Everyone's a Critic

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Everyone's a Critic"

Podcast Information:

• Title: The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
• Host/Author: The Lonely Island (Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone) & Seth Meyers
• Episode: Everyone's a Critic
• Release Date: March 25, 2025

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1. Rewatching "Everyone's a Critic"

Seth Meyers kicks off the episode by discussing a group rewatch of the iconic SNL Digital Short, "Everyone's a Critic." He notes the depth and humor of the short, stating, “We've just completed a group rewatch of Everyone's a Critic and there's a lot to unpack” (00:47).

Paul Rudd expresses his surprise at finding the short even funnier upon rewatching, saying, “I laughed way more than I expecting rewatching that” (00:59). The group reminisces about the laughter and unexpected elements they discovered during their viewing.

2. Production Insights and Creative Process

The discussion delves into the creation of "Everyone's a Critic." Andy Samberg mentions being surprised by the short’s length and leisurely pace, noting, “Got a nice leisurely pace that I didn't mind” (01:24).

Akiva Schaffer recalls the initial concept, drawing inspiration from the Titanic scene: “Based on Titanic. Was it? Was it?” (02:13). This foundation led to brainstorming unconventional ideas, eventually evolving into the final product.

Paul Rudd shares insights on pitching unique elements, emphasizing the collaborative nature of their creative process: “That's what a lot of jokes that could happen with it and it evolved” (02:22).

3. The Music and Comedy Elements

A significant portion of the conversation focuses on the musical aspects of the short. Andy Samberg credits Jorma Taccone for the distinctive musical style, stating, “I'm gonna give you the most credit for Yorm” (03:02).

They discuss the signature song and its unique blend of high-pitched vocals and unconventional sounds. Akiva Schaffer humorously references a scientific study on creating the worst music, aligning it with their creative approach: “It has rapping and yodeling and it's just, it's... Yeah. Anyway, it is good” (05:15).

4. Impact and Legacy of the Digital Short

The team reflects on the short's lasting impact and how it may have influenced early internet comedy, possibly even contributing to the rise of platforms like YouTube. Seth Meyers muses, “This would change the game” (47:53), highlighting the innovative nature of their work during a time when online short-form content was still emerging.

Paul Rudd agrees, stating, “Changed the game. Would you say it changed the game?” (47:38), underscoring the short's pioneering role in digital comedy.

5. SNL Anecdotes and Interactions with Paul Rudd

Paul Rudd, a fellow SNL alum and guest on the podcast, shares memorable moments from their SNL days. They recount sketches like the "Single Ladies" video shoot, featuring notable personalities like Beyoncé and Justin Timberlake. Paul Rudd reminisces, “Watching a person that no one else can do what they're doing physically and creatively at the same time” (23:28), highlighting the stellar performances they collaborated on.

The group also discusses the challenges and exhilaration of live television, with Seth Meyers recalling, “I was very taken rewatching at how good she is in it” (23:14), emphasizing the high caliber of their SNL performances.

6. Reflections on SNL and the Digital Era

Throughout the episode, the hosts reflect on the evolution of SNL and the introduction of Digital Shorts. Akiva Schaffer notes, “I think we just started pitching on weird things that could happen with it and it evolved” (02:22), illustrating their forward-thinking approach.

Seth Meyers adds perspective on the integration of digital content with traditional live sketches, stating, “How do you guys want to go about it?” (01:59), signaling the seamless blend of digital innovation with SNL’s classic format.

7. Humorous Banter and Inside Jokes

The podcast is peppered with humorous exchanges and inside jokes that showcase the camaraderie among the hosts. They playfully discuss topics like singing styles, fictional characters, and recurring phrases like "Righteous Kill." Akiva Schaffer jokes, “I'm going to say something crazy to Andy just like that. I think Spike Jonze is an amazing director” (09:42), leading to lighthearted banter.

Paul Rudd and Andy Samberg share laughs over shared phrases and comedic mishaps, enhancing the engaging and entertaining nature of the podcast.

8. Concluding Thoughts and Future Directions

As the conversation winds down, the hosts express their pride and satisfaction with their collaborative efforts. Andy Samberg remarks, “I love your macro view on this. It's a different way to think about it” (42:00), while Akiva Schaffer emphasizes the podcast’s potential to influence and entertain listeners.

Seth Meyers closes the episode with reflections on their legacy and future projects, leaving listeners with a sense of anticipation for upcoming content.

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Notable Quotes:

• Seth Meyers (00:47): “We've just completed a group rewatch of Everyone's a Critic and there's a lot to unpack.”

• Paul Rudd (00:59): “I laughed way more than I expecting rewatching that.”

• Andy Samberg (01:24): “Got a nice leisurely pace that I didn't mind.”

• Akiva Schaffer (02:13): “Based on Titanic. Was it? Was it?”

• Andy Samberg (03:02): “I'm gonna give you the most credit for Yorm.”

• Akiva Schaffer (05:15): “It has rapping and yodeling and it's just, it's... Yeah. Anyway, it is good.”

• Seth Meyers (47:53): “This would change the game.”

• Paul Rudd (47:38): “Changed the game. Would you say it changed the game?”

• Seth Meyers (23:14): “I was very taken rewatching at how good she is in it.”

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Conclusion

In this episode of "The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast," hosts delve deep into the creation, impact, and legacy of their groundbreaking SNL Digital Short, "Everyone's a Critic." Through engaging discussions, humorous exchanges, and insightful anecdotes, they offer listeners a comprehensive look into their collaborative process and the enduring influence of their work on digital comedy. Notably, guest Paul Rudd amplifies the conversation with his unique perspectives and shared experiences, making this episode a must-listen for fans of SNL and comedy enthusiasts alike.

Transcript

[Andy Samberg]

This episode of the Lonely island podcast is brought to you by our friends at Maker's Mark. We are celebrating Women's History Month by recognizing the spirited women in our lives and remembering Maker's Mark co founder Margie Samuels. You too can celebrate the spirited women in your life with a free personalized label. To go with a bottle of Maker's mark, head to makersmarkpersonalize.com and fill in the details in order to create and mail your custom label. Maker's Mark makes their bourbon carefully. Please enjoy it that Maker's Mark Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey, 45% alcohol per volume. Copyright 2025 Maker's Mark Distillery Incorporated. Loretto, Kentucky.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The Lonely island and Seth Meyers Podcast.

