Listener Q&A Episode 13

"It's the lonely island cancer liar's broadcast!" I hope she recovers well, and Bethany, if you're listening, sorry that you got attacked by a bear. You did say before we start, so I wasn't recording. Neither. I was though, so it's fine. I mean, you guys weren't telling the story, so it doesn't matter. Yeah, but we were responding. I kept going, "Whoa!" I just really felt strongly that you were asking us not to record. Yeah, saying before we start, and I said, "Okay." When I jump on, Seth, I only come in hot now. Oh! Yeah. That's a pretty cool thing. Thank you. Caliente. Caliente, you are my caliente. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the show, and this week Andy's on a little break. Andy just wrapped his movie and is back with his family, and really has to do a little bit of work to get back in their good graces. I'm sure that's the truth. I mean, accurate. He shot two movies back to back, so I mean, he's a beloved father. Don't get me wrong, but sometimes you get to do a little extra work. And not pop up. No, Seth, money talks. Money does talk. What does it say? Thank you for, what does it say? You need me. Right? In America. All right, here we go. First of all, there was a request by multiple quads asking for just a little bit of final wrap-up on I just had sex in regards to how it was received afterwards, how mad was Lauren at the after party that ACON had said lonely island. I don't think that was coming from Lauren. But in general, you would talk about Keith. This was one that you felt very confident about, and you knew it was going to crush in the room. Were you then a little surprised by how much it crushed as a song? Or was that also expectations? By the way, can I say I'm a little surprised to hear that Keith was as confident about this one? For me, it's always been a little too basic to be successful. I was very surprised that it did as well as it did. You know what I don't have a memory of is how well it did, like, on the night. Whereas if you were called with, like, I'm going to vote, I remember being deflated a little bit by the room. Oh, interesting. Where, to, like, an SNL audience, it doesn't have the hard jokes you're looking for. I'm going to vote. This does, I would argue, have the hard jokes you're looking for, for an SNL audience. Right. Although we didn't watch it again with the laughs, right? Yeah. Do we want to put a penitent till we have Andy? Yeah. I mean, I do want to listen with laughs and see how that goes. I don't know if that will make the podcast audience listen to it again. Right. But I am curious. And yeah, what else? We've done it live a bunch of different times, sometimes with ACON, sometimes without. Where have you done it with ACON live? There was a short-lived award show on Comedy Central called The Comedy Awards. Wow. I don't remember that. Maybe this year, right when it came out. And so we did it there. I hope you can't even find the performance because I feel like it was so kind of thrown together. Oh, is this the one that, like, Tim and Eric were there? Like there was a bunch of YouTube performances, like it was a bizarre little. No, that. No, we did the spring break anthem at a thing called The YouTube Awards. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, the YouTube Awards. I agree. We went to a bunch of, like, fledgling award shows that did maybe two of them, you know what I mean? They don't all work. No. Where else have we performed? We were on parts of it, maybe, at the Emmys. The spike awards. By the way, I definitely was hoping that when you did it with ACON, it would be things like. The Grammys. Yeah, that'd be better than the Oscars. Oh, you know where we did it with ACON? Again, Andy should really be a part of this, but that was really fun. It was an ACON concert at an arena in Long Island. Where would that be? And it was NASA Coliseum. And it was during, you know, it was within the next six months after it came out. It was a big concert. It was a real ACON show, and it was ACON and Usher, I think, so it was a big, sold-out arena. And he asked us to come do it. And of course, I don't think I even got on stage, but I just came, because I'm not really in it. No one needed me to come do a manicure or a pedicure. He didn't bring his top hat, so he can. Yeah. So I wasn't even recognizable. I was out of character. Yeah. Security wouldn't let you through, just by Jorm and Andy about it. Yeah. He didn't have his avelink and look. Yeah. Backstage, what I remember is that ACON was unapologetically smiling while doing a shake weight. That's right. Oh my God. Your memory, sir. He had one of those chin-up bars that you, like, put into a doorway. And it was, like, his pre-show, like, get pumped up, kind of ritual. By the way, when someone has a chin-up bar to me, they should also have, like, a poster of, like, a Lamborghini and a babe on the Lamborghini. I mean, I'm pretty sure ACON's ripped. It's, like, such a 14-year-old thing to have a chin-up bar. When I would go on a sleepover at a kid's house and he had one of those chin-up bars, I was like, I don't feel like we're the same friends. Yeah. It's a quality bar. I don't think we're the same kind of dude. It's like, I had a couple of friends who had, like, snakes and I was like, I'm never going to fully relate to you. Now, I have a quick question. First of all, it's awesome that ACON asked you to do it. Like, how quickly do you hear from ACON? Because he's not with you the night of airs. No. Does he reach out? Do you guys communicate with him the Sunday after? I mean, it might be more like his manager called our manager. And we heard from our music manager being like, "Yo, ACON's camp is so psyched," or whatever. So when is the first time? Was that the first time you talked directly to ACON about how well it had gone? Probably. Probably. You know what I really remembered is when we were at that downtown recording studio we talked about, and it was the night before we were about to shoot the video, but it was the first time we were meeting him face-to-face. And we were just going, "Yo, thank you so much for doing it." And he kept saying, "Of course, the song's a smash. It's a smash." And he kept saying it. Is that why you were more confident with it? Because when J.T. did that, I was like, "Oh, yeah." No, I think the reason I could be unapologetically confident, your name is because I'm not on it. I was more objective. And because I hadn't been there at the inception. I will say that. That's exactly how I felt about Boat when I walked into the room and you guys had completed it. I was like, "That's a