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Akiva Schaffer
The Lonely island and Seth Meyers podcast show.
Jorma Taccone
All right, I'm recording from the look of Seth's.
Andy Samberg
From the look of his. This is not where he normally is. He's suddenly in kind of a dark, sad cave. He's probably.
Akiva Schaffer
And I'd love not to talk about where I Trying to keep it on the down low right now. Where I am, where I'm gonna be.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
You know, that's not important. It's not really important where we are.
Akiva Schaffer
Not really important where we are, what we're doing.
Andy Samberg
Do you have a drink, Seth? It looks like you'd have a drink.
Akiva Schaffer
I might have a drink, but I wanna also welcome everybody to the Lonely Island Seth Meyers podcast. And we have a special guest with us. Hi, Kenan.
Keenan Thompson
Hi, everybody.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Keenan Thompson.
Andy Samberg
I need A cowbell. I need the big boy in the morning cowbell right now so bad.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Well, I'm Keith. I'm doing it. I'm shaking my vest in there.
Keenan Thompson
Nice.
Andy Samberg
Oh, that's the highest honor.
Akiva Schaffer
They always say when you're. When you're about to do a podcast, put on your loudest vest.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
One of the Quaid army made this for me.
Akiva Schaffer
Quaid army made a Qu army vest for Yorma that he's currently wearing in a hospital bed.
Andy Samberg
Oh, my God. Can you tilt your camera down?
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Okay.
Akiva Schaffer
All right, Fine, fine.
Andy Samberg
There we go.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Yeah. Qu army says Qu Army.
Jorma Taccone
My gosh.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
They wanted me to wear it on the podcast, I think, because it was. It's a loud vest.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
It's got a bunch of trash bags attached to it as well, which I thought was funny.
Andy Samberg
Oh, because your other vest.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Yeah, referencing my other vest.
Jorma Taccone
And there's no anthrax on it.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Oh, definitely not.
Andy Samberg
I feel great. Keenan, there'd be too much to stop and explain it to you. It's just nonsense.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Yeah, you got to listen from the beginning, bro.
Akiva Schaffer
But I will say, and, Keenan, I'm very cognizant of how busy you are, and I want to make sure we don't waste your time. But I want to say one vest related thing. So, first of all, Yhoram bought a vest. Everybody said it was ugly. And then we shamed him for his vest. And then also recently, Keenan, hopefully you're up to speed. Yhorm fell off a ladder. One of our listeners wrote in and basically had a theory. And their theory was, had Yhorm been wearing his vest, do you think it was possible that when he fell off the ladder, it would have served as a parachute?
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
That's a really good positive.
Akiva Schaffer
Do you now all feel a little bit responsible because you shamed him into not wearing a vest that could have saved his pelvis?
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
I could sue you for peer pressuring me out of my parachute vest.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, man.
Akiva Schaffer
Because it did look. It did look like it could parachute that last vest.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
I agree. Fully agree.
Keenan Thompson
Number one, I'm not caught up yet because you guys have a fucking archive going so way back. I think I'm on, like, laser cats one. Honestly.
Jorma Taccone
Honestly, that's pretty good.
Akiva Schaffer
That's pretty good.
Keenan Thompson
I'm catching up, but I have a ways to go. And, Yoram, I'm sorry, man. Would you break your pelvis? What happened?
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Pelvis. Sacrum. Pelvis was detached. Detached from spine. I messed that up. That's. I'm sorry. That's for corrections. It was not My sacrum. It was my pelvis that was detached from my spine.
Akiva Schaffer
Gotcha.
Andy Samberg
He's giving it to you very casually because he's on a lot of drugs and he's in the hospital, but it was horrific.
Keenan Thompson
Oh, man, I'm so sorry.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Yeah, I'm. No, I'm. I'm genuinely, I think, lucky to be live. And my PT guy just. My. My guy Michael just confirmed that for me because he was like, oh, yeah, yeah, you got real lucky. You should be paralyzed.
Keenan Thompson
Oh, man, you're not.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
So. Yeah, I'm good.
Akiva Schaffer
He did. You know, I do want to make sure we inform you that he was on the ladder trying to save kids from a fire. No way. He was hanging lights.
Keenan Thompson
Yeah, no doubt.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
First of all, the lights that I was hanging, Keenan, are super charming.
Akiva Schaffer
I will say beautiful fairy lights. Gorgeous.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
And then you can decide whether it was worth it or not. Okay.
Jorma Taccone
Yhorm's basically the manic pixie girl of his own life. By the way, when he hit the ground, his pelvis went. Oh, Lord have mercy. Oh, I'm a pelvis.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
I'm never gonna rock again.
Akiva Schaffer
Hey, Andy Samberg. You're here auditioning for Elvis's pelvis.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, yeah. I'm gonna fall off the ladder.
Keenan Thompson
Hey, hey, Is that ladder over there?
Jorma Taccone
And a three, a two, a one.
Andy Samberg
Drinking.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, Lord of mercy. I've been reading for the role of Jorma's P, Elvis. I don't know what this bit is.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, what's the P stand for? I don't know. A key. Old friend. Little known fact. Elvis's pelvis was very famous. And one time he went on the Ed Sullivan show and was thrusting it back and forth. And do you know, they framed the shot above his waist so at home you wouldn't see the thrusts.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
I like the history lesson.
Andy Samberg
Yeah.
Akiva Schaffer
Hey, Keenan.
Andy Samberg
Yeah?
Akiva Schaffer
Andy has a bit of a. His bit is when you audition for a rock and roll biopic and you come in and you have to do. You have to sing like somebody. And then the bit is a little. A few lines into the song, you realize you're not going to get the part, and you just apologize and leave. So who do you want to do? Kenan? Who's somebody you can sing a couple lines for? Because I'm going to make you do the bit I'm going to do. I'm going to name people you've done on the show. Do you want to do Barry White? Do you want to do BB King? Do you want to do Bob Dylan?
Jorma Taccone
Or one that's Already been made. Like, it could be like, Kenan Thompson reading for Ray.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah. Do you want to do.
Keenan Thompson
Oh, that's pretty funny.
Akiva Schaffer
Okay, so. But again, once you just. Once you start singing, you immediately realize it's definitely going to be Jamie Foxx.
Keenan Thompson
Yeah, no doubt.
Akiva Schaffer
Hey, welcome. It's great to see you, Kenan. We're huge fans.
Keenan Thompson
Thank you, man. Yeah, just to remind everybody, Kenan Thompson, and I'm here reading for the part of Ray Charles.
Akiva Schaffer
All right, we're very excited. Whenever you're ready, Kenan.
Andy Samberg
She take my.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
You know what?
Keenan Thompson
I think I actually.
Jorma Taccone
I'm just gonna go.
Keenan Thompson
Yeah.
Andy Samberg
That was perfect.
Akiva Schaffer
This speak a thing that anyone who's ever worked with Kenan would say. No one needed less direction than Kenan. Like, before a table read. Like, there were certain actors in our and golden era who it was worth it to really go through it with them line by line, because they had a real precision, and they wanted to know exactly what you wanted. You go up to Kenan, like, two seconds before the sketch started, you'd be like, oh, by the way, I forgot, you're playing this, this, and you talk like this. And he's like, yeah, all right. Yeah, sure. Just then would nail it.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, I saw it.
Andy Samberg
Never going to drop the ball when it's past.
Keenan Thompson
You having a good time.
Akiva Schaffer
All right. Two Worlds. Coll is maybe my favorite digital short. Oh, gosh. I would have been perfectly happy if this one at all. It's so dense and so wonderful, and I don't know where to begin, but I guess maybe I'll just. Since we have you, Keenan, how do you remember it was brought to you the first time?
Keenan Thompson
Well, I mean, Andy came and was like, hey, we want to, like, redo that thing you tried last week. Cause I had tried the Reba thing as just like a straight up sketch, like a commercial parody, because I saw her do, like, the American Eagle ad or something to try to protect American bald eagles, and I just was recreating that with Aretha.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, my God. Sorry to interrupt. When you said American Eagle, I thought you were talking about the jeans.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. Cindy Sweeney.
Jorma Taccone
And I was like, oh, my God, Reba has good genes.
Andy Samberg
Ooh, that's some good clickbait.
Keenan Thompson
And, yeah, that was kind of how it went because that didn't make sense at all because I didn't explain why I was pretending to be Reba.
Andy Samberg
That's why we loved it.
Jorma Taccone
So fucking good, though.
Andy Samberg
So that was your idea, and then you wrote that with Spivey, if I recall correctly. Right? Yeah. I think so now, we asked Spivey for a voice note. And so.
Akiva Schaffer
And just real quick, again, this was. Kenan was playing Reba with no commentary, right? Like, there was never a reason why it was Kenan playing Reba in the sketch before this week. And so here's Spivey, I think, explaining a little bit of it.
Jorma Taccone
Kenan, we'll cut it if it's. If she's being weird.
Andy Samberg
She did say you've had a falling out, and she wants to air out those grievances.
Spivey
Hi, guys. This is Spivey. How's everybody doing? Everybody good?
Andy Samberg
Yeah, we're good.
Jorma Taccone
Thanks. Thanks.
Spivey
Let's see. Reba. I remember sitting with Kenan, and we were just goofing around, and he was doing his impression of Reba McEntire, which was basically just him going and then making this, like, persnickety kind of face. And I was dying. We were both dying, laughing. And I said, what if we wrote a sketch where you played Reba McIntyre just in, like, a red wig, and all you basically say is, I'm Reba, and they make that face. But it's a commercial set, so it's you playing Reba, and Reba's doing a commercial for Fiddle Faddle, which is that butter toffee popcorn treat called Fiddle Faddle.
