Shy Ronnie 2: Ronnie & Clyde

Summary

The Lonely Island & Seth Meyers Podcast

Episode: Shy Ronnie 2: Ronnie & Clyde

Date: April 15, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Seth Meyers and The Lonely Island (Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone) reminisce about the creation of "Shy Ronnie 2: Ronnie & Clyde"—their hit SNL Digital Short featuring Rihanna and Jon Hamm from 2010. The crew dissects the making of the sketch, the experience of working with recurring guest Rihanna, and provides a revealing, comedic behind-the-scenes look at SNL culture, sequels, production choices, and more. Throughout, they riff on pop culture, SNL lore, celebrity encounters, and their own enduring working dynamic.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Warmup & Banter

• Opening Jokes & Silliness (00:32–02:41):

  • The group riffs on Andy eating Mexican food, the chaos of recording from several time zones, and Seth’s "Frisbee sweater."
  • Quote:
    • Seth Meyers mocks the chaos, "Let's stay in our lanes, guys. Let's stay in our lanes." (01:51)

• Parenthood & Kids’ TV (02:44–07:15):

  • Review of Peppa Pig and Bluey leads to jokes about fatherhood and generational cultural touchstones.
  • Akiva attributes his new snort laugh to watching Peppa Pig.
  • Quote:
    • Jorma: "That Bandit is, like, aspirational to the point where it makes dads look bad." (05:08)

• On Hitting Middle Age (06:13–06:26):

  • Loneliness and trading youth for comfort is joked about:
    • Andy: “Are you young, virile, and... to be lame, old, and boring? Wanna cash it all in for nothing?” (06:17)

SNL on the Road, Stand-Up, and Coachella

• Touring and ‘I Want Straw’ (06:52–08:39):

  • Seth discusses touring with Brooks Wheelan, reviewing straws, and an awkward restaurant encounter where Brooks tries to leverage Seth’s fame.
  • Quote:
    • Seth: “And Brooks is like, okay. But, like, also, I said it, not him. Like, you can't ever say he said it.” (09:19)

• Musician Shoutouts & Indie Sleaze (08:43–10:54):

  • Andy and crew banter about running into indie musicians at live shows and debating indie trends at Coachella.
  • Akiva touts Chicago band Dead and Kevin Morby.
  • Quote:
    • Seth, on hanging backstage with Kevin Morby: “So we were like, backstage talking with people that we don’t get a chance to talk to. Super fun.” (10:02)

In-Jokes, Recurring Bits, and Listener Engagement

• Webbies Vote & Listener Nicknames (11:08–12:08, 16:18–17:43):
  • The team campaigns for Webby votes and engages with inside-joke language (Quaid, quump, gaping snort).
  • British fans dubbed “Quids”; discussion about creating group terms and secret codes between fans and the show crew.
  • Quote:
    • Seth: “Somebody suggested ‘gaping snort’ is what you say if somebody inverts it and leaves you flat footed.” (14:26)

SNL Sketches, Parodies, & References

• Sketch References and Influence (12:20–14:01):

  • Debating the “we don’t need no stinking badges” line across ‘Blazing Saddles’, ‘Three Amigos’ and ‘UHF.’
  • Talk of phrases like "stront" on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, tracing catchphrases’ origins.
  • Quote:
    • Akiva: “Give him 30 seconds and he’ll tell you [he’s from the Bay Area], or he’s not really from there.” (13:49)

• SNL UK & Global Versions (27:05–28:48):

  • The group highlights a Korean SNL version of "I Broke My Arm," marveling at how global SNL has adapted their sketches and music.
  • Andy notes: “They have, you know, a different sensibility there. No judgment.” (28:05)

Deep Dive: "Shy Ronnie 2: Ronnie & Clyde"

• Genesis & Rihanna’s Return (28:59–29:46):

  • Jorma notes he had “Ronnie and Clyde” in his notes as soon as Rihanna was booked.
  • Revisiting the process: Rihanna’s genuine collaboration this time, as opposed to just her reps.
  • Quote:
    • Jorma: “I want to say I had the phrase ‘Ronnie and Clyde’ in my notes doc as soon as they booked her. So: weeks in advance.” (29:51)

• Shooting Challenges (34:32–37:44):

  • Discussion of set constraints: only one wall for the “bank” due to budget/time, tiny set size, adapting to SNL limitations.
  • Akiva laments always needing to anticipate and communicate production problems.
  • Quote:
    • Andy: “I remember them building a set that was so teeny tiny and only had one wall... they just gave us the shitty. And I got so mad at them.” (37:20)

• Visuals, Style, and Performance (34:43–41:32):

  • Rihanna’s movie-star presence is discussed in detail:
    • Andy: “I remember shooting this closeup ... and being like, what the fuck? It looks like almost computer generated for how perfect her face looks.” (35:25)
  • Technical observations on cinematic framing, eyeline placement (“three quarters up the frame”).
  • Akiva points out intentional creative choices: "When you break it [the rule], you should be doing it for real purpose." (35:49)
  • Symmetry between Andy's “squirreled up” face and Rihanna’s perfection for comedic effect.

• Music, Writing & the "SNL Sequel" Formula (40:02–41:45):

  • The crew talks about using beats from renowned producer T-Minus and how the music’s polish elevates the sketch.
  • They riff on how rare it is for SNL to do a sequel that's a true “Mad Libs” of the original, rather than a fresh take.
  • Quote:
    • Andy: “It is like the normal SNL sequel — the dick in a box would be something else in a box. Or here’s a new present for Christmas. Or now it’s Valentine’s Day, here’s a new present.” (41:27)

• Working with Rihanna (43:05–43:42):

  • Praise for Rihanna’s professionalism and quick learning.
  • Andy: “She learned this song, you know, hours before we’re doing it and is hitting all the words. ... she’s just on it.” (43:05)
  • Seth notes Rihanna’s subtle, low-key comedic performance: “She never overplays, like the way she’s just very low key exhausted with you.” (43:37)

• The Boner Gag & Comedic Absurdity (44:02–45:51):

  • Discussion of the infamous shy Ronnie boner moment and the running joke of “boner alert” as an online meme.
  • The group jokes about its TikTok meme status and speculates about Shy Ronnie’s surprising endowment.
  • Seth praises Andy’s lack of vanity on screen.

• Sequel Aftermath & Almost Collaborating Again (53:35–55:20):

  • The group reflects with pride on pulling off a solid sequel for a beloved character with Rihanna, unlike some collaborations that disappoint them.
  • Jorma tells how Rihanna still calls him “Shy Ronnie.”
  • They reveal they almost shot a promo for “Bitch Better Have My Money” involving Shy Ronnie and a GoPro-driven car sequence, but schedules didn’t align.

SNL 'Audition' Sketch Break (58:13–62:09)

• The hosts rewatch and praise a Paula Pell and Kristen Wiig sketch about actor audition boundaries, marveling at the performances and live comedy energy.
• Highlights include Sudeikis’s live reactions and Wiig playing the audition’s absurdity perfectly.
• Quote:
  • Andy: “That is live. And the cameras are going back and forth... Every single moment is perfect.” (63:04)

Community Interaction & Meta-Commentary

• Discussions on how hard it may be for new listeners to understand the podcast’s many deeply internal references and in-jokes.
• Seth describes the show as “impenetrable in a good way.” (66:58)

Teasers for Next Episode

• Mention of an upcoming segment where Bryan Cranston discusses the “Bjellen Brothers” on Jesse David Fox’s podcast (65:00).
• Stories about Jack Quaid being recognized by fans for the “Quaid Army” and the difficulty explaining their podcast lore to outsiders.
• Plans to get Jon Hamm’s voice note contributions about making the original sketch.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On SNL sequels:
  • Andy: “We rarely do the SNL sequel sketch... This is one of the rare times where we did it. And I don't feel bad about it or anything, but it is like the normal SNL sequel.” (41:27)
• On Rihanna’s presence:
  • Seth: "I think I went on the record for Shy Ronnie saying it’s the most striking I feel a person has ever been on camera and I feel like she tops it." (32:37)
• On behind-the-scenes challenges:
  • Andy: “They just gave us the shitty [set]. And I got so mad at them.” (37:44)
• On production priorities:
  • Akiva: “If there’s ever a problem with anything, Keev’s gonna let you know about it. Many days before.” (37:44)
• On audience inside jokes:
  • Seth: “Somebody suggested ‘gaping snort’ is what you say if somebody inverts it and leaves you flat footed.” (14:26)
• On podcast inaccessibility:
  • Seth: “In general, our podcast is impossible...a lot of our listeners have now pointed out that it’s, like, not a thing to put on in a car with people who haven’t listened to the previous 100 episodes.” (66:38)

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Important Timestamps

• Beginning Banter & Set-Up: 00:32–02:41
• Peppa Pig, Bluey & Kids’ TV: 02:44–07:15
• Touring & ‘I Want Straw’ Bit: 06:52–08:39
• Indie Sleaze/Coachella/Tour Stories: 08:43–10:54
• Listener Lingo & Codes: 11:23–14:26; 16:18–17:43
• SNL UK/Korean Remake Discussion: 27:05–28:48
• Ronnie & Clyde Creation: 28:59–29:46
• Production & Visual Choices: 34:32–37:44
• Music/Sequel Formula: 40:02–41:45
• Working with Rihanna: 43:05–43:42
• Shy Ronnie Boner Gag: 44:02–45:51
• Sequel Aftermath & Unshot Videos: 53:35–55:20
• Live Audition Sketch Rewatch: 58:13–62:09
• Teasers for Next Week/Lore Meta: 65:00–67:10

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Episode Tone & Language

• Language & Tone:
  • Casual, improvisational, and comedically self-deprecating.
  • Mix of nostalgia, inside baseball, and irreverent humor.
  • Extensive use of inside jokes and listener/customer engagement.
  • Frequent riffing on production stories, guest stars, and SNL lore.

