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Four friends rewatch every SNL Digital Short in order and talk for an hour. Three of them made the shorts (Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone are The Lonely Island). The fourth, Seth Meyers, was SNL's head writer while it happened. The episodes are funny on their own. They get funnier once you know the bits.

The ten things you need

• 84 eps

  Quaid — A fan of the podcast, named after Samberg's SNL 'Kuato' bit, which riffed on Schwarzenegger's Douglas Quaid from Total Recall.

  Ep. 21 · 31:34
• 77 eps

  Quaid Army — The name for the podcast's fans, and the phrase to shout at Seth Meyers or a Lonely Island member spotted in public. See also righteous kill.

  Ep. 53 · 4:51
• 48 eps

  Queen Bee — The top rank you can earn in the Spelling Bee game.

  Ep. 77 · 45:13
• 48 eps

  later, Quaids — The podcast's official sign-off, a farewell that Arnold Schwarzenegger himself recorded at Seth Meyers' request.

• 46 eps

  quibi — Short for Queen Bee, adopted after a fan suggested it. Not the defunct streaming service Quibi. Example: 'Did you quibi?'

  Ep. 67 · 1:38
• 44 eps

  clean — Earning Queen Bee rank in The New York Times' Spelling Bee without using any hints.

• 42 eps

  Criterion — Top praise for a Digital Short, good enough to join a hypothetical Criterion Collection of them. Example: "Is this short Criterion?"

  Ep. 10 · 1:46
• 31 eps

  righteous kill — The call-and-response code among Quaids, answering 'Quaid Army.' Schaffer tried to popularize 'righteous' as slang around the 2008 De Niro-Pacino film of that name,…

  Ep. 52 · 38:17
• 27 eps

  Seth's Corner — A podcast segment where Meyers discusses the bits he wrote for that week's SNL. Example: 'Wanna go to Seth's Corner?'

  Ep. 1 · 55:49
• 25 eps

  hit us in the tittus — Chiming in with your take in the comments section, in the crude style the crew loves.

  Ep. 68 · 13:14

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The segments

• Seth's Corner
  A podcast segment where Meyers discusses the bits he wrote for that week's SNL. Example: 'Wanna go to Seth's Corner?'
• Jorm Thorns
  The podcast segment where Jorma Taccone vents his gripes. Akiva has his own version, Kiv's Peeves.
• Kiv’s Peeves
  A Seth Meyers Podcast segment where Akiva Schaffer vents his complaints. See also: Jorm Thorns.
• Second Chance Theater
  The podcast's running list of sketches that died at dress rehearsal and never aired but deserve another go; a good one 'should…
• Get in the Cage
  Andy's Weekend Update segment as Nicolas Cage, 'a new segment where actor Nicolas Cage sits down with a fellow thespian', after…
• Butts of the Week
  'And now the linchpin of our program, the world famous Butts of the Week': a bit inside a sketch the hosts rewatched, a parade…
• Andy's Axe
  A listener's name for Andy's complaint section, a tip of the cap to his Kathy impression ("acks").
• Threeodores
  'When the Dave's away, the Theodores will play': with Seth (Dave, to their Alvins) absent, the other three are the Theodores,…