Transcript: Andy Samberg on Good Hang with Amy Poehler

Hello everyone. Welcome to another

episode of Good Hang. I'm very excited

about my guest, my dear friend, the

lovely, the sweet, the juicy and

talented Andy Samberg. Um, we are going

to talk about so many good things today.

We're going to talk about him being a

California kid and growing up in the Bay

Area. We're going to talk about the

Lonely Island writing process, what it

was like um in those late nights making

those digital shorts. Um, we're gonna

discuss how ASMR is always a little

pervy, but somehow we like it. Um, and

you know, we're going to just get into

it uh uh like we always do here. Um, we

have even have a gotcha question. We

even have one gotcha question. So,

listen for that. But in the meantime,

I'm going to start my um my episode like

I always do by checking in with someone

who knows Andy and wants to talk well

behind his back and give me a question

to ask. And joining me now is the great

Seth Meyers. Seth, where are you? How

are you? Can you hear me?

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What do you say?

I wanted

I'm so grateful that you did that

podcast. Thank you so much, Seth. It was

nice to have you here in the studio and

it's nice to talk to you in Where are

you right now?

I'm in my little uh New York City

studio.

Oh, you have your own little studio.

Yeah. And I'm realizing I'm not hearing

you through my headphones, so I'm going

to take them off. This is nice though

because I also think my hair looks its

best right after I take off the

headphones.

Speaking of weird hair, we've got a a a

guest with a great head of hair today.

Great head of hair.

And probably, you know, certainly he's

You know what? I'm We're Who are we?

We're going to be a couple of fogies.

Say he had weird hair when he first

showed up on the scene. People love that

hair. It was a magical hair.

It was a magnet for good times.

Both him and you. I feel like I've seen

a million versions of like SNL Bed Head,

which is like just, you know, cuz as we

talked about, like one thing that comes

to mind with Andy that I do want to talk

to him about is his relationship to

sleep because he loves sleep.

He loves sleep. He wrote an update

feature once and he couldn't decide if

he was going to call it the kid who just

woke up or Bed Head Jones.

And I feel like we've seen him so, you

know, so often just kind of being like

so exhausted.

And I think he found a perfect soulmate

because I think there are a couple of

little nocturnal mircats or whatever a

nocturnal animal is

because his beautiful wife Joanna is a

musician and you know, as far as I can

tell, that means you get up at 700 p.m.

Yeah. I mean, there's no no good harp

inspiration's happening before noon.

No. You know how hard those harpists

party? They party. They harp all night.

They party harp, as you like to say.

Wow. Very good. Okay. So, uh, Andy

Samberg and and you you guys have a very

special relationship. For people that

don't know, what what is your

relationship like? Well, it's actually I

would like to use it as the jumping off

point for what I want you to ask him

about because I have a very fraternal

relationship with him and I don't think

I'm alone. I think Andy's friendships

are very fraternal with people

and I don't quite know where that comes

from. I know he is a younger brother and

I think he's sort of a quintessential

he's sort of America's younger brother.

Mhm.

I think the minute we all laid eyes on

him, he felt like a younger brother to

us in a way that was very endearing.

And I kind of want to know like how his

like real life as a younger brother

informed who he was. Two older sisters,

like what was the feedback he was

getting from them? Were they delighted

by him? Were they a good audience? Were

his parents a good audience? Because you

know as older siblings, you and I know

that the younger siblings get a lot

more, you know, easier audience.

Yeah. Everything

free ride in life.

Free ride. Everything is easier.

But he I you know, with that said, Andy

does nothing uh the easy way. Um I've

always said like he showed up and I

thought, "Oh my god, this guy is so

sophomoric." And then I realized now

that he has a PhD in sophomore comedy.

like nobody approaches what they do with

like more integrity and intelligence

than he does. But like I'm very cons I'm

very curious about like his younger

brother DNA and what he thinks it it it

adds to his approach to things.

It's a great question cuz um you're

right. I think he's a justosition

between

feeling very like loose and goofy but

when we've all we've all had the chance

to work with him and he's very serious

when he works.

Yeah. And I would say he's almost never

he's very opposed to taking like the

first idea. Like he'll really he really

wants to dig through them all before he

he moves forward with something. And uh

I'm very I think maybe I I think our

improv bones sometimes are very enamored

with the first idea

and those guys are like no let's not

take the easy way out. And uh it

certainly shows uh in their uh work. And

then uh just a couple things. These this

is me just like talking behind his back.

Uh we were we were trying to schedule a

Lonely Island podcast today and when he

we found out he was doing this uh

instead uh he said uh blame Seth. This

is what he said on the text chain about

doing good hang. Blame Seth.

She's his friend. So somehow it's it's

my fault that he's doing your podcast

because you you and I are friends, not

cuz he's friends with you. There is

nothing I love more in your podcast than

hearing the scheduling and how it never

works

because it's awful.

It's awful.

Gives me such ag,

you know, I love a good schedule. I love

a good system. And when I hear the way

people don't know that they're

recording, it makes me I just they're

like and everyone's showing up and

they're like, "It's today." I just like

what? I love it. I want to know

everything.

Three. the amount like a cup of coffee

can completely change their

personalities. They would not have they

would not have lasted lonely would not

have lasted long in pioneer times.

They're like

um also uh just just for fun. You know

he hates my dog Samberg.

Yeah, that's a running I was going to

say joke but it feels real.

No, he really hates my dog. So, I you

don't have to do this, but I invite you

to say, "I asked Seth for a question,

but he couldn't talk today cuz his dog

just died." And just see if he has any

reaction. But you have to play it. You

have to play it real.

He has been stressing to me a lot

recently. He likes dogs.

It's really It's not It's just my dog.

Um, why when did that start, by the way?

Why does he hate Frisbee?

He met Frisbee when Frisbee was uh like

we had Frisbee for two weeks and he just

immediately said, "That dog looks like a

rat." and he has not come off it once.

In fact, I think we put Frisbee in his

lap and he like went and she just fell

on the floor.

I love him so much. Polar talking to

him. He is um it's a it's you know I'm

again we talked uh you can hear all

about it on my episode of Good Hang. But

I love being friends with people but

he's a different kind of friend. He's

just I She just really feels like a

brother and I'm just so lucky. Oh, here

we go. Old Water Works Jones.

There he goes.

Oh, but look at this. Look what we have

in my podcast studio. We're not making

people wipe their

Hey, I have it, too. But I But I have my

logo on it

just in case.

Oh, you see me? That's so You know, you

know it's you put your logo.

We call these Seth's tissues now.

All right. Love you, Seth. Thank you so

much for doing this.

Love you. Give him my love, too. All

right,

I will. Okay, see you soon. Bye, bud.

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Please

come on.

As soon as you as soon as they said you

were doing one, I was like, well, I'll

be on that. I was thinking about today

like getting ready for today and it was

like it was a really good feeling first

of all because I love doing the show but

I was just like oh I the fact that I get

to just hang out with you and talk to

you and you are the kind of person that

just when I think about what I would

talk about with you it just feels very

nice and very relaxing.

I could not be more with you.

Do you know what I mean? Like I know

it's not going to be

there's no gotcha.

Not a lot of push. Well, maybe one

gotcha. We'll give you two.

Hit me with one gotcha today.

Okay, I'll get one gotcha.

Think whatever gotcha you ask, I have to

answer. Is that the rule?

Okay. Yeah, one gotcha.

Okay.

One gotcha perf.

Oh my god. I can't believe I'm on the

hook for a gotcha.

Andy Samberg, you can see it.

Oh no.

What can you see?

I have a tiny stain.

