Ranking SNL Digital Shorts (Part One)

[00:00:06] [SPEAKER_05]: It's the Ten to One Podcast with your host Brad Omen

[00:00:12] [SPEAKER_05]: featuring Ben Conowitz and

[00:00:16] [SPEAKER_05]: Nate Laux and here's the podcast

[00:00:21] [SPEAKER_05]: Really recognize you guys it's been a long time. It's been too long. It's it's been a long time

[00:00:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Been a long time. You said you were gonna start to rap. Left you left you. Yeah for those who haven't

[00:00:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Don't know it personally you probably haven't heard that

[00:00:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Ben and Brad have really gotten into the rap season. So Brad's already went Ben go ahead do your rap

[00:00:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah boxes and dicks dicks and boxes boxes and dicks and ribbiter ribbiter rap

[00:00:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Tastic Blizzard man

[00:00:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's the ten to one guys and we're you know what we don't really have a new episode of Saturday Night Live to talk about

[00:00:55] [SPEAKER_02]: But what do we have to talk about and we're all are we doing this?

[00:00:58] [SPEAKER_04]: well

[00:00:58] [SPEAKER_04]: We're taking a little bit of a break from our our typical hiatus activity of

[00:01:02] [SPEAKER_04]: Checking in with the SNL movies of years past

[00:01:06] [SPEAKER_04]: We were gonna jump on the superstar bandwagon

[00:01:09] [SPEAKER_04]: But with a little bit of inspiration recently from another podcast the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast

[00:01:15] [SPEAKER_04]: We decided to dedicate some time to taking a look back at the era of SNL digital shorts all

[00:01:24] [SPEAKER_04]: 4722 of them there are just over a hundred

[00:01:29] [SPEAKER_04]: 110 officially I believe is the number

[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_04]: And we did have some discussion as far as like which ones were official because there are just just a handful that

[00:01:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Did not get broadcast with the SNL digital short introduction

[00:01:44] [SPEAKER_04]: But they were classified as digital shorts later when they were put online

[00:01:49] [SPEAKER_04]: We'll talk about one of those specific ones no one cares when we literally the people who are listening are the ones who care

[00:01:56] [SPEAKER_04]: And so we'll talk about that one when once we get into the conversation

[00:01:59] [SPEAKER_02]: This is a big hill for Brad to die on he really wanted to die

[00:02:02] [SPEAKER_02]: We almost broke up over this yeah

[00:02:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Well first of all this wasn't a hill for me to die on because Ben was the one who's having a hissy fit about how to classify things

[00:02:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but you were in a really really rough mood. So we all got together. We watched for 16 hours

[00:02:13] [SPEAKER_00]: We were in like like six you're in a really

[00:02:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Rough mood. Are you okay now? I wasn't even in a bad mood then

[00:02:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Brad opened his mouth though that

[00:02:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Right you were getting mad at but it's tough to face questions when you don't understand the answers and how to figure them out

[00:02:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Ben we get it

[00:02:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, have that

[00:02:32] [SPEAKER_04]: So

[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_04]: 110 digital shorts and what we're doing is we're gonna talk about every one of them

[00:02:39] [SPEAKER_04]: We're breaking them up into chunks. So what we've done for this episode if we've watched the first

[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_04]: 35 digital shorts and what era of SNL does this cover Nate?

[00:02:48] [SPEAKER_00]: So the whole entire era is 2005 through 2013, but we're only today going to talk about those are some that did come after

[00:02:56] [SPEAKER_04]: 2013 yeah, but but primarily yeah, right when the Lone the Island was on SNL

[00:03:01] [SPEAKER_00]: So this is a season 31 season 32 season 33 which covers

[00:03:06] [SPEAKER_00]: 2005 fall through spring of 2008

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and to remind you guys the SNL digital short era is something that is

[00:03:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Defined by the Lone of the Island and that's Andy Sandberg Akiva Schaefer and Yoramata Coney

[00:03:20] [SPEAKER_04]: those are the guys who created dick in a box and lazy Sunday would go on to make hot rod and pop star and

[00:03:27] [SPEAKER_04]: they they've been a comedy trio for a long time and

[00:03:31] [SPEAKER_04]: They came around at a time when digital filmmaking was on the rise

[00:03:36] [SPEAKER_04]: And this really was like a game changer for SNL and brought them back into the conversation of pop culture

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_04]: zeitgeist in a way that they really needed because like they had

[00:03:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Shorts that started going viral and they were doing them all the time

[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_04]: And it was easier to do them around this time because of the rise of digital cameras and whatnot

[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_04]: And so and you tube yeah, you'd you tube was a huge one with and lazy Sunday

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Kind of was a way that a lot of people started to discover YouTube and this was before sketches were officially available

[00:04:07] [SPEAKER_04]: Online the day after they aired and so people were uploading them illegally

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so that people could watch that was the things like they talk about that on the Lone the Island podcast

[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_02]: So it's like oh when we first started doing this people were just uploading them

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we weren't but people were uploading to the thing called YouTube and it was like what the hell

[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, like that we've got to do something about this like we not bad in a bad way

[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_02]: But like we need to start putting these out there

[00:04:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:04:29] [SPEAKER_04]: Now the Lone the Island didn't pioneer the idea of doing pre-recorded shorts on SNL Adam Adam

[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay was kind of one of the first ones who did stuff

[00:04:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Digitally and he did they did shorts with when different hosts and things like that were on

[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_04]: But this was the first time that the Lone on established the brand that became an SNL digital short and Brad as a

[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Like there's also even a deeper history with digital

[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_00]: media for SNL because

[00:04:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Actually when dick Ebersol took over he wanted to make a certain only all digital shorts like all pre-records anyway, you know right

[00:05:02] [SPEAKER_00]: And so which I think I like the hybrid right and the hybrid as they talk about

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_00]: There's a specific reason why Laura Michaels wants pre tapes and why he wants

[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Digital shorts like this because it's a practical or you do the live sketches

[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_00]: They have to set up the the sets. Yeah, and they have costume changes

[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And they have me so they need two three minutes or six minutes for a commercial break plus

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, yeah, they need that time to do that and so

[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_02]: You know what better way than to keep a laughs coming

[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so to to modernize this a little bit or to bring it to a more contemporary if you're only watching SNL more recently

[00:05:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I was looking it up. Please don't destroy is kind of the modern equivalent of the Lonely Island

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_00]: They've they've kind of taken over the digital shorts for

[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_04]: Mental the mantle. Yeah, well, I would say before that

[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_04]: I think Beck Bennett and Cal Mooney as as good neighbor

[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_04]: They were doing it for a while to a little bit

[00:06:00] [SPEAKER_04]: But I didn't they didn't get their own branding in the way that please don't destroy did but they were still doing

[00:06:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Always had that element. Yeah, but they were they were also regular sketch performers

[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Whereas sure please don't destroy is specifically only in the just like in a sense just like the Lonely Island

[00:06:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, yeah, because their writers and even Yoram were not but at least

[00:06:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Cast member right of course so that how three of them are different

[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_00]: How many because we've been doing this since they've been on the show, please don't destroy we've been doing this podcast

[00:06:31] [SPEAKER_00]: How many please don't destroy pre-recorded sketches? Do you think there are I'll say 28?

