The Sklar Brothers Return

Summary

You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes

Episode: The Sklar Brothers Return (March 12, 2025)

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Episode Overview

Comedians Randy and Jason Sklar return to Pete Holmes’s podcast for a characteristically freewheeling, laugh-soaked conversation about the weirdness of comedy, generosity in their craft, memorable industry stories, religious upbringing, and growing older as artists and friends. The episode is a rollicking blend of sharp bits, affectionate roasts, inside comedy baseball, and surprisingly earnest discussions about meaning, spirituality, legacy, and “the soul of comedy.” Fans of improvisational riffing and philosophical tangents will find a goldmine, with all three hosts at their quickest and most authentic.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. British “Randy,” Language, and “Sounding”

• [02:01] The Sklars share a running joke invented by Kumail Nanjiani where “Randy” (in the British sense, i.e., feeling sexy) becomes a podcast bit.
• [02:59] Spirals quickly into riffing about language differences and “sounding” (a sexual practice)—leading to a punchline about Seattle’s soccer team being named “Sounders” and how sometimes names mean more than intended.

“Tell me you like urethra play without telling me you like urethra play.”
— Jason Sklar [03:35]

2. Comedy Scenes, Tagging, and Generosity

• [11:09] Pete praises the Sklars for their generosity: “Saint Sklars of the comedy scene,” especially via their “Tag It” show, where comics punch up each other’s sets with tags and additions.
• The Sklars reflect on shifting from “just hustling” to creating an inclusive, supportive comedy environment.
• [14:10] Jason emphasizes that laughing at another comic’s joke is a form of generosity, and “tagging” is both an honor and creative trust.
• [15:16] Discussion about potential for a more formal “Tag It”–style TV show or summer camp.

“Can we create a world that we would want to live in in comedy?”
— Randy Sklar [11:59]

3. The Alchemy of Jokes: Process & Philosophy

• [19:31] Pete walks through his creative process with an “eye patch joke,” illustrating how riffing with the Sklars in his head leads to unfolding more layers of a bit.
• Discussion on maximizing a premise (“taking every piece of meat off the bone”) and not jumping off before you land every punchline.

“Why did you bring it up if you’re just gonna be like—”
— Jason Sklar, on exploring every comedic premise [21:43]

• [22:43] Citing Stephen Wright and others, comparing jokes to “painting little paintings” in the mind, and likening well-done material to a parachute opening at the right moment.

“Jokes are like painting little paintings in people’s minds.”
— Stephen Wright, relayed by Pete Holmes [22:43]

4. Comedy Styles: Relief, Gatling Guns, and Edging

• [24:01] Contrasts different comics’ timing and delivery, e.g. Steven Wright, Nate Bargatze, and Anthony Jeselnik—discussing suspense, “relief” at punchlines, and “edging” (comedic and otherwise).
• The Sklars and Pete celebrate both rapid-fire and high-suspense styles.

5. The Depths: Meaning, God, Soul, and Legacy

• [32:09] Pete shares his journey on writing deeper (“meaning of life”) material and how seeing other comics’ fearlessness, like Billy Wayne Davis, inspired him to distill big ideas into accessible bits.
• The “God or nothing” bit becomes a point of connective pride for Pete—eliciting positive feedback from believers and non-believers alike.

“God is the name of the blanket we put over the mystery to give it a shape.”
— Pete Holmes [32:22]

• Sklars discuss finding common ground religiously despite doctrinal differences, and how community, questions, and celebration transcend rigid dogma.

6. Heritage & Culture: Judaism, High Holidays, and Family Rituals

• [64:06] The Sklars reflect on Jewish summer camp, Passover seders, sharing family “dad” jokes, and making fun of both the rituals and themselves. They riff on “sexual” sounding Passover phrases and how family comedy traditions shape character.

“The 11th Plague would be a hilarious name for a Jewish comedy club.”
— Randy Sklar [66:14]

7. Comedy Community: Growth, Failure, and Generosity

• [41:00] Sklars and Pete discuss humility, growth, aging, comedy as a spiritual path, and learning more by admitting what you don’t know.
• [41:50] The real spiritual “success” is spaciousness, gentle unknowing, and journeying together rather than fierce certainty.
• [43:34] Judaism’s tradition of asking “why”—and how that naturally dovetails with stand-up’s relentless questioning.
• [90:00] Their ever-renewed commitment to being forces for generosity and support for other comics.

“Can we leave the comedy community as: let’s love each other, let's give to each other, let's make each other’s comedy better?”
— Randy Sklar [90:34]

8. Industry Stories, Roasting, and Showbiz Inside Baseball

• [81:32] Extended detour about roast battles at Montreal’s Just for Laughs (with Jimmy Carr, Finn Taylor, Brad Williams, Blake Griffin) and the insane adrenaline of competitive joke writing.
• Vivid anecdotes about bombing, killing too hard in a roast, and punching up delicate material.

“You get a writer’s room laugh, which is the thing that’s making us laugh. We gotta scrap all the other things.”
— Jason Sklar [86:13]

9. Philosophy of Relationships, Teams, and Generous Interpretation

• [76:00] The brothers liken partnership to marriage: sometimes things aren’t even, but the larger goal is more important than small grievances.
• Discussion of the virtue and comfort of “benefit of the doubt” as a love language, and the beauty of “unoffendable” friends.

“Giving me the benefit of the doubt is my love language.”
— Pete Holmes [76:11]

• [77:04] Reference to Richard Rohr and Ram Dass: true spiritual maturity means being "unoffendable" and not excluding anyone from your heart.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Takes two to know one.”—Running meta-gag about podcast titles and group dynamics. [09:51]
• “Tell me you like urethra play without telling me you like urethra play.”—Jason riffs on sexual subculture jokes. [03:35]
• “When you laugh at another comedian's joke, that is generosity.”—Randy on solidarity in the scene. [14:10]
• “God is the name of the blanket we put over the mystery to give it a shape.”—Pete's core bit on spirituality. [32:22]
• “It’s not the gain. It’s that it’s gaining.”—On inherited immigrant thrift and both career and spiritual growth. [39:23, 93:48]
• “Comedy cancer”—Pete’s label for haters and why hanging with positive peers matters. [40:14]
• “My favorite people are the Unoffendables.”—Pete on his inner circle. [76:33]
• “Dondas as Donas is a great bonus.”—Wherein they merge Trump and Ram Dass. [93:29]
• Rapid-fire bit: Jewish jokes about bar mitzvahs, family seders, and “extra chairs from the basement.” [67:29]
• “You guys get recognized more because you get a second chance. You have two faces.”—Pete roasts the Sklar twins. [78:35]
• “He had Sklar brother–level of fame. People would be like ‘where do I know you from?’”—Comparing Jesus’ contemporary notoriety to theirs. [79:34]

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Important Segment Timestamps

• [02:01–04:40]: “Randy” jokes, “Sounding”, and soccer team names.
• [11:09–14:43]: Saint Sklars, Tag It, comedy community philosophy.
• [19:31–22:26]: Pete’s creative mechanics with joke riffing and “taking it all the way.”
• [24:00–26:40]: Comedy as “edging,” joke timing, and punchline suspense.
• [32:09–36:00]: Writing big bits about God, fearless comedy, and religious differences.
• [41:00–44:16]: Comedy as asking “why”—Judaism parallels.
• [64:06–69:11]: Sklars’ Jewish upbringing—family jokes, Passover, sexualized ritual phrases.
• [81:32–88:21]: Behind-the-scenes of roast battles, anxiety, and the adrenaline of live comedy combat.
• [76:00–77:39]: Partnership, benefit of the doubt, “unoffendable” friends.
• [90:00–91:00]: The Sklars’ comedy legacy: generosity and love for the community.
• [92:44–93:29]: Trump meets Ram Dass impression.

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Tone & Style

The tone is wild, improvisational, joyous, and affectionate, punctuated with sudden turns toward sincerity and deep reflection. The episode is a love letter to comedy and comedians, peppered with industry in-jokes and plenty of infectious laughter. The Sklars and Pete continually subvert bits with unexpected philosophical depth, creating a signature style: part riff, part group therapy, part roast, and always weird.

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Best For

• Fans of standup comedy and inside-industry chatter.
• Anyone interested in the creative process and philosophy of joke-writing.
• Listeners craving both laughter and honest talk about meaning, friendship, and growing older in creative life.
• Comedy nerds who love meta-humor, callbacks, and affectionate roasts.

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Final Note:
This episode is a gem for fans of smart, silly, and sincere comedy. The Sklars and Pete Holmes set a standard for creative generosity and mutual admiration, offering aspiring comics a playful but profound roadmap to community and craft.

Transcript

[Randy Sklar]

You made it weird. You made it weird. You made it weird. Oh, yeah. You made it weird. Made it weird. Yes, you did. You made it weird. With Pete Holmes.

[Jason Sklar]

What's happening, weirdos? I am thrilled. It is my joy and my delight to introduce and reintroduce the Sky Brothers. They're back on the show. They did the live episode with us when Jimmy Carr was on in Montreal and they did a one on one episode or two on one episode many, many years ago. But they're finally back and they are joy and they're so funny and so wonderful and just a perfect episode. And I'm so glad you guys are here. Thank you for tuning in. Tuning in. Was it 1932? Sitting around the radio. Go to Super Sklars supersk l-a r s.com for their tour dates. You can also check out their podcast, Dumb Peopletown. You can also follow them on. On the Instant Pictogram, Sklar Brothers. S K L A R Sklar Brothers. And go see them live. They are unbelievable. They also do a show called Tag it that I did the night we recorded this show. Sometimes at Largo, sometimes at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles. Tag it. Where they listen to your act and then they give you tags. And that's why I call them the St. Sklars. They're amazing. They give back to the community. They're so generous of heart, but they're also just so, so funny.

[Randy Sklar]

So.

[Jason Sklar]

So I'm glad you're here. Enough jab, enough jibba jabba. Let's get to it. Go to petehomes.com for my accent that I just start. Keep plugging stuff. New Jersey, Austin, St. Louis, Toronto, Nashville, Irvine, San Jose, Royal Oak. This is the PG13 tour, a semi clean, not too dirty comedy tour that I'm doing. Go to peteholmes.com for tickets to that. And the next Largo is in March, April as well, so. All right, that's it. I'm so glad you're here. The Sklars are here. Enjoy. Get into it. Do you know the Sklar trick that Kumail made up? Do you know this?

[Randy Sklar]

Yes. Randy's Randy's.

[Jason Sklar]

I know you boys.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah, you know this. Randy's dandy.

[Jason Sklar]

No. When you're feeling Randy like the British Randy, you're sexy.

[Randy Sklar]

Take your glasses. That's so good. So much fun. I can't believe you didn't know that.

[Jason Sklar]

It's the British Randy. When you're feeling.

[Randy Sklar]

Let's talk about that. Let's talk about this. We're on. We're in. We're already so. That's so. So. I love you. Isn't that funny that Mark Maron hasn't. Has taken 40 years to not even just learn that? Oh, my. Whatever. There's no way he knows that. Whatever. My point. I love him. My point is, I love him for it. My point is that's even taken a minute to make a device. But Kumails, that's so sweet. And that's so Camille. Because he actually took the time to actually create something that was creative and fun and funny. And funny.

[Jason Sklar]

You feel fun for knowing what Randy means in Britain, right?

[Randy Sklar]

Totally. It's like.

[Jason Sklar]

It's like rooting right in Australia.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah. Sounding in Seattle.

[Jason Sklar]

What's sounding in Seattle?

[Randy Sklar]

So the sounding. You know what sounding is? No. Oh. Sounding is a sexual activity. We take a metal rod and stick it inside of your penis in the areth. In straight up straight. No.

[Jason Sklar]

I have no curiosity.

[Randy Sklar]

This, to some people is extraordinarily fun and enjoyable.

[Jason Sklar]

I would love it. It's the people that love, like, a habanero pepper.

[Randy Sklar]

Right. Or like a. Or like, I want a lot of tattoos.

[Jason Sklar]

Just a lot of neck and face and tongue and gum tattoos.

[Randy Sklar]

I want several tattoos over the one I have on my elbow. That's right, your eyelids.

[Jason Sklar]

Gum tattoos. Tell me you like urethra play without telling me you like urethra play.

[Randy Sklar]

You know how, like, there are jokes. Do you know how there are jokes in your act at the beginning of the hour that you're like, if the audience gets this, they're gonna love this. If they don't get this, I'm.

[Jason Sklar]

That's what this is.

[Randy Sklar]

This whole episode.

[Jason Sklar]

If you're not loving your wreath replay the.

[Randy Sklar]

The. The knitting needle through the lip and through the thing. Tells me that there might be. That's right. So the sounders, this. Unfortunately.

[Jason Sklar]

Why is it called sounding?

[Randy Sklar]

Sounding. I don't know, but they.

[Jason Sklar]

It's not a tuning fork.

[Randy Sklar]

No, no. Oh, maybe they do do it and then they click it. I don't know. Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah.

[Randy Sklar]

But all I know is the name of the professional soccer team is the Seattle Sounders, which I think is.

[Jason Sklar]

Is that real?

[Randy Sklar]

Yes. That's hilarious. Like, because they didn't know. I mean, it's because they're thinking of, like, Puget Sound and probably.

