Bill Hader

- Hey everybody, very special episode of the podcast today. We are gonna have our dear friend and former collaborator, Bill Hater, he's gonna join us. We're gonna go all over the place and he's also gonna be in theaters soon with Cat in the Hat on November 6th. And we're just very excited about that and super psyched to talk to him, right guys? - Yeah. - Yeah, in the seventh episode. - I'm the most excited, except for I was late on this episode, so I come in later. - And it's gonna be pretty free form, guys, so buckle in. - Yeah, there's probably a pretty weird title for this one 'cause we don't really talk about one thing. - Yeah. - Hit it, Greg Chun. ♪ It's the lonely island ♪ ♪ And set buyers, podcast with any ♪ ♪ A keeper and your mom ♪ ♪ Bill Hater is awesome ♪ ♪ Compared to him, the world's a pile of hotel and task clowns ♪ - Bill, it's so exciting to see you. - Oh, thanks. - Excited to see you guys. - It's been too long. - I'm gonna do your show here in a little bit. - I know, I'm really excited for that as well. And it just, we talk about you a lot on the pod. It will not come to surprise you. But here's something you probably don't know about the pod. Or even about your friend, Andy. Andy loves the New York Times spelling bee. (laughing) And I have a question for you, Bill. And I'm wondering if you can toss it out. If Andy doesn't get the New York Times spelling bee on any given podcast recording day, he tells us, and we play a clip of you screaming a line from a sketch you're in, to show his disappointment in not getting the bee. Can you guess what that might be? - Is it the firefighter's sketch? - Yeah, well done, Bill. - Yeah. (laughing) - And what would that sound like, Bill, not to put you on the spot? - Oh, I know. (laughing) - I'm by the way, I really think that, like, that Bill's ENT has been like, "You can't scream like that anymore." - Yeah, we saw that. I always liked that that sketch was called the Firehouse Incident. (laughing) And Jim Downey saw that card. And I said, "The Firehouse Incident." And he started laughing. He goes, "I love that because it's needlessly mysterious." (laughing) - Yeah, I don't know what, I guess you would call it the Shrieking Fireman? Like, "Yeah, what is, what is like right down the middle "for what that sketch is called?" - Yeah, yeah. That one's real polarizing. Other people think it's great. - Yeah. - I've been in the room where someone goes, "Oh, you gotta watch this." And then they play it and people just watch it, just kind of stone-faced, going, "I don't, I don't want to go. "It's going on here." - I do think based on the data set of this podcast, the more polarizing the sketch, the more we enjoy talking about it. - Oh, 100%. - Like, it's less fun to talk about home runs. - I don't know if I even know the sketch. I know the sound bite real well. (laughing) - Why are you yelling not the B? - Well, we hear it less often than we don't. - Yeah, yeah, usually we can't play 'cause he does really well. - Exactly, I don't want to like disparage anyone's abilities to get queen. - Not the B. Yeah, I think it was 'cause I'm yelling a scene, Padrat and the scene, and then Bobby Moynihan comes up and goes, "Hey, do you hear they just canceled the B in apartment 23 "and I lose my mind?" - It's not the B. - I could have had 100 guesses and I wouldn't have gotten to that. - That's definitely what it's about. - Yeah, there's a real main justice, logic to it, and that there's no actual logic to it. - Yeah. - Pill for no reason. You have a voice that doesn't make any sense to the character and how the character's behaving. - Yeah, no, well, John Solomon and Rob Klein wrote that, and it was like all the stuff they wrote for me in the last season where I would just show up and there would just be a little note at the table that just said, "Screamness as loud as you possibly can." (laughing) And I would like look across and go, "Every line and Solomon would be like, "Every line just yell as loud as you possibly can." And then you would just start doing it and you would go, "Oh, I see what this is, he's a very dramatic firefighter, "but who's straight?" - Yeah. - I remember walking up to the set to do it live, and I had another line when I left, and Solomon said, "Hey, just so you know we added, "we're gonna give you a fur coat." And you say, in the name of my, I was like some of my idol, Ms. Mary J. Blige. (laughing) But it was Solomon. - Yeah, there we go. - He's also really upset 'cause his girlfriend's name is Rula, and he's upset they've broken up. You really make a meal of how long it takes you to say Rula. - So was this the Adam Levine host of? - Yes. - Yes, I've got it. So we were there, but we were-- - Maybe the funniest thing about this sketch that no one talks about is Adam Levine's wig. - Yeah, his wig is great. And then just so you know, anytime the camera was on me, Keenan was smiling. (laughing) He was just smiling like, not looking at me, but just smiling. (laughing) So we were there 'cause it was the Yolo app. - Exactly. - Even though we had left the show. - Yeah. - I've never heard him say two words before. He usually just hangs out and is pretty quiet. - Yeah, I'm telling you, talk to his woman. - I'm having a milk dance! (laughing) - I don't know which way he's up. I'm on the verge of losing it, okay? - Hey, you guys see they just canceled that show. Don't trust the B in apartment 23. (screaming) (laughing) - Not the B. (laughing) - That's Parker! (laughing) - Yeah, I see Keenan's laughing. - Yeah, yeah, your eyes caught him over there. Your eyes darted to the right, and you're like, oh boy. - Chris Kelly was laughing of stage manager. Chris Kelly was laughing. - It is rare to have someone just going out 100. - 100 collars up. - Two collars up. - It was not overlooked, two collars up. - Yeah, that was Rob Klein came out and put my collars up. - And this is before Steve Bannon. So he probably got it from this sketch. - Oh yeah. - 100% they also, yeah, Jesus. - The other thing about that, Martin Short loves this sketch. - Oh, I can see that, it's the one. - Oh yeah, the dog attacks me. That was very, that was very funny. Where my, my this is one of those horrible moments guys. I know you've felt it when you're doing something and you can hear your feet on their squeaking. But I guess not playing the way that you thought it. There's not a lot of laughter, and all you're hearing is my feet, you know. - Heavy boot. - And the best examples of those bill are like, if I had something with like a barf gimmick in it or something, and it's not getting laughs and you could hear the like, they're like blood pumping out and you're like, "I'm out of here." And you're like, "No one's laughing over this." - And you're like, "Jerry, where's my coach?" "Get me my coach!" - Hey, I gotta get Bobby Moynihan. - Fred it there, that is the worst. See, I'm smiling because I've never done this before. This is what I didn't know I was gonna look like this, but I gotta give Bobby credit. 'Cause when you're new-ish, that's the stuff I hated. It's like, "Okay, you gotta between dressing." You're gonna have to dress him in this thing. - Right. - And you don't know what to do. That's like nerve-racking. 