and putting on a headset that you had from a random phone call at some point. And one football helmet and just nothing.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, the sprinkler shot was actually genuinely great.

[Andy Samberg]

And that was the real guy there that worked for the high school. That is just a stolen shot of him cleaning up.

[Seth Meyers]

So now we're. How long into it are you, Keev? Just about a minute.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, we're one minute in.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, so one minute in, we know your parents have died. It's a show called Football Town. Andy put a football on his dead dad's grave. And then we sort of went and saw the opening credits and it seems like Andy's maybe a football star. Yhorm. Are you coaching?

[Jorma Taccone]

No, no, no, no. I'm playing a different character.

[Seth Meyers]

Got it.

[Keegan-Michael Key]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

And Chester was as well. We were just coaches. Cause we didn't have enough people.

[Seth Meyers]

And Akiva, you're also a different guy.

[Andy Samberg]

No, I think I'm me. Cause I'm writing down stuff. Like I think I am running plays and stuff. And I think that is what my character is. Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

And Chester's a different guy because he doesn't have a wig.

[Seth Meyers]

You could also believably be like a scout coming to.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, right. Maybe I'm scouting.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay, let's see.

[Andy Samberg]

I honestly don't remember. But all right, so then this is starting, obviously. We've made a locker room set. Very good. Very believable.

[Seth Meyers]

Cardboard lockers behind Andy.

[Andy Samberg]

And Yeah, the whole thing is in our apartment, I think, from here on out. But let's see.

[Seth Meyers]

Is this O.C. is that like in your head? I mean, I know the boo is OC but is this also that world?

[Andy Samberg]

It is in Dawson's Creek and anything else you can put into that kind of world.

[Jorma Taccone]

We were pretty obsessed with this tone of drama at every angle.

[Andy Samberg]

But by the way, like Riverdale, When I heard about Riverdale, I definitely turned it on. Riverdale was after this. And I'm like, that's just this being like, what if Archie comics. But you treat it like it's Dawson's Creek.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

And you're like, this is also TC Tuggars like.

[Andy Samberg]

And Archie takes off. Yeah, takes off his. Yeah, it is TC Tuggar, but he takes off his shirt and he's ripped. What if Archie's ripped? That's just an SNL sketch that they turned into a successful hour long teen drama.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And like nobody ever was like, so it's just that.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes, okay, see, I'm still in the same shirt, but that might be laziness. You never know.

[Seth Meyers]

I don't think you have brother vibes here. I'm calling it right now. I think you're a scout.

[Andy Samberg]

I remember thinking, I hated the choice. I Made for this character and that. Like I don't think I pulled it off, but I'm sure it's horrible. But here we go.

[Jorma Taccone]

Gotta make choices.

[Andy Samberg]

Nice work out there, Johnny. But scouts were loving it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

How's the shoulder feel?

[Andy Samberg]

Like it was an ever injured good. Those scouts don't want to waste their pick on damaged goods. Hey, Rice, you hear the news? Damian Smith just got kicked out of the NFL draft for taking illegal painkillers. You're kidding me.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Nah.

[Andy Samberg]

You know what that means, right? You're the number one pick at the draft tomorrow. See you around.

[Jorma Taccone]

Just like plot.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh God. Very Here we are in Spain dialogue which I love.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh shit. Now yhorm's back and yhorm is playing piano.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, but it's just a piece of paper that we do piano keys on because we did not.

[Jorma Taccone]

I'm a savant who's like maybe challenge.

[Andy Samberg]

Andy enters. See this is what I remember from the pilot from the FX pilot is them like John maddening this moment and drawing a circle around it to be like Andy's entering. Like he's coming. It's clearly the closet.

[Jorma Taccone]

We didn't even try to hide it.

[Andy Samberg]

No, we just needed an entrance and that was.

[Jorma Taccone]

We could have put a light in there. It was coming from the outside or something. We didn't have a light.

