"Andy Samberg"

26:30And I just remember as soon as that hits and it goes crazy, like one of the first sort of viral videos, if you will, really, all of a sudden, it's like you guys are at Paramount, right? All of a sudden, you're at Brad Gray's office, you're making Hot Rod, and you've got a movie deal, and you've got all that. Like, it just went like that. Yes. Right? Am I right about that? Some would argue too fast. Really? No. Yeah. Not me. I mean, High Rod, you know all about because you're in it. Sure. And you're fantastic in it. And we were so grateful you did it. Yes. No. Yes. I actually do remember. You know what?

27:15I do remember, Andy, funny you say too fast. I remember one day going to Paramount to meet Lorne one of the off weeks. And you guys were at the Broadway video office. Do you remember that? And you guys were writing? Rewriting it, yeah. And you were rewriting it. And I remember that you, Keev, and you weren't being in the room. And I was like, how's it going? and you guys had your laptop and you were so, you guys were so stressed out. You're like, I don't know if we're going to be able to do this. Because it was like really quick. And they're like, great, here's a movie, rewrite it. And we start shooting July 1st.

27:47Yeah. I mean, we were psyched and we knew that it was a window that had opened and you got to go through it. But it was also like, I mean, I had been on someone's desk like a year and a half before that. Yeah. dreaming of this happening. And then all of a sudden it's like, boom. And it's happening so fast. This is the thing I've really thought about more as we've gotten older is it never occurred to me how anyone else was perceiving us because we were so in it and like shot out of a cannon. And now I'm like, oh, if that happened to someone now, I'd be like, who the fuck are these guys?

28:25What did they do to get this? One song thing? exactly exactly your proof of concept though was already just like right there and and and and you'd already been stamped and embraced by you know yes the the snl you know uh pedigree and and and embraced by the exact demo paramount's asking you guys to hit it's so it would like i'm sure you guys had a you weren't paralyzed with fear but but sort of uh knowing you're going into new new ground yes also we were still like not just actually young but like young in the industry so for us we still had the like no man we're gonna make it this right and like no shade because i love this movie they wanted dodgeball right and we wanted like wet hot yeah american summer right Right.

29:23And I think Hot Rod ended up somewhere in between. Had Akiva and Jorma directed anything other than the digital shorts at that point? No. Right. That must have been. But, you know, we had shot. Kiv had directed basically everything we had done for five straight years leading up to that. Like, we moved to L.A. together and just started shooting stuff because we both went to film school. Yeah. And that was the plan. Like, we're just going to keep shooting stuff and show people why we're funny and not try to tell them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's funny. I was talking about photos just before about finding the arrested thing.

29:57I was also found a, I have a photo weirdly in a silver, it looks like a really fancy frame, and it's on the set of Hot Rod. I just saw it, and it's Keeve talking to me in this, and he's being really serious, and I'm being really serious, and I'm like, we're on the set of Hot Rod, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, it couldn't be more serious. He's like, say babe three more times. Yeah, exactly. um andy where does where does the the film school and filmmaking kind of desire for you live currently or is it you just it's sort of just just acting now and uh or or do you still kind of thirst for making stuff um well i mean i'm i'm basically a producer on almost everything i do yeah and i i feel like i'm a creative producer if that's yeah yeah yeah a thing it's for sure and it's not for everyone right well and you explained for people for tracy what that what the difference is like like a hardcore like producer producer is the person who's like actually talking to all the production heads and and like putting together a movie or a show and dealing with the studio or network on a daily basis and it's it's a grind and it's a specific skill set and it's a specific personality type that is really valuable and rare to find someone that's great at it and then for me i'm like i am heavily involved in the creative decisions of everything i'm in basically right if if whoever i'm working with is amenable right um but like that to me is that was my role with the guys with kiev and yorm so that's kind of how i developed you were on the producing track um as opposed to the directing track in film school yeah I mean, I was technically directing, but I didn't enjoy it because it's just so much multitasking, and I also wanted to be acting in stuff.

