"They Couldn't Be Nicer Boys" (w/ Seth Meyers) | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

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technology the candy technology there is Cutting Edge they pump our [ __ ] with like chemicals they're trying to kill us they're trying to kill us did you hear that the government is actually trying to kill us off how do you mean well I can't get into it because they're they're coming oh you know our guest came in with the Secret Service and those are those are the the lovely Folks at security at NBC I I know those those the level are you at the NBC level where I don't get I don't get a little failinks but I I Get So You're vulnerable out there but I say hi to the guys on like every day that I'm that I'm on did they give this hey no cuz that I can't describe the energy more than hey no they really they know they're talking to a fish fellow and they go hey Bowen how are you they're they're very they they they soften up a little bit they're not fish fellow I'm I'm a you're one of the fish girls of NBC so were you guys all on a group text like Lauren's boys Lauren guys yes that's what we call it Lauren's guys laurett Laur laurett are me and the security people on eight do people know about the Letts like the actual lorett yeah yeah I think so they've been documented okay there needs to be a documentary about the do you think it's fine if we if I talk about the lorets I would be glancing in your description of the lorets the lorets are the the people who make the popcorn essentially great love that let's keep it there let's keep it there um wow so that's true you have to be a little bit more specific now that I've made it sound like no no they're they're all lovely people and actually one of the lorett Karina helped out on the culture Awards this summer yes she did I love that Laurette she's well she's more than a Laurette she's a wonderful more than a Laurette more than a lornette that's beautiful anyway that should be the title of all their books she's a a morette a so the reason why this is so exciting is cu I was in London and I want to shout out London and a couple things I did there I saw Nicole Scherzinger and Sunset Boulevard this has to be seen and I'm not just saying this cuz I'm one of the gayest people in the world no this is one of the stunning performances of our time you can't believe how crazy it is I me it's unreal Nicole Scherzinger can do sens of Boulevard Glenn closeing buttons could not sing buttons or react no and that's a rule of culture that's number 766 Nico can doset Boulevard cannot do buttons and react now I think that the fact that we're sort of like in this deep of Gay Culture talking about buttons and react yes Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard like I'm wondering if our guest knows about buttons and react I think he does I wonder if we were to say this is a group of words buttons react beep I would wonder if he could describe PCD do you know what those are I am so in the weeds yeah and you're not introduced yet so they don't know but he's in the weed so far what we're talking about is Pussycat Dolls song titles excellent I mean I think I could have based I did know that about Nicole sh so maybe I could have got there has she been on the show she is oh boy I feel like she's she's a fox girly with the mass singer and I feel like they're they're telling her if you go on Seth yeah you're you're done you're done you're done Nicole you're done Nicole and already it's tough hey no I'm saying the UK Embraces her in the UK Nicole Scherzinger is Selene Dion It's you come to the US can't even can't even get on the show that's not true she's a very successful Entertainer Nicole Scherzinger for the Pod for Nicole we would love to have started here I want cuz I think that's going to transfer to Broadway and every gay person and theater lover should go see this I mean that V diagram is a circle speaking of theater you saw spam a lot last night I saw spam a lot last night so funny um excellent performances all around w a per I mean what a perfect I think I think stupid is back thank God stupid [ __ ] is back and also I just watching spam a lot and me going I know it was my first time seeing the actual show but I was like I know I know Monty Python and The Holy gra like the back of my damn hands that would you say if it's one of the cultures that made you say culture was for it is definitely one of the cultures that made cuz I actually just run it from the library on my own accord when I was like nine you looked at the cover and said that looks like fun comedy and something I'll enjoy and just and just the opening title cards of like that person has been sacked and the person who sacked that person has been sacked I was like what am I watching and then the end of that movie I'm going to spoil it everyone gets there's this huge scene and then and then the cops come and arrest everybody it's one of the best comedy endings ever of a film I would say huge and I and I want to throw it over to our guest because I think he's a um I think he's I think he's he's an expert in comedy I would say that wouldn't you say so not only would I say that not only would I say expert in comedy I would say expert in kindness and kindness I would say expert in professionalism I would say in family I would say this man has one of the best reputations in the business and guess what a lot of people talking and talking the truth and the truth they always say about this guy lovely gracious everyone at the at everyone at the place he works Late Night with Seth Meers says I will stay I have been here for a long time and I will stay here for a long time he thank God he puts a roof over one of our good friends house Henry melter roof over his house Henry melter Henry melter and I mean and and Archie and Hugo oh the babies the babies that makes it sound like I only pay enough to put a roof on house well and just for roofing Ro we re-roofed Henry's house that's so nice to the plumbing there is terrible but there's a roof um this is you know him as the star of New Year's Eve oh than and the co-host of the Strike Force 5 podcast and family trips with the Myers Brothers family trips with the Myers Brothers he's also host of Late Night with Seth Meyers he you know him from Saturday Night Live many many many years doing the thing over there and you know something about that um this is a good this is this is a g day this is a g day did I say good I think so that was very Lindsay Lohan of me started to say good started to say great um but let's just bring him in sh everyone welcome Seth I'm so happy to be here I me I so first of all let me just say you said a very you were on the show uh second time fantastic you were great the first time would you not agree I think there was a level of comfort between both of us we know each other a little bit better I think the second time was a home run and I I had left really happy about the first time and then the second time I was like see that that was that was how you want to do it yes it felt a little bit less uh Hune to maybe the the pre- interiew exactly you know everything was a bit more I think that was my first ever talk show by myself that that's not true oh oh Seth the first time you went on the first time I went on your show was the first time I was ever like and please welcome and you come out and do the thing where and no one ever talks about the sort of headiness about walking out when the doors come and then you have to do your walk out it's sort of like what what what's my what's my walk out like what's my thing it's funny because I well every now and then I'll just pop downstairs you would think this is the easiest possible talk show appearance I po downstairs to do Fallon yeah and I'm backstage and I have such an appreciation this is being a guest on a talk show is so much harder than hosting a talk and how do you yeah describe because you host it you get to do it every day and you just slowly over the course of time like waves lapping into the shore you become comfortable with it and the show becomes yours but even backstage at Fallon which I've probably done 15 times yeah the you know the stage where I be like and remember you walk out and turn right and I go turn right I know like it's not like I'm going to walk out and walk straight to the roots I will find the desk but you you're backstage in the dark and you really do start to spin out about the idea that you are now going to perform the idea of being a guest yes that is a thing because there's there's there's also been at least two hellos beforehand there's been a conversation beforehand oh and you have to the artifice of a greeting is is tough the artifice of a greeting that's a great Memoir title it's interesting I like to say during an interview sometime we were talking back yes cuz I don't uh I won't artifice a greeting although it's interesting neither will David Letterman and he would not come and say hello before the show oh really and when he's the two times he's been a guest on my show he has asked that I don't say hello before the show very politely because he likes the hello to be the real Hello to be on camera and they always are they always are hold on this is not my don't think so honey but um worldwide pants took down every single Letterman clip from YouTube I thought they just launched a new YouTube channel oh yeah they have their own thing now they have they have a whole like inic catalog God cuz I'm like how am I how am I going to get Miami Sedaris fix know from those from those episodes do you have a favorite guest you know it's I will say I think we've become a nice uh post Letterman home for Amy I think I was just going to say I think she has a you know they're I think they kind of all get sort of doled out a draft of sorts where each of us sort of ends up and I think Amy even though Amy and coar have long history and they're dear friends I think she likes who she gets to be on our show she coar can't be like the there was something about her and Letterman where it was like this is it's just this guy letting her go and then with coar there's so much history there that it's like documented familiarity right but it's just like two friends talking which is not why you watch Amy sederis go off you know it's weird I had to find a way to interview friends because I early on in the show underestimated how prep does help with these things and I would say oh bill's coming on wigs coming on how could it be bad and then halfway through it I'd realize oh this is we this is a little bad you think so I think but we've found I've gotten better at it like you can't just completely rest on the idea that we will because we're old friends we are going to have an interesting conversation because sometimes the thing about friends is you're enjoying the conversation even when it's not interesting and when a lot of people don't share that history in the audience watching they need a few more sort of like touch points where they can lock into the story right what what about family though like let's say like Thanksgiving you bring Josh and the parents it's the most stressed out I am all year and by the way I think it always works out great my parents are wonderful on the show my brother's wonderful on the show but everybody has been saying this week oh we forget this is the only week of the year where Seth is on edge wow now is that also to do with the fact that like you don't want to to put anyone in your family like in a position where they feel like [ __ ] like on on edge on air yes I want to take care of my parents got it I want to take care of my brother I also don't ever want us to become be on TV like aren't we just the you know you want to like bring it every time like I I want I my family is fun on a talk show because my family is funny and so I want to put them in a position to be funny as opposed to just look at us isn't it Grand that we're this close that's like on the surface it seems and I'm not saying this is what it is but it just it would read as presumptuous to be like I'm gonna bring my my parents and my brother on my show yeah yeah yeah and look look how Charming we are I think my mother if she ever came on this podcast my mother has sort of a catchphrase that she thinks