Laser Cats!

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Yeah, I'm on so much, joff.

You've always called it, joff.

Well, what we've called it is crawdad.

Yeah, we were sipping that, crawdad.

That crawdad.

Oh, my God. Member. This is SNL related.

OK. Member.

When they opened a blue bottle in the basement of 30 Rock. Yeah. Changed my fucking life.

Blue bottle is really good. Also, the Blue Bottle app. Shout out to Blue Bottle, our sponsor, guys.

Hopefully. No, that's not the case.

Oh, well, you don't know.

That was real smooth, though.

It was really good.

It's like, oh, must have missed that email.

Hey,

Oh, you guys, bad news. I just had another sip. Ruh-puh-puh-puh-puh-puh-puh-puh. Little drummer boy drumming on his drum.

Grum-tum-tiddle-um-tum.

Oh, God. How many coffees would you guys have on Tuesday night, SNL?

Hmm, two.

Tuesday? Yeah.

But lattes. So we're talking spress.

Yeah, yeah.

But those would be like big old lattes, right? Would they be like a four shotter kinda thing?

Well, it depends. Are we going Blue Bottle? Are we going Duncan?

That was mean.

I did a lot of Duncan.

Two giant Duncans and maybe three sugar-free Red Bulls. Do you guys remember I drank so many Red Bulls? the Red Bull gave me my own little fridge in my office. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, we drank Red Bull and vodka. I did do that. That was not a work thing.

Guys, this episode is about laser cats and obviously, and a lot about coffee as well. Yeah, of course, but it's about laser cats. and before we get into laser cats, which is, I mean, I guess, the longest recurring one a year, right, seven total. Yeah, it's the only one we did every year. We were there.

I feel worse, but not nearly as bad as you should feel, for naming a female dog frisbee, Which is clearly, with some Dorfey dudes name. who named frisbee. Excuse me.

Frisbee is completely gender-neutral. who named the dog. I did. It's clearly a doofy, dude.

That's a doofy doodame. if you're writing an 80s comedy about doofy dudes, would be like, yeah, there's my bro frisbee.

That's fair. But you gotta say it matches frisbees. Look, it's a good name for the dog, but only because of how ugly is frisbee ugly Sandberg, thinks she. let's make it clear.

Okay, first off disclaimer. I'm on job. Okay, so everyone needs to know that right now before you judge me, and, by the way, I have a dog lover.

I'm not, but I really don't like frisbee and I like most dogs.

But frisbee's a little strange, looking as a dog, nothing personal set.

It's like no one will tell you. you got a weird-looking kid.

You know for the type of dog frisbee is. isn't frisbee completely average-looking. I would say she's cute actually for the type of dog.

Yeah, I think frisbee is a beautiful dog. And I think frisbee is gorgeous.

We're not talking about her spirit, though, like the way she looks, her spirit is actually fairly ugly.

She's got cute little sad eyes. frisbees. Not a good dog. Let me make that clear. I did a photo shoot with the magazine.

Again, like lest ye judge. I'm on job.

Do any of you currently have pets? Yes. What do you have your arm? I have a cat named Cleo.

Okay, and then, Willie, the original laser cat is the face of the cat that is coming up over the nuclear explosion. But we can get to that. we can get to that when we get to talking about this, Kevin.

What is this photo of me sharing a milkshake with frisbee? You're also wrapped in toilet paper.

Is that where the doink fell off? photo is from? Yeah.

We did a very beloved bit where Andy played a recently disturbed mummy. There was an article about some mummies had been disturbed and Shoemaker came to my office and said, you know, If we were still working at SNL We'd write an update feature where Andy was a recently disturbed mummy and I said well, We should just write it and see if he'll do it. It was during the pandemic. So it was on zoom. With the classic line, my doink fell off.

You guys sent me a full costume and then instead I just wrapped myself in toilet paper. You didn't know that until I logged on, and that was a fun moment for me.

