The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers talk about the digital short they were surprised to see air…Daiquiri Girl. They discuss what happened behind the scenes that made them pivot, what filming the short in Kevin’s apartment was like, and so much more. They also chat about other sketches from that week’s SNL episode including Death by Chocolate, The Mellow Show, Judy Grimes, The Cougar Den, and more! Daiquiri Girl - https://youtu.be/QtrtzoOLWng?si=9GMjX8fNT36EZ0TCDeath by Chocolate - https://youtu.be/CSiDiUZ5LrE?si=_z-nvFrYvbWeishSThe Mellow Show (with Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Dave Matthews) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhyHsu2iwpsJudy Grimes Playlist - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS_gQd8UB-hLvKfwfRqOhhsVCO_DZVQl6&si=6phqaeu_9DYfQd64(Not all the clips we mention are available online; some never even aired.) If you want to see more photos and clips follow us on Instagram @lonelymeyerspod. Send us an email! [email protected] Support our sponsors: Airbnb Visit Airbnb.com today and book a guest favorite. These are the most beloved homes on Airbnb. Vuori Vuori is offering 20% off your FIRST purchase. Get yourself some of the most comfortable and versatile clothing on the planet at vuori.com/ISLAND Not only will you receive 20% off your first purchase, but enjoy free shipping on any U.S. orders over $75 and free returns. Aura Save on the perfect gift by visiting AuraFrames.com to get $35-off Aura’s best-selling Carver Mat frames by using promo code ISLAND at checkout. This offer is exclusive to our listeners, so get yours now in time for the holidays! Terms and conditions apply. Shopify Upgrade your business and get the same checkout Aviator Nation uses. Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at SHOPIFY COM/ lonelyisland Produced by Rabbit Grin ProductionsExecutive Producers Jeph Porter and Rob HolyszLead Producer Kevin MillerCreative Producer Samantha SkeltonCoordinating Producer Derek JohnsonCover Art by Olney AtwellMusic by Greg Chun and Brent AsburyEdit by Cheyenne Jones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
It's the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast. This one, I've been looking forward to this one. It's the Ashton Kutcher episode. The name of the short is Daiquiri Girl. And I'm just going to tell you that right as we're doing this, Akiva is watching it right now. Andy just watched it. And Andy, you had a big smile on your face.
Yes. Which I was happy to see. Yeah.
I mean, nostalgia alone, just for having been alive during the time it was occurring and had gone through that experience.
So you were smiling about life. It was not about the actual work. I mean, no.
I don't know how to even approach my feelings.
I also want to note that when it ended, you said, Jesus Christ.
I didn't, like, feel a big swelling of pride ever watching it. It was more just like, well, that was one week at the show.
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Chapter 2: What behind-the-scenes stories are shared about Daiquiri Girl?
Here's what I want to say. Keeve, are you done? We'll wait for Keeve. He's got a minute to go. This is also, for those of you who have not come back and watched Daiquiri Girl, it is 90 seconds. Yeah, a long 90. It is a long 90. I will say. I think it is very fair to say it's a long 90. But for the time it spent on television, for a brief minute and a half, it has made a huge impact on my life.
Well, I love that. For those who are there, Daiquiri Girl evokes a massive memory of a time at the show. Daiquiri Girl can be slang for a thing that happens at SNL. Now I'm going to wait for Keeve, who I guess is maybe watching it at 0.5 speed.
Yeah, he likes to slow it down a little bit so he can really get granular. You know what I'll say, Seth? What's that? I certainly don't think there has ever been something exactly like it before or since.
Yeah, I think that's very true. Yeah. Keev, are you with us? Yeah, I just watched it. It was a little slower than I remembered. Keev did not crack nary a smile. No, I was smiling the whole time. You were smiling. All right, good.
By the way, Jorm's not on this episode. He's in Finland making his movie. Good point, good point. I don't think he was there that week either, though. Yeah.
So here's the thing. Daiquiri Girl is so unique, and it represents a thing that I feel like a lot of people at SNL have felt. This was a forced to do a short short, correct? Yes. And oftentimes you are, and again, it's the price of victory. You guys were now a thing that Lauren was excited to have in the show. He depended on you. And everybody, when they started the show, wants to be that.
But then every now and then you have that situation where like, well, we need one. And this is what it looks like when you got nothing. Yeah. So daiquiri girl could just like be a stand in for any like I feel as though it never took off his slang. But I feel like you could be like, oh, let's just say it was a real daiquiri girl of a week. Oh, my God. You know what I mean?
Because we've all been there.
