Paul Rudd is proud of his occasional work on Saturday Night Live over the years. But maybe not proud enough to overcome the "disturbing" vibes given off by a souvenir from the venerable sketch show that he's kept since 2008.

The Death of a Unicorn actor recently revealed what's become of that prop — a painting of Andy Samberg "nude from the waist down" — which is described but not shown in the SNL season 34 digital short "Everyone's a Critic."

"I do have it. You were kind of enough to give it to me, I guess, as a remembrance of our time together making the digital short," Rudd told Samberg via a voice note played on Tuesday's episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast. Samberg was joined on the pod by Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, his partners in the Lonely Island comedy group and the directors of the short.

Rudd continued, "I loved it. I treasured it. I took it back to my house and realized, 'I don't want this hanging on any wall.' So I have it in a closet. It is a disturbing painting."

In the short, Samberg, who was then a repertory player and writer for SNL, approaches Rudd, who hosted the Nov. 15, 2008, episode, and asks him to sit for a nude painting. Rudd agrees and, delighted by the experience, returns the favor for Samberg, who decides to don only a T-shirt for his portrait.

"This thing is really good man, I think we could actually sell it," Samberg tells Rudd as they admire the painting while sporting bathrobes. "I don't know about that," Rudd demurs, but Samberg insists that it's "a masterpiece" and brings the painting to auction.

Chaos ensues when Fred Armisen's auctioneer unveils the painting, prompting everyone else in the room to shout, vomit, and self-harm, including Samberg's then-castmates Bobby Moynihan, Bill Hader, and Kristen Wiig.

"I could describe it, but that does take some of the mystery away," Rudd continued in his voice note, alluding to the fact that the painting has still never been publicly shown. "Let's just say, Andy's nude from the waist down, as we know, and he has hot dogs for fingers."

Rudd said he "realized out of context, you hang that on the wall, you have to describe why you have that on your wall, and that's not a good thing. Anyway, there you go. If you want it back, just text me."

"I have a couple comments on that," Taccone said after Rudd signed off, breaking the Lonely Island crew's giggle fit. "One, I would like Paul to at least put it up on his wall in the closet that it's in."

Samberg agreed: "Just to preserve it a little better, yeah." Schaffer imagined the painting "right behind all the jackets, so when you go for a jacket…" but Taccone cut in to imagine, "When it's a laundry day, you're like, 'Oh God!'"

Samberg and Rudd appeared in one more digital short together, when Rudd hosted the Dec. 11, 2010, episode of SNL. "Stumblin'" riffs on the opening line of Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" ("Tumble out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen") by rewriting every subsequent line to describe a man stumbling about. Samberg plays that man, knocking over tables and nearly getting hit by cars, stumbling alone through life until he meets a fellow stumbler played by Rudd.

Samberg remained a cast member and writer for SNL for seven seasons, through 2012, and he returned to host once, in 2014. Rudd is a member of SNL's prestigious Five-Timers Club, having also hosted the show in 2013, 2019, and 2021.

Listen to the full episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast above for more.