Rob Holysz
Appearances
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
The thing that's interesting about it to me is, and I remember thinking of this at the time, is some of the shots to me as a sci-fi person look fucking awesome. Yeah. Like the one of me that I'm on like some metal planet thing and there's like a really legit stock footage spaceship above me. Yeah. You do it for like two seconds twice.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
But the comping on it to me looks totally good and legit for what we were doing. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Yeah, it works. And I thought all the World's Fair stuff looked really cool, too. That's true.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Anyway, I thought everyone did a great job.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
really great well some of it looks really bad i mean the completion of the thought is and then some of the shots look very very clearly like lo-fi shitty green screen and takes you out of it if it all looked incredible maybe that would be a joke unto itself that we spent all of that time and energy on making it look like a real sci-fi movie and the song is so fucking meandering
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
I think Joram panicked once it was teed up that he was going to tell a good story, and he told all of the parts out of order and not with any particular aplomb.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Yeah, I agree with that. Sure. I mean, it's also hilarious. This was the first one where we were like, we had the whole summer to make stuff and polish it and make sure it was really good. Not like those things we had to do on the fly, like Lazy Sunday and Dunkin' Box. And this was the first one. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
What it's telling me also is that we had people's trust. You know what I mean? Yeah. And I think somewhere it's earned and intentional, like I was saying before. Like, we're like, on this one, we're just going to let that bitch breathe. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Uh, I'm gonna maybe be right because I'm remembering that the host was Phelps. Uh-huh. Is it Mark Spitz?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
There have been thinner intros. There have been thinner intros.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Can I take a stab at it, Jorm? Fine. It was my 20, let's say, second birthday. And I wanted to go to Medieval Times, and we all went as a big group. And the last thing I remember is Jorma in a princess hat that he stole from the gift shop, standing in the parking lot as slow traffic went out of the parking lot, screaming at the top of his lungs. Probably Azul as well. Azul!
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
I was always trying to keep in mind. I was trying to give you something good to do, you know?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, a leash. My mom drives me crazy. It's like a tag.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Yes, I still have it up on my wall in my home because it was very meaningful to me. She sent me a framed, original three-cell Kathy strip where Kathy and Irving are talking about watching me playing Kathy on SNL, and it's really sweet, and it meant a lot to me. And I sent her flowers back, and I hope she got them because she didn't have to do that.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Yes, the joke was much more that I was doing Kathy, not anything about Kathy. I grew up and still, but I just love the funny pages. I'm so happy. I love just seeing a whole thing of just a bunch of little cartoons and getting to read them. Just is a wonderful thing. I mean, I feel the same way. It was a big deal.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Are you stopping the story and saying you didn't tell him that I also get Queen Bee?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
He wasn't going to know who you were talking about.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Maybe not worth spending his time. So what? So you got him on because, what, he's seen your show? He's been on my show. So that's how he knows who you are, but not me? Well, if you want to have him on your show...
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
That's right. And Jessica Biel came out as Jessica Rabbit.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Well, we'll talk about it again when you've seen it then, Seth. It's so fun.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
That I didn't remember. The Seth's Corner one I was there for. I was standing right there.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Lovely, by the way. Super nice. Yes. Down to clown.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
It went from us being like, let's go to Evil Times. That'll be a lark to that image that I will never forget.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Dude, there was no question it was about to be a moment.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
And the writing was so funny. And like everyone in the country was watching. Everybody wanted it. Everyone wanted it. It was a supercharged moment when like the show met the moment. And when that happens, that's when SNL is the most powerful.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Seth, this might not be our story to tell, but I believe you're aware of it too. That summer, after Palin joined the race and got added to the ticket, Lauren would always tell the story that for like a week, everywhere he went, people kept saying to him, it's a gift. Yeah. It's a gift, Mr. Michaels, like his doorman. Everywhere he went, all over town, they were like, she's perfect.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
She looks exactly like her. It's a gift. And he took that with him and was like, all right, like, Tina, you kind of, it seems like the universe is just saying this is supposed to happen.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
That's probably why I was doing that voice.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Yeah. Yes. And it's in the show because of the jokes.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Now it needs to be the right version of the sketch.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
But Seth, this is so, I mean, I love talking about all this, but I wasn't even thinking this was going to be Seth's corner. I thought it was going to be the thing you had at dress that got cut. Was that Justice League?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Seth wrote a Justice League sketch with Phelps as Aquaman. I was in it. I don't remember who I was. I might not have been in it, though, Yorm. You were in it. Great. Lockbox. That's an SNL reference. And at Dress, and by the way, this is not the only reason it got cut. Michael Phelps, who is not an actor, in the middle of a line, just couldn't get his line. Just was like, that's right.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Just went like that. And then started the line over and we were all just like, oh no!