[Jason Sklar]

But, like, what is sound? Is a type of water landmass.

[Randy Sklar]

Right.

[Jason Sklar]

It's a sound.

[Randy Sklar]

It's like sound is like a bay. Like a. Yeah, yeah. Kind of. Yeah. And so.

[Jason Sklar]

And that word was already taken.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah. But they're like Long Island Sound.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

[Randy Sklar]

Sound. Long Island Sound sounds like. Isn't that a Billy Jo Long Island Sound?

[Jason Sklar]

Long Island Sound is just Billy Joel or.

[Randy Sklar]

If you told me that. If you told me the Long Island Sound was the name of his band, I'd be like. If you told me that Billy Joel and the Long Island Sound, ladies and gentlemen, if you told me that two members of the Manhattan Transfer form their own acapella group called the Long Island Sound. And I'd be like, that's them.

[Jason Sklar]

Yes. I've been trying to think of something, but then the microphone smells like a beer, but it doesn't work.

[Randy Sklar]

It doesn't work.

[Jason Sklar]

And my sou pounding rod smelled like a beer.

[Randy Sklar]

Because he dipped it in a beer first. He did. To clean it. Yeah. I said, bill, I believe this is killing me. As a smile ran away from his face.

[Jason Sklar]

Look, you. I've never been a. I have a whole thing I want to say up top, but I'm not gonna forget it.

[Randy Sklar]

Please.

[Jason Sklar]

But it's that you brought up the elbow tattoo. And I don't know if you saw me do that. I tried to do a thing about how tattoo culture is so anti conformist and they're so like, fuck you. I don't give a fuck. I have tattoos on my face. And then everyone gets the cobweb on the elbow. It's the only move. They're like, of course. I want to be one in a million.

[Randy Sklar]

Cobweb on the elbow, barbed wire on the bicep, barbed wire on the bike.

[Jason Sklar]

Cobweb on the elbow, always tired on the face. I'm just kidding. That's.

[Randy Sklar]

What's his name? Post Malone.

[Jason Sklar]

How happy were we when someone called themselves Post Malone? We couldn't wait with the Pre.

[Randy Sklar]

The Pre Malone. Well, there was. There was pretty. There was Prefontaine, who was a runner.

[Jason Sklar]

Oh, yeah.

[Randy Sklar]

And then there was the movie Prefontaine. And so then we made a joke on our old cheap seat show that he was Post Prefontaine the runner. But Pre. Prefontaine the movie. Oh, my God. So.

[Jason Sklar]

And then here we are with Post Malone. It's like the never ending story. In the 80s, every comedian was like. It was 90 minutes.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah, there was an end.

[Jason Sklar]

There was an end.

[Randy Sklar]

There's an end. No. The never ending story.

[Jason Sklar]

How about this?

[Randy Sklar]

I'm walking out. It's over now.

[Jason Sklar]

There's your story.

[Randy Sklar]

A little too short for my.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah, a little too short. Not even a double disc.

[Randy Sklar]

Not even a double disc. Double Lacer.

[Jason Sklar]

We're still enjoying.

[Randy Sklar]

You know, I call the Never Ending Story the Irishman.

[Jason Sklar]

Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Still haven't seen it.

[Randy Sklar]

Never refused.

[Jason Sklar]

Saw the first half.

[Randy Sklar]

Saw the first eighth, I think, which is three, I thought was a half.

[Jason Sklar]

And I was like, that's gotta be half.

[Randy Sklar]

I saw the first two fifths and then received three sociology credits from ucla. Why were they giving it to me? You watch most of the Irishman and then they pre sociology credits in the mail. That's about right. Italian Americans.

[Jason Sklar]

I also, yeah, I didn't have to go to traffic school after I watched half of the Irishman. They were like, you've done enough.

[Randy Sklar]

No more points on your license.

[Jason Sklar]

We took them off.

[Randy Sklar]

It removed points from my license from, like, years ago.

[Jason Sklar]

So did Flowers of the Killer. Whatever. What is this? Do I have to put on a pot of coffee?

[Randy Sklar]

I was like, like, Gandalf. So they're making. They're taking money from these people. She's smarter than this guy. And I got it.

[Jason Sklar]

I get it. And everything feels horrible. They're like, give the pregnant woman. I didn't finish it. Give the pregnant woman shots. And I'm just like, I have a bad feeling.

[Randy Sklar]

It's all gonna go badly.

[Jason Sklar]

White folks and the natives. I have a bad feeling.

[Randy Sklar]

I felt like, it's not a twist.

[Jason Sklar]

It's not a twist.

[Randy Sklar]

It's not a twist. I felt like, you can't be like. And they'll never see it coming. It's all coming.

[Jason Sklar]

Not a twist.

[Randy Sklar]

It's all coming. I felt it's all coming. It's like when you see a documentary. It's like when you see a documentary and there's a horrible accident, but, like, the person is talking at the beginning. You're like, they're fine. They made it out of Bear Trap.

[Jason Sklar]

We know how difficult is.

[Randy Sklar]

I'm still hearing this person. But it's the reverse of a salesman.

[Jason Sklar]

Is a spoiler, too. Come on, Art.

[Randy Sklar]

Totally. But I felt like. I felt like Spade, in which to me was my favorite moment of the SNL 50th, is when he. Spade. Spade was in this really long sketch, Mulaney. And then in the middle of the sketch, he's back in his seat in the audience, and they're like, where's Spade? Isn't he still in the sketch? Cut to him, and he's like, yeah, I get it. I got a feel for it. I got to feel. I got to feel for it. That is how I found. I'm. It's speechless. I gotta feel for it.

[Jason Sklar]

I gotta feel for it.

[Randy Sklar]

And. And that to me is. Have you spent time with him?

[Jason Sklar]

I've been trying to get Spade to do this podcast for many years.

[Randy Sklar]

He's hard to pin down, but I.

[Jason Sklar]

Will say gets a feel for it.

[Randy Sklar]

But he's the funniest. Is he just the funniest again, it's just you. We know so many of these people in this business who are just funny in their bones.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah.

[Randy Sklar]

Just hang out with them and you're like, everything. He speak in fully formed bits.

[Jason Sklar]

Jokes.

[Randy Sklar]

That's jokes.

[Jason Sklar]

I did my audiobook in the same studio. He did his audiobook, and the technician was like, david Spade reading his audiobook was the funniest thing that's ever happened. Because he wasn't even reading it, like, commenting on it.

[Randy Sklar]

He's making a page.

[Jason Sklar]

I'm like, in there sweating, trying to get it right.

[Randy Sklar]

Every word intonation, and he's like, did it right. I think. Speak. I don't. I think you don't give yourself enough credit. You are, in our minds, one of the quickest, funniest people we've ever met. Who can also be real.

[Jason Sklar]

Well, it takes two to no one.

[Randy Sklar]

Yes, it does. That should be the name of this podcast. It takes two. It takes two to know one.

[Jason Sklar]

What's awful? You're telling me how quick and good I am.

[Randy Sklar]

Well, it takes two to know I love it.

[Jason Sklar]

I look back and your sweaters are on the chairs, but you're not there.

[Randy Sklar]

Why they swinging door? Smoke outline of us to sit here. Randy's mustache. Glasses fall straight down. An outline of his mustache. A few hairs drop.

[Jason Sklar]

When you're feeling Randy or you want to leave a podcast real f. You.

[Randy Sklar]

Take off your glasses. Take off your glasses and you get out.

[Jason Sklar]

Well, what I was going to say to return that is, who's better than the scars? Nobody's better than the scars. We could end now. We could just be like this podcast.

[Randy Sklar]

Takes one to know two. We just have so much fun together. Like, wherever we are, sitting here, saved.

[Jason Sklar]

Takes two to no.1 was still kind.

[Randy Sklar]

Of leaving me wrong.

[Jason Sklar]

And then you said, it takes one to know two and we redeemed.

[Randy Sklar]

No, you were the first half of it. That allowed me to be the. I was just pulling the arrow string back.

[Jason Sklar]

Well, what I was going to say is I. If you. Well, if there were, like, groups and phones. There aren't. Well, I could name our text, whether it's the three of us Saint sclars.

[Randy Sklar]

That'S where I would.

[Jason Sklar]

I think of you guys as Saints of the comedy scene.

[Randy Sklar]

Oh, man.

[Jason Sklar]

Like, there's this, like, you know, sometimes maybe you take mushrooms and you're like.

[Randy Sklar]

We should all be helping each other. Right?

[Jason Sklar]

And you guys are the only people I can. I. I'm gonna talk. Not really. It's not really shit, but, like, the number of people. I'm like, send me your hour. Send me your hour. You're about to film it. Send me your hour. I'll punch it up.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

And they just don't do it, right. They lock up.

[Randy Sklar]

They.

[Jason Sklar]

We.

[Randy Sklar]

We.

[Jason Sklar]

And that's no shade there.

[Randy Sklar]

That's.

[Jason Sklar]

That's just some part of how we're weird. You guys go, we'll do a show. Because everyone will do a show. And then you punch it up. It's called Tag It. We're doing it tonight.

[Randy Sklar]

It's Tag it tonight at the Comedy Store. It is so fun.

[Jason Sklar]

Margo, Sometime.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

It's a wonderful show.

[Randy Sklar]

And you're so good at it because you're so generous.

[Jason Sklar]

It's not about.

[Randy Sklar]

So the plug of the show.

[Jason Sklar]

It's your hearts.

[Randy Sklar]

I will say about that show is, you know, for so long, you get into comedy and you're like, I just got to hustle and be funny. And then you're like, what am I trying to say? What is my voice? And then at some point, you're like, what our mark are we going to leave on this little world that we're in? Yeah. So we're like, can we create a world that we would want to live in in comedy? Can we create a space in comedy that we'd want to see, which is comics having fun with other comics.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah.

[Randy Sklar]

Being generous and giving to each other.

[Jason Sklar]

Which is a natural extension of the first one, by the way.

[Randy Sklar]

Totally.

[Jason Sklar]

When you can laugh and have fun, then you go like, oh, we're laughing and having fun. Why wouldn't I want to help you?

[Randy Sklar]

Right.

[Jason Sklar]

You're just showing. You're sniffing each other's butts. Somebody. I was. I don't think it would say. Ornie Adams was texting me, and we were texting this morning, and. And he was like, I'm tired of comedy.

[Randy Sklar]

I'm tired of it. I go in the green room. You go in the green room, and everyone's further off the mic. I'm tired. Comedy. It's thick out there down here.

[Jason Sklar]

You go in the green room. Everybody's looking at me like I'm a serial killer. That is very good. My horny.

[Randy Sklar]

Such a good orny. That is so good that it came.

[Jason Sklar]

Out Real good tonight.

[Randy Sklar]

Really.

[Jason Sklar]

Sometimes an impression come out, right? And it's. It's on the stand.

[Randy Sklar]

It's.

[Jason Sklar]

You guys. You don't understand.

[Randy Sklar]

When you're.

[Jason Sklar]

The love of your life was in junior high.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

I think.

[Randy Sklar]

I think you should do a character where all the things that he talks about goes towards, like, a sexual nature. And you should call him Horny Adam.

[Jason Sklar]

Horny Adam.

[Randy Sklar]

Oh, you think I haven't heard that before? Randy Squar. Everybody's calling me Horny Adams, everybody. You're. You're on it. You're on it.

[Jason Sklar]

You're on it. It's like I have a little bite of a sandwich in my mouth, and I'm mad about everything, but I'm also kind of fun.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah, he is fun. He's fun.

[Jason Sklar]

I, I said, you've been hanging out with. Well, I said Marin that. Who cares? It's just a joke. I said, you've been hanging out with Marin too much. And he was like, you might be right, but, like, you guys are sort of. And I'm not. I'm just saying, like, there's salty green room people. You know, other people we like, too, would. I'm saying we don't like Mark.

[Randy Sklar]

Other people. We like her, man. No, I'm just. We love Mark. I, I, of course we do. I think there is this vibe, first of all, when you laugh at another comedian's joke, that is generosity. You are saying that, I like what you created. You're, you're, you're validating. I'm threatened by you. You're saying, I, I like that you just succeeded with that. And when you want to add to it what you're saying, sometimes our. When we do tag it, we won't even add a tag. We'll just be like, that joke, frame it and put it in a museum. That's beautiful. We want to say that. And then we say, okay, you're saying this, but what if you also said this?

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah.

[Randy Sklar]

Means that we love it enough to want to add on to it. And that feeling. And that vibe is so. It winds up being. What we've realized by doing this show so many times is that what it winds up doing is it winds up being super generous to the comedians because then they take it. And, and then their interaction with us when we see them again is, oh, my God, this tag is, like, my favorite because then I added this to it.

[Jason Sklar]

Someone from the outside.

[Randy Sklar]

We.

[Jason Sklar]

You sometimes just do.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah. And people you trust and love. Yeah. Who love you. Who, like, are looking out for you. Yeah. Yeah. And that's the way we. And so that's the legacy we would like. I love that.

[Jason Sklar]

Have you thought about it further? I've, I've done this. I've been like, how do you take the scler model further? And like, there's a summer camp.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah, I know. 100.

[Jason Sklar]

But it's because, like, why aren't we.

