Performing I'm on a Boat with The Roots

It's thely island Aner Mers podcast 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, 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, I said I jump on. Seth, I only come in hot now. so Oh. Yeah that's a pretty cool thing. Thank you. Caliente. Caliente, Yma 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 got to do a little extra work and not posop. what Seth? Money Money talks. Money does talk. What does it say? Thank you for Yeah what does it say You need me, right? In America All right, here we go. First of all, there was a request by multiple Quids asking for just a little bit of final wrap up on I just hadad seex in regards to how it was received afterwards, how mad was Lauren at the after partarty that Acon had said Lonely Island. I don't think that was coming from Lauren. but in general You talked about Keeiv. this was one that you felt very confident about and you knew it was going 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 Keeiv was as confident about this one because to me, it's always been a little too basic to be successful. I was very surprised that as well as it did. You know what I don't have a memory of is how well it did like on the night. h whereereas if you recall with like I'm in a boat, 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 in a boat 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 pin in it til 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. R. 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 life There was a short lived award show on Comedy Central called The Comedy Awards. Wow. I remember that. It happened to be 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. the one that like Tim and Eric were there, Like there was a bunch of YouTube performances. Like it was a bizarre little No, we did the spring brereak anthem at a thing called the YouTube Aard. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, the YouTube Awards. Yeah. We went to a bunch of like fledgling award shows that Maybe two of them, you know what I mean? They don't all work No. Where else have we perform? We performed parts of it maybe at the Emmy the Sike 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 aw bullshit. Oh, you know where we did it with ACOon? 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 Nu It was NAassau Coliseum. And it was during you know, it was within the next six months after it came out. It was a big concert. was it was a real ACon show. So and it was AcCon and Usher, I think. So it was a big sold out arena Yeah 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 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 despite Yorman and Andy B Yeah. He didn't have his Ave Lincoln look. That's right. Yeah yeah. Backstage, what I remember is that Acon was unapologetically smiling while doing a shake weight. That's right. Oh my God, your memories. You 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 Achon's ripped. That's like such a fourteen year olds thing to have a chin up bar. When I woulde go and I to sleep overver 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 It's equality. I don't think we're the same kind of dude It's like I had a couple friends who had like snakes in high school. I'm like I'm never gonna to fully relate to 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 Be he's not with you the night it airs? No. And 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 show. 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. And he kept saying, Of course, the song is a smash. It's a smash And he kept saying why you were more confident with it? Be like when JT did that, I was like, oh yeah. No, I think the reason I could be unapologetically confident Yorm is because I'm not on it. I was more objective and because I hadn't been there at the at the inception. I will say that's exactly how I felt about Bat. When I walked in the room and you guys had completed, I was like, that's a fulking monster hit. I hate you guys. There's 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.gain, the most confident I ever felt at SNO were things that I was not in that I had written because it was not my face, my voice. I just was like, oh, this is gonna be great. It's just my words and like better hands. loveove it. Exactly. There's also a thing in writers'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 of like, that's a bad like I' had And then you start shitting on it and then people have to be like, No, it's fine. right. Acon has so many hits. The other thing I remember from that show is because he was opening for Uher. his set was probably thirty minutes And he played like it's like when you would see one of those JayZ shows where he played half of every song. Oh I love that. Like 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 squeaked in, but it sounded good up there with their way, like it's so wild to think of these as like real songs that anytime anybody wanted to do that, like, you know, T Painne has performed without us on stage before, right? Keith like. Yeah, we've seen videos of that. And it's such an honor to be like, wow, these dudes who are like real recording artists put it on that level that they're willing to do it on stage I'm pretty sure Michael Bolton start doing a version of Jack Sparrow. Yeah like at least the course That's amazing. Did the audience like immediately recognize it as a hit when you started doing, I just had sex with Acon at that concert. I knew it. It fit in. Yeah. ye. I wonder what percentage of people and again, obviously there's an SNO comedy audience