Zach Drops By the Set

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast

Episode: Zach Drops By the Set

Release Date: November 11, 2025
Hosts: Seth Meyers, Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg (late entry) + guest appearances (Kreitzel, John Solomon)
Theme: Behind-the-scenes look at SNL’s digital shorts & the making of “Zach Drops By the Set” with tales from the SNL writers’ room, collaboration with host Zach Galifianakis, plus plenty of characteristically irreverent banter and SNL nostalgia.

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Episode Overview

This episode focuses on the creation and impact of the SNL Digital Short “Zach Drops By the Set,” hosted by Zach Galifianakis. Seth and Akiva kick things off, discussing the unique process behind these shorts, the energy that guest hosts like Galifianakis brought to SNL, and their own memories of the time. The conversation expands to include guest insights (notably from writer/producer John Solomon and contributor Kreitzel), along with plenty of asides covering SNL culture, memories, inside jokes, music recommendations, and a detailed walk-through of classic sketches featured that week.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Podcast Structure and Guest Absences

• Akiva and Seth open solo, commenting on what it’s like when not all Lonely Island members are present, especially Andy and Jorma.

• They joke about how the podcast is a "finite" project since it’s based on a limited run of shorts, welcoming ideas from listeners on how to eventually evolve the podcast.

  • Quote:
    “Without Andy here to say, you know that he hates the idea that this could go on indefinitely. I think he takes great solace in the fact that he knows that it will come to an end.” – Akiva (01:32)

• Andy later joins, poking fun at his own lateness and the “important business meetings, bro.”

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2. Inside Jokes, Listener Feedback, and New York Times Conspiracies

• The group riff on inside jokes (the “Quaid Army”), listener feedback, and how references from their shows/sketches have been cropping up suspiciously often in NYT games.

  • Quote:
    “But they're sending dog whistles to the Quaid Army.” – Akiva (04:49)
    “I think the real honor would be if the clue was proper response to Quaid Army. If the answer was righteous kill.” – Seth (04:24)

• They detail favorite audience comments and share running bits from recent shows and listener emails (“Did Yorm say 'I gotta bounce' when he fell off the ladder?” – 06:38).

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3. Music Recommendations and SNL Band Memories

• Akiva discusses being blown away by Rosalia’s new album, a rare “can’t leave the car” experience.

  • Quote:
    “This is the first time that's happened to me in a very long time with music where I was like, I just want to see what she's going to do next. And I can't even understand any of the words.” – Akiva (10:31)

• The hosts reminisce about the SNL house band era, discovering new music through the show, and express jealousy at missing great band performances.

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4. SNL Writers’ Room Nostalgia

• Seth, Akiva, Kreitzel, and Solomon vividly recall the camaraderie and chaos of the SNL writers’ offices, comparing it to living in a college dormitory—different rooms, shared energy, “comedy dust,” and both optimism and pessimism between writers.
  • Quote:
    “That 17th floor feels like a dorm floor.” – Akiva (13:29)
    “To be honest, to go where people are laughing is almost to assure they're not working.” – Seth (14:23)

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5. Zach Galifianakis at SNL: Alt-Comedy Meets Mainstream TV

• The arrival of Zach Galifianakis as SNL host after “The Hangover” was a big moment—hosts describe a blend of alt-comedy and mainstream stardom.
• They discuss how Zach’s unique tone infiltrated the show, especially with sketches like his signature piano one-liners and the digital short “Zach Drops By the Set.”
  • Quote:
    “You really wanted him to, like, have a good show because it would be your fault if it wasn't.” – Seth (15:08)
    “He immediately showed up, like, embracing the idea of crushing on the show and while also bringing, like, a tone that was very different.” – Seth (15:43)

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6. Deep Dive: “Bidet” Sketch

Creation

• John Solomon shares (via voice note) that “Bidet” grew out of a Puerto Rico trip with Colin Jost, mirroring their own bidet-related anxieties and questions.
  • Quote:
    “Kristen and Zach’s concerns about the functionality of the bidet easily mirror Jost’s and my concerns and interests. So it was very easy to write.” – John Solomon (24:25)

Performance

• Kristin Wiig, Zach Galifianakis, and Andy Samberg star. The hosts play the sketch, highlighting the increasingly absurd questions about the bidet, straight-faced delivery, and Andy’s turn as the straight man.
  • Memorable moment:
    • Andy and Zach’s increasingly nervy interrogation about “rollaway bidets” and “bidet repairmen” (27:05–28:04).
    • The repeated concern for “bidet-wise” service at nearby hospitals and ambulances (28:31-28:55).

Audience & Writer Commentary

• The group cracks up at how the sketch essentially wrote itself from real-life paranoia, and joke about Solomon and Jost being mistaken for father and son on their trip.

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7. Deep Dive: “Zach Drops By the Set” Digital Short

Origins & Logistics

• The concept: Zach wanted to literally wander onto other active TV sets, unannounced.
  • “All the New York shows that were shooting at the time, they were so excited… this is so fun,” recounts Kreitzel (34:11–35:17)

Production Details

• Outtakes and locations included NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Dr. Oz, Law & Order, and even an attempted cameo on Gossip Girl that scheduling prevented.
  • Brian Williams “does comedy totally dry. Everything you would want… a perfect performance for beat one.” – Seth (35:27)
  • The team discusses the practicality and thrill of shooting in real operational sets (Law & Order especially). Crew and cast from those shows seemed highly game and supportive.

Comedic Structure

• The short stands out for its unpredictable, disparate beats—a mix of for-real set intrusions and clever compositing (Showtime at the Apollo sequence) (36:49).
• Zach’s signature deadpan stare and choice to linger on camera for comedic effect comes up several times (40:24–40:38).
• “That’s a movie,” quips Seth as Zach holds his stare for an uncomfortably long time.

Reception & Legacy

• Even though it didn’t have the classic SNL Digital Short logo, everyone agrees its impact and creative spirit earned it “digital short” status (43:54).

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8. Miscellaneous SNL Memories, Inside Baseball & Wrestling Overwardrobe

• The group shares tales of mistaken identity (Jost as Solomon’s “son”), wardrobe battles, and the mundane exhaustion of trying on clothes for sketches and pre-tapes (“Nothing is sleepier than wardrobe fittings.” – Akiva, 55:34).
• Some episodes resurface—such as abandoned or cut sketches (“Guidance Counselor”) and SNL feature appearances—with playful debate about the reasons for their fate.
• They discuss "Second Chance Theater" for sketches that didn’t make it onto SNL but found new life elsewhere, e.g., “I Think You Should Leave” or the Michael Bolton Valentine’s Day special.

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9. SNL Careers and Transitions

• Kreitzel outlines his journey doing SNL pre-tapes and sketches, and why he’d eventually step away (for family, then for Portlandia), touching on the difficulties of balancing the SNL grind with personal life (62:35).
• There’s admiration for Fred Armisen managing to excel on two sketch shows (SNL and Portlandia) at the same time (64:16).

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10. Comedy Process & Collaboration

• Ongoing cross-pollination between SNL writers and digital short creators; how ideas would sometimes get a second life in other projects—highlighted by discussion of sketches moved from SNL to “I Think You Should Leave” or “Portlandia.”

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11. Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with timestamps)

• “You can’t build an army and then just turn your back on them. That’s just bad, bad leadership.” – Akiva (01:55)
• “It would be like if, like Professor X halfway through X-Men just kind of got up and got his coffee.” – Seth (03:08)
• “When I was watching the trailer after the American Pie trailer, and somebody yelled out, more pie fucking.” – Seth (06:46)
• “I just want to see what she's going to do next. And I can't even understand any of the words.” – Akiva, re: Rosalia (10:31)
• “To be honest, to go where people are laughing is almost to assure they're not working.” – Seth (14:23)
• “You really wanted him to, like, have a good show because it would be your fault if it wasn’t.” – Seth, about Zach (15:08)
• “Kristen and Zach’s concerns about the functionality of the bidet easily mirror Jost’s and my concerns and interests.” – John Solomon (24:25)
• “That’s a movie.” – Seth, on Zach’s held stare in the short (40:19)
• “Guidance Counselor got cut. Do you remember Guidance Counselor?” – Seth (57:24)
• “It's crazy that you were working on SNL and Portlandia at the same time.” – Seth (64:16)

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12. Cultural and Comedy References

• Multiple nods to comedy history, like Naked Gun (03:19), SNL alumni, and even meta references (Andy: “Did you get money from Werther’s Originals?” re: product placement, 39:42).
• Plenty of callback jokes (e.g., Titmice, 44:42–45:04).

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13. Listener Engagement

• Open solicitation for input on podcast evolution as they near the end of digital shorts reviews (“Quades, sound off!” 23:13).
• Ongoing encouragement for listener comments, feedback, and inside jokes.

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Notable Segments & Timestamps

• 0:00–03:55 — Opening banter, missing cast, podcast structure meta-commentary.
• 03:55–05:55 — NYT Games inside jokes/conspiracies.
• 07:17–10:58 — SNL band/musical discovery/nostalgia.
• 12:04–14:23 — SNL office camaraderie.
• 15:08–16:54 — On Zach Galifianakis’ hosting and impact.
• 24:25–29:00 — “Bidet” sketch dissection (with John Solomon’s voice note).
• 34:08–44:00 — Deep dive: “Zach Drops By the Set,” behind-the-scenes, shooting logistics.
• 57:24–59:55 — “Guidance Counselor” cut sketch performance and commentary.
• 62:35–64:16 — Kreitzel on leaving SNL for Portlandia/family.
• 65:07–66:06 — Tales of “second chance” sketches and unused SNL premises.

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Summary & Tone

The episode maintains The Lonely Island’s and Seth Meyers’s signature blend of irreverence, nostalgia, and sharp comedy insight, with rapid-fire jokes, meta-commentary about podcast-making, and genuine appreciation for the creative community they built at SNL. Memorable sketches receive loving forensic attention, while tangents and comedic asides keep it informal and accessible (appealing to diehard SNL fans and comedy nerds alike).

