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Seth Meyers
It's the Lonely Island Seth Meyers podcast.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. Hey, guys, let's just jump right into it because I'm very excited. Can I tell you why I'm excited?
Seth Meyers
Please.
Andy Samberg
Well, we're gonna talk about a couple things that got cut. My Secret Weapon and Mugless. But then I went back and visited this episode. This maybe is one of my favorite episodes we ever did on the show.
Seth Meyers
Because those things got cut.
Andy Samberg
Well, those things were correctly cut. Having gone back and watched the entirety of the episode.
Seth Meyers
It's a very good episode.
Andy Samberg
It's a very good episode. It made my heart warm. And there was a lot of people from and golden era came back to visit. It was a real trip down memory lane that I loved a great deal. But I also, of course, need to open with a little housekeeping first. How's everybody's job level?
Seth Meyers
Speak of the devil.
Andy Samberg
Oh, my God. This is the first job we've ever seen served on camera.
Akiva Schaffer
Served on camera. This guy's not mugless today. He's got a fresh mug.
Andy Samberg
Yoram, did you have your assistant waiting outside the room to bring you a job? She.
Seth Meyers
This is Emma, Company three, who's a lovely, lovely person. And she was like, I'm not that.
Jorma Taccone
She thinks you just called her the devil.
Akiva Schaffer
She Speak of the devil. Yeah. She doesn't know why you were talking about her. She doesn't know you were talking about.
Jorma Taccone
You guys are talking about me? Yeah.
Seth Meyers
She was like, am I going to interrupt? I was like, no, you're not going to interrupt.
Akiva Schaffer
There is a woman that works here named Emma. You guys have got to meet her.
Andy Samberg
You're going to love her.
Jorma Taccone
She's the devil. Literally. Here she is, it's Emma. She's like, oh, I guess. Fuck you. Just brought you a coffee.
Akiva Schaffer
She's fucking up all my color correction all day.
Seth Meyers
You remember when we were talking about how I got free job at Company three? Guys, you just saw it live in Axion.
Andy Samberg
And then. What are you drinking, Andy?
Jorma Taccone
Coconut water.
Andy Samberg
Oh, coconut water. Because you look like you look dead to the world, Andy.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, it's been a bit of a grindy week.
Andy Samberg
Hey, Andy, I have something to read you.
Jorma Taccone
Okay.
Andy Samberg
This is a comment that I will say resonated with me.
Jorma Taccone
Okay.
Andy Samberg
Somebody said after listening to Andy on Amy Poehler's Good Hang podcast.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, yeah.
Andy Samberg
Seeming so light and breezy. It's clear he def hates doing this one.
Jorma Taccone
I've never made any bones about it.
Andy Samberg
I think it was just hard for me to hear you, like, just freewheeling on somebody else's. Podcast.
Seth Meyers
He doesn't like scheduling this one. That's the only thing. He fucking hates scheduling this one.
Andy Samberg
But he had to get in a car for that one. He had to, like, drive to go do that podcast. And it's, like, the happiest I've seen him in years.
Jorma Taccone
I mean, I got to hang out with Amy, though.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. I guess at the end of the day, we can't be.
Seth Meyers
She's a better person than us.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, she's a better person. Somebody sent me a photo. They were watching Rescue Rangers on a plane, and they basically said, I think you guys have to maybe reach out to Air France, because, Keev, I don't need to tell you, you directed that movie. You were listed in the credits as a Vika Shaffer, not a K. Oh, that's a.
Akiva Schaffer
This is Air France.
Andy Samberg
I think it was Air France. I'll send you the picture. But I will say I think AA should be our fun name for, like, when you get all mad about stuff. Like you went full AA about balcony songs.
Seth Meyers
Here comes.
Andy Samberg
Well, that's looks like a. I've been.
Akiva Schaffer
Called that to my face before. Either AA or Akira.
Jorma Taccone
Akira.
Akiva Schaffer
I love both of those.
Seth Meyers
Akira is cool. Wait a, though. Is that your name in fren, though, you know, I mean, like, is that who you pronounce it? Maybe you switch the vowels.
Akiva Schaffer
The consonants. Switch the consonants. Yeah. Yeah, Answer that, Seth. Is that.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, probably. Oh, that's. Yeah. You know what? Before we, like, unload on Air France, let's double check that it's not how you say Akiva in French before Yoram.
Jorma Taccone
Does his signature goddamn frogs rant.
Andy Samberg
Oh, yeah.
Seth Meyers
Frog fries, more like.
Andy Samberg
A lot of people were very happy that we cleared something up for them. Many people, for years now, over a decade, have thought the line in mother lover was not pushing that lady. One person thought it was pushing that ladle. Thought you guys called your dicks ladles.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, my God. Somehow way worse.
Andy Samberg
By the way, the other one's grosser. And now I don't even wanna tell you the other one.
Jorma Taccone
Tell it.
Andy Samberg
Push in that laby, which they thought was short for labia.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, wow.
Akiva Schaffer
They heard the word laby and jumped to lab.
Andy Samberg
They jumped to a. They jumped to a nickname for labia that no one's ever used.
Jorma Taccone
Especially that labia is like, when you're first trying to figure out how it work. Shouldn't it be passed?
Seth Meyers
Is that what that is?
Andy Samberg
It's like if your dad's good at the birds and bee talks. It's what he Tells you not to do.
Jorma Taccone
Don't just, like, push on the lady. What the fuck word did you just say?
Seth Meyers
You know what I'm talking about.
Andy Samberg
Trust me. I'm assuming it's what the kids call it. Hey, real quick, Andy, how'd you do today?
Jorma Taccone
I got queen bee today I got it yesterday. Both times clean, Seth. You knew that. And I want to just thank you for bringing it up.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, I want to bring.
Seth Meyers
Oh, fucking hell. Good job.
Akiva Schaffer
That's a real friend.
Andy Samberg
I got there with. With hints. Last word I got.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, he just wanted to bring it up so he could talk about his own.
Jorma Taccone
No, because he didn't get it clean, and he needs to get it clean.
Andy Samberg
Look, I'm. I'm a. I'm a dirtbag next to Andy. But peafowl was the last word I got today. Yeah, I got P foul, which was the pangram. Or if you. The panagramo.
Jorma Taccone
Panagram.
Seth Meyers
Thank you for translating.
Jorma Taccone
Mike sure Texted me today about P foul. Also furious about P foul. And I was like, what are you guys talking about? That's a common bee pangram.
Andy Samberg
Here's the problem. I think there should be a word for when you're just trying words that you know aren't words.
Jorma Taccone
Uh huh.
Andy Samberg
Cause I for real tried pee before. I tried peafowl. I tried pee wolf.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, I definitely tried.
Andy Samberg
And I fucking know pe. Wolf is not a word.
Jorma Taccone
I definitely tried wolf pee because we have coyotes and you have to like, put wolf pee on your property to scare them away.
Andy Samberg
Right.
Seth Meyers
So it's a real fool. It might be one word.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah. Who knows?
Andy Samberg
Peafowl is P, E, A, F, O, W, L, Keev.
Akiva Schaffer
And is that a real thing or does that have to do with how the B work?
Andy Samberg
That's a real word and it turns up with a B a lot. Yeah. Got it.
Jorma Taccone
Seth, do you remember what I told you the last word I got yesterday was though?
Andy Samberg
Yeah. Penile.
Jorma Taccone
I mean, such joy when I realized, yeah, it's like I'm one word away. I'm. Oh, it's penile.
Seth Meyers
It's like a perfect you thing. A perfect Andy day.
Andy Samberg
I feel like if the bee knew it was you doing it, it would have been like, ahem.
Jorma Taccone
Akiva, you just accidentally made fireworks go off all around you.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah, I saw that. That was awesome. It was because I was getting an ethernet cord plugged in. Cause my WI fi kept cutting out and I kept missing what you guys were saying.
Andy Samberg
But it looked like the fireworks went off as soon as Andy told you his last word. Was peanut.
Jorma Taccone
Which is how it felt like you were celebrating.
Akiva Schaffer
Celebrating over here. I'm celebrating.
Jorma Taccone
Definitely how it felt in my heart.
Andy Samberg
Hey, somebody. Many people pointed out Susan Sarandon played your mom again, Andy. And that's my boy.
Jorma Taccone
That's right. And that was not lost on us at the time.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, very cool.
Jorma Taccone
I'm not sure if it had to do with the choice being made, but I don't think that it was unknown.
Andy Samberg
You know, I just like that your career has two times led you to playing the son of Season Sarandon.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, I mean, the resemblance is uncanny.
Andy Samberg
Uncanny.
Akiva Schaffer
Now you're friends with Susan Sarandon's son, right? A little bit.
Seth Meyers
I'm pals with Jack. Yeah.
Akiva Schaffer
I wonder if he's mad at Andy. Kind of the way that we all know that Cuato's so pissed off at and Miles Teller.
Andy Samberg
Right? Yeah.
Seth Meyers
I was gonna get a voice note from Jack and see if he was upset also. Speaking of. That's my boy. I had dinner last night with Milo Ventimiglia, our joint friend, and he says hi to all you guys.
Jorma Taccone
Sweetie pie. Hi, Milo.
Andy Samberg
Hi, Milo. Rob Klein reached out with an important detail about the Pale and Farty website that you guys built.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah, that's right.
Andy Samberg
That the only thing that you had on it was a button. There was a button not to order soup, but just to donate $50. That was the only.
Seth Meyers
I don't remember that. That's a good detail.
Akiva Schaffer
Wait, wait. I have something for speaking of this. So I have not pre listened to this, but my brother remembered something about the website or something and he just.
Andy Samberg
Sent me this raise.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, hit us more Pale and Farty talk.
Jorma Taccone
Hit us in the tittis.
Akiva Schaffer
All right, let's see what he. Let's see what he did.
Jorma Taccone
Is that something? I just thought of it.
Seth Meyers
It's very good. Hit us in the Titus.
Jorma Taccone
I think it's pretty good.
Akiva Schaffer
So this is my brother, Micah.
Micah Taccone
Hey, guys. So pretty much the only thing any of you ever mentioned to me about Higgins was that he had called Hale and Hardy pale and farty. So ever since then, that's been the main thing I associate him with. Whether a few times I saw him at an after party or years later seeing him on Fallon. I'm just like, oh, yeah, that's the Dylan Farty guy. I have no memory of making the website. I couldn't find a copy of it. But I did find a series of increasingly urgent and apologetic emails from Yorma. This one was sent, oh, he's going to read April 12, 2007. He says can you put this graphic up as a button in the center of the homepage of Pale and Farty? Also, can you buy another site called. And I'm not going to repeat the domain name because it's. It's objectionable, but he says, and put that underneath the Donate now graphic under the word links. I know this is getting annoying, but it would be freaking sweet if you could at least put up the graphic now parentheses. I understand the other stuff might take too long.
Seth Meyers
Please, Micah.
Micah Taccone
I'll be your bro forever, Norm. And then it's a forward message from Tara Donnelly, the subject donate graphic, and some images of a giant Donate now button, again, which I apparently did, minus the objectionable domain name. And yeah, that's what I know about it. Anyway, judging from when these were sent, I was definitely at work, as were all of you, and it doesn't seem like it was worth it. Not that funny to me. I mean, I guess for all trust, it was funny at the time, but. Yeah, seemed like a lot of work.
Seth Meyers
Cool, guys.
Micah Taccone
Later.
Seth Meyers
Oh, my God. Wow.
Jorma Taccone
I love that that was just said. And we haven't even gotten a mugless yet.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, that was how important it was to me, because it was. Clock was ticking.
Akiva Schaffer
This is a Yorm episode.
Andy Samberg
It's a real Yorm episode.
Seth Meyers
Well, because. Because Higgins was gonna leave the room. I was. That was why it was so pressing, because the joke needed to happen while he was there.