31:50I mean, I don't know. I am blown away by people like yourself that can act in it while directing. That, to me, is such a head fuck. I don't know how to do that. Just try it once. You'll see, oh, it's pretty efficient. Well, let me ask you this, not to get too granular, but the one thing that worries me more than anything is giving notes to the actors I'm in a scene with. Right. I have this insecurity as soon as I'm like, can you do it more like this? And they're like, fuck you, bitch. What you did wasn't so great. Exactly. Yeah, you do it more like this. I know what it's going to be. It is true.

32:25It is a certain amount of unstated arrogance and hubris to actually be giving a note to somebody you're on an equal playing field with. I hear you on that for sure. I have no explanation for that aside from the kindness of the person that's listening to the note. Especially, like, what if you're doing, like, romance stuff? Right. Yeah. I feel like I wasn't believing that you like me enough. Right. Be more into it. Yeah. And that's how you met your wife. Right? Yeah. Be more into it. Okay, on this take, marry me. Right. I want to feel from your kiss that we should be married. Here we go. Still rolling.

33:06Like, you're just face-to-face, and they're, like, standing there, and you keep going, no, more, no, I don't buy it. Close, deeper. But you do, yeah, but you do, because TV is sort of a writer's medium, you do end up, by default, kind of directing, especially in comedy, kind of directing anyway, right? And so it's pretty, it's directing adjacent. Yes, we did eight seasons of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, for example, and I was a producer on that. And as the show went on, I would definitely be on set as a producer, not just an actor, a lot creatively and making sure scenes were working and being a big part of editing with Dan Gore and knowing like we're going to need like some alts on the end of this scene because this isn't playing.

33:55You can just feel it in the room. It's not landing right. And then you powwow and you pitch a couple extra jokes and then you have each cast member try a different thing and then you know you have options and blah, blah, blah. And you're hiring the directors. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you worked with the great Dan Gore, and obviously you had a lot of great comedic minds on that show as well, with the great Mike Schur, whom we all adore, and Phil and Chris as well. Yeah, they shot the pilot. They shot the pilot. So you had a pretty, that was like a fucking Hall of Fame team. I got to rewatch it during the pandemic with my oldest son, Archie.

34:34he was there and able to super into it we ended up watching it all through so so so funny and you know one of the through lines we mentioned right at the top one of the through lines in what you do so well and you do so many things so well but you always there's oftentimes you incorporate music into what you do and I kind of wanted to understand a little bit about like what your history is with music did you study music as a kid first of all you got a great voice you got great timing um it's true so true it's totally how do you come by it um well thanks i grew up in a house that music was always playing and me and one of my two sisters uh were both kind of just always obsessed with music i i don't know exactly why i think you know i had a father who had a great appreciation of it had a big record collection and then when i hit like junior high in high school, I pretty much just went to the record store all the time.

35:31I grew up in Berkeley, California, where the first Amiibo music was built, and I was at Amiibo records in high school two or three times a week, just DITC, which is digging through the crates. They do vinyl again, right? They're still in business. They sell vinyl. Yeah, apparently vinyl has made a massive resurgence. Massive. Yeah, it's cool. Wait, so I want to talk more about that. So you grew up in the bay area you grew up around music what kind of music did your dad listen to and then you listen to and what kind of would you did you uh gravitate toward towards a specific genre at amoeba records uh yeah um take those in order please you can go backwards it was definitely all kinds of music i mean i think a lot of people that grew up in the bay area would say the same thing which is music is just a big part of the culture there for no matter who you are as a kid there.

36:24And so there were definitely people who were like, we're punks and we listen to punk and we're backpackers and we listen to hip hop. But most people were like, I listen to 12 genres of music and I love the history of all of them. And we were certainly that. And my friend group was that where we'd be super into dance hall and reggae, but also super into contemporary hip hop and old hip hop and old funk soul because of hip hop. because we chased down the samples from our favorite hip-hop songs. Yeah, yeah. But also, like, I love Bob Dylan and grew up listening to Bob Dylan and wore my mom's purple scarf to try and look like Bob Dylan in high school.