[Andy Samberg]

How long was he hanging out in a closet before this? All right,

[Jorma Taccone]

This is my impression of that song. Johnny, you're back.

[Andy Samberg]

That's how short you don't stop.

[Seth Meyers]

Keep playing.

[Andy Samberg]

He it's a boy scout shirt, hat on. He loves his older brother. That's the only place he finds peace funny.

[Seth Meyers]

When I close my eyes, it's almost

[Andy Samberg]

like they're still here.

[Jorma Taccone]

Mr. Jenkins says I'm a shoe in for the music academy. I know he can't afford it, but just getting in would be awesome. You don't like your choices?

[Andy Samberg]

I swear in our parents grave I will do whatever it takes to make sure you can always play that piano.

[Jorma Taccone]

Kevin.

[Andy Samberg]

Kevin.

[Seth Meyers]

For my right

[Jorma Taccone]

reprising my role. Kevin.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I was about to say if Lauren was watching this, he definitely would be like I'll tell you why it doesn't work.

[Andy Samberg]

It's the same age.

[Jorma Taccone]

You know what? I don't know if he should be

[Seth Meyers]

Kevin is there not an 11 year old boy.

[Jorma Taccone]

I also love that when the piano starts up again we didn't bother clip like it doesn't fade up or anything. It just clips back in. It's like pause unpause. Support comes from bombas. Guess What I'm wearing right now, you guys, for real Bombas. They are a fantastic sock. And as you guys know, I'm trying to look like Jeremy Allen White's dad this year, mentally and physically. And that means sports activity. The guy is a monster. These socks are perfect for it. They're cushioned where I need it most. I assume Jeremy Allen White's dad wears them as well. Sweat wicking, which we've talked about. Had a little problem with odor. Not anymore. And they are loaded with other tech features, which I can't talk about. Radar, sonar, probably. That keeps me comfy and locked in. Here is a list of things that you could wear that I'm doing. Spring cleaning. You could go on a jog.

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[Andy Samberg]

by the way. Also did not change our fridge at all from the fridge number one. I mean, this just looks a beautifully set deck to have, like, rust on the front of your fridge. But that's just me and Andy's fridge. It's just, we just live in the dream here. And then also the fact that, like, it's the one promo picture we took at Sears for us is up there, but it could just be the brothers, you know, so it just works as both.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. Yeah. Good set. Duck.

[Andy Samberg]

Hey, I think this guy's tossing a ball around. Tomorrow's a big day.

[Seth Meyers]

Nervous?

[Keegan-Michael Key]

Yeah, a little, I guess.

[Andy Samberg]

Nah, you'll be fine. What's that? Oh, he's shoulder injury.

[Akiva Schaffer]

God damn it, Johnny. Your shoulder isn't better. You lied.

[Andy Samberg]

What do you want me to do, Walt?

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is my shot. All I ever wanted to do was play ball. We'll postpone this thing. There's always next year's draft.

[Andy Samberg]

No, we gotta do it now. Who's gonna pay for Kevin's piano school? You? Ooh, I think there's a bit of just in the, you know, van der Beek rest in peace universe. I think we're doing a little bit of the varsity blues here. Yeah, he's doing a little of I don't want your life kind of accent there.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, there's something very Funny about not shying away. Like, we didn't shy away from drama. Tension between the brothers.

[Seth Meyers]

I like the detail that you would just postpone. You would be like, I'm not gonna

[Andy Samberg]

do the draft this year.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Because I care about his shoulder and him as a person.

[Seth Meyers]

Right.

[Andy Samberg]

But. But he's just caring about Kevin as a person.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean. Yeah, because he needs him to go to music school. We saw how well he played piano.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Now we.

[Jorma Taccone]

Keev. Keev. We did have one microphone that we would, like, basically tape to a broomstick. That was like our boom mic. It doesn't sound like we used it on this.

[Andy Samberg]

We definitely did, but I don't think we. We might have. Sometimes we had to tape it to, like, the wall or something because we didn't have a fourth person in the room. So it might not be pointed in the right direction.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right.