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Conclusion

This episode serves as both a loving deconstruction of "Shy Ronnie 2" and a snapshot of The Lonely Island’s enduring chemistry—with Seth as both chronicler and ringmaster. If you love SNL, sketch comedy, pop culture rabbit holes, or just want the honest, hilarious truth about what makes a digital short work, this episode is a deep, entertaining dive.

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Next Week:
Expect possible Jon Hamm voice notes, listener questions on "Ronnie & Clyde," and a look at Bryan Cranston’s surprising SNL fandom.

Transcript

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Andy Samberg]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

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[Sponsor Voice]

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[Jorma Taccone]

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[Seth Meyers]

I know. Keep pulling a full.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

This is the last couple of bites before diving into it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I don't do that anymore.

[Jorma Taccone]

The problem is, Keith, is I can just tell by your chew it's not a burrito.

[Andy Samberg]

It is Mexican though.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Are you taco brand a case?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I'm getting tacoed. And what was on it? You know, it had melted cheese, I guess. Wait, it had melted cheese? So it was maybe. I think some would consider that a quesadilla.

[Seth Meyers]

Andy, I wasn't going to wear this sweater because you weren't on. But then I decided to pull it off.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, it's a Frisbee sweater.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. So somebody sent me a frisbee sweater after Frisbee died.

[Jorma Taccone]

After Frisbee's very, very, very, very unfortunate passing.

[Guest/Husband]

Yeah.

[Sponsor Voice]

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[Seth Meyers]

You finally come around to understanding the right way to talk about it.

[Jorma Taccone]

Half side protest too much.

[Andy Samberg]

It's really nice. Is that like someone's art and then it got embroidered?

[Seth Meyers]

I don't know. I don't know the answer to it. Keev. We'll put a pica of it in the show. Notes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Seth. Seth, that picture is so much nicer than Frisbee looked.

[Andy Samberg]

What the hell?

[Seth Meyers]

Oh my God, everybody. It's like a real role play. No, I'm sorry. Everybody looks switching roles here all of a sudden. Now Keeves, the guy wolfing down Mexican food. The orm's. The guy's shitting all over my dog. Let's stay in our lanes, guys. Let's stay in our lanes.

[Sponsor Voice]

10pm on Sunday when we're doing this.

[Andy Samberg]

Woohoo.

[Seth Meyers]

Obviously some different time zones.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Got four different time zones. Four different time zones right now.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, are we?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, I'm central.

[Seth Meyers]

Four different time zones. That's fantastic. And I just spent the last hour getting ready for a three person podcast and then Andy came on with no Warning. So I'm wildly underprepared for the podcast.

[Andy Samberg]

He did the thread.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, when did I get the text?

[Jorma Taccone]

Like six minutes ago.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, so that wouldn't have helped. That wouldn't have helped.

[Andy Samberg]

Keith did my last chip and then I'm joining the other side.

[Seth Meyers]

Podcast officially starts.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I've been snort laughing a lot more, guys.

[Jorma Taccone]

Have you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Have you noticed that? I do a lot.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, it's going to be harder to

[Jorma Taccone]

differentiate between us in your whole.

[Seth Meyers]

In your whole life or just here?

[Akiva Schaffer]

No. Yeah. I don't. I don't know if it was like my kids were watching Peppa Pig or something like that, but now I'm doing this all the time.

[Sponsor Voice]

Oh, yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So if you do a good joke, just know that that's me.

[Andy Samberg]

And you think you started doing that cuz you watch Peppa Pig now.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Peppa Pig is very good ke. So. Yeah, maybe.

[Jorma Taccone]

I don't know. This makes me understand y that you don't really pay attention to my laughs because I've been snort laughing our whole lives together.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Because of Peppa Pig.

[Jorma Taccone]

100% because of Peppa Pig.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Nice.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. You know, the creator of Bluey worked on Peppa Pig.

[Seth Meyers]

Did he really? That does make sense.

[Andy Samberg]

Is Peppa British or is she. She's not. She's British, not Australian.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, she's British. Yeah, she's British.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Across the pond.

[Andy Samberg]

But Bluey is Australian, right?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, Bluey's Australian.

[Jorma Taccone]

I'm just telling you what I read, Akiva.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I'm just trying to clarify that

[Akiva Schaffer]

they're not part of the colonies.

[Andy Samberg]

Got it. So. So it was because it was a British colony. Yeah, they worked together.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Prison colony.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yoram. I told you that they put out Bluey Sleepy Time as an official single, right?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, Bing bong. That's exciting.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, that's our fave.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm excited about that.

[Jorma Taccone]

That was not a real snort laugh. You're just snorting.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, that was just a pause. Like the way that they do it in Peppa Pig. It's hard to differentiate, but you'll know the difference.

[Seth Meyers]

I don't know if you guys have moms who just like constantly ask questions to fill silence, but I was watching Peppa Pig with my daughter and my mom and like halfway through, like the fifth episode, my said, oh, so Peppa's British.

[Jorma Taccone]

You're the fifth episode.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Sponsor Voice]

You're just. It's like that thing when your mom

[Seth Meyers]

says something that you like.

[Sponsor Voice]

I love you so much, and I

[Seth Meyers]

don't know how to answer right.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's like halfway Through Downton Abbey.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

So this is England.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, it's England.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Seth, is this what you said? Did you say that?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Sponsor Voice]

Like, yeah, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, no.

[Sponsor Voice]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

God, I wish they could see your face. But I'll never do video. But for me, it's nice to see it.

[Seth Meyers]

You'll have. You have a real ear for accents. Mom,

[Akiva Schaffer]

you only needed.

[Jorma Taccone]

I thought you didn't have a B side to that. I thought you were done. I would have interrupted.

[Seth Meyers]

You only needed one hour and Daddy Pig. Daddy Pig.

[Sponsor Voice]

I like.

[Seth Meyers]

What's the name of the dad in Bluey?

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, Bandit.

[Seth Meyers]

Bandit.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Bandit's like, a real winner. Like, you want to be that dad?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[Jorma Taccone]

There's much written about this. That Bandit is, like, aspirational to the point where it's too good and it makes dads look bad.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, but he's still, like, a little bit, like, he's still, like, he's not. Like, he's still a little dumb. And I get it. Like, dads in pop culture are always going to be presented as a little bit dumb. Right?

[Jorma Taccone]

But we're not.

[Seth Meyers]

Right? But Daddy Pig is a fucking joke.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, yeah, Daddy Pig.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I can get behind. Like, I'm like. I'm like. I can be Daddy Pig. That's not a problem.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But like, oh, my God, you are. What? What?

[Seth Meyers]

What? Andy, I'm proud of Yoram. For how long he stuck with us.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm trying to. I don't remember them even snorting on. They snort on the show.

[Sponsor Voice]

He.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, they definitely do. Constantly got it to Addie's favorite show, and she says, dad, you know what? I want to watch. And I say, what? And then she just sings the whole theme song like it's a hint.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

She's like, dad, dad, that's really funny.

[Jorma Taccone]

To all of our listeners without kids, I'm so sorry.

[Seth Meyers]

But you know what? Also, like, hopefully this will help inspire you to have them.

[Jorma Taccone]

I would argue the opposite, but yeah, yeah, that's true.

[Seth Meyers]

One way or the other.

[Akiva Schaffer]

As long as it's inspiring.

[Jorma Taccone]

Be like, hey, are you young, virile,

[Andy Samberg]

and co. To be lame, old, and boring. I want to cash it all in for nothing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Which do you think is better, Peppa Pig or Bluey? Wait on the comments.

[Guest/Husband]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Don't go to Coachella.

[Seth Meyers]

Cohua. By the way, what was. What was the term in the music you said we were listening to in the early aughts? I feel like they had a really big Coachella this year.

[Jorma Taccone]

Indie sleaze.

[Seth Meyers]

Indie sleaze. Like kind of owned Coachella.

[Jorma Taccone]

That's old news though.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, perfect for this conversation.

[Jorma Taccone]

I just don't want anyone to think I think it's new.

[Andy Samberg]

So, Yoram, how was Coachella? I loved your outfit. You were posting on your TikTok. You look so sexy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Thank you.

[Seth Meyers]

I have R N. Hey, Yoram, you're on the road promoting your movie.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

And I feel like you're not doing any of the work for I Want Straw. Like I'm out on the road. I'm posting like two, three times a day about I want.

[Andy Samberg]

Each straw gets a rating from Seth and a tagging it shout out.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm going to go to a new straw tomorrow. I actually was on the plane from San Francisco Francisco to New Orleans where I am now, and I met a woman who is owns a restaurant called Akamaya. So I'll give a little shout out there and then I'm going to her new restaurant tomorrow which if anyone of you guys can pronounce this name, that's what it is because she came to see the movie today.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay, great.