'Cause you're like, "I'm like gonna put that on right "in the hat and Bobby did a good job." - Luckily this scene was playing so it could be kind of loose. - And then you're trying to, you're going down a fire pole really, really slow. - The other thing about really squeaky shoes, if you've ever seen the video of David Bowie and Mick Jagger shooting Dancing in the Streets. - Oh, that's fun. - I think Bill, you sent me that. - It's the greatest squeaky foot video of all time. - The Foley. Whoever did the Foley on it just destroyed it. It's spectacular. - That's one of the funniest things ever. - Is that the same thing you do as the Santana Shreds ones or is that a different person? - 'Cause those are also incredible. - They don't have a different person, but they're great. - The Shreds is one of the, that might be one of the hardest things I've ever laughed at the first time I saw it. - It's actually kind of a sex man of Jason. - I don't think I've seen Santana Shreds. So for people like me, I'm assuming they just fully in bad guitar for when they have Shreds. - Yeah, it's really well done. - I mean, I'm just very, just very spare and it's plucky. - But it looks correct. - And they do it with a Van Halen and Steve I and other people, but the thing that's really amazing about it is you don't hear other instruments unless they cut to them, so they'll be like, you know, cut to the drums and they'll be like, "Budu, dudu, dudu." And then when it cuts back, the drums are gone. - Yeah, it's just everybody's like, "It's just, it's so lazy." - I saw in the interview, and I don't remember if it was Mick Jagger or David Bowie, but it was talking about that they watched it over and over and that they loved it. - Oh good. - When he kicks his leg out, off screen is like one of the funniest things. - Is aren't they doing like, in a little history. - In a little history as well, right? Is that like a. (laughing) - And aren't they also doing cocaine? Is it safe? - Oh yeah, not on camera, but yeah. - I mean, it definitely like watching those guys just like, dance around like an empty street. It's so funny and great. - I like that that was back in the hey day, that was the concept. That was the meeting. It was like, you guys, this street, what else? Yeah, what else do you want? - They're like, "We'll do it in a night. Fill the space." - I imagine the first pitch was like, it's like a huge crowd of people all dancing in the street following you around and they're like, "No, we don't really want to see all those random people." - We just want to do it us. - They added in night time sounds. Listen. (laughing) Like there's like crickets. (laughing) And there's breathing, heavy breathing. - You're right, every time you cut through it. (laughing) Leave 'em bare. - Soft footsteps is even funny if they're mad ones. - Coldly now, we're having work. Are you ready for a brand new day? (laughing) ♪ Sometimes we're here in the top ♪ ♪ It's right for dancing in the street ♪ ♪ Dance sick of you ♪ (laughing) ♪ When you're at least ♪ - It's kind of just too kind of. - Thank you, you're welcome to stay. - No, no. See the sound, but it's the ambient sound that came back in. Yeah. It's like an owl that we went, they're doing so far away. You're in British, British emergency services. It's just so quiet. It's got a real, real yorma choice on the softness of how they're talking. I have a question for Bill. Bill, do you feel as though Solomon wrote that sketch for you and wanted you to scream and whether or not you wanted to scream, you felt like you had to because you were sad for him that Forte was no longer at the show? Yeah, it was clearly a Forte sketch that day. I was like, he had been writing partners with one of America's greatest screamers. Yeah, well Forte, yeah, and so I was like, I see exactly what this is, and they wrote Forte characters for me, like that and the puppet guy, the, you know, that's a real compliment. I sat my client. I sat for it. Yeah, that's a fantastic. Well, I give, though, and what a compliment ability you fully embody them, like that puppet's hearing sketch is one of my favorite sketches, period on SNL ever. Oh, thank you. Well, by the way, my kids are obsessed with it now, and I'm always like, that's a little on the edge, but my little mirror loves it. It's real good. Dude, something's just transcend. That's one of the few sketches where we, like we were improvising stuff, like when I start kissing the puppet and everything, that was, oh wow, that was like a finesse affair, and I was fucking around. But I don't know. It's that last season energy, I guess. I mean, let's not run for it. Should we watch the puppet show sketch? When else are we going to have a chance to watch the puppet show sketch with Bill? That's a great call. It was my first show after I left. Oh, yeah. Super jelly. I was sitting there high, like, no, it's so good without me, I blew it. No. I truly was. I kept telling him, don't do a puppet show sketch. The moment I leave, they do it. Oh, it's painful having left, like just watching the show, right after you leave, it's like, no. Alright, so we've got Sudmik Freilin, is a puppet show teacher, and it's Vanessa and Keenan and Bill. Let's give it a roll. Alright, welcome back to Introduction to Puppetry. We had a fun morning making our puppets. Now let's see if we can bring them to life, alright? I'm going to call this guy here, Gooby. Alright, let's try and figure out what Gooby's voice sounds like. Like, maybe he's a little dopey. I'm not dopey or dopey. Hey. [Laughter] Bill and the straight man part. He feels like he's doing a joke. No. Okay, that's really fun. The point is, try to find a voice that you connect with. That's what one clocked Bill in that time. Yeah. Let's meet your puppets. Oh, okay. Uh, hi. I'm Jeff. And. Hello. I'm Ranger Robby. You know what? Can I change that? I already want to change it. That's fine. We're just feeling things out. How about you? Uh, hi. I'm Bonnie. And I'm Nikki. And I'm, like, totally into shopping. Like, shop till you drop. [Laughter] [Laughter] That's fun, Nikki. And you? [Laughter] My name is Anthony Peter Coleman, formerly private first class. The United States Army, a desirable discharge May 19, 1983. Disciple discharge. And Anthony, what is your puppet's name? [Laughter] Tony. [Laughter] And can we hear a little bit about Tony? [Laughter] Go ahead. Tell him what happened. There was a rebel village five clicks down the road. [Laughter] Word came down from top brass. Make it disappear. [Laughter] We didn't know any better. We were kids. [Laughter] I watched myself pick up the flame thrower, and I just went off. Let's not get too deep into it. [Laughter] The other thing for those who are listening and now watching, Bill's puppet looks exactly like him. Yeah. You even made him shake with like rage after went off. Yeah. His name is Anthony and his puppet name is Tony. Yeah. Yeah. That was his lead. That was his being creative. Well, this is impressive also to me because in all these sketches where you're sort of waiting for one weirdo to appear, it's hard to make the other two people at all funny. All three. Yeah. All three are really fun. Yeah. They like those are great. Yeah. It's getting steady laughs before the actual turn of the sketch begins. Yeah. It's what makes it extra special. You're right. It's like a rare sketch where you, if you were watching, you actually might think this is a Seth McFarlane sketch. Yeah. Correct. Yeah. That he's going to be the wacky character. Yes. And he's great. But he's the straight man who's getting laughs from his character, which is a good, heavy lifting. Let's not get too deep into our backstory just yet. Like, maybe start with some fun silly facts, you know, like, "I've got a sweet tooth, okay? What about you, Ranger?" "No, you're mine. No, I was just sick and lit. Can I change that? I don't really like this. You're fine. Absolutely. Like, how about you, Nicky?" I'm like, so into my phone, I'm always like texting, texting, texting, LOL. Nobody was laughing out loud that day in Grenada. So many people were saying, "Oh, I mean, so the frame here is that just your puppet came in." Yeah. So it truly is just the puppet talking in a actual muppet way. And in live sketches, I would say these are the riskiest shots. Yeah. It's impressive that it's being pulled off fully, like, you guys set it up just right. You're sitting next to or just right. They held the frame the right size. Yeah. By the way, Bill, you were talking about having the stress of Bobby having to put a fur coat on you in the fire, I mean, the amount of business you have outside of just performance in this sketch is enough. It's coming up to the cigarette here in a second. I remember that. And that's Andy what you're talking about. They're going, "Cheers." "Cheers." "Here's him behind me." "Cheers." "Get in the smoke ready." "Many people were saying, "Oh, M.G." "Me." "I was saying, "T.T.Y.L. to my innocence." "You know, let's just gotta hit the reset button here and give our puppets totally new identities." All right? Like, "Maybe I'm a real New Yorker." "Pizza. Forget it, buddy." Anthony, do you want to try a completely different character for Tony? "Okay. I like texting. Shop till you drop. Dada, da, da, da, da. George it." "That's kind of Bonnie's character, though, isn't it? You maybe want to try something else?" "All right." "I'm Clark. And I like biscuits and waffles." "That's great. Tell us more about Clark." "You was another grunt in my platoon." "Together we would house to house." "Spring liquid death." "That's