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BEST SHOW BESTS! In this classic clip, Vanessa & Jonah Bayer drop in to talk about their podcast How Did We Get Weird and rank the top 10 sibling duos of all time! (Originally Aired Tuesday, June 6th, 2023) New to the Best Show? Check out Best Show Bests, the greatest hits of The Best Show! Available every Friday on your podcast app. SUPPORT THE BEST SHOW ON PATREON! WEEKLY BONUS EPISODES & VIDEO EPISODES! https://www.patreon.com/TheBestShow WATCH THE BEST SHOW LIVE EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT 6PM PT ON TWITCH https://www.twitch.tv/bestshow4life FOLLOW THE BEST SHOW: https://twitter.com/bestshow4life https://instagram.com/bestshow4life https://tiktok.com/@bestshow4life https://www.youtube.com/bestshow4life THE BEST SHOW IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://thebestshow.net https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/the-best-show HEARD IT ON THE BEST SHOW PLAYLIST https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2XIpICdeecaBIC2kBLUpKL?si=07ccc339d9d84267 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emmy-nominated actor and comedian Vanessa Bayer joins Ted Danson today! The Cleveland native talks with Ted about her time in the nation's first collegiate all-female musical and sketch comedy troupe Bloomers, her seven seasons on the cast of SNL, overcoming cancer in her teens (including being a Make-A-Wish kid), and more. She also drops a bombshell revelation on Ted, which threatens to upend everything he knew about his life.Check out Vanessa's podcast with her brother Jonah Bayer, “How Did We Get Weird?”This episode was recorded in 2023. Please consider making a donation to World Central Kitchen, which is on the ground in Southern California providing free hot meals to families affected by the wildfires.Like watching your podcasts?Visit http://youtube.com/teamcoco to see full episodes. 

Now wait a minute. First off, it's Election Day. VOTE. VOTE. VOTE. If you haven't already. Then, when you're done voting, you can listen to this episode as your reward. And we've got a treat for you this week, pardon me. Joining us in The Carriage House is the delightful Vanessa Bayer! You know her, of course, from her hilarious work on SNL. She's also known for her absolutely fabulous show I LOVE THAT FOR YOU, which was a favorite of ours, along with countless other projects. You can also catch her on her own podcast HOW DID WE GET WEIRD which she hosts with her brother Jonah. Vanessa helps us give advice on getting back in the dating pool and how to hint to a grandparent that you'd like their house after they're gone. Tickets are now on sale for our Ronnukah LIVE Cabaret Show! It'll be the perfect bow on top of the gift that is the holiday season. Join us on December 7th at 5pm ET / 2pm PT for a musical romp filled with guests and giveaways. Tickets at askronnalive.com Sponsor:  Take comfort in Born Shoes! Great for all casual occasions and made with top quality leather. Go to bornshoes.com and use the code RONNA for 15% off and free shipping. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Puzzler team is taking a short summer break, and in the meantime we're bringing you some of our favorite episodes from the archives. We'll be back with brand new episodes soon! Puzzling with us today: hosts of "How Did We Get Weird?", Vanessa and Jonah Bayer! Join host A.J. Jacobs and his guests as they puzzle–and laugh–their way through new spins on old favorites, like anagrams and palindromes, as well as quirky originals such as “Ask Chat GPT” and audio rebuses. Subscribe to The Puzzler podcast wherever you get your podcasts!  "The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs" is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and is a co-production with Neuhaus Ideas.  Our executive producers are Neely Lohmann and Adam Neuhaus of Neuhaus Ideas, and Lindsay Hoffman of iHeart Podcasts. The show is produced by Jody Avirgan and Brittani Brown of Roulette Productions.  Our Chief Puzzle Officer is Greg Pliska. Our associate producer is Andrea Schoenberg.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Puzzler team is taking a short summer break, and in the meantime we're bringing you some of our favorite episodes from the archives. We'll be back with brand new episodes soon! Hello, Puzzlers! Puzzling with us today: hosts of "How Did We Get Weird?", Vanessa and Jonah Bayer! Join host A.J. Jacobs and his guests as they puzzle–and laugh–their way through new spins on old favorites, like anagrams and palindromes, as well as quirky originals such as “Ask Chat GPT” and audio rebuses. Subscribe to The Puzzler podcast wherever you get your podcasts!  "The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs" is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and is a co-production with Neuhaus Ideas.  Our executive producers are Neely Lohmann and Adam Neuhaus of Neuhaus Ideas, and Lindsay Hoffman of iHeart Podcasts. The show is produced by Jody Avirgan and Brittani Brown of Roulette Productions.  Our Chief Puzzle Officer is Greg Pliska. Our associate producer is Andrea Schoenberg.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week we're back with the popular Roundtable episode of the program. In this version we invited Ashley Bower and Deremy Dove to share their ballots with host Thomas Sena. Enjoy and don't forget to vote! https://forms.gle/ECAVQbPBE6r3krpS6Transcript:Track 2:[0:42] Yes, hello, welcome to the SNL Hall of Fame podcast.Track 2:[0:45] I'm your master of ceremonies, your co-host for today's proceedings, Thomas Senna. Everybody, welcome. I think I would be remiss, and I think I need to do, Jamie, do a solid here, because it's very important to Jamie for me to tell you to wipe your feet before you enter the SNL Hall of Fame. I think Jamie would fire me from this post if I didn't tell you guys that. So welcome to the SNL Hall of Fame. Today is our customary end of season extravaganza. It's the SNL Hall of Fame Roundtable. This is the show in which we invite SNL Hall of Fame voters to share their ballots and their thought processes behind their choices. So this is always an interesting exercise to get into the psyche of some of the voters.Track 2:[1:40] Previous roundtables, I think minds have been changed. I think people have stood on islands and been steadfast on who they're voting for. It was interesting to see. I think we all just gained a great insight as to what voters may be thinking. Friendships were formed. I think rivalries were formed. So we've had some interesting roundtables in the past. It's always nice to get a peek into the mindset of SNL Hall of Fame voters. So with me today is two of my guests for this past season on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast.Track 2:[2:16] One first-time roundtable panelist, which is going to be fun. I'm excited to hear her thoughts today.Track 2:[2:24] So we have two panelists, and for full disclosure, for transparency here on the SNL Hall of Fame podcast, I will be sharing my ballot as well. So it's going to be the three of us sharing ballots today. So I'm not just like the co-host here on the SNL Hall of Fame. I am a panelist today, and I will give some transparency and let you all know my ballot and how I'm feeling about the voting cycle, about the votes this year. So without further ado, let me introduce our panel for today. And I have an icebreaker question, too. So I'm going to introduce them. My icebreaker question, I asked this last panel, last roundtable, and got some interesting responses. I haven't asked these to this question. I don't think. So...Track 2:[3:15] I want to ask which current cast member, not including Kenan Thompson, because that's the obvious one. Kenan's an SNL Hall of Famer. So not including Kenan Thompson, who on the current cast could you see in the SNL Hall of Fame someday? So that's going to be the little icebreaker question. Get a little peek into the mindset of our panel today. So my first guest, Ashley Bauer, SNL super fan. My guest for Kate McKinnon this year. Ashley did such a great job. And Ashley, thank you so much for joining us today here on the roundtable. How are you? Good. Good to see and talk to you again. Excited to be back. Yeah, this is great. So which current cast member, not including Kenan, that's the obvious one, could you see in the SNL Hall of Fame someday?Track 2:[4:03] So I thought about this and I went back and forth between two, but I think my vote's going to ultimately go to Bowen Yang. I'm going to have to give it to Bowen. And I think he kind of came out of the gate, you know, really with a bang. And he's really been in some pretty epic and memorable sketches already. And I kind of think he's a jack of all trades. And it's rare that he's in something I'm not dying of laughter in. So, yeah, I'm going to go with Bowen. Bowen's like Mr. Charisma. He really is. I love the iceberg weekend update sketch that he did. That was a really great performance. It's like one of the most memorable things that I can think of that Bowen's done. He's just a very likable person, a lot of charisma. Bowen Yang, Ashley could see in the SNL Hall of Fame someday. That's awesome. All right, so also with us is my partner in crime on the Pop Culture 5 podcast. He also is co-host of the Bigger Than the Game podcast. He's just podcasting all over the place.Track 2:[5:07] He's everywhere. And he was my guest for Tracy Morgan. this season on the SNL Hall of Fame. So I'm welcoming Mr. Deremy Dove to the proceedings. Deremy, how are you? I'm good, man. Always a pleasure to talk SNL and SNL Hall of Fame with you guys. So I'm honored to be on. Yeah, you're one of our go-to guests for the SNL Hall of Fame. Your insights are always so great. So welcome. You've been on for Dick Ebersole. You were on for Adam McKay and this year for Tracy Morgan, which was an interesting one. I think we did Tracy Justice with kind of a more loose sort of format I think Tracy would have wanted it that way I agree I agree absolutely yeah that was fun so who on the current cast not including Keenan could you see in the SNL Hall of Fame uh like like Ashley said it was there's a few who I was going back and forth with but I I went with James Austin Johnson um as my pick I think he um.Track 2:[6:02] He really brings, I love the impressions he does, and he kind of fits that mold of like what I think of. I think of just like what you need to make a great SNL cast member. He has that design. I feel I get like some Daryl Hammond kind of feels from him. I just really love what James Austin Johnson can bring to the table. And I see him. I don't know if he's going to be like the big star, but he's that person when we have rankings in a few years. It's going to be like, we'll be surprised. We'll be like, oh, James Austin Johnson, he's a Hall of Famer. He's a top whatever cast member of all time. So he's who I pick as like that future Hall of Famer for the current cast. I could see that.Track 2:[6:44] He's not just, so he started obviously with his Trump and Biden impressions. And I think he got hired on the strength of that. But he's not just an impressionist. I think he's filling out a lot of important kind of glue guy types of roles. He's kind of branching out and not just being an impressionist. Right, right. Yeah, he plays the dad role really well, kind of the everyday. Because I could see maybe a little bit of Phil Hartman in him, too. Yeah, it's big. In that ways. I mean, Phil's personally one of my top three cast members of all time. So I don't think James is on that tier. But I think there's elements of Phil Hartman that I can see in James. Yeah, I think he's a glue, like you said, a glue guy. And I and I feel like especially those if you're listening to the show or you vote for the SNL Hall of Fame, you're probably a big fan. We all know how important the glue people are to an SNL cast. And I think he fits that role very well. Yeah. What do you think, Ashley? James Austin Johnson's trajectory?Track 2:[7:42] I had to laugh because that was actually who I went between. I was going between whether or not I wanted to vote for Bowen Yang or James Austin Johnson. So I am right there with you, Deremy. I agree. I think he's so versatile. You're right. He definitely evokes some of the greats in the past. He has that, Tom, you said charisma for Bowen. I think James Austin Johnson does too. He just has this swagger every time he's in a sketch. And yeah, he can play just a side character or the main character. Or he can do an impression yeah i was really close to voting for him but um ultimately went with bowen obviously but 1000 agree yeah good solid choices i think i could see in a few years we could be looking up and seeing heidi gardner having the hall of fame kind of resume she has talent she's a hall of fame talent i think she needs to get maybe a couple more seasons have some more good sketches she's very good on weekend update i think that's a lot of times where she's shines is coming on weekend update and doing kind of off the wall but sometimes relatable.Track 2:[8:46] Characters heidi so i can definitely see heidi forming a case uh dark horse it's for me and he's been awesome i think he's my mvp of season 49 is andrew just mugs honestly yeah he has and he has his own lane on the show too it's almost like a will forte ish kind of lane like andrew he has a more offbeat kind of sense of humor than a lot of the cast and i think he's all of my My favorite pieces from this current season 49 have been Andrew Dismuke's pieces, quite frankly. So I see maybe Andrew a little bit of a dark horse, but I wouldn't be surprised if he if he continues what he's doing this season. We could be possibly making a case for Andrew Dismuke. So those are a couple of people that I wanted to shout out.Track 2:[9:29] So how this SNL Hall of Fame voting is going to work every season. The voters have up to 15 votes that they can use. Voters can use one vote if they'd like. I don't know why they would, but maybe that's, you know, they're very hardcore and stringent and they only think one person deserves to be in the SNL Hall of Fame each season. Though from looking at the ballot, that would just mean like, I think you're an SNL Grinch or something and you might be shamed if you just come on here and say you're just using one vote. I don't know. So I'm curious, how many votes, Jeremy, are you leaning toward using today? I'm using all 15. All 15. All 15. I think there's some easy slam dunk people to put in, and there's a lot of people who I don't want to knock the SNL family, the SNL fan base, but I'm just like, why are these people still on the ballot? And this is a shame, and I'm going to stick up for it. I'm going to continue to do it. So I got all 15. Jeremy's going to be an advocate. Awesome. All 15, the opposite of a Grinch. Good job, my man. Yes, yes, yes. Ashley, how many votes are you using?Track 2:[10:39] I'm going to copy Deremy again. I'm using all 15. I found it difficult to keep it at 15, to be honest. And there was one that I realized wasn't on the list. And so I had to unfortunately kind of kick somebody off to make sure this person got on my ballot. But yeah, again, a lot of great, so much talent over the years. And I'm going to fight for them too. All right. So both Jeremy and Ashley are using 15. Coming in, I have 13 locks. So what I'm doing right now is I have 13 on my list that I feel are locks for me. But I have two that are open. So I think my goal here, one of my goals here on this roundtable is to be persuaded maybe as to how I'm going to use those final two votes. Votes so 13 i have locked in but you dare me you ashley you could persuade me you can make the case for maybe somebody that i don't have on my list and as to why they should be in the eston hall of fame so if there's anybody that's a grinch it seems like it's uh it might be me more so than ashley and dare me but it's strategic grinch it's it's i'm utilizing strategery on the round.Track 2:[11:52] Well done yes uh so then i'm gonna name the nominees and then we'll get to it just to refresh everybody's memory uh on who the nominees are uh this season on the snl hall of fame uh in the cast member category we have 13 cast members first time nominees rachel dratch will forte taryn killam kate mckinnon tracy morgan lorraine newman and adam sandler returning to the ballot We have Fred Armisen, Vanessa Baer, Ana Gasteyer, and Chris Parnell. And their final time on the ballot.Track 2:[12:32] Maya rudolph and molly shannon so that means if maya and molly don't get voted in in this cycle they're off the ballot so i know jeremy's shaking his head what a shame i can't believe it i know i know it's the will of the people i don't know what to say that's true that's true so for the host category there's 12 on the ballot first time nominees john ham and hathaway and martin short returning to the ballot but not for their final time candace bergen jim carrey buck henry scarlett johansson and paul rudd final time on the ballot for these folks melissa mccarthy john mulaney emma stone and justin timberlake we'll see if emma stone she's been on the ballot since snl hall of fame season one she just became a five-timer here in season 49 we'll see if that That helps bumper up as far as making the SNL Hall of Fame. So I'm curious about that. Musical guests. There's one first-time nominee. That's Pearl Jam. Great episode with Ryan McNeil. I love doing that Pearl Jam episode. Returning to the ballot, we have David Bowie, Dave Grohl, and Lady Gaga.Track 2:[13:43] On the ballot for the final time, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Prince. So those are the musical guests, which is always a fascinating category to me, musical guests. And we'll probably get into that and your philosophies behind musical guests and the SNL Hall of Fame as well. Writers, there's eight writers on the ballot. First-time writers, John Mulaney. So yes, you heard him as a host. John Mulaney is also on the ballot as a writer. So when we did the draft, I believe it was Matt Ardill who said, let's, you know, John Mulaney is a great host. But he's also known for a writer. Let's put him on the ballot as a writer, too, and just kind of see what happens. So Mulaney's on the ballot for the first time as a writer, as is Julio Torres.Track 2:[14:28] Returning is Jack Handy, Adam McKay, Paul Lappel, Herb Sargent, and Rosie Schuster. Final time on the ballot for Frankenden Davis and Michael O'Donohue. So the writer's always interesting, again, to me. And one producer on the ballot, Dick Ebersole, which Jeremy and I did an episode on. I believe back in season three. Yes. Yeah. So Dick Ebersole on the ballot still here on the SNL Hall of Fame. So with that said, let's reveal those ballots, those votes. So I'm going to start with Deremy to kick things off. Who's the first person, Deremy, you want to talk about who you're voting for? Well, I just think you guys did a great episode on this person. And if there's the biggest lock or just slam dunk for the Hall of Fame, SNL Hall of Fame, it's this person. And let's just get her out the way because it's just so obvious. But Kate McKinnon, I think it's just, we're looking at somebody who.Track 2:[15:32] Is a top 10, maybe top five cast member of all time. And we're almost at 50 year history of the show. And someone, I heard you guys talk about just, just a prodigy and just from day one, you're just like, you know, and for me, I get nervous with that because I'm always like, oh, this person shows so much promise and you start thinking, can they be a great, but there's so many great names in SNL history. You don't want to put that pressure, but Kate McKinnon lived up to deliver and exceeded all these expectations. And when I think of SNL in the decade of the 2010s, she's the first name that comes to my mind. So I figured let's just the number one slam dunk on this list to me, Kate McKinnon. Yeah, the most recent cast member on the ballot. Season 47 was her final season, and she went through the waiting period for the SNL Hall of Fame on the ballot this year. I wonder if there's going to be some sort of recency bias maybe against Kate, because she's so recent, and maybe some people feel like they need to put others ahead of Kate in the Hall of Fame. I mean, that's the only reason that I could think of as to why somebody would not vote for her. Because I agree with you, Jeremy. I think she's a slam dunk. Definitely on my ballot. I assume, Ashley, you were my guest for Kate McKinnon. I assume Kate's on your ballot.Track 2:[16:56] I feel like I could call myself a Kate fan. And my entire podcast should have been thrown away if I didn't put Kate on my ballot. So, yeah, she was actually my number one. I think, Jeremy, you and I are on the same wavelength. We're twins. We're SNL twins.Track 2:[17:09] Yes. So, I was going to come out of the gate strong with Kate, too. And, yeah, like, I was worried about that, too, was, yeah, is she too, quote, unquote, young? Is she still too junior? We were kind of talking about, you know, are we putting people up with, you know, people like Phil Hartman and all these kind of big greats. But I think she is up there already. I think she has proved herself to be a name that will forever echo the halls of Saturday Night Live with the impact that she's had. Yeah, and I can't imagine, you know, don't sleep on her just because we think she's going to sit on this ballot for a little bit. Like, I think she's she deserved it for sure. Yeah, I definitely agree. And I know some people have a philosophy of deciding whether somebody's a first ballot or not. I've always been of the mind, even in sports halls of fame, that if somebody's a Hall of Famer, they're a Hall of Famer. And I don't think there should be tiers as far as first ballot Hall of Fame. And to me, if they're a Hall of Famer, they're a Hall of Famer. And I don't look at them as like, I don't separate the Hall of Fame into tiers like that. Some people do. I think Kate's, even if somebody does separate into tiers, I think Kate's a quote-unquote first ballot Hall of Famer, even if somebody is strict like that. To me, she's almost comfortably in the top 10 all-time cast members.Track 2:[18:28] For me and i hope i hope as the years go along that people really have an appreciation for what she did on the show i know there were a lot of maybe hardcore snl fans toward the end of her tenure who were like oh we need some new blood i'm kind of sick of kate and that's unfortunate because we didn't know how good we had it with kate honestly apparently some people didn't