[Andy Samberg]

May not have had the gifts you have, but I'm the oldest, and I'm still in charge of this family. You're wrong, Will. You did have the gift. You just didn't have the guts.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Johnny is your manager. I demand that you drop out of the draft.

[Andy Samberg]

So I'm the oldest.

[Seth Meyers]

Johnny.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Johnny.

[Jorma Taccone]

It was good acting. Thank you.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, that's better. You're. You're growing on me, Keith. Your choice is growing on me so that.

[Jorma Taccone]

Wait, wait, go back. Like, so. So that house is the same house that we shot at multiple times for the boo. That is our friend J. Gram Borba's house, who is a huge person at hbo. She was like, Game of Thrones was her show. So the fact that they would allow us to like around their house, but

[Andy Samberg]

we didn't shoot at their house this time, too. So did we have this establishing shot left over from something else?

[Jorma Taccone]

I guess so. Yeah, probably. That's definitely.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm surprised we didn't just drive to any random house and film the front.

[Jorma Taccone]

I. I bet we had this from.

[Andy Samberg]

Honestly, I think so too. This is still good editing, by the way. And, like, coming up from your stupid chair. It's not bad. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for joining us today. In a few moments, the NFL draft will begin.

[Jorma Taccone]

You're drinking.

[Andy Samberg]

And with the first pick of the draft. So Chester's back in a wig, but he's not the dad. This is a third character for Chester. He's not the dad who died.

[Seth Meyers]

I actually. I hate to jump in, Keev. I think it's a fourth character for

[Andy Samberg]

Chester because I think he was also. He was also one of the coaches on the Sidelines scouting and stuff. So it's a fourth character for him. Jonah's hat.

[Jorma Taccone]

I guess he's an owner.

[Andy Samberg]

It's also a second character for Jonah

[Seth Meyers]

who is not dressed like he would be someone at a draft.

[Andy Samberg]

No, he's the Texas season oil tycoon who owns the team, dumbass. It makes perfect sense.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Seth.

[Seth Meyers]

He looks like a Beverly Hillbilly. He looks like if there was literally an NFL team called the Beverly Hillbillies,

[Jorma Taccone]

where did we get that hat? Like, where the fuck is this shit from? I mean, does it. Anyway, it's amazing.

[Andy Samberg]

San Fernando 48ers choose the San Fernando 48ers. Wonderful stuff. Johnny Rice. That's why their last names are Rice. Because we had a Jerry Rice jersey.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh my God. That's the long. The long reveal of why was their last name Rice?

[Jorma Taccone]

It's just shit that was lying around the house that determine the writing.

[Seth Meyers]

But the best thing about it too is that like, they don't hold up a jersey at the draft. So you guys did all this work for a thing that doesn't happen at the draft?

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, I didn't know that.

[Seth Meyers]

It also looks a little dirty and like, maybe it's like an old jersey.

[Andy Samberg]

Definitely old. It's one we owned. It's vintage.

[Seth Meyers]

Also, there's a very fun thing that you guys don't have a regular sized football in this sketch.

[Andy Samberg]

No, we didn't. And we did not have the money literally, to go buy a regular football.

[Seth Meyers]

Keep cutting. The football you put on your dad's grave. The one that you're nervously holding on drafting is just like a small. It's like a dog toy football.

[Andy Samberg]

This ticker at the bottom. I clearly recorded some ESPN and then was able to just like in Final Cut, do a mat and just place it onto the bottom.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, Keith, there was so much that I learned from you, like with that type of shit of just stealing, stealing stuff.

[Andy Samberg]

But then the way we wrote 2004 official football draft is just like, like no attempt at making that look dumped

[Jorma Taccone]

on top of it.

[Seth Meyers]

Hella poorly.

[Jorma Taccone]

Not centered. Not.

