Jason Sudeikis

100%.

Buttery rust.

I'm going to stand on center stage, and everyone has to listen to me, and it's just me by myself.

Oh my God, just be fucking funny.

He's seen it now.

Oh, my God.

The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast.

We were in some side room, some shitty side room.

Can I ask a nerdy question, which is what did you guys shoot on? Because what I also like about it is it has a different quality, as in it's the quality of the film is less than the show, which is nice because it actually stands out. But like you're not shooting on film or anything, right? What were you guys shooting on?

How did you do? How was your audition? Awful.

Yeah. I don't know.

Yeah, that's perfect. I forget that you had to bring these to table because that was one of the advantages that we had is that because we had gotten the first few and Lazy Sunday in particular under the radar, we just started to not have to bring anything to table ever.

The idea of having to read, some of these must have been hard to get by because obviously with a lot of our stuff, the visuals don't necessarily, you don't quite get the concept if you just read it out loud. That's a harder road to hoe for sure.

Oh, man. Yeah. The way Hater would laugh occasionally when he liked something was so infectious. Yeah. Just that giggle monster.

It was great.

Yeah, you're bashful.

Awesome rappers. The cover of awesome rappers.

You just gave me an idea about what my fake name could be, you son of a gun. I love that people corrected you, but I think that is because you constantly say that it's all totally accurate.

It's so much sadder when you're dealing with like a really accomplished musician who like, this is so basic, like just trying to get on the bar.

Yeah. Oh my God.

A guy who looks like you being like, I played you. Like, it doesn't even make sense.

Oh, nice. Gotcha.

Oh, I don't know. I think maybe.

Oh my God. Okay. So speaking of this and coming back to SNL after however many years it was and You and Tim O'Brien, you were in your office, and for some reason, nobody else was on the floor. I don't know what you guys were doing, but you were dressed up as this character. I came in, and you guys were having such a fucking blast, and it just reminded me of all my favorite moments at the show.

But you were wearing this like, giant coat. And like, I can't remember what you were doing, but you were just like, was there a character that you were playing just in your office?

Wait, how often do you think he was like, I made a huge mistake. He should be on the cast. He's so young. He's so dope.

You're clearly a cop. It was after we did Hot Rod, I remember having a conversation with Lauren, and it was sort of about like, ah, it didn't do as well as we had expected it to do. Those projections were a little off. And at one point, he did say, he was like, well, you know, in a normal movie, you would have been played by a 14-year-old boy. Which is accurate. I was in stripes the whole time.

Beck being a jockey jerk is always my favorite.

He's not a celebratory kind of guy.

And I'm also somber. Yes.

What was the solution that you splattered on people? Was it like applesauce or something? It's so perfectly gross.

No, my favorite back line is saying, what? I'm trying to help him.

Yeah, he's happy about it.

Yeah. Yeah. To death. To the death. He's going to take that to the grave.

This is where it gets so specific with me. Like just getting to this one, me like, oh, man, it was like helping you out with any of your album stuff that you're doing or seeing your live like one man show that I saw in L.A. I was just like the specificity of what you're bringing to this comedy. So it's so specific. I mean, I know you're a Chicago guy, but like this was so specific to me.

Still a writer. Yeah. He always surprises you by revealing that he's a writer.

Yeah. It did give me a little bit of the hearkening back to Seven Minutes in Heaven series that you did of just like putting attractive ladies in the position of being like, I like that guy.

How did the animation thing work? Because we were never able to, like, access that part of SNL. Like, who did it and how long did it take? Like, I mean, it's really, it's good.

It was backdoored in a way. Oh, gosh. I was like, did they do this in a week? This is fucking phenomenally difficult. To do in that timeframe would be crazy. So that makes more sense.

Here we go.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, the best.

It's, God, that's, I mean, but that's an experience though. You know what I mean? In that same way that you were like, the bad times are the ones you remember. Yeah. Juggalos, ICP.

But that would have been good gifts for everyone at SNL though. It's true. Like all your comedy friends. I grabbed a hoodie that I think Obi wore a lot.

I will say that voice that like, Sunday, everything's on fire. is now used on Seth's show all the time, and I don't do the voice. What's up with that, Seth?

And Mike, will you tell the story about when you came to the MacGruber premiere? Because I remember thinking that that was the funniest.

You go inside and there was a tank. There was a fucking tank.

Which killed and everybody loved and saw.

It was so crazy. It's always so funny when whatever you do a show and it's like so hard to make anything. It's always like do more with less money, less time, less like whatever. And then you get to like the part to promote it. And you're like, where did this money come from?

Yeah.

Like we needed all of this. Yeah, yeah. But it was great. Yep. It was a fun premiere. I'm glad that AP Bio is killing on Peacock and MacGruber is people almost know that it exists on Peacock. Well, technically, it's killing on Netflix.

It did not get the love that you would have thought. I'm surprised that that one, like that mirror for those guys.

This is the one I saw, too, and thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed. How many did you do before you got on the cast?

Was that him the entire time? I assume it was. No.

Oh, I just assumed it was like Brad Pitt and Jackass. Like he wanted to do his own stunts. He was like, yeah, I'm in it for the long haul.

Yeah. The thing I loved about Sad Mouse and rewatching it was that it reminded me, we did like a recap of all the SNL shorts, like our third or fourth year. And it was like Andy, like hosting it in the movie theater. And it went through like the Albert Brooks ones.

And there were a couple of shorts that played that were SNL shorts that were just concepts and they weren't necessarily hilarious, but they were like short films that just either moved you or like, you know, there was one with like these mariachis and ballerinas dancing together that I was always just like, this is really inspired.

And there was something about that one that I was just like, this is really nice. And I was also like knowing you, Mike, and what you're capable of and how deeply sarcastic you can get to sort of like see this sort of introspective, sincere side of it was really, really sweet.

Oh my God. The minute you actually said it, but I was so nervous. I was probably between vomiting when I talked to you. But as soon as you said it, I was like, that's right. Yeah. I have no idea where that was because it was not in 8H. No, we're it's such a bummer to like have the experience of auditioning for the show and then not get to at least have been on the stage at age. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know. It seemed like such a good calling card to have somebody have the brilliant idea in Hollywood to be like, hey, you know who might be good?

Right.

That's definitely, definitely my favorite joke.

I think I was just so happy that it didn't end with it being a reveal that it's like Lady Gaga is in the other. Oh, yeah. It could have gone that route, and it didn't, and I appreciated that.

The magic of editing.

Familiar. Jason, how you doing? Hey, Rainn. So, Jason, what are you up to? Just compiling my monthly invoices. What are you talking about? Why are you at a desk? I'm always at a desk. No, you're not. Okay. Okay.

No, I didn't.