the cover in the cut to Keenan to cover them getting the pipe." "Yes, yeah." "So for those at home just listening, that silent laugh you heard was it zoomed into a close-up on the puppet and then the puppet took a drag of a cigarette and then real smoke came out of its mouth." "Yeah." "And Keenan, who, along with his puppet, both had their like jaws open like home, but they ran the tube before and then took it out of the tube." "Now they put the tube in, 'cause the tube, like I couldn't like move over to other things, so flanagan and the, Bob Flanagan is the puppeteer. The puppet master, doesn't he?" "Chris was behind it. He put the thing in and I had to stay really still as they pumped all the smoke in. And then he had to literally come in and take it out so the audience, I think, is seeing him take all the stuff out and it was covered by that shot of the team. Was this on stage?" "That's what I was about to ask. Do you remember where you guys were?" "This is like, if you're looking at home basis, the first stage to the right." "Oh, exactly." "Like where we would do a "Scared Strait" and "Scared Strait" was on the ground, was on the floor. It was up on stage. "You got to go." "But yeah." "Do you remember whose idea was for this cigarette smoke?" "My memory is this was not messed with a lot, this was like all, I mean unless they took it to the. " "There's a chance." "Now you were running the table on stuff on nine if they. " "It strikes me, I will say, I don't want to, and maybe Klein and Solomon can send in a voice note and confirm or deny. But it does strike me as a very Steve Higgins idea to have a public smoke that's true. I also. All I see when I say take, there was plenty of, as a TTYL to my innocence, I skipped a line which was great and that's all I thought of. You know, after I was down, I was like, Rob, I'm so sorry, I skipped a line which was, there wasn't any LL but there was plenty of WTFs." "Yeah." "And it was one of the funniest lines of the sketches but I was doing the thing and then I was looking up at the top of the next card and went, oh man, I skipped one of the best jobs." "That's well, at least you got to tell on this one." "Yeah, I was like, I'm sorry, man, that is such a good joke." Support comes from talk eyeetry. Trying to figure out how to get the right mental health treatment for you can feel overwhelming. 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They wrote with the eagle and the suit. Do you remember that? No. We go. It was me and somebody else. I don't think it ever got to dress even. It's one of the hardest things I've ever laughed at at the table. It was like a weird house and I think it was me and somebody we'd go into the house and it's like, you know, kind of a big arch kind of character. The little Farrell was like, oh, hello. Well, you're going to meet Mr. I forgot the name of the kid. Like Mr. Peabody or whatever. And we turned the thing and it was a suit with a hawk's head instead of saying and they had drawn it. And I started laughing like this is what the guy looked like and it was just this like suit with this head and then the one liar remember and then it was jokes like we would start talking and Farrell will go, I'm sorry. I'm sorry to interrupt but Mr. Peabody sees a field mouse about 500 yards away. I'm not doing it justice but I remember I couldn't I was like I could not get through it. I was laughing so hard at the end of the church. They just it was in the sketch. It was in the sketch. They just drew it on the script and I was like, what what are you guys doing in your office? I mean, that's what I was laughing. I was like, well, how did you come up with this? It's like gentleman Franklin. I remember there was always a drawing like Forte's serial killer sketch of what gentleman Franklin looked like and that would get a giant laugh because nobody put child's drawings in sketches. And so that would crush at the table and then Will would be upset that gentleman Franklin hadn't gotten addressed and you're like, well, you're not going to get a laugh on the drawing. Yeah, that was the hard thing is sometimes sketches killed at the table because they worked as like radio plays. Yeah, like imagining it was really funny but then when you saw it put together it just something it lost something. Yeah, you know, and that was surf meeting. Thanks for saying what does come to my surf meeting. Yeah, surf meeting. Surf meeting worked on that that work. I mean, it always kind of didn't work. I think that always didn't work. You talked about it a lot. A lot of people who work in radio right now are thinking to themselves like, that wouldn't have worked on radio. I remember surf meeting, the fantastic digital short that I was like guys got to do this which was the tangent which was not good. That played right before surf meeting. I remember getting ready for a surf meeting and seeing the tangent and I was like, well, this is a one, two punch from the new guy. We like the tangent on the spot. But if memory serves, we had a host that week that was bad at comedy, right? Like it's probably the host fault. Who was sure that's not the case? Steve Martin. Oh, Steve is Steve. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. I think I'll see you guys in the blue room as a very funny line. Oh, well, yes. Objectively. I mean, the last time I saw Steve, we, uh, I wouldn't say we chuckled about it. It was more like the, yeah, yeah, yeah. You had to remind him about it. No, he remembers Steve has granular memory of how he didn't want to do it. Lauren Boston into it. He remembers the sketch that got cut instead of it, which is him and Amy as a drunk people trying to get a bank loan. And it's just, it makes me so happy that Steve Martin who has just this litany, the longer list of successes that any of us will have is still like, can't believe I had to do surf meeting. I had to do one with T. Sean Shannon where I was some painter like a loose attractor or something like that. And it just bombed like nobody's business. And I remember him at dress doing that one. And I was so nervous because like, oh, my God, I'm working with Steve Martin. And I during the run through, I held up the painting and he goes, it's upside down. And then I would go back to the next one. And he went also upside down. And I was like, Jesus Christ. Oh, man, Bill. Relax. By the way, just make that the sketch. Yeah. Yeah. Where I would have gotten some laugh. I apologize if I'm retelling a story. But I was once a Steve Martin's apartment, which is full of, of course, the most incredible art in the world. And Martin sure was there. And Steve was doing a bit where he was telling having Martin explain all the art to people. And he was like, Martin, tell everybody about this painting. And he's like, well, it's very embarrassing, Steve, because you've hung it upside down. Okay. Client just texted me back because I asked him for a voice note. If you had to guess another writer that was on this sketch that didn't just get credited by this podcast, who would it be? Ted McFarlane. Michael Bryan. Yeah. There you go. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Forgotten man. We always kind of forget. Get slited by this podcast. Yeah. Famously. And Michael Bryan wrote one of the funniest sketches that I ever did at the table. The vacuum cleaner salesman. Do you? Do you guys know that? I love vacuum cleaner sales. We might have to dig. That was one of the most brilliant sketches that I had ever never went to dress, right? Never went to dress. And it was one of those sketches where you like, I had to like, take deep breaths before I did it, because we did it at the table like three times. So just be a second chance theater on your show stuff. I mean, it might be. It was so funny. Do you remember the host? Ana Ferris was the first one. Got it. Because it was me as a 50s vacuum cleaner salesman in the sketch opens and I was on a ferris in her house is completely destroyed. And I'm like, all right. So like, it's clear that I've destroyed her house. And I'm like, so I think you're just not going to want the vacuum then. Well, I got to do this as a obligatory type thing here. And I had to like, did you like your service? I'm going to say no. Were you happy with the like me reading the customer question. And like the whole like the cat is dead. Everything has been so fine. Something just horrific has