I don't really know how to start shows.

Come on, now.

Don't start liking me now.

So yeah, I'm funny compared to you.

Well, you'll see later.

I stay for me.

I know a lot of f***ing idiots.

You think a lot of things mean spirit.

Just because it goes against what they believe.

But the relief of comedy is it take things that aren't funny

and it allows us to laugh about them for an hour

We have a purple suit to buy in a gigantic coffin.

Why are you laughing?

The evening, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of Why Are You Laughing, a history of comedy podcast.

And today, I am pleased to introduce you to the jerky boys.

And if you don't like the bleeps in the intro, blame YouTube.

So we've a lot to get to today.

Very excited to talk about the jerky boys because they have a very weird place in comedy

history in the sense that they are extremely influential, had a massive fan base, reached so many people,

and yet I don't think made a tremendous amount of money, had a very short run, and no one even

knows their real names, really. It's very weird. Their place in comedy, and I don't, I can't think of another comparison in terms of, uh, the amount of impact and

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