Business Meeting, Nurse Nancy, and Andy Popping Into Frame

All right, let's get into it, guys. I got to go.

Why? What do you have to go for?

What's so fucking important? Why do you have to go? A comedy sketch show, Andy.

Oof.

You have to go to watch a comedy sketch show?

It's a long story. Let's talk about it later. It doesn't matter.

No, but I will say, and again, I hope it's a great comedy sketch show, and I'm sure it will be, but that is my nightmare. I've reached the age where that is fully my nightmare. Do you guys ever look back the things you tried to get important people to come to and feel so bad about wanting people to come and see? you do your silly sketches?

Every person in my life that I care about, I've begged and essentially forced to come to multiple bringer shows when I was doing stand-up, and it cost them so much money. Yeah.

Those were a bummer.

And they were brutal, yeah.

All right, let's get into it. Seth, hit it.

This is it.

It's already started, Jorma. I think there's a real problem, Jorma, how often you tell me to start, when in my head I've started.

It's the Lonely Islands of Myers-Porter!

Hey guys, we're going to do a new thing this episode. We're going to do four digital shorts because, let's be honest, they didn't resonate. They lacked a sort of cultural stickiness that a lot of shorts had. Fair?

I think that's a really nice way to put that they all stuck.

That's the nicest way of saying it.

I don't think Body Fusion should be lumped in to that as much.

I agree. I think Body Fusion is great, but also no credit to Andy, no credit to Jorm. You did a great job shooting it, Keefe, but it is sort of... It's Polar's.

We'll get there.

We'll get there. Yeah.

Our work being called lacking cultural stickiness, that would be so nice as a review for some of this stuff.

Yeah, I will say I had a different way of saying it, and then you said here we go during the tee-up, and I realized I had to sort of, I don't know, do sort of like a Scooby-Doo backtrack.

Oh, yeah. Because you thought the burn was coming.

Do the mean version now.

These stunk.

They all sucked.

You piece of shit!

We stand by this. This is our hearts work. They didn't stink, but first of all, because here's a really cool thing. I would have said, you know, one of the things about this era of SNL, which you guys know how I stand, where I stand, and Golden Era. Right.

And Golden.

I always thought, you know, it was very hard for the show to be great without a really strong digital short. And here's the thing. These four shows, looking back on it, are great shows.

Despite us.

Yeah, despite you. Which I think is healthy that there were many times that you guys lifted up the show and then the reality was this show could also be fine with that, I guess. But I want to start with Jeremy Pippen.

Strong disagree, is what I'm reading on Jorma's face right now.

Oh, I feel like I was involved.

in making some of these shows better. I mean, the MacGrubers in here, the first MacGrubers in here, I feel like that was good.

Oh my God, we'll get to it. This is literally like somebody trying to make an opening statement in court when the prosecution is making theirs.

Guys, fair.

First episode, we're going to talk about is January 20th, 2007.

Listen, just keep leaving Body Fusion out of that.

I'm not leaving Body Fusion out of that. I'm doing the first Pippen, the digital short is Movie Trailer.

Was that made for that show?

No, and I believe, now again, we are doing these so far apart, we have no memory. If we repeat ourselves every episode, it can't be helped. But I believe it cut for dress in one of our previous podcast episodes. And I think we've even brought it up on one of the other episodes because we saw it in cut for dress.

This is only a minute 10.

Yes, and we're going to watch your face and we're going to narrate your face as you watch it.

Yeah, you just go ahead and take off your headphones so you can't hear us.

This February, the doctor.

Scalpel. He's smiling. He's smiling.

He likes it.

Nurse Nancy, starring Scott Garbasiak.

Now I really feel like he and I are going to go to war over whether or not it's good.

I think he's embarrassed.

He's like, I really like it.

Part of it's knowing how you're feeling, Seth. I think he's kind of coaxing the bigger chuckles. Some head shaking. Disappointed head shaking.

I do like, I do like Garbasiak.

Garbasiak's a good name.

A rare Yorb VO, too.

Scott Garbasiak.

Scott Garbasiak. And Scott Garbasiak.

