Noah Britton

The Funniest Stuff You've Never Heard #007 with Martin Herlihy

: Hello and welcome to “The Funniest Stuff You’ve Never Heard,” I’m your host Noah Britton. Each episode of this show focuses on a funny person or group and digs deep for hilarious stuff even big fans of theirs don’t know. This week our guest is 

. Matt Farley has been releasing music since the early 90’s, but it wasn’t until 2007 when he discovered that, after over a decade, the only songs of his that made any money online were the silly ones like “Shut Up Your Monkey” (clip of “Shut Up Your Monkey” plays).

Instead of quitting music, he decided to capitalize on this realization and started releasing as many novelty songs as possible with the goal of making enough albums that, even with profits of $2 per song, he could earn a living.

In the first instance I know of of an artist relying on search engine optimization to dictate his art, Matt Farley started recording songs named after celebrities, songs with the same title as pre-existing famous songs, and songs named for household objects that didn’t yet have themes, like the punch bowl (clip of “Punch Bowl” plays).

In 2017, Matt was finally able to quit his day job and now lives entirely on streaming royalties from the more than 20,000 songs he released under 75+ band names, including “The Guy Who Sings Songs about Cities and Towns,” (clip of “Waterbury, CT” plays) “The Best Birthday Song Band Ever” (“October 4th,” “July 8th,” and “February 29th” play) and “The Guy Who Sings Your Name Over and Over,” (“Nathan” plays) but the most famous of Matt’s projects has to be The Toilet Bowl Cleaners, whose albums include ‘Songs About Poop, Puke, and Pee’, (clip of “Poop” plays), ‘The White Album (with Brown and Yellow Stains)’ (clip of “Butt Cheeks” plays).

and ‘You Thought We Ran Out of Poop Song Ideas (You Were Wrong)’ (clip of “Bristol Stool Chart” plays).

So far The Toilet Bowl Cleaners have released 12 albums about gross bodily fluids and one album of mature love songs named, in Matt’s typical literal style, ‘Mature Love Songs’ (“I’m Brokenhearted ’cause You’re Gone” plays).

Though The Toilet Bowl Cleaners have millions of Spotify streams, few came from that album which was, in Matt’s words, a flop, so he has since returned to form on two other Toilet Bowl Cleaners albums: ‘Poop, Oh Yeah, Poop, Yes, Aha, Poop’ and ‘The Emergency Poop EP.’ (clip of “Poop is its own Reward” plays).

The Toilet Bowl Cleaners aren’t Matt’s only scatological group. The Odd Man Who Sings about Poop, Puke, and Pee is a competing project on Motern Media that, as usual, consists entirely of Matt Farley (clip of “Honey Badger Poop” by The Odd Man Who Sings about Poop, Puke, and Pee plays).

And this is when things begin to get really interesting. Matt created a dispute between his band The Singing Animal Lover (which is just him) and the record label Motern Media (which is also just him).

So, initially, The Singing Animal Lover released two albums of songs about animals, (clip of “Llama plays”) followed by an album called ‘It’s Time to Know the Truth’ (clip of “Matt Farley is a Con Artist” plays) which was the first album Matt put out that wasn’t on Motern Media, followed by The Singing Animal Lover’s album ‘Animal Poop Songs’ which came out 10 days after the album of the same name by The Odd Man Who Sings about Poop, Puke, and Pee.’ Both of these albums have almost identical song titles including The Singing Animal Lover’s version of a honey badger poop song (clip of “Honey Badger Poop” by The Singing Animal Lover plays).

 Matt, I want to welcome you and thank you very much for doing this interview. How did you think of this last idea?

 I don’t know it just dawned on me like “wouldn’t it be hilarious if – if these two entities are fighting?” ‘Cuz everyone loves a music beef you know?

 What other conflicts, what other beefs, do you have on the label? 

 The Very Nice Interesting Singer Man… he had a… he had a breakdown when he came out with ‘Common Phrases’ and Matt Farley, the guy who runs Motern Media, was not pleased but he decided to, like, ride it out, and he let The Very Nice Interesting Singer Man make his… He wanted to do like a personal album. Instead of singing novelty songs, he wanted to sing about his personal struggles, and he did an album called ‘Keep being Awesome,’ which is a masterpiece, um, about just being isolated and sad and miserable 

(clip of “Keep on Yelling Loud” by The Very Nice Interesting Singer Man).