The tone is warm, sarcastic, and self-effacing, with frequent riffs, callback jokes, and affectionate storytelling (“Love you, dudes. Krystal, good to see you, buddy.” – Andy, 68:34).

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Useful For New Listeners

• You’ll enjoy learning how SNL digital shorts are crafted, how hosts like Galifianakis transformed the show, and how sketches sometimes reflect/exaggerate the real neuroses of their creators.
• The hosts' banter reveals how comedy is often collaborative, recycled, and endlessly re-imagined.
• Insider peeks at SNL’s behind-the-scenes process underscore the chaos–but also the joy–of making weekly live comedy.

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Transcript

[Akiva Shaffer]

Hey. Hey.

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

It's the Lonely island and Seth Meyers podcast show.

[Seth Meyers]

Hey everybody. Welcome to the podcast. It's really just a novel week because it's a, what we call in the biz, a two hander. You want to guess who the other hand is? He's about to say hello.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Hi guys. Akiva Shaffer here. So glad to be here without some of the dead weight.

[Seth Meyers]

I know we're really just off and running tonight with Andy did say he.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Is going to join, but he didn't give us an eta.

[Seth Meyers]

No. And. And Yorm kind of.

[Akiva Shaffer]

He said he feels like.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, Yam played the, the card that. To be honest, I'm shocked he hasn't played more often because he's been very, you know, upbeat about this whole thing. But I think he had a tough day.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Like Andy was saying early in this that if it was any of the rest of us, we would just be gone.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. You would never hear from us again.

[Akiva Shaffer]

No. And so yam occasionally pulling the I don't feel well card is well earned.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes. And we were scheduled to do this a couple days ago and I was the guy who last minute remembered I had to go to a potluck at my kids school.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Now, Seth, do you ever think about we've set up an entire podcast that has a finite number built in.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

You know, Smart list will always. Much like your talk show, there'll always be somebody else out there who needs to promote something to come on as a guest.

[Seth Meyers]

Right.

[Akiva Shaffer]

And your family trips, I mean, I guess you don't get the same person on twice because they'd have to come up with new family trips to talk about. Yeah, but there's a pretty large pool of potential guests when you consider it kind of is the entire human race.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

But we've done this. And without Andy here to say, you know that he hates the idea that this could go on indefinitely. I think he takes great solace in the fact that he knows that it will come to an end.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

But we both know that can't happen.

[Seth Meyers]

No, of course not.

[Akiva Shaffer]

We gotta keep it going.

[John Solomon]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Not for us, mind you. Of course. For the Quaids.

[Seth Meyers]

For the Quaids. For the Quaid Army. You can't build an army and then just turn your back on them.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Exactly. That's just bad, bad leadership. I. I like to think of us. What is the next iteration? I don't have an answer to this. I mean, obviously. True crime.

[Seth Meyers]

Interesting.

[Akiva Shaffer]

It's there for us.

[Seth Meyers]

Interesting. Do you think it's where we kind of Jump in and see if we can solve one of the cold cases. Is that the best take on it for you?

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah, we fully like season one cereal it where we dig up something. Something spicy and just. Yeah. I mean, obviously the ones that get a lot of clicks are on video first off.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

And the Quaid's are always pretty vocal about being annoyed that they can't see what we're up to.

[Seth Meyers]

I was really. I don't know what the right word is. I had a little joy from the fact that multiple people told me this week their favorite part of the podcast was when Yoram got up. And we were all just shocked.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Oh, an audio play.

[Seth Meyers]

As an audio play that worked. And that made me. Because that was certainly my favorite part of the podcast. And that. And then the coda of it, which was yhorm. Didn't quite understand why we were shocked when he came back. He's like, yeah. I walked over and we're like, what do you. We don't know what the rules are.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah. And he had crutches, but they were off camera too. So he just popped up. It was just gone.

[Seth Meyers]

It would be like if, like Professor X just halfway through X Men, just like kind of got up and got his coffee.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah, he just poured a coffee, sat back down.

[Seth Meyers]

He'd be like, wait, what is he. So wait, is it getting better?

[Akiva Shaffer]

Like, what's going on? That is very Naked Gun to have a character in a wheelchair the whole movie. And then in the last few sec, you know, just in some key moment, just gets up to get a cup of coffee, sits back down. I feel like I've seen a joke like that in one of their movies, but maybe it's even a different one where there's characters that are handcuffed and then one of them just reaches out of the handcuff at one point and puts it back in and you just never talk about it.

[Seth Meyers]

It's great. Yeah, of course. Very good. I hate to bring up anything spelling be related without Andy, but this is more.

[Akiva Shaffer]

But this is also your chance to say something with no chance of rebuttal.

[Seth Meyers]

This is more like. Do you feel like New York Times Games is paying sort of granular attention to the work we're doing in this pod? Because in one week, these are three things that happen. Lettuce was a word in spelling bee.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Oh, okay.

[Seth Meyers]

And two different crossword answers this week. Doppelganger was a crossword answer. And like a boss was a crossword answer. I mean, at 2, I was willing to say it was A coincidence key.

[Akiva Shaffer]

But three, this feels like a conspiracy.

[Seth Meyers]

This does. At this point.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Wow. I think it's an honor.

[Seth Meyers]

It's certainly an honor. I think the real honor would be if the clue was proper response to Quaid Army. If the answer was righteous kill.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yes. But that's asking a lot from their audience. They're. Instead, they're sending us secret codes.

[Seth Meyers]

Right.

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

They're not.

[Seth Meyers]

Right. Because, of course, none of those were requiring you to listen. They were sending messages to us.

[Akiva Shaffer]

All things people say and. And like, ao boss is in the culture now, and doppelganger is a word and.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

But they're sending dog whistles to the Quaid Army.

[Seth Meyers]

They're tipping their cap to us. Yeah, yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

They're getting all of our attention. Not just the four of us, but they're getting the entire armies. And then you got to wonder why, like, when's the other shoe's gonna drop? They're saying it's like when spies would put, like, you know, classified ads in and you. And they had a code.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

You know, they put it in. It's some long thing, but then somebody else has the code or knows it's every 50th word, and it's the third vowel. They. And that's how they get the meeting point for the drop.

[Seth Meyers]

My favorite. And there was a little of it in one battle after another. But my favorite thing in movies are Cold war movies where a guy's, like, listening to a radio broadcast with, like, a ham radio and writing down, like, every fifth word. Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Decoding. Live love.

[Seth Meyers]

Live decoding.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

We were talking about closet organizer. We talked about Darryl's house, and we were saying, were there any other callback sketches? Tim Robinson and Kevin Hart had Z shirts.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I remember these shirts, but I don't remember well enough to remember that there was two parts.

[Seth Meyers]

It's really good.

[Akiva Shaffer]

And is the second part like, a complete twist and surprising on the first part, or is it just like another?

[Seth Meyers]

It's a complete. It's a complete twist and surprise.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I like it.

[Seth Meyers]

Here's just some comments from recent episodes. Keith. Someone said Kreisel was a great fill in for Yorm, considering the literal. First thing he said was, I don't remember. So he immediately fell into the Y role just perfectly. Yeah, true this. And sometimes, look, I feel like I kind of cracked the door open for these kind of comments. And, you know, I think the quaint army has learned it for me, so I do bear the weight of some responsibility here. But someone Yoram left last week Saying, I gotta bounce. And someone wrote, did he say the same thing when he fell off the ladder?

[Akiva Shaffer]

Oh, did he say it to, like.

[Seth Meyers]

Did he pray, God, I gotta bounce.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I hope I don't just land hard. I just bounce back up.

[Seth Meyers]

We talked about how somebody yelled out in a movie theater once when I was watching the trailer after the American Pie trailer, and somebody yelled out, more pie fucking. This is a comment that really made left. The best thing I ever heard someone yell in a theater is the word silence. Right before the movie, silence was about to start. It's really good.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Well, you know, that's probably a pretty rowdy crowd just chatting, Chatting so loud.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, the pre. The pre Silence crowd.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah, that's unknown. Just ruckus in that room.

[Seth Meyers]

We asked Will Forte about a closet organizer memories. And he did not have many, but he did say in the message that he had been going crazy at work. And a couple of people wrote in and said when they heard that they pictured him as the closet organizer. Like, that his job was still being a closet organizer, and that was him being crazy work.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Have you read recent comments on Sergio?

[Akiva Shaffer]

No. Like on the old post of Sergio on YouTube. Gone back to the actual video. No.

[Seth Meyers]

A lot of people saying, wish I could enjoy this, but my eyeline keeps getting jumped.

[Akiva Shaffer]

So sarcastic. So people are being sarcastic.

[Seth Meyers]

Sarcastic.

[Akiva Shaffer]

How dare you.

[Seth Meyers]

Then a bunch of other people saying, I feel like even hearing Keef's criticism, I enjoy this great deal and don't even know what he's talking about.

[Akiva Shaffer]

So you know what? Next time I've learned my lesson, I'm not going to be so honest.

[Seth Meyers]

I think you should keep being honest. I personally, for me, it was. It was a plus. Court martial is when you get kicked out of the military. Gary marshalled is when you get kicked off the pod for not knowing enough Pretty Woman facts. These are just things people. People send in.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I like it a lot. Well, you worked with Gary Marshall, too.

[Seth Meyers]

I did. In years.

[Akiva Shaffer]

That's quite an honor.

[Seth Meyers]

Somebody sent me a link. I didn't even open the link because it was too painful, but it was. The headline was eight Seth Meyers movies. People have forgotten about eight. And I'm pretty sure I've only done eight.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

So you know what I mean? Like, that's fine.