happened. It was so funny. I'm not going to do it just as you go. I just read it. I think we should maybe we should have a Brian on to perform it because I will say I'm so glad you got that voice note. Because last week we played a couple of sketches like start to finish because the writing was so well. And I did want to clean this up. Keep underground festival. That was O'Brien and Joseph and strip club was today. So Brian Kenward and Solomon. So O'Brien worked on two other things. Great. Also O'Brien and Mulaney wrote the Steve Hawking strip club thing. Stringfeld is greatest of all time, which has one of my favorite lines of all time, which is is Lindsay Lohan as a stripper in front of Fred as Steve Hawking and Fred goes, oh my god, you're my frickin fantasy. I don't want to overlook the irony of Seth saying the writing was so well. You're right. Oh yeah, no, thanks for catching it. The writing was so better. Yeah, you were getting caught one way or another. By the way, I'm glad we mentioned the tangent because this is what this episode has been and I've enjoyed it so much. We like the tangent here, Bill. Oh, that's sweet. I think this episode is going good and well. Andy, that's what I'll say. I love you. I'm trying to do like a B rabbit where I'm getting ahead of the quays. You know what I mean? Sure, sure, sure. Like better from your brother than from your ops. Yeah, what? All right, let's finish puppet class with Seth McFarley. Okay, listen, why don't we, why don't we have these guys act out some scenes? All right, like maybe my guy, maybe he's a real nerd and he could say, hey, Ranger, can you tell me where in this forest I can plug in my laptop? Right over here. You guys are friends. That's nice. I had a friend in Grenada and go them little tater. One night he wouldn't stop screaming. He was going to give away our position. I covered up his mouth and choked him out. Okay, okay, guys, guys, let's go ahead and break it up. Let's go ahead and break it up, all right? I'm glad. Break it up. I'm glad you guys are getting it, okay? But please do not act out any murder scenarios with each other's puppet. Now, it's been a while since we've heard from Nikki. Yeah, guys, like I'm right here. Doesn't anyone say me? I clocked you the minute I walked in the door. You look like this one hooker in Grenada. You're like intense. Is that what you like? Daddy screw. You're using your real hand to feel up the puppet. Yeah. Yeah, no, yeah, this is, this is me just, you know, riffing, guys. Yeah. I was like, I like that it's all three - Yeah, yeah. - Yeah. He's the puppet, he's the puppet. He's having a-- You aren't replacing your puppet. No, no, you're keeping him in the very puppet, making out. Yeah, no, I think it psychologically makes sense, you know? Yeah, I strongly agree. Vanessa is one of the best at keeping a straight face. Yeah. She's so sweet. Law to the Alzheimer's. She keeps in that showcase showdown sketch with you and-- Oh, my God. And she's unbelievable. But this one, she, even here, she is kind of, you can tell, delighted in the moment. You can tell you've added the moment that you're kissing. Yeah. [APPLAUSE] OK. See, it looks like they're having sex. Let's take five, everyone. And when we come back, we'll talk about perfecting your puppet's hat. I don't know. I watch those things and I'm like, Bill, project. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, just like-- I could tell that voice is so-- It was just hard doing some of those voices and keeping them in the right place. And any time you would project, you would lose something in it. Of course. No, it's great. It's perfect. Where you're at is good, because it's also like bringing us into you, I think. I also, I forgot that no one ever calls out Grenada. Yeah. It's such a nice way to take the edge of your character. And it's so lovely that it was not then made a thing that had to be addressed. Yeah. All right. This is Ralph Klein. Just to address the elephant in the room, what you guys probably already discussed. In the Firehouse Incident sketch, his ex-girlfriend Rula, yes, her name is a reference to Julian Schnabel's girlfriend at the time, circa 2012. That is where Rula came from. Other than that, we love these sketches, but we really love Bill's performance in these sketches. It's-- he really elevates them. And I think that he's maybe the only person who could have done it. So much love to our friend Bill Haider. Oh, that's very nice. Oh, my God, Rula is a Julian Schnabel's girl. Obviously. That was Ralph. That's why we're all thinking it. Yes. That's what I love those guys so much. And then Lauren was having brunch with Schnabel the next day, so that was-- I remember that was an issue. Look, Julian, we just-- we're fans. We're fans. We love the pink house. Yeah, but Rob Klein, John Solomon, and Nott O'Brien. And Nott O'Brien. Nott O'Brien. Nott O'Brien. Nott O'Brien. I thought you said Nott O'Brien. I was like, Michael Bryan. Did you-- and we see Michael Bryan's "One Man" show, which was fucking phenomenal. It was a weirdest-- this was probably three to five years ago. Maybe five years ago? It's fucking great. I saw it in LA, and it was just-- it was exactly him. It was just, like, incomprehensively funny. He was like, whoa. He had me do a thing on his comedy record once. I don't know if it ended in where I was, like, an announcer to a-- it was like a trailer for a movie. And it was that thing of, like, you know, from Paramount Pictures coming soon. And then he just-- could you just get into a weird thought loop with that, where you say, from Paramount Pictures coming soon, from Paramount Pictures coming soon, from Paramount Pictures? It was so-- coming soon, from Paramount Pictures coming soon, from Paramount Pictures coming soon. From Paramount Pictures coming soon, from Paramount Pictures. It just got on from Paramount Pictures. It was very-- I mean, that, like, the way his brain works was very funny. Has he done other albums? Because I did some voices on that first one too, but he must have done others. Oh, here he comes. Yarm's like, do you get paid? That's just nice thing. I definitely didn't get paid. That's why I brought it up. Oh, I got so much money. We have a very good one of those bill that's real that Yarm made the real Universal Movies trailer guy doing. We've played on the podcast, which is Trouble on Duky Island. And did it, I think-- I forget how many we kind of billed. It was, like, 47 times. Yeah, it's different. It's, like, Trouble. You would really appreciate it, because he goes from, like, the darkest horror reads to, like, action reads, to, like, blockbuster reads, and then all the way through to, like, rom-com to, like, children's movie reads. Trouble. A lot. Duky Island. It's incredible. Just having made the actual Universal trailer boy the guy do-- You should text that to Bill, so he can hear that. Oh, my God. So, wait, I have something important before we get back into sketches here, which is last week we talked about-- well, actually, that's as much of a hint. I'm going to just share a picture, guys, and then we'll explain to Bill. But, just, guys, can you guess-- this is really for Andy and Yarm-- what this image is of. Describe what you're seeing. It looks like fire. Yeah, it looks like fire. I have no idea. But, really, there's something in there. Is it the Balrog? No, there's something in there. There's something in there. I'm going to now outline with my mouse. I'm going to outline the shape of something in there. Is it a foot? Is it a foot? It's shaped like a foot. And it has to do with something we discussed at length. Was it an episode I missed? Oh, it's that thing you put to block parts. That's right. It's the flat D. Oh, you guys talked about the flat D. Oh, yeah. 460. Now, Bill, do you remember what that was? No. No, I don't know what the flat D was. We talked about it for like 20 minutes last episode. So when it was decided, we sure we would never talk about it. It's a real product. We talked about it a lot. That's real. It's a pad you would put in your underpants that would absorb the smell of your farts. Except for that we were sharing it. So we wouldn't put it in our underwear. We would throw it around. We would pass it around like a dupe. No, we had them at 30 Rock in our office. Is this not bringing back to you all the time? I'm surprised you don't remember this. I don't remember. And