 Then Matt Farley performed a lobotomy on him to fix him 

 and so if you look at the cover of his next album, which is called ‘Games and Sports’ he’s got like a bandage around his head and he’s back to singing jolly songs about about everyday occurrences.

 That’s an extremely optimistic view of what a lobotomy would do to someone. 

 Well, there’s the belief that he didn’t even perform the procedure he just told the guy that he was doing it, that was enough

 Exactly, and then The Very Nice Interesting Singer Man finds love in his next album called ‘Roy and Kathy’ and it’s all about his brief love affair with this girl named Kathy who is also the love interest of The Guy Who Sings about Cities and Towns.

 And was she the one who left on the album “I’ve Never Left My Hometown?”

 Yes, exactly, that’s Kathy. Kathy leaves Ebenezer (Ebenezer is the name of The Guy Who Sings about Cities and Towns) and immediately meets Roy who is The Very Nice Interesting Singer Man and has a brief weekend fling with him.

 Wow, so do you think Kathy will ever have a child with anyone on your label?

 Kathy’s gotta come out with a solo album where she laments the fact that she doesn’t choose men very wisely. 

 So that’s awesome, ‘cuz I also had spoken about the various out-of-character albums. 

So we have ‘Mature Love Songs’ by The Toilet Bowl Cleaners and then we have ‘Never Left My Hometown’ by The Guy Who Sings about Cities and Towns, what other out of character records have shown up besides those ones you just mentioned?

 So yeah, the one I said, ‘Keep being Awesome,’ by The Very Nice Interesting Singer Man, and then there’s ‘Intensely Personal Songs’ by The Passionate and Objective Jokerfan and then there’s one called ‘Paparazzi Gets Introspective and Shares his Worldview’ by Paparazzi and the Photogs 

 So this leads me to two questions. So the first one is where did you get the name The Passionate and Objective Jokerfan? 

 He evolved into a character who sings about singers and music but he started off… I just had an idea way back like in ’08 I was like “I should do a whole album about Bob Dylan” and Dylan has a song called “Jokerman” and so I end up with Jokerfan. Passionate and Objective, I just threw that in there, ‘cuz the more words in your artist name the more likely you’re going to hit on a search. 

 Oh I wondered why that was, because your band names almost never roll off the tongue comfortably and I wondered why that was and it’s – it’s the SEO thing again. So the Jokerfan joke is a really interesting thing because it reminds me of Motern media which is also an extraordinarily esoteric pun that probably no one has ever figured out without it being explained. 

 I don’t know if I figured it out what is the pun? 

 Well I thought it was a portmanteau of modern and Motown right?


 Oh, uh, I mean, no. It was just a word I made up in the 90’s. I was trying to write a book that was 10,000 pages long. My only goal was to fill ten thousand pages and I just – I was trying to write a different world and I accidentally wrote Motern, and then I was like maybe that should be the name of the book? I only got 2000 pages though. 

 Wow so that’s fascinating cuz even by the 90’s you were into these endurance experiments, and yet it took you another 10 years to do it or even to think about attempting it in your musical career. 

 Yeah well I mean I was pretty pretty prolific, you know, like senior in college I made five albums each were 90 minutes long 

 Yeah yeah and then in ’06, Moe’s Haven we… we did 30 minutes of music every day for the entire year. 

 Right, and then you compiled those into the best album of the month?

 Cuz I always saw that as the beginning of your endurance projects so that’s ought-six but if you want to write a 10,000 word book 10 years later… I think it’s really interesting like why… why is it that you have such a mathematical approach to music? 

 I dunno, I just find… I just like, you know, enormous projects that… I just think they’re interesting and funny to think of and it was just my instinct and, you know, slowly, I developed a philosophy around it and it… mostly the philosophy is um… if you sit around and try to make a perfect work of art… If you spend five years working on one perfect work of art, maybe it’ll be really good, but if you spend those five years just making a hundred works of art then, you know, you probably have 10 things that are just as good as that perfect one would have been, and I find it to be stifling to to try to make one great thing. 

 Have you ever heard of the performance artist Teh-Ching Hsieh? 