This is Sean Penn.

Scott Garbasiak.

I now pronounce you, man and wife.

Come on, guys. I was hungry.

That was a nod to Liz there. And her love of American.

Nurse, Nancy.

Coming this February.

Okay.

Okay. Short. It was short. Very short.

I'm caught up. How'd we clear those songs? First off, I think it had Bust a Move and Who Let the Dogs Out and Boom, I Got Your Boyfriend all in it.

Yeah, we didn't care about reruns. We knew what we had and we knew that we didn't want it to ever repeat.

Ah, so you would just throw the music out there.

I mean, should we kick it off, Seth? Should we talk about how we feel?

Yeah, kick it. Kick it off.

I mean, I respect how hateful it is.

Yeah. I also feel, do you guys feel this way? I now think about Nutty Professor as a masterpiece.

Yes. Never seen it.

Is that true?

Yeah. Okay. I genuinely think Eddie Murphy should have won an Oscar for the first Nutty Professor movie.

I remember being in the theater, doubled over for like eight minutes of that movie. Just being like, oh my God, this is so funny.

Yes.

And it's kind of exactly what we're making fun of in that short.

The dinner table scene in the first Nutty Professor movie, I have maybe watched on YouTube as much as I've watched the bar scene from Inglourious Basterds. Like, I think it's just a perfect piece of cinema.

The craziest thing about that is that the bar scene in Inglourious Basterds is also all Eddie Murphy.

But almost too good, right? The makeup was too good. It's too good.

But this is based on Norbit and the Klumps, I'm assuming. Nutty Professors, 1996.. What year are we now?

2006?

07.

So a lot has happened, probably since then.

A lot has happened. And probably not just Eddie Murphy film.

But I will say this, Seth, for how you can judge things occasionally, and occasionally I don't know where you're going to shake out on that, having you say that you thought he deserved, like, makes me really happy. Because I really do remember being in the theater just dying. So it makes me really happy that you liked it.

Thank you for saying that.

I never saw it, as mentioned.

Let's watch it right now.

I just was like, I'm an actor. Here's an assignment. I didn't even know what the context was.

You had no idea. You're like, why should I do this? Yeah, that's what it reads in the thing. You're not owning it at all.

Yeah.

What a wonderful opportunity to play many roles.

But the meanness in it is interesting that you note, and that is what makes us like it. But it didn't come from us because we didn't write this. None of us did. No. These are some of the rare ones that did not come from us.

That's right.

Which character do you like playing the most, Andy? Out of all of them.

I mean, they're like my children. I can't choose.

You can't choose.

I truly didn't remember what was going to happen in this one, which is also rare. Usually, they start playing and I go, oh, yeah. But this one was just a total surprise.

I had forgotten all of it. I forgot that the name was Scott Garbasiak, which also just makes me giggle immediately.

Yeah, Garbasiak's good.

I forgot Jorm stole that VO money from Higgins, like a motherfucking champ.

Finally.

Yeah, really did.

Got my 400.

So again, not the most memorable, but you guys, weirdly, also the birth of a new sort of ersatz digital short, which is MacGruber. Now, you wrote and directed MacGruber's. You wrote him with Solomon and Forte. Yeah. One of my all-time favorite things that ever happened in SNL was MacGruber.

The story I tell, which I think is accurate, was that it was a pitch for the Lance Armstrong show. And it was for Lance to play MacGyver's stepbrother, MacGruber, which already doesn't make any sense. And instead of defusing bombs, he obviously doesn't use guns or anything. He just uses, like little bound objects, things like pieces of shit and pubic hair. So none of his assistants want to touch any of the items when he desperately needs them.

JoJo, grab that twine. I'm on it.

Casey, gum wrapper.

Right here. JoJo, that dog turd.

What?

The dog turd, right by your foot. I'm not picking up that dog turd. Ten seconds.

You heard her, JoJo. Give me the dog turd.

No, why do we need a dog turd? That's my business. Now pick up the dog turd.

Just give him the dog turd.

You give the dog turd. Yeah, Casey, give me the dog turd. No, I can't. I'm keeping count. Three seconds.

