You recently had Dane Cook on Sklarbro Country and did an incredible interview with him. I went into it greatly disliking him and came out really liking him.
Jason: He came in and was ready to be open. Dane shared a lot of really, really cool stuff with us -- he played a voicemail from his late father that was just amazing. Our goal wasn't to make him likeable, but we knew we had a lot of common ground, having both lost parents to cancer, and he just went there.
You are both self-described music nerds. Who are some of your favorite bands?
Randy: I am a huge Smiths fan -- they are my all-time favorites. Today, I love the Hold Steady and the Shins.
Jason: All-time favorite band is probably Wilco. I think Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is one of the best albums to come out in a long time. I love all the iterations of Bob Dylan, and I am really into the new Basement Tapes project. Elvis Costello is one of my all-time favorites, and on YouTube there is slower, stripped-down performance of "Watch Your Step" on Later with Tom Snyder, where he just created a moment on television that is usually reserved for a live performance in a club or an arena. Put that in this article.
What are the best and worst parts about coming home to perform?
Jason: The worst part is knowing that a lot of people that knew us as young children will be in the crowd. But the enemy of comedy is the restrictions you put on yourself, so you can't think that "I can't be too edgy because all of my Mom's mahjong group is going to be there." I love coming home to a place where there is an Olive Street Road and we pronounce "Creve Coeur" the way we do. St. Louis is a town that supports its own and is proud of us and any success we have had and we love that.
What are we getting at Ted Drewes?
Randy: A vanilla Heath concrete with caramel and butterscotch.
Jason: A mini pistachio concrete with double Heath, and if I'm feeling sassy, hot fudge on it. My solution to the problems in the Middle East is to put a Ted Drewes in the Gaza Strip, because you can't be mad when you're eating Ted Drewes.
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