Andy Samberg
So perfect thing for her to say. She.
Spivey
That was it, right? And she does the whole commercial. Reba. And just keeps saying, I'm Reba. But nobody on set acknowledges the fact that Reba is a handsome young black man in a red wig. Like, everyone's just oblivious to it. I think that was the original joke, and it did go to the table, but it didn't make it in. But it did. Okay. And then Yorma came. I think it was. Yorma came up to me later in the week and was like, oh, my God, that Reba thing. And I was like, yeah, we had fun writing that. And then he was like, would you care if we did it? Made it a digital short? And I was like, are you kidding me? I'd be fraking thrilled, you little stud. Anyway, yeah, so that's the story. Kiki can. Kiki probably has. Maybe he remembers better than I do, but that's how I remember it. Sweet genius, Keenan. All right. Love you guys.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, man, do I love hearing her voice.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
I like her. I like her. Assuming that I would remember anything.
Keenan Thompson
Yeah, I was just. I've been saying lately, like, we have such awesome, like, big sisters in the game. Like, our big sisters are heavy fucking hitters, man.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Like, yeah, My God, that is true. Beyond words.
Andy Samberg
Yes.
Keenan Thompson
But, yeah, I remembered. I thought we did, like, a full dress rehearsal that tanked or something like that. But maybe I'm remembering it to what we shot.
Jorma Taccone
I think that happened. I just know that we were obsessed with it.
Akiva Schaffer
I agree, Andy. I think we blocked it.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah. I remember having a shot.
Akiva Schaffer
I also, like, based on what the sketch was that you guys saw Kenan as Reba and the failure to acknowledge that it was strange casting as the nut of what was gonna be great in the digital short, I think we.
Andy Samberg
Debated whether or not to ever explain it, even in within the song. Yeah.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Ye. Whether it needed any explanation because it.
Andy Samberg
Was our favorite part was that it was not explained. And then we do end up explaining it.
Jorma Taccone
Yes. But once we started diving into the writing of it, the idea of doing basically a Rashomon.
Akiva Schaffer
It is Rashomon in song form was.
Jorma Taccone
Making us laugh so hard.
Akiva Schaffer
It's again, one of those digital shorts that moves so quickly, like 40 seconds in, so many things have happened, and you kind of can't. You kind of can't believe what are the famous.
Andy Samberg
I'm not going to remember them off top of my head, but I feel like it was a genre that they don't do that often anymore. Like, it's not Ja Rule and Ashanti necessarily. It's more when it's people from different genres of music collabing. And there's a feeling of, you know, it's not necessarily the Jay Z Linkin park stuff, but the feeling of, like, here it is, everybody datute. You know, it's Aerosmith and Run dmc. A little bit of the two worlds colliding. You've been waiting for this. Like, you didn't think it was possible that these two titans, you know, Bono and, you know, these two icons together in a Bonnie and Clyde situation, are creating music that's just gonna blow up. Not just the rock charts, but the, you know, all the different pop charts.
Akiva Schaffer
Public Enemy, Anthrax. That was one. Right.
Jorma Taccone
Well, there was the whole Judgment Night soundtrack.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Oh, yeah.
Jorma Taccone
Those all collabos. That's a little different than what Keeves Des. But it does bear mentioning.
Akiva Schaffer
But then the great thing about it as well is Andy introduces this idea, and Kenan's playing Reba and Andy's playing Andy. So it's also really funny that immediately, like, the first premise is that Andy's a titan.
Andy Samberg
Yeah.
Akiva Schaffer
Comedy prince.
Andy Samberg
But you're playing it with that attitude.
Jorma Taccone
Which already was making us laugh so hard, to be like, what if we.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Were Acting like top of the world.
Andy Samberg
Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
And of course, Reba in quotes would agree with all that.
Andy Samberg
Yes. Because they're both acting like this is what you've been waiting. Been waiting for. It's the last thing anyone's been waiting for.
Jorma Taccone
Comedy Prince.
Andy Samberg
Why not?
Jorma Taccone
I don't know who the fuck this dude.
Akiva Schaffer
And you're so sure that it's what we've been waiting for that you can't. You literally can't wait to tell us the news.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, that's what I mean. And that's where we started for a while, like, before we really got deep into the song and realized maybe there were some turns to be had, but we were building just off those first few lines.
Akiva Schaffer
I feel like I also again, every time I revisit one of these, and again, I've seen him a hundred times, I'm still in my head. Like, I bet it's probably like 20 seconds in where you see Reba and it might be like three.
Andy Samberg
Oh, yeah. Well, we gotta. We're gonna do a rewatch, Keenan. A lot of times on the ones we haven't seen, we then collectively watch it together so we can discuss support.
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Andy Samberg
Hey, Yorm.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Hi, Keev.
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Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
He nodded.
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Akiva Schaffer
Should we just. Should you just start us off Keev with the rewatch?
Andy Samberg
Yeah, I can do that.
Akiva Schaffer
But what else? Is there anything else we need to know before we.
Andy Samberg
Before we start for the setup?
Keenan Thompson
Oh, it's pretty loose bones, man.
Akiva Schaffer
But it's loose bones as an idea. But that it's like the tightest writing because it is A real story.
Keenan Thompson
Yeah, no, it really started to get built on.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
Stream of consciousness meets narrative arc.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
I want to know where this one got on the top 64.
Akiva Schaffer
It definitely made the final 16.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
That's pretty big.
Andy Samberg
Oh, it's been a long time coming. Two of the world's greatest. America's sweetheart. Wait, I know this isn't the point, but what is this outfit?
Jorma Taccone
And my hair sucks.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, your hair. Your hair definitely sucks. And I actually remembered being like, oh, on the set. Like, what happened?
Jorma Taccone
Why do I look like.
Andy Samberg
I'm like, why is the top of your hair shorter than the size?
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
I feel like you guys always agree about Andy's hair. I feel like he was always very good at being like, no, he's not gonna like that.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, but I don't know what happened here.
Jorma Taccone
I mean, it looks like how like. Like the fourth dude in a. Like a rock band in the 70s when they first invented music videos.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, he's like the bassisty guy.
Jorma Taccone
Like, who's that guy doing harmonies in, like, the way back with the hair that's all flat on the. In the middle and fuzzy on the sides.
Andy Samberg
On the sides.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Yeah, yeah.
Keenan Thompson
Giving Frank Stallone.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Ooh.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah.
Andy Samberg
And then, I mean, I know skinny ties were popular at the moment, but there's something about it coming with the sparkly tuxedo jacket and red gloves.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Yeah, the red gloves are killer.
Akiva Schaffer
Now, the other thing that. Especially now that you know what's coming, the amount just in the beginning, Keenan is in the background going.
Jorma Taccone
Immediately, perfect.
Andy Samberg
We don't know who you're supposed to be yet.
Keenan Thompson
I remember singing it, and you guys were like, yeah, no, keep it. It's fine.
Andy Samberg
And we were right.
Jorma Taccone
Well, we had already seen you do it. Like, it was a fully formed character.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
So good.
Andy Samberg
Although. Although the character just said fiddle faddle, and she wasn't singing. Okay, America's sweetheart, Ms. Reba McIntyre, confirming you are. Andy, you are not a character, even though you're dressed insanely. That's you dressed up.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
She's having a great time, too, already.
Akiva Schaffer
Also, there's a real, like, while we were joking about, like, the auditioning for Elvis or auditioning for Ray Charles and knowing you're not gonna get it other than who you are and how you look. It's a fantastic Reba. Like, you're dancing exactly the way Reba would dance if she was in a hip hop video. No, it's like, Reba having fun. That's the thing about watching it is. Cause eventually we're gonna get to a Turn. I kind of am with Andy through the first half of the song, where I also believe it's re.
Keenan Thompson
It's just so crazy. So you're just like, all right, let's go with it, I guess.
Akiva Schaffer
How many seconds into it are we?
Jorma Taccone
17.
Andy Samberg
17 seconds right now. But we're deep into. I mean, Reba came in around 10 seconds in.
Akiva Schaffer
Also, there's five seconds of digital shorts.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. With the logo.
Akiva Schaffer
We're 12 seconds in.
Andy Samberg
What is this on your. On your person right here? Do you. Can you see what my mouse is looking at?
Keenan Thompson
I feel like it's a brooch of some sort.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, it's very low.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah, a low brooch. Classic Reba. Low brooch.
Keenan Thompson
Belt buckle, maybe.
Andy Samberg
Oh, it's. Oh, it's hanging off of a belt.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, Yeah. I think it's like a chunky buckle.
Andy Samberg
You take the first verse, telling me this is catching me off guard right away. Andy's just setting you up and being like, all right, take it. And she's right away, in just classic Reba language, talking about haters in her face.
Jorma Taccone
You're basically getting a laugh just off the beat, dropping just that.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
It's.
Jorma Taccone
It's going to happen.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. And we're in. All right. We're in some sort of a barn having a hotel.
Akiva Schaffer
Hey, Bales.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
All right, so you know, she's country.
Andy Samberg
So we go from Andy's world, which is pop, right to Reba's world for her. For her verse.
Keenan Thompson
Two crazy big stars from Opposite World about to set this track on fire.
Andy Samberg
Okay. So it's still a version of intro.
Jorma Taccone
Two crazy big stars from Opposite Worlds.
Keenan Thompson
The deepest voiced reboot anybody has ever done.
Andy Samberg
Yeah.
Akiva Schaffer
But everything so far is. This is what. This is how these songs would go.
Andy Samberg
Look at these cowboys and cowgirls you have. And you're wearing your little crown.
Akiva Schaffer
Queen of country.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. Oh. Oh, yeah.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
They're worshiping her at her country throne.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, she's the queen of country.
