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"Colin Jost"

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Summary

Colin Jost shares his unconventional journey from Harvard, where he initially pursued economics and Russian literature, to becoming a prominent figure at Saturday Night Live. He recounts his early struggles on Weekend Update, including a memorable prank by Michael Che, and discusses his aspirations beyond writing. Additionally, Jost provides amusing details about his co-ownership of a Staten Island ferry and its potential future, offering a peek into his diverse interests and comedic evolution.

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Sleep in the upright position: it’s Colin Jost. The mesh is separating… talking, walking. Swedish fish in a blender, and a midnight bowl of bolognese. Welcome to the newest/freshest/cleanest ep of SmartLess.

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Transcript

Intro / Opening

Jenny, vi är här idag för att prata om din relation. Berätta, hur har ni det? Ebeglass och jag har aldrig haft det bättre. Vi hade en liten svaka med GBS amföretag, men vi har hittat tillbaka till andra. Och sen så har jag specialsytten här. Det är en frysandväska för mina pegelin. Ja, just det, tiptopp. Men Jenny, nu pratar vi om dig och Henrik. Det är ju katastrof. Men skit i det nu. Har du sett att man också kan samla poäng och få riktigt. Yeah. Galen i GB-Glass.

under miljontals år What are you? utvecklat sofistikerade paningsritualer. Fåglar dansar, vargar ylar och Oscar går in på Amazon. På Amazon hittar han levande jön. Juice. Lyxiga vineglas till fynt. Date night.フォローハンダー. Välkommen till SB. Jo, om det är så att jag och min kille ska flytta ihop och ta ett bolon tillsammans. Och vi båda har helt tids jobb, men jag känner lite mer än vad han gör. I alla fall just nu. Och vi vill köpa något gemensamt.

Kanske två, men vi behöver förstå ungefär hur mycket vi kan låna och om månadskostnaderna landa på. Kan ni på SCB hjälpa oss då? Välkommen till SEB.

Podcast Opening and Banter

Uh what kind of shirt you have on? What is that? Uh It's gotten funny. What's on the front? It's a it's a thing. It's a well no it's not. It's uh uh it's Liver Liverpool Football Club. Oh, what is my insight? Yeah. And yours says out of office. Yeah. Where where did you get that particular freebie? I used to work at I can't wait to hear this, but let's do an older smartless first.

Will Arnett's Liverpool Trip

Uh sweet, sweet Willie is um is over on the pond. Um across the pond. Is that what I'm pond? I'm in I'm in Liverpool. Wait, why are you there? My home away from home. I'm doing a little thing with the club. I didn't know. Uh with our friends at uh at Tommy Hilfiger. Shout out Tommy Hilfiger. There it is. We've got it. Uh Was it ever Thomas? When when did he go shorter with it, have you asked him? I haven't I haven't asked him. Uh I'm gonna have dinner with him later. Awesome.

Sounds like a perfect opportunity. Which is which is what it's gonna be. And um Yeah. Um so Shawnee, you're back in Los Angeles. Oh, God. What a run. What a run. He's got himself an Olivier Award already from this thing. We will see what our friends over at the Tony Academy would have. No no Jay the Olivia's from Gunad Oscar. Oh the Olivia was for a good night Oscar. When Olivia? Yeah. No way! Yeah, isn't that crazy?

Um but but Shawnee, uh uh yeah, so we haven't we haven't started the award circuit yet for uh The unknown. It's called the unknown. But but but you can't because it's out Broadway. So Off Broadway has no awards. It it does but and I got nominated for the one that they do, which I it's called the I forget what it's called, but Yeah. It was very nice. It's off Tony, yeah. ボーカーボーカー

Are they called the tinnies? The tinnies. And let me ask you a question. If you're off Broadway, do you need to go backstage and say hi to people? Or No, you do not. You do not have to do that. We uh but but Sam Rockwell, we your ears must have been burning. Sam came backstage. I know you're working. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's so sweet. Yeah.

Sean's Post-Play Eating Habits

And um and yeah, I just got back two nights ago. It was great. And by the way, you know, the adrenaline dump, right? Aft don't you guys feel that after you do a movie or a TV show or a play or anything like that? When you're done, you're just like, oh man. And Yeah, usually. Usually you get sick'cause the body knows it's now it now it can be ill. Right. Um but you came back and did you what was your illness? Just basic nausea from all the um saturated fats that you

I ate so much. I I I on the plane back I had I had ordered everything that I could. Will you order food on the plane? Est-ce que c'est un menu ? Uh And all of that. I had the chicken, the beef, I had a hot fudge Sunday. You can't order two entrees on a You did. And I had like three pretzel roll. I was so hungry because I hadn't eaten in three months'cause of the play. I lost all that weight. Anyway, who cares? Why didn't you eat during the play?

Because it's the whole thing I told you. It's just like a whole thing. Where does the s the spaghetti bolognaise with the side of Swedish fish? Fit in. So that came that comes after. Got it. Um after when I get home. After like like I texted you guys a two-show day. I'm like, oh, we don't. No, we saw the picks, man. You don't think the acid reflux would come from a midnight bowl of bologna? No, because I stay up long enough for it to not happen. Oh, yeah. Six or seven hours. No.

Stay up. It's not like you're going for a walk. When you say stay up, you're just sitting on the couch and and just letting it sit. This is correct. Why don't you sleep in an upright position? That way you can just eat. I do think. You ought to get like a sleepable turlet, you know what I mean? That has like things that you could be. Sure. Yeah, remember how like in Clockwork Orange he had his eyelids um taped open? Yeah, maybe you do that with do that with your valve. You know?

Just a tube right in there with the colonies. Yeah.

Introducing Guest Colin Jost

Guy's my guest today. Why don't you just throw it in the toilet and cut out the middleman? You know what I mean? Throw it in the toilet. I hope your guest understands your dark, dark offensive humor. He loves it actually, which is good. Yeah. He c my guest couldn't speak until he was almost four years old. We're gonna learn about that. When he finally did, he says he sounded like a member of the Soprano family.

His mom was chief medical officer at the New York City fire department. She survived the collapse of the South Tower on September eleventh. He once went through twelve dumpsters looking for his wife's lost engagement ring. They named their son Cosmo. He co owns a decommissioned Staten Island ferry, which he has called the single dumbest purchase ever. Uh Please welcome a long It's a hilarious and charming college. I got it first. Colin Joseph. Michael Che. What's up? Michael Che here.

What is up? What is up? Guys, that was really I loved hearing that um you guys Run down. That can't be true. I learned a lot about you guys. Oh, by the All of it's unsurprising.

SNL Asbestos and Mold Business

You're in your office right now, I can tell by the ceiling. Yeah. Is that true? Yes, these uh uh definitely asbestos ceilings that are still here at SMS. Those are the kind of ceilings that you can stand on a chair, lift up one of them and hide stuff up there, put the s put the square right back down. No country for a lot of people. Thank you. You see it has a large stain of some kind that's been here since before I moved in. Yeah, something up there is leaking that was hidden.