[Seth Meyers]

Shore so hi everybody. Welcome to the podcast. We've just completed a group rewatch of Everyone's a Critic and there's a lot to unpack.

[Paul Rudd]

Fucking hell.

[Akiva Schaffer]

A lot going on there.

[Seth Meyers]

A lot of laughs.

[Paul Rudd]

I laughed way more than I expecting rewatching that. I had forgotten a lot of things.

[Seth Meyers]

That's the second time I've watched it today and I laughed a lot. I mean I laughed more watching you guys rewatch it. Probably for the first time in 15 years.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I was surprised. It had a lot of surprises for me.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It took its time.

[Seth Meyers]

One of the most surprising things is length. It might be one of the longest digital shorts.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, the beginning.

[Andy Samberg]

Got a nice leisurely pace that I didn't mind.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Not rushing it. Almost four minutes long. And first of all, there is a warning at the beginning of the video that kind of caught us. Yeah, now that caught us all by surprise. But of course, makes perfect sense once you watch it.

[Paul Rudd]

Yeah, once we watch it. I was like, yes, of course. Now that would be there.

[Seth Meyers]

But it was very helpful to put it on. And there is a warning saying that there are scenes of people committing self harm. Yeah. Because I had completely forgotten, of course, where it was going. And that is an appropriate warning to have at the beginning of this. So should we just talk it through from the top?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Sure.

[Seth Meyers]

How do you guys want to go about it?

[Paul Rudd]

Yeah, let's do it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I was impressed at the length of the top. It was really taking its sweet time in a very leisurely way. And.

[Seth Meyers]

And do you remember what gave you the idea? Because it seems like that's a bunch of ideas at once.

[Paul Rudd]

I think maybe. Correct me if I'm wrong, gentlemen. I had a note written down in my like ideas notes. That was just. May I paint you?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Based on Titanic. Was it? Was it?

[Paul Rudd]

Yeah, like the Titanic moment But being, you know, we were already friendly with Rudd and knowing that had done all that Stella stuff and would like that tone and being like, that's a good start for something. Is me going into his dressing room and being like, may I paint you? And then cutting to the Titanic shot. And then that was all we had. And I think then we just started pitching on weird things that could happen with it and it evolved.

[Andy Samberg]

That sounds right.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I can't remember when. When that song was developed because after you guys started painting each other, then to get in the mood of painting would be put on a song. Andy puts it on first.

[Paul Rudd]

It had to be before we shot it was.

[Andy Samberg]

We knew we were gonna do it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

But I feel like that was a type of singing. I'm gonna give you the most credit for Yorm.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

And then I would join in with you. But I think it's a type of singing you had been doing for a long time.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, the type of singing. Yes. But I will say, to give you credit, Keev, because we had this. We had this shitty series of web clip. It was called Web Clip empire series of CDs.

[Seth Meyers]

I like that we're talking about it like that type of singing.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Like it exists, you know, Yoram was the first person to do it. Like there's ever been a second person.

[Andy Samberg]

Now everyone does it.

[Paul Rudd]

His signature style that has been ripped off a million times.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, hold on. Let's wait till we get to the music to talk about that music.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All right, sure. We don't want to rush this.

[Seth Meyers]

So Andy walks in and says to Paul, may I paint you? It's very nice, it's very grounded. It's very Titanic. We then see Andy painting a naked Paul.

[Paul Rudd]

I get so self conscious here. A little music will help you relax. Oh, I love this.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And it's me and Keev doing it.

[Andy Samberg]

A little spooky and a little surprised. Yeah, it's both of us, me and Yorm in the office. I remember us very lovingly, just around the mic going.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But Keith, that is Web Clip Empire, right?

[Seth Meyers]

The music empire.

[Andy Samberg]

It might be. Or it might just be some library track. I'm not sure if it is.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Anyway, we use this one series of CDs a lot for shitty music.

[Seth Meyers]

I in my notes while I was rewatching it. You are my wrote. I hate it. Love it so much. It was. It was trying my patience in the best possible way.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Can I say something about that? Because you guys all complimenting me. I'll put that in the compliment column. Of that kind of singing. John Solomon at one point found there was a group of scientists who tried to make the worst song in the world. And it's called the worst music. I can't remember what it was. It's a 20 something plus minute song and every part of it sounds exactly like something I would make. And he was just like oh my God. This is exact like lit has high pitched like yo, yo. Like it has rapping and yodeling and it's just, it's. Yeah. Anyway, it is good.

[Paul Rudd]

I've heard.

[Andy Samberg]

Spoke to you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It spoke to me. Yeah.

[Paul Rudd]

I believe Keev and Yorm that we maybe wrote into the script. It's like a terrible song. And then we shot. Cause my recollection now is when I first saw the first edit was the first time I heard what you guys had made and laughing so hard.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I think that's how I remember it happening today.

[Paul Rudd]

Yeah, I think you recorded it after.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We shot as a fun thing for Andy to hear.

[Seth Meyers]

Now it is doubly funny to know that Paul and Andy can't hear that song when you go back and watch it.

[Paul Rudd]

Yeah, we just had faith.

[Seth Meyers]

Because it almost feel as though a crime has been committed against you in the edit.

[Akiva Schaffer]

A crime was committed.

[Seth Meyers]

The only way to get anybody to groove to the song you made is not to play it until it's too late. You paint Paul and then Paul says, may I paint you? Very nice move. We see you and your T shirt is on so we think you might be dressed. But then you are not wearing pants.

[Paul Rudd]

Yes, correct.

[Andy Samberg]

The camera just caresses your leg hair.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah. Long shot.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's caressing your body, thinking you're not gonna see a full on genitalia shot. Blurred of course. And then it's right there for you.

[Andy Samberg]

Again, just the same one twice in a row.

[Paul Rudd]

But I would say the second shot is a tasteful length.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, sure, yeah.

[Paul Rudd]

Pun very much intended.

[Seth Meyers]

Then you go look at Paul's painting and you say I think we can sell this. And then we cut to a art auction. Fred is the auctioneer. Abby Elliot as his assistant.

[Paul Rudd]

Can I rewind?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Paul Rudd]

Wasn't that cool? What if I didn't have anything to say? I just wanted to make that sound. The moment when he's painting me and he says, how about some music? And he turns it on and I go oh, I love this song. Thinking that maybe now we didn't know what the music was going to be. It does make sense that our plan was that it would be a different song the way I Say it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It definitely does. I'm sure it was going to be. I'm sure it was going to.