know because she's an all-timers all-timer so that's just kind of where i stand so jeremy i'm curious i don't know if we've talked about this do you separate halls of fame in general into like Like, if somebody's a first ballot, if somebody's not? No, I don't have, like, the tier list. Like, I don't do, like, oh, you're on tier one. But there are in SNL Hall of Fame or in Sports Hall of Fame, there are names that are, like, you can just say their name and there's, like, enough said. And, like, you know, you stand up and you sit down. And there's some Hall of Famers where you have to have a discussion more and, you know, talk about it and you might have some debate. And I understand there's, like, both. But once they're in, there's no separation. You're a Hall of Famer. But there's some where it's like, you know, in the NFL, if I say Tom Brady, and if someone goes, really, I'm not sure about him, I'd be like, what's wrong with you? And, you know, Kate McKinnon's like on that level.Track 2:[19:40] It's like if someone's like, I don't know. I'd be like, really? You don't know about Kate McKinnon? Like, it's going to be a long day. So it's like Kate McKinnon's just, you just got to say her name, and then you sit back down. Exactly. No, I'm with you. I'm going to suck up to Ashley here and say Kate McKinnon's like Tim Duncan. In the nba like tim duncan ashley's his first fans oh okay nice tim tim duncan is like you say tim duncan it's like oh he's like a top 10 all-time great nba player like for sure hall of fame like he's on that first tier of hall of famer so to me kate mckinnon's like a tim duncan yeah like it's just a no-brainer like that absolutely and ashley like did a raise the roof there so i'm on her good side i i think my love for saturday night live may be tied with my love for the san antonio spurs it's really close i'm quite a fan girl when it comes to both so yeah tom could not have picked a better reference for me exactly and i'm jealous you get to follow victor wimpy llama same year how many years she's so lucky with the spurs, I was really happy that draft day, for sure. Oh, I bet. So, Deremy, Kate McKinnon, all three of us have Kate McKinnon on our ballots. Ashley, I want to go to you. Who do you want to start with?Track 2:[20:56] The next person I had right after Kate McKinnon on my list that I want to put on my ballot is Maya Rudolph.Track 2:[21:03] Again, I think she's another name. You say her name and it's no question. Profession the the breadth and the depth of talent that she had while on that show i i think was unmatched and i don't think there's been anyone like maya since on the show that's been able to kind of hold the candle to what she was able to do um i mean vocally she could do any of the you know finger impressions and and give us either you know song parodies um but she could also just really own and commit to being silly and ridiculous um but comes to mind is the sketch that she did with kristin wig where they're the prize girls on the on the game show and kate's you know driving around in the golf cart and they're just acting ridiculous and there's a lot of breaking and again i'm sure lauren wasn't too pleased with it but you could get these really serious impressions like beyonce out of maya but then also these just ridiculous ditzy dumb you you know, physical comedy, throw yourself type of sketches from her. And I think she's definitely, you know, she belongs in this hall of fame. Yeah. Well said. I think we've talked a little bit about Maya. Jeremy, is this the, one of the ones you've been upset about over the last few seasons? Yes, Ashley. I don't know what it is. We're on the same page. I'm going to say this. I think Maya Rudolph is the most.Track 2:[22:26] Under appreciated underrated cast member in the history of snl and i think it's crazy i to me i think she's top 10 but at most i'll give someone top 15 like cast member of all time um i think and maybe that's like a people have that sexist view could we say glue guy so we think of just like phil hartman dan akroyd no to me it's a glue person because my rudolph I think maybe the only glue person I think of more than her is a Phil Hartman, in my opinion. I just think, like what Ashley said, the versatility, what she was able to do, how unique she was, where before or since there's not a talent that Saturday Night Live has seen like her. And I think it's a travesty that she's been on this ballot for so long. So absolutely Maya Rudolph. off.Track 2:[23:17] Jeremy, you could partly blame me for some of that because I have been one of those people that's a little on the fence about Maya. And I know that's one of the things that you and I probably disagree about the most. Absolutely. As far as us in the Hall of Fame. And Ashley wants to throw a tomato at me right now, I think. And I love Maya. I love Maya.Track 2:[23:37] I'll watch anything that she pops up. If she's on a podcast, she was just on Dax Shepard's podcast. And I made sure that moved up in the queue. you like i wanted to listen to maya on dax's podcast like i absolutely love maya and i landed on why i was on the fence about it in the beginning and i talked this over we did actually a relitigation episode with rebecca north she came on and advocated for maya and i think for me i think maya was in the wrong era i think the the type of humor that was around when maya was on the cast probably in the early 2000s. I don't think it really fit the skill set that she had. I think she was honestly better than a lot of the material that was on the show around that time. I think if she was on the show early 90s, or even if she got to be more part of the cast in the other Golden Era from about 2007, I know she overlapped a little bit, but I would have liked to see her move on into like 2012 and you know i think she left the cast a little too soon before it really gelled and blossomed so i just think a lot of the material a lot of this the humor in the early 2000s.Track 2:[24:49] I always felt like it was a little edgelordy it was just weird all around like we were in a weird time in the country and just in comedy in general and i think the humor was just kind of off in the early 2000s and i didn't and i think that that didn't cater to to what made maya truly great I always love watching her on screen, but there was always something missing, but I think I landed on that it wasn't her fault. Really?Track 2:[25:15] You know, what gets me is like a lot and not this isn't at you, Thomas, but a lot of people look at the ladies of that era with Maya as like really breaking through the boys club of Saturday Night Live. And Maya was a big part of that.Track 2:[25:28] And the other women to me get talked about so much more than her when I think she was the best of those ladies who broke through, which is always kind of weird and conflicting for me where it's like there was great women on SNL before. But you know they had to fight that boys club and then it's like that's the era where it's like oh like the ladies broke through but then they leave maybe like one of the biggest pieces or the biggest piece off that list when we're talking about we give amy polar love and everybody like we don't give maya rudolph so it always kind of confuses me yeah i can agree with that what do you think about that ashley oh gosh yeah i can't imagine anybody being on the fence about maya rudolph um i think you saw my jaw hit the floor um because yeah it was oh yeah we talked you know jeremy.Track 2:[26:13] You talked about the glue person i think she could have been in every sketch and she held it together she always brought something to it even if she wasn't the star of that sketch or wasn't bringing her main like impressions um to it and again i know on my kate podcast i talked about you know to me when i think of somebody in the hall of fame for saturday night live is you know does their talent take them beyond the show and again look at her i mean she's still making amazing stuff and i i do i see where you're coming from tom a little bit when you're talking about um you know it not being her fault i can see that i think had she stayed and gotten to do a little bit more with like tina fey and annie puller she was like kind of in this weird she She wasn't on too long before they left.Track 2:[26:59] But then kind of also left herself not long after like Kristen wig and stuff was there, you know, only overlapped a little bit with those. I think she was kind of a little bit in between where it really would have catapulted her to a little bit more star power. Had she had a little bit, you know, better chemistry to meld with, but I loved her every second she was on the show. I loved every sketch that she was in. Um, huge fan of her impressions, of course, who I thought she was really good at it.Track 2:[27:32] Yeah, I'm trying to like, I'm a lawyer in my day job and I'm totally failing right now because I'm like, how do I advocate and convince Tom to put Maya on this ballot? Well, I will say that she's one of my locks. So Maya's on my ballot as a lock. So and I think I think she's going to get in this time around. But I had to have a sort of epiphany as to why I didn't 100 percent connect with Maya like everybody else. And it was like a goodwill hunting thing. I had to look at Maya and say, it's not your fault. And then she's in the SNL Hall of Fame as far as I'm concerned. So I'm writing my previous wrong and putting her as a lock on my ballot. And I think it's going to happen for her. I think she's going to get in this time around. That's just my gut feeling. I hope so. Yeah, I think you'll be fine. I will withdraw my objection. I apologize, Tyler. I've apologized. I've done all of, I think, the right thing here and admitted my error. And arrived at a proper conclusion, I think. So Maya Rudolph is on all three of our ballots here on the SNL Hall of Fame. I'm curious. I'll stick with you, Ashley. I'm curious as to who you want to talk about next. So this is a name that I am shocked is still on the ballot.Track 2:[28:51] That she hasn't been voted into the Hall of Fame yet. I got to go with Molly Shannon. Yeah, I think I talked a little bit on on my episode about, you know, what really made me fall in love with Saturday Night Live. And again, I think, you know, there's a few other names from her era that are on my ballot, too, that I won't bring up yet. But again.Track 2:[29:12] I mean, Mary Catherine Gallagher, just how can you not put Mary Catherine Gallagher in the Hall of Fame? She's a superstar. It's literally on her name. Well said. Yeah, she's on my ballot. So Molly Shannon is one of those. And similar to Maya Rudolph, this is her last year on the ballot. So if she doesn't get in, she's just off the ballot.Track 2:[29:33] So I have her as a lock. So that's one of my other locks. Um daramie uh molly shannon uh what are you what's your feeling on molly oh absolutely a lock um and and i agree with you guys i agree with ashley like she should have she should have been in i'm always going to give love for those cast members and writers who bridge a gap at a really tough time in snl history when i know like we all know the stuff like every year saturday night dead and blah blah blah and it's like okay but there's certain points in the show's history where it was really at a shaky point and on the rocks and she came midway through that awful 94 95 season and stayed on one of the few people who stayed on and really helped bring in a new transition with that fall of 95 96 cast and just the different characters the way she just jumped into the bazaar and didn't hold back and could you know have mary katherine gallagher but just really brought such a weird uncomfortable character to the mainstream and she was able to do that time and time again on this show uh definitely a hall of famer for.Track 2:[30:44] Yeah that's both of you said everything i think especially like she i think mary catherine gallagher on the snn they did a character count and i think mary catherine gallagher finished top five i want to say and that that's that's molly shannon's work her physicality is something.Track 2:[31:01] That i think everybody will always mention probably to her detriment like you watch some of those sketches back and she probably will admit like yeah she could have heard like she probably shouldn't have done that necessarily like i bet the producers on the show and writers and stuff like what are you doing like you don't have to like totally throw yourself through this table or wall or so i think she did a little damage to her body but she sacrificed herself for the good of the show and for our entertainment and she's just so wonderful and she has a really great memoir called hello molly uh i don't know if you have ever if you have a chance to read it i don't you need to pick that up Ashley if you haven't it's so good it's in my it's in my to read list right now for sure I admit I got a little bit sidetracked by some other kind of book talk recommendations that I very cliche got into but it is downloaded it is in my queue I've been dying to read it and yeah yeah you were talking about her physicality and I think what I loved about her too is we haven't seen a female comedian do physical comedy to the extreme like chris farley did you know when i think of extreme physical physical comedy to their actual physical real detriment you know obviously um you know chris farley would chug you know i don't even know how much like caffeine or espressos to get into that you know really hyper mindset in addition to you.Track 2:[32:31] Know, throwing himself through walls and tables.Track 2:[32:34] I loved that a female comedian would do that. And it was, I can be just as funny as the men who do this. And it's not improper. It's not inappropriate.Track 2:[32:43] She nailed it. I think it worked for her. And you're right. She did have so many quirky characters that I feel like other comedians who came after her tried to do, you know, they tried to bring that kind of weird and unique humor, but it didn't really land, or at least I didn't really get it. First person that comes to mind is Kyle Mooney. I apologize to Kyle Mooney fans, but he was just somebody that I couldn't really understand.Track 2:[33:11] I applauded his attempt and because, you know, comedy is so subjective and there's something out there for everybody. But I think Molly was that weird kind of quirky as a weird, quirky girl, awkward, you know, growing up, I was like, Oh, I feel seen like people can laugh with her and not at her. And that was really, really awesome to see. Do we have a Kristen Wiig or Kate McKinnon without Molly Shannon? Yeah, she's a trailblazer. Yeah, exactly.Track 2:[33:42] And I'm looking at Molly's trajectory as far as voting, and she started off at 34% after season one, and she's climbed to 47, 54, and then 57 last time around. So she just needs that last kind of push to get into the Hall of Fame. And with Maya, she started off at 47, and then she's been at 57, 58, and 58 the last few times. So I think both Molly and Maya both hovering around like the 57 to 58 percent of the vote mark. This is their last time. I think Molly's going to get into that's my gut feeling as well. I think the fact that I think voters will look at it and say that Molly and both Molly and Maya deserve it. And they've been on the cusp. They've been so close. And again, I blame myself for Maya. I've voted for Molly in the past. So I'm off the hook as far as Molly goes. But I would love to see both of them get into the SNL Hall of Fame. So we've had agreements on Kate McKinnon, Maya Rudolph, and Molly Shannon, three great cast members. Jeremy, I'm wondering who you have as far as non-cast members.Track 2:[34:53] Yeah, that's actually where I was going to go next because I'm like, you know what, let's just get weird on this roundtable. Let's get weird. Let's get weird. and I'm gonna go with this person and I'll be honest Thomas and, you know have listened to snl hall of fame since season one and usually when i'm listening the the conversation's great and you kind of lean me either way i'm thinking either where i'm like yeah they're hall of famer they're already just you're proving that or i don't think so and you're kind of going that way never have i been more conflicted listening than to the michael o'donohue episode where you had brad and gary on and i'm driving around and i'm going yeah and then right away. Then the next, someone makes a point and I go, no, he's not a hall of famer. Then I'm like, but yeah, he is. And I was just back and forth, like, and I'm like, I really don't know.Track 2:[35:40] And so I thought about it a lot, but I I'm going to vote them in. Okay. And I can understand if people don't, but I'm going to go there because of when the show started and, you know, because we've been making sports references, I'm going to keep that train going. You know, the dynasty docu-series just happened with the Patriots. And of course when you look at the Patriots dynasty there's a lot of players coaches, administrators who are a part of it but the big three like headed leadership Robert Kraft Bill Belichick, Tom Brady. When you look at the first year SNL the three headed leadership it was Lorne Chevy Chase and Michael O'Donohue and Michael really did if you listen to a lot of people that original those first five years You know, Saturday Night Live brought an edge. It was cool. It was hip. It was something that TV in the 70s hadn't seen yet. And who really helped to bring that sensibility was Michael O'Donoghue. And he's also done things, especially in the early 80s, that really could hurt the show. So I understand the negative, but I feel like his positives do outweigh the negatives, which is why I kind of went with he should be voted on. And he was a part of that original crew and I feel like everyone who was a part of the first season in my opinion should Be in the Hall of Fame just because you were a part of the foundation and you started this.Track 2:[37:05] Huge franchise that will stay in pop culture forever, no matter how long the show is on or when it goes off. So I vote for Michael O'Donohue. It's interesting that you bring up O'Donohue because I've, I put him on and then took him off. Like I alternated just so many over the last few days. I was like, nah, I don't know Don Hugh. And then I thought, and then I would think about what Brad and Gary said. I'm like, well, those are good points. I'll put them on. And then I took him off again. As of right now, Now he's not one of my 13 locks and he was one of the ones where I could be persuaded for him to end up on my final ballot. He went actually, I think Brad and Gary did a really great job of advocating for Michael O'Donohue because he went from 11% of the vote after season three to barely, like barely staying on the ballot. He got 35% last year. So that was quite the jump for Michael O'Donohue. I have, I don't know. It's just some, I don't know if it's just his, his persona or something like the, the, the edgy bordering on mean material that he possibly wrote that sometimes rubs me the wrong way. But, but I, I, I definitely grant like how important he was, uh, to the show. Uh, Ashley, it was Michael O'Donoghue, somebody that you've been maybe considering, uh.Track 2:[38:20] He is not on my ballot actually. And yeah, it was one of those things where I totally agree with you, Jeremy. He, I mean, he was part of that first season and I, I do agree with your statement that anyone from that first season because of what they created and what we have now is because of them. Um, but again, I wasn't a huge fan of, of his, some of his sketches were, I don't know, maybe it's just cause they didn't age well looking back at them. Um, but I do have a few writers on my ballot for sure. Um, and he just didn't land in one of my top favorites. Um, so. Yeah. He, uh, looking at his sketches, like, so this will be have like the, the good and the bad of it. Like he wrote Godfather therapy with, uh, Belushi Belushi, which was awesome. He wrote the last voyage of the starship enterprise, which I think is one of the better sketches of those early five seasons. Absolutely. Both of those. Yeah. Yeah, those are great. Norman Bates' School of Motel Management was awesome.Track 2:[39:18] I even liked the, he had a weird concept of the attack of the atomic lobsters that was like, I think O'Donohue's sense of humor kind of reigned in a little bit. Then like you have things like the Needle, the Needles Impressionist, where he just said like, here's my impression of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir with needles stuck in their eyes. And he would just like yell he would like mind putting needles in his eyes and just yell so it's just kind of interesting uh but again Jeremy he's not like totally off my ballot it's just something that I have to like keep thinking about well don't get me wrong like I so personally I agree with you guys like there's a lot of things that I'm like uh it doesn't I mean there's some sketches he wrote that hits me it's a lot that don't but I have to take myself out of it and look back on what, for our parents' generation, what TV was like in 1975.Track 2:[40:14] And we look at it like, we look at the late 60s into the 70s, music and movies were ahead of the game, where they reflected what society was doing. TV was dead last. And I think about what really changed TV. I think of, number one, like Norman Lear and his sitcoms, and then, number two, like when Saturday Night Live premiered. So like him doing like the needles in the eye, like it's not, I don't laugh at it, but like at that point, TV was so far behind. That was just bizarre to see on television where you're used to seeing, you know.Track 2:[40:47] Green Acres and Mr. Ed, you know, not that long before. And that was like, that's what you got. And then even like in late night, it was Johnny Carson.Track 2:[40:55] So then it's like, you're getting this and just this sensibility. That's just, whoa, like the counterculture is taking over NBC for an hour and a half on Saturday nights. Like it was very different for that generation, which is why I had to take myself and my personal taste out of it and look like that was different for that time. Totally no i agree i mean that's that's why he's still kind of like i might be persuaded honestly he might end up on my list of 15 i'm trying i'm trying i know yeah you're very persuasive you do that on our other pod too on pop culture five you always kind of like get me on your side yeah so and michael donahue was the first person to appear on camera on snl like