Remember Prom? (with Mike O'Brien and Brad Morris)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

This week Jonah and Vanessa are thrilled to welcome their old pals Mike O'Brien and Brad Morris! You may know Mike and Brad from the various shows they've created, written and acted in, but did you know that Vanessa used to understudy for their Mainstage show at Second City and they would lovingly make fun of her right on stage in front of the paying audience? Plus, they talk about a topic that Vanessa may have pushed them toward, Prom! From Mike's date with an older college student who may now be an Oscar-winning actress, to Brad's Pool Ball tie and cumberbund set, to Vanessa being Prom Queen! And Mike also tells us about Mom Prom and along those lines, Vanessa reminisces about how much she loved having her mom and dad at After Prom working in "The Casino." They also get into Senior Superlatives from Jonah being Most Radical to Vanessa getting Best Personality and several others that sorry she was forced to say!! Plus in a hilarious round of CHANGE.DORK, we're debating the merits of legalizing hilarious crimes, allowing students to take AP Bio every year, and tearing down Wrigley Field. Be sure to check out this hilarious episode with two Chicago comedy legends (and Mike!) (LOLZ) and be sure to check out the new season of Mike and Brad's hilarious podcast BUSINESS TRIPS on All Things Comedy and wherever you get your podcasts!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
0:06.0	We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today.
0:11.0	Who are tripping to talk to today's guests, business tripping, or that is, or something.
0:16.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. How did we get weird?
0:34.1	So, Jonah, I'm so excited for a guest today.
0:37.8	As you know, I used to live in Chicago.
0:39.2	Yes, I did know that.
0:40.1	Yeah.
0:45.9	Well, when I live there, I got to do a lot of fun shows, but I think one of the most fun shows I ever got to do is understudy our guests, our guest's second city mainstage show.
0:52.6	And wow, they would sort of make fun of me not just behind
0:58.6	the scenes but literally on stage in front of an audience one thing that really and we'll introduce
1:04.1	them soon so we can really get into this but one thing that they really um would would make fun of
1:10.6	is how so i would understudy our friend
1:13.2	Shelley Gossmann a lot and she would play a walking stick the animal and I
1:19.1	would watch the video and of the show to kind of memorize it and I would play a
1:24.5	walking stick and I would think I was doing exactly what she was
1:27.8	doing but from the stage they'd go particularly one of our guests would go who gave you the tape
1:35.4	where did you get the tape referring to the tape that I watched to learn the part anyway let's get into
1:41.2	our guests right Jonah yeah let's do it okay one of our guests, right, Jonah? Yeah, let's do it. Okay.
1:42.4	One of our guests today is a comedian, actor, and writer who wrote and performed on Saturday Night Live, created the comedy series AP Bio, among many other things. Our other guests is a comedian, actor, and writer who wrote on shows such as Cougartown and it has appeared on shows like Her Beer Enthusiasm. Plus, they have several things in common like,
2:01.9	our parents really love them and tell me when they see either of them in anything.
2:06.9	They are both very funny and have been my friends and some of my favorite people for many years.
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