Now that is actually a good segue, because that's some real lo-fi, Low budget comedy, which is what we're dealing with with laser cats. And let me just say, you know, here we are nearing the end of your first season. totally new Laser cats is very unique to anything you've done so far, and it was originally written as a sketch. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yes, it was a sketch, a bad sketch, a badly written sketch, so bad.

I had forgotten how bad and then for the listener, we were sent it this morning to reread.

Did you remember that we had done it? Andy? I did not remember that. I did not remember either.

I remembered you pitching it and then us being like we should try and do it live, But I didn't remember we'd actually written it and how fucking weird and bad it is.

It's terrible and it's so short. At least we sort of knew it was bad because we clearly held back from writing seven pages of it.

Do you want to really quickly explain Akiva what the premise of the live version of the sketch was?

I just want to say first of all, there's eight pages of it. Is it eight pages?

It looked like it was like nothing. It didn't break down by pages on that. Oh, no. This is where it comes out. That's way worse.

Garbage, your arm can't read or count.

That's true. I was hoping to avoid scandal on this PCAST, but now it's come out, your can't count.

I mean remember how short it was. it was somewhere between like one and a hundred pages. Oh, this mud's got me flying key.

That cup of mud really got this guy. Why yeah, that couple mud is going right through you. He's gonna have to go to the bathroom.

The.

Premise of the live sketch Version was that in the future, a nuclear war has happened and cats can now shoot lasers out of their mouths. It was written for the Natalie Portman show. Apparently it was Andy and Natalie as a couple who have decided to start a business catching laser cats and repackaging them and selling them as cats that can shoot lasers out of their mouths and Everyone can just grab one off the street. So there's no point to the business at all. And then the business is failing.

When you explain it. it makes perfect sense, it does explain better than it reads and it flew by apparently. I will say There's one element here that you guys think there's maybe something to, which is cats who can shoot lasers, And I'm assuming that is now. you're jumping off point for doing this as a digital short.

Yes, and to be fair though, your ma owned a cat and he would hold it and pretend it was a gun, a laser gun. That's the whole thing, right? Yes, my cat, Willie.

I would hold the cat with my hand before the front legs and I would cock it and pretend to shoot my wife with lasers, and.

I'm just excited. I'm still married guys. Yeah, you're being gentle with the cat. Yeah, you were being gentle.

Yeah, I was more the wife part of that that you wouldn't think that anyone would want to stay with that guy.

That's true. or hit the jackpot. Yeah. Yeah, just running around, going pew, pew, pew, pew, pew.

Now there's gonna be seven laser cats, and I am gonna look at it with fresh eyes, Like I looked at this first one earlier today. I also am just going to be fully honest. I was not an instant convert to laser cats. No, nor should you have been wait, wait, wait to double down.

Were you ever, though? I don't know. Yeah, now we're getting down to it.

I gotta say, like when people come to me and ask, not that they often do, I should stress. But if people would ask what's your favorite digital short? I think I'd get way down the list before we started bumping into laser cats. Now. There are moments in laser cats, I think, as it goes later, that I enjoy, but this first one you hate it.

Okay, starting with the positive. That's all right, but you know what I'll say for a pre tape. That's not bad.

That's not bad. watching it again. It doesn't feel like the audience is fully on board. Would you say that's accurate?

That was just because it was our first year and I think that they were just warming up to us. I think later on they would have been totally on board.

Yeah, I think the lo-fi is a bit abrasive and it's purposely so, but that can be a little hard to latch on to.

yeah, I will say it's one of my favorites for that reason of I like that it has a distinct contrast from the rest of the HD show and that it's basically like Knucklehead twelve-year-olds running around 30, rock, being obnoxious and like driving a jazzy scooter souped up to look like a spaceship. It's just. it feels very inappropriate in good ways to me, the key, obviously framing device of it.