just a little like historical fun fact the first person that we see on snl it was michael o'donohue and that wolverine sketch so but Jeremy has Michael O'Donohue Ashley's probably a no I'm a maybe at this point Ashley you said that you had a writer or a couple writers I'm curious if you want to reveal one of those yeah so I have four writers actually um and I I gotta go with my girl Paula Pell brilliant just absolute brilliance like she is my comedy um I if I saw her on the street I might might die just like i would next to kate and tina fey but i think because we got paula pell like in the era of tina fey to such strong writers at the same time we got such great stuff out of them.Track 2:[42:25] Um and again i keep repeating myself but what they've been able to do beyond the show as well, you know like conan o'brien when he was on and what he's been able to do afterwards because he had such talent i think paul is the same way and she kind of stays in the you know she doesn't really take that limelight that I feel like she deserves she's kind of I think happy to be a writer and not necessarily take those starring roles but when she does you know come in and do even just like a supporting actress I sign me up I'm gonna see it every single day any chance I get to see Paula Pell and again I think what she was able to do with around that time with Tina was pushing again we talked about Jeremy you said um breaking the boys club not just for the the comedians we saw on TV, but I think that's what Paula and Tina were doing in the writers room was they were trying to break up that boys club, and again say women are funny too and we can be silly and ridiculous and I think even bringing in the.Track 2:[43:21] You know, the topical humor of calling stuff out and making it funny, though, like bringing up issues in a way that made everybody laugh instead of making them uncomfortable. So we could talk about it and kind of understand it and see it. And I think she was such a trailblazer for it. Yeah, she was one of the minds behind some of the great recurring sketches of that era. She was she was behind the cheerleaders and other just really big recurring sketches like that. She was like you could you definitely felt her voice in that era. And it meshed well with, like you said, Will Ferrell, Sherry O'Terry, and all of those. And she has Girls 5, Ebba. That's kind of like the thing that she's involved with right now. Paula Pell. Deremy, I'm curious before I kind of – because I have a little situation here with Paula Pell and another writer that I might want to hash out. But, Deremy, I want to get your thoughts on Paula Pell. Oh, she's on my list. That's a slam dunk.Track 2:[44:17] Should have been in for a writer. She's the first ballot. Hall of Famer in my opinion um I talked about you know with Molly Shannon those who helped really re like revigorate and save the show in like the fall of 95 we talk about the people on screen you always give credit to those behind the camera and like the writers Paula Pell's one of those people and you mentioned I mean from like the cheerleaders to Debbie Downer to Justin Timberlake in the omelette ville like so that's like over different years she's doing these memorable characters and like writing these great sketches um and just someone you know that lauren trusted you know like i think ashley great point like how huge was it for when tina fey became the first female head writer that having a paula pell there like i'm sure that was like a big help and i just think she's getting this just due now because like in the public eyes because of girls five ever but like.Track 2:[45:16] Maybe it's by design. I know she was behind the scenes, but to me, she's one of those writers who should have always been talked about up there with a Smigel, a Jack Handy, all those people. She's that great. She's a slam dunk for me. me yeah it seems like if you ask somebody who worked at snl around that time they would tell you that paula pell was probably the funniest person yeah in the building so that's kind of the that's the reputation that she had uh and by the way if you listen to wtf with mark maron paula pell was a recent guest yes on and she was great she's hilarious she's so likable love paula pell that was a really great interview she did with mark maron um paul is not a lock on my list and she's honestly one like that I'm not discounting and I wanted to hash it out because I don't know I have another writer that might be a little I'm gonna take controversial but a lot of people might tell me might urge me to put Paula Pell in ahead of him for many reasons I want to hash out as to whether I should swap out Paula Pell for this person or if I should add Paula Pell to my list and keep this person so i want to kind of dive into i have julio torres.Track 2:[46:25] On on my list and i and i didn't think that i didn't think that was i was gonna feel that way heading into the season but then i started looking at the sketches that he wrote and his unique voice and i know the one limiting factor is he was only on the show for he was only a writer on the show for like three seasons but some of the stuff that julio did i mean he he was behind uh papyrus which we saw a second installment papyrus 2 now the actress with emma stone he uh he also wrote wells for boys which was another wonderful emma stone pre-tape he wrote a lot of really great political things he had the melania moments his so you julio had just like such a clever unique voice at that time of the show i think he really stood out he had a really great one with With Lin-Manuel Miranda.Track 2:[47:18] Where Lin-Manuel Miranda played a character. That was like. He was in Montana or North Dakota or something. And he called his mom. Because he was an immigrant that called his mom. And was describing like how his life was. So like. Julio Torres' voice was just so unique. And to me he was almost like a comet. That came through SNL. And he made the show so great. But he just wasn't there. For a long time. Where somebody like Paula Pell was. Was and so i want i was wondering about like the merits of of julio torres in that should i i don't know ashley like should i move another rider a more of a legacy rider in front of him or like what do you what do you think about julio's contributions and then even like compared to somebody like paul appell.Track 2:[48:06] Yeah, I mean, and not to discount Julio Torres. Yeah, I loved his sketches. I thought they were hilarious. And I don't want to say that somebody doesn't deserve to be on a ballot just because they weren't on Saturday Night Live for I don't think there's a requisite amount of time. I think we could, you know, vote somebody in who was in for one season. Obviously, we've got some hosts on the ballot that aren't necessarily in the five timers club and things like that. But I think to me, the difference between if we're going to put Julio and Paula together is not just not that Paula was legacy because she was on for so long, but because of what her sketches did to, you know, move the show. Like Jeremy said, you know, taking it out of an era like she came in, I think, right at the right time to kind of rescue a drowning show and then continue to evolve it and stay relevant and kind of help us, you know, continue to keep SNL moving with the times.Track 2:[49:01] Whereas you know i mean i get papyrus and they just did you know part two a couple weeks ago is just genius um i think it should be nominated for like an emmy for a short or something but um yeah given the two i really think paula um i mean is julio again i hate i hate to do this but this isn't his last year on the ballot correct no and you're right no this is his first year actually so i mean that that plays a role yeah that plays a role too in the thought process i think yeah yeah so i i think you got to go with paula i really do i think and again julio he's also someone who continues to write um and doing great things for other shows you know that we still watch today and so definitely not to discount his humor what what he did um his sketches.Track 2:[49:50] But i'm biased i'm like i said i would fangirl over paula pell in the street so So yeah, you know where I stand. Yeah, I think Jeremy, the thing about Julio to me was like his batting average, putting in sports terms, like his batting average was just so high that it was hard for me to discount. He did so much in such a little time, like almost everything that he did was a hit for me. And to me, that plays a big role. Like, is it quantity or even if he was only on the show for three seasons, but his batting average is super high? Like, how do you weigh stuff like that? No, it's hard. I feel like you could have both on there, and I think that would solve it, but if you have to choose.Track 2:[50:31] Between one or the other, I would put Paula just because.Track 2:[50:35] A little bit of the longevity and what she did over different eras. So her batting average was, you know, it, you know, if you have someone who hit three 50 for three seasons and someone who hit three 25 for, you know, 15 seasons, like it's like, you know, I'm gonna go with that three 25 for 15 over three 50 for the three. So it's like, I have to weigh it like that. I'm probably gonna, you gotta, it's hard because like my, The guy who I look at is either, I go back and forth between first or second greatest cast members, Eddie Murphy. And he wasn't on very long, but what he did was amazing. So I hear you. It's tough. And I think with Julio bringing that different sensibility to a show and really bringing that diversity in a different mind, that's a great factor for him. But Paula did that too. Yeah. So it's like, it's, it's just hard. Like if you have to pick one or the other, I would go with Paula, but it's a tough choice. Yeah. So I think all of that weighs into my thought process. I think, I think.Track 2:[51:40] I think it either come down for me to Julio or Paula, or you're right. I could, I could just put both of them on. I might have room to do that. It's all, I mean, nothing's set in stone right now. I just wanted to hash that out. Cause I think it's interesting. And Julio actually has a better case than I thought even like on the surface, you're like, okay, Julio Torres, like, you know, memorable, talented rider. But then you start looking at his work and it was like, oh my gosh, he might actually have a real case here. Like more so than I thought. So, uh, so I just wanted to hash that out. And I thought that was the perfect time to do it. But Paula Pell is one of the other ones where I was like, man, I love Paula Pell. And I was just considering that. So, yeah, thanks for – see, here, we're all learning something. And we're all kind of like – or at least I'm like kind of getting my thought process in order and maybe swayed a certain way. So, yeah, Deremy, I wonder what is next on your list.Track 2:[52:29] Another crime I'm trying to justify or undo on the SNL Hall of Fame. You came with anger, everybody. Deremy's just like – I'm just like, jeez. here we go i brought this per i think i was on the season three round table before and i nominated this person then and they're still on here but we're talking about you know because ashley you just brought up like host and we're talking about the og five-timer guy he was on 10 times in the first five years he was the person who suggested doing recurring sketches like to that to the original like cast like hey you should do that samurai thing again john like come on i mean it's classic when they did the samurai and belushi like by accident cuts him on the forehead and they're all wearing like the bandage you got to have buck henry on here the og the five timers club is such a known thing in the snl like pantheon and how do we not have the og of the five timers club in the snl hall of fame he should be a first ballot guy because he's one of those people.Track 2:[53:37] I think of him and Steve Martin, where people to this day get confused and say they were part of the original cast. Because that's how much they are a staple of that show. And so I'm just like, outside of maybe Steve Martin, to me there's no more important host than Buck Henry. So it's like, how is he not in the Hall of Fame yet? I don't know. I don't get it. But I'm going to do it again.Track 2:[54:04] Nominate and bring up buck henry for the snl hall of fame let's hopefully we get it right this time people yeah he's on he's a lock on my list too and and i voted for him in the past i think he's just so important to the show he's a 10 timer yeah but it's not just the quantity of like he he was solid like you watch every single one of his hosting gigs there's a reason why they asked him twice a year to come back and he always hosted the finale and it was just like i think the cast and the crew and the producers it was just like they knew they were in good hands with buck henry and they could throw stuff at him and he would he would be great in it he could he could lead a sketch he can just find like a role to kind of hang back and just be a supporting player i think buck just in synonymous with the show i mean he wrote the graduate uh and he was a great writer but people know him for snl like i think that's just as far as on screen especially like he they know him as like the guy who used to host SNL a bunch. And I think, yeah, I think Buck Henry needs to get in. So he's for sure on my list. I don't know how you feel about Buck Henry, Ashley, if we have to like persuade you or where do you stand on this?Track 2:[55:15] I don't, it wasn't a matter of not being persuaded that he deserved to be on it. I think just because I, like I said, at the beginning of this, I had such a hard time whittling my list down to my 15 votes. And that I, you know, have a little bit, you know, my bias is going to show through with my votes of, you know, kind of the more...Track 2:[55:37] Relatively recent um you know people i only have three hosts on my list actually, because again i had such a really hard time with it so i i had to give that spot to somebody else and i think it was kind of me selfishly hoping that somebody else like like you guys would push him through because i agree he believes or excuse me i agree that he deserves to be in the hall of fame um i'm not against it i don't think you have to convince me that he deserves it but you may have to convince me to take somebody else off my list if i'm going to put him on mine so a lot of it's like an era maybe kind of thing like uh buck henry's a more old timer maybe and so so so we're looking at like an era that more so like resonated with you possibly i will say this buck henry was on the ballot for the first time after season three so this is not his final year he's been.Track 2:[56:32] On twice before he went from 23 after season three to 48 so he made quite the jump so i think uh this being his third time on the ballot i wouldn't be surprised uh i would be a little surprised if he got in but i but i think he's gonna be one of those where it's like he's inching toward there so you have another couple seasons after this ashley to to write this wrong that might be made so yeah so this isn't totally the last chance for buck henry and i think that was the thing is you know there's so many greats from that original era that are in the hall of fame already that it was kind of a shock that he isn't on that list um because i mean like how do we get anywhere with it we are today without jane curtain gilda radner you know these ogs um that again like derry said started the show um they made us know what it is and yeah you're right.Track 2:[57:26] Literally you know wrote one of the greatest films of all time you know and then we're like oh no but his his work on snl don't worry about um you know the graduate um thing about snl so you're right i think next year i'll have an updated ballot okay okay so so we'll check back in next year i think if buck henry was more famous just in general in pop culture he would probably get in but he's He's just like a writer, a movie writer. So he just kind of like is under the radar. But I think if he was a little more famous, like Steve Martin or something like that, then I think Buck Henry would be in. So we'll see. I'm curious to see where Buck Henry lands this year. What host do you have, Ashley? So I actually, yeah, kind of going like a little bit more to an older era, I put Martin Short instead of Buck Henry as my vote for one of my hosts. Because, again, he's somebody else that I find synonymous with SNL.Track 2:[58:26] And, again, just that silly, quirky... You know, doesn't apologize for how he is or who he is or his comedy or anything. And even to this day, I mean, we saw him, you know, a couple of weeks ago with, with Kristen Wiggs episode and just still making, he made Lauren break. I mean, come on, like how, how epic is that when you make Lauren Michaels laugh at a sketch? I think that shows how great and how funny he actually is. Every time he's on, I get so happy.Track 2:[58:56] I think because of what he's been able to do, the fact that, yeah, he keeps coming back. As well we keep inviting him back no matter what um i mean they brought him back for kristen wig they brought him back for uh steve martin he's just somebody again it wasn't just a glue person but could you know steal the scene and steal the sketch no matter what he was in yeah just always a wildly entertaining person to watch martin short and he he hosted two all-time classic christmas episodes he has two of the better monologues i've ever seen i'm still teetering though i'm kind of on the fence he's not a lock for me but he's one of those where i just like kind of wanted to wait and see what other people said and i'll do some more thinking on so i didn't totally discount martin short he's in that michael o'donoghue paul appell range where i'm just like i don't know not not a lock for me but i want to see somebody make the case uh jeremy where do you stand on martin short he's a new on my list i don't i don't have him on mine um i think there There is no, in my lifetime, there's no more guaranteed lock to make a person laugh. If I have to pick someone in the world to save my life, like, I dare me, you can only survive if you pick someone to make me laugh.Track 2:[1:00:10] I'm Martin Shorts, like, he's on my Mount Rushmore, probably like number one. Like, he's just that naturally funny. Like, he's like the ultimate talk show person. and it makes sense he's the ultimate person to kind of fill in on SNL and to be there and to come on but I just don't I know he was on for the cast for that season that transition that Steinbrenner year I just still don't.Track 2:[1:00:34] When I think of Martin Short, I don't think of SNL with him. I know that's a part of his history, but I'm going to go to movies. I'm going to go to his talk show appearances. I'm going to go to other things. I'm not his, you know, not his relationship with Steve Martin. I'm not going to go to SNL. And I think that's why. But I still do believe like he's hilarious and he's funny. And I'm always glad when I see him there. But I don't think of him like, oh, as a host or as even a cast member. Like yeah he's one of those you know for our podcast essential people so that's why i don't have him on my list but i could be persuaded to like for sure but he's off mine he had more of a case after i after i re-watched some of his at least a couple of his episodes he had he had the episode there was one in the late 90s that was classic though his episode in 2012 when paul mccartney was the musical guest that's like a stone cold classic episode to me as well and his His monologues there were great. So when I watched specifically even those two episodes, I'm like, all right, yeah.Track 2:[1:01:35] I mean, he put in two amazing performances here. One thing that's interesting about him, too, is he has another, you know, in the 80s, he hosted with Chevy Chase and Steve Martin. And then he also co-hosted with Steve Martin. So some of his hosting gigs have been with other people as well where Martin wasn't totally featured. So I could see both sides. That's why I am kind of like he's still up in the air for me. But anything to add on that, Ashley?Track 2:[1:02:05] I think I'm going to steal your Maya Rudolph explanation. And I think Martin Short was, I think, the victim of being a cast member on a time where maybe his type of comedy or whatever the reason didn't mesh with everything else going on. And you're right, he wasn't on very long and he ended up doing much bigger things, after Saturday Night Live. But I think...Track 2:[1:02:29] The reason Lorne kept bringing him back was because he understood that maybe, the time that he was a cast member, maybe not have been the best time to have him shine, but recognizing his talent, his comedy, what he's able to do.Track 2:[1:02:45] And I think that's why I would vote for him as a host, as opposed to a cast member is you're right. Every time he came back to host, whether it was by himself or, or with, you know, the three amigos, I just, Just, it makes me wish that he would have been on. And sometimes it makes me forget that he wasn't on longer than he was.Track 2:[1:03:05] Because my brain has clicked and associated him so much with Saturday Night Live. And I think, too, just his association with all the other greats on SNL, I think, helped bring him along a little bit to that star power. But I think even without them, he can stand on his own. So and i should say too like uh for snl hall of fame purposes and how how it was set up a few years ago um we there are the categories technically so martin short isn't eligible as a cast member because he was only on for the one season that's why he's on host but it's up to each individual uh voter and it's just to what their criteria is so if they want to count his cat time as a cast member that's up to the voter uh technically it's just kind of his host hosting gigs that we're looking at, but that's interesting as far as... This is why we do these things, is kind of peek into the criteria of a certain individual. Like Jeremy brought up, Martin Short made his mark elsewhere other than SNL. And so there's all sorts of different factors, but I can definitely see Martin Short. I'm curious. This is his first year on the ballot, so I'm curious to see how voters feel about him. So this will definitely be interesting. Jeremy, I want to go back to you for your next pick. 