[Andy Samberg]

Wait, why do I take a shot when he gets pulled? Cuz I'm worried about his shoulder. Hold on. San Fernando 48ers choose. I'm nervous. Johnny Rice. And he does get picked. But why am I. Oh, because you're

[Jorma Taccone]

sucking down the pain, dude.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I'm worried about his children. Be more excited. Thank you very much.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I did it for you, Kevin.

[Andy Samberg]

I think we got a little Jerry Maguire in here too.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Just the feeling of like we're gonna be. Oh, God, here we go.

[Seth Meyers]

We seeded this earlier. Illegal painkillers.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. He's back in the locker room.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yep.

[Andy Samberg]

And I'm gonna be an alcoholic. He's on pain.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, we called ourselves the dudes. Keep playing.

[Seth Meyers]

Wait, what did he say at the end? What was his last.

[Andy Samberg]

Keep playing.

[Jorma Taccone]

Keep playing.

[Andy Samberg]

He said it to himself.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Keep playing.

[Seth Meyers]

Keep playing.

[Jorma Taccone]

Wow.

[Andy Samberg]

All right. I think maybe they lowered it to 4:30 for the broadcast.

[Seth Meyers]

Gotcha.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm surprised they didn't make it. Three minute pilots. I think later on they did get a show picked up, by the way, for channel 101 once we were at SNL that we were not a part of. It was not on fx, I believe. But they did have a TV show that went to air that was based on channel 101 that was a different format.

[Jorma Taccone]

Wait, Keev, though, did they. Did they vote on it at the end of this pilot? Like, did we get voted back?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I. I don't know.

[Jorma Taccone]

I mean, if that didn't get voted back, what would? Come on.

[Seth Meyers]

So who were the other pilot creators? Do you remember who else was doing pilots for that?

[Andy Samberg]

Definitely. Justin Roiland did one.

[Jorma Taccone]

Am I. Am I misremembering Kee, but is Rick and Morty from. I feel like I saw Rick and morty at channel 101. Didn't they make Rick and Morty?

[Andy Samberg]

They definitely made a demo of it at some point that maybe was for Channel one or wasn't. Remember, they also had the one that we even did voices in called House of Cosby's. Did you ever see that stuff?

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, yeah, very funny.

[Andy Samberg]

This is pretty, you know, Cosby going down. But it was. It's an animated thing. It looks just like Rick and Morty, but a little cheaper. And it's like Multiplicity, that movie where somebody wants a Cosby, but he keeps cloning them over and over and they're getting dumber and weirder each time. It was Jeff Davis, the guy that was just with Jack Black as the main voice, as like a normal sitcom character, who's the one who's like, now lives in this house, trying to be like Cosby. But there's just Cosby's everywhere. And they're like, all have different personalities and they're always going, Theo.

[Jorma Taccone]

Everybody says Theo a lot. It was very fun.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm sure it's on YouTube.

[Seth Meyers]

So I'm sorry, I'm asking. So channel 101 live at channel 101 was also a pilot about mini pilots, right?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, that's what that was. It was like a game show.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes, but it did not become a show. They just shot that one pilot.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. It did not get picked up by fx, but it was that pilot. That was a clip of it. You saw. They had stats and they were treating it like it was a sporting event, but then they would play it. So that was the context that Football Town played in as well.

[Jorma Taccone]

I did not know that they made it into an actual show.

[Andy Samberg]

Later they did while we were deep at snl, so we kind of missed that whole thing. But. And I don't remember where it was

[Seth Meyers]

or anything, but it did air as a show.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, not this, but a different iteration of it.

[Seth Meyers]

Got it.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, I always thought there was a show called Yacht Rock, and I hadn't heard that term, and I felt like it was so much.

[Andy Samberg]

No, J.D. risnar. And he did it with somebody else. But they definitely coined the term Yacht Rock. It comes from. From channel 101 for sure.