[Andy Samberg]

So you already are wearing the shirt. So this will be a really unbiased.

[Akiva Schaffer]

She gave me a shirt today.

[Andy Samberg]

This will be an unbiased review.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, yeah, I'll be. I'm gonna scare her.

[Andy Samberg]

Does do reviews? I mean, according to your Instagram post, they do. And they're in terms of als?

[Seth Meyers]

Well, no, there was alf's, then we did Smith for another one.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay. You're trying out all the different things.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm trying out different ones and it's been a lot of fun so far. I was in St. Louis in Kansas City with Brooks. I know that fucking rubs you the wrong way. Andy.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No.

[Jorma Taccone]

Are you kidding me? He's your favorite person to go on a road trip with. I'm just so happy for you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wait, can each of us have a different rating? So it's like Year Spence Elves, like something.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I mean it's a work in

[Andy Samberg]

progress and we only give good reviews, which is also kind of nice to go to a place of no negativity.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, we're just totally positive. We, Brooks and I wrapped it up at like 10. Our second show ended at 10pm and Casey last night and he admitted afterwards we can. He kept saying we chased the dragon because like we should have just gone to bed. Like we didn't need to go get like hamburgers at like an outdoor wait in line place. But you did 10:30. We did.

[Andy Samberg]

Wow.

[Seth Meyers]

Very good burger. But we also went to a place that was Highly recommended. Which was like a. Like a really cute, like, noodle shop. And, you know, if you've heard about the manosphere, you know that male standups like to go to a cute noodle shop.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Shut up. Is that what manosphere does?

[Seth Meyers]

Walked in. Nicest hostess. She's like, oh, my God, I'm sorry. Our kitchen just closed. And Brooks did this. And Andy, you have to tell me how you would have felt about this. Brooks, like, oh, all right. Yeah. Hey, you recognize him, right?

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, my God.

[Seth Meyers]

And she's like, I do. She goes, I do. He goes, we just really want to eat. We just finished show. We hear this place is super rad.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, no.

[Seth Meyers]

And she was like. She goes, I totally would. But really, like, they're done. Yeah. Like, they. They're. They're cleaning up and going home. And Brooks is like, okay. But, like, also, I said it, not him. Like, you can't ever say he said it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That makes it more okay.

[Seth Meyers]

It was the best. She goes. And you could tell he hated it the whole time, right? Like, so this story is not that he said it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

The fact that you're able to tell it here means. Means.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, no, I. I loved it.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. Actually respect. I think that's.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, he. He owned that. It was a. It was a risky move.

[Andy Samberg]

When you get off stage from one of these things, how much is, like, you know, after the show, your adrenaline is going. How much is that true? When it's stand up and you're getting, like, used to doing it over and

[Seth Meyers]

over, there's still some adrenaline. But also, we had some people, like, a couple friends of Forte and Sudeikis were backstage who lived in kc the musician Kevin Morby was there. Oh, I love that. Dude's awesome. Yeah, so he was. So we were like, backstage talking with people that we don't get a chance to talk to. Super fun. But I also had to wake up at like, 4:15 in the morning to catch my flight back to New York. So I wasn't like, dying to, like, hit the town or anything.

[Akiva Schaffer]

What was the most mellow thing that Kevin Morby said to you?

[Seth Meyers]

He, in general, was mellow. The vibe was mellow. Yeah, good mellow, dude. Great new album. Can we run through a few things before we get to our next.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wait, can I. Can I shout out a band? Because I. When I was in Chicago, this band Dead that I love was there, and I love their stuff. All their stuff.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, I think you already said that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. I don't know, but I'm just saying it again.

[Andy Samberg]

Last Episode. You said it was gonna happen, and now you're saying I hung out with them.

[Akiva Schaffer]

They're great and like, it was Peppa.

[Guest Actor]

Wow.

[Akiva Schaffer]

What?

[Jorma Taccone]

This guy loves Peppa Pig.

[Andy Samberg]

How did it go in Chicago? Anything to report from there?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yorn?

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, like the movie did super well. It was really, really fun to watch with an audience.

[Seth Meyers]

Again, here's some. Just some housekeeping. The Webbies. The deadline to vote for the Webbies is April, Thursday the 16th. And it would mean just the world to us to be the People's Choice again. We're defending our People's Choice title.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, shit. Yeah. Fucking Top Turnbuckle. Here it comes.

[Andy Samberg]

Top turnbuckle.

[Seth Meyers]

Andy, you dropped a reference that was caught by a couple of the quades to De La Soul's Ring, Ring, ring. Is that.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, did I?

[Akiva Schaffer]

What was the reference?

[Seth Meyers]

You said, no problemo. Just play your demo.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'll help you with your demo.

[Jorma Taccone]

Ring, ring. Ha ha.

[Seth Meyers]

Hey, Andy, don't take this the wrong way, because a lot of people feel like it should be allowed. You keep saying quump bump, and really a quump is equaid bump. So when you say quump bump, you're saying a quaid. Bump, bump.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's requondent.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Exactly. Oh, dear.

[Jorma Taccone]

I thought it and I said it. Okay. I can't go back in time. I don't have one of those machines.

[Seth Meyers]

Just FYI, I was the Peppa Pig. Snort.

[Jorma Taccone]

We've all been snorting except Yorm. And now all of a sudden, he's like, I got this new thing.

[Andy Samberg]

Give me a break.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's my new thing. So it's new.

[Jorma Taccone]

Give me six hole breaks.

[Seth Meyers]

Blazing Saddles also had a we don't need no stinking badges joke.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, of course.

[Andy Samberg]

Wait, I saw a comment that said that three amigos had it. Is that true, though? I'm trying to remember.

[Seth Meyers]

Three amigos. I couldn't verify, but I did also see that as I was trying to.

[Jorma Taccone]

People will be shocked to know we've seen all those.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. But I know it so well, and I think I do. And then I can't remember.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No.

[Andy Samberg]

Is it. Is it that El Guapo says it, but he changes the word? Is it like something we don't? You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I don't think it's word for word,

[Akiva Schaffer]

but I think it's very different. Oh, yeah. Something that's on the plates. It's like they're. They're setting up for, like a. Yeah. Thing for the wedding or something.

[Jorma Taccone]

I can't Remember, it's a uhf. The UHF badgers one is quite pure.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Hey, Andy, somebody said that Moshe Kasher says Stront in season two of Brooklyn Nine nine. Was that also a copped from Johanna?

[Jorma Taccone]

That's wild. Because that's my show. Did you know that I'm on that?

[Akiva Schaffer]

You're like the main.

[Seth Meyers]

I think that's what the Quaid was also observing.

[Jorma Taccone]

I would have to ask Dan Gore or whoever wrote that episode and have them remind me if it came from me or if it came from them.

[Seth Meyers]

Right.

[Jorma Taccone]

But Joanna has said stronta as long as I've known her.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But is it possible that it came from Moshe? Like, was that an improvimization?

[Jorma Taccone]

I think it's also possible that she's not the only one who's ever said it.

[Seth Meyers]

I know it. Just because it was your show. I think there was a thought of like yeah, yeah, yeah. Have you been pushing strawn out there?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Did you guys know that Moshe Cash is from the Bay to the Bay area?

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, we're from.

[Seth Meyers]

You talk to him for five minutes.

[Andy Samberg]

You know, exactly. Give him 30 seconds and he'll tell you. Or else. Or else he's not really from there. Wait, so in UHF it was badgers. So we don't need us thinking badgers. Got it.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's the guy with all the animals.

[Seth Meyers]

The. The name of Jimmy McMillan's. We had a couple of people reach out because we said there probably was a name for it. It's either the Riverboat Gambler or the Mobius. So thank you for those.

[Jorma Taccone]

Both good.

[Seth Meyers]

You know what you're saying? Like how people have to say Quaid army to us and then we say righteous kill. And sometimes people say righteous kill to us.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

And we don't know what to say back.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Right.

[Seth Meyers]

And somebody suggested gaping snort is what you say if somebody inverts it and leaves you flat footed. You're allowed to just say gaping snort.

[Jorma Taccone]

But we're saying it. Or we're call limit.

[Seth Meyers]

I think you just. That's the response to it because it

[Jorma Taccone]

kind of is correct. Like. Like, hey, righteous kill. And we go gaping snorf.

[Seth Meyers]

We go gaping snorf.

[Jorma Taccone]

You did it wrong.

[Seth Meyers]

But that's our way. And that's our code for them to know they've done okay.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm particularly excited about this is that I'm going to see people in Miami who will say it wrong. Then I'm going to say gaping snorf without them having this context. Then they will listen to the pod and then retroactively retroactively. Like, oh, I guess I was in on the thing. It's gonna be brutal. Gaping snorf. Like, hey, shove them, too.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, and then also, people said that, you know, listening to Grifb Banks again, they noticed a real parallel between Griff Banks and Colin Jost's Pete Hegseth on snl, up to and including, somebody said, I think he literally opened one by saying, what's up, queefs?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes, correct.

[Seth Meyers]

So basically, in this timeline, Pete Hegseth is a big fan of, like, cut from dress, Griff Banks.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, but didn't I write Griff Banks with Jost?

