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Randy & Jason Sklar had a typical midwestern suburban upbringing in St. Louis, playing soccer and baseball after school, hanging out with friends who owned two toned jean jackets and light blue I-Rocs with T-tops and CB's then they found comedy.
The two began performing in High School and continued through college at The University of Michigan. Upon graduation, the two applied and were accepted to law school, but deferred their enrollment so they could move to New York and pursue comedy.
Since then, the Sklars have developed their own distinctive two man comedy style and flourished professionally. They first broke on to the national scene starring in their own sitcom/hybrid show on MTV called Apartment 2F. Later they co-hosted Comedy Central's hit robot fighting show, Battlebots, for three seasons. They have been voices of conjoined twins Biff & Chip on the WB animated series The Oblongs, were the hosts of Dot Comedy on ABC. They have also been seen on TV in Curb Your Enthusiasm, their own 1/2 hour stand up special: Comedy Central Presents, Premium Blend, Comedy Showcase with Louie Anderson, Providence, It's Like You Know and Becker, Action, VH-1's: 100 top Icons, 100 Hottest Hotties, Top 25 Rock Star Television Cameos, and top 50 Commercials, programs, as well as being guests on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn Last Call with Carson Daly, and NBC's Late Friday.
In addition, the Sklars have appeared in feature films including the recent comedy My Baby's Daddy (opposite Eddie Griffin, Anthony Anderson, and Michael Imperioli), The Prime Gig (opposite Vince Vaughn and Ed Harris), and The Bubble Boy (opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Swoosie Kurtz).
The Sklars continue to perform stand-up in LA where they live as well as in clubs all over the country.
The Sklar Brothers "Hendersons and Daughters" CD
Randy and Jason Sklar seek new fans for their stand-up CD, “Hendersons and Daughters,” recorded live in Denver, CO. Applicants must be old enough to question necrophilia and poor rhyming in fairy tales and enjoy the bawdier versions of jokes originally written for toddlers (example: What do you call a quilt that’s slept with 20,000 people? Quilt Chamberlain!). Must be confounded both by the presence of twins in sexual fantasy and the sovereignty of the fleshy area that connects actual conjoined twins. Must be unable to keep up with the Kardashians, but understand the early warning signs of hoarding episodes of Hoarders on the DVR. Must fully internalize the shame of finding that Scarlett Johanssen, ScarJo herself, has “Pizza Hutted” you with a Jeff Buckley cover song. And above all, must understand that Margaret Cho would be the only acceptable substitution for Mr. Miagi should we need to create another Karate Kid remake. So long as, of course, the kid gets a safe word.
The fast-paced but even quicker-witted banter between the Sklar Brothers soars to new, more ridiculous heights with their latest release, “Hendersons and Daughters,” as the duo’s riffs jump blithely from racist haberdashers to Google’s confounding auto-fill to Chico’s marketing strategies to whether bad rapping insults smoothies. And in the end, maybe the lesson is that we can all find joy in life by complaining about the little things or at least in listening to the Sklar Brothers do it for us.
1. Google 2. Kardashians 3. Hoarders 4. And Twins 5. As Nature Made Him 6. Fairy Tales 7. Five Little Monkeys 8. Kid Jokes 9. Karate Kid 10. Schwarzenegger 11. Sombrero 12. Scarlett Johansson Pizza Hut 13. Chinese Security Line 14. Hip Hotels 15. Creed The Sklar Brothers "Sklar Maps" CD
Perhaps best known to audiences as the co-hosts of ESPN Classic's Cheap Seats, Jason and Randy Sklar (the Sklar Brothers) have gone meta on their latest release, "Sklar Maps." That's right, the kings of rapid-fire Jewish male twin comedic stylings are taking on their own kind, exposing how the very existence of their mandal-sporting twin comedian arch nemeses has ruined yet another gangsta rap classic - not to mention recreational drug use - for our noble heroes. On their gambol through the parallel universes of St. Louis, MO and Los Angeles, CA, the Sklars use their quick-witted hypothetical dialogs and tag-team exchanges to bring listeners into the sanctified boardrooms of the advertising geniuses behind both the west coast's now-ubiquitous sign-flippers and the corporate co-opting of classic rock, along for a night out with Mom and Pop Sklar, and inside the hallowed Hollywood legend of FootAIDS. People, when the terrorists are winning against their IMDB file, there's no telling what the Sklar Brothers will do. Recorded live at the Upright Citizens Brigade in L.A., Sklar Maps is an exhilarating treat, reminding listeners of a night out with their funniest pair of friends - the sort who might trip over each other to tell the same hilarious tales year after year, building on the legend and making each telling more outlandish than the last.
1. Randy's Baby 2. Priuses 3. Bench Ads 4. Sign Flippers 5. Jons 6. The Foot 7. Miami Vice House 8. St. Louis Bomb 9. Classic Rock Ads 10. The Other Twins 11. Al Jazeera 12. Mel Gibson 13. Dueling Dices The Sklar Brothers "Poppin' The Hood!" CD
This CD is the culmination of 10 years of live comedy performed by identical twin comedy team, Randy and Jason Sklar. Recorded in Minneapolis at the Acme Comedy Club in 2003, the CD blends the brother's rapid-fire delivery that the Neil Strauss of the NY Times once referred to as "similar to the raps of the Beastie Boys." The CD chronicles the boy's lives growing up as children of the Midwest in the 1980's. The brothers have a unique way of ganging up on an issue, and the straight man of the act, well, there is no straight man, it's more of an echo. This CD offers you much of the material as seen on TV and many bits that have never been heard before. There aren't many teams still around in the comedy world, and certainly not many twin comedy teams, and definitely not many identical twin comedy teams still doing it out there today. And in addition, they are the only Jews in comedy.
1) Magic 2) Local Commercial 3) Network Logos 4) Where Are They Now 5) Morning Zoo 6) KSHE957) Hector 8) Girls Gone Wild 9) Bowflex 10) Feldenkrais 11) Walk With Israel 12) Dad 13) Guiltor 14) Strip Club DJ 15) Power 106 16) Local News Car Chase 17) Chopper 4