Oh my god, a stain. But you said you

I jokingly half jokingly said if you can

see a stain you have to run in here like

Dustin Hoffman at the end of the

graduate

got listeners for people listening there

was a little bit of a stain. Okay so

Andy's taking his shirt off. This is his

thing he does where he goes oh there's a

stain and then he takes his shirt off.

Oh have I been hitting the gym?

All right I forgot.

Ladies there's two women who who came in

here on Andy

Stain. Those are my sisters.

Oh my god, it's so funny. Wait, that

you're um talking about your sisters

because that's what I wanted to start

with.

Oh, perfect. Are we started? Are we

commenced?

Yeah, we've commenced.

Wonderful.

Um uh because I don't think a lot of

people know that you are the younger

brother of two older sisters.

And in many ways, you give off little

brother vibes.

Thank you.

Thank you. You like that?

I do like it.

Okay. What do you like about that that

that description of you?

It just is me. So, it makes sense to me

when I feel seen when people are like,

"You have little brother vibes." I'm

like, "You're correct."

What was it? What are your sisters like?

And what kind of like dynamic is in your

family?

Eldest sister, very extroverted.

Middle sister, introverted.

I had great relationship with both of

them. I loved growing up with them. Uh,

very goofy, silly sibling vibe.

And now we all have kids and are adults

and it's insane. And what like what what

are the pros of being a little brother

to two sisters to two young women?

Oh man, you don't get beat up.

Yeah. Right.

Which is great.

Beat up.

Like so many of my dude friends are

like, "Oh man, my brother used to beat

my ass." And and in like not in a like

properly abusive way, but where they'll

be like, you know, I was always a little

scared he was gonna like suck me or

something. And I'm just like, yeah, I

never had to deal with that at all. Um,

and also, I mean, I've talked about this

before, but like in my life, I have

found when I meet other guys that have

older sisters, we immediately get along.

There's just a different level of ease

for me with that energy. I don't know

how to explain it.

Who Who do you know that has older

sisters?

Mammar Panther.

Mari Panther, a great SNL writer who we

love. You're absolutely right. He's has

the vibe of someone who's been

taken gentle care of.

Yes. and and and likes women.

Yeah. Truly. I mean, obviously,

you would hope for everyone to be able

to be okay in any situation. Like, I

grew up with a lot of girls who were

just my friends

in a very easy way. And it didn't have

to be like, are we going to hook up?

Like, and I feel like a lot of my guy

friends back then,

it was if they didn't have sisters, for

some reason, those guys, it was more of

a thing.

Yeah. Did you have did you were you

friends with your sister's friends?

Oh, yeah. I mean, I was in love with

them all.

You were in love with them? That I

didn't want to say it, but that's what I

imagined.

I was I was also friends.

Yeah.

But when you're younger and they're like

in the house and they're all like so

pretty

and they're like laugh they're like

laughing and throwing their arm around

you like candy.

You're so silly. And I'm just like I'll

marry you right now.

And you're 11 and you wanted to just

marry them.

Yeah. They're so And they're all being

nice and they're like well it's Daryl's

brother so we have to be nice. So,

people who didn't know who don't know

you or the like your where you're from,

where did you grow up? Tell us about

your family.

Grew up in Berkeley, California.

Oh yeah.

Bay All Day. Uh my parents are both from

New York. They moved out to the Northern

Cal to the Northern California in summer

of 70.

They missed Summer of Love by a year.

Maybe on purpose.

Well, I do think it's interesting

because you and uh uh the y the Lonely

Island um uh bandmates um Yorma Takone

and Aka Schaffer both have like East

Coast hippie parents that came out here.

Yes. And we found each other. It is

strange. We're all Northern California

raised by New York parents.

Why did your parents move out here? Why

do you think

I think it was just happening out here?

Yeah. I mean, it was kind of the the

summerl of runoff, I guess.

Um, it was just a there was a huge

migration of quote unquote, let's say,

hippies.

I know, but that's probably the wrong

word to use, right? How many What word

would you use?

I mean, they were, let's

get out of here, you know, like me and

Margie, we're heading west, you know, it

definitely was that kind of energy, but

it was also like, we got nothing going

on. We heard there's people, you know,

having some like comfortable places to

sleep out on the West Coast. So, I think

it just brought them out here. And then

once you get here, it's hard to go back

because it's so laid-back and mellow.

I I And you know, we we don't have to

revisit if you don't want to, but I

loved your your episode of Who Who Do

You Think You Are? So You Think You Can

Dance? Where are you from?

The PBS one. Yes. Finding your roots.

Finding your roots. That's the serious

one. Sorry. I mean, I don't know the

difference, but they

was so good and so can for people that

didn't see it, you were looking kind of

hoping to help your mom find her birth

father.

Both parents.

Both.

My mom was adopted.

By the way, after I did that show, this

is just an aside. I watched it with Yor

and Mari in New York cuz I was doing

Press in New York or something and we

when it aired, it showed my mom's like

adoption agency that she was adopted

from. And it's the place from three

identical strangers.

So like and we were like that's why we

could never find the records and find

anything about it cuz they like

disappeared it.

No way.

Yes. So that's where my mom was adopted

from.

Not not a great rep.

No. Uh.

Whoa.

So basically Yeah. Sorry. The backstory

on it is I have sort of avoided doing

stuff like that.

Sure. But then they asked, and it is a

super great, reputable show. And I asked

my mom, I was like, "There's a chance if

I do this, they could figure out who

your birth parents are. Do you want me

to do it?" Knowing like I might be on TV

finding out some horrible thing about

our family history and what her origin

was and all that. And she was just like,

"It would be worth it to me. I still

want to know." So I did it. And they

just smashed it. Like we showed, she

came with me the day that we shot it.

And when we walked in, they were all

like, "There she is."

Like they were all like starruck by her

cuz they knew what they were about to

drop on her was going to change her

life. And it was this amazing team of

people. Uh and what came out of it was

they found out who both her parents

were.

Uh and now we're in touch with both

sides of her family.

No way. She has like four half siblings

on her father's side and then like a

couple first cousins still with us and

their families on her mother's side. And

the craziest thing about it by far

that's like from a movie that I get

still talking about is once she

connected with both both sides of the

families, they both unbeknownst to each

other went looking through her

biological parents' old stuff they still

had. And they both found the same

photograph of the two of them together.

But they both

they both had the picture of them

together when they had their like brief

time together. Oh no. That makes me want

to cry. Isn't that crazy? So the the the

they had a brief So your mom's parents

had like a brief relationship.

Yes.

And then a baby that they gave up for

adoption.

Yes. And we don't know if the if her

father even knew,

right? And they went on to marry other

people and have other kids. But they

kept the same picture of

Yes. from like a date in San Francisco.

Also another crazy thing which was that

they had met in the Bay Area and then my

mom moved there.

Yes. There was something that wanted her

to come back. Wo,

there were so many weird trippy things

about it.

I love that kind of stuff that just

feels so like life has some kind of

grand design. Yeah,

it was really beautiful. And she was so

happy and now we have like

Oh, yeah. We We all look like our

grandparents.

Well, I loved I remember that your

grandfather the big reveal was that

you're Italian.

Yes, exactly. And did I tell you the

story that I went back to Brook I was

shooting Brooklyn 99 I9 at the time and

all the crew and everyone knew I was

doing it and I came back in on Monday

cuz we did it over the weekend and all

the camera guys and the crew guys were

like so and I was like I'm a quarter

Cecilia and they all went hey

like every part of it was like from a

movie. It was so awesome and wonderful.

They're like, "Ah, welcome."

Do you feel any Do you feel different

knowing that?