Keenan Thompson
She's a comedy prince making something out of nothing.
Andy Samberg
We fucked up in the studio. Ha ha. He's just elated.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
It's when we're starting to build up our hatred of Andy. Like. Yeah, let's. It would be to see what happens to this guy.
Keenan Thompson
He's a comedy prince taking something out of nothing.
Andy Samberg
I mean, that's kind of what's happening. I think this freeze frame. This is covering the look Spivey was talking about.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah, that's. That's Fiddle Faddle face right there. I really. I'm just saying there's they're making the Reba movie. And the casting. There's one person in the casting room who's like. Like, I know we're not gonna do it.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, my God.
Akiva Schaffer
Kenan was the best one.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. Captured her spirit and her essence, which is more what it's about than just superficial things in the studio to make this song.
Keenan Thompson
But as usual, when we ended up.
Andy Samberg
No Doubt goes right past Andy, like he does. It's the brain dead response. He doesn't think anyone's gonna judge it. No one's gonna judge that.
Akiva Schaffer
35 seconds in. And also, as usual. So we've established you guys have just met, and yet we're also.
Andy Samberg
This is the.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
That's the baseline.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
For me and Reeves.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. The blowing past it with a no doubt is.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Yeah, no doubt.
Andy Samberg
With a proud no doubt. As if he just said, like, we end up flexing on everybody.
Akiva Schaffer
No Doubt.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
That basically is saying you didn't hear what you just thought you heard.
Keenan Thompson
But as usual, when we ended up no doubt.
Andy Samberg
Flash back to when I first met Reba. Sitcom dressing room, puffing on. Chiba said I wasn't. I love. It's got the Reba logo on the door. So we're really. We're at CBS Radford or something. Oh.
Keenan Thompson
What?
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Andy walks in, Gini looks over, smoke a weed, and just gives this look of just like, oh, oh, I got.
Andy Samberg
A fish on the line. Yeah. Andy, you're wearing a Reba shirt.
Jorma Taccone
Clearly a big fan, Right? Which I am.
Andy Samberg
Yep. The Reba logo from the sitcoms on the wall. We got Reba's feather boa hanging over here. We know where we are.
Akiva Schaffer
Believable. Reba dresses on the rack. Lot of sequence, attention to deets.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
So far, she's still Reba.
Andy Samberg
Back to when I first met Reba. Sitcom dressing room, puffing on Chiba said I was a fan. She said Ruby dropped her D. What do we have here? Is that. Oh, well, hello there. Are you. First line says, prove. Said I was a fan. She said Ruby dropped her denim skirt and said, hop to it. Oh, no. It's all children who want your autograph.
Jorma Taccone
It escalates so fast.
Andy Samberg
Oh, I just love how you never change tones, Andy. You're just like, yup, that happened. And then this happened.
Jorma Taccone
It's the retelling.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. It's all bragging.
Akiva Schaffer
Also, I like that Reba's the one who always heightens how dirty it is. Like, you say you made love and. And Rea wants to make sure it's more like.
Jorma Taccone
More like we. Oh, My God.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Hop to it.
Akiva Schaffer
Bunch of kids who are trying to get Rea's autograph, but they're not answering the door for a lot of obvious reasons.
Keenan Thompson
Not now, kids.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Drop a skirt.
Andy Samberg
Said that. Joint hanging out of your mouth. Trying to interrupt, but the monographs can wait, cuz this is way too strong. I can't leave it alone because.
Keenan Thompson
Oh my God.
Andy Samberg
What the hell? Yeah. Not okay on. So Reva, Now I'm even more confused because. Are you Reba? Reba can't say any of this stuff starts to spiral so hard. And Andy's been so respectful about Reba, and now her pussy's the bomb.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, well, facts is facts.
Akiva Schaffer
And then. Yeah, that Reba wants to really hammer that home and echo it.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
I think I was always really proud when we got lines like that onto SNL of saying like, your pussy's the bum. That's not like a usual thing you hear on snl?
Andy Samberg
No. That shouldn't be on the national broadcasting.
Akiva Schaffer
No, no.
Keenan Thompson
That kicked down a lot of current doors. But these n words keep on tripping so I stay on my grind and drop these hits Cuz I can't go back to strip and you're my best.
Jorma Taccone
Friend But I snuck in and I'm Reba.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. What was this little cutaway? Just being dragged into a. A bathroom stall to do some.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Yeah, it was just like how many times they make love.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
They can't keep their hands off each other.
Akiva Schaffer
But then it's weird now I've said that Reba keeps making it dirtier. But then you say, you're my undercover. What is it?
Jorma Taccone
Freak.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Freak.
Akiva Schaffer
You're my undercover freak.
Andy Samberg
And then Revis says, and you're my best.
Akiva Schaffer
Best friend.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, she's. She's sweeter now.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, man.
Andy Samberg
It's continually pulling the rug out front of you.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
So confusing.
Andy Samberg
Also, Reba used to strip, I guess.
Keenan Thompson
And you're my best friend, but our families don't approve.
Andy Samberg
That's right, cuz I'm a city boy.
Keenan Thompson
And I'm a country girl and I'll never leave your sweet balls blue.
Andy Samberg
So it takes a little side to be like a. Yeah, it turns into a like, country mouse and city mouse.
Jorma Taccone
Exactly.
Andy Samberg
Just. Just making it really wholesome.
Akiva Schaffer
Also, it is really fun that you guys have referenced back to a sketch nobody saw and just had Keenan say I'm Reba in the middle of the story.
Jorma Taccone
You had to get it in there.
Andy Samberg
He knew it was her catchphrase.
Jorma Taccone
That's the catchphrase. When you hear a good catchphrase you know it.
Andy Samberg
And her show is called Reba, so. Oh, but I love that. That was like a whole other.
Jorma Taccone
It's funny when I see the title of it. I just read Reba.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah, you're wrong.
Andy Samberg
Exclamation point. You're reading it wrong. You're just flat out mispronouncing it. The fact that this took a two line joke. Just journey into a lifetime movie, entire plot about city boy. They have a fantasy version of themselves that they are letting us know and.
Akiva Schaffer
Their families don't approve. So now it's like a real.
Andy Samberg
Oh my God.
Akiva Schaffer
Are. Are they going to end up together?
Andy Samberg
Yeah, they're star crossed lovers. It's as old as Romeo and Juliet.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
You definitely think that that's the story that you're going to be following now.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. Big broad shoulders and a red ass.
Keenan Thompson
Weave and a penis.
Andy Samberg
Damn.
Akiva Schaffer
She.
Andy Samberg
I don't know if I've ever seen Lauren laugh more at something we made in our entire time there. Not really than that moment at dress rehearsal when he. Because he didn't know what we were doing all week. Of course, I'm sure he gets whispers of like, oh, they're doing something with Keenan with the Reba, but has not seen anything. He's watching cold like usual. And that line, it just killed as hard as I've seen anything kill with Lauren. Yeah.
Keenan Thompson
Is that the first time we admit we're actually breaking it, that we know that I'm dude kind of thing?
Jorma Taccone
That is the first moment.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Yes. That's definitely the moment halfway through.
Jorma Taccone
And then we slowly fill in the rest of the information.
Andy Samberg
You've recently said your pussy's the bomb.
Jorma Taccone
Right, Right.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Well, yeah, you're kind of, you know, changing course on that.
Akiva Schaffer
It's an incredible feat of writing that the turn was admitting the thing we all knew from the beginning. Like you actually, you built a willing suspension of disbelief and then had the main character be like, come on.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
No, it's the first thing.
Akiva Schaffer
No, it's the first thing.
Andy Samberg
Oh, it's so nice that it's an aside as well. Like maybe Andy didn't hear that.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Well, Andy doesn't hear anything.
Akiva Schaffer
No, nothing changes Andy's at all.
Andy Samberg
By the way, the character Andy, right, With the one with flat hair on the top and big poofy hair on side.
Jorma Taccone
Oh my God.
Andy Samberg
I got a sense that everyone will just think it's me because he calls me Andy at the beginning. And I work at snl, the Frank Stallone time type.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Never considered myself a prince of comedy.
Keenan Thompson
And a penis God damn, she fly.
Andy Samberg
All she want to do is me. I'm a lucky guy.
Keenan Thompson
I'm a guy too.
Andy Samberg
My friends think I should dump her. They say she's a man who found a wig in a dumpster.
Keenan Thompson
Your friends are smart.
Andy Samberg
N re. They're just jealous cuz I'm dating a star instead of hanging with the fellas.
Keenan Thompson
Hanging like my nuts.
Andy Samberg
The swing is.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
I remember being so happy about the progression of all of those last lines.
Jorma Taccone
All of them just, hey, I like my nuts.
Andy Samberg
That's the second reveal. It's another reveal that he has nuts. I guess we knew about the penis now.
Akiva Schaffer
But I'm a got to but the nuts. And then, well. Cause now it seems like your dance.
Andy Samberg
Move with it is all time.
Akiva Schaffer
It's unbelievable. I feel like right now Kenan's character is really trying to tell Andy and he's just realized Andy's not gonna listen.
Andy Samberg
Your friends are smart.
Akiva Schaffer
Your friends are smart is maybe the line I think resonates the most with me.
Andy Samberg
Andy's still gonna deny it. Oh, God.
Akiva Schaffer
It's just so funny if you like said to a girl, like, none of my friends think you're right for me.
Andy Samberg
The person says, your friends are smart.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
No, Reeves, they're just jealous.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, he's still gonna deny it. I just want to point out one little small thing though, before we move on this is that we're watching on the SNL's YouTube post post SNL digital short Two Worlds Collide featuring Reba McIntyre.
Akiva Schaffer
It's one of my favorite names.