They came to they came to the S N offices like five years ago and they said, Listen, over the summer you gotta clear stuff out, we're removing asbestos from all the offices and I was like, I've been in this office for fifteen years No way. Too late. Really? They just found that out. You ought to call one of the, you know, those commercials that come on late at night with those with those doctors. You should join a class action.

I know I mean well I I have that and I've got my vaginal mesh that I've got to call about too. Is is it separate? Progress on that. Good. The the mesh is separating? Yeah, the mesh is that it sounded great at the time, you know. He's like, you want to do this vaginal mesh. It sounds so cool, but then Of course. What what tell me what is what is just by the way, what is vaginal mesh? Yeah. By the way, J. Yeah. Get more serious on the question.

Well, I did want to get back to the asbestos um and I wanted to pitch Colin because I think I've pitched you guys before and I don't remember your response, but Colin could you please Let me know if you think this I'm thinking about getting into uh mold removal a mold removal business based on just the company name that I've I've got uh uh nailed down. It's it's uh it's called adjacent abatement.

Um and I think if I could I just go into that business, I'm uh I'll do pretty well just based on the name title and just the name. Yeah, just the joke alone. The paint on the side of the vans, the bus benches, stuff like that. I'm pretty sure I'll get some nice uh Oh when people have extensive mold in their house, they just wanna laugh. They just wanna They want to know they can laugh. Well hey, they're looking for a pun.

Honey, I hope we find some mold because I just want to call it Jason abatement. Yeah. That's good. By the way, I've never heard that. It's um good, right? Colin, thanks so much for doing this. It's a busy what is it? Thursday night. It this is a busy time for you. We are we're off. Uh we were off this week. I just came here'cause I was doing something nearby and I it seemed like a good place to it's so quiet here. That doesn't sound shady, doing something nearby. I was doing something nearby.

Edit that out.

Lorne Michaels Documentary Insights

Are you are you are you bugging Lauren's office again? Not in a way he would suspect. seen have you seen the new Lauren documentary? I did. I just we went to the I guess premiere of it that was at Lincoln Center last week and have you guys seen it yet or no?

It was very I I I it was funny. It's there's peop you know, a lot of people in it are really funny. And um I found it kind of moving. I don't know that I even necessarily learned anything about him. In fact, he in some ways he seems less known a having seen it, but It was uh it was moo I found it kinda moving because he is very much him and it felt like it was of his in his voice weirdly. I don't know. Yeah. I I love that he finally allowed somebody to like kind of dig in, right?

But I I don't I I think the thing that people don't know about Lauren, and you can attest to this, uh Con, is that uh Lauren's really funny. Yeah. funny. Yeah. Yeah, and he is he is funny in it. Like he's funny in it. But but the he'll you know, someone will be talking about an idea on a whatever Friday night and pitch something and and he'll just look at them and be like, Idiot.

Like a very he'll do things that are very out of character and and always very surprising and funny. But it is, it it's fun, he's funny in it. And uh and he sh he lets them go to Like his house in Amaganset, his house in Maine, and you see like not like the all the inside of the house, but like you see where why he goes to those places to kind of escape and be in the woods and be in nature. It's it's I didn't s I was surprised at that.

Yeah, he seems very kind of when I when I worked there or when I did the show m eight eighty I think eighty three years ago. Um, he was always a little he's scary if you don't know him, you know, because he's a little off putting. Like like I he doesn't speak much. So I you don't know where you stand with him. At least that was my Yeah, he's kind of yeah, he's kind of reserved until

What if call what if Colin's just like, what are you talking about? He talks to everybody like You gotta slow'em down. Oh very good.

The SNL Face Mold Process

Um uh Colin, you I think we've the first time we ever met was j only last year at Robert Downey's part birthday party, right? I think. Yeah, I think first time. And you were so kind enough, you remember this, you mailed me The form that you have to fill out to get a face mold on Saturday Night Live, you mailed it. Do you remember mailing that to me? For Louis to get it to do with Louis.

I don't know, but it was like a it was like a format with my f with my Polaroid on it and all my measurements and my head measurements to get like a mold. And you s just sent it to me. I was like, Oh that's so nice. I happen to yeah, like see th uh, you know, I think Jodi who does all the wigs and Louis does I think they had all these things and they were kinda getting rid of them and I was like, Wait, some of these are Yeah, they're cool. It's cool. It's like a cool memento to have.

Did you did you did you go ahead and get the face mold uh measurement, Sean? Yeah. And and did you did you have a couple of spares made up? Could we let me ask you this. Could Jason and I make masks and go as you for Halloween? You wanted to scare the shit out of you. Target practice and stuff like that. But why were you um excited about pursuing um a face mold? Well you have to. You did it. You host Standard. Didn't you get a face mold?

I don't remember and I don't think Isn't everybody calling? track down um the information on how to get one myself. It's a horrible process. You have to get one. Yeah. You you probably did it and you probably blocked it out because you get you can't bre you know, you you're you're breathing through just straws in your nose'cause your mouth has to stay steady. Yeah, I know.

Very claustrophobic and But did Sean did you get did you got information from Colin about how you can go ahead and get another face mold of yourself? Yeah, well th all that information's on the form that the that they make for you. Yeah. Right. So now I have it. Anyway, let's move on. No, we're not going to. Now you have it and that's a great thing. Yeah. Just in case you might want to make a face mold of yourself.

Unless my head is s shrunk or grown or something, it should be the same, right, Colin? No man. No, you gotta get a new model every five years. But by the way, by the way, right, Colin? Like as if Colin fucking knows Andrew gives a sh shit about how this process He keeps tabs on me. He just found a piece of paper and he was like, here's the person that you should talk to. He's he's not investing.

No, no, then I went back to the files, I compared, I was like, Well, these measurements are a little off from the last time. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. All right. You know the famous thing about Jeff Daniels got it done, right, when he was hosting? No. They set the mold in the wrong way. Yeah. Face and he was stuck with just the straws in his nose for like hours and they had to chisel it off of him.

Scarring not scarring, but like almost burns from it and then had to host the show. No way. Yeah. That's a night that's a fucking nightmare, man.

Swedish Fish and Panic Attacks

You could still you could still sip Coca Cola through like he could still drink some Oh yeah, so he was fine. But yeah, don't worry, Sean. You can still Exactly. Yeah. Has anybody ever put Swedish fish in a blender? Okay. What's your what's your go to tackiest awful snack, Colin? What what's what are you what do you what are you ashamed that you still Keep it pretty tight. I'm fine. I I eat I don't eat great. Like I don't um I don't have any discipline to eating and drinking, but I

I'll eat Swedish fish actually at at S N L'cause there's like a pile every Tuesday when there was a writing night, they used to come in when you're up all night and just pour a pile of candy, like cover the entire writer's room in candy. And so I would have All Tuesdays I used to, you know, eat candy all the time and then uh being up all night, there was one time in Lauren's office uh Wednesday after the table read where I was having like heart palpitations. I have it in my nose.