[Paul Rudd]

But instead it's me saying, oh, I love this song. About the same song that I just told him was me singing is so crazy.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Paul Rudd]

And I like it a lot.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But it's also that you guys are so committed to playing this very straight too. Like, it feels so sort of supple.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yeah.

[Paul Rudd]

It's a very supple piece.

[Andy Samberg]

It's very supple.

[Seth Meyers]

That might have been the only way. It would have been very hard to keep a straight face if that music had been playing for your very grounded performance.

[Paul Rudd]

I feel like me and Rudd are known for our stoney disposition.

[Seth Meyers]

You would have pulled it off. So you go to the art auction.

[Andy Samberg]

I love your all white on white tuxes with tails.

[Seth Meyers]

So dumb.

[Paul Rudd]

I had forgotten that.

[Andy Samberg]

Those are amazing outfits.

[Seth Meyers]

What a dumb choice.

[Paul Rudd]

Because it's a. It's a serious art event.

[Seth Meyers]

But nobody else there is wearing it.

[Paul Rudd]

No, they wouldn't dare.

[Seth Meyers]

Immediately we realize you've maybe missed what this crowd likes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is what they think. People at Sotheby's wear.

[Seth Meyers]

Nobody else is dressed like you. Neither of you clock at all that it's a problem or that you're overdressed.

[Paul Rudd]

Def not.

[Seth Meyers]

You still have total confidence that you're about to crush it.

[Paul Rudd]

Do we wonder if the white tuxes is reverse engineered? Because we wanted there to be something that the blood showed up really well on.

[Akiva Schaffer]

1,000%.

[Andy Samberg]

There's no wonder about that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. The minute you guys show up, like, oh, wow, blood's going to look great on this.

[Andy Samberg]

Brad did such a good job as the auctioneer and I loved the dialogue that we even wrote for him. It's perfectly whatever that is. But because you guys are yourselves, it's Andy, It's Paul Rudd. It starts in the dressing room at that moment, this time, watching. Even though I thought Fred was great, I kind of wished we had just got all outside SNL actors. So you guys were just in the real world. Because when he says a very exciting new artist, Paul Rudd, I kind of am like, oh, but that's not Fred. I wanted you guys to be in the real world at that moment.

[Paul Rudd]

Yeah, yeah, I see what you mean.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. The line. It takes a quiet bravery to bear one's soul.

[Andy Samberg]

That's what's making them all have that problem.

[Paul Rudd]

I mean, Keev. No one calls John Cusack John Cusack and being John Malkovich.

[Andy Samberg]

And yet that's true. That's true.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's the same thing. Same thing.

[Paul Rudd]

Same exact thing to the same level of success.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm going to say something crazy to Andy just like that. I think Spike Jonze is an amazing director.

[Paul Rudd]

Oh, my God. I'm going to piggyback your craziness and agree.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Wow. This is continuing a full week later.

[Paul Rudd]

Yeah. Like, for real. For real. No lie. I would work with any of those guys.

[Seth Meyers]

Can I say to our listeners, here's how, you know, we recorded episodes back to back is when Yorm makes a callback to a previous episode. That means. That means a week has passed in the real world, but, like, only minutes have passed for memento minutes.

[Paul Rudd]

We're stockpiling because Seth has a vacation.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, my God, they're thinking on me.

[Paul Rudd]

Is it not your fault, bitch?

[Seth Meyers]

I'm in here every fucking day whether you guys are here or not. Just waiting for the red light to go on.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He just did a family trips and stockpile.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, my God. By the way, could we grab. Is anybody gone anywhere? Could we grab a quick family trips while I have?

[Paul Rudd]

As far as I'm concerned, that podcast is the enemy. I take podcasts seriously now.

[Seth Meyers]

You do. You've gotten very serious about them. All right, so we reveal the art, which we never see the painting.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, we. We really held back, I guess it's.

[Seth Meyers]

Impossible to show it. And then everybody starts to scream for background actors. Great work.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

Like, the first woman who screams does an exceptionally good job and the timing.

[Paul Rudd]

Of it is really perfect. I believe Kevin Yoram coached them very meticulously to be like, she screams and then everyone else starts screaming. It feels like it's from a movie in a good way.

[Seth Meyers]

And we get a sense of how the painting might not be a great painting by the fact that everyone's eyes start to bleed.

[Paul Rudd]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

And then it gets pretty gory. This is the. The reason for the self harm warning at the beginning of the short. Do you think it is inspired by the movie the Happening, which we've talked about, which is the Mark Wahlberg M. Night Shyamalan movie where, remember that movie was like the trees were making people kill themselves.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, it was one of my favorites.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. I don't know. What's the timeline on it? Had it come out?

[Seth Meyers]

It had come out because I think Andy had talked about that. Had inspired his Wahlberg impression a little bit. And that had already happened.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I don't think so. I think that just when something is so bad, it makes sense. Stigmata eyes.

[Paul Rudd]

I think it's one of Many Seth. Which is like, there's something that makes people just start taking their own lives. Cause it's so horrific. Or they're out of control of their own brains.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, again, it's full goriness. But we cut to Sudeikis, for some reason, has an oven with. He has a full oven in the auction house and he's crawling into it. Yeah. There's a woman with a gun. There is Michaela Watkins as sort of an old Italian woman. And you realize her reaction to it is that it's the Antichrist. I think when somebody starts speaking in Italian and cuts their own throat.

[Paul Rudd]

Yep. Very convincing in the role.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, my favorite moment. Hayter and wig.

[Paul Rudd]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

As Indiana Jones is Marion tied to a stake and him screaming, don't look at it.

[Paul Rudd]

I remember being really happy about getting that in.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I just love how quickly it happens, too. It's like the third beat of craziness.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes, the third beat. It's not the last one. It's the third one in. It's a really nice building of chaos. Also, Fred has just. There are people, like white foam coming out of their mouths.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. It's not all intentional suicide. Sometimes it's just doing something to them.

[Seth Meyers]

Also, there's one way I want to ask. The shot of a woman opens her mouth and it's vomit. Or like, it's like whatever. White. And you can tell it's from behind her.

[Paul Rudd]

It's not.

[Seth Meyers]

She didn't have to do it, but it's a really good effect.

[Paul Rudd]

Agreed.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's very good. And that woman did it quite well.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Doesn't wear it. It's welcome either, too.