that maybe doesn't know ACon through a lens other than I just had sex, but I wonder what percentage Qate arrmy, mayaybe we'll put a poll wherever we put our polls. Yeah. The question to quate army is When you hear Akon is I just had sex the first song you think of And I know obviously this is an incredibly biased audience, but 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 Maroon 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 great 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 deffinitely. Yeah we had thought about that. I agree U Somebody who wrote the funniest part of this short is believing Blake Lively and Jessica Alba could ever get with two Alvins. Respect. By the way, thank you for calling us both Alvins because I'm clearing. Somebody said Acon still counts is a thing they think about all the time. Yeah. as like just a little thing popped in really good There. Oh, I mentioned my friend this is just a very a side thing. I mentioned my friend Doug Stradley really likes space Hawk. And somebody said, there's no way Doug Stradley is someone's actual name that sounds like the name of a class nerd in every nineties Nickeloneon 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. K of a perfect real name that sounds like a name. My question is for you, Seth, how often did you put real people's names into sketches to be able to shout out your friends via television? Very little That's 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 the thing that sounded like a name that would fit for that character. 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 Potzick, which is TJ Newmark's real name And it was because he was in the audience because I wanted like freak him out This the only time that's good one. mean Mark Potzick is a great guy for sloth. And that sounds like totally You didn't mess with the integrity of the sketch. No. 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 justost had Seth I really enjoyed that Um and I I joosted hung out with Joosted. We were we were both in Can France for Can Lion, which is like a brand festival. And so were we were both there at the invitation of NBC. and obviously nothing's better than hanging out with Joost anywhere particularly entertaining France I will say about Joost I've never met anybody as sort of successful and capable as Joost who was on just like a completely different clock. And like moves so slowly, is chilling. It was like an hour drive from the Nice airport to Can. And I knew that Jost knew this because he had arrived to Nice and driven to Cann already This is information he had for departure day. S. This is something he should not We were on the same flight back to Newer twelve forty I got a text saying meet in the lobby at nine hundred and forty from the people who are arranging our travel, which seemed just right to me.ight. You know what I mean? Oour drive two hours before an international flight. Sure So I set an alarm early, went to the gym. Wha. went back to my room, packed up, responsible gu. Walkking into the elevator. it's nine thirty five. I'malking to the elevator I see Joost in workout clothes. He's walking towards me. He's like, Hey and I'm like, What's up, bud? Where's your suitcase? He's like, Oh, I was gonna go workout. And I said, Oh He' was on his way to work. That's even worse. Yeah. tootally by the way, like not a drop of sweat on him. And I was like, o Yeah, we're supposed to leave now. And he said, Oh I thought it was ten forty Um, okay. Well, let's go down and check So again, he's not like f fuck f f he's not like immediately runidning back to his hotel room. So then we go down to the elevator and we get in the lobby and our people are waiting And he's like, what time are we leaving? And they're like, now, 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 was listening. So is there a second car? because I'm gonna leave right now? And they werere like, yes, we actually have two cars for you guys I'm like, great. And I'm like I love you just and I w you the best of luck and I really Based on everything I know about you, this is going to work out. And he's like, Okaykay Um, all right Oh, seeee you in a minute. soan. again Nothing happening. Then we're boarding the flight and it's 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 giv up the seat And then I get a text from Joe being like, Hey I'm checking in. they told me they gave up my seat. I'm 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, getting my suitcase up. and then like, five minutes later, there's Jose onn the plane. And he's like, yeah, they figured it out For him like's I knew that's how the story was going to end. Oh sure That's in the fucking stars. Like I don't believe in astrology, but he's fine. Yeah That' why he's he's been rewarded or he's blessed for this behavior his whole life. has been afforded it. It's just, but it's just going to work out. My brother' the exact same way and will 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 jump 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 set oct no like you should know that whatever. And then do you remember Amy Poher's reality star Amber who had one leg and was super confident that character Yeah. She definitely sounds like one of her catchphrases was, I don't even know the Monson or hundred percent ere's another one. In December, we were talking about New Year's and we werere talking about like december fifteenth for some reason. and my brother was like, yo, was that New Ye's? was like No. No, it's at least at the end of the month. It's like a term's c Really crazy. It's so He also doesn't know