37:01That's great. But you were so adept at hip-hop, and you guys were kind of like the West Coast comedy Beastie Boys. Well, that's high praise. Yeah, oh, nice, Will. It's true. Very nice. It is true. That's totally true. It's totally true, and you were able to do it in such an authentic way, too, because there are a lot of white boys from Berkeley who couldn't pull it off, and you guys just made it work because you were actually good at it. And, God, what did I... You know what I saw the other day was one of the video from Bash Brothers, the thing you guys did about the Oakland A's. Have you ever seen that, you guys?

37:35And I can't believe that you pulled it off. What is it? You play Jose Canseco, Keith plays Mark McGuire, and then they do this rap about being on steroids and fucking how small their balls are. Yeah, me and Keeve did it kind of just like a side project because Jorm was unavailable, so we didn't want to do a proper Lonely Island album without him. Concept album, and then we did like a visual poem, kind of like Lemonade, and very quietly released it on Netflix. That's really funny. Keeve is Mark McGuire, and I'm Jose Canseco, and the whole thing is an album of if the two of them had made a rap record in the late 80s during their heyday what that sounded like.

38:18I remember being totally fanning out, being so excited and kind of nervous. Sudeikis and I, we were on like on a lunch break while we were doing one of the horrible bosses and we were in the valley. And he's like, oh, you know, the guys, they rented a house down here. They're recording one of their albums. And he took me over there and it was like noon or something. And we walked in. I think you guys are recording Turtleneck and Chain maybe, right? Yeah. and uh turtle neck and yeah and uh and and i was like i was like where's where's andy um they're like oh he's still sleeping i was like damn right yeah exactly um but we took a lot they had rented like this this this um uh colonial style mansion in encino a monstrosity yeah and they just set it up you know just like like a rock band would you know you record in a mansion but it's usually in the Cotswolds, you know, but this was like off Louise Drive in Encino.

39:16But it was pretty, pretty awesome to see that. Those summers were so fun. Yeah. And everyone, the coolest thing about it was how much space we had. And we just put out like, everyone in comedy come over. That's really cool. And it really happened. Like we have photos of so many of the people that are just the biggest names in comedy now that swung by because they were like hey i heard those lonely island guys have this stupid house in encino oh that's great and we would just that's so cool drink and have fun and then record songs and knew we were banking them for the next season of that's so cool that's so cool do you guys ever ever talk about getting together and doing another one of those house rentals and and just putting down another record it's tough now because we have kids.

40:03Well, they can be in it. Yeah, they can write them in. I don't know that we'll do another house rental ever unless it's like a compound for all the kids to run around in. Do that. But I definitely think we're going to try and make more music. I don't think we're done. Look how young your face is. Kids having kids. Yeah. I know. It is funny though. Because Andy, you're younger than I am and than we are because the three of us are basically the same age. Jason's older obviously. Is that... No, just a lot older. How old a fellow are you, Andy? I'm 45. Oh, good for you. Yeah. A youngin'. And so now that you've got my kids.

40:42I'll Google it. 54. You just seem so young. Oh, really? We're 53. 53. We're 53. You're the coolest. But I have a new penis. Did I tell you guys that? Is that true? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You buried the lead. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, you did it. Amazon. Fucking crazy, right? But anyway, sorry. Brand new? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Fresh. And you just like rehydrate it. It's like a sea monkey. Well, no, this one's full of moisture. The old one was, I was getting tired. I had a spritz bottle. I had a fucking Hudson sprayer. It's just, it was enough. So you've got a, you went out and got yourself a new one that you're not going to use?

41:15Yeah. Why don't you just keep not using the old one? Can we get a time check on how long it was since the last dick joke? I just want to point out, I didn't start that one. That was not me. I was not the instigator. I jumped right in. How hard is it for you to not talk about dicks?

41:34we'll be right back all right back to the show um andy i want to talk to you about growing no when you were a kid because i read this thing where you you had you wrote a letter to your eight-year-old self oh yeah which what was that about and and and were you into comedy at such a young age that you wanted you knew that you wanted to do it even at eight years old yes i mean i have said forever and it's really genuinely true that at eight i just said that i wanted to be on snl specifically oh my god that's great i love that i used to i was into wwf wrestling and there was that show called saturday night's main event which was on once a month we don't need to tell tracy about that one huh yeah i I didn't know what Saturday was going to be on.

