The Rundown: Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell Pick a Pretape - SNL

0:00 -I think we were put in an office randomly.

0:03 -My friend who worked here at the time was like,

0:05 "I think Mikey smokes cigarettes, and I think Streeter does too." I did not.

0:10 -You didn't?

0:11 -That's how we were put together.

0:13 -Yeah.

0:13 Purely based on cigarettes, I think.

0:16 -And now we're a team!

0:18 You get what you needed?!

0:19 Un-mic me.

0:28 -Typically, there's two to three tapes in a show.

0:31 -One goes here.

0:32 -After the first sketch.

0:34 -One goes here, between these two live sketches.

0:37 And they need them.

0:38 You can't go sketch to sketch.

0:40 -'Cause people got to change.

0:41 -People need to change.

0:42 They got to move cameras.

0:43 You need bumper time in between.

0:45 So if there's a third one, it's a wild card.

0:47 -Sometimes a tape that's not tied to anything topical...

0:50 -Right.

0:51 That can live later.

0:52 -Let's try and categorize pretapes here.

0:54 -Commercial parodies.

0:55 -Little Chocolate Donuts have been on my training table since I was a kid.

0:59 -The Love Toilet.

1:01 Yeah!

1:02 See the magic moment♪ -Dunkin' Donuts is a commercial parody we did.

1:06 -Little show and tell.

1:07 Dunkin' Nuts!

1:08 -A lot of the stuff that's in that, I saw growing up, going to Dunkin' Donuts.

1:12 Smoking a cigarette out of the door.

1:14 -Hey, you can't smoke in here, man.

1:16 -I'm not!

1:16 Come on.

1:17 I'm not smoking in here.

1:17 -You're smoking in here.

1:18 -Cigarette's outside.

1:19 -Trailers, right?

1:20 -Movie trailers.

1:20 -"The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders." -Guess who's back.

1:25 -"Djesus Uncrossed." -Let's...a-go.

1:30 -We've done a lot of trailers.

1:32 "Grouch" we did with David Harbour.

1:35 Sorry.

1:36 -You got to do it like a weatherman.

1:37 -All right.

1:38 Here's what we're looking— -There's a cold front.

1:40 -What encapsulates "Grouch" to me is the shot when it pans

1:44 up and you see the Sesame Street sign, graffiti on it.

1:48 -Paul Briganti, the director, contacted the DP of "Joker" and was like,

1:52 "Can we use the same lenses for our cameras?"

1:54 -Making things that aren't supposed to be serious ultra-serious.

1:58 -Scram!

1:59 -Then you have direct parodies.

2:01 -Direct parodies.

2:01 -"The White POTUS." -...that America will always be a rich nation.

2:06 -"Undercover Boss." Kylo is going undercover as Matt.

2:11 -I sing my s— -Our first one was "Hobbit Office" with Martin Freeman,

2:16 a mash-up between "The Hobbit" and the British

2:19 "Office." -You seen your ring lately?

2:21 -Where is it?!

2:22 The— Oh.

2:23 Ha ha.

2:24 Hilarious.

2:24 Very funny.

2:25 -This was also the biggest role I've ever had in the show,

2:28 where I played an orc.

2:29 So my day was in 125 pounds of latex, like, muscle makeup,

2:34 sweating so much they had to poke a hole in the neck to, like, let it out.

2:39 -That one was fun.

2:39 And Martin Freeman was great.

2:41 Taran as Gollum was fantastic.

2:43 -Yeah.

2:43 Taran ate, like, a real fish.

2:45 They're like, "You don't have to eat that." He's like, "No.

2:47 I'll eat it." -Yeah.

2:48 They're like, "We'd get a fake one." He's like, "It's fine.

2:53 Cheers and applause] Then there's short films.

2:56 -Short films.

2:57 More open.

2:57 "White Like Me," obviously.

2:58 The Eddie Murphy one.

3:00 A classic.

3:00 -Take what you want.

3:01 -Ha ha ha ha!

3:03 -Do you remember the "Avatar" logo?

3:05 -I...Yeah.

3:06 -Papyrus!

3:07 -"Sad Mouse" would be, like, an O'Brien, auteur-based.

3:11 Applause] There's backstage.

3:14 -Bowen, I didn't know you were straight.

3:15 -Hey.

3:16 -Oh, my God.

3:17 -I am a fan, but maybe your best friend.

3:19 We're pretty much the same.

3:21 -[Bleep] you, Colin!

3:22 Gunshot, crowd screaming] -There's cartoons.

