The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Listener Q&A Episode 3
Mon, 06 Jan
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Chapter 1: What are the New Year's greetings?
Happy New Year! Happy New Year's, guys! Yeah! We have spent a whole week getting ready to get back into these wonderful questions, and I'm just kidding. It's only been five seconds in our life. How many words of Auld Lang Syne do you know? I just watched When Harry Met Sally, and they have that in the movie, and I don't remember anything.
Okay, so you just heard it, and you don't remember any of the words. Yeah, nothing. Should old acquaintance be forgot? Be forgot, yeah. And never come online. Yeah, I tap out at forgot. The problem is you have to really sing that full-throated, and then it's screeching breaks when you realize you don't know the next word.
I remember the lyrics when Bob Odenkirk goes into Old Lang Syne at the end of The Joke the Musical in Mr. Show better. Okay, what are those? Prove it. He goes... He's the hated milk machine. Right. That's right. That's right. And then one of my favorite moments in all of comedy history, it turns into, where do I go now? It's all flooding back. So good. The milk machine, where do I go now?
Oh, it's so fucking good. Sorry, this is right at the top of a Q&A app. This is nonsense. But that's good. You know, it's a rewatch for us, but I think there's also other things for people to watch. Yeah. Maybe for the first time. Yeah. All right. Happy New Year, guys. Happy New Year, Seth. When we left it off a week ago or five minutes ago, depending on how you see time.
Happy New Year, souffle.
I recently watched Seth's special on HBO, and after watching it, I'm curious whose Swedish chef impression is better, Andy or Seth's. Let me start. I had some real ethical questions about whether or not I could Swedish chef based on how close we are. Did you actually, though? I did actually. You mean for comedy on comedy, like can you go into Andy's territory? Yeah.
Going through my texts, Monday, October 28th, I texted Seth to say I loved his special. He said, was so worried doing Swedish chef would end our friendship. And I said, do you remember what I said? No. It deaf crossed a line, but we're in too deep now. So earlier in our friendship, it would have been a deal breaker.
Yeah, we're in too deep now. There's no going back on our friendship. You can Swedish chef it. So if this was a standup special that came out in 2007, it's a real problem. Honestly, it might have been a conversation. Like, yo, bro. Yo, bro.
You know I do Swedish Chef, bro.
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Chapter 2: Which Swedish chef impression is better?
How many sets of cards will they have? Is it always two? It depends on how many characters are in the scene, but there could be four sets. Easy. That's max. Amazing. That's amazing. Usually two or three. And if it's like a one or two camera, obviously just one monologue one.
And what percentage of the time are there mistakes on cards? Would you say? Very rare. Very rare. It's fucking amazing. That's like to have four sets of cards. They're fucking good. They're so good.
Yeah. Cards, everyone in cards, they work so hard, so fast. It was even crazier going back this season, Seth, in my opinion, in terms of how late the changes and how many changes were going in. Yeah. Those political cold opens, it was insane because there were like five, six writers working on them at all times.
And changes coming in from five different writers and the cards team just like making them all make sense and be legible and- They're also taking white tape to make changes. It's so analog. One writer stands with Wally. Wally does cue cards for my show to this day. And by the way, to echo your sentiment, Andy, the amount of Mondays he would walk in and say, well, we broke a new record.
Yeah, it's crazy. Just a number of cards and how late they get the changes. But one writer with the script stands over Wally as he goes through one set of cards and you're making changes. And then four other people are just mirroring the changes as they happen. Correct. They're just watching Wally and changing their set of cards as well. That's incredible. Yeah.
Also, something that is incredibly common, Jorm and whomever is listening. is if you have a piece and you're worried about the changes, you go try to find someone who's not currently on a sketch and look at your cards and make sure that they are correct. You can catch last minute things that way too.
It's so funny when you catch it. It's that thrill when you're running cards and you catch a change, you're like, no, that's still in and then everybody's like, that's your lead cards, number 47, sketch seven, card number 47. And it really is. It's terrible that it happens, but it's so exciting that they know how to fix it.
No, I mean, I obviously have checked cards at the show and doing live sketches and things, but it's so different to hear about your guys' experience. I just never realized it was that many cards, too, that you would have that many cards for one sketch, too. It's incredible.
The other crazy thing is sometimes if the show's running long, they'll start cutting. This only happened to me a few times, but it does happen where you are in the middle of your sketch and they start cutting the sketch live. Yeah, that's amazing.
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