My Testicles & Peyote

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Probably the best one ever.

You're the host. So get your, you know, mind in the game.

I could probably do a little preamble. Yeah. Get ready for the worst episode.

Oh, yeah. This is episode nine.

Episode nine, episode nine, the least exciting of all the apps so far.

If you were going to look at the titles of every app and choose one last. This, is it. Something like that.

Yeah. Something like that.

And this is the last two of the year, right?

Yeah. Season one.

Yeah. But we're going to reveal two big secrets in this episode to really pay attention to you guys.

Yeah. Oh, gotcha. I shouldn't say that's the end. It's the end of the SNL season.

The SNL season. I understood.

Oh, the best of the worst.

Welcome to another Lonely Island Seth Meyers podcast.

Hey, everybody, it is episode nine of the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast, and I think we all agree if there's one to skip.

It's this episode.

We're not. You guys are not. I mean, my hands are clean. Well, am I being too hard on it right out of the gate? No, no, no.

I think it's very, very fair.

We're just talking about content. wise. What we're talking about is skippable.

Yeah. Yeah. We might be interesting talking about it. Yeah, right. It remains to be seen.

It might be the best episode of the podcast.

Yeah, yeah, that's true. Possible.

But we are going to talk about two different digital shorts that I am guessing, even if you're a hardcore Lonely Island fan, you have not heard anyone talk about these since they aired. Correct.

They are in competition for the bottom.

They are in competition for the bottom. And one of them has a real A-lister involved. Yeah. So I want to start with that element of. first of all, we're rolling into the end of your first season on the show.

Def. Yes.

And he's since proven that he has not aged out of that. I mean, he probably has been one of the biggest sketches of the last 10 years with David Bumpkins. Definitely. Absolutely. So.

To do a digital short. Yes. Bless his heart.

He had kids who were at the age where they were hip to it.

Is it fair to say that we let down all our heroes on the show?

As you built this up, Seth, my stomach was just dropping out. for every part of this. I'm just like, what a disappointment we made.

Because we've covered Steve Martin.

Yeah, that's right. We let down, Steve Martin.

And now we're here. And I remember, you know, another one of the best SNL hosts of all time is Alec Baldwin. And this is pre Trump. So it was still surprising even to have him on the show. And it was like, oh, my God, we're here for an Alec Baldwin episode.

You mean more rare, not surprising? Yes. For us, it was more like, holy shit. Yeah. Yes.

And I just mean, nowadays, it wouldn't be so surprising because he became a regular. Agreed.

I think, no matter how long you're SNL, they're the two kinds of hosts you're excited for. There's the one who you're there for their first SNL. And then it's a little bit weightier when you're there for their seventh, eighth, ninth. They know the difference. Because one of the things it's such a sugar high to host SNL.

Yeah, we get it. We fucked up. Do you want to say the title of the short? Just to like, really put a nail in the coffin?

Well, I like the fact that everybody is listening. The massive fans of this podcast by Episode nine are like, wait, what is it? How come? I can't remember?

Well, they saw the title, but they have no clue what it is.

The hit digital short, sexy song. Right. Oh, that's better.

We were smart enough not to name it. It's title. That's smart. On YouTube, it's called my testicles. Yeah.

I thought it was me. Please don't cut my testicles.

Please don't cut my testicles. Yeah.

Did you guys watch it before we just started?

I did. I did watch it.

I watched it recently, independently of this podcast. What?

My memory, though, is so embarrassed that when I just watched it, if I could just jump to my experience. Sure. It got lots of laughs and I felt immense relief watching. for most. It played fine.

I would also argue that the bookends are delightful. Yes. Forte, Keenan and Parnell. That's true. Look great.

I was so grateful at the end when he said he didn't like it. I was right there with him. At least we shit on it.

Yes, we knew it wasn't good. And that's a classic SNL move is bailing yourself out when you know your thing's not actually good enough, like calling it out before anyone else can.

It's more than it's Tom Hanks, though. Like just watching him have to do it.