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On today's new episode the Bayer siblings are thrilled to welcome New York Times bestselling author and lifestyle-experiment master, A.J. Jacobs! They're talking all about childhood Participation Trophies, from the meaningful to the demeaning. Plus, humor that upset us as kids from the Trix Rabbit not getting his Trix to the Home Alone villians getting violently pranked by Kevin McCallister. A.J. also tells us the hilarious but intense way he broke his dried mango habit! But, wait, there's more! In a rousing game of CHANGE.DORK, we're talking games with this gaming extraordinaire, from (Rubik's) cubing being taught at school to Wordle having a theme. A.J. even has a great tip for playing Connections that really foiled the game's creator. We even read a petition by A.J. that he wrote while writing his fantastic new book, "The Year of Living Constitutionally," which is out now! Be sure sure to check it out! Order "The Year Of Living Constitutionally" HERE. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, the Bayer siblings are thrilled to welcome comedian and fellow Clevelander, Dave Hill to the podcast! They're talking about growing up in the city that rocks, Dave rocking all the way to the stage of the Jon Stewart Show with his band Sons Of Elvis and how this catholic school kid became a force to reckon with in the world of entertainment. We also discuss formative concert experiences—including the Guns 'N Roses show Jonah and Dave both saw in 1991 and the very different takeaways they had due to their relatively minor, but at the time major differences in age. (Spoiler alert: Dave's mom didn't take him to the concert.) Plus, we potentially make some headway in the mystery of whether Jewel played at a beloved coffee shop in Cleveland? Finally, in a rousing game of CHANGE.DORK, the three of us debate the merits of Dave getting let back on Twitter, a Cleveland NHL expansion and should Jacob grow a Tony Iommi style mustache? Should Dave grow one? You'll have to listen to find out!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello, Puzzlers! Puzzling with us today: hosts of "How Did We Get Weird?", Vanessa and Jonah Bayer! Join host A.J. Jacobs and his guests as they puzzle–and laugh–their way through new spins on old favorites, like anagrams and palindromes, as well as quirky originals such as “Ask Chat GPT” and audio rebuses. Subscribe to The Puzzler podcast wherever you get your podcasts!  "The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs" is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and is a co-production with Neuhaus Ideas.  Our executive producers are Neely Lohmann and Adam Neuhaus of Neuhaus Ideas, and Lindsay Hoffman of iHeart Podcasts. The show is produced by Jody Avirgan and Brittani Brown of Roulette Productions.  Our Chief Puzzle Officer is Greg Pliska. Our associate producer is Andrea Schoenberg.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello, Puzzlers! Puzzling with us today: hosts of "How Did We Get Weird?", Vanessa and Jonah Bayer! Join host A.J. Jacobs and his guests as they puzzle–and laugh–their way through new spins on old favorites, like anagrams and palindromes, as well as quirky originals such as “Ask Chat GPT” and audio rebuses. Subscribe to The Puzzler podcast wherever you get your podcasts!  "The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs" is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and is a co-production with Neuhaus Ideas.  Our executive producers are Neely Lohmann and Adam Neuhaus of Neuhaus Ideas, and Lindsay Hoffman of iHeart Podcasts. The show is produced by Jody Avirgan and Brittani Brown of Roulette Productions.  Our Chief Puzzle Officer is Greg Pliska. Our associate producer is Andrea Schoenberg.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello, Puzzlers! Puzzling with us today: hosts of "How Did We Get Weird?", Vanessa and Jonah Bayer! Join host A.J. Jacobs and his guests as they puzzle–and laugh–their way through new spins on old favorites, like anagrams and palindromes, as well as quirky originals such as “Ask Chat GPT” and audio rebuses. Subscribe to The Puzzler podcast wherever you get your podcasts!  "The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs" is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and is a co-production with Neuhaus Ideas.  Our executive producers are Neely Lohmann and Adam Neuhaus of Neuhaus Ideas, and Lindsay Hoffman of iHeart Podcasts. The show is produced by Jody Avirgan and Brittani Brown of Roulette Productions.  Our Chief Puzzle Officer is Greg Pliska. Our associate producer is Andrea Schoenberg.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Enjoy this re-release of Sam Richardson's episode of How Did We Get Weird. Don't forget to rate and review the podcast here! -- On this week's episode the Bayers welcome the hilarious, sweet and immensely talented Sam Richardson! Listen to Sam and Vanessa reminisce on their Chicago comedy days and try their best to breakdown popular improv form The Harold. Plus, they improvise what Jonah's dream was last night! They also talk nostalgic action-packed shows from Thundercats to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and how Sam is always ready to morph into a Power Ranger the instant they need him. Whether you're on the planet Rafcon, Thundera, or Earth, this wildly funny episode is a must-listen!!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello, Puzzlers! Puzzling with us today: hosts of "How Did We Get Weird?", Vanessa and Jonah Bayer! Join host A.J. Jacobs and his guests as they puzzle–and laugh–their way through new spins on old favorites, like anagrams and palindromes, as well as quirky originals such as “Ask Chat GPT” and audio rebuses. Subscribe to The Puzzler podcast wherever you get your podcasts!  "The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs" is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and is a co-production with Neuhaus Ideas.  Our executive producers are Neely Lohmann and Adam Neuhaus of Neuhaus Ideas, and Lindsay Hoffman of iHeart Podcasts. The show is produced by Jody Avirgan and Brittani Brown of Roulette Productions.  Our Chief Puzzle Officer is Greg Pliska. Our associate producer is Andrea Schoenberg.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Talksicology, Jason sits down with guest Jonah Bayer. Jonah Bayer is a writer, musician, and podcaster with two decades of experience in the music industry. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Travel + Leisure, Guitar World, SPIN and Stereogum and he has produced, written, and hosted podcasts for clients such as HBO Max, iHeartMedia & Sonos. He is currently the co-host of the weekly podcast “How Did We Get Weird?” alongside his sister Vanessa Bayer, which is available on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players network. He also has a graduate degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and certification in Trauma-Informed Counseling from Antioch University. Join Jonah and Jason as they discuss the gaps in mental health services and the unique needs of musicians on the road. Jonah shares his journey touring with bands over the years and his work in the music industry. We dive into Jonah's passion for writing about the intersection of music and mental health and the changes that need to happen for musicians on tour. He shares his mission to bring more awareness to mental health and the strong need for access to therapy to prevent the self-destructive behaviors that often take place. This episode of Talksicology is proudly brought to you by Recovery Unplugged. For those in need of support, please call 855-206-6172 or visit recoveryunplugged.com.

You know actor and musician Jason Schwartzman from his iconic roles in classic films like "Rushmore," "The Darjeeling Limited" and "Asteroid City," but did you also know he's one of the chillest and nicest people on the planet? On this episode of HOW DID WE GET WEIRD?, Vanessa and Jason reminisce about working together on the film "Polka King" and Vanessa's show "I Love That For You," Jason's relationships with his siblings and what it was like to recently play drums again live for the first time in twenty years. (You can check out this video of Jason playing the Phantom Planet song "California" with Alex Greenwald and Ben Kweller HERE.) We also talk about fitness habits, the power of going for walks and Jason's unexpected brush with achieving a state of maximum productivity and mental clarity for three weeks last September. If you enjoyed this episode you're in luck, because we will be releasing the second half of our epic conversation with Jason next week! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's new episode, the Bayer siblings welcome their delightful friend, writer and actor Zora Bikangaga! They ask whether their childhood selves would have found their adult selves cool? (Spoiler alert: They can stay up as late as they want and eat candy whenever they want, so...) Plus, they get into the ways they tried to act cool as kids i.e. one overall strap down, enormous pants that made it hard to walk, etc. Along those lines, Zora gets into a prolonged prank he did in college that years later ended up making him a perfect fit for the "I Love That For You" writers room! Plus Jonah reminisces about his childhood days of listening to NYPD Blue like it was on the radio, and they dig into the controversy of showing Dennis Franz's bare butt on TV (Which obviously Jonah couldn't see, but could hear?) Finally, in a rousing game of CONGRATULATIONS, YOU PLAYED YOURSELF: PRODUCT EDITION, the trio discusses what they will miss most out of the recently discontinued Starry Soda, McDonald's McCafé baked goods or—the only one most of them remember—Fruit Striped Gum. So be cool and listen to this episode!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's episode of HOW DID WE GET WEIRD?, the Bayer siblings are thrilled to welcome Danny Tamberelli, who you may know as "Little" Pete Wrigley from the nostalgic Nickelodeon show "The Adventures of Pete & Pete," but did you know that he is in a punk band and also knows all this punk stuff that Jonah knows but Vanessa definitely does not? And speaking of, we talk about all the actors from nineties Nick shows that are now musicians and Vanessa offers to host a Nick Jam in her backyard! It's happening! We also discuss Little Pete hanging out with Big Pete in the hipster capital of the world in real life as well as Danny's LEGO collection with his son—and how the LEGO craze seems to be taking over the world?? Finally, in a personal game of CHANGE.ORG, we're talking about Subway selling garlic bread year round (why not??), Gary listening to Alice in Chains' "Jar Of Flies" EP (Get movin', Gary!) and most importantly, why won't they PLEASE release season 3 of "The Adventures of Pete & Pete" on DVD?? Danny has some inside intel, but you'll have to listen to find out!Plus check out Danny and Kate Tamberelli's new book, "The First Date Prophecy: A Hilarious and Nostalgic Love Story," out now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey Glamour Girls! While StraightioLab is on hiatus this week, enjoy this episode of George and Sam being guests on Vanessa and Jonah Bayer's podcast "How Did We Get Weird" on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network. Subscribe to our Patreon at patreon.com/straightiolab for bonus episodes twice a month and don't forget to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts!  --- This week the Bayer siblings welcome the hilarious George Civeris and Sam Taggart to the podcast! The group reveal insights about their resting faces and does shaving your facial hair always make you look younger? Vanessa also insists that she is a Sam and Jonah is a George, and basically proves her point when they debate the return of the Olive Garden's Neverending Pasta Bowl (hint: Vanessa and Sam are PRO Pasta Bowl.) Plus, they talk about the phenomenon that was Eminem in the nineties and how they were at times offended by him while at other times attracted to him? Vanessa also talks about meeting him at SNL and they discuss his business ventures today (which actually have something in common with The Olive Garden). Finally, in an exciting game of YES/NO-STALGIA, the group is surprises themselves by being both Pro-Furbie and more shockingly, Pro-McDonald's Oreo Frappe! So be sure to lose yourself in this incredible episode and also check out George and Sam's fantastic podcast, StraightioLab!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

HDWGW will be back next week with new episodes. Until then, enjoy this episode of Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber Show featuring special guest, Vanessa and Jonah Bayer. Be sure to rate and review How Did We Get Weird here! --- It's a sibling soiree! Amber and Lacey are joined by sister and brother duo Vanessa and Jonah Bayer. Vanessa and Jonah host a very cute podcast called How Did We Get Weird?. They love a good Bar & Bat Mitzvah, so the "Celebrity Expert Quiz" tests their knowledge on this festivity. After a surprising result to the quiz, they all gush about something they love a lot in "Can You Stand It". In the final game called "Biggest Fan in This Room", we see how close Vanessa and Jonah really are and how much Amber hasn't been paying attention to Lacey. Which is odd because Lacey is so beautiful that it's hard to not pay attention to her. Don't you agree? (Lacey did not log into this app and write that last line)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're swapping episodes with How Did We Get Weird. We hope you like it! The Bayer siblings are thrilled to welcome siblings Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar!! You might know them as bestselling authors or have seen Amber on The Amber Ruffin Show, but did you know that as kids they used to roll down a hill in a barrel? We talk about that adventure plus all the other dangerous things we did as kids like sliding down stairs on a pillow or the time Lacey got stuck in the laundry chute. Plus, Vanessa recalls her Chicago days of being lovingly bullied while understudying in Amber's Second City show, and the Bayer's are captivated to hear about all of the delicious treats that Amber and Lacey's dad used to bring home from his job at Duncan Hines (incidentally, that's also where the aforementioned barrel came from.) The fun continues as Amber and Lacey perform some of the original music they created as kids, and Vanessa does the same with a song she wrote with her cousin and recently learned was a Whodini rip-off. Finally, in a CHANGE.ORG first, Amber and Vanessa realize they actually KNOW the author of one of the petitions! AND Lacey and Amber think they might know the school that is part of another petition! But despite these ties, in the end everyone agrees that their favorite petition is the one demanding that Amber to host the Oscars.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

HDWGW will be on holiday hiatus for 2 weeks. Until then, enjoy this episode of StraightioLab with George Civeris and Sam Taggart featuring special guest, Vanessa Bayer. Be sure to rate and review How Did We Get Weird here! The first day of school comes but once a year, but the ramifications of your outfit...well they can be felt for a lifetime. Today, notable former student and co-host of "How Did We Get Weird" Vanessa Bayer joins us to talk about this delicate time of yearly reinvention. We unpack the economic status of being hot in high school, the polarizing effects of dressing like you're from California, and whether or not it is abuse to ask someone "have we met before?" If you're currently in high school, this episode could save your life!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on the podcast, we are joined by writer Albertina Rizzo who you might know from her work on "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon" and a little show called "I Love That For You" starring one of our hosts! Together we take a deep dive into our apple picking experiences, the phenomenon of free fruit growing on trees and what it was like to scavenge 30 Rock for late night snacks. Then we get into our topic, the 2015 viral online phenomenon "The Dress." Was it blue or was it white? Why was it so captivating to people nearly a decade ago? Is there a Facebook group for those of us who lack the ability to decipher optical illusions? Finally we play a round of CHANGE.DORK where we discuss the frustrating nature of self-checkout lanes, the seemingly never ending trend of QR code menus and the pros and cons of a water-flavored Pop Tart. So grab a warm mug of apple cider and enjoy this fantastically fall episode of HOW DID WE GET WEIRD?!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's "THE MIZ" week on How Did We Get Weird!! That's right, the Bayer siblings are thrilled to welcome WWE Superstar, actor and television personality Mike "The Miz" Mizanin to the pod this week! Mike talks about getting his start on The Real World Season 10 and what it was like to navigate life on a reality show AND Jonah shares how he is actually somewhat responsible for one of Mike's signature Real World background songs! We also talk about Mike's high-school job flipping burgers at the Cleveland institution known as Mr. Hero and his most memorable concert experiences ranging from Mushroomhead to Hot Rod Circuit. Plus, Vanessa talks about her experience auditioning for SNL in Chicago and they all discuss what they think it takes to get the career you want. Finally, in a rousing game of CHANGE.ORG, they discuss the merits of a snack break at school, the pros and cons of bringing back The Real World, and a petition made by a Miz impersonator that Vanessa fully thought was him! Be sure to (reality) check out this fantastic episode!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Vanessa Bayer (SNL, I Love That for You) joins us in the MBB studio to discuss using humor to cope with her cancer diagnosis as a teenager, her tenure as one of longest-running female cast members of Saturday Night Live, and her transcendental meditation practice. She opens up about her Make-A-Wish experience, landing SNL and the resiliency working on the show entails. Vanessa's brother Jonah Bayer (writer, podcaster, musician) joins in virtually to discuss his current studies in a Clinical Mental Health Counseling program, what inspired him to enter into the mental health field, and why he's interested in the mental health of creatives in particular. He opens up about his experience navigating Vanessa's illness, his own battle with leukemia, and how he uses yoga to maintain his mental wellness. Vanessa and Jonah profess their deep love of Blossom, explain their working relationship as siblings, and consider the difficulties around getting started with any mental health treatment.Vanessa & Jonah's Podcast, How Did We Get Weird?: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-did-we-get-weird-with-vanessa-bayer-and-jonah-bayer/id1586365658BialikBreakdown.comYouTube.com/mayimbialik 

Whether you're a fashionista or a dELIa*s-ista, we've got something for you on this nineties-fashion-forward episode of the podcast thanks to our guest, writer/comedian Emily Heller. Emily comes by the pod to discuss the time 11-year-old Emily wrote a complaint letter to then-president Bill Clinton about her gym teacher who she later found out was actually Zendaya's dad? We also discuss how she made a zine out of some of her childhood momentos (including the infamous letter) and how New Moon magazine inspired her as a kid. Plus, we dig deep into the cultural impact of the dELIa*s catalog and how it's style impacted pop-culture. And speaking of style, Jonah comes clean about his Girbaud Jeans-phase and Emily discusses her parents' confusion about the nineties thrift-store aesthetic. Finally we play an unforgettable game of YES/NO-STALGIA where we discuss the return of wearing vests as shirts, slip dresses and the incredibly polarizing bucket hat. So put on your chicest ill-fitting hat and check it out! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Break out your spatula and tongs because this week on the podcast we are joined by grillmaster and television personality, George Motz! We get the literal hottest tips from this burger expert about the best way to grill burgers (it's not outdoors), discuss the "stunt burger" phenomenon and bond over our similar opinions on the abomination known as surf and turf. We then flip the metaphorical burger patty to discuss George's experiences as a kid taking the train into NYC to see matinee shows at the infamous CBGB (not to be confused with Studio 54). We also discuss the best food to eat at shows, our own culinary experiences as touring musicians/comedians and did you know there are jails on cruise ships? Finally we play a food-centric game of CHANGE DOT DORK where we debate the merits of paying your parents rent, serving veggie burgers at school and the enduring legacy of BBQ Fritos. Be sure to check out George's signature burger now available on Virgin Voyages and his new NYC restaurant Hamburger America, which is opening soon!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