Akiva Schaffer
It's not funny if it's the next day. It's funny that it happens in an impossibly short amount of time. It's like a magician.
Andy Samberg
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
He made the joke, and then while he's in the room, the joke happened unbeknownst to him.
Akiva Schaffer
And our hands are all visible. There's nothing up our sleeve. We didn't leave the room.
Seth Meyers
You know, it's very impressive.
Andy Samberg
Couple things. One, I feel like that's Higgins wished on a monkey paw to be forever remembered for his comedy. And the only thing Micah remembered about him was that. And then Tara Donnelly, who still does graphics for snl, still does graphics for Late Night with Seth Meyers. I email her all the time, and almost always the first line is, I'm so sorry to be asking this.
Seth Meyers
The worst. Can I tell you, the worst thing I ever asked Tara to do, and she actually helped me with, was that when MacGruber was coming out, decided to release a series of photographs of McGruber naked with a tiny, tiny wiener on him.
Jorma Taccone
And I remember that it's awesome.
Seth Meyers
And so while it was happening, I was like hitting up friends of mine to see if they would take pictures of their child's penis.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, my God, you can't do that.
Seth Meyers
We can cut this out if it's too so.
Andy Samberg
No, it's good, but.
Jorma Taccone
So this is lies.
Andy Samberg
So anytime someone like Micah pulls up an email from you from 2007 and you realize that that stuff never goes away, are you always like, oh.
Seth Meyers
I know. Clearly, I have no shame, guys. Clearly not. But anyway, took a picture of his kid's dick and Photoshopped it on the McGuru.
Jorma Taccone
Well, he might not want that.
Andy Samberg
He might not love this.
Seth Meyers
Beep that part. You can leave it. And then just beep that part where I reveal who.
Andy Samberg
A lot of people said, my life is a nightmare. We also have Chicken McNuggets. Should be on a T shirt, you know? Agreed.
Jorma Taccone
I mean, we all have that line. Is the line that stuck with me all these years. It's so fucking funny.
Andy Samberg
Another person wrote in, for the rest of my life, instead of saying, it ain't over until the fat lady sings, I will now and forever say, it ain't over until Arnold Schwarzenegger says later. Quaid's a little wordy, but I love the sentiment. We talked about how sometimes you get jammed up if somebody says, obviously Quaid Army. We all know to say righteous kill. But what happens when someone says quaid army righteous kill to you? I think that happened to you, Andy. You didn't know what to do, correct, how to react.
Seth Meyers
Just run away.
Andy Samberg
A couple members of the Quaid army suggested maybe if somebody says both response could be excuse.
Seth Meyers
I.
Jorma Taccone
Like as a question or an exclamation.
Andy Samberg
I think maybe two hands together and a bow, like, excuse.
Seth Meyers
I almost like, you know, almost like ancestors protect me. Like, level.
Andy Samberg
The other option somebody threw out there was me likey dad.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, me likey dad.
Andy Samberg
You can say, oh, that's good.
Jorma Taccone
I mean, these are all great suggestions, but I'm going to just get out in front of it and be like, can it just be Quaid Army? And we say righteous kill. Because I'm not going to remember all these on the spot.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, okay. So ideally, just don't double up on that. Us, everybody.
Jorma Taccone
If you want to say both, that's fine. And I can go, oh.
Andy Samberg
But in general also, I don't want to bury what Andy. You know, again, he only seeded this a few minutes ago, but I think hit us in the Titus does have a future.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, yeah. When we're about to watch something, at least just on this podcast, we can be like, all right, hit us in the tit. Us.
Seth Meyers
Seth, that also sounds like it could be weighing on the comments.
Andy Samberg
Could be.
Seth Meyers
Hit us in the Titus.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, way better.
Andy Samberg
Y.
Jorma Taccone
Great idea.
Seth Meyers
Thank you.
Andy Samberg
Oh, someone else also said that I'm always like, we're going to throw that in the show notes. And it's never in the show notes. That's on me. I kind of just assume someone's doing that. I do want to clarify. I never follow up. No, I fully never follow up.
Akiva Schaffer
I just assume someone's taking notes and making sure.
Andy Samberg
I kind of thought there was some sort of AI robot who was listening to the pod and just doing most of what I said.
Seth Meyers
It's just an echo.
Akiva Schaffer
God damn it, guys. I really enjoyed the rest of the pod as a listener last week, by the way. Great job.
Andy Samberg
I'm glad.
Jorma Taccone
Well, yeah, that was something we should probably get to before we get into the up, right?
Andy Samberg
Oh, yeah. Is there anything. Is there anything mother lover wise that you were listening to and thought you needed to add?
Akiva Schaffer
No. I really did remember it being a surprisingly stress free week after we cracked the song in a weird way, like the victory lap feeling of, like, confidence that we were making something good and that things were coming to it easily, like Patty and Susan Sarandon. And it was kind of bizarre in that way. And I was remembering that when you guys were talking about it, about like feeling good, like, was it springtime outside? So was the weather nice? There was something about being outside and a shooting and me feeling like. Like I'm. Like there's photos. I'm pretty sure this is the thing that Matt Yonks made a video of me called Happy Keev and texted it to us. And it's a behind the scenes video. Got it. Hold on, I'm going to just see if I can find it on my. On my thing right now, just under.
Seth Meyers
The Brooklyn Bridge, like, grooving in the sunlight.
Akiva Schaffer
It's me at the monitor with a shit eating grin. Like, live while you guys are performing and you just see, like joy in my eyes. And it was remarkable enough for him to make a video about it.
Andy Samberg
Can you guys go into the memory bank and remember what you were going to do this coming summer? Did you all know? Because I think that sometimes helps with the mood.
Seth Meyers
Were we doing album number two?
Andy Samberg
Because I bet if you're going off to do album stuff, you're probably in a better mood than like trying to pull a movie together.
Seth Meyers
We might have been. We might.
Akiva Schaffer
Well, yes, definitely that.
Andy Samberg
And so you knew you were going back To a house that had been wrapped like, this is probably as high flying as you could be at the end of a season.
Seth Meyers
It's also, there's something about New York in the springtime. And, you know, you're making a short film about fucking moms that, you know, I think it just makes you happy.
Akiva Schaffer
This is miraculous. But I just searched Happy Keeve and found it in my photos.
Seth Meyers
I feel like that's also a bad sign, Keev, that, like, this is so rare that he was like, oh, I gotta capture this. And that also that you found it so quickly.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. He searched Happy Keev in his email. There was literally one.
Seth Meyers
The only time it ever has ever.
Akiva Schaffer
Well, you know, that's not every day you get an email called Happy Keev.
Andy Samberg
Look at that.
Akiva Schaffer
Happy Keeve MP4.
Andy Samberg
I send it to you a lot, but only because I'm vengeful. Like, after I'm successful in something, I always send you a thing being like, Happy Keev. Yeah.
Akiva Schaffer
I stepped in gum this morning. Happy Keith, you said I couldn't do it. I'm wishing you the worst constantly. All right, here you go. Like, singing along.
Andy Samberg
So rad.
Seth Meyers
Who took it? Must have been Rachel Win, Right? It also tells you that somebody else saw you and was like, I gotta. I gotta capture this. Haley's comment.
Akiva Schaffer
Look at him. He's just loving it.
Jorma Taccone
You're like, this is gonna work.
Andy Samberg
Happy, dude.
Jorma Taccone
That's because when you know something's gonna work, Keith, that is what makes you the happiest.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah. And I'm just staring at. I'm seeing the video happen, and I'm saying the words subconsciously. Oh, I passed the camera.
Jorma Taccone
Ah, this is a dream. We can put this in the YouTube one at least, right?
Seth Meyers
Yeah, it's really adorable.
Andy Samberg
It seems fine. Put it in the show notes. Does it pan over?
Akiva Schaffer
Are we gonna see them? There they are. There you guys are.
Jorma Taccone
Put in the show notes. Hit us in the tent.
Andy Samberg
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Akiva Schaffer
Hit us in the tennis.
Jorma Taccone
Hit us in the tennis. I love seeing my little legs dangling off the side.
Akiva Schaffer
I know how awkward it is.
Andy Samberg
It is funny. I kind of assumed you were standing, but you are when you. Your little knees are on the back of the chaise lounge.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, yeah. And they wonder why we have back pain. Guys, you sacrifice for your art.
Andy Samberg
Sacrifice.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah. You keep saying this is my chaka moment.
Jorma Taccone
I did keep saying that.
Akiva Schaffer
Where's my cortisone shot?
Andy Samberg
Put one in my butt.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, here's something else I remember from that setup in that moment. So we're on your stage. As you guys mentioned, Lorne visited, and I think it's the only time he ever visited a digital short that we were shooting the entire time.
Jorma Taccone
Is that right?
Seth Meyers
Well, except for the hundredth that, you know, when we.
Andy Samberg
Oh, the hundredth.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, because we put them in.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
But, yeah, it was very. It's always very. Or laser cats, I guess.
Andy Samberg
But that's a real. I say this with love. Lauren does not come by to make sure everything's going okay. Lauren comes by because he can feel the heat.
Akiva Schaffer
That's what I mean.
Andy Samberg
We want to be near that heat.
Akiva Schaffer
That's what he. And Susan Sarandon and Patricia Clarkson are there, and they're in the building. We're just on the eighth floor. It's not that hard to find us. But still, he came into our set while we were shooting, and it was memorable.
Andy Samberg
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Did I tell you guys that when Lauren was on set for MacGruber and Will is air humping a ghost and is just humping into, like, nothing. I've never seen Lauren laugh so fucking hard. And we kept making Will do it because we all thought it was so funny. But he was like, this really hurts, guys. Can I stop this?
Jorma Taccone
And we're like, no, just keep going. And Lauren laughed hard, almost as Lauren laughed almost as hard as when that guy broke his femur on Hot Rod. What was yours, Seth?
Andy Samberg
I was going to say, he laughed so hard, he coughed up last month's edamame.
Jorma Taccone
We both had zingers. You know, sometimes zingers overlap, and that's something you have to understand.
Seth Meyers
You gotta say it again.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. Then you gotta give up. And then good friends let somebody else's zingers go first.
Jorma Taccone
Ah, good friends don't let good friends drive drunk without saying their zingers before they drive.
Andy Samberg
All right, so we got a couple things I want to start with. My secret weapon.
Jorma Taccone
Wait, Keith, do you have anything else you want to say about Mother Lover?
Andy Samberg
Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Andy.
Jorma Taccone
Sorry, Seth. No, Seth, I'm sorry.
Akiva Schaffer
I don't. I don't. I thought you guys covered it very well. I remembered the after party. I remembered everything. You took me right down memory lane, and I'm very proud of it. And I like that you guys didn't talk shit about it. You know, you owned a win, a rare win, and you owned it.
Seth Meyers
Oh, I have a question for you, Keev. Do you remember that when we all voted for the 64 finalist shorts that we all voted for Iran so far?
Akiva Schaffer
Cause Andy thinks, honestly, when you were talking about it if you had quizzed me, I would have thought the final two was Jack Sparrow and Mother Lover. And so that's how much I don't remember.
Seth Meyers
Okay, this guy's got a bad memory.
Akiva Schaffer
And then I would have thought we voted for Jack Sparrow.
Jorma Taccone
This guy's not even a part of the conversation. I mean, he can't even be included in the conversation.
Akiva Schaffer
I do think Jack Sparrow might be the best one.
Andy Samberg
Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
I also might think that yes, Seth.
Akiva Schaffer
In the grid, or whatever you call it, was Jack Sparrow against Mother Lover, and that's why it didn't make it into the final two, because in my mind, those should be the two battling for supremacy.