people are like, how much do you get paid your first year in SNL? Just tell them you guys share the flat D. Yeah, that's how lame it was. There was a lot of stuff in your guys' office. I do not remember bark filters in your office. It was a real close to fucking that. They looked like this right here. Oh no. Oh yeah, that could have been anything. The little front band is for your taint. Now anyways, I only bring it. We don't need to go down this road again. No, you can listen to last week's episode and learn anything you need to learn about flat D. Yeah, we again talked about them almost the whole episode. Oh my god. But Andy, the thing I remembered after the episode Andy and your arm was, do you remember this? I'm just gonna, there's Andy. Oh, it was when we released the fart ghost on the fire. Yes, that's what it was. We burned apart that of it. There's your arm with his champagne. It was our last night in Encino August 31st, 2010. So it's the second time we went to Encino. Uh, we were done with our eternal account where it's August because we're clearly going home September 1st back to New York. And we realized that these flat D's had done their duty. You know, Ghostbusters, the trap that sucks in all the, all the vapors and holds the ghosts in there. Yeah. But then at a certain point, you know, he turns off the grid and they all get released up into the sky. We realized that we owed these farts a ceremony. Yeah. So they could finally be free. Yes. And we let them out of the flat D's. We also had been gifted like, I'm sure it's very good. Like Dom Perignon, like, champagne's over the summer by somebody. And we were like, well, we're not flying home with these champagne. So these need to be drank tonight. So we cracked champagne. We gave little speeches. I'm almost positive that the homeowner wouldn't think that we would be doing that in their backyard. Yeah. There was no clause against it in the least though. No, that's true. We read it. And why did they have a fire now? Look at it go. I do like imagining that whoever lives there now is haunted by the fart ghost. No, they tore the place down because of it. They tore it down. Yeah. It got condemned after that. Yeah, because people moved in and they'd be like, go get a snack from the fridge at night and use her. Who's there? You've had a history with this year because you're your house during the group? Oh, yes. Seth, right. Yes. Another thank you that was given as well. Because Andy, we were saying that flat D's were thanked in our album liner notes. That's right. And Seth, though what you're talking about, the boner ghost who was haunting our house in McGurber because me, Salman, Forte and Brandon Chaucer, or DP, all lived together. But then there was a boner ghost in the house. And I knew about the boner ghost because I slept there one night. I slept in the basement and there was a little bed and I got my little bed. And then Forte and Salman came down and Forte was like, and just one last thing before you got a band. The house is haunted by boner ghosts. And the only advice we give you is if the boner ghost comes in, it's easiest just to let it fuck you. The quickest way to make it go away is just let it fuck you. Don't fight it. Don't be scared. Just let it fuck you. And it was that great. Salman doesn't get enough credit for his performance in Forte beds. But Salman was just standing behind Forte just doing that thing where he's like, yep. And then I turned off the light I was reading, like reading on my phone. And then I would say like, and again, credit to Forte being so good at bits. He waited like 45 minutes and then I heard, and then Forte danced into the room with a bath towel over his head totally naked covering his balls. And just like dancing, like doing his like Forte wig all close to you. That's nice. That is true that he covered up is kind of, that shows some restraint, you know, barely. He did that. You guys know the one he did to me where he showed me where I was staying in his house my first season and, you know, we'll be, oh, this is where you're sleeping. And this is his right man. And he started to leave the room and he turned around and goes, "Is this your luggage?" And I went, "Yes," and then he farted on it. And then he started to leave, and then he went, "What side of the bed do you sleep on?" And I go, "I sleep on the right side of the bed." And he walked over the right side of the pillow and he farted on it. "How does he have such control?" He left. And so, cut to, again, to this point, four days later, like you said, "It's like one in the morning. I'm reading in bed. I hear him come home. I hear him walk up the stairs. And up stairs, I hear him go, "Ahhhh!" And then, "Bub, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, runs down the stairs, comes in the room and he goes, "Is this the book you're reading?" And he farted on it. [laughter] Oh my God, that's so funny. Who wrote Alexian Ronaldo with you, Bill? The Dormend sketch? I think that was mostly Fred and I want to say James. I think Fred and James, and I was shooting a movie, so I remember that was during the skeleton twins, and then it was like two weeks where I was able to like be there on Wednesday and then come in on Friday. They love me to do that for those two weeks, and I remember coming in and Fred going, "Hey, we got this like a Dormend thing for us and blah blah blah." And then it was one of those things. This happened all time on me and Fred where we were doing the same character, and then Lauren was like, or someone's like, "You got to change it." So then I was staying the same lines, but I suddenly had a Russian accent, and it died. It was just one of the things like the minute it started to dress, it just died. You're just like the audience hates this. It's so weird because it's late in your run. You guys are beloved. It shouldn't have died as fast as it died. Like it doesn't really make sense. You just know they hated it, and the reason Fred is laughing really hard when I exit is because during rehearsal, it wasn't on the floor, it was on the stage. So I'm like walking off towards home base kind of the side of it, and I was able to do that. Well, something happened between dress where suddenly there was a wall there, and that was the only place for Wally to go. So Wally, the cue card guy, is right there. And so I go to exit, and Wally is there, and I go to turn right, and I can't go anywhere. So I just kind of take a weird half-me, so he can see the cards, and that's why Fred's laughing, because he can see that I don't know where to go. And then I take this weird half-me, like, sir, and that he started laughing. Well, Keeve doesn't remember it, so let's watch it. But did this not go to air? No. But it's a sketch that people think went to air because it was on the internet, and I get asked about it more than stuff that did go on air. Well, it was like a web exclusive or whatever. Yeah, dress rehearsal. Well, that or like song for daddy's another one that people ask me about all the time, and I'm like, that wasn't ever on air. This is great because the algorithm always serves this to me because you and Fred delighting each other, because you know it's dead. All the minute it starts, we're laughing because we're like all this stuff. I mean, 6.9 million views on this is a lot for a sketch that just. You'll see, Keeve. You'll see why people keep coming back. It's a beautiful day to day, huh? Yes, it is beautiful. When will the garbage truck come? To day. Good. There's a lot of garbage. You know, these new guys are driving the garbage truck. See Fred sees his dying. Look at Fred's face. Getting it to work. Here comes the stupid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No laugh. Hi, Ronald. How are you, Lexi? Hey, little Sammy! Everyone's waiting for the catch. Yes, Sammy, what do you want from Santa Claus? Do you want J.I. Joseph Bow? How are you coming here? Do you know the story of Erololko? The Langdale. Yes, we know it very well. He is a nurse, was like no other day. Jai, it was electric. Light off. Light off. Light off. Big red cigarette. Yeah, Santa Claus, I'm having trouble looking at to see a driving this layer. That's my time. So it's Erololko. There is something special about you. Erololko say who? Me? He goes, yeah, talking to you. Erololko say, no, I'm like the other deer. He goes, no, you're not. They don't have a regular