[Randy Sklar]

So when we were up in. And we did this was so much fun. When we did this podcast at. In Montreal with Jimmy Carr and you. That was one of my favorite ones that we did. And we were the Val.

[Jason Sklar]

Don't worry.

[Randy Sklar]

Don't worry.

[Jason Sklar]

You know, the anxiety lowering effect of booking the scleros to co host a.

[Randy Sklar]

Podcast, it just, it was just like, oh, it'll be a plus now. And it's how I feel. And it was so much fun because you were hilarious. He was hilarious. And we were able to just pop in and snipe in and do the thing. And you sniped Jimmy, who is a wonderful person. I mean, got a lot of wonderful person, but he is a very close person in many ways.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah.

[Randy Sklar]

He approached us and nothing ever came of this. But I take this as a huge compliment. He's like, I'm fascinated by your tagged show.

[Jason Sklar]

Wow.

[Randy Sklar]

And would you guys ever want to.

[Jason Sklar]

Come to the Starbucks in my house and work there?

[Randy Sklar]

And I was like, was that an upgrade? Is that an insult?

[Jason Sklar]

Can you make a cotado? What a bummer.

[Randy Sklar]

Like, you could make an Americano. Yes. Just a coffee with water in it. Yes.

[Jason Sklar]

It's just ruining espresso. We can do that.

[Randy Sklar]

We've done it for years. What? Are you kidding?

[Jason Sklar]

I've done it for years.

[Randy Sklar]

I've done it for years.

[Jason Sklar]

I. I've.

[Randy Sklar]

I don't want an Americano. If I want to ruin an espresso.

[Jason Sklar]

I'll use Splendor like an American. That's how you ruin an espresso. That's how you ruin.

[Randy Sklar]

Somewhere in Italy how you ruin an espresso.

[Jason Sklar]

They didn't put hot water in my coffee, did they? Sorry, Sorry, Giuseppe. It was too strong. Now I'm going to have four monster energy drinks and a Red Bull and yell at my son like that is.

[Randy Sklar]

He's Corny Adams. Corny. Corny Adams. Corny Adam.

[Jason Sklar]

I love it.

[Randy Sklar]

I get the Mike high five for Randy's joke.

[Jason Sklar]

You do? I wanted it.

[Randy Sklar]

You wanted it, Mike. Cheers. He asked us, he asked us if we would, like punch up his hour.

[Jason Sklar]

And who's this now?

[Randy Sklar]

Jimmy. Jimmy Carr. Oh, wow. Never panned out. And we didn't really press him on it or anything but because Jimmy loves.

[Jason Sklar]

Roast jokes I can. I'm going to be like, I'm guessing you didn't do it. So I'm guessing you didn't. Just kidding.

[Randy Sklar]

I loved his special. I loved his special. Love his special too. And it would have been fun. It would have been a really fun thing to do. But we took that as like a huge compliment because I think he's one of the best joke writers out there and for him to say like romanic today.

[Jason Sklar]

But I'm like, is there a show where you, you could like, you probably think I mean non scripted. I actually mean a scripted show where you punch up.

[Randy Sklar]

So what I would love if you.

[Jason Sklar]

Were in an office. Here's how it could like the officiant horage you are those guys.

[Randy Sklar]

I'm just kidding.

[Jason Sklar]

But they bring in the hours you.

[Randy Sklar]

Watch it it and then it's staff like you have so people. So I would, you know one thing that I where I think tag it could exist and work as like a show. So I don't know if you watch the Colin Jost Michael Che live thing they did on Hulu at the bell house, it was a fascinating and awesome and cool to see like a live stand up special be done. You could do that if you did it live. Because the point is that like we always love it when there's like a joke that doesn't go. We don't want them all to go. You don't want them all to like do well?

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah.

[Randy Sklar]

Like you want some of them to not work because you're like, yeah, when the one works. Yeah, when it works, you're like, it's hard. So like it shows you when you do get it.

[Jason Sklar]

You guys have given me tag like jokes that don't work. I'm putting that in quotes on the day. But I love my favorite showbiz creativity thing is it's not the note, it's where they gave the note.

[Randy Sklar]

Yes.

[Jason Sklar]

So it makes you go like, oh, they're right, it's. And the other one, I've said this a million but Jon Stewart said it's not. The writers don't write you jokes. They, they give you ideas that give you your ideas. Yeah, it's a prompt to make you go like, oh, I've never really thought about that. And sometimes hot compliment coming your way. Sometimes when I'm working on my stuff, I'll just hear you guys because you just exude bubbly. So I was working. I'll tell you what it was. You've heard my eye patch joke.

[Randy Sklar]

Yes.

[Jason Sklar]

I go, I feel I'm gonna do it tonight. But I go, I feel like I'm such a grown up because a grown man came to fix my garage and he had an eye patch and I just ignored it. I totally. There's always that moment when you first see it. You're like, oh, no. There's a moment.

[Randy Sklar]

Right. But then I didn't want to cover your eye. There's nothing wrong with my eye. Out of solidarity. Solidarity, yeah. Literally. You're like, I hear you. I hear you. Is this. What? Is this how you want it?

[Jason Sklar]

And then I said, yeah, go ahead and fix the. I had all the normal stuff. Like it came from a riff because someone in the audience had an eye patch. And I think, it doesn't matter.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

And then I was like, you know how badly I wanted to be like, are you think it'll be ready Friday? Do you like? That's so easy. Yeah, that's fine. It's fun.

[Randy Sklar]

And then I go, but your joke about it is. It. I tried to stop myself from thinking of the. I tried to stop the whole thing.

[Jason Sklar]

That's what makes it worth it.

[Randy Sklar]

That's what makes it.

[Jason Sklar]

My daughter is watching me, which is true. And I want to be a good example for her. Then you're like, well, the joke area is as soon as he leaves, I go, yeah, avast me, mate. But you don't want to hit that twice. But anyway, then I heard you guys going, like. Like, you know when you really sync up and you're talking in unison, we're so aligned and we're all thinking the same thing. And you're like, but what else about an iPad? IPad? And I was like, yeah, it's not a great solution. It just looks like your skull, right? It's just a hole. You're covering a hole with a hole. It's just fabric. It's just a dry hole. And I was like. And everyone's looking at it. They should sell air ad space on it. You should be like, this round space is brought to you by Squarespace.

[Randy Sklar]

Come on, come on.

[Jason Sklar]

Use. Use promo code of Ask me mateys for 10 off. But I did it because I. That was today. I was sitting in a chair. I don't. I was transcribing my jokes, right? Which is how I write. I listen to myself. But then sometimes I'm listening and I'm like. And you boys come in, you men. You know what I mean?

[Randy Sklar]

Yes.

[Jason Sklar]

The loving boys. You boys come in My mind. And you go like, what else? I mean, you brought up. This is what I want to say to all of stand up comedy. Including me. Certainly including me.

[Randy Sklar]

You brought it up.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah, you brought it up.

[Randy Sklar]

You brought it up. Brought it up. You brought it up. You brought it up. So stay. Stay with it. Stay till you worked it out. Take every piece of meat off the bone. So every. Why did you bring it up if.

[Jason Sklar]

You were just gonna be like.

[Randy Sklar]

And then. So every joke, every premise is you and the audience jumping off base, jumping off a cliff, and the hope is that you spring. You spring the shootout. And it is the most glorious path down with like, oh, we're looking at this over here. And now we're watching. So then why would you get on a ledge and end that beautiful glide down? Yeah, you want the rest of the trip all the way down.

[Jason Sklar]

Oh, you mean why just go to the edge.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah, why? Or why would you jump. Why would you jump off? And you start going and you pull the chute and it works. And then you're like, wait, let me put my foot on this ledge and we're done with this fall. You're like, yeah, we got more time. You actually earned it. The hard part is, is getting the premise that makes people want to say, I want to hear more and listen.

[Jason Sklar]

Stephen Wright says jokes are like painting little paintings in people's minds. So now I.

[Randy Sklar]

He did it better than anybody.

[Jason Sklar]

I believe it.

[Randy Sklar]

And I mean, his. Dude, you like one of my favorite. There's so many great. The joke that still stays with both of us. We just talked about this the other day. Oh, my God. He said there was a light switch in my house that. That does not work. I just turn it up and down. I flip it up and down. I flip it up and down and flip it up and down. I've been doing that for years. And then finally, I get a letter from a woman in Germany who said, cut it out. It's like a brilliant talk about the painting I like, because now I'm thinking about this woman in Germany. How did she get his address?

[Jason Sklar]

All of it.

[Randy Sklar]

How did she get his address? Writes a letter, sent it in English.

[Jason Sklar]

Cut it out.

[Randy Sklar]

Kind of like a. And he knows what it means. Violation. You know what I mean?

[Jason Sklar]

It shouldn't be cut it out. I got a letter from one from Germany that's. Please stop with.

[Randy Sklar]

But he's like, cut it out. And I'm like, it's just simp. Like that beautiful. Like, that pathway of communication is the same pathway of you jumping on the floor and your dad saying, stop doing it upstairs.

[Jason Sklar]

I agree. It's funny because Steven Wright. And I'm going to throw bargazi into this when I watch them. And those are two of my favorites. So there's no. I'm always worried people think I'm saying something negative. I'm not. You'll know when I am. It's gonna be much funnier than this.

[Randy Sklar]

This is heartfelt. Yeah, this is.

[Jason Sklar]

But when Nate and Steven do their thing, they're not that different from. To me. And it's a little bit, like, edging. Like, I don't know what edging is, but isn't it like you keep coming close to finishing sexually and then you stop?

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

Like, so when you go, like, there's like this weird surprise. Like, where's it going? Where's it going? And then it's like, I get a letter from a woman in Germany.

[Randy Sklar]

That's so good.

[Jason Sklar]

Cut it out.

[Randy Sklar]

That's so cool. And you're like, what, Stephen? Wrong.

[Jason Sklar]

If that's wrong, I don't want to be.

[Randy Sklar]

Corny Adams.

[Jason Sklar]

Was that Corny Adams?

[Randy Sklar]

That was the most corny. I mean, but. Do you know what I mean?

[Jason Sklar]

Like, there's the punchline, and then there's also just the relief that we're there. Like, the. The pulling of the toffee. Obviously, me and comics like Ornie and certainly you guys.

[Randy Sklar]

Guys.

[Jason Sklar]

More of a Gatling gun style. It's like, I can't believe how many things, like, I've heard your Barry joke about Obama's daughters.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

Many, many times. And every time I'm like, oh, there's another.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah, there's another thing coming. It's like that.

[Jason Sklar]

But like, Nate, you're like. Sometimes that punchline is just like, well, how.

[Randy Sklar]

How did you.

[Jason Sklar]

What am I. Yeah, and that's the pun. And you're. But it'll be something brilliant.

[Randy Sklar]

Right?

[Jason Sklar]

Perfect. And then you're here. It's funny. And there's this weird relief, like small bite restaurants.

[Randy Sklar]

Yes.

[Jason Sklar]

It's finally here.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

Oh, it does taste like Thanksgiving.

[Randy Sklar]

So Jezelnick is like that too, but a dark way. And it's like he. He does that for us in that. Like, I'm like, how is he gonna. You literally are. He brings up the subject and you're like, how is he gonna take this to the darkest place?

[Jason Sklar]

Try and guess.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah. He wants you.

[Jason Sklar]

I think is. Is playing off of you guessing. And Steven is so that joke. Not to be. I love being a nerd about comedy, obviously. But, like, he wants you to guess. You're flipping it. You're like, well, maybe, but you don't see. Cut it out.

[Randy Sklar]

Right.

[Jason Sklar]

I mean.

[Randy Sklar]

I mean, Hedberg was a little that way too. Like, But. And I will say that the show that we do, the tagged show, ends up creating that same dynamic once people understand the game of the show, which is they are watching your act and they're enjoying it, but they're also wondering, where. What are these guys gonna lat. Want to. And we always say that it's like watching someone else's act and trying to find tags. And the act is like the old Magic Eye photos. When you stare at it for. For a minute and then the dolphin becomes so clear. Right. And I think that's that way also sometimes with writing, with jokes, you're just like. You kind of just relax your mind on it a little bit, and then all of a sudden you're like, oh, it can only be this. This is what it is.

[Jason Sklar]

That is a totally different Creating stand up out of nothing, or. You know what I mean? Just regular is. Is a very. You know, it can be flowy and fun, but it's also, like, very focused. And then watching someone else is like this.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

Like, yeah, should have said, yeah, Captain Jack Off Sparrow. You know what I mean? Like, it was right there, right?

[Randy Sklar]

Like, it's. It's.

[Jason Sklar]

I'm not saying it's easy. I'm saying it's. It's Magic Eye.

[Randy Sklar]

It is Magic Eye.

[Jason Sklar]

It's a wide eye. Yeah, it's a wide eye.

[Randy Sklar]

You look with what's amazing. And we've done so many shows with you at Largo and so many of your shows, you just, like, the new hour of stuff just has so much. It's remarkable to us. And I, like, I wonder what your process is in terms of how you figure out. Because a lot of stuff. You're experiencing stuff. If you're on the playground and a kid who's just being a bully on the playground, and you're like, this kid punched you in the balls, or this is being a dick. You're like, oh, I've got now the whole bit. It's like, how I figured this out. But there are other things that, like, you love to tackle. And so many of your clips come across my feed too, but you love to tackle, like, real life grappling with stuff.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah.

