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11:47Rachel Dratch:Yeah. It was a sketch that you were, you and Daryl were Hillary and Bill Clinton at a Halloween party. And it was one. And I remember Barack was new on the scene, looking smooth. And and at that time, I think like Barack Obama masks were popular, you know, because it was like the new candidate. it. And so the joke was going to be that I come in like, whop, whop, I'm Barack Obama. And then he taps me on the shoulder with his mask and takes my mask off and goes, oh my God, it's the real Barack Obama. So we did that at dress and that was it.

12:29Martin Short:Yeah, he didn't do it.

12:30Rachel Dratch:We did not do it at air. Thank God. Why? Do we know why? I do. I mean, I did not have a take on Barack Obama at all. I didn't know.

12:40Martin Short:You know, I just remember you were. The way I was dressed? You were a teeny tiny. He's a very tall man.

12:47Rachel Dratch:Very tall, handsome man.

12:49Andy Samberg:It's very fun and stressful to be dressed exactly like the person you're standing next to. It is so much fun.

12:55Rachel Dratch:And I remember the first time we saw each other was when we were about to walk out on stage. So at dress rehearsal, there was like a little flag there and a door that's supposed to open. And I'm there waiting in my little Brooks Brothers suit. and I think we like bound my boobs and I had, I used to play Scott Joplin and so I had my Scott Joplin wig on and I was standing there

13:17Martin Short:and people don't know, Maya has the cutest little, tiniest little legs from knee down just the knee down it's like a little, teeny tiny toothpick, look at those little legs from knee down, so cute I want to kick

13:35Ana Gasteyer:stretch Rich.

13:38Rachel Dratch:And yeah. I'm 53. Teeny tiny. Teeny tiny. Just from the knee down. They're like breakable, I think. I know, they're so little. So you had your little suit on. My little suit on. And it was teeny tiny. And then he came over. And here's the thing. I didn't, it was written then. I didn't have a good impression. I was sort of like, I'm Barack Obama. And so I was standing there and then he came over and I said, well, what do you think? And all he said to me was, I don't wear a three button suit. Damn. I still don't know what that means. It's like, it's like God, that's like a guy knowledge thing. Sounds like flirting to me.

14:29Just kidding.

14:30Martin Short:No, I'm not.

14:31Rachel Dratch:I will take that. I've gotten two tonight, and I'm taking them home with me. I'm taking them into the spank bank tonight.

14:40Andy Samberg:And you have a lot of female friends. I do. Great. Like a great number. I count myself as one of them. Women in your life who are your friend, who you're deeply tender to, and you really take care of us, and you care about us. And you, like, I mean, you're the only, you and Shoemaker are the only men that are ever allowed, even close to a lot of the SNL women. We gather together as a group. And just recently, we let you sit with us for 30 minutes.

15:09Tina Fey:Yeah.

15:10Martin Short:And then we said, I think it might have been, maybe it was Tina, but.

15:14Tina Fey:Tina said, thank you for coming and also thank you for leaving. Yeah.

15:17Andy Samberg:Well, on the way there, I said, Seth, heads up, we're meeting and I think you have about a half an hour window. And you said, fine, I'll take that. and then we sat down at the steakhouse and you hung and then tina said and now it's time to go

15:32Tina Fey:yeah yeah it was um can i point out my favorite observations about you guys's group yes you needed a second table uh for all your jackets and every one of you had two totes yeah and most of the meal again i think if people saw the seven women that were there they would be like oh my god how funny was it? And I would say mostly they were looking through their totes. And at no point were less than two people looking through a tote for something.

16:07Andy Samberg:Well, yeah, because we had put it in the other tote.

16:10Tina Fey:Just comedy legends.

16:11Andy Samberg:Yeah.

16:12Tina Fey:Rustling through totes.

16:13Martin Short:And it was a lot of hand me my tote. And it was like, is this my tote?

16:17Tina Fey:A lot of matching totes.

16:18Andy Samberg:Yeah, I think we had gotten some totes.

16:20Tina Fey:Matching totes and puffy coats is how I would describe it. It was, I mean, it was the SNL 50th week and it was very cold. It was.