falking monster hit. I hate you guys." And it was a clarity to not being part of the thing because I could just be an audience member more. I was like the exact opposite of how Neil Brennan perceived the song. Disposable. He was just like, "No, you can't do it." I, again, the most confident I ever felt at SNL were things that I was not in, but I didn't. Because it was not my face, my voice, but just was like, "Oh, this is going to be great. It's just my words and like, better hands. Love it. Exactly." There's rooms that I think we've all had where you pitch a joke. It goes in. People like it. And then you immediately feel regret. Love like, "That's a bad, like, I've had." And then you start shitting on it. And then people have to be like, "No, it's fine." Right. Acorn has so many hits. The other thing I remember from that show is because he was opening for usher. His set was probably 30 minutes. And he played like, it's like when you see one of those JZ shows where he played half of every song. Oh, I love that. It's like a chorus, verse, chorus, go to the next song, just to be able to jam it in. And you don't realize how many you know. You know so many. And so even with, I just had sex, it was definitely just within a nonstop, almost like a DJ set of a thing where it just was one after another and then are squeaked in. But it sounded good up there with everybody else. By the way, it's so wild to think of these as like real songs that anytime anybody wanted to do that. Like, you know, T-Pain has performed both without us on stage before, right? Keith? Yeah, we've seen videos of that. And it's such an honor to be like, "Wow, these dudes who were like real recording artists put it on that level that they're willing to do it on stage." I'm pretty sure Michael Bolton started doing a version of Jack Sparrow. Yeah, like at least it's all the chorus. That's amazing. Did the audience like immediately recognize it as a hit when you started doing, I just had sex with they kind of that concept? They knew it. It fit in. I wonder what percentage of people, and again, obviously there's an SNL comedy audience that maybe doesn't know ACON through lens other than I just had sex. But I wonder what percentage of a quate army? Maybe we'll put a poll wherever we put our polls. The question to quate army is, when you hear ACON, is I just had sex the first song you think of? And I know obviously this is an incredibly biased audience, but, you know, yeah. I think he's also one of those artists that you know way more than you think you do. If someone started playing you the songs. I think that's true. It's like Marin Five. But again, the question is, when you hear ACON is the first song you think of, I just had sex. And again, I know you're a quate army. We talked about how the first time we saw you guys, maybe the makeup was a little hot. Yeah, just a little. But a few people said that they actually thought that was an active choice to give you guys a post sex glow. Yeah, it was. It was. It was definitely. Yeah, we had thought about that. Great. So, somebody wrote the funniest part of this short is believing Blake Lively and Jessica Alba could ever get with two Alvin's. Respect. By the way, thank you for calling us both Alvin, because I'm clearly paying. Somebody said ACON still counts as a thing they think about all the time. Yeah. It's like it's just a little thing he popped in. Really good. There. Oh, I mentioned my friend. This is just a very side thing. I mentioned my friend Doug Straddley really likes a space hog. And somebody said there's no way Doug Straddley is someone's actual name that sounds like the name of a class nerd in every 90's Nickelodeon cartoon. Not only is it my friend's real name, but I did use it like seven times in sketches over the years, because I think for that very reason that the person thought it was fake, kind of a perfect real name that sounds like a common name. Okay. My question is for you, Seth, how often did you put real people's names into sketches to be able to shout out your friend's via television? Very little. That's not true. Five or six times. I don't love it as a move. I feel like the name has to fit. in the premise? Yes, so I would never do a name that didn't work originally. As I think that sounded like a name that would fit for that character. Okay, so the one the one that I did the only time I ever did this was on I think slots, the animated short, and Jason says hi, my name is Mark Potsick, which is DJ New Mark's real name, and he it was because he was in the audience because I wanted like freak him out. This is the only time I could. But that's a good one. I mean, Mark Potsick is a great guy for a slot, and that sounds like a really, totally. You didn't mess with the integrity of the sketch. Hey, somebody wrote, and again, I really like the very short YouTube comments that just feel like the economy of the writing is really nice. Somebody wrote I just had Seth. I really enjoyed that. And I just hung out with just we were we were both in can France for can lion, which is like a brand festival. And so we were we were both there at the invitation of NBC. And obviously nothing's better than hanging out with a just anywhere, particularly entertaining in France. I will say about just I've never met anybody as sort of successful and capable as Joe's who is on just like a completely different clock. And he like moves so slowly is chilling. It was like an hour drive from the niece airport to can. And I knew that just knew this because he had arrived to niece and driven to can already. This is information he had for departure day. This is something he should know. We were on the same flight back to New York 1240. I got a text saying me in the lobby at 940 from the people who were arranging our travel, which seemed just right to me. Right. You know what I mean, hour drive two hours before an international flight. Sure. So I set an alarm early, went to the gym, went back to my room, packed up, responsible again, walking to the elevator. It's 935 and walking to the elevator. I see Joe's didn't work out close. He's walking towards me. He's like, hey, I'm like, what's up? Where's your suitcase? He's like, oh, I was going to go work out. And I said, oh, he's on his way to work out. That's even worse. Yeah. Totally. And by the way, like not a drop of sweat on him. And I was like, oh, yeah, we're supposed to leave now. And he said, oh, I thought I was 1040. Okay. Well, let's go down and check. So again, he's not like, he's not like a beauty running back to his hotel room. So then we go down to the elevator and we get in a lobby