Andy and I are drinking a little coffee. Yorma is drinking out of an insanely large, irritatingly large.

It basically looks like a hot sauce.

I think it's bigger than a hot sauce.

It looks like a hot sauce to you?

Yeah, it's full of ketchup. He's just sucking ketchup out of a giant bottle.

Starbucks has a block on these. These are very popular guys.

Who drank the most? I know the answer is me, but who do you guys think drank the most coffee at SNL?

You.

Oh, of everybody there, you were the.

Craziest of the four of us.

Oh, yeah?

Who do you think drinks the most now?

Still me.

Is it really?

How many cups a day?

Three, probably.

I think I might have you beat.

Oh, really?

Yeah. I think I go four, something like that.

Really?

I thought you quit me.

Yeah. Yeah. Last time I saw you, you wouldn't have any.

I quit drinking. I didn't quit. Like, coffee is actually, I would say, way harder to quit.

You wouldn't have any coffee, Yoram?

Yeah. You told us you fully quit job.

I thought you were drinking nccs. Non caffeinated coffees.

Yeah, you were off the job.

Aren't you the NCC guy?

No, I'm on the job, and I'm also, like, microdosing. You know what I mean?

But wait, Yorm, are you denying that at any point you were off the job? You didn't come to LA and refuse coffee with us and say, sorry, I'm trying to not drink that from my.

You guys are conflating my non alcohol. I don't drink alcohol anymore.

This is insane. You actually have black spots in your brain that you don't even fucking read.

Heck, gaslighting. We were both there.

You guys are liars.

Do you think that Yorm read a book about how to be the dominant alpha? And one of the chapters was claim.

That you don't drink coffee.

This massive gaslighting of I'm off the job. And then you guys would leave. And then he would go get his own coffee.

Yeah. You make people doubt their own thoughts. It's like the first thing you do.

Step one, tell people you're off the job. Then when they bring it up, say they're lunatics.

But also because he was on the job, but presenting us off the job, you guys would probably think, man, how does he get his energy? Here we are.

Well, from clean living was what he was pretending.

Yeah, clean living.

That's what I was claiming. Just like, oh, it's just exercise bike non stop.

Wait, I can't believe this. You genuinely are telling us. No time in the last five years, you totally stopped drinking coffee, even for just a week.

If I claimed that, it would have been for three days total that I.

Tried to do that, and they just happened to be the three days you were with us, maybe.

I mean, like, I'm only with you guys in fits and starts.

So can I tell you why this is a yellow card? This is a social yellow card to me. I think you have to be off the job or off the carbs or off the gluten, whatever. You're off for a week before you start telling people you're off it.

I would agree with you, except for that job, I think, is a different situation, because you could be like, I'm not doing this anymore. I'm not doing this anymore. You know what I mean?

So you can freak out about that.

One, and then three days later, you're like, you know what I want?

You wouldn't freak out about gluten the same way.

I'm just not having it. I'm not gonna have gluten anymore.

You wouldn't do that.

I'm done. I am fucking done. You know what I mean?

This is the first time on this podcast I wish people could have actually seen us. Cause Jorm's performance there was really stirring.

I think based on hearing it, they're gonna be able to picture pretty close to what he was doing.

Oh, man, I'm not doing this anymore. I fucking love that.

Was that your memory of when he told you he was off the job?

No, no. My memory is he's, like, staying in my guest room, and Liz has made a pot of coffee. And I go, you want coffee? And he goes, oh, no, I'm not. I'm not having caffeine in the mornings anymore.

That is not true.

You're a liar.

And then we all hung out, and we're working, and I remember distinctly being.

Like, we're gonna coffee?

And he's like, oh, no, no coffee for me. I'm off caffeine.

No, not for me. And then day two. Fuck you. Like, inject me.

Which was notable because we knew you always say yes. On the set of popstar. There was a sign up that was a picture of Yorm xeroxed with, do not give this man caffeine. And it was on the coffee station.

Because he was too. At the time. He was too on the job.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

He would get on the job, and then he would keep jobbing throughout the day and sort of, like, tweak out the vibe.

Okay, that's true. All of that's true. But don't do that to the director. You can't co director put up signs saying that the co director. That one of the directors can't have coffee, and the other one just fucking can. Like, no, that's gotta be a dj.

I like to think that on a work day, when Yoram walks out of the house, Mari looks him in the eye and says, remember, on the job, off the job.

There you go.

So me and Mari, early in our relationship, we were trading things that we would like the other person to do. I wanted her to go record shopping. I was like, that's a really nice thing for me to do. I got her a used record player, and we did, like, a couple trips to, like, Aaron's records.

This is 1971.

Exactly. And then her thing was, I like to wake up slowly with a nice cup of coffee. I know you don't drink coffee. I would love for you to have coffee with me. Day one, as soon as I had my first cup, she was like, never drink coffee again. I don't want you to do this with me. You're ruining coffee for me. And I don't know fucking why she said that.

Oh, God.

Hey, just want to clarify. The reason we're talking so much about Jav and whether or not Jorm has offer on it is because the digital short we're going to discuss today stinks.

Yeah, we got to talk about anything else.

Welcome to another lonely Island Seth Meyers podcast.

We're going to talk about two digital shorts today, and we're also going to talk about what now, when you look back on it is just a very fallow period to start this season that culminates in the Christmas show, which is next week's episode. And again, I do think you wanna listen to this one to really enjoy the comeback story of next one.

Yeah. Suspense.

You're gonna finish the first half of your second season with Dick in a box, which is the game changer. It's the third runaway hit, right?

Yep.

Lazy Sunday, Natalie rap. Dick in a box.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Your words.

My words.

But certainly the third one that we were like, whoa, that worked.

It's your. Okay, computer.

You're not the first person to say that. A lot of people are saying that.

I'm not the first person to say, I might have been me the other times, too. But here's the thing. I'm going somewhere here. I read this really great Mike Nichols autobiography by this great writer named Mark Harris, and I would have told you, Mike Nichols, only had hits his whole career, and yet you read the book, and it's just highs and lows. And looking back at the first half of the season for you guys is a real reminder, because my memory was, oh, yeah, once they started making digital shorts, they were all hits. Not the case.

Not the case. Nor was it ever.

Nor was it ever.

Yeah, that's the nature of SNL.

That is the nature of SNL and life.

Yeah, history forgets the duds and remembers the good ones. And that's nice.

I thought you're gonna say remembers the studs.

That's why you gotta just interrupt sometimes. All the mics are live. You can just get in.

Yeah. Wait, so say the first part, Keith. Say the first part.

Well, you know, that's why history forgets.

The duds and remembers the studs.

The other thing that they say is that the job sinks to the bottom. You know what I mean?

The cream rises and the job sinks. Yeah, you got it, guys. I think, though, what you're saying, keev, is very valuable because I'm messing it up. There's some version of a Jack Lemmon quote where he says, look, people are gonna remember you for your best work. Don't beat yourself up for the duds, because excellence is what we remember.