That is.

That's what I was talking about with the judgment earlier.

I better know what I'm going to get with you. Maybe even a little better. There might have been like a Livestrong tie-in and people would have been showing up to have a grooming. Damn, slam.

Might have made more money. No,

And Lorne. And Lorne. I mean, let's remember, the arbiter of taste, Lorne.

Exactly.

You know who wasn't terrified of the pitch?

Who?

Pelé. Oh. Pelé, the Brazilian soccer player?

He dominated the pitch.

You kind of went overseas with that one.

Well, he dominated the pitch.

He dominated the pitch.

He wasn't afraid of it. He couldn't wait to get out there every day.

He was cool as the proverbial cucumber.

I think the angriest I am at the long walk you just took us on is the way you said, Pelé. Yeah, I knew it would be.

I wasn't sure. Was Pelé known to be cool as a cucumber? I just didn't know.

The proof is in the pudding, Keeve. Bicycle kicks much?

When you watch old Pelé highlights, the whole time, you just hear him going, Oh, fuck, fuck, fuck. I don't know what I'm doing. No, no, no, no, no, no. I will tell you who genuinely was not afraid of the pitch was Will Ferrell. And again, I only saw his last year of pitching, so he might have been nervous about pitching early on in his time in the show.

Okay, well, for those of us that were terrified of it, MacGruber got a really bad reaction. My second pitch that day, I remember, because that one got a groan. And then the second one was a spoof commercial for a new kind of chunky mayonnaise that also got like, basically booed. And then I believe it was like another month of me trying to repitch it to Forte and be like, what if we did this, though? What if he played MacGruber?

To the R&B group.

The R&B group.

It makes a lot of sense, actually.

Yeah, Casey, Jojo. It was wonderful.

By the way, I want Forte to give his version of what he thinks how MacGruber came about, because that's probably different than mine. Okay.

My recollection of how MacGruber came about, John Solomon and I were supposed to write with Jorma on a Tuesday night and Jorma came in and pitched this idea about this character called MacGruber, who was MacGyver's younger brother, who was just pretty shitty at doing the same thing that MacGyver does. And we thought it sounded pretty dumb. So we just said, no, let's think of something else. And then, a week later, we got together to write again and Jorma pitched it again, equally as excited about it. And John and I were equally as unenthusiastic about it.

I love you guys.

I just wanna say something about this episode. So we got Nurse Nancy, which is not gonna make the Criterion Collection of the digital shorts, but we have the first MacGruber, huge. We got A-holes, huge. We got, I think, our second Blizzard Man with Common. Yes.

Seth's corner, you're all invited. Seth's corner, it's happening right now. Take it away, Seth.

Weekend Update, the first really, was in This Weekend Update, which is huge. Genuinely a huge moment for my time at Weekend Update and really, never would've come up with it on my own, was a gift from Andy Samberg. Whoa.

That is true.

He even gave it to me at a more important time than a week where we had a show. He gave it to me when I auditioned for Weekend Update, and I was working on my audition for Weekend Update, and Andy came to my office, said, you should do a bit, called Really, and I said, why? And he said, that's how you talk all the time.

I said, my favorite version of you is when you show up to the office mad about something that's happening in the world or in your life, and you get so worked up that you go,

really, that's what we're doing?

That's the way? And you always, when you bring that venom, and it comes from your soul, and you combine it with your comedy mind, it always would make me laugh the hardest you could make me laugh. I didn't remember it was before your audition, though. I thought it was after you already got Update.

No, no, no. It was because I wrote a Really for my audition.

That's awesome, yeah.

And then it says what you trotted it out for. Do you remember what it was?

It was for Michael Vick. Michael Vick got arrested for trying to bring weed onto a plane. Michael Vick's alleged attempt to bring marijuana onto a plane raises many questions, questions we will now address in a new segment on Weekend Update called Really. What's happening?

And you got caught at the Miami airport.

Really?

You didn't think they'd check for drugs at the airport in Miami?