jD, Matt, and Thomas are joined by SNN Superfan Sammy Kay this week! First stop is Matt's Minutia Minute and then we get to listen in on the conversation between Thomas and Sammy. Join us won't you? 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2:[0:42] All right, thank you so much, Doug DeNance. It is a thrill to be here with you, as it is every week. My name is Jay Dee, and I am the host and curator of the SNL Hall of Fame. I'm also the only person, it seems, that gives a good goddamn if anyone walks in here with clean feet, so if you'd do me a favor and wipe them off before you come in, that'd be large. The SNL Hall of Fame podcast is a weekly affair, and each week we take a deep dive into the career of a former cast member, host, musical guest, or writer, and add them to the ballot foryour consideration. Once the nominees have been announced, we turn to you, the listener, to vote for the most deserving and help determine who will be enshrined for perpetuity in the hall. We've done thisthree times already. This is season four, and we're about to do it all again. This is our fourth episode of season four. We have already nominated Dwayne The Rock Johnson and Fred Armisen. This week we are dipping down into the cast member column once again and calling on our friend from the SNN, the Saturday Night Network, Superfan Brigade. [1:53] Sammy K will be joining us to discuss Vanessa Bear. So this should be a great episode. I'm looking real forward to hearing what Thomas and Sammy get up to in their conversation. But for now, I should head on over to Matt's Minutia Corner and I think I'll do just that. Track 3:[2:13] Okay, I'm walking down the hall here, it's bustling. There's lots of people checking out all the exhibits. There's somebody looking at the Conehead exhibit right now. That's reallycool. And just down here past the way is a corner that we like to call Matt's Minutia Minute Corner. And there he is himself in the flesh. Matt, what's going on my brother? Not much, not much. And how about you, Jamie? You know, just walking around the hall, checking it out. Yeah, I really like the new Coneheads exhibit. It's terrific. Yeah, it's right. It's righteous, right? Yeah. Great, well, today I've got atreat. More recent cast member, Vanessa Bear. [2:57] Oh, this is going to be great. Yeah, yeah. So Vanessa's 5'6". She was born November 14, 1981 in Cleveland. Her brother music journal is a music journalist and punk guitarist Jonah Bear. She found her love of comedy while battling lymphoma, lip fob. She found her love of comedy at age 15 battling lymphoblastic leukemia, saying, yeah, so it helped her get through it. She she is said of has said of the experience. I don't know if it made me funnier, but it was so amazing how it made everything OK, which she then mined for her recent television show. I love you for that. She then mined that for her new television show. I love that for you playing a home shopping network host who also overcame childhood leukemia, on the verge of getting fired, pretendedit came back to keep her job. So it's like, that's a dark twist. That is a very dark twist. It just is, you know, that she has a bright, shiny smile. And behind that, there's the mind of a very dark comedian. And I love it. [4:20] Now, she was a make a wish kit and got a trip to Hawaii with her family As a form of gratitude, in 2015, she hosted the Evening of Wishes, it's a dinner raising money for thefoundation. And then in 2019, she wrote a book, How Do You Care for a Very Sick Bear? It's a children's book talking about how to help a friend with a long-term illness. To give kids the tools they need to help their friends. That's wonderful. It's such a great way to sort of pay it forward being a survivor of early illness. Now, she attended the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. During that time, she interned on Sesame Street and late night with Conan O'Brien appearing on several, several bits. So she's one of the many SNL alumni. She's an SNL alumni who graduated from the intern pool and she was actually on several sketches for Conan on Conan. My favorite being the one where she plays Andy's sister with a crush on Conan. I haven't constantly weirded out and very intense. [5:45] Now, she she at that time was also a member of the all woman musical sketch troupe Mers. She has 50 IMDB credits and three as an actor, three as a writer. My favorite SNL post SNL role being her as the emotional vampire Evie on what we do in the shadows. [6:07] Literally perfect casting her and Colin Robinson playing off of each other. I don't wait when preparing for the show. I love you for that. Or excuse me, when preparing for the show, I love that for you. She bought the executives at Showtime blankets from the Catherine Zeta Jones, Katha Casa Zeta Jones line of home goods sold on the channel. So she watched a lot of Home Shopping Network, a big fan of the Salt Lake City Real Housewives and hosts a podcast, How Did We Get Weird? with her brother Jonah. [6:47] That's very cool. Have you listened to that podcast? I haven't. I just found out recently, so I'm going to check it out. It looks like a really cool concept. Like her and Seth both have podcasts with their siblings. Yeah. So does Heidi Gardner. Oh, geez. Well, I'm gonna have to check. Yeah, Heidi Gardner, or she did anyway, yeah. Yeah, I have to check all three of them out then. Well, you've got some work to do. I do, I do. I'll leave you to it. Thank you. Getting downloading that now. Track 4:[7:39] All right, Matt and Jamie. Yes, thank you so much. And we are talking about a, uh, well, this is an episode, actually, I'll say this, that's going to be very near and dear to me. So when, uh, when Jamie and I talked about season four back in the spring, and we decided to have a draft to determine the nominees, I told Jamie that Vanessa Bear would 100% be thetopic of an episode because she's one of my all-time favorite cast members and she deserves it. And I told Jamie, I said, you know, if we do this draft, you know, Vanessa Bear's probably gonna be my first pick. So she was my first pick. Here we are. I'm so excited about this episode and I wanted to introduce our guest to join me in celebrating Vanessa. He's back for his second SNL Hall of Fame appearance. He was our guest in season three for the Rihanna episode. He did such a good job that we just had to bring him back. Sammy K from the Saturday Night Network. Sammy, thank you so much for coming back on the show. [8:46] Thomas, it's really great to be here. Actually, I hate to correct you for my third appearance because I was also on the Seth Meyers episode. So I was able to talk about a writer, my first appearance on the musical guest, And now I get to talk about just a really special cast member, and I'm just excited to dive into Vanessa Bayerand her career and all her contributions to SNL over the years. Before we get into our AdoreFest, Sammy with Vanessa. And by the way, yeah, thank you so much. Third timer, Sammy K here. Before we start fawning over Vanessa Bayer, Sammy, we're going to do plugs at the top. We're a little different on this podcast. We let the guest sometimes do plugs at the top. So tell us about anything you've recently done on the Saturday Night Network, if there's anything wecan look forward to, Anything you're especially proud of in the archives. [9:35] Absolutely well you know during the summer season we typically on the super fan takeover which is kind of the show that i get the host on the network. Are we you know me and a couple of their you know pretty prominent snl fans in the community get together to talk about some of our favorite sketches from the history of the show iwould done a lot of drafts in the past so you know during the summer, We do drafts, we've drafted, you know, our ideal episode where we pick like a monologue and a sketch and, andthings like that we've drafted hosts before. So those are probably the episodes that I love the most. They're the most time consuming, they can end up being two or three hours, but those are ones that you haven't had the chance tocheck out, I would definitely recommend. It's fun to see the superfans preferences and how they value things and everything like that and you guys do a great job Over there and in our network of SNL fans that we tend to interactwith Online and on our podcasts. [10:30] I might consider myself the biggest Vanessa bear fan But I think you're close Sammy because I've heard you praise her multiple times on different podcasts So I had to have you onfor this episode I think the world needs a dedicated podcast episode to celebrate Vanessa Barrett's time on SNL. What do you think? Well, you know I was definitely honored to be asked to be on this because yeah Like you said, you know, it's good good to hear that you're also a huge fan I mean, you know, it's nosurprise because she's just so great But she's somebody who when she joined the show there was this kind of early on in my SNL watching career I always say that when I startedwatching the show in 2007, 2008, the first cast member that I really got to see come into the show and progress and then eventually leave and I had to say goodbye to was BobbyMoynihan in 2008. But very similarly, we have in 2010, we have Vanessa Bayer come in with such a strong class, Taron Killam, Jay Pharoah, and Paul Britton, who I think is also super underrated. [11:33] And seeing her enter this established cast that I was watching at the time. I was like, who's this new face? And I feel like I instantly just clicked with her humor, kind of fell in love with her persona on SNL and all the amazing characters she brought to the stage. Yeah, Vanessa is in that interesting position as an SNL cast member of being widely respected. I think you almost see nothing negative said about her work on the show. But she also wentabout her time at SNL a bit under the radar. So she joined the cast, you'd mentioned like her contemporaries, but when she joined the cast, she had established people in the cast like Kristen Wiig, Sudeikis, Bill Haidt, or AndySamberg, Fred Armisen, Kenan Thompson still here at SNL today. He was already an established member of the cast when Vanessa joined. [12:20] So just a who's who of cast members that Vanessa had to fit in with. So I'm kind of curious to kick things off, what are qualities about Vanessa that made her get positive attention even though she was in the cast with a bunch of heavy hitters. Well, I think that is, you know, the question itself about how she was in this cast of heavy heathers. I mean, she, I think, and, you know, granted this was, we're talking about shows and sketches I watched 13 years ago at this point back in 2010, but it really felt like just from the jump,she kind of just fit right in like, and kind of echoing, you know, Bobby Moynihan, as I said before, like these two people had such a challenge of entering this group of, like you said,heavy heathers, this established kind of connection they all had. And I think she was able to just fit right in, find her niche, and was able to blend in with the rest of the cast. And not only is that a quality that I think is something I see to be very positive that I look at, but also she just brings such a level of sincerity to all of her characters. I find that a a lot of her characters have this sort of childlike innocence to them. [13:30] But then she's able to really juxtapose it with like, you know, whether it's like a raunchy joke or setting that I think that is like the recipe that you have for like a great Vanessa Bayercharacter. And I'm sure that the ones we bring up today are going to kind of fit that mold. But they never felt like, oh, I've seen this exact flavor from Vanessa Bayer before. She She kind of had that theme running through a lot of her sketches and characters, but was able to find a new angle, which is why I think she truly is one of the greats. Yeah, exactly. She had like a, what I noticed, always noticed about her was that she had this positive, a lot of times positive, upbeat delivery, but that would make some of the more, Iguess, like raunchy or dark or whatever. When she had that kind of turn in character, that would make it that much more effective. As Vanessa, you kind of picture her smiling and just a little more upbeat, but it made the other aspects that she was great at a lot more effective. So that was very well put, Sammy. So what's a sketch or character that immediately comes to mind when you think of Vanessa's work on SNL? Well, I know we're not going to necessarily do this conversation in chronological order, but I do think a great place to start would be the Miley Cyrus show. So, Katie Holmes, you played Batman's girlfriend in the first ever Batman movie in 2005. [14:54] Which is pretty cool, because I just auditioned to play his girlfriend in the next Batman movie. So, like, do you want to see my screen test? Sure, okay. Okay, let's roll that clip. We need to get out of here. This whole place is going to blow. Oh, my God. This is so scary and suspenseful and stuff like that, and I'm in, like, all this danger and stuff like that, And you're like Batman, so you're kind of like a bat, and you're kind of like a hot guy.So it's like really sexy, and it's really scary, and it's really suspenseful and I might die. [15:28] Pretty sure it was the Brian Cranston episode from her first season. It might have been. I don't think it was her first episode, but it was either the second or third episode that she was on the cast. Her second episode, she kind of is the star of her own sketch. And, you know, obviously in modern day SNL, like when that happens, we kind of be, you know, you, you automatically kind of be like, Oh, who's that? Like, this is huge, especially when you have a cast that's 12, 13, 14 people to be able to get that showcase. And clearly she came to the, you know, the, the writer's night that week with justsuch a great concept. And, you know, the impression itself, I think on a past superfan takeover, we had like an impression, favorite celebrity impression based episode. And I think she was one of my picks because I was a Disney channel kid and I grew up in this era with the Miley Cyrus is, and, you know, the Dylan Cole Sprouses and Selena Gomez. So kind of being able to, as a teenager, see that kind of transition from something that I watched as a kid to something I'm not watching as kind of like a teenager on SNL. Seeing those worlds collide was always super fun to me when I first started getting into the show and the impression is just, it's just so good. Like, she was able to take somebody who obviously was a huge star, but she was able to Find the things that made her. [16:49] You know my service like you know the the nasally voice everything about it but like we're saying earlier that the child like energy it was just great and not only was able to bringsuch a strong impression to the show and her second episode but she create like a whole world around it wasn't just like her, being on Celebrity Jeopardy or Celebrity Family Feud, whereshe has like one or two lines here and there. And it's like, okay, that's a good impression. She kind of built this whole character and was able to be the star of her own sketch. And I think that's super impressive. Yeah. I think as SNL fans, we see impressions all the time. So we're used to, we kind of become numb to impressions. And I think a lot of us look for impressions that not only look and sound kind kind of like the person, but it has to have an anglebehind it. And I think Vanessa found an angle behind it. She did have that inflection, the froggy kind of voice or nasally voice. [17:47] And, but she found the angle, the, uh, almost aw shucks, the world kind of revolves around me, uh, oblivious to certain things though, dad wore, you know, Billy Ray Cyrusworships her first play by Brian Cranston. Yeah. That was like the first sketch. Bryan Kranz didn't play Billy Ray Cyrus in that, but Vanessa definitely tapped into an angle for that impression. That's why I'm sure she did it so many times, is they saw that this wasn't just a throwaway Miley Cyrus, like you mentioned, that you could put it on Celebrity Jeopardy or something likethat, and then we'll never see it again. She came into the show with this thing in her back pocket, and you could tell. And on the Saturday Night Network, they just did a impression countdown, and I was lucky enough to be on the final three. But I was pleasantly surprised that this Miley Cyrus impression finished number five on that impression countdown. It was the highest ranked, yeah, it was the highest ranked non-political impression on the countdown. That speaks so much to- That's huge. It's huge. [18:53] It's just beloved. It was even more beloved, Sammy, than I thought. Yeah. When I brought that to the Superfan Takeover episode I did, I was not sure if people were going to be feeling the same way. But I do truly think it is one of the great celebrity impressions on SNL. And I think Vanessa Bayer was just able to kind of capture the right moment to do this character or to impersonate this celebrity. [19:16] The only thing I wish we would have been able to see, I mean, obviously, we got to see when Miley was host, do the classic SNL trope of, you know, now we bring the real personon, except, you know, this time there's a little bit of a twist. She's playing Justin Bieber, which was very fun, but it would have been nice to see her bring this back when, you know, Miley kind of took that era around like 2013, you know, thebangers era where, you know, she had, you know, this whole new look and everything. That would have been a cool thing to see, but it feels like they maybe decided, you know, we did this a couple of times and, you know, let's not, you know, run into the ground, which, youknow, I guess you can respect as well. Yeah. it would have been fun to see maybe when Miley was kind of getting a little more wild over the years It would have been funny to see where Vanessa could have taken that but Ithink this is a good example of Something that that I've always thought about Vanessa and I said it at the top of the show It's like I think when people talk about all-time great castmembers, they don't automatically I think people just don't think about Vanessa, but then when they start actually Crunching their brains or they're reminded of stuff that she's done. They're like, oh, yeah. I love that. Oh, I love that, too I love that too. So she's one of those ones that slips through the cracks and then people start really thinking about it It's like, okay. Wow, she does have like this resume. [20:29] That's pretty awesome I think another example of that is something that she did in her first season as well It debuted in a sketch, but people know it better for weekend update WasJacob the bar mitzvah boy. So Sammy How did you feel about Jacob? I know I love Jacob. [20:47] Well, I love Jacob because, you know, if people at home can't tell from my podcast appearances, I'm Jewish. You know, I had a bar mitzvah. Actually, I've maybe mentioned this onother podcasts, but my bar mitzvah theme Night Live. So, you know, I was, you know, a big SNL fan, even back then. [21:03] And, you know, I was also a counselor at Jewish summer camp. So I have met so many Jacob the bar mitzvah boys over the years. And she was able to, again, capture this kind of childlike innocence in her portrayal here as Jacob, I love the interactions she would have at the Weekend Update desk with Seth Meyers. This is something that we kind of talked about on our Seth Meyers episode, where half the fun of these appearances during Seth's era on the show is the dynamic and the interactionbetween the character and Seth. Seth wants to see Jacob, the bar mitzvah boy, be able to succeed. And he is just a nervous little kid, and she She portrays that so well and it's so funny, the derg is great and you know, this is just, this is a classic. Shabbat is the traditional day of rest, lasting from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. [21:57] I mean, I've heard of recess, but this is ridiculous. What? The cadence of the way Jacob speaks is great. Just like a kid on autopilot reading a rehearsed speech. I don't know if you've seen in your day that type of kid who's just like has this thing that they rehearsed and damn it, they're gonna do it. And if you try to interrupt them, they're just gonna kind of like ignore you and keep doing what they're doing. And that's like the timid. She played timid so well with Jacob. Like you're absolutely right. The way that she played off of Seth and Cecily and Michael Che, like we got to see Jacob play off of multiple people too and it was the same way. Like they would try to interrupt Jacob Jake would just kind of look and then go back into his rehearse speech. And that was just like all Vanessa, man. [22:49] And then the dumb jokes about his brother, homework, the Yankees. [22:54] On the third through sixth days, God created many more things, such as the sun, the moon, the fish and the birds, land animals, and finally humans, which may or may not includemy brother Ethan The use of her spatial expression to just to get a laugh but like when she makes a dumb joke as Jacob and then like has that look just like this was such a Just a fullyformed like perfect and one thing I'd like to add to this which I think might be a bit of an underrated moment because I know she brought this character and a couple of times Multiple, wecan update eras because I think, you know, Che and Jost were around for a couple of these as well. [23:41] But when Cecily Strong was briefly an anchor at the update desk, it must have been one of her first shows or maybe her first show, Jacob makes an appearance and Cecily kind ofchimes in and the Jacob character is just like very nervous, making all these faces, like doesn't interact with Cecily at all. And it's just like such a great like moment, like they're able to kind of find new ways the build onto this, you know, awkward, nervous, you know, nebbish kind of character. And you know, this is just really great. Yeah, because what do you think is the thing that will that would make a boy like Jacob the most talking to Cecily Strong is a pretty girl talking to him? Exactly. So so that was like, perfectly well played. Of course, Jacob's not going to say anything to Cecily Strong. [24:28] That Yeah, that that was just so wonderful. The Yankees yarmulkes like iconic to me with on top of the curly hair that's just just like. Just such a perfect look to this character too. Like when I think of update characters, this is how they should be. Like Jacob was formulaic, but that's fine. Like that's, I think that's how most update characters are, but it's just fun to see how they're going to fill in those beats and how they're going toplay off of the update anchor. [24:56] And Vanessa is just so good at that. Like she understands the timing. She understands the beats. She understands what's funny about this character just so so perfectly and I think people when you remind them of Jacob it's another one of those where they go oh yeah Jacob I love that. And another thing to add to this is you know she's taking something from her background you know obviously she wasn't a Bar Mitzvah boy but she was a Bar Mitzvah girl so she's ableto kind of you know incorporate that element of her history into a character that plays for an audience that is a majority not from that culture and it still plays. So that is just kind of a testament to her ability as a performer and as a writer to make it specific to her, but still be able to find something that appeals and makes people can relate to. Everyone can relate to you either were an awkward boy, or you knew an awkward boy, or you're an awkward girl or whatever. So it's very special for me, personally, like I said, as someone who's Jewish, that she was able to make this such a big, Popular character. Yeah, and as someone who's not Jewish, I completely related to Jacob all the same So that's like, you know, that's like you tapped into something really special there. [26:07] So Sammy, where should we go from here? As far as Vanessa's work