[00:06:37] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna say there are

[00:06:42] [SPEAKER_02]: 21

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Are 35

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_00]: That crazy that's how quickly these build up right how quickly these build up over three seasons

[00:06:51] [SPEAKER_00]: They've done 35 sketches a Lonely Island over seven to eight seasons. I forget how many it was

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_00]: They did a hundred like you said 110 roughly 105 somewhere in there, right? Yeah, it's it's it's 110. Yeah, so

[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_00]: such an essential form of comedy

[00:07:09] [SPEAKER_00]: presented by SNL and

[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but before we get into that we do want to do a little not it really even housekeeping for us

[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_02]: But housekeeping for SNL itself. There was some news that broke

[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_02]: over the summer break here

[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Colin Joest

[00:07:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Still on the show, but also not part of the Olympics anymore

[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_04]: No, I saw the the unfortunate surf reporting he was doing

[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh god

[00:07:35] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I'm sure he took to get like Colin Joest was hired by NBC to go to

[00:07:41] [SPEAKER_02]: The french french, french Polynesia to host these the olympic surfing

[00:07:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Competition he knows nothing about

[00:07:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it was just one and he broke his toe

[00:07:53] [SPEAKER_02]: No, he cut his foot on the reef. Oh, that's what I was surfing developed a staff infection

[00:07:57] [SPEAKER_02]: And so he had to leave that because of that. Oh, I didn't really

[00:08:00] [SPEAKER_00]: There was a report he had like multiple infections for different things

[00:08:04] [SPEAKER_02]: They he was literally getting sick and so, uh, you know the guy that took over was a weatherman from australia that knows a lot about surfing

[00:08:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, and so he was like I I didn't understand who why they would have this joast guy who that's not how he talks come on

[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Tom Hardy

[00:08:19] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why this bloke would come over and want to do this

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_01]: But instead we got we're all weathered. We've all been surfing. You right and then you got is perfect

[00:08:27] [SPEAKER_01]: He's absolutely perfect. There we go. No, no, that's about best. Yep. So

[00:08:32] [SPEAKER_02]: That is what he said. He was the we're all weathered and he's perfect

[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's why he didn't fit in if you can go on x or on youtube or i'm sure it's called twitter

[00:08:40] [SPEAKER_04]: We'll never call it x. We're not giving any satisfaction to elon musk that piece of shit. He can fuck himself

[00:08:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Whoa

[00:08:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Wherever you videos are found find some of the ones that collin joseph's doing their hilarious. It's hilarious in the in the

[00:08:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Is it on x hamster?

[00:08:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Probably maybe uh, so anyway beyond that though, uh molly, uh, karny and uh, and also punky johnson

[00:09:00] [SPEAKER_04]: No longer with the show both have been confirmed to leave the show

[00:09:04] [SPEAKER_04]: punky johnson's came as a bit of a surprise that she

[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_04]: Announced kind of unceremoniously during a comedy show in brooklyn when there was a q&a portion from the audience

[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_04]: And uh, it seemed like she was maybe a little more forthcoming and honest about her time at s&l during that show

[00:09:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Because some of the audience members uh talked about some of the things that she had mentioned

[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Saying that like, you know, she had maybe had been feeling miserable and that they might have asked her to tone down

[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Getting buff and getting rid of her dreads, which you know, that's kind of something you do hear about at s&l

[00:09:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Is like they want you to fit into a certain mold and like kind of

[00:09:36] [SPEAKER_04]: You know shape your image and that kind of thing and then molly karny announced that they were leaving the show

[00:09:42] [SPEAKER_04]: Either the day or a couple days later on instagram, uh, they made the announcement and just said that they were very, you know

[00:09:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Grateful for their time and I had a great time on the show

[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm leaving with great memories and there was some really cool pictures

[00:09:54] [SPEAKER_04]: She they posted on instagram too because there was one with uh, uh,

[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_04]: iowa debori on a school bus set with a green screen behind them and that was a sketch

[00:10:03] [SPEAKER_02]: We did not get to see that's awesome

[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, so thoughts I was a little shocked that molly is leaving

[00:10:11] [SPEAKER_00]: It's only been two years two seasons. Yeah, I wouldn't say shocked

[00:10:14] [SPEAKER_04]: I would because molly has not necessarily like had a big

[00:10:18] [SPEAKER_04]: Shining debut moment. They don't have any memorable characters under their belt similar to punky johnson

[00:10:24] [SPEAKER_04]: They have had moments to shine both of them have um, but I feel like

[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_04]: They weren't necessarily like fitting in as easily as like marcello or michael longfellow

[00:10:36] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, they've done a pretty good job so far. But then that brings up the fourth newcomer to the show, uh as of late

[00:10:43] [SPEAKER_02]: devon walker

[00:10:43] [SPEAKER_02]: And brad and I had the opportunity to see uh, james austin johnson

[00:10:47] [SPEAKER_02]: And andrew dismukes and devon walker do stand-up comedy in chicago about a month ago

[00:10:52] [SPEAKER_02]: and devon

[00:10:54] [SPEAKER_02]: And andrew and james did a q&a as you do at the end of the show and they're asking

[00:10:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, do you have any questions about snl? And so a lot of people got to ask a bunch of stuff

[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_04]: But but actually during devon set was when you talked about snl

[00:11:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Unprompted he didn't need to be asked the question of his act. Yeah, how do you like snl?

[00:11:12] [SPEAKER_02]: He was very forthcoming saying well, it'd be a lot easier if I was white

[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean he said those words. Yeah, so I think that there's a lot of tension there

[00:11:19] [SPEAKER_02]: I think he's sad. I think he's not very happy with how it's going

[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_02]: He just and these are all his words saying like he's just not happy

[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_02]: The vibe was very much like I fucking hate it there

[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_02]: So I I could see him dropping out pretty quickly here too if that's what he's willing to say that on stage

[00:11:34] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean the writing is kind of on the wall. I mean there's been other

[00:11:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Performers of color that have not enjoyed chris rock famously did not enjoy being on snl

[00:11:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, do you think this is an ongoing issue that they're going through? I mean, right? You have the first

[00:11:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Non-binary cast member and you have the first openly queer black woman. Yeah, and then if devon walker however

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Saying that those three cast members if we include devon walker in there have really not found their foothold on snl

[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_00]: yet

[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_04]: No, and it's no secret that snl is not like this like

[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_04]: You know haven't for diverse comedy, you know

[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_04]: Like you see a lot of big successful white people come out of that show

[00:12:14] [SPEAKER_04]: And it's not anything that it's geared towards

[00:12:17] [SPEAKER_04]: You know a lot of diverse audiences either like there was a whole push for them to actually get more black people on

[00:12:23] [SPEAKER_04]: The show and it wasn't that long ago that they had to do that, you know

[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_04]: So and it's not a singular experience for the few black cast members on the show to have a difficult time

[00:12:32] [SPEAKER_04]: Getting stuff on the air because they're not leaning into black humor or stuff that involves black characters

[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Or even black people in like that are in headlines and pop culture and whatnot

[00:12:41] [SPEAKER_04]: So a lot of times it feels like they're there as like a token black person

[00:12:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Be like oh when we need somebody who passed to play a black person in real life

[00:12:49] [SPEAKER_04]: That's you know already in the sketch right exactly, you know

[00:12:52] [SPEAKER_04]: Um and so yeah, so it's it's frustrating because that is one of the the many pitfalls of snl when it's it's such a

[00:12:59] [SPEAKER_04]: This supposed to be this big show that's supposed to be big and crowd-pleasing

[00:13:02] [SPEAKER_04]: And you have you know someone like lord michael's who has been running it like this well oil machine for a long time

[00:13:07] [SPEAKER_04]: But it sucks that you have a diverse, you know

[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Group of people who get pushed by the wayside because they don't fit

[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_04]: What they want to see in a cast, you know on a show like this

[00:13:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Devin walker also in that uh

[00:13:19] [SPEAKER_02]: In that time that he was talking about saturday night live

[00:13:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Talked about like not meeting your heroes as he talked about how uh, chris rock probably deserved to get slapped in the face

[00:13:27] [SPEAKER_02]: And it was like oh he was like he was not pulling any punches, man

[00:13:30] [SPEAKER_04]: I think what he said was he was like, uh, he was like

[00:13:32] [SPEAKER_04]: He's like oh, yeah, why would one of the biggest movie stars in the world want to slap you?