It's such a drag. Much like Steve Martin and Surf Meeting. Yeah. Tom Hanks, 110%. Yeah.

A piece of turd.

If we hadn't already done the one with Natalie, I would have said shame on him. You know what I mean? Like. we had only to that point before the Natalie one only proven that we could make it work with us specifically doing it. Yeah.

Well, to be fair, it is also a direct parody, though, of a real song that we heard, and we're mimicking that no one knows.

I can't even remember.

Isn't it the What Is It Right Said Fred song, though?

No, no, it's a song. It's like an Israeli song.

I think that's right. Yeah. But what was it called? I do remember it existing.

That our buddy sent to us. It has a similar cadence.

I feel like there's that drum moment in this song, like, but a bit of a bit of a bit of which almost sounded exactly like, yes, right. So I'm too sexy. Yeah, that's true.

And they're dressed like Right Said Fred, too. Like we're taking, obviously, from all sorts of Europop stuff.

Of course. Of course.

So I want to ask a question. I feel like sometimes I'm looking at the script, and it wasn't the script because it starts with New York City, 1991, Forte, Keenan, Parnell, beautifully costumed to look like 1991 New Yorkers talking about new songs.

Was that like Vanilla Ice?

And Forte is just literally Vanilla Ice. You know, like a casual New Yorker in the 90s.

And I do feel like Keenan definitely is dressed like some Bay Area rapper that you guys liked, right?

I'd have to look at it again. Yeah, hold on.

But was it always going to have that framing device? Did you know that that was important?

I think so. I think so. OK. Oh, well, he's dressed like Dwayne Wayne. He's got Dwayne Wayne glasses from a different world.

Oh, right. That's what it was.

So I guess that's like Atlanta. Right. Yeah, I guess so. So they talk about there's this hot new song. Parnell holds up a boombox.

Also forgot how big that boombox is. We asked for the biggest boombox they could find and they delivered. Yeah.

You guys ever heard that song by C&C Music Factory, Everybody Dance Now?

Yeah, that's pretty good.

You heard that Right Said Fred song, I'm Too Sexy?

Oh, yeah, that's pretty good, too. Sure, fellas. But have you heard the new song by Ariel and Ephraim? No. Who are they?

Right at that moment when it transitions into the video and those drums that you were just singing, Seth, come in and you see, it's on this infinite white psyche and everyone's in leather and Polar's there. and Mai is there and it's got a vibe and you realize, oh, my God, it's Tom Hanks in there. Expectations just go through the roof. Even I found myself in this rewatch like, OK, whoa, whoa. Like I'm in the presence of greatness.

And I think that helps you, because the audience feels that way. I will say it's very fun to watch you and Hanks share the screen, Andy, because I remember, especially because you're wearing a bald cap, you look more like you do now than you did then. You actually. Whoa. I just mean that your hair.

Thank you for clarifying that.

But you looked young all the time because of your explosive head of hair for that first year.

Hey, you're ragamuffin style.

And now you kind of look like a co-star of Tom Hanks, is Akiva. I think the audience is just like you. They're like, we're watching a classic. This song is so short. They don't have time to realize they're not.

OK, well, that's good. That's the first compliment you've given.

The one thing I'll say outside of the bookends that I really liked is that we get out so fast. I was so relieved when it ended. I was like, oh, well, at least it's just that. Like. it just signals to everyone.

It's weirdly, two verses. And I was very surprised it was over. But then I thought, knowing you guys like I know you, I knew that that was not an act of laziness. That was an act of shame, hatred, hatred and shame.

You know what else? Other little things. Let's talk about little things we like. OK, great. I liked how I pronounced often.

Yeah, often, often. I love that. I did like that.

I do. I worry often. I like that.

I love Parnell, very plainly explaining that. I guess some really like horrific things that happened to their testicles.

I like that, too. Yeah. And obviously I loved him saying, I got to go hit the skins with a tender.

Only tender. Yeah.

Out of five thousand, I wish that I had had that info about the testicle trauma earlier. Yeah. I was like, somehow I wish someone could have just told me that. So I would have understood.

But then you wouldn't have liked that line so much, though.