Cause one day we'll remember this. Thuds I mean, why wouldn't he have got it right?

That's definitely what Jack Levin said.

I think that might be the tagline to grumpy old men two.

By remembering him for grumpy old men two. At the end of that sentence, you've negated everything. That was the point of the sentence.

That's true.

You could have said, oh, Billy Wilder wrote that on the apartment or something. But instead you went to grumpy old man two, proving everything wrong.

It just seemed like a likelier tagline for that movie. So we are in the John C. Reilly week. John C. Reilly is someone we're very excited to work with. Right?

Yeah.

He is a dude who we know both as a fantastic dramatic actor. And I feel like we're catching him on this sort of second path of really funny comedy actor as well.

And of course, now known as sort of a mouthpiece for the Waldorf school community.

You think that is gonna get you a discount on tuition or something?

No, I just think it's an interesting fact.

I didn't know this about him.

Everyone I know that knows him now, all they talk about when they talk about him is like, man, that guy loves Waldorf school.

What are Waldorf schools.

Waldorf school. My kid goes to Waldorf. And Waldorf school is basically like sending your child to pagan school. Like when you think that they're gonna come home learning math or, like, reading or whatever, they've just learned to sing an ancient song about autumn sort of thing. So it doesn't actually help you in life. And at one point, there's a real deviation here. I was worried about, like, my kid going from Waldorf school to, like, 8th grade, and I was like, what's that like? And they were like, oh, it's great. This kid just did it. He went to public school. They were having a presentation, like a report about spice trader. So as a Waldorf kid, he, of course, made his own spice trader outfit out of leather and sewed himself a pouch and actually made coins for the presentation. I was like, that's my nightmare.

During the pandemic, my kids spent a whole year going to a forest school. So they just would be outside for, like 6 hours a day, and I can tell you that. And again, they're still young. They're not crushing reading or writing at the average level, but they can recognize almost any plant, and they can whittle.

The shit out of a twig.

And the other day, my five year old Axel at a flea market wandered into the woods to take a whiz, and some lady was like, don't let him go in there. There's poison ivy. And he just looked over his shoulder midwest and said, I know what it looks like.

Yeah, yeah. There's advantages.

So there you go. Now again, we've talked a lot about Jav, now a lot about Waldorf school. Obviously, we're avoiding talking about Harpoon John C. Ryan.

Can I say, maybe I'm the only person on this podcast. I fucking love harpoon, man. Maybe I love the failures. It's possible.

Did you rewatch it before this?

Yes, I did.

I just rewatched it as well, and it was better than I remembered in some ways. And then there were some ways that were dated.

Yeah, there's some cringey moments, for sure.

To the moments where I was like, ooh, I wish I could erase that.

Yeah.

Yes. You wouldn't do that. Now. I agree with that. And when people rewatch it, based on my comment, some people will dislike me as a person because I said that I liked it.

That's not the parts you like.

Yeah, it's not the parts I. But I have a real fondness for this particular short, personally.

Do you guys remember the impetus for the idea? Harpoon man, is there any memory of how this got off the ground?

Gosh, I really don't.

Can I also say, andy, I'm a giant fan of you as a singer.

It's terrible.

This isn't your wheelhouse.

Honestly, I was cringing the whole time watching it.

It's maybe your bottom three vocal performance.

I mean, I struggle to think of a worse one. Maybe daiquiri girl, but that was on purpose, you know?

Yeah. This is noble that you're admitting that this was an effort was being made to sound cool. And Barry Whitish, I mean, this was.

So early on, like, we had never even attempted this type of song before. So this was like a classic SNL thing where you're like, what if we do it, like, in the style of one of those and just sort of winged it and did it really fast and throw away and it sounds bad.

Wait, Keev, will you describe what harpoon man is for our audience real quick?

Yeah. Well, it's kind of a shaft style seventies blaxploitation song, so it's mostly spoken but in a deep, kind of Isaac hazy kind of voice. Would you say that's fair way to put it?

I would say it's like a spot on Isaac Hayes impression.

Yes, spot on. Like, you close your eyes, you think we got him to do it? You think we got chef from South park to come by?

Yeah.

And it is John C. Reilly, and he's dressed like the Gordon's fisherman, like full yellow slicker. And he's got a harpoon. And the narrator, Andy, is telling the story of this guy, and he's legendhe. The parts of it I like is that it's him on the streets in New York, and he's in this ridiculous outfit. And it's John C. Reilly, who was a pretty big star. And we just went out with a Cameron no crew, and he just ran around Times Square midtown area in this ridiculous outfit. And you can tell we just really did it with no security or anything like that.

He was a whaler in Alaska till bad guys killed his family. Now he's in the big city looking for vengeance. And they call him Harpoon man, the only dude who wields a big ass harpoon and knows how to use it. Yeah, looking good, harpoon man.

He's a cool custom moat with moves.

That'Ll make you head spin.

But don't you cross him. He got his name for a reason.

And then at a certain point, the narrator is insulting him over and over, like it goes from saying his legend to saying things that are rude about. And he starts looking at the camera like, what the hell's going on?

And don't you judge his premature ejaculation.

Don't worry, Harpoon man.

It happens to lots of guys.

And all of a sudden, he's not doing these feats around New York. He starts going into 30 rock, hitting the elevator, going through the hallways, finds the recording studio, and finds Andy in the recording booth doing the song in real time, dressed as a orca. Killer whale, his natural enemy.

Oh, are you getting mad, harpoon man? You're never gonna find me.

Oop.

You tripped.

Watch your step, moron.

And I forgot all of that, the whole back half. The fact that there was a point and that it kind of excused all the rude things to some degree.

To some degree.

Because that's just who the whale is.

Yeah, the whale.

It was the whale. The whale's a piece of shit. It's an orca, a killer whale who would have no regard for anyone.

Yeah, no remorse.

Well, especially not a harpoon man who wants to kill him.

True. There's a directing complaint I have about it, which is there's lots of close ups of the whale's mouth in the booth, but you can see part of the whale costume in the close ups.

See, but I didn't notice. Cause I forgot it was coming, so I would say we'd get away with it.

Yeah, I think you only notice it if you remember the whales coming.

Got it.

I think it's forgivable for the first viewing. I don't think any viewers were tipped off.

Why wouldn't we have just made some black bars on the side, though, as a style choice just to make the.

Frame smaller or just made the shot more straight on instead of from the side?

I don't think you would have liked that either.

And he's trying to deflect away from his singing with these soft directing notes.

I couldn't be more on the record as saying I suck in it and it's not my fave.

I enjoy how much you're owning this one. I think that it suffers as well from. It has a similarity to young Chuck Norris. It's a lot of the same locations.

Yeah, yeah.

The rock and Central park. It's outside 30. I think we've seen the wall of 30 rock now in maybe five or six shorts.