and our people are waiting. And he's like, what are we leaving? And they're like, no, right now. And he was like, oh, okay. And then he looks at me and says, are you checking a bag? And I was like, no. And he's like, oh, I am. So again, everything like now, you should get there even earlier. And so I have such travel anxiety. And I basically just announced to everybody who's listening. So is there a second car? Because I'm going to leave right now. And they were like, yes, we actually have two cars where you guys are like, great. And I'm like, I love you Joe. And I wish you the best of luck. And I'm really based on everything I know about you. This is going to work out. And he's like, okay, all right. I'll see you in a minute. And so then again, nothing happening. Then we're boarding the flight. And it's one of it's like one of those things where it's oversold. And they're like, we're looking for somebody to give up a seat. Oh my god. And nobody's giving up the seat. And then I get a text from Joe's being like, hey, I'm checking in. They told me they gave up my seat. Yeah. I think they might have just thought you weren't coming. So I'm like, all right. You know, there's another flight a couple hours later. You know, this is the price you pay. And so I get on the flight and I'm like, you know, get my suitcase up. And then like five minutes later, there's Joe's on the plane. And he's like, yeah, they figured it out. Good for him. Great. I knew that's how the story was going to end. Oh, yeah. That's in the fucking stars. Like, I don't believe in astrology, but he's fine. Yeah. That's why he's been rewarded or he's blessed for this behavior his whole life. Yeah. He's been afforded it. It's just, but it's just going to work out. My brother is the exact same way. And we'll like set a time for you. And you come over to meet him. And he's in the shower. And you're like, what? Like, he just got in. And you're like, how is this possible? Also, let me dump on my brother one more time. Two quick stories. He recently, this is like within the last five years was like, dude, I don't even know the months in order. First of all, that's not something you should be proud of. But he was like, he was like September, November. And I was like, first of all, it's like, sept, oct, no, like you should know that whatever. And then do you remember Amy puller's reality star, Amber, who had one leg and was super confident that character? Yeah, yeah, yeah. She definitely sounds like one of her catchphrases was, I don't even know the months in order. Here's another one. In December, we were talking about new years. And we were talking about like December 15th for some reason. And my brother was like, Yo, was that new years? And I was like, no, no, it's at least at the end of the month. It's like a turn. That's really crazy. It's so funny. He also doesn't know my birthday. Awesome. The other thing is just and I were both talking about how, which was true for both of us, we both had so much work to do. And we were both looking to the fact that we have this nine-hour flight. That was not a red eye. And it does feel like stolen time. You know, you like leave Europe at one, you land at like 340. And yet you have nine hours to work. Yeah. And so for anybody who procrastinates, it's a dream come true. And just like, oh my god, I have so much work to do. And, uh, I got to go to the bathroom. And he was asleep watching the movie Speed Racer. I like that he can fall asleep to that particular movie. But he was like, I got so much work to do. But I do need to see a Speed Racer. The way it was intended on the, on a four-inch screen. If not now, when? Yeah. That movie's also like a connection fit. Yeah. And yet he's still naked. Somebody wrote, how is it that every time the Alvin's reference Alf, they don't bring up or play New Orleans line from semi-colon? Oh, yeah. Good point. What's the line? I'm gonna let you say it. Oh, shit. All you cats, but I'll eat all you cats. Alf. Yeah. Yeah. We have like three Alfer references in our live show. Do you remember Seth? I don't remember what they were, but do you just remember feeling like it was a comedy? Do you remember that Alf? Yeah. It does feel like you guys have a lot of Alfa ownership. People were disappointed. We said Beetlejuice three times. You did Keeve and Andy did do is Beetlejuice impression. Oh, yeah. I was summoning him with the trees. And he never showed up. That's crazy. Can I do Andy's impression of Beetlejuice impressionist. He should always be counting the amount of times it said. He should always be counting the Beetlejuices. It's very disappointing when you think. Yeah. All right. You're on that. That was three. Go ahead. They're going to do that. I gotta get married. Yeah. Pretty good. I think we're in pretty good shape. I feel like we can go into Andy list podcast knowing that we have a Beetlejuice on hand. Yeah. Let's say happens again. No problems it. Sandworms. This was a two part comment. It's a comment and then equates comment on the comment. And both of them I just enjoyed a great deal. Someone wrote, "Informus in the Yormus." And then the comment beneath it was really good, my man. See some nice positivity. Yeah. It is absolutely the appropriate response to informus in the Yormus is really nice, my man. That's like a, I don't give a honk level. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. We talked a lot about, should we play the Augusta Alcina song because we were worried it would get flagged. And Keith, do you want to explain to everybody what did get flagged? Well, I just had sex got flagged by the record label. Right. So that is an interesting way that this thing goes down, which is you guys have a podcast for your songs. But if you put, I just had sex, you tube will flag it because someone else owns the rights. Correct. That's right. Universal music group. UMG owns the rights to the master. That's how capitalism works. That's how it works. Also, the Augusta Alcina one did get flagged as well. Right. They both got flagged. But it wouldn't have mattered. If we had left out. They're splitting the money from the ads on that post. And again, if anybody notices there's too many ads, take it up with UMG. Right. This is exactly what Karl Marx was talking about. In fact, after he talked about like the whole front line of the proletariat and everything like that, it was all copyright stuff. And like, why it should be just more open? Who owns what songs? Yeah, exactly. Hey, this is just a good filmmaker question because you guys are talking about how you did the cafe shots and I just had sex. It was mentioned