-Hey, welcome back. We're here with Andy Samberg
and the cast, Kenan Thompson, John Mulaney,
and writers Colin Jost and Rob Klein of tonight's
"Second Chance Theater." [ Cheers and applause ]
Well, Andy, we'll start with you.
How do you feel it played?
-I'm feeling like I wish I had changed before this part.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
Right, that you're still in full Griff Banks,
you're still wearing the wig. -Yeah.
Starting to regret that a little bit.
-You mean it's hard to get out of character.
-Yeah. -You're so method about it.
-Yeah. -What did you just say to me?
[ Laughter ]
-Do you, Rob and Colin, do you remember writing this sketch?
-Very well. [ Laughter ]
-And did it sort of fly off -- fly onto the page, I should say?
Did the inspiration just come fast and furious?
-Yeah, I think Griff kind of wrote it.
-Yeah, yeah, Griff kind of wrote himself.
-Griff wrote it for us. [ Laughter ]
-To dress twice. Do you remember the two hosts?
-Emma Stone and Gabourey Sidibe.
-Yeah, there you go. -Right.
-Yeah. -Classic find-and-replace, yeah.
-Yeah. Did you -- Do you remember --
Well, you were in it both times. Do you feel like it
played well enough to go to -- -I was in it both times?
-Yeah. -Nice.
[ Laughter ]
-Sure.
Um, yeah, I loved it. [ Laughter ]
Each and every time. -John, you have some
other favorites of Andy's that did not find their way to air.
Do you want to share some of those with us?
-This wasn't on air? Griff Banks?
-This was never aired. -Oh, it went to dress.
-Yeah, it went to dress. -Which is right before air.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -Then they cut it.
[ Laughter ]
-We worked on a piece, I think it was Friday night
till about 4:00 a.m., called --
It was an "Update" feature.
You did "Update." -Yeah, I did, yeah, yeah.
-It was called "The Guy Who Just Woke Up."
So Andy would come out, and he'd be like, "Ahh."
He'd be tired, you know? He just woke up.
And I remember we got off the elevator at 4:00 a.m.,
and we had turned it in, and we were in the lobby.
And we all wanted to go home, and Andy said, "Oh, wait.
Maybe we should call him Bedhead Jones."
[ Laughter ] And...
you know, we were like -- we were like, "I don't know.
Bedhead Jones. We kind of want to go home,"
but looking back, I think that,
you know, that would've saved it."
-Yeah, I think it would've. Would've put it over the top.
-I realize today how many of your characters
that we worked on had the entire premise of the sketch
in the name of the character. -Right.
Well, you got to let them know up front.
-All the jokes. [ Laughter ]
-There was Gerald.
-Gerald who's always sick. Also cut.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah, never aired.
-Gerard, the worse dude ever, also cut.
-Gerard, the worst dude ever. [ Laughter ]
Do you remember a couple things about Gerard?
Couple of details I remember of Gerard, he rode in on a --
What do they call it? Recumbent bike?
-Recumbent bike. -Teva sandals.
-Teva sandals. -Tevas and socks.
-He followed -- He was like a Deadhead but for Jamiroquai.
-Yeah, the Quai. [ Laughter ]
He followed the Quai. -We referred to them as the --
-He's on tour with the Quai. [ Laughter ]
-He had an iguana named Gary Larson.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-Yep, creator of "The Far Side." -Who was it that liked
Martinelli's sparkling apple cider?
-That was -- -I texted you on Thanksgiving.
-We just were talking about this.
-Lomax. -Lomax!
-Yeah, Lomax. -None of these aired.
[ Laughter ]
-Can you do Lomax's voice for us for a second?
-Oh, and truly. Such a pleasure to see you.
[ Laughter ]
Would you like another glass of Martinelli's sparkling cider,
the world's most perfect beverage?
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
I feel like I'm in the room with Lomax.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-Colin, you -- we were --
You know, we e-mailed this script around
because we were talking about doing this,
and you made an observation about Griff Banks,
that it was sort of -- it was foreshadowing
the future of American politics. -That's right.
I didn't realize that Griff Banks
would essentially become President of the United States.