 So, he did these endurance pieces in the early 80’s. The first one was he took a picture of himself every hour for a year at this time clock, so he couldn’t go more than half an hour away from where the time clock was located, ever. And this wasn’t something that he made for anyone else to see, he just did it. And the next year, he did a piece where he spent an entire year basically locked in a jail cell that he built. And he’d have somebody come bring him food, and that was it. He didn’t do anything else but sit in this jail cell that he built. And it was open to the public like 4 days where you could just see this guy sitting in a jail cell and that was all he did with this performance piece. And then another one was he couldn’t go indoors for a year and so he slept outside – and this all happened in New York City – so he’s freezing, you know, in the cold, homeless for a year. And then the most interesting one, I think, was he and another artist tied themselves together with a rope for a year so they were never more than like 5 or 10 feet apart. And, they didn’t know each other very well at the beginning, and when they were laying in bed, you could look at the ceiling and see where they had scratched the ceiling, ‘cuz they were so annoyed with each other, ‘cuz they couldn’t get any privacy. And yet they both continued with this project. And it reminds me of you, in that it’s so much work with so little concern for external validation, but, at the same time, obviously, there is something in him that knows this is genius and he deserves some credit for this stuff. And I think you outwardly admit this, sometimes, in your work and you have the songs about how you’re a hack and how you’re you’re bad at this. I’ll play one (“Matt Farley is a Hack” plays)

 Was this a fleeting feeling of like “I’m a hack and my stuff is bad” or was this something that is sort of always in the back of your head?

 Nah, I mean, my self-confidence is is pretty huge and and so even when I was doing that song… like… obviously I could recognize criticism of my stuff, especially when it’s a song that I just bang on a few chords and sing, you know people say like “that’s not a song” and I might [say], like, “Yeah, well it’s kind of funny” and just the fact that it exists is what makes it funny to me, you know?

 So yeah I… I don’t get down on myself at all. I think it’s hilarious, but, I mean, I think all those descriptions you tell me about that guy – I think – I think that’s hilarious too. 

 It is. He now owns a restaurant in Brooklyn and, unfortunately, it’s not that weird. It’s just a regular restaurant that’s kind of expensive. 

 But, yeah, he’s one of those people who you know nobody could do what he did and I think you’re in that group for sure 

 So a lot of times, when there is an article about me, you see comments where people are like “I should do that” and I say “Yeah right! You’ll give up after 25 songs!” You have no idea the amount of time and just like… psychic energy that it takes to write one song, let alone thousands. 

 So I saw an interview where you said you would do 30 to 40 songs a day, do you know what’s the most you’ve written in one day? 

: For like completely original, each song is completely its own thing? Right around there in the thirties somewhere.

: And then, um, actually, now that I think of it, I did 60 in one day once.

: Most of them were not released. That was in college. My friend Tom from Moe’s Haven, it was right, like, the day before graduating. I was like “you know we can release one more 90-minute album” and we made a list of, like, 60 topics and just strummed on some chords and then start singing and we did it, we filled up the tape.

: Wow, so, yeah, of course. So this leads me to another thing I’ve wondered: you say you’ve released 20,000 songs, does this exclude all of your early work with Moe’s Haven that’s not available?

: Right, that’s only what’s been released.

: Well, that was released but in small quantities.

: Yeah, no, but I mean, there’s even more unreleased Moe’s Haven stuff.

: There’s probably at least a thousand unreleased Moe’s Haven songs.

: What about private or personal stuff that not Moe’s Haven? How many unreleased songs has Matt Farley written alone?

: Only, only custom songs. I do like 3- to 500 custom songs every year that people pay for and most of those don’t get released.

: So that’s been going on how long then?

: Since… since 2016. I’ve been doing it before then, I did a bunch but-

: -so you’ve recorded more than 23,000 songs then, as far as stuff even that people have gotten to hear?

: Yeah, but then you would – I want to be honest – and it’s like The Guy Who Sings Your Name Over and Over Again, it’s the same song but a different name and that’s like seventeen-hundred of them right there-

: -that’s honest. Well, you know, bands keep ripping off their hit to try and get popular again so you’re you’re doing the same thing.

: Why haven’t you ever done an album purely for the purpose of having the most songs on it, and by that I mean every song is one second long?

: CDBaby, the company that I use to release music, they have a limit. It’s a hundred tracks in an album, so they wouldn’t-

: -and Spotify won’t pay until someone’s been listening at least 20 seconds-

: -interesting. So you need to release a lot of 20 second songs then.

: I don’t want to get on Spotify’s bad side, um, I try to keep it all above board. All the songs are at least a minute you know. And, cuz, I love Spotify. A lot of people look at what I’m doing and they’re like “haha you’re showing Spotify, you’re beating them at their game” and I’m like “no, Spotify is amazing! I have a membership and I even think it pays well. A lot of people complain about the pay rate but I think it’s fair.