there was probably a whole shot of Andy walking over to the counter, but in the edit, there was a decision made to add in a shot with Blake instead. My question is, do you film the entirety of the song in every location so that you have options when you're doing the edit? Cave 123. Yes. Yeah. Most of the time, yes. Yeah. There's occasionally when it's really a story song like I just had sex where maybe we did everything from, you know, Andy's entrance out of the women's room. What's his line there? Oh, hey, didn't see you there. Guess what? I just did. Yeah. We probably did play back starting from that. And then definitely would always let it play to the end of the song. Got it. Right. I doubt we went back to the beginning. You wouldn't do the beginning. No, because it's a reveal. So yeah. But once you establish that location, why not just do it all the way through. Exactly. It takes another 40 seconds or whatever it is. That is that by the way, the same logic that you have with almost all of filmmaking and movies and like you might as well do the rest of the thing. There's so much work to get to the moment when you can actually say action and film. Yeah. Right. So many people are so worried about making their day that they rushed through that part. And that's not a good idea. It's crazy. Like literally, like that is what you learn as a fledgling filmmaker into being a little bit more seasoned of just like calming everybody down and being like, nope, this is more important. One of the first music videos for other artists. I did the We Are Scientist one, I remember being on set. And we had really specific, like, we'll just see this part of the song in performance and this part in performance. And I remember to regret at this woman that worked for their record label going, because they're up there doing performance. You have the cameras. You just have them do the whole song, right? And I went, oh yeah, yeah. And then my brain went, oh my god, no duh. What the hell was I thinking? I was really not going to. And that has rung in my head for like 25 years. I've probably said this, but I will reiterate that what I love about filmmaking is that there usually are enough smart people that something will be caught like that, where somebody will suggest something and you will get credit as the director, but it's that somebody is like, we'll be like, hey, she didn't get that footage and you will. And then sometimes not, but like most of the time, there's enough smart people on set to catch those things. And it is the truth thing in the world that it will take about two and a half hours or more to light a scene and get everything looking the best way. And it is definitely to your benefit to use a little bit extra time to get more shots that you can actually fall back on in the edit. Somebody said, welcome back to three Clifford's and a Grodon podcast. Fair. That's the person who saw it. My kids watch Clifford. It's a rainy day. They watch Clifford this afternoon. And I will get the review for the one with the red sweater or the one with the red dog. Red sweater. Wait, did they actually? They did. I went downstairs and by the way, I didn't even recommend it. They made it through it. By the way, it's very rare for my kids to bail on a movie. Okay. They don't get a lot of movies. So when a movie starts, they're like, whatever you're going to do. We're not going to get a second movie. I would love to put that on for my kids and time how far they make it before they turn it off and yell at me for turning it off. For next week, I will get my kids to review Clifford. Please, please do. Oh my god. That's well worth it. We're going to get at some point during this week's episode. We're going to get a dumps bump, a quump, a quump, a quump, dumps quump, bump. What? Yeah. Yeah, sure. Sorry with you. I don't know what you're talking about. And I love it. You went dumping. You went dumbling, maker. Oh, yeah. I went dumping. That's going to be on this episode. So one of the commercial breaks here will be about my dump quump bump. So stand by for a real genuine. While we were talking about kids and it made me think, oh my god, you guys are going to get a very special surprise in this episode. There's going to be a dumps quump bump and you don't know what I'm talking about now. Oh my god. Great. Love it. You know, for years, we've called dumplings dumps. And then this week, because we went and made some dumplings with my family, you know, like had a little dumpling making class and I kept calling them dumps, I got called out on a lot. And I wasn't even thinking it was a joke or funny. I was just being like, yeah, let's make some dumps. Was your family? Have you used dumps with your family or just like your friends? Not really. I think it's just an Andy and your thing. Oh god, I hate it. I hate it so much. Yeah. Yeah, it is. In the English language, which is a rose by any other name. And I feel like dumps is one of those things of like, is it worse? Yeah. Fucking, I don't want to eat that dumpling. Let me bring it back to Will Forte to the quarter of dumps. Will Forte has a dog named Mudbutt. And I hate that name so much. And I was thinking like, he's a pretty cute dog. I'm like, would a dog by any other name? Fuck yes. Like my god, if you just called him anything but Mudbutt, I would like that dog. Wait, yeah. Mudbutt's bad. It's horrendous. Mudbutt's real bad. First B was the same way though. I got a zigzag. Oh, I have to listen. But I guess Mr. Dobelina is a sample from a monkey song called Zill's. Is it really? The music or the Mr. Dobelina, Mr. Bob Dobelina? I think that must be the part that it's sampled. I didn't get to say this last week, but I have the Mr. Dobelina record. It's a single. It's one of my pride and joy is because on the B side of Mr. Dobelina, it might be Mr. Bobbay, but I think it has Dobelina as well, is the song "I Examination," which I think is my favorite hip-hop song ever made. So if you can find. That was a hard-to-find Del's song back before the internet because it was not on his album and it was one of the hardest, coolest ones. And fun fact, Del, the funky homesteadian is from the Bay, which we are also from. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the Bay is what? And the Bay is what? Your area. Oh, it's an area. Oh, that's very interesting. It's all area. All right. Here's Mr. Bobb Dobelina. The monkey's song is called "Zilch." It's got a parliament sample and a James Brown sample. Yeah. So vocals lyrics. Are you looking at a thing that tells you who does wet on songs? Yeah. It's a website called "Who Sampled." Oh, come on. And it'll tell you the samples on any song. You know who would not be into that? Premiere. Yeah, he's always gig-keeping his samples. Stop! Snitching. Violatin. Straight up and down. That's from the premier sketch. Um, let's see. What else do I have from our. Let's just say, uh, another pitch for the name of your van Van Walen. Just for the name. Okay. Uh, we had to add for a NPR in the show last week. Yeah, we're classy. Yeah. And we're classy. Somebody said hearing an NPR had been to spot castes that weird feeling when your old high school friends meet your college adult friends. [laughs] I love that. Uh, also, you were, uh, people thought you with a top hat looked like a guy who was about, uh, this is back to you, uh, Keith, and I just said sex that you were about to lift up Punxatani Phil. [laughs] Oh, I should be so lucky. I know exactly who they're talking about. Isn't that Brian Doyle Murphy in the movie? Yeah. Yeah. It's been brought to my attention that our comedy award performance of I Just Had Sex is on our YouTube channel. Oh, wow. April 10th, 2011. So it was four months after the video. Um, that's very cool. And let's see. That's about all I had. Uh, you want to do this Greg Chun? He's a listener and he had a judge. Yeah. He had a question and sent something in. Thanks, but let's hear from Greg Chun. This is a genuine question he had and I said, you know what? Send it to me. Hey, guys. It's Greg. Not messing with you this time. This is a legitimate question. Um, Instagram fed me one of my favorite SNL sketches of all time. It's the Crossing Over One where Will Ferrell's, um, he's doing the psychic who just can't get anything right. And, um, so I'm watching it. And the resolution on Instagram was so bad I wanted to see the actual show. So I fired up peacock and I realized as I was watching it that the Instagram one is a totally different cut of the sketch than the one that's on peacock. So I was wondering and I thought this would be illuminating for the quads too. Do they ever go back for whatever reason and, um, replace with like a dress rehearsal run or another run? This was like different costuming and everything. So I was, I was super, uh, confused. So if you could tell us that would be amazing. Dave Seth, you do it. I mean, yes. Yeah. The answer is yes. His guess was exactly right. I feel like we maybe even talked about it on a very early episode of this pod. But sometimes if the performers or producers of the show feel that dress rehearsal went better than air, they'll make a note of it and go, Hey, for reruns put in the dress rehearsal version. And then that'll become the official version. And if anything gets put online or anywhere, obviously this Instagram one, it's a VHS recording. Somebody recorded it off air and put it on Instagram. So this is probably the only existing one besides at SNL of the air version. I will say this. I disagree with doing that. I, it's called Saturday Night Live. And I feel like it should just be mistakes and all so I kind of agree with you. And there's probably honestly other things they fixed or made better between dress and air. And they just had a different audience and it just didn't probably play as well. So they think that dress was better. But the truth is I bet you errors. But the sketch is a parody of crossing over with John Edward, which was, I guess, a show back then. Okay. We're going to listen to this for two seconds. A woman who's got a woman with a J. Drew Barrymore, Maya Rudolph in the crowd. Maybe K, K, K or J. A woman with a K or J. I love this. Or R. This is a question from Ryan, which I feel like we've in a weird way, I kind of covered a little bit based on how you're a key part of I'm on a boat and you're a muricard part of I just had sex, which is a poor key in your when you each make your first substantial appearances in digital shorts. How were you feeling leading up to it airing? And while it played, were you excited, nervous, worried people would be like, who the heck is this guy? Yeah, yeah. Like KB Goveris. Yeah. I think because we weren't actually on the show, there was a little level of self-conscious embarrassment, I would say, not embarrassed in the work, but embarrassed like at the office, knowing like, and we put ourselves in, it kind of feels a little self-indulgent, maybe or felt a bit thirsty. Yes. Yeah, a little thirsty. That's a good word for it. But, you know, we had made the songs and they were ours and so it would also not have felt right to give the parts to other people in the cast, which we also did occasionally and that was cool too. Like we did this short glurk for our pilot for Fox called Awesome Town. Yeah, Seth Rogen replaced me with Seth Rogen on like a boss. Like if you're the album, it's me and then it's when it felt appropriate it was. But like I just had sex or I'm on a boat, be very different, just plopping a cast member who didn't write it into it. So it felt a little embarrassing but then it also felt awesome on the outside because we would leave the show and you know there's all the people outside waiting to meet the cast and take pictures with the cast. And then all of a sudden they knew who we were and wanted our picture too and that feels kind of cool. Like oh, thank you. I don't know. It still happens at the show. And you were very, I remember you guys would walk in very slowly in hopes that people would take your picture. Yeah, yeah. I'd give them a lot of opportunities. A lot. Like they'd have. I had to get through, like, Hader and Forte and Sadekis, and I'd be there. I remember go through the revolving door and often come back out again and do this thing, where you go, I don't know, because I miss my spot. Yeah. - Well, me and Keevels, they got very good at it. - You missed my spot, what the fuck is wrong with me? - Well, Keevels, Keevels taking very good at ventriloquism, so as you leave, you do like a whole Keevel, oh my god, you're like, and so that helps. - Yeah, we'd wait for the wig wave. We call it the wig wave is for Kristen, we'd be like, wait for the wig wave, we would just wait right inside the doors, waiting for her to leave, and then we'd be like, okay, it's our spot. - Yeah, it's like surfing, you don't get on the wave. - You would say, I'm hoping to catch a little splash from the wig wave. - Yeah, exactly. - Got a little wet from the wig wave. - Let's just say, we're drafting, we're drafting. We got very good at drafting. - Got a little sea spray off that wig wave. - Yeah. - We have a short coming up, which is Andy and Peewee. - Yeah, I came back for that one. - There's a non-short show in the middle, which I want to talk about for a second, which is Jim Carrey, came and hosted the show. And that was a huge deal for me to see Jim Carrey do SNL up close and in person. - I think it would have been for me and Yorm, if either of us was there, were you there? - He either was there. - No, Andy probably has some good memories of this. - Oh, Jim Carrey, yeah, no, no, I'm jealous. I didn't fucking stop by for that shit. - Yeah, so this is Yorm still on his sabbatical where he had left the show. - I'm gonna start here. - I'm probably enough. And it's January 8th and my daughter was born January 2nd. - And so I am definitely not there. - I'm hoping that you're just being completely lazy and I'm home with a six day old. - Unbelievable. - But let's see, yeah, it feels like maybe we want to talk about this one with Andy there. 