Yes.

And you guys do start going farther afield the more budget and thrust gets behind the digital shorts.

Yeah, I was gonna say part of it is what we were limited to. I mean, we were not like, cut loose the way they are now with, like, here's tons of money to go shoot this epic thing. It was like, go make something and we'll maybe air it while we change sets.

And at the time, it didn't bum me out. But knowing where digital shorts go, watching these old lo fi ones you're kind of waiting for.

Yeah. But the lo fi was part of the charm, of course. Cause the show is so slick that then when you get something where you can tell we just ran out with the camera. That was, I think, part of what made them special for a while.

I should also say to give John C credit where credit's due. The c is for credit.

Oh, yeah, John. Credit Riley.

He's having a real fun time. And again, this is a movie star in the streets of New York dressed like the. Gordon. Gordon's fisherman.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And he's just rolling around with a harpoon.

Yes.

I was just about to say the same thing, Seth, which is that him being out there looking goofy and playing along with the jokes very gamely and then being very funny at the end when he finds the whale and kills it and yells, breakfast. Which is funny.

Gotcha. Hey, man.

Breakfast.

The first 30 seconds. The idea is he is sort of like a renegade cop. Throws a harpoon to stop Hader from mugging someone.

Right?

Yeah. It's got a little bit of lobster claw handlebar, if that's what you're getting at.

Don't think I didn't feel that weird that you guys managed to finally crack that problem and I was no part of it anyway.

Well, it clearly didn't work great.

I wanna say late night was Seth Meyers producer, Hilary Hun.

Oh, yeah, she's in it plays harpoon man's wife.

So this is a moment that doesn't age particularly well.

Nope, one of a few.

There's quite a few that don't age well.

The orca says, I slept with his wife.

Yeah.

At this point, we still think the orca's a human, though, so we're not thinking there's some weird.

That's true. That's true.

Then we just cut her, sadly eating a sandwich in the mother lover spot where the mother lovers will eat a sandwich later.

Yeah. And then he throws a harpoon through his own wife.

Yeah, because everyone has boned his wife.

Wait, does that happen? Did I just blink and miss that?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. She gets harpooned. She's eating by the side of a fountain.

Yeah, I don't like that. Now I somehow missed that. I wonder if I was diligently taking notes during that moment, there's quite a.

Few things that we would have not done if this had been made now. Well, probably not made it at all.

Listen, we're so tired from hot rods, though.

Yeah, I know. I'm wondering. Cause we are still in the hot rod hangover and you are still actively working on hot rod as well.

We are editing it and we're even editing it on Mondays and Tuesdays. And then every time we're pulled away from it to go back to the show to make something, there is a part of us where our brains are just 100% on. We shot a movie and we need to get it edited.

Yes.

And now we're here and we're having to shift gears.

I know I've talked a big game about how this is in golden era. I do feel as though going over the run lists for these shows, we maybe are just on the precipice of when I would want to begin in golden era. This might be the spring training slash preseason of Anne golden era.

That's fair. Yeah, I think that's fair.

Some very fun things, but some lumpy moments, right?

In any given season, no matter the cast and writers and everything, there's shows where it all comes together and shows where you're like, woof. Like, if you could lose a couple every season.

Well, when you guys say though, that, like, if you see a good episode of SNL, like maybe even a great episode, episode that it's still like, I don't know what percentage you guys would put it at, but I would still put it at like 40% great. You know what I mean? Like is a great episode. It's hard to make live tv when there's somebody in the booth saying camera one, camera two, camera, and everything is timing in comedy, it's hard to get that right. And I just feel like a great episode of SNL is still going to have maybe 50%.

Like, I mean, obviously everyone has a different opinion, but there are certain ones, I would argue the justin one we're going to talk about on the next episode where when you look at the rundown, you're like, all this killed. Or like, Melissa McCarthy had a few like that where you're just like, oh my God, every sketch destroyed, I should say.

When Maya comes back to host, I don't know if you guys are still there. That was a monster top to bottom.

So there are a few, but it definitely happens. Yorm is all I'm saying, I guess.

I don't mean that though, I mean, for your actual comedy taste, like, what percentage of a show has to be good to have you? Because I don't mean the audience loving everything. I mean, you being like, fuck, that was fire.

I think if it's over 60 or 70%, that's considered a smash.

Well, that's quite good to me. If it was at 50 that I was like, fuck, that was really funny. I thought that was hilarious. Cause there's always, like, sketches that I'm like, oh, yeah, that's not for me. But it was quite good.

The truth is, if you watch any episode of SNL and there's one sketch you're really excited about, it's a huge deal.

100%.

I remember one season near the end of the year at the Thursday rewrite table. I read through every episode and had the writers say whether it was a win, loss or tie, that's a good.

Way to do it.

And it was pretty much even numbers. And I think it was a good season.

Yeah.

But it was sort of like seven, seven and seven, or seven, six and seven. And sometimes it's a loss because you are bummed that you, as a writing staff and cast, couldn't rise to the level of the host.

Right.

You know, see great on a curve. When you had a really good host and it felt like a fine show, you sort of take the l to.

Your point, Andy, though, like, when we first got to the show, I remember this distinctly because me and Keev, how old were we when we watched that Kelsey Grammer episode? Keev, we watched an episode of the show when we were children. The sketch is that Kelsey Grammer is a film noir detective, and his voiceover just somehow keeps going back to that. He wants to go to this all night suit and Burrito shop that he's obsessed with burritos. And we thought it was so fucking funny.

I think it's a McKay one. So I think we were probably teenagers.

I remember watching it over, like, we had recorded it or, I don't know, just stuck in my head. I was like, this is the best funny. And this murdered. It was so fucking funny. And then when you get to the show, when we first got to the show, there's an SNL post server which we didn't know existed, and you can watch dress and. And air for every episode of the show starting in, like, 1970, like, two years after the show started. And we rewatched that particular episode. And I don't remember anything else from that particular episode of the show, but I was like, this murdered. And it was the funniest thing ever, and I still thought it was fucking hilarious. But when we rewatched it, we were like, oh, this didn't do very well. Like, it's your personal take on the show. Like, if you find a sketch that, like, speaks to you, it was completely worth watching that particular episode. Everyone has those particular sketches that, like, meant the world to them, and yet.

No one, and we've done some straw pulling. No one feels that way about Harpoon man.

That's right.

There was no age in which Harpoon man hit the sweet spot.

But, Seth, you've pinpointed it, though, when you said, it's because we feel like we let down a good host. Like, John C. Reilly is so funny. That's why it really hurts, because we made a mediocre thing and he was game and he's funny and he deserved better. And that's one of the reasons we're beating ourselves up about it.

Yeah.

Seth, were you there? It was a year or two before we got there when David Alan Greer hosted.

No. Missed it.

I remember that episode as being one where I was like, fuck, that killed.

Yeah.