my birthday Awesome. The other thing is Jose 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 had this nine hour flight that was not a Rd eye. And it does feel like stolen time. You know, you like leave Europe up at one You land at like three forty And yet you have nine hours to work. Yeah. And so for anybody who procrastinates, it's a dream come true. just like, oh my God, I have so much work to do. And one point I got up to go to the bathroom and he was asleep. watching the movie Speed Racer. I like that he could 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 a four inch screen. If not now, when. Yeah. That movie's also like a connipion fit And yet he's still there somebody, how is it that every time the Alvins reference Alf, they don't bring up or play Yororm's line from semicolon? Oh, yeah, good point. What's the line, Yororm? I'm gonna let you say it. Oh shit. But I'll eat all you cats. But I'll eat all you cats. Alf. Yeah ye. We had like three Alf 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?, do you remember that Alf ye It does feel like you guys have a lot of alpha ownership. People were disappointed. We said, Beetlejuice three times. you did Keev and Andy did do his Beetlejuice impression. Oh, yeah. I was summoning him with the trees. And that He never showed up. That's crazy. C I do Andy's impression of Beetlej. As a Beetlejuice impressionist, he should always be counting the amount of times it said. He should always be count the Beetlejuice. It's very disappointing when you did. Yeah. All right, Yorm, that was three. goo ahead in order to do that, I gotta get married. Yeah, pretty good. But'. This is okay. I think we're in pretty good shape. I feel like we can go into Andy' podcast knowing that we have a beetle juice on hand. Yeah less it happens again. No problem, s. Sand worormms U'm This is 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 Inform us in the Yas Ooh. and then the comment beneath it was Really good, my man. S See some nice positivity. Yeah, it is absolutely the inropriate response to inform us in the orrormus is reallyally nice, myent. That's like I don't give a honk level Yeah Yeah, I agree We talked a lot about should we play the August Alcina song because we were worried it would get flagged. And Keeef, do you want to explain to everybody what it 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, YouTube 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. So the August Alcina one did get flagged as well. R. They both got flagged, but it wouldn't have mattered if we had letter splitting the money from the ads on that post. And again, if anybody notices there's too many ads, take it up with UMG. R. This is exactly what Carl Marx was talking about. In fact, after he talked about like the whole frontline of the proletarat 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 'causeuse 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 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? Keve one, two, three. Yes. Yeah. Most of the time, yes.. 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. I doubt we went back to the beginning. You wouldn't do it at the beginning. No, because it's a reveal. So yeah. But once you establish that location, why not just do it all the way It takes another You go, it's another forty seconds or whatever it is. That is the 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 scain. There's so much work to get to the moment when you can actually say action and film. So many people are so worried about making their day that they rush 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 everybodybody down and being like, nope, this is more important. One of the first music videos for other artists I did The We are scientists one, I remember being on set And we had really specific like, well just see this part of the song in performance and this part in performance. And I remember to her credit this woman that worked for their record label going, becausecause they're up there doing performance, you have the cameras, you usually just have happen to do the whole song, right? And I went, Ohh yeah, yeah. And in my brain went, Oh my Godd, no duh. what the hell was I thinking? I was really not going to And that has rung in my head for like twenty five 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 like somebody will suggest something and you will get credit as the director, but it's that somebody is like We'll be like, hey, should you get that footage? And he 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 truest thing in the world that it will take 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 and the edit Somebody said welcome back to Th Cliffords and a Groden 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. Okay kidd. Wa didid they actually say that? 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. Re They don't get a lot of movies. So when a movie starts, they're like, whatever are we gonna to do? We're not gonna get a second movie. I would love to put that on for my kids and time how far do they make it before they turn it off and yell at me for turning it on. For next week, I will get my kids to review Clifford. Please, please, do. Oh my God. That's well worth. Speaking of we're gonna get at some point during this week's episode, we're gonna to get a dumps Qam a quam dumps, samps bum What? Yes. What is sorry with you. I don't know what you're talking about and I love it. You went dumping. You went dumbpling M. Oh yeah, I went dumping. That's gonna 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 we were talking about kids and it made me think, oh my god, you guys are getting a very special surprise this episode. There's gonna to be a dump Squamps dump and you don't know what I'm talking about now, but Oh my God, great. 