'Cause we were all huge Jim Carrey heads and I'm sure Andy was geeking out the whole week that he was there. - One of the things that Andy quotes from Jim Carrey all the time, which I think is a really fun quote, is whenever it's really hot out, Andy says from Ace Ventura too. - Pretty out in these rhinos. - Yeah, that's true. - And Yorm has this really interesting one. It's all righty then. - Oh, yeah, yeah, that's the deep cut. - Yeah, exactly, yeah. - I will say my memory and I will get Andy's memories next week when he's there. Is that Jim Carrey in person is so much like Jim Carrey that you kind of can't believe it? In that he can do things that only Jim Carrey can do and it feels as though it is almost, it's the definition of a God-given talent in that it looks like magic. The way he has control over his face and body and voice and everything he can do. 'Cause again, every one of us has pitched and fucking eating shit on Monday and the Monday pitch, right? Like, possible thing to do. I will say that when Jim Carrey's there, the first person who pitched had like just, and again, no judgment, I've had this a hundred times. Had a pitch that just was a led balloon. And there was this brief pause. And again, this is the first time this room, most of us had ever sort of perceived him in person. And he's just sitting in that chair so close. And I remember led balloon and then Jim Carrey just literally made the crack of the bat noise. Like someone had just hit a ball really hard and of course he did it better than I could ever do. And then he just started doing (exhaling) like people cheering and goes, "It's a homerot, like just a hole." And it was like everybody, I just remember everybody was gasping because the fact that the first pitch he decided to do a long bit about how well it had gone. (laughing) And it was just when he was like, "He's rounding the bases." (laughing) You're like, "You know what? I think this week's gonna go all right, regardless." I mean, everybody was just like, "Holy, lonely." Because you know, when you think about sometimes, sometimes you're like charity events in Hollywood and one of the auction items is like, "Alpachino will leave an outgoing voicemail for you." Like I just remember sitting there being like, "I would have paid so much money to see this." This thing that I'm getting to witness right now, I would have paid so much money to actually get to witness. And so the fact that I'm getting it for three at my job is really amazing. That sounds amazing. And it was equally amazing just changing a dirty diaper probably for me at that exact moment, you know? And also for a child that was, did you have to make eye contact in a meaningful way? Yeah, we were having the same experience basically. There's a chance six days in, which is what this would be when this aired and when. Your daughter was born. Good math, that's a very good math stuff. Jim Carey still might have meant more to you than your daughter did. (laughing) There was like a small window. (laughing) I have a real favorite from this episode, which is Terran Killam's Maryville Brothers. And it is such a good use of Jim Carey. And it is also a sketch that starts immediately. It does not waste any time getting into its game. And everybody should just go to YouTube and watch Maryville Brothers because this is a physical comedy sketch, but I'm just gonna show the beginning to Keith and Yorme and then let them speak to the skills of Jim Carey and how smart Terran Killam was to write this for him, with Klein. (upbeat music) Yay! Oh, the Maryville Trolley ride. Honey, I haven't been on this for forever. Yeah, your sister told me it was your favorite. Oh, look, here come the Maryville Brothers. (upbeat music) ♪ If you join with a friend and a friend ♪ ♪ Please song to me ♪ ♪ You'll have friendship all day long ♪ ♪ It's a come along and sing all day ♪ ♪ 'Cause that's the Maryville Brother away ♪ (laughing) So present. (laughing) God, they do it perfect. Oh, that is great. It's incredibly, that's so good. Nobody's overdoing it. It is absolutely how animatronic people would look. You go to Jim Carey, maybe because he's Jim Carey, but looking at everyone, they're all pretty fucking flawless. It's great. Yeah, Terran and Jim Carey and Bill Hader are the three Maryville Brothers, they are animatronic and they are really good at it. And it's just very fun to watch. And it's also a three minute sketch. And that was the first 34 seconds and you know the game and you're enjoying yourself. And it's just very fun. Does it get dark after that? Yeah, of course, bud. You know how it's like that, yeah. No, it's great. Everybody's happy. They love the Maryville Brothers. (laughing) Okay, good. It doesn't get weird. After that, it doesn't get weird. Yeah, it's just normal from that. It is a reminder you watch it and you see, there is a little bit of David Vest Pumpkins in that it's a reminder how fucking funny Terran can be physically and wordlessly. I saw him perform Hamilton as the king, right? Didn't he do that? Yeah, he was king, he was fucking great. I just saw Rachel Dratch in a Rocky Horror picture show. And it was fantastic. You're a Broadway guy. You're a fucking classy guy. We've been talking a lot about Broadway because you guys go a lot. Yeah, Lewis, I know she's fantastic in that show too, but she was right. She, the minute I saw her over you, did a buddy. She was like, Dratch is like a revelation. She was like, she's fucking built for this in a way that is so impressive. I reached out to Terran and asked him for his, if he had any memories about Maryville. Oh, great. Oh, this better be good. Quaid Army. Yay! Right just kill, right just kill. Okay, it's start. Such an honor to be asked to leave my first of at least two voice notes for the podcast. As we all know, the