Off the top of my head, I can think of two sketches that were so funny. The, like, death row bloopers and all the commercials, like Maya Angelou for Froot Loops and all that shit.

He's one of those guys that I'm sure was. I mean, again, he did in living color.

Yes.

I think he used to do Maya Angelou on in living color.

Even the real deal, top to bottom, that dude.

Yeah.

I do want to move on from the John C. Reilly show, because we're going to talk about one other short. But there were some failed shorts because only one other short airs before dick in a box. And there's no indication, based on the trajectory of the shorts that lead up to it, that dick in a box is about to happen.

What are the dates of this show that you're talking about?

Don C. Reilly is October 21. Then, was there.

No, sorry. Sorry.

That's okay. What do you got?

Was there no. Seth's corner that week?

John C. Reilly. I don't think much happened over in Seth's corner. There's some Seth corners. Coming up the next week is Hugh Laurie, who I really adored as a host. He's a little bit like David Alan Grier because he was a sketch comedian before he did house. He was hosting for house, but he had lots of moves in the comedy world, and I think maybe a lot of american audiences didn't quite know how deeply funny was.

I remember I didn't until it was announced and they were like, oh, my God. He did all this british comedy, and I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And Bill was like, yeah, me honey.

You didn't fucking know, man. All I was like, fuck you, you piece of shit. You know what I mean?

A bit of Fry and Lorre, I think was. The name was Stephen Fry.

That's right.

Also a deeply funny person.

You know who you sound like?

Who's that fucking bill. Yeah. Hater Louie piece of shit. All right, buddy. He's gonna listen to this.

I fucking love him.

I miss him.

I gotta call him more often, man. I gotta call him more often.

Let's get spotted. Was cut after dress.

Yeah, right.

Not a great loss. No, let's get spotted.

I forgot it existed.

It was an interesting experience, though, and.

It does speak to an earlier, a very thin slice of culture, which is the spotting of celebrities publicly. Gawker was sort of the main thrust behind it.

And I think we went to Us Weekly.

You did go to the Us Weekly offices. You went to the Gawker offices and the Us Weekly offices. The premise was that Andy and Fred were disappointed that they'd never been spotted by one of the many websites or magazines that would spot celebrities. And so then you just sort of walk around the city loudly proclaiming who you are and what you're doing.

Yeah. Walking out of Starbucks wearing Yankees hats and sunglasses. Oh, God. Just coming out of Starbucks. Just place where people get spotted.

Then you show up in the actual Us weekly offices, pushing a baby stroller, walking through. So this is a question. I did not know if those were the real offices.

Yeah, that was real.

They were. And you're seeing the staffs of those places being like, why are these two assholes walking through our office with a.

Camera, giving them a taste of their own medicine?

Was that really their vibe? Did they really feel that way? Or were they psyched to have.

Did we tell them ahead of time? I don't remember.

I mean, we had to get permission. We had to figure out where it was. But I think those are the real employees at the real time. And I think we just kind of let everybody just work. Do what you're doing, ignore us. And then you guys just walked through, like, once or twice, and we were like, thanks, and ran out.

Yes.

Do you remember the celebrity cameo, Andy?

No.

Matthew Broderick was in it. Matthew Broderick is in it. You guys all of a sudden see the actual Matthew Broderick, and you start walking with him to try and be spotted with him. Yes. And then that is the culmination of the piece is that someone writes on Gawker. I saw Matthew Broderick walking with two idiots, and you and Fred say, we're famous. And then you high five. And my biggest pet peeve of how sketches ended during my era of SNL happens. Do you guys know what my biggest pet peeve is?

Freeze. Fraye.

Freeze frame.

Was it a freeze frame before the actual high five?

Yes, the freeze frame happens before the high five. I will give you credit that I enjoyed that. But then it's like guitar music after a freeze frame. I had a second pet peeve that I'm pretty sure Jorma did three times.

No.

In the course of five weeks. Why would I. Which is sketches ended with somebody falling out a window.

You love mugless.

I love mugless. But that's years later.

Oh, my God.

I remember earnestly saying to the writing staff, I was such a. What's the word for somebody who's a huge drag?

Debbie downer.

Just a scold. Just like a scold. Being like, guys, we gotta stop ending sketches with freeze frames and jams. And then for the next five weeks, that was all anybody wrote.

My favorite one to end a sketch that was subpar at the table was to play the SpongeBob SquarePants song, best day ever, which was just a hateful way to be like, and this won't get picked.

Oh, but I will say so. Let's get spotted gets cut. Hugh Laurie. I wrote a sketch, so can we pop into Seth Corner?

You're all invited. Sus Corner. It's happening right now. I think it was Seth.

You guys know, I mean, Bill gets all the credit for it, but I love british comedy too. Just keep it a little closer to the vest. So I wrote a sketch for Hugh Laurie, and it's a real wheelhouse sketch for me, where he was the guy who goes to hotels, he works for the queen, and he's the advanced man who shows up a day early to make sure everything will be to her liking at the hotel. The whole sketch was Hugh Laurie dryly laying out insane things.

Firstly, please remove all sheets and replace them with rubber sheets.

With rubber sheets?

Yes.

Do you think you can find some?

Um, yes, of course.

Of course.

Good. Now, the queen may have one or two friends over, of course. So please procure 40 bottles of Belvedere vodka and place them on every flat surface in the room with the cap half twisted off. Make sure there is no distance greater than 8 meters between bottles.

I'm gonna write this down. My favorite washing. He wanted her. It was wig. He needed them to take the mini fridge into an adjacent room and then fill that room with other mini furniture, because at the end of the day, the queen liked to relieve stress by pretending she was a giant.

That's a cute joke.

I like that.

Excellent.

And the end was that she likes to keep her valuables in the toilet.

Thank you. Oh, and one more thing. Her Majesty does not trust safes, so she keeps all of her valuables in the toilet.

And what do I need to do about that?

Well, you need to take this 400 pounds and give it, with my apologies to whoever cleans out the safe.

Oh, my God.

That's good.

Wait, did it air?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That one aired.

It aired really well. And I'm gonna forget exactly how Hugh Laurie said it, but Hugh Laurie went to read his list and took glasses out of his pocket and he couldn't get them open. And then he said, fortunately, these are just an affect, and threw them over his shoulder.

Yes.

Now, the reason I don't include the following is that they require an added layer of discretion. Am I understood?

Yes, of course.

Fortunately, just an affectation. Excellent.

The rare improvised moment.

Did the audience know he did that because they wouldn't open?

Yes, because he gave a real good effort. And then they watched him bail, and he gave a little bit of a smirk. He let him in.

It wasn't a planned goof.

It was not a planned goof. And a version of this would return. But I don't want to get ahead of ourselves. Wow. Actually, maybe you guys are gone and we're never going to get to that episode, but I think Marika Sawyer, the great Marica Sawyer, when Martin short hosted years later, she said, you should do that sketch again, and he should be the Ob GyN for, yeah, we were.