on SNL, what else should should well, I think we've waited long enough to bring up this trilogy of classiccommercial parodies the Totino's pizza roll sketches re-watching these today in preparation for this podcast. [26:29] It was amazing how they were able to take this concept, you know, the first time it's kind of, it's not even really centered around her character. She's kind of like a vessel for, I think it, was like a Superbowl fun pack to where, you know, they're advertising when, you know, the actual Vanessa character or something that they don't,they kind of, you know, more so develop in the sequel sketches and they just. Yeah. Well, with this activity pack one though, I just noticed with her, her, uh, first of all, wonderful delivery as far as the stereotypical wife in those commercials. Who's ready for some more Totino's pizza rolls? Oh, thanks, honey. You're the best. Anything for my hungry guys. [27:26] She has that cadence and that delivery down, but her excitement and you had mentioned like a childlike innocence in a lot of what she does and her excitement as that characterwhile doing those children's activities was like perfectly Vanessa. Like it's not like it's not a hassle necessarily. It's even, you know, at the beginning of the commercial anyway, it's not a hassle for her. She's excited to be doing those activities and keeping herself busy while her hungry guys are watching the Super Bowl. By the end, she's like a little frustrated, but trying to keep her smile and keep it together. and that's just so Vanessa to me too, like. [28:03] You can tell there's frustration and almost pent up rage there, but she's trying to, like, play it off and smile and say, OK, so I think there is a lot to this activity pack one and a goodbaseline. You mentioned, obviously, this is a trilogy, but this one was a good baseline for what we're going to see. No, absolutely. And this is the also just to think about, you know, the hosts that are in all of these sketches are so great as well. Like, you know, JK Simmons, you know, I can see that this is something that was pitched for JK Simmons. Like it totally makes sense. But then in the later sketches, you bring in, youknow, Larry David and Kristen Stewart, and you know, the whole world of this sketch changes. I think a conversation in the SNL community a lot is when you bring back a recurring sketch, how do you iterate on it? How do you take a character and either put them in a new circumstance or build upon it instead of just rehashing it. I feel like this is something from last season on SNL with the Lisa from Temecula stuff that I think a lot of people in the community were kind of frustrated with. But this is like theblueprint for how you do a recurring sketch, in my opinion. And it doesn't always have to be something where it takes a crazy dark turn, but it definitely helps that in the second sketch, the dark turn that it takes is amazing. Like the kind of horror-esque tropes that they're able to incorporate into the sketch are amazing. [29:26] Vanessa is kind of doing the same spiel that she does in the first sketch about, the Totino's pizza rolls, but she keeps getting interrupted by, you know, the people watching the gamebeing like, go, go, go, oh, touchdown. Why not treat your hungry guide to the delicious taste of Totino? [29:46] And she gives these like little vocal inflections to where she's still that like very positive mom character but like you know you're starting to see the cracks kind of form and theescalation and that how it just, it really turns into like a horror movie is. It's just so fun. Yeah, this was great emotional acting by Vanessa, like we're seeing, we're seeing her range. She's a really good actor, honestly. Like I've noticed just rewatching a lot of her sketches, I think she could act and we see like some good range on her. The way she pivots out of character, just so beautifully when she sees that there's nothing on the TV, that they're not, the guys aren't watching anything and they're still chanting like, go,go, go, touchdown. Okay. Ha ha. Very funny, Steven. Steven, now cut it out. Go, go, go, go, go, touchdown! Why are you doing this? Brittany, get in the car. [30:46] No, no, no, no, no, aw, humble. What's happening to my hungry guys? That was a nice pivot or turn from what was established with that character. So I think, you know, the second installment of this Totino's trilogy, two for two, in my opinion here. And Sammy, I think, in my opinion, this third one that we're about to talk about is the masterpiece of this series. I totally agree with you. And we talk a lot about sketches that I feel like kind of permeate the culture in some way. Like I'm not saying that this is like the biggest cultural moment that SNL's ever had, but this is something that when this came out, and to this day, I think people still talk about like thissketch. And I think this was something that kind of entered the mainstream. The idea to bring Kristen Stewart in, who at this time was starting to do a lot more, you know, kind of artsy, independent movies. She'd probably done, you know, movies with like a French director and things like that to kind of incorporate sort of the French kind of romance love story angle to it was just like sogenius. Being able to have somebody with like kind of the sex appeal of Kristen Stewart and juxtapose it with the mom character that Vanessa Bayer plays in these Totino sketches is just nextlevel from a writing perspective, such a great decision to do. [32:10] And I just love how you have these kind of two scenes going back and forth, similar to the other Totino sketches where you have the guys watching the game and you have whatVanessa Bayer is doing, but they're in totally different worlds. She is in like some sort of French romantic film. [32:28] The things that they kind of come up with, they're bringing the Totinos in, she's drawing Kristen Stewart, and she has like a Totinos in their mouth. She brings the cigarette in. And I think, Thomas, I don't know if you can think of a better line in these sketches than when Kristen Stewart asks, you know, so what's your name? AndVanessa Bayer is just like. I've never had one. Absolutely genius. [32:55] Stuff. Absolutely perfect in the way they start building Vanessa's character here and the way Vanessa starts building her character in these first two sketches before this makes this turn of likewe're so happy for her character that she's being seen in this installment like she feels seen and loved and there's finally somebody who's like passionate about her and asking her what shewants and what her name is and And gosh, another great line was when Beck says, Babe, what's taking so long with those Totinos? You girls making out back there? You're crazy. And then they immediately cut to them making out in the kitchen passionately. And it's just like, it's probably one of my all-time favorite sketches. And I think it's rightfully talked about in that way amongst a lot of other SNL fans. I saw write-ups about this. I've heard podcast episodes dedicated to this Totino's Trilogy and for goodreason. It's just, it's just beautiful. [33:57] They start speaking French, which was just like a wonderful touch. Like this is just perfect. Yeah. And, and, and, you know, when we have a cast member like this who has never hosted to me, I've always, I'm always thinking of what's the character she'sgoing to bring back, you know, and that this feels like something to where the trilogy is perfect. But if anybody can kind of continue to iterate on this, like this is something, if she were to ever host, which please, SNL, like I know there's a writer's strike going on and an actor's strikegoing on, but please consider Vanessa Bayer to host. I would love to see them attempt to one-up this one because they basically one-upped it every time and I have no doubt that they would be able to cook something up just as This is great. Yeah, they could get the old band back together. Maybe I think it maybe was Sarah Schneider and Chris Kelly who worked with Vanessa on this. I'm pretty sure it was them. So maybe they could get the old band back together and if and when Vanessa hosts and do this is one of the characters that I would definitely look forward toseeing again. And maybe she'll bring Cecily along to do the ex porn stars sketches. [35:04] And we had talked about the Saturday Night Network had just had the The impression count impression countdown last year, they had the character countdown is voted on by theSNL listeners and these ex porn stars finished in the top 20 characters of all time. And this is something that a lot of people really remember Vanessa for in her work with Cecily. And this is what this is one of my favorites to Vanessa playing the smart one, I guess Sammy brekky. I think I guess I don't know if I'd categorize either of them as a smart one. Offense to their characters, but yeah, these are really great as well. I mean, to me, if I had a personal favorite rendition of this sketch was, is the one with Jamie Foxx. I just felt, uh, his kind of, and I don't remember which was the first one. His might've been the first one. I'm not entirely sure, but the way that they were able to interact, but obviously, you know, the, the key dynamic here is the dynamic with, uh, CecilyStrong's character. And I just think it's just such a funny concept where you're taking kind of something we see on SNL a lot, you know, the kind of infomercial sort of sketch. [36:14] But instead of making you know the product that they're selling something kind of insane or that's where the humor is. [37:06] Coming from your having the humor stem from the presenters, Two or three in the morning when you know you you are like half asleep and you know maybe back in the day you. Fall asleep and you wake up in a tv still on and there's just like crazy infomercial on but. But yeah, everything about the sketch, the dynamic between Vanessa and Cecily, they're just solived in to these characters. And this is an example to where I wouldn't even necessarily categorize this as a quintessential Vanessa sort of innocent character, but this is kind of being able to tap into that more justlike very vulgar raunchy side that she clearly also has. My brain doesn't function. It got banged off its axis, but I can still notice the sparkle of Sebasi crystals. [37:55] And she is able to kind of pepper that into some of her more childlike sketches, but this This one is kind of like you're turning the hose on at full volume and it's just incredible. Yeah and the way she conveys comedy in different types of ways like her versatility she's she doesn't just have one setting she can subtly convey the comedy in many different ways and inthis way it's a couple different things I think it's like her eyes and facial expression she has like those dead eyes during these sketches and it's just the right level for this character uh so likejust just the way she looks and she doesn't I don't remember her breaking in these sketches and they did it nine times and I don't remember Vanessa breaking in these sketches but it wouldhave been so easy for her and it would have lost its impact because the part of these characters is that they've been through these harrowing experiences they made her may or may nothave experiments with drugs that have caused them to be sedated a lot of times probably I'm sure the way they're talking but Vanessa has these dead eyes that are just perfect and also theway Vanessa strings together nonsense I lost my foot in my butt. It used to be on my leg until I tried to kick a squirrel and missed really bad. Now when someone's like, sit on it, I'm like, you mean stand on it? And either way, they're like, get out of here. [39:14] It's just so beautiful. And we'll see that again toward the end of her tenure with a character that I'm sure both of us really want to talk about. But just Vanessa stringing together nonsense is just great. Like she's like a wordsmith in that way. Both she and Cecily did it. So, so like props to them for coming up with like a quintessential 10 to one. I'm agree with you, Sammy. Like this is the exact vibe that I want from a 10 to one. I want something oddball and weird and something that might make me a little uncomfortable too.That's what 10 to one's for. They did it perfectly. Yeah, and it's unfortunate that, you know, somebody like Will Forte wasn't on the cast when Vanessa was on. I don't think they overlapped at all. I think he had just left and she joined. But you can totally see somebody like Will Forte, who is in so many great 10 to 1s kind of be somebody in this world, whether he's like a camera guy or a boom mic guy. But, you know, that's just a little thought I had. But no, I think that these are just some great 10 to 1 characters. Yeah, I'm sure our listeners will will echo that sentiment. So we've talked about Miley Cyrus classic Jacob, the Marvin Savoy and other classic Totino's trilogy, which is just all time great level stuff. And the ex porn stars very beloved. They finished again in the top 20 characters of all time as voted by Saturday Night Network listeners. [40:39] So already we're seeing just is some classic, wonderful material by Vanessa Bear Sammy. What's next up? Where do you wanna go from here? Well, I think we should talk about Dawn Lazarus next because I think what's really impressive about Dawn Lazarus is how kind of instantly memorable and iconic this sketch was or thischaracter on Update was and the fact that she debuted it during her last month as a cast member on the show. There are always these examples throughout SNL history, especially when you go back and you watch old episodes and you're like, oh my God, this iconic sketch is from the end of theirrun. And this is an example of that, where you have this character, she's playing a weather girl who is just talking in complete gibberish, except you kind of understand what she's saying. Like that is like, I think the thing I kind of take away from this sketch the most is that. None of it makes sense. Dawn, is it looking nice for Memorial Day weekend? The better believe that. Well, it's time to pack up that sunscreen and protect those skins because yeah, it's hot and hot. So if it's at that beach and park, stay dehydrated and water thatmouth. [41:51] It's all gibberish. This is something that could easily fall flat, but I think her kind of charisma totally carries this. [41:59] And she's able to kind of convey some sort of language to the audience that this is something that's funny, but you just have no idea what's going on. And yeah, it's just a total commitment to the bit. For Rick and Morty fans out there, this reminded me of like interdimensional cable, you know, of like a very improv-y sort of vibe to it,but totally in control. [42:22] And I think she brought this back to SNL two times afterwards. So I think it was on her last episode. And then I think sometime the next season she brought it back, which was just like, I don't know. I think that is something that is worth noting because I think a lot of people talk about this as one of her great characters, but she only did it three times and she did it during her last threeepisodes of the show, which I think is super impressive. Kind of reminds me of when Aidy Bryant left SNL and she had just debuted the Trensethers characters on Update with Bowen Yang, and she ended up doing that for her last episode. It is truly something to where you have to take note of like, oh yeah, they were cooking until their very last episode. There was never a time when Vanessa Bayer was just like coasting on SNL. She was always coming up with something great like this. I had referenced when we were talking about the ex-porn stars that she was so good at nonsense, at wordsmithing nonsense. And I think this is an example to a greater extent maybe. And even if these lines are on cue cards. [43:30] Those are landmines that you could trip over. Like if Vanessa screwed up or tripped over these these lines on even if it's on cue cards, it could come off flat. So this is something where you have to be confident as a performer. You have to be confident in the material and you just have to have to have that gift of gab that Vanessa evidently does just like amazing wordsmithing by Vanessa. Just what you described and it's completely true. It's just utter gibberish, but just so many funny moments, like her answer to Chae, saying that she was good in her audition and now she'sstruggling. And then she gives this gibberish answer, pointing to the fact that she's nervous, essentially. [44:15] In her second one, Chae asked her why she's back so soon. And then there's a wink, wink reference to it being Vanessa's last show. Dawn, you're back already? You were just here and it really didn't work out. Hey, it's that last show and I'm gonna sneak that in. Gosh, this is so perfect. Like Vanessa playing nervous, but kind of in control, oddly at the same time. It's just coming out not how she wants. It's just beautiful. And I agree with you. Like it's just unfortunate in some ways that Don Lazarus debuted so late in Vanessa's time at SNL. I don't know if she came up with this just that late. Like if it was just, she happened to have a really good idea right before she left, or I don't know what the specifics are on that, but I'mglad we at least got to see it two more times after that debut, Sammy. Yeah, no, I totally agree with you on that. And again, I think it's just a testament to her as a performer that she was able to kind of bring this heat in so late into her career. Yeah, yeah, right. And I want to highlight some moreVanessa Bear awkwardness, if we may. And we will go back to season 39, which was her fourth season on SNL. And this was a sketch called Awkward Flirting with Kyle Mooney. This might sound weird. Uh, would you ever wanna maybe like, I don't know, get, you know. [45:39] More groceries for you, because you should go maybe get some more in case you run out. Yeah, of course. You know what they say, more food, more attitude. Yeah, I think I read that on a bumper sticker or something. Okay. I should go. Yeah, of course. See you, Sarah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. This is just right up Vanessa's wheelhouse. And part of, to me, what makes her so charming is that awkwardness. Then we see toward the end of the sketch, her saying something vulgar, and that plays so perfectly off of the awkwardness that we saw throughout this sketch. You remember this sketch,Sammy? Oh, I definitely remember this sketch. And I think what's most impressive about this is that it's a sketch that's funny throughout. You have this kind of awkward dynamic between Kyle Mooney and Vanessa Bayer kind of playing a quintessential rom-com protagonist. I think Kyle Mooney is more so playing his kind of sort of Kyle Mooney, awkward nerdy guy character. But I think this whole sketch is kind of just a setup to that one punchline at the end. Everything is just a buildup to the fact that, oh yeah, like I'm gonna have sex with this guy. And she's saying a different word and it's bleeped out and it's super funny. [47:06] And it just makes me want to see this as like a 90 minute movie. Like the fact that if we were in a different era, if Vanessa was like a cast member in like the 80s or the 90s, like we would have totally seen a couple, you know, Vanessa Bayer, you know,lead rom-coms. They wouldn't have been like as raunchy or whatever is this, but it's just kind of, this is the sort of awkward character that she's able to play. And I think kind of pairing her up with Kyle Mooney here was very genius. I think this was during Kyle's first season too, right? [47:38] Yeah, it was very early in his tenure had to be I'm sure I think it was in his first season It's toward the end of his first season Uh, it had to be something too I think I think i've heardvanessa talk about this on her podcast And I think it came from just how she and kyle I think it was maybe a bit that they would do At the office and it just sort of like well, let's write thisdown. Let's turn this into a sketch This is this is good stuff. So and yeah just at the end like you're right It was leading to that that whole punchline. It was just really sweet and awkward and at the end, you know Beck Bennett plays a character who lives in their building who like asked her if she wants to go have sex and she just saysyes, like just Add the blue and then Vanessa still keeps her tone like her tone doesn't change when she just casually says Okay, well, um, I'm just gonna go f*** this guy and then we'll goon our date. [48:37] Yeah. Good. See ya. Very soon. Like, the tone doesn't change, like, it's just, it's just so perfect and Kyle's okay with it too. Kyle's character's like, alright, awesome, and then he celebrates that he got, that he got a date with his neighbor that he's had a crush on. So this is just Vanessa to me, like just her awkwardness shining, but then she displays herself with confidence at the end too. It's like she can switch gears and it just makes so much sense. Like this is one of the maybe forgotten gems. I don't know in SNL circles how much people remember this one, but it seems forgotten to me and it shouldn't be. Yeah, I think like when people talk about maybe like Valentine's Day sketches or romantic sketches, you know, at least from kind of the recent era, That's where I feel like the sketch kindof, you know, is brought up. But, you know, when you're talking about like classic pre-tapes, I think this is like, this is like a short film. It's not just a sketch in a way, but it has like kind of a beginning, middle andend. And I think on its own, just works as such like a cohesive piece. So I do wish people talked about it more. If you're listening, if you haven't seen this one in a while, it's season 39, episode 17, the awkward flirting, go check it out. Sammy, I know I have at least a couple of more examples of Vanessa's SNL genius on my mind, but I want to make sure to give you the floor to see what else you have. [49:58] Yeah, I mean, there's some like, very minor things. I don't know how much there is to really like go into it. But something that I think is maybe a guilty pleasure for me, I don't know how much like the SNL community or people whowatch the show at the time, like this sketch, but J-pop America fun time now. [50:18] Welcome to J-pop America fun time now, celebrating Japanese culture, fashion and music. I Am Jonathan Kavanaugh son, and I am Rebecca Stern Markowitz son Before we begin it may be shocking to your ears to hear that Jonathan son and myself are not actually JapaneseNo, no, no one thinks