Remember Life Before Cell Phones? (with the Sklar Brothers)
How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer
All Things Comedy
4.8 • 713 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, the Bayers are joined by not one but two amazing guests: Identical twin comedians Randy and Jason Sklar! We get deep into the mythology of Steven Seagal from the Sklar Brothers experience pitching a television pilot alongside Seagal to Jonah seeing him perform music live as "The Mojo Man." We also discuss the Sklar Brothers' experience on the cutting edge of alternative comedy alongside some entertainment's biggest names and the time that Janeane Garofalo casually brought Eddie Vedder to an East Village comedy gig at the height of Pearl Jam's nineties fame. We also get into what life was like before cell phones and why it made people more responsible when it came to being to places on time. Finally in this edition of LEGIT MOAN OR UNNECESSARY GROAN we discuss celebrity culture, paid parking and should airplane travel in the winter even be an option? After you finish this episode, be sure to check out the Sklar Brothers' amazing podcast "Dumb People Town." You can start with the episode featuring Vanessa!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah. |
| 0:06.8 | We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today. |
| 0:11.9 | Who are so excited because today our guests are twinning. |
| 0:17.2 | Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. |
| 0:32.3 | Yeah. Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. Jonah, that was a reference to the recent Charlie Sheen documentary. |
| 0:35.6 | I don't know if you've seen it. |
| 0:37.2 | Seem part of it. |
| 0:38.0 | And it was related to our guests today, obviously, |
| 0:39.9 | who are very excited about. |
| 0:41.1 | But, Jonah, something that I spoke with one of our guests about, |
| 0:46.2 | you know, their siblings just like us. |
| 0:49.0 | I just wanted you to get into lightly your childhood love for Stephen Seagal |
| 0:54.0 | because I think our um, I think our |
| 0:56.9 | guests today might have, have some experience with, yeah, I was a big fan of Steven Seagal. |
| 1:02.9 | The first film was introduced to it was hard to kill. |
| 1:05.1 | Right. |
| 1:05.9 | Um, classic film. |
| 1:07.1 | He's a cop. |
| 1:07.8 | He goes into a coma for a while, avenges it. |
| 1:11.7 | Um, but yeah, he was like my favorite movie star growing up. But, you know, the early stuff. Above the law, hard to kill. Mark for death, out for justice. And then he got into Under Siege. Under Siege, too. That's kind of where he lost me. It was Under Siege, too, the one on the boat. but yeah, I was a big fan of his one-liners, his martial. |
| 1:30.9 | I was doing big fan of his one-liners, |
| 1:29.0 | his martial, I was doing martial arts at the time. And so, yeah, I would love to hear what our |
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