[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's why oh, that's why it's your personality. It's who you are as a person

[00:13:39] [SPEAKER_02]: So ho devin taking some shots like okay. This is crazy

[00:13:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, but I mean hey good for his honesty like I love hearing it

[00:13:45] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't I don't know that the bosses at s and l are gonna love to hear that obviously because

[00:13:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Chris rock is an icon at that show

[00:13:50] [SPEAKER_02]: So again, the fact that he's willing to say all this stuff probably says a lot about

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_02]: He doesn't really give a shit if he's not on the show anymore. Yeah, I think that's probably safe to say

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, but uh, the show was hilarious. They were all fantastic

[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Just mues has probably the most polished set of the three of them. He was very very funny

[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_02]: I think that's was probably working out some stuff

[00:14:09] [SPEAKER_04]: I've yeah, I think that's because I actually saw him last year

[00:14:12] [SPEAKER_04]: You saw James Wilson Johnson. Yeah at the same

[00:14:15] [SPEAKER_04]: At the same venue and he had he had a full polish that's actually what ran him did kiss after the show 100%

[00:14:20] [SPEAKER_02]: They were like James was like brad. How have you been brother? And then it was a full open mouth kiss

[00:14:27] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, not shocking. Uh, ben did tell them about the podcast which was extremely embarrassing. Yeah

[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_04]: Why are we embarrassed? Why are we embarrassed? Are you embarrassed of what we do?

[00:14:35] [SPEAKER_04]: You know, I'm sure the one thing that the stars of Saturday Night Live love to hear is the when two

[00:14:41] [SPEAKER_04]: Chubby white guys have a podcast talking about what they do on the show. Yeah, I'm on this podcast

[00:14:47] [SPEAKER_02]: I specifically talked to you weren't there. I talked to Devon and I was like, hey

[00:14:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Brad and I were very white and we have a show where we talk about your performance on a weekly basis

[00:14:57] [SPEAKER_02]: That's how I phrased it. He didn't he didn't love it. No, but no all I said was like we've got a podcast

[00:15:02] [SPEAKER_02]: We're gonna I said we've got a dumb podcast

[00:15:03] [SPEAKER_04]: We we talk about Saturday Night Live and we love you and you can see James Austin's eyes glaze over and he fell asleep

[00:15:08] [SPEAKER_02]: He literally asked the question he goes how long have you been doing that? He did he was he was very sweet about it

[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_02]: James

[00:15:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome. Thanks for listening. Honestly and Andrew and Devon can call you Jimmy

[00:15:18] [SPEAKER_02]: They were great. No, honestly, they were they were very affable and very humble and you know, we bought a hat

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_02]: They signed the hat that they're just nice guys. They're just in the in the uh, uh

[00:15:27] [SPEAKER_02]: In the lobby of the theater that they had just performed at you know

[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Shaking hands and taking photos and being who you would hope they would be

[00:15:34] [SPEAKER_02]: It was very very nice to see that they were not presumptuous or or weird about it at all

[00:15:38] [SPEAKER_00]: I looked up James Austin Johnson's IMDP not too long ago and he's getting a lot of work now

[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean not leading work, right? But he's getting a lot of like character acting type of work and

[00:15:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, it feels like his star is slowly but certainly rising in Hollywood as well. Yes 100

[00:15:56] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, so yeah, we're waiting to see what else happens before season 50 of s and l begins in late

[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_04]: To September expect anybody else to leave the only other person I would I would agree with ben is that devon walker

[00:16:08] [SPEAKER_04]: I could see him leaving before the show begins, but I think that's probably about it

[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Anybody else would not be their choice to leave

[00:16:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's holding on do you think I want to be part of the 50th. Do you think of the two that left?

[00:16:18] [SPEAKER_04]: It was their choice to leave. It's molly seems like they they may be left of their own volition

[00:16:24] [SPEAKER_04]: punky

[00:16:25] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know

[00:16:25] [SPEAKER_02]: I guess punky too because like if if she was hungry was miserable and probably wanted I think molly probably

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_02]: More likely was was let go

[00:16:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Maybe

[00:16:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Could go either way

[00:16:36] [SPEAKER_00]: This is based on just nothing six or one half doesn't the other

[00:16:38] [SPEAKER_00]: To bring this back to the lonely island in their podcast

[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_00]: They talk about the benefits of having a small cast that it's better to have a small cast

[00:16:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh for sure. I mean because the performers like it better you get more stuff

[00:16:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Get better you get better at your craft

[00:16:52] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry, but the writers have to like it too because it's gotta be so hard to be like

[00:16:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, because there are logistics here

[00:16:58] [SPEAKER_02]: The writers might come up with you know seven sketches that are all

[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Two-person sketches that are fantastic and you know that the producers are really we can't have that this week

[00:17:08] [SPEAKER_02]: You've got to include more people write sketches with that feature more players like they're not gonna just

[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_02]: There are parameters that that they have to fit into I guarantee you

[00:17:15] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know. I wonder because like I feel like it would the best thing would be just go with what's you know

[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_04]: Funniest and if it's just two people and that's just the breaks, you know, especially when you're doing a live show

[00:17:24] [SPEAKER_04]: Where it changes every week so season

[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_00]: 32

[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_00]: SNL roster for the cast four people no, but listen to this

[00:17:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Fred armisen will forte bill hater

[00:17:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Daryl Hammond seth mires amy polar my root off andy sandberg jason sudakis keenan thompson and christin wigg

[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean those are legitimately all hall of famers all of them every single one of that cast is a top 50 almost all of them

[00:17:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Right. Oh, it's just amazing crazy. So that was their cast no other people

[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Look at that cast and drop somebody like who do you even try to pick the drop the daryl hammond?

[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe and that's just because he he was so old no honestly more of a holdover from a different cast

[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Of course, um, but other than that my god, what a hell of a holdover in like like three

[00:18:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Seriously, what a who's who you know, that's crazy. But that is an amazing

[00:18:13] [SPEAKER_00]: That's an elite cast so and they talk a little bit about why they love that cast and why it was such a gift

[00:18:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Because it was so small but also so talented. Yeah. No, no

[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's that's crazy that that talent. All right, so let's get into it

[00:18:26] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, uh, you want to talk about some of the some of the bottom feeders first because I yeah

[00:18:31] [SPEAKER_02]: We obviously watched all we watched 30 what 35 of these I think

[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh and 35 and I wrote them down on on physical piece of paper of a physical analog piece of paper

[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Nate and I are doing this like adults on our uh tablets and computers and phones

[00:18:44] [SPEAKER_02]: This is my my piece of paper that I have I so many scratches

[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, he's like scratching it looks like a child was making a grocery list and then like I had to put arrows to like

[00:18:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Fit some zen and but not but I've got a top 10

[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_04]: You know, I do too and I don't have a piece of paper that makes me look like a serial killer

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's it's the blood stains. Is that who's getting you know what never mind

[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, so yeah, we I mean there were so many of these that were obviously just forgotten forgettable and or forgotten

[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_02]: And you watch it go. Oh wow that is harpoon man. Oh that was whether any of these that you hadn't seen

[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I mean probably probably at least I don't remember seeing yeah

[00:19:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, actually no, I think I've seen them all. Oh, I I had no memory of the best look in the world

[00:19:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Which is towards the bottom of oh that was a bad one

[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_04]: That was a bad one. Yeah, that's one of the the bad musical

[00:19:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, my last one on the list is nurse Nancy and I did not remember that one