Andy Samberg
That's so. That is not okay. It's not featuring it, maybe you could say featuring Reba.
Akiva Schaffer
But it's really great.
Andy Samberg
You said word up too. You agree. You're like, yeah, they're just liars.
Jorma Taccone
They're just liars. Not taking in any information.
Andy Samberg
No. You are not agreeing. You're like, yeah, the opposite of what you said.
Jorma Taccone
Well, I mean, the character Andy in this situation is just so gassed on being with a celeb.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. An equally big star, but from a different world.
Akiva Schaffer
Now there's this real great tone shift where who we have been led to believe is Reba just tells us their story. Yeah, that's right. And I like that it goes back to the day of their birth, which is the other line I think of all the time.
Andy Samberg
Another great dance move. There's a lot to talk about, so feel free to go back, but this is the most you've ever looked like a Muppet in your whole life. You can picture the puppeteer's hand. Like, doing your head with the floppy muppet hair on top.
Jorma Taccone
It's a fucking performance for the ages.
Andy Samberg
King, you're strolling to 30 Rock Dance.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, my God. It makes me laugh.
Akiva Schaffer
Can I ask Jormz? Ever since I came out my mom's butt, a Jormlang.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
No, I don't. I don't know where that came from.
Akiva Schaffer
I'm still bad. I'm still bad at guessing who wrote which line.
Jorma Taccone
It's either Keevrey Orm.
Andy Samberg
I think it might have been me, guys.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, I think it was Keith.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
My mama's butt.
Jorma Taccone
I knew I was destined for greatness. So now we've switched. We now are getting the backstory. This is the Rashomon.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. I love this first shot. Sitting on a hay bale, all alone in the.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Yeah, it's majestic.
Andy Samberg
Looking up at a pool of moonlight I assume above you, just remembering the past and.
Akiva Schaffer
No, I really like that. There's no moment where Andy feels embarrassed or Keenan feels ashamed of what he's done. Everything here is just, like, real positive.
Jorma Taccone
That's right.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
Well, I mean, everyone's getting what they want.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Andy Samberg
Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
Now there is a thing that's another layer of it that's weird, which is I'm playing me. Then we see Kenan, who is clearly Keenan, but he's playing a. A crazy man. I mean, crazy is a loaded word, but you know what I mean? He's like a guy wandering around digging up wigs out of dumpsters.
Keenan Thompson
Yeah, it's pretty crazy.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah, that's pretty great.
Andy Samberg
Is this the greatness he was destined for? He was. He goes straight from, I knew I was done for greatness. I looked in a dumpster.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Such a hard turn from greatness to digging in Dumpster.
Akiva Schaffer
So he kind of looks around like, you're not allowed to take a wig out of a dumpster.
Andy Samberg
I just can't believe he's found such a treasure. He's like, somebody's gonna miss this. This. Did you guys know that this was in here? Is this okay?
Keenan Thompson
So I put it right on and took a stroll right over to 30 Rock.
Andy Samberg
In case there's any confusion, it's your full name. And we're at 30 Rock in front of the NBC sign.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Like, Andy, you're performers walking up and just, like. Just so earnestly stupid. Just like, oh, my God, you're Reba McIntyre. Like, dumb as a post.
Andy Samberg
Wait, let's check out if your hair is Andy hair again. Hold on. I got to get to the shot of you from the front it's still not very Andy, though. You still were like, comb it all forward.
Jorma Taccone
In a weird way, I was dealing with a bad haircut. It's my one big regret about Reba.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Andy Samberg
The short. I believe this is your clothes, though, not wardrobe, but maybe it is.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Yeah. I think that is.
Andy Samberg
I feel like I recognize the yellow shirt. Those are your clothes. So we.
Jorma Taccone
Those are my clothes.
Andy Samberg
So this is really you, just to be clear.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah. But, you know, this is the. The character Kenan was playing. Perspective on what happened. Different from meeting backstage at the Reba show.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Keenan Thompson
Right eye contact is just, like, real strong right there. Holy Reva McIntyre.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
And him. Him reiterating SNL is just like, Jesus.
Andy Samberg
So excited.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
30 Rock SNL.
Akiva Schaffer
An incredible amount of restraint that you guys were, you know, three or four years into your time before you rhymed. 30 Rock Dirty.
Andy Samberg
Thank you.
Akiva Schaffer
Restraint.
Andy Samberg
Ah.
Jorma Taccone
You got to build to that kind of thing.
Andy Samberg
The audience was ready.
Jorma Taccone
You got to. You got to earn that.
Andy Samberg
How do they respond? Let's listen. How does the audience respond to that? Two worlds collide. We, the new body and Clyde. From hay stacks to maybacks Our love will survive.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
There's that one sad. There's that one kind of like, really pathetic shot of leading Andy away, and it seems like you're like Lenny from Of Mice and Men.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. You're putting a hand on his back, like, over here, taking him behind the barn to put a bullet in his head.
Jorma Taccone
And do we think the look back is the character Andy realizing that it's kind of a little stronger than Reva might be?
Andy Samberg
Yeah, there's something. Yeah, there's something. It's not going to stop him, but he is a little. Like who?
Jorma Taccone
Like, from what I know of Reba.
Andy Samberg
Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
And I know a lot. As has been established.
Andy Samberg
It feels like a firm, big hand on my back. Yeah.
Akiva Schaffer
Also, Reba, real pushy.
Andy Samberg
Yeah.
Akiva Schaffer
Like, you're not the aggressor in this flirtation. Yeah.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
We need to go somewhere alone right now.
Andy Samberg
Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
On the dance move, too. I get whiffed a little bit there.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, you're a little. You're getting spun.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah.
Andy Samberg
You're like, whoa. Getting yanked back, so.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Oh, man. Wow. I like hearing that. That was one of the tops for you, Seth.
Akiva Schaffer
I love it so much. It's perfect. Everything about it's perfect. And then maybe my favorite thing about it is that Reba loved it.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Yes. That was thrilling.
Akiva Schaffer
Kenan then dressed as Reba and appeared on stage with Reba at the country music awards.
Andy Samberg
Yep.
Akiva Schaffer
DMAs and I just have always adored that about Reba, that she saw that and was like, like, well, heck, ain't that a good time?
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
She was like, yes, please.
Keenan Thompson
It is literally the craziest impression, I think, on the planet. It is such a stretch. Such a stretch.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Wait, how was she at the cma? Like, was that a fun great.
Keenan Thompson
Like, she welcomed me. Like, she was arm in arm with me, and she was showing me around backstage to, like, very conservative type people. You know, they. Like one of the country singer dudes. I forget his name, but he's like, like, 6 foot 9 or something. Like, was in print, something, something. But he was like, oh, that's. That's pretty funny. Look at that. You got something too, man. You guys doing something funny?
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, my God.
Andy Samberg
These pictures of me back to back with her.
Keenan Thompson
Yeah.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
And these emerald gowns.
Jorma Taccone
What a treat that. She was so cool about it and so handsome.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
It's great.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Keenan Thompson
She's so cool about it. Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
And did you go in and write what you guys did for the presenting, or was it something. How did it come about?
Keenan Thompson
I think they just called and were like, we want you to just do a presenting this thing with Reba real quick. And I don't think I did much of the writing necessarily, because it was pretty straightforward, what the joke was.
Jorma Taccone
Yes.
Akiva Schaffer
I'm sure it was a lot of Reba being like, now hold on there. I'm Reba.
Keenan Thompson
Yeah. Now wait a minute. Who's really. You can't tell.
Andy Samberg
So it wasn't right away. Cause the week we're on. On the show I'm looking here, was November 21, 2009. And the CMT Music Awards at the Bridgestone arena were June 9, 2010.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
So it stuck with her. She was like, yeah, I know what I'm gonna do.
Andy Samberg
We're like, seven months later.
Keenan Thompson
Yeah, it echoed pretty strong because it was just the craziest thing ever. I remember Ariana Grande was like, when I first, like, really spent time with her, she was like, I love that Reba sketch.
Jorma Taccone
Bless her heart.
Andy Samberg
That's amazing.
Keenan Thompson
Thank you guys for those laughs. Cause, man, what a blast from the past that was.
Andy Samberg
That was a treat to revisit. Going on again about Lauren's laugh afterwards. The love I got from Lauren for the whole thing was, I think, the most of any short we ever did.
Akiva Schaffer
Wow.
Andy Samberg
Like, at the after party, like, coming up, being like, that one and even. And I think the same goes for people like Higgins and stuff. People that don't give it up that easily were giving it up in a way that they did not give it up for, as I mentioned on, like, the I'm in a Boat episode where it was kind of like, oh, yeah, nice work. This was like a. No, no, no. This is the one. This is the funniest one. Wow. And that probably includes you, Seth. Honestly. Cause you loved it.
Akiva Schaffer
Well, first of all, it's a banger. It's super catchy. It's a great song. There's so much comedy as well that never gets in the way of how good the music is.
Jorma Taccone
Sure.
Akiva Schaffer
And you just. I don't know, you just want to listen to it.
Jorma Taccone
It's also. I'm gonna say it not to make you uncomfortable, Kenan, but it's the power key.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
It's the. I think it's the only time that you are, like, fully front and center in one of our shorts in that way. And your. Your power is great.
Keenan Thompson
Oh, man. Thank you, man. But, yes, it wouldn't be nothing if you guys didn't pick it up off the floor, because that should be.
Akiva Schaffer
This is the line I'm looking at, the Reba for American Eagle sketch.
Jorma Taccone
Oh. Oh, I see.
Akiva Schaffer
Here's a line. Please join me in the fight to save the American bald eagle. You know, I'm married to a bald beagle. My husband, because he's a dog. And then Ryan Reynolds said, reeve, I'm.