[Akiva Shaffer]

It was like it was all them.

[Seth Meyers]

It's all of them. Like, that's fine. If it's like eight Robert Dairo movies people forgot.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I can't name them. No, I can't. I mean, the one you just said, already gone.

[Seth Meyers]

I Didn't even say it.

[Akiva Shaffer]

The Gary Marshall movie.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, but see, you can't even name it.

[Akiva Shaffer]

It's. Well, was it New Year's?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, New Year's Eve.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Okay. And then Journey, the Center of the.

[Seth Meyers]

Earth 2, where you're the doctor guy. Y.

[Akiva Shaffer]

And then you were officially cut from Pop Star, so that's not getting me that officially. I'm not even close. Give me. Give me just a taste of the other six.

[Seth Meyers]

Nick is the first word of a movie.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Nope.

[Seth Meyers]

Nick and. Oh.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist.

[Seth Meyers]

I have a cameo. Nick and Nori.

[Akiva Shaffer]

So does Andy. So you and Andy are in a movie together?

[Seth Meyers]

We are in a movie together. And I thought I'd be in Pop Star. That would have been our second.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah, well, deleted scenes counts, but go ahead.

[Seth Meyers]

Let's see. What's another one? God, now I'm not gonna even remember him. American Dreams was a movie that was with Mandy Moore and Hugh Grant, which was like sort of an American Idol.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I'm vaguely remembering Y.

[Seth Meyers]

Kind of a political satire film that didn't quite work, but was very good.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Now, in any of these eight, are you playing Seth Meyers, the host of a show?

[Seth Meyers]

I'm not counting movies where I played Seth Meyers, because I've. I've stacked a few of those.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah, because that would have been Pop Star, too, so maybe that wouldn't. Would not have.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, it wouldn't count. So even I can only make it to four.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I guess we both need to read this article.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, but it's like that better article be like the three Seth Meyers movies. Everybody remembers.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Seth, have you been listening to the Rosalie? This is more of an Andy question, but if he would show up. But have you been listening to the Rosalia album? Is that how you say it?

[Seth Meyers]

I haven't. Is this. This new album that everybody says is the best album of the year?

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah, it's real good. I've only heard it once through so far. I was listening real loud in my car, and it was so good and interesting that I wanted. You know when you're, like, listening to a book on tape or a great NPR story, and you get to your destination, but you don't want to get out of the car. Cause you want to hear the end of a section.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

This is the first time that's happened to me in a very long time with music where I was like, I just want to see what she's going to do next. And I can't even understand any of the words.

[Seth Meyers]

That's pretty Exciting. Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I thought it was fantastic.

[Seth Meyers]

We used to have a band on my show, and we used to also have bands come on my show. Yeah. They were both a victim of financial realities of current linear television. But I will say, like, that was a very cool thing for somebody who's getting older to have, like, a new band come through once a week.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah. It's a really curated. You're getting to still go to concerts in the comfort of a chair behind the desk.

[Seth Meyers]

I wrote when Dochi was on Colbert. Yeah. I had to, like, text and say, I have palpable jealousy.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

That this happened, like, 100ft from your desk. Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

That was a memorable performance, too.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Those are few and far between.

[Seth Meyers]

Geese is the band that has been on my radar in the last, like, three months. And their album, I have Not Listened.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I've. I've heard of it, but I have not. I've Not Listened.

[Seth Meyers]

I'll give it.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I'll give Geese a little go.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, Geese it. Geese it. And Goose It. From the Not a Gonk, guys, that's the name of the album. Not a Gonk.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Is it us?

[Seth Meyers]

It is you guys.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Okay, great.

[Seth Meyers]

I knew I liked it, so I had Zach and Tim on my show, and it was wonderful. Ostensibly to promote Chair Company. Then we didn't really talk about Chair Company at all. We talked a lot about Spider League. Are you familiar with Spider League at all?

[Akiva Shaffer]

Only from your show. Only from your show.

[Seth Meyers]

But they were saying to me, I went out to dinner with them afterwards. Like, their offices are right next to your offices.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah, well, they wrote, I think you should leave, literally in our office, and then kept an office in our office for writing. But then when Chair Company needed a bunch of space, they rented from our landlord the floor above us. So now we're an elevator a ride away from each other.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm very happy that you guys are in the same physical space, because that is the thing you miss the most post SNL is like, not just being close to people who are working on other things that you can go and hang out with.

[Akiva Shaffer]

It's a joy to just go, like, while they were editing, to be able to just go up there and watch a scene and then walk for coffee, even though the neighborhood's kind of gross. But we do coffee walks. And it feels really like SNL when you have multiple things going. Because Dan Gore also takes the office there. So he'd be over in one writing whatever TV show he's working on.

[Seth Meyers]

Dan Gore who? One of the creators of Brooklyn Nine. Nine.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Exactly. And Then when we were writing Naked Gun, we did it there. And truly it'd be like John Solomon and those guys. And sometimes like Patty Harrison writing in one room. And we'd be 50ft over in our room writing at the same time. And it's the closest I've gotten to that SNL feel.

[Seth Meyers]

There is something to. I was talking to somebody who is. You know, they're doing SNL uk.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And the SNL UK team is. Some of them are over watching SNL this week. And so I was just sort of chatting with them, which is really fun.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah, that's cool.

[Seth Meyers]

And they were saying how they were walking the hallway and it was like, oh, I haven't felt like this since college. And it's like. Yeah, no, it's exactly like college.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

In that everybody's working, but not on exactly the same thing.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yes. That 17th floor feels like a dorm floor.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Unwriting that.

[Seth Meyers]

And like, if you hit. If you hit, like a stumbling block sometimes, like, instead of just going out and talking to somebody who's not in your world, like, it's really fun to just, like, walk into an office with other people who are working and just like, hoping you'll get a little of that, like, comedy dust on you just as you, like, walk room to room.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I mean, that's the part we all miss the most, I think.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. I mean, there's also, like, different levels of optimism among people. Like, we both love Spivey so much. Spivey rose so many bangers over the year. I never walked into her office and had her say anything better than, like, I'm just shitting out a turd. Like, you know what I mean? Like, never.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

She never made you feel like she was running circles around you, even though she definitely was.

[Akiva Shaffer]

You could definitely feel also just when there's like a rain cloud in certain offices that you're like, nope, that's not the energy I'm trying to go into.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

As opposed to the one with the big laughs. That's probably not the one that's writing honestly.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah. Like, to be honest, to go where people are laughing is almost to assure they're not working.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yes. You're like, oh, yeah, it's. It's just normal office water cooler stuff. It's just that everyone's trying to think up the silliest things.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. So you do think you were here for the Galvanaka show.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah, at some point. But I was semi disengaged, certainly. And I definitely noticed that he was, you know what I remember. I remember being a little bit jealous because I had never met Zach Galifianakis, and he was the hottest thing in comedy from the Hangover that year, and we all thought he was so funny. And Kreisle had a relationship already with him through the Tim and Eric Show. And I think I showed up late into this week and I had already made a short. And I remember the jealousy was just like, oh, that's so cool that you guys are friends.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. This is also kind of a big deal when you have somebody who. Because, again, you were jealous of him on an alt comedy level. And then he sort of showed up as, like, also now a mainstream star. And you really wanted him to, like, have a good show because it would be your fault if it wasn't.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yes. He's showing. Zach is showing up as the. Another one of our, you know, could be. And ended up being as, you know, like a Jack Black or, you know, somebody who can come in and with the cast and elevate the show. And. And he did.

[Seth Meyers]

And he immediately showed up, like, embracing the idea of crushing on the show and while also bringing, like, a tone that was very different. Both his. His current, like, I don't know, mainstream success, but also that, like, indie thing that he had that was really fun to watch because he did a. You know, he had this move that he'd been doing for years where he would sit at piano and do, like, one liners. And it was a very old school move with a very new tone, and it was really exciting to watch it. Just crush it. SNL and a Mon.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah, it's still so enjoyable. Does he do it that much these days?

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

I don't know.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I miss it.

[Seth Meyers]

He and I did stand up together once at Michigan Tech. This is Pre Hangover Zach. Yeah. And I'm SNL me. And I think it was booked for him to open for me, but I knew very well that he was by far the superior standup. And I sort of managed to convince them that I should open for him, which was a real grace.

[Akiva Shaffer]

It makes sense that it.

[Seth Meyers]

That it went that way.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I mean, he's. He's one of the greats. And he was probably, you know, doing it every night and you're working it. That was your little side hustle. And it's his. It was his main thing. And so he probably had a fantastic 45 minutes.

[Seth Meyers]

It was incredible. But it was also the. We did it. The Upper Peninsula of Michigan, I believe the school was Michigan Tech, and it was the. It was so far north And I remember the next day, I don't know how he got home, but our plane couldn't take off because when they would de ice one wing, it was like a tiny regional plane. By the time they would de ice the other wing, the first wing had been frozen. And so there were eight people on the plane. And we all went to the rental car place, and there was like, only four rental cars. And so we just all paired off. And I remember I drove to the nearest airport with a guy who was like a veterinary professor at Auburn University, who had been like a visit.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah, that's a holiday movie.

[Seth Meyers]

It was a holiday movie. And I just left.

[Akiva Shaffer]

You guys kiss.

[Seth Meyers]

We didn't kiss. And. But I remember when he got out of the car, I ran to him. You know, he was getting. You know, he was getting his luggage out, and then he was going his way. And I did. I did run to him. And I will not say what we said to each other, but I'm glad it was said.

[Akiva Shaffer]

There was something that needed to be said and give the little closure to the. To the day.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Akiva Shaffer]

From Fiore now that it's fall. I am wearing the beach fleece crew. How does it look on me, honey?

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

Oh, so cozy.

[Akiva Shaffer]

It is the ideal fleece to wear as the weather starts to get chilly. It's even made from 71% recycled fabrics.