Gone, but that was an incredible sketch.

So it was the same thing. And the thing I'll say about that sketch now I'm way into the future. But they said, how do you want Marty to look? And I said, oh, whatever he chooses. And he had the craziest, the first time I saw it, he had the craziest fucking wig and the jankiest fake teeth.

And do you recall anything that he said to you about it?

The only thing I recall, do you remember there was a monkey that got lost in an Ikea that was wearing a fur coat.

It sounds like a make him up.

As an l. It's ringing a bell.

There was a photo of a monkey that somehow escaped and got, like, lost in Ikea or something. There was a picture of a monkey in a fur coat, and I basically wrote a sketch where Marty was a monkey in a fur coat. And I remember being like, how do you want me to do this? And I was like, like Martin short. I literally said, like, marty, that's a good direction. And the week after he hosted and was one of my favorite weeks, another.

Episode comes to mind. Larry David.

Yeah. After we're all gone.

Yeah. But I remember watching it being like, fuck, this episode's killing.

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And a cut sketch.

And a cut sketch. Right, let's get spotted.

And I think technically we shot another one that didn't air but would air later.

Right, so. But not good enough. And we will discuss nurse Nancy when we get to it. But not another best of.

Is that four or five?

I think four now. Okay, that's the four that you've shot.

So not going good.

Not going great. There's no shorts in the Alec Baldman show. There is a jogger from 1992.

So what were our lines in nineties? Jogger Keev.

Do you remember him?

I feel like you don't remember.

Yeah, no, I don't.

And now a moment with the out of breath jogger from 1992.

This space shuttle endeavor is the coolest.

Huh?

Did you see home alone two yet? He's lost in New York. It's nuts.

Spin doctors.

George Bush telly barfed on that japanese dude. The George Bush is president now in 1992.

Oh, I'm so out of breath.

Crystal Pepsi.

This has been a moment with the out of breath jogger from 1992.

Yeah, I do remember that being a nice hard cut out.

A Wikipedia of the year. 1992 will get you that script pretty fast.

There's esque.

Ordo. There is a sketch that I remembered. I looked it up today because it's one of my favorite Alec lines. A sketch called bossa Nova bar. Do you remember bossa Nova bar?

I'm not by name.

You're in it, Andy.

I'm in it?

Yeah, you're just in it. But there's, like, brazilian music playing, and he's just walking over and flirting with people while boss and nova music plays and people keep throwing drinks in his face.

My song.

Ah, music. The language of a moa. Damn, this moves me. Hi, I'm Rick Corman. First time in Brazil. I came here 20 years ago. I never left. I don't know how to put this, but your body is. What's the word? Slammin. Ooh, turns out I did know one word. Do you model? Well, you should, because in my mind, you're modeling for me right now. I just took your picture in my mind. Guess what? You're topless and bottomless. It's a white suit.

I'm gonna give credit to Emily Spivey for this wonderful line. This is Bossanova music playing. Alec walks over to Amy. When I hear this music, it's impossible not to think of two souls connected. Hi, Rick Kornman of room 512. You know what part of a woman I like best, and I'm not kidding about this, the vagina.

Knew where he was headed. Loved going there.

Still really nice.

Of room 512.

If you want to know what Yorma was doing, why he's not on jogger, it's because there's a cut on air evil Speed reader, which is a forte.

To Coney Solomon Spyber, which did eventually air.

That was, by the way, a great speed reader. I'm surprised that it didn't.

Who did it eventually air with? Because I remember it with Baldwin. But did he do it another time with Baldwin?

That was the one time I remember doing it.

What I remember about Evil Speed Reader, and this did not happen often in my time at SNL. It ended with forte singing evil Speed reader to the tune of Dreamweaver walking into the audience at the end of the sketch.

Oh, yeah.

And I think at one point he is going evil Speed reader, and he's singing very high forte. And he points at a woman and goes, this lady knows what I'm talking about.

His superpower is that he can read really fast and it's impressing people and he's very cocky about it. And I believe in that one. He reads the Bible super fast and makes the, as he's flipping pages and he gets to the end and then he says, done. Poor Jesus.

Oh, yeah, he speed reads like that.

Yeah, yeah.

That's his brain sucking up information.

That's how he impresses people.

That line about my favorite part of the woman is the joy of writing for Alec Baldwin, who would dryly deliver lines like that. One of my favorite lines ever that Paul Lapel wrote for Alec was the Tony Bennett show, rest in peace, Tony Bennett. Alec did an incredible Tony Bennett impression. And in the Tony Bennett show, that was written by Paul Lapel, the sponsor that week was doctor scholl's. And, and he says, you know women, they got delicate feet. I once made love to a lady's foot for 7 hours, but then the nurse came in and said, mister Bennett, she's gone.

Oh, my God.

Said dryly, fantastic.

He was making love to a corpse's foot.

Yeah, that's his stage pattern.

And also because of the way Alec does Tony Bennett, which was so affable and beloved, like it weirdly, like, didn't seem.

No, this is funny. Paula knew that.

Paula knew. Do you remember Tom Cruise's expensive bill? Andy that was a update feature.

No. What is that?

There was a news report. I do want to talk about an era of time where if Andy saw a news report or an article or a headline, he would just drill down and write an update feature real fast. Yeah.

Cause it was the only way I would ever get on update.

So Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes supposedly spent $10,000 at a restaurant. Restaurant. And you came on as the waiter, and Amy asked you to explain how somebody could spend $10,000, and you were like, well, it adds up pretty fast.

Okay, so you start with the appetizers. Tom had the shrimp cocktail, which at our restaurant goes for $12. Okay. Katie had the house salad, which is great, by the way. Dollar nine. Throw that on there.

Ok, so far, you know, that's not expensive at all.

Well, maybe not yet. I. But trust me, they were just getting started. So next up, main course. Tom had our New York strip, which is going to set you back a cool $26, while Katie ordered the plank roasted salmon. No bargain at $18. Okay, you want to go ahead and add that to a $35 bottle of one of our finest burgundies? 35. Man, that's zero. Carry the two. There it is. Ten. 100. Oh, no.

And very quickly, I should say that you did not overstay your welcome. Get to this conclusion. I think I overcharged them.

The whole joke is that I overcharged them $10,000.

Yeah, you did not. And by the way, you got there fasten. You didn't bum anybody out. Do you remember the genital herpes? One of my favorite commercial birdies of all time. Pretty certain it was written by Harper Steele, which was Baldwin and Amy sitting next to each other talking to camera, giving a testimonial about Valtrex.

It made little sense to me that two married people without any history of genital herpes could then suddenly be infected. But then I explained it. That was the end of it, and there was no need to talk. Our doctor told us about Valtrex, which lowers the chance of passing the virus during sex. At first, I didn't think it mattered because we both already had the virus and neither one of us was planning to go outside the marriage for sex. So true. Here's where you really just have to trust your doctor and not get all caught up in the logic. Even if you don't have multiple partners like us, it's a good idea to use Vowtrex because it's important. That's why. There's really no need to overthink it, is there?