16:27Andy Samberg:Also, we were all dealing with like a lot of temperature. So our bodies, you know, we're of a certain age. We get hot and cold really fast. So it was a lot of putting on coats, taking off coats.

16:35Tina Fey:It was a lot.

16:36Martin Short:And a lot of like, oh my, I'm so hot. And then taking the coat off and then handing it to you to put at the table.

16:40Tina Fey:Every coat was louder than the next coat. Just when you moved the coat, it was like the sail of a schooner. Which are like. very hard to hear any conversation due to the rustling which is weird because we were shouting

16:56Martin Short:at each other we do shout at each other across the table very loudly yeah also paula within

17:02Tina Fey:paula pell yeah within like five seconds had set up a home office at a third table she you're right

17:07Martin Short:she went she got a third table because she had to do some rewrites it was during the show week

17:12Tina Fey:real-time rewrites on snl 50th she was immediately had like a laptop and also like a tv monitor

17:19Martin Short:hooked up. There's also,

17:21Andy Samberg:when we all go out, there's a ton of food panic.

17:23Tina Fey:Yeah.

17:24Andy Samberg:When are we going to get our food? Who ordered? What should we order? And we all fall into very specific categories about like how fast we should order.

17:33Tina Fey:There was a lot of talk about what you guys were going to get and as soon as the server came over, the minute they spoke, everybody forgot everything that had been agreed upon. Yeah. Because it went right back to square one.

17:46Martin Short:Yeah, and don't forget, you know, I'm a woman of a certain age. I need like 85 grams of protein a day. So we were just like, how many steaks? Do we need to get like 40 steaks?

17:56Tina Fey:They put us in a private room where you could have a wedding. That's how big it was.

18:02Martin Short:Yeah, they knew what they were dealing with.

18:03Tina Fey:And yet within like 10 minutes, I thought we might need a second room. The sprawl.

18:09Martin Short:Well, luckily in 10 minutes, we asked you to leave because it was enough time. It was so, it was so much.

18:18Tina Fey:putting on and taking off coats. Sometimes I think of an SNL sketch just at the table that for whatever reason stays with me forever. Do you remember Fred did a sketch once where he was someone at a dinner party who kept taking off and putting on a scarf?

18:33Martin Short:Yes, the longest scarf.

18:35Tina Fey:It was a really long scarf. And he kept being like, oh my God, it's so hot. And he would take it off. And it was like, he had to like loop it around his head and he had a practical scarf and he'd loop it around his head like 10 times while everybody waited. And then he'd start telling a story. He's like, oh my God, it gets so chilly. And then just looping. I think about it all the time.

18:51Martin Short:Did it make it on air?

18:52Tina Fey:No. No. But I can't, I think about it all the time. Also, Fred, I think Anilda was his, do you remember his stenographer, court stenographer character?

19:01Martin Short:Oh yeah.

19:02Tina Fey:And it was.

19:02Martin Short:It had a name? His court stenographer had a name?

19:05Tina Fey:I think Anilda. Anilda? I think, I'm not sure.

19:08Martin Short:Okay.

19:09Tina Fey:Typed like this.

19:10Martin Short:Oh, kind of a little bit like this. It was a lot like that.

19:12Tina Fey:But also paused the trial a lot to look through her bag and just would say over and over, I can't find my chapstick. I can't find my chapstick. I would say I don't see a scarf without thinking about the first one or hear somebody say chapstick without thinking about the second. Fred Armisen is like, we talk about him all the time on here.

19:33Andy Samberg:He is truly the funniest of the funny people, I think.

19:38Martin Short:Fred can do these physical things, the slightest.

19:41Jack Black:There is no one funnier than Fred. I agree. This is what Fred said to me at the end of this show. Fred Armisen, for everybody listening. This is what, first of all, well, this is visual, but his dressing room is beside me. So I would pass his room and he'd be on his phone. I'd say, hey, Fred, and he'd go, See, Fred, you're not really asleep. Oh, hi, how long have you been here? Fred, I just saw you. And the other thing he did, which he completely convinced me was true, was when I left the stage after the good nights. He said, why did you call Paul McCartney Tony McCartney? I said, what? Yeah, I mean, you said, oh, Tony McCartney.