: And that’s how you make your living is Spotify, right?

: yeah, yeah that’s amazing. so this leads me to the question why do you hate swearing so much?

: I don’t do it cuz in 5th grade all my friends started using bad words and then they would like, gang up on me, and say “Why aren’t you you saying bad words? Say a bad word” and I was like “I’m not going to say a word just ‘cuz you guys are being mean to me” and um basically, just because of that, I was like “Well if I’m not going to say a bad word now for them, I guess I should never say one” you know? I just don’t want to give them the satisfaction.

: (laughing) So you, 30 years later, you’re trying to prove something to children who are now grown ups are-

: Yeah, but I’m still friends with them. I see them and they’re like “say one swear, come on!” and I’m like “NO! I won’t do it!”

: (laughing) That’s amazing! So I went to your monthly celebration at the Danvers Historical Society… Me and Jack Hanke from Asperger’s Are Us went to see it. It was awesome. I recommend everybody go, the last Saturday of every month that you’re allowed to leave the house, free show, 7 sharp, free snacks, but if you take a snack you have to stay for the whole show. And I didn’t feel like leaving. That… that didn’t push me to stay, I really loved it.

: I’m sure there are some who don’t agree. So the other thing about that show, which I loved, again, it was, it was so funny, was your fans are really intense in how much they’ll do to come see you. And so someone had flown in from Indiana, I think, that night, and you said you had people from Australia and Belgium who fly in just to see you-

: Yeah, yeah it’s pretty… So in addition to the monthly shows, once a year I have the Extravaganza and that’s when when people really will really travel, you know? Several people from Canada, people from all over the US, and at this point, we’re all friends with each other and, um, it’s turning into, like, a weekend-long hangout you know? The next one is going to be in October and, um, I know like a lot of people who go like meet up for lunch ahead of time and just kind of hang out and explore the area and then the day after the Extravaganza, so October 25th, we’re gonna premiere the new movie we’re working on: 

 So there’ll be stuff to do the whole weekend. 

: That’s pretty cool. Have you done tours ever?

: No. I mean, it’s cool that I’m at the point where I can do the live show right in my hometown so, like, I like performing but touring just feels like a lot of work and um-

: And potentially not for a lot of reward you know?

: Like a night that I spend in the basement recording five songs is more productive than packing up a van and driving somewhere, setting up, performing for like seven people, you know, and then

: Yeah, makes sense. Well, maybe someday you’ll be able to perform for a thousand people and then, then it would be worth it, I would hope. So, just to set the scene for all the listeners: These shows are at the Danvers Historical Society, which is a place, like there are in a lot of small towns, where old people go to watch something that’s kind of dull. And then 

 Farley shows up and sings “Poop into a Wormhole” and I understand why you would want people to… to have to stay… to feel obligated to stay… cuz it wouldn’t surprise me if some people are like “this is gross” or “this is stupid, I don’t want to stay” but it’s so funny and it’s so good.

: You could see a few old ladies who get a little uncomfortable during the poop songs. Often I’ll apologize to them and tell them “I’ll do 2 more poop songs, you’re going to get through this.” But, I mean, old ladies is not necessarily my target audience, you know?

: But I mean, the thing is, like, kids are finding the songs. And, I mean, two million streams just for one song on Spotify is amazing.

The Funniest Stuff You've Never Heard #001 with Matt Farley

The Funniest Stuff You've Never Heard #002 with Jamie Loftus

(Matt Farley’s “Funniest Stuff You’ve Never Heard” Theme Song plays)

: Hello and welcome to ‘The Funniest Stuff You’ve Never Heard.’ I’m your host, Noah Britton.

Each episode of this show focuses on a funny person or group and goes in-depth for stuff even big fans don’t know.

Adult Swim’s ‘Joe Pera Talks with You’

 is the rarest of things: A show that’s genuinely hilarious without ever getting dark or even confrontational.

As difficult as it is to imagine, it combines the pleasantness of a Family Circus comic strip with the absurd creativity of Andy Kaufman, a big influence on 

, who’ve been doing comedy together for over a decade.

Most of America got its first taste of their work when the Dan-written episode ‘Joe Pera reads the church announcements’ of the first season of the show went viral

Dan Licata (in the Slayer shirt) & Joe Pera (dressed to the 9s)

: I’m glad you guys made it. Thank you so much.

: This is very exciting. The first question is Dan: What is your cantaloupe juice joke?