Yeah, I thought that was from stress or something. Was a combination of stress, not sleeping, and also having all the sugar And I thought I was having a heart attack and like called the doctor and uh in in Lauren's office and W was it AFib, do you know? Paddles wants to know what what it was. Well Jimmy Kimmel calls me paddles because I've had so much AFib so many times.

It was not it was not a it was it was just a yeah, it was it was like a probably a panic attack essentially that was brought on by Nazis. You haven't had one since. No, and I th and they were the the doctor I went to's like it'll be you gotta try to sleep a little and you gotta you can't you can't have sugar all night like that or you know, I was like whatever. Sugar doesn't make you sugar makes me so tired. That that that that sugar peak and then the crash, I go right to sleep.

Affect me. I can run or sleep, it doesn't matter. But that I was just at an age where I was like it didn't matter and I j and then it caught up with me at some point.

Colin's Late Speech Development

Um, Colin, wait, talk to me about this. I found this fascinating. What do you mean you didn't talk'til you were four years old? What what does that mean? And then and then I r I read that it wasn't Tony Soprano that you sounded like. Because I was like, Oh, he must have compared himself to Tony Soprano when he opened up his mouth. But what do you mean you didn't talk? Said Caramel also brought it. That's right.

Caramela. Like I was I just videos of me like trying to like sell a bike that I had that's like, yeah, it's pretty good. It's got two wheels, you know, you can get on But I'm genuinely talking like that and I'm Really? Yeah. When does a kid usually talk? I forget with my kids. It was like what like one or or like eighteen months, something like that. They they start to typically like yeah eighteen months around that and I think it's uh almost always before two or or usually Before guys, I think.

Yes. Yeah. And there's people are a little later, people but I think it was just getting to a little bit of a more extreme place where they didn't know what was going on, my parents. What were your fur what were your first words? No shit. Yeah. I'm not just saying that. I mean I No. Of course I believe I'm I'm looking at your face and I know that you're not just saying that. And that's it. And then I didn't say another anything else for five more years. Why bother? Why bother?

Then it was chasing. And then it was Chase. Jason Abateman. 'Cause there had been so much mold in my brain. So I needed Um and the it it was nothing they they didn't pursue any sort of reason. There was no diagnosis. It was just you just weren't ready. Yeah something and uh yeah my mom said she she wasn't worried because I it seemed like I was comprehending everything that they were saying. I just wasn't saying anything. Lot of other A lot of movies.

A speech special a speech specialist at Staten Island University Hospital, which maybe sounds like a setup for I mean you do your own everybody can do their own math on that one. I like the idea you were just nodding along like you nodding a lot and doing a lot of winking. He was winking a lot at people. So we knew he was cool. We knew he was cool. Oh doctor, not just. Following.

He was winking and doing the hands where he makes the curved hourglass of a woman's figure, but he's still thinking he's he's fine. Um and then walking there w there was no uh no pausing in the walking. The walking was was uh on time. Yeah. I couldn't stop one. Okay. All night. All through the night. It was basically they based uh they based uh that horror uh that horror movie this year, weapons on me'cause I would just walk out through the woods. The arms out like you're flying.

Do you know you know, I remember I remember when my my middle son Abel was uh you know, he wasn't walking, he was like thirteen months, he was a little bit later and you know, his older brother had walked before a year. So I know. So we were nervous. When it she's like he's not walking. He's not walking and I go she goes, he's never gonna I go. Look out on the street. Do you see people dragging themselves by their hands? Pulling themselves along the sidewalk? He's gonna get it. Okay.

He's gonna pick up the biggest. Yeah. And then you ask people like, What are you doing? Like, I never picked up walking. Wasn't for me. I never I mean in New York in New York there might be like twenty to forty of us people. Well that that was just not for them. Yeah, it's just not for that. We'll be right back. Jenny, vi är här idag för att prata om din relation. Berätta, hur har ni det? G-Beglass och jag har aldrig haft det bästa.

Jag hade en liten svacka med GBCM företag, men vi har hittat tillbaka till varandra. Och sen så har jag specialsytten här. Men Jenny, nu pratar vi om dig och Henrik. När skit i det nu. Har du sett att man också kan samla poäng och få riktigt nattärt. Nice merch på gbshop.se Galen i GB-Glass. Met abonnement. Du får en skinande ren bil lite oftare till ett lägre pris. Allt du behöver göra är att ladda ner tvätt.

Och teckna ett abonnemang direkt i appen. Just nu får du 100 kronor i rabbatt de första tre månaderna. Vi finns för dig som behöver tvätta. Välkommen till SEB! Jo, om det är så att jag och min kille ska flytta ihop och ta ett bolon tillsammans. Och vi båda har helt tidigt jobb, men jag känner lite mer vad han gör. I alla fall just nu. Kanske en två, men vi behöver förstå ungefär hur mycket vi kan låna och om månadskostnaderna landa på. Kan ni på SCB hjälpa oss då?

Vi hjälper dig. Välkommen till SEB och få.

Buying the Staten Island Ferry

And now back to the show. Uh all right. So I wanna talk about something you're probably so sick of talking about, but I don't know anything about it, which is the Staten Island Ferry you bought with Pete Davidson. Because I've seen you tell jokes about it on on the show on Saturday Night Live and I always laugh'cause I kinda know the gist of of it but why and what was the plan and what's the goal and all of that. Because you paid like you I like exact questions a financial advisor asks me.

Is it just fun? But was it because of because of your because these guys don't Jason and Willard, no, but uh when I was doing my research about your reading, is the is the journey you took an hour and a half every single day to go to school from Staten Island to Manhattan and you took the Staten Island? I took this I actually th this one.

This exact usually it was this one. Um, which is again is I explained to my friends, and they're like, Yeah, but you also took the subway, you didn't want to buy one. Or a bus. But it was it's named after J F K it's named it was it was commissioned for J uh John F. Kennedy when he after he died and uh and it was

It it was um it was usually the seven AM ferry that I took uh got uh uh'cause I went up to this high school called Regis High School that's up on the upper east side and it's free if you get in. It's a really great school. And so most people that go don't live in Manhattan. Most people come from Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Jersey, even up. It's about an hour and a half every day? Yeah, I took the bus. And back. Each way, yeah. Bus, ferry subway. How old are you, sir?

Fourteen I did it fourteen to eighteen. Oh it's just high school, they don't have it. But it was so I mean, now it seems like a lot, but now everything seems like less of a trip. You know, it's like so e you know And I was never you know, it you and once you're there, you're like in Manhattan with your friends. So it was kinda it was very You you would you'd you'd use the time for homework and whatnot, like you wouldn't really feel the Yeah. True. Jason went to school on an actual bus.