That is one of the things I do like a great deal. is It always begins with Bill and Andy trying to pitch this idea to Lauren. Do you guys remember whose idea was to put that on it? It was definitely not mine, because that's a good idea.

No, it was Akiva's. Okay, I remember it vividly, and me and your were like. no, but it's funny, cuz I think he was like, I remember the exact words. Basically, you were like the exact words, basically Jesus, This job's got me off, my rocker. You're doing great man.

Lauren, thank you so much for taking the time out to talk. You will not be sorry. I'm sure what's up.

Bill and I stayed up all night all Brainstorming, and what we discovered is that there are two things that everyone loves cats and lasers.

That's right. cats and lasers. So we went out and shot a short film, all on our own. That's full of both cats and lasers, and I gotta tell you, it came out great, Is it? and?

But I will say we put him in his comfort zone. Yes, behind his desk, behind his desk, disliking our pitch, Yeah.

Yeah, I didn't really have to act much.

Draw from life experience. You actually wrote a far more. I don't know straightforward, Lauren, that actually exists. Lauren would never say well, it sounds bad, true, You know, it was aggressive as opposed to passive-aggressive. So it was like a real fictional multiverse, Lauren, that would tell you it's up to your face, right?

Here's something I just remembered, which was that on the MTV Movie Awards the year before, They had come to us, like they do sometimes, with something that'll never happen collateral was coming out. So they said hey, Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx want to do something on the show, and we even were like that'll never happen. But what we wanted to do was something just like this, like a channel 101 super lo-fi. them like to 12 year olds Recreating the famous movies of the year, like with cardboard sets. and there was something about it where we thought like, if the two biggest Movie stars in the world are doing it, It's gonna be so charming, because you know They had a choice to do it at high production values and chose to do it like two little kids.

Sweeted correct, like when people say that it's been like Michelle gondria fide kind of thing. Have you guys heard that term?

That is what they called it in that movie. Is it just in that movie?

Is that term from that movie? because rewind? I think so, or it's where I learned it.

Gotcha, but I don't know why it's called that. I don't mean it does have to do with Swedish people.

I don't know if somebody could look that up. They'd be great, Kevin.

So the other thing is, of course, the premise is that you guys went out and shot it yourself And you are bringing it into Lauren's office and you're showing it to him. Mm-hmm, old school VCR, Which I'm pretty sure is what probably existed in Lauren's office at the time. It's not hard to find, not hard to find in the VCR, and then we get into laser cats. and I should say another thing In general, I don't like it, but there are things I like right? So you hate it.

Yeah, you do something enough against people's will. it becomes like I guess I mean, yeah.

Was this you guys running the point on costumes or was the SNL costume department helping out?

I think we asked for pretty much what it ended up being, and they gave us options and we picked from those, But they always are incredible and give you insanely good choices, really fast.

Yes, but I do remember that the first version, like this one, was shot by us, Right, Keith. like we didn't have a camera person on this one, I think we always shot him ourselves, then me, all the first ones right, like, at a certain point it switched over.

But I don't know. Yeah, but I think laser cats. We always, Yes, little cameras.

but the other thing about laser guys was that the crew was Much, much smaller on this one, because I remember, like when we were doing like the fourth one, looking around and be like why are there? 30 people here?

For something that could be done with to. did we name him nitro and then find the weight belt? that said nitro? No, we must have had the weight belt, and then I was never the weight belt. Yeah, and then we named him nitro.

No, that can't be, that's good writing.

Admiral spaceship and nitro are pretty good names. that can't be. I'm pretty sure it is.

Yeah, come on, like we didn't put it on there.

I think you did, because we don't hear nitros name till later in the piece. I bet you call them something else in that first scene, because you hear Admiral spaceship, but you don't hear nitro.

I bet there was a different name. Does it say in the script that we wrote out?

Do we even have the script, because those scripts wouldn't go into the table read? So they're probably not in the SNL database. Yeah, it would be on one of our computers. I get those computers.

