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How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

Remember Spooky Games? (with Bridger Winegar)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9680 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

On today's new episode Jonah and Vanessa welcome the delightful Bridger Winegar to dig deep into the world of spooky games like "Light as a Feather Stiff as a Board" that haunted them as kids. And did you know there were several films inspired by the game "Bloody Mary"? It seems no one did. Plus, Bridger and Vanessa recall their days of being interns in late night tv and the various ways they humiliated themselves. And a lively game of "Legit Moan or Unnecessary Groan" has them debate whether kids in commercials are cute or annoying? Finally, we ask the question, is Bridger the first person to ever be named Bridger like The Bayer's dad Todd? You'll have to listen to find out!

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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.

0:10.0

Who are pretty welcoming, if I do say so myself.

0:13.0

Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. So Jonah, our guest today got to start as an intern in late night television, and I did too. And, you know, like our guest, I got to be in a late nightnight TV sketch. I don't know if you remember this, but mine was-

0:40.1

I don't remember this at all. Could you tell me about it? You don't? No, I remember when you interned a Conan,

0:45.0

but I don't remember seeing you in an actual sketch. Yeah. Well, I promised that I told you many people about it. And then, well, I'll talk. So basically, it was called Best Extra in a

0:55.2

Canadian soap opera. And the way that I remembered that is because I just looked at some of my old

1:00.7

resumes and I had it on my resume for a long time when I was younger and not that much younger.

1:06.6

And I remember we filmed it. And it was the summer before my junior and senior year of college. And I was in the senior society. And I emailed them all the night after I did it and was like, I'm going to be on Conan tomorrow. And the late night show I internet was late night with Conan O'Brien. And then tomorrow came around and they just like didn't use it. And I like was so embarrassed. And like when I was emailing everyone, I was like, I have a feeling what if this doesn't air? Because I'm like emailing like 50 people. And then I was like, no, it's going to air. And then it didn't. And then they were like it'll probably air tomorrow. So like I emailed everyone again and I was like, LOL, you guys like, ha ha. It's actually going to air tomorrow. Sure enough, it didn't air.

1:48.0

And then actually, this is very full circle because I just realized the person who told me

1:52.7

that it had aired finally like two weeks later is actually a super fan of Bridgers. My good

1:58.2

friend Kitty Long, or now Kitty Mudo. I hope she's okay with me using her

2:02.4

full name. She told me that her boyfriend at the time had seen it like randomly a few days later.

2:08.7

And by that time, you know, I was so, I was so embarrassed and I was so like, I wasn't even looking.

2:13.1

You'd stop sending out these daily emails. Yeah, yeah, because I was like, okay, I think I can't do a third one.

2:18.1

She was like, Tom saw it, I think. And she was like, that's so cool. And I was like, yeah, I guess he's the only one who saw it or like saw it with the knowledge that I was in it. Anyway, yeah, Jonah, I'm track it down some more. Also, what is a senior society? It's something that I think

2:35.8

probably only exists at like Bragg Ivy League or like other really kind of like upity schools where

2:42.8

elite institutions. Elite institutions where it was like this group of us. I was in it because I was

2:48.5

director about my all female sketch comedy and musical parody troupe blooms. Other people were in it because they were head of us. I was in it because I was director of my all-female sketch comedy and musical

2:50.8

parody troupe bloomer's other people were in it because they were head of the Wharton people

2:56.5

who love business or something. It was like people who are heads of groups and stuff like we would

3:01.1

just get together every week or so and like, I don't know, go to bars. It seems really weird that

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