Learning About Comedy w/ Jeremy and Rajat

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## Episode Summary

This weeks episode we are joined by Jeremy and Rajat to discuss what is comedy? What's good for making yourself laugh? Lets learn about this red triangle and show me what DRAT is.

## Notable Events

* Josiah and Drew were joined by Jeremy and Rajat from *The Colbert Report*.
* Jeremy can be seen without his pants on in the video version of this episode.
* Josiah, Jeremy, Rajat, and Drew continued watching sketch comedy videos by DRAT Productions from where Josiah and Drew previously left off in The. Josiah felt that this would be a useful series of videos to watch with Jeremy and Rajat because it's sketch comedy and Josiah and Drew are sketching out the future and Jeremy and Rajat can explain why it's funny. They watched the following videos:
	+ "Dealing with COVID 19" about how doing what is best by staying home, it turns out not that easy.
		- Note: Josiah and Drew had previously watched this video in The.
	+ "Finders Keepers" about how a married couple reminisce of days gone by, and during their walk they come up on a case... a case full of money.
	+ "Its Him (DRAT Productions original)" about a story that a father is trying to reconnect with his daughter, when something terrible happened to her.
* Josiah, Jeremy, Rajat, and Drew watched some videos by DRAT's daughter's production company, iNFINITE eVe pRODUCTIONS. They watched the following videos:
	+ ""Fatherhood" : an iep Father's Day Special" about her Father's Day Special!!! This video was produced in collaboration with DRAT Productions.
	+ "The Workout - Our Park Parkour" about her one year+ in the making parkour video finally!!!!!
* Josiah, Jeremy, Rajat, and Drew switched back to watching videos by DRAT Productions. They watched the following videos:
	+ "Castration" about how Dons Doctor tries to talk him out of a operation he wants to do...
	+ "Coffin" about how every year at this time, we have DRATober... so here is one of three.
	+ "Father Daughter Dance 9-22-13" about how with all the videos out there DRAT wanted to do something different...
	+ "Rick the .... COP- The Tail light" about how Kevin gets pulled over for a busted tail light, so why is he so upset?
	+ "Rick the COP ep 6 Route Number HD" about how Rick pulls over a woman that was driving to slow... 3 of her friends in the car seem scared stiff... why would that be till she says what she did...
	+ "Rick the COP Tree Ep 7 HD" about how Rick pulls over a Blonde and she states she had trees jump in front of her, will she talk her way out of a ticket?
		- Note: Josiah remarked that, by happenstance, this Patreon episode was recorded on the 9-year anniversary of the events that took place in this video.
	+ "Doctors and Patients- Bad News" about how Dr Candace has to tell the news to Murphy about his test results...
	+ "Good ol' Boys-Scrabble- Nekid" about how family game time is great, especially when it's with the Good ol' Boys Family... Come watch the newest series and learn words so you can use...
	+ "Test Fight Scene" about how DRAT is writing a short action film where a girl will be fighting 3 men.
	+ "#11 Good ol Boys-Pool Party" about how rich Uncle Don is throwing a pool party, and has an interesting game for the family to play...
* Josiah, Jeremy, Rajat, and Drew discussed what they can take from DRAT's body of work as well as what they can apply to their own activism.
* Josiah, Jeremy, Rajat, and Drew did some bloopers and cool stuff at the end of the episode to honor DRAT.

## Notable Quotes

### Josiah

* "So we've got you here because we are kind of using podcasting to change the world, pretty much? Is that, I mean - we're trying to change the world with podcasting and kind of fix all the problems. But one thing we've noticed is that uh a lot of podcasts sort of use comedy as a rhetorical device to get the message across? And so we kind of like - that's an area that we're still growing in. We're more about like theory, doing the reading, doing the work."
* "I don't wanna say 'What didn't work?' cause obviously nothing didn't work. Uh what worked the best in that one? What can we take from this?"
* "Yeah, this is very Safdie."
* "Maybe they're not all comedic."
* "People say that comedy informs their drama, as well, right? It's kinda the two - the Yin and Yang, the two masks, uh work together, and s- Jim Carrey *The Mask*. Uhh."
* "The twist is that the doctor didn't realize this was for a comedy sketch and DRAT actually does get castrated."
* "I mean, I hate to editorialize, but, like, kind of what he's saying is that if they don't offer safe access to castration, then people *will* find a way to get it elsewhere."
* "Cause, you know, talking about police stuff is obviously a very touchy subject but I think they're pulling it off!"

### Drew

* "The."
* "Humor isn't something that I appreciate or uh enjoy."
* "Oh no... I don't think this is a funny one."
* [On the topic of *The Mask*] "Well, *M\*A\*S\*H* was famously not a comedy, but uh a dram- a dramedy!"
* [On the topic of DRAT being daddy] "He's DRATty."
* "Why is she doing this? Is this comedy?"
* "I remember *The Office* parkour! 'Parkour!' Right? Michael Scott? 'Parkour!' "
* "I mean, I don't think it necessarily has to be a commentary on abortion; I think this could be a commentary on castration!"
* "There he goes! There's the DRAT I know!"
* [On the topic of pulling off talking about police stuff] "I think *Brooklyn Nine-Nine* did it, and I think DRAT does it."
* "Ahh, I have such a tummy ache!"

### Jeremy

* "Thanks for watching *Bill Simmons Podcast* and thank you for having us, Bill."
* "Rajat, remember when you and I organized the Jon Stewart rally? And everyone was saying we managed - that was really funny and it solved a lot of - there were a lot of problems that we don't have anymore because of that. We managed - uhh global warming was worse before that. It got a little better. And it wasn't funny. We found a way to make it funny. And we managed the Stewart-Colbert campaign."
* "I mean, he's, like, a student of the craft, you know? Like, I can just tell that he loves - it's just a legitimate comedy fan and just, like, borrowing from all of the great traditions."
* "I would say in your comedy sketch, like, when time is elapsing, it should be just a reasonable amount of time."
* "A good sketch should have, like, a moral, sort of, classic moral conundrum."
* "And this is a comedy sketch?"
* "Whoa... You think this is, like, a commentary on, like, abortion access? And it's like, 'See how crazy it is when we, like, talk about it *this* way? What if a man wanted to castrate himself?' "
* "The crew members are the unsung villains of SNL."
* " 'Giving my daughter away??' I thought you said, 'Giving my daughter some hay!!' "

### Rajat

* "It's actually 'The'."
* "Like, with theory you can't really solve things, but with comedy sometimes you can."
* "And this is the comment on the police."
* "This is the classic shot in every horror where they're just kind of, like, lingering in the room."

## Trivia

* This episode was performed in conjunction with Jeremy and Rajat from *The Colbert Report*.
* Jeremy and Rajat can be heard wrapping up another guest podcast appearance on *The Bill Simmons Podcast* at the beginning of the episode.
* This was the second Patreon episode to be released for non-Patreon subscribers, after J.O.S.I.A.H.. On October 8, 2021 this episode was rereleased for free on the Globe Hell Warning Patreon page.
* When the video version of this episode was first released, the episode title of the video version was "drat ft jeremy and rajat". It was later renamed "Learning About Comedy w/ Jeremy and Rajat".