20:29Jack Black:And because I didn't know Paul was standing beside me, I thought, did I? Such a funny joke. Then I told Bill Hader this, and Bill told Fred, and then Fred sent me a text like a couple days ago. Sorry, I thought you knew that was a joke. I literally thought I said Tony McCartney. That would have been great. The stupidest thing in the world. Tony McCartney. Tony McCartney. I wish I said it, of course, you know. Not knowing Paul's name.

20:53Martin Short:Fred used to send me long texts about his flight schedule, like when he was arriving, what airport, what time to get picked up as if I was picking him up from the airport. Yeah, I know. He is so deeply funny. He also does a bit that I love where if you haven't seen him for a long time at a party and you go, hey, Freddie goes, hi, how are you? He pretends you're just a fan bothering him. He's so funny. He loves a bit.

21:14Jack Black:He does a million of them, too, and everyone's funny.

21:18Martin Short:Yeah. I mean, that's what's so funny about the stuff that we do is, like, nobody remembers the 10 to 1 versions of things that were just stinkers.

21:30Tina Fey:Always. Crazy stuff. Stuff where I was mad that it would get cut and then I would go back and be like, oh, my God, there's nothing here. Like, I was just running on fumes. Like, why was I so mad? It was just because, like, it was literally as much as, like, I exist, too.

21:46Martin Short:Like, I want to be on the show, too. Emily Spivey and I wrote a scene one night that we thought was so funny. And it was just about these two giant, like, trucks, like truck drivers who would come up next to each other and keep telling the other one to honk it.

22:01Andy Samberg:Yes.

22:02Martin Short:And it was like, honk it, honk it. And just telling the other one to honk it. And we were like, oh, we were dying. And we turned it in like, you know, 8.45 a.m.

22:12Andy Samberg:And Shoemaker was like, we're not doing honk it.

22:14Martin Short:And we were like, what? We already made t-shirts. He was like, we can't produce honk it. We can't get two giant, like, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, we can't get two cabs. And also, like, you guys, we're like 35 sketches over. And, like, you turn this in at 8.45. And we were like, justice for Honk It. Like we were still, we were so mad. So just to be clear, you're not going to let us read Honk It? Okay. Okay.

22:45Tina Fey:Noted.

22:46Martin Short:Looking forward to having an employer that supports Honk It.

22:50Tina Fey:Fucking noted.

22:51Martin Short:Looking forward in the future to working with someone who understands Honk It and what it means to us.

22:57Kristen Wiig:Oh my God.

22:59Amy Poehler:The thing that made me laugh the hardest most recently was this clip of Bobby Moynihan from, they did these really great SNL documentaries. And it was a documentary about auditioning for SNL. And it was people, you were in it, you were great in it. And they talked to people about the process of auditioning and then they show them their audition back. And people get emotional, people, you know, they've never seen it or they, oh my gosh, this is from 50 years ago or whatever. and they showed made Bobby watch his audition back and he's doing a character that's in his audition that's just beyond inappropriate and he's watching it and he's watching it and he goes oh no and then he just goes oh Bobby and the way he says oh Bobby the way he calls himself by name is so gentle and so it made me laugh so hard and I I think it should be the TikTok sound that people play.

23:55Amy Poehler:Like when you have to, you have to see a piece of comedy that you're like, okay, we did, we realize now that that's not okay. You just show the content and just hear the voice of Bobby going, oh, Bobby. And that's how you apologize for problematic content in the past. You just put the, oh, Bobby sound over it. And it means I see it. I'm sorry. Let's all move forward. I know better now. I know better now. I do better now. I'm an ally who makes mistakes. Oh, Bobby. Oh, Bobby. Oh, Bobby. That really made me laugh. I couldn't stop watching it.

24:26Martin Short:You can make that, get that audio. You should trademark that audio and make merch.

24:33Andy Samberg:Well, you could have been a cast member.

24:35Kristen Wiig:No, I don't think I could. I don't think I could handle it week in and week out.

24:38Andy Samberg:100 % disagree.

24:39Kristen Wiig:Once every 20 years is more my speed for that gig.

24:44Martin Short:But you could have, I mean, did you ever audition or want to audition?