I do feel a little different. Yeah. I

mean, we always were like, there's

something that's not just like, you

know,

but but yeah, uh it was crazy. And for

my mom especially, it was just like, you

know, she was at this time probably 75,

76 years old. She had given up.

She was like, I'm gonna go my whole life

not ever knowing.

Oh, Andy, that's awesome. That's an

amazing story. And that idea, the idea

that they both kept the photos is very

deep.

Yes.

Because it it feels like they it's like

a time travel moment.

Where their future selves planted that

photo, you know? Like that's a real time

travel [ __ ]

I've thought about it a lot cuz it's so

special and it does like feel written.

Yeah.

And the only thing I can There's a I

have a few theories. One is like they

thought maybe someday this exact thing

would happen and they wanted her to find

them.

Yeah.

You know,

if he did know about her.

Yeah.

And if not, it's just that maybe they

both really enjoyed their time together

and it was like, you know,

Yeah.

You don't like wipe your old

relationships from social media. You

keep them because they were special to

you at that time or whatever.

Yeah. Yeah. Um, you mentioned Brooklyn

I9 Jake. And now I'm realizing Jake

Peralta is like an Italian name. He's

half Jewish, half Italian. It was it was

like a prophecy. Mike and Dan foresaw

it.

So for those who don't know, Mike Sher,

who was also a guest on Good Hang um

along with Dan Gore, created the show

and I think it might be interesting for

people to uh to know like our

conversation that we had before the

show. We've spoken about it before, but

you know, you were you left SNL when?

What year did you leave?

I want to say like 2012.

Yeah. So,

you know, you were I was about four

years ahead of you in the trajectory of

being on the show and leaving it

and

you were approached by them to do this

show and we had a conversation about it

and you were really

What do you remember from that time?

Well, the starting point of it for me

was when I did a guest week on parks,

which was one of the most delightful

weeks of my life. Um, and I remember

very vividly having a conversation with

you that week. I was like, "Everyone's

so nice. Everyone's so funny. The

writing's good." And I remember your

quote exactly was, "It's a good life,

Samberg." And I I held on to that like

very tightly. And then when they asked

me about it, I called you again to be

like, "I should." Right. Like because

going into it, I hadn't been thinking I

wanted to do a TV show, having just done

seven years of a TV show.

Yeah.

Which I'm sure crossed your mind when it

came up too.

Yeah.

But then

truthfully, having seen Parks and love

it so much and see it work so much and

then had the experience of working on it

and feeling that warmth and that

happiness of working on it. Yeah.

It really informed my choice. And you

know, Mike, as we know, has his rule

that he tells everyone before he works

with them, which is like the only rule

is no [ __ ]

Yeah.

Everyone you work with will be

thoughtful and kind and engaged and life

is too short, basically. And I was like,

that sounds good to me.

Okay.

Um, do you remember me calling you?

Yeah. Okay. I do. I remember.

I want to know your side. Well, I

remember because I, you know, it feels

like, you know, there's a there's this

moment when you leave SNL or any job and

you just kind of think, well, I guess

I'm jumping off a cliff like I'll never,

you know, I guess my, you know, I'm

done.

Yeah.

But you're on there's a lot of people at

the station that have also left and they

kind of go like, hey,

yes,

welcome. There's a lot more out there.

And that's what I felt like that

conversation was with me and you, which

is

yes, there's there's so many

opportunities and if it's a Mike Sher

Dan Gore opportunity, I would take it

because it is going to be one of the

best experiences of your life. Did it

prove to be?

Absolutely.

And by the way, it's a gift that keeps

giving.

Like it just moved to Netflix in the US

and it's been there internationally. I

took a trip like a family trip to Europe

a couple years ago and it was like

because of the Netflix part of it I was

like everywhere I went I was like Jake

Peralta I was just telling Fred this

too. I was like I felt like I was on

Friends. I was like, "Oh my god, the

show is actually really big and people

really watch it

and kids love it and families watch it

together." Which was such a part of my

experience growing up was like watching

good quality sitcoms together as a

family.

And just being able to think that I did

something that is that for people is

really gratifying.

Uh, and it was amazing. Like I'm still

really close with everyone I worked with

there and loved it so much. And

everything you told me would happen

happened. I mean, it's such a good show

and exactly that it you feel like there

was a sense of family. Can you tell me

like what was like when you think about

the like deeply funny moments with Andre

Brower who I love and I'm so sorry for

him his passing and his loss. What when

you think about what you and Andre how

you guys laughed together, what was that

dynamic like behind the scenes?

Um God,

he's such he's so good in the show. He's

so poised. He's such a good actor.

Yes.

But he was and also to me I never I

never had the pleasure of meeting him.

He seemed like he was just playful and

fun.

He was and just a good person. Like so

deeply moral and kind and pleasant and

smart and just like

we all absolutely loved him. I'm I miss

him a lot. Um

our dynamic worked immediately. Mhm.

It was like it's one of those things

where you're just like, "Okay, this is

Kismmet. I don't know how to explain

it." Cuz they Mike and and Gore cast him

from like a meeting. They just like did

a Zoom or something with him and they

were like, "Yeah, it's I mean,

you know what, dude? This probably

preoom."

Yeah, it was probably a Skype.

It was a Skype,

bro. It was a disgusting ass

disgusting Skype. We used to have to do

this thing called Skype

with a Y in it. Um

um but yeah, I mean I think Mike's

talked about this a lot too. Like we

showed up for the first table read

before we'd even shot the pilot. He

walked in and we had like a very

pleasant hello and then we started

reading it and as soon as we started

reading it like the first scene which is

you know he comes out and I'm goofing

with him and being a dummy and he's

being stoic

and

I it just you know how it is sometimes

creative stuff where you're like I don't

care how this came to be. It's working

and I'm so happy.

So grateful. And then from that moment

forward, like the only thing me and him

had to like

even talk about creatively was in the

beginning he didn't trust himself to do

comedy.

Yeah. Interesting.

Because he came so strictly from drama

and Giuliard and you know like five or

six times we would do like a more

serious topic on the show and he would

flip that switch and everyone would be

like, "Oh my god, like what is Andre

doing here? He's so good."

like he should be in like drama. He's

like the best. But then he would do his

Captain Hold stuff and it was the

funniest thing in the show.

It's so interesting you bring up like

Giuliard and for people that like it's

it's kind of a shorthand for like a

different way of training.

Yes.

And you know, I don't know. I think

there's something very cool even if

you're not an actor or performer in

general when you start working more and

more you're like, "Oh, everybody has a

different way of working.

We all got here a different road."

I know. And we come from a very similar,

I think, sketch um background where

we're like burning through ideas. And I

know as a performer, you and I like to

keep it kind of I like to keep it pretty

loose

until it feels ready.

And that really can unnerve other

people.

Yes.

And I and it took me a long time to

realize that that that wasn't someone

else's process.

Correct.

Yeah. I mean, we wouldn't do

we would do like a fun run or whatever.

We took that from you guys, too. Um, we

took a lot from parks.

Let's be real.

Well, we took it from the office. So,

but what a fun run was kind of like a

once you have it scripted, then it's

like, okay, have fun with it. Try

different things. And we would do that

occasionally. We would do it more when

we had a guest who was really known for

improv, like we'd let Manzukus cook, for

example. Mhm.

I was I don't I mean the difference

between you and I you're a much more

seasoned performer in my opinion. I

always felt that way. I feel like I have

gotten so much better and have such a

better understanding of acting having

done Brooklyn.

Mhm.

Cuz but for me that was like acting

school.

Mhm.