works all the time but only works sometimes so I told the story one time about how she was at the be she called me cuz she had been at the beach my parents were at the beach and a seagull came and stole her sandwich out of her hand and she said damn bird and so people love that she said damn bird cuz she also typed it out on text like d a m m so now whenever anyone like is posting or whatever I see her we in online she'll just say LOL this is so funny damn bird she'll just throw it in there and now what how old was she when this happened like what age did she add a catchphrase to a repertoire must years ago yeah she must very late breaking I know but like danam bird has really like been a huge thing I said she should make shirts I think more people would buy her merch than like merch that says like lost culture EAS certainly she's got a huge she's sitting on a gold mine d bird with two M's is a very funny shirt so funny with and like with a little bird on the corner holding a bagel I mean come on we my son Axel when he was three was running down a beach holding a bagel in his above his head and in the best mood and a bird came down like it was a circus act where a boy ran across the you know the Big Top and a bird flew down and grabbed the bagel and it was other than the fact that he was crying it's the most I ever wanted to jump to my feet and applaud a did you tell him that in years he's going to be Las I'm like this is a good story this is a good one that that bird took that big old that damn bird he might actually I might offer him damn bird with an MN cuz that's available and he could take damn bird wait Axel is the coolest [ __ ] name for a kid and I wasn't on board from the beginning I love it and he's an axel and I give my wife all the credit in the world but I I thought there was some I didn't it felt a little it felt like a bigger swing than it's ended up being okay I though can I tell you cuz we then so we have a names Ash which is my wife's maiden names our first a he e then Axel and then our daughter is Adelaide which is my grandmother's name now if the third had been a boy my wife had a a name picked out that I was very I was going to fight heart you were on edge yes give me your instant reactions to this we will yeah Atlas okay yeah okay yeah wow we both we both resident on that one good what was the what was the what's what's the sentiment of that name I think uniqueness I think that we live in an era where a lot of the unique a names have now become very common place MH it was hard to find you know it's at some point even like Archer I feel like they my kids have been already been in a class where there's like Archer B and Archer J you know because they've got a couple I'm sorry you know what I'm coming around to it I think it's like Houdini bya I think it's a grower no I there there's some I thought of I thought of Miss Rand as soon as I heard that for sure I think that that's going to happen but Atlas Meyers like I'm sorry if that's a very powerful high schooler that is not a nerd I'm telling you that's and I I hate saying this but that person crushes it yes the wish the risk of course is you end up with like an ironic Atlas you know you end up with a high schooler who is not yeah the funny thing is uh like the funniest thing is I was like well you want an a name and so if it's a boy it's Atlas And if it's a girl it's going to be an and then you would Ayn and that would tell you everything it would tell you everything about our family oh interesting yeah I but I think that um I think the a the unique a name that kicked this all off for the culture you know Miss Apple Martin Apple Martin I've never Apple Martin she she certainly has she she seems to be loving life how old is Apple Martin I think she's like at least she like 18 she's an adult yeah I think she I think she's going to become a model that's the rumor I heard on the street word on the street was that Apple Martin was going to become a model which is like yeah sure sure you know what I mean like for sure that would have been one of those things if you could have bet on it early the ODS would have been terrible 100% like bet 100 to win like 750 come on Vegas are you gamble I will gamble a little yeah yeah that is a that's a hard yes it's not I will gamble it's a yes I I mean so when I go to Vegas I will get a little intimidated by uh craps but that is by far the most fun one yes if I can go with a couple people who know it uh that is the most fun to do Blackjack I just become a little I get a little to be good at Blackjack you have to be patient and I when I go to like when I'm usually in the last sort of decade when I'm in Vegas it's usually because I did a show and I don't have a lot of time and so if I only have an hour it just feels like I get a little antsy play right into the casino's hand it really is true I was just in Vegas and Like It's I've been to Vegas where the table was hot you really can feel that like when the table's hot and things are going good you feel like oh there's no way I could ever sit down and play this game and not be good and then the last time I was there the table was ice cold I was bad every single hand was bad and and you're like I will never do this again but there's something addictive about about that like and there's something very real and tangible about the feeling of I'm hot or I'm like dead yes it but because you're sure that it can turn at any given moment and it it it sometimes it doesn't I this is what I'm saying though it's like I I'll I'll sit down and I'll I'll play like I was it play a bad hand is that what they'd say yeah and sure and I'll be like oh it's bad for the rest of the night and then it is and then sometimes it's good and the stake is on me actually you see me and Alexander McQueen M now this is the very depressing uh gambling summer I had because when the strike happened I tried to book stand-up shows it was very hard to book maybe the ideal places because a lot of people are on the road a lot of those theaters I had a three-day stint where I did a casino in Hollywood Florida then Tampa Florida then Bethlehem Pennsylvania and all those places you you know even if people didn't maybe know me from my show or SNL posters are up of you at the casinos because you're doing a show and so you don't really want to go get gamble uh as someone who you know they could recognize on sure sure so what I would I would have to wake up so early to get to the airport for the next one that I would sort of sometimes go and like gamble at like 4:45 in the morning because it was and that is you see the way he cuts he believes you're ad no one there like no there's no happy gamblers at 44 not in Tampa Florida not in Tampa Florida yeah we say that with all love with all do you get people in like Tampa Florida who come up to you and say hey I see your show do you do you get Ordinary People I don't you know I do think people at this point are smart enough to self- select got it yeah I do get a little I mean I think weirdly Holly so I don't the Hard Rock in Hollywood Florida is the one that's shaped like a guitar you ever seen it's like crazy we got to go 3 billion a little disappointing one thing is you hear it shaped like a guitar and you're like that's so dumb and then when you're driving in you see it and you do have that kid moment of like oh my God I'm going to stay in a guitar we love that that's right up our yeah it's really kind of cool it the whatever you call the neck of the guitar you wish was a little higher obviously it doesn't make sense you're in a hurricane state so it it's only maybe like five or six Frets up and I think the idea is it sort of you're supposed to think it disappears into the cloud yeah totally it's an upright guitar it's an upright guitar okay but that I felt like that was real uh Trump country but the kind of trump country where they have money and they're totally fine to come to your show and not be like you know like we all I mean isn't he a lot like yeah he's doing he's like doing his thing it was funny the rest of it was funny but then when he got a little edgy you know know but anyway you know he he also does good things so like that's well okay here's my question so you mentioned like looking at a guitar-shaped hotel and getting very excited are you like us where you reap the NBC perks and byy Us by me and Bowen do you do you are you a theme park person will you go to Universal Studios and sort of kill it I am waiting the kids aren't quite there okay and so but I have I will say I did not take advantage as an adult without Children of the of the theme park world right you know why would you I had my theme park era years where I lived in Amsterdam for a couple years I worked for this theom Chicago and sort of middle of Holland there is this place called eing which is for my money the best theme park in the world and it's sort of fairy tale themed yes and it's built in sort of of a forest MH and and that was we would just go there on a bus and take hard drugs and go and it was to me I kind of I just be chasing that the rest of my life yeah and I think that's what happened to us because we this was like pre anyone knowing who the [ __ ] we were that's the most important thing so we went that's really what ended up happening because we went our friend Dave and us we went to Universal and Disney World and he had made these um but you know when someone makes weed food themselves it's going to be a gnarly ride and reallying the dice so he had made these rice kisy treats that loaded withc and I'm telling you like we would take like mouthfuls of this and just be like unable to speak yeah at Universal just exploring the world you know what I mean immersing in these rides and like we were children and now I don't think we can ever do that again because I don't think we'll ever ingest weed like that again because they don't make it like that expi and like reching ourselves will say the if you Veer into a bad trip the last thing you want to be around is a bunch of Dutch teenagers oh just cuz all of a sudden that like just everything about it is so there this hits this level of sort of melting grotesqueness yes yes yes yes yes oh that's horrifying I think we've said publicly it's it's it's a gross language it doesn't really sound good to me doesn't hit the no we just performed at boom Chicago yes we're a little mad at them right now cuz they lost the audio of our Michelle Collins episode and so we're a little mad at them right now but it was a lovely experience performing there and I we were there and I was like oh wow this was boom Chicago this this was I was it was a different physical space when I was there uh but I performed in that SP I went back there for the 30th anniversary of this summer which was cool h i mean I think we missed each other a de I texted you was like cuz PE the the when we were there no when I was there when I took a solo little trip there uh in July or some something like that um the the the Talk of the Town was well Seth Myers was just here and I said oh well if like his show was last night let me see if he's in and I by the way it was just to be it was I was just texting you to be like I heard you're in town I'm just here by myself just like wandering the canals like if you're up to anything let me know and then you had obviously taken a flight out I was a very short visit I would have been lovely to walk the canals we we would have just walked the canals I think we would have walked the canals I think we maybe stomped for a coffee you know canalside canalside coffee rice stle we got rice stle you did did you enjoy your rice stle I I I love I love rice I absolutely love Amsterdam and the walking in the canals when it's at in the evening when there's no one there it is quite peaceful I do have I realized I have a problem with Amsterdam which is my own personal problem with I find the Olia for the time I had there is oppressive because it was where things it was that sense of Beginnings which is an impossible thing to recreate I was there with this exceptional group of people and we were all had this adventure adventur Spirit of let's go move overseas let's take this chance and we were doing great shows and and then one by one we all started to you know find success outside of it and that