On a bus, that's the truth. Yeah, for a while. How does that work? Not well.

Jason Bateman's Unique School Bus

A lot of massaging. That's also true. What is the nature why d how does massaging get involved? No bus I'm ever on is like and should we do a massage? Yeah. This is one of my favorite areas. This is second only to Ernest Borgnine jerking up all over his house. Keep going, Jason Co. This was an experimental school, Colin. Uh a friend of my father's uh started one of these um things in his home out in Calabasas. And um it was called Heart Light, one word. Um Like L I G H T.

Light. That's right. And um and there were uh because Calabasas is as as you know, you're familiar with the city here. Um it's a great deal of traffic, about another hour and a half, just like yours. Uh from Calabasas into the city. And so there were city days and country days. City days we'd go in and see the museums. Oh my god. And so they thought a uh a a good way to take uh advantage of that traffic time is to run classes in the back of this bus. You know?

Because they're an incredibly progressive. Group. And um and so we did that. There there'd be some motion sickness. Um and then on the country days, uh that's when we'd get into all the fun electives like massage. Um Pee P building. Um it wasn't an accredited school. Colin, I don't want to. I AM FUCKING DIE! In a inaccurate picture here. Never seen Will laugh harder. Oh god! It's the most

fun. I love I love Jakey Bates so much. I love paid for out of my own pocket I I was forced to pay for the school. Yeah. And not like regular bus fare, like school fare. Yeah. an imposter. Do the massages extra and did you tip to it like the dip? They pay you? It depends if I'm giving or receiving on that on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Um So King Samuel Colin. What a great it sounds like such a great idea, concept. Like we'll might as well use the journey for the school.

Sure. By the way, that part makes kind of sense in the in that way, right? Like that, yeah. You don't have to applaud them for the idea. Yeah. But um You're sitting so long on the bus, you gotta provide massages. It c it starts getting away from it pretty quick. The donut they had to give each kid to sit on. Oh you know, there's so much class time on the bus. Not great.

Ferry's Future: Events and Swim Club

So anyway, b uh we bought so I texted Pete, which is the r is the wrong person to text with when you're have an idea like this and I was like, Should we buy this? Right, yeah. The city was auctioning it and he was yeah, he was immediately was like, Fuck yeah, we gotta do this. So and um I texted my dad who's a t he was a teacher on Staten Island and he he literally was like, Did you do your homework? which is such a teacher thing to say

And I was like, Dad, I'm just sort of texting you as a formality. I already bought the boat. And then I texted Scarlet like, Guess what? We we own a ferry now and she was like, We uh Well did it stay in operation? It it was in operation until they until they they there was a new boat that came in. And the new boat cost like three hundred million to build. So I was like, I'm getting an old one for only two hundred and eighty thousand Right.

That's all the ferry cost was two hundred and eighty thousand dollars? Yeah, and I thought as a real I thought I was thinking it in a real estate way, if you put it somewhere, it's seventy thousand square feet. Oh my god in Manhattan, you've suddenly got basically a building on the waterfront. Parties. That was Value Scarlet? That could be a school. That Yeah! I can be right there. Kindergarten and elementary school and a high school.

Did you ever explore that opportunity? Like that you could actually park it there on the East River and and kinda have yourself a little uh a little not a little a house right there. We are we are in the p in the process of doing that and it's just it's a long process because uh all the waterfront stuff is just there's environmental, there's so we're in that process, and I think we're actually getting close to that process having a dedicated spot.

Yes, which which we I I joke about it a lot, but it is and we've done some events on it where we really have already made back the money we've invested and and and the money we've spent on stuff to dock it and all that. So it's it's very misreported that it is. I'm not your dad. I'm not your dad. You don't have to prove it. It's gonna be fine. Is this is this a good financial sign where you're like, it's fine. What's what's a home run? What's what's the goal with it? What's its park there?

I think the goal, a home run for me is like it's a thing that could be used for an event space, but also has like a norm like an everyday purpose of like Two two versions of it to me are like it could be an operating entertainment like club, like a place where you can go like you could have parties or there's regular parties on.

And then like I grew up in growing up in Staten Island, I went to this place so that it was called the Great Hills Swim Club. That was like a swim club where people would just go and they the kids could all hang out, the adults could hang out. And I could imagine creating a place like that that's not like a weird fancy members club, but is actually more like middle class in Manhattan.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and you play it and like there's a pool on the top and a diving board off the and you have these crazy You can just dive into the East River and enjoy yourself. Really enjoy yourself. Really swept down into the hour. Really pitching a swim club on the East River? Yes, like but a pool on the roof deck diving board into the pool, not into the roof. Like a cruise ship that doesn't leave.

A cruise ship that doesn't leave, but for families and it would be actually a great uh like people would would spend summers there and then it's also movable, so then half the year would be Miami. And it would be you'd have that in the winter when it's cold here, and you'd have summer there. Move it to Miami. Now now I'm seeing the Carmelo Soprado in you. This is a good picture. Miami we take over the High Lie racket. My god. See, I'm kinda sold on this colin. You kinda got me a little bit.

And then you'd have weddings and co like people already wanna rent it out and we which we we will do we've done it a couple of times, but we'll do it when we have a permanent spot. It just makes the economics way better.

The Intriguing Khat Plant Discussion

Yeah. And this is all about economics ultimately. And then and then you registered in Liberia. Yes. I can't wait. I'm gonna approach it on a zodiac with a mouthful of cat uh QA Are we we're I feel like the cat the cat used to just fall have you been doing any recently? I feel like we had not What is cat? What is cat? Well, Yeah.

It's like a plant you chew that has like a cre almost a a combo of cocaine and hallucinogenic The thing I read about it that it makes you it's the phrase I read was it makes you immune to atrocities, which is such a great description. Well I think they use it a lot. There there was a lot of usage of it sort of in the Horn of Africa, right? Am I right about that? And and so and a lot of

They accused a lot of these these pirates of uh who would go and commit piracy to of chewing on it. And it makes yeah, it makes you just do crazy shit. It's an appetite suppressant as well. It could give you it's like a you know dish, you know. This sounds like a fucking silver bullet. Um Where does one you do you need to be in the on the the southern tip of uh of Africa to find it? No, up in like up up near sort of Somalia, Ethiopia, up up in there. So it's closer. Uhhuh. Yeah.

Eritrea, yeah, like right on the road. It's very popular. You see these huge bushels of it. It's terrific. I got a guy, I'll get you a number. Are you on WhatsApp? Alright.