Is it clear that we edited all of the digital shorts, though, like? did people sort of understand that after the writing and shooting of these things, then Akiva and I and Andy would all just go and sit there forever. Is that something we need to take credit for?

That's why the effects are so good. Kevin pulled info on suited films. They are amateur recreations of famous films using limited resources and technology inspired by the 2008 comedy be kind, rewind. Now I just want to point out that laser cats is 2006.

We also didn't start sweeping them until, I mean we were taking ideas from movies, obviously, But like in terms of, like a sweeted film, we did those a little later, like we were doing the James Cameron's, right?

Yes, this does not have any iconic recreations. Yeah, we weren't making Indiana Jones or something first. big laugh, earned laugh for my money is Cocking the cat, taking a live cat and cocking it and hearing the gun cock and the meow and the meow super funny.

Maybe that's what saved my marriage. Maybe my wife saw that and was like, no, I guess he's onto something. Oh, jeez.

I'm getting a transmission from base.

She's in the opening credits.

The nice like sort of pressure release of this sketch is of course, we get to go back to you guys with Lauren.

So, what do you think? Get out.

And again, Lauren gives a great performance in this first laser cats. then I had a real traumatic flashback because it cuts to you guys chowing down popcorn and Lorne Michaels has a giant basket of the best popcorn I've ever eaten in his office at all times. I think popcorn machine popped right? Yes. Yeah, it's not in bags.

Okay, checking, I had it on. do not disturb, because I'm a professional. everybody just wait one second, some sort of side bits occurring. Oh, it's Andy's Wardle score. So he didn't order while we were talking about that.

Yeah, I just wanted everyone to know that he got in for guys.

It's a very average score, for not good. Not bad, by the way.

I also got. he didn't tell me to check my phone, But he also got Queen B on the spelling bee, which he texted me right before this started.

Oh, yeah, I can't believe you didn't lead with that over 50 words. No slouch. Anyways, I did wordle cuz. Seth was telling his popcorn thing. Should we move on?

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That's the only thing because this tux looks good. your, it's a fresh take on athleisure and a staple in your wardrobe. the Sunday Performance joggers. Oh my god, your me. You got to get yourself a pair of Sunday performance joggers.

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We shot in there a lot of times. Yeah. Yeah, we shot everywhere in that building.

Then we get a Lindsay Lohan cameo. She's the host. doesn't have a ton to do in this. I'm assuming she was super busy and you have a small window to use her in. that sounds right, princess, You're being saved by us.

Now that we've rescued you, who would you say you like better between the two of us?

I say Nitro, say Nitro now.

We wouldn't write that now, but it's okay. They're like 13 year olds and it's like their fantasy.

Very much everything about is above board. They're 13 year old dudes asking a cute girl who is absolutely not going for it and tells them to get out of there. Yeah, yeah, it does seem like it ends and you guys know you're gonna do more. Really? Well, Andy dies.

And then there's an obvious 80-yard. No, right. That's like super underplayed, like their parents are awake in the room next door.

That's actually one of my favorite parts of it.

It's when you do a fake yell as a kid where you go really quiet to make it sound far away.

I should know. one of the other fun details, the laser cats is there's a lot of found people in the background. Yeah, yeah, you guys have not cleared the hallways. No, it's real. Oh, yeah.

No.

Those are all people trying to get to work and is the first one where we? Intentionally had a mirror in the shot and you can see tons of people in the mirror.

Oh, no, is that the first one that Simon Rich is the cameraman?

No, no, this one has Kenward walks out of the control room and stops. Oh god. Yeah.

It truly was just us. There was not a single crew member with us.

It was just us running around the hall. Yeah. Yeah, it's only good times. nice mix of real cats and stuffed cats.

That was a real eye-opener, because we were able to get an animal wrangler and it turns out you can't wrangle cats.

They're un wranglable. Keeve just said there was no crew. So no, he lied. Oh, right.

