You may perhaps have listened to that Seth Meyers and The Lonely Island — Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone — have a new podcast out titled The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, in which the 4 SNL alums crack down their preferred electronic shorts of yesteryear, their creation, and their affect then and now. Probably the announcement even brought on a bit of anticipation, and you manufactured a observe to check out the podcast when it dropped. If so, Samberg has an alternate point of view you could possibly want to listen to.
In the course of an April 8 look on Late Night With Seth Meyers with Schaffer and Taccone ostensibly to market the podcast’s launch, Samberg took the possibility to promptly distance himself from the task and the podcast medium as a entire. “I never like them, and I don’t imagine they are very good,” Samberg stated. Meyers requested whether or not these beliefs prolong to the podcast he’s at the moment advertising and marketing as very well, to which he replied, “Yeah, that is appropriate.” Equally lousy sales pitches adopted from Taccone — “It’s my only option to see friends” — and Schaffer: “I listened to episode 1 this morning, and I didn’t like how I sounded on it. I never like how I audio correct now. I’m just likely to get a whole lot quieter in lifetime.”
In spite of the trio’s indifference to the item they’re endorsing, their breezy banter should continue to be a marketing level for the podcast, appropriate? Sadly not, as their look devolves into 1 bit following one more that fails to land, starting with a little bit the place they claim they’re sporting eclipse glasses completely as a “fashion alternative,” which Schaffer bails on early, to a bit exactly where they improve their Zoom backgrounds to a laser disco and talk to Meyers to determine the Lonely Island brief it reminds him of (“Jizz in My Pants”), but then the host guesses mistaken (“Laser Cats”) and they’re reminded that the problem really had two plausible answers. “Let’s do it a second time,” Samberg states, assuming they’ll be on the similar website page now. “‘Jizz in My Pants’?” Meyers hesitantly guesses. “No! ‘Laser Cats’!” Samberg replies.
Ultimately, Meyers calls out the deficiency of synchronicity: “So, like, in normal, do you believe the back and forth we’ve had so much is heading to make folks a lot more inclined to pay attention to the pod?” By all legal rights, the response ought to be “no,” but, unusually, we’re additional inclined now than at any time.