Really? And Seth, in return for me helping you create that, you cut two things of mine from Update. Looking at the rundown. Starting off a long trend of you gatekeeping me from glory in your sacred space. Only pre-tapes, Andy, he'd say, as he patted me condescendingly on the head.

You're better with an edit. pass, my child.

Wait, what got cut, so we can judge whether they should have been cut?

It's just one here.

Well, I apparently helped Solomon and Forte write a Jim Caviezel piece for Will Forte. As well as a piece called Mustache, starring me, written by me, Solomon, Jost, Doug Ables, Charlie Grandy, and Baze, apparently. Wow.

Too many people.

The full Update team. Yeah, I know.

Do you remember what it was?

I have no idea what it was.

Mustache is. you came out to give your review of the Oscars, maybe the Golden Globes. It was an award show. You came out with a mustache. And pretty much only had nice things to say about actors who had mustaches.

I mean, it sounds like a good premise. that was also incredibly topical. Award show just had aired.

Yeah, that part was good.

But I guess not good enough.

I wrote a scene called Unicorn. You guys remember Unicorn? I had to look it back up again. It is basically a town. that's voting on whether they should tear down Unicorn Forest to build a mall, and everybody wants to.

It's one of my favorites.

By the way, it was high in the show.

Oh yeah, yeah. It's the primo spot after first commercial break.

Yeah, it was super high. It's NFL commentators, Sandberg, Jost, Murray. Primo spot. You were a kid who had won a contest to go into the booth.

Yes, yes, yes.

To be a live broadcast at an NFL game. And you said, that'll move the chains, no matter what had just happened. That's right.

Lead along the sideline to Reggie Wayne. First down Colts.

That'll move the chains.

It certainly will, daddy.

Wow, it looks like someone's been brushing up on his football terminology. Nice job, Danny. I'm trying.

Now it's Manning on the quick snap. Hands to Adea.

And he picks up about four yards. That'll move the chains.

And the pass falls incomplete. And the chains move.

And it worked pretty well. It did.

It played nice. I feel like people still like once every five years will say that to me.

Yeah. I mean, I can't hear that'll move the chains without thinking about it. So I feel like that's a win on your, but my favorite story about it, which I often tell, and we'll get to it. Cause I think it aired two months later, maybe even less. You came into my office and I said, what are you working on this week?

Didn't we do a second one, though?

Yes, it was basketball. And I think it was from downtown, maybe.

Or nothing, but the bottom of the net, maybe.

That might be it. It was a very novel re-imagining.

I feel like you got, that'll move the chains back in there too.

Probably said that'll move the chains. I wonder if we got in, Yoram, you know how much. I wanted to say this on something. Thunder Dan is in Fuego from downtown.

Yeah, that was like your main thing.

Yeah, with a lisp, though.

Thunder Dan is in Fuego.

Yeah, it always got me. Still does.

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I can't stop loving concerts. Thanks, Seth.

One of the greatest concerts I ever saw in my life. You know what it was?

Was it my brother's band?

It was the Lonely Island concert.

Oh, I like those guys too.

Yeah, it was fantastic. And if you love going to concerts or other events, you know, I can tell you one of my favorite things to do is using Game Time, because it makes getting tickets for concerts and events faster, easier. Even if you don't buy tickets right away, prices on the Game Time app actually go down the closer it gets to showtime. So for guys like you and I, who maybe make our decision late in the game, all of a sudden an evening, an evening opens up for us.

Yeah, which it never does, it's a swamp.

Yeah, but then all of a sudden you're like, look, what are we gonna do? We just gonna stay at home and watch TV, or we get to go to the Game Time app and look it up. One of the bands we love is doing a concert locally. We should go check it out. Let's do it.

I am, I'm in Finland right now, as we speak.

I feel like every time I'm looking for you, you're in another country and look, you can walk around town and you can maybe learn how they say hello, how they say goodbye, how they say, sir, you're in the bike lane, because I know you like to just set up shop in the middle of a bike lane.

I do what I want.

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All right, moving on. Next show, Drew Barrymore, February 3rd, 2007.. Digital short. This one came from Amy Poehler and it's listed as workout video, but what would you think of it? as if you gave it a title, Akiva?