Andy Samberg
It was definitely a one seed. I remember the four one seeds were Mother Lover, Dick in a Box, Jack Sparrow, maybe Lazy Sunday. So I'll have to go back. Well, I'll be ready to answer that question next week. Okay, great. But it's a great question. Maybe when we get to the Jack Sparrow episode, I'll be ready to answer that question.
Akiva Schaffer
That's fair.
Jorma Taccone
There maybe is a time.
Akiva Schaffer
Time.
Jorma Taccone
Maybe when we finish getting through all the shorts where we like, we do it over again with people who listen.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah, the Quaid.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. I think our list. I think the Quaid's revote. I think that's great call.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, that'd be an interesting experiment.
Seth Meyers
Oh, my God, Andy, I thought you meant that we were gonna do all hundred shorts again.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, yeah.
Seth Meyers
Just gonna start and do it again.
Jorma Taccone
Shoot them again or podcast.
Akiva Schaffer
Podcast again.
Jorma Taccone
Podcast them all again.
Andy Samberg
Well, no, you shoot them all again so we can do a hundred more podcasts.
Jorma Taccone
That's how we never have to stop this cast.
Akiva Schaffer
Well, that's the thing. The looming question on this whole podcast.
Jorma Taccone
Okay, Lazy Sunday, what?
Andy Samberg
Remember, it's. What do you remember about the first podcast?
Will Ferrell
Yeah, yeah.
Seth Meyers
We're testing our memories.
Jorma Taccone
What did I say?
Seth Meyers
I remember even less.
Jorma Taccone
And what did I say in that one? No, I don't think I said that.
Andy Samberg
Just because you're will be so psyched. Because all those stories Yoram has told four times he gets to tell again.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, exactly. Oh, yeah. Okay. I can't wait.
Jorma Taccone
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Akiva Schaffer
Before we dive into the Will Ferrell sketch, I just want to point out that this is a yhorm episode because mugless and my secret weapon are yhorm specials. Neither that the public got to see.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, both.
Akiva Schaffer
You know, at least I know we feel like the digital short should aired, but maybe. Maybe mugless, I don't know. Or maybe not at all.
Jorma Taccone
I just rewatched Mugless. I can't wait to talk.
Andy Samberg
I'm telling you. I'm gonna tell you this. Yeah, it might be top to bottom. It is all bangers. It's hard to argue.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, when you look at what the.
Andy Samberg
Digital shirt should have made it the rundown, this show is exceptional.
Akiva Schaffer
Got it.
Seth Meyers
No, I don't mean that it should even have aired this show, but I did think it was good enough to just air in general.
Andy Samberg
It's called my secret weapon.
Jorma Taccone
And let's jump in.
Andy Samberg
Let's jump in. My secret weapon starts with Will Ferrell, who introduces himself as Will the money Pharrell. He's wearing a robe and he's talking about how he's very successful and people always say, what's his secret? And then it widens and there's a cage with sort of a. I mean, it's a paper mache, rabid kangaroo looking thing.
Akiva Schaffer
How long had you been working on that? Not even knowing what we were gonna do with it.
Seth Meyers
Okay, well, do you guys remember that I had made it like I was in the process of sort of making it for a while. Yeah, it was in our room and I had made it out of. I was making puppets. Let's go back a little bit. So we've had puppets in some of our other things before. Stork patrol is early lonely island days. We made a giant stork puppet. I made that out of, like chicken wire and bed sheets cut up into pieces to make like feathers and like a pole that goes through. And then we made a puppet of Sarah chalk when we couldn't get her to be in this.
Akiva Schaffer
The Boo. Channel 101.
Seth Meyers
The Channel 101. The Boo episode. So I made it out of a FedEx box and made this like sort of puppet looking thing. So I love making puppets. I had wanted to do this idea for a really long time of this rabid kangaroo thing. So I made it out of a classic, like third grade style. Big balloon, paper mache body. And it's calling it a kangaroo is really. It's like, it looks like a weird rat with big ears.
Andy Samberg
Until Will calls it a kangaroo. That would never occur to me.
Seth Meyers
No, like, never. It doesn't even have a pouch. And it was like a tube that you would get a poster. Like was its neck, I remember. And it has eyeballs. Its eyeballs are light bulbs. So it like looks really bugged out and like sort of cracked out psychotic looking. And then the. The noise it's making as soon as he whips off the thing is like, this is. This is what I use. My secret weapon is this. Which is. Is. So it's basically the Tasmanian Devil kind of sound.
Andy Samberg
And it's you, right?
Seth Meyers
It's me just going. And I'm puppeteering it as well. And I'm banging it against. And I remember Keith, we had a lot of fun making it, like. So the premise is that he. Well, go ahead, Seth, you tell me.
Andy Samberg
Well, so before I get to the premise, did you build the puppet for the purpose of this short, or did you build the puppet and then come up with a short to fit the puppet?
Seth Meyers
Sort of both. I always sort of knew that I wanted it to be this psychotic kangaroo. I remember at one point. Correct me if I'm wrong, both of you guys, but didn't Rolling Stone, early days of Lonely island at SNL come and take pictures in our room? And there was a double page spread, I think, in Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone. And it's us dressed in like almost like Beastie Boy style. Like we're in like hazmat suits or something, I don't know what. But I'm holding the kangaroo, but I can't find this. So I would love to see if anyone can track that down. But there's a picture of us and the kangaroo's in it.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah, I remember that.
Seth Meyers
Yeah. But yes, it was sort of both. I knew that I wanted to attack people, Seth, but I didn't. It wasn't real idea for the short necessarily.
Andy Samberg
So Will basically says that, you know, how do you keep young actors from sort of supplanting you on top of the mountain. And then he has a board of photos of the cast, and he sort of circles Kenan Thompson and shows Kenan to the rabid kangaroo puppet. And then we just sort of follow the kangaroo as it basically goes to find Kenan. And you guys are obviously. You're sort of wild filming it in New York, I'm assuming.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, yeah. And then a really fun song comes in that's just going, bum, bum, bum, bum bum bum bum, bum, bum. And then the kangaroo just sort of goes through the bottom of frame. Cause, like, I was obviously puppeteering and having to, like, crouch down Chaka style. And then he takes the subway. People sort of love seeing him because he's an adorable puppet thing. Yeah.
Andy Samberg
You see people enjoying it.
Seth Meyers
And then he finds Kenan in the.
Andy Samberg
Hallway of Snell and he bites Kenan in the throat. And it's super bloody. He kills Kenan. Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Then it gets really violent.
Akiva Schaffer
Was this the season finale?
Andy Samberg
It is, yeah.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah. That's the real energy that I remember. Yhorm. Because we had nobody famous with us, just a puppet. The joy of it being sunny out again and us getting to just run around the city with a puppet goofing around.
Seth Meyers
And I think you were filming it. Right.
Jorma Taccone
You like that sun? That's what we're learning today.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. Love that sun.
Akiva Schaffer
When the sun. When the sun starts shining in New York City after the long winter, it truly changes your. And you know, you're at the end of the season and you know that break is coming. It is genuinely a feeling I remember.
Jorma Taccone
I mean, odds that we're all kind of hungover from the writer's party are high.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. Yep. And let's not forget, you feel a lot better at the end of a good season and the end of a hot run of shows, which we were on.
Akiva Schaffer
Yes.
Andy Samberg
And that makes a massive. It's not like, oh, my God, end this nightmare. It's more like, oh, my God. Thank goodness we get to be happy about the last few things we did for the next three months. Yeah.
Akiva Schaffer
We had, like, a Boss and Mother Lover in the last three episodes, so we were feeling pretty good.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. And the shows were great and the.
Jorma Taccone
Hosts were great, and the boat was right before it. Right. We talked about that.
Andy Samberg
Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
It was a really, really nice stretch for us.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, you know what? What we didn't quite talk about one last Mother Lover thought was how cool it felt that we had made a whole album. We had been relying on that album, but not thinking of fresh ideas as much with Boat and Boss. And then all of a sudden, knowing we still had other songs from the album, had to come up with something brand new. And there was something kind of cool about being like, oh, my God, we made something for the next album, you know, like, that we were, like, ahead. That we had come up with something fresh. In the middle of promoting an album full of songs. I don't know.
Andy Samberg
I remember feeling good about Jeff found the picture. It's in the chat.
Seth Meyers
Oh, wow. Nice work.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, yeah, there's the guy. Andy Samberg's Mind Squad.
Jorma Taccone
Is that the Mind Squad one?
Andy Samberg
Mind Squad.
Jorma Taccone
We always hated that title so much.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, yeah, you're holding. Andy's got a real bottle of Santana DVX from her album.
Jorma Taccone
That's my favorite part.
Akiva Schaffer
The posters. We've talked about the multiple times about people putting up posters that we did not ask for in our album that we never found out who did it. It's a good little fun. We had a breakfast of Tiffany's, an Amelie and a train spotting poster.
Jorma Taccone
And Scarface, obviously.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah, yeah. The Scarface, though, is yhorm on purpose.
Andy Samberg
Well, obviously, we're gonna throw that in the show notes for you guys to look at as well.
Akiva Schaffer
Yep, yep.
Jorma Taccone
We've got the MacGruber control room sign on our door. We've got Be youe Own Pet, which was ours. We've got yhorm's monkey painting. Right yorm.
Akiva Schaffer
Yep.
Seth Meyers
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jorma Taccone
A monkey with a crown.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, that Brian Burton gave me some good stuff.
Jorma Taccone
We'll put this in the show notes, but hit us in the tit us on this photo.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
By the way, just to let you know, with the Mind Squad, whenever we would want rip on Andy, that's what we would mention that I do kind.
Andy Samberg
Of want to list this episode as the Seth Meyers and Andy Sandberg Mind Squad podcast.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, it's definitely not a fun moment when, like, two of your childhood best friends get referred to as your Mind Squad.
Akiva Schaffer
Also, there's not. I don't think people were.
Jorma Taccone
This one doesn't feel good.
Akiva Schaffer
Were people seeing Dick in a box and going, who are the minds that came up with this? Was that the first question?
Andy Samberg
No, no. I know he's the face, but who are the.
Seth Meyers
But what controls the face?
Andy Samberg
Yes, yes. He says the words. But who are the minds?
Akiva Schaffer
We need to know. Oh, shit.
Andy Samberg
And it's not one. I'll tell you that. There must be a squad.
Jorma Taccone
There must be an entire squad, which is, as we all know, two or more.
Andy Samberg
It's two men and a kangaroo puppet. That's not a kangaroo. It's a rat. No, it's a kangaroo. So again, like my secret weapon, the kangaroo finds Kenneth very bloody, bites him on the neck. Kenan dies, blood all over Andy, couple other cast members. And then cut back to Farrell as the bloody puppet returns. And he gets a phone call telling him that Kenan Thompson has died. And he has to feign shock and say, another kangaroo attack. So I have a question, though.
Seth Meyers
Well, can I say my favorite part of this, which I had forgotten?
Andy Samberg
Say as many, as much as you want.
Seth Meyers
It was really just that it ends with him crossing Keenan off the list. Scrape, scrape. And then. And Don Pardo's voice says, sorry, pal.
Akiva Schaffer
We can play this video too. I mean, we have it right here.
Jorma Taccone
Can we?
Andy Samberg
Let's take a look. Can I ask a question before we start?
Jorma Taccone
Yeah.
Andy Samberg
So you kind of know what's gonna happen because of how the kangaroo looks, Right? Right.
Akiva Schaffer
You mean like the audience does?
Andy Samberg
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Well, you forget because the song is so charming though. The song is really fun. Right, okay, so you're having a good time.
Akiva Schaffer
This is a half baked idea, but we thought it would pull through like Andy punching people on its like totally analog joy.
Andy Samberg
There was a lot of analog joy. Hi there.
Will Ferrell
I'm Hollywood icon Will the Money Pharrell. You know, in the movie game, there are a lot of young bucks out there going after the same chunk of change. I used to get pretty pissed off thinking about some B hole horning in on my future payday. But not anymore. All thanks to what I got under this tarp.