[00:19:39] [SPEAKER_02]: No, I didn't that was a that was the takeoff of the clumps where andy sandberg played

[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_02]: All of the characters and that was my least favorite. It was not your least favorite, but

[00:19:49] [SPEAKER_04]: No, I like I like the I like to conceptually especially because at the time it was not

[00:19:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Like a tired joke like, you know, Tropic Thunder hadn't come out yet

[00:19:57] [SPEAKER_04]: They they hadn't done anything that was like riffing on

[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_04]: You know Eddie Murphy doing multiple characters

[00:20:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm probably just looking at it through the lens of 2024 where it's a little dated and who cares. Yeah, um cares

[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_04]: But like it's and uh the idea actually uh came from uh, I think it was

[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Did they say no, no who was it somebody else? I think it was somebody else's idea for this one though

[00:20:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, cool shut up ugly

[00:20:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, we're a couple more than I didn't remember brian diaries

[00:20:27] [SPEAKER_02]: They follow they followed around brian williams nbc reporting

[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_04]: Or a reporter. Yeah, I like it. I think it's pretty good

[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_04]: It's okay. It's not in the bottom. It's in the bottom. Yeah, it's not among the best

[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I mean it's definitely in in my my bottom 10 as well, but I don't think it's bad

[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Dackery girl. I didn't remember. Dackery girl is definitely uh pretty close to the bottom for me

[00:20:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Yep, that was a pretty pretty terrible one where they're just singing about a girl

[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Dackery girl. Well, it was kind of like that actually and was that the one that um,

[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_00]: They actually had another one planned and it fell through and they had who was it that uh,

[00:21:04] [SPEAKER_02]: They talked about they had they had an a-lister that dropped out. Yeah, and they name them

[00:21:08] [SPEAKER_02]: I I forget but I see I didn't know if that was the joke or not

[00:21:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Where they named who it was and they were like, yeah, narles barkley, right?

[00:21:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, for gnarles gnarles barkley wouldn't do it that seems like they wouldn't actually

[00:21:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Call them out like that just seems maybe why not

[00:21:22] [SPEAKER_00]: gnarles barkley the description of that one is

[00:21:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Andy samba appears in an amateur early 90s music video about a girl who loves to drink daiquiris

[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Meanwhile tech scrolls up the screen explaining that the producers apologize for airing the video

[00:21:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Because a certain musical guest played by gnarles barkley

[00:21:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Failed to appear for the shooting of a digital short despite an agreement to do otherwise

[00:21:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I I like to believe that that actually is true. I mean, hopefully that that is

[00:21:47] [SPEAKER_01]: I hope it's true

[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_04]: um

[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_04]: Two two they're kind of similar as far as like their

[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_04]: Symbol premise and like I think that they're entertaining to a point

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_04]: But they're just so simple and forgettable that

[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_04]: I couldn't help but put them towards the bottom and that's andy walking and andy popping into frame

[00:22:04] [SPEAKER_04]: And these are both ones that kind of came along at a time when they were tired from working on hot rod

[00:22:09] [SPEAKER_04]: They talk about this on the podcast

[00:22:11] [SPEAKER_04]: And so it's just like one of those last minute ideas that they do and it's cute. It's fine. It's fine

[00:22:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Andy walking is literally the last uh

[00:22:19] [SPEAKER_00]: The last sketch the last episode of season 31 and they were just burnt. They were done

[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_02]: They talked about one of the more interesting ones that's not very good necessarily

[00:22:29] [SPEAKER_02]: But I love the swing that they take

[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Is my testicles. Yeah, I I don't think my testicles is great. It's not rotten. It's bad. It's bad

[00:22:38] [SPEAKER_04]: It's bad though. It's not horrible. Yeah, because I think I think it gets a boost just like the word testicle

[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, it's funny. It gets a boost from seeing tom hanks dressed as right said fred basically

[00:22:49] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, this euro pop. Yeah, right said fred kind of character. Please don't cut my testicles

[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and the explanation that like two men had very

[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Strange and horrible traumatic experiences with their testicles. I don't know it was it's really out there

[00:23:05] [SPEAKER_02]: But it's a huge swing and it doesn't really connect

[00:23:07] [SPEAKER_02]: But it doesn't fully horribly should the bed miss. I mean that was pretty low. That was number 30 on mine

[00:23:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Where where was it on yours brad?

[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Where is it at? Uh 27. Oh, okay. Yeah, so it's still pretty low in yours. That's lower

[00:23:20] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I so I have one that's pretty low and I think Nate you remember saying that

[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_04]: I remember you saying that it was pretty low on yours, but this is one of ben's favorites and

[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_04]: For me I ran so far. Oh, fuck you. It's one of my is that 24 for me. No way

[00:23:35] [SPEAKER_00]: It's so good. Where's I ran so far away for you, Nate? Oh, no, that's 12 for me. It's not top 10 though

[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_00]: It's top 10 for you, right? It's top five for me. Yeah, I love that

[00:23:44] [SPEAKER_00]: No, if I remember right we we kind of balanced it it was middle for me. It was yeah high

[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_04]: Why do you think that's bad? No, no, I don't think it's bad

[00:23:52] [SPEAKER_04]: I just don't think it's nearly as great as you do

[00:23:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, because I think seeing fred armisen like the song itself is so good. Like it's a good song is okay

[00:24:01] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a good song. It's very catchy and seeing fred armisen as

[00:24:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh mak mood. I'm a did I'm a denigade and with the shadow with jake jillenhall and the the piano in new york

[00:24:11] [SPEAKER_02]: And all that stuff. I really it has elements that are amusing

[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_04]: But like compared to the other musical stuff they've done. I just was not

[00:24:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, whatever. It's okay. You can be wrong. That's fine

[00:24:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh

[00:24:24] [SPEAKER_04]: So you had you have peyote and lettuce ahead of that

[00:24:27] [SPEAKER_04]: No, peyote is not ahead of it peyote peyote is too lower peyote is 35 for me. It's the worst one

[00:24:34] [SPEAKER_02]: So it's not the worst one lettuce is even though it's a simple premise of a man talking in a microphone

[00:24:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Or a megaphone at somebody else and you think they're far apart and he's gonna jump

[00:24:42] [SPEAKER_02]: They end up being six inches from each other's face, but it's one

[00:24:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so you have it. It's a one joke and it's one no joke, but it's at least a joke

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's quick and it's a great reveal

[00:24:53] [SPEAKER_00]: But what's your last one? What's your 35 nurse? Nancy?

[00:24:57] [SPEAKER_02]: And then pep talk pep talk was right there. Dackery girl is my bottom

[00:25:02] [SPEAKER_02]: pep talk was the one with uh, they were at uh fred armisen just like

[00:25:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Two seconds. I'm over there and I'm punching in the face. Yeah. Yeah, that was a terrible one

[00:25:11] [SPEAKER_02]: I have that 28. That's pretty low pretty low. It's at 32 for me

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, so like so that's the bad stuff. Let's let's talk about the middle stuff. Maybe maybe starting around like, uh

[00:25:21] [SPEAKER_04]: Let's say like 20 up through through 10. All right

[00:25:25] [SPEAKER_00]: That for me is uh, young trick norris is number 20 for me. Young trick norris is 20 for me as well

[00:25:30] [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's I can't count, but it's probably around 20 for me as well

[00:25:34] [SPEAKER_04]: You just showed us not to number yours

[00:25:35] [SPEAKER_04]: I will say so maybe you should do that because we do have a top 10

[00:25:39] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I have the top 10 idiot but young trick norris though. I will say this

[00:25:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I do I do love that song that song that's a fun

[00:25:45] [SPEAKER_04]: It's number 20 exactly punch denny kick denny kick denny punch