Body fusion.

Yeah, body fusion.

Body fusion.

I think it was just confusing or came in late, and so we just called it workout video.

Let's tone our arms. You can use weights or any household item for a more advanced workout. Use one pound hand weights.

Thanks for that.

It has a grainy VHS quality and I remember you saying did you shoot it and then transfer it to VHS?

And then sort of crumple the tape. Yeah, it was experimental and I was really proud of having thought of it. There were some old VHS stacks still at SNL that weren't really plugged in and we went and dug them out And then we shot it on the normal kind of studio cameras, But at a good frame rate. that looks like old stuff. and then we copied it on to VHS tapes And we copied it onto them at different speeds.

I remember also being impressed when you suggested doing it and that SNL had machines. Yeah, it's obvious when you think about it.

But I was gonna say I thought it was obvious. Yeah. Thank you.

Anytime there is that plug-in or that effect. if you watch it long enough, You can tell it's an effect, and the great thing about this was because you had done it manually. There was a unpredictability to it that made it so authentic and great, And I remember it was one of those that was beloved. without necessarily having a ton of laughs in it. You just felt everybody watching it.

Actually, there was more laughs than I was expecting, because what you just said was my memory of it as well that people just were Being charmed by their performances and their little looks they're giving each other and stuff. But then I was surprised to actually hear some actual laughs in there as well.

I think it's a very special one, body fusion. I do put it in the criterion collection for its uniqueness.

Yeah, exactly because it's so different from everything else and it was such a fun idea.

There's a reason. I made it into the hundredth digital short, the roundup recap of all things we were proud of. Yes, it did.

Yeah, all right.

You see the body fusion ladies for a second body fusion. lady body fusion.

Not just because the style of it, because polar had a good idea, and now, when you watch it, you're like, oh, yeah, I've seen a hundred things like this. But at that moment it felt like, in my opinion, like a new thought to have yes on her part and then Keeves delivery of it.

Yeah, the concept of that, the exercise videos, have the lady doing the hard version, the medium version and the easy version. I didn't even know that existed in exercise videos. Yes, and she had to explain to me what it was. and now, as someone who's lived 20 more years,

I've seen those videos pretty accurate. also, a show that had some historical significance, I'm pretty sure. the first Dakota fanning show, which was a fun little Impression for polar over the years to do and gave hosts fun things to do. There was a great Donatella. There was Target lady.

Sounds like we would have wrote it. Yeah, that wasn't right. Yeah, That's our territory.

Hi, I'm Charlie McGee, but you probably know me better as fire starter.

Fire starter brand smoked sausages cooked in fires. She starts with a mine. Then we have Forrest Whitaker. you guys, the Forrest Whitaker show the digital short. is Andy pop again a frame.

Let's talk about it. Talk me through it. Can we first just talk about how wonderful Forrest Whitaker was sure?

Let's distract from the fact that we made Andy popping different. Yeah, Why are you doing that to your compadre? I was just so. I was so disappointed. I was so disappointed watching it.

Let's remember that we're editing hot rod. This is crunch time editing hot rod. Sure. We're talking February 2007. We have a summer release date.

Yeah, and I was doing my Gerber, so I was distracted.

Maybe we had a test screening or something coming up and he was like, okay, fine, You can miss this week and I did not come in at all for that one. when you guys did, blizzard man would come and I just like read the script on the couch at the editing room, and that was it.

That was the only one that he let you offer. Oh, yeah. Yes, in my memory.

Yes, but it was a big deal. when he said it, it was like a snow day for a kid. Yeah, like it was like, oh my god. I just got the whole week. I get to work on the movie.

I can work that you're also producing. Yeah, I can't believe how much you remember. sometimes, Keith, It's all a big shmooey blob. to me. It's just specific.

I didn't remember the nurse, Nancy stuff until right now, But the Piven when I remember not being there because it was weird to not be there for a week, Seth.

Do you remember every guest that's been on your show like vividly? No, okay, weird. Well, you admit it. Yeah, I do admit it.