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

And now you think it's chilly in LA at 72 degrees?

[Akiva Shaffer]

Brr. Yes. And that's why I needed my beach fleece crew. All right, let me tell you something else, Liz. Are you listening? Sunday performance joggers are awesome. I just want to scream it from the rooftops.

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

The people or the pants?

[Akiva Shaffer]

I guess. Yeah, I guess I do love Sunday performance joggers. That's what we call those people that jog by our house so fast.

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

Performance art. But they're also jogging and they're Sunday performance joggers. But you're talking about the pants.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Oh, you're saying as a negative, like, oh, oh, God, no. I'm driving in my car and I'm like, you guys are performance joggers. These aren't real joggers. They're not doing for exercises. This is a. They're showing off. They just want to jog because it's their vori and they want to jog all over town to show off their. Their performance joggers. It's performative jogging.

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

Performative jogging.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Oh, they make me sick. But their clothes are awesome. They wick moisture and the fabric is so comfortable. They have five functional pockets, three with zippers to keep things safe. Now, we've talked about that. You really have been buying stuff there. How's it been holding up? You've been liking your vori stuff?

[Seth Meyers]

It's great.

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

I play tennis in my vuori and I really like it.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah. Seth has commented that the people should really trust you about this. Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, wait.

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

And then I was playing the other day and my partner went, is that viori for real? And I said, it is. She goes, I love viori. It feels so good, doesn't it? Oh, those look good. Which ones are those? So really making some waves on the toaster court.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Wow. That was a genuine testimonial. I'm just going to say one other thing, and I don't want you to argue with me about this.

[Seth Meyers]

Liz.

[Akiva Shaffer]

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[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

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[Seth Meyers]

When I look through this run list, the sketch I think about the most is bidet.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I'm gonna need reminders on all these.

[Seth Meyers]

Hold on one second, Akiva. I've got a child in my sight. Cs, what's up? Good night.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Have we ever just had two people on this pod? Because it's harder. Because a third is always the peanut gallery to, like, insert dumb shit. You know what I mean?

[Seth Meyers]

I know. Can't wait for the feedback to see how empty this feels to people.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Well, before you go into bidet, I just am thinking about the opportunity of not having the other two and about what the future may hold. And I guess I want to put it to the Quades. Yeah, like, picture, like a guided meditation. Put yourself into the future right now. Think about when we're doing. I don't know, what's the last one? Is it the pop star episode?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Because after that, we're going to retread. You know, like, are we doing a Palm Springs episode? Are we doing a. I don't know. Maybe.

[Seth Meyers]

But let's just say I think there's a hope for some of us, Quaid's, who I count myself as one, that maybe there's new music.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Right? Yes. We could start doing ones where we put a new song in it, if we're ready for that. You know, we have to focus up and fix our hips and stuff. But there's gonna be a moment when we're current is. I guess what I mean.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

When we're just right here, just the beginning of the pod. When we goof around and talk about our week.

[Seth Meyers]

Yep.

[Akiva Shaffer]

That's all we have. But you need something else than that.

[Seth Meyers]

You know, I think it is guests, right?

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah. But there's four of us. We'll never be able to schedule a fifth person. Yeah, that's a guest. Where you have to cater to them.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, it's a real. I think you're right. Quades sound off.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

We really need you guys to come. Come to Our rescue.

[Akiva Shaffer]

We're going to need some idea. If you're the one that comes up with the idea that you can be on the pilot in the first episode.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, we'd love to have you. All right, so the day.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah. Do we have this episode up so we could, like, remind ourselves? So it says on here it said Joe Solomon.

[Seth Meyers]

I think Josten Solomon used to go on. Well, we actually have a voice note from Solomon, so.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Okay.

[Seth Meyers]

I asked for a voice note from Jost when I thought we were doing this on Wednesday night. I said, can you get me one in six hours? And he said, and by the way, so that was like, at one o' clock on Wednesday afternoon. And he said, I'm finishing some stuff up for the show. I'll try. So it's crazy based on what we did when we were there, the fact that it's one o' clock in the afternoon on Wednesday and Jost hasn't turned his scripts in yet.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah. For the table read. That's imminent. Yeah, within. Within two hours.

[Seth Meyers]

Then we pushed. Then we pushed our record two days. And he wrote me like 12 hours later. Sorry, I was too busy. And I was like, no worries. You have 36 more hours to send one. And he didn't. He didn't. He didn't quite pull it off.

[Akiva Shaffer]

He didn't get that.

[Seth Meyers]

Solomon did. Okay, so John, who co wrote it, I asked for his memories for bidet. And let's listen to that now.

[John Solomon]

Bidet is a sketch that Jost and I wrote after a trip to Puerto Rico. We got two sketches from our Puerto Rico trip. The other was a sketch about a lighthouse with Dwayne Johnson and Kristen. And then this one was because we went to a hotel called the Horn Dorset, which is a very nice hotel in Puerto Rico, and they showed us the bathroom, and there was a bday in the bathroom. And I think you could say that Kristen and Zach's concerns about the functionality of the bidet easily mirror Jost's and my concerns and interests. So it was very easy to write. And Andy, fantastic performance as a straight man. And obviously, Kristen and Zach were so, so funny.

[Seth Meyers]

Thank you, John. And I'm gonna share screen.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah. Do we need to watch a little of it?

[Seth Meyers]

Let's watch a little bidet.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

We have another guest here right now.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, do we? Who?

[Akiva Shaffer]

I can see Krystal. Krystal's here.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, oh, Chrysalis here.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Hi. Hi.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Hi. Hey.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

I want to watch bidet.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah. Welcome, Kreisl. It's only us because Yoram Isn't feeling well. And Andy is just like kind of.

[Seth Meyers]

Just not a great podcast host. All right, here we go. Bidet.

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

And the bathrooms in each of our executive suites come with a whirlpool tub, radiant heating, and a rainfall shower head.

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

Hmm, I see.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Mm.

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

And if you'll follow me, I can show you the master bedroom.

[Bidet Sketch Voice]

And the bidet comes standard?

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Yes.

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

You'll find a bidet in all our executive suites.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Uh huh.

[Jost (Writer)]

And there's no additional charge for using the bidet? No per use fee or debit system?

[Andy Samberg]

No, ma'.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Am.

[Andy Samberg]

Yousuf.

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

The bidet is complimentary.

[Jost (Writer)]

Very nice, Very nice. Good to know.

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

Would you like to see the master.

[Jost (Writer)]

Bedroom and the bidet? Is it in good working order, the bidet?

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

I believe so, yes.

[Bidet Sketch Voice]

And there's a sturdiness to it. The bidet, it can accommodate a fairly heavy carriage.

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

I think it's a very standard bidet.

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

I see.

[Jost (Writer)]

And the water pressure?

[Bidet Sketch Voice]

Ah, yes. And the water pressure in the bidet, should it prove insufficient, is there an adjustment that could be made to possibly increase the pressure substantially?

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

I don't think so, no.

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[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

Our sheets in the bedroom boast a 600 thread count.

[Bidet Sketch Voice]

And the bidet, should it break, is there a bidet repairman on site?

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

If there's any problem with the bathroom.

[Seth Meyers]

It would be the bidets.

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

With the bidets, we would just call a plumber.

[Jost (Writer)]

And this plumber, he can handle even the most extreme bidet problems.

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

He's a very competent plumber.

[Bidet Sketch Voice]

And should the bidet be damaged beyond repair, how soon would you be able to replace it with a new bidet?

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

I really don't know the answer to that.

[Bidet Sketch Voice]

Worrisome.

[Jost (Writer)]

Yeah, I don't like that.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I don't like to hear that.

[Jost (Writer)]

And should we have an unexpected overnight guest, do you offer a rollaway bidet?

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

I don't believe that exists.

[Bidet Sketch Voice]

2010, you would try some plan. And are there any hidden cameras in the bathroom that might record whatever's taking place in or around the bidet? Perhaps a toilet cam?

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

No, there are no cameras anywhere in the bathroom.

[Jost (Writer)]

Hmm, That's a shame.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

That's too bad.

[Jost (Writer)]

And the nearest hospital that would be.

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

St. George Medical Center. It's about three miles east of the hotel.

[Bidet Sketch Voice]

And there are ambulances. They have bidets. Or would there be a gap between the hotel and the hospital?

[Seth Meyers]

Bidet wise?

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

I doubt the ambulances have bidets. I also doubt the hospital has a bidet.

[Bidet Sketch Voice]

And with the doctors at the hospital, there's an understood confidentiality, correct?

[Jost (Writer)]

They're seasoned professionals. They've seen it all, so to speak.

[Bidet Sketch Voice]

They've had their gag reflexes removed, haven't they?

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, no complaints.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I enjoyed every second of that. Also thinking about it through the lens of John's voice note he left saying that those were the questions that him and Jost had in Puerto Rico about their bidet. That's worry worrisome.

[Seth Meyers]

It's I, I know one of my other. Hopefully John won't mind me telling the story that they would go on surfing trips together and one time they were surfing and talking to a female surfer who thought they were a father and son.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I think it's happened more than once.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. They're probably 10 years apart.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

But Jost is very young, looking for his age and Solomon is just very manly. He's tall and he's got some nice salt and pepper hair.

[Seth Meyers]

It's more, I would say it's more, it's more man boy than like any actual thing of like, you look old, you look young.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I'm shocked they didn't just think that they were lovers, but yeah, it's delightful that that's what they thought.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

There was people that were genuinely touched. If I recall, we could ask Solomon about it, but it was like genuinely like, this is so nice to see a father and son out here, like surfing the waves together.

[Seth Meyers]

So Solomon knows Jost better than maybe anyone knows Jost. And he thought it might be unlikely that Jost would come through with the text. So he sent a second voice note with even more information.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Oh, great.

