Steve Martin ‘SNL’ Sketch Still Stands Out For Seth Meyers And The Lonely Island
deadline.comSteve Martin‘s 2006 Saturday Night Live hosting assignment still stands out for Seth Meyers, Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone.
But not for the right reasons. On Monday’s April 29 episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, the team talked about the surfer sketch they worked on for Martin.
Meyers said he thinks about it “all the time, mostly because every time I see Steve Martin, he brings it up.” He asked his co-hosts to explain the sketch, “Surf meeting,” noting, “You guys wrote it.” “‘Surf meeting’ was a classic format for us, which was one person sucking and not being able to take a hit over and over and over again, like way too many times,” said Samberg.
In the sketch, Samberg asks Martin’s character, who’s “in an old-timey bathing suit looking super dorkish,” to leave. “It was making us laugh so hard when we were writing it,” Samberg said. “We were like, ‘This is the best thing ever.’ It actually played great at the table, and we were like, ‘We did it!
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