24:47Kristen Wiig:I did want to audition, but then I didn't audition. I had an idea in mind that I never went and followed through with.

24:55Andy Samberg:What do you mean you had an idea?

24:57Kristen Wiig:Well, I don't want to repeat it because now it really sounds stupid in my mind. But my audition was going to be basically, I was going to be a superhero that I created. I don't remember what it was called, but it was like a combination of the Hulk. And maybe it was just the Hulk. I was going to come in as the Hulk and just jump around and do like this weird slow motion kind of performance art dance. where I would crush things with my foot and then do like a mimed, the earth is cracking. It was not, I was not going to get in, and I knew that. But I had practiced it in the mirror in my living room a few times, but I never pulled the trigger.

25:38Martin Short:You didn't?

25:38Kristen Wiig:No. How come?

25:40Andy Samberg:Like, did you get an audition and you just didn't do it? Or you, like, I'm fascinated by it because also I'm interested in that story because that is a little bit of sabotage.

25:51Kristen Wiig:Yeah.

25:51Andy Samberg:Maybe there was a party that didn't want to be on it.

25:54Kristen Wiig:Well, that's the constant battle is the fear of failure. Yeah, totally. Sometimes you're up for the battle and sometimes you're just like, pass.

26:03Andy Samberg:Okay, do you remember Boys Night Out?

26:07Kristen Wiig:Yes. Do you remember that? The sketch that didn't make it on SNL when I was there with you.

26:11Andy Samberg:Yes, Emily Spivey and I wrote a sketch called Boys Night Out and it was Jack waiting for the boys to arrive. Yes. And they never showed up. And just kept ordering more wings. But there was a song. Do you remember the song to it?

26:22Kristen Wiig:Boys night out. Boys night out. Now we're really rocking and the chicks are all squawking because I'm talking about a boys night out. You never forget a song like that.

26:37Martin Short:Thank you so much. That's all I needed to hear.

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29:14Andy Samberg:Do you remember the first scene on SNL that, like, you were getting laughs and you thought, like, it's working. Like, that felt like... No. Um,

29:25Seth Meyers:gosh. I don't remember the first... Because I remember the first few times I got on, like, I wasn't even... I, like, left my body. So I don't remember, like, this is going really well. I was just like, I'm on! like that kind of thing. Yeah, yeah. Well, the first, very first show I wasn't in, like the, you know, season premiere, whatever. Right. And like you've told all your friends like, I'm on a set, and everyone's watching it, but your scene gets cut like it does. And then the next week, the same thing happened. Scene got cut. So it was like the third week. Who was the host, do you remember?

29:56Seth Meyers:The one that I got on was, I should know this. Oh my God. Well, I know the first one was Jerry Seinfeld. Then it was Norm MacDonald. And then it was, and does not compute.

30:07Martin Short:Oh, my God. I don't remember. Well, it's funny. The brain remembers trauma. So you remember the two shows that you were on? Dana Carvey?

30:17Seth Meyers:I'm going to have to go look. They're going to do those three guys in a row? What year was it, Dratchy? It was 1999, third episode.

30:23Martin Short:Okay, this will be a fun game. Dana Carvey? Okay, and I'm going to have you guess the musical guest

30:27Andy Samberg:because that's always fun, too. Oh, my God. See? I don't know this. I don't remember anything. No. 1999 SNL hosts. And don't worry, we're going to keep all this in.

30:38Seth Meyers:Let me tell you one cool thing, though. Let me tell you. I just heard that. Wait, let me tell you one cool thing, though. Please. Please. The very first musical guest was David Bowie. And when I was, I've told this before, but when I was getting my photo taken for like the very first opening credits, like it was on the stage, you know, like in 8H. and David Bowie was, it was Thursday, he was rehearsing with the band. So like I'm getting my picture again and he's right over there singing Rebel Rebel. I mean, I've chilled every time I think about that because that was just like, I mean, I don't even have words for like the surrealness.

31:20Martin Short:That's a very, that's a, like to have a soundtrack of that moment for your life and it's David Bowie playing live. It's David Bowie, icon, yeah.

31:27Seth Meyers:So I remember that. Should we tell the Black Crow story? So one time, so I don't do drugs at all.

