John Mulaney and Simon Rich recall failed SNL sketch cut by Seth Meyers

Seth Meyers may be one of the most affable hosts in late night, but according to his former employees at Saturday Night Live, he could be a very tough guy to please.

During a Thursday appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers, comedians and former SNL writers John Mulaney and Simon Rich reminisced about their days working under Meyers, who served as head writer of the long-running NBC series from 2006 to 2014. Rich and Mulaney said they became fast friends and collaborators in 2008, though they both recalled having little success getting sketches on the air.

"We immediately collaborated and wrote so many brilliant things that you cut viciously each week," Mulaney told Meyers. Added Rich, "We were united by the collective trauma of working for you."

Within an hour of meeting each other, the two "began writing a failed sketch together," said Rich. Called "Cash 4 Silver," the sketch was a parody ad starring Bill Hader as a man desperate to buy anything silver from the viewing audience. "He's very insistent and frantic, and you gradually realized why," explained Rich. "It's because he and his family are marooned on Werewolf Island." If the family didn't have enough silver to make werewolf-killing bullets by the full moon... well, things would get messy. Watch the full interview below with Mulaney, Rich, and Meyers.

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Though "Cash 4 Silver" never made it to air, Rich and Mulaney were able to get one failed idea to live TV — years after writing it. Dubbed "Switcheroo," the sketch languished in the reject pile because "no host was ever interested in doing it," recalled Meyers. It was a Freaky Friday spoof about a father and son who magically switch bodies, which sounds normal enough... until you get to the theme song: "Son goes to work/Dad goes to school/The son has sex with the mom/What they gonna do?/It's a switcheroo."

When Mulaney was first asked to host SNL in 2018, he and Rich decided to re-submit "Switcheroo" — and this time, they had no problem getting it approved. "It's a really, like, detailed examination of the sexual dynamics of a full, parent-child switcheroo," explained Mulaney.