[Randy Sklar]

At what point does that part enter into your writing process? Do you find the bit and then extrapolate out and be like, oh, this is actually what we're Talking about a.

[Jason Sklar]

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[Randy Sklar]

And now you land on a. My God is not a guy. The God is nothing. Well, that is the mo that is maybe the biggest bit that has like. Yeah, for you just jumped.

[Jason Sklar]

That was in my book. The God is the name of the blanket we put over the mystery to give it a shape. Why aren't I learning this in church? That was in my book. And then I was like, I should say that on stage.

[Randy Sklar]

It's like the deepest thing. It's such a deep concept.

[Jason Sklar]

But then you know what it was? It's other comedians. I was watching Billy Wayne Davis. I don't think he knows this, but it's. He didn't directly. It's, you know, when a comedian's attitude and their confidence inspires you. He was just talking about. He's being Billy Wayne Davis. He's hilarious and. But he's not. He's fearless.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

And he's kind of, you know, I'm not going to do his voice. It's silly Southern voice. But I'm saying it's silly to do.

[Randy Sklar]

He's a silly man, and he needs. He's a very silly man. There's silly people on both sides. Very silly man.

[Jason Sklar]

So I was just watching him.

[Randy Sklar]

I do want to do it.

[Jason Sklar]

I want to do it.

[Randy Sklar]

I want to do Billy Wayne's favorite. I love him.

[Jason Sklar]

Favorite comedian, Billy Wayne. Billy Wayne Davis.

[Randy Sklar]

Sounds like a serial.

[Jason Sklar]

Sounds like a serial killer.

[Randy Sklar]

Three. Three names.

[Jason Sklar]

Phone company.

[Randy Sklar]

Could be a phone. I don't know what that even means.

[Jason Sklar]

So anyway, I was watching him, and he just was talking. It doesn't matter what he was talking about, but let's say it was reproductive right.

[Randy Sklar]

Rights.

[Jason Sklar]

It wasn't right, but it was something big. And he just was unflinching. I was watching this clip, and I was, like, unapologetic. And then that led to the line, some people think God created the universe. Some people think nothing created the universe. And I. And this is Billy Wayne Davis. Which is the funniest guess that that attitude was watching him and going, like. Because I'm so afraid to, like, to offend or upset or. Literally, when you're doing jokes about the meaning of life, you're worried someone's gonna stand up and be like, I say.

[Randy Sklar]

You are full of it.

[Jason Sklar]

You know, like, y decree something.

[Randy Sklar]

Which, by the way, I think. And maybe this is because we're a decade older than you. I think that.

[Jason Sklar]

Tell your face.

[Randy Sklar]

That would be amazing. Thank you. I think that would be amazing if someone showed up. No, but that would mean you move somebody so intensely and so deeply that I suppose.

[Jason Sklar]

But that's cheating. Like religion and politics and sports. It's easy. Like when Bill Burr upset everybody over the.

[Randy Sklar]

The Philly, you know, like, I mean, that was.

[Jason Sklar]

I. No, it's epic. Amazing. I'm not saying that's not epic. I'm just saying it's cheating. You could not know my dad and be like, the Boston Red Sox are the worst team. He'd start getting upset. Similarly, if you're like, God, you know, it's.

[Randy Sklar]

It's.

[Jason Sklar]

It's a.

[Randy Sklar]

But you. I feel like you've earned the right to have that opinion. And you also, for your entire body of work, have not said, it's my way or the highway kids.

[Jason Sklar]

That's right.

[Randy Sklar]

You're like, this is what I found. And it's so interesting because we believe in different things religiously. We do with you. And yet there's a closeness to how we view the way religion works its way into our lives and how we react to other people. Right. Like the good stuff that you pull from religion in terms of kind of people. We are both. Yes. Yeah. We are not agnostics. We are not atheists. We are, I wouldn't say necessarily like, strong people of faith, but like. Like we have. Religion plays a role in our lives, even though it's a different religion than yours. And I think that puts us as neighbors on the cul de sac of religion for sure, in a way that isn't, you know.

[Jason Sklar]

You know, I'm not a. I don't identify as a Christian. I love Christ. It's a silly thing to be able to say, but it's not my group. But somebody came up to me in the supermarket yesterday, and they were like, I love the God or nothing bit. And they were like, and I'm a Christian. I was like, right on.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

Just kind of like, all right, Yeah.

[Randy Sklar]

I love the God or nothing. Bitter. And I'm a Jew. It's so great because it's like, you know, finding out the way you feel about something and even from where your perspective is. And like, if you did go to church and you were like, that to me, would be super interesting because I love you.

[Jason Sklar]

Generous.

[Randy Sklar]

But. But I would also add.

[Jason Sklar]

I'm not saying I. I don't look down on people that go to.

[Randy Sklar]

I think I don't either. I. I think they're. I don't either, because we've gone to synagogue and I'm like, I derive something out of this synagogue that we have because I love what the rabbi. She's like.

[Jason Sklar]

So when you're like, they're a Kapoor. Shashana person. Yeah.

[Randy Sklar]

I mean, there's the old high holiday. High holiday, Christmas, Easter. They only show up at Christmas Mass. You only see them then Christmas, Easter.

[Jason Sklar]

Is there the Jewish.

[Randy Sklar]

The high holidays, kids who come.

[Jason Sklar]

You say Rush Kapoor.

[Randy Sklar]

Rush Kapoor.

[Jason Sklar]

There's a real Rush Kap.

[Randy Sklar]

Rush Kapoor sounds like an Indian comedian coming.

[Jason Sklar]

Here's Trump introducing. Coming to the stage. Beautifully. Need comedian.

[Randy Sklar]

I don't know why Trump hosting a comedy show.

[Jason Sklar]

Why not? People seem to.

[Randy Sklar]

Raj Kapoor, he's going to run the FBI. Rajor, he's Cash. He's the Cashel comedy.

[Jason Sklar]

Do you think in your heart of hearts that there's A joke where the punchline is. What's the. Russ Hashanah, Is there a joke?

[Randy Sklar]

The best joke is there could be.

[Jason Sklar]

Abraham is going to fix his computer. I'm not even going to talk. And the punchline is, God will provide the ram.

[Randy Sklar]

That's so good. No, the. The best Jewish joke we've ever heard is that one that we tried to have our dad tell that he could never tell this joke. And we loved it more because he couldn't tell it right. It's a very simple joke. He said it's like the most economical joke. Son comes to his father and says, we can do it together. A son comes to his father, Jewish father and Jewish son says, I need $50. He says, $40. Why do you need $30? Just a great joke. Just a great joke. So simple, so easy. It's so short, so good.

[Jason Sklar]

I've heard it keeps going. I've heard it keep going too. When am I gonna get $10 here.

[Randy Sklar]

Because I don't have $5. So forever. Just the simple first turn of it. And our dad just couldn't tell it right because he kept adding words and we're like, you don't. He's like, I don't have 50, but 40 would be better.

[Jason Sklar]

He's such a good investor. It keeps gaining.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

He's like, I don't have 30.

[Randy Sklar]

I could do 20. And we're like, dad, no, no, no. You gotta say, I can do. You gotta be as close.

[Jason Sklar]

Where am I gonna get 7, $500?

[Randy Sklar]

Dad, you're now outside. What is this?

[Jason Sklar]

But I'm good with money.

[Randy Sklar]

I have my money. So. So this, this is what I was gonna say earlier because I don't want to get too far away from. Speaking of, we do have a joke in this two man show that we're doing like a sort of a birbiglia esque addicts Alex Edelman style two man show that we have designs and plans on bringing to, to eventually someday taking to Broadway. I'll speak it out into the world. And we have investors and it looks like it's gonna have a run somewhere and then maybe take a run in New York. But there's a joke in there about finding like we're like anything could have been in this envelope. I mean in Israel, like a savings bond that like from, from 1972, that when it matures and it's $50 saving bond matures in 18 years will be worth $60. I just love that. And then we hold it for so long.

[Jason Sklar]

Is that a bar Mitzvah joke.

[Randy Sklar]

That's such a bond. Everyone, they make a big deal. Like, when this matures, it's going to be worth. And it's like $10 more than it was after 18 years.

[Jason Sklar]

Like, well, you know, my. My mother is a Lithuanian immigrant. And the obsession with, like, it's not the gain. It's that it's gaining. It's not. It's not that it's $10, which is.

[Randy Sklar]

The way we should look at our career. It is look at our career, though.

[Jason Sklar]

I've said this many times. There's a rebate, the rabbinical teaching, the two men on two ladders. One's on the third rung, one's on the seventh. And they say, rabbi, who's the better man? It's like the ladder of enlightenment, whatever. And he goes, whoever's moving forward. Whoever's still moving forward.

[Randy Sklar]

Don't you look?

[Jason Sklar]

We think stuck on 7 worse than moving up on 3.

[Randy Sklar]

I think of the. Of our career as a ladder because, like, we're. In order to climb up, you've got to be looking at the people who are above you. And so you're constantly like, why am I not up there? And why am I not up there? And what we don't do is look down and look down at all the people that are on the ladder below us. The line to get to the ladder, and then the line around the corner where people don't even know what they're waiting for. And then there's a bunch of people going, I wish I had the balls to, like, step into this line that's waiting, that we don't know what we're waiting for to get here. So, like that. Just take a moment. Yeah. You got to kind of figure.

[Jason Sklar]

That's funny. I. I said that when I got to New York, it was like, just find someone who's a little bit ahead of you and stick around them. And then the people that were. We called it comedy cancer. I was like, the people that are, like, haters. And. And it was. Every now with the Internet, it feels like we know haters, but they were in the shadows back then. I was like, don't go. Go to them. And it was. How lucky was I? I was like, oh, there's Mulaney and Kroll and, like, all the. And Peretti, all these, like, geniuses.

[Randy Sklar]

Like, yeah, well, they were just a.

[Jason Sklar]

Little ahead of me then. You're just kind of the guy in the back.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

Just trying to be like them.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah. Just see. What were you gonna say? I was Gonna say earlier, I was. As we get older, I think you. And religion was sort of the basis of it, but I think it applies to everything. I think you go one of two directions. You either get strong your beliefs, and then you don't believe anything else, or you start to realize that you don't really know everything. And you. And the people who decide that they soften a little in their beliefs and decide they don't know as much.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah.

[Randy Sklar]

Then they learn more, and then they grow more, and they. I think the other people just stop growing. And I think the level, like, comedy forces you to kind of say you don't know a lot.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah.

[Randy Sklar]

Because, you know every time we get on stage, you could fail, especially if you're trying new stuff.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah.

[Randy Sklar]

Every time you step into any scenario, wherever you are.

[Jason Sklar]

In the early show, you did amazing.

[Randy Sklar]

Correct.

[Jason Sklar]

The Late show goes like, guess what? Chicken butt.

[Randy Sklar]

Because they're. Yeah. Because it's a Friday and they've worked all day and they're. They drank and they're tired. I'm like, I know how I am. At the end of a night of like. So just when you think you know, it tells you that you don't know.

[Jason Sklar]

Well, that.

[Randy Sklar]

That.

[Jason Sklar]

To me, actually. Who was I just talking about this with? It was Morgan Jay. We were talking about. To me, for what it's worth, the marker of a spiritually mature person or a person who's taken some sort of teaching into their heart. That's a more gentle way of saying that is spaciousness. It's not just love. It's actually, you can feel that they're. In their unknowing.

[Randy Sklar]

They.

[Jason Sklar]

They figured out that knowing or being able to explain it theologically or in the terms of their tribe. Isn't the point that it's about some sort of conversion? It's about. It's a. It's a. I'm not trying to be funny. It's about the. The Exodus. It's about the journey.

[Randy Sklar]

Sure.

[Jason Sklar]

To the promised land and getting there. We're all supposed to get there. And when you get there, you realize, oh, all of that stuff was just a story to bring me here.

[Randy Sklar]

Correct. Yeah. And. And it's funny. And when you get there, you're like, oh, I thought this was the top of the mountain, actually. You look over there and there's a higher. That's where you're supposed to go. And you're just like, all right. I. It's never ending. Yeah. Not knowing that you don't know is, like, kind of weirdly powerful. Because then you never, like, take it seriously that you're not further.

[Jason Sklar]

That's right.

[Randy Sklar]

You just go like, there is no end. The goalposts keep moving.

[Jason Sklar]

Jim Gavigan told me, never be on the COVID of Rolling Stone. I know that was a weird name drop, but.

[Randy Sklar]

Because why? Because.

[Jason Sklar]

Because then you have nowhere to go but down. And it's. What brought it to mind was when you go, like, I know. This is it. I'm done. I have it. Then there's nowhere to go except topple. You're.

[Randy Sklar]

You're.

[Jason Sklar]

You're standing on the head of a needle.

[Randy Sklar]

Right. There is no way. Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

So stay soft and stay spacious and.

[Randy Sklar]

Stay spacious and ask. And always ask questions. That's what I love. That's what I love about the Jewish religion, is that. It is.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah.

[Randy Sklar]

You're constantly, like, in everything in every Jewish holiday. It's like, why do we do this? Why is this happening? I'm like, this is standup comedy.