[Jorma Taccone]

A lot. A lot of fun people involved. Drew Carey, Sarah Silverman, Jimmy Kill, Steve

[Seth Meyers]

Agee, Aziz Kumail, Randall Park.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, Randall did a whole bunch of stuff.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Some of these were after us, and some of these people we probably saw and didn't even realize who they were.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, wait, they noticed in Football Town, it was the 2004 NFL Draft, and Andy went number one. The actual number one pick in the draft. Eli Manning.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh.

[Seth Meyers]

Who then did Blizzard. Man at dress. So Lifetime is a flat circle.

[Andy Samberg]

It was meant to be, but also.

[Seth Meyers]

Also.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, my God.

[Seth Meyers]

The fourth pick of the draft, Philip Rivers, who you might remember from the refrigerator of Great Day.

[Andy Samberg]

Wait, that's who was on it? Yeah, that was the cocaine reference.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

And, Seth, do you know what's also a flat circle? Earth. It's not actually round man.

[Seth Meyers]

Part of yhorm's Both sides.

[Andy Samberg]

Both sides.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

We can move on.

[Seth Meyers]

Yorm always says you can see both sides of the Earth because it's basically a coin. All right, so it was a wonderful trip down Memory. I can't say memory. Is it memory?

[Andy Samberg]

Just say memory lane.

[Seth Meyers]

Anyway. Memory Lane. The house I grew up on was on memory lane. Is there a good weird song to close out this sort of detritus episode where we're just going through the files.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Where we're just finding some stuff.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. I feel like it was really fun to hear President. And then we did a little Football Town and drop a. Drop a weird deep track song on us.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, you know what? Let's do. Let's do Arty Party then, because Andy's not here.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay. Again, similar to the line that I don't stand by in President. This is 2003. The culture was different. Let's see what's in here.

[Jorma Taccone]

It was me and Akiva in the grand tradition of basically calling him a cunt when he wasn't there.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes, exactly. And this is like a journal entry. We did not think anybody would hear this but him and our friends. Okay, here we go. Ready?

[Jorma Taccone]

We did remixes of this, by the way. It's already too slow.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yo, yo. I knew this cat named Artie. He wore sandals and socks. When he came to the party he would make sure it rocks. He would flail his arms around and do the Artie dance Leaving every with folk in their pants.

[Jorma Taccone]

Hey, it was Friday, you're at the jam of the year.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But something's missing there, man, Artie ain't here.

[Jorma Taccone]

People standing on the wall not freaking at all.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Check it. What you need to do is give Audie a call. And then 60 seconds later, there's a knock on the door. My man Audie with Bacardi saying get on the floor. And I've been getting down ever since he said that shit at the dance club Having a conniption fit. Now who rocks the party more than Artie? No. And who smokes bass? Back of the alley. When we found him on the street he was homeless and shitting so we addicted him to CL Hope so he'd be dependent now if he wants more drugs, he's got a rock for us. Go down the hoe stroll and pick up cock for us.

[Andy Samberg]

Thank you all.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He's got the steps that'll move your body. That's why we like the arts. The party.

[Andy Samberg]

That was a better reveal than I thought.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Drowning the shit. But the crazy part is how much I love that kid. He's so intelligent and charming, ugly and disgusting.

[Andy Samberg]

Throw a hit a yay.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He'll do just about anything. Like suck my dick. Hell yeah, he's sucking dick, nerd. You're holding weight. He'll do anything work. He wears glasses and has a haircut like a clown. And if you got a girl over you don't want him around. Cause he smells bad. Nah, dawg, Cuz he'll snatch her up straight and play her for real sports. Sandals and socks. Picture the most attention disgusting man on the planet. Then multiply that by eight. God damn, Arty's great. Do anything for my ace. Even clean his face when the schmutz starts to drop. Plus he always stays laced in the brand new Tevas. Plus the wool socks. You came here to Barney. He came to smoke rocks.

[Andy Samberg]

We like the Audi who rocks the

[Akiva Schaffer]

party we like the Artie who rocks

[Jorma Taccone]

the party we like the Audi who

[Akiva Schaffer]

rocks the party we like the Audi

[Jorma Taccone]

the rocks the party Smoothest cat you've ever seen. The chicks, know what I mean. He's so fresh and so clean he'll

[Akiva Schaffer]

rub up on your leg without warning

[Jorma Taccone]

Start humping oh, boy, what's that smell in his pants?