I forgot. there was of course the proper PETA approved wranglers Yeah.

Sure, A lot of those wranglers show up with the news that the animal that they have brought is not actually technically able to be wrangled.

Yes, there's a lot of like. yeah, we can do that.

They have a lot of bad news about the thing you want that animal to do and what it can actually do, right?

Yeah, there's a lot of like. can they go from here to here? Ah, I can try. I guess that's my question when this ends.

Do you think oh, that was great. We should do one again. That was not my thought. No, okay.

But I did like how different it felt from anything else, Not just like you're missing at the top of this how it felt different from what was on the show, But how different it felt from anything that had kind of ever been on the show. So I remember being okay with the fact that it played lukewarm at the audience, because I thought yeah.

But we did something experimental, and then do you hear good things over the course of the summer, say is laser cats something that I would Imagine, especially from your friends in LA? that's kind of lined up with what they knew you for, sort of lo-fi things like that Was everybody. oh my god, that's so awesome that you did your thing on it.

So now there's a certain type of comic-con style person that really gets what we were going for. I think and liked it. I don't know if they were our friends.

one thing that does get routinely confused about laser cats is that whenever you see references to it, people somehow think that the Lasers are coming out of the cat's eyes, which is just bogus. You know, it's a real bugaboo for your arm.

Yeah, cuz it's a solitary laser bolt from their mouth. Yeah, it's a gun and the science supports it.

Yeah, the preamble states they shoot it out of their mouths like. very clearly the heat mechanism is originating from somewhere in their gut, Yeah, and it comes through their throat and out their mouth. when you make it come out their eyes. It makes no fucking sense.

When it was over, did you get the sense that Bill thought? Oh, this was so much fun. We should do more of these.

Yes, I actually do. Yeah, this was a Bill's Ellie.

I mean, I think the playing with sort of action movies cinematropes is right up Bill's alley. Yes,

Yeah, we were also all fans of I may be wrong on this one of when this came out, But Garth Marenghi's dark place was a big hit for all of us. Yeah, I feel like I.

Saw that after we made this, because people said have you seen that? Yes. I think that is right. And then I was like, holy shit. I love this.

Garth Marenghi's dark place is a BBC show about a horror writer who has Written more books than he's read and he has made a 1980s drama sci-fi show that got shelved, And he says that it's been brought out because of the glut of creativity.

This is the worst. a terrible once again, just a terrible intro for this show. Yeah, just cut that all out. We'll just ignore it. It's like a tales from the crypt.

Indian burial. just remembering all the details. Look, it's a dense premise.

You just ride on but the premises do dance. you go, all right. cut his mic, okay.

We did always have the fantasy. I remember we would talk about it that our last laser cats was going to be like a $200,000 JJ Abrams, directed straight up, like as if it had been upgraded and had been given the full studio movie treatment.

I still like this idea. We wanted to do it as a feature. what you're talking about, Keith.

Yeah, but I'm even just saying we always talk about that. the last short could be like a three-minute version, where it's Widescreen and beautifully shot and feels like you're watching the epic, like blockbuster version of it.

Do you guys think that Lauren, low-key, loved being in this? Oh, man, I would never, even, I think, by the end. Yeah, yeah, I think Lauren was very good in it. agree. This one.

Iroly, and those are moves. He's very good at. yeah, he's in his comfort zone and he comes off great.

I want to say a couple things about the show. These are the final days of Seth Meyers trying to grind it out on camera as a cast member. We're almost the end of the season. Oh, no, I get to shake it off. I get to go through a very long, Stressful summer where I'm wondering if I'm gonna get the nod to replace Tina.

She's leaving cuz 30 rock is picked up and she's gonna run that full-time, right?

Yeah, we know there's gonna be. that whole process of fingernail takes over, but I do have an update feature. I play a weatherman who will not admit global warming is a problem. I just think it's end of days.