[Paul Rudd]

It's right up there with like the perspective shots in Lord of the Rings where they make Gandalf look super tall.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. It's the same as that, but they're actually.

[Paul Rudd]

It's just in camera.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Peter Jackson's another great director.

[Paul Rudd]

Would work with. Yes, you'd work with. You'd be surprised to know, Ken, from.

[Seth Meyers]

Now on, just to keep the podcast moving, if Yorm says a director, just yell out work with. Or won't work with.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Work with.

[Seth Meyers]

This episode of the Lonely island podcast is brought to you by our friends at Maker's Mark. And I'm with some of my friends right now. Hi, guys.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Hello.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

No, no, we know it, but our listeners might not. So continue.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

That was my idea, actually. These guys were thinking about not doing it. I was like, we should.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. You are in many ways as trailblazing as Margie Samuels. Yoram and I often said that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, I kept saying, I want to mark this day with Maker's Mark. And you guys kept saying, what does that mean? I was like, it means a toast, guys.

[Seth Meyers]

Way to land the plane, buddy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Thank you.

[Paul Rudd]

Thank you.

[Seth Meyers]

I want to tell a story about a spirited woman I saw during the 50th. And I was a little bit lucky because I was there on Friday for some rehearsal action. And I got to watch the Close Encounters rehearsal with Kate McKinnon. And I feel it's the most I've ever watched an actor's process. Guys, I'm going to wrap this up. You too can celebrate the spirit of women in your life with a free personalized label to go with the bottle of Maker's mark. Head to makersmarkpersonalized.com and fill in the details in order to create and mail your custom label. Don't forget to grab a bottle of Maker's Mark to go with it.

[Andy Samberg]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Andy Samberg]

What's going on?

[Seth Meyers]

You know, you were just telling me before we started recording you can do everything on your phone these days. Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my God, these things are amazing. Have you used the phone yet?

[Seth Meyers]

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[Andy Samberg]

That's key. I got scared. I got scared for a second. I was like, why would. I was like, I picked out all that clothes and I paid for it.

[Seth Meyers]

But good news. Perfectly washed and folded. Thanks to rinse.

[Andy Samberg]

I remember back in my New York days, you know, at the times of this podcast, I did have the like, how do you do laundry? And there was a machine and I had. I was in a five floor walk up. I had to walk up and down five floors to get to the machine. And then you're like, is someone going to steal my stuff? And this seems better.

[Seth Meyers]

It's a lot better. Laundry, clean and folded, dry cleaning, pressed and returned on hangers I know when I see my laundry folded courtesy of the good people at Rinse. I don't know, I feel like a life hack has been accomplished. You know what I mean?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. That's the kind of thing that makes you happy, Seth.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Just folded clothes.

[Andy Samberg]

Keev, it's so nice that we can know each other for this long and then I kind of learn. One of your little, I don't know, picadilloes. I don't know what you call it. One of your little.

[Seth Meyers]

Just something that makes you.

[Andy Samberg]

Puts a smile on your face. It's nice. Cause I know I can, you know, maybe tell your wife, like, hey, Valentine's Day's coming up. I know something that puts a smile on Seth's face.

[Seth Meyers]

Fold it up. Hey, I have bad news, Keev, though. They don't do dry cleaning. Okay. No, that was a bit. I was pulling the rug out for money. They do do dry cleaning.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my gosh. I was just being polite. I said okay, but I was like.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Andy Samberg]

What are we sponsored?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

One and done.

[Seth Meyers]

Really? Because they were. Every time was really as good as you could have asked.

[Andy Samberg]

We just went for it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We're professionals.

[Paul Rudd]

This was back when pre tapes were insisted upon and underfunded, funded.

[Seth Meyers]

And did you practice that? What the splatter would look like on, like, white paper before you brought in the tuxes?

[Andy Samberg]

I don't think we were going that slow.

[Paul Rudd]

Wow, you're talking about the chaos. Kids.

[Andy Samberg]

My favorite part of that whole sequence is all the pan. The whip pans back to you guys.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Every time it lands back on you guys with your faces, kind of like, this isn't going well. But I don't want to, like, freak out. I'm just gonna kind of like, this is uncomfortable for us. Maybe.

[Paul Rudd]

Maybe there's still one person who will buy it.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[Seth Meyers]

But then there's a really lovely thing, because this in the end is a sketch about supportive friends. You think? Because, Andy, you let Paul know that even though his art has led to multiple people taking their own lives, your reaction to him is to say, everyone's a critic with sort of a smile on your face.

[Paul Rudd]

Everyone's a critic.

[Seth Meyers]

Hard cut. Now you guys are doing publicity for a movie called Everyone's a Critic that you just watched.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. This was all just a movie.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Everything we've seen is a movie. It's a very long clip to show.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. We don't know what Casey Wilson's little junket thing.

[Seth Meyers]

It seems to me you've shown the entirety of the film to her.

[Andy Samberg]

Shows what you know. But.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah. So she's basically saying that was a clip from the film Everyone's a Critic. And you in again, a wonderful performance of the way people are late in a PR tour.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

They're loose if you watch it. This is one of those things that people in showbiz know. You have to sit in a room like that all day in front of an easel that has the poster of your movie and where Casey sits, she's the hundredth reporter that has come in to shoot this.

[Paul Rudd]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

That was a clip from Everyone's a Critic starring Paul Rudd and Andy Samberg. Now, guys, I understand you brought a little surprise with you.

[Paul Rudd]

We did, actually.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Paul Rudd]

I. I don't know if you remember.

[Andy Samberg]

The painting from the film, but she.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Bleeds out of her eyes and then dies. Right.

[Seth Meyers]

Who was. Were you the boom guy in this one? Yhorm. Was that you?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

That's a recurring role now. The barfing boom guy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I fall through barfing.

[Seth Meyers]

So you've barfed in, like, two. You've been a barfing boom guy twice in a month.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I reprised my role as barfing boom guy.

[Andy Samberg]

So whatever you call this nesting doll thing or whatever, where a thing inside a thing. There was another thing.

[Paul Rudd]

There was. There's a fourth beat, and I'm trying to remember what it was.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm so bummed that we cut it out because it did make me laug.

[Andy Samberg]

I can't remember what it was, but it pulled out again from the junket and there was a different thing happening.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh. So, all right, so right now we think there might be a lost fourth beat. We have sent Kevin Miller to the files, to the archives to see if he can find everyone's critic from dress.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Can we guess what it was, though? Because I feel like it was another junket. Like it was another film.