Yeah, we could try to get that going now. Yeah. But most people's daiquiri girls don't end up on the show. We definitely thought it was not going to air.
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Chapter 3: How did the Daiquiri Girl sketch come to be?
In my head, it was always a song because it was Danger, Mouse, and CeeLo.
No. It was a sketch. And I remember thinking, this is not one of our strongest, but let's go through with it. And sometimes those end up being surprises as we've gone over. But I definitely remember when they called, it was, I mean, it was late. How late? Do you think it was Friday night at 9 p.m. that they pulled the rug out? Like we were already on the location or on the way to the location.
Correct. And on some level, I remember feeling relief. Like, oh. Wow, we just got the next 24 hours instead of staying up all night and having to do a short. We're cruising. They just gave us the day off. And then in another way, I don't remember. Andy, do you remember what happened at that point? Did we call Lauren? What happened?
I think we were told, like, you need to give us something. Yeah. Like, we're counting on you having something. And us being like, we don't have it. It was a... By the way, the original idea was flimsy. I don't know if you just said that, Keith.
Yeah, that's what Keith was saying, yeah.
I think it was called, like, Gnarls Barkley is my roommate, and it was some, like, the specificity of, like, roommates eating each other's food or something. I can't even remember what it was. It was, like, sort of funny. It was already going to be, like, yeah, yeah, just be fun, and it's fun to see them because they were red hot, and like Keith said, we were friends with Brian, and...
It was going to be just like a fun little dalliance.
Super fun look. I mean, Gnarls Barkley, do you like the look of the two of them?
You're happy to see them.
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Chapter 4: What was the audience's reaction to Daiquiri Girl?
Which is how it came to pass that she was Daiquiri Girl, because we were there at their apartment, and suddenly we had nothing.
Wait, I just saw Kevin Miller joined as guest. Kevin, are you there? Can you turn on your mic?
I am here. Kevin! Hi, guys.
So what was it like, all these years later, your apartment is the apartment for Daiquiri Girl? Yeah. How quickly did you start hosting tours?
I was just gonna say, there's a bus that goes by on the Big Apple tour. You can get the green Lacoste shirt, just like Daiquiri Girl wore. It is bananas. It's so funny to watch that because I forget what the premise of the original sketch was, but I just remember somebody asking if I had any weed in my apartment.
And I think they were looking for like a low rent apartment to do something with Gnarls Barkley. And then they just never showed up. Right. But it's just a real, you can see it's a real dump of a place.
I like the idea. That's a really says something about us now where they're like, are there any employees of ours, two of them who live together, who we pay enough that they will have a shitty apartment?
Oh, we weren't even living together at this time. I had two roommates. This was like early days living in New York.
Oh, wow. This is pre, pre, pre, pre, pre.
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Chapter 5: What other sketches were discussed in this episode?
Looking straight down the barrel of America.
Just straight down with that, like, Andy face of, like.
This was not our choice.
Now, the other thing that's shocking about it airing is this episode had Jason Reitman, who recently directed Saturday Night, was guest writing. He wrote and directed A Runner, three different shorts called Death by Chocolate, where Ashton Kutcher was a wonderful costume as a chocolate bar who was killing people. It was called Death by Chocolate.
If there was ever a week Lorne did not need a short, it was this week. That's right. And it's crazy to me that Daiquiri Girl made the show.
I can only speak for myself, and we kind of just already covered this, but I really was not angry at all. For whatever reason, it was so nice to not, to just have someone else to blame. And to just be like, and I remember this, we really were, and this is what Kevin just wrote on the note, Friday night, that attitude was like... We tried. Oh, well, well, they're saying they still need something.
So let's give them something for dress so that they can get from one set to the other. Like we felt an obligation at that point to give them 90 seconds to change sets or change wigs. And I remember that's why we filmed you doing it. And then I was like, well, I'll just cut it together to give them something and was putting all those shitty effects on it to just make it all of a piece.
And then wrote that thing. But truly, I mean, we can't say it enough, the amount of which we were positive it wasn't going to air. Yeah. And the shock we felt when it was on the rundown and the shock we felt when it aired out. It was kind of exhilarating a little bit of just like, oh, this is anything can happen.
It did. Yeah. It felt a little more like early days of the show where the goal of it was different almost, you know? Yeah.
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Chapter 6: How did filming in Kevin's apartment influence the sketch?
Were those in Final Cut? Are those built into Final Cut? Because they're so shitty. I assume they are, but that's deep cut horribleness for Final Cut 7, I assume, Keith. Web Clip Empire, is that beat from Web Clip? No, it is not. You maybe want to explain those cool CDs that we used for a thousand years, Keith? Loved the clip art of the daiquiris. Loved that it was kind of a Shy Ronnie precursor.