If in the preamble he goes, oh, like Ariel Nefrum, have you heard that? And they're like, no, who's that? And they're like, oh, there's these two guys that make great dance music. But apparently they had horrible things happen to their testicles.

Check it out.

But I'm sure they didn't talk about it in a song. Why would they?

Would that have helped?

No, it wouldn't.

I think it's better than it landed where it landed.

There's no right way to have done it, I think.

No, no. Hit the skins with a tenderoni. Can you guys, just for those? Because I barely understood it.

Well, hit the skins is have sex. Yeah.

Yeah. It just means to knock boots. Yeah.

No. But what era of hip hop is using the early nineties?

like Graham Poobah said it a lot. OK, gotcha.

And then tenderoni. I mean, it was popularized by Bobby Brown.

Skins was everywhere, though, like it's in Boys in the Hood, right? He's like, you can give me the skins, or what? Like when he's on the phone. Yeah. His mom's still on the other line.

And tenderoni got shortened to Roni a lot.

Yeah. There's a Bobby Brown song just called that.

And what about Audi? Do we know the first usage of Audi 5000 or who?

We'd have to Google that.

I will say. the most fun thing, of course, is feeding that through the Parnell.

robot. Yes, we do that. Yeah.

That's just what it was like in ninety one. Everyone talked like that. I also appreciated that we didn't care that there were cars and people in the background that showed it was clearly. Now we could have just turned the camera towards a wall and it could have been 1991, but we didn't. I actually do non-sarcastically like that, because it lets you know that we're just having fun and went out with some costumes.

The stakes were decidedly not high. Right.

We may have looked at each other and been like, yeah, it's fine.

So the shortness of the song, does that mean that you guys knew there were fundamental problems in the writing of it? When do you know we got to get in and out of this because it's not sustainable?

I think in the writing phase.

Gotcha. We always are cutting things short. We've talked about before. That's kind of a staple of our things is trying to cut things as short as they can be.

Yeah. And the dumber the joke, the faster you tell it, I think. Yeah. Just in general.

I should note another thing I like about it is as a young man, especially in that sort of Robert Palmer video thing, I like that icy, cold European look of the women in the sketch. Yes. Like, I like the severe haircuts on Maya and Polar.

Fred has a nice moment.

Didn't Fred's character have a name? Did he? I feel like it was like Little Johnny or something.

Oh, yeah. Little Frankie. Little Frankie. Why did he have a name? Oh, because he's tiny.

Oh, my God.

But I also thought it was like while we were shooting, maybe Amy and Maya were calling him that. I might be wrong.

And then, Jorma, you appear in this one as well.

It's nice to see me younger. Yeah. I basically look the same, right?

Well, it's funny when you think back to. there were a few times that SNL sketches. I had my shirt off and I was so nervous about it. Yeah. And then the key is you just get like 20 years older and you look back and you're like, fuck.

So Kevin pulled from Urban Dictionary about Audi 5000.

Yeah. Oh, I would never have spelled it like that.

Isn't it Audi like the car?

That's what I. yeah, I assumed it was the car too.

Because isn't that the whole thing? Because it means to leave, to be gone. And so I thought that that's the car. Whoever invented the thing, it was like saying, and I'm Mercedes Benz and like, I'm out of here.

No, I believe it's like I'm out. It's an extension of I'm out.

But then why the 5000?

Maybe it's that sort of Cockney near rhyme where it is based on Audi 5000.

OK, but now he's got it for Audi 5000, spelled the right way.

There's a car. that is the Audi 5000..

Of course. Well, then it's definitely that. Yes.

The answer is people would always say, and I'm out. And then at one point someone said, I'm Audi 5000 because of the car. Exactly. Yes.

So I would spell it like the car.

It's wordplay. And it's very cool for us to talk about it.

I would say I'm Honda Accord.

No, you'd always be like, I'm Audi belly button.

Oh, right. Right.

Because that's how you want to spell it.

I tried and failed once in stand up to say that if I can be one person living or dead, it would be the first person who said, no shit, Sherlock.

