-Our next guest is a very funny actor and comedian
you know from his work on "Saturday Night Live,"
"Mr. Mayor," and "The Secret Life of Pets."
His children's book "Not All Sheep Are Boring!"
is available now. Please welcome back to the show
our good friend Bobby Moynihan, everyone!
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Welcome to the club of celebrity book authors.
[ Laughter ]
-We did it! -We did it.
-We deserve it. -We deserve it.
Now, I've written one of these, as well, Bobby.
-Yes, I read it. -Thank you.
-Thanks. -You found the time?
-I did. I did. Long one. It was a long one.
-It was a long one.
I actually have had parents be like, "It was a little long."
But this -- The question that I gotta ask --
what was your inspiration for "Not All Sheep Are Boring!"?
And how long did it take you, the process, to write this book?
-The inspiration -- I have a daughter now.
Doing a lot of bedtime reading.
And the topic of counting sheep to fall asleep came up.
And I thought, "Why is that?"
It's 'cause they're boring. It's 'cause they're --
-Yeah. -They're a very boring animal.
And that's why people do it.
So I sat in my bathroom for an hour and I wrote a book.
[ Laughter ]
-So it only took an hour?
-Maybe a little less than an hour. No, no, no.
No, I thought about it for a very long time.
-Oh, yeah. You put hours and hours.
-Hours of toiling and then in the bathroom...
FDADADADADA! Real quick.
-Do you do your best writing in the bathroom?
-I only write in the bathroom.
Pandemic. I lived in the bathroom for two years
pretty much during the pandemic.
-There's a -- There's a toad character, which is a --
Your daughter -- One of your daughter's favorite animals.
-Yeah, look at him. He's a little toad guy.
-Yeah. -Such a little cutie.
-How did Dorothy --
-Julie Rowan-Zoch did the art for this.
She -- She's absolutely amazing.
Dorothy -- Yeah, I like little fat toads.
-Uh-huh. -I thought it was going to be
a big fat toad, but he turned out to be a little guy,
and I'm fine with it. -You know what?
I heard -- I heard -- So, this is the beautiful artwork there.
-Yeah. -But you -- you tried.
You gave an early effort to do the art yourself.
-I -- Yeah. I used to draw when I was a kid.
And I was like, "I can draw this book, too!"
And I was wrong. I was wrong.
-Yeah. -I tried.
-But you didn't do a terrible job. These are way better --
When I heard you were going to do the drawings...
-That's where everyone goes.
Like, I remember telling them, "I want to draw the book."
And they went, "Oh, great!"
-Well, this isn't bad.
That's a sheep with a secret, right?
-I think he's a little --
[ Laughter ] He's evil.
-Yeah, he's really evil. -Yeah, yeah.
Maybe he was terrifying children.
-But these aren't -- These are good.
-These are the picture-- [ Laughs ]
Yeah, I sent them these, and they were like,
"We're going to send you a couple illustrators."
And I'm extremely glad I did. But I tried.
-Yeah. I think you did. Is Dorothy -- Does she like it?
-Yeah, she loves it. She loves reading in general.
She likes me, which is nice. -That's nice.
-And I wrote it. Yeah, no. She -- she really likes it.
She likes "Pierre."
She likes -- She likes anything, like, spooky or weird.
-Do you -- Having done a lot of voices for animated things,
does she like when you do voices when you read?
-Uh, sometimes.
We do -- Like, the hour before bed is just an improv show...
-Yeah. -...in our house.
But every once in a while now,
she's getting to the age where I'm like, "Dorothy!"
And she goes, "Please stop."
Immediately. Immediately, "Please stop."
-[ Laughs ] My kids hate when I do voices.
-Oh, yeah.
-Yeah, they just want me to read the words.
-She has a -- a Mel from "Secret Life of Pets"
that, like, when you squeeze it, it's my voice.
And she'll go -- pff -- and just smack it.
Yeah. [ Laughs ] She's not a fan of that one.
-She is not --
Does that mean this improv-show thing --
does that mean she does not go to bed right away?
-No. The hour before sleep is -- is both --
is my wife telling both of us to calm down.
-Oh, I see. Yeah. -Yeah.
I -- I put her to bed sometimes,
and she goes to bed 45 minutes later
because I'm just being a weirdo with her,
and I think it's fun. -Yeah.
They're good when they're --
When they're a good audience, it's really fun.
-Yeah, it is. She's a good laugher.
Yeah, she has a lot of characters.
-Oh, she does characters, too? -Yes, very much so.
Crazy shopper is a big Dorothy character.
-Really? What does crazy shopper do?
-Okay, all you have to do --
If you will be me in this situation.
-Okay.
-Just say, "Well, time to open my store."
-Okay. "Well, time to open my store."
-[ Screaming ] And then she just runs in
and knocks everything down.
That's crazy shopper. -Crazy shopper.
-I didn't -- I didn't want to ruin your desk.
-Thank you very much. -You're welcome.
-That's a good character. -Uh, crazy shopper.
Mr. Mustache.
-What does Mr. Mustache do?
-He's got a mustache. -Great.
-Yeah, he talks -- and he loves talking about it.
-Loves talking about the mustache.