[Seth Meyers]

Yes, definitely.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. So I think he's, like, cribbing.

[Seth Meyers]

He's just repurposing it.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Even subconsciously. It's part of his DNA at this point.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. Also, he, like, is playing the role now and, like, thanks for nothing. I should have been Pete Hegseth.

[Guest/Husband]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

It is very rude.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm sorry. It's Andy that sucks.

[Jorma Taccone]

Like me saying that or that it sucks that that's happening.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, it just sucks for you. And I'm sorry.

[Jorma Taccone]

Thank you. That that's happening to me.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But also. Shut up. I'm in the manosphere.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, really good. Nice pivot.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Thanks.

[Seth Meyers]

Let's see our British fans of the podcast called Quids. Somebody wrote it.

[Andy Samberg]

They can be if they want.

[Jorma Taccone]

Sometimes it's that simple. I saw some funny SNL UK stuff

[Seth Meyers]

on YouTube from this last week or previous weeks.

[Jorma Taccone]

I don't know. I can't remember what has happened when everything is a big soup. I saw a commercial that was for an app called dad Swap where you swap out your dad.

[Seth Meyers]

I don't think I've seen that one yet. I think that must be from this Saturday.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, do you care if I ruin what the joke is?

[Seth Meyers]

No, go for it.

[Jorma Taccone]

It starts off and it's like, yeah, it's a solid thing. Like your dad, you can never make him happy. You have different interests. He always wants you to be different. So now you can use this app and swap out for a dad who shares all your interests. But then very quickly, they all start hooking up with the new dad

[Seth Meyers]

and

[Jorma Taccone]

it becomes all just about that. And the creator in the commercial is

[Andy Samberg]

like, that's not what I designed it for.

[Jorma Taccone]

It really got me. I was like, hey, they're good.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Get stuff.

[Seth Meyers]

That's great. Yeah, that is really good to hear.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, it was fun.

[Seth Meyers]

They did four in a row to start, which is the craziest thing in the world, I think. They finally have a hiatus A well earned hiatus. And obviously, if any of them are listening, are you guys cool being called quids, let us know.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. Hit us in the titus. Or how would you say that? More across.

[Seth Meyers]

How would you say that?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Hit us in the right.

[Sponsor Voice]

Jesus.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, I think that's actually it.

[Seth Meyers]

There we go. I think that's actually our first bleep. I think we got our first bleep of the podcast. We came in hot with the bleeps last week. Talking about.

[Jorma Taccone]

Talking about alf's dad. Yeah, I mean, by the way, not his biological dad. I think we all know that just by looking at him. Although there is a little bit of a similarity, weirdly.

[Seth Meyers]

A similarity.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. They do kind of look similar.

[Seth Meyers]

He did end up with a dad that could have been his real dad.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. Like biologically, depending on who the mom was for sure.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Somebody pitched who's the alf? Should be the title of the alf show that we're working on.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh.

[Seth Meyers]

Although I do still think it should be called half. It should be called half. Pronounced half.

[Jorma Taccone]

So like, if the dad from alf had sex with like an aardvark, like if the dad from alf impregnated an aardvark, probably while sucking.

[Andy Samberg]

While smoking.

[Jorma Taccone]

That'll be bleeped. Of course, then alf would have been born.

[Seth Meyers]

Where would he be smoking though? Is there a location?

[Jorma Taccone]

I mean, probably a in on melmac.

[Andy Samberg]

Good.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, wait. Sorry.

[Guest/Husband]

No.

[Jorma Taccone]

Alf is from another planet. None of this makes sense now. I read realize. But let's just say there was no melmac.

[Andy Samberg]

Wait, can I ask a serious alf question?

[Guest/Husband]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You're saying serious off question.

[Andy Samberg]

You're saying that he's alf's dad, but adopted dad. But did you. You thought they like let alf stay there as another sibling to their children? He's had like such an adult man voice. Seemed more like a. Like a roommate or a. Just a freeloader.

[Seth Meyers]

Right.

[Andy Samberg]

Like a drifter kind of that they let like does he have a bedroom?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Good. Serious alf question.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. I'll be honest. I don't remember how alf ends up in the house.

[Seth Meyers]

But you're saying there's a chance that alfstad had sex with aardvark and then felt guilty and then made up this whole backstory about melmac who's just a cover for the fact that.

[Andy Samberg]

Right.

[Seth Meyers]

That it's really in the show.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He crashes into their garage in the show.

[Andy Samberg]

They're trying to fix old literature and stuff. Back when they couldn't really say, you know, like a dad would go to war and he comes back from war and is like, hey, by the way, I'm coming home. I'm bringing like a two year old. They were gone for eight years and they're like. And this two year old is. I just adopted him because his parents were killed in the war. And then over years you realize like, oh, no, that's his kid that he had out of wedlock.

[Seth Meyers]

Right.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So the same thing where you're like the reason that there's an aardvark in the yard now. Yeah, because that's your other mom.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm saying, yeah, alf's dad really is his dad. He was out on a bender for a long time, came back being like, oh, God, I have this ALF now. Yeah, but it was that on the bender, he was smoking aardvarks.

[Guest/Husband]

Sorry, Keith.

[Jorma Taccone]

Can I jump in? Just to rewind just a hair. You said that happened a lot in war. During the war.

[Andy Samberg]

No, I mean like fiction. Like I can think of like, it's Wuthering Heights. Like a trope in Wuthering Heights, they never can kind of clarify, like, why

[Seth Meyers]

is this dude here?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, they. He brings home a kid, and I don't think it's supposed to be his son because if so it's incest with the two main guys, but, you know, it's. It's questionable. And he brings it home. And then even in the latest Rian Johnson spoiler that I thought was excellent, there's something happening.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Now we know it's excellent, Keev. Great.

[Seth Meyers]

And there's always. There was always, like, the reveal that you'd find out that it was actually their real son because, like, one of their actual kids.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay, can I ask a serious follow up question?

[Jorma Taccone]

From what I hear about the new Wuthering Heights, I'm surprised that no one fucks an aardvark in it because I've heard that that's pretty gay.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That was my question.

[Andy Samberg]

We don't know that. They don't.

[Jorma Taccone]

I haven't seen it. It could happen off camera.

[Akiva Schaffer]

If you guys were gonna have sex with an aardvark, is that what you would do? Like to explain the whole thing. Like, if you had an aardvark kid, half aardvark, would you bring it back and then say you were in a war?

[Andy Samberg]

Was it wartime? Why was I away for long?

[Seth Meyers]

I wouldn't say it was a war. I would say based on how it looked, I'd be like, hey, a spaceship crashed into our garage.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, right.

[Jorma Taccone]

Exactly.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, that's a better backstory.

[Jorma Taccone]

Could alf, if the first A of Alf stood for aardvark.

[Andy Samberg]

Aardvark. Life form makes actual more sense.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Cause it is like, I wonder if through this lens, you could watch the whole series and go, oh, it's the dad.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Sex with an aardvark.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah,

[Akiva Schaffer]

that's his sarcastic aardvark son.

[Seth Meyers]

Also in the rewatch. You have to then also incept what we know about the actor who played alfstad into alvstad's character.

[Jorma Taccone]

Right.

[Andy Samberg]

It makes sense why they let him stay there. Why nobody else ever finds out he's an alien. Because he's not.

[Jorma Taccone]

If somebody. Look, I don't. I don't fully support doing this at all, but like, if someone was really good with AI they could just insert one scene kind of early on in alf of the dad being like, just tell them he's from another planet. He's like in the mirror.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm sorry. Look, no, I can't apologize.

[Andy Samberg]

Tell them you help alf.

[Jorma Taccone]

Tell them you had sex with an aardvark.

[Seth Meyers]

No, they'll never forgive you.

[Jorma Taccone]

Go with the alien thing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I'm so up. I'm such a up.

[Seth Meyers]

But there's a scene. All right. So there's a scene outside the house. It's the first time he's bringing alf in. Alf keeps calling him dad.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And he's like, you call me dad.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Call me willie.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I'm willy. Dad, these aren't your brothers and sisters. You're just a drifter, freeloader, alien type. Who wants to eat our.

[Guest/Husband]

Catch up the sarcasm.

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Guest Actor]

K Pop, Demon Hunter's Haja Boys Breakfast Meal and Hunt Tricks Meal have just dropped at McDonald's. They're calling this a battle for the fans. What do you say to that, Rumi? It's not a battle. So glad the Saja Boys could take breakfast and give our meal the rest of the day.

[Jorma Taccone]

It is an honor to share.

[Guest Actor]

No, it's our honor.

[Jorma Taccone]

It is our Lord.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, really, stop.

[Guest Actor]

You can really feel the respect in this battle. Pick a meal to pick a side

[Jorma Taccone]

and participate in McDonald's while supplies last. All right, so we're halfway through. We should probably jump into the app.

[Seth Meyers]

We should jump into the app.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yorm. Let's take it to Seth's Corner.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, wait, speaking of Seth's Corner, this is. Oh, wait, it's going off the rails. Kick it away, Seth. Speaking of the British versions of the SNL, one of the commenters on maybe YouTube or Instagram led us to the Korean SNL.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Version of I Broke My Arm, which post that shit.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's pretty good.