31:40Seth Meyers:So then one time the Black Crows were the musical guests and someone on the Instagram came up to me and was like, hey, do you want...

31:51Seth Meyers:That's my drug offer voice. Hey, do you want whatever you call it? joint? Not a joint, but just like a hit off a joint. I see. And I was, I don't know, I've tried it a couple times. It's never really worked. I've never really dug it. And then I was like, okay, sure. So I took like one puff off of this black crows. Am I going to get sued? The black crows pot. You took a hit off the black crows pot. I took a hit off the black crows pot. And my cousin was visiting me, my cousin Zach. And I came back to the table and I was like, oh, I guess this is like I'm really high right now. And I was so embarrassed because like it was my little cousin.

32:39Seth Meyers:And I never, ever, ever get high. And then I came back and I was kind of like, I don't really remember if I told him or not. Oh, he didn't. He might not even know. I don't even know. But that was my one like. I remember you telling me you couldn't get up from your chair. Oh, I don't remember that. But it's possible. that you were kind of stuck I was just like really like anyway and that's why I don't do drugs I mean no I'm just not into that feeling I guess but no you're not into that only if it's from the

33:10Martin Short:black crows and then yes Chris Chris Robinson call me tell me um and then when you were at SNL like I feel like we got it I was thinking today about all the stuff we got to do together and We got to do a lot of dumb.

33:29Seth Meyers:So fun. So fun stuff. Oh my gosh.

33:31Martin Short:And, but, you know, and I was thinking, it was like, I mean, in many ways, I wish we had, I wish we had more time together when I was more experienced there because I was new and kind of stressed. And I felt like I loosened up more and figured out how to like just have more fun as, as I got older there. But we did get to do some fun stuff together.

33:53Seth Meyers:Well, first of all, you were in the original Debbie Downer, and that was so fun. I mean, just to be laughing there with you.

34:00Andy Samberg:Well, you bring this up, and, you know, I ask this question to people on this podcast, and I truly feel like it is because of Debbie Downer that I ask this question. Again, I owe you a lot of money, and thank you for building this podcast with me. But Debbie Downer, I've said it many times before, was and is the thing that I go to— also maybe now replaced by the clip.

34:24Seth Meyers:The clip. The clip of this podcast. I watch the clip a lot of times. And I just want to clarify, I don't go like watch my work. Like I don't go watch like a movie I did because like I just like to have it in my head. But that, it's like I said, it was like seeing your biggest crack up. Yes.

34:39Martin Short:And just like I have to laugh every time I watch it. Me too. And Debbie Downer was like that for me during very dark times because it was the combination of us all having fun you you're like the way in which you are physically trying to hold it together like the way like the laugh was like um something you were trying to hold in combined with the zoom and the sound effect and we've watched it so many times like emily spimey knows every single she's

35:14Seth Meyers:Like, this is the part where your lip starts quivering. Because there's one part where at the very beginning I'm going, get, get, get, get, get, get. And then there's the part where something falls backstage and I look away. My eyes start over there. Like, we know every single moment. It is.

35:28Martin Short:It's like the Zapruder film, like frame by frame. Yes. And it proves, it just, it got me, it's such a serotonin boost. Before we move on, talk to us about the, like, who did you write Debbie Downer with and how did it start?

35:41Seth Meyers:Oh, like the origin of the? Yes, the origin of. Oh, okay. People will want to know. So, well, it really started because I went on a vacation by myself. So it had been suggested to me by a therapist. And I also leave that detail out. But since I'm on this one-on-one Amy interview. No, I said it like once or twice, but usually I leave that part out for the masses. But no, not like this. This number one podcast, masses. but no she was she just like she kept saying like take a trip by yourself and I was like why like I don't want to do that I could go with friends like I don't want and I just kind of took it as like doctor's orders like I just sort of like I'm doing this and I like self-propelled myself to the jungles of Costa Rica

36:34Seth Meyers:no but I wanted to pick somewhere that it wasn't going to be like honeymooners and like I wanted to pick somewhere that was like me just like I don't know somewhere kind of remote I guess so it was like very remote it was in the Osa Peninsula you had to take like the big plane then you take the smaller plane then you take the two-hour jeep drive I mean I was going deep

36:52Martin Short:out of society and each time they were like it was like Barbara Potty one well no so I picked

37:01Seth Meyers:this it was like this eco lodge thing so I went there and um and then it was just like a it was So there was like these commune, it wasn't like a lot of people there. And it was actually really cool. Like, and I did meet really cool people. And I met these two sisters that like, like they were older, but they're like my age right now. But, I mean, the age I am now. And they were sort of like, they sort of told me like the rudimentary fundamentals of what is later known as the secret.