Harvard Lampoon and Early Comedy

First question for our guest today. Wait, Colin, let me take it. So Colin, you go to you go to this school, you go to this great school'cause you're really smart. Well no, well say the school is Harvard. No, I'm sorry. That way. For Regis, yeah, yeah, Regis. There's you get into Harvard evidently based on on your academic merits, uh uh I'm I'm guessing. What do you mean I'm not I'm not a traditional athlete? I'm not a dude.

You're y well you don't you don't have your your a name on a building is what I'm saying. Like or that's true. Yeah. So not even on my own very Right. So at heart at ha go ahead, Will. No, no I was gonna say you go take it over. Y you got involved with Lampoon, right? Yeah, and then you wrote eighty pieces before you got one accepted. Yeah, trying out for it. Yeah. There was a time, Colin, five years ago where Sean. from Bassett.

Interviewer on in anything any podcast, anywhere. You're going to podcast, he's the best. The follow-up for him and his questions. Okay. And since that nomination, he's gotten tight and he can't spit it out. No. No, no, you be quiet. Ha ha ha ha. No, because I wrote down a bunch of stuff that I actually wanted. Baby girl. You get give'em give'em your best one. Take some time, find the best one in there and you give it to him. I I would stop it because Yeah. But I would stop it too.

How did you get involved in in Lampoon? I didn't know about it. Did you guys have any awareness like had you ever heard of it? I mean, I had heard of the national lampoon. Yeah. I mean but I didn't know what it meant. Right. So for Tracy, it is is literally a magazine um uh uh uh there at the at the school.

Yeah, it's just a magazine that the that's been there. It's actually the hundred and fiftieth anniversary is coming up in like a week. So we're going back like bunch of like Conan and a bunch of people are all gonna go back and for this thing, which I It but it just was like a student magazine and and then Cause like a precursor to like kinda like something like The Onion or even like Mad Magazine, right?

Something like that. Yeah, and they started the people from there started like Spy magazine back in the day, which I never Uh but that was and and they started they did like lampoon magazines and yearbooks and stuff and then Spy magazine was I I remember it in the New York in the night, Spy Magazine was phenomenal. Yeah. I loved it. We still get it. There was...

And and there's so many people, you mentioned Conan, so many incredible comedy minds, sort of big sort of icons of comedy, you included, have come out of the lampoon. A lot of peop a lot of p it was like back in the day it was a lot of writers, like literary writers, you know, like John Updike and George Plimpton and George Santayana and all these like people and and also business pe like William Randolph Hearst was a member. There's a business board.

So he a lot of he helped fund the building that's there, like this Lampoon Castle, and he and Isabel are Stuart Gardner who has the museum who had the museum in Boston. She collected a lot of stuff that went to that museum on the same trip with him and he a lot of the stuff he got went to the lampoon, which is And it's a bit of a feeder for S NL too, isn't it?

Yeah. It ha it yeah, so like I around the seventies, eighties, uh a lot of it was this guy Jim Downey, who I you I'm sure you guys have have met through these, but he he went to S N L in the f he was a writer the first year at S N L of the of S N L and And then after that people kind of saw that you could write in comedy instead of necessarily only writing novels and and then people started getting into it.

there. But I didn't know so I didn't know have any awareness of it when I went like I went to school for economics, weirdly, and I didn't have any idea that there was uh I a s like a humor magazine or anything like that. And I had always done comedy things, but you didn't know it was really a job. You just did it. With your f it wasn't a destination for you to get into comedy now.

It just didn't yeah, I didn't know you could really. Like I it didn't seem like a real thing. And so that was the first place where I went and people just were really funny and I wanted to hang out there and then I started learning that people would graduate and go apply and work at different shows. And and so did you just apply for SNL? How did that happen? I submit I actually submitted a packet and then it was just the wrong time of year. I submitted it and so no one read it.

No agent, no nothing. You just did it yourself. You mailed it in yourself. No, no agent, nothing and and uh I submitted and no one looked at it'cause it was the wrong time of year. And then the next time you know, it was like the next uh summer And then I ran into someone who was uh who had been in the lampoon who was like, I heard it's you have to submit in the summer in like June or July or whatever the deadline was. And so I put together another packet

and submitted a ban. And I was you know, I was just lucky there was a ton of turnover. I wrote like six sketches and there was a bunch of writers that left and then I I got like Tina was uh the one of the head writers, Harper Steele, and they liked some you know, something that was in there and brought me in to interview and then I interviewed with Lorne, which was insane and uh

And then just was very lucky that there was an extra spot. And I was probably the last person hired. And I got hired with Sandberg and um Sandberg and uh Sudakis and Bill Hader and Kristen Wig. And then the Lonely Island guys, Yorma and Akiva and a guy Brian Tucker, who came from uh Yeah, Tucker and Sidegas was just hired as a writer first for that first. Yeah. Yeah. That was he just started uh he he had just got hired into the cast when I started. So that was the eight of us that all started.

From Economics to SNL Writing

How old were you when you started? twenty two. And so so d well so you go so you go into school to study economics. Was it was there ever a thought that that there would be a career in economics? Or was it just I gotta gotta I gotta declare a a a major and let's have it be this? I think it was a c I thought I could maybe work I mean I w I interned at like Merrill Lynch when I was in high school and

I just thought that was I in Staten Island, like there were certain j all my family was firefighters. Like my whole mom like my my mom was in the fire department, my grandpa, my great grandpa. So that was like a clear path I knew.

And then in s from St. Island, like people would go take the ferry to Wall Street. There were people that worked in w uh in finance. And then obviously there was a d I knew about being a doctor or being a lawyer. Like those were the kind of jobs that I understood. And so I sort of thought I would do something in that range. Like I would do work in finance or I would try to be a doctor someday or try to be a lawyer or something.

And then so so then so then you start to get the kind of this be in your bonnet for for comedy. Did you like talk to me about the the calculation you were making uh at uh you're so you're sitting at Harvard where you really whatever field you decide to study and get your diploma in, get get get get your um your degree in, you've got a pretty

good sort of base salary to assume there. And it's so like picking what you're going to get your degree in uh is kind of just you're declaring what your life is going to be and and and it's gonna be going to be pretty good. And so w you're thinking sh comedy, economics, or I can study this that uh at what point were you kinda like all in, it's gonna be uh gonna go into comedy writing or d did you did you Did you mitigate that risk by by minoring in something else? Like just walk me through that.

Realizing a Comedy Career

I you know, my parents definitely uh were worried, you know, just gen once I was once I was going down a comedy path. I mean, when I was there I switched So I switched from economics to uh when I declare I declare I was gonna be in economics, but then when you actually had to declare I I studied Russian

literature. Like I went That's lucrative. I was reading a bunch of books in Ru and and so I was like and then at some point I had to learn Russian. I had to live in sh Saint Petersburg for a summer and I was going down that path. But not just I didn' Let's pause there for one second. Why why Russian literature? What what was what was super interesting? You're a Russian asset. Great comment. I'm open to it. Are they asking?