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, yeo, let's make some dumps. Was your family? haveave you used dumps with your family or just like your friends? Not really. I think it's just in the Andy and thing. Oh Godd, I hate it. I hate it so much.. There's a phrase 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 too bigig order of dumps. Will Forte has a dog named Mudbt. 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. L my God, if you just called him anything but mud butt, I would like that dog. Wait Yeah, Mobbut's bad. It's horrendous. Mobbut's real.risbee was the same way, though. I gota I have to listen, but I guess mister Jabalina is a sample from a monkey song Z Is it really? The music or the Mr. Dabolina, Mr. Bob Dabolina? I think that must be the part that is sampled. I didn't get to say this last week, but I have the Mr. Dobolina record. It's a single. it's one of my pride and joys because on the B side of Mr. Dabolina It might be Mr. Brombay, but I think it has douling as well U The song eye examxamination, which I think is my favorite hip hop song ever made. So if you can find That was a hard to find Dell's song back before the internet. 'cause it was not on his album and it was one of the hardest, coolest ones. And fun fact, Dell, the Funky Homosamian is from the Bay, which we are also from Yeah And the bay is what? And the bay is what? your area. Oh it's an area. Oh, that's very. It's the whole area All right, here's Mr. Bob Dabelina. The monkeys's song is called Zilch It's got a Parliament sample and a James Brown sample. Yeah, it's vocals, lyrics. Are you looking at a thing that tells you who does what on songs? Yeah. It's a website called Who sampled. Okay and it'll tell you the samples on any song. You know who would not be into that? Premiere. Yeah, he's always gate keepeping his samples. Stop snitching, violating, straight up and down. your skch. Let's see, what else do I have from our le? Another pitch for the name of your van, Van Whalen Letow that out. Okay. We had an ad for NPR in the show last week. Yeah, we're classy Yeah. We're classy. Somebody said, hearing an NPR ad in the podcast is that weird feeling when your old high school friends meet your college adult friends . I loveo that. Also, you were peopleople thought you with a top hat looked like a guy who was about this is back to you, Kef, and I just said sex that you were about to lift up Punksatani Phil Oh, I should be so lucky. I know exactly who they're talking about. Isn't that Brian Doyle Murphy in the movie? Yeah Hello everybody, Akiva here. This ad break is going be a little different because in partnership with Airbnb, I just attended my first Airbnb experience with my family We took a cooking class at a restaurant called Men and Beasts, which is in Echo Park in Los Angeles, where we learned how to make dumplings. The restaurant is entirely vegan That's true. Thank you for chiming in. We're gonna start with our white though. We have two different colors just for fun. Later on, we're gonna experiment with some two tone two tone dumplings We're gonna try and learn the basics first. So first off, you just go on the Airbnb website. There's a list of experiences in any city. so if you're a tourist there, or if you watch something fun to do with your family. But we went on there and we chose something at a local vegan Chinese restaurant to make dumplings, and it honestly ended up pretty fun. Would you agree with that, Liz Yeah, I loved the whole thing and it was also on Father's Day, which was an extra little special something, don't you think? Yeah, it was really nice. We went as a whole family. How about you It was really nice. I gott to learn how to make something I didn't know. I got to explore different ways to make a dplling. I got to learn different folds. And you know, honestly, it felt a little bit like being on vacation The owner of the restaurant is also the head chef and he gave us the full lesson and he was lovely. and it was really fun. We got to make the dough into little circles ourselves Tell me about the circle. What did you have to leave? So you got your dough and it was almost like in this almost marshmallow kind of shape. and you put it down and you pressed it And then it was time to start rolling. And as you were rolling, you kind of held it in your hand a certain way and then you left a thicker part of the dough towards the middle. All right. So our first chunk of dough and we did that Not to just keep like the filling, but also to find the shape cent Yeah, and we ask so that the dumpling has a little bit of a more sturdy bottom. sound cyind. You're looking for about a one inch diameter here because if you leave the center a little thicker, then when you're doing all your folds it can hold all the the vegan fake meat inside it. and it was delicious. The length is going depend how much dough you cut off. And then we also ordered a little from the menu before we left. Obviously we got to e our own dumplings and take them home and we got to try some of the food there and everything we tasted there was really inventive and delicious And when we're th out at the restaurant Men and Beast, they have this really good Oong tea. Yeah that they just brought out and we got to wear silly chef hats And afterwards I had an nice coffee. What else do you want? I don't know. It was a really nice way to spend an afternoon and there was lots