[00:25:50] [SPEAKER_04]: Is number 20 exactly? Oh perfect. That's probably the only one we all have harmoniously together except for number one probably

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, we'll get there. Don't calm down reel your penis in

[00:25:59] [SPEAKER_04]: um

[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_04]: How about uh

[00:26:01] [SPEAKER_04]: What did you guys think of body fusion? I had that I had that lower like like uh worse. Yeah, I have 23

[00:26:08] [SPEAKER_04]: 23

[00:26:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, mine was 22. No, it's not body fusion is just a uh, Jane fonda ripoff

[00:26:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, which is fine. First of all not a ripoff. It's a parody. Sorry parody. You know what I mean

[00:26:19] [SPEAKER_00]: But I don't know if you know, but it's it's not it's just there's not really a lot of escalation

[00:26:22] [SPEAKER_00]: The way we're supposed to do this is we're supposed to rate funny sketches higher

[00:26:25] [SPEAKER_04]: There is some escalation

[00:26:27] [SPEAKER_04]: For sure and also I I actually really like the production value here because they really did a phenomenal job of making it feel

[00:26:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Like an actual vhs tape

[00:26:35] [SPEAKER_04]: What was it? You were number three? Well, like what ladies, you know, this is my number one

[00:26:39] [SPEAKER_04]: No, but I have body fusion at 16. I think body fusion is pretty great. That's fine. No 16 for me is the shooting

[00:26:46] [SPEAKER_04]: I have the shooting is that low. Oh dear sister is way

[00:26:49] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, what the fuck's wrong with you?

[00:26:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Nate you're a broken man five get out of here

[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_02]: The mirror is right next to body fusion for me where it's andy sandberg

[00:26:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh dressed as like a ghost and it's uh, who's the host? Elliott page

[00:27:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, yeah, Elliott page was the host and kept seeing andy sandberg in the mirror

[00:27:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, but then andy sandberg sees Elliott page in the mirror and they wake up together and it's weird. They keep waking up

[00:27:12] [SPEAKER_02]: It's fine. That's the definition of like middle of the road for me

[00:27:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think I would agree with that and then they had one bill hater and andy sabre played two grandkids that are

[00:27:21] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh edited into movies for grandpa. Yeah, grandkids in the movies is right in the middle for me to 15

[00:27:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And then I think there's some where's grandpa in the grandkids of the movies is number 22 for me

[00:27:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay, yeah, there's some really fun bits in the grandkids one. Yeah. It was a little too long

[00:27:35] [SPEAKER_02]: I think yeah, yep. It just kept going uh, then I had r-roy rules

[00:27:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Around there a little that's 18 for me. Yeah

[00:27:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Roy rules. I love it. Yeah for it's for the up for you further down. Oh, no, I loved row 22. Oh, it was good

[00:27:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay

[00:27:52] [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't have a brother-in-law

[00:27:53] [SPEAKER_04]: That's fair. I do want to tell you too. So if you if you haven't seen

[00:27:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Some of these digital shorts

[00:28:00] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh

[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_04]: YouTube is where you can find like 90 percent of them. There are some that aren't available

[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_04]: Easily on youtube because of music rights like snl hasn't uploaded them officially. However in this case

[00:28:12] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh tick tock is your friend if you do a google search because they don't give a shit along with tick tock

[00:28:17] [SPEAKER_04]: You can definitely find

[00:28:19] [SPEAKER_04]: A lot of those sketches there, but there's also

[00:28:22] [SPEAKER_04]: An an asian website that I found that has a lot of great

[00:28:26] [SPEAKER_04]: We don't need to know about the asian billy billy billy. It's called, uh, that's with an i

[00:28:32] [SPEAKER_04]: bi

[00:28:34] [SPEAKER_04]: li

[00:28:34] [SPEAKER_04]: bi li dot com they have a bunch of snl

[00:28:38] [SPEAKER_04]: sketches that aren't easily available online

[00:28:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Without jumping directly into the top 10 here. What are your like cusp?

[00:28:47] [SPEAKER_00]: What are your honorable mentions just right outside your top 10 one of the ones I think is close to the top 10 that was not in

[00:28:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Your close to the top 10 that I loved was close talkers

[00:28:57] [SPEAKER_04]: I've got close talkers at like 13 for me. Oh close talkers. Yeah drop close talkers went further down for me

[00:29:03] [SPEAKER_02]: So that is steve martin and will fort a it was very will fort a talking directly into each other's mouths like

[00:29:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Like not even an inch away, but in normal voices. Yeah, like it's really good to see you

[00:29:15] [SPEAKER_02]: It's really good to see you too

[00:29:17] [SPEAKER_02]: So it's a it's a very simple premise, but it's a very well executed sketch. It's just so uncomfortable to watch

[00:29:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I just think it's hilarious. So right on the cusp for me

[00:29:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh is laser cats 2

[00:29:29] [SPEAKER_04]: Laser cats 2 just barely missed the top 10. It's at number 11 laser cats 2 made my top 10 all all laser cats make top 10

[00:29:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Laser cats 2 didn't because it felt too similar to the original laser cats that didn't didn't deviate enough

[00:29:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no all of them are the same premise

[00:29:46] [SPEAKER_04]: But uh, but they but they do start to escalate and like they it changes like how they how they do it

[00:29:52] [SPEAKER_04]: And so like I think that they're but that one they was it was very much an easy repeat

[00:29:55] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh business meeting was pretty close at number 12. How'd you see I had that one way low way low

[00:30:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Yep, I had that in the 20s. No, I love the 21. Yeah, I love the randomness of business meeting

[00:30:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Japanese office was was was there like close to the top 10, but it's just a it's obviously a

[00:30:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Straight-up parody and so I I don't really give it as much credit for the

[00:30:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Creativeness right because it's not their original idea. It's just a parody

[00:30:23] [SPEAKER_02]: So maybe that's why I didn't crack my top 10. It's still very funny

[00:30:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, plus you have only seen maybe I don't know like four episodes of the office

[00:30:28] [SPEAKER_04]: I've seen two seasons of the office. I get it. Yeah, but you're kind of broken that way though

[00:30:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Hero story or hero song

[00:30:35] [SPEAKER_01]: That's right. That's right just outside just outside. Oh, okay

[00:30:38] [SPEAKER_04]: And then people getting punched I have people getting punched in the face just before eating at 14

[00:30:44] [SPEAKER_04]: That's a fun one that that's one of those ones where it's it's very silly

[00:30:47] [SPEAKER_04]: But there's a fun twist at the end and I think it works. Yeah, the other ones that are right there

[00:30:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh talking dog and doppelganger doppelganger. I have yeah talking to him a little bit lower

[00:30:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, 14 15 for me. All right. Well, let's let's let's get into it here

[00:31:02] [SPEAKER_00]: People are listening for our top 10. What's in your what's in your what's your number 10, mr. Brad

[00:31:06] [SPEAKER_00]: This is seasons 31 through 33 top 10. All right

[00:31:08] [SPEAKER_04]: So right now at yeah out of these first 35 snl digital shorts

[00:31:12] [SPEAKER_04]: My number 10 is the japanese office

[00:31:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Because I like the office and I think that the

[00:31:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Way they bring the show to life in japanese form is hilarious. Okay. All right. I don't have it in

[00:31:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Especially the interruption with the regis philbin tampon commercial. Yeah, I think it's hilarious. Yeah

[00:31:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Laser cats two for me. Oh

[00:31:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Interesting. Nate, what about you people getting punched just before eating me?