Um I even remember another conversation

I had with you when it's when Brooklyn

started texting you and being like is it

hard for you to memorize all this? And

you went now it is. And I was like,

"God, she was so cocky about it." And

then like two or three years in, if

someone had asked me, I'd be like,

"Yeah, I can do it in my sleep."

You got it. I know. It is. It was a

muscle.

Yes.

And then when you stop it, it atrophies.

It does.

That's why I'm doing this podcast. I

literally can't memorize anything

anymore. I mean, it's so hard to

memorize now. And I know that sounds so

stupid, but I always say to people,

think about,

you know, this isn't like acting is

hard, but it is. But think about when

you give a speech

and you're in front of people and you

have to memorize that speech. Now,

imagine 40 to 50 people standing

watching you do it, like drinking

coffee, being like, "Get this speech

right and please get the speech right."

You're not at a wedding and it's not

fun. It's like a job and everyone's

like, "Please get it right." Like, "I'm

tired." And it's almost

also like long day or a long week and

you're talking about at least 10 to 12

people that are like actively holding

something heavy.

That's right. They're holding something

heavy

and like you see people's like legs

start shaking and you're like, I got to

get this line.

That be like if you gave a wedding toast

that you had to memorize and all of your

family were holding giant rocks,

you didn't get it.

Oh man, Uncle Gary just had a knee

surgery. I got to get this thing done.

And when you don't get it right, they

all put the rocks down and they're like,

I guess we'll try it again.

[ __ ] guy can't get it right. No, but

but I Yeah. And and and but but we would

burn through just like you like a lot of

pages a day and you had to kind of just

like figure it out. But but I would say

having worked with you at SNL and and

also we had a really fun time when me,

you and Maya were working on on our fun

dumb show making it

making it. I love that. baking it

like But I I will say Andy, I think I

think people don't know this about you

is you're pretty meticulous when you

work.

Yeah.

It's different than I think people would

assume

Yeah.

How would you describe it? I mean, well,

that was actually where I was starting

to very slowly walk towards about

Brooklyn, which was

for me, I would prefer having like, and

it was good for Andre, too,

like three to five alts that are very

specific

and not that we're just like, what are

we going to come up with, but where I'm

like, I would work with the writer on

set. We had the brattest staff. They

were so funny. And it would be like

anytime you get to a scene where we all

feel like, you know, that thing where

you just feel you're like this joke's

just halfway there.

Yeah.

And you like quickly scramble and then

we would write out a bunch of alts, say

it to each other, know that it's it. And

so like make it official one at a time

as opposed to like it's the sauce, you

know? We're all in like the soup.

Um

Yeah.

And then the other thing about me that I

would agree with you is very meticulous

is editing.

You're very meticulous about editing and

you get very serious when it comes to

music.

I do.

Like, you know, I remember us recording

what I thought was kind of a goofball

song and I remember being like, "Oops."

Like, Andy's gotten Andy's gotten quiet

and serious. And it was like, "Right, of

course, cuz you're professional." And it

is. It is.

I mean, halfway. I don't know what I am.

I just love it.

Yeah. You love it. And you want it to be

good.

I do want it to be good. I want it to

sound good.

And I will say that you and Yma and

Akiva, the members of Lonely Island,

like you guys came in in a way to that

show that was super interesting because

you were your own island literally that

that came you came in together with your

own system that then had to kind of fit

into the bigger SNL system.

Yes. And those early days like we what

like you talk about it so well on your

podcast which I'm obsessed with and

thank you for being on it also.

Oh my god, I love it and it's hilarious

and I love how no one knows when you're

recording and a lot of times you guys

don't show up.

Yeah, it's a mess.

It's a mess. Definitely check that out.

That's my that's my favorite part. But

um but you go through you're going

through all of the digital shorts.

You're going through them one by one and

I love that. I forget because it's like

child birth like it all goes away. The

pain part.

Yes.

I forget the grind of each one that you

guys had. And so you guys were really

into the grind.

Yes.

Do you do you remain into that grind?

Are you asking if I stay on my grind?

But you want to talk about that early

grind?

Yes.

This is interesting. I don't think

people would assume that from you.

I mean, do I have the rise and grind

mentality? No.

My memory of you three was constantly

being tired.

Yep.

Constantly wanting it to be better and

better and better. Like what is your

relationship to like perfectionism or

like continuing to tweak and make things

better?

I think SNL was a struggle for us in

that sense because that's not the name

of the game there. Mhm.

But because we did pre-tapeed stuff and

it was, you know, videos we could edit,

we did get closer to it than a lot of

people at that time especially would

have been allowed to.

Yeah. Again though, I would watch people

like you and Fred and Bill and Wig and

Maya and like so many of our peers who

were like, in my opinion on a

performance level, the cell was how

amazing you guys were live.

Mhm.

And the the feeling of like, oh,

anything could happen in this moment,

whether or not it was true, cuz you guys

are all precise as hell, too. But like

the electricity of that was the thing

that I felt like I didn't always have

live, but that we could make work in a

pre-tape with the correct editing and

the right concepts. You know what I

mean?

I do. I mean, I would argue it's both

and because I think that you do have a

looseness as a performer that relaxes

people that you just have to have it.

And

I think that's what's interesting about

you as a performer is like I do think

there's a precision that's important to

you,

but you don't you don't see it when

you're performing.

Sure. So that is hard to balance and

it's just like because you're right

there was I mean I I remember learning

from Will Frell like watching being like

oh in this show if you're having fun and

you're relaxed people relax and have

fun. It is just and I mean there's

nothing harder than someone saying like

just relax

but it was true if you could kind of

zone out and kind of act like life is a

dream

and you belong there

and you belong there till you make it.

The a it it it would work and the people

that couldn't do that we had a really

hard time

definitely

but I knew that you could do both. You

could do that and then you would go and

edit for hour and you and Ke and you

would lock yourself.

We were zombies

and you were zombies and you were so

tired.

We were so tired.

We also like

I mean I talk about this a lot which was

my dream was always to be on SNL and

then we got it which was insane. Like I

would have been good doing one season

and getting fired knowing I actually got

to try doing the one thing I wanted. And

then first season it went good,

right?

You know, which was really unexpected.

Like we' been doing fine the first half

of that first season. You were there.

Yep.

We were like figuring it out. I was

figuring out how to present myself live

and I had done standup, but like what's

the angle? How do you ingratiate the

audience to you? And and then that one

video just went bonkers and it was like,

"Oh shit." Okay. Uh like we arrived

quote unquote early for how the show

usually works

in my opinion.

Mhm.

And then because of that,

we were lucky,

but also we immediately put insane

pressure on ourselves because we were

like, "Well, now we have to do things

that do that." M

like

the making the Narnia one was partly

because it was a good sketch, but also

just pure luck. Like the fact that it

was the moment that people are like

there's this thing called YouTube and

the moment that people wanted to be like

SNL had this pretape and it looked like

they shot it on their own and that's

interesting to us now, right? And like

whatever the hell confluence of things

made it become a news story. I mean,

when you are lucky enough, like us, to

work long enough, you just keep making

stuff that you think is good and that

you want to watch and then every now and

again, it all kind of comes together for

things that are out of your control.

Right.

Totally. That's so much of it is timing

and being in the right place. Yes.

Like you said, and having the right

people around you and being in the right

era of SNL and all that stuff. having

the right headwriter who's supporting

you and being a certain age where you're

not

whatever too old or too young to handle

it all that stuff.

Yes.

Um but I would say what is that? There's

like some quote like luck and

preparation is the preparation. Hold on

let me look at my

is the cure for hemorrhoids.

Yeah. What is it like luck is the prepar

you know what I'm talking about.