[Akiva Schaffer]

He's been dumping it. True, gang.

[Jorma Taccone]

Making all the girls pause.

[Seth Meyers]

Artie, you look good with that dump in your draw.

[Akiva Schaffer]

If Artie ever stop rocking, you know he would kill him. Roll him up in the carpet and throw him off of a building. So I slip him PCP whenever he's not looking so he keeps the party jumping from the floor to the ceiling

[Jorma Taccone]

yeah, he looks good when he's smoking on rocks. And don't forget, y', all, he's wearing

[Akiva Schaffer]

sandals and socks

[Jorma Taccone]

Kind of beating the dead horse.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We like the Arnie that rocks the party Sandals and socks, Sandals and socks Sandals and socks Sandals and socks. Sandals and socks. Sandals and socks.

[Andy Samberg]

Great stuff.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Sandals and socks. Sandals and socks.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, wow.

[Jorma Taccone]

And then. Oh, well, first of all, better than

[Andy Samberg]

I thought it would be by far, honestly.

[Jorma Taccone]

Did he go away for the weekend or something? And we just made mean things about him.

[Andy Samberg]

I guess we need a voice note from Andy where he listens to this and then tells it. Because he definitely came home and we had that song to play for you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Glad you're back.

[Seth Meyers]

So, Artie, when did you guys start calling him Artie?

[Andy Samberg]

I don't know.

[Jorma Taccone]

I think that was a self diagnosed Nicole.

[Andy Samberg]

I think he called himself Artie.

[Seth Meyers]

He gave himself Artie.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, it was definitely before this song. This was not a but. Wow, that song really goes through a story. I mean, first you're just like, if you have a party that's dead, invite Artie over. He's the life of the party. He'll get everybody dancing. He's wonderful. But then we just kind of slip in there. That, by the way. And then he'll go in the back and alley and he'll smoke a little bass. Just kind of thrown away. His main trait is that he wears Tevas and wolf socks. And we just want. Which by the way, now is like a very hip look and has been for like six years. Back then it was like the ugliest thing we could think of.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, it's basically just two guys look.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes. And then. Yeah, we just kind of let you know that like he's really addicted to.

[Jorma Taccone]

We also are using him so that we can have sex with male prostitutes, I guess.

[Andy Samberg]

No, he's the one that will go do it. We're pimping him out. He's basically. We've gotten. He's addicted to freebase and he'll do anything we say to get money. And so he is turning tricks for us to. And dancing for us and dancing for us like a trained monkey to get the party hype. And don't forget he's wearing sandals and socks.

[Jorma Taccone]

And he's also shit in his pants.

[Andy Samberg]

It's a little precursor to Dream Girl, where we're doing. Those middle verses are all compliments, you know, being like, about how wonderful he is, but how disgusting he is. How we love him more than anything. Like how he looks so fantastic with his hair that looks like a clown and his glasses, which is. Then we're just getting to reality again. Like.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, I mean the line.

[Andy Samberg]

The.

[Jorma Taccone]

That is that. Mari, who's saying that, like, artie, you look good with that dump in your draws.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I assume, but I have no clue.

[Seth Meyers]

It's a really good line.

[Andy Samberg]

And then also, me and you are trying to change characters each verse. We're like completely different guys each verse trying to do different styles.

[Seth Meyers]

Was he delighted when you played Arty Party to him?

[Andy Samberg]

I think so.

[Jorma Taccone]

I think so. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

You know what? Let's just get a voice note from Andy. We'll ask him what his reactions were to Arty Party and how he did on today's spelling be. And we'll drop that in now.