Quaidos are frothin' at the mouth in anticipation of Andean Eyes. Often forgotten, Go T.A. sketch. Oh yeah, coming up. Maryville Brothers was a really cool week. Jim Carrey is my comedy idol, always has been. And that sketch was based off of like a physical thing I'd done at groundlings. The two other comedians had written Ryan Gaul and Greg Roman. And I got there blessing to kind of put it in a new format. And so I wrote Maryville Brothers with Rob Klein and Kent Sublet, the dream team, truly. And kind of the story of note is from Dress rehearsal. It went well at the table, it got picked, we rehearsed it. But then at Dress rehearsal, the first time we come up, we do the physicality and then we duck back behind this like plywood wall. And we actually got like an applause break, which was a new experience for a young, overwhelmed cast member. But I remember looking to the left and seeing like Jim Carrey, my hero kind of give me a look of like, oh, not bad, cool. And then looking to my right and Bill Hater, who was also in the sketch, giving me a thumbs up and he kind of whispered like, it's gone, hey, good, that's awesome, man. - It's a good build, thank you. - And that felt great, and then on Monday, we're often found myself like, you know, trying to play it cool, but so desperate for any mention or validation of the work he'd done the week before, Hig bones, Steve Higgins told me that Tom Hanks had texted him during the show and was like, that was such a good sketch, who did that. And so that felt really nice. And we ultimately got Tom in a Maryville brother's sketch, who did four or five of them. But yeah, really cool, really exciting. I love you guys, I love the podcast. I've listened to every episode. I've been listening since it was a Monday podcast. - Oh, we don't. - Oh, burn. - Out there, you little snuck in, man. Let me know when you guys wanna do the grownups to Car Wash scene episode. - Yes. - Later dudes. - The grownups to episode, that's gotta be a big one. People are probably waiting for the grownups to episode. - Oh my God, thanks, here, and that was great. - Thank you, Chair. - That made me smile thinking about that moment. - Yes. - And how much those first ones mean? The first time you feel like-- - Something's working. You can do it. It doesn't mean you're gonna be able to do it next week, but like just to - I know you can do it, is exactly how I fell with Mugless. - Sure. - Yeah, sure. - Good, yeah, must have been amazing. - So jealous. - Also, talk about an approval sandwich that you wanna be at the middle of, hater and carry. - That's amazing. - I thought you were gonna say, "Hanks," but yeah, absolutely, fucking, yeah, I mean, I feel like a nice little topper to have the Tom Hicks feel like that was great. - Also, great work by Higgins to pass it along. That's a job well done. - Good job. - I'm looking through these questions. This is an easy one for me in your arm to do a very quick version of, which is Zane says, "Hello, I absolutely love the podcast. Look forward to every week. I wanna ask you to address the two performances on Jimmy Fallon. One, the full performance and two, classroom instruments. Full performance was with the roots. Jimmy introduces you as your live debut. Go into detail about what that was like, performing with the roots had you met them before. How did you decide to go so hard at your arm?" So that's a talk about when we did "I'm on a boat." When he was doing the late show, not the show you do now, Seth? - Yes. - And it was a thrill, as we've talked about many times on the pod, how we had seen the roots and concert so many times, and we had had some nice interactions with them already, especially a mirror was so kind about like lazy Sunday and stuff. But it was amazing to have them doing the song and then for us to figure out how to work your arm into it live, which once we did it for that, that's kind of how we did it at all our concerts many years later, like just the idea of putting your-- - Always at the first time we figured the "Dunce Cap." - The "Dunce Cap" and putting him on a little stool in the center of the stage. - The "Dunce Cap" just coming back. - And it helps me and Andy, so we're not just up there flailing with nothing to do. It gives us somebody to perform the song too. And it makes the joke of the song way more obvious when you're not able to cut to joke shots. - Here's the thing, with all comedy, you need an audience member who's actually witnessing some of this to really sell jokes sometimes. And when you do that part, well, which I do, very, very well, I feel like that role doesn't usually get enough credit. And so it's really nice for you to acknowledge me, Keith. - Would you consider yourself the straight man of the song? - I would. I would and I think it's a very difficult job and I think I perform it ably. And so thank you for bringing it up. - Also, Tariq, aka Black Thought, learned the whole T-Pain thing that day and did it so well. So it was just really fun. And then for classroom instruments, whose idea was it to do the song as part of classroom instrument series, who came up with the arrangement, and how many takes did you have to do, was it difficult to sing without cursing? - Sorry, real quick. - Can you guys ask just to ask a few questions about what he thought about Clifford? - Oh, yes, please. So my first question to you about Clifford, Exel, is what was your favorite part of the movie? - I have no idea. - Okay, good. - I liked it a lot. - And on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being your favorite movie, whatever that is, and one being a movie you don't like, where would you put it? Where would you rate this one? - Seven. - A seven, okay, that's pretty high. - I'm accurate. - That would be it. - All right, I'll be out in a minute. - So to answer these questions in order, we were there because Andy was gonna be the guest to promote pop star, and we were already all in New York, also, because we were doing a week of press before the premiere. - And also I live there. - And, yeah, and also you wanna live there. - And, hey guys, I do have to run, yeah. Say that you love us now, and then we can put that in later. Say it, like you mean it though. - Okay. - Yeah, wrap it up. - Love you guys. - Oh, love you, Seth, love you, Kiva. - Leave that here, and then repeat it later, so we get to hear it again. - Yeah, all right, love you guys genuinely. Not just Pod's talk. - Love you, bud. We already said that, and we meant it. - Okay, bye to Seth. - Bye, Seth. - So Andy was gonna be on it, and they proposed doing a classroom instrument. The tonight