As we were all born in the early 1980’s, it only makes sense that we have a strange obsession with shows like SNL and SCTV, both of which debuted and were at their most popular when we were either too young to watch them or had yet to be born. (Please email us if you’re familiar with SCTV because Jess is under the impression that everyone is. Never heard of it, you say? Yeah, we didn’t think so.) Shows like these make use of “the corkboard,” which simply go to show the order of sketches. Does this seem trivial? Clearly, you’ve never written a sketch comedy production.
For months, (mostly as a result of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) Jess and Mike joked about the need for a corkboard. “It would help so much!” declared Jess. “Get a life!” Mike retorted. “I think that the absence of a corkboard has, in the grand scheme of things, little impact on our ‘lack of funny.’” Despite his best efforts at verbally tearing down Jessica at every opportunity, she got a corkboard. Mike, reluctant at first, became its biggest proponent. Again, this may seem pretty dumb, but Mike and Jess have literally spent hours staring at the thing, trying to best determine the order of the podcast. (And just for the record…Mike was right. It doesn’t impact the “lack of funny.” It just helps keep us on task…but not really.)