It's uh time

time plus no preparation

plus luck is success or something.

preparation.

I feel like Wayne Gretzky definitely

said it. Or or um it's who said it?

Luck. Here we go. No, it was the Roman

philosopher Senica.

Luck is when preparation meets

opportunity. Dude,

it is. I've always called Senica the

Gretzky light.

I added the dude. Luck is when

preparation meets opportunity. That is

true. That's what it was.

And sorry, what is it again?

It was luck. Luck is when preparation

meets opportunity.

So you had been Let's see if we can

memorize.

We're going to gar it.

Luck is when preparation meets

opportunity,

dude.

Thank you.

Oh Senica.

Oh, Senica, you crazy [ __ ]

Just like

Okay.

He's like, "Guys, gather around.

Dig on this, dude. Dude, dude, dude,

dude. I got it. I got it. I got it."

It was like, "What?"

You You know, people are going to say

this

set.

Um uh but that is an example of that.

You guys were ready. You had been

working together for a really long time.

And look, uh similarly with I mean I I

say this all the time, which is

there is no better feeling than having

some people in your corner at a place

like SNL or anywhere. Yes.

Whether it's be on SNL or it's like go

through hard times in your life or like

if you have a few people that can stand

around you like you can get through

anything. You just need one or two or

like and the fact that you guys had each

other.

It was a dream.

Yeah.

I mean, how many folks were you friends

with when you got hired? Well, I was

really I mean Tina basically was like so

instrumental in getting me hired and Dr

was there and so Tina and Drach and I

started together and like

they were and I knew her ratio and I

knew a lot of people kind of but but

Tina and Dr. and I had known each other

at that point but you know for 10 years

and started together and that was huge.

It makes a huge difference

to have Yeah. And and

I can't imagine coming in there I know

totally alone.

Agree. And so many like warriors came

through and just kind of like blazed a

trail or or you know

or didn't and did really well doing

other things elsewhere.

Yeah, that's true.

Because it's a very specific thing.

I do want to talk about Lazy Sunday for

a second. And I know you guys have

talked about it a ton on your podcast,

but I'll just tell you that, you know,

that was part of a bigger Christmas show

that a lot of people and and listen to

Andy's podcast because they break it

down beautifully, that episode. It's

probably my favorite episode I've ever

been on because Jack Black was the host

and um it was 2004

and that was five five 2005, my bad. And

it was for me

far enough away from 9/11 which is when

I started which was like we'll never

laugh again and not too close to me you

know uh being pregnant and leaving. It

was just like for me in the sweet spot

of finally feeling like I knew what I

was doing.

Yes.

And I can remember um that moment. I

remember being on the floor watching

that thing and exactly what you said. It

was as if the audience

felt you could feel them going, "This is

a new fun thing. We like these. Like, we

want more of them." It was wild to feel

that.

It was, it was life-changing for me. I

mean, it was

again, I can't stress how much we were

not expecting that to be the reaction.

Yeah.

We were just trying to get things on the

show. Yeah.

We were so green, so new. I mean, we had

not had an insane amount of experience

before we got the show either. Like, you

had had a full show that I watched and

loved. PS, I had seen you doing like UCB

shows and knew who you were. There's a

lot of people, I think, who get SNL,

especially then, that had like really

I mean, think about like when Wig got

hired. Wigs audition had like five fully

formed Groundlings characters that just

and Frell too where you're just like

oh they're ready for SNL period like

they have been

bred to they're like Lionel Messi of SNL

you know where like from a child they

were like this is my path that I'm doing

I mean Will is an anomaly he's was like

I'm going to decide to be the funniest

person on earth but

for me I was like I had done standup on

and off and we had made videos which at

that time didn't directly translate We

didn't we didn't get hired to do them.

It was more just like we had fun at the

movie awards writing with a bunch of SNL

people and Fallon and people and they

were like

come play come hang out and and we were

like okay and then that one

we had done the one with Forte with the

lettuce and then that was Lazy Sunday

was the second one and then it was like

getting shot out of a cannon.

But and do you remember where you were

when you got the call that you got the

show and did Aka and Yorma get the call

at the same time or did someone get it

first?

I got it first. Mhm.

I They flew me out

but and didn't tell me.

Mhm.

But I flew with Bill and he knew cuz

Marcy Klein had told him he got it and

and he knew I got it.

But he he couldn't tell you.

He couldn't tell me and he didn't tell

me.

Oh,

bless his heart.

Bless his heart. Cuz I I I understand. I

would be afraid that I'd get fired if I

told you or something.

Yeah. We sat together on the

You're going to He probably was like,

"This is great, right?" Right. And you

were like, I guess

he loves recounting it cuz we sat

together on the plane and like had

drinks

and I was like, I wonder what's going to

happen. And he's like, I know what's

going to happen. You [ __ ] got it,

dude.

So, he did tell you.

No, he didn't. Okay.

But he could have. I'm saying he likes

to talk about how he could have.

Okay.

But anyway, so then, you know, we got

there and I had a meeting with Lauren

because you have a meeting with Lauren.

And Lauren didn't tell me.

No, he never he never hires or fires

anybody.

No. So, I walked out of his office and I

think it was like Jen or maybe Shookus

or people like that were there and they

were like, "So," and I was like, "I

don't know." They're like, "You got the

show." Like, they were the ones who told

me.

And then we we went to a dinner. Lauren,

that's what Lauren told me. We're going

to have a dinner after this, so you

should come. And I was like, "Okay, so I

guess I'm still in the mix."

Then they were like, "No, you got the

show." And so on the drive from from 30

Rock to that dinner, I called my parents

and we were all like crying and stuff

and they were, "Oh my god,

I mean

since I was eight, that was what I

wanted to do."

Andy.

Yeah,

that's so cool.

Yeah.

And then what was the stress? Uh

codependently, I would be immediately

stressed about a

Yes. They told them early the next week.

It was like a weekend, so we didn't have

to wait too long. But they had made a

deal that if one of them got hired and

not the other that they wouldn't take

it.

Really?

Yeah. That not two out of three of us

would leave.

Oh.

But that if one of us got it, go with

God.

Oh, wow. Oh, that's so sweet. Um, okay.

We spent a lot of time together.

Sleepless writing nights.

Yes.

You have an interesting relationship

with sleep.

I do.

And I love talking to people about

sleep. Okay. Oh, yes. Tell me your

relationship to sleep. I love sleep

until I had children.

I would go to bed very very late. I'm

like textbook night owl.

And when I worked at SNL,

it was my dream job schedule as well

because I would go to bed at like 4 in

the morning and sleep until like 2 3 in

the afternoon.

Um and then I started dating a musician

who had the exact same schedule and it

was like perfect.

Yeah. Uh, and so I've only ever had one

job that like catered exactly to my

preferred sleep schedule. And even now,

like I love making movies and I loved

making the show and stuff like that, but

you have to get up crazy early like a

normal person who has a normal job,

right?

Because most jobs start early and most

people uh that are adults get up early,

right?

So, it's been a hard adjustment.

Yeah.

And now the kids, I mean, you know,

Well, you mentioned your wife, the great

Joanna Newsome, incredible musician.

Yay. I I mean I remember I kind of

remember I was I felt like I was around

during the courtship chip.

I remember specifically one night

walking you home. We were all out at a

bar and talking about how I just started

dating her and you were awesome about

it.

You were head over heels right away.

I was gone. Yeah.

And you remain like you guys are really

like what like what you know you've been

together now for

17 or 17. That's a long time Andy

relationship like

I mean, you've called her your best

friend. Yeah, basically.

Yeah.

Say more about that. Like, like

I'm just lucky.