you're Japanese Her character's name was Rebecca Stern Markowitz. It's her and Taryn Killam who as a pair You know, obviously they came into the show together I always loved when they were kind of paired up in different sketches and they're hostinglike a Japanese sort of anime You know theme talk show at their, you know college campus and Jason Sudeikis is playing Advisor whatever so there's a fun dynamic there And I'm alsopretty sure that it's like a throwaway line that this takes place at Michigan State, which I went to Michigan State So there's like there's like an added layer there for me as to why I like itbut they're just totally committed to like their love of Japanese culture and in some senses, you know, appropriating Japanese culture, but in like a, in somewhat of a loving way, it is, it is,it does make me think or kind of question, like, is this something that today would maybe not like fly as well? Like, I don't know. Cause I do think it's, you think it would? Because I think they're, yeah, I think it would because I think they're commenting on the appropriation piece. Rise. [51:41] So I think it works in that sense. Yeah. No, and I agree. And I was kind of coming around to that, like, you know, in, in my head there, but yeah, no, it is totally, you know, coming from that place, as you were saying, but, you know, I, I justlove the sort of dynamic, the relationship between, you know, her and, and Taryn Killam and these sketches, um, you know, always really worked for me. And then again, just kind of the authoritative figure that Jason Sudeikis played, as their teacher, kind of, you know, trying to wrangle them and their, like, talk show was always super fun. Yeah, and it's an example, like, I know she and Taryn are really good friends, even to this day. They're very close, and the examples that we've given so far of her great work on SNL, it'swith a lot of different people. [52:29] So, it seemed like Vanessa was a really good teammate. So she could play well with Cecily or Seth or Che and Jost or Taryn and it just works. She plays off of the hosts really well and it seems like she's just an incredible teammate and there's something that I love about that. You could throw her in a sketch with anybody and she'll make it work with that person. She'll seems like she'll find that dynamic that makes it great. [52:59] Yeah and i think it's just like bringing it back to the earlier part of our conversation about what makes her special as a cast member she had the difficult task of kind of coming inbetween two very big dominating errors on the show. That mid two thousand cast of the andy sandberg and bill hader and christian wick and then the kate mckinnon cecily strong era and you know. I think a lot of times on other shows we've kind of talked about how there's like a missing generation of SNL cast members Kind of right there where you know, we could have seen TaronKillam really be the star But he kind of never had that opportunity and I think while Taron was on the show You know back Bennett comes in and they kind of play, you know similarroles there, too So the fact that Vanessa was able to kind of navigate these two eras is another example of how she's able to navigate dynamics with many different cast members, finding away to complement them. And I think that is what really makes for a great ensemble player. And you know, obviously, SNL is an ensemble cast, so she's able to use that to her advantage to be a great utility player, but also find her niche with certain cast members. [54:10] It seemed to be a lack of ego, I think, in a lot of ways on Vanessa's part for sure and I have an example and it's something that people might not I mean I think it's a belovedrecurring sketch but it might be still something that people might not totally associate Vanessa with but I think it's an example of a lot of the stuff we've been talking about like she's notthe star of this sketch but she's a great teammate she acts as sort of the voice of reason and glue and kind of ties the sketch together and it's these high school theater showcase sketches andthese are great and I want to specifically talk about the one with Emma Stone when Emma Stone was was the host because there were so many good lines in there and some subtle thingsthat that Vanessa does about with with her delivery she's like such a great reactor to all the nonsense and I know people Sammy like in our SNL verse our Our SNL community sometimesscoff at... [55:07] Mikey Day explains or Keenan reacts or those trope SNL tropes But you kind of need that or else the nonsense that happened that's happening doesn't it needs to be to play off ofsomething That's grounded if that makes sense that's why they do the Mikey explains bits and all of that because you need a Juxtapose the nonsense with something more grounded andVanessa played the reactor and the person who was grounded so well specifically in this Emma Stone sketch like you know these high school theater showcases where these these I guesswell-intentioned but misguided high schoolers put on these showcases and about Black Lives Matter and about like whatever whatever social issues are going on at the time the programsays tonight's proceeds go to Standing Rock let's get those Native Americans the pipeline they want? Yeah, I don't think they know what's happening there. [56:02] And it's just super misguided and Vanessa and Keenan are there to just kind of like react and Vanessa's intonation is just so great. Like, I don't know. I don't know if it's just me who really focused on a lot of what Vanessa was doing in these sketches, Sammy. Well, I found it to be super interesting when you sent me the notes that this is something that you brought to the table here and I'm glad you did because it had me revisit this sketch. And I think another thing, I feel like some of the kind of high school, maybe not high school, but sometimes some of the theater-y sketches people don't love. I personally really love these high school theater showcase sketches because anything where you're kind of like poking fun at like kids or teenagers to me, like kind of always, you know,works. The line in this sketch where, you know, they're kind of walking back and forth and saying, saying, can I get a selfie? Can I get a selfie? Like that line is like super memorable to me. But yeah, I mean, I even wrote this down in my notes how this is a setup that SNL uses, kind of the back and forth between a stage show andthe audience. And sometimes those don't work, for watching. Have a great day. In this scenario, having Keenan and Vanessa kind of be able to anchor it and comment on what's going on definitely makes everything that's happening on stage a lot funnier. The line that I wrote down that she sai

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On this week's Talkhouse episode we've got two guys who've known each other for decades, and who have a popular podcast, a post-hardcore band, and a new novel between them: Geoff Rickly and Jonah Bayer. Now Geoff Rickly is best known as the singer of the band Thursday, whose 2001 album Full Collapse is rightly considered a touchstone in the post-hardcore/screamo genre. That band had a full and varied existence, creating an impressive catalog that they still occasionally tour on. Rickly has also been part of other wild and wooly outfits: He stood in for the singer of legendary vampire-hardcore band Ink & Dagger for a tour, after their singer passed away—you'll hear about that band in this conversation. But most recently, Rickly switched his focus to writing his first novel, which just came out. Someone Who Isn't Me is most definitely not a memoir, though it is slightly more than loosely based on Rickly's experience in being in a band, becoming addicted to heroin, and finding a path to treatment. The other half of this conversation is an old friend and bandmate of Ricky's, Jonah Bayer. Bayer and Rickly were part of the mysterious supergroup United Nations, which put out a bunch of music while keeping most of their identities secret. There's a small but powerful United Nations catalog out there, if you're into confrontational, mysterious hardcore. Bayer is also a journalist and recently started working as a mental-health clinician, which maybe makes him the perfect guy to chat with Rickly about his book. Oh, and Bayer also hosts a really fun podcast with his sister Vanessa Bayer—of Saturday Night Live fame—called How Did We Get Weird that just launched its third season. In this chat, Bayer gets deep with Rickly about Someone Who Isn't Me, diving into the odd structure of the book, whether it made sense to fictionalize his friends, and how to dramatize a psychedelic trip. The two also talk about how “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli fits into Rickly's story, how Ink & Dagger deserves more recognition, and about a Kurt Cobain dream that Rickly once had. Enjoy. Thanks for listening to the Talkhouse Podcast, and thanks to Jonah Bayer and Geoff Rickly for chatting. If you like what you heard, please follow Talkhouse on your favorite podcasting platform, and check out all the goodness at Talkhouse.com. This episode was produced by Myron Kaplan, and the Talkhouse theme is composed and performed by the Range. See you next time!

You may know Danny Pellegrino as a screenwriter, New York Times bestselling author or host of the "Everything Iconic" podcast, but did you know that he's from the suburbs of Cleveland just like the Bayer siblings? On this episode of HOW DID WE GET WEIRD?, Jonah and Vanessa dig deep into the suburban memory well to discuss controversial Burger King closings, sneaking into Solon Cinema and the fuzzy moral area that surrounds "tasting" bulk candy. Danny also takes us on a deep dive into his childhood and adult obsession with Happy Meal Toys, the emotional impact that comes with being able to attain something that seemed impossible as a child and our favorite fast food marketing mash-ups. We also play a round of LEGIT MOAN OR UNNECESSARY GROAN where we discuss the lack of physical copies of the White Pages, why some people are not fans of cellphones/social media (we get it) and if there's any situation where it's OK to take up two parking spaces. You'll definitely want to listen to this iconic episode and share it with everyone you know! AND be sure to pre-order Danny's new book "Jolliest Bunch Unhinged Holiday Stories," which is out on October 24th.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today you are in for a real treat because this week on HOW DID WE GET WEIRD? we are joined by our friend the hilarious Mark Proksch (The Office, Better Call Saul) who is as friendly as he is funny. We discuss what it's like to grow out of things as a child, Mark's current doughnut preferences and learn the origins of the term "goppy." We also get deep into the story behind Kenny "K-Strass" Strasser, a character of Mark's who made the morning TV talk show circuit as a yo-yo expert who couldn't actually yo-yo, and we talk about the various reactions he got from news crews once they realized they weren't in on the joke. Plus, we parlay this conversation into a broader discussion about local morning shows and learn that Good Morning America's roots lie Jonah and Vanessa's hometown of Cleveland. Finally we play a thrilling round of LEGIT MOAN OR UNNECESSARY GROAN where we debate church etiquette, if commercials should be interrupted by the Emergency Broadcast System and why cars are so expensive if you only go to one dealership and don't do a ton of research. Yo-yo better check it out!! Check out "K-Strass Video on KQTV" to further understand Mark's talents! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Break out your best bonnet and riding boots because this week on HOW DID WE GET WEIRD? we are joined by comedian/actor/musician Tim Heidecker to discuss the pastoral drama series, Little House on the Prairie. Along the way we discuss Tim's job a la creperie, watching sitcoms made for adult as kids in the eighties and our respective senior superlatives. (Jonah and Tim were most radical/unique while Vanessa won every other one.) We also get in depth about the "explosive" finale of Little House on the Prairie and the possible tax ramifications of this unexpected narrative turn. We also play a round of CHANGE.DORK where we discuss petitions advocating for the return of the original Wonka bar, liberation for high school vending machines and should Metallica play the Super Bowl Halftime show? (You'll have to listen to find out, but Vanessa really doesn't think so.) Don't forget to check Tim out on the Two Tims Summer Tour as well as his upcoming performances with The Very Good Band, both of which are coming to your town soon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Get ready to rumble because this week on HOW DID WE GET WEIRD? we are joined by hilarious comedian, writer and actor Max Silvestri! What's in a name? Apparently a lot. Jonah discusses how he was almost named Max and why he thinks he would have been a completely different and more confident person if he had Max's moniker. Max also discusses his various adolescent aliases while Vanessa reveals that she was almost named after a Bob Dylan song. The three of us also discuss the allure of eighties action movies and, of course, WWF Wrestling. Max elaborates on what it was like to witness Wrestlemania 10, why he related to Shawn Michaels and Bret "The Hitman'' Hart and recounts how the WWF eventually got body slammed by that cute panda from the World Wildlife Fund. As if that weren't enough, we also play a round of CHANGE.DORK where we discuss Randy "Macho Man" Savage's legacy, if the return of Diet Cherry Coke is worth our precious digital ink and should there be an actual videogame modeled after The Red Hot Chili Peppers' 1999 video for "Californication"? You'll have to listen to find out!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bridger manages to keep the peace when Vanessa Bayer (Saturday Night Live, How Did We Get Weird) and Jonah Bayer (How Did We Get Weird) force a gift on him. The three discuss NYPD Blue, TVs in bedrooms, and the Nordstrom Fashion Board.Follow the show and play Gift or a Curse -Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/isaidnogifts/Twitter - https://twitter.com/isaidnogifts See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It's a sibling soiree! Amber and Lacey are joined by sister and brother duo Vanessa and Jonah Bayer. Vanessa and Jonah host a very cute podcast called How Did We Get Weird?. They love a good Bar & Bat Mitzvah, so the "Celebrity Expert Quiz" tests their knowledge on this festivity. After a surprising result to the quiz, they all gush about something they love a lot in "Can You Stand It". In the final game called "Biggest Fan in This Room", we see how close Vanessa and Jonah really are and how much Amber hasn't been paying attention to Lacey. Which is odd because Lacey is so beautiful that it's hard to not pay attention to her. Don't you agree? (Lacey did not log into this app and write that last line) .See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Vanessa Bayer (SNL, I Love That For You) and music critic Jonah Bayer (SPIN, Rolling Stone) join Tom to rank sibling duos, reveal the origins of Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy, and discuss their podcast How Did We Get Weird? Plus Manny in Newbridge Heights calls in, AP Mike talks about Bound, and Pat tells the story of seeing Chris Christie ruin a Springsteen concert! A five star show! SUPPORT THE BEST SHOW ON PATREON! WEEKLY BONUS EPISODES & VIDEO EPISODES! https://www.patreon.com/TheBestShow WATCH THE BEST SHOW LIVE EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT 6PM PT ON TWITCH https://www.twitch.tv/bestshow4life FOLLOW THE BEST SHOW: https://twitter.com/bestshow4life https://instagram.com/bestshow4life https://tiktok.com/@bestshow4life https://www.youtube.com/bestshow4life THE BEST SHOW IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://thebestshow.net https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/the-best-show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

By popular demand, this week we have another music video-themed episode, however this time it's dedicated to Vanessa's picks of her favorite music videos from her childhood and adolescence. In that spirit we tackle the extended cut of Paul Abdul's classic video for "Rush, Rush" and discuss the time that Vanessa had a conversation with Keanu Reeves about making it. We also delve into the dramatic video for Bon Jovi's power ballad "Always" and Jonah recalls the time that Richie Sambora snubbed him because he wasn't in a band playing at Madison Square Garden. (Still not bitter about that, Richie.) We also dig deep into Soundgarden's psychedelic visual companion to "Black Hole Sun" and Jonah gives a little love to Metallica's austere clip for "The Unforgiven," which is a little too dark for Vanessa's taste. Whether you're a fan of Vitalogy or Vibeology, there's something for everyone on this Bayer-centric episode of HOW DID WE GET WEIRD? "Rush, Rush" (Extended Version) by Paula Abdul Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxJAxF-3a38 "Always" by Bon Jovi Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BMwcO6_hyA "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbBbFH9fAg "The Unforgiven" by Metallica Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckom3gf57Yw  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey Readers! Check out this episode teaser with Big Money Player's Network head honcho, Will Ferrell. If you want to listen to the full episode, subscribe to "How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer" on the iHeartRadio App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey Besties! Check out this episode teaser with Big Money Player's Network head honcho, Will Ferrell. If you want to listen to the full episode, subscribe to "How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer" on the iHeartRadio App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey Poog Hags! Check out this episode teaser with Big Money Player's Network head honcho, Will Ferrell. If you want to listen to the full episode, subscribe to "How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer" on the iHeartRadio App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey My Momma Told Me Listeners! Check out this episode teaser with Big Money Player's Network head honcho, Will Ferrell. If you want to listen to the full episode, subscribe to "How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer" on the iHeartRadio App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey Glamour Girls! Check out this episode teaser with Big Money Player's Network head honcho, Will Ferrell. If you want to listen to the full episode, subscribe to "How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer" on the iHeartRadio App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey True Romance Listeners! Check out this episode teaser with Big Money Player's Network head honcho, Will Ferrell. If you want to listen to the full episode, subscribe to "How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer" on the iHeartRadio App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey Frankie Fans! Check out this episode teaser with Big Money Player's Network head honcho, Will Ferrell. If you want to listen to the full episode, subscribe to "How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer" on the iHeartRadio App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey Ron Burgundy Listeners! Check out this episode teaser with Big Money Player's Network head honcho, Will Ferrell. If you want to listen to the full episode, subscribe to "How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer" on the iHeartRadio App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jonah and I have circled the same group of friends for many years, but this was the first time we got a chance to actually sit down and get to know each other! Jonah plays guitar in the awesome band United Nations (with friend of the show Geoff Rickley), a co-host of a fun podcast with his sister called "How Did We Get Weird?" and has been a music writer for Alternative Press and Fuse's "Steven's Untitled Rock Show". Needless to say, he's been around and I was happy to dig into Cleveland hardcore, zine writing and of course, podcasting. Enjoy! Buy Podcast Merch Here Theme Song by Tapestry Gold Subscribe to the podcast on YouTube Rockabilia sells you officially licensed Merch from ALL your favorite bands (and your Dad's favorite band, your siblings etc...). Use the promo code 100WORDSORLESS for 10% off your order.  Evil Greed is a highly curated merchandise provider from Berlin, Germany with fast, worldwide shipping and features stores from bands like Power Trip, Deafheaven, Nails, Russian Circles and so much more. Use promo code 100WORDS for 10% off your first order today! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this very special holiday edition of HOW DID WE GET WEIRD?, Vanessa and Jonah recount some of their favorite Thanksgiving memories from controversial food choices to taking the Bolt Bus to Philly and the complex family dynamics at play each November. We also discuss the most overrated and underrated sides, give an update on new parade floats and wonder why Wonderbread is still relevant. We also explore the history of the pumpkin spice latte and riff on millennial slang. As if that weren't enough, we close things out by introducing a special segment called CEO TAKEDOWN: THE TURKEYS COME HOME TO ROOST, where we examine the actions of CEOs from Butterball, Nestle and General Mills to decide which one of them needs to be taken down a notch. While they're on their ski lifts reviewing their record profits, we'll the ones getting the last laugh. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Movies 6:32 Entergalactic Drug War TV 19:06 House of the Dragon S1 Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities Sports 33:48 2022-23 NBA Season 2022-23 NFL Season Anime 47:58 Promare Big Fish & Begonia Video Games 1:01:30 Splatoon 3 Overwatch 2 Board Games 1:18:45 Greed Cryo Comics 1:32:37 Cosmic Detective Silver Surfer: Black How to Waste Your Carbonation 1:43:33 Mt. Dew: Voodoo Mystery Flavor 2022™ Podcasts 1:51:18 How Did We Get Weird? National Park After Dark Music 2:02:57 Fruit Town - standards Entergalactic - Kid Cudi The Wastecap 2:17:04 Pearl Longboarding As mentioned in the show, you can go over to the Draft Punks discord server and find the #how-to-waste-your-time channel and discuss this episode. You can also recommend content for us to consume for a future episode and may even get your post read on air! Draft Punks Discord Invite: https://discord.gg/XH55zS4pev --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/howtowasteyourtime/support