Andy Samberg
Sorry, on these next ones, can you.
Akiva Schaffer
Just stick to what's on the cards?
Andy Samberg
She had just volunteered that she was riffing.
Akiva Schaffer
She was riffing at a PSA for the American bald eagle.
Andy Samberg
Can you see this line here? One more fist full of fiddle faddle, and I'm popping out of my Spanx. But that's me. I'm just. Reva, I didn't want to make you do it in character. I just wanted to.
Akiva Schaffer
The other thing, if I can sort of back up Andy's point. I also think Lorne. I think we all know Lorne fucking loves himself some Kenan.
Jorma Taccone
That's right.
Akiva Schaffer
And so I think for Lauren, it was two worlds collide. It wasn't Andy and Reva, but it was like a digital short. And Kenan, I'm sure he was like, this is what I've been waiting for.
Andy Samberg
Those two worlds collide was true.
Akiva Schaffer
He's like, this was my new body, Clyde.
Andy Samberg
Oh, my gosh.
Akiva Schaffer
Haystacks to Maybacks is a genuinely great.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
That is a good line.
Akiva Schaffer
A great line for a song about a hip hop person and country singer. Well, doing a.
Jorma Taccone
Obviously, that was me.
Akiva Schaffer
Dope.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Anything dope.
Andy Samberg
Pretty sure. Beyonce says it on that last record she did.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, my God.
Keenan Thompson
Don't even play Hay Stacks to Maybacks. That's how we do, right?
Andy Samberg
She would have said Maybacks to Hay Stacks. More to the trajectory, but yeah. Oh, my God.
Jorma Taccone
Maybacks are having a real moment.
Andy Samberg
Moment.
Akiva Schaffer
Real moment in. In music.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Really?
Andy Samberg
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Loved him.
Keenan Thompson
So, Yoram, how long you in the bed for?
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Well, the bummer part of this is that I can't move one of my legs. I can't bear weight on one of my legs for six weeks, and I can't bear weight on the other one for 12. So I'm pretty in terms of, like, when I can even start to walk again.
Jorma Taccone
But at six weeks, you could enter that. That sack race.
Keenan Thompson
Yes, do that Sack race.
Andy Samberg
Race.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
You're talking about the big one, right? You're talking about the big one that happens in Brooklyn.
Jorma Taccone
The big sack race. We've been talking about Brooklyn Sack.
Akiva Schaffer
I only like that, Andy, because I saw it coming.
Jorma Taccone
You saw.
Akiva Schaffer
The urgency when you said in six weeks.
Jorma Taccone
I was like, you saw my eyes start spinning like a.
Akiva Schaffer
Well, I. Well, I actually have to say a three legged race is probably what you meant, right?
Jorma Taccone
I call it a sack race.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, sack race. You're just both legs fully hopping in a sack.
Jorma Taccone
And I wanted to also say, you saw my eyes start spinning like a slot machine. I didn't get anything out how I wanted. I said a casino machine.
Andy Samberg
A casino machine.
Jorma Taccone
I'm tired, man.
Akiva Schaffer
Hey, we missed a really.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
This is late for us. This is a late one, guys.
Akiva Schaffer
Yoram, I did a listen back, and you had a really good joke that none of us, Keith and I both missed. Yorm forgot Yorm could not pull the name Elton John last week.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Oh, yes. You guys both missed it. I thought I was gonna get a little.
Andy Samberg
What was the joke?
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
I was gonna get a little bit more love.
Akiva Schaffer
He goes, oh, I think he's friends with that guy who wrote Spare, which is another name.
Andy Samberg
Neither of you guys commented on it.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
I couldn't remember Elton John's name.
Keenan Thompson
That's equivalent to what I did yesterday on a podcast when I couldn't recall Moesha.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, no.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
And how did you describe the person to get there?
Keenan Thompson
I was like, what was Brandy's TV show called?
Andy Samberg
You know, the one where she played a character named Moesha? What was that one?
Jorma Taccone
What was the name? The guy in Happy Gilmore. Happy Gilmore.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Got it.
Andy Samberg
This is very close to a hot rod joke. The song about the guy whose grandma got run over by a reindeer.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, speaking of hot rod, some congratulations are in order. The hot rod suit went for 3x, what the auction house thought it would go for.
Jorma Taccone
Wow.
Andy Samberg
So.
Jorma Taccone
So three bucks.
Akiva Schaffer
18 grand.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, my God.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah, they thought it was going to be three to six grand. It went for 18 grand. A lot of people commented, not enough money to save. Frank.
Andy Samberg
We gotta get a picture of whoever. Whoever got that.
Jorma Taccone
Wow, that's a good joke.
Akiva Schaffer
And sadly, the Shaka teeth still no buyers.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Oh, that's so fucking weird. That's so weird that my.
Andy Samberg
Kenan, you don't have to stay for us. Referring to previous episodes, things.
Akiva Schaffer
Yes, but that was the best visit of all time, Kenan.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
No, that was lovely, Kenan.
Andy Samberg
You've done more than is required of you.
Akiva Schaffer
We had enough. It was the best to see you.
Keenan Thompson
It's so good to see you guys.
Andy Samberg
Such a nice guest.
Akiva Schaffer
Bye, Keenan. We love you so much. You're the best.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Love you, dude.
Keenan Thompson
I love you guys too. It's so good to see your faces and laughs.
Jorma Taccone
You too, buddy.
Andy Samberg
Kisses.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Love you.
Andy Samberg
Love you, bud.
Jorma Taccone
Later.
Keenan Thompson
Later.
Jorma Taccone
Bye, dude.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Bye. Bye.
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Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
I now I gotta. I'm gonna. I'm gonna leave because I'm gonna get on a wheelchair.
Akiva Schaffer
Okay.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
And go over to the other side of the room because I gotta get a prop and then I'm gonna bring it back here, so.
Akiva Schaffer
Okay. Talk about, we'll talk about some word game stuff while you're gone.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, we want to See more of the crafts. Yeah, yeah. This is a great.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, I did Quibi today.
Akiva Schaffer
You did Quibi? That's.
Jorma Taccone
Did Quibi. Yeah, I did.
Andy Samberg
Guys, I didn't want to say while yorms on, but I still don't know what the spare musical joke is. I don't know what spare.
Jorma Taccone
It was an old episode.
Andy Samberg
He.
Jorma Taccone
He couldn't remember Prince Harry's name. Prince Harry.
Andy Samberg
Oh, and he wrote the book Spare? Because he's like.
Jorma Taccone
He's the guy who wrote spare. And we were like, what?
Andy Samberg
Yes, it was a Prince Harry re. But I didn't remember that that was the book because I weirdly didn't read it.
Akiva Schaffer
It was weird. I agree. When he said it, I was like, oh. Also, you know, when yhorm says something, you don't think it's a trenchant callback, but it was.
Andy Samberg
It was good. The audience. The Quaid's got it. Understand?
Akiva Schaffer
The Quaid's got it.
Jorma Taccone
Wormed rap, sneaky jams.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, so that's a sneaky jam.
Andy Samberg
That's very good. Very good.
Jorma Taccone
I laughed quite a bit listening to the episode. I missed, by the way. Just very enjoyable.
Andy Samberg
Was it like hanging with us? Like others of ourselves?
Jorma Taccone
It was like hanging with you guys. I got the appeal.
Andy Samberg
Hey, wait. This might have been like a. I can't just brush past this. Was this a little bit of a breakthrough moment? Another one. We're chipping away.
Jorma Taccone
I obviously really enjoyed busting on Yorm for not remembering Elton John. I enjoyed Keeve calling you guys out on your hot takes about liking Hamilton and Book of Mormon.
Akiva Schaffer
It was such a bummer.
Andy Samberg
Shit.
Akiva Schaffer
When Keev did that, I was like, oh, that is what we're doing.
Jorma Taccone
Can I just say, I actually loved it.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
I knew this is controversial. Okay, guys, I'm back. So when we were talking about Hot Rod just now, I don't know how that came up, but we like to talk about it. This is one of the gifts that I received.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, wow.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
It's a pillow. And we'll put in the show notes or whatever, because. Thank you, whoever made this. Because I don't know who made this, but it is a redux of the painting that Frank is drawing of Rod where he's getting humped from behind by a horse. And instead, somebody removed the horse and put a ladder. And removed Rod's face and put my face. So I'm getting humped by a ladder.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. Wearing the hot rod suit that you've been wanting.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
And then it says, I'm an idiot.
Jorma Taccone
Which is apropos Also, the background is.
Andy Samberg
Starry Night, which I believe it is in yes.
Jorma Taccone
For no reason. We were like, make it Starry Night.
Akiva Schaffer
It's really good. It's really good.
Andy Samberg
That's just Frank's.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Well, it's because he's a good artist.
Akiva Schaffer
Hey. There was a secret MVP in the last episode who I had to text today to say it was the highlight of my week. The Liz Kakowski ad read.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Oh God.
Andy Samberg
I enlisted her for Viori because we got some viori stuff for her.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
It's really good, Keev.
Akiva Schaffer
It's so funny and so good.
Jorma Taccone
I skipped the ads now. I don't know what I'm missing.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh God, Keev. It's like Stiller and Meera on.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
I'm a little bit like, are we funny?
Andy Samberg
The grumpy husband and the. The wife who's. Who's sun. Who's being sunshiny and doing good jokes.
Akiva Schaffer
She's being really perky and like thanking Vori for the good stuff. And every time she like references, like, tries to get a response from Keev, he's like, yeah, man, I guess so. Really flat.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
It's like he can't get her off.