Really good performance by both of them. Which episode was national anthem in?

I think it was one of the ones you just went through.

Yeah. Did you guys rewatch national anthem?

Yes.

Yes, I did.

I've rewatched it so many times over the years, though I will say I.

Want to talk about national anthem because I remember, and shame on me, I would sometimes read blogger reviews of our show. Show, and I remember someone saying it was in the Hugh Laurie show. This speaks to how uninventive SNL is. They did a sketch, an entire sketch, which was just Maya Rudolph singing the national anthem. And I feel like if there's one person I'd like to meet and say shame on you two, it's the blog wrote this.

Ladies and gentlemen, here tonight to honor our country by singing the national anthem, please welcome Pamela Belle.

The what? So far.

Last play he made.

There are twelve different moves, I think, more. I mean, it is.

It goes forever.

It goes forever. But of course, it can. Can only live within the confines of the lyrics of the national anthem.

Yes. But it's also Maya who is, you know, one of a kind forever, who can really genuinely sing so she can choose when to make it sound right and when to make it completely insane.

Yes. She both can sing beautifully regular. She's maybe the best impressionist of singing styles and can do them. None of it would work if she was a bad singer.

It's either her or youre.

Yorm go jorm when the rockets red glass.

See, that sucks.

The bombs.

What?

And that's Elton John.

Oh, yeah.

Okay, go on, Seth.

Watching it again, there were things that I remembered, and it was so joyous to see them again instead of saying what so proudly, she says, duh. What?

Duh.

Duh what?

Which, by the way, we all remember it because it was written that way in the.

Yes. Is this with Liz? Did Liz write this or is Liz.

I don't know.

Liz is maybe gone now.

Might have been Lutz.

Yeah, it says Rudolph Lutz on the thing.

Okay. Bright. Rars pronounces stars, rars pronounce ramparts, ramrods. And then, I mean, we'll have to play it. I'm not gonna do it any justice. The way she says gave a little.

Proof oh, my God.

And the rockets red glare the bombs.

Bursting up in the air.

Give a little boo.

Through the night.

That I've.

Methemeral.

To this day I bring it up to her all the time. She's like, I remember. I remember. Give a little bit of poo adds.

A one, two, three, strikes you're out spells brave.

That's right.

Doesn't say it, spells it. And then waves the mic in front of her face a lot so it sounds like she's far away and then close and far away. And the other great thing about it, which I really made me happy rewatching it is you have Bill and Jason are the announcers and there's a few laughs when it cuts to them looking shocked, right. But at the end the audience cheers the SNL audience because it's so good and it cuts those dudes and they also seem to have been won over. And that makes me happy that it didn't end with them being like, get that lady out of here. Really. I think sketches, it will live with me forever. That is right up there. Ludacris is up next. And no digi but a genuinely great Andy sketch. Sketch.

No digi but one blizzy.

Blizzy Blizzard man. Blizzard man. One of my all time favorites.

The first blizzy.

The first blizzy played great.

I remember being like, holy shit. That felt like a new thing where we actually wrote a character sketch live and it went and worked.

It was very well written because it was self contained. The moments where you got to be funny, camera was just on you getting to be funny. So just to clarify, Ludacris has hired Blizzard man. Will you explain it, Andy? You'll get the hip hop terminology better than me.

Keeve me again.

Did we all write it? I know Matt Murray was part of it.

We did, yeah, I was part of it. Ludacris is in the studio. Keenan's running the boards, his engineer, and then he's got the biggest hook guy in the game at that point. I think they referenced Nate dog who was probably the biggest hook guy, but you know, the person who sings on hip hop records. And Ludacris is very excited about it. And in comes Blizzard, man and it's Andy and he's dressed in nineties, kind of vanilla ice looking, I would say like a color me bad vanilla ice vibe. And Ludacris never lets up his enthusiasm. Like this guy's the shit. Keenan has never worked with him before. And then every time it goes to Andy, he is just terrible in a outdated and just would have always been terrible. It was a very nineties and just terrible way.

Yeah. Yo, yo, I'm about to say, yo, turn on my headphones, come on, check my style out. Raps, all raps, all. We do our raps and then the crowd goes wild and then it's time for the after party, and we hang out and do lots of sex with girls.

Yo. Hell, man. What was that? I know, right? My man is a straight genius right off the bat.

I think one of the things that actually saves it the most is that Ludacris is always so hyped.

Yeah.

Like, damn. Like, just backing it up as if what he just heard was incredible.

Yes. There's a nice, clean dynamic for Keenan and Ludacris because Ludacris is super into it. And Keenan gets a laugh every time that he's like, no.

Weren't sudeikis and Maya also, like, record executives in the studio as well?

Yeah, yeah.

Like, they're also very not juiced by the flailing that's going on. Do they all start with rap song, too? Rap song? Rap song, yeah, the first take. Always it's rap song.

He would have preambles, like, you know, turn on my headphones, and you'd be like, oh, shit, this guy's about to rip.

Right?

As much as a guy who looked like that character was going, do I.

Do like as well that you cracked the code doing a live character sketch. Hardest thing in the world. Cracked it. Also. You kind of cracked it by repackaging a lot of shit you liked to begin with. Yes.

It felt very, like, original to us. It was definitely our stuff.

It's different from the rest of the show. Not that different from other things we do.

No.

We are so good at rapping. Who wants to mess with us? You'll totally get shot with a gun. I don't. You be a jerk. It's bad for the party, and the ladies get scared.

Yeah. Not a lot of rhyming going on.

Hear you smoke this doobie. Let's cool out and get in the hot tub. What a fancy shindig. Yeah, there are some real bodacious babes. They see our soggy trunks, and they shake their boobs, and my thingy gets excited. By the way, my favorite thing about reading this is between dress and air. You changed it from my wiener gets excited to my thingy. That's a cross out, Wiener. Crossed out thingy.

Put in solid change.

And then did it always. Then boo boop boo blue.

Oftentimes, I think, ended with boop boop boop boop boop.

I think the last one, right?

Yeah, the last one.

Kind of a rave out.

Yeah, kind of an outro. We wrote something together. I'm looking at that rundown.

What's that?

It was one of the very few times I pitched something at the table.

Wait, how many shows did we just go through?

Here's what's happened. John C. Reilly, Harpoon man. Hugh Laurie was let's get spotted. But Alec Baldwin was nothing. Ludicrous. Also nothing. But we got a blizzard, man. So you guys earned your money. Don't get me wrong. What did we write together, bud?

So it ended up airing first sketch after the monolog. And I remember being kind of proud because it was like I had thought of an idea that just seemed like an SNL idea as opposed to. I don't know. Anyways, it's a hip hop idea. It's for ludicrous. And it was the idea that he was selling a cd of duets the way that in modern times, it's like Lady Gaga and your guy you were just talking about. Yeah, together. And so it's idea that he took classic songs and now he's gonna be.