of other versions of these kind of experiences. It's not all just making vegan Chinese dumplings. That's just what we chose. Yeah. like I think, you know, Especially for families, you kind of get in a pattern of always going to the same places and all that stuff. And so this was kind of cool to be like, Oh, what else is in our own city to go do and learn something and be in a different part of town than we usually go to? And it made me like appreciate LA Whether you're traveling or simply exploring your own city, Airbnb experiences are an easy way to meet new people, build real world connections, the things you do on a trip Those are what stay with you. Thousands of others at airbnb d. com slash experiences It's been brought to my attention that our comedy awward performance if I Just Had Sex is on our YouTube channel. Ohow. april tenth, twenty eleven. So it was four months after the video. That's very cool. And let's see, that's about all I had you wantan to do this, Greg Chun? He's a listener, and he had a genuine question. send something in. Thanks,ud's let's hear it 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, notot messing with you this time. This is a legitimate question Instagram fed me one of my favorite SNL sketches of all time. It's the Crossing overver one where Will Ferrells he's doing the psychic who just can't get anything right. 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 Quids too Do they ever go back for whatever reason? and place with like a dress rehearsal run or another run This was like different costuming and everything. so I was super confused. So if you could tell us, that would be amazing Keve Seth, you do it. I mean, yes.. 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. So 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. It's called Saturday Night Live And I feel like it should just be mistakes and all 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 Air is, but the sketch is a parody of crossing over with John Edward, which was, I guess a show back then. Okay, we're gonna listen to this for two seconds A woman Got a woman with a J Drew Barrymore by Rudolph in the crowd? Maybe Kay Okay He or J. Woman with a K or J. G I love this O R. This is a question from Ryan, which I feel like we've in a weird way, kind of covered a little bit based on how your' key part of I'm on a boat and your your key part of I just had sex, which is for key even Ym. When you each make your first substantial appearances in digital shorts, how were you feeling leading up to it airing? And while it played, wereere you excited nervous, worried people would be like, who the heck is this guy Yeah, yeah, like keep you going first what? Yeah, I think because we weren't actually on the show, there was a little level of self conscious embarrassment, I would say, notot embarrassed in the work, but embarrassed like at the office. knowing like we put ourselves in is kind of feels a little self indulgent maybe.elt I felt a bit thirsty. Yes. Yeah, a little thirsty. That's a good word for it 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. L we did this short glerk for our pilot for Fox called Awesom Town. Yeah O Seth Rogan replaced me with Seth Rogan on like a boss. likeike if you're the album, it' me and then Seth When it felt appropriate it was But like I just had sex or I'm on a boat would 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, o, thank you. Yeah. And that still happens at the show. And you were very, I remember you guys would walk in very slowly in hopes that P people would take your picture. Yeah, yeah, I'd give them a lot of opportunities. A lot of Like they'd had to get through like Hater and Fe and Cus. and I I remember go through the revolving door and often come back out again and do this thing where you go, don guess I missed my spot. Yeah. Well, me and Keev also got stoped veryer good at You missed my spot. What the fuck is wrong with me? Well M M drinking very good ventriloquism. So as you'd leave you'd do like a Oh Oh my god. And so that helps. Yeah, we'd wait for the wig wave. Wed call it the wig wave is for Kristen, and 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 yeah, It's like surfing. don you don't get on the wave. You would say let 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 drating. 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 pewe. 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 Carey came and hosted the show That was a huge deal for me to see Jim Carey 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? Nither was there. No. Andy probably has some good memories of this. Oh Jim Carey, ye, no, no, I'm jealous. I didn't fucking stop by for that sh. Yeah, so this is Yororm still on his sabbatical where he had left the show. I'm an ask. I'm probably an act. And I it's january eighth and my daughter was born january second And so I am definitely not there. I you're just being completely lazy and exactly I'm home with a six day old. Unbelievable. But Let's see. Yeahah, feels like maybe we want to talk about this one with Andy there because We were all huge Jim Carerey 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 Carey all the time, which I think is really fun quote. is whenever it's really hot out, Andy says from Aentura to Prety out in these rhinos . And Yororm has this really interesting one. It's all rightrighty then. Oh yeah. ye, That's the deep cut exactly. I will say my memory and I will get Andy's memories next week when he's here is that Jim Carey in person is so much like Jim Carey that you kind of can't believe it in that he can do