[Jason Sklar]

The way we watch White Lotus. And you're like, did you see his face when you put the cube of sugar in his teeth?

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

That's Judaism.

[Randy Sklar]

That is. That comedy is just, guess what?

[Jason Sklar]

You're Jewish.

[Randy Sklar]

You're Jewish. You're Jewish.

[Jason Sklar]

You're Jewish or you understand. Well, you're doing something that. There's a culture with a very rich.

[Randy Sklar]

Tradition of asking questions of why something.

[Jason Sklar]

Is to the point where, like, why is this letter next to this letter? I mean, like, when you talk about a. Again, not funny. It's interesting. But I'm not trying to make fun of it.

[Randy Sklar]

We'll punch it up.

[Jason Sklar]

Thank you. That's your thing. But, like, that is a level of super fandom that I don't think the world had seen.

[Randy Sklar]

Never.

[Jason Sklar]

I mean, we're literally dancing with the Torah above our heads. I mean, I've seen people do that with season one of Succession.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah, exactly. Yes.

[Jason Sklar]

I'm just saying that fervor and that.

[Randy Sklar]

Engagement I have to say about. I just watched the last most recent episode of Succession, and my wife and I.

[Jason Sklar]

You mean severance.

[Randy Sklar]

I'm sorry. Severance.

[Jason Sklar]

I do that.

[Randy Sklar]

Same thing. Same thing.

[Jason Sklar]

My innie calls it.

[Randy Sklar]

So. Janet. So Jay and I were wearing. We were presenting an award for. At the technical.

[Jason Sklar]

We did this one of you looked great.

[Randy Sklar]

Thank you. I'm just kidding. No.

[Jason Sklar]

Why did you assume.

[Randy Sklar]

I thought it was me? I thought. And Randy said, thanks. I was like, thank you. And whoever claims it, I'll take it. So a few years ago, we. We were presenting an award at the two awards Two awards at the Creative Arts Emmys. So by the nature of it, we had to Were present stage present the award, and then stay on stage while they're speaking. And of course, we're like, we have to do a jo after something after we. The person accepts the award.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah.

[Randy Sklar]

So it was for best Produced Show Open. Okay. Like the show open that is produced. And the bit we did in advance was like, shame on you, everyone, for fast forwarding through the Produce Show Open. People spend time on this. They work their asses off. And you're just like, skip. Like, that's like no other piece of art you can't walk through. You know, you just. Or you can't just skip. Skip. So. So we talked about the. That. And then the winner was Severance. And he's. They. These two guys come on stage and one guy who did the produced open. They're two nerdy dudes. One guy is like, in a tuxedo.

[Jason Sklar]

Are we talking about the title sequence?

[Randy Sklar]

Title Opening title. Opening title sequence.

[Jason Sklar]

Is that the LA term I'm learning the.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah. Title Sequest Open. Produced. We say produced open, but it is main titles. I think it's main title sequence.

[Jason Sklar]

Okay.

[Randy Sklar]

And one guy's wearing a tuxedo and flip flops. And I don't know if the. Everybody can see it, but, like, that is the initial. We're like, this is. What do we do? What do we do? We're like, standing back on stage, we're like, what do we do? And we're like, let's make fun of the fact that he's wearing flip flops in the thing. And. But we came back up and this is the most Severance joke we could come up with, which was amazing. Congratulations, Severance. You know, the shame of it all is that their severed selves will never know that they won this award.

[Jason Sklar]

That's great.

[Randy Sklar]

So fantastic. So fun. And, like, those people loved it. And I'm like, I love the show. Show. But the most recent episode of Severance, my wife and I watched it and we both, like, were literally watching it.

[Jason Sklar]

You mean everything everywhere, all at once.

[Randy Sklar]

Was that the episode?

[Jason Sklar]

That's what I thought. I'm not putting it down. I was just kind of like, it's not my favorite genre.

[Randy Sklar]

We both were like, you. We were so mad, my wife and I. Are you.

[Jason Sklar]

Why did you get mad?

[Randy Sklar]

Because we can't understand it. I'm like, that's.

[Jason Sklar]

That's how I feel. I don't like things where, like. And I open the fridge and now I'm On a saber tooth tiger. And I'm like, if I want bullshit, I'll dream.

[Randy Sklar]

I was like, there's a meeting. Yeah, yeah, they'll make it work. These guys are too cute, by the way.

[Jason Sklar]

It was great.

[Randy Sklar]

It was beautiful. It's a work of art, and I love it, and I want to know so badly. But, like, our analogy was we said our joke in our act now that we tell is that people, older people, older white people watching Kendrick's halftime show at the Super Bowl. It's like the two of us watching an episode of Severance. We're like, who's that guy? What's he saying? What do they mean? Why are they over there? I don't understand. Can see him. Does he know he's there any. Does he know he's there? Or we.

[Jason Sklar]

Why is there a tennis player?

[Randy Sklar]

What? Now I got to listen to 10 podcasts just to figure out what the F's going on here. I don't know where the show notes.

[Jason Sklar]

That's really funny.

[Randy Sklar]

And it's. That is how. So that feeling of like, wait, I'm so dumb, and I thought I had it. Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

No, but did you see everything everywhere all at once?

[Randy Sklar]

Yes, I did. So at the beginning of that movie, I was like, what is this? I don't understand what this is. And then it got to a certain point where I was like, oh, this is the way I feel as a parent a lot of the time. And this is the way I feel. And the two rocks. I mean, to me, the two rocks. Having a conversation and subtitling the rocks. I'm like, that's one of the most brilliant things I've ever seen in a movie ever done.

[Jason Sklar]

Oh, wow.

[Randy Sklar]

I'm like, what a Hilarious. Brilliant. It felt comedically frivolous in the center of that whole thing, which was awesome, which was great.

[Jason Sklar]

I just get overwhelmed films. And sometimes a movie like that can make me feel like I'm. I think the filmmaker would say, then I did my job.

[Randy Sklar]

Like, well, that's the title.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah, exactly.

[Randy Sklar]

Right. It wasn't just, we're giving you a half of it and then a fourth of it at a few Segmenting. What is the name of the. Of the movie? Some of it later, when you get digestible increments.

[Jason Sklar]

I want a remake of I'm so highly sensitive. I want a remake of everything Everywhere, all at once called Some of the It Some places.

[Randy Sklar]

When you're ready. Here's some more. When you're ready. At various. At various.

[Jason Sklar]

At various times of your choosing. As to not overwhelm streaming now on Max.

[Randy Sklar]

I mean, just give me an hour of the rocks and I'm fine. The hour of the. I would take an hour of the rocks explaining the rest of the movie. I would.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah, that's right. I would love to listen in on some rocks.

[Randy Sklar]

But that's. Was it just. I don't know. That was, that was my thing. I don't know how we got onto Severance, but we got onto Severance from Succession because, like, I don't know why we were going that direction.

[Jason Sklar]

My wife can't. Val can't watch Severance because her biggest, like, I guess you could say Trigger. It always sounds like I'm parroting myself when I get Trigger, but she's really triggered by like, is this real? Like, like, wait, like, basically what Adam Scott's character is going through, which is like, where, like you.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

And I'm hosting a podcast and then I'm back in my kitchen and you're just like, what the fuck was that? It's basically dmt. So tell me.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

What you're. And I haven't smoked dmt. And it's for that reason.

[Randy Sklar]

Oh, I've, I've. Have you talked to people who've smoked it? Okay, so I've talked to. I've had deep conversations with people who've smoked it and it sounds both amazing and terrifying to me. I heard terrifying. The terrifying thing is far outweighs the amazing parts. But there are moments and things about it that sound just like, there's a. There's a 10% part of me that wants to do it.

[Jason Sklar]

No, I've gone through, when I lived here, huge month long periods where I was fully intending on doing.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

And then I ended up, you need.

[Randy Sklar]

A month to like, at least just.

[Jason Sklar]

Get ready for myself.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

But then I think I over researched it.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

And like when you hear hundreds of stories and some of them, I always say this, but like one, one friend of mine smoked DMT and he was inside of a giant craft crab in a coliseum fighting another giant crab. Like he was controlling it.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

And I was like, I don't know.

[Randy Sklar]

Man, do I need that? Do I need that?

[Jason Sklar]

I was like, it's one thing to like have someone say that to you, but imagine you lived it. Like you're looking and you know just what the language looks like.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

Backwards Ls and you're trying to crack it.

[Randy Sklar]

Right.

[Jason Sklar]

And. And I was like, did you win? He was like, yeah, I won. But it was close.

[Randy Sklar]

And I was like, If I want to be overwhelmed, I'll just try and park my car in a Trader Joe's parking lot. It's like that. If I need that, I can do that. That's like smoking dmt.

[Jason Sklar]

If I want to be overwhelmed, I'll listen to my GPS and I'll make a left onto four lanes of oncoming traffic on a stop sign at 5pm yes. Oh, is that a time saved? Don't get me started.

[Randy Sklar]

I was driving out to like yeah. Like Century City today. Yeah. And they're like cross fourth. I'm like cross fourth. Yeah. Here. Yeah. At Plymouth.

[Jason Sklar]

Is there a. Is there a vine?

[Randy Sklar]

Who are you people?

[Jason Sklar]

Can I jump out of my.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah, I was supposed to cross this.

[Jason Sklar]

My mother used to pray aloud trying to cross Mass Ave. And she's. It was very sweet. She apologized. She's like I'm sorry I let you see that. Cuz she was a new driver. And now I'm like I. I'm 45. I won't do it if I'm in that situation.

[Randy Sklar]

You go right, come back around and do it around.

[Jason Sklar]

I, I'll sit. I don't give a.

[Randy Sklar]

Make a life. Make life easier doing it. No you're not, you're not doing it. Make life 3U turns. Make life. Don't make a left. Go right.

[Jason Sklar]

Go right.

[Randy Sklar]

Make it right. Even if you're going to go left. Never go left.

[Jason Sklar]

I. Yeah.

[Randy Sklar]

Never go left.

[Jason Sklar]

I.

[Randy Sklar]

Always go.

[Jason Sklar]

I'm so Republican.

[Randy Sklar]

I always go right. I only turn right.

[Jason Sklar]

I go right and straight. Those are our directions. We love right.

[Randy Sklar]

Right and straight are they. We don't go straight enough. We don't go straight enough. We could go straighter.

[Jason Sklar]

We could go straight.

[Randy Sklar]

I don't want to say dumb Mass anyway. I know but that, that is I, I love so not to get all the way. All the way back.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah.

[Randy Sklar]

To. To. What we were talking about really initially was just how you insert how you get to the larger, deeper meaning thing. So that was my question. I don't think we even answered it. Is. You said that was really difficult. But is it the last thing you add? Sprinkle.

[Jason Sklar]

The whole time you're trying to think about.

[Randy Sklar]

You're trying to think about what Right.

[Jason Sklar]

Now the bit, the. The kernel of the new God bit for the next. Next right is I believe in God. Don't get me wrong. I don't think God exists because that's, that's the great koan is what is but doesn't exist. Yeah. So a friend of mine explained to his Child. They said, what is a soul? He said, your soul is the part of you that's not a thing. And that's what, in my opinion, God is. That's the whole. God is no thing. Not a thing. So the meditations. A koan just means something. You say, sit and think about but what is. But doesn't exist. What is but doesn't exist is my consciousness.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

It does not exist. It does not exist. You can't stand out from the background of reality. So my consciousness is but does not exist in the sense that this exists.

[Randy Sklar]

Do you have pets? You have pet?

[Jason Sklar]

I have a dog.

[Randy Sklar]

You have a dog?

[Jason Sklar]

Big old dog.

[Randy Sklar]

First dog of your life?

[Jason Sklar]

My second dog of my life.

[Randy Sklar]

So you've had a dog die.

[Jason Sklar]

Had a dog die.

[Randy Sklar]

Right. Did you see it? I died.

[Jason Sklar]

See, he died when I was on the road.

[Randy Sklar]

Right. Okay, so.

[Jason Sklar]

Which we took as a really loving. He waited.

[Randy Sklar]

He waited for you to go. Like, Pete doesn't need to see this.

[Jason Sklar]

I'm always freaking him out with my bar. He's always the thing I said to my dog the most. That dog was, what do you want from.

[Randy Sklar]

What do you want? Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

I was just like, what?

[Randy Sklar]

What?

[Jason Sklar]

And the command I gave him most often was, go live your life. I just wanted him to be happy.

[Randy Sklar]

Go live your life.

[Jason Sklar]

And it was a thing. It's not here with me.

[Randy Sklar]

Go do your thing.

[Jason Sklar]

Follow me. Like a security. Like a Secret Service agent. Yeah, but with clacking.

[Randy Sklar]

What kind of a dog is.

[Jason Sklar]

You're blowing our cover. He was seven different kinds. He was great. I actually miss him and. And. And think very fondly of him. But my new dog is not that way. And I. I really like him. He's like me. He's a big dumb idiot.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

He's always bumping things over. I just look at him and I'm like, I get it.

[Randy Sklar]

I get you, dude. I get you. I'm you. I. Are each other a little too loud.

[Jason Sklar]

You get embarrassed, like, but you're chill and. And you're fun and. And he's a. He's too much. He's the guy that will jump on you and tear your shirt.