was all great that was the plan but oh it's impossible to and so so sometimes I go back there and I walk these canals where even though uh you know everything that I could have possibly hoped would have happened for me has happened for me like you still don't float the way you float when you're 24 and you just crushed a improv show isn't that interesting it's so true well but we we don't really experience that I think because we because we were coming up here yes I experienced that after I left New York so basically like I left I had this in New York City like it's very hard for me sometimes still to like in like the lower like around NYU and the Lower East Side and even around like UCB Chelsea and stuff like that like I had left for 5 years and then came back and the pandemic had separated me from it and so I found like one night when I was walking around we just talked about this but I got really emotional just being like back in New York like looking at theaters that were there and aren't there anymore and like you know because it's what you're saying it's like I remember like crushing a character set at UCB East and feeling like better than I do after I like you know release a [ __ ] album or something you know what I mean it's just it it's what and it's funny one of the questions they ask is what would you tell yourself 10 years ago what would you tell yourself 15 years ago just like enjoy it because those are such iconic memorable like is irre repeatable of wordss like sure it could be you can't repeat though well also the crushing was the thing that's all it was like when even when you mention like uh uh putting out an album you put it out and then you wait right because with that instant reaction like the goal you went out and you never thought tonight tonight someone from Amsterdam Show Business Mr Amsterdam is going to be in the audience so you never thought you were going to break on even night and it was just this also that wonderful thing and you guys obviously had it where uh succeeding as part of a collective which happens a little bit at SNL but not really CU everybody there's never a night where everybody has a great night totally I that's such an interesting thing I will say a so looking back at my favorite era of SNL like I think we all look back at it like look we all crushed every week even though we know we didn't yes but we allow that to be the memory of it which was what era my I think for me it's uh I'm going to get like 36 to 38 7 to 11 2007 2011 yeah yeah of course of course it's it's I mean was amazing greatest Freshman Class of all time uh Andy and The Lonely Island guys absolutely wig to is Bill 100% um yeah I mean that that alone yeah that was really really really that was very special I and weirdly enough so we were freshman in 2008 and what I would do every single weekend is I would go wait on the standby line I was out I was like a standby girl like I met Bobby moan on the standby line bill haer came out I think so high and said hello I know that would be weird that is not my memory of he seemed high but it was Bill hater you know what I mean like and and Bobby and they were coming out to say hi to us and I remember I got in my first show was James Franco and Kings of Leon which and I think I was just in shock the whole time and this was when Tina was coming to do Sarah yeah oh wow and Sarah Sarah Sarah Balin um and then my I think second episode was an Hathaway and the killers and this episode was when Kristen did The Lawrence wel show and I was sitting there and I just thought this is the I remember that and I was like this is this energy is so insane and so wild that like it like drove me for the rest of my life and the other thing I remember and this is this is you was how [ __ ] cool you were when you came out for Weekend Update and you gave all the interns high fives and everyone in the theater was like it's Seth Meyers you know what I mean you came out and like frush Weekend Update Weekend Update was incredible and I just remember your energy and your Vibe and then meeting you years later I was like that totally tracks just from me like even seeing this man inhabit a space because you set the tone that was like the best Vibe best Vibe I am thank you that is I'm so happy you mentioned that show because we just had an halfway on I can't even remember if I mentioned this on camera it is the only time I remember when that show was over the audience gave a standing ovation was amazing a standing ovation the kill performed again and The Killers performed again yeah and my parents were at that show and uh my mom I introduced my mom to the killers and as they uh walked away she said very loud and they heard she goes well I don't know why they call themselves The Killers they couldn't be nicer boys oh my God that's so funny that's her D they couldn't be nicer boys might be they could be nicer boys yeah they couldn't be nicer boys oh that is so great also I have a a weird shame thing and this is that not being able to let go of a choice yeah yeah yeah of course I don't think this matters we lost the Emmy all those years and let me just say so [ __ ] up that year and that when those Sarah pal things that is the most I ever felt like we were on a winning team it was white hot and it just we you know having Tina back and I felt like we had we understood we have to keep outdoing ourselves and it was so thrilling and so fun and that cast was coming into his own and people were everybody walked out you were excited to see it was nuts and it was it was great at the end of the year I remember as headwriter they you get to pick a sketch to submit I don't think it would have mattered but God I remember I didn't pick that one because Lauren thought for the show he picked a different one which was a worst show but it was the one Sarah Palin was actually on which was also incredible it was good that moment was incredible the rest of the show it was it was esoteric in a way whereas the in haway show was just Banger after Banger after but it's so funny because I remember after we lost I was like it would matter I'll forget about this I every time it comes up I'm like I why didn't I pick that one wow so uh but no I mean I I feel like Emy and SNL were in this we I mean it still is in this weird existential place now where like they don't quite know what to do with the show or like where to place it or how to categorize it but it's like back then it was like like it's like why wouldn't you nominate Kristen and Bill every single and and Andy and Jason like like that whole cast why would you nominate all those people in the same league as like you know the the comes of that day or what I just think well and I've said to I've said this to you and this is I think if there it doesn't make sense to me that there's not an variety performance category because I think you would have an Emmy if there was I'm just saying that I mean like I think it's weird to say let's put these variety performers in with people that are playing characters with emotional arcs because actors especially like will vote for that before they vote for like I feel as though I've with Bowens George Santos I've seen a journey I've seen you know not know I've seen I actually went to his so I'm kind of addicted to like the fact that he still digs in on Twitter it's so crazy so I went to his Twitter and to see if he had commented on it because I want him to say something about you so bad so that I can log on to our Twitter and be like I just want to say he's he's he's in the weeds right now I don't think he has time to comment on my I wouldn't be surprised if he has t i just don't put anything past him to do the dumbest [ __ ] possible although I mean what gay Twitter was was talking about this past week was that like I mean you wanted gay representation in Congress God like now you have this [ __ ] slop some gay guy found money and then spent it on makeup and porn you know what I mean it's really good it always be careful say like I just want just give us one it's like well don't you know yeah I know I uh I this you uh I bet this will shock you but my other U favorite memory about that year is when it was over because you know uh you know the man uh between dress and air Lauren said uh you know he gave all his notes and then he said uh I just want you all to know I feel as though this has been a championship season yes and I think we all it like it nobody knew uh what to say because it was and Lauren is not someone who no has moments like that so I I do I think that was for me and again just everybody was so in the pocket that year it it was an in the pocket season I'm telling you and it it it's it was an energy that radiated certainly through this City and I guess to everyone watching it but in the comedy community that we were in or that we were about to be in it was really exciting and you mentioned the Lonely Island I remember they were like that was really the year I think too that the digital shorts started like really popping off like and I remember that was like formative certainly for me I'm sure for you as well like because there was something there was something like there was something like aband there was an abandon about it that was like that felt like queer to me and like hit me in my head and I was like There's Something About The Lonely Island that makes me feel like I can do whatever the [ __ ] I want you know what I mean I think those had that had so much to do with the next 20 years of Comedy yeah 1,000 I think they're way more influential Than People realize yes and I think that even the sketch work of you talk about that I love that Lawrence wel Kristen sketch so much but that was sort of inspired by r7s SNL like that could have also worked then anytime and that was sort of the magic of Kristen was being this better more modern version of what we but those guys showed up and it was oh no this is a whole new thing this going to be this different thing yep and that I mean those seasons were like a perfect little like four-dimensional tapestry of like this is every this is like past present future allinone yeah I mean very cool I it's very weird you guys mentioned Henry Melcher who is a producer on our show and obviously went to school with you guys and for me it's so crazy just realizing now there's this whole you guys talking about being in college when that season happened and now so many of you and your colleagues have come through been guests on my show it must be so weird to have your moment where the people you knew in college are all sort of in culture well I mean with with Josh and Aaron for Dick's the musical going on that was like I stayed up for that epode I stayed up for your episode for this past month I was was it is this like really it's crazy surreal thing of like that was when they were on this show please I I hope you don't take offense of the fact that I will listen to my podcast at not one I will speed it up a little yes and uh that was the first time when the four of you were talking once I'm like nope I'm got to do it at once oh you Len I slowed it down cuz ien it started at the beginning I was like this is like everybody it was like in an or if you look down at an orchestra pit and everybody was it was it delighted me to know and so that's the only I think that's the only podcast in the last 10 years that I've been like I'm going to listen to this at 1X Seth and I are the same then you so I used to get on so now I do 1.75 on YouTube um but like I used to get on B because I was like why would you do that because comedy is intentional the speed at which we say things is intentional we talk all the time about how Cadence is culture of course but now I understanding you are just resetting your own internal Cadence to it so because it's also Cadence in uh you what's in a relative sense in a relative sense to the other people so if you speed it all up if you SP up one person in a comedy scene it wouldn't make sense but you Beed up everybody I I will say I in the early days of the daily I had Michael Barbaro on the show and I did not realize that anyone could take offense to this but I said I love the daily because it's 20 minutes I can listen to it at 1.5 and it it was it was as if I slapped the man but I it's it's not as it's it's not