[Andy Samberg]

I thought maybe it was a news report or something, but it just didn't. I remember being like the reveal being halfway as exciting as the first reveal. So it just felt like it wasn't getting bigger.

[Seth Meyers]

And at no point has there been diminishing returns in this short.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

So I would understand you guys cutting a beat if it was only clever but less funny.

[Paul Rudd]

I think after it aired, it felt to me similar to Seth's all time favorite, Wish It Would Rain, where we cut a bunch after dress and we're like, you know what? Maybe the point of that was that it was annoyingly long.

[Seth Meyers]

This is less annoying. I wish it would Rain. The point was that it was annoyingly long and you guys were cowards for cutting it.

[Paul Rudd]

We've done cuts before that I was really happy about, though. Like Boombox, where we lifted a verse and a chorus and it felt like the exact right length for an SNL audience, you know?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Paul Rudd]

And then this one, I don't know. I'd have to see it again to know.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It tends to be, to me, like, when it's not going to be fully successful, that I'd. That I'd rather just be like, well, if it's making us laugh, then I feel like we should just have left it long.

[Seth Meyers]

Now, though, let's not forget, it was a hot show. There was a lot in it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Right.

[Seth Meyers]

And so there was also probably you were doing a courtesy to the rest of your colleagues for making a cut.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Do you remember who the musical guest was? Andy? We're gonna hopefully get that fourth beat, but I'm gonna ask you a little about the show.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Paul Rudd and Vampire Weekend.

[Seth Meyers]

You were in a sketch with. With Paul Rudd and the musical guest.

[Paul Rudd]

Oh, well, no, not this time. He hosted.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, this time.

[Paul Rudd]

Paul McCartney.

[Seth Meyers]

No.

[Paul Rudd]

Oh, that was the next time.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Paul Rudd]

I was in a live sketch. Oh, Beyonce.

[Seth Meyers]

Beyonce.

[Paul Rudd]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And there was another cameo in that.

[Paul Rudd]

Sketch from Justin Timberlake.

[Seth Meyers]

There you go. I mean, it was the Single Ladies video shoot and the background dancers were you and Bobby Moynihan and Timberlake.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, wow. That was this show, eh? That's fucking huge. That was Bobby's. Bobby's idea, right?

[Seth Meyers]

It was Bobby's idea.

[Paul Rudd]

It was. It was at the table read.

[Seth Meyers]

Bobby is very funny in it. But here's how you know it was Bobby's idea. Bobby is a very new cast member. In a sketch full of superstars, there's only one way that door is open. And by the way he got what he deserved. I'm not saying he, like, backdoored it, but, like, that's. You're like, oh, that dude must have written it if he's in it.

[Paul Rudd]

Well, when he wrote it, it was just me and him.

[Seth Meyers]

Right.

[Paul Rudd]

And in the video, there's only two dancers with her.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Paul Rudd]

So it made sense. But then somehow, via Higgins, he was like, I think Justin's in town or Justin's around, and was like, we're gonna ask him to be in this. And then Justin, I think, told a story in one of those documentaries that he was instrumental in convincing Beyonce to do the sketch at all.

[Andy Samberg]

I remember that. I'll vouch for that. For him going in there.

[Paul Rudd]

Yeah. I remember going in there with him to talk to her about it and her being very sweet and leaving and not knowing if she was 100% down or not. And then it happened.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Gotcha.

[Seth Meyers]

I was very taken rewatching at how good she is in it and how she would be very good at this for the course of a whole episode as well.

[Paul Rudd]

For sure. I also have said many times throughout my life since SNL that when people ask me, who's the most incredible music performance you ever saw while you were there for me, it's her and Prince probably are the two.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Paul Rudd]

In terms of, like, watching a person that no one else can do what they're doing physically and creatively at the same time.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Paul Rudd]

It was kind of mind blowing watching her do Single Ladies Live.

[Andy Samberg]

Agreed. We watched every rehearsal because we were just like, how is this happening?

[Seth Meyers]

It feels like Single Ladies should have been the first song she did. It was the second song she did.

[Andy Samberg]

I was surprised by that. It must have been a hit for a long time, and so she was trying to push a new one.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm wondering if it's because of the sketch being the Single Ladies video, if there was a sense of, like, it would play better before or after?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, interesting.

[Seth Meyers]

Kevin found everyone's a critic from dress, but it doesn't seem like there's any more beats, so you must have maybe made the cuts before dress.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, man.

[Paul Rudd]

Can we ask Dina?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, somebody reached out to Dina.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Then it was definitely right. If we made the decision before dress, then it's definitely correct.

[Andy Samberg]

Very final thing that aired on the night was a second one of the Noah Baumbach Armisen hater little shorts.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I don't remember those. Are they.

[Andy Samberg]

I can't remember what they were like at all. I just remember Noah being there and hanging out, but I don't remember what they actually filmed.

[Seth Meyers]

This one was called no, no, no. And it was Rudd and Hater talking about how Bill was now dating a woman that Rudd used to date. And then Fred comes in as someone who's currently dating it, and it's a lot of like, look, I hope you're not mad. It's like, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay, okay. So you're cool with the fact that I'm seeing Tracy right now?

[Seth Meyers]

Well, well, well, that's kind of weird. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, no, it's totally, you know, cool.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You guys aren't mad at me right now? No, no, no, no, no, no.

[Seth Meyers]

Beyonce video is, I think, from Ann golden era, a very iconic sketch. You would see it a lot in, I feel like Best of Cut up montages.

[Andy Samberg]

Yep.

[Seth Meyers]

A lot of fun then since Timberlake was there. Timberlake was on Update and he did like a Tour de Forest where he did. This is me. If I host. I didn't have time to host this year. So here's two minutes of what I would do if I was hosting.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, wow.

[Seth Meyers]

Hey, Thanksgiving is Thursday. Blah, blah, blah. I'm bringing turkey back jokes, whatever's left, I eat it for a snack. Andy and Bill as backup dancers because they're not in anything else. Ha, ha, ha.

[Paul Rudd]

Stick around.

[Seth Meyers]

We got a great show. We'll be right back. Some ad parody that I'm not in. Then bring it on down to Turkeyville. Commercial and good evening and welcome back to the Vincent Price Thanksgiving special with me and three other dead people. Of course I'll play James Dean and straight into a digital short. Step one, you cut a hole in the turkey step. And it was really a thing that maybe only four other SNL hosts ever could do.