[00:31:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay, all right. All right number nine for me is hero song

[00:31:45] [SPEAKER_04]: And I was so wow

[00:31:47] [SPEAKER_04]: I was so delighted to refine this sketch because there was a time months ago where I texted

[00:31:53] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know if it was both of you or if it was just ben

[00:31:55] [SPEAKER_02]: I think it was me. We were trying to find yeah

[00:31:57] [SPEAKER_04]: All I had in my mind was a bit where somebody is just continually getting punched and

[00:32:03] [SPEAKER_04]: It holds on them getting punched like a letterman bit

[00:32:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Where it goes on for so long that it stops being funny and then becomes even more fun

[00:32:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and I initially thought that it was from a mr.

[00:32:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Tarkany yeah a different snl sketch where will ferro plays this tyrannical boss

[00:32:18] [SPEAKER_04]: And he ends up killing somebody with a trident and he just keeps

[00:32:21] [SPEAKER_04]: Stabbing the person with a trident and it goes on for a while pierce brazen was the host

[00:32:25] [SPEAKER_04]: And I was satisfied when I thought oh, yeah, this is probably and then I saw this and I was like, oh, this is it

[00:32:30] [SPEAKER_04]: This is the sketch

[00:32:32] [SPEAKER_04]: So if you haven't seen hero song, it's really good. Yeah, because the song is

[00:32:35] [SPEAKER_04]: It's hilarious and like it's so moody and like very batman forever like

[00:32:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, oh my god. The punching is just perfect. It's just keeps going

[00:32:45] [SPEAKER_02]: And then I had I had laser cats number one as my as my number nine

[00:32:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, oh wow brought laser cats down

[00:32:53] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay, laser cats. What's your number nine Nate?

[00:32:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh the japanese office for reasons that you've already said it's just really funny to me. Yeah ben

[00:33:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Cool, you don't know you don't even know anything about laughs number eight for me

[00:33:06] [SPEAKER_02]: is laser cats

[00:33:08] [SPEAKER_04]: Three three that's mine. That's mine interesting. Uh number eight for me is the shooting aka dear sister

[00:33:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Dear sister not high enough buddy. No, I love I love dear sister. What'd you say?

[00:33:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh

[00:33:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's a good one. It's good. It holds up it holds up. It's fine. Uh, Nate eight

[00:33:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Nate eight what do you got? Uh, great laser cat 3d

[00:33:45] [SPEAKER_04]: The laser cats bros

[00:33:47] [SPEAKER_04]: What's your number seven, Nate?

[00:33:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Andy's dad

[00:33:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh written by andy sandberg akiva shaver and jona hill

[00:33:55] [SPEAKER_04]: This is uh one that I had forgotten about and I forgot how good it was because of that

[00:34:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Also, my number seven. Yeah, this one is jona hill has a sits down with andy sandberg and has a serious conversation with him

[00:34:08] [SPEAKER_04]: Where he tells them this is this is funny chubby jona hill. Yeah, um that he's been dating

[00:34:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Andy's father played by

[00:34:16] [SPEAKER_00]: One of the kind of one of the writers

[00:34:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Who is it?

[00:34:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Jim Downey. Oh, yeah, that is Jim Downey

[00:34:20] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, and they full on make out full on kiss like two grown men should kiss if they're in love with one another

[00:34:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, so just knowing that these are two straight people that are acted the acting gay is

[00:34:35] [SPEAKER_02]: It's just so funny because of the awkwardness of well also because of the age difference between

[00:34:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And you're down in 35 years. Jona hill is just so maybe 40 years. He's so stinking funny in this. Oh gosh

[00:34:46] [SPEAKER_02]: It was good. Uh, all right. And then so what that that was all sorry. What was your number seven buddy?

[00:34:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Did you already say it? Yeah, andy's dad. We all have

[00:34:53] [SPEAKER_04]: Do I do it really? Yeah

[00:34:57] [SPEAKER_04]: Wow

[00:34:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Look at us just being friends and having similar

[00:35:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Number six for me so far away, which isn't very good. It's great. It's uh number six for me is natalie's rap

[00:35:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Whoa

[00:35:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Why do you hate natalie portman? She's because I like these other ones better years like these other ones better

[00:35:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh laser cats too is my number six. Uh, I put nurse nancy at number

[00:35:24] [SPEAKER_04]: No, laser cats 3d is my my number six

[00:35:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, okay

[00:35:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Here's here's where it's I think gonna get interesting number five for me lazy sunday

[00:35:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Whoa

[00:35:36] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay, mine's dear sister mine's laser cats the first laser cats

[00:35:41] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how I feel about this because I need to see what you guys are gonna do in the moving forward here. All right number four ben

[00:35:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Lazy sunday, oh, okay

[00:35:51] [SPEAKER_04]: My number four is united way. Oh

[00:35:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, that's cl. That's that's too far and so and this is this is the one that I mentioned earlier that that sparked a big argument

[00:36:01] [SPEAKER_04]: with Ben an argument we got

[00:36:03] [SPEAKER_04]: Because when this debuted it did not have the digital short label and

[00:36:08] [SPEAKER_04]: We were we mean just not a digital. Yeah, but exactly

[00:36:11] [SPEAKER_04]: But it felt like it captured the exact spirit of what digital shorts are

[00:36:15] [SPEAKER_04]: And when it when it was made available online, it does have the digital short label in front of it

[00:36:21] [SPEAKER_00]: They changed the rules, but Brad remind people what the lonely island has said is the rules for them

[00:36:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, so tip. So what they've talked about is basically their rules is that it needs to involve all three of them

[00:36:32] [SPEAKER_04]: In the making of it

[00:36:33] [SPEAKER_04]: What it doesn't mean that they all three need to be in it

[00:36:35] [SPEAKER_04]: But they all three needed to at least write it together and one of them directed it

[00:36:39] [SPEAKER_04]: And usually at least one of them was in it united way does not meet that correct

[00:36:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Correct, but the what was this what sealed the deal for us including it here

[00:36:48] [SPEAKER_04]: Was that it was talked about as digital short as of this recording the most recent episode of the lonely island and sath meyers podcast

[00:36:55] [SPEAKER_00]: It is the title of the episode. It is all about you clearly snl does now include it as

[00:37:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, so it is considered an official digital short even though when it originally aired it did not have the digital short

[00:37:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Then how do you feel about that now? I mean it was foisted upon me. So I have to deal with it

[00:37:10] [SPEAKER_04]: So whatever he almost conceded himself. It was just he just needed that extra push. He was just really hurt last week

[00:37:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, so that was your number four forward way

[00:37:21] [SPEAKER_02]: And what was your number four laser cats one laser cats one gotcha

[00:37:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, and so my number three was iran. I love I love iran. I can't believe that number three. That's insane to me

[00:37:30] [SPEAKER_04]: I love it. I don't even think it's a top 15 song. I think it is one of the best ones they've ever done

[00:37:35] [SPEAKER_00]: That's insane. I mean, I give you that like fred armisen looks like

[00:37:39] [SPEAKER_02]: It's just it's all all of the elements together. It's a great song the the cameo by adam levine

[00:37:45] [SPEAKER_02]: See and it is a good production

[00:37:48] [SPEAKER_02]: It's all the things I want to do on a piano

[00:37:50] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a well done music video

[00:37:51] [SPEAKER_04]: But like there's there's like at least 15 other better songs they've done throughout the entire

[00:37:55] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I have it pretty high. So I'm not I'm not blaming you. I have it at 12

[00:37:58] [SPEAKER_00]: But what do you have is your number three bread?

[00:38:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Lazy sunday wake up in the late afternoon

[00:38:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Carparnel just to see how he's doing Carl carl carl is

[00:38:08] [SPEAKER_04]: I meant to say

[00:38:09] [SPEAKER_04]: That's chris parnel's father. I meant to say call and I started to say parnel and I said carparnel carl

[00:38:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Carl carl

[00:38:17] [SPEAKER_04]: That guy's a that guy's a solid solid dude

[00:38:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, Nate, what's your number three, buddy?