nose. They're black. The kids staring at Fred's making Fred laugh because the kids just staring at him. See, Fred knows it sucks. Fred's lost it. Fred's like, it sucks. He's like about Santa Claus. He's down to blow your mind. Okay, I can't go anywhere. Don't point them. He sees it. I don't know where to go. And they grow. No, and they bark. Yeah, his eyes are just on you. Oh god. This kid's amazing. This kid's amazing. Yeah, Santa Claus, would you think it'd bang? You had this study? Oh my gosh, there's our cab. Thanks, Alexi. Oh my god, that's really funny. What a good time of year. So I mean, the audience, it's weird because nothing is like the whole first beat of a sketch has happened and none of it is worked. Other than Fred laughing. So you guys know that there's no saving it. The minute we started it and we did our voices because it's that thing. I know you guys went like, when we were to rehearse this, the minute we would start it, the crew would start laughing, which is kind of sometimes the kiss of death because they like, we they know us forever and they like us and it's a two of us on stage and we're like doing big voices and everybody's laughing. So when you do our dress and it's silence, yes, and we're ham. You're also like blue collar New York, uh, staring types, you know, yeah, they love the crew fucking loves that. Yeah, they've met these guys. My brother's a door man. It's a time of year. It's a lot of stories for the young people. Does it like ghost stories? The one you could tell for a year to come. Hey guys. Hey, baby, mommy, mommy! So Bobby doesn't know we're going to do that. Wait, he didn't know. No, no. So you can see what was it on the cards before, just like it's just right. Hey, Mr. Johnson or whatever, but if you look at it, Fred and I think when we were rehearsing at one time late, we were punchy. We said, "Bobby." And so if you go back, you can see Fred look at me like, "Hey, it's dying. I'm going to say Bobby." Like, let's just do this now for us. So when Bobby comes out, look at Fred. Look at me like, I'm going to do this. I'm going to just fuck. I'm going to just do it. So he comes out and he looks at me. He's leading here, yeah. It's like, yeah, it's like comedy, yeah. What's the whole thing tonight? I think it's Jamie Foxx. Jamie Foxx. All right. He's funny. Yeah. Guys, my sister's coming by. I love the class. Bobby is handling this very well. Are you kids ready for Santa Claus? Do you make an American cookie? Why don't you get from Santa Claus? We didn't. Just trying to break these kids. Oh, for your bananas. Coffee and bananas. Sorry, that's the classic. We can't leave Santa Claus coffee and bananas. We should check if that was in the sketch because we did these other characters. The James and Fred also wrote who were agents from Mexico. We represented a guy named Coco Rocco, Coco Rocco. And the best joke in it, we were in a restaurant. And they said they took our order. And I was like, I would like to take two bananas and a coffee. And then I go, oh, and Fred goes, oh, that sounds good. I'll take two bananas and a coffee too. So forever, Fred and I would send each other pictures of coffee and bananas. So that might be Fred trying to make me laugh. That might not be what you leave for Santa coffee and bananas. Coffee and bananas. That's so funny. Also, I do want to point out. So you have now made Bobby Bobby. You've asked him who's hosting. He's told you Jamie Foxx. Jamie Foxx is now going to come out in the characters, not Jamie Foxx. Yeah. Meta, which is wonderful. Yeah, confusing. I think it's kind of a, oh, depression, really, I mean, it's pension asked, but I was also pension asked. Meta, you know, every move. So I bought a big turkey and threw it out the window. Throw it out the window. It's fruitless like whatever they've been doing with my life. Everyone, have a good time, eat the turkey. It's Christmas Carol. I read it to the neighbor every year. So we should go, okay? All right. I have fun. Hey, Bobby. Drunk Uncle. You see me. Hey, Bobby, Drunk Uncle. You see me. He goes, he said, "Juicy B." This guy knowing you see me. There's too much. Both of them really knowing it. But also, you can tell Fred, when Fred loads up, Juicy B, he is definitely knows it's going to get you so hard. Look at his face. He's kind of looking at me. He knows he's about to make me break. Juicy B. And it's such a fun. The audacity of doing this right before Oscar winning actor, Jamie Foxx comes out is just so like that. You guys are just, it's now just about the two of you. It's why this thing has almost seven million views. It's so much fun to watch. Two friends have a sketch outside. Look at all the money and all the shit that was put into this just for us to just start dicking around. They had to just fold these sets, throw it at a fire. Yeah. There's so much work though into this. Every year. So we should go. Okay. All right, I'll have for my, hey, Bobby, Drunk Uncle. Look at Fred. Look at me. - You see me, you see me! (laughing) - Thanks, baby. That was real nice and I'm so relaxed. - I'll meet you. - Yeah, okay, that was great. - How great. - It was real great, could you just-- - Mr. Bagan, I'll go after him. Well, he's your lady friend. Just a work peer, don't worry about it. Just grab her cat, please. - I let it, can we just tell you please, a Christmas and a story? - Me? - She's grown one, man. You don't really, we need to get her back home. - Okay, then maybe we can tell this story to your wife. (laughing) - Okay, make it fast. - Once they bunched a children, got together and they said, "Hey, from the snow, let's make a person." (laughing) - Vanessa's making me laugh the way she looks at me. - Yeah. - She's so sweetly looking. It's like she's so interested in your story. - She's locked in. - She's a person, before it slings, they make me laugh. - Look at Vanessa, I love Vanessa so much. - Yeah, she's so happy. - Smaller ball, so it doesn't collapse. And for his head, the head, the smile, the smile, the smile. - You see, and if somebody's no man, are made of tubers, yeah. - Amen. - He's only made of three bars. From the three bars. (laughing) And they were like, the kids. - No, anyway. (laughing) - The kids, they came out until the sun and frosty's like, "Wait, wait, wait, no, no, I made a snow. "Don't do this, I was good right here." And then he melts and he dies, the end. (laughing) - Okay, you done? I gotta go, I gotta put this girl in the cab, please. - My name is Jessica. - Yeah, I know that. - Okay, will I see you tomorrow? - I told you, I gotta free, free will this one. All right, you guys are definitely not getting tips. - All right, come on. - My last year, this guy, for the tip, he gave me a bus. (laughing) - He gave me a bus. - All right, one. And you know what the label's saying? - Vam, you're on the same? - Yeah. - Yeah. - Well, you're on the same thing. You got the same thing? - Yeah, I got the same thing for me. - Okay. - Oh, look at this dummy. - Garbage, this stupid guy. - Tim Robertson. - Hey, Timmy. - Just garbage? (laughing) - Just garbage, and then garbage back, right? (laughing) - What the hell is he gonna be now? - I don't know. - Is this garbage? (laughing) - I don't have a tree, no, good no. That's not the journal card. - Point it. - Don't point out the book. - Don't point it to the book. - He was there, I had a book. - It's garbage. (laughing) - Oh, is this not the moron? (laughing) - Go back to the truck. - He's out of here. - Is this garbage? - Oh my god, that's the man out there. - That's the man out there. - Get out of here. (laughing) - What the fuck? - Sorry. - Oh my god. - I said sorry. - Oh my god. - I just apologize to the audience. (laughing) - Wait, how does moron react when that happens? Like does he-- - He was like, come on. Like, that was a lot of life. - Come on. - You go, come on. - The craziest thing is I still don't quite know why it doesn't work as a sketch. Like the idea of like two dormant who tell like bad Christmas stories, especially because of you guys, it really should have worked. But I'm so happy it didn't, because it's such a joy to watch a thing. - I mean, friend though goes so hard with that accent. - That accent is a little impenetrable. - Yeah. - I mean, like come comedically, so obviously. But like maybe you don't even like that, friend. - Yeah, I mean, I think it was just one of those great things. That's why James