I mean, it seems like you're just saying you'd like to meet Watson,

the IBM computer.

That's right. The chess playing IBM computer.

You guys are a pretty, I don't know, kind audience to me. And it was heartbreaking how, like I once tried to stand up and all of you were like, huh? Just dead silence.

Well, was there more to it?

Like you, didn't even like the premise.

I do like the premise. I just had the next line for it.

We have more of a writer's room mentality. We were more pitching around.

It was exactly writer's room mentality.

You should understand that.

You know, I think in general, too, like looking through this run list for Hanks. and again, I mean, you guys know, I have always referred to our era as an golden era. Right. But this was not. this probably doesn't crack.

And he's hosted what, like 12 times or something?

Yeah. And he's had some real barn burners. And we did not, in general, come through for him.

You're just looking down the rundown and seeing nothing memorable.

I'm just kind of looking down the rundown. And it's sort of an absence of.

Is it possible, if the whole rest of the show is fucking fire and this sketch was in it, that it actually would have taken it out of the top seven anyway? This digital short.

I don't think it could have. I think in general, we just didn't have it this week.

Oh, I see. And cut after dress. Digital short lobster, claw and handlebar.

So the phantom of the season.

By the way, did any of you ever see the Phantom of the Opera on Broadway?

No, regrettably, no.

I never did either. And my wife, who loves it, got tickets. It's last week. And she said, do you want to go? And I said, no, I don't need to go.

I'm with her, I think. I would leap at the opportunity this week to see it after 30 years, knowing it's the last chance.

I thought you were going to say she couldn't believe you had mentioned that when you said I do.

And you guys were at my wedding. She made me get married wearing that half a mask.

Yeah. And you just went with it, not even knowing what it was. You saw some freak shit.

I was very excited.

When we were kids and that show started, we lived in the Bay Area. We were nowhere near Broadway. We never went to shows. We had very few even albums in the house and they bought that soundtrack and it was on all the time. So I know every song the way that I think people listen to Hamilton now who have never seen Hamilton.

We had Les Mis, but we went and saw it as a family.

Yeah. It so surprised me knowing your mom and how sarcastic she is. Keeve, that's very shocking to me.

She might have been listening to it, ironically, because it is a goofy ass musical.

They just want to take down Weber, you know?

It's like real synthy.

Yeah, that's the dope stuff.

That's the part that I've always had a problem with. And I have nothing but respect for Phantom and the work they did. Yeah. Very synthy.

But it was of the time when it came out.

Yeah, but it was this week when I got invited.

Did they update it with all, like new drums and stuff?

I don't know. I'd be mad if they did.

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I watched it again because I thought I was going to be asked this question, and barely. But I think it was one of those very late night Forte writing sessions where you're like, he's doing the circling a paragraph over and over again. One of those. Yeah. And you're just like, God, please end this.

So the 10 to 1er, have we talked about 10 to 1 as a premise yet here on the podcast?

Not sure. Just do a brief one. We don't know.

10 to 1 is the last sketch of the night. So it's 10 to 1 in the morning. And the perfect use of 10 to 1 is a piece of very unique writing that is not going to be a laugh a minute, but for a certain kind of SNL purist who stays till the end every week and admires and appreciates the slightly out there choices. It is a reward to them. I feel like that's when it's used the best.

The absolute king.

McKay and Farrell were the previous kings of that, I would say.

Yeah. And 10 to 1, it's called Tennis Partners. And I'm just going to blast through the very simple premise of this sketch, which is Will and Tom used to be tennis partners and Tom had an accident. And now he only has one arm.

Richard, I have some rather bad news to tell you about our tennis partnership.

Richard, I'm sorry to say, I think we're going to have to call it quits. Thomas, what are you saying? Listen, we've had so many great years together, and I just think we're moving in different directions. tennis wise. Oh, is this because of the accident?

And they're talking like this the whole time.

Ah, I see. Yeah. Sounds good. Yeah.

It's also short, too. It feels like a ten to one that was also cut down a little bit for time, too.