[Keegan-Michael Key]

Hey, guys, it's Andy. So, yeah, Arty Party, a loving homage to a dear friend once again, these early days. Just being treated so nice by my two buds. And, you know, in a lot of ways, I was. You know, there's a lot of mixed messages in the song, which is sort of like cornerstone of the whole endeavor. Fun. Re listening to it, remembering so many nice details. I really like my two friends floating. I thought they were both kind of bringing it in a nice way. Keev drops into a 50 cent at one point, which I appreciated the kind of gritted teeth style, which was very popping at the moment. You know, I wore sandals with socks a couple times. I was a summer camp guy, camper and counselor, and I had nice Tevas. And I'm not gonna even pretend like the socks weren't fleece.

[Jorma Taccone]

You know what I mean?

[Keegan-Michael Key]

I was very comfortable. I quickly burned out of doing that, that I knew it wasn't cool. And in fact, fun tidbit. Around this time, we went to a Halloween party in LA where we were living. And I dressed as the kid from your cabin at summer camp that everyone hates. And I wore a super dumpy green cotton turtleneck, fleece pants, fleece socks, and Tevas. And we showed up to a party where we didn't know anyone. And true to form, everyone ignored me because they thought I was just a dude that dress like that. And then at the end of the night, I finally talked to a few people and they were like, what's your costume? And I told them, and they were like, whoa, that's actually so funny. And I was like, yeah, I just wasted the whole night. Worst Halloween ever.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Much.

[Keegan-Michael Key]

Anyway, that was a great anecdote. And, you know, the irony, obviously, is that that style has come all the way back around and now it's like, oh, yeah, that's what my parents wore. Isn't it so ironic and wonderful? Kind of like how we were rocking that 70s disco gear in high school.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Cool.

[Keegan-Michael Key]

Anyway, the song's mean, but it goes. What are you gonna do? You know? Also, like, you guys stand on all that crack stuff, that bass rock. That's what you wanted to put out into the world. I wasn't involved, so my hands are clean. Anyway, I needed one hint to get queen bee today, and it really pissed me off. But the last two days, I quibbied clean and that felt fantastic. Obviously, Seth didn't. I know because we texted about it. I'm not gonna say anything mean to him because I'm all about positivity now. That's my new best that. All right, guys, enjoy. I'm gonna go back to not being able to be there. Goodbye, Keith.

[Jorma Taccone]

Just real quick, will you play? You won't be surprised to hear this, Seth, but I befriended a dude who worked at Guitar center who made EDM ish, kind of like electronic music. And he did a remix of Arty Party for us. But I can't believe that there's remixes

[Seth Meyers]

on that playlist you guys have. That's.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's there. I think his name was Kid Icarus. He was going by Kid Icarus. His name was Brian.

[Andy Samberg]

But isn't it using music from Kid Icarus from the NES game?

[Jorma Taccone]

It must have been. Yeah, because he was making weird, like, plinky, like, computer, will you play just two seconds of it?

[Andy Samberg]

Very different vibe immediately more professional. I'm assuming that's the melody from Kid Icarus.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I knew this cat named Artie he wore sandals and socks when he came to the party he would make sure, he rocks. He would flail his arms around and do the Artie dance Creeping in every with funk in their pants

[Jorma Taccone]

yeah. Oh, I like this better.

[Andy Samberg]

This is great.

[Jorma Taccone]

Hey, it was Friday.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You're at the jam of the year but something's missing there, Man, Audie ain't here. People standing on the wall not freaking at all.

[Jorma Taccone]

Check it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

What you need to do is give Audie a call. And then 60 seconds later, there's a knock on the door. My man Audie with a coffee cardi said, get on the floor and I've been getting down ever since he said that shit at the dance club Having a conniption fit. Now, who rocks the party more than Artie? No one. And who's most famous? Back of the alley Artie. When we found him on the street, he was homeless and shit, so we addicted him to coke so he'd be dependent. Now if he wants more drugs, he's got a rock for us Go down the ho stroll and pick a cop for us hey, yo, Artie's got the

[Jorma Taccone]

steps that'll move your body that's why

[Akiva Schaffer]

we like the Audie that rocks the party we like the Audie who rocks the party.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, it's great.