What's it like to be with your best

friend?

It's fun. It's really fun. It's like

obviously having kids changes things.

Yeah.

Cuz your responsibilities shift,

your sleep schedule, but obviously a

million other things. But it still feels

like anytime there's a pocket of time

where it's just us, it still feels like

we're getting away with something, like

we're having a sleepover and it's fun

and there's no one I would rather be

hanging out with and chatting with. And

it's it's amazing. I'm I feel really

lucky to get to share my life with her.

Yeah.

Um but yeah, I remember that walk with

you

and talking about it and you going, I

don't know, Samberg, I got a good

feeling about this one.

I I always remember things you say, Amy.

I mean, you guys were deeply very

quickly like

Yeah.

twinkly. And you both have this thing

that I think is really like I respect in

both of you is like

you're artists. You take your art

seriously and you liked that about each

other.

Definitely.

You really respected each other. Really

like like you were there's a difference

between being like a fan of someone's

work and like really respecting what

they do. It's very different.

I think a lot of people understood that

from my perspective. I think some people

at first were like

she likes that stuff that he does,

but the truth is she she does and did

and like her and her siblings are

goofballs together and love comedy.

Yeah.

And it just

I couldn't believe my luck that that was

the case.

I feel like the mutual respect is the

reason when you have a lot of years

behind you, that's the thing that keeps

couples together.

Yeah. It's that you have ever heard of

that guy got uh he's a famous therapist

couples. Do you watch couples therapy?

I don't.

Oh my god, dude.

Should we watch it right now?

Yeah. Let's shut this down. Let's watch

I just finished andor.

[Laughter]

Andor.

Yeah bro.

It was good.

I'm sure it was.

This is I watched The Last of Us. This

is the exact opposite of Andor.

I watch Love on the Spectrum.

I love Love on the Spectrum. Oh, cry so

hard. You and I like to cry.

We do like to cry.

We love crying. You know who else loves

to cry? Seth Myers.

Seth Myers love to cry.

We got to cry here. And Seth Meyers was

the person that I asked to ask you a

question.

Oh. So, I uh earlier before you came in,

I was zooming with Seth Meyers, who you

know, you guys have a very um Oh, by the

way, dude, have you heard um That

Frisbee died?

Don't even play cuz I'll be so happy.

[Laughter]

I will never back off that. That dog

sucks, dude. And I know this is like

I know this is a good vibes cast, so I

don't even want to bring that energy.

You're right. I shouldn't have I

shouldn't have mentioned that dog.

That dog is like a rat carcass.

Seth wanted me to pretend that he died.

I am I am trying to figure out what

something special I can do when Frisbee

does finally pass on.

You should um you should do like a

memorial video that's about how much

that dog sucked.

be pretty funny.

Pretty funny. Um but but Seth, you know,

like your relationship is um really

fraternal and really supportive.

You you hear it on your podcast. You've

seen it in real time. Like, and his

question was the one I asked you because

he wanted to know about the the young

the little brother of it all, like what

it was like being,

you know, having sisters and being the

little brother. But in many ways, I

would say the The dynamic between the

two of you is like older brother,

younger brother. You

Seth. Yes.

Right.

But also because Seth likes to be in

charge and in control, right?

And I do not.

You don't.

I like to be in control of what I make,

but not of the situation.

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah,

that's right.

I mean, I can if I need to be,

but

the fun of it for me is not that.

Right.

The fun of for it always for me. I mean,

I was like the diffuser in my family,

you know,

and and youngest and

get attention through being silly and

making jokes and making people laugh and

finding my spot that way.

And, you know, it changes as it becomes

your job.

Yeah.

But

I feel like also like Seth's persona is

I know what's going on and I'm going to

put everyone at ease and mine is like

you don't know what's going to happen.

Maybe

Totally. Like you don't know what's

going to happen.

Yeah. Like it might be like not what

you're expecting a little bit. That's my

hope anyway.

Yeah. Do you have you ever taken like

your enog test? Do you know your number?

You taking the enagram?

Wait, this is different from the thing

that me and you texted about.

What were we? Maybe I texted you to make

you take it. I'm obsessed with it. It's

like numbers one to nine.

Yeah, we did text about it.

What did you What was your number?

Am I allowed to look at my phone and

look at our old text?

What did we get? Cuz I made you take it.

Did I make everyone all of Lonely

Island?

I think that I had the same one as Tina

and Seth is what you said.

Okay, that's right. You were a three.

The achiever.

[ __ ] that sounds so sexy,

right? I mean, congrats. But that's what

I mean is the three isn't always the

peacemaker. The three is like,

oh,

but the the three is we really will cut

all this out. Um because there's truly

Do you not talk about Oh yeah. Yeah.

This is three.

You said this is three. Does this

resonate?

And you were like hell yeah.

And I said you're eight all day

cuz I'm an eight.

Yeah.

Challenger. And three is the achiever.

So three is like can be like you like to

hear good job.

I do like to hear good job. Good boy.

Good boy. Good job. Yeah. Your three is

so big. You know what's And um that's

what she said. Um, you know what's

small?

H

is your four, which is

I wish so bad. You've been like, "Yo,

danky little dick."

Like, "Hey, that was good." Hang.

My god. I was like,

"Sorry, it's just what I heard."

We were just in office before we came in

watching the Bash Brothers again because

the Shrinky Dinky. My name is Morg and I

eat pork with a fork, but I'm not a

jerk. But I'll jerk it.

I'll jerk it out the pork.

I'll jerk it out the pork.

I'm very proud of that. God, I'd love

that.

I love

cuz Noah should have had the Bash

Brothers on his orc.

[Music]

The Bash Brothers is so many dumb I

mean, you love dumb fun [ __ ]

Oh my god. Yes. Me and Kev did that

knowing it was for no one and we just

loved making it so much.

Like our friends that we grew up with

were like, "You guys made a whole visual

poem rap album about the Bash Brothers."

We're like, "Yeah."

And you know podcasters we are talking

about sports which is exciting and for

people who don't know Bash Brothers were

Mark Magcguire Jose Conco very rumored

at the time to be doing a lot of uh in

steroids steroids and Oh yeah

and um like but it was like such an 80s

uh rivalry and and you guys just dressed

up like them and wrote a million songs

about

it was so fun. It was so fun. By the

way, the dream of that one was I think

there was a player at on the actual

Oakland A's when it came out who like

used it as his walk up music.

Oh wow.

And they like would play Let's Bash at

the stadium at the Oakland Coliseum

before they you know they're gone now.

You know this. You're a sports fan.

Yeah. Well, I remember when that

happened. Um but uh and I got to tell

you like and I just texted you about it

the other day like still crushing it.

Still, you guys still crushing like the

anxiety uh short uh was so good on the

50th.

Thanks.

Such a funny and and and moving.

Funny and moving, which you know,

the fact that you had you sung about how

everyone had nervous diarrhea before

they did every sketch on. If

these pipes could talk,

if these pipes could talk, incredible.

Incredible.

Was it on a dolly when you were when you

were were you moving or was the camera

moving on that?

I was moving. That was a Mike Diva shot.

He's a director there now who we're

buddies with. That was his idea and I

was when he showed me that back I was

like oo that's a good shot.

So good.

And then sushi glory hole. Imagine that.

Where you going?

So [ __ ] good.

Thank you. I mean like every song you

guys make is a is a bop is a song you

want to listen to regardless of the

comedy but

Andy

so good and I just like there's so

you've made so many good ones but I just

want to remind everybody like

you've been doing it for 20 years

sushi like so good so stupid

so stupid

perfect

a little bit dirty fantastic outfits

so good

great at POV and attitude

they came with it.