Yeah, there's a lot of big cuts. This is a real forte two line exchange.

Seven arm. Toby Slavin, I thought you retired. Retired? Hardly. I was lured away by a very lucrative offer from Alaskan Fishing Cantery,

who believed, and rightly so, that I could do the job of three and a half men.

Ten years later, I'm back in tennis. I just so appreciate that the math is right, that he has seven arms, so he can do the work of three.

They rightly assumed he could do the work.

Rightly so, yeah. Rightly so is the best part for me.

This is a real wonderful forte. flourish. Parnell, his new partner, is giving Hanks, his old partner, shit for only having one arm. And Parnell says, we'll be waiting for that day. It'll be the same day.

It's good. It's really good. There is something interesting about a forte sketch, and this happened a couple of times when writing with him, where, when you would go to a rewrite with a normal sketch, you could be there for a while because anyone can pitch on it. And oftentimes, if you went in with a forte sketch, people would kind of look around and be like, huh? And there would not be much of a punch up because the logic was so forte.

So rewrite tables on Thursday. And I greatly enjoyed my Thursdays. And as head writer, I would sit at the head of the table and you'd have about seven other writers at the table. And then Forte would come in for, say, 45 minutes to an hour and you'd pitch jokes on it. And the nice thing with Forte was knowing that exactly.

He would not like, very appreciatively, though. He was always kind about it.

Yeah, of course. And whoever was on Forte's piece had hours and hours to go. It wasn't like he was done working on it. Yeah, there was no value to him in the sort of collective writing process.

I have a quick thing I want to talk about in relation to nothing. Great. This is in relation to a I don't want to say drunk, but let's just say jovial FaceTime. I got from Andy and Seth together. And it was a rare time where they're together in the same room drinking a little whiskey together.

Andy and I had not seen each other for a long time. And we went out for dinner. And then he came back over to my apartment and we drank bourbon. And we got. we got old man wasted.

We got a little tripped out. We started cold FaceTiming, bros.

And what a treat to get a cold FaceTime and just turn it on. And it's two guys in one square together.

Yeah, we then I have still photos, because then we made you watch some stuff where we were FaceTiming and then you were watching stuff on your computer. And I was taking screenshots of your face while you're watching things. That's the sort of thing you do when you're drunk. All right. Now we move on.

All right. Yes, that was awesome.

Is an all timer. Yes. And it was also a really cool week, because she was very good at telling us how much nicer the vibe was. And she was very funny talking about the things she was embarrassed about when she was there. Like, she came from a very like theater background.

It wasn't even the Lorne time. It was the Dick Ebersol time.

It was. It was the Ebersol years. So, despite all her massive successes, I should note, I think she's hosting for the New Adventures of Old Christine. This is pre-Veep. This is 2006..

No. Well, we've already covered the short a little bit, because it was the one we did after Lazy Sunday.

We didn't shoot one that week.

Yeah. So there's no. Julie is not in it. And it is peyote, which is sort of the follow up to Lettuce that wisely didn't air as the follow up to Lettuce. So, even though it does not make an impact here, the positive impact was the instinct not to make it the second digital short, because now we put some air between it.

It was the final sketch of the night, which is a perfect place to put it.

And so it does not have the burden of being an early digital short. And for those who enjoy the journey, digital shorts, peyote is good time. Yeah. So peyote comes from Sandberg. Do you guys sit down and say, is there another move in Lettuce to do a second Lettuce-y sketch?

I feel like it was also Forte's idea, wasn't it?

Yes. Lettuce had worked out and we went back to Forte. Like, let's do it again. What else you got, buddy?

And obviously, Lettuce was the switcheroo, as it was very depressed and very sad. And they're chewing on lettuce.

I think in this day and age, people wouldn't even do something that touches suicide, which is probably correct. But this was another time.

So, Andy, stand against a brick building. I'm going to do it. I'm going to jump. Forte talking through a bullhorn. You don't want to do this.

Sir, come on. You know, that's not. You don't understand. Oh, come on, come on. Whatever it is, we can talk about it.