things that only Jim Carerey can do feels as though it is almost It's the definition of a Godd given talent and that it looks like magic the way he like has control over his face and body and voice and everything he can do because again, every one of us has pitched and fucking eaten shit on Monday in the Monday pitch, right? Like Of course It's impossible thing to do I will say that when Jim Ky was 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 lead balloom. And there was this brief pause. And again, this ist 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 lead balloon and then Jim Carey 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 Like people chearing. It's a huma Like just a poull 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. And it was just I was like, he's around like you're like, you know what? I think this week's going to go all right, regardless. I mean everybody was just like Holy, holy. becausecause you know, when you think about sometimes sometimes you're at charity events in Hollywood and one of the auction items is like, Al Pacino will leave 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 free 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 had you have to make eye contact in a meaningful way? Yeah Yeah, we' 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.ood math. That's very good math,h. Jim Crey still might have meant more to you than your daughter did. There was like a small window. I have a real favorite from this episode which is Tarn Kilam'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 going show the beginning to Ky Vinignorm and then let them speak to the skills of Jim Carerey and how smart Taren Killam was to write this for him with Klein Yeah, your sister told me it was your favorite Here come the Meraryville Brothers T join with a friend in a friend place you'll have friendship all day long to come along and sing all day because that's the mry rother away It so impressent. God, they do it perfect. Oh that is It's incredibly That's so good. Nobody's overdoing it. It is absolutely how animatronic people would look You go to Jim Carerey maybe because he's Jim Carerey, but looking at everyone, they're all pretty fucking flawless. Thats great. Yeah. Taron and Jim Carerey and Bill Hayater are the three Maryville brothers. They're 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 thirty four seconds and you know the game and you're enjoying yourself Vsery fun. Does it get dark after that? Yeah, of course Bud you know how it Yeah. No, it's great. Everybody's happy. they've loveved the Mararyibable B brothers. Okay good. Do doesnn't get weird. After that it doesn't get weird. Yeah, it's just normal from the. It is a reminder. You watch it and you see there is a little bit of David S. Pumpkins in that it's a reminder of how fucking funny Tern can be physically And wordlessly. I saw him perform Hamilton as the king, right?idn't he do that? was 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 at Lewis, like because I know she's fantastic in that show too, but she she was amazing. She the minute I saw her for over years didbody, she was like, draged is like a revelation. She was like, she's fucking built for this in a way that is like so impressive so. I reached out to Tarn and asked him for if he had any memories about Maryabele. Oh great. Oh this better be good Quade Army. Yay. just. Righteous go, G 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 Quatos are frothen at the mouth in anticipation of Ande and' Often forgotten Gautier sketch. Oh yeah. coming up. Maryville Brothers was a really cool week Jim Carerey is my comedy idol always has been. and that sketch was based off of like a physical thing I'd done at Groundlings that two other comedians had written, Ryan Gaall and Greg Roman And I got their blessing to kind of put it in a new format. And so I wrote Maryville Brothers with Rob Klein and Kent Subblet, the dream team, truly. and K kind of the story of note is from dress rehearsal It went well at the table got picked. we rehearsed it. dress rehearsal. U the first time we come up, we do the 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 saying like, Jim Carerey, my hero kind of giving me a look of like, oh, not bad, cool. And then looking to my right and Bill Hater, who was also in the sketch, giv me a thumbs up and he kind of whispered like, it's g really good. That's awesome, man.'s goodill that felt great.er accurate. And then on Monday, where I often found myself like, you know tryrying to play it cool, but so desperate for any mention or validation of the work you'd done the week before Um, Hig Bones, Steve Higgins told me that Tom Hanks had texted him during the show and I 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 Brothers sketch. We did We 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. No, we don burn. How darel snuck in. Let me know when you guys want to do the Grown Ups two car wasash scene episode. Yes. Later dudes. The Grown Ups two episode. That's gott toa be a big one. People are probably waiting for the Grownps to two epode I. Thanks Tarn. That was great. Thank you, Taron. 