42:26Yep. I missed it. True. It's the first reference we haven't had to explain. Oh, I gotcha. That's speaking to the demo? She's quietly nodding there in Chicago, right? Continue ending. No, she's going. She's saying continue. Got it. Oh, my God. But, yeah, so the nights that it wasn't on was SNL. So I found it by accident as a kid and watched it. And it was, you know, love its Carvey era. And you wrote a letter saying doing like what? Of goals or something? Oh, no. I think it was like a school assignment where it was like fill in the blank thing. And it was like, when I am older, I will be. And I was like a comedian, obviously.

43:11Was there ever a moment where it got emotional for you on Saturday Night Live? Either your first performance or your last one or. Oh, my God. I mean. The whole time. Yeah. I'll bet. The feeling of I'm living inside of actual dreams I've had. Yeah. And now I'm friends with people that I would meet in my dreams. Right. That were cast members on the show. And then I got on the show and they were still working there. Because we watched every episode. It was my absolute obsession. That's so great. And then now I'm like, oh, yeah. Now I just like chat with them whenever. And you're part of that fraternity now of people who were on it.

43:50And it is a very sort of tight-knit nomad. It's kind of like you see each other, you can give a nod or you can say, hey, because it's the smallest demo, right? Like, I mean, it's just the tiniest percentage of people who've ever been cast members in the show. Yeah. Was it what you thought it would be? Or, I mean, answer that, but then also, like, what was the most surprising part of it or the part that really kind of, like, floored you, like, that you didn't really imagine? I think it was similar to what I was expecting. Yeah. Because I had read so much about it. But the thing I wasn't expecting was for it, and I genuinely mean this, for it to go so well for us.

44:32The whole cast. Like having watched it and having seen how hard it is. Yeah. Especially in terms of like how quickly, because the thing about SNL generally, unless you're like one of 10 people, is you have to like ingratiate yourself to the SNL audience and give them time and space to figure out what you do that is funny and why. Yeah, it's very smart of you. Yeah, for sure. And so for us, speaking to what we were just talking about with Lazy Sunday, that was a crazy shortcut to the path I thought we were on. Like when Lazy Sunday aired, Will, you asked, and I didn't answer it, what was it like when you guys were in the studio when that aired?

45:09We were not thinking like, we did it! we were just like, oh, we got something on. I'm so relieved we're not going to get fired. Right. Because we're halfway into our first season. And then when did it start to dawn on you that, oh, this thing caught on? Like, was it the next day when you woke up from the after party, like you saw online that there was some traffic about it? Yes. And the press part of it. Like, we immediately were, like, in touch with the NBC PR people. Wow. which I was like, oh, I don't know anything about this world. And they're like, hey, New York Times wants to talk to you.

45:46You guys free right now? We were just like, okay. Jeez. Sure. About what? You sure are. But, you know, everybody always talks to you about those shorts, but I loved tons of stuff that you did. I loved the impressions you did. Mark Zuckerberg, Nick Cage, Mark Wahlberg, Hugh Jackman. Was there a celebrity of somebody you did that you heard from about any of your impressions? I mean, the one that was the most gratifying was Cage for me. Nick Cage? Because he came on and did it with me. Yes, I remember that. And the Cage thing, and he, you know, he was so cool about it and he did not have to be because we were like doing a psychotic character and saying it was Nick Cage, you know what I mean?

46:30It was like, and I was, and still am, and we all are a massive fan of Nick Cage and I've seen so many of his movies and that's how it ended up being something I could do because I was like, I've seen him talk so much. Well, that's the thing too is that you made, you didn't make fun of, but you poked fun at certain elements, but you never punched down. It was always people who were massive, whether it was Nick Cage, you did, Wahlberg came on, I remember he came on as well as you were doing Say Hello to Your Mother for Me. Like, again, you're punching up, like you're making a joke because he's such a massive movie star, right?

47:04And by the way, that's, when you're on SNL, this is the thing i always think about because i'm like i never got into comedy to like do impressions or make fun of anyone right obviously amongst my friends we'll talk shit about literally anything but uh and anybody but like when you're on the show impressions are such a uh it's such currency right yeah and you know it plays and you know it'll get on and you're just desperately trying to get on. So if you do one that works and everyone's laughing at, it's hard to be like, no, I'm not going to do that. I don't feel good about it morally. Did you have to do it for your audition?