No one person is worth taking your life. She was. Just relax. I'm done relaxing. No, don't do it.

Classic cut to wide.

Cut to wide. It's a fun editing joke, that one.

Forte's on his knees.

Yeah. Andy's feet are on the ground. Yeah. And we get a cameo of one of the best reoccurring characters we ever did. Yeah.

Pedestrian Norma.

Oh, I was very good at walking by.

That's how you know. it's in the same series as Lettuce.

I got a compliment from Chester about my walking by. And both of them, he was like, you really look like Joelle Santana. When you walk by. I was really proud of that. Interesting.

Not who I would have picked. No.

But I love it. Only Chester would say that.

Does the audience respond happily when they see the reveal?

Yeah, it gets a nice little laugh. Honestly, Peyote gets a bigger laugh, which wasn't in the original script. I think we added it when we were editing. And that was the only thing when we rewatched it that made me chuckle.

Of the drugs, it's pretty decent.

It's very unlikely to have an ad campaign.

Yeah. I feel like Peyote doesn't feel like they're going to ad market cap.

It's a simple premise, done well, but amounts to very little. Locale. Very locale. Perfect for the very end of the thing, when most people are asleep.

Yeah. How long is it? It's like a minute ten or something, right?

I'm going to guess that's true.

Honestly, that's probably the main reason why it aired last, because it wasn't helping change a set. Right.

I think one of the nice things about the success of the digital shorts is, again, I'm extrapolating out based on nothing. Why a lot of people got behind them is you guys were never eating up a huge chunk of the show. If somebody is writing a recurring piece, that's seven minutes every other week, that's really taking away time from other people. But you guys were capped out at like 220.. Sometimes you'd come in at 115..

Also, it never took away from anyone's live piece, because there always had to be a pre-taped piece in the spot we were in.

Yeah. Fifty seconds. Jeff just went and looked. Fifty seconds.

Yeah, that's that.

What was the number that we had to hit, though, to be able to change a set? It was 145 or 135 or 150.. I thought it was 150.. So if you made it something underneath, that, Lauren would kind of like, thanks a lot. Really doesn't help me.

Yeah. He was like, it really helps me if you can make it 150 or longer.

But I think when he saw Peyote, he was like, no, 45 is about the right price.

He's like, that's OK. That's fine.

He's like, just play it twice in a row. Just play it twice in a row, like the hit.

People forget. That's what makes Lawrence a really good producers. Remember, he would always be like twice in a row.

Yes, please.

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

OK, so I wrote a sketch called My Space, and it was Andy. Do you remember that you were the professor or the teacher in this sketch? No. OK. It was a Learning Annex, My Space, and You seminar.

Yep, yep, yep. Yep.

You were teaching everybody how you could set up a My Space page so you can communicate with more than six million young people currently in the My Space community. Let's get started. This is a slightly older group than I'm expecting. And it's in Julia. And then the rest of us are clearly pedophiles.

Jesus.

Well, I admit I'm not here to start my own My Space page. My daughter is spending all of her time on it. So I thought I should see what all this hullabaloo was about.

OK. And the rest of you?

What she said. Yeah, what she said.

Fair enough.

Now, the first step in creating your My Space page is to fill out your profile. Things like your name, sex and age.

With the age thing, could my child put a different age than his actual age?

Yeah, I guess they could.

And My Space doesn't have a way to police that? Not really. So if my son was 45, he could say he was 15..

Your son is 45?

I said if he was 45.

It's hypothetical.

It's a real good sketch. It's fairly dark.

That is fairly dark. And accurate.

And it aired. It aired.

Here's my favorite memory of it. In Dress, do you remember who was in it that asked to get taken out of it?

No.

Somebody was in it playing, a pedophile, got a giant laugh, and then, between Dress and Air, thought better of it. And that was musical guest Paul Simon.

He's like, that didn't feel like the right laugh for me.

He was great.

I was like, who are you going to say that would be OK with you saying that? And I was like, oh, yeah, Paul Simon. Yeah, he wants everyone to know he pulled himself.