37:29Martin Short:Like, did I tell you?

37:30Seth Meyers:When I was on this trip.

37:31Martin Short:People should know Dratch knew the secret before anyone knew the secret.

37:34Seth Meyers:And I learned it from the jungles of Costa Rica, from two white ladies that were from Colorado. But anyway, so they were just weird, you know, because you're like chatting. And I got to say like hats off to the suggestion because I never would have talked to strangers if I was with friends. Right. You know? Right. So I'm like having this conversation and these women were telling me about like, you know, basically like what's the law of attraction, I guess. But they put it like, you know, if you if you think on positive things positive and if you're if you're focusing on lack, you'll attract lack basically.

38:07Seth Meyers:But then it almost like the whole thing got like sealed because then we were on this like, you know, you could do like nature walks or whatever. And we're on this like walk on the beach, like with the little like it wasn't like a group. It was like whoever's here and wants to do all this thing. And this woman was saying like there were these like beautiful birds overhead, these like scarlet macaws and like way up in the sky. And this woman goes, I want a feather to bring home for my daughter. And I swear, like 20 seconds later from like way, way up high, this feather starts to just go, bloop, bloop, bloop, like falls down.

38:43Seth Meyers:We all like kind of see it like and it lands like right at her feet. Amy doesn't believe in any of this stuff

38:50Martin Short:I do, that's cool

38:53Seth Meyers:I believe in manifesting that was cool though so then I was just like, sold I'll join your cult no, but then this isn't anything about Debbie Donner this is just other stuff on that trip but anyway, but then the Debbie Donner story is that when later it was like sitting at dinner with randos that are there people just making chit chat and someone said like where are you from and I said New York and then they said like oh were you there for 9-11 and it was like three years after 9-11 it wasn't like it just happened it was kind of and then I was kind of like uh yeah and then like it's kind of like just like in Debbie Downey you had to like get the conversation back because it was like vacation times right and then like about a week later after I got home I was like out listening to some band which isn't something I usually do but I think that's kind of interesting because like doing something you don't usually do and then your brain is kind of like I don't know you're not on your usual channels I guess yeah but then I just had that idea of this kind of based on that like someone like the Debbie Downer popped into my head of like yes and then which this is kind of just talking creativity I found at SNL you couldn't just go in there and like okay let's think of a scene like it had to be like moments like that like and to me that only happened like once or twice a year which is why like you might sit there at home be like why isn't there like like snl man but it's like thinking of really original characters that kind of like hit on something it's not something you can like steer the ship on it's like to me like it has to like vibe out with you i don't know yes you have to be

40:35Martin Short:like you have to to your point you have to like keep the channel open and yeah like find the muse and like let it find you. It just can't be like churned out. Exactly. And then what did you do?

40:44Seth Meyers:So then I took it to Paula Pell, who we wrote with often and is hilarious. And everyone knows Paula now because I love Paula's like out there more in front of the camera. But anyway, and then we were on writing night. We were trying to write it. We set it in an office and it just kind of wasn't really flowing. It just wasn't really jiving. And then we were like, maybe we need to put her somewhere really happy. So then we thought of Disney World, of course, happiest place on earth. And then while we were writing it, like, of course, Paula was cracking me up with these one-liners and everything.