Seth Meyers
Not a tarp either.
Will Ferrell
Some sort of diseased kangaroo I found in the dumpster. And the way it works is simple. First I find some young dickhead starting to horn in on my turf today, Mr. Keenan Thompson, I make sure the kangaroo gets a good look at the jerk off so there can be no slip ups.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, my gosh.
Will Ferrell
When I open up the cage, Go get out there.
Akiva Schaffer
Don't petty.
Seth Meyers
Go get out there. Yeah, it's a lot of fun.
Akiva Schaffer
He's checking the subway maps. He's swiping his card. Just riding, pleasantly riding a subway. Oh, yeah. Seeing real faces looking at him.
Andy Samberg
It's a good puppet. It's a good puppet.
Seth Meyers
Thank you. Good puppeteering too. So then Kel says to me, more like bad burger.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, God. It's really bloody and violent.
Andy Samberg
Really good blood.
Will Ferrell
Nice work, you weird little freaky rat.
Akiva Schaffer
Hello.
Will Ferrell
What's that? Oh, no, no. Not another kangaroo attack. That's horrible.
Andy Samberg
Sorry, pal.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah, I get why it's in There.
Andy Samberg
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Yeah. But a lot of fun, though.
Andy Samberg
So, Andy, I can't believe you haven't shouted out who that.
Jorma Taccone
It's Frisbee. It's basically Frisbee. Yeah. It occurred to me in the rewatch, I was like, oh, it's Frisbee.
Seth Meyers
That's why I don't like Frisbee.
Jorma Taccone
This is the biopic about Frisbee who could die any day. We don't know.
Andy Samberg
I know. It's really. God damn it.
Akiva Schaffer
I saw that clip. I saw that Poehler clip. So Seth asked Poehler in their pre conversation that Poehler does on her podcast where she talks to a friend of a friend and says, what would you want to ask my guest? Seth says, tell him Frisbee died and see what. Genuinely tell it and see what his reaction is. And Andy's reaction is just joy. Just like. And then he immediately calls bullshit. Cause it's too good to be true. Just a. Just a. Don't, don't, don't. Don't do that to me. I know.
Andy Samberg
So it is really funny because Andy, this will surprise everyone to know, like, very image conscious. Like, there are times he's like, hey, let's take that out of the pod. I don't want to be caught. Like, you're just fully doubling down on a dog that's definitely gonna die likely in the next six months. Yeah, it's the best.
Jorma Taccone
I don't know what to tell you. It's just a bad looking dog.
Andy Samberg
We were saying that, like, Keev, I feel like Amy's delivery was the funniest version.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Andy Samberg
But like, she did go like, oh, dude.
Akiva Schaffer
Like she started.
Andy Samberg
Oh, dude. Oh, dude.
Jorma Taccone
Did you hear that?
Seth Meyers
That sounds a little false.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, a little false. But. But it was. I mean, I've watched it like 15 times. It makes me laugh so hard.
Seth Meyers
I'm very glad to have Andy reveal his dark side because. Mugless. I've been thinking about it when we've been talking about it.
Jorma Taccone
Don't drag me into your thing.
Seth Meyers
Well, you were sort of involved. You were sort of involved, Andy.
Jorma Taccone
One thing is like a fun jape between bros. The other is that of a sociopath.
Andy Samberg
No, it is not. And by the way, the fact that you keep wanting to tell the full story.
Akiva Schaffer
I keep waiting for Andy to back off, off and go, it's fine. You love the dog. Like, when the dog does pass away, I keep expecting to be like that. There's going to be some, I don't know, redemption at the end of this story, but then he just doubles and triples down.
Jorma Taccone
I do not like the dog. That's just true.
Andy Samberg
And you like dogs.
Jorma Taccone
I like them totally fine. There's dogs I love.
Akiva Schaffer
He tolerated. He was at my house. He tolerated the dog.
Jorma Taccone
There's dogs that when they come up to me, I'm like, oh. And I give them little snuggers and give them little sneaky.
Andy Samberg
He sent a video of your dog humping his leg. Like, humping my leg? He's the best dog. Oh, humping your leg.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, my God, that was so great. Keith just looking at his computer while the orchestra is, like, composing music for Naked Gun and his dog's just fucking his chin.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah, I just had toned it out. Just tuned it out.
Andy Samberg
Keith, you probably have watched the entirety of the original Naked Gun more recently than me.
Akiva Schaffer
I would say so.
Andy Samberg
Do you feel like a nine and a half year old dude. Dude could enjoy it? I know there's like some sexually suggestive stuff, but I feel like so many of the jokes are fun.
Akiva Schaffer
No. Yeah, the suggestive stuff is. It's just the giant condoms. It's the only thing where you could even get something explained.
Seth Meyers
That's in. That's in the first one. That's in number one.
Akiva Schaffer
Yes.
Seth Meyers
Oh, it is. Yeah.
Akiva Schaffer
And that's the only thing that you'd need explained. Like, what are. Why are they in these giant rubber suits? What are those? That would be it. Because anything else, like, nice beaver would just.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. Work on its flat level of a beaver comes down.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah. Or just go over their head and. And they wouldn't be like, what's the double joke to this? Why were you laughing earlier than I was laughing? What they won't know is, like, it's an entirely new genre to them.
Andy Samberg
Right.
Akiva Schaffer
Like, so the idea of even voiceover being like, I'm on a detective case and I had to do it. It's just all foreign.
Andy Samberg
But there's stuff like. I'm like, almost everything that happens at the baseball stadium is gonna crush with him. You know what I mean?
Seth Meyers
That's wonderful. Yeah.
Andy Samberg
Dancing umpire and.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah, yeah. Getting attacked by a lion and someone's head falling off. I'll be curious to know. I have not shown it to my kids, but I'd be curious to see because we certainly would have loved it at 9a.
Seth Meyers
I think the condom thing is the biggest weird thing. But everything else, that's the only thing that we were.
Akiva Schaffer
Someone might ask a question and you might have to have a bird.
Andy Samberg
I mean, I still don't get that joke. I still don't get it.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah. Because it's against God.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. Well, because the only thing my dad told me.
Jorma Taccone
Using a rubber. Never that.
Andy Samberg
The only thing my dad told me.
Jorma Taccone
Sorry, that was Seth's thing. We're not recording.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
I was like, damn.
Andy Samberg
Really? Yeah. All right.
Jorma Taccone
So I got babies everywhere, bro.
Akiva Schaffer
I got them.
Andy Samberg
I got bigwear. Why you think I'm doing so many podcasts?
Jorma Taccone
I'm just like, damn, this is not your public Persona.
Akiva Schaffer
No.
Jorma Taccone
I got fucking kids everywhere.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah. And I don't know exactly what that tone is, but it doesn't feel like you.
Jorma Taccone
I am put here by God to make more me. That's what he says.
Andy Samberg
And I'm like, whenever you're on location, traveling, Andy, remember, I'm always like, say hi to my kids, wherever you are.
Seth Meyers
By the way, Seth blushed really hard. I was watching him blush for that last thing.
Andy Samberg
I was mostly just thinking, like, oh, my God, that would love that.
Akiva Schaffer
Have kids everywhere.
Jorma Taccone
Cause you love kids so much.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Andy Samberg
So, Harry. Mugless. Mugless. Okay, first of all, so mugless. I think because it's called Mugless, we just talk about it more than maybe it deserves, but Mugless just always made us laugh. Is the title of a sketch.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Andy Samberg
Now, Yoram, you can talk about the sketch or you can talk about how autobiographical it is.
Seth Meyers
No, no, I think we need to talk about, like, just how it came. Came to be. So, yes, this was. This is one of the few sketches that I, like, wrote. Just me solo at the. You know, at the show.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. A rare Taccone solo at effort.
Seth Meyers
And so this came from when we were all living in Los Angeles.
Andy Samberg
Nice.
Seth Meyers
When we were all living in Los Angeles together.
Andy Samberg
We almost missed it. I just want to say, Andy, that was almost too late.
Jorma Taccone
Almost missed it.
Seth Meyers
You got it.
Jorma Taccone
But I got there. Tacolo. It's a tacolo.
Akiva Schaffer
Solo.
Andy Samberg
Solo.
Jorma Taccone
Tacolo. Anyway, hit us in the Titus. Tell us if you think you think of it.
Andy Samberg
In the Titus.
Seth Meyers
So we were temping. I think we've talked about temping before on this. On the show. Me and Andy got a job for, I think, like, four days working for a company called Pure Beauty, which I was surprised that no who worked there ever thought. If you say it fast, it sounds like puberty. And everyone was like, really? Oh, yeah. We were working at Pure Beauty, and our job was to, like, cut things. I think we were supposed to, like, take one of those, like, slicer paper slicers. And we were slicing paper. Like, that was all I remember doing. Andy, I don't know if we did other things, but we were in this one little room together. There was this one woman who was in charge of us, and she was a really sweet little person. And she. And she kept calling us her champion cutters. She's like, oh, how are my champion cutters doing? And she was.
Andy Samberg
She was very sweet.
Seth Meyers
She was kind of very mild mannered. We were champion cutters.
Akiva Schaffer
It's so condescending.
Seth Meyers
And at one point, you guys, this.
Andy Samberg
Is such a reminder that before you guys were like, a hit, you were such losers.
Jorma Taccone
We were not worried about it, Seth. We weren't worried about it at all.
Seth Meyers
No, we. We were just excited that we got to work together all day long and, like, talk to each other.
Jorma Taccone
We literally were just like, how can we pay the rent and eat one burrito today so that we can shoot stuff?
Seth Meyers
Yeah. So we can go make music videos.
Andy Samberg
So she could have called you anything is what you're saying.
Seth Meyers
Oh, truly, truly.
Andy Samberg
Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah. We were so dissociated from the experience of working. We were basically the anoras of temp agencies.
Seth Meyers
We were the anoras of champion cutters.
Akiva Schaffer
Well, we said we would do. We wanted the jobs where two or three of us could do it together, which we've covered before.
Seth Meyers
We would take less paying jobs just. Just so we could work.
Jorma Taccone
We'd come in and we'd be like, we don't usually let people tell us to cut this, but for you, you're special.
Seth Meyers
We'll be your champion cutter.
Jorma Taccone
Bring us back next week.
Seth Meyers
I do hope she hears this episode, because this is all new information. So. So I went to the break room at one point and I. I found this mug. It's kind of a classic mug. It has green and blue on it and there's those little leaves on it. Like, if you saw it, you'd be like, I've seen that mug before.
Akiva Schaffer
Right?
Seth Meyers
I liked it. It was kind of thick. It was good for, like, tea or coffee or whatever. And I was like, look at this mug.
Andy Samberg
Cool.
Seth Meyers
And I brought it in to Annie. I was like, check it out.
Andy Samberg
Out.
Seth Meyers
I'm take this mug. I put the mug in my bag and I stole it. I went home. We were coming back.
Jorma Taccone
I forgot. You actually took it. I thought you hit it.
Seth Meyers
Oh, dude. No, I took it. I stole it.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, my God. Okay, keep going.
Akiva Schaffer
He tipped himself. You're being paid minimum wage to cut paper. He's. He stole. He's in his very early twenties. And I will say we immediately were like, what are you doing? We're not. It wasn't like we were like, yeah, we're the kind of people that steal things.
Andy Samberg
I think to some degree, you thought it was a trophy that a champion cutter deserved.
Jorma Taccone
Seth.
Seth Meyers
I was cutting hella fast that day.
Andy Samberg
Gotcha.
Jorma Taccone
He's like, normally, I don't steal, but I did cut.
Akiva Schaffer
Well, I just want to again reiterate that Jorma did not usually steal things, and me and Andy never did.