[John Solomon]

The most important thing to say with regard to Bidet is that Jost and I were on this trip to Puerto rico and he's 12 years younger than me. He had a full beard at the time. And we were standing on the beach and this probably 60 something year old man came up to us and he asked us directions and we gave him directions to some restaurant or something and then he looked at Jostling and then he looked at me and smiled and he said, that's nice. I'm on a trip with my son too. So he thought I was Joe's dad. And then I believe that same day, or maybe it was the next day, I was at the front desk of our hotel and I was checking out and I asked the woman at the front desk if she had any postcards and she said, oh, someone else just asked me that question. She points to Jost, who's sitting across the lobby and she says, your son. Because Jost wanted postcards to send home. So Two separate people in Puerto Rico thought I was Jostad. And then the story doesn't end because years later, we were on a trip and we were going to Catalina with a bunch of friends. And my friend, who I've known for a long time, looked at Jost, and he said, is that your son? I don't know. I don't know.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Presumably the woman who works at the hotel knows they're in separate rooms with different last names.

[Seth Meyers]

Although, based on this bidet story, they maybe were in the same room.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Oh, maybe they shared a room.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Two surfer bros just heading down there and they're like, okay, just surfer bro.

[Seth Meyers]

Like a surf lodgy type place.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Sharing a room would definitely lead me to some conclusions.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, that's a bummer. When they're like, I don't know. I don't know who they're judging, that they're like, they can't possibly be a gay couple.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Exactly. Why. Why does it immediately go to that? Yeah, there's a lot of age gap gay couples out there. Like, it's very believable. Anyway, Jost has taken the time, two weeks in a row, to text me and Andy a photo that's actually very nice of the wall in the post production. Like where they do the shorts now.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

And there's a nice picture of us in the sushi glory hole.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, there you go.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Outfits on the wall. So he. He's got his phone on him, I guess is my point. Could have sent one.

[Seth Meyers]

Kreitza, we were talking about your. So what is your friendship with Zach when he comes in? Hosts. How well do you know him?

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

I knew him pretty well because he had been on Tim and Eric's show many, many times.

[Akiva Shaffer]

And had you guys even done those absolute vodka ads at that point?

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Those probably had been done. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, definitely. And I think that was it. It was a similar thing where he was like, what are you doing here? And I'm like, I'm working here now. And he was excited. And I don't know if you guys already talked about this, but I remember the table read was kind of awkward. We're like, zach's the funniest guy. And then it was like, that's not where he shines, you know, like, he's so about, like, massaging language and.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

But I think he was like, hey, I have this idea. He came to me go, I want to just be wandering by a set and just kind of, like, interrupt it. Is that an idea? I'm like, okay, yeah, let me see if we can do that. I don't know. But at the time, like, the hangover hadn't been out that long at that point.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Right.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

So I think I just started bringing the idea to Andy or somebody, and, like, Andy was just do that. That's great. I need a week off.

[Seth Meyers]

It felt like it was very much. Yeah, it was a host idea. And it does speak to what you said about, like, Zach ended up being a great host and always.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

And then totally was amazing.

[Seth Meyers]

But I think there was. We were saying before he came on, too, like, Zach was that weird thing where he was, like, super comedy cool for the previous 15 years, and then he was mainstream cool for the previous, like, three months. And it was a weird thing of. I think we were worried about, like, the people who expected him to be, like, Hangover Zach. But we always knew that there was this other, you know, not more interesting Zach, but, like, that he was like this incredible, incredibly layered, nuanced comedian. And I feel like this was a great version of that. Zach, the walking on set.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Yeah. But then it became, like, logistically, this is complicated in a way, because first you have to call all these places. The thing was, all the New York shows that were shooting at the time, they were so excited. And I was thinking about it, like, if you're doing a show sort of day in and day out, Law and Order, and they're like, hey, Zach Galifianakis wants to come by and shoot something, like, right before lunch or whatever it was, and they're gonna put it on snl. They're like, yes, this is so fun. And I remember Gossip Girl, which we didn't end up going to, was like, yeah, you should come here. They were shooting in Grand Central.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Oh, that would have been good.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

That would have been awesome. But I can't remember. You know, it was one of those things where their schedule shifted, and then they couldn't accommodate it.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Should we watch it?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah, I can do it.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, you do it. Yeah, I do want to. Before we say right off the bat, a perfect performance from Brian Williams. And when you realize he's doing it for comedy.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Very good. It is totally dry. Everything you would want. Like, sometimes people give you too much. It is a perfect performance for beat one, which is obviously very important. This is NBC Nightly News News with Brian Williams.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Coming up tonight on the broadcast, as we wind down another week, Senator John McCain tries to refire his political hopes in his home state of Arizona. While he was the GOP standard bearer last time around, he suddenly finds himself with a Viable primary challenge in Arizona. G. Still got the slave voice.

[Seth Meyers]

I don't know.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Sh.

[Akiva Shaffer]

You.

[Seth Meyers]

Dr. O has not aged as well as. We might want more of this fat. This is the right amount to have, right?

[Akiva Shaffer]

That's the amount you want to have in your belly. Remember, it's not the fat in your.

[Seth Meyers]

Thighs and your ass that hurts you. It's. Yeah, that's it.

[Akiva Shaffer]

That's the fat.

[Seth Meyers]

I'd just like to stress how I watched this earlier today. How lovely it is that the first three beats are all very different.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah. And the middle beat with Showtime at the Apollo is like. I don't know what you'd call, like, MTV Movie Awards slash Forrest Gumping. Right. Like, you just pulled some random Showtime at Apollo and then shot a shot of him in a fake crowd. So you're also keeping me on my toes in terms of he's really behind Brian Williams and then he's really at Dr. Oz.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

I think it was. Cause, like, we kind of are. I mean, he just gave me that, and I just made a list and like, well, here's the ones we can fake, and here's the ones we can.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah, but it's. Keeping it by.

[Seth Meyers]

It's fun, too, because when the Dr. Oswan starts, I for a minute wonder if he's being, like, composited behind him, because now I know that's part of the game. And then it's. It's fun when I realize, oh, no, he's physically with Dr. Oz.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

No, but I was remembering. This is just a technical thing, but, Akiva, you came in and go, I can edit part of this for you if that helps you. And you did the Dr. Oz part, which was super helpful. I remember. Just in the scope of the week.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Just to have another person just have anybody else. Yeah, I relate. Well, I'm very glad I did. I remember. I know. As soon as it started in the footage, I was like, oh, I'm really familiar with this, but I don't know exactly why. Which parts did I only do Dr. Oz or did I do some of the other ones?

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

That part. But that was help anyway.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah. Yeah. You just need.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

That was in the building. Dr. Oz was like, yeah, he was.

[Akiva Shaffer]

On the seventh floor.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes. Look, he's here and he's in.

[Andy Samberg]

Looks like a shock jock just joined at the end.

[Akiva Shaffer]

We're in the middle. We're in the middle.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. We actually started late. We started three minutes ago. So we're just going to go.

[Andy Samberg]

Well, I got to go pretty soon.

[Seth Meyers]

Just kidding.

[Akiva Shaffer]

So why were you late?

[Andy Samberg]

I Have important business meetings, bro.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Business meeting. Snl. Short reference. That's cool.

[Seth Meyers]

Nice.

[Akiva Shaffer]

All right, here we go.

[Seth Meyers]

Kenneth, I need you to distract Tracy for the afternoon so I can read a script.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Oh, I don't know.

[John Solomon]

I'd love to, but it just doesn't feel right.

[Seth Meyers]

So you guys doing a TV show or something? I was in a Rascal Flats video once.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Do you remember? Did you shoot that at 30 Rock the TV show set, or at 30 Rock the building?

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

No, at the set.

[Akiva Shaffer]

At the set at. What's it called over in Long Island City? Silver Cup. Silver cup, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

So I have a question. You were saying, like, everybody's so psyched. Like, oh, my God, we're going to be in digital short. That's on SNL. Were they also psyched at 30 Rock? Because that show already felt like it was at snl.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

I just remember they were into it, and then I heard through the grapevine, Tina needs to approve the fake script.

[Seth Meyers]

Got it.

[Andy Samberg]

That makes sense to me.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

And then it was. Yeah, perfect. I think somebody on their staff tweaked.

[Akiva Shaffer]

It a little bit, but it also makes sense for it to be Jack McWhare and Krakowski, because they are not ex SNL people.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Like, if it was Tracy and it was Tina, it would just be too close, but that at least took it.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Even Alex would feel too close.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, I didn't even think about that. And did you guys get money from Werther's Originals?

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Yes. No. That's just a classic grandparent at church kind of thing. That. Zach just loves that kind of thing.

[Seth Meyers]

That's a real. I mean, I was saying Werther's in Rascal Flats are some real Zach touches.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

No one else.

[Akiva Shaffer]

He's definitely presenting that bag to camera, making sure we know exactly what he's munching on.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. The. The Foley artist work is, like, insane. The loudest rapper.

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

Thank God.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Oh, my God.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, my God.

[Akiva Shaffer]

This is a movie.

[Andy Samberg]

Held on it for so long.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

It's also what I really like about that is you obviously know he's gonna be at the birthday party at this point. And so then the comedy has to be more than the reveal. And so the fact that he's just looking dead down the lens for that long and then wanted to see, which.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

I noticed he was doing in bidet as well. He looked into the camera.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, did he?

[Akiva Shaffer]

I think he was looking for his cards.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

It was funny.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm in bidet. I think that's the only thing I was in that week.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah, we watched. We watched the full thing.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, that's why you said Bloodbath.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, everything got cut.

[Seth Meyers]

You're great in bidet. I mean, it's real straight, man. Andy, but you really, really nice performance.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, thank you. I loved that sketch.

[Akiva Shaffer]

So Solomon sent a voice note, but you can listen to the pod next week when it comes out.

