Robert Smigel’s Podcast Debuts With an SNL-Powered A Cappella Rescue Mission

Robert Smigel‘s new podcast begins with a problem worthy of the comedy Pantheon: can three SNL writers make a Harvard a cappella group’s between-song banter humorous?

That’s the mission within the debut episode of Humor Me with Robert Smigel and Friendswhich finds Smigel joined by longtime Saturday Night Live solid member Mikey Day and SNL head author Streeter Seidell to assist The Harvard Yardbirds punch up their dwell present.

The group’s downside, as specified by a name to the present, is easy: they’ll sing, however the patter between songs may use work. Smigel, Day, and Seidell proceed to deal with that as significantly as any sketch premise, workshopping self-deprecating Harvard jokes, a operating bit a couple of member searching for her third husband, alternate group names, holiday-song parody lyrics, and one particularly deranged character idea referred to as “Yale Boy.”

Later, the episode flashes ahead to see what occurred when The Harvard Yardbirds really tried among the materials in entrance of an viewers—with surprisingly encouraging outcomes. There’s even a shock look by an SNL alum, whose identification is greatest left unspoiled, however whose dedication to the bit may be very a lot consistent with the task.

Humor Me is produced by Big Money Players, Will Ferrell‘s podcast community. A accomplice of iHeartMedia, Big Money Players has been house to Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers’ present The Bodybuilders since 2020. Its roster additionally consists of The Nikki Glaser Podcast, My Momma Told Me (co-hosted by Langston Kerman), and The Amber & Lacey Lacey & Amber Show (with Amber Ruffin).

Watch the present’s debut episode on the high of this publish.