[Randy Sklar]

Right? That's me, dude. I think about your. That's me. Okay. This is why I love your comedy. I was being loud at a party, telling a story. My wife is always like, your volume is way too loud. I'm like, I'm Pete Holmes. Like, when you're like, have you ever been a party enthusiastically. Your home's in it. You took the brakes off. Of your whole realizing how loud you're being. There's a.

[Jason Sklar]

There's a meme of me. I didn't even realize it was one of my favorite lines. But this is weird to like my own line. But it was. I get shushed by children. That's true. I've had kids go. Take it easy. Hey, take it down, children.

[Randy Sklar]

Chill out, man. Take it down. Children who are being. They're being prudent around you. So wait, so that's so funny.

[Jason Sklar]

Oh, yeah, yeah, right.

[Randy Sklar]

So. So wait, so you said you got yelled at it. You got yelled.

[Jason Sklar]

Oh, yeah, you got homes. Oh, you were saying, when does it come? And I'm saying.

[Randy Sklar]

So I was talking about dog. So we had a dog. We had a English bulldog. It was our second one. And he died.

[Jason Sklar]

Manchester.

[Randy Sklar]

He died. Roman was his name. He was owned by. Originally by Roddy Bottom, who is the keyboardist from the band Faith no More. Okay, so he, Roddy Bottom, was in a relationship with a man. They. He. They got this dog. They broke up.

[Jason Sklar]

His last name is Bottom?

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

He was a gay man.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

I mean, which I don't see anything funny about that.

[Randy Sklar]

Nothing to say. Say no comedy about it.

[Jason Sklar]

I just thought. I thought I. I thought I heard something else.

[Randy Sklar]

It's not a way description of a gay man's ass. That's his name. Not a description of a man after a relationship. There's nothing. Just a name.

[Jason Sklar]

There's nothing there. As three comedians, I would think of a less funny thing to say. There is a famous gay man named Rod Rodney Bottle.

[Randy Sklar]

It's like Steve Smith.

[Jason Sklar]

Timmy Top.

[Randy Sklar]

That's right.

[Jason Sklar]

I look to Katie to make sure it's her face says, I'm not sure.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah, Katie, it's.

[Jason Sklar]

And then we keep.

[Randy Sklar]

Katie was like, we'll allow steam through it.

[Jason Sklar]

His boyfriend, Timmy Top.

[Randy Sklar]

Listen, we'll steamroll through it just like Timmy Top does all the time. So we got this dog, and I love. I love this dog so much. And then he lived for a long time, then got cancer. And then we were like giving him chemo, which I would never recommend anybody doing for a dog. You know, it's like it worked, but it was money gone. We should have let him go when he was supposed to go instead of keeping alive. Keep anybody alive.

[Jason Sklar]

Even he was saying that.

[Randy Sklar]

He was like, oh, please. What? You're wasting money. But he. He passed away in the night in his sleep on my daughter's bed. And, you know.

[Jason Sklar]

With your daughter?

[Randy Sklar]

Yes, she was. She was there. And. And you know, she was Older, too. I mean, but, like, he passed. And the closest thing to understanding everything that you were talking about is the dog is there, his body is there, but the thing that makes him go. The consciousness, the soul. Yeah. Whatever it is that makes it was not there. So clearly that exists. Right. Clearly that is something. And clearly that is the thing that makes us who we are and what we are.

[Jason Sklar]

Right, Right.

[Randy Sklar]

In every way, shape, or form. And I was like, never before in my life as I picked this deceased dog up from my daughter's bed and loaded him into the back of our car. Right. Did I ever understand that those two things that the. The soul and the life and everything that made Roman who he was had left this being's body that. That exists.

[Jason Sklar]

Light bulbs in the light.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

The light turned off, and the German lady said, cut it out.

[Randy Sklar]

Cut it out. And it's. And. And then he did. And then Roman did. Cut it out. Just let her. Just let it go. Fine. I would argue it's fine. Let's get her.

[Jason Sklar]

Let's get her and try.

[Randy Sklar]

Let's get. You're over here giving up.

[Jason Sklar]

Oh, the vet said it's dead.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

I beg to differ.

[Randy Sklar]

Let's get it back. Crunch, crunch. I would argue that your soul is the impression you leave on other people. I think, like, that has a lot to do with who you are and what you're about. Like, when we do things that now with our kids, that our dad would have done with us, like, I'll make us. I'll make a breakfast for my kids. I'll make it all. What do you want? This. I do it. It with love. I put it down and I'm like, that's a 7.99 breakfast. Wow. Old prices. That's what our dad used to say. But part of that was me being like, say thank you. And I just spent some time on this, and he said that to us. And it came out of me not like, me being like, oh, I should say something. No, I know. It just.

[Jason Sklar]

It's a dad thing. You're absolutely right. It's like your. It's your thumbprint on your kids.

[Randy Sklar]

It is.

[Jason Sklar]

And it stays with them. That's why he said, that's what up my dad.

[Randy Sklar]

Dad did.

[Jason Sklar]

So it's like an echo.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

Somebody told me that Bob Saget used to walk around with his daughter and go, that could be your dad just pointed other guys.

[Randy Sklar]

I mean, which is.

[Jason Sklar]

Imagine that could have been your dad.

[Randy Sklar]

This, which is like, amazing. Funniest bit is so funny because he was the Voice of how I met your mother. The fact that, like, the fact that he's, like, now presiding. So many mysteries. Mystery of how I met your mother. And that could be. That could be your dad.

[Jason Sklar]

Hey, how I met your mother. Meet my mother already.

[Randy Sklar]

Meet my mother already. That was a tweet of mine.

[Jason Sklar]

Hey, season seven, beat my mother.

[Randy Sklar]

You guys, stop. Stop getting on me about meeting your mom and then. All right, I'll get to it.

[Jason Sklar]

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[Randy Sklar]

When are we going? Now?

[Jason Sklar]

When are we going to Tempe?

[Randy Sklar]

We? We. No, but we are like. So there is this synagogue in LA that reminds me of the joy we had. We went to Jewish summer camp or like because all of that stuff was wound up and connected with social stuff of course. So the enjoyment was I'm around other people that are kind of feeling and thinking similar things to me and this feels fun. And all of those things like Jewish youth groups and Jewish summer camp. We would find the funniest people and then get together and just this is how we started doing.

[Jason Sklar]

I'm not even trying to be funny. That had to be hard.

[Randy Sklar]

What the.

[Jason Sklar]

I mean Jewish people are just very funny.

[Randy Sklar]

They're Funny.

[Jason Sklar]

Trying to find the. The top.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah. There's so many funny people. Top eight. You're in the top eight.

[Jason Sklar]

The table only sits eight.

[Randy Sklar]

All right, we can't have you.

[Jason Sklar]

And he's like, I got better stuff.

[Randy Sklar]

Let me do a second set. We said literally 12 years old at the camp. Send us a packet.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Call us when you're a man.

[Randy Sklar]

Next year. It's a bar Mitzvah packet. Send us a. So. So we would find it. And so there's a place here. There's a place here that reminds us of that. And so we engage with it. Not so much for. I've got to read all of the. I. We were never the people. I've got to read this prayer. It's funny because, like, now, because our lives are just so crazy and we're traveling and there's this. And, like, hey, it's Passover coming up. And I'm like, you know, our mom will say to us, like, you know, we're like, we're going out of town. This. We gotta go and do this. And then we're coming back and we're. And we're going to. Our George is going to go. My daughter's going to go visit Daisy in Michigan. And, like, they're going to go these days. And my mom was like, but that's the first night of the Passover Seder. Like, the. The date of what that was. And I'm like. I literally was like, mom, I love you. I don't give a. Like, we'll do the Seder when I get back. Like, who cares?

[Jason Sklar]

Pass over. I'm over it.

[Randy Sklar]

I pass over it. I'm sorry.

[Jason Sklar]

There's blood on this door.

[Randy Sklar]

That's right.

[Jason Sklar]

You can keep on moving, right?

[Randy Sklar]

Just keep on going. But, I mean, I'm like, why does.

[Jason Sklar]

It have to happen?

[Randy Sklar]

You know? What's another plague? You reminding me.

[Jason Sklar]

I'm sorry, is this. How many?

[Randy Sklar]

This is the 11th plague.

[Jason Sklar]

The 11th plague was my mother. Okay.

[Randy Sklar]

Which would all. Which would be a hilarious name for a Jewish comedy club. The 11th play. The 11th plague. Couldn't.

[Jason Sklar]

You squeezed her in with toads.

[Randy Sklar]

That's right. Darkness, Darkness. The slaying of the first one.

[Jason Sklar]

You would have fit right in with darkness.

[Randy Sklar]

Locust boils. We know them all.

[Jason Sklar]

See, this is Saint Sklar.

[Randy Sklar]

You're just going, I'll think of the plagues.

[Jason Sklar]

You guys can.

[Randy Sklar]

So we used to do it. This was one of the first bits we ever did. We did phrase it Passover. Phrases that had an incredibly sexual connotation. To them, but weren't sexual at all. Okay. So like, he had a staff. It was a staff. It was a snake, then a staff, then a snake again. Like, that's the so sexual thing I've ever seen. That is fantastic. Fantastic. And then. And there were a few more that were like the parting of the Red Sea. I think we just did a bunch of things. And then the last one we did was only for Jews. Like, it was like. It was. But non Jews got it. We said the other one. The last passer phrase is not from the. From the book or anything like that. It was go downstairs and get extra chairs from the basement. Which is like, everybody Easter. Everybody go down and get.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah, go get extra chairs for the basement.

[Randy Sklar]

Which we're like, is that going down on someone? Like, what is it? It's like. And everyone's like, chairs from my base, if you know what I mean. If you know what I mean.

[Jason Sklar]

That's why that night.

[Randy Sklar]

He dipped twice. Dipping twice. That dipping twice. Another one. Why on this night do we dip twice? So funny.

[Jason Sklar]

I used to really envy how, like, the kids got along mine in. In Passover. I was just like, four questions.

[Randy Sklar]

I mean, because you wanted some kids are like, don't talk to me.

[Jason Sklar]

Well, I. I did not envy the bar.

[Randy Sklar]

Bar mitzvah a one year. This was so great. This is why I love our parents because they were this. This. I love them so much.

[Jason Sklar]

What are the commandments?

[Randy Sklar]

I think it's number four. Our dad, he was not a comedian, but he was a funny guy. And our mom just loved they a. We had a big Passover Seder out here in LA. When we first moved to LA. 1999. Living on.

[Jason Sklar]

I hardly know. Okay, come on.

[Randy Sklar]

Come on.

[Jason Sklar]

You got me nude now.

[Randy Sklar]

I can't stop. You can't. There's blood on the door. Don't go in.

[Jason Sklar]

Pass over Moses. Wait, it's not Moses passing under.

[Randy Sklar]

It was Moses. Moses, yes.

[Jason Sklar]

First choice, best choice. That's Moses's wife. There's blood over the door.

[Randy Sklar]

He was down there so long, he's got a speech impediment. Ah, that's right. Aaron. That's right. Or that was Moses spoke for Aaron. Go down there and get extra chips. Aaron was a ser.

[Jason Sklar]

Wait, Aaron was the mouthpiece.

[Randy Sklar]

Get in there, Aaron.

[Jason Sklar]

That sounds sexual too.

[Randy Sklar]

Or maybe he wants her bush is burning when it's hot in there.

[Jason Sklar]

Burning bush.

[Randy Sklar]

That's why I said Aaron in there. And I would talk to the burning bush. So one year we wrote, wrote, we wrote A whole say so. Like, we would always. There was like, this old, you know, yellow and red. It's called a Haggadah, which is the book that you read, like, on tells the story, the story Passover. And it's like such a bad story, but so perfect for comedy in that, like, you can make fun of it because you were. It's a lot of repeating of the phrases and the song. He went down to Egypt. Why did he go down to Egypt? Because his car broke down and he had to go hit, like. So, like, we start doing all these jobs and, like, our dad would lead the Seder and we would just start doing all of these jokes about the thing and our dad would do it too, and everybody. He wouldn't pronounce Egypt. He would call it egg wiped. And we would all start laughing as kids. It was so funny. It was great. So we wrote a whole Seder in, like, 1999. And our parents came out to LA and we were living on Harper between 1st and 3rd. Like, right over there was the first apartment. We moved from New York to LA and we had a bunch of people over and anybody who was like, they were not going home for Passover. And our parents came and we wrote the Seder and we just did this, like, straight up comedy Seder. And it was like the most ridiculous, but fun and funny and great to write. It's like that. So that attitude. Yeah. Exists in this place and with the. With people that we know here. And so my attitude is like, embody the stuff. If you miss the date or you get it on the wrong date, but you do this and you do that. Like, it's the intention. It's what you were saying. When someone's like, gives you a note on something, maybe you don't take the note, but it's like, yeah, I should think about this thing right here. Someone's telling me something. So that aspect, that we can glean that from it and not feel like, oh, my God, you're not going on this day. You're not doing the Seder on this day. It's like, who cares? In a weird way, I feel like I'm not. I don't want to say this and have people get mad at me, but I feel. I do. I want you to color bars. I feel it. I feel like this is why a big reason why the left lost this last election.

