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Episodes › Ep. 42 2025-01-13 · 6:25

A Message From Seth: No Episode This Week

This short bonus episode announces there is no regular episode that week because of the Los Angeles wildfires, since several crew members and two co-hosts live in LA. Seth Meyers opens and closes the message, and the segment includes a clip of Andy Samberg's French pole vaulter character from Late Night, with Samberg reprising his bit on the podcast. The memorable takeaway is the pole-vault joke and the 'how you say' running gag.

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No video for this one on the show's YouTube channel; the player above streams the podcast's own audio feed. Timestamps match the feed exactly.

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  1. Seth announces the no-episode week

    1:20

    Seth explains that this week's episode is canceled due to the Los Angeles fires, since many staffers and two co-hosts are in LA. The break was chosen to put safety first.

    We are not doing an episode of the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast this week due to the developing situations of the fires in Los Angeles.

  2. Andy hijacks the segment with a pole vault bit

    2:38

    Andy Samberg interrupts to propose the French pole vaulter character, a sketch idea he once pitched to Seth when they were at SNL. The bit riffs on a real Olympic story.

    I love the cast, but I'm going to hijack this real quick.

  3. The pole vaulter's gift is 'grand'

    3:55

    The character makes the classic French-accent joke about his oversized anatomy, a staple of the hosts' over-the-top character work.

    Oui, oui, it was sad to not win the gold. But on the other hand, the entire world now saw my gift.

  4. The 'how you say' gag

    6:02

    The character repeatedly tacks 'how you say' onto his lines, a catchphrase-like tic that Seth calls out and that drives much of the bit.

    Stop saying how you say. What is that how you say?

  5. Andy revealed as the performer

    7:34

    The bit ends with Seth revealing that the 'pole vaulter' is Andy Samberg, sign-off plugs the podcast.

    Andy Samberg, everybody. It was Andy this whole time.
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Colin Jost

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Source: whisperx-v2+speakers transcript, read by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5 on 2026-10-19. Report a bad pop-up.