Jorma Taccone
Correct.
Akiva Schaffer
And we did not think this was ethically.
Seth Meyers
This gets worse, though. This gets.
Akiva Schaffer
I know, but we did not think this was, like, morally or ethically correct. And we were saying so.
Andy Samberg
And I hope I. And I hope listeners know. And I've always said this. You three are some of the most ethically sound people I know. So this is very out of fashion.
Seth Meyers
Is that out of character for who?
Andy Samberg
I don't know.
Seth Meyers
I don't know. I want to push back on that. Like, Keeva, do you remember when we.
Andy Samberg
Broke in the brain? I would stop saying we. Yhorm. I would stop saying we.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, that's probably a good call.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah, but let's not talk about that either. This was like the medieval times drunk Yhorm stealing the photo, but he was sober.
Andy Samberg
Oh, yeah.
Jorma Taccone
This is the second time we've talked about yhorm stealing. So maybe yhorm does steal. Akiva.
Akiva Schaffer
Yes. He's got a little bit of a pranky, evil little streak. A little gremlin.
Seth Meyers
If it's funny enough. If it's funny enough. Yeah.
Andy Samberg
So again, let's get to the funny enough.
Seth Meyers
Okay, so, okay, so I steal the mode. It's the next day we go back because we're going there multiple days. And then as I'm going through the halls, going back to the champion cutter room, I hear in the break room the little voice who I recognize very well as our boss mentor, just being like, hey, has anyone seen my mug? Hey, my mug's missing. Has anyone seen my mug? And I was just like. I ran into Andy's, like, just giggle full of giggles into the room of the champion cutter room. And I was like, andy, it was her mug. I took. I took her mug. She's missing her mug, and she's freaking out about it.
Jorma Taccone
And.
Seth Meyers
And he was like, you're a bad person. I remember he turned to me, like, like, you're a really awful person. You should get back. I was like, no fucking way, dude. I like, I love that, keeping that mug. And I kept it. And do you feel.
Akiva Schaffer
Is this kind of a frisbee thing, though, where you can relate because you also have a similar blind spot of being a really good person.
Seth Meyers
And then all of a sudden. Thank you.
Jorma Taccone
It's exactly the same sociopath's crazy decision to steal a mug and then get.
Akiva Schaffer
Off on it coming out of your mouth that you just said that you'd be happy when the dog that has brought the Myers family so much joy for a decade passes away. You're going to.
Jorma Taccone
It's not going to.
Seth Meyers
I think it's the exact same thing.
Jorma Taccone
It's not the same thing. Here's why it's not the same thing. Cuz Seth is a cocky piece of.
Akiva Schaffer
Okay.
Andy Samberg
This.
Jorma Taccone
This woman to be nice to us. You know what I'm saying? Like.
Andy Samberg
And break.
Jorma Taccone
Alexi. The two of them together are but pie couple of smug.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
They shove their little rat on your lap. You clearly have to use the bathroom.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
And you're like, yeah, well guess what, Trauma. From now on you live in my trauma too. Whereas this nice lady was just trying to cheer us on. We were fucking losers. You heard Seth.
Seth Meyers
I gotta disagree by the way.
Jorma Taccone
I gotta high horse Seth calling losers. This is exactly why I have to rip on Frisbee. Because his fault. And then your.
Seth Meyers
Here's the reason it's the same.
Akiva Schaffer
I don't think 24 year olds that have to take temp jobs are losers by the way.
Kristen Wiig
Nor do I.
Jorma Taccone
That's why Seth is such a piece of shit and Frisbee's a rat. I mean it all makes sense. I don't understand why I even have to defend this. It's so fucking clear. The lines are crystal clearly connected.
Akiva Schaffer
But we were 20. I think we were actually 22.
Jorma Taccone
You're a beautiful mind. You're a beautiful mind. Keeves.
Akiva Schaffer
You're 22. Maybe you're much older and should know better. Go ahead.
Seth Meyers
Okay. The reason. The reason it's the same. The reason it's exactly the same is because.
Jorma Taccone
Just finish your story.
Seth Meyers
I started calling her mugless to her face. So when she came in like as she would say, like oh look, we're. I'm like, oh, what was that? Mugless. And she'd be like. But I would slip it in really fast. And I just started calling her mother to her face.
Andy Samberg
So. No, but Andy was never an audience. Andy never enjoyed it. So you're just doing this for you. The comedy was for you.
Akiva Schaffer
Well, he knew it was driving.
Seth Meyers
No, I was doing it for Andy's benefit. Yeah. Because I was doing it in front.
Jorma Taccone
Of Andy was part of you getting off on it was me being like, why are you doing this?
Akiva Schaffer
Yes. It became a show for someone disliking it the same way. If nobody was bothered by the Frisbee talk, it would have died out a long time ago.
Seth Meyers
Exactly. Thank you, Keith.
Jorma Taccone
Firm disagree. Firm disagree. That's embedded in my DNA.
Seth Meyers
So anyway, then. Then I wrote the sketch, which is basically Will Ferrell doing basically beat for beat. I can't remember. Who's is it? Abby Elliott. Abby Elliott plays Muglas Abby Elliot.
Andy Samberg
Abby Elliot is the nice lady.
Jorma Taccone
And can I just get out in front of. You know, it played for the SNL audience pretty much the same way it played for me in real life.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. They were not.
Akiva Schaffer
Why would you do this? She's nice. Why are you torturing her?
Andy Samberg
And it's. It's also like a really. People love Will Ferrell and he's playing just a bad guy just playing me. Nobody's that psyched about watching him be a bad guy.
Akiva Schaffer
We should have asked Feral for a voice note.
Andy Samberg
Oh, my God.
Akiva Schaffer
Maybe next episode.
Andy Samberg
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Yeah. I don't know if he'll remember it, but it's.
Andy Samberg
Can we watch it?
Seth Meyers
Do we have it?
Akiva Schaffer
I think he'll remember it. I do have it.
Seth Meyers
Well, and then. Okay. So to. To complete the cycle, though, so, Seth, very sweetly, because I loved this, obviously, because it was just a piece of my heart, you know, like. And so when it didn't air, it was. It was the end of season. Seth, you gave me the card that was on the board of Mugless. I did, yeah. He framed it and gave it to me as a gift. And then another great gift that he did was that just recently, maybe a year ago, I received in the mail a fucking mug. Mug that Seth stole from me, like 10 years previous.
Andy Samberg
No, it's. That's not true. You left your mug at my house. Yeah, I didn't steal it.
Seth Meyers
It was my fault.
Kristen Wiig
You.
Seth Meyers
In my mind, you stole it.
Andy Samberg
The mugless guy literally begged me to take his mug, which I did for. I kept it for 10 years. And I would send you a picture once a year of me drinking out of your mug. And that's just karma, buddy. That's just karma.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, I wish you would.
Andy Samberg
But then I finally did mail it back.
Seth Meyers
You did. I know you did it. That was really nice.
Andy Samberg
I passively stole it.
Seth Meyers
So I got my.
Andy Samberg
I stole it.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Akiva Schaffer
Gorm, do you have the mug from Mugless?
Andy Samberg
The.
Akiva Schaffer
Not the sketch. The real one. Did it come from LA to New York?
Seth Meyers
Well, I did recreate the mug. I had them create the exact same Mug for the sketch.
Akiva Schaffer
So you threw it away at some point. You gave it away to Goodwill. The one you stole from the sport lady smashed it.
Andy Samberg
I'm very excited. We're gonna watch. I mean, by the way, a couple things. Mugless does not play. There are still like, four really funny parts in it. Feral's great. Andy is basically playing himself now. I realize in the sketch, I realized it more.
Jorma Taccone
I rewatched it before this, but I'm now like, oh, right. I was playing it the way I actually played it. Irl.
Andy Samberg
All right, here we go.
Akiva Schaffer
What a treat. Yeah, most sketches aren't ripped from real life this much.
Andy Samberg
Hey, hey, hey, Peter.
Jorma Taccone
Peter.
Seth Meyers
Oh, hey, Dean.
Jorma Taccone
What's going down? What are you doing back here?
Will Ferrell
Check it out.
Akiva Schaffer
His red hair.
Andy Samberg
It's a great wig.
Will Ferrell
Lost her mug.
Akiva Schaffer
Jump.
Andy Samberg
Right.
Will Ferrell
She's really freaking.
Seth Meyers
Oh, that's too bad.
Will Ferrell
Yeah, totally.
Seth Meyers
Wait, isn't that Kathy's mug that you're holding?
Will Ferrell
Oh, is it? I hadn't noticed. Jump around.
Andy Samberg
Oh, my God.
Will Ferrell
Here she comes.
Kristen Wiig
Hey, guys, have either of you seen my mug? I put it in the cupboard yesterday and now it's gone.
Will Ferrell
Oh, no. Kathy, you lost your favorite mug?
Kristen Wiig
Yeah, I can't find it anywhere.
Will Ferrell
Oh, that's terrible. Isn't that terrible, Peter? Kathy lost her favorite mug.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, that's really lame, Kathy.
Jorma Taccone
I'm sorry about that.
Will Ferrell
Hey, did you check in the dishwasher? Maybe it's in there.
Seth Meyers
Oh, yeah.
Kristen Wiig
Thanks, Dean.
Will Ferrell
You bet.
Akiva Schaffer
One guy loved it.
Will Ferrell
That was hilarious. What a waste of space, huh?
Andy Samberg
Cool out, mate.
Will Ferrell
Whatever, Peter.
Andy Samberg
Wig and Andy Entertainment.
Kristen Wiig
Hey.
Will Ferrell
Hey, Erica. Barry, come over here.
Jorma Taccone
What's going on?
Will Ferrell
Check it out. Kathy lost her favorite mug again. What a loser, right?
Jorma Taccone
You're holding her mug.
Will Ferrell
Yeah, it's a prank, Barry. It's funny.
Kristen Wiig
I don't know, Dean. She seems really upset.
Will Ferrell
Oh, grow up, Erica. It's a joke. Uh oh, here she comes. Don't blow it.
Kristen Wiig
Oh, yeah. That's not in the dishwasher either.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, no.
Will Ferrell
That's like your favorite mug too, right?
Kristen Wiig
Yeah, my mom gave it to me.
Will Ferrell
Oh, that's terrible.
Kristen Wiig
I know. For my birthday.
Will Ferrell
Yeah, sure.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, I seen my mug.
Akiva Schaffer
He's playing your.
Will Ferrell
Nope, nobody's seen it. Hey, why don't you check over the fridge? Sometimes Maria puts the cups up there.
Andy Samberg
Really?
Will Ferrell
Yeah. Go search around up there.
Andy Samberg
Okay.
Kristen Wiig
Thanks, Dean.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, my God. I wish everyone could see how hard Yoram's laughing right now.
Andy Samberg
That's so great.
Jorma Taccone
Like it just happened. He's so happy.
Will Ferrell
Oh, my God. What a piece of Human crap.
Jorma Taccone
You're such a jerk, Dean.
Will Ferrell
You're such a jerk, Dean. Grow up, Barry. Hey, check it out. Mugless is scratching her butt.
Andy Samberg
Pause real quick.
Seth Meyers
We're halfway through.
Andy Samberg
So Will says, look, she's scratching her butt. It cuts to her. She's definitely not scratching her butt. Also, there's a very funny move of him telling everybody else to grow up. I mean, not funny in that the audience is enjoying it.
Seth Meyers
No, they're not.
Andy Samberg
But it's a nice. It's a nice piece of writing.
Seth Meyers
Thanks.
Akiva Schaffer
This is a character study. It's very nice.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, there's shades of surf meeting in this also.
Seth Meyers
Oh, yeah.
Andy Samberg
Also, it's a great wig. It is a great wig. Again, Ferrell had a perfect head for wigs, but, you know. Fantastic.