[00:38:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Number three is Natalie's rap because again, I have a crush on Natalie poor man. I just want that to go on record

[00:38:25] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay, well here's the thing. I also have a crush Natalie poor man. That's why Natalie's rap is number two. Oh

[00:38:31] [SPEAKER_00]: See united ways number two for me

[00:38:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Number two is united way. So that means we all have the same number one right now. It's dick in a box, baby

[00:38:38] [SPEAKER_01]: It's my dick in a box

[00:38:41] [SPEAKER_04]: My dick in a box

[00:38:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh dick in a box

[00:38:45] [SPEAKER_04]: I I've lost track of how many times I've seen this sketch because more than 100 I watch I watch every christmas

[00:38:51] [SPEAKER_04]: Of course because because I always record the snl christmas special

[00:38:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Which is always has a new assembly of christmas sketches, but they haven't dropped that one

[00:38:58] [SPEAKER_04]: They haven't dropped dick in a box in a while. Um, but yeah, dick in a box is it's an all-time great

[00:39:04] [SPEAKER_04]: It's just like it's one of their defining moments on the show. There are there are a few uh

[00:39:09] [SPEAKER_02]: In this top 10 because what we're gonna do on this show

[00:39:12] [SPEAKER_02]: We're gonna

[00:39:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Do another round of watching in another episode and then another round of watching another episode

[00:39:17] [SPEAKER_02]: So we'll eventually we'll have a top 10 overall. I can easily see some of these are gonna be lost, you know in the back half

[00:39:23] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know. I'm gonna stick with my testicles for a while. So no, but I'm like like Jonah dating dad, right?

[00:39:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Like I don't know if that will survive the entire right

[00:39:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Actually made me love it more

[00:39:33] [SPEAKER_04]: I ran so far it's getting sunk

[00:39:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Are we ever gonna are we gonna combine these lists so that we have a like a

[00:39:44] [SPEAKER_04]: So we did we did talk about this aggregate and ben ben who is the business boy made a good point that

[00:39:49] [SPEAKER_04]: Doing doing an aggregate ranking when there's only three people doing it doesn't necessarily provide the best set of we'll still do it

[00:39:55] [SPEAKER_04]: Just to see what it does. Yeah, it'll be fun

[00:39:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe what I was saying is to be involved and they could send us their list

[00:40:00] [SPEAKER_04]: What I was saying is like yeah, because it was one thing

[00:40:02] [SPEAKER_04]: I think we can rely on everyone to do it's go and watch all 110 digital shorts

[00:40:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Because the only way that I even convinced you guys to do it was we're gonna come together

[00:40:11] [SPEAKER_04]: We're gonna sit and we're all gonna watch yeah, there's no way

[00:40:14] [SPEAKER_02]: We really did no because if I have I ran at number two and you guys don't even have it in your top 10

[00:40:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Then they just throw it off and it's it's not gonna do anything to anything

[00:40:22] [SPEAKER_04]: But also I feel like that would mean that like we would have a pretty good indicator of like the ones that we're still gonna do it

[00:40:27] [SPEAKER_04]: Because I feel like there's listeners that would do this because right now we in the top 10

[00:40:30] [SPEAKER_02]: We have a significant amount of overlap. No, and that's where I think that a lot of it will overlap

[00:40:35] [SPEAKER_02]: And you're gonna get some you're just gonna get a couple that like

[00:40:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Nate and I don't have and you do in your top 10 and vice versa, right? We're gonna see those that will start to come out

[00:40:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think that that's that's like nurse Nancy for you all-timer

[00:40:49] [SPEAKER_04]: You know in your top five. You've already said it. I'm a big fan of uh, Scott Garbaiseyak Scott Garbaiseyak

[00:40:55] [SPEAKER_04]: But what about Scott Garbaiseyak? Well Scott Garbaiseyak is good, but have you seen Scott Garbaiseyak?

[00:41:00] [SPEAKER_04]: I have yeah because he he's like he's like the next Scott Garbaiseyak

[00:41:04] [SPEAKER_04]: And I I don't know about you, but I get real big Scott Garbaiseyak buy from him

[00:41:10] [SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, I'm just feeling it. Oh Garbaiseyak

[00:41:12] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, but uh, yeah, I I'm having a lot of fun doing this over. I do have you guys been having fun watching the snl digital shorts

[00:41:19] [SPEAKER_02]: It's funny. We the only one we really didn't mention

[00:41:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Lettuce that was the very first

[00:41:24] [SPEAKER_04]: Digital short. I suppose it's a good idea to pay pay a little marge. Yeah, let us being the very first one

[00:41:31] [SPEAKER_04]: It's funny

[00:41:31] [SPEAKER_04]: But it was literally in the middle of my list and it's so funny because if you ever want to start from the beginning

[00:41:36] [SPEAKER_04]: This is one that's not officially available online. So you really can't you have to track it down. It's literally just uh,

[00:41:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Will Forte and Andy Samberg talking about a very serious conversation while

[00:41:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Legitimately taking very large bites of lettuce as if the lettuce were an apple basically

[00:41:52] [SPEAKER_04]: But my favorite touch to this and I and I uh, I never really like thought of it in this way

[00:41:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Until I heard them talk about it on the lonely on seth mires podcast

[00:42:01] [SPEAKER_04]: But the last bit of this is yorma walking across the scene with his own lettuce taking bite of it

[00:42:07] [SPEAKER_04]: And he's a universe in which yeah exactly like this is just a normal thing. These two guys aren't weird everybody just

[00:42:13] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's brought to you by the lettuce growers association of america or something like that

[00:42:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Which is a good tag and I think that the existence of this one is actually something that makes the peyote one even better

[00:42:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Because you're not expecting it and the peyote one happened so far

[00:42:27] [SPEAKER_04]: Separately thankfully even though they shot it pretty close to the when they did lettuce

[00:42:31] [SPEAKER_04]: That there was enough time in between it that you forgot kind of forget about that gag and you're not expecting it, you know

[00:42:38] [SPEAKER_04]: So that's why peyote is good, Nate

[00:42:43] [SPEAKER_04]: um

[00:42:45] [SPEAKER_04]: We only missed uh cubicle fight. We didn't talk about cubicle fight. It's not bad

[00:42:49] [SPEAKER_04]: That's that's the dane cook one that's solid and then they were pretty they were harsh about harpoon man on the podcast

[00:42:54] [SPEAKER_04]: I like harpoon man. I didn't hit it. It's not my top anything

[00:42:58] [SPEAKER_04]: No, no, but I thought horrible and honestly. I only thought like four or five of these

[00:43:01] [SPEAKER_04]: I would say like bad. Yeah quote unquote bad

[00:43:04] [SPEAKER_02]: And we the other one we didn't talk about was uh was tangent

[00:43:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Where uh frat armorson just talks and they put him in everything which was um

[00:43:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Will I think or no no bill hater

[00:43:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Using because I think he helped cat co-write co-write that one and he used something that they knew frat armorson could do

[00:43:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, like frat armorson is just amazing at rambling off and like conversation

[00:43:25] [SPEAKER_04]: Let's find a vehicle for that thing that you can do and it's a very it's it's just it's a it's a middle of the line thing

[00:43:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Where like it's the same tone throughout and like it's an amusing like bit to do and keep it going that way

[00:43:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, everything changes around him as a character

[00:43:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Especially because you know he's doing this and like one of the things that I don't like about that restaurant

[00:43:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Is because they have the salad but they bring it to you on the side before the meal

[00:43:46] [SPEAKER_02]: And a lot of times you have the salad on the side before the meal like I get it

[00:43:48] [SPEAKER_02]: But at the sometimes I want the salad to come like right with my meal

[00:43:51] [SPEAKER_02]: So eventually you zone out as an audience member because you know that right?