[Paul Rudd]

That's what I was about to say. It's such, like, rare air to be like. That's the bit because everyone's thinking it.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. And also there's like seven massive shifts in tone and energy that he just turns on a dime.

[Paul Rudd]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And I do believe I scream at some point. Take it to the bridge. Like a girl in the front row at a Timberlake concert. Oh, there's a sketch from the Rudd show that look, does it play? I wouldn't argue it played. It's called Songwriters Showcase. And I went back and rewatched it today because it's one of those titles where you're like, that sounds familiar, but, like, nothing about the title gives it away. And it's Wig and Rudd. Singing one of those story country songs at, like, an open mic night where, you know, those, like, 70s song where, like, she went down to the bridge and she went a little fast. Like, it's just like a story of something. And it's a very long song about a package being delivered to the wrong house. And it's just them singing the tracking number.

[Paul Rudd]

He started reading off the tracking number right into her Eminem.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He said, 312-569-3567-3452.

[Paul Rudd]

Then he continued, TKX 4520. Sounds like some wig action.

[Seth Meyers]

It's really funny. And it's also, you know, last week with Ham, with Brolin, with Hathaway. Like, the speed at which Rudd can do anybody's tone.

[Paul Rudd]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Like, he matches wig's energy perfectly. You know, the fun thing about the Beyonce sketch is, again, I'll be the straight man for this one. He's the director of the Single Ladies video.

[Paul Rudd]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

So, you know, when he gets to be funny, he's super funny. The first kissing family, Vogelczyks, the Vogelchecks. I think maybe the line that made Lorne laugh the most every time he heard it was the end of a Kissing Family where Fred would do his long run explaining why my grandfather, Grandpa.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Vogelczek came to this country with nothing. He was totally naked. He left his job as a foreigner so that he could build a better life for himself here. A country where he wouldn't punish people who were affectionate and kissy with their families. So, yeah, I know it feels like a lot, but, you know, something wear vocal checks.

[Seth Meyers]

And the way he said it would make Lauren, like, the f. Lauren even told me, like, a month before the 50th, he's like, you know, I'm thinking maybe a kissing family, because, you know, then you. You have, you know, because we're vocal checks, you know, and it's a great line, but I'm. I always want to say, like, to Lauren, like, you know, that's not, like, isn't that special. But I did rewatch that, and there was a line that does not get a laugh that made me laugh out loud. Just a very writer's line that happens too fast for the audience to appreciate, which is Fred is talking about how his family moved to America because they wanted a place where they wouldn't be judged for being affectionate.

[Paul Rudd]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And he says, talking about his grandpa Vogelczyk, he left his job as a foreigner so he could build a better life for himself here, but he left his job as a Foreigner is so funny to me.

[Paul Rudd]

What's the exact phrasing on the last line of it, Seth?

[Seth Meyers]

I don't know. Maybe it's just because we're vocal checks.

[Paul Rudd]

There you go.

[Seth Meyers]

Some version of that just eating it up.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I. I have a dumb question.

[Seth Meyers]

Is it live?

[Akiva Schaffer]

What?

[Seth Meyers]

Is the show live?

[Paul Rudd]

That's your dumb question?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, the live.

[Paul Rudd]

What time does it air and what night?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Andy, when you're in something like the Single lady thing and it's Beyonce and it looks pretty iconic and Justin in it, because I don't know how many sketches you were in that actually became that level of sort of iconic. Did you have the sense that you're like, ah, this one's gonna get re watched? Did you have that sort of sense? Or you're just like, oh, this is just another thing, and hopefully people like it. It's funny.

[Paul Rudd]

Well, I was crazy geeked because I was doing something with Beyonce.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Paul Rudd]

But I mean, you know, no matter what, it's like, gonna be a news item, an entertainment news item.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Right.

[Paul Rudd]

It's the modern equivalent of, like, when Ariana Grande sings Sabrina Carpenter's song. Like, it's just things that are super red hot in that moment.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's gonna get clicked. And yes.

[Paul Rudd]

Where you're like, oh, I see. This is, like, very relevant to pop culture at this exact moment. And when you're doing it, the audience is aware of that and you're getting extra juice off of that, for sure.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Is that out of all the sketches you've done, is that the one that is probably most. I don't know, Iconic, like live?

[Paul Rudd]

Yeah, I don't know. It's an interesting question.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. All right. That was it.

[Paul Rudd]

I mean, it's. If. So, it's because it was Beyonce and Justin doing something together.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Right.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

I would freak out. Please don't tell me that.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

I don't like it complicated. I like things simple. You tell me this is simple.

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[Andy Samberg]

I find Home Chef a bit overwhelming because there's over 30 options every week and it can serve every dietary need and I just, just it's so many choices but Yoram, you like that?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I do. It's interesting that you say that because I like variety. Keev and that's why Home Chef is number one in my book.

[Andy Samberg]

Quickly rank this for me. What's your favorite part? Is it quick? 30 minute recipes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Love it.

[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

Very difficult to decide already.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

I think that's a great thing to say.

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[Andy Samberg]

You know how I feel about that. I like it and I've talked about that. I've made these meals with my family and I've liked them so I don't know what else to say.

[Seth Meyers]

And your family has liked them and now, for the first time, you were saying to me in years, you feel like your family likes you.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, food is the way to the heart. That's what my big Italian family always says.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

I think Andy should sing the Petulant Pit.

[Paul Rudd]

Oh, the Petulant Pit.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Paul Rudd]

There's a petloon of petulants.

[Seth Meyers]

And it's where Seth lives.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He's very good at singing.

[Seth Meyers]

I just realized. I hope I haven't talked about this. This was where I was so mad because I wrote a live sketch where you played Rahm Emanuel, Andy. And it got cut. Oh, do you remember?

[Paul Rudd]

But then. Did it air later?

[Seth Meyers]

It aired later, but I didn't know it was gonna air in the future because I wasn't there yet. And I was so mad it got cut.

[Paul Rudd]

But it aired later as a pre tape. Yeah, which helped, but it was from the live recording.

[Seth Meyers]

We didn't redo it again, but it was live and it Was about how Rahm Emanuel, like, did a lot of cursing. It was known as a sort of hothead. You were great in it. I thought it was awesome. It got cut, and I went into my dressing room, and I was so mad. I swung my door open, and the doorknob went through the wall that the door swung into and left a big old hole.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Fucking strong guy.