47:43Did you have to do impressions? Yes. Yeah. For your audition, they asked you to do characters and impressions. And when I got asked, by the way, I had been doing stand-up, but I had no impressions or characters. So we wrote them all leading up to the audition. Oh, wow. What was your go-to impression at that time? Honestly, by chance, it was Fallon. because I did the Temp Fallon voice on the movie awards for like the storyboards of the pre-tape we wrote. And then Jimmy, who is, you know, the nicest and was so nice of us. He really helped put us on. But he heard me like in the Temp VO of the like animatic, which is, you know, the storyboards of like whatever it was.

48:24It was me being like, oh my God, we got to go Batman, you know. And he was like, who's doing my voice? Oh my God, it's so funny. And so they were like, even Higgins was like, hey, when you audition, you should do Jimmy. And I was like, oh. Oh, yeah. Really? So I did Jimmy Fallon at a funeral. But he was, oh, my God, so sad.

48:46At a funeral is really funny. Oh, man, I'm so sad. Everybody's crying. It's so sad.

48:57And I made up a few other ones that were like, I knew I couldn't do them so the joke was that they were one word so I did like this is like Alan Rickman and Die Hard and I just went McClay and thanks and you're like okay this guy can't do impressions I love that I love that so much so wait so tell me about how you know I did that little thing with you the Maya Rudolph show and you made me pee in my pants so we had fun Sean Oh my God, I laughed so hard with you I was crying laughing And so many bits came out of that But you told me about your wife And you're like, you know, you're a musician, Sean My wife plays the harp and she sings I'm like, oh, who's your wife?

49:43And you told me Joanna is And I downloaded her album And I was like, oh my God, this woman's amazing Like I fell in love with her right away Do you guys work on music stuff together? Do you check in with her? How does that work? um we don't work on music together because yeah i yeah mine's pretend and hers is arguably amongst the best ever yeah in my opinion she's tell me about her what what is it did she's did she play in a innocent in an orchestra no no her name's joanna newsom she's a singer-songwriter who plays harp and piano and sings at the same time yeah jay you would love she's so great good i'm such a fan you know i'm a fan yes she's i mean we met because i was at her concert with Fred and our friend Matt Murray because I was obsessed with her music.

50:31Is that true? Yeah. You, Fred, and the Panther. Yeah. Wait, who's the Panther? Our writer friend Matt Murray. I forget who dubbed him the Panther. Maybe like Spivey or someone? Somebody like that. Or Dratch possibly? That he would sit in the corner quietly and then... Yeah, when somebody goes like, oh, that's the Panther. You're like, that's the Panther? But because he would lay in the cut and wait and then strike with his joke that would kill everybody after you weren't expecting it. So you're at Jolana's concert, and you wiggle your way backstage as a creepy fan, and somehow get her your number?

51:12No, we just met and hung out all together that night, just friendly style. But Fred had met her and her friends at a music festival that he had been at, I guess, in the summer previous. And it just worked out. Like, I had been listening to her albums for years and been to her show before even. But when I met her, it turned out she and her siblings had watched Lonely Island stuff. So it was very comfortable and not as creepy as I was. I love that. And then you fell in love and you made babies and here we are. Whoa, whoa, whoa. You don't want to talk about the lovely stuff, Sean. How they make babies?

51:50You want to talk about, hey, did anybody ever forget a line during a live taping? of, tell me, could you ever not read? Oh, you know, I love that. Could you ever not read the cards, Andy? I love those stories. Did someone ever get in your way between you and the cards? You know, I love that. If you have a biggest flub SNL story, I live for them. But if you don't, that's fine. I mean, I do have one, but it's not that crazy. No. Okay, well, what is it? I was standing underneath the main part of the bleachers, like the main walk that you do towards the main stage, and Seinfeld was on. I think he did really with Seth on update.