Yeah. Again, I think one of the fond memories I have of it, and this is pre-Odinkirk, Breaking Bad. This is in my mind now. Just Mr. Show, Odinkirk.

Oh, that's wonderful. That's nice.

Comedy. Cool, dude. I mean, again, I feel like, ultimately did Paul Simon make the right choice? I feel like he's pretty well regarded even today. So right.

This was one of the first ones where I got asked to direct something for the show. that wasn't one of our sketches, because I did some parts of the monologue I didn't write. that was like going on the streets with Julia Louis-Dreyfus. And I remember having a great time and feeling kind of proud that I had contributed to the adult part of the show rather than just our little kid corner.

Yeah. There's a sketch called Alien Encounter in this show. And obviously it's unfortunate that now there's, you know, obviously a historically great alien abduction sketch that Kate McKinnon did. But there was a sketch where Julia was in a TV movie where they were reenacting the alien abduction of Sandy Patterson. And the sketch just becomes a lot of wig walking in as the real Sandy Patterson.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Can we cut? Can we just cut for a second?

Cut, cut. Michelle, what's the problem?

Oh, I really don't want to be a pain or anything, but that didn't really sound like an alien.

It was more sort of like a bunch of ghosts. Well, that's what it sounded like.

That's what I heard.

I'm sorry. I should have introduced you to earlier. Michelle, this is the real Sandy Patterson.

That's what happened. Those are the sounds I heard when they came for me.

Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't. I didn't mean anything. I just. They were in my house.

All right, Sandy. Michelle, let's just stick to the script, OK?

Oh, of course. I'm really sorry.

It was horrible. They were from space. Of course. Make it happen to you.

It was a good show. I'm reading Shaggy Dog. Also guest writing that week, John Glazer.

Oh, yeah, that was a good time.

And we wrote it with him and it was super fun.

It's because we had for years, starting at this time, somebody was pranking our office and putting posters for things that we did not care about in our office. And we would show up the new week of work. And there'd be, say, a poster for Disney's, The Shaggy Dog, starring Tim Allen. And then the next week we'd show up and there was like, was it Alan Iverson or something else? Some like Reggie Miller, some other like sports poster.

Is that how we got the Breakfast and Tiffany's poster as well?

Yes. Every week we'd show up and there'd be a new poster. that just kind of was meaningless to us. And no one ever took the credit for this prank, for this long running prank. But it did result in a Shaggy Dog sketch because we were staring at, if you recall, the poster also had it had a dog, the Shaggy Dog, and then his eyes were Tim Allen's eyes.

Anyway, it's a bad, bad sketch.

How did this even get to dress?

Well, then they start pitching out our ideas.

Yeah. On the plus side, I bet this got us to take the poster down in our office.

We didn't want to look at it anymore.

because it was so embarrassing to have it up there after we wrote this.

We're like, well, we can't remember this now.

For the next five years, just the biggest movie, television and music stars came through that office and would look at our collection.

of posters and go, huh, this is where the magic happens.

They'd be coming into the guys who had made Dignified. It was. everyone, from Lady Gaga to Rihanna, came in and saw that.

It does say something about you guys. You appreciated the prank so much that you wouldn't take them down, even though you had that power at every single turn.

Our office was like the shittiest dorm room that you've ever saw. It was like the dorm room that I expected to have in college and didn't until SNL.

The guys that made Mother Lover love Breakfast at Tiffany's. These guys are really interesting.

And Reggie Miller. Yeah. All right. So, gentlemen, we are now closing in on the end of your first season on the show. You are then about to embark to Vancouver to shoot Hot Rod.

There it is.

And I don't know if he has heard me earlier, but Lobster, Claw and Handlebar did get cut again this week.

Yeah. Oh, good. Interesting.

Yeah. The phantom of this opera for the rest of the season.

Throwing it back at you.

Oh, my God.

There's one more episode of SNL, correct?

Yeah, we have one more to go and we'll be back with that episode next week. We'll see you next week, everybody, for episode 10 of the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast. Bye, gentlemen. Bye. The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast is supported by Airbnb.