[Seth Meyers]

And shoemaker, as punishment, wouldn't ever get the hole fixed because he said, I want you to look at that every day and think about what a baby you are.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's a good producer. That's good producing.

[Seth Meyers]

The amazing thing about this is shoemaker's been out. Shoemaker got knee surgery. And so we just finished two weeks of shows where shoemaker wasn't in the building. Shoemaker absolutely the most important person for me to be around to get through my day without stress overwhelming me, like. Cause anytime something makes me a little bit crazy, his office is right next to me. I just walk over, and I just yell at him. I literally don't take it out at anybody else. I just yell at him, and then it's out. And I just, like, go back to my day. So I haven't had shoemaker. I made it all the way to the last day, by the way. It's only two weeks. I should have been able to make it. And something happened yesterday, and I took a uniball pen, and I threw it across the room, and it exploded on my wall and left like a rorschach blob. And I put a note up, said, please do not clean this, because that's gonna be my new hole in the wall.

[Paul Rudd]

Beautiful.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm gonna put a little plaque next to it to be like, the two weeks shoe was away.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I just like picturing that when he comes back, his knee is gonna be like, wow, he's just gonna be kicking stuff.

[Seth Meyers]

You know, he's gonna enter the way. Like, when robocop first walked in.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Check this out, guys.

[Paul Rudd]

You know, love that we've all heard that story. My thought was, man, what's up with dudes in our rage? And why do we always want to break stuff when we're mad? And yorm was like, I bet shoemaker's got a robot leg.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You should get him a soccer ball. You should bring a bunch of soccer balls and put them rooms.

[Paul Rudd]

I like yours way better.

[Seth Meyers]

Andy's like, oh, man, we're so toxic. Yorm's like, how far can he kick a soccer ball now?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm sure I can do this now, Keith.

[Paul Rudd]

What was Your takeaway?

[Andy Samberg]

I'm just enjoying the pod.

[Paul Rudd]

Oh, okay.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Great.

[Paul Rudd]

Great skill.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, righteous kill. Oh, righteous kill.

[Paul Rudd]

Oh. Have we ever talked about righteous kill as a saying?

[Seth Meyers]

No.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's why I'm surprised we haven't. Where is it from, Andy?

[Paul Rudd]

Akiva, when it came out or when it was not even out yet? It was about to come out. The movie. Righteous Kill said he was going to try and start that as a thing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wait, it was Keev that said that?

[Paul Rudd]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

And I would have put it on you, Andy. I don't. I have no memory.

[Paul Rudd]

No, it was you.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay, well, it caught on for a while with me and you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, we said it caught on for fucking Andy. He said it for the rest of his life.

[Andy Samberg]

Righteous kill.

[Paul Rudd]

Yeah, I still say it all the time. So when someone says something that you would normally say, like right on or righteous, you go, oh, righteous kill. Righteous kill. And Keith and I still, every now and again, when we text each other something, we'll just send the. The poster movie right as a response.

[Seth Meyers]

So Keith tried to start something, and it only caught on with his closest friend. That's all I was starting with.

[Andy Samberg]

That's it. That was success.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, it caught on with you. Yeah. That is success.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's not over. Guys, we have a podcast. We have a platform. This is our megaphone. So get it out there, guys. There's still time.

[Seth Meyers]

Righteous Kill. Yor Righteous Kill.

[Paul Rudd]

If even. Hey, look, if even one person start saying righteous kill casually in their conversations, this podcast will have been worth it.

[Andy Samberg]

It was De Niro. It was Pacino together again for the first time since Heat. It was the first time ever. Yeah. And its legacy is like, it doesn't exist, but in this small way, it can.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Paul Rudd]

Thank you. Thank you for so many things, but at this moment, that.

[Andy Samberg]

Great.

[Seth Meyers]

I just had De Niro on my show. De Niro's in a new movie where he plays two different mobsters.

[Paul Rudd]

I saw the trailer.

[Seth Meyers]

And so, yeah, so he does a scene with himself and one of our producers on this podcast in a late night. Kevin Miller produced that segment. And Kevin Miller basically gave me an A plus line to say when De Niro was out, which is I said, I apologize that I'm about to say this, but when I look at this picture of you, two of you at a table, all I can think is you talking to you.

[Paul Rudd]

You talking to you.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, you talking to you. And it was a real good, like, Daenery being like, yeah, very funny.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Talking to you.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay, that makes sense.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Can I say one more that I'd like people to start saying, oh, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

This is like your Righteous Kill.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Well, when we did cuado, and, I mean, we may have talked about this, but I really did want people to start calling each other Quaid's now.

[Seth Meyers]

That took off with me. I would say the same way that Righteous Kill took off with Andy.

[Paul Rudd]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So do you call your friends quades? Like, when you walk into a room, you're like, hey, what are you Quaid's up to?

[Paul Rudd]

Just with us.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Just without. I mean, that's the problem is I'm not taking it to the streets. But I do think I. I often think of you as Equade Yhoram.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. No, no, no. And I am. I am 100% equate.

[Paul Rudd]

Jost will still sometimes text. Who does equate have to blow to get a Molsons around here?

[Seth Meyers]

I thought you were trying to get this expression started. Yoram. Oh, Wade's today.

[Andy Samberg]

That was a week ago.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I don't feel bad about this. This. I don't feel bad about this because we constantly move the podcast, so it's a perfectly reasonable thing to text multiple times a day.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, look, I'm just really happy. Let's just celebrate the fact that all four of us are here together. Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is killer. This is going great.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Everyone's a critic. Is it Criterion? I don't know.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm gonna say not.

[Andy Samberg]

In some ways, it is to me because it feels so different from all the others. And I'm always very into when we branch into different things. Like, again, if it was a true criterion or the old school SNL Best of dvd, just having it be song after song wouldn't feel that good. We would be really grateful for the Dear Sisters jammed in there. And then I think something like this would suddenly feel more exciting to put in there, just to create a good. The feeling of a good show.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay, you're talking about, like, it's a mixtape.

[Andy Samberg]

Exactly.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I appreciate.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, that's what those best ofs were, a mixtape. And so you did want to kind of create. You know, when we were kids and we'd rent the Eddie Murphy one, you were renting it instead of renting a movie. You know, you were at the video store and you were renting Best of Eddie Murphy. You would watch it straight through and want to have, like, a comedy special experience.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You know, I like your macro view on this. It's a different way to think about it. And now I don't know what to think because I wouldn't put It. I don't think you can think about Criterion like that.