52:32And he stopped and started talking to me, and I was like, holy shit. So we were just chatting, and I was like, oh, yeah, Seinfeld. And I was like, yeah, this and that. And then I was like, I looked up at, you know, they have monitors all backstage showing you what's airing. And I just like casually look up and I'm like, oh, I'm in this sketch. And it just started. Oh, my God. No way. I was like, I'm so sorry. And just like took off running. And it was a courtroom sketch. I missed getting on before it started. They stopped me and said, no, because I was going to try and run on. totally by fortune's fucking hell.

53:17Who knows? I had had one line at the top of the sketch and they had cut it between dress and air and no one had told me. So I actually didn't screw up the sketch, but I did have my nightmare that I had had every week that time working there and still now have where I'm backstage and I can't find the set. I can't find stage and I'm in a sketch and I can't get there and I see it on the monitor and it actually happened. But I got very lucky. Actors Nightmare. I love those stories. Wait, now, Palm Springs is one of my favorite movies. I love that movie. When I saw it come out, I was like, oh, Andy's in a gay film and then it wasn't gay at all.

53:56Another one? Bennett Barbacow's brother. So, as you know, Bennett, who is part of our team, Bennett Say Hi, it's his brother directed, as you know. Yes, I do. Love that movie. Loved you in it. So good. I love that movie. Andy, that movie is so good. And I tell anybody, it's one of my favorite films in the last 10 years. It needs more attention, so unheralded. You're so funny and profoundly good and kind of sad. Like, it's the perfect blend of, I just love that movie. Thank you. I love it, too. Any truth to the sequel rumors, Palm Desert? Nope. Death Valley. It's Palmdale. Palmdale. Indian Wells.

54:34Andy, you have a new podcast with Seth Meyers It's called The Lonely Island, the Seth Meyers podcast, right? That's right. And how did it start? Are you excited? Is it started? Tell us everything. Well, me and Keev and Yorm forever, especially during COVID, and we didn't jump on it like you smart guys, we're like, we should do one. It'll make it that we get to see each other and talk all the time. We should do one where we talk about the digital shorts, and every episode can be a digital short and what was going on in our lives and at SNL that week when we did the digital short. and then because we're us, we kind of just let it drift and then Seth called us and was like, hey, I just had an idea.

55:13How would you guys feel about doing a podcast where every episode is about one of the digital shorts and what was going on at the show that week and I'll host it and my team will organize it and you guys just show up and do it. And I'll take half. Yeah. Yeah. Right. And he'll take, yeah. He's got his good 80%. But I mean, he's late night. No, but it's late night. He's a good guy. Like when other people aren't around, he's nice to me. I love that. Wow, we got to check it out. That's so fun. So that's coming on soon. What's it called? The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast. Yeah. We debated that name.

55:49Yeah, I see why. Why? Because it rolls off the... Sure. It's taking you a while to get that one. Sounds like a huge argument happens. Why would you stick with that? The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast. What is your favorite, Andy? I know it's hard, but what's your favorite digital shorts? that you guys did. When it's all said and done. I love the boat one on the boat. Thank you. Yeah. I'm on a boat, I think, is the biggest selling song we ever did. Is it really? Yeah. I'm on a boat. What's your personal favorite? Double platinum or something stupid? That's incredible. My favorite, if I had to just pick one out of thin air, probably Jack Sparrow with Michael Bolton.

56:28Yes. Sure. And the reason I would give, and we do generally say this one, And the reason is because it's sort of a confluence of all the ones. So it's like people who really love comedy ride for it. Like I've been told that like writer's rooms have watched it all together and enjoyed it, which is the highest compliment. And then also it sounds pretty good and the video is big and slick and it feels like big business, which is something else that we were able to pull off for a while. It does feel like big business. I would say my favorite personally of the digital short and I'm a as you know I'm a massive fan of them all and I embarrass you all the time because I just tell you all the time how much I love the but Dear Sister oh nice Dear Sister for me scratches an itch because it just keeps going and then but it's got a real story to it it's amazing I love a non-musical one too I mean I guess it is still music it's still kind of musical it's not your original music but it's musical, but there's something about it.