The hype man featuring Harry Connick Junior. It had to be you. Yeah, it had to be us, baby.

Ha ha.

Had to be you. It couldn't have been nobody else.

What?

What?

I wandered around. Tell them what you was doing.

And finally found.

Tell them what you found.

What?

Somebody who New York City makes some noise.

Do you remember who you played in that hype duets sketch, Andy?

No, I was in that.

You were in it because there was.

Impressions for all the singers.

First up, it was Jason as Harry Connick junior. Then it was Maya as Barbra Streisand, and it was really fun. Maya would sing like memories, and then Chris would go, oh, no, she's recollecting y'all. Then it was James Blunt.

There we go.

Hey, he made it up.

He's laying down smoking tracks with his dog, James Blunt.

You're beautiful.

Badass.

You're beautiful.

Keep talking about that ass, y'all.

Beautiful.

It's true.

Nobody is banging, baby.

What?

What?

You must've been proud. Keev up top of the show. That was a hard feat.

Well, it's a shot from Myers. Yeah, Myers has a second credit on there.

Yeah. You got a trojan horse it with Myers.

Exactly.

You got Trojan horses being a young.

Whippersnapper, they'll never give you top of show.

It would have taken me all week to write it. I needed a pro to just whip up the format real fast and get it done.

I do remember that Eric Kenward added young duckless hypes. The classic is available at Best Buy as well as on Canal street and the mixtape spot at 14th and sixths.

Speaking from experience, I have another tidbit to throw into the mixture. Yeah, I believe in the Chris Ludacris Bridges show. Yorm got a joke in the monolog that he had been telling for many years. Oh, which was another rapper named Rick Dickulous. Is that true?

Oh yeah, that's correct.

Everybody, this is Rick Barnes. We grew up together in Atlanta, Georgia. What's my name? Yo, Rick Barnes. No, what's my name? Rick Barnes. Nah, it was, uh. Oh, it's Rick Dickulous. Yeah, Rick dickulous, man, you know, you straight up stole my style, son. Yo, can I get a beat? No, you cannot. Can you get off stage, please? Oh, that's cool, that's cool. I make one myself. I'm Rick Nicholson. I'm here to say I'm not badass rapper in the USA. Hold on, hold on.

Wait, wait, wait.

Fun fact, once that got in, I remember Stiller being upset about it because that was the original name of the rapper in Tropic Thunder. And then he didn't want to seem like it had been a ripoff of SNL. Oh yeah.

Wow, look at that.

But they had also thought of it.

Yes, originally that's what it was gonna be. And then it got used by moi.

Rick diculous got it.

Snagged it, as Seth likes to say, tough titties. Ben Stiller.

Exactly, exactly. Sorry. You leave SNL to go make movies with their long ass lead times. That's how it's gonna break for you.

To be fair, I don't know how upset he was.

You gonna get swooped.

So it should be noted. Ludicrous. No digital short. But you guys brought a lot of what made digital shorts great. An appreciation of hip hop to the show with two very nice sketches.

Looking back, it's crazy we didn't try to do a song with Chris. Yeah, we probably just didn't have the bandwidth. Cause of Hyra.

Oh, no, no. Like, I'll go to Yorm's corner now. I was tapped Storm corner.

This is the song Storm corner.

Okay, go on.

I was tapped by Steve Higgins, who you all know how many years? He was talking about two Spock as a rapper and wanted to do a two Spock rap.

Oh, wow.

And I wrote that with Higgins. And honestly, I was so nervous to be around Chris of Ludacris and was just excited that we got to record it.

Chris of Ludacris of Ludacris fan.

I was very excited that we got.

To record it, to record it in.

Our office of the band Ludacris.

Wait, so now hold on. I should note that Higgins talked about two Spock forever.

Yes.

Do you remember what two Spock would say?

I wrote it and I don't remember.

Something like live long and prosper. But what was it?

Live large and prosper.

Oh, diggity dope.

It's a dope.

Really.

Out.

Higgins had been making that joke for twelve years. Waited for Chris of Ludacris to show up.

Yeah. And then have me sink and then.

Made you write it. And it ain't shit.

But that was a table read thing.

Yes, I remember it being too long.

Yeah, that was the problem.

It had the sound of the doors. I believe in the beat starts with.

Daryl Hammond as William Shatner, except he has a tight brown throw and mustache.

Oh, yeah.

We're off to a great start.

A 521.76. Captain's log brown. Oh, my God. The first joke is captain's log brown. Captain's log is a piece of shit.

Yeah.

Oh, he's logging his log.

Yeah.

Wow. At least it's healthy.

Oh, my God. This is the most Higgins star. Thank you. Thank you. This is the best Star Trek convention talent show I've ever been at. No matter what, I think we're all winners. I'd like to leave you with one final thought. What if DCilu Studios had decided not to cast William Shatner and DeForest Kelly, but instead, Captain Kirk had been played by Leon Askin, of course, General Burkhalter from Hogan's heroes. Thank you. And in the role of Doctor McCoy, Don Knotts, I think. Episode 62, of course, Spock's brain. Thank you. Would look something like this. Oh, my God.

I don't know what any of that meant.

No, no, that was for the heads.

It meant that Daryl would be doing impressions.

Yeah. I didn't understand anything that was said.

Oh, my God. I remember staying up late for this one. Drinking that job.

Page four is when two Spock enters.

Don't want to wear out. You're welcome. And then how long is the two Spock wrap here?

Well, Maya starts and she sings the hook. Daddy was a vulcan, Mama was a human. Two Spock motherfucker. No ordinary crewman.

Yeah.

And then Ludacris sings. Vulcans don't test me or stress me. I got my phase run stunned to the death, G. I keep it at warp speed, but it's always thug life. I love life. Smoke and Klingon till I'm dumb. Nice. Half vulcan, half human, half gangster, half rich. You have dead. When my phaser's on kill, you have bitch travel 20 parsecs just to get me some dome. Not a medical doctor, but they call me bones. I'm a logic. I mean, it's not terrible, but can.

I just say something? If anyone out there listening to this puts what Seth just did to a beat, I will be so happy.

Okay, do the rest.

Oh, my God, it keeps going.

I ride for my vulcan straight, die for my vulcans. Klingons talk, blurp. I leave that kremlock smoking. I've had all types of hoes on every class M planet. Still my splocks on rock and harder than space granite. Tricorder full of numbers, never calling them back because once I get them in the sack, they old. Like, seriously, my libido is hitting harder than photon torpedoes. And I always shoot first. Like han solo shot greedo. What?

Getting libido in there?

I mean, I think looking back, the real huge problem here is that two Spock didn't join this scene until page four.

Yeah.

I would say the biggest problem with it probably is the premise.