Akiva Schaffer
Yes. It doesn't look impossible. It looks real, yet it's just turning him into a different person.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, I think when you're complimenting the wig, though, definitely there's something wrong with the sketch.
Will Ferrell
Hey, check it out. Mugless is scratching her butt.
Akiva Schaffer
Definitely not.
Jorma Taccone
No, she's looking for her stolen mug.
Will Ferrell
Well, she was scratching her butt. You just missed it.
Kristen Wiig
I can't watch this.
Will Ferrell
Good. Then don't. What's her problem?
Seth Meyers
Does not enjoy this.
Kristen Wiig
That's my mug.
Will Ferrell
Damn it.
Andy Samberg
You blew it.
Kristen Wiig
Ding. Did you take my mug?
Will Ferrell
So what if I did, Mugless? You can't do anything about it.
Kristen Wiig
Yes, I can. You're fired.
Will Ferrell
What? You can't fire me, Dean.
Kristen Wiig
I'm your boss.
Andy Samberg
Which was the reality of the situation.
Jorma Taccone
It's true.
Will Ferrell
Okay, look, we had a lot of fun today.
Kristen Wiig
No. No, we haven't.
Will Ferrell
You're right, we didn't. We never have fun here. Cause you guys are all big fat faced idiots. And if it wasn't for me, this place would be lame. Me? Dean, just leave.
Jorma Taccone
Dean, you're done, man.
Will Ferrell
I think I have appendicitis.
Kristen Wiig
Yeah, Dean, you don't have appendicitis. You always say that, and you never do.
Will Ferrell
This time it's for real. It's a different kind of pain.
Andy Samberg
Ow.
Will Ferrell
Can I have your mug?
Andy Samberg
No.
Will Ferrell
Then no one can have it. Damn it.
Jorma Taccone
Tries to break it and it does not.
Will Ferrell
What is this made of? Is there rebar in this? Oh, seriously, feel my thigh.
Akiva Schaffer
No, seriously.
Will Ferrell
It feels weird and hard.
Kristen Wiig
Okay, okay. Give me the mug and get out, Dean.
Will Ferrell
Fine.
Andy Samberg
Fine.
Will Ferrell
Here is your mug, okay? Here is your mug right here.
Andy Samberg
Holding it out a window.
Will Ferrell
Stay back. I will do it. I will drop this mug, so back off. Barry.
Akiva Schaffer
Cross the room. Get out of the.
Will Ferrell
I am Perfectly safe here. Your mug, on the other hand, is.
Akiva Schaffer
Falling. But the mug didn't.
Seth Meyers
Well, he died. So that's the moral.
Andy Samberg
He died. A crazy, crazy good fall by Will. Will had to hold a mug out a window, and then he had to fall out the window and somehow get the mug back into the.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, that was better than I thought it was.
Andy Samberg
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
I mean, here's the thing. I did have the protagonist of the sketch die, so in a way, I do have a moral compass, you know.
Jorma Taccone
For sure. Oh, for sure, for sure.
Seth Meyers
Yorm, thanks.
Andy Samberg
For sure.
Akiva Schaffer
If that was a pre tape that almost. That had a lot of. I think you should leave. Hallmarks pre dating. I think you should leave.
Andy Samberg
Yes.
Akiva Schaffer
A protagonist who's a bad person, who is wrong and then has a series of excuses when his first main excuse doesn't work. Starts going to being sick, starts going to that. He's being attacked.
Andy Samberg
Attacked.
Jorma Taccone
I have appendicitis. Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Feel my thigh.
Akiva Schaffer
And then it's like, barry, back off. And you're across the room.
Andy Samberg
Yeah.
Akiva Schaffer
You know, the only move it didn't do is get sanctimonious. But, yeah, doing a speech of like. Yeah. To cry or to be like, is this really where we're at? People can't have fun anymore. But he does. Yeah. He tries to turn it on everybody else, saying it's the office's fault.
Jorma Taccone
Ironically, Yorm wearing and I think you should leave T shirt right now.
Akiva Schaffer
There you go.
Seth Meyers
So I guess I'm a fan.
Jorma Taccone
So you're Biff and you traveled to the future and stole their ideas.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Andy Samberg
Nicely done, buddy. Because that's how little Yoram knows about sports. He could not bring any sports facts back in time with him.
Jorma Taccone
Future Yorm was like, take this sports almanac. He's like, come on, man. You bothered me.
Seth Meyers
Nobody's going to care about that.
Andy Samberg
But I just watched. I think you should leave. And it ties into a piece of my personal bio.
Jorma Taccone
No, obviously, we all find that sketch very funny.
Seth Meyers
Really good, man.
Andy Samberg
I mean, shouldn't have aired.
Akiva Schaffer
Really good.
Jorma Taccone
And yeah, there were also some blocking issues and overlappy stuff that threw off the rhythm early on, I will say, but I don't think that was the difference.
Andy Samberg
Abby was very good.
Jorma Taccone
Abby was very good.
Andy Samberg
And just because she never really over. She just seemed sad without being, you know, dramatic about it.
Seth Meyers
That's how it was in real life, too. I mean, she wasn't that dramatic about it.
Jorma Taccone
Well, except for that woman never knew.
Seth Meyers
That you took it well until now. Maybe she's out there.
Jorma Taccone
You Like Amelied her.
Andy Samberg
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Yeah. Hey, hit us in the Titus. Especially if you're her.
Jorma Taccone
Probably because we had that poster.
Akiva Schaffer
Maybe she was the one putting the posters up in our office as her slow revenge.
Jorma Taccone
God damn, that'd be crazy, because this was in la, so.
Andy Samberg
Right.
Akiva Schaffer
Yep. She came to New York.
Jorma Taccone
I mean, Amelie would have, you know.
Seth Meyers
Spent the rest of her days.
Akiva Schaffer
Put a train spot in here.
Andy Samberg
Amelie famously loved to travel.
Jorma Taccone
Or maybe she just sent the gnome to do it. Maybe the gnome did it because the gnome travels a lot in that movie.
Andy Samberg
Haven't seen Amelie since the first time. How many times do you. Be honest? How many times do you think you've seen Amelie?
Jorma Taccone
Two.
Andy Samberg
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Wow. I'm only seen it once.
Jorma Taccone
I remember stuff. I watch. Yeah, you remember facts about the world.
Andy Samberg
I love Amelie. I loved it when I saw it and I wonder if it would hold up.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, I don't know.
Akiva Schaffer
My kids were asking to see it and I couldn't remember if it would be appropriate.
Andy Samberg
I bet it is.
Akiva Schaffer
Or give them nightmares.
Andy Samberg
Whimsy.
Jorma Taccone
Isn't there some sex stuff, though? French. They always gotta be sexin' frogs. Tell em.
Seth Meyers
You are probably without condoms too.
Andy Samberg
I feel like I have a memory of her, like, being sexed, but like, she's just like.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, exactly.
Andy Samberg
Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
Being sexed.
Andy Samberg
Being sexed. Well, that's how I say it. When it's whimsical, I say being sexed.
Jorma Taccone
You remember the part in the movie where that French guy is pushing the laby?
Andy Samberg
I think in France it's le B.
Jorma Taccone
Got it.
Andy Samberg
Here's the thing.
Seth Meyers
Will you guys mind terribly if we end this or.
Andy Samberg
Oh, yeah, here's the thing. But we're going to end the whole podcast.
Seth Meyers
Yeah. We end this whole.
Andy Samberg
You're miscolor. Correcting his movie. So we got to go. But here's the. The thing. I would like to make space to talk about the rest of this episode.
Jorma Taccone
Yes.
Andy Samberg
So maybe we'll just do that next time out. It's a really special one. And ends the season.
Jorma Taccone
Keith had to go last time. Yoram, you can just go and we'll just recap that app.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, I can bounce.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah, yeah. Just sing him to Seth's Corner and then leave.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, exactly.
Seth Meyers
Okay, great. Seth's corner. This is the part of the show that actually made it on the show. Hey, take it away, Seth.
Jorma Taccone
All right, preemptive. Love you, Yorm.
Andy Samberg
Love you, Yorm.
Akiva Schaffer
Love you, yorm. See ya.
Seth Meyers
Love you. Bye, guys.
Andy Samberg
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Kristen Wiig
Mama papa.
Akiva Schaffer
This was a good show. I remember this show. We had Green Day.
Jorma Taccone
I was looking at the rundown and I couldn't really remember any of it. So I'm excited for you to remind me what things were.
Andy Samberg
All right, well, we'll start over in incest corner. Cold open, which was not the cold open address. It's Dick Cheney getting makeup on. There's a very sweet thing that happens in this Will Ferrell returning the SNL sketch, which is it's a big Daryl Hammond show. And that made me really happy because Darrell did a lot of political stuff. But of course, he had been a part of Will's cast and they had stuff they did together. And so it was nice that Daryl had a big show. And the first sketch is Dick Cheney getting in makeup. He's about to do Meet the Press. And then Will comes in as Bush and it's a really nice Bush and Dick Cheney scene.
Jorma Taccone
Yes.
Andy Samberg
And there's some really funny stuff. It's mostly w telling him, stop doing so much press.
Jorma Taccone
I have been making some television appearances.
Will Ferrell
Some. You're on TV more than that ShamWow guy.
Andy Samberg
Well, I understand this Visibility is a bit of a change for me.
Will Ferrell
Yeah, no, duh, to the max, Dick. I mean, I spent eight years with my face out there saying things I barely understand. Well, you are nowhere to be found.
Andy Samberg
And he also at one point says, like, I wish I could have had a vice president like Joe Biden who is doing dumb stuff to make the president look smarter.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, boy.
Andy Samberg
Then wonderful monologue. I believe he was. This was after he had done his George Bush one man show.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, right.
Andy Samberg
And so had been nominated for a Tony. And that might have been the inspiration for Paula's monologue, which is he comes out very much dressed theatrically like, you know, black clothes, scarf. And he does a scene from a play he wrote. And it's a really like bad one man show type play. And people have Irish accents. But then like three different times he has to ask for the line.
Akiva Schaffer
Knock, knock.
Will Ferrell
Who's there? It's your son. It's your son Who? It's your son.
Andy Samberg
Who?
Will Ferrell
And I'm sorry line.
Kristen Wiig
It's your son who loves you.
Will Ferrell
It's your son who loves you. It's your son who loves you.
Andy Samberg
People keep laughing because, of course, it's Will Ferrell. And he keeps saying, please don't laugh. Which is a very funny move, A.
Jorma Taccone
Tough move to pull off. You gotta be Will Ferrell, basically, to do that and not have it backfire.
Andy Samberg
Yes, of course.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah. That's impossible move for anybody else.
Andy Samberg
Yes.
Jorma Taccone
I feel like him and Zach Galvanakis are the only two people I've ever seen do that successfully.
Andy Samberg
You're right. Where people know they're supposed to keep laughing.
Akiva Schaffer
Yes.
Andy Samberg
Then a throwback, which rarely happened. And I wonder how it came about. But the commercial parody was this sketch where he's a attorney who sues dogs. Oh, Wade Blasingame blazingamen. Yeah, Wade Blazing game, which is also the name of an old baseball player. And he literally, off the top, has to say, not that ball player.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, got it.
Andy Samberg
He's a lawyer. And it starts with him saying, would you let a person do this? And it's people getting out of a car with groceries, and Parnell runs over wearing a blue Speedo and just starts humping everybody.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember that.
Andy Samberg
And then it's a bunch of other things where it's, again, Parnell's just a dude in a blue Speedo who's doing things dogs do, like humping legs or digging a hole in the back backyard. And the point of the lawyer is, you wouldn't let a person do this. Why would you let a dog? And he sues dogs.
Jorma Taccone
Yes.
Andy Samberg
And the goal is, obviously, since you can't get money from dogs, is just to have the dogs put down. And there's also a really nice detail where he has a very clearly a dog scratch scar across his face.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah. There's a backstory.
