- Is your love of Lip Sync Battle ruining your life?
Do you find it difficult to connect with other people
if they're not also into Lip Sync Battle?
Do you find it hard to enjoy the activities
you once loved unless those activities
are just watching more Lip Sync Battle?
- Well then you've come to the right place;
this is the Lip Sync Battle Pre-show!
Fireworks, explosions, beep, beep, yeah!
(upbeat music)
You know, we've got a great show for you today.
But first let's look back at last week's episode.
(rock music)
(applause)
Woah! - Yeah, that was great.
Well this week, Nicole Richie and John Michael Higgins
are gonna be throwing down in the LSB ring.
Now if you're thinking that seems like an odd pairing,
you're wrong, okay. - Hey, hey, no.
- I'm sorry, it's just that Nicole Richie
and John Michael Higgins co-star in Tina Fey's
new show Great News, that's all.
- Oh. - That's all I was gonna say.
- I think it's a great pairing.
I think it's great news. (laughs)
'Cause they're in it, and I--
- Let's roll the interviews.
Hey guys, I'm here with John Michael Higgins,
did you get any advice going into the Lip Sync Battle?
- Don't do it. - Okay.
- Don't go. - That's a good--
- That was the advice. - Who gave you that?
- Pretty much everybody I asked.
- You are a master of improv and you're a master of comedy,
are you going to be bringing those skills to your--
- Hold on, I'm smiling for my audience.
- Perfect, can we just freeze-frame that
and then zoom in for a second?
- Turn it into a GIF, is that what they're called?
Turn it into a meme, meme me up daddy!
What else was written on this page?
How about my hopes and dreams?
- Do you have any hopes and dreams?
- No, oh it doesn't say that does it?
- Does that give you an edge? - Does that give me an edge?
- Do you wanna just read it and then you can answer?
- Yeah, are you in the Pitch Perfect movies?
Yeah, I'm in some of 'em.
I think the tense is wrong in this thing.
- Can you just give a message to Nicole Richie
that will really rattle her cage?
- Hey Nicole--
what am I supposed to make her?
- Just upset, rattle her cage--
- Hey Nicole, I'm gonna rattle your cage.
I'm gonna take you down in
the Lip Sync Battle, Nicole Richie.
Give me this.
Do you think she's scared yet?
You wanna hear a cage rattle?
(paper flaps)
Listen to this.
(watch rattles) - I know, I know.
- I think that oughta do it.
- That was perfect - Think that was pretty good.
- He's awesome man, alright now let's take a look at--
- Hey wait, no, Elliot, hey.
John Michael Higgins asked us to meme him,
and it is our pre-show duty to meme him.
- Totally right.
(Lee exhales)
- Turn it into a meme, meme me up daddy.
Meme-meme-me-me-me-meme me up da-da-da-daddy.
Turn it in-turn it into a meme.
- Ah we did it. - Ahh!
- So meta, so cool. - I know right!
- I would love to be memed one day, I hope--
- Like, really?
- Yeah, oh my god, can you imagine, woo!
It's a dream of mine.
- All you gotta do is just say the magic words?
- For real? - Yeah!
- Meme me up daddy!
(silence)
- [Lee] Oh.
(somber music)
- Oh, it's sad.
- Yeah it's a running joke. (she laughs)
- I get it, okay so let's check out Nicole Richie.
- We are here with Miss Nicole Richie, how are you feeling?
- I feel angry and confused.
- Good. - Yeah.
- Good, you're in the right state.
- I'm in the right state.
You have to be horribly angry,
you have to see red.
- When you see red what happens?
- So Beyonce has Sasha Fierce?
- That's what I was wondering, yeah.
- I have Nicky Fresh.
(Lee exhales)
The S is a dollar-sign,
just for when you imagine.
It's not an S, it's not an S.
- Nicky dollar-sign Fresh.
- Freh. - Freh.
It's beautiful.
John Michael Higgins had some pretty trash stuff to say.
- He always does. - Yeah.
Some words that were thrown around: shrimp.
- Mmm.
- He said he was going to rattle your cage.
- Mm-hmm, he wishes.
- It's smack-talk.
- I actually don't even know who she is.
- John Michael Higgins?
- I don't know her. - Yeah.
In order to smack-talk back,
if you could look right over there to Reuben's camera.
- I don't know your name because
I don't remember you at all.
It's gonna be,
"Oh did you see Nicky Fresh on Lip Sync Battle?"
"Yes, I did, who did she compete against?"
"I don't, what?"
- There was no competition.
- I don't even know it's so weird.
- It's so weird.
Thank you Fresh, thank you so much.
- Thank you. - For joining us.
- Thanks.
- She's amazing, and now I wanna meet Nicky Fresh.
- You know, I also have a rap alter-ego,
her name's Hissy Fitz and she is pretty fierce.
Wanna see her? - No.
- Okay, well here she is.
- Okay, alright.
- I already prepared something.
(hip hop music)
♪ Yo, my name is Hissy Fitz
♪ And it's written on my cold brew
♪ You gonna step to me
♪ I'm gonna drop you
♪ If you cut me off in traffic
♪ Hissy fit
♪ If you talk about about my lipstick
♪ Hissy fit
♪ If you're part of the patriarchy
♪ Hissy fit
♪ (beep)
If you have a myopic world view it's a hissy fit.
This has gotten less about rapping
and more about a political stance.
Hissy fit!
I hate you!
Blur this, blur this!
- They're gonna blur it, we gotta go.
- [Lee] Okay.
- It's like 9pm.
- Hey guys, thank you so much
for trying to make this happen.
- Thank you guys so much, this has been really great.
- Thank you.
- How are you feeling?
- I'm feeling like it was a dream that I just didn't--
I thought it would be better.
I smell a sensation!
- Ugh, guys be sure to download
the Lip Sync Battle app as soon as you possibly can.
- I did, I already did. - No, them.
("Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves)
♪ I used to think maybe you loved me
♪ Now baby I'm sure
♪ And I just can't wait 'til the day
♪ When you knock on my door