Yeah. That it's bad.

So you just the very, very beginning it's existence.

Let's keep in mind that Higgins is a very funny person.

Oh, yeah, agreed. This is loving ribbing. We're just doing some loving jibes.

We're just getting some loving ribadibs.

All right, so there is a digital short in Matthew Fox, which does not air. It gets cut, then it airs in the next episode, which is Annette Bening, which is strange. I guess it's happened to you guys a couple times because now there was the Scarlet Johansson was in a digital short the week after she had hosted the tangent. And this happens again. This is a very Fred driven digital short.

Says it was written by Lutz, but I have no memory.

But it seems like a Fred bit.

This is one that would not qualify for our rule that comes up later, which our rule was it had to have two of us involved to get the SNL digital short logo later on because that came to represent a Lonely.

Island short, top quality, like harpoon man.

And that it was ours. This I did direct and edit as an assignment, but it's not ours really. And Andy is in it, but only peripherally.

I don't remember shooting.

It mostly is a good example of how funny Fred can be with a little thing, which is Fred getting mad at people in a. It's sort of a fast food place. He's giving them a pep talk for the holiday rush, and anytime somebody asks him a question, a plus wig on Keenan in this. That would be my biggest takeaway from this. He's like, 1 second, I'm over there, I'm punching him in the face. Jeff, 5 seconds, I jump over this table, kick you in the neck. That's sort of the game and very slight idea. Very fun performance from Fred. And we now thank you for clarifying. Keev. This would not qualify as a digital short by today's rules, but it is one.

It's got the logo, and I don't.

Even think I helped you edit on this at all.

I don't know, though, because after you guys left, like the last two seasons, where you guys both had left and would come back periodically, we definitely put it on ones that I did without you guys.

Right. So we broke the rules. And there's more coming that break the rule, too. But at some point, we kind of had that.

I'm gonna jump in and say, as long as it was an Andy idea, it should be a digital short.

And especially later, because that came to be.

The other thing is all three of you were at the show at this point, so if only one you worked on, it's a little different.

Sure, sure. But it's the same as Cubicle fight.

Yeah, I guess that's true. It's the same as Cuba fight. So really, the takeaway here is you guys aren't really doing a lot of digital shorts this year until next week with our friend JT.

Correct. And it was still hot rod stuff. We were like, oh, that was funny at the table. Let's just do that as a short, because they want to.

Short here is something that I found very jarring. I remember I wrote a sketch. It was a morning show called I hate this town, where it was just the anchors talking about how much they hated the town they lived in. But I also realized I wrote a sketch called poetry class, and Andy, I did not remember poetry class, so I asked Kevin to send it to me. Do you remember poetry class?

I don't.

Do you remember the Pete Davidson sketches, Chad? Yes, it's Chad. I'm not saying anyone stole it from us, nor when I saw Chad did it jog my memory that I had written a similar sketch.

You had even done it.

Yeah. This is not me pointing fingers. I'm just saying that Annette Bening plays a poetry teacher, and she is obviously having an affair with you, a 16 year old boy.

Oh, I do remember this. You want to know why I remember it? Because Annette, who was so lovely but a classically trained, incredible actor, kept saying all week she had trouble with cue cards, and she was like, I'm just going to memorize my lines, and everyone kept saying, like, oh, you don't want to do that. Because there's changes between dress and air. And that sketch, there was a lot of her, like, grabbing my face and ruffling my hair and being like, oh, whatever. My name was this and that. And then she would lose the line and need to turn and look straight at the cards. And the eye line was a little wonky. And I remember coming off and somebody saying to me, like, ooh, there were some pauses there or something like that.

It does speak to why Chad probably has endured more as it was a piece of film as opposed to a sketch where their eyeliner.

Yeah, maybe, maybe.

But got there first. Obviously gonna take legal action. Let me just say I am a fan of how Chad heightened over his run. I obviously got out after one. I couldn't keep it going.

That was your actual, real mistake, was not franchising it.

I should have franchised it. Yeah.

Achilles heel.

I always miss the franchise.

We should've just made it the short. In hindsight.

Yeah, no kidding. You guys are fucking picking all these real duds to short it up. Could've shorted up poetry class. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

What about Fred's thing? Said that was nice, and he made a lot out of a little idea.

I don't know. It was before I realized I could have had a franchise.

Where was nurse Nancy in all of.

This, by the way? Nurse Nancy is going to air later, so we'll talk about it then.

Okay.

But we did make it one of these weeks, and it didn't air.

So that, I guess, brings us to the fact that we are now going to and we'll obviously discuss it next week. I will say, for whatever reason, I still remember being bullish about digital shorts because I'll save it for next week. I remember a conversation I had with Lauren about how you guys were trying to write a Christmas digital short for Justin Timberlake. So I feel like internally at the show, people still thought they were a big thing that was on the upswing. But it is weird to go back and look at the first half of your second season and realize that it was pretty dry land.

Yeah. I'll say this. Knowing us, I'm guessing we were being very vocal about how hard it was to do them and also edit the movie.

No.

What? We were complaining. I'm tired.

Just know that there's some real crow eating coming for me because my conversation with Lauren might have been pointing a lot of this out.

I will say, though, that we did have the advantage, like, looking back at some of these. And the sort of podunk quality of the filming, literally, the quality of what we were making, I do think had the advantage of seeming very different from the rest of the show. So I do think that people were excited to see something new. And it also had that slight advantage of, like, what the fuck is this?

Yeah.

What is this janky, non hd shit?

Yeah. As you guys discussed at length earlier, show is very uneven. So even these ones, I think, that are kind of fine. They're not, like, embarrassing. They're just weird to talk about ten years later, as if there's something to talk about because they're mediocre. But so much of the show always has to be mediocre. It's not like people were noticing they're bad because the show is bad and.

The speed of which we're telling jokes is faster than a normal sketch. So I think that that also helped too. Like, we're banging through shit. Even if it was stupid, it was like, at least it's fast.

This is gonna wrap it up. We're gonna wrap it up right here.

Okay.

It's very exciting.

I'm gonna take us out. Yoram's gonna do a spot on impression of one of his many singer impressions. This one is Neil Diamond.

Neil Diamond. Adele. Oh, it's Adele. He's doing Adele. Hello.

Wait, I got one at a time. Okay. Hello.

No, that's Lionel Richie. That's spot on, Lyle.

Okay, move on.

Yeah, that did sound like Lionel.

The truck stop.

There's Neil Diamonds, then fucking killed it. Okay, now Lionel Richie. Now Lionel Richie.

You really got a hold on me.

No.

Okay.

He's done.

All right.

That was worth it. Oh, what a good podcast.

It should be noted in Yorm's defense, he is recently either gone on or off the job.

He might be crashing hard.

All right. I love you guys.

Love you.

You too, turkey.

Love you, buddy.

See you next week.

Let's do it for the good app. For the good one.