[Seth Meyers]

Do you notice real quick where we are? The classic Law and Order text. Do you see the home we're at, Carmen?

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, that's a Matt Young.

[Seth Meyers]

That's a little for. That's foreshadowing.

[Akiva Shaffer]

We're going to get a little Yonks action here. Seems like a nice enough girl.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Always pay to rent on time.

[Akiva Shaffer]

She ran a high class call girl. You ever looked the other way and straight in some interactions? Nah, man, that's crazy.

[Andy Samberg]

I ain't that kind of guy.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Really? You know what?

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

She kept better books than you, Tom.

[Akiva Shaffer]

You're all over her record. I'm gonna listen to Lawn Order right now. You never saw guys coming in.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

It might have been a few.

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

I think they're talking to a bad guy.

[Akiva Shaffer]

How you doing? Is this part of the show?

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Law and Order?

[Seth Meyers]

Freeze. Yeah, right here. I'm with him right now.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Hold on, hold on one second. Hold on second.

[Bidet Sketch Voice]

It's my aunt Louise.

[Andy Samberg]

Look, take, take it.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Take it back from the top.

[Seth Meyers]

Anthony. That's really good.

[Akiva Shaffer]

What a maniac that was.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Okay, so they're shooting Law and Order right there. And then we just come in and they finish their scene. Someone talks to them for a couple seconds. They go, all right, man, come over here, take over. What are we. What are we doing?

[Akiva Shaffer]

I think I was there. I think I went with you.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Good for them. It was terrifying because they were just such a well oiled machine. Like, what the hell is this? But they were really. They were nice.

[Akiva Shaffer]

They do like 11 pages a day. That's how they do every scene. All right, what are we doing here? Somebody say something.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

It was their cameras. It was all their stuff. No.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Oh, was it their cameras? Did they give you the tapes or did we show up with our crew and step in?

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

I definitely had our crew, but yeah, maybe we did switch over to our cameras, but it was their ad was running it and like just going to.

[Andy Samberg]

Say it looks exactly like the show.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Yeah, Yonks was good.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah, he's great. He's really real New Yorker. Why do you think it was Carmen? Do you think that's the name of his mom or something? Or a dad or.

[Seth Meyers]

I bet it's his mom.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Wonder why we didn't just go. Matt Yonks, his wife. Yeah, it's his wife.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. You didn't know that, Akiva?

[Seth Meyers]

Shit.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Cut this out.

[Andy Samberg]

Yonks is going to hear out there. I knew. And Keev didn't.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

I knew.

[Andy Samberg]

That's pretty wild. Krisel definitely knew. Seth is weirdly beating it.

[Akiva Shaffer]

You know what I'm saying? Not too many people doing some break skating. Like, check it.

[Seth Meyers]

This kid's real good.

[Akiva Shaffer]

He's doing the stare. Yeah, he's repeating the Showtime at the Apollo birthday party stair.

[Andy Samberg]

Wait, is that wig next to him, though?

[Seth Meyers]

No, I don't think so.

[Andy Samberg]

It looks like wig and body fusion or something.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Just the background.

[Seth Meyers]

But the fact that he's a kid is really funny. But a kid with a beard is way funnier.

[Akiva Shaffer]

He was at the Robin Williams show.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Yep.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

That's a classic show to be at. Good job, Krystal. That was not technically an SNL digital short. Did not have the logo, but it. Oh, it didn't Made it. It made it in here, though.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, deservedly so.

[Akiva Shaffer]

It had a title card, but it's Zach drops by the set.

[Andy Samberg]

I'll tell you one thing about it. It played hot.

[Seth Meyers]

Played hot.

[Akiva Shaffer]

They're on board right away. As soon as it starts.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yeah, real quick. Jack Black spelling, be.

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

Spelling.

[Seth Meyers]

And now Andy. What about Give us the update 2 hints. Yeah. What were they?

[Andy Samberg]

They were gimmes.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Huh.

[Andy Samberg]

What did you get, Seth?

[Seth Meyers]

I'm really mad because I got memetic and missed memetic.

[Andy Samberg]

See?

[Akiva Shaffer]

I'm sorry, say those words again.

[Seth Meyers]

M I, M E, T I C. Memetic. I got memetic.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

M E, M E, T I C.

[Andy Samberg]

I did the exact same thing.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

And then you ready for the all time boof of my year?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Titmice. Oh, man, like the most gimme of all gimmes.

[Seth Meyers]

Yep. I was really proud that I finally got Titmice. And by the way, head out of the gutter, Quaid Army.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

What?

[Andy Samberg]

Because of the thing I said about you about Yonks's wife?

[Seth Meyers]

No, I'm just saying, like. But I know everybody's snickering at home who's listening to Titmice? But that's the name of an actual mammal.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. Everyone head out of the gutter on Titmice.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Okay.

[Andy Samberg]

That's the name of an animal.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, Just like a little mouse.

[Akiva Shaffer]

So Titmouse is the name of the animation company that does Digman.

[Andy Samberg]

That's true.

[Akiva Shaffer]

There you go.

[Andy Samberg]

Digman Plug. Catch it on Paramount plus, if it still exists, probably will.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Now.

[Seth Meyers]

Do you enjoy the season? If so, hit us in the titmouse.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Now, this is a bit of repeating, but I think it bears repeating. Seth. There's a conspiracy that Seth uncovered happening over at New York Times games. Oh, yeah, there's some dog whistles, some secret code being sent out specifically to us and the Quaid army in one week.

[Seth Meyers]

Andy.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Lettuce was in the spelling bee, right? And these were answers in the crossword doppelganger. Like a boss.

[Andy Samberg]

Ooh, are they putting some digi shorts up in there?

[Akiva Shaffer]

They're trying to get our attention.

[Seth Meyers]

We think they're trying to get our attention a little.

[Andy Samberg]

I rubbed your back, you rub mine.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah, the clues are not lonely island based clues. They're just.

[Andy Samberg]

No, but I love that.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Putting enough of them in there to let us know that that's the space to be watching for our orders.

[Andy Samberg]

Now we gotta keep our eyes peeled. If so, that's the coolest.

[Seth Meyers]

By the way, last week there was a. I remember the clue was good idea and the answer was sushi glory hole.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Wait.

[Seth Meyers]

And I'm like, that seems. That has to be you guys. Seth, Hoda. I also got a really good. O' Brien sent me a thing. He's like, hey, I'm having dinner with somebody who knows Sam Iserskiy.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

The.

[Seth Meyers]

At the spelling bee. He thinks he can get him on. He goes, I would love to help you guys talk more about my least favorite part of the show.

[Andy Samberg]

What a jerk.

[Akiva Shaffer]

You're like, we're way ahead of you.

[Seth Meyers]

But we're way ahead of you. We got. We got Sam's number.

[Andy Samberg]

Seth, your show has just been a parade of my friends this week.

[Seth Meyers]

It's been a hot week of your friends.

[Andy Samberg]

Milioti, Zach Miliotti.

[Seth Meyers]

Yep.

[Andy Samberg]

And then who's the other one?

[Seth Meyers]

Who else? Who else are you friends with?

[Andy Samberg]

I want you to say something crazy.

[Seth Meyers]

I know. Oh, yeah, I know. Joachim Trier.

[Andy Samberg]

Exactly.

[Seth Meyers]

Norwegian director Joachim Trier.

[Andy Samberg]

Joachim Trier, who I went to high school with.

[Seth Meyers]

Hey, by the way, that movie, did you see the. I saw that movie. Sentimental Value.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yes, yes. The one with Stellan Starsgaard and Elle Fanning.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

How was it? I'm excited.

[Seth Meyers]

It's incredible. Yeah, it's truly incredible. I can't believe it. One of those movies. One battle, same thing. So bummed when it was over.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I am positively jazzed to see it. I know that sounds slightly sarcastic, but I'm pretty hyped up for that.

[Andy Samberg]

Obviously, I'm a big worst person in the World Head.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes. And Renata Rants of is in it. And El Fanning's in it. Stellan. It's amazing.

[Andy Samberg]

And Seth, on Monday, your guest was King Hippo from Tyson's Punch Out.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, it was Sam Bergman.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I've been meaning to ask, did he still have the piece of tape over his belly button or. Support comes from Quince. Hi, Liz.

[Seth Meyers]

Hi.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Here's my little holiday hack. And tell me if I'm lying. When in doubt, give the gift of cozy. True or false?

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

Oh, yes, true.

[Akiva Shaffer]

That has been my thing. I've been turning to Quince for bedding because it's soft, stylish, built to last, and honestly, it's just as good to keep for yourself. So sometimes I buy a gift for somebody and I just snatch it up for our bed. Have you noticed that?

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

Well, yeah, the new comforter on our bed is from Quince.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yep. But I had bought that for my mom, and then I was like, screw her.

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

And now our daughter has it on her bed.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah, but you paid for that one.

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

I paid for that one.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah.

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

So tell me how much we like it.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah, so tell me. That's why I invited you in to do this ad, because it said, tell us something personal. And I thought, well, Liz actually bought something. So.

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

Yes.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Our daughter was getting a bigger bed and then needed a duvet and the.

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

The duvet cover and some shams. And I was like, well, I love the one on our bed from Quint's.

[Akiva Shaffer]

So you bought her both from there. And it's very fluffy and nice, and she loves it.

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

She thinks it's very cozy. And she does a little, like, when.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

She gets up, it's a little hard.

[Akiva Shaffer]

To get her up in the morning.

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

So that's kind of like a positive and negative.

[Seth Meyers]

Right.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I would say.

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

So cozy, but can't get her up for school.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Okay. This was.

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

That's feedback for them.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah. Maybe make it a little less cozy so we can get our daughter in for school at 6:40 in the morning. Okay. This is just off the top of my head, Liz, but I just want to say, to top it off, they're quilts, comforters, and duvet inserts. Oh. So it's called a duvet insert, by the way. That's the puffy part.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay.