was such a great person to write with. Sometimes you could just go in and start doing that voice and James would just start laughing. He's such a great audience. And then he would come up with, it just goes wherever it wants to go. I mean, what's the one that you just of Maya and Kristen. - Oh yeah, that should end sweepstakes or whatever. - Oh my god. - That one was one of the best. I mean, where I come back with Vanessa Barron, I say. So before we went to break, you said, the answer was beef. Sorry, the correct answer was nine. (laughing) The correct answer was nine. (laughing) - That was the first one. - Well, that's good. - Yeah, James Anderson never missed on the comedy before the comedy started. - Yeah. - He was, yeah. O'Brien sent "Puppet Class." - My only memory about "Puppet Class" was it was one of the only times where Lauren wasn't annoyed with his address under the bleachers. And he was just kind of liking that it was going all right. And he just talked about his memories of the "War and Grenade" at the whole time. (laughing) - Thanks. - Yeah, 'cause Lauren was deep C.I.A. before. (laughing) - I mean, it was a real tinker-tailor soldier spy. (laughing) - There's a great book about Grenade. Have you read, he's always asking you about some history book that you definitely haven't read. - So many good buddies, so many good buddies in the shit. - Have you read "Miles Livingston's Grenada?" - Have you read "Grenada, the pools of Grenada?" (laughing) - Yeah, no. - He loves "Wolf Hall," remember that? - You recommended "Wolf Hall" to me. - Yeah. - Numerous times he goes, and I remember one time he said, "There's a new Wolf Hall book out." What's it called? He goes, "It's called "Bringing Up the Bodies." (laughing) - There was "Killing Pablo." That was a big, I don't know if you had that, that was a big book. - Oh, Mark Owen book, he loves "Killing Pablo" a big time, but yeah, those were very funny. - So Bill, we always love to have you, but this actually came through, publicist things, 'cause are you already promoting "Cat in the Hat" or are you about to start? - Yeah, the premiere is in like, we're gonna start getting ready for premiere here in like 30 minutes. - Yeah. - When does the movie actually come out? - November 6th, and it has our good friend Paula Pell in it. - Oh, it's fun. - There's the best. - Oh great. - She's great at voices. - My kids were watching the, there's a TV show version, like a spin-off of "Inside Out" on Disney that Pixar made. Do you know what I'm talking about? She's like the main, one of the main, her and Richard Iowati are like the two main voices in it. It's kind of a treat. - She's the best. - Is it called "Inside Out" here? - No. - Andy, take a nap, let's go. (laughing) It's called "Dream Academy" I think. - Oh, that's so much better. I guess I'll go fuck myself. - It's the people making the dreams that she sees. - It is way better. - It's not even close to better, Seth. - Do you remember when Andy thought he had a brine while I am some pressure? - Oh my God. (laughing) - Why did you pull that out of nowhere? - I'm surprised I was taking this long in the pond to get to this. (laughing) - My favorite thing about Andy, Andy had a really infectious laugh, and I would definitely do sketches sometimes that were like really offensive, I remember one. And Andy was laughing so hard, not at the joke I think, but that you were in misery. - That I had to do it. (laughing) - I can't even see it, like every lie, I heard you, we sat next to each other at the table and back to your breath, I heard you go, "Oh, man." (laughing) - You're back into the character. 'Cause it was me, it was like my first season. It's Tina Fave, Seth, like all these people. - I know what he's laughing. - Having to sell a sketch like that is so crazy. - And Andy is laughing so hard. Andy is crying laughing so hard, 'cause I'm like, he saw, it's like, "Bill enters as blank." And Andy's like, "Oh, you're fucked, you're so fucked." You have to do this. - God, and Andy laughing so hard. - Yeah, we were bad news for each other at the table. We liked too many different versions of the experience for one of them. As far as you guys didn't get separated, like third graders. - Oh, great laughing. So when they had us together, we were laughing. But then the nice thing was, I think for Andy and Seth, I remember doing something, if it was genuinely funny, but weird, you guys would laugh really hard in that way. I remember doing, I think, all unicorn salesman that Matt Murray and I wrote. - Oh, yeah. - That was like, I was in a drought, and had anything in a long time. You guys laughing really hard, I looked over at Seth, and you like, you took a pencil, and you put on a unicorn, and you were like that. And I was like, "Oh, I'm not gonna get fired. "Hey, I'm not gonna get fired." - The one that I've brought up once before, Bill, that never went, I don't think, but that made me laugh really hard to the table, was the guy who was promoting Santa Fe at the college or the high school. - Oh, yeah. - Oh my God, that was my-- - I am George. - I am George. - Yeah, that was me and Malini, and it was about a guy. It was about you and you were funny, and that's good, 'cause it was you and, you know, every people, the other guys were like, college kids going, "Hey, we're gonna go, "where do you guys wanna go for spring break?" - Oh, that was it, yes, yes. - Yeah, and I was a guy in his 70s on turquoise with long hair, with a backpack. - That's right. - And I was like, "How about we go to Santa Fe?" And you go, "Who are you?" And I go, "I am Johnny Smith. "They stood in just like you, "and it proof is my buck, buck." (laughing) - It turned out you were like a native marketer, right? It was like on campus trying to go for-- - No, we were for the Santa Fe Tourism Board. - Yeah, and I was the hero amount guy. - I don't know, it sounds good. - Cool. - And every time you would do it, we made it very obvious that you're like, "I don't know, we shouldn't talk to this guy anymore." But I feel like we should hear him out. Like we made a big joke, right? - He's making some good points about Santa Fe. - And I think about the bobble Indians. - I would say that was one of the few sketches that I actually felt like, a lot of it was John writing stuff at me laughing, or not, but that one was that in the casins, I was like, "Oh, those are two that we actually wrote stuff." - Would you remember the sketch where you were like an older white writer in the Martin room? - Oh, that was John Solomon and Klein. - Yeah. - Yeah, I was Lou Hunter, yeah, where I was like-- - You're from Omaha. - The Moesha writer room. (laughing) It was the Moesha writer's room. And I was based on Lou Hunter, who was a screenwriting teacher that I went to one of his seminars when I was like 19, and Solomon used to work for him. and it was like, so this is the point when, you know, whatever like the goofball character comes in. I was like, yes, yes, he's the gesture. The gesture, the gesture in mythology. So he's, you know, in Kabuki theater, but he was, you know, it's like, it's really things. But I remember the one joke that made us laugh was when they took the order. They're like, all right, everybody, we're going to California pizza kitchen for you. And I'll take a salad, I'll take a sandwich, and I was like, do they have anything like a, like a hearty stew? [laughter] And then the last time we did it was Jamie Foxx, and it died every time I did a table. And then I went, I spoke directly to Jamie, go, Jamie, this is the last time we're ever going to put this up at the table. [laughter] The last time you're ever going to see me, I feel like we could have a lot of fun out there. [laughter] That was probably the biggest laugh I got at the table. Ah, it's good. There, well, yeah, that is objectively funny. Yeah, it was very funny. Bill circling back to Katna Hat for one second. Do you think you're casting in it? Was inspired by this? Oh, right, when I hosted, and I played the Katna Hat. Yeah, you got the job. No, Bill, do you? Do you? Do they mention it? Did they mention it? Erica Vinoia, I don't know if they'd even seen it. Did Erica write and direct it? She directed it, right? Yeah, oh, I didn't know that. That's awesome. Yeah, writers and one of the directors, Erica Vinoia, and very funny. Erica Vinoia is a very funny writer that we've all known for almost 20 years, because