-Yeah. Baby unicorn has to be carried everywhere.
-Mm-hmm.
-Baby unicorn's legs are not very strong.
-Yep. -And then Evil Dorothy.
-Evil. Wow. She has -- She's already learned
that you can have an evil version of yourself.
-Yes. Evil Dorothy. Where's my camera?
This is Evil Dorothy, is just this.
She just goes...
[ Laughter ]
-And we should note -- she's 19, right?
-She's 19 years old, yes.
[ Laughter ]
-Hey -- -She's a writer on your show!
-Yeah, she's a writer. She's great. We love you.
Well, we love Dorothy. We don't love Evil Dorothy.
Speaking of characters, you did
one of my all-time favorites, Anthony Crispino, right here.
-Oh, look at these children. -Yeah, look at these children.
-Wow! [ Cheers and applause ]
-I feel like even --
even the colors of our clothes have gone gray.
-[ Laughs ] Yeah, life has just gotten --
-Yeah, everything is a little more muted.
-Life has just gotten gloomier.
Look at that background. -Alright.
So, Secondhand News, Anthony Crispino --
he was famously -- I mean,
it was a character you and Colin Jost wrote.
-Yeah, yeah. -But it was about a guy who
sort of got the news secondhand
and maybe got some of the details wrong.
-Yeah, was always afraid of people hearing it, too.
-Yeah, he had top-secret information.
He was fine to say it on "Weekend Update,"
which is national television.
-Fine to say it on national television, yeah.
-Could we do a few? Could I feed you a few
and see what you think Crispino might say about it?
-Sure. Let's do it. It's been a while.
-Okay. So here we go.
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So, you know, I think the way we would do this -- Yeah, yeah.
Hey, Anthony, I don't know
if you heard about these Mar-a-lago documents. They...
-Oh, yeah. You hear about this thing, though?
Oh, it's so good to see you. -It is good.
I really like that we're -- This is a real flashback.
-It really feels very calm, very normal.
You hear about this thing, though?
-What's that, Anthony?
-Marge Simpson found some documents.
Turns out she's dating Master Splinter
from the Ninja Turtles.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. You heard it here first.
-It's not -- it's not Marge Simpson's. It's Mar-a-lago.
-Eh...pretty sure it's Marge Simpson, though.
Pretty sure it's Marge Simpson dating Splinter
from the Ninja Turtles.
-No. It's "special master." -Highly topical!
-It was -- It was rumored...
[ Laughter ]
It was rumored Harry Styles spit on Chris Pine.
-Ohh, boy.
You hear about this?
Even more topical, Harry Hamlin...
[ Laughter ]
-Harry Hamlin? -Yeah, Harry Hamlin.
You know the guy with the nice hair?
-Yeah, from "L.A. Law."
-Yeah. Of course, from "L.A. Law."
-Yeah. -Where you think he's from?
"St. Elsewhere"?
He split a tree in half with his head. Pine tree.
-No. Harry Styles spit on Chris Pine.
-Eh, pretty sure it was the other way around, Seth!
I can't even get that high anymore. I'm so old.
-Yeah, that part of your voice is gone.
Yeah, thank you for stopping by, Anthony Crispino.
It was great to see you. -Thank you for having me.
[ Cheers and applause ] -You're also...
-That was -- That was truly fun and cathartic.
Thank you for that. -It was great to do.
I mean, we -- it was a --
it was always a very fun time with you out there.
You were -- you were -- -The best. That was my --
My most favorite moments were with you on "Update."
-Yeah, Anthony Crispino would get very high in a way
that I feel like only dogs could hear him at some point.
-Yeah, that was the point.
I believe we did that joke once where --
I think you're right. Dogs started barking. Yep.
-Where dogs started barking.
-You're doing the "Batman: Audio Adventures."
You're doing another season of that.
That's our friend, Dennis McNicholas, who wrote those.
-Yeah, the best. He let me play the Penguin, my dream.
-Yeah. -It's so much fun.
-And then you're also -- You just finished
wrapping a film where Jerry Seinfeld directed.
-Yeah, yeah. It's called "Unfrosted" for Netflix.
All about the story of how the Pop-Tart was made.
Extremely true story.
[ Laughter ]
-Like documentary quality. -Documentary --
Getting to the hard stuff about the Pop-Tart.
Yeah, yeah. -That's very exciting.
I mean, I find it to be a trip just to talk to Jerry Seinfeld.
It must be amazing to be directed by Jerry Seinfeld.
-It is. It's very strange.
Just hearing his voice in general go like --
It's Jerry Seinfeld. -Yeah.
-And you feel like someone's doing a bit.
I feel like Jay Pharoah is around.
-Yeah. -Because -- Because it's just
somebody doing his voice, but then he's looking at you
talking and saying your name, and you're going,
"Okay, Jerry Seinfeld."
Like, it's hard to get past that.
-Yeah, well, I'm very excited to see this,
and I'm always excited to have you here.
Congratulations one more time on the book, everybody.
It's called "I'm Not Scared, You're Scared!"
-Wait a minute! -Alright. Hold on.
"Not All Sheep Are Boring!" I'm sorry. It's on sale now.
We'll be back with more "Late Night."
-Thank you, buddy.