Uh, the I just like the books. I just liked reading I r read in high school. I read some Nobokov and Tolstoy and Dostoevsky books and senior year. I liked them, so I wanted to read more. And then it just kept going down that line. Like I didn't have a plan for it. I certainly wasn't assuming it was gonna be a career. Right. Uh Speak Russian? I was f yeah, fluent in Russian. Why? Wow. That's awesome. Okay. All right. So then Then I sorry, that then I

I realized, I guess, when I was at the Lampoon that most of the things I did in my life leading up to that were kind of comedy versions of what I did. Like I ran the school newspaper, but I did the comedy. you know, wrote comedy for it n rather than like regular news. I was working at a newspaper, but I mostly wanted to write comedy there. I performed in plays and musicals, but I really only cared about the comedy part of it, not the serious part of it.

I did speech and debate, but I only did funny like oratories that I wrote that were kind of versions of comedy or performed funny things and didn't do any you know. So I just I started realizing that that was probably where my interest was, even if I was doing it in these other ways and that there's there's not really a funny version of finance. Along with abatements. Unless you buy a Staten Island fair. Yeah. Yes, then it is.

There's certainly some uh uh m more uh predictable financial security in the lane of economics as opposed to uh the world of comedy. Mm. Yeah. Yeah, I did. I just did I didn't have another plan and I didn't I honestly don't know that I could have imagined then going to law school or after that, I think I just decided that whatever version of it it was gonna end up being, I was gonna enjoy. Being around people that were funny and doing things that I tr tried things that were funny and

So great. I mean, I I'm sorry, I a reason I keep hammering you on this'cause, you know, I've got a daughter that's in her first year of of college and and and and even my youngest, uh the fourteen year old, she's, you know They're they're both sort of like, you know, as kids too, wondering about, you know, am I doing the things that I should be doing to set myself up for the best possible, you know, life? Am I making the right decisions?

Um, and I keep saying, Well, as long as you're pointed at something, a lot of opportunity comes your way. And so you're gonna see some forks in the road that might not necessarily be, you know, the the lane you're on right now. And that's that's good, that's okay. But you're not gonna find those forks unless you're driven

in in some direction on something. It doesn't matter what that is. And so uh I I guess you you're sort of a a great example of that. Um that you're driving towards economics and you found comedy. peer element of it is so important to me. You you know, you f you find people that are serious about something, even if it's comedy. and are really driven or are really you know, and then you you learn from them, you're competitive in a healthy way with them, you're

You know, uh you're you're hern hearing about opportunities from them eventually, you know, like when you're when you're trying to do things or I think that's so important too. And so that you have a you're not doing it in a vacuum. Right. We'll be right back. Jenny, vi är här idag för att prata om din relation. Berätta, hur har ni det? G-Beglass och jag har aldrig haft det bästa. Jag hade en liten svacka med GBCM företag, men vi har hittat tillbaka till den. No idea.

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Transition to Weekend Update

All right, back to the show. Well so you go to S N L that year that that you mentioned with all those dudes. W uh how long was it before you uh got the update, Chair? Yeah, did you go with the intention of wanting to do update or did you go or did it just happen or like No no no. I was I wouldn't even I I wouldn't have conceived of that. Carlin, I called you in here because I think you're ready. What? He's got it. Was it kind of like that?

He c he did call me yes, he he call I didn't even know why he was calling me in. Yeah. And he's like, So you think you could do update? Like asking me. Meanwhile you had only been a writer uh on the show for a year or two or three. No, no. I'd been there for a long so I I mean I had been there for a long time. I was there I was probably there eight years or something, seven or eight years. That's that's what I was getting at. Yeah.

'cause I not on and I so I got S and all I would I would have been happy to have any job in comedy, right? Like I've I applied everywhere that had a job. Uh I wrote a I wrote a arrested development spec script uh w when I when I was going out. I feel like you told me this once. Maybe I did. Maybe I did tell you that that yeah. And um That sounds familiar. Read that. It doesn't sorry. Joe B story or B Story. It doesn't matter who cares and forget.

Yeah. I mean the one can I tell you the one thing I remember about it, which was th now, which is that it was for uh for George Michael was c self conscious and wanted to lose weight and so he tried he tried joining a what he saw was a recreation society, but it was a recreation society. And he got cast as Ben Franklin and so ended up gaining a bunch of That's really funny. For the phone. So dumb. Oh my god, Mitch Hurwitz would have loved that.

So I wrote I wrote applied all these places and I was very you know, very lucky to get hired S and L and I felt like then I just wanted to be good at that and figure it out and and enjoy it. I loved I No on camera aspirations. No no, not I mean I but I did st I had I had performing aspirations. I just didn't think of it always as S N L related. Like I did stand up Right. So i so while that time I'm doing stand up in New York's

Oh you are? Okay. Yeah, while I'm writing I would go after when there's nights that you can get out and I would go do stand up like your A cellar or whatever. Did you did you ever were there ever any summer like end of seasons of SNL? Uh and you can be as honest as you want to be, or Where you were like, you know what? I I'm gonna move. I'm gonna leave. I wanna do something else. Like, did you ever have one of those moments in those eight years before you got the update chair?

Yes. Um not like not sp'cause there was a sort of a little bit of a r like, you know, I had a journey as a writer there where I got promoted to like a writing supervisor and then I got promoted to be head writer and that was like a real honor that I love the idea of getting to do that someday. So that was that was really important to me and I I felt r excited about that. It was I found it to be a really nightmarish job in a lot of ways.

because you're suddenly doing the same job you're doing, but you're also having to manage everyone you're working with. Right. And I'm that was a very weird period of time for me because it also coincided with

getting update. Like it almost exactly coincided. So no I suddenly Yeah, it was like maybe a year or half a year that I was a a head writer and then got update and but I had my only as I was there for a little longer, I did like performing, I did like doing stand up and honestly I wanted to w do some version of act not necessarily acting like in a serious way, but be performing in some way in a comedy way. And

I I thought I've done this as a writer now. I thought maybe after a few years, if if I if of being head writer, maybe there would just be something else I'd want to do or create a show as a writer or do something different. Yeah. Um and then got this opportunity to do had be to to do update. And then it was s it kind of went so badly at first for a while that I then thought I was gonna lose both jobs. That I was gonna be so bad at update that I was also Really did it not start.

Why did it go bad? What do you mean? was ti I mean, I think Seth was leav Seth was leaving. He was, you know, very loved doing the job. We you know, I came in, I started with Cecily Strong. We only we did like six episodes together. That's it. At the end of the year.