Stormy, how can you continue to ignore that? global warming is a factor here? What here?

Come on. there can be a number of explanations for this kind of weather.

Like what? Well, my best guess is that it's the end of days. Do you suggest we cut back on fossil fuels or end of days, Tina, not middle of days?

Let's take a look at the five-day forecast.

Okay,

Sunday tornado canes. Monday snow rain and fire. Tuesday and Wednesday Sun goes black and Thursday it explodes.

Somebody thought that would be a difference maker. Yeah, like if it's stormy windbreaker, they're gonna be on your side.

I do think it's better. I mean stormy windbreaker. You know what? It is is. I think, on Tuesday, if you write stormy windbreaker, it seems hacky, But now it's between dress and air and you're like fucking do it.

Like.

Like. it's just so funny how, like the judgey part of you, just dies between dress and air.

Oh, yeah, you're saying anything, anything to not die.

What was that name? We all said fucking sucked on Tuesday.

Go through the garbage can.

The last line was me saying to my dear friends Amy and Tina, who I love very much. My last line was repent, bitches, repent. Oh, yeah, Wow, I think it's a lovely thing to be able to yell to your friends, but I will say that tornado canes He was talking about tornadoes and hurricanes were mating and creating tornado canes And they were like the sharks in deep blue sea. They were getting smarter. Yeah, Not only do the tornado canes cause expected devastation, such as blackouts and structural damage, But they also commit more human crimes like breaking and entering and identity theft, Identity theft.

And you said it played well.

My memory is it played well. The reason I say it played hot and not to keep hammering home what this year was like for me as a cast member. few things did.

It's so interesting, Seth, like I had no Idea. that is how you viewed it at that time, like, as far as we were concerned, We were just like Seth's, older than us. So he's good. You know what I mean? Like.

Very much and you always seemed so calm and collected. I felt like I was having like panic attacks all the time and Even like hearing you were upset. that something got cut is surprising to me.

It was very much a me versus Tina to making the argument and there was sort of an unwritten rule Which is don't fight for your peace. Totally unwritten. but between dress and air, Tina and I at this point she's still head writer, I'm writing supervisor and we both were very good at sticking to that rule. neither of us were known for fighting for our pieces, and Yet it was the last sketch of the night and we were both kind of putting our toe on the line. I think there was a little bit of Dirty pool by both of us.

Man, you landed that plane, baby.

Well, I had to do something that let you keep in. now they have to keep in my earlier popcorn story smart.

That's true, during which I aced wordle I.

Should know. then school announcements cut on air, Which meant that because two of his kids were fighting, Lauren put them both in the show, knowing full Well that one would get pulled. Now the other thing about getting cut on air that makes it even worse. is you got to go get in the costume? Mm-hmm.

Yes. Yes, so humiliating.

Got cut and I didn't have time to change.

I don't know. this cast has to be on stage, right? I never skipped good nights, I never skipped good nights, but is that a rule like? is that an unwritten rule?

That's not. I think you could get away with it. Nobody would notice. Yeah, but I felt there was something so Important and ritualistic about being there for good nights, even if I was in a terrible mood.

I thought it was really special. I agree, but I will say I think I have memories, and Again, this is not a sharp memory, But I feel like in the history of the show during our time there, people would be mad about Whatever happened to their show that night and would skip good nights like out of spite, you know what I mean?

Yeah, well, what you just described sounds like the worst humiliation possible, Especially if you wrote it and we're proud of it and then you're sitting there in the costume. Yeah, so yeah, I would think that somebody must have skipped out. I will say in our era, Andy.

I think most of the people would, when they hugged you during good nights, laugh in a good way.

Oh, yeah, it like points you towards the camera and try and get you on camera.

The thing that would maybe bring me the most shame is if you had to like sit Sort of with your eyes peeled back. What's the famous movie Clockwork Orange? Yeah, Clockwork Orange. if I had a Clockwork Orange all the good nights, where I just sort of awkwardly, was going to hug the host and then someone Else was hugging them and then they were having a conversation and you just kind of get caught.