[Andy Samberg]

Which, there's some changes to it, but it's got, like, the exact same beat. So whoever made that beat, whether it was you, Yorm, or somebody else, they made a new version of it sounds almost identical. But there's no way they got our instrumental. Or maybe they. They did.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I think that they have access to all that stuff, I think.

[Guest/Husband]

Right.

[Andy Samberg]

They have the old scripts, and it's like a famous actress on a red carpet instead of in a cafeteria.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yep.

[Andy Samberg]

And we can put the link in the show notes, as they say. And as they say, it was pretty interesting. I don't know. And then she doesn't slip on grape jelly. You were edited out, Andy. She's slipping on a banana peel. They have, you know, a different sensibility there. No judgment.

[Jorma Taccone]

And then a guy comes in at the end who, it seems like, is maybe known there And I didn't know

[Andy Samberg]

who it was, I think. And then from the description in the YouTube comment, so I don't know if it's true. That guy has the same name in real life, maybe as that woman. Like, it's a known thing. Like there are two famous people there that have the same name. So when he replaces her, it's like a whole different level of meta joke. Like, you know, like he could replace her because they actually have the same name. Even though he's a. A man who's older. But yeah, it's like if there were two famous Matt Damon's. And then the joke was, you know, he fell so many times, he needs a replacement. And now it's the other Matt Damon.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wait, her name was Matt Damon?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Let's move on. Okay, so Jon Hamm's hosting. Seth, paint a picture for us.

[Seth Meyers]

Hamm's back. We love him. We know what we got now. And we also got Rihanna back. And it's like, oh, it's all happening. You guys have an album full of songs. You refuse to put them.

[Andy Samberg]

That continues.

[Seth Meyers]

But you do think you're like, whoa, Shyrani. That was a hit. Can we do it again?

[Jorma Taccone]

I want to say yes. Her side asked, really? Am I wrong?

[Andy Samberg]

I believe it was like, what are we doing this time we're back. Like, is it time for another Shyrani? That sort of thing.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

And the first time, if you recall, it was kind of her people's idea. Like, hey, we would love Rihanna to be one of your shorts. But then it. It just. It kind of clearly from us had come from just reps.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes.

[Andy Samberg]

And then this time, though, it was also Rihanna being super nice and being super down.

[Seth Meyers]

And how quickly did you come up with Rani and Clyde as the idea?

[Jorma Taccone]

I want to say I had the phrase Ronnie and Clyde in my notes doc as soon as they booked her. So, like weeks in advance.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

And then it was a classic, like, how do we make it that Keith? And then we just started talking about it and bank heist made most sense.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, it's a lot of fun.

[Andy Samberg]

Jorm, were you back this week or are you still not there for this one?

[Akiva Schaffer]

I don't.

[Andy Samberg]

Where were you?

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, and I'm trying to think of,

[Andy Samberg]

like weeks and weeks at this point. And we don't know what he was

[Seth Meyers]

making or what he was doing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, because it's not Magruber.

[Andy Samberg]

No.

[Akiva Schaffer]

So I don't know. It wouldn't have been like Magruber Press. There's no way I would have been Fucking let out for Magrub Press.

[Jorma Taccone]

What season is this for us?

[Akiva Schaffer]

This is 2010.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. This is the actual Halloween episode. I know there was something where it said happy Halloween or something like that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Of 2010.

[Andy Samberg]

Of 2010. October 30th. I'm looking at the rundown. We got our rare, rare first sketch after the monologue with no commercial break. Like the commercial parody slot, where it's right after. You know, we got a great show.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's a big slot.

[Andy Samberg]

Rihanna's here. So stick around. We'll be right back.

[Jorma Taccone]

I feel like Great day and this one are the only ones, maybe. Or am I forgetting some.

[Andy Samberg]

I don't know. If you had asked me if any did that, I would have said no. Like, I don't remember it happening. That's so crazy that it would just go right out of the monologue into a short.

[Jorma Taccone]

I would never have said no.

[Andy Samberg]

You knew.

[Jorma Taccone]

I knew.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

You remember that? That happened.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. And us always being like, whoa.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I do want to say this is just from the first act of the show. Biden Cold open. Myers Ham monologue. Myers, Mulaney Digital shorts. Sandberg, Shaffer, Tacconi. So this was. We really. We really earned our key this week.

[Jorma Taccone]

We did. And a total fucking sausage party.

[Andy Samberg]

By the way, you're on the next two after commercial break. Vincent Price, Halloween, which is the hater. Mulaney, Myers. And then back to the Future Screen Tests, which is a jost. Myers.

[Seth Meyers]

That was a good one.

[Jorma Taccone]

I think I was in that as Cage. Right?

[Seth Meyers]

I don't know.

[Andy Samberg]

You're just owning those first two acts.

[Seth Meyers]

There's a really fun sketch which you're probably not gonna get to, but maybe next we'll get to that. I remember a part of always, which is. I think it's called Audition, where it's a wig and ham talking about what they will and won't do if they get cast in a movie.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, I remember.

[Seth Meyers]

It's really good. It's really good. Paula Pell wig.

[Jorma Taccone]

And I was gonna say it sounds like it was a Paula, right?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. I believe it's like what you're willing to do or what you're willing to show?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, like, I won't do full frontal.

[Seth Meyers]

I will do da da, da. Yeah, I'm pretty sure Wig says she'll show full butthole.

[Jorma Taccone]

We should watch it.

[Seth Meyers]

We should watch it. But let's do Ronnie and Clyde.

[Andy Samberg]

Okay. I'm loving it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Ronnie and Clyde.

[Andy Samberg]

We gotta figure out where you were.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I don't know, like, was I around? For recording it, at least. I fucking don't.

[Seth Meyers]

I also, I do want to open before we start watching. I think I went on the record for Shai Ronnie saying it's the most striking I feel a person has ever been on camera and I feel like she tops it.

[Jorma Taccone]

I have no comment.

[Andy Samberg]

It is something.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Again, pretty controversial to say that. I know you think Rihanna's pretty.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Was it a little hard for you to do day drinking with her because of that?

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, was it hard for her?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, exactly.

[Seth Meyers]

This is reciprocal, right?

[Andy Samberg]

Seth, it's 10:30 at night. There he is. You have sunk into your couch. You're holding the mic.

[Jorma Taccone]

He's holding his mic like a beard.

[Andy Samberg]

I've never seen him handhold the mic.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm wearing giant like cheaters and a Frisbee sweater. And I'm like, yeah, I think Rihanna's

[Andy Samberg]

pretty good looking dog pajamas. But I'm not bad myself. Am I right? No, I think we were both.

[Seth Meyers]

Both. We both got a couple drinks in us and let's just say I think it was pretty reciprocal. Beast your eyes, boys.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's me, Cecily Meon.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You know, usually I can get into any restaurant I want, but they're closing.

[Andy Samberg]

I'll say. Have you been up then since 4 in the morning? Was that last night or was it two nights ago?

[Seth Meyers]

No, it was last night. I've been up since 4 in the morning.

[Andy Samberg]

That's up, Seth.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Don't know how you do it. It's the same as it was on the show.

[Andy Samberg]

I went to a wedding last night that Josh MC'd and he did a great job. And it was some of the speeches and songs I've ever heard at a wedding. It was really pretty great.

[Akiva Schaffer]

How late did you stay out, Keith?

[Andy Samberg]

Maybe 11:30. It started at 6. Okay, moving on.

[Guest Actor]

We've done the work, you know, the system. We have the firepower and we have each other.

[Additional Cast Member]

You ready? We at it again.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, my gosh, he's got a little gun. Got a little dinky gun.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Can we talk about Andy's pants real quick?

[Seth Meyers]

So what are you rocking there?

[Jorma Taccone]

I think it's a skirt.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's a skirt he's wearing to.

[Andy Samberg]

To what you were saying, Seth. I remember shooting this closeup and it's. It happens on movie sets to me still sometimes, like on Naked Gun, I'd be shooting scenes and then occasionally going for a real close up that only movies do. Yeah, like one that cuts off the top of your head level close up. Like what we're looking at here. And all of a sudden I'd be like, oh, I need to be in close on Liam Neeson's face all the time. It's more compelling than most things. And it's why he's a movie star, where you're just like. There's nothing more interesting that elevates it up to feeling like it's a real movie. But I remember shooting this shot and being like, what the fuck? It looks like almost computer generated for how perfect her face looks.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, it's pretty crazy.

[Andy Samberg]

She should do like a cosmetics line or something, you know what I mean? I think she could sell a lot

[Akiva Schaffer]

to talk about this for a second just because it's movie making. And that's something I sort of got from you, Keev, is that the eyeline should be about three quarters of the way up the frame. And this frame that we're looking at is exactly that where her eyeline is about three quarters of the way.

[Andy Samberg]

It's another one of those rules that's meant to be broken, but when you do break it, you should be doing it with real purpose.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I always like it just composition wise.

[Jorma Taccone]

You should be doing it on purpose for effect. Like in the Curse.

[Andy Samberg]

Exactly. Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Sergio.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Or on purpose also.

[Jorma Taccone]

Jon Hamm, right?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. It's also the symmetry of her face. And then Andy, who's got a lovely face, but you're kind of squirreling it up to be its worst version.