we met her probably. Did we meet her before we even got SNL? Yes, yeah, we did. I met Erica at South Park. Yeah, and she was a South Park writer forever, right? Just, I think we met her kids of South Park, and those guys, right? Yeah, for sure. So we're Taylor and Sally, and she's awesome. And it's kind of like Cloud of the Chants and Meatballs or those things, you know? Where it's like a big animated movie that kids can like, but it has like a very specific commutate sensibility. Yeah, you know? So it's really fun. The look of it is awesome, too. And the actual animation is pretty rad, Lincoln. Oh, that's Alessandro. Yeah, that guy, he's a co-director and that guy's a genius. Yeah, the animation is really cool. Genuinely, as I know, I'm supposed to like, you know, sell the movie, but it's like, it's very easy to talk about this one, 'cause it's really good. November 6th in America and November 6th. November 6th in America. You guys, I'm sorry. There's so many sirens in my background. I guess OJ's driving past my house in the-- We don't wear bronches in. Is that your Brian Williams? Oh, fuck you. Yeah, it's not only Brian. I'm Brian Williams. Oh, perfect. Really good. It was funny. Was I feel like any time I would go, I got something. I got something for this. I would do it and it would not work. And then when I was assigned stuff, I'd be like, oh, a lot of mine were accidental. A lot of my impressions that worked were accidental, for sure. Cage was one of them. Yeah, I'd be like, I got a poly wallnuts and I would do it and I'd be like, Bill, don't do it out. Hey, don't do that. We don't need to do that. Don't do that. Oh, Bill, I wanted to tell you, tomorrow night, I'm going to the opera for the first time to watch Lincoln and the Bartow. Hey, here it's great. And I-- In your face, Chalamet. Right, you're a man. You're a man. You hate him, right? I think it's live and kicking. You hate him, right? We need to click. That was ballet. We need to click. You're saying you hate him. We need to click. I think he's great. You're him talk about Travis and Taylor. We need to click. We need to click. Have you heard it's good now? I heard it's fantastic, yeah. I heard it. We met him so long ago and Bill was the one who hit me to George Saunders, and I fucking love him ever since. But Jorma, with the language. You remember when we met? Bill, we went and saw him, and I got his email. And so I've already, like, a pathetic fan have texted him, being like, can't wait to see you think. No, he's so nice, though. He's just one of the nicest guys of a planet. And his whole family, or they're just like, great. The fact that he said it was pretty out there. It was like, oh, shit, this will be a while. Well, that book is pretty out there. I mean, that book is really, it's a great book, but it's hard to know. Yeah, it's like, it could be difficult for people. It's definitely one when I recommend it. I'm like, you gotta take a time with it. But it's genius, but it's like fucking rugged. It's like, hey, Andy, real quick. Just get ready to overreact to help Thomas and I'm about to sound. Also, a true story. George Saunders has a great short story and the new issue of The New Yorker. Oh, I'll check that out. And I mean, while I am googling, George Saunders. I guess I'll try hard to not throw that particular issue out. Well, those farts comes out. [LAUGHTER] I'm a flat D. As a flat D. Wait, Bill, since we have you here, I want to mention comedy things I liked, because we love the comedy. I saw you in the SETV documentary, which was awesome. Oh, yeah. You and Fred are in it, and it was so fun watching all that old stuff and all those old clips. It was really-- when it started, I was like, fuck, how's Bill get to be in this? And then within like two sound bites, I was like, he knows so much about this. I'm so glad he's in it. Oh, yeah. I always obsessed with that show. Oh, my God. I couldn't get through it. I just kept being reminded of stuff and laughing. The fucking Moranis. You're the one who first showed it to me. They're such a long way to go. Oh, such a fast. Oh, my God. Let's see what that sketch is, so people can actually look it up, because it's so funny. Oh, it's if Rick Moranis playing Michael McDonald in the Christopher Cross song. Just writing from studio to studio, because he was on every song at the moment. Yeah, he's late. He's late to the recording session. Yeah. And then we talk about it in the one that I remember that really shocked us was Yellowbelly. That was the one that was like-- We shoots the kid. Yeah, we're John Candy shoots a little kid in the commercial. And it's like-- he's a scared cowboy. And the little kid goes, look, Ma. It's Catherine O'Hare and his little boy. And the little kid goes, look, Ma, it's Yellowbelly. And he turns red and shoots the kid. And then Catherine O'Hare goes, you shot my son and then he shoots her. And then kind of nervously runs on. And he goes like, oh, it's so cool. It's such a simple cut. It's amazing. It's like, honey, look, it's Yellowbelly. I mean, all those guys are so unbelievably-- yeah, the Larry Charles Show, or Rick Moranis, is like a producer, having his own talk show. And it's just him just arguing with-- just him, basically like Joel Silver, or somebody, and he's like, wait, why don't we put up a screen? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Why don't we run some funsie? What do you want to do? I mean, I'll make him pitch and see it. It was great. And we don't have to go deep dive. But I do just personally want to mention. I also watched The Bamford One, which was fantastic. The Norm One, which is fantastic. And so much fun to see all that stuff. And then also, I watched Chase stand up special and laugh my ass off. It's great. Yeah. He's so good. He's amazing. So a lot of good comedy stuff, if you like comedy a lot. Yeah. Yeah, Chase, he's unbelievable. I was laughing hard. It's such a joy. He's really-- it's just that thing that's so fun to watch if somebody who's so confident in what they're doing. He does not give a fuck. Yeah, I always like that. He's like one of those guys that just talks-- Yeah, he's very confident and very kind. When I've met him, he's very nice. And just sweet, but he can talk. And it's like Bill Burr or something. Or just like the way they speak in jokes. We're like, Bill Burr and I want us to be leaving the Emmys. And we were just talking. It's just a normal talk. And there's all these people walking down the street. And the Emmys, everybody's kind of walking away. He's like, look at all these people walking. It looks like a bunch of flood victims. [LAUGHTER] That's perfect. Oh, god. It's perfect. Anybody who's been in that sea of people leaving the Emmys. That is absolutely. Well dressed. You're looking like a bunch of flood victims. And I fell down laughing. Yeah, that's perfect. Yeah, just unbelievable. Real good. Because I know that it's really nice for you to promote comedy and everything. But just for everybody else, like at the Met Opera right now. Oh, my gosh. The Lava Lamb. OK, there's Mathia and the Magic Flute Flying and the F-- But see Lava Lamb. So in the classics, all the classics. Did you hear that Chalamet? Shot fired. Give us that pick. Clicks. Yeah. You don't have to cover it internet. You don't have to. But shots have been fired. I got to go. I have to tell this. And I'm sorry, guys. I have to take off. That's fine. That's fine. People are here. Stylist people are here. All right. Love you, guys. Love you, Bill. Hey, so that was amazing. Hey, real quick, though, Jack Black. Spelling big. Spelling big. Well. Yeah. I got a clean yesterday. Hmm. I do. Do you know what I mean? This is disappointing. What? What? Not the beat! It was a hard one. Why do we always record on Sundays? I got bailed for a short-- You think they're harder on Sundays? I don't know. I also beat Andy in the mini last night. He beats me six out of seven nights a week, but I got him last night. Yeah. Oh, good. You got me good. Great job. Well, deserved. Well, deserved. Your arm's on the text thread, but doesn't weigh in very often. Well, when I do, it's disappointing to all of all. He included. Love you guys. Love you guys. Love you guys. Later, Arnold. Later, Quads. Later, Bill. Later, Quads. Later, Vincent Price. Later, Quads. Later, James Mason. Later, Quads. Later, Guy, from the Firefighter sketch. Later, Quads. [BLANK_AUDIO]