-I want to show another -- Yeah, you were posting
a lot of old photos. This is you
and that's Simon Rich and that's Marika Sawyer.
And the three of you wrote together and dear friends.
-Yes, we wrote about three sketches together
every week for three years.
We were the closest of friends.
And, uh, we would all sit --
The three of us would sit in a room
writing filthy sketches all night long.
And you would kind of check in and be like,
"What are you guys doing?"
-Yeah. -And you'd get a piece of it
and be like, "No, I don't like it."
[ Laughter ]
And, uh, so we were doing a Thanksgiving scene,
and we thought, "Let's take a picture,
and we'll make a Thanksgiving card for Seth.
And, uh, we'll give it to him."
So, that was the photo we took, and, uh, we made a card,
and it had this on the front.
It said, "Happy Thanksgiving, Seth."
And then, when you opened it,
it said, "We [bleep] each other."
[ Laughter ]
And...then we signed it. It was nice.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-It was nice. -Yeah.
-Um, we -- Another "SNL" sketch you were in
is a writer we both love wrote --
This is "Drag Brunch."
-Thrill of a lifetime. Yes.
-James Anderson --
How would you describe James Anderson,
for those who aren't lucky enough to know him?
-Don't be distracted by this photo.
James Anderson is the writer who wrote this sketch,
"Drag Brunch," and is the funniest person in the world
and that any of us have ever worked with.
-Absolutely consistently funny, week after week.
And he's been working at "SNL" since, I think, 2000.
-Yes. And would come into the rewrite room
not knowing what anyone was pitching on
and pitch a joke that would work better than anything.
He would walk in and say like,
"Why doesn't she just go, 'I want a Purpsi'?"
And we'd be like, "All right. We'll put that in."
So, just, like, funny bones, funny bones.
And, uh, he wrote a sketch called "Drag Brunch,"
and I said to him, "It is the thrill of my life
to be in a sketch that you wrote."
-And it was fantastic.
-And I got to wear heels on concrete,
which is fun. -Did it -- Did you --
Do your shins still hurt from wearing --
-No, we figured it out good.
Uh, me and the wonderful costume department --
You know, we judged based --
I have a tear in my hip, too, so we were factoring that in.
-Got it. -How high the heels could be.
Walking on concrete, never having done it before.
Super nervous. All those things went in.
We went with a low heel. -Oh, wow.
Do you have a greater appreciation
for those in drag for how hard it was?
-Um, I have a greater appreciation for those shoes
and for all the times I've been like,
"Come on! Let's get the cab!" You know?
-Yeah. -Come on! The Uber's here!
-[ Laughs ] -I like --
Watch me walk in real time.
It's like -- It was like...
when a -- when a cow's born.
[ Laughter ]
A calf, I guess you'd say. -They're called calves.
-They're called calves at first.
-This is a sketch you wrote.
You and Colin Jost wrote this years ago.
-Yeah. And you didn't pick it. -Uh...
I -- -You were the head of writing.
-I was the head of writing, but I thought --
I remember saying, like --
I'm like, "Save it for when he comes back."
[ Laughter ]
-"I'll wait till one of these writers
improbably hosts."
-You were a "Les Mis" fan as a child.
So this -- I should point out,
this sketch was called "Diner Lobster."
-Yes.
-And it was to the "Les Mis" soundtrack.
-Yes, it was about a diner that serves lobster,
as some in New York do.
Someone finally orders the lobster,
and we bring out the lobster,
who's Kenan playing a Jean Valjean type.
He's facing death.
He's lived in the diner for 40 years,
and the only music to accompany that is "Les Miserables."
So what we did was we wrote it
by listening to the "Les Mis" soundtrack,
and then we changed the words of the songs
and we made them about being a lobster.
[ Laughter ]
-And that's sketch writing.
-And that was at the table in 2010.
-Yeah.
-And I remember it was done.
And it wasn't like you were mad,
but everyone was just like, "Guys."
[ Laughter ] And then we moved on.
And now it's on TV. -Who'd you write it for?
Do you remember who you originally wrote it for?
-Um, I think Galifianakis was the host.
-Oh, all right. -Yeah.
-Well, I think you elevated it. [ Laughter ]
There's a person on TV you get mistaken for.
-Yes.
-And you got mistaken in the park the other day?
-No, this has been happening a lot.
I'm not saying I look like The Flash, but...
-Oh!
-I've been told enough -- -Somebody just went "Oh"
like they kind of see it. -Oh.
They're like -- Now they think I'm The Flash.
But it's happened enough that I need to say something.
I'm not The Flash.
[ Laughter ]
I was at the dog park.
I had my dog. Don't worry. [ Laughter ]
and I see this woman -- older woman and a little boy
are walking along the gate of the dog park,
and the boy is jumping up to look over the gate.
And he's jumping up and he goes, "Flash. Flash. Flash."
Like he had a little accent from like, old Europe when old --
like old spelled with an E, you know?
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -Like, "Flash, Flash!"
And his companion, grandmother, whatever, she goes,
"He says you are The Flash."
And I said, "No, I'm not The Flash."
You know, and he keeps going, "Flash, Flash."
And she goes, "Are you sure you're not The Flash?"
And I said, "It happens from time to time.
I'm not The Flash."
Right at that second, someone walked up who recognized me
from stand-up comedy and said, "Hey, I'm a big fan."
And I went, "Thank you very much."
And they walked away. [ Laughter ]
And then I locked eyes with the grandmother and she was so mad.
And she looked at me and she said,
"No, you are not The Flash."
[ Laughter ]
-Just for those who don't know, let's go over to camera one.
There's the Flash. -Yeah, it's not --
It's not perfect. -It's not bad, though.
-When I came home -- I came back to the apartment,
I was like, "I'm sick of being The Flash!"
I gave no context to my wife, no context.
[ Laughter ]
I go, "This kid thinks I was The Flash.
And the grandma's mad at me.
and then, this guy said he was a big fan of mine,
and that was embarrassing."
And my wife, Anna, was like, "So, let me get this straight.
Your two problems are that a fan said he likes your work
and that people think you look like a 25-year-old,
handsome actor who, by the way, you don't look like."
[ Laughter ]