Okay, but Akiva, for Andy popping in a frame, you said earlier, but you thought that this was groundbreaking at a time.

I'm paraphrasing what you said. Well, it to be willing to be this naked on screen, I mean protected by the written word, or joke that it was almost punk rock. Yeah. Yeah, Yeah, it was. let me go into something that I forget to do the comments.

Yeah, I mean, I think, even as we were making that one. We knew it wasn't that great. Is this enough? It was experimental. It was gonna be all style and it was gonna be more like, kind of the interstitial stuff We had shot for awesometown, and I believe one of us, possibly even me, said out loud while we were cutting it People who don't like me are gonna really hate this.

I think that's also cuz you do look kind of cute. Oh, you're, you do look, you're pretty cute on screen. Like, I'm like, oh, look at that adorable guy. And if I didn't like you, I'd be like fuck this guy. I agree, Yoram.

I'm gonna tell you, one of my biggest takeaways from watching. This was damn. Andy was handsome. I was endeared to him at the time, or else I would hated him too. Y'all are nice.

It's also like the show is so polished that sometimes we would go. What if we do something that is premiseless? Yeah, that is very unpopular and like play with expectations. It's almost good. You feel it working because it does the thing.

I think I would have liked it a lot more, and this was was this the beginning of us doing like a Stupid beat that I had made kind of thing like, because we ended up doing this kind of thing a bunch of times like yes.

We ended up doing two more. We did punch before eating and we did the extreme competition, which I like. both of those better.

But there's a lot more to laugh at it. Well, yeah.

I mean the first MacGruber wasn't as good as the later ones either, right? That's true. Yeah, I've been notified, Seth, that there was an out-of-breath jogger cut from this episode from 1933.

You know me to hit you with a little taste, cuz it never aired. Yeah. Yeah. Well, before you read it, Andy, Let me just say I'm devastated at our choice and I'm sure, when I hear it now, I will realize that this would have changed the trajectory of the show.

Now a moment with the out-of-breath jogger from 1933. It would be me in a 30s full-piece swimsuit, sir, that's what joggers would wear a swimsuit. Yeah, who this depressions the worst, huh? Ah, You see that movie, King Kong, the first one Supposed to be awesome. Ah, This Adolf Hitler character seems to be stirring up a lot of trouble.

Al Capone.

Al Capone. the idea that they would cut something that's like a minute long is a little unfair.

I don't even know which one of those is supposed to get a laugh, Because again, the out-of-breath jogger from the 80s, like 80s jogger already, is funny. Yeah, also, 80s references are ones that are a little bit more fun to hear, certainly in the mid 2000s, and now you go back to 19. it's really funny that you tried.

Okay, but but the speed at which jokes would be coming at you and the look of it. It would be black and white. It would be old-timey footage, but why not something that is just a little fun pop like that.

You know, I mean probably cuz it died and we had better stuff, is my guess. Yeah, he third bin went over.

I have a memory of something else that got cut in the Forest Whitaker show that I wrote called meet the boss.

Do you guys remember? meet the boss? I remember this. I love this sketch. I was so sad when the King of Scotland sketch.

yes, Forrest Whitaker was hosting on the back of last King of Scotland, for which he was Oscar-nominated, and I wrote a sketch where Idi Amin was the new boss at a mid-level office, by the way it.

Fucking destroyed at the table. I quoted all the time.

Right at the table. Yes, I will not, on this podcast, do my impression of Forrest Whitaker's Idi Amin, because I feel as though nobody wants that really.

I mean, I would desperately want it, but I think it's a good guy.

Yes, not, but if you can imagine, it was a lot of Forrest Whitaker's Idi Amin being upset that someone ate his yogurt, Even though he had labeled it. Yeah, I quote it to my kids all the time, and the part about it that I still feel a little bad about is Obviously Forrest Whitaker is an actor of an incredible skill. There is a heft he brings to his performances, there is work he goes into finding a character, and I think he took a journey to find a place to play Idi Amin and Then for me to immediately make it a sketch character. He had a lot of questions about is it funny for this character to be saying this stuff? and all?