because I know I've seen him since he's lovely we get but I it was the first time where I realized I felt safe I felt like safe place and I can tell you guys 1.5 fact that you press play on it at all oh yeah major major major this show you got first of all let me say I have this real the only hesitation I had about coming on this show is that I feel like your voices in concert with one another are music and when I listen to your podcast it's like music and I have the flattest most nasly voice I'm working through a cold I feel like your listeners right now are like who let this too I feel like you are too like a classically trained musician and I'm a third grader with a recorder who is on here like like so anyway I know that I have a lot of Shame for everybody's listening right this couldn't be further from the truth I listen to family trips and I go wow I get I get two Myers vocal tambers this is my heaven I'm glad that you think they're too cuz I do think we sound you sound so similar in a way that is only delightful for me I go these these are two good guys talking in my ear I'm like I'm all for it this is this is you're so off based for that get out of thank you we are so we were described by Betty gelin as Piccolo and bassoon and I feel like you've arrived here as a clarinet welcome to the orchestra baby or the B I mean she's is that your uh Pinnacle guest she one of them she she was our I haven't I i' I listened when she was a guest I haven't listen to the live one was the live one was fun but it was more it was more it was more like 92nd Street W her first episode magots and Magic that was like a moment in the podcast because we genuinely believe you've had her on your show right I never have oh have to I know I'm I it breaks my heart that I haven't fantastic she's just so smart and so great you should also check out her book oh yeah oh she's got an amazing book I think it's time to ask Seth the question it's literally time um Seth Myers what is the culture that made you say culture is so I talked to Henry about this beforehand and this is the heartbreaking thing I can't believe you literally talked about the movie which I should have known the movie Money Python and The Holy gr was my answer the culture that was your culture but in and so my here's my uh moment because I remember it uh so clearly I was homesick from school and usually my mom was a school teacher usually she would take the day off and I for some reason my dad did not go to work one day he was you know he was a businessman he commuted to Boston uh he's like I'll stay home with you and he went to the video store and he rented it and he brought it home and obviously it was a movie he'd seen and that the opening credits that was the thing mine was there was all of a sudden they just slowly started mentioning a moose in the credits right uh like moose Handler and I remember there was one that was Moose's nose wiped by and for whatever reason I think that's the moment where you go I don't think I ever will but it would be nice to be in a world where I would try to write something that wow that's so cool cuz it's also writing that moment as a kid when you realize writing because that thing of and again that's python I loved SNL as a kid but my parents also had watched Python and it showed on public television so we'd watch that and so I kind of liked being the kid who we could all talk about SNL sketches I certainly was never look down my nose at SNL but I also like that I had this other thing which is like you guys probably wouldn't get right the fact that that was on it was on PBS right it was that's when we saw it yeah I think that's probably where itates from the beginning right that yeah Moose's nose wiped by is pure writing because it's because as a kid it's like performance is always register it's like it's a very but for you to realize like oh that's that's writing like that is a joke um and it's just words on a screen or whatever is that that there is that moment when you realize writing is a thing it's it's very odd it's like you things appear on television and you're a kid you kind of just accept it like I remember watching all these movies and just like I'm watching a movie I don't think about how it came to be it's just in front of me and then you realize there's a creative aspect to it and you're like how the [ __ ] would I find myself to be that person but that's like a light bulb moment for a young person I also think the genius and why that movie Why Life of Brian why they endure is you make it about a thing from a thousand years ago or whatever and it's also funny as a kid you know King Arthur and it's only been presented to you there's never been a a patina of comedy on it right and then all of a sudden it is so it's also the first time as a kid you're like oh and also you can be dumb about all this yes like you can tell jokes about the idea of a Holy Grail is also inherently super right but I really feel like dumb frivolous [ __ ] is back like between like spam aot being back um shucked which I love I love shucked um and like I I think Josh and Aon doing dicks is like a perfect example of just like let's let's just like let's just make jewelry for people's heads instead of like making like these gorgeous embellished adornments of like importance for people I feel like there's there's there it's great when something's important especially in comedy I guess but like there's there's but we we flew a little too close to the Sun there I think as a generation I think I think weepy comedy by the way I saw the movie May December oh my God I can't wait it is wild it is a wild Natalie is the best she's ever been like I'm telling you when she when she crushes it like she's and there's obviously no debate but obviously one of the best we have Julianne's Cucka bird in it like she has a lisp has to be I'm looking at you the audience you have to go and then Charles Melton from Riverdale like delivers one of the best supporting performances of the year I think the script is n and what I will say the funniest thing is is the Golden Globes I guess I don't know maybe they feel this is the way forward for it but it's being categorized as a comedy and I'm like I'm sorry no that's the comedy that is that you think this movie passes as a comedy people might disagree cuz I guess you could call it like a very very very dark satire like a black black black black black comedy but like not really I can't believe in the reboot of the Golden Globes the first thing they did was say we're going to decide what your movies are yeah you know what I mean cuz that was always like they you know it was just the uh the most you know corrupt you know category hunting award show maybe they were like that's who we are and that's why people like yeah maybe they're just not afraid of it but hear that may December was going to be a comedy days after I had seen it because I it was it shook me to my core and what I will say is I think I get the impulse for someone that's done really hard comedy and stuff like that like a comedian to want to show and express another side I get that but also like I just feel sometimes it's a shame when when there are no laughs in in something that's meant to be like a comedy like and that's why like I feel I hope you're right because I want to say like stupid never left and stupids always been there but like it kind of did like I feel like stupid doesn't get like what what a lot of people were saying about dicks was that they were like this is beyond critique like we don't know how like the reviewers were like we don't really know what to rate this yeah yeah right and I feel like there is something about comedy that's like like that is like outside of like any kind of criticism in a way in a way that like is unfortunate cuz I think a lot of Comedy like like the police destroy boys had their movie come out and like a lot of the reviews are like um uh this was great um four stars no no no sorry this was great like 40 out of 100 or something you know what I mean it's that is the weird I mean again it's a reminder why there's something there's a poison to putting a number on it sometimes you read a thing and all it will be is positive Y and then you look at the number and you're like now what what that all yeah exactly and they do that with comedies all the time please don't destroy has the the thing they can they'll still never pass up the chance to tie it to SNL course of course so that is the thing they if you are an SNL person and it feels like even though Lauren had nothing to do with it like they will and I was noticing I'm like oh even these people really like it are like they want to tell you they know these are guys on yes and then put it in the same cluster of films as like I don't know like Tim's doing The Ladies Man movie like it's not the same thing anyway I did uh we were looking for something just again we're sorry shut off our brains my wife and I the other day and uh because i' listen to you guys uh do a list I have not since I saw in theaters watched My Best Friend's Wedding oh isn't it great and I feel like you guys the thing that you forgot to me there so much when was the era of I'm doing comedy meant I'm going to fall down seven times in a month yeah yeah yeah she's constantly on her back constantly falling down and then I think even when rubert ever show ever shows up he falls down a lot of like that was an ERA where people would look at you when you weren't supposed to be seen and you would be so taken aback that you would you would just fall lot of falling in that movie she makes everything easy in that even the constant falling down some a lesser actress people be like why she falling down so much oh but yeah everything there the ease of it I I feel like there's a there's a generation of let's just say actress who like I've heard anecdotally from people that are like oh well this actor like yeah across different projects the same actor has pitched multiple times to different writers what if I fell into a pool for this I will I'll tell you I'll tell you who it is off Mike but it's the same legendary A-list actress who's been in every movie that you love has for multiple movies been like I think the scene is fine I think it'd be better if I fell into I'm excited about this you're going to love the answer I'd like to make our off camera guesses and you don't have to say who it is please next episode say whether or not we right yes yes do I will also say one of my favorite stories is I had a when I was at NYU studying writing in this in my sitcom class like this woman had written on a sitcom that starred it was one of those like first name sitcoms in the 90s and she said that she the actress came into the writer's room one day and said there's just too much conflict in the episodes can't I just come in and jump on the bed and they had to explain to her that in her half hour which needs a story and conflict to create comedy and all the things she really wants she can't just come in and jump on the bed again Oscar nominated Legend you know who I'm talking I know who you're talking about I do probably said it I remember Fred when he was pitching Losa spookies to me was saying that he wanted to open it do you know this he wanted to open the first episode by saying uh because Fred had this theory that conflict is over oh wow he was like I think we're I think we're postc conflict which is a very funny Fred idea and he wanted to start it by him sitting there uh and go hi I'm Fred armson this Show's called Lo of spookies we just want you to nothing bad's going to happen yeah so sweet everything's everything's going to turn out fine and we don't ever want you to worry when you watch this show that I think bad's G it was such a funny idea because of course Loa spooky nothing bad happened but it was really funny to be like we just want you to know a lot of shows right now cuz even comedies right like bad things started happening in comedies all the time and it's like this isn't that that's so funny because we're working on something together for us and in the pitch in in the thing that we're doing we say you never worry about the Friendship don't worry always going to be friends and I don't know why that's like a a huge disclaimer that we have to put in yeah but it feels