show has a way to do more stuff, and they brought up, I'm on a boat. And so, to answer all these questions, they did the arrangement. They had fully figured out everything, including the director had figured out the camera, and the room, and all we had to do was practice doing it without the bad words. And it was a little bit difficult, without the cursing, just to remember them all. Like we were like, shit, I'm gonna slip, and we did two takes. - Did you do Mickey Ficky instead of Motherfucker? - Yeah, which you, yeah, Mickey Ficky, great. - We did Mickey Ficky. - Shout out Spike Lee. - I believe it's on our YouTube channel for anyone who wants to hear it. I think it's pretty good actually. And I was proud that with no production, it sounded pretty good, and we sounded like the record. And I was glad about that. I remember, 'cause you're just in a room shouting, and the room is just mic'd. So there's no trickery. - Which performance do we use? Do we use the singleton or no? - I think we did, I think we did it first, and everyone was like, got it, that's how it goes. Then we just did it a second time. So the whole thing was 10 minutes. - Yeah. - And yeah. - It's weird, because you know that the roots have put in more hours of performing than maybe any other band on the planet. And yet it's still impressive to see them do stuff. - It's so intimidating. - Like they're still incredible. - And you can't believe you just sit down there and they're that good at it. Here, let's just. - It's a very good performance. And again, thank you for bringing up my role in it, Keith, because I do it excellently. - Let's me and you want to just take a little trip down memory lane, since we're talking about it. (upbeat music) - Look at my horoscope. - Thank you, Keith. - Go! - Oh, I'm sure, get your towel ready. - Oh, I'm sure. - Yeah, I'm sure. - Good, good, good, sensory thing. (upbeat music) - You're looking for details. - I'm on a boat, I'm on a boat. Everybody looking deep, 'cause I'm sailing on a boat. - What am I reading? - The joy of land. (laughing) (upbeat music) - I'm on a boat, if you can, keep taking a look at me. ♪ Don't know the boat on the deep blue sea ♪ ♪ Bustin' five knots with nippin' on my boat ♪ ♪ You can't find me, make me trick you ♪ ♪ 'Cause I'm on a boat, fix your trick, I'm on a boat ♪ - This is tight. ♪ We drinking sand and a champ, 'cause it's so gross ♪ ♪ I got my twins brought in ♪ ♪ Am I flipping poppin' ♪ ♪ I'm firmin' burgers, you ain't gon' straight ♪ ♪ Flippin' poppin' ♪ ♪ I'm riding on and off it ♪ ♪ You ain't blitzin' tricks, and it don't be splashin' ♪ ♪ You ain't never bloodin' your wet ♪ ♪ But you didn't see your world ♪ - You're in no-aid lifts, I'm gonna roll. ♪ Don't you carry on your head ♪ - Mommy daddy. (laughs) ♪ It's goin' past him, I got an article ♪ ♪ He sent me my hat, yeah ♪ ♪ I'm the king of the world ♪ - I like this so much, I would actually wanna put it on a cassette tape, on a mixtape for myself, because the band I normally has cassettes. ♪ It's real, I playin' on the boat, picky-ticky ♪ ♪ Hey, three-night time, pull me, picky-ticky ♪ ♪ I'm on the deck with my boy, picky-ticky ♪ - It really is an awesome shout out to do the right thing. ♪ Hey, my, if you can see me now ♪ ♪ And we now are retired on the stopper, bounce, bounce ♪ ♪ I'm just goin' through a moose somehow ♪ ♪ Like heaven's our net, anything is by the boat ♪ ♪ Yes, I never thought I'd be on a boat ♪ ♪ Let's go ♪ ♪ What's the big deal, what's it all? ♪ ♪ Close your eyes and look at me ♪ ♪ I'm gonna roll deck ♪ ♪ I never thought I'd be the day ♪ ♪ When I think of them in my way ♪ ♪ Never leave me when I say it ♪ ♪ I'll f*** on ♪ - And then he kisses. - Oh yeah, and there's a mermaid dropping. (audience laughing) - Oh! - I want a boat. - Everybody elixit 'em, judge me until he, yeah. ♪ I want a boat, I want a boat, I want a boat ♪ ♪ Take a good heart, I want a boat, and I'm on the hookin' boat ♪ (upbeat music) - Honestly, that might be the performance I'm the most proud of. - That is great. - 'Cause it's super clean from start to finish. - It's so good. - It's so wild to be like we performed with them at all. And again, I'm not even, you know, I got to do yellow with them. Didn't get to do this exactly, but, you know. - Every comment's about you. Yorm's commitment to making faces at the camera for two and a half minutes is everything. Quaid army for life. - Oh. - Another one? - Another one. - And looking into my soul and begging for help. Yorm reading the joy of land because he was not invited on the boat. Good to see he's working on acceptance. I'd love that for him. - This is great. I'm so glad I get credit for doing zero. - Absolutely. (laughing) - But, it's always fun for me. And I do like that at the end of our concerts, at least I get to join you guys, 'cause it is a joyful song. I'm still jealous I'm not on it. Still mad at you, both of you. Deep down. Very, very. - Very much bigger part of it than I am if I just had sex, so. - Sure. - Yeah, yeah. - Well, that's entirely because of you guys like wanting to, you know, add a visual joke, so I appreciate you, Doug. - All right, well, I guess that's it for this Q&A, you know. I wish Andy was around, but I get it. He flew in just yesterday, so I'm gonna give, afford him a little bit of grace to get reacquainted with his children and his wife. - Yeah, but I do want a voice note, so knowing about his spelling bee adventures this week, so I hope we can at least get that. - I just saw that I missed a voice call from him 11 minutes. - Okay, well, I'm assuming it was about spelling bee, so Andy, how'd you do on spelling bee? - Yeah, two hints, and frankly, I haven't gotten a clean since last Tuesday, so a bit of a cold streak. And it doesn't feel good. It doesn't feel good, but you gotta admit it when it's bad, so that people know how much it means to you when it's good. And they believe you, you know, unless I'm lying about the whole thing and I've never once ever done it, which would truly be the most ecotic thing in the history of time, which kind of makes me now interested in that as an idea. All right, I love you guys, later on in a little bit. - Good job, Andy. I assume you cleaned it or whatever your thing is, and for everyone that's curious, I got solid. - Solid? - I did, pretty good. All right, well, I love you, John. Love you cave. Love you sir. Love you guys. later on old later quads later on him later quads later don draper you want me to say later quads it's not acting like children later ghost phase later quads later jack doing ghost face later quads later oh brine oh now you remember me