He was giving an Oscar caliber Idi Amin for who ate his yogurt. it was so funny.

It was so funny. And how did it play a dress? Not great, I should say it didn't play great, but also it maybe would have gone, and I have nothing but respect for this choice. You could tell it just wasn't that much fun for him and it was better not to do it.

I think that's why I liked it, though, because he was actually giving sort of more of a dramatic performance.

It was that I'm gonna say something. That is my theory and was my theory at the time. our SNL audience 100% had not seen that movie. Yeah, and that was the problem, right?

There's a scene in that movie where James McAvoy is his doctor. It's called in for an emergency, Do you remember? and then he takes a baseball bat? Holds it across his stomach, Idi Amin stomach and just applies pressure, and he lets out a gigantic fart. And that's when they kind of fall in love.

It's all based on a fart. It's also one of the longest farts that you've ever seen on film, right?

Yeah, I mean, it's like it feels like it's like a 30-second part. It's very long and the entire relationship is predicated on that fart. It's a very serious Oscar movie where they're like and the inciting incident is a fart. It's true.

I will say another thing. I cannot hear without thinking about this show and Forrest Whitaker is The Elton John song. don't let the sun go down on me. Do you remember the scene where Forrest Whitaker is a waiter? He's a singing waiter and he keeps singing it and he keeps singing it, going up one octave each time.

Is that a digital short? no, no, I would have count.

Oh, you would not count it just because it didn't have the slate. It didn't have the tag on it. I would count it because I helped you and work on it too. If body fusion counts, it should count.

It came exclusively out of our office. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

It's the shortest little piece of animation, the joke being that it's a documentary that was sent in to a wildlife channel. That's been given to them by a group of students at Staten Island Technical High School, And then they play the video and it's supposed to be about sloths and supposed to be educational, But the person who's presenting it hasn't seen it yet, And that's Kristen Wiig who's presenting it and she hasn't seen it, But she's heard. it's very educational and then it breaks very quickly into a sort of aggressive.

rock.

medley kind of song and then horrifyingly bad animation that I did on Final Cut of.

Sloths like shooting Uzi's and I feel like stylistically it was kind of the precursor to O'Brien's.

Insane clown posse thing. Yeah, it had a lot of that fast pace.

Can I just say so? one thing about sloths, real quick, please. first of all, Keeve, I remember distinctly you saying that this was reductive and That it was too much like a commercial and you didn't want me to do it. And then, after I spent five days of 12 hours a day of doing animation, you're like, yeah, it's pretty good. I don't know if you remember.

I remember the part saying it was pretty good, but I didn't remember the negative part.

Yeah, you thought. you thought it was like a squirrel thing. There was some squirrel advertisement that you were like, you can't do this because it's like these squirrels. What I learned making the sloth thing was the song was made. I had done all this animation for these sloths being crazy and clearly not acting like sloths.

Can you play it real quick so we can listen to sloth. and today? I'd like to talk about some very special animals that don't get much attention. sloths, They're furry. They have two or three toes.

This has been a message from the Staten Island Zoo, hey, Jost, VO.

Well, it was a Staten Island Technical High School, because that's where his dad worked.

Even better than I remember. gentlemen. Yeah, I forgot me and suds were on it. Yeah, track. You guys are rocking it.

Incredible heightening on the lyrics. Mm-hmm. I mean shank your mom with a pterodactyl dick bone.

I'm pretty sure that was you, and and then I was Murray did. did Matt Murray do America's Graves? don't do cocaine up America's gravestone.

It has a real Natalie's wrap, heightening to how bad, how quickly it gets. terrible in that. Those are things you should never say.

Yes, it's just a go off the rails pretty quickly. Did you see the comment?

But the America's Gravestone is the best Beck Odele line that was never recorded. Really good. It's a really good YouTube comment. That's a good comment. So, you know what?

It's much more on brand for us, frankly. Yes.

Yeah, I didn't remember that it was a song with lyrics either, which, I think you're correct me if I'm wrong progressed throughout the week.