Yeah. And you know, I I think I just wasn't very good at it. It's very it's a hard thing to come in and do. And I don't I think I was like n really nervous and I probably that I probably s smiled or laughed in a way that made people think I was kind of cocky about it when I actually felt very much at at sea and panicking. People were giving me all kinds of advice that was contradictory and I didn't know how to

Do it and then and then basically in the summer I got told after those six episodes I got told like you might get to audition for it. And I was like, it which seems like a bad job uh sign to audition for the job you currently Yeah. Leslie Jones, I did an audition with Vanessa Bear, I did an audition with Chris Kelly, who's a really funny writer at our show. Yeah. Um and I did an aud and I auditioned with Che.

who I knew from stand up from before he came to S N L as a writer and you know, I loved the idea of getting to do with him'cause he's really funny, but I had no idea what You know what they were gonna go with. And they also brought in Anthony Jesselnik just to audition on his own. Like just to go in a totally different direction, bring someone else in.

And I'm sure he would have been very funny at it. Um and and then they they did these auditions and then I didn't even know what was happening and suddenly so I was involved in all these processes of cast and hiring and then suddenly I was completely cut off.

Really from like all my friends for for periods of time where everyone was probably nervous for me or and didn't know whether I should do the job genuinely. Like not not that they were being bad friends, just probably were like, I don't know if he's right for it.

And then they picked me and Shay. And then for like the first two years at least, we thought we were gonna get fired every summer. Like we were we were put on suspension kind of or put on extension and we didn't know whether we were gonna

get it or not, and we we and then something sort of just started clicking. Yeah. Really just we gave the Lauren was we were lucky that he gave us enough time to start figuring it out and then and then it started feeling Okay and then it started feeling better and not like a huge ex existential crisis.

Che's Infamous Update Prank

Great dynamic. You're so you so good at it. I One of the funniest things I'd ever seen was and I couldn't believe I was watching it and I can't believe it happened, which is Michael. Told the audience before you showed up to not laugh at one joke you said. And that was the joke. And I'm watching it going, Oh my God. Uh this is horrible to what. Like did you what what was going through your head? Oh I was like, it's all over. It's all truly

It was so perfect. It was so perfect because I changed a joke between dress and air early on. And it and so he had told he met by the way. This is the most proactive Che has ever been at about anything. She went and met with the audience before they loaded in, like looked them in the eyes and were like, listen, you're not laughing. I don't care. You do not laugh at everything anything Colin says.

This is while I'm waiting. Yeah, they're they're still waiting downstairs to get loaded in. And he goes down, meets them, tells them this. So I remember watching it, I couldn't believe it. And and then so I changed one joke early on between dress and air and it so at air it bombs. And in my head I'm like, Oh, I shouldn't have that I shouldn't have taken that swing. But it's perfect because I don't I could still believe it's you know

Then then then he goes and he crushes. Great audio it kills. She does two jokes, crushes. Then it comes back to me and I tell the next one which worked really well at dress and it bombs. And I'm like Oh my God. Because I'm t at first I was like, oh maybe they it's a bad crowd. Then he crushes. So I'm like, oh no. Meanwhile he keeps looking at you like, Oh boy, but Yeah. Yeah, just not leading and then the fourth joke.

Bom bombs and I'm truly thinking like my my career's over. Like I it's something's I I've tr it's a turned, I'm never getting it back, it's over. Yeah. And someone in the he had a plant in the audience that he had yell out, you stink after So simple, so simple, so dumb. It's just good. J John Higgins in the in the he just goes, You stink like old timey heckling. You bum! You're a bum!

And I and I heard that and I was like in full you can tell if you look at it in shock. And then Shay's like, dude, I gotta tell I gotta tell you. I told him not to laugh at anything. And I was like, You motherfucker. Is this is this is this live? Is this on is this on an episode? What a good Yeah, you can do it. It is so horrifying. Now you know and you'll look and you'll be like it'll You're fat.

I was I was genuinely traumatized for like two more shows.'Cause then the next show back, I didn't know what to I didn't know what was coming. Did you? Immediately start thinking about payback. Are you a good are you are you a prankster? Of course. By the way, did Che run it by Lauren? No, he just did it, he went rogue. He did and I think basically Lorne talked him into eventually telling me versus never telling me. Right, right.

Right, right. And otherwise would have been perhaps No, it's better to get your reaction on camera and see it dawn on you.

Pete Hegseth and Acting Ambitions

That's amazing. And then and now what I love, Colin, is you're appearing more and more as Pete Hagseth, which is so Oh, so good. It's so good. It's such a gift. But does any part of you get nervous about, you know, doing that at all? Well, on a couple levels. I mean, I first of all I still I get nervous even within an in an SNL world because it's suddenly a new thing and a new rhythm. Like even though I've been there for so long, coming out in the cold open is is its own Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

You've got to priv, you don't have to admit to this, but you've got to privately just be like so excited to go out there and show off a little bit because you're so goddamn good at what you do. Whether you're doing the update or or doing hex set. I mean it just You gotta be m you g I I'd love to see more more doing your thing. I think it I think it's one of my I think it's one of my favorite uh politician uh impressions. Yeah, yeah. It's really funny.

I that I can remember in the long I and I'm not just saying that'cause you're here. It's so good. Yeah. But but there is also the added because I mean, obviously he's the he's the secretary of war. Um and um officially, right? That's a that's official that was passed by you. Yeah. It's the only country in the world where we call that department the par the Department of War as opposed to Department of

I think it's fun that we've now let like they're obviously letting school kids just name departments. Is that what's going on? So they're just taking letters. Yeah, war. You can tell the generals are just like uh Yeah. But but is there to Sean's question, like is there an ad is there another layer of trepidation as you've been as as much as you're comfortable telling us, has there been pushback in a weird way?

I don't I mean, I'm definitely like a little ner uh nervous about I I kinda just think it's not. It's such in the scheme of things like barely probably I hope barely on his radar. Like it really does feel like there should be bigger. So much satire on SNL politically, always has been. So like wha how is this gonna make any big huge wave? It people are conditioned to look for satire politically on that show.

End up having a big night, he's got a coup a couple of cocktails under his belt and he might start he might start calling you. Guess what? I'll bet he loves it. The first time I did it, my brother my y I have a younger brother and my brother my younger brother was like, It's just so great that America finally gets to see the real you.

Well that's what I was gonna ask was like so like w you know, what would you like to do more I would love to see you do more acting, w um, whether it be on S and L or not. Is it was there do you think you'd ever Carve out some time to to do more of that? Well you got a movie coming up. would love it. Yeah, this I'm doing I did this movie with Nate uh with Nate Burgetsi who's who I love. The breadwinner. Breadwinner that's coming out, May Also twenty nine.

Is what I'm told. And I have a I think I have a fun party. Like Nate's basically forced to be A stay at home dad because his wife goes on Shark Tank and hits like gets a lot of traction. And the sharks the Shark Tank scene is so funny and this you really it's so so funny. And the sharks basically make Nate agreed to be a stay at home dad, so is why on camera. Um and I'm the only other stay at home dad in the neighborhood and I'm really I'm really scared he's taking over my territory.

