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well this is bryan from the verge we're here at the 2013 san diego comic-con international and we're sitting here with Seth Meyers from SNL and the new who animated series their costumes thank you for sitting down with us this is my pleasure thank you for having me come so real quick off the bat the awesomes animated show on hulu superheroes why the drama um well my co-creator and I Mike shoemaker always loved superhero teams big comic book fans but those are always the kind of comic books we were drawn to is ones with teams where you sort of see the interpersonal relationships between different superheroes and so that's why we wanted to do an animated show that was about a superhero team and the awesomes of that team cool well it's really funny we saw like the the first episode earlier today at a panel it's really funny it's like a lot of like your collaborators from SNL you guys are having a very good time clearly that's what I like you know the show came up you mentioned that the idea first come up in 2006 who got aboard in 2011 yeah you know what was the process but it takes long for it to come to life well we have the idea and then we sort of shopped around to different networks and it had like sort of those beginning development lives that projects have places you know and it was never you know we didn't have any bad experiences it was just one of those things that you know we do in animatic or we do like we turn in a script and just sort of like would stagnate places and we became a thing that we sort of loved but lamented that nothing more happened to it but then who came along 2011 because they were looking to original programming and they were the first place that we're willing to let us tell it the way we wanted to tell it which was we wanted to tell like sort of a longer story over ten episodes the way that you know comic books will often tell story over ten issues and that was great and it was just really lucky that the it stayed alive enough as an idea to sort of wait for the perfect vessel which was hulu and citrus there's some of you know people that are making you know online programming now you know is it just a better creative processor just different it seemed obvious you got a lot of freedom yeah you know and I've been lucky to work in network television and have a lot of freedom that's saturday live as well so I haven't had any bad experiences with network television but I will say the reason my experience with who has been really great is they sort of stood by their promise which was we want to do shows that are creative driven we want to give you the space to do the idea of the way you want it to be done and so yeah it was a perfect marriage for us and like I said I haven't had any terrible experiences with network television but I couldn't had a better barron's with hula awesome now schedule-wise you're obviously very busy here your co-creator with a you know like night Jimmy Fallon he produces that he's very busy yeah how do you guys find the time to actually do this show well it's funny we like in 2006 we had nothing but time right way and it's lucky for us that it's sort of a thing we're very passionate about because I think only with this level of passion when we find the time to work on it as much as we have um but you know that's the thing you know you're really lucky to for us you know we always thought like once Mike left sarnia alive we thought well at least the awesomes will be a way for us to work together we didn't realize we'd work together again on Late Night with Seth Meyers but let's congratulate something we were very awesome so yeah but it's just been great I mean again like when you grow up loving comic books like one of your dreams is to work on something close to that so this has been wonderful now you mentioned earlier all that most of the cast is here um I heard that they were you guys were recording pickup lines yes yes so you're at comic-con well is the perfect place to record pickup lines of comic-con is yeah that's the most fitting place to be doing it but you know it's great because we you know obviously that's an element you want to change the line it's as easy as drawing putting a piece of tape over a cue card and writing in the new line like here requires obviously recording the new line and often we don't know we need a new line until we see the animation so yeah the animation company was smart enough to bring a microphone here because they're like we're probably not gonna have all these guys together again for a long time that's fantastic so you know online series as well right you know this last week was interesting I mean nominations for rest development house of cards do you think there's like a fallen legitimization that's actually happened at this point are we there yeah I mean we've had nothing to do with it but the timing of this obviously for our show being on hulu is I think people are coming to terms with the fact that like it is actually television shows that is online as opposed to I think that what the way we've seen it for last you know 10 15 years which is webisodes like this is a TV show it could be on a network it just happens to be on hulu and you know certainly when I go and who i'm watching network shows that i'm used to seeing on my television so hopefully it'll be an easy transition for people to come to terms with the fact that this is an actual you know 22-minute television show that could you know would be on any other channel yeah I mean do what kind of benefits you can there's going to be for you know for writers directors you know now that we're getting more pro I mean this vein it's another Avenue yeah look any time any any place says we're gonna start doing more original programming it's good news for people who have original ideas so I think you know who is commitment to it much like Netflix commitment to it you know even an Amazon committing to it like that's just good news for people who want to do creative things cool now back to late night yes februari you yes it starts how is it going uh it's good this is a very nice time because you know it hasn't sped up yet you know ever there's no one's like sort of in the building right now it's a good quiet time to sort of work on things like staffing and and sort of more like bigger themes about it you know as we kind of get into the fall it'll become a little bit more intense but it's going to be so intense of them that I think we're sort of enjoying right now the idea of like this is gonna be great when we do it and you know not any any sort of details i think we try to hammer down now we're just going to sort of need to be rehabbed down come februari so we're trying to we're trying to ramp into it at a nice place between that and the awesomes are you even worried if I mean thinking about SNL what that's gonna be like walking away that it was easily in the back your head somewhere you don't acknowledge I don't think about SNL you know I'm gonna be there in the fall and so I'm so mostly thinking about just executing the job and that part of it because I think every summer you sort of you know around this time sort of end of July beginning of obvious you start thinking about like ideas for the new SNL season so I'm feel very lucky that I at least have to have like one more run at it and but it'll be heartbreaking leave SNL but I think the best way to leave SNL's was something to do right afterwards so you don't spend a lot of time lamenting your decision well hopefully I'll be busy enough to not have those lemons very cool well looking forward to that awesomes august first a week earlier if you're on an xbox Seth thank you so much as we get to meet you thank you my pleasure take care you