Andy Samberg
You can tell this is why he hates dogs.
Jorma Taccone
Wait, Parnell is in it?
Andy Samberg
Well, it's old. It's old school. It's like the commercial parody from, like, 10 years ago.
Jorma Taccone
Oh. And it aired on this show.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. It must have just been like, oh, Will's back. I love that. Let's put that in.
Jorma Taccone
Crazy.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. It was very fun to see it again.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah.
Will Ferrell
Is it right for someone to do this to you? No. Then why is it okay if a dog does it, it's not sue them. I fight for your rights as a human being. I've sued over 2,000 canines, and I'm willing to do it for you.
Andy Samberg
There's Lawrence Welk. Oh, yeah.
Jorma Taccone
Always great.
Andy Samberg
Wonderful. Always great.
Will Ferrell
A bicycle built for two.
Kristen Wiig
I put worms in my bed and slept in my bed and put a squirrel in my bed and mustard in my bed. And then I ate them all. Is that bad?
Andy Samberg
Yes, that is bad. There is then a sketch that Klein and Solomon wrote called. Called Mark. Do you remember Mark?
Jorma Taccone
Oh, my God. Mark. I quote Mark all the time.
Andy Samberg
I quote Mark all the time, too.
Jorma Taccone
You gotta laugh.
Akiva Schaffer
What's the sketch called?
Andy Samberg
It's. It's tnt. Mark is tnt.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, it's a Solomon Klein.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, it's Solomon Klein.
Jorma Taccone
And you and Sublette.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. I feel like I barely had anything to do with it. Basically, the idea is, it's Bill Hader is Ernie Johnson. Kenan is Barkley. And while they're doing the halftime show, they do that thing they used to do in TNT where, like, the lower third, there would come out a promo for a new show. And they started doing a thing where it wasn't just a photo. It was sort of a. Not live action, but it was like the. It was actual footage of somebody moving around and pointing a camera. And his name was Mark, and he was a single dad with three kids. And the fun part was that Charles Barkley was very taken with Mark.
Jorma Taccone
I like Mark.
Andy Samberg
There's a lot of that.
Seth Meyers
Oh, Mark's back and he's got a baby and a dope.
Jorma Taccone
Hey, Mark, you can't dust buster baby.
Will Ferrell
Mark, what do you call a single dad with three kids and no clue? Mark. From the creators of Jif.
Seth Meyers
Mark is an instant classic.
Jorma Taccone
It was so fun. And the way they wrote it was just like at this moment in time, those invasive ads for sitcoms over something else you were watching was so aggressive. It was like the network's new move to try. And I remember it was. I feel like it really was. Solomon and Klein were like, we hate this, and let's do one with Will.
Andy Samberg
Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
Mark's Rules for life is the one I always remember.
Andy Samberg
Don't get married, find a babysitter. And rule number three, Andy, you gotta laugh. Also, Kenan starts trying to talk to Mark.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, see? Hey, Mark, your casserole's on fire.
Will Ferrell
He can't hear you.
Jorma Taccone
I know. It's just playfulness. Hey, Mark, where's your oven mitts?
Andy Samberg
I skipped over again. Jeopardy. Jeopardy. Amazing.
Jorma Taccone
Which one was it?
Andy Samberg
So it's probably the last time he did it as trebek before the 40th. But you got Kristen Wiig. Is Kathy Lee Gifford. Just an exceptional observation on Kathie Lee Gifford. Wig did it was Tom Hanks. As Tom Hanks in the middle. So that's your first killer cameo is that Tom Hanks is there, and then Sean Connery, who just fantastic. Old school. Immediately. So filthy.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah.
Akiva Schaffer
One of the best ones ever.
Jorma Taccone
What's some of the choice nugs in that one?
Andy Samberg
Yeah, you know, it always came back. And it's like, let's check in on the scores. And Sean Connery was negative 69. And Trebek says, 69 wasn't your score. And he says, well, that's how I scored with your mother last night.
Jorma Taccone
Good.
Akiva Schaffer
Is there a good therapist?
Andy Samberg
There is. Well, first, also, Trebek says, my mother is infirm. She uses a walker. And Connery says, she is a walker. A street walker. It was Catch these men was the category. Catch the semen.
Jorma Taccone
Catch the semen, yeah. Which is good, but I.
Andy Samberg
It's okay. It's not great.
Jorma Taccone
Catch these men.
Andy Samberg
Catch these men. Because even when he says catch these men, he says, that is people on the FBI's most wanted list. So it be needs to. To do a little bit of work.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, I see.
Andy Samberg
I think it stayed in because it provided Sean Connery the chance after Catch the Seaman to say, is that what the mustache is for? Trebek?
Akiva Schaffer
That is worth it.
Jorma Taccone
Damn it.
Andy Samberg
Then it cuts in Norm McDonald's. There is Burt Reynolds.
Jorma Taccone
Yes.
Andy Samberg
Second killer cameo of the night.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, man, that's so fun. God damn. Stacked.
Andy Samberg
It's stacked. It's also a real reminder. Not that anybody needs to be reminded by how fucking funny Norm Madonald is, but he does not overstate. He comes out of the end. Norm comes out of the end in Hulk hands and just sort of chases Trebek around. Oh, the killer, though, is the final Jeopardy. Is just write a nonsense word. Write any word that's not a word that exists in the universe, and you win. And Kathy Lee writes, Hoda Kot B. So of course, she doesn't get it. Hanks has a great pratfall where he falls down while he's trying to answer and bumps his head and breaks his own screen so we don't see his final answer. And then Connery writes what looks to be a nonsense word. And they have a sweet moment where Alex is like, I can't believe it. You won. And he's like, yeah, I thought you needed it. And he's like, thank you, friend. Let's see what you wagered. And then when they reveal the wager, you see that the nonsense words at the top were just the top of a drawing. And it's Connery taking a shit on Trebek's grave. All right, update. Poehler's back for update. Another cameo.
Jorma Taccone
Just for shits and gigs.
Andy Samberg
Just for shits and gigs. Season finale. Poehler back for update.
Akiva Schaffer
Wait, was this a season where she left midway, or am I a season.
Andy Samberg
Off at this point? I can't remember how long she's been.
Akiva Schaffer
Gone for baby stuff.
Jorma Taccone
Is this when you guys do a really?
Andy Samberg
We do a really, yeah. My favorite thing about this update, though, other than her being back, I stole a previous era's writing and wrote Will as Harry Carey from heaven.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, I remember that happening and being like, I can't believe I get to go out on the floor and watch him do it one live.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
Cuz yeah, that is one of the alltime things.
Andy Samberg
It was really delightful.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah.
Akiva Schaffer
We watched him as Harry Carrey on VHS tape that we had recorded like 25 times, 40 times. Like, we would just rewatch that episode, those old episodes.
Jorma Taccone
Getting like, drinking and doing him as. As Harry Cary was common. The mood was made of cheese.
Akiva Schaffer
Would you eat it?
Jorma Taccone
I would.
Andy Samberg
Tells me. He asked me if I think Manny Ramirez looks like the Predator monster because of the time. And Ramirez had long dreadlocks. And then there's a lot of talk about, would you play the Predator on a baseball team or would you be too worried he'd eat all the other players?
Will Ferrell
You think you can trust him, Seth?
Andy Samberg
What?
Will Ferrell
Hey, don't jerk me around, Seth. It's a simple yes or no question. If the Predator monster promised he wouldn't kill the other players, would you put.
Andy Samberg
Him in the game? No.
Will Ferrell
Good call, Seth. I mean, I think eventually his hunter instincts would be too hard to resist.
Andy Samberg
And then I ask him about steroids and he says, I was recently talking to my roommate in heaven, Pete Rose, and I have to tell him that Pete Rose isn't dead. And he does admit that there were some red flags that it wasn't Pete Rose. Rose. Like the fact that he didn't know much about baseball and was Asian and never said his name was Pete Rose. Just a wonderful time. Then there's a Hamilton.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, is there?
Andy Samberg
There's a fantastic. Yes, it's a funeral. Oh, yeah, Funeral sketch. Absolute Murderer's row Starts with Bill as the first person again, Sudeikis, doing an incredible job as the point guard of the. He is a priest who is ending a funeral service. And before he can finish first, Bill comes up to interrupt and say one last remembrance. But it's basically that my uncle promised me his watch and the Watch is missing, and so I'm gonna leave an ugg boot on the coffin, and whoever stole the watch can just put it here. Then Will comes out and introduces himself as Graham. Yeah. And he says, no blood relation to the screenwriter of Speed, who is also named Graham Yost.
Akiva Schaffer
This is Will Ferrell or Forte.
Andy Samberg
Will Ferrell Farrell. He said, no blood relation to the screenwriter of Speed. But I am currently on it. He is a standup who has flyers for his upcoming dates, and they're, like, really spread out.
Will Ferrell
I have never met a lot of you, but I just want to say that I will really miss Joseph and I. I also be performing at the comedy shop on May 29th, 30th, June 1st, 2nd, 5th, 7th and 25th. If you'd like a flyer, I'll just leave a stack on the casket. I know that Joseph would have wanted you all to be there every night.
Andy Samberg
Then Wig comes up as her character who rolls an oxygen tank just to say that there's a rodent. There's a rodent trapped in my flesh, scuttling about. Anyone here who can kill it will be treated to the rewards of the flesh.
Akiva Schaffer
That's worded a lot like Hamilton. But we're okay.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. Fred comes out in his sort of ACDC look, like, black shorts, jacket, tie, long hair. And he basically says to all his cousins, none of you said I could ever get a blonde. We'll turn around.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, my God.
Andy Samberg
And then Mikayla's in the back as, like, a blonde, and he just is a real, like, there she is. That's mine. I got a. And then he says, check us out later. We'll be kissing. You know what that sounds like? And then he goes, it sounds like this. And then he makes the noises of people making out.
Jorma Taccone
It's crazy that the musical Hamilton was more popular than this.
Will Ferrell
Hamilton.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah. There was a moment where it was touch and go. Who was gonna come out front?
Jorma Taccone
It was a real 30 rock studio 60 sitch.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. Yes. Then the less popular of the Hamiltons comes out this year.
Seth Meyers
I seen so much death. My cousin Earl died in my arms after a horrible run in with the water taxi. Mother died two weeks later in an accident for which I am currently being framed. But perhaps the most tragic death is the death of the American dream because of the failed economic policies of Barack who? Hussein Obama. I say his middle name because it matters.
Jorma Taccone
Again, a lot funnier in the salad days.
Andy Samberg
Oh, in the salad days.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, it is.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. It's a shame. Like, this guy is currently, like, Secretary of Transportation.
Jorma Taccone
Exactly.
Akiva Schaffer
I really, when they did this, I would always be like, where is this coming from? I was so oblivious. Like, where does do. Where are they getting any of this? And now you're like, oh, my God, there's an army of these people.
Andy Samberg
Hamilton was ahead of the curve in the worst possible way. He does have one of my favorite Hamilton ever has. As he walks out, he goes, I took the watch.
Akiva Schaffer
He doesn't put in the Ugg boot, though.
Andy Samberg
And then. And then Maya Rudolph. It's now officially a reunion of Anne Golden Era. The only two Anne Golden Era members who have departed are back on the show. Maya, back as a cameo, comes out as Glenda Goodwin. Definitely a case where she was probably at the show and last minute they slapped Glenda Goodwin. Glenda Goodwin, a very popular in house, less memorable to the audience at large. She sings Amazing Grace about a Sasquatch. And I just feel like we should just probably play that now.
Jorma Taccone
Yes, that sounds right.
Kristen Wiig
Amazing Sasquatch. Your powers are many. You walk through the woods and get photographed. You don't need a coat, but you do need a comb because you're so Body is basically a beard.
