Andy Samberg remembered the joke from his old friend. Saturday Night Live Days that would make fellow actor Colin Jost “super scary”.
The topic came up in the last episode Lonely Island and the Seth Meyers PodcastSamberg, Meyers, and Akiva Schaffer discuss SNL Digital Short “The Mirror” from the 2008 episode hosted by Elliot Page, who also appeared in the short. As Samberg explains, the idea for the spooky-themed sketch was born out of living alone at the time and being afraid to look in the bathroom mirror. But it also caused Meyers to ask about the joke.
“I know it's very common to ask people 'do you want to come with me' to the bathroom?” SNL,” Late Night the host came up. “It was very late at night, but it was a well-lit office with a lot of people. I always thought 'I want to come with me' was for friendship. Is this 'I want to come with me' for fear?”
“Probably yes. It's ironic because then I'd keep doing the trick I mentioned; Jost would come with me and then I'd run and turn off all the lights in the hallway. I think I've talked about this before,” Samberg admitted. “And of course he would be very scared.”
Samberg, Jost and Meyers had previously discussed the prank. Late Night with Seth Meyers After recreating a rejected draft based on the premise of the episode “Second Chance Theatre” in 2016.
“I think I was asked five times a night,” said Jost, who also wrote the draft. “The other thing he would do was ask you to go to the bathroom and then while you were in the bathroom he would sneak out and scare you. So he wouldn't make anyone want to go to the bathroom with you.”
Samberg laughed and asked Jost if he remembered the “best” example of the joke. “Yes,” the “Weekend Update” anchor replied. “He turned off all the lights in the hallway SNL. “I went out into the dark and he jumped out of a closet and screamed and I screamed too.”
“It was about five in the morning and the building was abandoned and I insisted that he join me,” Samberg recalled. “Like, ‘Come on, man, come with me.’ Like the greatest dick move of all time.”
However, Schaffer later stated that Samberg took the wind out of his sails after the sketch failed to air.
“Can I say something about it? We told him to write it down and get it out of his system. I'll tell you after he gets dressed.” [rehearsal]”He stopped doing that before he published it,” Schaffer explained, before clarifying: “He stopped saying it that way.”
“Now it's 'Do you want to come to the bathroom with me?' “I ask,” Samberg added with a laugh.