No, no, we had to make it first, cuz I had to animate to it. Yeah, We actually recorded it really early on in the week because I was animating all week. It took forever because I was animated in Final Cut, which is not an animation program, right?

The part that really got me arm that I had fully forgotten about was cutting to sloth from Goonies threading on a lecture.

Yeah, I did a bit during the pandemic. I think it was during the pandemic where I said that I had been going to impression camp And the first rule of impression camp is don't do sloth.

People would say what are you doing? You know, but it's you've you seen, Goonies. It's a great sloth.

You guys probably remember that Keenan and Joe shared an office and had a Goonies poster on the door. Do you remember that that it just hung there forever? Yeah, and when Josh Brolin hosted, he walked up. He's like there I am Like. he's so young and Goonies.

Well, sir, our online division is hemorrhaging money. I say we lose it. Okay, Peter. I gotta go with Dan here, Derek, I'd lose tech support. Okay, red downsize research water guy.

I agree with what Derek said. Mountain, Joe. We could consolidate marketing snake eyes, scale back IT Chief big cloud long before sister. Now, Gary. Sorry, I enjoyed watching business meeting because it highlights that wonderful cast, But it does end in a real Seth unfriendly way.

Did it air after MacGruber? the first MacGruber? Yeah. Yeah, so that's bad.

Did you use that building ever in a MacGruber, the stock shop? No, because my girl is always exploding.

Yeah, that was a detonation. Oh, this was the demolition is the same idea.

By the way, there's a strong chance at that point that none of us are thinking there's gonna be another MacGruber. true, So we probably thought it was like a funny callback to MacGruber, is my guess. Yeah, this was a Tocconi Jost.

Sandberg joint it was. I remember, though, that Seth did a lot.

I think I directed this one tonight. you did direct it and it was fun and rain Wilson's very good in it and all Of our cast is really good in it, and shoemaker son Austin is in it and shoemaker is in it, And I like that about it, there's some good jokes.

This was another one, you arm, where I was so busy trying to edit, but I did come in. I was in that room, But you guys had wrote it, you were in charge of it and I came in, I remember, and we just talked to eye lines A little bit. Oh, yeah, because it's kind of complicated, and it was like, oh no, here's the rule If you shoot rain straight down the middle, so when he turns to the left, he's looking camera left, He turns the right, is looking camera, right? Then you can just shoot everybody on this side this way, right, this way, this way, and you never have to like worry about it. And we I remember us working it all out.

Yeah, because because there's a lot of like people who appear and then disappear, so thing as other care. Yes, which I really like.

I think too. Yeah, it all works pretty well. I like the arcade fire cameo made me happy.

I will say I also had that delicious turkey sub puppet in my house forever until it fell apart and the tiger wasn't the tiger Like on the wall in our office. Yeah. Oh, yeah. the head mounted tiger head who didn't come prepared for the meeting.

Also, I want to give a shout out to another beginning of a franchise Danny song, Which were those really fun sing-along songs that Sudeikis and Tucker wrote and was Andy Sudeikis, bill and forte.

Those are always good times. Yeah, there's also a really good your um dances along to arcade fire. What would have been now a tick-tock? An Instagram story real, where we would use a small digital camera like a photo camera, because phones couldn't even take video back then, And we would do a little video of your I'm dancing to the musical guest during rehearsals.

And we did a good one with arcade fire. I was in my underwear. I believe, for that one.

Yeah, you also can't do that, probably anymore guys.

I was watching business meeting. what I miss now that we're just talking about me getting naked in front of arcade fire.

Oh, yeah, so, guys, as we sort of finish up here, I just want to say we've finished four shows And again, maybe sloth. as we look back, I would say sloth and body fusion would be ones you'd want to talk about years later. But also great work was done outside of the digital shorts. This is the dawn of an era where we get value from you guys. That's not just your precious little videos.

They were great, but we didn't write that. isn't that Tucker? Yeah, I was saying Sudeikis and Tucker.

I was saying, but you're in him. Yeah, you're really good. No, thanks. You guys, I really have to go. I'm sorry, we all have to go.