: So, basically the joke is you know “How come there’s no cantaloupe juice? Right? Like are you telling me that they came up with tomato juice before they came up with cantaloupe juice? Yeah I wonder what that business meeting was like. ‘Hey we need to – guys we need a new juice – who’s got an idea?’

One guy’s like ‘How ’bout tomato?’ and they’re like ‘okay.’ Why’d it have to go like that?” That’s the joke…

: “Why did have to go like that, right? Why couldn’t it have gone this way: ‘Okay guys we need a new juice. Who’s got an idea?’ ‘How about cantaloupe?’ Okay.” That’s the whole joke.

: The second part did actually make it good. Before that I was like ‘this isn’t very good’ and then the second part it was really really good.

I have to say you guys write some of the smartest comedy out there. Last week when I was talking to Jamie Loftus I mentioned the joke-per-second ratio (which is very important in the stuff I like) you know like like how in ‘Airplane!’ you have to pay attention and every second there’s like multiple jokes happening at the same time and she does that really well and you guys have so many fast subtle jokes that aren’t explained.

(clip of ‘Joe Pera Talks with You’ Season 2 plays)

: Another great, great subtle one is “a breakfast crew is a group of living individuals,” just like such a beautiful pointless explanation.

(clip of ‘Joe Pera Talks with You’ Season 1)

Joe, you and Jean suing yourselves to figure out how the judicial system works and there’s no payoff.

(clip of Joe Pera’s 2012 submission to the Andy Kaufman awards)

: What do you think Andy Kaufman would be doing today if he hadn’t died of AIDS? Like, where would he be? He really did die of AIDS. Not many people know that.

: Yeah, in Bob Zmuda’s second book, which is terrible, Andy Kaufman’s ex-girlfriend reveals that.

: Excellent question. I feel like I mean he probably gets stale or try to pivot to serious acting, I feel like. I don’t know. What do you think, Joe?

: I don’t know. It’s hard to say. Didn’t they think there are rumors of him being in Arizona or somewhere?

: There’s the rumors that he’s still alive but I think Lynn Margulies pretty much confirms he died of AIDS. Bob Zmuda in that whole book is like “Andy come back I know you’re hiding!” and, like, it’s so sad. Zmuda’s first book is amazing, as Joe and I know, that’s like the best book ever written. Dan, I think you’re right. The serious acting thing’s an interesting one. Do you think people become serious actors with maturity as comedians because they realize they’re not creative and fun anymore or is it just like a “I’m bored of that?”

: Maybe it’s a combination of like boredom and then, I think, you know, the older you get, the tougher it is to stay fresh, and, you know, if you’re not performing super regularly maybe the desire to do something different kicks in. Me, personally, I will never be serious. If you catch me trying to be serious, something is wrong and I need you to beat the living hell out of me.

: I thought your UCB documentary was pretty serious, Dan.

: I have hours and hours of musical improv footage that I ripped off of YouTube on my hard drive.

: Sometimes you need to test the limits of what you can withstand as a human.

But one of the videos, my favorite, I wish I’d ripped this one before it got taken down. One of my favorite ones which is a perfect 30-minute improv like graduation show, I think I commented on it too much and they took it down. I was like – I would always comment like “I love this musical!” “Is the soundtrack available on CD or iTunes?” I’m just asking why there wasn’t costumes or sets. Next thing I knew it was gone, so you gotta rip those Youtube videos while they’re up because nothing gold can stay.

: What’s the first funny thing you guys remember doing in high school?

: Yeah I feel like the age of 14 maybe is when I started being funny.

: Dan kind of like he had a reputation as like… you would do pranks and I think the teachers were somewhat amused by a lot of them. I was explaining how he put on women’s underwear and made our other friend pull his [Dan’s] pants down in front of one of the more attractive girls at our school and he was wearing women’s underwear, that was a good one.

: I don’t think so. If she was, she didn’t communicate that to me.

: So, related: What’s the funniest thing you guys have done that wasn’t released or recorded?

: We did a lot of stand-up shows together. We had a cohost on our show, Charles Gould, and we did a weekly standup show for a while. We always made jokes about like replacing him and it was kind of mean but it was very funny how he’s sensitive about it and he always got nervous. But then we found one of the bartenders at the bar we were doing the show at looks exactly or, not exactly, but enough like him that it was very funny to bring him on stage and pretend that it was Charles when Charles wasn’t there, he had curly hair.

 How did the bartender react to this, did he like improvise and play along?