This week we are joined by musician and comedian Whitmer Thomas for a very fashion-focused episode of HOW DID WE GET WEIRD? We discuss the difficulty of finding cool jeans in rural Alabama, how the film TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY influenced Whitmer's aesthetic and why fingerless gloves were his accessory of choice. We also discuss Jonah's denim journey from JNCOs to Girbaud and the way that Vanessa's creative use of yarn as a form of budget hair extension helped our mom land a job at the Jewish Community Center. We also discuss Whitmer and Jonah's mutual love of punk and hardcore music, the time Vanessa educated the band Underoath on Bar Mitzvah culture and the time that Whitmer's mind was blown apart by discovering the existence of American Apparel retail stores upon moving to Los Angeles during their heyday. We also play a spirited found of "Legit Moan or Unnecessary Groan" where we debate the ethics of lowlifes stealing golf clubs, gentlemen filming doo-wop concerts and doctors favoring pharmaceutical reps over patients. To quote the Terminator, we hope that Whitmer can say, "I'll be back [on the podcast]" again very soon! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In honor of today being Halloween, we thought we would reminisce about some of our favorite Halloween memories from childhood costumes to shaving cream hijinks. We also discuss the condescending nature of giving out healthy snacks (don't be this person), Vanessa talks about having a dance recital at the famed Orange Jubilee and we explore why a chain buffet restaurant with fluorescent lighting is Jonah's equivalent of a haunted house. We also discuss feeling pressured to dress up for Halloween parties, people who get very into decorations and the time we replaced our American flag with a pirate flag at a childhood home (amazing, this was not Halloween-related.) We also dig into a holiday-fueled round of change.dork where we discuss petitions that make a case for giving students the day off after Halloween, wearing costumes to school and making Halloween fall on the last Saturday of October every month regardless of what our calendar or the Farmer's Almanac wants us to believe. Whether you're dressing up as a friendly ghost or an embittered CEO, you'll find something to boo-lieve in on this episode of the podcast.   EXCLUSIVE: Change.org petition to make Jonah Bayer a notable alumna at Orange High!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hi, How Did We Get Weird fans! Season 2 of The Frankie Quiñones Show is here, and Frankie Quiñones' head is filled with a bevy of colorful characters. Based on the friends and family that helped shape him into the powerhouse comedian he is today - from the reformed cholo turned fitness sensation Creeper to the domineering and spicy Juanita Carmelita, the perpetually despondent cousin Emo Primo or the feel-good guardian angel Pachanga, plus many more. Come kick it each week with Frankie and the crew and experience hilarity, unlike any other show you've ever heard before.   Listen here and subscribe to The Frankie Quiñones Show on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jenny Owen Youngs is not only a successful musician and songwriter who has worked with some of the biggest artists on the planet, she is also a TV scholar who co-hosts popular podcasts about Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Veronica Mars. In other words, she's the perfect guest for HOW DID WE GET WEIRD? On this episode, Jonah recalls the magical night he attended both Jenny's wedding and MTV Video Music Awards where Vanessa introduced Miley Cyrus' performance, Jenny talks about what it's like living in the lobster roll mecca of Maine and Vanessa does a truly stellar impression of Jenny's collaborator Pitbull that is so uncanny it's difficult to believe Mr. Worldwide is not in the room with us. For our topic, we take a collective deep dive into the popular fantasy/adventure television series "Xena: Warrior Princess," specifically when it comes to the impact it had on a young Jenny Owen Youngs and the pioneering plot twists that have since become hallmarks of the genre. Finally, we play a snack-themed round of" Change Dot Dork" and try to guess which unhealthy treat from the past is currently back in rotation at your local grocery store. Enjoy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You know comedian Joe Mande from his work as a writer and actor on beloved shows like Parks And Recreation and Hacks, but did you know a childhood obsession with the Sega Genesis game "Earthworm Jim" almost led to his downfall? Today on HOW DID WE GET WEIRD? we not only explore the weird and wonderful world of Sega Genesis, but Vanessa talks about why she is constantly trolling Jonah on social media and Joe recounts the time that he was so convinced that he would win a shopping spree at Toys R Us that he painstakingly planned out his entire route using a map of the store's layout. We also play a round of our favorite complaining game "Valid Moan or Unnecessary Groan" where we debate vital local issues from 2011, which range from pet cleanup etiquette to whose face should or should not be on Cleveland's gas pumps. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In episode 1289, Jack and Miles are joined by writer, musician, and co-host of How Did We Get Weird, Jonah Bayer to discuss… The Cover Up Side of the Jan 6th Sh-t, The (Insert Generation Cohort Here) Hates/Loves Remote Work takes are weird, Movie Releases Are Confusing The Hell Out Of Everyone and more! The Cover Up Side of the Jan 6th Sh-t What is witness tampering? And could this charge apply to Trump? Gen Z actually doesn't want to work from home ‘Only in Theaters': Inside Hollywood's Campaign to Get Audiences Back to the Big Screen Not Even Paramount Knows When Top Gun: Maverick Will Start Streaming LISTEN: Ready or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide from Love) by The Delfonics See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hi, How Did We Get Weird fans! Clown Parade is an anthology comedy podcast series presented by Will Ferrell and Bowen Yang & Matt Rogers of Las Culturistas podcast featuring new talent. About Clown Parade: an anthology comedy podcast series presented by Will Ferrell and Bowen Yang & Matt Rogers of Las Culturistas podcast. Each month will feature a fresh comedic talent creating a brand new podcast format hosted by an original character of their own creation, in the spirit of The Ron Burgundy Podcast. The diverse roster of comedians will be curated by Will, Bowen and Matt with an eye towards representation, inclusivity, and elevating the next generation of comedic voices. New episodes every Wednesday. Listenhere and subscribe to Positively Gam on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In 2001 VH1 debuted the show Bands on the Run.  It was a massive hit, yet it only lasted one season...  We felt like it needed much more attention. In the wake of Flickerstick's reunion (long after Soulcracker, Harlow, and Josh Dodes threw in their towels),  we have decided to break down this insanely dated time-capsule of what-the-f*ckedness.   Joining us to discuss the pilot episode is Jonah Bayer from the incredibly funny podcast How Did We Get Weird.   You can watch every episode of the show for free on youtube HERE.  Catch up and catch the magic. If you want early access to these episodes, head over to the Rigs of Dad Patreon Page where you can also hear more unedited, ad-free interviews with previous guests, patreon exclusives, and beyond! PLUS early access to other episodes! My band Burial Waves is playing with Jawbox (!!!!) July 23rd at The Black Cat in DC.  GET TICKETS as that will sell out! AND we will be playing with Cave In 8/4 at The Ottobar in Baltimore. Ian's got some tunes you need to scope at The Interesting Times Gang bandcamp Nat and Ian have some shows coming up in September Check out their BANDCAMP page for all the details. The incredibly talented David Cavalcante opened up THE tattoo shop in DC called District Tattoo Company.  Follow them wherever you socially media, reach out to the artists, and book your appointment! Big shout out to the homies at www.shearrevival.com Take care of yourself.  Look good, smell good, and feel good.  Treat your body and neighbor's nose with love using Shear Revival!  Use the code CLEANTONE10 to get 10% off your next order!   Head over to Age of Ruin's Instagram and dive into some of the best thrash I have ever heard.  Their new album is coming soon.  It's produced by Mike Schleibaum of Darkest Hour and is just a relentless and refreshing metal cleanse. And be sure to check out their new live video from [hate5six] here. Huge loves to the incredible Sacha Dunable from Dunable Guitars.  The guys is building the absolute BEST axes in the game and I am a firm believer that EVERYONE needs to own one.  Check out www.dunableguitars.com if you need some real tone in your life. Much love to the fine folks at Custom District Pedalboards for allowing me to pack the heaviest tones on the lightest boards.  Get yours over at www.customdistrictpedalboards.com Do you have a ton of guitars?  Does the show not go on unless you have at least three guitars with you?  Then you need to check out Quantum Industries.  These dudes are putting out true tanks of guitar cases.  Check out https://www.quantumindustries.jp/ BE SURE to enter ROD10 for a discount on your order!!!

Hi, How Did We Get Weird fans! Join America's favorite Anchorman and one of the most popular comedic characters in entertainment history for another season with iHeartPodcasts. The Ron Burgundy Podcast returns to continue to delight audiences with the comical musings of Ron Burgundy – and leave them wanting more! Co-produced with the Big Money Players Network, The Ron Burgundy Podcast was one of the top shows of the year – weighing in at No. 1 on Apple Podcasts Top 200 in the opening weeks of both seasons 1 & 2. And it's poised to be even bigger in 2020… New episodes every Thursday. Listen here and subscribe to The Ron Burgundy Podcast on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on HOW DID WE GET WEIRD? Jonah and Vanessa are joined by musician and longtime friend of the Bayers, Chris Farren. We discuss our favorite iteration of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as well as Chris's childhood toy preferences. We also get into Chris's amazing ability to create viral merch and Vanessa chimes in with her own expert opinion of how to price band merchandise. Finally, we debut a new segment called CEO TAKEDOWN where we critique the all-CEO band The Moderators who you probably read about on about cheifexecutive.net aka Pitchfork for CEOs. You don't have to be a multi-billionaire to enjoy this episode of the podcast. In fact, it's probably better if you aren't one. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thirty years in the making, this episode of HOW DID WE GET WEIRD? sees Jonah and Vanessa catching up with their long-lost cousin and the former host of the MTV's Headbangers Ball, Riki Rachtman. We discuss how Riki is related through marriage to the Bayers, the time Jonah almost invited Riki to his Bar Mitzvah and the time Axl Rose flew to New York with Riki to get our cousin his first hosting job on MTV. We also talk about our first bands, what it was like owning the Sunset Strip's most infamous club and why Alice Cooper was the first person to know about Riki's engagement. Vanessa also laments the loss of the old-school answering machine, Jonah reminisces about music video culture and Riki remembers a time when having tattoos made you an outcast. There truly is something for everyone on this episode... unless you're a Caribou Coffee enthusiast. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Vanessa Bayer stops in to discuss the creation of her character Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy. She talks about her formative years of comedy, Judaism, and how the process of writing a subtle and specific character evolved each time Jacob returned. Watch I Love that For You, Fridays, on Showtime. Listen to Vanessa's podcast HOW DID WE GET WEIRD? wherever you listen to podcasts. Follow Vanessa on Twitter and Instagram. Follow Jesse David Fox on Twitter and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Benjamin Gibbard may follow you in the dark, but he will not follow you in the trendy brunch spot in your neighborhood. On this episode on HOW DID WE GET WEIRD?, we catch up with the frontman for Death Cab For Cutie and The Postal Service to discuss 20 years of random Bayer hangouts ranging from breakfast to Bonnarroo, what being vegan was like during DCFC's early years and why he is unlikely to become the spokesman for Dunkin' Donuts anytime soon. We also discuss taping songs off the radio as a teenager, the enduring influence of Minor Threat and why "ordering something for the table" is the best way to get something indulgent without a side order of guilt.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You may know JD Samson as the musician in critically acclaimed acts like Le Tigre and MEN, but did you know she also went to high school with Jonah and Vanessa? On this episode we discuss Jonah's brief stint working for JD's parents, what it was like being a teenaged outcast in Ohio in the nineties and how going to an outdoor expedition summer camp changed JD's life. We also get into our first jobs, why flavored-coffee is disgusting and lament the demise of our favorite regional theme park growing up, Geauga Lake. Don't worry, you don't have to be an Orange Lion to enjoy this action-packed episode of HOW DID WE GET WEIRD?!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey My Momma Told Me listeners! Check out this episode of How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer where they talk to Langston Kerman and his nostalgia fascination with AND1 Mixtapes AND the birth of the My Momma Told Me podcast. Rate and review My Momma Told Me with Langston Kerman on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-momma-told-me-with-langston-kerman/id1523712290 --- Jonah Bayer and Vanessa Bayer welcome the hilarious and talented Langston Kerman, who you might know as an actor, writer, comedian and host of "My Momma Told Me." They discuss their nostalgic childhood journeys of getting to school: From watching incredible bus fights to Jonah peeling into the highschool parking lot blasting what Vanessa calls "the yelling guys." They also talk about Langton's love for AND1 mixtapes, 3D Doritos, Double Dare Live, and see if Langston can finally put his beef with Mark Summers to rest. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Hey, How Did We Get Weird fans! We know you enjoy comedy, so we think you'll love The Frankie Quiñones Show. Check out the trailer and see for yourself! About The Frankie Quiñones Show: Frankie Quiñones' head is filled with a bevy of colorful characters based on the friends and family that helped shape him into the powerhouse comedian he is today  - from the reformed cholo turned fitness sensation Creeper, to the domineering and spicy Juanita Carmelita, the perpetually despondent cousin Emo Primo or the feel good guardian angel Pachanga, plus many more. Come kick it each week with Frankie and the crew and experience hilarity unlike any other show you've ever heard before.  Listen and subscribe to The Frankie Quiñones Show on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Listen up! Ron wants you to hear the first episode of Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer's new podcast HOW DID WE GET WEIRD from Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network. If you like what you hear, subscribe to the show... Remember Lean Pockets? (with Beck Bennett) In this seminal episode, Jonah and Vanessa sit down with the incomparable Beck Bennett (Saturday Night Live) to discuss his love for Lean Pockets and other cultural touchstones from the past. They also delve into the infamous lore that Jonah and Vanessa's dad is, in fact, the first person to ever be named "Todd." Spoiler alert: Vanessa is a great wedding guest and she just might come to your party if you invite her. Apple Podcasts iHeart Radio App Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

You may know Bobby Moynihan as Vanessa's former castmate on SNL or Uno Pizzeria's most famous bartender, but before all that he was a big fan of Saturday Morning Cartoons. On this incredibly educational episode of How Did We Get Weird?, we discuss the origins of He-Man, She-Ra and the Masters Of The Universe franchise. We also reminisce about Bobby's many creative projects, Jonah's love of Sodalicious fruit snacks and how one Utah newspaper's snarky article took down a delicious Keebler cookie before it ever had a chance to shine.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Hey, This is Important fans! We know you enjoy comedy, so we think you'll love How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer. Check out the trailer and see for yourself! About How Did We Get Weird: Before sibling duo Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer took the comedy, music and general world by storm, they were just some lil weirdo kids. Joined by exciting guests who also started out this way, they reminisce about everything from toys to trends on How Did We Get Weird? Unless you're a monster, you'll want to listen to this nostalgia-filled, hilarious and surprisingly sweet podcast where they discuss how those formative years that shaped them into who they are today. Listen and subscribe to How Did We Get Weird on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Hey, True Romance fans! We know you enjoy comedy, so we think you'll love How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer. Check out the trailer and see for yourself! About How Did We Get Weird: Before sibling duo Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer took the comedy, music and general world by storm, they were just some lil weirdo kids. Joined by exciting guests who also started out this way, they reminisce about everything from toys to trends on How Did We Get Weird? Unless you're a monster, you'll want to listen to this nostalgia-filled, hilarious and surprisingly sweet podcast where they discuss how those formative years that shaped them into who they are today. Listen and subscribe to How Did We Get Weird on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Hey, My Momma fans! We know you enjoy comedy, so we think you'll love How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer. Check out the trailer and see for yourself! About How Did We Get Weird: Before sibling duo Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer took the comedy, music and general world by storm, they were just some lil weirdo kids. Joined by exciting guests who also started out this way, they reminisce about everything from toys to trends on How Did We Get Weird? Unless you're a monster, you'll want to listen to this nostalgia-filled, hilarious and surprisingly sweet podcast where they discuss how those formative years that shaped them into who they are today. Listen and subscribe to How Did We Get Weird on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Hey, Las Culturistas fans! We know you enjoy comedy, so we think you'll love How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer. Check out the trailer and see for yourself! About How Did We Get Weird: Before sibling duo Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer took the comedy, music and general world by storm, they were just some lil weirdo kids. Joined by exciting guests who also started out this way, they reminisce about everything from toys to trends on How Did We Get Weird? Unless you're a monster, you'll want to listen to this nostalgia-filled, hilarious and surprisingly sweet podcast where they discuss how those formative years that shaped them into who they are today. Listen and subscribe to How Did We Get Weird on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Hey, Fake Doctors fans! We know you enjoy comedy, so we think you'll love How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer. Check out the trailer and see for yourself! About How Did We Get Weird: Before sibling duo Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer took the comedy, music and general world by storm, they were just some lil weirdo kids. Joined by exciting guests who also started out this way, they reminisce about everything from toys to trends on How Did We Get Weird? Unless you're a monster, you'll want to listen to this nostalgia-filled, hilarious and surprisingly sweet podcast where they discuss how those formative years that shaped them into who they are today. Listen and subscribe to How Did We Get Weird on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

TOAP CLASSIC #29 (RECORDED January 27, 2016):Don't miss Jonah Bayer on the awesome podcast "How Did We Get Weird?"Also, don't miss Jonah's fantastic essay about becoming a therapist Episode 68 -You can't pick your punk scene. For Jonah Bayer this meant joining up at age 15 with the one of 90's Hardcore's most infamous groups: THE OLC. Listen in as Damian and Jonah discuss the good and bad of growing up in Cleveland Hardcore. From how Jonah grew out of that scene, to becoming a writer, playing in Committed and the role Clevo Hardcore has had in his life and so much more. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turned-out-a-punk/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Let's get weird, because Jonah and Vanessa Bayer are here! That's right, Jonah Bayer makes his TOAP return and this time he brought along his sister and podcasting partner! Listen in as Damian sits down the Saturday Night Live/ Punk Connection Sibling Power Duo to talk all things punk and beyond! From what Vanessa thought of teenage Jonah's Clevo hardcore friends, to bullying Jimmy Eat World for having kids, to Candlebox-core, to explaining Cold As Life, to why the hell do people even like this kind of music? and so much more! Don't miss this one!Also, don't miss Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer on the awesome podcast "How Did We Get Weird?"!Also, don't miss Jonah's fantastic essay about becoming a therapist!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turned-out-a-punk/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy