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Sean, were you? When we had? We had dinner Saturday night, all of us at our friend's house in New York, we did. And then, at a certain point, Downey was wearing that shirt, that t-shirt that he sort of wore for J.B. And he said, I wanna give it to you, and he said, Okay.

He said, Let's switch now. So all of a sudden, in the middle of this dinner party, J.B. and Downey stand up and they go tarps off and switch. I didn't see that. Yeah, we did a little pop swap.

Yeah, wait.

And he had the sex pistols on. Yeah, yeah, and he goes, he goes, Oh yeah. I paid a lot of money for this and he told me the number.

I was like, Good Lord, um, and he said, Uh, you want it for a t-shirt? He paid a lot of money for a t-shirt, Oh, buddy.

I said, Yeah, I want it, he goes well here, let's let's, let's step over here and I'll give it to you. I said, No, you're what? and it's and. And then he said, Yeah, yeah, I said, Well, we don't need to step anywhere.

Let's just do it right here, Jason. So we just did a little little top swap and now I'm going to work it into the show. But we're trying to get clearance on sex pistols, um, and if we don't get clearance on it, then I'm just going to put it in my wardrobe, you know, my closet.

Where are you getting these? You just get them online or in vintage.

Um, you know, you should have asked how you.

So they got to figure out what they're going to do with the asset, the stock, yeah.

Where's she at? Is she still here? She has she come back?

Uh. J.B. I don't know if you know this. Sean's had two hours sleep, he had another, a FIB in the middle of the night. True story. I just got home and had to go to an hour ago.

Did you?

They have a sale on butter pecan ice cream. What happened? I got? I was walking.

He's stuffing his stupid fat face. Did I ever show you the picture?

It's all that, the sweet, sweet.

Make it a little mouthwash with them, make it in.

And he makes me, I'm sorry, he's a fellow podcaster and all around funny guy. At age five, he asked his parents if he could change his name, and they said yes. I'd consider him part of my own personal SNL Hall of Fame, mastering some of my favorite impressions of all time. And though he's a standalone talent, his comedy work usually comes as a package deal of three together.

Do you know what it is? Yeah, no. Together with his comedy trio, he helped put YouTube on the map with his hilarious, star studded music videos in the early two thousands. It's my comedy friend Andy Samberg, Andy Samberg.

So she's so relaxed, I know. Have you been? Have you been ducking us? Have we not been able to make your deal? What is it?

What's happening? Uh yeah, Ryder, uh-huh.

He said, I'm going to do your podcast, but.

We were out and he goes, Hey, hey idiot, I'm coming to do your stupid podcast. Oh so you're retelling.

You said, No, I said, hey, first off, hadn't seen you in years, I know, right? Yeah, hey, I'm about to be on your very successful podcast.

That's literally what I said.

And.

I was like, All right, you have a foot on me. First off, very intimidating. It does happen quite a bit. I spent the rest of the night at the Vanity Fair party, like sulking, cause I ruined your night, you were there.

I didn't see you there, I was there. I saw you guys all together promoting the show. I put some eyes on you there. Um, Andy, we.

We got time, right? It's a podcast, it's a great Andy. Thank you for coming on.

Um Sean Hi, nice.

When I was five, I changed my name, Uh to Andy from David. My middle name. um, it was. my first name was David, and then, uh, we get it, your middle name. It's not. I mean, my mom was just cool about it as basically the short version.

Why do you hate David so much? What's wrong with David? I don't know. I just felt like an Andy is the five. You knew you were an Andy. But honestly, like, when you look at me, the first name you think personality wise, obviously, is Adam.

That's what everyone calls me on accident.

And they just go, You're, I bet.

I'm like, I thought they meant Jason and Will, and I got to the elevator and I was like.

Yeah, that's pretty good. That's how long it took me to bring up dicks. Wait, so let's.

Um, can I? can I embarrass myself early? Uh, Andy, you're a fella, I I don't know. Well, we never really crossed paths, I know precisely the the times we have.

Cause, cause, I've, I think I've always wanted to be your friend and I just never would never cross this path. And you, the both these guys know that. That's a big deal, cause I don't really have a lot of friends. But I targeted you and and and I feel I feel like we'd be great together.

Um, but no, I, uh, I really.

First off, all right, so like.

But Jason, you're, you're in luck.

We've hung out a lot, we have hung out a lot over the years and a lot, lot. And then Andy was also first of all. J.B. You know this cause so that you don't embarrass yourself. You know that Andy was interested? Development. Um, oh, what?

I want to see that, right? Andy Yes, and for Fox, really good it. really. for Fox, it was a sketch comedy sort of variety.

I don't even know how to describe it. Special before SNL Yes, yeah, yeah.

The year before, what year was that, Andy, that you guys did that? do you remember like before?

It was so funny and I was like, Oh my God, I was just obsessed with that.

British Office.

I was doing standup and we were shooting our own videos and sort of like, trying to cobble it together. And then I got the call to come do this. Like one line, I think I was an usher at Blue Man Group. No way, and it was the like next next week on the show thing.

That's not real, right? And it was me talking to cross. I think I had one line, Were you in blue man makeup?

No, I don't think I was no.

We'd sit there like a couple of a couple of newbies, just like here comes our show, our show's coming on, and we'd watch it. And then we'd go outside for smokes during the commercial breaks, and then we'd go back in. And we, and then we check it, we check online to see what the comments were, and then the next morning what the ratings were.

I do remember that, and I remember, you know what, yesterday I was going through some of my stuff upstairs. And, uh, I found the New York Times TV. Remember, they used to put up like this sort of the New York Times TV guy that you know what's coming up in the week. And and Arrested Development was on the cover. It was November of 2003. Jesus.

And they didn't really know what to make, and nobody and they're like, this is Amy, who knows? And, uh, anyway, I'm just waiting, what show are you guys talking about? It's called arrested development.

Anyway, so so Andy comes and does that, and then how? So that was like 2004, that was, that was the spring of 2005. Mary Lou Henner on the podcast.

Well, crazy dates, that was it, cause it was like one of one of the last episodes of that second season. So that was like 2005. And then when was it that SNL, how did it? how did SNL happen?

You guys had done the pilot, uh, that did not get picked.

Uh, no dice. And we were like, we're cooked. That was our shot, and we were writing together, splitting a single, writing check, Uh, working on the MTV Movie Awards for the second, three of you, yeah.

Wow, and uh, and the first year we wrote for it, it was Lindsay Lohan, and then the second year we did it, it was Fallon. And so Fallon came in hosting and he brought all the SNL people with him. And we just hung out with them basically for three or four straight weeks and love them and hit it off. And Higgins and Shoemaker were there.

Who were, you know? One is still a big producer there, and the other now runs Seth's show. But they were high up there, and Jimmy was obviously Higgins and Mike Shoemaker, the SNL guy, uh, and so we, me, Kevan, Yoram, and Uh. And some others were responsible for writing a few of the like pre-tapes. Where you put the host in the movies from that year, right? And we wrote a Star Wars one and a Batman one that both got picked.

So we were just hanging out with everyone on set, pitching jokes and they were like, Hey, these guys seem like they love comedy a lot.

In a way that, uh, you know, uh, you sometimes are shocked to realize that people don't.

Yeah, well, Kevin, you were in seventh, that's crazy seventh grade and so, and and then so when you got hired on SNL, so you guys had been friends for all those years.

And then when you get hired on SNL, they hire all three of you at the same time. That's what I couldn't understand is like, but Andy was on, Oh, they were, Oh, I see. So they wrote, Did all three of you audition to be?

And Akiva said, No, I don't want to be on camera. And then the three of us also submitted a writing packet on behalf of the three of us, so we were kind of hedging our bets.

Andy's the performer, Yeah.

Yoram Kev is going to keep them grounded. Tracy That was Lorne Michaels.

That's right, that's right.

They were kind of off the wall and kind of you guys kind of were able to hone in on stuff. Obviously McKay's a legend, so I'm not, I'm not disparaging him in any way. The guy's an absolute giant. But that you guys came in, we're doing something different. And you really. I remember that night that, um, that, uh, Lazy Sunday came out. It was, I think it was the last show before Christmas.

Am I right? Yeah, Christmas Show our first season.

Um, it was me and Parnell, the great Chris Parnell, Chris Parnell, everyone on earth loves, the greatest, nicest guy in the world. And you know, we had done like I said, we had done stuff on our own like that. Um, for like, The Lonely Island..com.

Um, and like, tried to get it put on other websites that had bandwidth for streaming before YouTube existed, but you got.

And we will be right back.

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So but Andy, walk me through. So you guys have this idea for lazy Sunday, you wrote it, What on you? or you submitted on a Wednesday? Um, just at the at the table read, How did you, did you go to Shoemaker and those guys?

Like, what?

And, uh, how are?

Yeah.

You don't even have to ask our permission, just go shoot something. And if it's good, then we can try and use it at dress to change sets, because we always need pre-tape pieces to change over sets. Uh, during commercial breaks and stuff is not enough always, and it can save other people's live sketches if you have a pre-tape right, right, right.

That was kind of honestly, why they were pushing us to do it. Uh, and so then we did one that was, uh, based on an idea Forte had had called. Lettuce, where it's just me and him dramatically having a conversation and taking huge bites out of heads of lettuce on the stoop. And that was the first one that aired.

It's so good, just the most forte shit ever, like, I'm just going to be so serious, yep.

That's his entire life.

And then, and then we did another one that was basically that one, again called Peyote, that didn't air till the end of that season. And then the third one we shot was Lazy Sunday, which was, uh, a dork rap about me and Parnell having a lazy Sunday. Going to see the chronicles of Narnia.

How did you? This is hard, it's so hard. No is is, uh, you know, dick in the box, like all of them, that became so huge on their own. How do you? I would ask the same, this same question to a musician, How did you come? How do you come up with them?

Is it like, Are you at home in the shower, thinking of the most bizarre, funny shit? Or is it like, Do you come up with a song first? And then you're like, let's do a video or like?

And he was obviously capable.

Now I'm like, Oh.

Like, it just went like that, Yes, right, am I, am I?

And we were so grateful you did it, yes.

And you were rewriting it, and I remember that you Keevin, you weren't being in the room. And I was like, How's it going? You guys, your laptop? and you were, so you guys were so stressed out.

You're like, I don't know if we're gonna be able to do this because it was like, really quick. And they're like, great, here's a movie, rewrite it, and we're, and we start shooting July 1st, yeah.

This is the thing I've really thought about more as we've gotten older is? It never occurred to me how anyone else was perceiving us because we were so in it. And like, shot out of a cannon. And now I'm like, Oh, if if that happened to someone now, I'd be like.

What did they do to get this one song thing?

And like, no shade, cause I love this movie. They wanted dodge ball and we wanted like, wet, hot American summer, and I think hot Rod ended up somewhere in between.

Yeah, and we were, that was the plan. Like, we're just going to keep shooting stuff and show people why we're funny and not try to tell.

I just saw it and it's Keev talking to me in this and he's being really serious, and I'm being really serious. And I'm like, we're on the set of Hot Rod, right? Like it couldn't be more serious. He's like, say, babe.

Um, Andy, where does? where does the film school and filmmaking kind of desire for you live currently? Or is it you? Just? It's sort of just just acting now and uh, or, or do you?

If, if, whoever I'm working with is amenable, right? Um, but like that to me is that was my role with the guys with Kevan Yoram, so that's kind of how I developed. You were on the producing.

I don't know how to just try it once, you'll see, oh, it's pretty efficient, it's. It's a let me ask you this, not to get too granular. But the one thing that worries me more than anything is giving notes to the actors I'm in a scene with, right?

Like, as soon as I have this like insecurity, as soon as I'm like, can you do it?

It is true, it is. It is a certain amount of unstated arrogance and hubris to actually be giving a note to somebody you're on an equal playing field with. I. I hear you on that, for sure. Um, I have no explanation for that. Uh, aside from the kindness of the person that's.

Be more into it.

Yeah, and that's.

Right?

Close deeper. Uh, but you do, but yeah, but you do, because TV is sort of a writer's medium. You do end up by default kind of directing, especially in comedy. uh, kind of directing anyway, right? And and so it's, it's pretty, it's it's directing adjacent, yes.

We did eight.

Right? And then you pow, wow, and you pitch a couple extra jokes, and then you have each cast member try a different thing, and then you know, you have.

Yeah, you worked.

So you had a pretty that was like a, like, a Hall of Fame team. Uh, I got to rewatch it during the pandemic with, uh, my oldest son Archie, he was there and able to super into it. We ended up watching it all through so, so, so funny. And you know, one of the through lines we mentioned right at the top, one of the through lines in, Uh, what? You do so well, and you do so many things so well, but you always there's.

Oftentimes, you incorporate music into what you do, and I kind of want to understand a little bit about, like, what your history is with music. Did you study music as a kid? First of all, you got a great voice, you got great timing.

Um, it's true. So where? how do you? how do you come by it? Um, well.

And I was at Amoeba Records in high school two or three times a week. Just Ditc, which is digging through the crates. They do vinyl again, right?

Yeah, yeah, that's cool. Wait, So so I want to talk more about that.

So he grew up in the Bay Area, grew up around music. What kind of music did your dad listen to, and then you listened to, and what kind of would you? Did you gravitate toward towards a specific genre at Amoeba Records? Uh, yeah, take those in order, please.

You can go backwards. It was.

Because of hip hop cause, we chased down the samples from our favorite hip hop songs. And yeah, yeah. But also, like, I love Bob Dylan and grew up listening to Bob Dylan and wore my mom's purple scarf to try and.

Oh, nice, well, it's true, and you guys, it's totally true, and you were able to do it in such an authentic way, too. Because there are a lot of like sort of white boys from from Berkeley who couldn't pull it off. And you guys just made it work because you were actually good at it.

Um, and God, what did I just? You know, what just I saw the other day was one of the video from Bash Brothers. The thing that you guys did about the Oakland days. Have you ever seen that? And I can't believe that you pulled it off. What is it?

You play Jose can say, go keep playing a Mark McGuire. And then they do this rap about being on steroids and fucking in the house.

And I'm thinking, yeah, me and Key did as kind of just like, as like a side project, cause your arm was unavailable. So we didn't want to do a proper Lonely Island album without him, uh, concept album. And then we did, like a visual poem, kind of like lemonade, and very quietly released it on Netflix and it was Mark McGuire and I'm Jose can say go.

And the whole thing is an album of, if the two of them had made a rap record in the late Eighties, that they're during their heyday. I remember, I remember, um, being totally.

Rented a house, uh, down here, the recording one of their albums, and he took me over there and it was like, noon or something, and we, we walked in. You gotta think you guys are recording turtleneck and chain, maybe, right? Um, and uh, and uh. And. And I was like, I was like, Where's, where's Andy?

Um, they're like, Oh, he's still sleeping. Damn right? Yeah, exactly, um. But we took a lot. They had rented like this, this, this, um, uh. Colonial style mansion and Encino and monstrosity.

Yeah, and they just set it up, you know, just like like a rock band. Would, you know, you record in a mansion? But it's usually in the Cotswolds, you know? But this was like, off Louise Drive and Encino, um, but it was pretty, pretty awesome to see that.

Like, we have photos of so many of the people that are just the biggest names in comedy now. That swung by cause. They were like, Hey, I heard those Lonely Island guys have this stupid house at Encino.

And we would just drink and have fun and then record songs and knew we.

Jason's older, obviously, is that? um, no, just a lot older, but how old a fellow are you? Andy? I'm 45. Oh, good for you, yeah. And so now that you got like, I'll google it.

You just seem so young. Oh, really. 53..

Yeah, oh, you did it Amazon, fucking crazy, right? But uh, anyway, sorry, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, and you just like, rehydrate it. It's like a sea monkey. Well, no, this one's full of moisture.

The old one was getting tired of, Yeah, I had Spritz bottle, I had a fucking Hudson sprayer. It's just enough, so you've got an you went out.

I just want to point out I didn't start that one, that was not me, I was not the instigator. I jumped right in.

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Andy, I want to talk to you about growing.

No, when you were a kid. Because I read this thing where you wrote a letter to your eight-year-old self, which what was that about? And were you into comedy at such a young age that you wanted you knew that?

I used to.

I was into WWF wrestling and there was that show called Saturday Night's Main Event, which was on once a month. We don't need to tell Tracy about that one, huh? Yeah, I didn't know what Saturday was going to be on, Yep.

I missed it. True, the first reference we haven't had to explain. Oh, gotcha, that's speaking to the demo.

She's.

And I was like, a comedian, obviously.

Oh my God, I mean the whole.

Right, that were cast members on the show and then I got on the show and they were still working there because we watched every episode. It was my absolute obsession. That's so great, and then now I'm like, Oh yeah, now I just like.

Was it what you thought it?

Yeah, especially in terms of, like, how quickly? Because the thing about SNL generally, unless you're like one of 10 people, is you have to, like, ingratiate yourself to the SNL audience. And give them time and space to figure out what you do. That is funny and why? Yeah, it's very smart of you. Yeah, for sure. And so for us, speaking to what we were just talking about with Lazy Sunday, that was a crazy shortcut to the path I thought we were on.

Like, when Lazy Sunday aired, Will you? asked, and I didn't answer it. What was it like when you guys were in the studio? When that aired? We were not thinking like we did it, we were just like, Oh, we got something on. I'm so relieved.

We're not gonna get fired right because we're halfway into our first season. And then when did?

Which I was like, Oh, I don't know anything about this world. And they're like, Hey, New York Times wants to talk to you, you guys free right now. We were just like, Okay, Jeez.

Sure about what you sure are, but you know, everybody always talks to you.

The cage thing and he was so cool about it and he did not have to be. Because we were like, doing a psychotic character and saying it was Nick Cage, you know what I mean, it was like?

And still am, and we all are a massive fan of Nick Cage, and I've seen so many of his movies. And that's how it ended up being something I could do because I was like, I've seen him talk so much.

It's such currency, right? And you know it plays, and you know it'll get on, and you're just desperately trying to get on. So if you do one that works and everyone's laughing at, it's hard to be like, No, I'm not going to do that. I don't feel good about it morally.

And he was like, Who's doing my voice? Oh my god, it's so funny.

And so they were like, even Higgins was like, Hey, when you audition, you should do Jimmy, and I was like, Oh, really, so I did. Jimmy Fallon at a funeral, but he was like, Oh my God, so sad.

This guy can't do impressions.

My wife plays the harp and she sings, I'm like, Oh, who's your wife? And Joanna, as you told me, Joanna is. And I downloaded her album and I was like, Oh my god, this woman's amazing. I fell in love with her right away.

Do you guys work on music stuff together? Do you check in with her? How does?

We don't work on music together. Because, yeah, mine's pretend. And hers is arguably amongst the best ever. Yeah, in my opinion. Tell me about her. What is it?

Yeah.

So it was very comfortable and not as creepy as I was.

Could you ever not read? Oh, you know, I love that. Could you ever not read the cards? Andy? Did someone ever get in your way between you and the cards?

And Seinfeld was on, I think he did really, with Seth on Update. And he stopped and started talking to me. And I was like, Holy shit. So we were just chatting and I was like, Oh, yeah, Seinfeld, and I was like, Yeah, this and that.

And then I was like, I looked up at, you know, they have monitors all backstage showing you what's airing. And I just like, casually look up and I'm like, Oh, I'm in this sketch. And it just started, Oh my god, no way.