57:32Yeah. Dear Sister was an idea that we had started shooting before we got SNL. Oh, wow. Yeah, me and Yorm, I think, and my friend Chester, Chester Tam. Because it's originally based on this moment from the end of an episode of that show, The O.C., which we loved. Of course. Where the character, Marissa, you know, shoots someone and it cranks into slow-mo and that song comes on and it's those slow-mo shots in everyone's face being shocked that it's happened and like someone falls out of frame and you're like, oh my God, what just happened? It's a slow reveal. And I remember us being like, that was fucking good TV and what is that song?

58:14So then I was like, you know, what do we do? We do the same thing over and over again and then make it go faster and faster. So we started doing it but never even finished it. And then I love that that is one that you like, Will, because for us that week, it was like out of desperation, we said, oh, man, let's just try that and then we'll just write an ending for it. And we wrote like way more and actually ended up like... Well, the cast, first of all, the cast, if you look at it on paper, is insane. So it's you and it's Shia LaBeouf and it's Wig and Sudeikis and Fred and Hader. Like it's a freaking murderer's row of cast.

58:56I loved our cast yeah it was really fun to get to work with that group yeah I did too and you know what Andy I have to say how you looked forward to Saturday Night Live as a kid I looked forward to your digital shorts watching Saturday Night Live in the same way yeah me too every single week and now it continues to other things like when I saw you in Palm Springs I was like oh my god another movie that Andy's doing I just can't get enough of it so this has been life affirming frankly I wasn't expecting it to be this nice. It's true. It's true. And it's totally true that you are one of, you truly are one of the good guys because you're A, supernaturally funny.

59:37You can't help it. You have no choice. And B, you're very generous and you're very sweet. And any success and all the success you have had and will continue to have, you have completely earned it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's no hiding what you, anyway, so it's just awesome. I'm just psyched. I just think you're a great dude. And we're so grateful you came today. So thank you for coming on our little show. Likewise. Guys, we're industry staples. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. We're not going anywhere. We did it. We did it. We did it. Game over. But also with that, the caveat being, you know, your next bomb, I'm going to be the first there to say you bombed.

1:00:18Well, guess what? We didn't talk about the box office on Hot Rod. We just skimmed right past that. Oh, we didn't talk about that. Yeah, that's true. You know when you set out to make a cult classic On a studio's dime It's because I was in it I'm box office poison Not true Andy thank you my friend Thanks for being here we appreciate it You're the greatest Let's just be friends now and hang out It's done You can't shake me now I'll put you guys in touch Please do And Sean love you Bye guys I mean, when I say guys, I mean... See you, bud.

1:01:01Baba buoy. Fa-fa-foo-hai. Fa-fa-flu-fly. Wait, what's Baba buoy? Bui. Gary Dillabate from Howard Stern. Oh, yeah, Baba buoy, that's right. Baba buoy. Fa-fa-foo-hai. Keep it real up in the field, aye? I would love to. I would love to. I would love to. So, guys, that was Andy Samberg. Yes, he was fantastic. He's the greatest. The greatest. Created his own lane. And he's my new friend. Yeah. He's your new friend. Yeah, no, he's... No, he doesn't... Yeah, he's stuck with me now. He doesn't realize it yet, but it's going to be a problem for him. He's the real deal. And as I said, again, at risk of embarrassing him, he is such a good guy and he totally deserves it.

1:01:46He's just one of the good dudes. Oh. For sure. And everybody agrees, everybody can agree that everybody loves Andy Samberg. Yeah. That's a good name for his TV show. Everybody loves Andy. Everybody can agree, and everybody agrees, that everybody loves Andy Sandberg. There you go. That's a good tune. There you go. Yeah, he's extra special. I love everything he does. Always good in everything he does. Good guest. And I'm excited to hear their new podcast that those guys are doing with Seth because I love hearing how they put together each one of those digital shorts. I love that it was last minute they needed something.

1:02:22Yes, I love all that stuff. Right? I love that stuff. And I think for the Lonely Island guys, they created this brand and this company and this thing that's really awesome and cool and stays like real smart and real funny always. No, I have nothing. But if I did have something, it would be... It would go like this. It would go... It would reference Howard Stern and I would say something like, Bye-bye, booey. Booey. Bye-bye, booey. Bye-bye, Billy. Close enough. Smart. Less.

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