And he's like a really funny dad that comes in. And it's it was so and I was I loved the script and he sent it to you know, I was people I never think people really think of me for things, so I was very grateful they that they thought of me for it and it was really fun to do and I gotta say Swings and I I never get a second chance at things.

If you could if you could if you could if you could r wiggle your nose and have uh full success come uh as a writer or as an actor, let's say in the next five or ten years, like let's say go the route of like you know, let's say Will Farrell or go the route of like Mike Scher. It's tough, right?

Uh very yeah, good options. I mean, I would I would really love to do s to get to perform in something outside you know, a new my a thing that's my own voice I mean I you know it well like it's you know it's I it that would be really satisfying. You're saying do both in in the same project? Yeah, maybe or I mean I I don't need to be I don't need to be the I would rather be

perform get to perform. Yeah. Um, but I would like I would obviously be involved in some way. I don't think I would not be able to, but I would I would like to figure out an idea, uh maybe ideally both, where it's a world that's my own In my from my own mind too. I would love that. And to think we almost lost you to to bear sterns or something like that. Yeah.

Pop Culture Jeopardy & SmartLess

Yeah. Um I could be long retired. But what about you also? Oh yeah. Gracias. You could have become dandy's, you know. Oh the great daddy. Um uh Colin, you also do Pop Culture Jeopardy, which is fantastic. Wait, is that the one that's on Netflix? Yeah. Okay. That's coming out on Netflix and May on May eleventh. Season two, right?

Yeah, season two. Yeah. It's um it's it's really fun. Like the pe I cannot believe the level of knowledge that that all uh these teams have about pop culture. It's very s it's really scary and I I have a this is I have a surprise for these guys, which is a clip um if B Bennett can play it or Rob can play it. We don't think we've ever run a clip before. I've never done a clip. Let's go to the clip. Oh my God. Yeah.

In the category of so help me pod. The Smartless Podcast is hosted by this trio of funny guys. Anna Marie. Who is Sean Hayes? That is one, Alex. Who is Eric McCormick? Steve. Who is Will Arnett? That is the second in Ashley. That is a person, but no. Justin. I'm sorry. When we were missing Jason Bateman, but the other two are gonna be very happy to throw in the biggest. It's gonna hurt in the renegotiations, but thanks for running

So let's go first reactions. Let's go around the horn. We'll start with you, Jason. I thought that was so great. You know what, that Jason abatement's starting to look pretty good, huh? Nice. Doesn't sound so bad, but So this was not tournament of champions, I guess. You know, these these these weren't the world beaters. No, these are the most knowledgeable. Come on. I think I was the only answer wrong in that up in that whole uh game. Jesus that cut. Which you never see.

Golf Plans and Final Farewell

The point is, but the point is breadwinner, celebrity SNL, like all of it. You have so much going on and you have kids and you have Scarlet and you have like just a whole I mean it's the you have a ton of stuff going on. Yeah, you're really you're kicking you're kicking in into high gear right now and it's fun to watch, man. It really fun to watch. It's fun. And he knows how to swing a golf club on top of it all. I know.

We gotta w you'll maybe this summer you'll be out a little bit and we'll do it. Yeah. Do you do you ever do go to do the Tahoe event or anything like that? Or you like Well no he's never going, but uh Unplug the speakers and let's play. People in Taha. I just I don't understand how it's just No, that's a tournament. That must have been fun, right? that and we did we've done the Genesis a few times and Oh yeah, that's fun. Yes in LA. But uh start our own golf tournament, uh you guys.

Let's do that. Yeah. Just Yeah, we'll play nines. झाल झाल Keep it real? I mean. We've taken up so much of your time, Colin. I can stay. I've I've ton of like a lot of time. Oh yeah. So no problem. Don't even feel like you gotta run it. I gotta go. I'm gonna have dinner with Tommy Hilfiger that uh right now. That's a that's a true story. Talk to him. He did an e Tommy Hilfiger did an event on our Staten Island ferry. Oh my gosh. Субтитры сделал DimaTorzok

What I'm gonna say is we drag it out to Sag Harbor for the summer. Yes, please. Yeah. Right? Let's start talking about that. That's what every neighbor wants to look up and see an orange orange vessel. All those billionaires, they're not gonna be mad at that. It's fun, it's kitschy. Uh Colin, thank you for being here. Your pleasure. Thank you. Me and Sean. I'm shocked. We were abusive towards you and your and your question as opposed to We're all in it.

Did you get to did you add did you were you able to ask our guests the things you wanted to ask? There's some other thing there's um many other things, but that's okay. We'll get it next time. Sorry, Sean. That's all right. Will brings out the worst in me. Sorry. Bill's fault. Uh Okay. Well get back to work, Colin. I know you have a lot of work there with it, especially cleaning up that asbestos above your head. Because I can still see it. That's amazing. Um thank you, my friend.

Thank you guys very much. And w I would love to play this summer if you guys want to play uh anytime. I'm gonna hit you up. Yes, please. We're going to finally do it. Bye guys. Good to see you. Interest. Audio wave, audio wave, audio wave.

Hosts' Post-Interview Reflections

Sean, what a great guest. What a lovely man and a funny, funny. Like I really like Colin, he's such a funny guy. I really ever he's every time I'm with him he's just like Easy, full. Well but isn't it amazing he's the longest I don't know if you heard in the in the in the intro, the longest What am I saying? Yeah, a host or something? Did did you not sleep last night? What happened? I'm still catching up. As you see Pap Hose clogged. Just d purge your hose.

Isn't that wild though to just be to know like he just It makes sense. Yes, he's so good. and Michael D, whom I don't know about. Hilarious. Yes. Hilarious. Those guys are so funny. What was the joke somebody reminded me of that they did this last weekend? Um uh uh played like a clip of Trump saying, you know, look, we're holding all the cards. And then and then they come back to Colin. He's like, they're literally holding a straight. Yes, I saw that. Ha ha ha.

Yeah, I thought that's right. It was a pun. Guys, there's you know, there's a lot of purchases we've all made in our life. You know, yeah what started out is this Good buys and some are bad buys? Is that what we're saying? Okay, so okay, but we're gonna back into it. Well, why don't you give it a little bit of a uh a head, like uh talk about the fairy and And in the middle talk about sometimes there's good you know.

I mean, yeah, the stat and that what an interesting uh thing to learn about that he what drew him to buy that statin out fair when he was a kid. You spent you spent it right there. You can't say bye until the end. So

Okay. It was an interesting thing that he purchased at Staten Island Ferry with with Pete Davidson because it brought you know,'cause he took it when he was a kid to go to school. Yeah. So you know we've all kind of made interesting purchases. Some are some are good, some are bad, but That started out as a as a seemingly bad purchase, but in the end it was a good I know. I like that. Goodbye. Goodbye. I gotta take a leak so fucking bad. I love you. Think of me when you hold it.

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