Oh, he called it too.
He's got the same wig that was used for Shy Ronnie. Good eye, bud. How did you end up at Kevin's house? I'm sure you guys have addressed that one already. And then lastly, I was just saying, it feels like in watching that, that Brian Danger Mouth Burton still owes us a favor. And I think we should figure out how to cash in on that. Okay. Love you guys.
Please stop doing these so late because I can do them. It's 10 hours ahead from LA and that seems reasonable that you could do them in the afternoon and I wouldn't be asleep while you guys do these podcasts. Love you guys. Bye.
I mean, it's very fair that Jorm wants to be awake for the podcast, but again, most of his feedback is, I remember watching this on TV. It's useful to get that perspective. That's most people's perspective, to be fair.
Also, I'll say it on Seth's behalf. Jorm's window from Finland is when Seth is making his network television show that's on every night.
Thanks, buddy. Thanks for having my back. Yeah. You know, he did say that Brian owes you a favor. So if Brian and CeeLo also want to do a Criterion episode with me.
Oh, yeah, because they're two famous people.
Yeah, two famos. Too famous. A couple other things from this show I just want to go through. I don't know if it happened more than two times or three times, but James Anderson. I feel like we don't talk enough about James Anderson on this show. Agreed. There's never enough. One of the greatest comedy writers and one of the most unique voices I've ever been lucky enough to be in a room with.
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Chapter 7: What insights were shared about the creative process at SNL?
The payoff was from The Guardian, Ashton goes, no, from that 70s show. And Kitty goes, oh, I love the black guy in that. And Ashton goes, there wasn't a black guy in that. And Kitty goes, now you're getting it. Maybe now he's getting it, which is even a little bit better. All right, we're out of Seth's corner. Now we're back in Andy's corner. Do you remember what else is in this show? No.
Jack Johnson talk show. Oh, first one? First one. I remember that going well. Went great. So much fun. By the way, JJ Casuals does get a shout out at the end of this sketch as the sponsor. It's the Mellow Show with Jack Johnson. Yes. You play Jack Johnson. Bill plays Dave Matthews. Ashton plays John Mayer. Great. Interesting. There's a very bold move in the Mellow Show, which you...
Right away, because you feel like this is going to be an upbeat, maybe fun, but not the most edgy sketch.
Mm-hmm.
Returning viewers, this is you, say, returning viewers may notice the absence of my good friend Shasta, the golden retriever with a handkerchief. Sadly, Shasta was taken away this week. Seems that things got so casual around here that I forgot to feed him. And then a runner throughout the sketch is, your pets keep dying.
Well, audiences love that.
But here's what really made me happy. And again, I promised another one of these. This is the difference between dress and air. So at dress, you say, sadly, Shasta was taken away this week. Things got so casual around here, I forgot to feed him.
And that made him noticeably angry, so much so that he chewed through the front gate and took off running down the highway after a sausage truck, c'est la vie. A little bit long. This is what you change it to at dress. Things got so casual around here that I forgot to feed him. And then you just sang... Gross negligence. Yeah, that's decidedly better. Decidedly, decidedly better.
And a very fun sketch. I mean, Bill, who can't sing a lick, does a very good Dave Matthews. Yes.
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Chapter 8: What are the lasting impressions of Daiquiri Girl?
Don't be like, is he greasing your palm?
Like while you're doing it.
Dude, shut up. I'm greasing a palm.
I'm trying to grease here. Do you think it's weird afterwards to ask the person how the greasing went? Like, hey, was that a good palm grease? I'd love feedback for my next grease.
It's so embarrassing because, you know, if they're at a maitre d' or a doorman at somewhere that's fancy enough to get greased, then you know they know everything about it. They see every kind of greasing coming in. They see the $100 bill. They see the $10 bill. They see the person that's, like, nervous. And, you know, they know it all.
And then you're coming in there trying to compete as a total virgin to it. You have no clue what you're doing.
I do feel like they would like a coquettish vibe where I'm like, I never do this. Right. We should go to Vegas, guys. I want to say, because we're talking about Kevin, you know, one of the great things about Ann Golden Era is you continue to work with people you knew from Ann Golden Era. And one of the lovely things is that Kevin, who works on this podcast, is also a producer on Late Night.
You know, you meet good people, you keep good people around. Damn straight. Very lucky to have him. Also, Andy, you fully got mentioned in A Closer Look tonight. Did I? He did.
You going to tell me what was said or am I going to have to tune in?
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