[ Laughter ]
-But basically, a sensitive bully...
-Sensitive bully. -...would be exactly
who would hold the highest office.
-Andy, good job. [ Laughter ]
-Yeah. Finger on the future pulse.
-Do you think he would own up to being a gaping snorf?
[ Laughter ]
-So gaping snorf -- looking back, do you feel like
"gaping snorf" played as well as you had hoped it would play?
-Truthfully, better. [ Laughter ]
-What about the second time? -Second time.
When amber said it? -Yeah, because you say it,
and then, another character says it.
-Well, what was nice is, we cut to Seth in the middle.
[ Laughter ]
And Klein and I were talking, we were like,
"That was our mistake at 'SNL.' We should've cut to Lorne."
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
It would've been fun. Just in general,
there should be a Lorne-cam that people can watch.
-Oh, my God. -Right.
-Like, you know, there's certain, like, football games
where you can just watch the feed from, like,
a different camera. -Yeah.
-If there was a Lorne-cam, that would be amazing.
-Like, mic'd up? -Yeah.
-Throws his wine glass against the wall --
"Mother [bleep]" [ Laughter ]
-And he's throwing the headphones.
[ Laughter ]
-Klein, do you remember being under the bleachers
for Griff Banks, thinking this is gonna air?
-I remember the first part of that,
of being under the bleachers, for sure.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-I think we thought it probably would air.
And I think it was maybe a little controversial
that it didn't air. -Yeah.
Like, controversial in that people cared?
-Like, we were mad about it. -Yeah.
-Among us three. [ Laughter ]
-It was a controversy that still burns today.
-The Gabourey Sidibe one, it was picked for air.
-Yeah. -And got cut on air,
and the sketch that played instead was a Will Forte sketch,
a character he did called "Hamilton."
-Hamilton Whiteman. -Yeah.
-Yeah.
-And I think we should've done Griff.
[ Laughter ]
-You're gonna throw your boy Forte under the bus right now.
-Yeah, yeah! [ Laughter ]
I mean, everyone thinks Forte's so nice.
[ Laughter ]
-Oh, boy. That's a --
-I should've took off the wig, for sure.
[ Laughter ]
-In fairness to Hamilton, he was, I believe,
an Aryan Nationalist with a bob haircut.
-Yeah. -In fairness, yeah.
-They were really -- they were really kind of both
foreshadowing America. -Truth.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
-What's the worst -- Do you have a worst moment
under the bleachers with Lorne, as far as --
-Uh... A worst moment.
-Or, like -- -Oh, my favorite moment
was his son Eddie... -Yeah.
-Maybe he was 11 at this time.
Lorne was watching a sketch of ours on the monitor,
and he kept going... [ Scoffs ]
...like that, you know, because it wasn't doing well.
So, eventually, Eddie just was staring at him,
and then, Eddie went... [ Scoffs ]
[ Laughter ]
...mimicking him. I thought that was cute.
And then, a lot of other times that were very hurtful, yeah.
[ Laughter ]
-At some point like last year, I was watching a sketch
that they had written, and it was not going great,
and he turned to me under the bleachers, Lorne,
and he said, "Do you think they can take Emmys away?"
[ Laughter ]
-That's a good one. -Alex Baze, who ran "Update"
when I was there and is now the head writer of this show,
I did something on "Update."
I tried a new thing where...
I basically looked through a magnifying glass at some point
and was doing a bit with a British accent.
And Lorne told Baze, when it was over, he just said,
"Burn the tapes." [ Laughter ]
Which I don't -- Looking back, I don't think
Baze should've told me. [ Laughter ]
-We had a game-show host once named Robert Blaze, I think.
And Lorne went, "Everyone's confused
'cause they think it's Rubén Blades."
And we were like, "Oh, no, they're not."
You know? [ Laughter ]
You know, 47 years? He knows what he's doing.
-He knows what he's doing.
You guys, congratulations on it finally finding air.
I'm sorry, you know, it's on a weeknight,
like, after 1:00 a.m. -This is better, truthfully.
-Yeah. -And thank you for giving it
this chance to shine. [ Laughter ]
-And shine it did. -Yeah.