[00:43:55] [SPEAKER_02]: So then you get to pay attention to everything that's happening in the foreground around this character

[00:43:58] [SPEAKER_02]: While you realize the talent that frat armorson has to keep doing this

[00:44:02] [SPEAKER_02]: You're respecting that but also seeing the comedy and I really think that it's I think that maybe it's a little bit

[00:44:07] [SPEAKER_02]: More underrated than I think because that's a it's a it's fun on both levels. Yeah, it is

[00:44:12] [SPEAKER_02]: I probably ranked it a little too too. I ranked it pretty low too, but it

[00:44:16] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know

[00:44:17] [SPEAKER_00]: It's not great. It's fun to watch but like

[00:44:19] [SPEAKER_00]: You're not laughing though when you describe it you you want to respect the

[00:44:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly. I have a lot more respect for it, but I didn't laugh out loud while I was watching

[00:44:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it doesn't make you like, you know lack of yeah, exactly

[00:44:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, one of the things that I think that I I've really enjoyed about the long on tethmyrus podcast that really made me appreciate

[00:44:36] [SPEAKER_04]: A lot of what we saw here because there's um

[00:44:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Everything they've covered so far is within these 35 that we watched

[00:44:43] [SPEAKER_04]: Is like just getting a sense of just how much they were flying by the seat of their pants with a lot of this stuff

[00:44:47] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, for sure. And that's what snl does in general but even more so for these pre tapes like them like just going around like as their own

[00:44:53] [SPEAKER_04]: Tiny crew they would eventually have a proper crew as they got bigger and more popular and lauren wanted them to have production value

[00:44:59] [SPEAKER_04]: But like it's just kiev yorm and andy running around new york with a camera

[00:45:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Not getting permits for stuff

[00:45:05] [SPEAKER_04]: Which is why they film in like janky new york locations where they're not going to get in trouble

[00:45:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Even dick in a box their best one they talk about how the ending is a complete accident

[00:45:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Because they weren't planning on having police arrest the two characters or anything like that

[00:45:19] [SPEAKER_04]: They were shooting cops came over and they were curious. They realized who they were and what was going on

[00:45:24] [SPEAKER_04]: And they just the kiev and yorm happened to like just buy happenstance say hey

[00:45:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Do you guys want to do a shot like in the thing and they were like well?

[00:45:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, sure and so they have them get arrested and it's the perfect ending

[00:45:37] [SPEAKER_04]: To the sketch and it even sets up what happens in mother love

[00:45:40] [SPEAKER_04]: So like that's that's something that happens by accident. Otherwise the music video just fades out probably

[00:45:46] [SPEAKER_02]: So one other thing just about the kind of the behind the scenes that I have learned by listening to their podcast as well

[00:45:51] [SPEAKER_02]: is uh, so the

[00:45:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Obviously lettuce not not the barn burner that that that opened the door for snl digital shorts, right?

[00:46:00] [SPEAKER_02]: But lazy sunday was yeah, but lazy sunday became famous

[00:46:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, they stood in front of magnolia bakery right magnolia cupcakes

[00:46:08] [SPEAKER_02]: And the the owner of magnolia did not like this and was like no get out of here. We we hate you

[00:46:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, of course now they love it, but magnolia back then you have to remember it was a new york institution

[00:46:20] [SPEAKER_02]: They didn't need sirenet lives help

[00:46:22] [SPEAKER_02]: But of course knowing that it got famous this net they've definitely buried the hatchets since then

[00:46:27] [SPEAKER_02]: But it's just funny to me like they frequently have gotten free cupcakes at various that's just so funny. Yeah, I love that

[00:46:33] [SPEAKER_04]: yeah, it's uh

[00:46:34] [SPEAKER_04]: It's it's been really cool to hear them talk about it on that podcast if you haven't listened to it

[00:46:39] [SPEAKER_04]: I would recommend giving it a shot if you love s and l as much as we do

[00:46:41] [SPEAKER_04]: It is a treasure trove of incredible stories from behind the scenes and because

[00:46:45] [SPEAKER_00]: It's they really almost review almost all of the uh, all of the sketches. Yeah

[00:46:50] [SPEAKER_02]: They talk about the other ones that were in there and they do seth's corner, which I love

[00:46:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Because it's seth meyers that that's to me is like the thing that really pushes it into being something even more

[00:46:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Special is because since he was head writer for most of the time that they were there

[00:47:03] [SPEAKER_04]: You get a whole level of insight into the entire show not not just the the lonely island side of the stuff

[00:47:08] [SPEAKER_02]: If you are a fan of s and l and you listen if you're listening to us talk about this year right now

[00:47:12] [SPEAKER_02]: You need to be listening to that podcast too because it's freaking awesome. Yeah, it's been really insightful to hear them talk about

[00:47:18] [SPEAKER_04]: It's a lot of fun because they they have a great dynamic between each other and we know they listen to us too

[00:47:22] [SPEAKER_02]: So hey guys, uh, we appreciate what you guys are doing seth great to see you the other night for dinner

[00:47:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, jimmy austin jimmy austin. I know you're listening. Yeah

[00:47:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Looking forward to seeing you guys again for dinner real soon. Jaj. Jaj james awesome. Joss. Yeah, jerry minor

[00:47:34] [SPEAKER_04]: I know that you love the show too jerry minor big listener. Yeah big listener

[00:47:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, but uh, yeah, so that's gonna do it for this episode

[00:47:40] [SPEAKER_04]: We we are gonna do two more episodes

[00:47:43] [SPEAKER_04]: We're gonna do two more trunks of watching these because it takes a while to watch all these shorts

[00:47:46] [SPEAKER_02]: So this will come out and then we'll be off a week and then we'll be back a week with the next iteration of this

[00:47:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Yep, but we would I know I'm not joking about this you've if you've listened to this

[00:47:55] [SPEAKER_02]: I truly want to know you don't need to do a top 30. What's in your top five?

[00:48:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Out of all the lists that we just talked about uh, if you remember, you know, if it jogged your memory just by

[00:48:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Going oh what to say like you remember that one being dear sister

[00:48:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Does that make your top 10 top five? Let us know in the comments, please

[00:48:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Was that was that in garden state too? No, um, but the

[00:48:18] [SPEAKER_00]: She does a song in there though, doesn't she?

[00:48:21] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, yeah, who what's the name of the band who does the I don't know. I don't really matter, but yeah, we can talk about that

[00:48:26] [SPEAKER_03]: It's evanescence. It's not evanescence. No, it's not evanescence. No idiot. It's not the band evanescence

[00:48:31] [SPEAKER_02]: It's he thinks a lot of things. I actually think anything that's not enya is evanescence

[00:48:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Is that fair? I mean, that's not that totally. Yeah, it's totally

[00:48:44] [SPEAKER_04]: I guess

[00:48:46] [SPEAKER_04]: You know, it could be worse like they could have gone with something like uh, york. Yeah, there you go

[00:48:51] [SPEAKER_04]: York

[00:48:52] [SPEAKER_04]: I

[00:48:56] [SPEAKER_04]: That's bjork, right? Yep. That is I think it's work

[00:48:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, anyway, this has been the 10 to 1 podcast. Uh, the first episode of our snl digital short bonanza

[00:49:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, that's that we're calling it. That's that's what i'm gonna call it the snl digital short bonanza

[00:49:14] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm getting a message from base

[00:49:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Nate you got something? No

[00:49:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I just like you guys are funny

[00:49:24] [SPEAKER_00]: All right, well, Nate you want to take us out

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