Remember Xbox Parties? (with Zach Cherry)

How Did We Get Weird with Vanessa Bayer and Jonah Bayer

All Things Comedy

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

We could not be more psyched this week to be joined by actor, comedian and star of TV show "Severance" and "Fallout," Zach Cherry! We explore our long history with Zach, from an improv class he took with Jonah in 2015 to his recent gig as a judge during Vanessa's appearance on "The Great American Baking Show." We also get into Zach's time performing improv comedy as a kid at a performing arts camp, trying to hide his comedic aspirations from his day job coworkers when he was starting out (something Vanessa did NOT do when she was starting out) and when he realized he could make a living as a performer. We also get deep into Zach's topic, XBOX PARTIES, which basically consisted of Zach and his friends all bringing their XBOXs to a friend's house before it was possible to play online. We also get deep into snack talk from the underrated status of pretzels to the intimidating thrill of wasabi peas. Finally in a game of YESTOLGIA OR NOSTALGIA, we debate the return of Rainforest Cafe, vintage record players and block windows. Also what's more depressing than office parks? Learn about all this and more on this incredible episode of the podcast! People like it!!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vanessa Bayer and this is my brother Jonah.
0:06.4	We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today.
0:11.8	Who are feeling very cheery about today's guest.
0:15.9	Welcome to How Did We Get Weird. How did we get weird?
0:42.4	I know we're very excited to introduce our guests today, but first, I'm not going to I'm gonna wait to talk about why we were on a trip together recently.
0:43.0	Okay.
0:51.6	But I wanted to take one element of that trip and just really quickly run by any, any highlights, low lights for you, which was when we did just recently go fishing with your wife
0:56.6	and our parents in Atlanta. Yep, we went fishing. We had to get up, meet at 545 in the morning at
1:03.2	Eastern time. Yeah. Eastern time. So yeah, so even earlier for you and wrote about an hour outside of
1:09.7	Atlanta and yeah, we spent a cold morning doing some
1:12.9	fishing. I thought it was very fun. We did something called trolling where you basically just
1:18.8	have the fishing rods sticking out of the boat and then you don't even have to do anything
1:24.4	until you kind of see a fish. And then you have to hold the fishing rod then, but you don't have to until then.
1:34.2	Yeah.
1:35.3	So a lot of hanging out, talking, and then eventually the guy would be like, there's a fish on this one, and then you'd hand it to someone, and then you kind of reel it in.
1:42.9	And then nothing would happen for like
1:44.8	an hour and then that would happen again yeah and and we did throw all the fish back and i hope
1:51.0	that they're doing great in the water now but jonah uh i guess you could say we caught some real big
1:57.3	fish like yeah real big fish yes i remember them ska fish. Yes, I remember them.
2:01.2	Scott Punk band.
2:02.4	Yeah.
2:02.7	So, yeah, fun fishing trip.
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