[Akiva Shaffer]

You said we bought a duvet and a duvet cover. You would think it would be a duvet cover because it's covering a duvet. But I think a duvet must be the entire thing together. And then you get a cover and an insert.

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

Okay.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Is that French?

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

Is it related to the bidet?

[Akiva Shaffer]

Oh, that. Did you know that that's what we talked about on today's episode? Bidet?

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

No.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Because there's a Galifianakis sketch about bidet.

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

No way.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah. All right.

[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

Duvet cover, bidet cover. Very different things.

[Akiva Shaffer]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Liz (Akiva's wife)]

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[Seth Meyers]

Zach wrote you about Spider League or no?

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah, well, I wrote to them because I had a bone to pick. But I don't have a good answer. So I'll just put them on blast here, which is that they keep saying. They keep explaining it to you, and you can confront this next time they're on the show. It can wait. But with the idea that they all take pictures of spiders and then they text them and then they put it into an app and the app tells them which one would win. And I'm like, what kind of an app pits fighters. Fighters against each other?

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

And I don't know. It sounds to me like they made that part sounds like a lie.

[Seth Meyers]

I think it almost just. I think Spider League exists to, like, trick Brooks into breaking rules he doesn't know exist. Brooks Whelan.

[Akiva Shaffer]

But I have a feeling if you accuse them of lying, they're going to have an explanation. I think it's real.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

But it sounds like a lie. But I bet you it's true. Yeah, they wouldn't lie about that.

[Seth Meyers]

They take Spider League very seriously. And then they talked about Spider League on the show. We posted on Instagram, and then Brooks commented on the Instagram post, and then Brooks texted me that now he's in trouble because you're not allowed to post on Spider.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah, There's a lot of rules.

[Seth Meyers]

And he's currently suspended from Spider League, so he's not allowed to post.

[Akiva Shaffer]

But they don't like your tone, Seth on the show.

[Seth Meyers]

They don't like my tone. They think I'm an enemy of Spider League.

[Akiva Shaffer]

They think you're making fun of Spider League and that you're bringing on to, like, kind of laugh behind their back. Like, tell me more about Spider League.

[Andy Samberg]

But it's Spider League's interesting because Timmy is acting very casual and, like, grounded about it, but his behavior is kind of similar to, like, his character on Chair Company about it.

[Akiva Shaffer]

His obsessiveness.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah, it's, like, slightly, like, psychotic.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah. Well, they're lying about it. Or it seems like they're lying about it. I don't want to accuse them of anything. It just sounds like a lie.

[Andy Samberg]

Keith, did you tell everyone that you went back to your favorite store? That's your exact style.

[Akiva Shaffer]

My damn flashes went back this time. Brought Maya and Andy.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

That's right.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I wanted to have more eyeballs on it and all.

[Andy Samberg]

He got one pair of sweatpants.

[Akiva Shaffer]

No. And a T shirt.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh. And a T shirt.

[Akiva Shaffer]

But I couldn't get out of there without buying anything. Especially when you got two sets of eyeballs. Maya is a very stylish lady.

[Andy Samberg]

She is.

[Akiva Shaffer]

She approved the sweatpants I got to get them.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah. But you know what? Your first pair. Too small.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Had to go up a size chrysal. Chime in, bro.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah. Dude, you want to see the sweats or what?

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Where's. What's the store?

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, we could never say we're not on the table.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I gay keep it hard. I gay keep it hard.

[Andy Samberg]

They can't buy us.

[Seth Meyers]

He'll. He'll take you off pod. Yeah, he will talk to you off pod about this, but this is not.

[Akiva Shaffer]

For everyone unless they come with the free stuff offered. Then once again, I'll talk about it every week. But yeah, it was really. Again, just want to thank Maya. Thank Andy for both coming and Pretty Woman. Pretty womaning it for me so that I could come out.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

But, Andy, it wasn't for you.

[Andy Samberg]

I just feel like I'm covered for the. For the fall.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Oh, okay. Good. Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

But. And Akiva, it was an honor and a privilege.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Well, thank you. And by the way, I think everything in there would look great on Andy. And I'm always encouraging him. I'm holding up things you should put on this thing. Everything in there I would wear, and I think he would too, but he.

[Andy Samberg]

Doesn'T have me appreciating you, brother.

[Akiva Shaffer]

He doesn't have the energy for it. Or he's just in there. He's like, I'm the couch guy. And you come out of the dressing room, you model it for me, and I say yes or no.

[Seth Meyers]

We have pre fights when we go to try on clothes with, like, Alexi and I. She's like, I want to go get you new clothes. You have to have energy for this.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

She's like, don't show up immediately. Get frustrated when the first pair of pants doesn't work. Cuz I'm such a petulant loser.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Nothing is sleepier than wardrobe fittings. Like, you show up excited to shoot a video, and then they're like, we got all this amazing stuff and it's all so good. And I'm like, for Sushi Glo, she killed it. Those wardrobe was amazing. And you're still in there. And you're just getting so sleepy. 20 minutes into trying on shirts. It's the sleepiest thing.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Andy and I would go. I would go clothes shopping with you, Andy, at places of, like, opening ceremony.

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

Do you remember how mad you were the one time we took a seaplane to Vancouver island and we went to a store and I wanted to buy the same sweater as you?

[Akiva Shaffer]

I was like, we see each other all the Time.

[Seth Meyers]

You were really genuinely mad. I'm like, we can get away with it. You're like, no. I'm like, we won't wear it on the same day. You're like, it'll look like you're wearing my sweater.

[Andy Samberg]

And do you remember what you did?

[Akiva Shaffer]

Was it at the lobby of the hotel?

[Seth Meyers]

No, it was at Roots. It was Roots.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

We flew to the hotel, and Seth.

[Andy Samberg]

Was like, fine, fine. I won't. And then he bought it without telling me.

[Seth Meyers]

And then he wore it as soon as we got back.

[Akiva Shaffer]

That's great.

[Andy Samberg]

We went out to dinner and he was wearing it.

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

I was like, God damn it.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yes. That'd be like. If you showed up in the sweats we just bought.

[Andy Samberg]

Exactly.

[Akiva Shaffer]

It was a birth. If you and Maya circled back and both bought the same sweatshirt, it was a good burn.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

We got to go to the Root store in Toronto through Lauren. It was like, you get to pick out anything you want in the store because it's his friend.

[Andy Samberg]

So cool.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

And I was just walking around. What I ended up with was a varsity jacket, but that's a vest, which seems like you could wear, like, a hoodie underneath it. But, yeah, it was always like, that's a lot.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

To try to pull off.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Of vest. I think we might need. Do you still have it? Can we get it? Or can you find a photo? This podcast has a history with vests. With questionable vests.

[Andy Samberg]

That is true.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I think the people would like to see it.

[Andy Samberg]

Kevin, what is this?

[Seth Meyers]

In the chat part of your bloodbath is a guidance counselor got cut. Do you remember guidance counselor?

[Andy Samberg]

I don't. Oh, is it a feature?

[Akiva Shaffer]

It's an update feature.

[Andy Samberg]

Let's fucking go. I can't wait to be vindicated. That it shouldn't have got cut.

[Seth Meyers]

This week, a study showed that most high school graduates believe their guidance counselors offered little meaningful advice on college and career choice. Here now to comment is high school guidance counselors Rick Stinson.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, no.

[Seth Meyers]

Ponytail.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Long ponytail.

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

Seth. Thanks for having me.

[Seth Meyers]

So, Mr. Stinson, you believe this study is unfair. Is that correct?

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

Absomerly.

[Seth Meyers]

Seth.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

What?

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

This report is a travesty. Look, I've been a guidance counselor for 13 long weeks, and I assure you that what I've done is help my students.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay, so could you give us an example?

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

I'd love to.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Okay.

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

This one time, I was talking to this little dude, and he was all, where should I go to college? And I was all, man, come on. Slapped him a fiver. And then we just rapped about jazz.

[Seth Meyers]

That's a very bad example.

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

Okay, okay, well, how about this other time? I was talking to this little lady, and she's like, I think I might be pregnant. And I was all, a la, la, la. Too much info. And then we just kicked back and rapped about jazz.

[Seth Meyers]

So kids are rapping about jazz a lot?

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

All the time, Seth.

[Seth Meyers]

Again, this is not really convincing.

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

It's hard to explain, okay? I've got a certain finesse with the kids that you have to see to truly grasp.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay? All right, well, why don't you show it to us?

[Akiva Shaffer]

Let's roll.

[Andy Samberg]

Play dead, sis.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm your student, and you give me advice as you would in a normal meeting at school. Okay? And you got practice. I'm sorry, are you smoking?

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

Well, I want it to be like a real meeting.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, but you can't smoke in here, and you can't smoke with students present.

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

Okay, fine, fine, fine. You want a 40, dog?

[Seth Meyers]

You can't drink alcohol either.

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

Okay, okay. Bite my head off. I'll just stick with the mellow stuff. No, no, come on, Seth. I do it so the kids know I'm cool. You know, I'm not the man. I'm just a friend that they can talk to about jazz.

[Seth Meyers]

What about college?

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

Oh, no, I did not go to college.

[Seth Meyers]

No, not you. Do you talk to the students about college?

[Akiva Shaffer]

What?

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

Why the smurf would I do that? That's smurfing crazy.

[Seth Meyers]

Why do you keep saying smurf?

[Rick Stinson (Guidance Counselor character)]

That's how the kids talk these days. Seth, wake up, man. It's 1986.

[Seth Meyers]

It's 2010.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

What?

[Bidet Sketch Voice]

My life.

[Seth Meyers]

My life. All right. Oh, my God. Are you okay? Rick Stinson, everyone.

