Seth Meyers Remembers ‘SNL’ ‘Failure’ That ‘Nonetheless Sticks with Steve Martin’

Steve Martin’s 2006 Saturday Night time Stay internet hosting gig will endlessly sit within the minds of Seth Meyers and the Lonely Island.

On Monday’s April 29 episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, Meyers, 50, Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone mirrored on the unforgettable surfer sketch they labored on for Martin.

The Late Night time with Seth Meyers host mentioned it’s a sketch he thinks about “on a regular basis, largely as a result of each time I see Steve Martin, he brings it up.”

He requested his co-hosts to elucidate the sketch, “surf assembly,” noting, “You guys wrote it.”

“Surf assembly was a basic format for us, which was one particular person sucking and never having the ability to take successful over and time and again, like approach too many instances,” mentioned Samberg, 45.

He added that it featured “a bunch of surfers assembly on the seaside,” and recalled being the chief of the “surf crew.” Within the sketch, he asks Martin’s character, who’s “in an old-timey bathing swimsuit trying tremendous dorkish,” to depart.

“It was making us chortle so laborious once we have been writing it,” Samberg mentioned. “We have been like, ‘That is the perfect factor ever.’ It truly performed nice on the desk, and we have been like, ‘We did it! We cracked an excellent humorous sketch for Steve Martin the place he kills, and we get to have it’s on the present.’ ”

“Once we rehearsed it the primary time with out cameras, everybody laughed once more, and we have been like, ‘Oh, yeah, it is the perfect,’ after which we simply began rehearsing it, and for no matter cause, it began tailing off,” he continued.

Whereas Samberg added that it might need been one thing that wasn’t meant to be acted out, Taccone, 47, mentioned the staging and a number of characters might need been the issue. Schaffer, 46, identified that Martin tried to be “approach goofier to attempt to save the sketch,” to which Taccone agreed.

“As morale plummeted within the success of the sketch, Steve fought so f—ing laborious,” recalled Taccone. “And I truly bear in mind, like, in between gown [rehearsal] and air getting in to provide him final notes on it very disheartened, and simply being like, ‘I want we had extra time,’ and he was like, ‘I want we did too. It is so good, and it isn’t gonna be good.’ ”

Samberg mentioned that after the present, Martin was “distraught about it as a result of he appreciated it, and all of us thought it was going to be a winner, and it had an incredible rhythm to it.”

After discussing the “silly names” that “all the surfers ended up having,” Samberg mentioned, “writing surf assembly was one of the vital enjoyable moments of my whole time at SNL,” referring to it as “slumber celebration giggles.”

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Meyers additionally checked out it positively, including, “The nice factor, and why surf assembly endures for me, is that for all his successes, it’s a failure that also sticks with Steve Martin.”