Andy Samberg
I don't know if I feel like it comes across, but I recorded it on my back. Like we're, you know, clothing on, but like we were just laying in a bed and I was like, oh shit, we forgot to do a vuoriad. Let's just do it into our phone. And I just got out voice notes on the phone. I'm just holding it like this and I'm like, huh? You can like hear that there's no air coming out of my. Wow. And she like sat up and he's like, I love it, blah, blah. And I'm like, uh huh, cool.
Akiva Schaffer
She at the end says, you know what you say at the end of a commercial about tennis? And Keeva goes, what? And she goes, ad out.
Jorma Taccone
Oh yeah.
Akiva Schaffer
And Keev goes, I don't get it. I don't understand enough about tennis to get it.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
It's a good joke.
Andy Samberg
That's shit all over it. She goes, it's clever.
Akiva Schaffer
She does yell. It's clever. Oh, not to throw a little shade, but you know, last week Jeff jumped on to basically defend himself over how bad your audio was, Keith, on that voice note.
Andy Samberg
Yep.
Akiva Schaffer
And a bunch of our listeners just wanted to point out, and I was like, Jeff to hear it, that his audio was super shitty when he started talking.
Andy Samberg
Even when he came on.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah, when he came on.
Andy Samberg
I did not know what audio is supposed to sound like that might be.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
I'm the guy who runs our podcast.
Jorma Taccone
Which is what you want in a podcast guy.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Look, we got him for rock bottom prices.
Akiva Schaffer
We're thrilled for what we got him for.
Andy Samberg
We're thrilled.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
We're thrilled.
Akiva Schaffer
Hey, Andy, have you played Pips? Everybody wants to know if you're playing Pips. The New York Times.
Jorma Taccone
I have played Pips. I'm letting everyone know right now. I'm not gonna be doing Pips.
Akiva Schaffer
I'm not a number game guy.
Jorma Taccone
No, that's not what I got into this for. I'm in the wga, not the math ga. You know what I mean?
Andy Samberg
Good. I did Pips once.
Jorma Taccone
I'll do Pips on easy. Like, if I'm out of shit and I'm like, I can't fall asleep.
Akiva Schaffer
Right, right, right. Yeah. Like at Medium Pips, I'm already immediately mad.
Jorma Taccone
I spent one day. One day I delved into Pips and I did all three levels and I was like, that took me entirely too long. It's not satisfying. I already have all these fucking other ones to do that I have to do.
Andy Samberg
Legally?
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Oh, yeah. For your sponsorships.
Andy Samberg
Legally. Oh, no.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah. But I did. I did get queen bee today, and Seth didn't. He had to use hints.
Akiva Schaffer
Also, two days ago, I tell Andy what words I miss the next day. And two days ago, I missed the word vagina. And I wrote to Andy, I missed vagina yesterday. Spare me or just jokes. And he wrote, just yesterday.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, I missed vagina yesterday. Just yesterday.
Andy Samberg
That's a classy. There's so many ways to go with.
Akiva Schaffer
It, by the way. I miss vagina.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Monzerial. Set em up, knock em down. Kai.
Akiva Schaffer
I think I'm just, like, a little too highbrow. I miss vagina all the time. You know which other word I miss all the time? Which I kind of can't believe based on the words, they don't accept that dildo.
Jorma Taccone
Dildo? Yeah.
Akiva Schaffer
Like, I feel like dildo's in, like, every other B. I was texting with.
Jorma Taccone
Rob Klein's wife, Lucy, because she does the B as well, and we both pretty ticked off today that they didn't accept pee hole or poop hole.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah, there was. There were a couple ones that.
Jorma Taccone
I mean, those are not words, but it was still infuriating.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah, look, you're. I mean, because again, we're doing it to have fun.
Jorma Taccone
I mean, they're probably just hyphen words. Hyphenated.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah, that's true. What was the other one? There was something else today. Now I'm looking at it to see something else that made me mad. Oh, like piggy. I feel like P, I, G, G, I, E. Come on, that's not a word.
Jorma Taccone
No, I tried.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, you're gonna just enjoy this, Andy. So I was doing a Q and A with my audience, which I do every night.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah.
Akiva Schaffer
And the questions were just based on the world we're living in. A little dark. Okay. And I was being earnest in my answers. And then this very friendly face woman raised her hand. She goes, I just want to switch things up with a fun question. I go, oh, my God, thank you so much. She goes, do you have any pets? And it.
Andy Samberg
Was, that. Was it a joke?
Akiva Schaffer
It was not a joke. And like, oh, that's great.
Andy Samberg
That's great.
Akiva Schaffer
Half the audience. Half the audience gasp. And then it was so fun to explain to this woman. I go, I am so sorry about what I'm going to tell you.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
You asked the perfect question with the perfect.
Jorma Taccone
Do I have any pets?
Akiva Schaffer
A lot of people have been sending in merch ideas and I want to show you this one.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Oh, hey, did we get a. Did we get response on, like, best shirt that I could design.
Akiva Schaffer
But what do you guys think of this one? Can you see this, Andy?
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Oh, nice.
Andy Samberg
Oh, it's Frisbee's bones holding a Frisbee.
Akiva Schaffer
Frisbee holding a Frisbee that says Quaid Army. It's a little. But it's. I did enjoy it.
Andy Samberg
It's pretty good.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
I feel like if we're going to go dark with Frisbee, we could go like metal dark.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Andy Samberg
If people give us. If people give us a design. I know that that's a little like, like taboo in the design world to get free designs from people.
Akiva Schaffer
Right. We did have a lot of people. Not. That was. That was somebody who made the designs. There's a lot of people, a lot of people who are just like, hey, maybe something like this.
Andy Samberg
Got it.
Akiva Schaffer
Like, a lot of people were like an Andy faced quado coming out of the stomach of the T shirt. These are ideas for T shirts.
Andy Samberg
An Andy faced quatto, if it's Andy. And then the quado coming out of Andy's stomach is Frisbee. That'd be interesting to see.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, see, now that's something I'd be interested in seeing.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Oh, that's interesting.
Andy Samberg
So Andy's all dead eyed because he's gone dark. Because the quado is taking his life energy when it's out, right?
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah, right.
Andy Samberg
He's Just the vessel, you're saying in the design.
Jorma Taccone
I thought you were describing me at present, and I was like, no, you'll.
Andy Samberg
Just be, like, asleep on the couch or something. And then there's a Frisbee talking with a cement and a Molson, obviously.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Can I ask you guys a question? How many of you guys have peed into your urinal during this zoom?
Jorma Taccone
Did you do it during?
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Yeah, just now. I did it.
Andy Samberg
That's so good. Congratulations.
Jorma Taccone
Thanks for showing us the piss also.
Akiva Schaffer
That's great.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Well, because I didn't want you to think I was a liar again.
Akiva Schaffer
We. This is. Let's be honest, this is a kind of a deep cut podcast, and I feel like the people listen to it, listen to it all, which is great. And a lot of the ideas for T shirts are so deep cut that they made me really laugh. Like, someone just said, here's an idea on the job with psychedelic, wavy letters.
Andy Samberg
Oh, I like that.
Akiva Schaffer
Ask me if I quibbied.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah. Love.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, these are good.
Akiva Schaffer
Like, it's this really. These are really.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, but they're wearable. Those are more wearable than, like, disgusting graphics.
Akiva Schaffer
All caps. Yhormthorn with a rose on it.
Jorma Taccone
Wait, I have a pitch. Yeah, I have a pitch. Two targets over each, like, where the nipples would be, and it says, hit us in the tittis.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Gotcha. Yeah, and then people might hit you while you wear.
Andy Samberg
Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
I mean, that's their prerogative.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, someone just said, I don't know what's on the front, but I think the back should have a big image of Jack Quaid cooking up Mac and cheese with a. With a voice bubble that says, hey, Quaid, what you cooking?
Jorma Taccone
I know no one really care about this, but on the job, we would have to cut in Joanna and both of her siblings, because that's the job. Obsession was from them. Yeah.
Akiva Schaffer
I'd wear a T shirt that's just a mug that says mugless on it. I think that would be a real conversation starter.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah.
Akiva Schaffer
And another one that I'd wear is a goose saying, not a gonk.
Andy Samberg
Not a gonk.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Love that one.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, and this one. This one took me a second, but I really like a T shirt that says it 15. What? It 15. Which is. It is what it is.
Andy Samberg
Oh, the 15 for my wedding anniversary.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Oh, my God.
Jorma Taccone
God, these are good.
Andy Samberg
They're really good.
Jorma Taccone
Reminding me of all our fun goofs.
Andy Samberg
I'd love for everybody to be wearing a shirt based on my wedding anniversary.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Your love of love. Wait, did we get consensus on Like a shirt. Because, look, all I've got is time, guys. So if there's a shirt I can design and there's consensus, I'll start tomorrow.
Andy Samberg
I mean, take your pick. You just heard a bunch of good ones.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Oh, but like, wait, hold on. Oh, does Jeff say a Google form with like, 40 ideas? Okay, so I just have to look at those.
Akiva Schaffer
I was kind of. I was kind of reading off of those.
Jorma Taccone
There it is.
Akiva Schaffer
Okay, gotcha. Oh, remember Edie, the girl who called in with a great voice note? Somebody said, oh, I think the last time she called in was to say Ross Trend is her favorite song because her dad is bald. And also she was mad because she wasn't allowed to sing Sushi Glory Hole at school. So she's a.
Jorma Taccone
Got it.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
Old timer.
Andy Samberg
We didn't doubt it.
Akiva Schaffer
We didn't doubt it. Wait, somebody said, did Frisbee actually die or did they finally just check her for a heartbeat? That dog looked like it had died years ago. And in the meantime, her body was being possessed by the ghost of Shelley Duvall. Pretty good.
Jorma Taccone
Fucking hell.