Seth Meyers
Very good.
Kristen Wiig
Very good way here. A year, a year, a year, a year, a year. Are the nachos. Thank you so much, young lady.
Andy Samberg
And then it closes with Will coming up to say. Will Ferrell to say that one of his show dates has been canceled. And he starts crossing them out on each and every one of the flyers. And then a Closer to Remember Summer Plans, which is the most jost sketch. And he did sketches like this before. Do you remember Summer Plans, Sandberg?
Jorma Taccone
I don't.
Andy Samberg
It takes place in the Oyster Bar at Grand Central, which is how the. That's what the musical set looked like in that era. It was built to look like Grand.
Akiva Schaffer
Central, so it could just take place kind of undressed.
Andy Samberg
It just took place there.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Andy Samberg
Okay. And it's basically Bill and Keenan and Daryl and Will and they're talking about their summer plans and they sort of work around the table and Daryl says that he and his wife are going to go to Southeast Asia, Laos, Thailand, and maybe Vietnam. And then says to Will, you went to Vietnam once, right? And Will nods, but like really kind of staring off at. Into the distance and he says, what are your memories of it? And then Will stands up and starts singing Good Night Saigon.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, my God.
Andy Samberg
Hi, Billy Joel. And he walks over and the sort of bar band is you on the piano and Jason and Bill and he sings the whole first verse of Good Night Saigon. And then it cuts to the other three guys, and Kena goes, wait, when did he go to Vietnam? And Bill says, like, four years ago on a vacation. And there's no joke other than Will heartfeltly singing Good night, Saigon. But every time it cuts back to him, more people have joined the band, so the entire cast is behind him the next time we come back. And then the next time we come back, it is also Green day is there, and Tom Hanks and Amy and Maya and Norm MacDonald and then Rudd and Anne Hathaway, who must have just been there, and then Artie Lang, who must have just been there with Norm. But I will say I remember it the night of it was. I mean, it goes back to what you're saying, Keith, about, like, the end of a fun year. Like, it was so funny to just all be singing that, like, sort of, you know, that chorus.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah. It feels like the end of a season.
Andy Samberg
End of a season.
Jorma Taccone
The only thing that would have made it better is if the woman that yhorm stole her mug from was also there.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, that would have been so nice. And she'd been like, from dress rehearsal.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, that was a fair hit. Thank you.
Andy Samberg
That would have been great if yhorm had her come out and he's like. And then at the end of the show, you'll be in Good night Saigon. And then he had to go up to and be like, hey, it got cut. Yeah. Lauren's not gonna let you be a Good Night Saigon because it got cut.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, my God.
Andy Samberg
But very cool. Very cool. Way to end a show. End a season.
Akiva Schaffer
So this was what year we're wrapping up a season then?
Andy Samberg
Yeah, we are.
Akiva Schaffer
2009. So we've done three seasons, correct? Yeah.
Andy Samberg
Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
Is that it?
Akiva Schaffer
That's it.
Jorma Taccone
No, because there was the short season.
Akiva Schaffer
Well, but, I mean, we got there in 2005. So that season ended 2000. And this is the end of the season, 2009.
Andy Samberg
So this is the end of your fourth. One ended six, one ended seven. One ended eight, one ended nine.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, your math is better. I was.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. Well, it's tough. I mean, that's. I mean, that's advanced. Pretty advanced stuff.
Akiva Schaffer
I went six to nine. There's a three. That's three different. But you're not wrong. That's not how years work.
Jorma Taccone
I mean, I'm going to just be up front. I tailed off pretty hard here. I got a little zonked.
Andy Samberg
You got a little zonked. And by the way, you know, you were offered an out by yorm and you're like, no, Yorm. You leave. And then.
Jorma Taccone
Well, I knew you were excited to talk about this episode. Rehashing it. Like, it's hard for me to care about it very much. Cause I wasn't in it. You know what I mean?
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah, yeah.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. That's how you felt.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Andy Samberg
I think you'll feel differently, I think. You know what I think will happen is we'll play a lot of clips from the sketches I talked about and people will like it.
Akiva Schaffer
I agree.
Jorma Taccone
Well, they're gonna like it.
Andy Samberg
It just like, you know, you were zonked.
Jorma Taccone
It zonked me out.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. Well, this was a tough episode for you because, like, it was. I feel like you did a great job considering how much of a Jorema episode it was.
Akiva Schaffer
I think you were happy at the time to get the. The week off.
Jorma Taccone
I was, yeah. I'm just saying, pod wise, I'm just like, Seth loved this episode. I'm gonna let this guy cook.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. Thanks, bud.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah.
Akiva Schaffer
But what are we going off to do this summer?
Jorma Taccone
I think maybe album two is what Yoram was guessing, but that might not be right. Was this our one real summer that we just relaxed and, like, went to Europe and stuff?
Akiva Schaffer
Did we have a summer that we relaxed?
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, we had one.
Akiva Schaffer
Then we've got. It's gotta be this. Wait, Andy, you hosted the Movie Awards in May of this year. But that's when we're at snl. How did we possibly meet? Do both.
Jorma Taccone
I mean, usually.
Andy Samberg
I mean, it's. I probably went straight into it. You guys probably had like two weeks.
Jorma Taccone
I don't remember. We'd have to really reexamine the timeline.
Akiva Schaffer
But I think we could do a fair amount of talking about the movie. We made a bunch of fun shorts and people like the cool guys don't look at explosions. Has always comes up still from people.
Jorma Taccone
I consider it kind of a digital short, just not an SNL one.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Andy Samberg
You know what? We should talk about it when we come back. The next episode.
Will Ferrell
Exactly.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Andy Samberg
All right. Well, I love you guys.
Akiva Schaffer
All right. Love you.
Jorma Taccone
Love you, buddy. Talk soon. Later, Arnold. Later, Quaid.
Podcast Summary: The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Episode: "My Secret Weapon & Mugless"
Release Date: July 15, 2025
The episode kicks off with Seth Meyers welcoming listeners to "The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast." Andy Samberg bursts in with enthusiasm, expressing his excitement about discussing two significant SNL Digital Shorts that never aired: "My Secret Weapon" and "Mugless."
Andy Samberg (00:05):
"Yeah. Hey, guys, let's just jump right into it because I'm very excited."
[00:05]
Seth Meyers (00:12):
"It's a very good episode."
[00:12]
The hosts humorously interact about the visibility of their jobs and introduce Emma, their diligent assistant, poking fun at her involvement in their on-camera antics.
The conversation shifts to reflections on past SNL experiences and the creation of various digital shorts. Andy shares a comment from a listener highlighting the autobiographical nature of their work, particularly "Mother Lover."
Andy Samberg (02:03):
"Somebody said after listening to Andy on Amy Poehler's Good Hang podcast, seeming so light and breezy. It's clear he definitely hates doing this one."
[02:03]
The hosts reminisce about their time working together, discussing the camaraderie and challenges faced during their SNL tenure. Seth narrates an anecdote about stealing a mug from a colleague, intertwining it with humorous self-deprecation.
Seth Meyers (02:58):
"And I will say I think AA should be our fun name for, like, when you get all mad about stuff."
[02:58]
Akiva Schaffer (03:06):
"Answer that, Seth."
[03:06]
The discussion includes insights into their creative processes, the influence of internet culture on their sketches, and the lasting impact of their work on platforms like YouTube.
Akiva Schaffer introduces a surprise guest appearance by Micah Taccone, who shares behind-the-scenes information about the "Pale and Farty" website— a project the public never saw. Micah reveals how the team struggled with making the website engaging, resulting in a simple donation button that didn’t resonate as intended.
Micah Taccone (07:58):
"Oh, he's gonna read April 12, 2007. He says, can you put this graphic up as a button in the center of the homepage of Pale and Farty?"
[07:58]
This segment offers a candid look into the challenges the team faced with their digital projects and the humorous missteps that often accompany creative endeavors.
The hosts delve into their decision to feature "My Secret Weapon" and "Mugless" as special segments in the podcast, acknowledging that these shorts were previously unaired to the public.
Akiva Schaffer (24:47):
"This is a Yhorm episode because Mugless and My Secret Weapon are Yhorm specials. Neither that the public got to see."
[24:47]
They express excitement about rewatching and dissecting these sketches, highlighting their significance in their body of work. Andy emphasizes the exceptional quality of these shorts despite them not being broadcasted.
The core of the episode features a playback of the "My Secret Weapon" sketch, where Will Ferrell reprises his role as Will the Money Pharrell. The sketch humorously portrays Will introducing a "secret weapon"—a rabid kangaroo puppet designed to eliminate young talent like Kenan Thompson.
Will Ferrell (25:41):
"She's really freaking."
[35:03]
After the sketch, the hosts provide a detailed analysis, discussing the creative process behind the puppet, the decision to incorporate dark humor, and the comedic timing essential for the sketch's impact.
Seth Meyers (33:06):
"It was really just a piece of my heart... it was the end of season. Seth, you gave me the card that was on the board of Mugless. I did, yeah. He framed it and gave it to me as a gift."
[33:06]
They reflect on the moral undertones of the sketch, the blending of humor with darker themes, and the personal significance it holds for them.
The conversation transitions to various anecdotes, including humorous moments from SNL sketches like "Mark" and interactions with celebrities such as Norm Macdonald and Maya Rudolph. The hosts share laughs over memorable lines and the behind-the-scenes camaraderie that fueled their creative processes.
Andy Samberg (66:07):
"It was really the end of a fun year."
[66:07]
They discuss the intricacies of writing for SNL, the challenges of live performances, and the enduring friendships formed during their time on the show.
As the episode nears its conclusion, the hosts express their eagerness to revisit and discuss more unaired shorts in future episodes. They emphasize the lasting legacy of their work and the joy it continues to bring to both themselves and their audience.
Andy Samberg (78:53):
"So, Andy, I can't believe you haven't shouted out who that."
[78:53]
Akiva Schaffer (83:18):
"It's a really special one. And ends the season."
[83:18]
Wrapping up, the hosts hint at upcoming discussions, including the challenges of transitioning from digital shorts to movies and the enduring popularity of their most iconic sketches. They leave listeners anticipating deeper dives into their creative processes and the stories behind their beloved work.
Andy Samberg (00:05):
"Yeah. Hey, guys, let's just jump right into it because I'm very excited."
Seth Meyers (02:58):
"And I will say I think AA should be our fun name for, like, when you get all mad about stuff."
Micah Taccone (07:58):
"He says, can you put this graphic up as a button in the center of the homepage of Pale and Farty?"
Seth Meyers (33:06):
"It was really just a piece of my heart... it was the end of season."
Akiva Schaffer (24:47):
"This is a Yhorm episode because Mugless and My Secret Weapon are Yhorm specials. Neither that the public got to see."
Andy Samberg (66:07):
"It was really the end of a fun year."
Unseen Digital Shorts: The episode provides an exclusive look at two SNL Digital Shorts, "My Secret Weapon" and "Mugless," offering fans behind-the-scenes insights into their creation and why they were never aired.
Behind-the-Scenes Challenges: The hosts candidly discuss the hurdles they faced during their time on SNL, including creative disagreements and logistical issues, adding depth to their storytelling.
Humorous Anecdotes: Rich with humor, the podcast shares numerous funny stories and interactions, highlighting the enduring camaraderie among The Lonely Island members and Seth Meyers.
Legacy and Impact: The conversation underscores the lasting influence of their digital shorts on internet culture and platforms like YouTube, emphasizing their role in pioneering online comedy skits.
Future Engagements: The hosts hint at future episodes that will continue to explore their rich history with SNL Digital Shorts, promising more exclusive content and in-depth discussions.
This episode serves both as a nostalgic trip down memory lane for long-time fans and an informative session for newcomers interested in the creative processes behind some of SNL's most memorable digital content.