I was like, Oh, I'm so sorry and just like, took off running.

And it was a courtroom sketch I missed getting on before it started. They stopped me and said no, because I was going to try and run on totally by Fortune's fucking hell. Who knows? I had had one line at the top of the sketch and they had cut it between dress and air, and no one had told me.

So I actually didn't screw up the sketch, but I did have my nightmare that I had had every week that time working there and still now have. Where I'm backstage and I can't find the set, I can't find stage and I'm in a sketch and I can't get there and I see it on the.

That movie is so good and I tell anybody it's one of my favorite films in the last 10 years. So it needs more attention. So unheralded. You're so funny and profoundly good, and kind of sad.

Like, it's the perfect blend of I just love that movie, thank you, I love it. Any truth to the sequel rumors?

Um, Andy, you have a new podcast with Seth Meyers called The Lonely Island The Seth Meyers Product Podcast. Right, that's right. And how did it start? Are you excited as it started? Tell us everything.

And at SNL that week, when we did the digital short, and then because we're us, we kind of just let it drift. And then Seth called us and was like, Hey, I just had an idea. How would you guys feel about doing a podcast where every episode is about one of the digital shorts? And what was going on at the show that week? And I'll host it and my team will organize it.

And you guys just show up and do it and I'll take half, yeah, yeah, right.

And he'll take. Yeah, we know he's given, he's got his good 80, but I mean, he's late night good guy. Like when when other people aren't around, he's nice to me, I love that. Why we got to check?

Yeah, we debated that name. Yeah, I guess I see why, cause it rolls off the.

Yeah, I'm like, Boat, what's your personal platinum or something stupid? That's incredible.

My favorite, if I had to just pick one out of thin air, probably Jack Sparrow with Michael Bolton. Yeah, sure, and the reason I would give, and we've we. We do generally say this one, and the reason is because it's sort of a confluence of all the ones.

So it's like people who really love comedy ride for it. Like, I've been told that, like, Writer's rooms have watched it all together and enjoyed it, which is the highest compliment. And then also, it sounds pretty good, and the video is big and slick, and it feels like big business, which is something else that we were.

That's your sister for me. Uh, scratches. And it's cause it just keeps going and then it, but it's got a real story to it. I love non-musical one, too, I mean, I guess it is still music.

It's still kind of musical, it's not your original music, but it's musical.

And like, someone falls out of frame and you're like, Oh my god, what just happened? Slow reveal. And I remember us being like, That was fucking good. TV and what is that song? So then I was like, You know, what do we do?

We do the same thing over and over again, and then make it go faster and faster.

So we started doing it, but never even finished it. And then I love that that is one that you like, will. Because for us that week it was like, out of desperation, we said, Oh man, let's just try that and then we'll just write an ending for it. And we wrote like, way more, and actually ended up like, well, the cast, first of all, first of.

I just can't get enough of it, so this has been life affirming.

And b. You're very generous and you're very sweet. And any success, and all the success you you, uh, have had and will continue to have, you have completely earned it. Um, there's no hiding, what, you anyway? So it's just awesome. I'm just psyched.

I just think you're a great dude, so, and I am so. We're so grateful.

We did.

You know when you set out to make a cult classic?

And, uh, we'll let's just be friends now and hang out. Jason, it's done, it's done. you can't shake me. Now, we'll find a time and just do it.

I'll put you, I'll put you guys in touch, please do, please, I will, yes, please.

Definitely will. Okay and Sean love you bye guys, I mean, when I say guys.

Baba boy.

And, uh, he's the greatest, the greatest. Created his own lane. New friend. Yeah, and um, yeah, no, he doesn't really. yeah, he's he's stuck with me now.

He doesn't realize it yet, but it's it's going to be a.

He does all always good and.

They needed something.

But if I did have something, it would be, it would go like this, it would go. It would, it would, it would reference Howard Stern and I would say something like, bye, bye, bye.

Bye bye, bye, bye bye.

Bye.

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