[Jorma Taccone]

So weren't we saying pick up for us?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, yeah. We sent him down the host roll to pick up cock for us. But I remember that one and loving it. It's very good. That kid ice one.

[Seth Meyers]

What's the other remix?

[Jorma Taccone]

I don't know. Who did the other remix? Thanks.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, a darker tone.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, who did this one?

[Andy Samberg]

Is it Doria? That's pretty cool.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, wait, wait. Keep going, keep going. I think that this is sampling Remo Williams. I think this is the Remo Williams theme. So it gets on that chorus. It goes big.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's only addictive in the co.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, that's. That's hot.

[Andy Samberg]

I love that.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, it's genuinely a very good song. Even the original arty party is just genuinely good times.

[Andy Samberg]

This is basically like SoundCloud stuff before SoundCloud, right? Like, where people.

[Seth Meyers]

It's so fun.

[Andy Samberg]

Share their homemade music. And then other people say, hey, can I remix that? And there's community and stuff. It's cool.

[Jorma Taccone]

I remember we did that for. There's a song called Champion that is in the closing credits of MacGruber, the movie that Kristen Wiig sings. And then for Stereogum, we released the Acapella. And then people did, like, a gang of remixes of that. I think it's always a cool little extra thing to do for and actually in the movie that I just did, Juliet Lewis does a song. Samara Weaving does a song. Oh, and Karen Gillan does a song. So maybe we'll release the acapellas.

[Seth Meyers]

Thank you for that trip down memory lane. It's always fun when I hear stuff for the first time.

[Andy Samberg]

Yorm, congrats on the awesome trailer coming out.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, thank you.

[Andy Samberg]

Came out for your movie. We need to talk about that kind of thing when it happens here. Yes. This is late so we could really do it next episode too. But yeah, thank you. Over your dead body. Go on YouTube.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Goog.

[Andy Samberg]

Google it and find the trailer. Jason Siegel, Samara Weaving. Shot in Finland. A lot of sauna. You can feel the saunas kind of coming off the trailer.

[Jorma Taccone]

Thank you. It also is going to be preparing at south by southwest March 14th. So if you're in Austin, come through.

[Andy Samberg]

Is that a late night screening or like a normal time screening?

[Jorma Taccone]

It's a normal. Normal radio not premieres the night before. So I'm gonna go see that with so fun Matt Benelli and another Samara

[Andy Samberg]

Weaving with blood all over her with a shotgun.

[Jorma Taccone]

She loves it. She loves screaming and getting splatter.

[Andy Samberg]

Very funny that. It's just through randomness. It's our best buddy Matt.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

And who makes the ready or nots and just made.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, it's not even random because like Matt was the one who was like, you gotta hire her. She's fucking amazing. And he was.

[Andy Samberg]

She's so good.

[Seth Meyers]

You might see a shoemaker down at south by Southwest. We produced a movie called Brian that our writer Mike Scollins wrote.

[Jorma Taccone]

Awesome.

[Seth Meyers]

And so shoemaker's going down. So check out Brian if you're gonna be in Austin as well, you know

[Andy Samberg]

the day that that's happening. Is it this similar?

[Seth Meyers]

I should know, but I don't.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, I'll make it a game three.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, you guys. Well, what a delight.

[Andy Samberg]

At least we have a lot more of these for when we don't have Andy. Although he was a part of all them, so.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. And I bet. I genuinely think that Andy will be bummed that he's missing these because I think he probably has a lot of as. As expected delight in these early day shaggy ones.

[Andy Samberg]

Agreed.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

All right. I love you guys.

[Andy Samberg]

Love you.

[Jorma Taccone]

Love you too, Seph Lee. And what do you have to say about that, Arnold?

[Andy Samberg]

That works.

[Seth Meyers]

Later, Arnold.

[Andy Samberg]

Later, Quaid.