[Jorma Taccone]

Thanks.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. It's like he's wearing his readers and hand holding his mic, leaning back on

[Jorma Taccone]

the couch, so to speak, looking like Edna from Incredibles.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Good poll.

[Andy Samberg]

Like whatever. Dratch is old school movie exec.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, let's take a picture.

[Seth Meyers]

Double D's. Double D.

[Andy Samberg]

All right, here we go.

[Jorma Taccone]

All right, so you're wearing a skirt because I'm Bonnie.

[Seth Meyers]

It's inverted.

[Jorma Taccone]

I'm Bonnie, she's Clyde.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah,

[Jorma Taccone]

yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

You've got the little beret

[Additional Cast Member]

is a stick up. Stick up. No funny business. All you get lit up. Lit up. You.

[Andy Samberg]

It's pure white outside because we couldn't get a backdrop.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[Sponsor Voice]

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[Jorma Taccone]

Don't ruin the illusion, okay?

[Andy Samberg]

I just want people to know that some things aren't really choices, they're fast solutions.

[Jorma Taccone]

It was a very sunny day.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Fast solutions. But by the way, did you guys in burning all the other sets from last time, which we talked about where you couldn't get to all the other sets, did you guys then learn from the other one, being like, it can all be in one set, guys?

[Guest/Husband]

Definitely.

[Andy Samberg]

And we built and had them build the set. And I remember them building a set that was so teeny tiny and only had one wall.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It looks very tiny, so you wouldn't

[Andy Samberg]

be able to shoot coverage in it. Like an SNL sketch where it was just, like, one wall and would fit, like, two people. After I had had a whole long conversation, like, this is a big thing, and it's gonna need this space. And they just gave us the shitty. And I got so mad at them.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I remember that just for everybody listening that, like, if there's ever a problem with anything, Keev's gonna let you know about it. Many days before.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's just that he was very clear about it up front.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah,

[Additional Cast Member]

You test out.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I just want to point out we're 43 seconds in. You've crossed the line like, three or four times.

[Andy Samberg]

It's a. It's a music video.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay.

[Andy Samberg]

She just looked at the camera.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's kind of a movie, though, you know, small movie.

[Andy Samberg]

She was looking down the lens. Which part of the line is that you did great with purpose. These are tools for you to use. And.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

People have expectations. And when you break it, it's so powerful.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Absolutely. Ke.

[Sponsor Voice]

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[Andy Samberg]

There's things. There's color correction on it, too.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It looks great here. Keep going.

[Andy Samberg]

Something Sergio could have used.

[Additional Cast Member]

No one in the back can hear you. Use your outside voice. We don't have time for this. Let's go. So stay on the ground.

[Andy Samberg]

I like that you have a mic.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, I have a mic. Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That's great.

[Andy Samberg]

Because that's. That's just part of it. It doesn't work without.

[Akiva Schaffer]

He brought one in his purse.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I want to shout. Both Bobby and Vanessa have really good. Like, I'm scared, but also I'm straining to try to understand what this person is.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's really small.

[Seth Meyers]

Like, I feel like these are important instructions to the stick up. And I'm really frustrated by my failure.

[Akiva Schaffer]

They're such good look. Such good looks. It's like Bobby's look in threw it on the ground is equally like, oh, yeah, this guy's really. It's killing that reaction. But also, by the way, this shit. This shit bangs too, by the way. Like, this really good. I mean, she sounds good on.

[Andy Samberg]

You should look up. Who did the beat?

[Jorma Taccone]

I was gonna say, I feel like this time around, it's like. Because it's a sequel, we have a long intro, and she's filling the space more. The bbm, I think, is slower also. It has a lot of shine. To it. But I do feel like it's like a little less laughs per second up until this point. Right. And yes, the answer is yes, there is a demo of this somewhere with me doing all of her singing yet again.

[Akiva Schaffer]

And how'd you think you did?

[Jorma Taccone]

Better than the first time. But like, all the little things in here, we've thought of all of them. Do you remember this when we were recording? What do you mean by, like, every, like, thing that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

All the little things. Yeah, it's the same as last time, though. Like, it was. All of it was by design.

[Jorma Taccone]

I love that we said you test. I.

[Andy Samberg]

It was T minus.

[Jorma Taccone]

D minus.

[Akiva Schaffer]

T minus.

[Andy Samberg]

T minus. Made this beat.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yep.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I still have that dude's number.

[Jorma Taccone]

T minus with the heaters.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, it's really good. Oh, you know what I was thinking when it was playing, though, is we rarely do the SNL sequel sketch. That is the, as we call it, the Mad Libs version of the first one where you're like, yeah, well, here were the beats of the first one. Let's just erase the jokes, kind of come up with a new overall theme, and then do jokes that are new ones. And this is one of the rare times where we did it. And I don't feel bad about it or anything, but it is like the normal SNL sequel. The dick in a box would be something else in a box.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Right, Right.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

You know what I mean?

[Jorma Taccone]

Correct.

[Andy Samberg]

Or here's a new present for Christmas. Or now it's Valentine's Day. Here's a new present.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, Shyrani became a sketch when it became one. Set on the first one.

[Andy Samberg]

Right. It is interesting, though, because you could easily have figured out something else for them to do with a shy guy and her. But we decided to do a traditional SNL sequel.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I mean, it's a little bit more of a story now, kind of.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, yeah, let's watch it all the way through and see what kind of diversions happen.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But can I just say before we move forward, though, T minus is a big Canadian producer. Producer. He did a lot of massive hits for Drake. So.

[Andy Samberg]

After this, I bet.

[Akiva Schaffer]

But yes, I don't think so.

[Andy Samberg]

Probably on the power of this, if I'm guessing.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, sure. Okay, go ahead.

[Andy Samberg]

Good.

[Additional Cast Member]

Please, please use your words. Just imagine that everyone's naked. Uhoh.

[Akiva Schaffer]

What a good bobby.

[Additional Cast Member]

He shot himself. Why is it done so small?

[Jorma Taccone]

Come on, put your hands up.

[Additional Cast Member]

Good luck. Shy running. Bye Bye.

[Andy Samberg]

I think we complimented her on the same thing last time, but she learned this song, you know, hours before we're doing it and is hitting all the words. And we have worked with so many pop stars that theoretically could have had the song for three months. Cause we recorded, you know, a while ago, and they don't. And they know we're gonna shoot the music video not naming no names, and they still don't know any of the words by the time we show up on set. And it's really hard even just having done it an hour before whatever this was, which was right away. But she's just on it.

[Seth Meyers]

And she never overplays, like the way she's just very low key exhausted with you.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

She never overdoes it. You do realize, it's like, I feel like how she would be in real life if she was frustrated in some way.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, my God, Seth, we get it. You think she's hot.

[Seth Meyers]

And I think, like I said, I don't think it's one way traffic.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I was just more focused on eyelines and where the eyes are centered in the frame.

[Seth Meyers]

Right.

[Jorma Taccone]

And I was noticing that the boner in the boner alert moment looked like a stick. Looked a lot like a big. Like a stick had been put on.

[Seth Meyers]

I also feel like that is a joke on something that's been around forever and I had never seen it before, which is picture. Sure. Everybody naked. If you're nervous and then just immediately getting a huge boner.

[Jorma Taccone]

But then it immediately goes away.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, but it is a funny, like. Oh, I didn't think that would. Of course, that would be the downside.

[Jorma Taccone]

Keith, can we roll back and just look at that boner shot real quick? I think we should guess inches for Shyrani, which I do think is interesting.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That is actually. That's a good point. You wouldn't think Shyrani would be quite so well endowed, but he.

[Jorma Taccone]

But he has.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, no, he's. He's packing. I know he is. He's got. But are you seeing what I'm seeing, though, on the YouTube?

[Jorma Taccone]

The most paused moment?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I can just go right for it. I know exactly where it's coming. Because want to see this again and again. Boner alert did become a. Like a tik tok meme where people did different.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, really?

[Andy Samberg]

You know, clips. And then it would go boner alert. It'd be like, about, like, you know, like when your husband does all the dishes and you didn't have to ask. And then like, bo.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Why would that be appealing?

[Jorma Taccone]

And why is your gun so small? That freeze frame is so brutal.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's like his. It's like his pencilish Dick is like a foot long.

[Jorma Taccone]

The look on my face, I look like a demon.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's like a head of a ship.

[Seth Meyers]

It is like. It is why you're so great, you're so great at comedy, Andy. Here you are with somebody and you're just complete absence of vanity. This two shot is just purely delightful to me. The worst instinct in comedy is like, then I'll also be cool, right?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, this is how I feel when I hang out with Rihanna.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Oh my God.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, that's. Cause unlike me and her, there's a gift, right?

[Jorma Taccone]

Exactly. Whereas you are her equal in every way. Looks especially.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Did we give shiny Ronnie freckles, like at all? No, he doesn't have freckles, right?

[Jorma Taccone]

No, no, just like a big ass boner, like maybe a foot and a half.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. Well, he's excited.

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[Jorma Taccone]

All right, let's jam it.

[Additional Cast Member]

Why did I think you could do this?

[Andy Samberg]

Just noticing it now.

[Seth Meyers]

Also, the shoes suck. They're like white Velcro shoes.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, and it's funny. What we chose to keep shy Ronnie and what. What's. What's canon? Shyrani can't be changed no matter what.

