In a recent podcast, Late Night host Seth Meyers shared how he had knee trouble after walking around Stanley Park too much with Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels.
On an episode of "Lonely Island and Seth Meyers," the former SNL head writer discusses with Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone the group's early days on Saturday Night Live and their film Hot Rod, which was shot in Vancouver.
Michaels, who was also a producer on Hot Rod, had Meyers come out to Vancouver to help with the writing of the film and to discuss Meyers taking over the head writer slot at SNL.
"It was super long days and then everybody was super tired and we didn't really do that much that was fun," Meyers says.
The one thing they did regularly was go for walks on Saturdays with Michaels.
"We got to walk around the park with Lorne; go on long walks around Vancouver Island or whatever that place is called," Taccone recalls.
The place, it turns out was Stanley Park.
"Do you know that summer I had knee trouble and my doctor said are 'you walking a lot?'" says Meyers, who would have been 33 at the time. "I realized that I had hurt my knee just walking with Lorne — 35 years my senior."
It turns out Meyers' knee troubles came about due to the long walks around the seawall in Stanley Park.
"It was a crazy, five-mile walk," Meyers recalls, noting that he had it easier since Michaels did most of the talking.
"I was just walking and listening," says Meyers. "I feel like it's because it was a circle and we always went the one way."
He and Schaffer blame the Zoolander-esque walks for the injury.
"You were always turning left the whole time," says Schaffer.
"I was always turning left for a whole summer," Meyers agrees.
Meyers, Hader, McBride in a hotel in Vancouver
During the podcast, the group notes a few other details from the filming of Hot Rod in Vancouver, like how the Lonely Island trio rented a house in Kitsilano during the shoot and Meyers, Danny McBride, and Bill Hader all stayed at the same hotel (Sutton Place Hotel).