[Jason Sklar]

We lost.

[Randy Sklar]

We. Oh, sorry. Oh, spoiler alert.

[Jason Sklar]

I've been saving it.

[Randy Sklar]

All right. There is.

[Jason Sklar]

You go to my house.

[Randy Sklar]

It's all these balloons.

[Jason Sklar]

It's like blue balloons.

[Randy Sklar]

Believing in intention or trying to understand the reality behind intention and understand that if somebody, if your grandfather is having trouble getting your pronouns right and it's easier for him to call you what you are, even though it doesn't mean he doesn't love you.

[Jason Sklar]

Call you where you were born.

[Randy Sklar]

Where you were born. Sorry, sorry. What you were trying to help born with. He. It doesn't mean he doesn't love you. And you could also be like, I want him to get it right. But you also, in that moment, understanding his intention.

[Jason Sklar]

Well, this was in the coddling of the American mind. Did you read that book?

[Randy Sklar]

No.

[Jason Sklar]

And as I mentioned that whenever I mentioned that but book, I'm like, were we not supposed to read that book?

[Randy Sklar]

No, I want to read it.

[Jason Sklar]

Obama really loved it, for what it's worth. And it talks about the benefit of the doubt. It's like, it's, it's like being one of the cornerstones of humanity.

[Randy Sklar]

Yes.

[Jason Sklar]

It's like there are times where you are affronted and stopped and hurt. It's like you can just go, but we're good.

[Randy Sklar]

Like, trust yourself to understand someone's intention. And if someone's being incredibly tricky, then they got you. You. We always say that like in sports. It's like, like if you play great defense and some guy's falling out of bounds and hits a 30 foot shot, you tip your cap and you go, that was great. But I was where I was supposed to be and my hand was in his face. I played good defense and he just made the shot. Right. So in life, everyone's not walking around trying to trick people. Their intentions are pretty clear. We understand what people are trying to do. We understand who's actually mean spirited and who's actually like trying to hurt you. And we understand who might not get it, but it has good intentions behind them. Right. And if you alienate the people who have good intentions, who, who want to be for you, and if you group them with the people who are out there to get you right, then you're doing a really bad thing because you're, you're, you're excluding people from. Right. Who could be helpful.

[Jason Sklar]

Bathwater, sort of.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah, you're short. You're, you're, you're. And it makes me sad. It's tightening the tent. It ends up making me sad because I'm like, oh, that person didn't need to be. Right. Reprimanded quite like that.

[Jason Sklar]

And it's not like I can, I can feel that it's like It's. No, it's not entirely fair that the marginalized person has to be the bigger person. 100 but it's like it's a noble.

[Randy Sklar]

But how about you get to be the bigger person. Yeah. Yeah. You get to know that you know how to do it right. And someone else might not be there yet. Right.

[Jason Sklar]

You get to. Maybe you can't always do it right either. And we all. We take turns. Jack Kornfield has this thing.

[Randy Sklar]

I love Jack.

[Jason Sklar]

Living deliberately with other people. Like intentional communities. Not communes but internal. Like whatever 60s stuff.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

He's like, maybe you're having a bad day and I'll be the one that cares. Is like your gruff and. And then I'll have a bad day and you'll allow for me. And that's what it.

[Randy Sklar]

But what you. But what you don't do. But what you don't do in that situation is keep a little tally and be like, I held your gruff for six days last week. You got to now do this. This is how we've survived as a comedy team. How we've been able to keep doing it for 30 plus years is. And I will say the first one to raise my hand and say it. I. In the recent years, Y versus hand. I. I am more guilty than Randy, certainly lately in our lives with younger kids of not being able to carry the weight as much. You son of a.

[Jason Sklar]

But that's it. You go through seasons.

[Randy Sklar]

We go through seasons. Sometimes I can help more. Sometimes I can't help more. And the fact that it might be uneven at the end. He might have carried more for longer and it just might never even out. And I may never get there.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah.

[Randy Sklar]

His larger goal of us doing this thing together that we love and getting to be in this and getting to sit down with you and getting to do our tagged show and getting to have comedy and our ideas pay for our hit Broadway show. Our hit Broadway show.

[Jason Sklar]

You'll notice I didn't say Off Broadway, gentlemen.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah. It'll get it on Broadway. Makeup. It's called the Born Identity. B, O, R, N. We undid the pun.

[Jason Sklar]

Oh, my God.

[Randy Sklar]

It's all about identity. It's all about who we are. But it's that. So I think that Born Identity will. You would. Would love it. You would love. For so many reasons. Because of the depth, I think.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah. I believe it.

[Randy Sklar]

I can't wait. And what the.

[Jason Sklar]

The end sum was good. I stole your punch.

[Randy Sklar]

No, but the. The. What you do is. What you understand is like, what's the goal Here. What's the intent? The goal is for us to keep doing this.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah.

[Randy Sklar]

So if somebody has to do a little bit more in order for us to keep doing this, it's like, you don't blow up the whole thing because the other side isn't.

[Jason Sklar]

Well, it also sounds like marriage.

[Randy Sklar]

It is 100%.

[Jason Sklar]

It's like, there's a thing.

[Randy Sklar]

Thing. Yes.

[Jason Sklar]

And I could make it a thing.

[Randy Sklar]

I could easily make it a thing.

[Jason Sklar]

Or I could benefit of the doubt it. And Val is always giving me the benefit of the doubt.

[Randy Sklar]

And.

[Jason Sklar]

Sorry, 1980s comedy, but I give her the benefit of the doubt as well.

[Randy Sklar]

That's you.

[Jason Sklar]

I'm gonna actually say, giving me the benefit of the doubt is my love language. I've said that before.

[Randy Sklar]

Yes.

[Jason Sklar]

If you give me, like, if I say something we've been hanging out, I'll say, we always go a little too far when we're off. Mike. We might. Something.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah. Just. Just know me. Yes.

[Jason Sklar]

And we go, yes, I know you.

[Randy Sklar]

My body of work. Yes. Of course.

[Jason Sklar]

In our friendship, you can't screw up. Especially if I'm trying to. If I'm saying something up to you guys like to offend. My favorite people are the Unoffendables. And that's not because I want to be out there being.

[Randy Sklar]

How great of a cartoon would that be? The Undefendables.

[Jason Sklar]

Well, Richard Roar, my Franciscan, a father, teacher, lover. I love her. I love him. He says the mark of a spiritually evolved person is that they're unoffendable. And I think it's funny that that's often what we see, at least in the media, is the exact opposite.

[Randy Sklar]

Oh, my God.

[Jason Sklar]

Is that you're pious or spiritual? The more easily offended you are.

[Randy Sklar]

Oh, yeah. And it's like, that's.

[Jason Sklar]

Ramdas said that too. It's like, don't put anyone out of your heart. It's like, do your work.

[Randy Sklar]

And what's Ram Dass's real name? Richard Alpert. I love that so much because I'm like, he is real. I've seen, like, a lot of his things, and I think he' just Richard. I mean, to me, like. And the comedian in me, I would love everything that would be like. I would be hanging out with him, and he'd be like, dispensing, like, the best thing ever, not. Who's your guru?

[Jason Sklar]

All right.

[Randy Sklar]

I'd be like, Dicky. He. He do.

[Jason Sklar]

He would do that.

[Randy Sklar]

But I'd be like, take it easy, Dicky. Take it easy, Dicky. You know, but like, Da DA has gone a little off the rails, but let's let him. Let him finish. Just like, I would just think, like, to me, the ch. And I think it's amazing, and I would support 100. But I. If he was my friend, if he was to me like you are to me. Yeah. I would ceaselessly be like, am I what am I calling. We're going to lunch today. Am I calling you Rahm? Am I calling you Dicky? What are we doing? Do I have to call you Rahm? Can I call you Mr. Das?

[Jason Sklar]

This is it.

[Randy Sklar]

Can I say, like, that's the Argentine. What are we doing?

[Jason Sklar]

It's like Jesus was a carpenter. And it's like, I'm the son of God. And it's like, well, right now you're building the shed.

[Randy Sklar]

Jesus. That's right. We had. We had a whole bit in our act that I. I don't know if you ever saw us do this bit. We were saying that, you know, a lot of times we'll walk around and people will sort of recognize our faces and. But they'll be like, hey, where do.

[Jason Sklar]

I know one of my great scler brother Roast jokes?

[Randy Sklar]

Which one?

[Jason Sklar]

You guys get recognized more because you get a second chance.

[Randy Sklar]

You have two faces.

[Jason Sklar]

Like, I would be getting a lot of people asking for pictures if behind me there was another one.

[Randy Sklar]

Pete Holmes.

[Jason Sklar]

Cuz I'm. Who is that? I don't know.

[Randy Sklar]

Oh, I see it again. I needed a reminder where the re. I needed a beat. I need a beat. So. So a lot of times people be like, where do I know you from? And we're like, I don't know. And they're like, what shows have you been on? And we're like, I'm not going to tell you down the thing. Every show Entourage. And they're like, no, you weren't in that. We're like, we were. Don't tell me what I want. No, they're editing your Wikipedia media page. They're saying, no, that they haven't. They're saying, that's not it. They haven't seen it. But they're now erasing Better Call Saul. No. And that's like a long time. We're listed every. And then they're like, oh, did you go to Parkway North High School? We're like, yeah, you'd be like, you made us list every credit.

[Jason Sklar]

That's why you don't want to do it.

[Randy Sklar]

So you.

[Jason Sklar]

There have been so many times where I've offered to take a picture with somebody and they say, no, you want to do a picture.

[Randy Sklar]

I'm good. So.

[Jason Sklar]

So that's how that feels.

[Randy Sklar]

So what we're saying is that, you know, the people who are writing about Jesus, the, the people who wrote the books about Jesus, the New Testament were about a hundred years later. 150 years later. So Jesus wasn't Jesus when he was alive. Like some people. The people who knew the miracles knew, but not everyone knew. So we, we said he had sclar brother level of fame Jesus. So I would agree with him. I like what you're doing. Some people like walk around and be like, where do I know you from? What miracles? Tell me some of the miracles. He's like, I'm not going to list all my miracles. Tell me miracles. Think I. Cuz I've heard maybe loaves of bread into fish. No, you didn't do that. Walked on water. No. Lazarus Carpentry school. We went. That's an A joke. It's an a. I mean the.

[Jason Sklar]

It's also true.

[Randy Sklar]

It is. 100 people were thrilled that he was there.

[Jason Sklar]

Like later in his ministry, we, we would say groups would follow him. But even though like Mike Briglia is great opener, he's like, he'll sell out a theater. And he goes, I know some of you told your friends who you're going to see tonight. And they said, who?

[Randy Sklar]

Right.

[Jason Sklar]

And that. That was of course true.

[Randy Sklar]

Jesus. Of course. Of course. And it's just that he had to like fight for his.

[Jason Sklar]

You know what I mean?

[Randy Sklar]

He had to explain who he was to people who didn't know. To my friend who came to see him. It's like again, I don't know. It's like. I don't know what we can. Like from Woody Allen. I hate. Did what he did and I hate this.

[Jason Sklar]

And I. Yeah.

[Randy Sklar]

But I still want to show my daughter Annie hall because I think it's one of the greatest pieces of cinema and romantic comedies ever. And there's just the moment where those two guys are standing on the street. It's like they're. To each other. It's just so funny. Alvy Singer who where Right here. Who's Elvis is singing so loud. So proud of him. Although. What was the bit we did in Montreal with you and Fred Armisen? This bit was so funny. We were, we were like.

[Jason Sklar]

I'd love to remember.

[Randy Sklar]

We were talking. We'd be talking to each other.

[Jason Sklar]

Was this in life or on stage?

[Randy Sklar]

This was in life. We did a life bit with you guys, which was so fun. I'll never forget the time we had to roast. We were roasting Jimmy Carr in the Roast Battle. I mean, you were giving us jokes. So, like, we're. We're flying to Montreal, and they're like, and Jeff Ross wants you guys just to roast each other because we do your roast that you did of each other, which is super fun. It's that, you know, Randy and I have a lot of similarities. You have some subtle differences as well. For example, Randy hates cilantro, and I'm a good comedian. You. I don't need this. All right, so, like that. Those jokes we love. How is Jason? How is Jason? Like an abacus. Not like. Not like an abacus. You can count on an ab. Sorry. So, so, so bad. All right, so. So we thought, okay, we're going to do this exhibition. We show up to Montreal. They're like, you guys are roasting Brad Williams.

[Jason Sklar]

That one just. Jason proves glasses don't make you a better comedian.

[Randy Sklar]

Why is Jason making me anti Semitic?

[Jason Sklar]

Somebody got in trouble for an anti semitic cartoon. It was Jason's yearbook.

[Randy Sklar]

I don't know. Can I say that? It was a build.

[Jason Sklar]

It was a build.

[Randy Sklar]

You can do it. You can do it. We'll allow it. So we show up in Montreal, and they're like, you guys are roasting Brad Williams in the first round. We're like, what first round of what? The tournament. We're like, oh, my God. So we got to now write roast jokes for Brad. Fine, we'll write roast jokes for Brad. Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah.

[Randy Sklar]

Brad's wife is half Chinese. No. And Brad is half.