[Jorma Taccone]

Sweater, shoes, socks.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, so he's got the athletic socks, the white, like, nurse shoes, shoes and the same sweater, right?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, it's like Faye Dunaway and Bonnie and Clyde. Like 30%.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes. But then it's her scarf, hat and skirt. So it's just a perfect 50. 50, I think.

[Jorma Taccone]

Actually, while we're on the subject, wigs, make up, wardrobe, all super on point for like, the time period.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Yes. Killed it.

[Jorma Taccone]

Looks great on camera.

[Andy Samberg]

The scene coming in with the bags and also all the background, like the casting, they're all actually being excellent.

[Jorma Taccone]

Don't say anything, Seth Death.

[Andy Samberg]

Don't say anything mean about this.

[Jorma Taccone]

Don't bring up the Woman from Boogerman,

[Seth Meyers]

you piece of Keem's mom strutting.

[Akiva Schaffer]

She's already.

[Seth Meyers]

She's.

[Akiva Schaffer]

She's suffered enough.

[Guest/Husband]

Get the name twisted cuz I'm crazy.

[Andy Samberg]

I hung a giant ass news off my giant ass.

[Guest/Husband]

Shots to the sky. Put your face down.

[Andy Samberg]

Real fun.

[Jorma Taccone]

Ah, not the music.

[Andy Samberg]

God, they cut it up so fast to it, like. Let us hear the applause for a second before you go to the sax for Lenny. Just ripping at you.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Can't stop Lenny. Can't stop Lenny.

[Jorma Taccone]

Thirsty ass YouTube algorithm.

[Andy Samberg]

All right. There was a lot of great stuff in this last number one, the seamless inclusion of Jon Hamm, who obviously was not there the entire time we were shooting. And we just were like, if you're down there, no one's gonna notice. And it feels seamless, her grabbing him

[Jorma Taccone]

and saying, we're gonna have sex.

[Seth Meyers]

Toodaloo.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Ham is also doing that perfect fucking ham smile that he does on the right.

[Seth Meyers]

It is that really good ham. Look where he's like crazy handsome. And then he gives a real goofy.

[Andy Samberg]

But then it's like, oh, my God, she's gonna have sex with me, fellas. Works for me. And then your rap immediately kind of talks about the important things that you have. A giant dick.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yep.

[Andy Samberg]

You hung a noose from it. And pause. Pause for the whole song to stop and you can hang from it and just continue.

[Jorma Taccone]

He was interrupted.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, but he didn't miss. He's picking up right where he left off.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's good.

[Andy Samberg]

And then ending with a perfect backflip that actually is like very well executed in every way. I would say, like.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, my favorite part was like, right at the very end when I went,

[Andy Samberg]

oh, when Lenny picket kicked in.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's like, oof. Can't stop the picket.

[Andy Samberg]

I like that it. That they're walking out on the white psych and it still kind of feels okay.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

It's not somehow it's not breaking the white psych.

[Akiva Schaffer]

That always looks kind of cool.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Blown out.

[Jorma Taccone]

I kind of feel like we're like needing maybe some questions about this one because we're not remembering a lot.

[Andy Samberg]

You know what I mean?

[Guest/Husband]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, like, what do you mean?

[Jorma Taccone]

Like, questions like Kittis and the Titus kind of a sitch, you know, like, next time we'll do some follow ups because.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, I have. I mean, let me just ask this. Like, were you guys, when it was over, were you like, hey, because second time you did a sequel, right?

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Because you've already done Mother lover laser feel. Oh, yeah. Laser cats but did you feel like, hey, we did a good job?

[Andy Samberg]

Definitely.

[Jorma Taccone]

I remember being like, yeah, it was fun. It was fun. It played.

[Andy Samberg]

The shame we talk about when we let down one of our heroes, like a surf meeting or the testicle song with Hanks or whatever, where we kind of feel like we didn't rise to the challenge that we wanted to. You get the inverse one when you feel like you did deliver. Like, we were so proud about the first Shairani that we were like, we did a good one with Rihanna. That is so. And to have her come back and be way more just familiar with us is like a reward as well, to just be like, yeah, we made a hit together and let's try again. So there's a pride just even in doing it. And then we were glad that it worked again.

[Jorma Taccone]

And I think I said this after the first Shyrani, but every time I've seen her outside of the show, she calls me Shyrani.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, my God. Like, just for that.

[Jorma Taccone]

Worth it.

[Andy Samberg]

Her, like, main lady that I'm blinking the name. Name did contact us a few years after this, saying, is there a promo video for Better have My Money was her new single. It had come out maybe three weeks ago, and it was already like, you know, it's a new Rihanna single, so it's big, and they're like, she's gonna be in la. Is there, like, a fun alternate universe music video that's just, like, silly that you guys would want to make with her? And we got kind of excited about A Shy Ronnie One tale with Rihanna Bitch, Better have My Money. And I even shot a demo version

[Akiva Schaffer]

of it that was during Pop Star, right?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, it was like, right somewhere right

[Akiva Schaffer]

near the beginning during prep of Pop Star.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. And we jammed out, and then, like, schedules changed and, you know, just these things always come and go really fast. And so we didn't end up ever making it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Just. Just even the prospect of that is so crazy.

[Jorma Taccone]

I think I remember that. And then the video for it came out, and we were like, that's way better.

[Andy Samberg]

But this was always gonna be, like, an alternate silly version.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, it was gonna be like a promo little amuse bouche. It was like a moose bouche.

[Andy Samberg]

It was going to be cool. Like, the idea was we were putting GoPros in a car before people did that all the time. And it was going to be getting Rihanna to drive you around like you were basically. She was your pimp. Like, she was my pimp. Yeah. And it was like, better have my money. And it was like, she's singing this song while she's, like, making Shyrani get out of the car. I remember now, clearly he's doing bad things and then getting back in the car. And we had worked it out if, like, we drove around the one block where she could actually, like, drop you off, continue driving, and then get you back in without any cuts.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah. It was in the valley somewhere.

[Andy Samberg]

Somewhere.

[Jorma Taccone]

Right?

[Andy Samberg]

Like, yeah, we really had worked it out.

[Jorma Taccone]

It would have been. God damn it. That would have been good.

[Seth Meyers]

I. I hosted Rihanna's diamond ball a couple of times in New York City. This sounds like a joke, but it's not.

[Andy Samberg]

Wow.

[Seth Meyers]

And the first time I did it, I. Because again, it's an incredible charity. And I was like, it's just a good, nice reminder to know that when she says, better have my money, she's gonna then use that money for philanthropic means. This isn't somebody just trying to, like,

[Andy Samberg]

get rich for all the right reasons

[Akiva Schaffer]

gonna use that money for good.

[Seth Meyers]

Do we wish she didn?

[Andy Samberg]

Sure.

[Seth Meyers]

But it's important.

[Andy Samberg]

Would she get more bees with honey? Sure. That might be a lesson to be learned.

[Seth Meyers]

It's really fun. We should get a voice note from ham maybe for next week. Ham, if you're listening, give us a voice note. Tell us what your memories were.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I bet he was so nervous to do this.

[Seth Meyers]

So nervous.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. We dropped the ball. Not telling him we were about to do this and getting that quick voice note.

[Seth Meyers]

But you know who really dropped the ball? Everybody. Didn't tell me not to spend my last hour putting together questions about we like sports.

[Andy Samberg]

Have them in your back pocket. Don't lose. Don't lose that. Don't lose that note.

[Seth Meyers]

But I got a 4:15 in Kansas City. I had to go return a hertz. Had to return my own hertz rental card.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Can we just. I know Andy has to go, and we're going to take your questions about this and answer it. We'll play a ham note. But two things. Keev, can you queue up and show us the audition sketch?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, of course.

[Seth Meyers]

Jack Black, sing us in spelling.

[Andy Samberg]

Be spelling bee.

[Seth Meyers]

And Andy.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah. I bailed. Six short. I didn't even really try. It was just too much. I couldn't do it today.

[Andy Samberg]

Whoa.

[Seth Meyers]

I think I'm closer than you.

[Andy Samberg]

That's the saddest one we've ever had. I know.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Six short.

[Andy Samberg]

This movie's really wearing on on our guy.

[Jorma Taccone]

But I got it clean the two days previous to today.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Who gives a shit?

[Seth Meyers]

What's a shame we weren't doing. I'm sure we couldn't do the podcast those days. That's such a bummer.

[Jorma Taccone]

Just saying, those two days I quit Beat.

[Seth Meyers]

Hold on. I want to see where I am clean. This is very exciting.

[Akiva Schaffer]

We're only living for today.

[Jorma Taccone]

I disagree with that. I live for yesterday and the day before.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm only three away.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, you beat me.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Wow.

[Seth Meyers]

Very exciting.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, first time for everything.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, but I didn't. I mean, I also have looked at hints and you probably haven't.

[Jorma Taccone]

No, I didn't look at any hints.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, so, yeah, I didn't really beat you, but.

[Jorma Taccone]

Hey, guys, Andy here. It's the day after we recorded, and obviously I had a pretty bad day on the spelling bee, but as mentioned, I did get it clean the first two days prior to the day that we recorded, but this is the day after, and I just couldn't help but chime in and just mention that I did it 100% clean, as we call it squeaky clean. Zero hints of any kind. Didn't even look at the total number of words or total score. Knocked it out in under 15 minutes. It was an easy one, but I still felt really proud and I wanted to get that out into the world because I know that Seth didn't do it. All right, back to the pot.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, you got it.