Andy Samberg
It's just mean.
Jorma Taccone
That's my comrade. Whoever wrote that.
Akiva Schaffer
Someone said, I feel like a real eagle eared cherry. Yeah, that's great, because I. At the end of Palm Springs, when a character said, what the fuck are you doing in our pool? I knew right away it was Akiva. But then someone else wrote, it's not Akiva.
Andy Samberg
No, it's me.
Jorma Taccone
It's Akiva.
Akiva Schaffer
It is you. Okay.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
First guy is an eagle eared cherry.
Andy Samberg
I'm not the person in the shot, but it is my voice.
Akiva Schaffer
So they really were an eagle eared cherry.
Andy Samberg
They were.
Akiva Schaffer
That's amazing.
Andy Samberg
It's off camera. So the actors. That I believe was just our producer.
Jorma Taccone
You hear it first and then there's the reveal.
Andy Samberg
And then you reveal that it's a family standing there. So the line is not attached to someone's face. And we just needed one. And I did it into a mic in our office while I was. Cause I was editing that scene myself, like 20 different ways. Cause the ending of that movie is a tightrope. You know, if we ever do a Palm Springs ep, which we probably should, but it's a tight. A tightrope of trying to leave the audience a specific way.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, we workshopped it a lot.
Andy Samberg
Yeah. Where they're happy and feel satisfied. But also it leaves some things open ended and it's not too pat, et cetera. And so I did that a as temp. And Andy never replaced it.
Jorma Taccone
It's Cause it worked.
Akiva Schaffer
Shout out real quick to Crista Milioti on her Emmy win.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, Emmy winner.
Andy Samberg
That's pretty cool.
Akiva Schaffer
Also, I just heard somebody posted it. Rest in peace, Robert Redford.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Yeah, that's very sad.
Akiva Schaffer
Someone posted a podcast clip of you and Miliotti. I guess you were at Sundance.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, yes.
Akiva Schaffer
And Andy is basically saying to the podcast hosts, if I saw Robert Redford and perhaps person, I'd shit my pants. And then he walks in. He walked in and it's really like a fantastic radio play because again, you never see no. Yeah. Or hear Robert Redford. But your reaction is so we were seeing him.
Jorma Taccone
I mean, he was. It's the funniest thing is if you could have seen it, he was like 4 or 5ft away from us while we were talking about him on the podcast. But he didn't wait.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Andy, is your reaction? Like a Dirty Rotten Scoundrels kind of like low.
Jorma Taccone
Like, I'm freaking out. I mean, it's fucking Robert Redford. He's such a legend. And we're like, at Sundance and it's his whole thing, you know, it was cool. It was really cool to just even be in the same room.
Akiva Schaffer
It was fantastic. There was another thing Andy and I meant to write you getting a lot of Andy content on my short form digital platforms. You did that writing a caption for the New York Times cartoon contest.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, yeah, I did.
Akiva Schaffer
It really made me laugh.
Jorma Taccone
Did it? I was so fucking sleepy that I walked away being like, those are hard.
Akiva Schaffer
And it was really. It landed for me really.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Well, what's the competition like? How does it work?
Akiva Schaffer
It's not. They basically, you know, the back of the New Yorker used to have like a cartoon with no caption.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do they not do that anymore?
Akiva Schaffer
I don't know.
Jorma Taccone
No, they do.
Akiva Schaffer
I still read the New Yorker, but not in the hard copy anymore. But they basically showed Andy a cartoon and he had to like talk through his thought process of coming up with a caption for it. And it was really funny.
Andy Samberg
It's a series they do online. Yeah. Of like people who are. If you're doing the press tour, that's like a stop you can make where you have to kind of. He stands at a little easel and they present you with one. And you kind of have to think out loud and walk the audience through your thought process. I saw a YouTube comment. Cause I was looking through him over the last five minutes. That is about Liz's thing. I'll just read it. It says, unlike yorm Keev's wife is a big pun fan. Right? Like, Big Pun the rapper. And he capitalized it. That's pretty good. Pretty good comment.
Akiva Schaffer
Somebody said we should call our next Q and a qa. Q and A. Because it's equate army Q and A.
Andy Samberg
So it's a QA.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Q and a QA.
Akiva Schaffer
Q and a qA. Q and a QAnon. Because there are little secret codes.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah.
Akiva Schaffer
In our. Most of the pod.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah. And before we started rolling, Keev, you were saying that you think that qanon is actually pretty on point.
Andy Samberg
I mean, catch me every day saying that.
Jorma Taccone
Catch me outside. Remember that?
Andy Samberg
Oh, my God. That was wild. Bad Barbie. She's still around, actually.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, I spun it into a pretty lucrative career is what I'm reading on Yahoo. News.
Akiva Schaffer
Hey, look, it's you guys. I'm just. Now I'm gonna tell our listeners it's Friday night for us East Coasters. It's getting a little late.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, Seth, I wish we were in the same place right now. We could just meet at a bar and have one. Wouldn't that be fun?
Akiva Schaffer
It would be A. I can't do that.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Cause of my other legs. Cause I can't leave the bathroom.
Andy Samberg
I don't think you're supposed to mix alcohol with whatever else they're.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Well, no, but I just am saying I couldn't even do it.
Akiva Schaffer
But I could. You could, like, limp over in six weeks. Yeah.
Andy Samberg
In, like, a sack race.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
If there was like, a sack race. That got me there.
Jorma Taccone
Pogo over.
Andy Samberg
I don't know where you are, Seth, but just in general, you two have never lived closer.
Akiva Schaffer
It's true. Me and Yorm.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
That's true.
Akiva Schaffer
Podcast.
Jorma Taccone
I feel like we brushed past that. I got queen Bee. Do people want to circle back?
Andy Samberg
That's a good re entry into. Actually, the podcast guys. For. For those who didn't hear what we were just doing, we made each other laugh. Me till I had a little bit of tears in my eyes. And it's all stuff that can't be said publicly. Even when Andy wants dim clicks, dim clips. It would get it, but at what cost, Andy?
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Like, honestly, Andy, if we don't put this in about you reiterating that you got queen Bee, I would love to hear if other people are like, did you hear that? They didn't. They just kind of, like, rode roughshod over him talking about queen Bee. Like, that's so fucked up.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, they might be. They might be sad for Andy. That's true.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Yeah. He could get Some of the love that I have.
Akiva Schaffer
Andy, the hardest word today on Queen Bee was logo file. Did you get it right away or was it right near the end?
Jorma Taccone
Oh, that's. I got it pretty early just because I've done a lot of them.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, Logo file as a single word.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Andy Samberg
Now I'm impressed.
Akiva Schaffer
He's pretty good.
Jorma Taccone
Is it logo file, though? How's it pronounced?
Akiva Schaffer
No, I think the way you said it's better.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Logo file.
Jorma Taccone
Great. By the way, they introduced badges into the New York Times games now. So there's like. Did you get pangram first?
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, wow.
Jorma Taccone
And I'm fucking hooked. It immediately worked on me. I'll for sure spend 10 extra minutes on this. Getting the pangram first so I can get my badge.
Andy Samberg
To get your pretend badge.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, I gotta get my badge. Taking me back to my Angry Birds. Two days.
Akiva Schaffer
How about for the hundredth episode of the pod, we'll get you a physical, Sasha, Like a. Like a Boy Scout sash.
Andy Samberg
Does it say queen bee or quibi or.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah, a lot of people said, like, another good logo for our podcast would be, like, the Queen Bee Bee with the letters for, like, lonely on it.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Well, I will say that that's better than, like, four Katos, because every time I think about Quado on a shirt I like, it doesn't sound appealing to me.
Andy Samberg
Yeah, no, it's gross. Anything too graphic is not what we actually want.
Akiva Schaffer
No, I think that's why I think the real subtle ones, like, like somebody said, directed by Douglas Bubble Trousers, just in sort of like.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
I kind of like that one too.
Akiva Schaffer
Like, credit script.
Jorma Taccone
Maybe for the hundredth, I'll quit spelling bee.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, I thought you were gonna quit the podcast.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
I think they were done with the podcast.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, fuck. That would have been better. Let me take it again. Maybe for the hundredth, I'll quit.
Andy Samberg
Do you think you would.
Akiva Schaffer
Do you think you could quit spelling bee? You haven't presented as a man.
Jorma Taccone
I think it would be. It would help my productivity in life.
Andy Samberg
He had. Has a history of this, as he mentioned and we've talked about before with Angry Birds 2 was a huge part of his life. Like, time suck.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah.
Andy Samberg
To the point where he had to quit it much the way someone would quit drinking.
Jorma Taccone
Yes. Or even drugs.
Andy Samberg
Sure.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Yeah. Andy, you were big into Brick Breaker too, right? Like, you kind of like, always pick a game, Right.
Jorma Taccone
I was not into oh, wait, on the fucking BlackBerry.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
What was the game on BlackBerry? Was it brick Breaker?
Andy Samberg
Brick Breaker.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, I was into Brick Breaker.
Akiva Schaffer
You had a real, like, I Was.
Jorma Taccone
Like, no yarn, you fucking drugged up lunatic.
Andy Samberg
Oh, no, right.
Jorma Taccone
You were right.
Andy Samberg
It was exactly that.
Jorma Taccone
For years, actually.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Oh, I had a major problem.
Andy Samberg
Man, man, man, man.
Jorma Taccone
That's my beige, man. I fully backpedal, man. And by the way, sorry about your back, brother.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
And pelvis. And pelvi. Whatever you got going on.
Jorma Taccone
Anyway, so should I quit?
Andy Samberg
Hit us with the titters.
Akiva Schaffer
So, wait, so your new character is Pelvis Esley?