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
I mean, it didn't matter as much, especially because it was dress. But he went...
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
You know? It's like, air tastes weird, right guys? Just chugging waters. Well, anyhow, it was wonderful. That sketch didn't play great.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
It would be like if they put him in the lineup with, like, four other guys, and they're like, okay, so who was it? And only one of them had a giant neon sign with the cord hang off stuffed under his jacket. It's honestly just that I think you should leave Sketch.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Something I learned over time and that I've learned even more, even just in going back this year, this past season, is like the notion that he maybe has checked out or doesn't care is insanity. He cares so much. He's so invested. He knows all the jokes in the sketches. He wants them all to work. He wants everyone to crush it.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Like he is the manager of the sports team and he wants everyone to hit a home run and he's thinking about it all the time.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Yeah. Down to that detail. Yeah. No, a lot of people will always be like, it's crazy how Lauren always has a note on a thing that's really working. And it took me a while to be like, it's because he knows it's good. And so he wants it to be perfect.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Yeah, the waiter was like, Jesus Christ. Because I think it happens a lot.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Easy to be funny once a week. Try four nights a week. Like, do you watch my show every night?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Jam the Vote was an election special on a Thursday.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Yes. With a bullet, yes. One million percent. Like, there's no part of us that was like, Space Olympics is one of our best ones that we have to lead with. We were like, oh, shit. Well.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Well, that's an interesting thing for you to say specifically with me around after doing our pole vaulter bit this year.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
The whole premise was that it was too late. Yeah, that was... Well, the whole premise was about his giant, giant, giant, giant dog.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Strained, weird singing. I will say Space Olympics was very much a solo joint. Yeah. Yeah, it was. It was. I love that beat. It's another Drew Campbell beat. And I immediately was like, I just love the melody of this and the futurism of it. I wrote, I think, a good deal of it before anyone even took a look at it, Keevan Yoram-wise. And I think it shows.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
The one thing, looking back on it, that I really am shocked by and shocked that people don't have more of a problem with is there's like 30 to 40 seconds of vamping vocals at the top. Like, not even words. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
I mean, I know we talked about it at the time. I'm sure I played it and Akiva was like, seems like a lot of dead air at the top. And I was like, I know. I think that fact in like an anti-comedy way was funny to me. I don't think it's something we didn't think about.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
In the world of music, I don't think this just applies to comedy music, being a late riser does not make you the least productive. Oh, no. I was on fucking fire during our making of this album. I came up with so many song ideas just sitting in there fucking around.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
I was so geeked that we finally were getting to make an album. Yeah, it was a good time.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
No, they're just now in the world. It's world building, really.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Oh, yeah. Had to. I mean, if it's so bad, Keeve, how come it's Phil Lord and Chris Miller and Seth Meyers' favorite digital short?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
I was impressed with how many extra visual things you added, like the shot that is just emoting and performing that you made into a shot of him blocking tons of missiles that have nothing to do with the story.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
I mean, there's a premise there. I think he would like it if it was twice as fast.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Just admit to me, finally, that you hate me and you hate this song. Just admit both.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Which one? The very end spaceship is a flat in front of a green screen. Ah, let me pull that in.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Space Olympics
Yeah. Wow, we had some money. With the aliens and everything, Keefe.