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 know, you can do it is exact exxactly how I felt with Mugless. Sure. Yeah. sure. Good. yeah. mustust have been amazing. So jealous. Also talk about an approval sandwich. You want to be in the middle of Hater and Cry. That's amazing. I thought you were to say hanks, but yeah, absolutely fucking. I mean feel like a nice little topper to have topics. be 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 and Yorm to do a very quick version of, which is Zane says, Hello. I absolutely love the podcast. Look forward to every week, I want to 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, pererforming with the roots, had you met them before? How did you decide to go so hard at Yororm? So that's talking about when we did I'm on ae 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 in concert. so many times and we had had some nice interactions with them already. Especially Amir was so kind about like Lzy Sunday and stuff, but it was amazing to have them doing the song and then for us to figure out how to work Yorm 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 Yorm. that wasas that the first time we figured the Dun's cap? The Dun's cap and putting him on a little stool in the center of the stage. D's cap coming back And it helps me and Andy, so we're not just up there like 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 you know who's actually witnessing some of this to really sell jokes sometimes. And when you do that part Well which I do. very very very well. Yeah. 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 Tarq, AKA Black thoughtought learned, you know, the whole pain thing that day and did it so well. So it was just really fun And then for cllassroom instruments, whose idea was it to do the song as part of cllassroom instruments series? Who came up with the arrangement? How many takes did you have to do? Was it difficult to sing without cursing? Sorry, real quick. Can you guys ask J to Axle a few questions about what he thought about Clifford? Oh yes, please. My first question to you about Cliffford Axel is what was your favorite part of the movie I have no idea. Okay, good answ. I liked it a lot. And on a scale of one to ten, ten 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. Okaykay. That's pretty high. accurate. Eident. All right, I'll be out in a minute. So to answer these questions in order, we were there because Andy was going to be the guest to promote popstar And we were already all in New York also because we were doing a week of press before the premiere. And also I lived And yeah. and also your lives there. And next. 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 ye, Wrap it up. Love you guys. Oh love you. loveove 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. We already said that and we meant it. Okay, Be to Seth. By Set. So Andy was going to be on it and they proposed doing a classroom instrument. The tonight show as 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 Fickey instead of Motherfucker which you Yeahah, Mickey Ficky Mickeyiicy. Shout out Spikely. I believe it's on our YouTube channel for anyone who wants to hear it. I think it's pretty good actually Yeah. 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 because you're just in a room shouting and the room is just miced. So there's no What performance did we use? D we use the second one 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 ten 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 st. If 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 itbe because I do it excellently. Let's me in your just take a little trip down memory line since we're talking about it Yeah C cute cute sensors. Your monkey Fky toes What am I reading? The joy of land. know it looks. I'm going Mommy, Daddy I like it so much I would actually want to put it on a cassette tape on a mix tape for myself because the van only only has cassettes And It really is an awesome shout out to D I think is m Then he kses. Yeah, and there's a mermaid properly. Everybody looks at him judgmentally. Yeah Honestly, that might be the performance I'm the most proud of That is great. because 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 Yolo with them I didn't get to do this exactly, but E commentments about you. Yororm's commitment to making faces at the camera for two and a half minutes is everything. Quit Army for life. An one. I can feel Yorma looking into my soul and begging for help. Yororm 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, absolute zero By the way, 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 because it is a joyful song. I'm still jealous. I'm not on it.m still mad at you, both of you. deep down Very very much bigger part of it than I am if I just had sex. so Sir Yeah ye. 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 and A. you know, I wish Andy was around, but I get it. He flew in just yesterday. so I'm gonna to 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 knowing about his spepelling bee adventures this week, so I hope we can at least get I just saw that I missed a voice call from him eleven minutes ago. Okay, well, I'm assuming it was about Spelling be so Andy how'd you do on Spelling be? U yeah, two hints and Frankly, I haven't gotten clean since last Tuesday. so bit of a cold streak And it doesn't feel good. It doesn't feel good, but you got to 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 Hellas I'm lying about the whole thing and I've never once ever done it which would truly be the most icotic 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. Good job, Andy. I assume you cleaned it or whatever your thing is. And for everyone that's curious, I got solid Slid. Vretty good. Right Love you yourn. Love you, Cave. Love you Seth. Love you guys. Later Arnold. Later Qids. Later' on him. Later aids. Later, Don Draper W me to say later Qaids Stop acting like children Later goes, faith Later, Qid Later Jack doing Ghostface. Later, Aades. Later, O'Brien. Oh, now you remember me.