Was it any more fun? I mean, you talked

about this on podcast, but was it does

it get any easier to make them now or is

it harder to make them now these digital

both?

Yeah.

The technical aspect is easier because

we've done so many.

Yeah.

Coming up with something we find

interesting and funny becomes more

difficult because we've done so many.

Yeah.

But that was one in particular where we

had written Akiva had came up with the

phrase suji glory hole. I can't believe

I'm treating this so seriously. But

we should treat this like actors on

acting.

So when Akila first saved us sushi glory

hole. Uh but we were

and what did God say?

At that point we were just channeling.

Um we giggled and and I was like yeah

we're not going to do that. And then he

kept saying it and I couldn't tell if he

was doing it as a bit like we should do

that or if he actually wanted to do it.

Right.

So then after a while I was like you

know what? [ __ ] it. Let's try it. and we

did a whole other version on a different

beat and we hadn't come up yet with the

idea of hear us out over and over again.

So then we were like we kind of let it

sit cuz we were like it's okay. It just

feels like AI doing a Lonely Island song

or something. You know what I mean?

Where was like it's like we're rapping

and it's this and it's about a thing

that you wouldn't rap about, right?

And we were like yeah I guess so. And

then a couple days later, because we

just decided to go in the studio a lot

at that time, uh

he came in and played a different song

he had heard on the radio.

Um I can't remember which one it was,

but it inspired him. It was like a more

modern song.

Mhm.

Um something with ASAP Rocky and some

people on it.

And and we were like, "Oh, let's try it

to a beat like that."

And we did. And then because we switched

the beat, it inspired the hear us out

thing. And then once we did that, once

we started doing the laugh, which is the

right laugh, which you know when you're

in a room writing something,

we like uhoh,

it's the laugh. We're having that laugh

where we know we are officially into

this idea. Not just like this will be

professional and technically up to

snuff right?

Where you're like, I now like this for

sure.

Yeah. You're like, oh, we got to do it

now.

Yeah. And then it was like, yeah, now we

got to do it. And it opened it up for

us. That's a good example of you guys

like you don't you want to keep going

back and I mean Seth mentioned this when

we were talking earlier is like there's

like the improv bones version where like

sometimes we we romanticize the first

idea.

Um and you guys don't do that. You're

like this isn't ready yet. This isn't

right yet. Like you like

Yes. But if it's the best if it's really

funny the first time we don't [ __ ] with

it.

Yeah. What was the fastest song you ever

wrote? fastest digital short you like

came up with and did like like Oh, from

the minute you thought of it till you

did it, it was super fast. It just came

out.

A lot of them were like that when we

were working at the show.

Yeah.

Cuz the schedule's crazy.

Yeah.

So, like Lazy Sunday, once we had the

idea, wrote in a couple hours.

Yeah.

Natalie's rap, same thing.

Yeah.

Uh

Shyroni, we wrote in like under an hour.

It takes a long time to come up with the

idea

and then sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes

you're in the shower at home and you

have a full idea and you come in and you

go, I have an idea and then you just

write it and it happens.

Sometimes you have your dick in the box

in the shower and then you come in and

you're like, let's do it on the show.

Dig in a box was Yorm's idea and it was

it took us a long time to decide what to

write about because that was an

assignment. It was like Justin wants to

do a song.

Think of an idea to do a song with him.

So we had met with him and we knew that

we all had grown up listening to hip-hop

and R&B in the early 90s. Yeah.

And then it was like, okay, but what's

the premise?

And then we struggled for a couple hours

trying to think of something. And then

when Yor said that, we were like, oh,

okay go.

There's so many digital shorts that I

watch that I'm sad I'm not in.

And this here's my gotcha question.

Yeah. Oh, here it comes.

Put my gotcha glasses on.

Why aren't I in there?

I feel like I didn't get asked to be in

enough.

Did you short?

Can I I agree.

What did I do?

I don't know.

Is it

I My brain has a theory

and maybe it's just protecting me.

You were already doing Update. That's my

theory is you guys shot a lot of stuff

on Fridays and we would have to read

update jokes on Friday and I feel there

were times where it was very like

we need someone quick to do this thing

and I was not avail but so many shorts

where I'm like damn I wish I could be in

that.

I also wish that

you don't understand. Thank you.

I also think Amy, like it's a good

lesson learned for me. It's and for

anyone in any field. I think we often

were like, we don't want to bother her.

I can't believe it.

But it's true. I mean, you were in like

10 sketches every week and update.

I'm such a fan of those shorts so much.

And I definitely watch them times.

Sometimes I'm like, man, I wish I was in

them. So, I guess what I was hoping is

like maybe we could do some kind of like

Zamechus style.

Oh, put you back in them. Put me back.

Oh, we're we're going to gump it. Full

gump.

We'll just do some deaging and we'll go

back.

Wait, so can I gotcha question back?

Yeah, gotcha question.

These are not gotcha questions.

I know. And mine's not got question. Um,

gotcha back.

Can you think which ones are the most

that

name? I can name five. I wish I was in

so bad.

Oh my god.

Dick in a box for sure.

Right. Of course.

I mean, of course. Um, uh, dear sister.

I was like, "Ha, I [ __ ] love that

one."

But dude, that shoot sucked.

And it did suck. It was all night.

We were at the flat hotel till like six

in the morning.

I know. I remember.

That's another reason we're like, "We're

not gonna ask Amy to come do that."

She's like,

I wish I knew I you know, and like um

also for every one of those there was

like five that we did at Flat Hotel till

4 in the morning that were so bad.

And I love you guys talking about them.

I love you guys talking about them.

And you got to be honest. If it works,

it works. If it doesn't, it not. I mean,

that's what's so funny about about um

the stuff that we do is like nobody

remembers the 10 to one versions of

things that were just stinkers.

Always

crazy stuff. Stuff where I was mad that

it would get cut and then I would go

back and be like, "Oh my god, this

there's nothing here." Like, I was just

running on fumes. Like, why was I so

mad? It was just cuz like it was

literally as much as like I exist, too.

like I want to be on the show too.

Emily Spivey and I wrote a scene one

night that we thought was so funny and

it was just about these two giant um uh

like uh trucks like truck drivers who

would come up next to each other and and

keep telling the other one to honk it.

Yes.

And it was like honk it, honk it. And

just telling the other one to honk it.

And we were like, "Oh, we were dying."

And we turned it in like, you know, 8:45

a.m. And Shoemaker was like, "We're not

doing Honket." And we were like, "What?"

And we already made T-shirts.

He was like, "We can't we can't produce

honk. We can't get two giant like you

know, you know, we can't get two cabs.

And also like you guys, we have we're

like 35 sketches over and like you turn

this in at 8:45 and it's like and we

were like

justice for honking." Like we were still

we were so mad.

So just to be clear,

you're not going to let us read honket.

Okay.

Okay.

Noted.

Looking forward to having an employer

that supports honket.

[ __ ] noted.

Looking forward in the future to working

with someone who understands honkit and

what it means to us.

Oh my god.

Speaking of what um we watch and listen

to, I asked my I asked my guest now.

What are you watching, listening to,

doing that's making you laugh?

Making me laugh.

Mhm.

Making you feel good, making you check

out. What are you like, how do you, you

know, how do you

Oh, well, this is loaded, but I saw the

new Naked God.

H Okay, talk about it because it looks

so good.

It's really funny.

Okay, so direct. directed by Aka and

co-written by Aka and he's my bestie.

But it I wouldn't say it if it wasn't

true. It's really [ __ ] funny. It's

just the people I've talked to that have

come and watched screening so far

have kind of a similar reaction which is

it's just all jokes.