41:14Seth Meyers:And then we started just going like, like, just for ourselves. And then we were like, what if we put that in the scene with the actual trombone sound? So then for read-through, we had, I don't remember if we had like the live person or someone just had done it. But then at read-through, like, it killed. But then you never know because sometimes something can kill at the table. And then when we were in dress rehearsal, Jamie and Horatio were kind of laughing. and I was thinking like you guys like I feel like this could work like yeah keep it together guys and then like on air I just flubbed one of the lines and then I don't even know I guess I was

41:47Martin Short:like so nervous sure and then but you were on you but thankfully you just like like like the good Pisces fish like you just like you went along for the like it was it's so joyous watching it because it is just the calm it's like what real live tv is supposed to feel like okay well you've talked about this and i've heard talk about it and really made me laugh you're for the first sketch you were in at snl oh yeah was when uh you right yeah we're pregnant in the butt my character was pregnant

42:22Ana Gasteyer:your character but it was it's funny because back it up even to like my first pitch because that was J.B. Smoove. Right. The great writer, the former J.B. Smoove. The great everything. Yeah. The best pitcher. Incredible. And he pitched this thing where you were pregnant in the butt and everyone was laughing. And I didn't know that like he's like he just does like funny pitches. Right. And he wrote it.

42:46Martin Short:I think.

42:46Ana Gasteyer:And it got on.

42:47Martin Short:And he often, he often, J.B., I think you often pitch stuff that maybe you weren't going to write. Yes. You know what I mean? I always pitch stuff I wasn't going to write. Same. That was kind of the thing. On Monday night, you would be like, um, and you just kind of bullshit your way to get a laugh and then you'd be like okay and now I really have to buckle down but I think because the response was so funny JB was like I should I gotta write that that's the other thing

43:06Ana Gasteyer:and you're like I wasn't really gonna write that thing yeah it was my very first sketch Jason Lee Jason Lee was those Foo Fighters yes Foo Fighters Foo Fighters I did say that

43:19Martin Short:I'm so happy that was my first that was your first sketch and you remember the first like I mean, the first character, you have so many, but do you remember the first one that was a

43:32Andy Samberg:recurring that you thought, was it Target Lady? Like where you felt like, oh, I'm going to get to do this again. Like I have some kind of, I don't know. I know it might have, was it A-Holes with Sudeikis?

43:42Ana Gasteyer:It was either A-Holes or Target Lady. Yeah.

43:45Martin Short:I mean, for people who don't remember, you know, Kristen has done so many characters. I mean, we could talk about them all day, but there was a there was target lady who was of course very very excited about things getting

43:57Andy Samberg:improved yes and had an incredible haircut great wigs um incredible wig and then another great wig and another character was a-holes which is sudeikis jason sudeikis and you and you guys were kind of

44:09Martin Short:like just like the worst people to show up anywhere yeah yeah yeah and you did a great It's a great move where you would play with your hair and chew gum.

44:19Andy Samberg:Real simple. There's so many funny characters that I want to talk about, but I won't embarrass you by going through them. But I've said this to you before.

44:28Martin Short:My favorite character is the surprise lady. Thanks. That's one of my favorites. I love her. I love her for a million reasons. I love her because the way you play her is so funny. I love her wig. Fantastic wig. Always in a turtleneck. Always. well she had died in it she had died in it that's right that's right did you

44:50Ana Gasteyer:did you write it was in the script that we like that we pulled it over yes and when I when I say that was one of my favorites that comes from doing it yeah like I I like being I like being in a sketch where there's a lot of people and there are moments where everyone is looking around like what is going on i love that moment yes i love

45:17Martin Short:a cut to keenan just like we gotta get out of here like this lady is nuts i that's my favorite thing that actually would be a really good way to sum up a lot of your characters oh yeah most of my

45:30Ana Gasteyer:sketches if you go back and look like no you gotta cut to people being weirded out by me to remind

45:35Martin Short:the audience that but why i love the surprise lady so much is because there's a lot of wig in it i I think because she is nervous, but excited. And she loves a party. And she cannot wait to deliver that good news. She can't wait. And the physicality of her and the way. So funny. God, I just watch clips of it all the time. I love it so much. It's so funny and stupid. funny and stupid

46:11Ana Gasteyer:yes which is the best which we know is the highest praise in comedy agree like the more people go

46:16Martin Short:oh oh that's so dumb that's so dumb and you're like yay I did it

46:24Andy Samberg:for people that didn't see the SNL 50th music special which was amazing you there was like sketches in between acts and a lot of musical sketches and Bobby and Marty came out and crushed crushed that was not an easy audience it was an audience of truly every single person was either performing or a performer or like it was a cynical audience yeah you guys crushed what was that