[John Solomon]

What the.

[Seth Meyers]

Lot of. Lot of moves. Lot of moves. And you could argue. Get all your stuff out of here. Taking these breaks down. Jensen.

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, my God. Well, I love that we got a real Old English 840 on there. Keev, you're listed as a writer.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I know. I must have come in and help.

[Seth Meyers]

Punch up probably the Smurf stuff. Do you think the Smurf stuff is yours?

[Akiva Shaffer]

I was like, what if we added Smurfs all over this?

[Seth Meyers]

But, like, you were like, let's do it at the top. And then, like, right when people forget it a bunch, like, in a row.

[Akiva Shaffer]

That's the comedy. Yeah, that's like, the calculation you make.

[Seth Meyers]

You know, when Tim and Zach were on. I can't remember what it was now, but they were talking about an update of theirs that got cut. One of the first updates they wrote together for Timmy.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And then. Oh, Titanic. Yeah. It was about a guy who was building another Titanic. And then on the show, Timmy burned Bayes for cutting it.

[Andy Samberg]

Bay's catching strays.

[Seth Meyers]

And then Bayes. At the end, when we were walking out to get on the elevator, Baze yelled down the hallway, like, I didn't cut it. He goes, listen to the podcast. I think Baz is really hopeful that people will finally stop blaming. Blaming him for their update failures.

[Andy Samberg]

Is it weird that even though he's explained it in detail, that I still blame him?

[Seth Meyers]

No, it's not weird.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Okay.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

Because, like, Seth, you're my friend.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, no, it's healthy to. It's healthy.

[Andy Samberg]

Sorry, I dropped in a guidance counselor voice. Just so infectious.

[Seth Meyers]

Do you get asked to do it a lot by fans?

[Andy Samberg]

All the time. They're like, do my life now, Krystal.

[Akiva Shaffer]

This was March, so there's a couple more months.

[Seth Meyers]

You.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Did you stay on till the end of the season?

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Yeah, I stayed until the end of the season and then half of the next season.

[Akiva Shaffer]

And do you remember, like, what it was like? Were you getting assignments after this? Because now I'm back next week. We do Boombox. So you were a free agent now? So are you writing your own things? Are you kind of getting assigned things?

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

That's a great question. But I was watching another one today. I'm like, oh, yeah, the Jane lynch one. I don't know when that one popped up. Did I work?

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah. Did you work on that, though? I remember working on that, but maybe you did it with me.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Yeah, I think we did, like, a couple together. Maybe that was the one that we did together.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Then they were like, I would just start doing regular pre tape.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah. Just working for the show.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

But not commercials and not.

[Akiva Shaffer]

And then only half of the next season. Why only half of the next season?

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Well, my son was going to be born, and that was part of it. I was like, I can't figure. I can't figure this out with a child.

[Akiva Shaffer]

When did you start Portlandia? Did you guys shoot the pilot in the summer? In this summer. This summer.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Basically. It was right after this season. We're gonna do a pilot at the beginning of the summer.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

And they have, like, three weeks to decide if they're gonna do the show, and then if they are, then we're gonna do a whole season of five more episodes.

[Akiva Shaffer]

When were those gonna get written?

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

When did we write those?

[Seth Meyers]

But you did it. Did you write through the whole season that summer?

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

It felt like we did. I Mean, the writing time was so short. I mean, it was like a couple weeks.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Just.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Just get out there and start doing it. So it was very fast turnaround. But, yeah, then I was there in the beginning of that next season editing Portlandia. All the editors came to New York, and it was. That was like, a little bit too much.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah, that's what I was trying to remember. And then you knew you had a different job because Portlandia was working, so you also. It's easier to leave.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

That was part of it.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Snl, because you have Portlandia.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

And I was also going to do other things, but. Yeah. Because they were like, do you want to stay for five years? And I said. I just. But the part of it was the child thing. It just seemed like I was imagining my NYU days of, like. Like, I'm gonna be living in, like, the worst apartment with, like, walls caving in. And, like, that, to me, was New York living there. So I. The thought of bringing a child into that. Then I was like, oh, no, there are other places. Because I think I went to a place that you had right after your daughter was born or something. I was like, oh, this. Oh, yeah, people. It just. I knew it, but I couldn't really understand it. And I was living in la. I had, like, a house, and, like, it was, you know, like. I thought, okay, this is a world that can bring a child into it.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Makes sense. You were settled.

[Seth Meyers]

It's crazy that you were working on SNL and Portlandia at the same time. It's even crazier. And I still cannot wrap my head around the fact that Fred was working on two sketch shows and being excellent in both of them at the same time.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah. You have an idea and go, that's a Portlandia. This one will be for snl.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

It's crazy.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

We did get a sort of old SNL sketch, Sacagawea, that Fred had maybe done it.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Or something. And then.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

And it was like, well, of course that wouldn't work. But for Portlandia, it was, like, perfect. So he had this track of his brain that was kind of accumulating these ideas. They're like, oh, that won't work, but it'll work. Right?

[Andy Samberg]

Kind of like, I think you should leave.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

They definitely use some stuff that didn't go there.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Somebody asked me today, like, oh, my God. Like, Zach and Tim talking about sketches of theirs that didn't work. Like, they'd be so good for a Second Chance Theater in your show. I'm like, their Second Chance Theaters. I think you should leave.

[Andy Samberg]

Yes.

[Akiva Shaffer]

We took a Tim and Zach sketch that didn't work on SNL and put it on the Michael Bolton Valentine's Day special. Even where he's Chef Roy and he's making cakes. I don't want to tell the whole comedy premise of it, but it's on there.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

That's how much you can reuse those things. You just need to get permission.

[Andy Samberg]

Way to drive those views, Keith.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah, finally. So on Valentine's Day, everybody goes, see the sketch.

[Seth Meyers]

Put a pin in that. Before four months from now, the. I can't remember if it aired or not that we were talking backstage with him was he was playing the Richard Attenborough character from Jurassic park, who was also a wedding DJ, and he was DJing a wedding while he was getting a call that the dinosaurs were out and it was just him.

[Akiva Shaffer]

That's the craziest premise.

[Seth Meyers]

What was the name of the island from Jurassic Park?

[Akiva Shaffer]

Isla New Bar, maybe?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, it was. He was the island New Bar. A wedding was being held at Isla New Bar, and he was a wedding dj. He's just like, well, tell them. Tell them to get the containment team and then go and spin more.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

A big thing. That was because when I was there and then you came back, and then I feel like Jorma was coming back, too.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Yeah.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

And then I was just like a fly on the wall, and you guys were having these very intense conversations that I was just like a child with their parents. Not that they were angry, but you guys are like, what are we doing? Like, what's happening? Like, are we doing this movie that Jason Mantzoukas wrote?

[Akiva Shaffer]

Oh, wow. Like, totally forgot about that.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

And it was just a lot. And I'm like. I'm just back here, like, trying not to.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Well, because the coming summer is when we made Turtleneck and Chain. Right. And so we were trying to figure out what we were doing.

[Seth Meyers]

Also, it really does say how Lauren really liked what you had done while you were there. Kreitzel. That he wanted to keep you around even though those guys were back.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Yeah, that was nice.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Seth.

[Andy Samberg]

I do feel like it's kind of important to mention that I got Queen Be clean yesterday, though.

[Akiva Shaffer]

You know what I mean?

[Seth Meyers]

Okay, yeah, sure. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to cut you off earlier when we kind of were drilling down at your failures today.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Anything you want to talk about from Wednesday?

[Andy Samberg]

Tuesday, I got it clean. Wednesday, though, honestly, Wednesday, I was, like, out of my body.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Okay. I didn't want to blow up your spot, bro. Oh, man.

[Andy Samberg]

I think that I had, like, a particularly intense workout sesh, maybe.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yeah, that sounds like you.

[Akiva Shaffer]

That sounds like.

[Andy Samberg]

And then I was just like. The endorphis were just pumping me so hard that I was like, I can't focus now.

[Seth Meyers]

Now, early, I'm going through the wall.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Like a Kool Aid, man.

[Andy Samberg]

Right, Seth Lee?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, totally.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Now, Andy and John, you guys been playing the Rosalia album?

[Andy Samberg]

Oh, it's so good.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Yeah. I've only heard a couple songs off of it.

[Andy Samberg]

I threw it on a day and was like, you're.

[Akiva Shaffer]

It's shockingly good. Me and Seth talked about it. He was like, what?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

I'm not surprised. I loved her last one. This feels monumental.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Samberg]

So good.

[Akiva Shaffer]

It's a big one. Yeah, it's a biggie.

[Andy Samberg]

That's my review.

[Akiva Shaffer]

That's what I was listening by myself in the car. Just kept going, whoop, It's a big one.

[Seth Meyers]

Now, do you roll down that window and yell it out to people as you pass them?

[Akiva Shaffer]

I try to make eye contact. Just like you hearing what I'm listening to.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Akiva Shaffer]

I want a lot of credit.

[Andy Samberg]

Keev will go new shit.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Pew, pew, pew, pew.

[Seth Meyers]

All right. Well, guys, this is wonderful. Andy, thanks for joining Kreitzel, thanks for joining. My pleasure.

[Andy Samberg]

I joined late, but I'm desperate to leave.

[Seth Meyers]

And, Andy, do give us honest feedback on how it felt with just Keith and I kicking it back and forth.

[Andy Samberg]

You know I will, Seth. You know I will do that. And I won't hold back. And I also won't hold back on my compliments.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay, great.

[Andy Samberg]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

All right. Love you guys. Love you.

[Andy Samberg]

Love you, dudes. Krystal, good to see you, buddy.

[Kreitzel (Writer/Producer)]

Thanks for having me.

[Andy Samberg]

Later, Arnold.

[Akiva Shaffer]

Later, Quaid.