[Andy Samberg]

I got it.

[Seth Meyers]

Rock and roll.

[Guest Actor]

Next, for the part of Nicole, we have Lizette Barnes. Hello.

[Jorma Taccone]

Oh, hello.

[Andy Samberg]

Hello.

[Seth Meyers]

See, we've had you in here before.

[Guest Actor]

I'm with Classy Faces Talent Agency. You've heard of them?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Nope, can't say that I have.

[Guest Actor]

Well, here's my head picture. It's of me dressed as a sailor looking into a crystal ball, pretending to be surprised.

[Seth Meyers]

That's exactly what it is.

[Guest/Husband]

Yeah.

[Guest Actor]

Okay, listen, before we start, I have read the play. It's very racy and so there are no surprises. Later, I'm just going to tell you what I am comfortable doing and not doing, and you are just going to have to deal with it.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Okay?

[Guest Actor]

Right. Well, I am willing to show my legs, my arms, my face, my stomach, my full back, my toes, the top part of my head, my naked breasts, my butt crack, my belly button, my full vagina. Let's see. I will show my nipples, my spread apart butt, my pushed together boobs.

[Jorma Taccone]

Okay, Lisette, you're not.

[Guest Actor]

Okay. And these are things that I will do. I will sing, I will swear, I will show my bush, I will tap, I will jiggle, I will cry, I will push my boobs together. I will lift up my skirt, turn Away from the audience, bend over and pass gas with sound.

[Andy Samberg]

I think you might have read a difference.

[Guest Actor]

These are the following things that are out of the question. I refuse to wear a costume. That's it.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay, well, that could be a problem.

[Guest Actor]

Well, and these are some things I might be talked into doing. I might punch myself in the face. I might touch a ding dong. Never say never. I might tinkle in a fake sink. I might eat a very small bowl of white bird waste if it is relevant to the story. Otherwise, you know, I mean, come on.

[Seth Meyers]

Was that.

[Guest/Husband]

Can I give you a little bit of feedback?

[Guest Actor]

Sure, yeah.

[Guest/Husband]

You're not getting this part. I'm sorry to interrupt, but I'm her husband. I just have to know how this is going.

[Guest Actor]

Oh, he just told me. I. I didn't get the part.

[Seth Meyers]

It's done.

[Guest/Husband]

Well, you are making a huge mistake, sir.

[Guest Actor]

Sandy, please.

[Guest/Husband]

No, I want to do this. This woman isn't just my wife. She is an actress. She is a masteress of her craft. Are you insane in the membrane? Insane in the brain?

[Akiva Schaffer]

You guys gotta go first.

[Guest/Husband]

Let me ask you, sir, have you seen this woman? Stanley Steamer commercial. Sandy Jones, let me remind you. Two women are having a conversation. Conversation on a couch. A child runs in and asks mommy to look at the family dog's new trick. Well, unfortunately, the new trick is him dragging his dirty rear along the carpet. And she has to get so mad. Do it, honey.

[Additional Cast Member]

Toby.

[Guest Actor]

Wow, that's.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's you.

[Guest/Husband]

Yes, it's her. And I'm sorry if she has standards unlike every other loose actress that comes in here. No, no, no, no, no, you're right.

[Jorma Taccone]

I'm sorry.

[Guest/Husband]

So now that you know who she really is, does she have the part?

[Andy Samberg]

No.

[Guest/Husband]

What if she were to put a jelly bean on a chair, sit down, and when she stands back up, the jelly beat is gone? Get out.

[Guest Actor]

What if it's a plum?

[Guest/Husband]

Goodbye.

[Guest Actor]

Good day, sir. I mean, jerk.

[Guest/Husband]

I hope you're happy. Who's next?

[Andy Samberg]

Sandal Barnes.

[Guest/Husband]

Sandal Barnes. I am at the Top Hat warehouse agency. I will show the backs of my legs, my pushed together butt, the front of my wiener. I will wear diapers. I will not work with children. Although I will dance with them. I may juggle. I will show my wife's vagina.

[Andy Samberg]

Really good. Wow.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I will show my wife's vagina.

[Andy Samberg]

There isn't a bad take on an in terms of like that. That is live. And the cameras are going back and forth.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Jorma Taccone]

Every single moment is perfect.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. And even the way Sudeikis Is choosing to play it so, like, light and jovial in the top half. Like, just that kind of smile of, like, being entertained by her, but not outside of the sketch. Being entertained with her within it as, like, hey, I see auditions all day and this is a kooky one. I'll entertain it for a little, like.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Very good at playing that reel.

[Seth Meyers]

The really good cut is when Sudeikis, like, varies his pace on that line. You guys gotta go. And they catch that just right. Also, as we've established, I don't like sketches that end with somebody jumping on a window. And that is. It is really worth going in to watch because Sudeikis opens the window and you think he's gonna jump out. And he jumps out and it's just on street level.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yeah, he just walks away.

[Seth Meyers]

It's a really nice version.

[Andy Samberg]

And wig, obviously, is like pitch perfect on every single second as well. And then Ham also.

[Seth Meyers]

Ham's great.

[Andy Samberg]

That's what I mean. It's just the three of them operating at such a pro level. It's very nice to see.

[Jorma Taccone]

It's so funny the whole time. And then it really hits its apex at when he has her do the line from the commercial.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah, Tony, that was you.

[Seth Meyers]

It's also that thing of, like, they're filthy, the things they're willing to do, but they also really work to not say dirty words. Like when he's like. Drags his rear across the carpet, like, touch a ding dong.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Like, they're really, I mean, insane in the membrane too. Just like, oh, God, what do they

[Andy Samberg]

think everybody else is gonna, you know, is doing that. They're the ones that are holding the moral high ground.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, guys, look at us. Seth, Sunday Night Crew.

[Jorma Taccone]

Seth. I gotta go. But there's ample opportunity for Seth's Corner in this episode.

[Andy Samberg]

Seth's Corner.

[Seth Meyers]

I know, but I didn't put any work into it. So maybe when we come back, we'll.

[Jorma Taccone]

Okay, so we're gonn put a pin in Seth's Corner.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, we'll get Jon Hamm's take here. We'll get some questions.

[Jorma Taccone]

Yep, yep.

[Andy Samberg]

We're doing great, guys. Another one in the bag.

[Seth Meyers]

Here's some other things we're gonna tease that. We have. Jesse, David Fox, great comedy writer over at Vulture, did a podcast with Brian Cranston and where Bryan Cranston talked about the Bjellen brothers. So we have permission to play that.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Oh, fucking killer.

[Andy Samberg]

That was just randomly one that Jesse at Vulture also remembered really liking and wanted to talk to.

[Seth Meyers]

I wonder when we Hear the clip. It might be that or it might be that. Brian brought it up. We'll have to listen. Okay. Oh, I think Jesse just brought it up with him because we talked about it.

[Andy Samberg]

That's what I was wondering.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Yeah, sorry. And then Jack Quaido has been doing press, and some people have been yelling out Quaid army to him.

[Akiva Schaffer]

Ah, fucking great. We should develop something that he gets to say that's different than righteous kill.

[Seth Meyers]

Right?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I don't know what this is, but Connor Ratliff, who's a really fucking has something called the Acting Class Live at UCB Theater. And six days ago, he did an episode of his show with special guests

[Sponsor Voice]

Jack Quaid and Meg Ryan.

[Seth Meyers]

Jack Quaid's mom. And somebody yells out, quaid Army. And there's a very funny clip where Jack Quaid has to try to explain why someone's yelling Quaid Army.

[Akiva Schaffer]

You have to go so far back.

[Seth Meyers]

He has to explain to his mom. It has nothing to do with him.

[Andy Samberg]

No. He's like, no, I started kind of a militia, Mom. It's not a cult, but it is there for us if we know need it.

[Jorma Taccone]

If people yell Quaid army at him, should he yell back Mac and cheese?

[Akiva Schaffer]

Yes, exactly. Either that or Mac and cheese, but yes.

[Jorma Taccone]

Well, that's Jack. Yeah, sorry.

[Akiva Schaffer]

It's a Mac and cheese.

[Andy Samberg]

Mac and cheese. And then try to explain that to Mac and cheese. Explain that to his mom. There's a clip online of that, Seth, you saw. I want to see that.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I'll send. It's really funny, too, because then he's trying to explain to Maguire, and he goes, so, you know, the Lonely Island. She's like, what's that? And it's like. It's just watching a son realize there's no. Like, he's. In general, our podcast is impossible. Like, a lot of our listeners have now pointed out that it's, like, not a thing to put on in a car with people who haven't listened to the previous 100 episodes.

[Akiva Schaffer]

No, it's impenetrable.

[Jorma Taccone]

Because it's impenetrable. Is that what you're saying?

[Akiva Schaffer]

But in a good way. It's impenetrable. In a good way.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, guys. I love you all.

[Akiva Schaffer]

I love you, too.

[Seth Meyers]

So love you.

[Jorma Taccone]

Love you guys.

[Seth Meyers]

Later, Arnold.

[Guest/Husband]

Later, Quaid.