: No it was like he looked enough – Eric Andre does the humor perfectly, where he gets somebody who looks, like, enough like them that they recognize it but different enough that it’s funny.

: Like the Hulk, right. I wish I could get him on my show. Dan I’m going to play the ‘Ziggy Zoggy Boy’ or part of it at least. I thought that was such a beautiful thing. It’s too complicated to play all of, like there’s visual elements in the second half, but I’ll play the beginning for sure.

: What makes you guys laugh the hardest now?

: I dunno, I always like to plug our friend Carmen Christopher. He’s so funny and I laugh so much every time he performs.

: He was really great on your show, a very good actor

: Yeah and he’s very serious when he kind of gets in his groove and decides that he’s going to bring it onstage or kind of go non-stop. So, him and Conner together pretty incredible to watch.

: Conner O’Malley, of course, one of my favorite comics. That tour the three of you did was one of the best stand-up shows with just the most consistent laughs everywhere, and Dan did you improvise this joke when you were talking about ‘Avatar’ and you said “all I know is ‘blue lives matter’?”

: I must’ve. I don’t remember saying it so it must have been.

: That was so good. What are your future plans now?

: Me and the director of ‘Joe Pera Talks with You’ are working on a b-roll special

: We ended up shooting – like we had like two hours of footage of bridges and parking garages in Milwaukee just because you know stuff that gets cut from the show or I get an idea that I want a lot of footage of for a sequence and, I don’t know, we ended up filming like more rocks than we’ll ever need. It’s like when there’s really interesting ones we built in enough time to kind of film it. We kind of just pitched Adult Swim to let us repurpose that footage into something that’s kind of like relaxing to watch during what’s going on now.

: So are you going to be talking or is it just going to be b-roll of rocks and streams?

: Yeah, there’s narration that Dan helped me write. Yeah we turn it in a couple weeks and then hopefully it’ll come out shortly after that.

: Yeah it’s been nice to put my energy into that and it helps me feel calm

: That’s wonderful. So, one other thing I’m gonna play is the “ten okays” scale on the pancake breakfast as just another example of something that’s so subtle

(clip of ‘Joe Pera’s Pancake Breakfast Reviews’ plays)

: Dan, I’ve always wondered, do you feel like your stupid character who’s still in high school is a reaction against Dr. Licata’s like, scholarly world, or is it just like you-

: Did you grow up in a very academically driven household?

: (laughing) I think there are maybe four books in the Licatas’ house.

: You mentioned it earlier, Noah, but I’m gonna say ‘Avatar.’ That movie revolutionized 3D. Where would we be without 3D right now? You can’t – that was a cultural phenomenon that everyone remembers, I’m gonna say ‘Avatar.’

: It’s definitely not the best movie ever made. But my friend Marty and I were talking about the movie ‘Top Secret’ the other day. It’s not the best movie ever made but I remember laughing as hard at that as any movie.

: I remember that one gag where he’s like writing on the jail cell wall. It’s like he’s only been there for 20 minutes. It was a good bit.

: Do you know the impetus for that movie?

: So Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker were touring Europe doing publicity for ‘Airplane!’ and all the European press was asking “what’s big in America? Tell us news from America!” and they said “Oh, surf shooting. Yeah, you get on a surf board and you shoot stuff, that’s really big in America,” and all these European press people totally bought it. So then after they came back they were like “we need to make a movie about that” which obviously was just like one brief scene in ‘Top Secret.’

: What would you like to do if you weren’t in comedy?

: I have to say inventor. I’d love to be an inventor.

: (laughing) We should retire someday and get a big garage where we come up with inventions. You should start introducing yourself as an inventor.

: I wanna play ‘Uncle Meme’ but I obviously can’t cuz it’s all visual, unfortunately, but that that was the funniest SNL sketch of the season. Did you write anything else that aired yet?

: How much how much have you written to them that they’ve turned down? Like, give me a number of sketches that have gone nowhere.

: How many? I probably submitted 25 to 30 that got rejected.

: Are you going to try the online home stuff?

: I mean they want us to, but it it has been interesting having my ideas rejected from the comfort of my own home. I think they’re trying to figure out how to do this – make this work – so, I don’t know.

The Funniest Stuff You've Never Heard #007 with Martin Herlihy

05.22.20

The Funniest Stuff You've Never Heard #007 with Martin Herlihy

Noah Britton

THE FUNNIEST STUFF YOU'VE NEVER HEARD