[Jason Sklar]

I'm dead. I know. I love a roast joke. So I'm like, if the punchline isn't. And Brad is half.

[Randy Sklar]

Is half. So our other one was mad at you. How. How is. How is a. How is a good comedy show and a roller coaster that's the same. If Brad Williams is on either, you're like, should he be on this? Right? Terrible. Like, and I'm dead. They're fun.

[Jason Sklar]

I'm dead.

[Randy Sklar]

And so we. We. You know, we wrote a bunch of jokes, and we're, like, learning, is this safe?

[Jason Sklar]

Is this safe? Is this safe?

[Randy Sklar]

So it was super fun. And of course, you know, when you get into a roast situation, it's two on one. On stage. It looks like we're two on a half. It's two on Brad. It looks like we're beating up. Nobody wants us to win, but our jokes were really good, and we win. And the reward for winning is now you got to go battle Finn Taylor, who's a great comic from England. He was sort of on the rise. And his podcast is so funny. Finn versus the Internet and Finn versus, like, history. And, like, he's. He's a really edgy, hilarious, super edgy. I'm like, I want to kind of put him into the. It's not that Tony Hinchcliff category, but. But, like, he's really smart and he's really edgy, and he takes a lot of chance. So that's who we're up against now. And. And he obliterated the person he is. So we write a bunch of jokes about him. We come out the second night, and we're, like, walking around Montreal. All we want to do is just chill in Montreal. We're, like, learning our roast jokes. Like, that's your reward. You have to go walking through old Montreal, like, roasting a person who's not even there walking.

[Jason Sklar]

It's like when someone says, me and you in the parking lot at 3 o'. Clock.

[Randy Sklar]

You're like, 100% now I got the rest of my day. Now I got to work on moves.

[Jason Sklar]

So I'm rehearsing moves.

[Randy Sklar]

Moves. I got moves. So we. We get there, and he does the first joke out of the gate is like a twins Twin Towers joke. Funny Crush city because. And also, you're in Montreal. They want the Brit to destroy the Americans. Like, there. No one's on our side. Club soda in front of, like, 1100 people. And we're like, we just wanted to do an exhibition, but please. Well, now we're here. And so we do, like, three or four jokes that are super solid, super strong, and they kill. His third or his third joke is this long joke that kind of meanders and doesn't, like, hit as hard as I think he wanted it to, which is fine. And then his last joke, he tried to go in and do a joke about a book that my wife wrote called I Had a Miscarriage, about our miscarriage, and it did not do well. It wasn't the strongest joke. And then my joke before we did our last joke was like, that joke, like, our child was ended too early or something. I made. So, like, I made the joke that he should have made, right? Started out with so much promise, but died too early. Died too early or died in front of everyone or whatever. I made some joke which, you know.

[Jason Sklar]

You reclaimed it.

[Randy Sklar]

I reclaimed the joke. It happened to me. It was about our lives. It. It kind of was a weird shot to take laws. And then the.

[Jason Sklar]

But that's in.

[Randy Sklar]

But the worst part about that is we won. So now we got a roast tomorrow night. You roast Jimmy Carr in the semifinals. We're like, all for us.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Randy Sklar]

So then we see you guys upstairs at the other show that we're like, just mess around. And you and Fred, and we're, like, trying out all of our roast jokes for you. And then we get into this mode, and we had some great ones. We get into this mode where, like, the thing that's. You get a writer's room laugh, which is the thing that's making us laugh. We're like, oh, this. We got to scrap the other things we did. And we wound up doing these jokes that we did with you, and they. Well, we. But he. Well, no, no, they were funny, too. They were funny, too. They were funny. He also was on an iPad, and he did, like, five year. They're like, you get five jokes, and he would do five for each one, which is fine. It is what it is.

[Jason Sklar]

Five instead of one. Not fine.

[Randy Sklar]

It's fine. Five jokes. And we did five. But, yeah, it's fine. We didn't want to move on. We didn't want to go to the next one. And then we did get to say, I loved you. I loved you as the villain in Toy Story 4. Whatever.

[Jason Sklar]

I believe. Did I give that to you?

[Randy Sklar]

Because that we joked. We joked with you about that. I think you.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah, that's my go to. Whenever I see him. He's the villain in Toy Story 4.

[Randy Sklar]

Right. And so he. So what I loved was then you came on in the finals, and you did, like, a. And we wrote you and Blake Griffin roasted each other, and you were mean Pete, and we were going nuts. I think we wrote jokes for both of you guys, but you were so funny, and the energy was so great. And then Randy and I got to judge it, and, you know, I think in the end, we were, like, happy that we did it. Yeah. But there was.

[Jason Sklar]

It's intense.

[Randy Sklar]

It's intense. And it was like a moment where, like, oh, my God, I can't believe now we're in this thing.

[Jason Sklar]

I'll go even, like, it makes me understand why it might be hard to come back from a combat situation. Yeah, I know that sounds crazy. You're just alert.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

And when I got. When they said, you're going to roast Blake Griffin, I remember, you know, how adrenaline is linked to memory. So I remember that whole day. I remember seeing you guys. I remember going out and getting lunch and just writing. And then I went into, like, a fugue state and, like, went nuts.

[Randy Sklar]

Yes.

[Jason Sklar]

And then I. This is Kind of a brag. But I realized I was killing too hard. You don't want to die too hard.

[Randy Sklar]

You were killing.

[Jason Sklar]

You can't be brutal.

[Randy Sklar]

No. And Blake was. And then he.

[Jason Sklar]

Did he start. But I'm. Now I'm rooting for him. I'm like, I gotta get.

[Randy Sklar]

I know. Which is not. You should do it. But it was.

[Jason Sklar]

I mean, all I remember was saying he was like, one of the worst things that came out that ever happened in Oklahoma City or something. His freckles. I had some Morgan.

[Randy Sklar]

You're like. And now you're bombing. It might have been something like that.

[Jason Sklar]

Well, we're almost out of time, which is. This actually felt perfect. You guys are just died in the world. Perfection, dude. And everybody should go see the Scar brothers. Everybody go see the.

[Randy Sklar]

Go see the.

[Jason Sklar]

They're what?

[Randy Sklar]

They're what? Never mind. They want to get.

[Jason Sklar]

Here's Tony Hinch. I don't want to drag Tony.

[Randy Sklar]

I got Tony. I love Tony.

[Jason Sklar]

Like, Tony, too.

[Randy Sklar]

I love his.

[Jason Sklar]

Got a lot of flack for that.

[Randy Sklar]

He did. And I. But I love doing his show. And I. I can appreciate him being funny again.

[Jason Sklar]

I'm trying to be subtle and not say, oh, Tony's a Trump guy. You know what I mean? Like, I just.

[Randy Sklar]

This is the thing that. That I. I. I kind of stopped caring about all that stuff and started caring about how you. How we interact together. Right. And I remember being. I remember being at the. At moon tower, and Tony came while we were doing. Because we were commentating the ping pong. We're gonna be back.

[Jason Sklar]

Tony came up looking like the joker without his makeup on.

[Randy Sklar]

Yes. So he came up. He came up where we were, and the three of us were roasting people as they were playing ping pong.

[Jason Sklar]

Need it.

[Randy Sklar]

And it was one of the most fun afternoons, and it was just an.

[Jason Sklar]

Episode of Crashing and was writing other people's roast jugs. That's a mensch.

[Randy Sklar]

A man.

[Jason Sklar]

That's a men. He just likes it.

[Randy Sklar]

A man. He loves it. What he's done for young people's careers through his show, it's.

[Jason Sklar]

I'm sorry if you've ever been peeing in a comedy club bathroom. Every comic before you on the calendar.

[Randy Sklar]

Is a star from Kill Tony. Yeah, that's right. And it's. And it's great. And it's been amazing. It's like the new Tonight show for comics when you think about it. And it's wonderful. So I'm giving credit to that. And Randy and I, our vibe is again, you know, our vibe through this show. We've said it over and over again. Can we. Can. The legacy we leave on this community that we're in b. And that is maybe what we're at in our third decade of doing comedy is what's our legacy? What are we going to leave on this community? Can we leave the community as like, let's love each other. Let's give to each other. Let's be generous to each other. Let's be happy to see each other. Let's make each other's comedy better.

[Jason Sklar]

Yeah.

[Randy Sklar]

Not and. And be happy for each other and be happy for each other's success. That's it. Yeah.

[Jason Sklar]

Not stepping on each other like cigarettes on the.

[Randy Sklar]

Stepping on.

[Jason Sklar]

On the floor of a subway. You're extinguishing careers. He doesn't have that much of a Boston accent. You're extinguishing careers.

[Randy Sklar]

And it's a careers.

[Jason Sklar]

You're stepping on it like a cigar in Havana.

[Randy Sklar]

You're so good. And you are. You don't get enough for your impressions. Impressions. Impressions are so good. That is so that Orie Adams is that we could come up with Corny. Corny Adams. Corny Adams started it today.

[Jason Sklar]

I'll go on the road to Gallagher too.

[Randy Sklar]

I Gallagher do it all of his jobs better than Gallagher.

[Jason Sklar]

Call me crazy. Gallagher too. He had the love. Gallagher won like his dog. The soul wasn't there.

[Randy Sklar]

Trump's been listening. Was he smashed the melon. The soul left the once he smashed.

[Jason Sklar]

It that you could tell what the essence of the melon wasn't there.

[Randy Sklar]

The melon wasn't there. Sure. It had all the parts of the melon that it was.

[Jason Sklar]

You could recall reconstructed. Science could rebuild it.

[Randy Sklar]

The essence Spiritual Trump. Dude.

[Jason Sklar]

Spiritual teen Instagrams about that where he's like, I took ayahuasca. I've been doing parts work therapy and I've made a lot of mistakes.

[Randy Sklar]

Dude. Trump does apologize. We do. Trump does. Please do. Trump does. That's something you have to do.

[Jason Sklar]

Be here now.

[Randy Sklar]

It's the only place I can should always hear Don keep people. Don. Don. Don is don't for the mill. It's all. It's all mortgage. It's all a mortgage. Beautiful. Beautiful. Will you please do Donald Trump merged souls with Ram Dass. If Ron. Okay. If Ram Dass is gone. Ram Dass is gone. If the greatest like gift he could give our society is if his soul came back and entered a currently living person.

[Jason Sklar]

Yes. And the most powerful.

[Randy Sklar]

The most powerful person was most. Hello. Hello.

[Jason Sklar]

Namaste.

[Randy Sklar]

Keep. Keep him in your heart.

[Jason Sklar]

I love my guru best.

[Randy Sklar]

Guru.

[Jason Sklar]

Some people travel all around the world to see this guru. I used to sit at his feet.

[Randy Sklar]

I looked at him with love, washing his feet, gave him roses, gave him flowers. His name.

[Jason Sklar]

I do feel like I'm not even.

[Randy Sklar]

This kind of person.

[Jason Sklar]

I'm like. I feel like Ram Dass would love that. What we're saying right now. Well, I'm not saying that to make it okay. I'm saying I feel him laughing.

[Randy Sklar]

Yeah, that's very ras. Is. Is he gone or is he still. He passed. Yeah, he passed sadly. And you got to.

[Jason Sklar]

He passed that. But he's back.

[Randy Sklar]

You got to hang with him. He's back. He's back in. He's back in time.

[Jason Sklar]

You're out of time, dude. We gotta go. You ended it perfectly. And then we did.

[Randy Sklar]

Dondas as Donas is a great bonus.

[Jason Sklar]

We're gonna give it just to the Patreons. There's only one tier. 300,000 a year.

[Randy Sklar]

300,000.

[Jason Sklar]

You get nothing in bonds that in.

[Randy Sklar]

In bonds will be $318,000.

[Jason Sklar]

It's not the gain. It's that it's gaining.

[Randy Sklar]

It's your mom.

[Jason Sklar]

Would you guys say your second time. Well, it's like your fifth time if you count live shows, but it's your second time in studio saying, keep it crispy just to end us. I love you guys so much.

[Randy Sklar]

Love you so much.

[Jason Sklar]

So much.

[Randy Sklar]

Come and say can see us if. Wherever people can see. If you go to Dumb People Town. Dumb People Town is our podcast. Listen to Petey's episode. He was so goddamn good on it. I loved it. But just. It's us with our buddy Daniel Van Kirk, just looking at dumpsters. And our live shows are supersclars.com. super scars. We do the. Tag it every month at. At Largo at. Excuse me. At the Comedy Store. But we do do those at Largo, but pretty much every month at Comedy Store. You're doing one tonight. Next one's like four. 23 that. That we're doing. But again. And we're doing live stuff in Detroit, and I don't know when this is going to drop, but Detroit and Minneapolis and moving over in Denver and Aspen and so a whole bunch of stuff.

[Jason Sklar]

Anyway, if you think we're not bumping up the Sclar episode.

[Randy Sklar]

We're going to bump it. We gotta bump it.

[Jason Sklar]

Everybody just move down in the.

[Randy Sklar]

Bump it up because we got the gold. They're the ladders going down. You got to say a thing to end it. Keep it. Keep it crispy.

[Jason Sklar]

What am I getting? Where am I going to get $40? I don't have $30.

[Randy Sklar]

$30? Why do you need $20? All right, let me tell you, Ra.