Yeah.

Like it's been so long since something

new got made.

Yeah.

That was just purely trying to make me

laugh. And it's in that style, but it's

also updated. And Liam's amazing and

Pam's amazing and Keev did a great job.

The writers with him did a great job.

Dan and Doug. I mean, it's it's just

joyful. It feels really fun.

How important was like Naked Gun and

Airplane to you growing up?

Big.

Same.

All the surrealistic, dumb, cartoony

live action stuff. I loved Monty Python,

those Peewee,

later Strangers with Candy, like things

things like that where you bend the

world and make it be whatever you want

it to be.

Um, you know,

we all watched like

Hollywood Shuffle and I'm Going to Get

You Sucka and all those movies. Anything

like that where it was like

you could actually have like a giant

thing fall through frame and no one will

acknowledge it or something.

I know. I remember like the the

character on Naked Gun that was really

tall that was always out of frame. Yes.

And you've never saw it at the top of

him.

Oh my god, it's my favorite joke. Are

you going to say the same joke?

Is it the banana?

Yes.

It's my favorite joke.

Oh my god. Let's watch it

ever. Good. And there'll be plenty of

time to do it, too.

Got something in the side of your mouth,

Al.

No, no, no. The other side.

It's like half a banana.

Half a banana. It's hanging. Can you

imagine half?

And no one reacts. Thank you, Al.

Um, and then talking about new projects,

Digman is coming back.

Yes.

That is you created that, right, with

Neil?

With Neil Campbell.

Tell like

uh during during the pandemic, it was

like, you know, we were all bound to the

home and I was like, I've had this idea

for a really long time and I'd been

talking to him about it. He's a writer

on was a writer on Brooklyn 999 and a

bunch of other stuff. And we had been

kind of wanting to make it forever. It's

basically like shitty Indiana Jones the

animated show, right? Um, and it's the

show is so fun.

It's so And what a cast. Meetra.

Yeah, Mitra is the best. Meadows, Timmy

Robinson. It's a really good group. Um,

and it's just like if you like

jokes and goof ass comedy. It really

scratches the itch.

You do a lot of animated stuff. You like

it?

I love it. I love it. Growing up, I

loved it. Like the first time I got

asked to do like a voice in an animated

movie, I was just like,

"Yes, how where do I go?"

Do your kids ever watch your stuff and

do they hear your voice?

My daughter watched a couple of the

Hotel Transennylvania.

Yeah.

And liked them.

Yeah.

Um

did she recognize your voice in them?

Kind of.

Yeah. It's cool.

My kids are not to a place yet where

they like that I'm in the thing.

No. My children don't like to

Do they ever get to that point?

Not really. I mean, can you imag think

of your mom and then think of watching

your mom?

Everyone likes Inside Out. Inside Out.

Uh, but but

by the way, congrats on all your

success.

Congrats on all your success.

Congrats on all your success.

Congrats on all your success.

Inside Out. Inside Out, too.

Congrats on your success.

I heard it crested a Billy.

Oh really?

You got points?

But have we been in an animated movie

together?

I don't think so. We might have been.

We for how much

we do a lot of animated movies, you and

I.

For how I'm just saying, Amy, generally

speaking, for how much I I mean, I'm

speaking on your behalf. How much we

love each other and our friends, I don't

think we have actually done that much

together.

You know, you're so right. That's [ __ ]

up.

I mean, I put in my contract and I, you

know.

Yeah understood.

Wait, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

I got fired from that.

What?

Oh, yeah. I was the original gal in

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

What the whole [ __ ]

And I was fired because I did not do a

good job

and they had the audacity

to replace me.

I hardly hardly believe that.

No, we have not been in an animated

movie together. That's so funny. Even

right, we have not done enough stuff

together. I'm even trying to think of

like at the show the to me if you asked

me to pick like the things that stood

out the most to me of me and you being

together on stage at SNL the two that

immediately come to my mind are the

Palin rap

yes

and I'm No Angel.

Wow. Two pregnancy peak pregnancy

performances

but both Alzheimer's. I mean, I remember

asking for your help when we were

writing that Palin rap and you gave me

some nuggets, including the having uh

her hubby come out there. Uh

oh, was that

I think you gave me I think you gave me

that idea of him coming out.

That makes me feel better. I was saying

we were talking about it on ours and I

was saying I felt bad because I gave you

some line that was like kind of like

tricky rhyme scheme but wasn't a laugh

and then I was like why' I do that?

Well, I mean

something like so much something between

us need a go between. It was that line.

I feel like cuz Sedakas came out as um

Todd.

Todd. Yeah. Andy, I love you so much.

I love you, buddy.

Thank you so much for doing this.

It was an absolute pleasure.

It was such a pleasure. Like I said at

the very beginning of this, the fact

that I was getting to talk to you today

was just like so calming. I wasn't the

least bit stressed. I never am with you.

That's so nice saying.

I love spending time with you.

You too, buddy. And I will say, not to

keep hitting it over and over, it's

still not an old thing for me to hear

you say nice things about my comedy.

I really enjoy your comedy.

It makes me feel good and happy cuz you

are one of the people I've aspired to

and looked up to and I love you so much

and I love your comedy so much.

Andy, thanks buddy.

You're just You're the best.

May I

Oh, um I wanted to just show you this

pen before um we wrapped

this. I found this on the desk today.

Yeah.

And it is one of those crinkle pens.

Have you seen it?

Oh boy.

Do you know what it is?

Is it going to collapse when I flip the

switch?

No. Just give her give her a little

twist on the top.

Are we edging on ASMR right here?

Yeah, that's exactly what we've been

doing.

Does that sound nice? Is this nice?

Is that what ASMR people ask?

Yeah, I think. Isn't it so funny that

How can

It's so pervy are so pervy.

Don't Yeah. How dirty do we get on this

podcast?

Very very very pervy.

No matter what you do, don't masturbate

to this sound.

You better not. You dare.

Don't you dare masturbate.

You dirty. Even though it probably feels

so good.

I hope you're wearing Bose

noiseancelling headphones.

But be careful because someone could

walk in and you won't hear them.

If If you start doing that, I'm going to

use my hairbrush. I'm going to brush

your hair really hard.

I hope I don't accidentally click my

long nails on the window pane.

On the window pane. All right.

All right. We did it. We did it. Thanks.

Cool pen.

Thank you, Andy. That was really, really

fun. That was such a good hang. And, um,

I felt like we went all over the place

in a good way, and I'm so happy you did

it. So, thank you. Um, you know, Andy

brought up a lot of digital shorts. Um,

and I guess for uh this Polar Plunge, I

just wanted to remind you to check out

Shyroni. again, one of my favorites.

It's just, if you haven't watched it

lately, the digital shorty

with Rihanna. Um, and that is how she

pronounces her name. Um, it's so funny.

I just feel like the character and the

look, it's just wig work at its best.

It's just a beautiful ginger wig and a

really funny idea and it's a really good

song like all of the songs that Only

Island make. So that would be what I'm

going to be watching this week to laugh.

And um in the meantime,

keep laughing. I don't know. I don't

know how to I really don't know how to

end these. Just they just get harder and

harder. That's what she said. Okay, bye.

You've been listening to Good Hang. The

executive producers for this show are

Bill Simmons, Jenna Weiss Berman, and

me, Amy Polar. The show is produced by

The Ringer and Paperkite. For The

Ringer, production by Jack Wilson, Cat

Spalain, Kaia McMullen, and Aia Xenerys.

For Paperkite, production by Sam Green,

Joel Levelvel, and Jenna Weiss Berman.

Original music by Amy Miles.

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