Remember Reggie Bars? (with Tom Scharpling)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

You know Tom Scharpling as the host of The Best Show and author of the bestselling book, It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!, but he's also a friend of both of the Bayers. On this episode of the podcast, we discuss the origins of The Original Todd, Vanessa's onstage roasting of Jonah's bands and our favorite personal experiences with Papa Roach. We also reminisce about Reggie bars, the family sitcom Dinosaurs and Tower Records. From the dark history of the Baby Ruth Bar to the best Aerosmith memoirs, you won't want to miss a thing when it comes to this episode.

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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 extremely stylish, if I do say so myself.
0:14.0	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. Now, Jonah, we have a guest today who is a huge music fan and has some similarities and music taste to you in that you both love hot, cool punk rock.
0:38.9	Yeah, I mean, not maybe exactly the way I would phrase it, but yeah, that is true.
0:44.4	He also has some similarities to you and that you're both extraordinary comedic types.
0:49.1	Wait, did you write this?
0:50.7	Yeah.
0:51.5	You know, Jonah, in honor of today's guest, I thought that you and I could talk a little
0:56.2	bit about when I used to open for your various bands live shows, and I would do these sick
1:03.4	comedy roasts that the audiences always hated and would often actually boo me, but that
1:10.2	like you and me and like three quarters of your band really enjoyed.
1:14.8	Yeah, I remember my old band The Love Kill, we would play in Chicago a lot when you were living there and you would come on stage while we were setting up and you, you know, I would help you sometimes write the jokes.
1:25.8	Like, you know, the one we always talk about is you would get up there and be like empty bottle, more like empty club because there was no one there.
1:32.0	Yes, that was a favorite.
1:33.4	That one, you know, usually killed to the six people there.
1:37.4	And yeah, I think people, especially before you were on SNL, people definitely were confused by what was happening.
1:44.0	Yeah, yeah. I mean, even when I wasn't SNL, they were maybe even more confused when I was doing that.
1:49.1	But, you know, last night I found this notebook with one of my more recent rows of your, some might say current band, United Nations, when you guys played at this metal bar, St. Vitis, in New York.
2:01.1	And I think this is probably around 2017 that I did this roast of you guys.
2:05.7	2014.
2:06.3	Well, there's an article on pitchfork about you doing one in 2014, but I think you might have done a couple.
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