like who are we doing that for for us for them for the for the network like what is that for for everybody because because I think it is pretty ingrained at this point that it's like it's not like like a like yeah like it's like we used to we used to watch shitcom like it used to be like a family matters like a fresh prince thing where it was like oh it's always going to be fine yeah you know like there's it's but now we're not quite as reassured I yeah I think that it's also that thing of like us wanting to be clear about the fact that like if we do something it's going to be comedy don't it's not going to do that thing where it's like I look over my shoulder at Bowen in one episode and a silent tear rolls down my face CU I'm concerned about the deterioration of who we are you know what I mean like whereas which I think we've done we've seen like I'm tired of sad and dark but God bless those shows but God bless they were so good there was now I feel like right a lot of comedies there is like a we're in the sort of gritty comedy area era I feel like 10 years ago I remember talking to my friends that there should be a different Emmy category called Whimsy that was not because there was a there was a brand of Comedy for a while where there was no expectation there were laughs but it certainly wasn't a drama but it just sort of lived in this Middle where it was just it's look it's Whimsy it's wh jumping on the bed it's Jumping on the Bed did you have when you were at NYU did you ever take a class taught by Eric gilland Eric gilland I don't think so was he in dramatic writing he would he had written for Roseanne and so he would I think he was like a visiting uh teacher so the most iconic teacher we had his name was Charlie ruin he had written for Seinfeld SNL and another thing Simpsons and I remember it was like the three iconic S's and every every every like straight dude that I was in college with was like Seinfeld Simpsons SNL baby and like having to learn that of course SNL was like deep and Seinfeld my dad was like I'm huge Seinfeld fan and but the Simpsons was this thing that like felt like were you a Simpsons kid I was a Simpsons kid and then going to NYU felt completely alienated by all the Simpsons quoting that was going on around me was like I I thought I love this show and I guess I know nothing about it and so it's taking me this like re I re Ed myself into this idea that like oh I I have always loved the Simpsons just as much as anyone else it's just it was this competition to see who like loved the Simpsons the most yeah anyway but but Charles Ruben no I'm just saying like he was an iconic teacher and I remember those three shows like set him up as being that way and so I mean saying that he had that background meant that he had like disciples yeah he had the full attention 100% you know uh I have I've watched the first half so I feel can I review a movie that I watched half I will the it's the holdovers the new which I really enjoyed the first half of but uh GTI Best Friend's Wedding oh wow yes he plays um he works at the hotel look at that oh my God nice CB wow and so I'm very excited thanks to you I do believe I'm going to ask him about his time on my best friend you should and I'm happy you brought it back because you know you know what clip I often go to and watch again and again and again on YouTube from that movie it's not pick me choose me love me which we which should always get the credit as you know it walked so that Meredith Greg could run sure is it is it when they're on the boat it's when they're on the boat you know Kimmy says just when you love someone you say it you say it right then out loud this is my dermit it's very Lauren mat go to dermit otherwise the moment just passes You by passes You by and then the moment pass go under bridge I I have to say something and this is again this is pretty for the oh I believe you are the way I would describe you you're Witnesses like when you see things like it's so I was like the the backup dancers at Usher are so lucky you were at their [Laughter] show yeah but like you know what I mean like you guys see things and then you talk about things so I because you mentioned that quote on your Julie Roberts episode and so I think I would have missed how good that scene was it's so good but because you had talked about it I like oh wow yeah I sometimes could allow myself to maybe get a little jaded during a romantic comedy and then I realize oh no this is the it's an excellent one this is the but again like you need these moments to like weave it all together and if you don't have this really special moment yeah God was up to his tricks that day too because the way that her hair is blowing it was like they said we're going to set up a perfect day for this shot and I have to say like that movie I think there's like is there anything problematic about it even like it's not like other movies of that era gu I'm wondering like why when people start singing at a restaurant it's all of a sudden scored with a backing TR for sure so problematic so problematic terrible a good problem yeah yeah that was that was it's very safely not problematic at all no I and an iconic Chicago movie iconic Chicago you say so I think it is an iconic Chicago I got moves you've never seen she is so good where was her Oscar nomination for that met her exactly one time H tell us and you know what I should answer this question because sometimes I do a Q&A at my show before the last act and sometimes see people will say are you ever star struck and this is really one of them I was I hosted an emy's and I was backstage uh with a couple of writers and at the emmies there's just a lot of coming and going between the wings and this was uh she had a miniseries homecoming oh was it Homecoming on Amazon that's exactly right and that was great by the way she was just sort of racing by to go uh and she just stopped and uh put a hand on MAR was like oh my God you're doing such a great job and I was like oh my God thank you and then she went and it was just like I had to be in the I didn't have enough time to be in the moment of wow that was thrilling like I think you know you do enough SNL you host a talk show you think oh who can you meet that would actually and she's something else wow got it does that did that happen with Taylor Taylor Swift yeah I was well the last time I saw Taylor I made an ass of myself and I was very anxious and she called me out on it I was like I was like it was her and Travis Kelsey I go I texted you in August uh a mega mix on YouTube of your songs and I'm so sorry and she goes what and I go I was on ketamine and I'm really really sorry I shouldn't have done that and she was like and then I and then I apologize to Travis about something and then she goes I think this is just your anxiety it's like you're right you're right bye it was I I think there are moments like that where I go oh working at SNL and doing a show like this where it it makes me worse at talking to famous people sometimes it does and you feel that way I don't know I think I'm going through like some Joseph camb bellian thing where I'm like going to circle back to like being okay but right now I'm in a weird weird spot with this is May 10 i' I've hopefully I haven't told the story too much but 10 12 years ago maybe uh she'd host at SNL my wife and I were somewhere at maybe the time 100 event and she was there and went up and said hello my wife's a big fan of hers and we said oh we're going to Nashville we' never been and she said oh my God give me your email I'll tell you where to go and I gave my email to Taylor Swift and two days later the longest most helpful email I would say eight mini paragraphs about different places to go in Nashville and this is still you know she's not Taylor Swift of today but she's Taylor Swift she she has established Taylor Swift yeah I mean some people also like I've noticed that when people are like let me make recommendations and they mean that some people really love to do that they're like it's like it's like a it's like um like a power people have it's just I I forget the name of every restaurant I ever go to I also don't want the burden of people I don't want them to put their vacation in my hands no absolutely not like I couldn't I couldn't possibly project my interests onto yours is it because you question your own taste or their reaction to my own taste right God it so it's insecurity yes it's insecurity that's 100% it my dad my parents gotten it down I live in the West Village and my dad said uh he's staying at a hotel nearby with my mom and he said we're going to have lunch with your brother I'm like great he goes are there good places have lunch downtown and I'm like there are tons a million million plac it's New York City don't make me tell you but could you say even one no I couldn't say no well also my cuz my dad is to his I guess if you think Honesty is a virtue we'll tell you what he thought of every restaurant you to uh okay so then you're just protecting yourself prot but you know the tricky one which brings me a little bit of Shame is am people always ask me about amam and it's that weird thing where you say I I haven't lived there for 25 years and when I lived there 25 years ago I had no money and so I don't actually like three presidents ago it's just not they had a different government right yeah like yeah well Bowen will just say we got to go to the Soho House Bowen will go to Every International so house you are their number one gay I'm not it's only because I don't know we're in Berlin I'm like I've never been here before I don't know where to go let's go to the so that is I I Mexican food there at the German so house it's oh you haven't had Mexican until you it as a German so house I I want to have like a membership somewhere but I don't know where because then like then you get like I feel like you get clocked sometimes like okay they're not supposed to clock you no no no not clocked in terms of like we see who you are it's just like feel like people are like oh you're a m there you know what I mean I know but that that's part of that that's part of the exchange I went to Berlin once with some SNL people and I'm going to tell you the name of an SNL person who still works there who rocked so hard in Berlin and it's going to blow your mind tell did you tell me now I'm going to tell you their name okay Eric kenward oh Eric kenward crushed last choice right it's not totally unsurprising Yes But Eric kenward we were out in Berlin everywhere we went we would be at sort of underground bars it would be 3 in the morning and we would say are we're going to go he's like yeah I might uh I might go check out another place like he would have gone to the bar and met some other German and he is because he's very on top of it y uh very put together person very put together person and he a whole different version of him uh came out in Berlin and one night we went to a nightclub in Berlin and the next morning he said he uh he goes I I left I think I left my passport at the club oh my God and it was the funniest thing because it was you know 10: a.m. and we went back like a German Nightclub at 10:00 a.m. looks like there was no no like it was like the amount of locks on the doors it's like this might not open again for days it doesn't it looks like a condemned and uh and I'll bring it back to one of the credits you mentioned thank you very much for doing that New Year's Eve so I was in the film New Year's Eve it was the my final film uh my SW it's on Delta by the way you can watch it on Delta what I will say I have I am the kind of I've been in the kind of movies that I have seen on the back of seats where people then flip no but you still get a you still get residual I think if they started I get a res so one of my co-star in that movie is a guy named till schweer who is a German actor he was in uh in glorious bastards yep and he had said to me if you're ever in Germany uh here's my number and I assume you know I was like I'm never going to see him we worked it was like three days we worked on that movie yeah and then I'm in Germany I'm like and he told me I'm a huge star in Germany and so I I text till schweer and I'm like hey I'm with like five friends and he goes oh my God where are you I'm