3:25 The Ambiguously Gay Duo♪-♪ GoLords, GoLords, GoLords!

3:29 -The GoLords!

3:31 Brad and His Dad♪ -Yeah, I'm divorced.

3:33 -Then you have music videos.

3:35 'Cause I'm a back-home baller♪♪-♪ Three sad virgins, what?

3:39 Three sad virgins, whoa-oh-oh♪♪-♪ My best friend's...

3:42 Smell of my best friend's house♪ -And then, of course,

3:45 "Lonely Island," I feel like ushers in a new era.

3:47 -They have their own kind of thing.

3:50 Lazy Sunday♪♪ Wake up in the late afternoon♪♪

3:53 Call Parnell just to see how he's doin'♪-♪ Hello?

3:55 What up, Parns?

3:56 Yo, Samberg, what's crackin'?

3:58 You thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?

3:59 Narnia!

3:59 Man, it's happenin'♪ -The songs are like radio-ready songs.

4:02 -They revolutionized the comedic song.

4:04 -Yeah.

4:05 -But then they were also doing, like, super-absurdist shorts,

4:08 like "Dear Sister."[ Gunshot] Watching "Lonely

4:11 Island" definitely felt like, "Oh, there's, like,

4:13 Internet people involved here now." -And they did all sorts of things,

4:17 but they showed what you could do with a pretape.

4:20 -I feel like it's just gotten a lot more ambitious,

4:22 too, as the technology has gotten better.

4:24 -Like doing the effects up to minutes before airing.

4:28 I wrote one my second season where it wasn't ready, and they just aired it.

4:32 We're like, "There's full green screen," and they're like,

4:35 "Just air it!" 'Cause, like, nothing was done.

4:38 -Hey, Han, how do you work this friggin' thing?

4:41 Beeping] -We're gonna pick some tapes for the show now.

4:44 -I'm leaning towards...

4:45 "Dick in a Box."-♪ It's the way you do it♪-♪ It's my [bleep] in a box♪[ Cheers

4:51 and applause]♪♪ -It represents the pretape revolution.

4:56 Like, my mom knows "Dick in a Box." -Yeah.

4:59 [Bleep] in a box, girl♪ -Now,

5:00 I do think we should put a commercial parody in there.

5:04 -Man, this is harder than I thought it was gonna be.

5:06 Oh.

5:06 Here we go.

5:08 Done.

5:08 United Way.

5:09 Peyton Manning.

5:11 Laughs] -That's my pick.

5:12 -One, two, three.

5:13 Teamwork!

5:13 -Teamwork!

5:13 -Peyton uses football to teach valuable lessons of communication.

5:17 -Open.

5:17 Get open!

5:18 -Peyton Manning beaning kids in the head with a football,

5:22 it's guaranteed laughs.

5:23 -Huge.

5:24 -He's fantastic.

5:25 He makes one kid go in the porta potty.

5:27 -I can't even look at you.

5:28 You know what?

5:28 Go sit in the porta-lav for 20 minutes.

5:30 Close the door!

5:31 Stay in there!

5:32 -You definitely put United Way early.

5:35 -It's coming out of "Wayne's World." -This goes

5:38 after the first sketch in this act.

5:40 -And I'll do...

5:41 We're doing three?

5:43 -Well, I'm gonna do this.

5:46 -No.

5:47 -You're cutting it?

5:48 -I'm gonna do this in case we have a timing issue.

5:50 Christmastime for the Jews♪ -You know what else I'd do?

5:54 Sorry.

5:54 I'm just gonna throw...

5:55 I would put a "Deep Thoughts" out of monologue.

5:58 -"Deep Thoughts" by Jack Handey.

6:02 -Can we do that?

6:03 -Yeah.

6:03 Why not?

6:03 -That's like literally what, 20 seconds?

6:07 -It's 20 seconds.

6:08 -I mean, it's very short, so it could absolutely go there.

6:11 -I'm putting shit all over the place.

6:13 Laughs] -I'm confident in our choices.

6:16 -Yeah.

6:17 -They're both important pieces in the show's history.

6:20 -I like the way this show is shaping up.

6:22 -Can we take out the cold open and put "Cookie Dough Sport"?

6:25 -Cookie Dough Sport.

6:27 Cookie dough right when you need it most.

6:29 -Thank you.

6:30 -Thank you.

6:31 I hope you enjoy our picks.

6:32 -I'm Mikey.

6:32 That's Streeter.

6:33 Have a great day.

6:34 Chuckles] -Was it good?

6:36 -No.

6:36 Laughs] -Wow.

6:37 "No."