[Paul Rudd]

I agree with everything you said, Keev. And I would say, ultimately, I don't think it's Criterion.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Paul Rudd]

But it definitely falls into the category of I'm proud of it and like it a lot.

[Andy Samberg]

Certainly would be in Kim's video.

[Seth Meyers]

It's a real Kim's video.

[Paul Rudd]

It's a Kim's video for sure.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. It doesn't get caught trying to be anything it's not. There's no cheap moves. It's like, very pure to itself. Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, no. I love this one. I wish we could release that song. I wish I had it on my computer right now because it really makes me happy. I wish it was my ringtone.

[Seth Meyers]

Can I pitch something? Maybe take five minutes and just re record it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, you know what? Okay.

[Paul Rudd]

This one goes way more arched, but I would also say you could sort of categorize it tonally and pace wise with the Jonah's dad one.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Paul Rudd]

Which is like a story that takes place at the studio and then sort of branches out from there. But, yeah, it's good stuff. And like, look, there's no one we love more than Rudd. He's just like the greatest.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Andy, would you call it Ampmo? Too much good stuff.

[Paul Rudd]

Yeah. Yorm says that a lot.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Hey, I want to loop back one episode just to say, share one story, which is that the last show before the election, which was Ben Affleck. Ben Affleck is a very good, over the years, a wonderful SNL host. But my memory of the Affleck show was John McCain, the John McCain who was running for president. And the election was three days later. Came on the show and did a QVC sketch that I had originally written for Darryl. And the idea was that it was going so bad in the polls and that fundraising was such a problem that he was now on qvc and he did a sketch where he was with Tina playing Sarah Palin.

[Paul Rudd]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And again, as crazy as politics are now, that is deeply unique. Would I rather be on three major networks?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Of course.

[Seth Meyers]

But I'm a true maverick, a Republican without money. And I'm not like my opponent. My only showbiz connections are Jon Voight and Heidi from the Hills. So I'm here on qvc. And like qvc, this campaign promises you three quality, value and convenience and great deals on juicers. He was having the time of his life.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Fucking good. Good for him.

[Seth Meyers]

And again, he had hosted the show in maybe 05 04. We'd hung out with him Before Lauren and him got along incredibly well. He was somebody who. For however our politics diverged, I felt like the man's moral compass was one I had a great amount of respect for. And I liked being around him. I thought he was really funny and wrote this sketch, and he showed up to do it in his dressing room. Lindsey Graham and Sam Brownback, who were a couple of senators at the time. Lindsey Graham obviously still is. I remember going back after the sketch air and being like, that was great. And they were like, oh, man, what a blast. Like, again, like, they're just looking at polling numbers.

[Andy Samberg]

They just come for fun. And, yeah, I think he was like.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm going to go do snl. Come meet me.

[Paul Rudd]

The fact that it was with Tina and that halfway through the sketch, she, as Palin, turns to a new camera and goes, okay, y'all, I'm going rogue.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Paul Rudd]

Which had been like a news story for weeks about how Palin was going rogue and throwing off the election for them. And he was in. It was so wild. I remember being like, as. As a person who really doesn't care about politics most of the time.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Paul Rudd]

Especially at that time, I was like, I can't fucking believe he's doing this.

[Seth Meyers]

Listen up, everybody. I'm going rogue right now. So keep your voices down.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Available now.

[Andy Samberg]

We got a bunch of these pants.

[Seth Meyers]

And turned into a T shirt.

[Andy Samberg]

Just.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Just try and wait until after Tuesday.

[Seth Meyers]

To wear them, okay? Because I am not going anywhere, and I. I'm certainly not going back to Alaska. That was also then a couple years later, the title of Sarah Palin's book was Going Rogue.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Was it really? Yeah, you got to lean into it, I guess.

[Paul Rudd]

Also, it reminded me of, like, when I was growing up watching snl, when there was that sketch where Lovitz was Dukakis.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yeah.

[Paul Rudd]

Where it keeps cutting back and forth. I can't believe I'm losing to this.

[Seth Meyers]

Guy.

[Paul Rudd]

But it was as if. If Dukakis was in that sketch. You know what I mean?

[Seth Meyers]

Yes. Yeah.

[Paul Rudd]

Like the real one. McCain doing it.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, gentlemen. Hey. Our next one's kind of a big one, fellas. John Malkovich hosted the episode. He wasn't in the short, but you were. And it's jizz in my pants.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, big change for us.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's a fun one.

[Seth Meyers]

Pretty exciting.

[Andy Samberg]

It's the first one we did outside of snl, where we took the off week previous to SNL and shot it that week.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, well, well, let's save these details for the episode.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, yeah, it's Already getting too good. Sh.

[Paul Rudd]

It definitely, I would argue changed the way those got made and still continue to get.

[Seth Meyers]

Changed the game. Would you say it changed the game?

[Paul Rudd]

Production wise? Yes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Ooh, yeah, you said it, Andy.

[Seth Meyers]

But will you say it that way? I asked you to change the game.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Next week we change the game.

[Paul Rudd]

Next week, we change the game.

[Seth Meyers]

See if you can do it as Yarma and not have our audience know. And Candy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, this is gonna be insulting.

[Paul Rudd]

We changed the game.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay, okay.

[Seth Meyers]

We changed the game. We changed the game.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You guys are.

[Seth Meyers]

Ah. We changed the game.

[Paul Rudd]

I gotta go, you guys. I got family friends.

[Seth Meyers]

They're your friends.

[Akiva Schaffer]

They're your friends.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm the only one with family friends and kids.

[Paul Rudd]

They may be laughing at you, but they're your friends.

[Seth Meyers]

Hey, I can't make it.

[Paul Rudd]

And I'm gonna tell you every detail about why.

[Seth Meyers]

You know, cuz you guys aren't busy. I can't do the podcast, but I do need an hour to tell you why. We'll just do the podcast.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The handsome one's laughing at you.

[Paul Rudd]

The men of teeth.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, no, he's memento.

[Paul Rudd]

I love that I still get to be the handsome one.

[Seth Meyers]

I can't believe I'm the one with teeth. All right, love you guys.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Love you too.

[Paul Rudd]

All right. In truth, love you guys.

[Andy Samberg]

All right, love you guys.

[Seth Meyers]

Thanks.