like here he goes come over to my house so we went over and he was the night he said I've got a bunch of bikes we'll get we'll all get bikes and he's the guy who took us to this nightclub and by the way he was like everywhere you went you heard people be like is like everybody you even on bikes people like and so anyway he's like come out on my boat uhuh the morning so uh kenri loses his passport and we get on till schwager's boat and uh and Ken's like I think I gotta go to the Embassy or you know because we gotta fly and's like what happened I'm like he lost his uh his left his password at the club last night he's like yeah hold on a second and he just like I mean you know it's some like yeah is itag my friend yeah and he's like he had they have it and he just like called like knew like he had like the phone number to like club Owners in Berlin that's incredible and it was immediately like it'll be at your hotel and so that was that wasan a lot of you know what I will say I'm not I did not enjoy my time on film sets I felt very out of my depth okay but New Year's Eve was a great experience who was your who was your wife in that Jessica be Jessica so that's a nice thing just as a credit yeah but the other couple was till schwager and Sarah Paulson oh lovely so that was it was a really nice forsome and uh was that Gary Marshall it was Gary Marshall that's pretty cool Gary Marshall who I love I loved him so much and he was a Northwestern guy yeah and I uh remember one of the days I had a scene where I was going to run down the hallway cuz my you know Jessica's water had broken I do not remember her character's name I apologize okay I ran down the hallway I was going to bump into an old lady and apologize to her and I remember Gary came up he goes he goes I want you to think of your favorite teacher you ever had and whatever her name was when you bump into this lady you're GNA Say I'm Sorry Mrs whatever her name was and she's going to watch it she's going to say look at it he remembers me all anyway so sweet and then end of the day uh we run long have to cut the scene no but he comes in he goes I'm cutting the scene will you promise me you're going to call her oh my God you did not I you did I think also the thing that I never had her to tell her I'm like I'm pretty sure she's long dead yeah yeah yeah I don't that's a scary thought of like cuz your favorite teachers when you were young might have might have passed they old now or you'd see them and they would look like so different like I'm scared yeah you to bring it to that I had to bring it there you know what I was looking at the New Year's Eve thing and there's so many stars so many St and none of us met each other cuz it was everything was likeo it wasn't like one of those movies where we all meet up at the end or so do you you're you're not in your future you don't see more on camera acting I do not and I feel great I had a moment I remember where I decided I wasn't going to be I wasn't going to do that anymore and I was so the relief I felt was the most it was so lovely well we have we have a part for you and um I big big movie I will any big movie with you two if it's the case where I get to play set and he was like you know the one we're talking about well actually we iite you a role I was that's what I was going on I was like I think I think this is just a challenge for I have to say your Gary just now your Gary Marshall just now was unbelievable put his camera on you there that's an a I have a perfect level of impersonation for my current job which is very undercooked but like grabbing essence of of yes um this was there was a moment in time where the beginnings or the idea of a Stefan script was being discussed like would a millennium Bill write one and this was not a scene that was ever written but I did have a pitch for myself in Stefan yes which was I wanted the I go because I knew it was going to be Stefan and James Franco you know whatever whoever his it wasn't going to be me and Stefan but you but you figure in so I figured in so I said here's how I think it should start it should start with Stefan Weekend Update and then when it's over you know once again I'm so disappointed that as the city correspondent he did not bring whatever St Patrick's Day tips right and he said look uh to make it up for you just come out with me one night just come out have a night me and you together as Stefan's New York and I'm like all right one night and then you would just do these super fast cuts of he and I and all these crazy clubs and then uh that would be the opening montage and then it would end with me in a body bag and zip up yes I Stan would say he's dead and then title like then the splash Stefan the movie and then it would be about him falling love you know that would be that is the most beautiful bridge out of I thought it was good bridge out that is so funny and honestly 15 years before they would have made that movie 1,00% yeah I mean I will I think that was a real you know Bill had a good sense of because again it is it is still pristine to have a anal character that also that was the greatest gift to me as as far as I mean I thought my job was just to be Stefan's foil and then very slowly him and melany wrote this it was my romantic comedy I can't believe it really developed into something gorgeous it was I stun was a moment in culture that was that that was incredible I CRA we both it was his last Bill's last show was that you know getting married to Anderson Cooper and we had to and me sa the wedding and we bill and I ran off stage or he ran off and then I followed him and then it went to the pre-tape and then bill and I were backstage uh right outside the like control room wardrobe if you can picture and we're watching did the pre-tape and now he's wearing a veil and we're holding hands and it was Bill's last show and it was uh sas's last show and Fred's last show I think and so and the last the previous year had been Andy and wigs so for me end of the era I also know I'm leaving next year to host late night and Bill and I are holding hands and we're both like starting to cry oh my God and I was so funny because I remember I was getting married a few months later and I'm like if I don't cry at my real wedding did you I did but like that but it was you're a crier yes oh yes but only happy Capricorn I'm a real happy crier I don't I rarely cry out of sadness but I will I'm a happy crier too H if I you know I mean one of the great things in life is for me is like telling people how much you love them and how much they meun do that is so wonderful I think that that happens I I think if I've ever cried it's been happy thing I don't think I've ever cried for a sad thing on here on here yeah I've definitely cried for s i' i I have a nice you have a beautiful sort of range of range of emotion MH I've tried to cry not even tried to cry but like I realized the other day so I got on Lexapro this year and I feel like it's made me unable to cry and it's been hard to not have that because I do identify as a crier so then I thought maybe I'll get off of it I miss crying and then you realize no no no re you get off of it you might cry all the time can you just lower the dose so I get like two or three good cries a week do you know um what Weekend Update character I always feel like should have come back and it came in her last year and you know who I'm going to talk about I know who you're going to talk about flirting expert Rebecca laroo I mean it's unbelievable it's the I think it was her best work ever but that's her like her you know go go well I will just say here's how good it was it was so while it was going on I had a moment where I thought am I going to [ __ ] Kristen like it literally is so it's so so real real so real and it was such an indictment of the kind of girls that I was into before I met my wife because it was just I was like like having this weird flashback to like this is nice she's making me feel nice this is so so funny cuz that's why it's so funny is cuz that is a person in the world and that's how they that's they but I I got to say so there there's a big you can access dress rehearsal footage for every single episode that's ever aired I love this and I was so curious I was like how did Rebecca laroo play a dress oh I don't even know do you not remember I have no memory I went back and watched the dress the dress version of that and I read the script completely different almost completely and like it didn't and I'm going to say and I think it's okay that I say this didn't necessarily play a dress really and it's one of those things where I go that's amazing that they're like we know we know what to change we know how to fix this and by the time it got to air it was perfect how would you characterize the changes it was just like she she she didn't open her legs a dress she didn't it I think she like underplayed it she like was like a little bit I think she was KO for too long and like it didn't like it it didn't have a breaking Moment by the end like it was just they really really fixed it up by because I think there's I'm at risk of saying well that was a wig era where she knew it would go through no matter what but that was never her style but that wasn't she never counted on anything so I don't even think it was a case of her being like I'm going to Pace myself I do think it was a case of her being smart enough uh probably wrote it with Kent James I'm going to guess mhhm where they knew how to fix it yeah and that is I mean I so early on when I was doing update alone Shoemaker who's my producer Mike sh maker he now claims that he maybe made this up to give me a note because he said look they've done some testing on you as a solo update host and one of the things they said is they don't like when you don't like the guest the viewer doesn't like when I'm Matt and I will say I think that was sort of a bygone comedy move just being frustrated like if I was always frustrated with Stefan it would have been less fun and so I gave myself permission to just enjoy gu and with that said there's still so many moments knowing that there were dress rehearsals of all those characters where they were so capable that group of people was so capable of still being surprising like two hours later yeah yeah but that is the thing where like I think Alex Bay pointed this out like the the the most flattering thing that ever came out of me doing the iceberg was like Henry was telling me that Alex Baye was telling Henry that like like the iceberg is so crazy because it's it's usually Colin or Seth or Chay like or whoever's at the update desk being like hey come on hey come on guest like stop doing that but this was a reversal where it was Colin being like come on like like teasing something out of the guest being like no won't you won't you give us something won't you talk about like the Titanic sing for a little bit and it's the guest who's like no I'm not going to do that I was like oh like I that had never occurred to me and Anna dresen that like that's what we were doing but like that is the thing that like you that that's another ingrained thing about SNL it's like oh whoever's at the update desk is like trying to like tamper Tamp down the fun of whatever's going on with the guest or something yes absolutely but like we had a it was definitely people say how did you not laugh during Stefan and I was like I think I laughed all the time I think that was part of the fun of it when you go back like I allowed myself one of my friends uh Neil Brennan said he goes I like to think of update as the last place anyone can get their clients booked like everyone has they've already they've had just like look Morning Joe will not have ston back they he's a Persona NR you know but they think you know if we could just he promises and so that was another funny way to think about it which is this is the last place with any of these people can be on that is that's a good frame yep totally well I think it's time it might be time I don't think so honey oh this Seth is our one minute segment that we do where we sort of drag something in culture for let's say a minute and um we say I don't think so honey threw out I have something and it's it's not to attack London it's to make an observation again about something