46:53Maya Rudolph:feeling to do that that night it was so fun for lack of a better word like it was so for there was something you know as you go back to these reunions and you bring all of your kind of history and baggage and whatever with you. Again, just kind of speaking to your point of the fact that this is all just so embarrassing, because first of all, like it's Radio City Music Hall. It's 6 ,000 seats. I mean, it's a huge, epic space. Yeah. We followed Lauryn Hill. Sure. That's who you want to follow. So you have to understand that in the wings, there are like thousands of cool music people. I mean, like my dressing room was next to Jack White and his band and I'm dressed as Bobby Mohan Culp, okay?

47:43Maya Rudolph:I've got the giant glasses and my like striped dress and Will's got his bald paint and his, you know, we were rehearsing in the keyboard. So already we're like the losers in the wings. Do you know what I mean? Oh yeah, I mean the winners for me, but yes. It was fantastic.

47:59Martin Short:I mean, actually you're like, you've got the violin and you've got the eye patch.

48:02Maya Rudolph:100 percent and so we're already just like what is happening what is happening why are we here and who invited us you know and then we just started to giggle because we we it was so cute because we doing the sketch and doing that like we just it was very easy to imagine how excited bobby and marty would have been the people would have been to be at radio city and what was it like back what was it like back did you see jack white who else are you seeing i mean mayhem like posses and people with like you know music people so they got like yeah they're so cool big cool hair and glasses and for like lorne hill's a fur coat and an afro and like everybody's got like floral pants that come up to here and there's posses and you know weed everywhere you know chris martin's in the corner like cool people actual cool people who just looked right past us like they were they did not know that we used to be on saturday night they were just like who brought granny and gramps like just right past that actually probably was fun it was so fun that's fun and then going and then we like you know going out there and all that stuff just suddenly

49:08Martin Short:worked you're right now that i'm remembering lauren hill had had a surprise incredible performance insane and then there's like smoke and like and then it was like test test test and you guys Christ. And that's what I mean.

49:24Maya Rudolph:I knew it was streaming and I also knew, I mean, it was really funny because we were like, they just, and all of their stuff was about how they'd come to New York for an ophthalmology appointment. You know, I did say we're just lucky to slip in and just everything about it was so fun. And so we're sitting there and, uh, yeah. And I did have the feeling, I was like, this is streaming. Cause one thing about SNL for me, again, I don't know if you ever had this, but it's a little bit of an a student girl, you know, nerd girl thing. I was always, my greatest regret about the show, not that you would go back in time, is that I couldn't, I never like settled into it and enjoyed it.

49:54Maya Rudolph:Cause I was always so aware of the time and of running somebody, running down the clock, somebody else's sketch is going to get cut. Like I was always, and when we were there, it was such a, you know, like explosive surfate of, of talent that there were always three sketches a night that might not make it, you know? So I always felt like I had to like, keep it moving. Keep it moving. So I was suddenly very aware that it was streaming and that I was not going to be rushed. And I was like, I'm going to be Bobby. The funniest thing in the world to me is this woman and this man, these, these choir teachers getting people to settle because there's just nothing funnier.

50:32Maya Rudolph:So that's what they did is they just kept telling people to settle. I need you to settle. I need quiet in the back. Hand goes up, mouth goes shut. Hand goes up, mouth goes shut. I was just like, I'm going to keep going until they settle. I'm not going to worry about it. And if I had been at 8H, we never would have done that. Right. Very good point. But we just, we took a full, probably 45 seconds to, you know, get people to pipe it. David Spade, pipe down. That's right. You guys called him out by name. I don't want to hear it, Pierce Brosnan.

51:05Andy Samberg:So stupid. You've been listening to Good Hang. The executive producers for this show are Bill Simmons, Jenna Weiss-Berman, and me, Amy Poehler. The show is produced by The Ringer and Paper Kite. For The Ringer, production by Jack Wilson, Kat Spillane, Kaya McMullin, and Alaya Zanaris. For Paper Kite, production by Sam Green, Joel Lovell, and Jenna Weiss-Berman. Original music by Amy Miles.

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