Standing and waiting while credits roll. That's something that you should be allowed to see on your deathbed, like right before you die.

Yeah, there were a lot of hosts during our time that really just wanted to give wig a hug. Yeah, where there's like she's the best. I'm gonna hug her and a steal her essence. Okay, I'm gonna get out of the way. This hug.

Of course, he'll hug you.

We talked about school announcements, which was a sketch I wrote for Dane Cook that aired. Yes. I was very happy with it. I tried it a second time, Got cut. I really remember between dress and air came down to either that.

Wish my brother George was here.

You know, Libby, I'm a little chilly right now. Maybe you could loan me your cape. I'd love to, but I can't. this cape has over.

15,000 diamonds in the collar alone.

How about if you just keep me more? No, thank you. This is a bit my favorite line, it's a movie, but Fred is, Liberace keeps talking to the camera and Daryl, who is playing, Robert Osborne, who said eggs would later play, has one of my favorite lines. their absolute lack of chemistry was Reinforced by Liberace's insistence of looking directly into the camera. Was this the first time that Fred played Liberace?

But I don't know if he did it in the first, Vincent Price, and we learned later that he worked at Radio City during Liberace.

crazy run of shows. right, Fred was an usher at Radio City and Again, we should probably have Fred on to tell this story. But my memory was the first night Fred was there. Liberace told this story about. there's a couple here tonight and when they were young lovers, they came and saw me in Las Vegas and that night he proposed to her and They've been married for 40 years and they're here tonight and a spotlight flashed into the audience and the place went crazy.

Wait, was it the same couple every night that were planned? I don't think there was even a couple there.

I think it was just like.

Everybody just looks around and no one's actually the subject. Yeah, that is showbiz.

To learn a wonderful showbiz lesson from an old pro like that who was shamelessly doing a thing You might incorrectly judge as being insincere. It wasn't. it was showmanship and it made everybody feel good. And I just love that Fred saw it. I like to think that Fred, I'm very happy at all the experiences Fred had, because I feel like He like, really speaks to his wide range of talents.

That one might pop up a lot coming up.

Yeah, this might be the long tail of lobster, claw and handlebar.

God, in retrospect, you must have been so mad and I was just sitting there looking up to you just wide-eyed.

So, you know again we keep saying I'm shoemaker was the one guy who knew how crazy I was going all the time, and then, I think everybody else I tried to present a pretty good face. I mean, it's still love working there.

Even when I was going crazy. SNL is like that, because I remember one time, my first season, I had some weird interaction with polar and like I said something as a joke and then for the next like three hours, Spun out thinking I had offended her. I don't remember what it was and then, like, found her later that afternoon. I was like Hey, I just wanted to say, I'm sorry. I was just joking around.

Okay, and that wasn't her saying you got to be selfish. It was like nobody is as tuned in to your thing.

Yeah, it's just head down.

Desperately trying not to get fired. Yeah, you can be sloppy. You can be messy, You could take big swings and miss and that thing. when you eat shit at the table and you in your head, Everyone is behind their office doors saying oh my god, but nobody has time to worry about you.

No, Unless your sketch gets picked and there's doesn't right, then they're gonna sit in their office with a little something to sip and talk about wires.

That Is true. I'm almost out of that era. I'm very excited. We're about to get to a much happier Seth Meyers when we get into the next season. and look, you're half the name of the Podcast, that's true.

Okay, this is very interesting, or maybe we will. I think, sadly, we'll have more to say about. I have a lot to say.

This is great. I'm glad Because my memory of testicles is like the noise you just made.

All right, so we got testicles with Tom Hanks. no less remember when you asked us were there some you wish hadn't aired?

Yeah, that's one of them. Oh, interesting. So that's where you guys are at. Oh, for sure, still embarrassed. then peyote, right?