I've said in the past because let me just get into it okay this is Matt Rogers I don't think so any's time starts now I don't think so anyone the showers in London oh come for the water closets and the situations with the toilets being in a separate room I have a huge bruise on my ass right now I collapsed in the shower I didn't even felt I collapsed it was more than what Julia Roberts does for comedic effect it was a full collapse okay I have to tell you the the what we're trying to do I appreciate that the shower and the toilet were in the same room but when the room is too small that means the shower is too small as well the shower too small I collapsed I the bruise on my ass I was of course because this is the horniest time of the year dming with people about potentially hooking up with them in the days prior to Thanksgiving because people get super horny in the DMS this time of year I told you this on your show I can't hook up with anyone right now because the of of the ganger bruise on my ass right now I would show you but I just don't think everyone wants to see it I have to say it's bad it's limiting and it's because of the size of the shower I don't think so honey the way we're set up to fail in London in these certain rooms in in in with the plumbing that's so scary I have to tell you it was just the thing where I was like in a shower and I was just like okay well if I I I can't really move and I it's like you know when there's like too much room you run you have fun in the shower and you're kind of moving around I I don't move around that much you stand right under what's your shower style you stand right under the water and then I'll and then I'll reach and grab a bottle of something but I'm not I'm not I'm not really using the space I like to like sort of very much move around in the show it's not dancing I would say yeah that there's there's a hazard in there well sure but like never lawyer if you're going to take legal action against this hotel you're lawyer right now is stop talking Matt you are putting yourself in a hard position to Sue and okay so then they had what was called a rubber mat okay which I guess I was supposed to put down uh where hotel but then I'm not saying because no I'm cuz my lawyer Seth you're a lawyer too um he'll be like know because I think this Seth is right but I will say I open up our name is actually Seth by the way great our name is Seth silent Killers we love our lawyers they were described to us before we hired them as silent killers were they really I was not they were not described as that to me we had a manager who was like you're going to want these guys they're silent Killers they're not the kind of lawyers that's like in people's face silent they're lovely very very good lawyers they love when we talk about them on the show too we always get a text that's great well Seth always texts Isaac Isaac's not really a text texter yeah well not with me [ __ ] he's a silent text he a what it is I'm just not I'm just not seeing it um so uh I open the rubber mat and it's like yellow and like looks nasty and I'm like I'm not putting my feet on that especially as someone who's a survivor of athletes foot right I had athletes for for about nine months oh and I realized it was because I had to have my shower washed but can I say that um you having a bruise on your ass does not necessarily preclude you from hooking up with anybody some people can I say it's not like cute bruise like I I'm like that's not up to you all right that's that's up to the other person I guess should I run the risk I think you should also I don't I disagree that this is the horniest time of year in a month it will be the horniest time of year it's actually not don't disagree with me on record this thing for me in press oh busy interesting so it's not weather related or like where our bodies are at during the holiday it's just busy it's just that everyone's busy it's about to become the horniest time of year because I said this on a show but basically it's like no I I know you did and and I yeah well for everyone listening at home that didn't watch my incredible segment on T which agree and Henry texted me they were like Matt was so funny I said I have no doubt and then I said to you I was like you have Seth's number I was like what are you guys in a group chat called Lauren faves called called the LA Lauren boys so but um what was I saying oh so in a little while it will become the thing where people are like at home for a little bit too long and I'm telling you this is when you shoot your with the person that you like have like flirted with before a little bit but like it's never gone there MH I bet back in the day and you can say back in the day certain hosts came through like girl lady hosts like that that were into it Jennifer Lawrence admitted to having a crush but yeah I will say this uh melany once said this he goes did you know we could flirt with the host I was like no because I feel like a lot of people did very well uh Andy Samberg uh really yes I think sedak is and then it never occurred to me I mean will say Bowen I feel like uh every day for me at SNL's headwriter was Christmas I was too busy I was just too busy just too buy but you occupied a space there where probably they were like and you probably knew that they were like coming on but you were like I got I don't think I I my my radar for that was not up I will say I um I was as shocked as anyone when I heard that bounce from Jennifer Lawrence wow shocked not surprising to me at all but I mean but but you had every BEC laroo in the city to I had I had my Laro years oh my Laro years I we we need to have our laru years are they happening now and we just don't know I think I'm letting them slip away I I think I had a moment that maybe there was a a night club I used to go to that a friend of mine now's kids were having their barid fat it was just that moment is starting to happen where like you know we were talking about like New York City like it's one thing when there used to be a theater there even worse if it's the thing you used to go to still there and now it's this and now it's for for venues to go through generations yeah to look at to look at a corner where you like made out with a Rebecca laroo and like there's like a 13-year-old like going up not good not not good not good anyway I'm just nervous about the bruise on my ass and then I feel like it's that weird thing where if I go to hook up with someone like Jesse you know there's a [ __ ] huge bruise on my ass and then I'm kind of scared of their reaction where if they're really enthusiastic I'm sort of over the thing where guys like try to like hurt me during sex now no that's out that's out that's out it's and if you're in my DMs being like you know like some people really can't stop with the whole thing of like I'm going to come over and choke you or I'm going to come over and like we're you're going to be in an immense amount of pain I'm like what is it what is it I don't know that's a real reverse Laro that's a very different vibe than my I this just speaks back to a very uh hornier time in my life I remember once being with a girl who was in your situation but I remember she said I have a boil that I need lanced and I don't want to I never hooked up with her a Bo I need L and I remember being like I'm sure it's fine I literally even that which is the wor I was like it's fine and I think that uh we should still do it and she was like no let me and and let me Lance the boil first let me Lance the boil but at the time I was like this is you know what why are we getting hung up on boil it seems she was asking you to Lance it I would you think maybe maybe maybe come over with your Lance Lance um okay well yeah anyway I guess in a couple days time when this episode is out maybe it'll have gone down a little bit I'm wiing at the camera but I'll be home with my goddamn parents and I have to say um Long Island grinder sucks ah yeah it's it's it's tough out there but maybe I can find a straight guy you know I'm still trying to figure that out we can't get anyway this is B I don't think so honey um are you excited about this I'm do you have something that you've been thinking about for a long time um not a long time but it's it's it's on my it's top of mind okay well you know a lot of people are going to listen to this one it's a Seth my's episode this is bow young I don't think so honey time starts now I don't think so honey weighted blankets I am what is that oh I thought was a sound these are so dangerous these are so dangerous these will kill me I'm waking up groggy as hell because of this [ __ ] x-ray apron on my chest and why are some of them filled with glass beads is is this the [ __ ] on a Thursday night get the beads out I don't and I'm sorry to to to to shame the people who like the beads in them get the beads out of my blankets because it's not and how come half of them aren't machine washable so I'm supposed to spot treat these things that are disgusting and heavy no way I better be able to put it in my drum in my little machine and clean them otherwise I'm getting the factory smell on me and that is not going to relax me these weighted blankets are going to ruin my sleep and my life and if you get me one for Christmas or anyone you love for Christmas you're you're wishing death upon your loved one and that's one minute it's not I have one and I don't really use it and I think I think it's a novelty I think it's you should just they're going to be we're all going to laugh at how much we supposedly loved these things in a couple years I also think the bane of a weighted blanket is when you decide you hate it almost impossible to throw it you can't get you're going to have forever it's going to be whenever you move out of your apartment you're going to leave it as a a welcome to the next person and you're never going to move out of that apartment anywhere near that then the next person I think that they're really good in theory but what I fear about the weighted blanket is what actually is it doing to our backs and our bodies because I don't think that that can be good for you cuz you're not really supposed to sleep with them on right you're supposed to like rest with them some people say that you you can sleep with them and that they are helpful for sleep and yet for back problems I was talking I was talking to our friend Ambert Ruffin about this yesterday I saw her yesterday I saw her yesterday as well oh yeah and she said my fear is that I'm going to be too weak to get out of it and that's a fair concern but I am laughing thinking about Amber struggling under a weighted blanket being like late oh no late for work yeah late for work I gotta go to work oh no I before I I I do my I don't think so honey uh there was something in a recent episode that uh struck home for me wait you are can I ask you are you a reader like what's going on how do you identify I guess a reader yeah you're I'm a read finalist though no you're final fin what you say uh Donna Karan Donna Donna Kanan so here was mine I had one which is my mom my entire life uh said uh Tommy hilfinger Tommy hilfinger that's huge my mother would say that and I did not never got corrected because I think then I it was a catalog that came to our home and my dad wore a lot of Tommy hillfigure but then it was there nothing to correct it for me right and then I did a charity event for Tommy hilfinger and it was thank God I wrote my jokes and I showed it to Shoemaker and thank God I spelled it hilfinger and my because I was writing and he goes I'm going to say something and I don't want you to be offend do you think his name is Tommy hilfinger I'm like 100% think his name he goes it is not Tommy hilfinger it is Tommy hilfinger I'm like oh my God this could have been disaster dis to get it wrong at an event honoring him uhuh terrible that's like saying Jimmy Buffet Jimmy Buffet at at his at his funeral James Buffet rest in peace oh rest in peace in peace were you a were you a parot head I never cared about it it was a thing I will say there was a moment in I but so whatever 92 wait hold on this right I was High School 89 to 92 there were a lot of kids who like loved Jimmy Buffett like we would go to parties and that would be there was like an Elton John box