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
That's my new character, Pelvis Resley.
Akiva Schaffer
Pelvis Resley.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah.
Andy Samberg
Andy, any roses follow up you want to do today?
Akiva Schaffer
Any roses press?
Jorma Taccone
No.
Akiva Schaffer
Okay, great.
Andy Samberg
People like it. People like the movie.
Jorma Taccone
People like it. I'm getting a lot of love on it.
Andy Samberg
I'm so sad I haven't seen it yet. I'm so excited to see it.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
I can't see it because I can't go to the movies.
Jorma Taccone
Well, you know you're not supposed to say this, but it'll be on demand soon.
Andy Samberg
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Jorma Taccone
Did we talk about that? Keef crossed a hundo.
Akiva Schaffer
You crossed a hundo?
Jorma Taccone
Yes, bruv.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Yes, Bruv.
Akiva Schaffer
Wow, bro.
Andy Samberg
Honda 101 something million worldwide.
Jorma Taccone
Can't tell you how excited I was to see it happen. I'm the box office guy for Keith.
Andy Samberg
But I started checking after we all talked about it.
Jorma Taccone
It's exciting, man.
Andy Samberg
Honestly, it did feel good to cross 100 mil. Yeah, it's on demand now. I don't know if we've talked about that. You can rent it or buy it for a while and then eventually it also will be on one of the many great services. I'm guessing Paramount plus home of Digman.
Jorma Taccone
Hey, Digman. Hey, Check out that Digman. So, Keith, what's it like to have a hundred million dollars?
Andy Samberg
It's so great. But it did change me just as.
Akiva Schaffer
Good as we thought.
Jorma Taccone
I told you guys I'm a word guy. I'm not a number guy.
Akiva Schaffer
You said you weren't in the math ga.
Jorma Taccone
Yes, that's what I said. If I had said, I told you guys, I'm not in the math g. Yay.
Akiva Schaffer
Hey, I. We watched it. I had my fantasy football draft weekend, me and a bunch of college guys and we watched Nake and Gun and loved it. I saw it. Obviously, this is my third time through and it's the best.
Andy Samberg
That's awesome. Thank you for your contribution.
Jorma Taccone
Sorry. He was talking about the original, Keith. He was talking about the original.
Akiva Schaffer
I'm so. It was actually the second. It was. It was Naked Gun 33 and a.
Andy Samberg
Third 33 and a third. 33 and a third.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
So nostalgia.
Akiva Schaffer
33 and a third.
Andy Samberg
Y.
Jorma Taccone
Your drugs tailing off. How you doing, bud?
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
I got to get re upped pretty soon here, and then I'll hopefully pass out.
Andy Samberg
What kind of stuff are they to going given?
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Well, my new thing is, guys, if you really want to hear about it, is that my. I have crazy nerve pain in my. In my feet. And what happened was, is that everybody. I was very concerned with it because it's basically like both of my feet feel like they're being dipped in lava. And then this is on Sunday when this happened, and I luckily, because on Sundays here or any hospital, it's. It feels very shift. Changy sort of thing. So I was getting no, like, traction on, like, any information information. So luckily I had my. My surgeon's number because he's a fool and gave it to me. And I. I texted him and I was like, hey, this is happening. And he was like, oh, that's a good sign.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, good. If it hurts, then the nerves are coming back online.
Andy Samberg
That's.
Akiva Schaffer
That's great.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
I was like, oh, good. So the burning. The horrible burning is good.
Andy Samberg
That is great to hear, though.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Andy Samberg
I mean, how. What a relief.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Oh, I was so scared before that, but yeah.
Jorma Taccone
Yorm. With apologies to Paracelsus Hilton. That's hot.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
No problem.
Akiva Schaffer
I'll take that anytime.
Jorma Taccone
I've never seen Seth more unhappy.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
I'm gonna take that to bed tonight. When I'm. My burning feet with my lava feet, I'm gonna be like, yeah. I remember when Andy said that hot comment with Karisa.
Jorma Taccone
God damn it. First time that I've ever genuinely wished we had video for this Seth. I've never seen Seth more disappointed in me, and that's saying a lot.
Akiva Schaffer
A lot.
Andy Samberg
He's just like, I will say. I will say I had a real, like. Oh, that.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh.
Andy Samberg
Andy, I'm gonna give you a quiz now. What do. What do Paris Hilton and Matthew McConaughey say when they're together?
Jorma Taccone
All right, all right. All hot. Am I close?
Andy Samberg
It's another one of her. No, it's. It might be too deep of a Paris Hilton reference for you to know.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
It already is.
Andy Samberg
If it's not it's hot, it just keeps living. Sliven.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, slivin. Did she say slivin a lot? I was.
Jorma Taccone
I was looking for hottie and the naughty.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah.
Jorma Taccone
Was that her?
Akiva Schaffer
That was her.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
I think so, yeah.
Akiva Schaffer
Was it her?
Jorma Taccone
I'm not sure.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Yeah, it was.
Akiva Schaffer
Yeah, she was the hottie. And. And Right.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Other one was the naughty.
Andy Samberg
Hi, Liz. Do you need some? You're getting a lot of love for your vioriad.
Akiva Schaffer
Oh, my God, Liz.
Andy Samberg
Oh, you're going out. I'm going out.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Oh, tell her that's great for her. I can't go out.
Jorma Taccone
Oh, my God, you're.
Akiva Schaffer
I was on the phone with Liz today and she was telling me some of the other names of the tennis teams in her league.
Andy Samberg
What were some of the other ones?
Akiva Schaffer
Well, I did mention.
Andy Samberg
I mean, my favorite is Supreme Quarters. That's just the best name, right?
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
That's really good.
Andy Samberg
It's just the best name. They just nailed it.
Spivey
God.
Andy Samberg
I'm going to bring up my list on my app, Match time. And I mean, there's not a single one that doesn't go for a pun.
Akiva Schaffer
That's great.
Andy Samberg
You can't find one.
Akiva Schaffer
Well, that's the second reason Yoram's not going to join the league. The first is that he currently can't move.
Jorma Taccone
Yeah, he can't walk.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Yeah, that's the main. The main reason. There's a couple. There's a couple reasons.
Andy Samberg
But the other.
Akiva Schaffer
The good news, in six weeks, he still can't walk.
Jorma Taccone
There's a couple of reasons. And they're both his legs.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
No, in 12 weeks, I still can't walk. It's way worse.
Andy Samberg
Bye.
Akiva Schaffer
Bye. All right, I'm gonna go.
Jorma Taccone
I gotta go, too.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
I don't have to go.
Jorma Taccone
Actually, your actually is Teca Vale.
Yoram 'Yorm' Cohen
Yeah, I'm Tecavail, guys. I mean, I do have to get vitals soon, but besides that, I'm good.
Akiva Schaffer
All right. This was a delight. Thank you, Keenan, for coming on. Thank you, Spivey, for your voice. Not. And I love you guys.
Jorma Taccone
Love you, dudes.
Andy Samberg
Love you.
Jorma Taccone
Later, Arnold.
Andy Samberg
Later, Quaid.
In this lively and nostalgia-soaked episode, Seth Meyers is joined by The Lonely Island (Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone) along with special guest Kenan Thompson to dive deep into the creation, legacy, and absurdity of the SNL Digital Short “Two Worlds Collide,” famously featuring Kenan as Reba McEntire. With voice note contributions from SNL writer Paula Pell (“Spivey”), this episode is an insightful, hilarious journey through how the Reba sketch was conceived, the creative risks of unexplained absurd casting, and the lasting impact of this genre-bending, boundary-pushing digital short. The group also shares personal stories, behind-the-scenes tidbits, and plenty of in-jokes, poking fun at themselves, SNL, and their ever-expanding podcast lore.
Seth praises the short for its density, weirdness, and cleverness ([08:12]).
Kenan explains how the character was born:
The Lonely Island saw extra comedic potential in the unexplained casting and reshaped it into a digital short, debating whether to ever break the “joke” by acknowledging it ([12:30]–[12:37]).
The crew cues up the short and provides a moment-by-moment commentary:
They marvel at Lorne Michaels’ genuine love for the short, and how it received unusually effusive praise behind the scenes ([29:53], [41:07]).
Akiva (on Kenan’s Instincts):
“No one needed less direction than Kenan… just then would nail it.” ([07:41])
Spivey (on the original joke):
“But nobody on set acknowledges the fact that Reba is a handsome young black man in a red wig.” ([10:45])
Andy:
“It’s the last thing anyone’s been waiting for.” ([14:28])
Yorm:
“Saying ‘your pussy’s the bomb.’ That’s not a usual thing you hear on SNL.” ([27:30])
Akiva:
“It’s an incredible feat of writing that the turn was admitting the thing we all knew from the beginning.” ([30:33])
Kenan (on the sketch’s reach):
“It echoed pretty strong because it was just the craziest thing ever. I remember Ariana Grande…was like, I love that Reba sketch.” ([41:01])
Kenan (on Reba at the CMA Awards):
“She welcomed me…arm in arm with me, and she was showing me around backstage to like, very conservative type people…” ([39:26])
Jorma (on podcast shirts):
“Two targets over each, like, where the nipples would be, and it says, hit us in the tittis.” ([60:17])
Andy (re: word games and missed answers):
“I missed vagina yesterday. Just yesterday.” ([56:09])
This episode captures what fans love about both SNL and The Lonely Island: creative risk-taking, joyful absurdity, and the camaraderie of writers and performers who still make each other laugh decades later. Insightful for comedy nerds and welcoming for casual listeners, “Two Worlds Collide” ends as warmly as it begins—with thank-yous, love, and an open invitation to dive deeper into all things SNL, pop culture, and Lonely Island lore.