that came out that year and there was a Jimmy lot of Buffett and John that was that and this is this is insh Suburban New Hampshire Suburban New Hampshire yeah I think it's a thing in it's a it's it's an access point for a a a lifestyle that is so far away from you yeah especially if you're in New Hampshire or maybe even yeah the day he died my dad was at the beach crying a tear and pouring one out good for him yeah he was a massive good I mean I do think and that was a very nice I mean talk about a a a non-toxic culture right yeah totally who do you stand who do I stand I feel like I'm I'm I'm outgrowing my stand years like a lot of the things I've stand I you know I don't even know who I who I stand anymore in in the let's say the last person who like the last person that you were like I'm going to really like I'm going to listen to the whole dis rhy I'm going to like familiarize myself with this person these people because I love them so much well okay so somebody this music critic I really like wrote his he made he did make a list of his 50 favorite Elton John songs and there were a lot of them that I didn't like I realized I'm like oh I didn't know and there's a lot of like 70s um uh Elton stuff that's really great and like not radio friendly cuz they're like 9 minute songs so I had a very nice summer of listening to a lot of long Elton John songs Elton John is one that like I got my dad the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road vinyl and he got really way more excited than I thought he would and it excited me how excited he was Perfect album yeah um would you stand I I think Jeff Tweety but he's a friend he's friendly now but like I Do I Do stand uh will Seth are you ready for I don't think so honey I am I'm so ready for I don't think so honey and I hope yeah I hope it's all fine yeah let me just do it what are your hopes for this my hopes is that well I it's going to be holiday theme great and I really do uh rockna that's one of your songs right I know and I was a little worried because you know Fallon gets name dropped early and so then you worry like and I I would not begrudge the choice no you made it and so I'm very happy that I find my way in later in the I forgot to bring that up when I was on your show I was saying was like you did you know that you were in the song I did not know I was in the song when you were on I knew I was in the song but I cuz I listened to the album after you were on and I was very happy cuz when I heard Fallon early I was like boy oh [ __ ] I wouldn't but again that was the right choice but yeah I think what what's fun what's fun about that is starting with Jimmy and then going to Allen then landing at Jenna Bush Hager and Jenna Bush Hager is a laugh line and that's actually R culture number 18 Jenna bu is a laugh line I will she's one of my favorite people in culture I think I'm going to see her tomorrow really yeah I'll tell her how uh you guys say hello we love her we're about to see her too we're about to see her too are you really your house or or yours no I mean is she coming Goa Goa um but I mean you you coming right before sesily strong really I think Myers Meredith VI that made me very happy yeah that was and you know who was really happy Verizon corporate that was the dream both if you get Verizon money if you're if you're you're next you put one person between us no payday well here's the thing here's the peak Pine the curtain about that song so I'm writing that part because I wanted I wanted to have you do it and I said you know what I'm no I'm said I don't care what anyone thinks an Curry is going in this song I know an Curry is controversial in like in the all of it but I was like I don't care this is my fight song like an Curry all respect to Ann Curry is the lyric and that is true forever love her love an love an and for the Pod she'd be an incredible guest she really would be you think yeah okay this is Seth Myers's holiday themed I don't think so honey his time starts now I don't think so honey out Towners who visit the Rockefeller Christmas tree this is an office it's a place of work just listen to Matt song people work there and I get it but I think you all come from places where there are a lot of trees to go see is it just that there's one tree amongst buildings if you put one building amongst the forest I wouldn't come and visit it also you can look at the weather before you visit New York City and sometimes I hate to say it but due to climate change it's not 0 deg so don't wear your biggest coat because that's basically each person is two people we don't have enough room in The Concourse for that here's the biggest thing though if you go to the tree lighting I have so much respect for you to be there in person when they light the thing up just look at it just enjoy the moment because too many of you hold up your phones and you try to take a photo of the moment the lights go on that's an impossible moment to take because you either get the moment before the lights are on or the moment the lights uh are on and just this is a thing you're there you fought through the crowds just watch it just live in the moment 100% and uh but a Merry Christmas doll and I do appreciate you that's you're actually dead right and the thing about the thing about needing to document the tree lighting is they're actually they're grabbing that they're grabbing it they they're actually grabbing it there's there's professionals that are grabbing it for you so you can actually have that moment documented you don't need to be the one to do it I promise you there's actually a huge televis special where they're getting it flip it around get you and your family but with the tree in the background no one's going to say you shouldn't do that but just that moment of trying to be there I was there when the the light went on so you can't take that photo yeah what is that how does that play into your own Christmas experience I I I I think I think you everyone's fine just looking at the tree from sax fith Avenue and then and then keeping it moving we would come in from Long Island to see it and even as a even as a like you know like pre ironic like whatever when I was in like Middle School I was just like look like I I get we're going into the city to see a show like I understand this culture but the tree was like I was like I never got the tree and I think that's where the song comes from it's just like this is so silly but like well I your song is great because you respect it as a place of work that you are you were singing a song about a holiday place but what I like about the lyrics is you keep reminding people that this is where people work but it also encourages voyerism and it encourages the encroachment of privacy and I'm happy you're here so I can apologize to you about that because I think you're really on the map because of my song yeah I think people are going to be the hunt I I didn't real So speaking about nobody on the hunt I like when you know BTS is on Fallon there's so many people outside and talk about a ven diagram where there's it's two circles yeah like I can walk through like nobody and again I walk out with a couple security guys so there you would be there's a moment where you're like is it you know like you look you know you see a guy uh you know you say and nothing and I found out at SNL after the fact that like there were people in my cast who at the end of the show would go to the basement to get cars to wow you don't do that we don't never I've been with you and and I'm starting to get when I walked out now not not the biggest response anymore you talking about and it's it's fine it's actually it's a beautiful moment of like yeah that's not I'm not I'm not the I'm not like wet behind I'm not like the yeah that's literally not true I think that you're probably just used to it no no no I think it's they're used to me and they're like oh there's there's B the glamour of walking from those doors to the cars and like when some when when like it's it's like the the the thing of they recognize you I I never think that's ever going to like happen for me and then when I was at Bravo con oh I got out of a car at bravocon and walked and it was the people were screaming like I was BTS I was like why cuz I've been on Watch What Happens Live a handful of times and that is why the Bravo people are their chef's kiss the way they act I 2001 SNL I feel like was the end of an era I feel like it was um the last vestiges of Sex in the City New York before it shifted to the post 911 and the cars to the SNL after party were stretch limousines like old school promy stretch limites and so you know now I think it's all to guards or SUVs and so it was such a trip when you I would have high school friends or college friends come to the show and it was everything you wanted to be where you'd like get into a stretch limine would still get get one every week before it was so talk about a Disney person oh Kyle Kyle will [ __ ] it up at Disney oh I bet he goes with Fran gaspie Fran and back and and they I love back I love that Beck and I were at Sarah Schneider and Mike Carnell's wedding and it was in Virginia and I went on my own and I got like a room that was was like a two room like uh like Villa each time it's not a villa because it was like all Colonial but yeah anyway you'd walk in the front door you go right it was one hotel room and left and it was the other and they were like each sweets and I again it was a wedding where I was on my own and had a nice time and then I went back I was going to drive back first thing in the morning and Beck had people to his room and it was the funniest thing it was so loud and dumb and it kept me up but it was Beck was doing the dumbest bits that were it was making me laugh so hard usually cuz it was just I was like he would be so devastated if he knew how it's like I'm it's like somebody rolled a bed with me in it into the middle of the room that's how well I hear and he did uh uh he did write me the nicest note cuz I think in the morning he slowly put it together he was like oh no and it was really S one one of our biggest sweeties love love that guy love that guy speaking of loving that guy love this guy period this was this was everything I wanted to be my favorite thing was when it started and and Matt said I have a surprise for you and you literally heard a rustle and guessed it exactly it really speaks to how insan you two are well listen I have a psychic connection to him and honestly it's really we have Emily to thank because when she when she gave me this for you I was like I should have and then I got friend guil cuz I was like why didn't I already think to do this and I got in the elevator today to go down from my uh apartment to come here and I had forgotten them and I said let let me go back I was like I have to get this to my girl still you got here before I did yeah that's amazing before don't feel this was such an honor and a pleasure to be here with you guys are you kidding this is just the best you're so you guys are so good you're so good at many things but you are the two of you together doing this has been just so happy to be here in person this is the best and thank God we could do it in person and it's caught on film yeah give it up for the crew give up for the cre they are they've been so great did you guys enjoy yourselves today all right there we go yes yes um this is incredible you got to watch Late Night with teth Myers you probably already are cuz we have such a cool audience um with a great sense of humor you guys will you could you might have to come on our podcast one day we we we have we yeah we we have trip stories for sure between our Tri stories you know there was we should we've told the story many times but Bowen almost threw up on a plane and I got mad at him he got mad at me for being for feeling nausea on a plane great well we'll talk about that on the um we end every episode with the song mhm why is this one in my head goodby Tuesday because I was think think about Elon John but that's not Elon John but I feel like psychically it is Elon John but famously not famously psychically psychically it's actually equ culture number eight psychically yes famously bye bye [Music] sh

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