- I'm not crying- - Dude.
- But even if I were crying,
I would just want this audience to know
that vulnerability is actually a strength
and not a weakness. - Okay.
- And everyone, thank you.
Thank you. - Thank. Okay, relax.
- Thank you, and everyone should feel free
to express themselves in this space, so.
- Yeah, of course.
If somebody wants to cry during our set, please feel free.
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- Hello, hello, hello.
- It's been a year and a half or so.
- Oh yeah.
- Okay. This is exciting.
- Oh yeah.
- This is a big opportunity for us.
We don't get to do this a lot.
- This is the big one.
But, we don't have
a lot of time, we know that. - We don't.
We're gonna keep this very tight.
It's a tight five as it were.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, so and we're doing a bit
that we've worked really hard on it.
I'm pretty excited.
It's one of my favorite bits. - Mine, too.
- The "Lovely Bones" bit. - The birthday girl bit.
- Sorry, one more time. - One more time.
- So, the "Lovely Bones" bit. - The birthday girls bit.
Hey, can I talk to you for a second?
- What's up?
- Hey. - Hey.
- This is so cool. - Yeah, so fun.
- Love what they did with the lights.
- Yeah, they're beautiful.
- But, I did think you were gonna do the birthday girl bit
just because, like, I don't know if you saw it,
but I'm wearing the hat. - I love the hat.
- And everyone's sort of already seen me in the hat, so.
- Yeah, no, I love the hat
and it looks great on you. - Thank you.
- I thought it was like,
maybe just like a little too excited about our big day.
But then it's like, we worked on the "Lovely Bones" bit,
which is like polished and ready for audiences,
where like the birthday girl bit, like,
you forget the ending a lot.
Do you know what I mean?
- No, yeah. Great. - Okay, great.
Here we go. - So, we're gonna do-
- Sorry. Okay.
- Yeah, so we're just gonna do the "Lovely Bones" bit
because it's like polished and safer.
And I always forget the other ones.
So, yeah. - Sorry, sorry.
If you're gonna pout, we can do whatever you want.
I honestly don't care.
- I'm not pouting. - Okay.
- Okay.
- Where are you going?
It doesn't go that far. - Okay.
- Lacey.
- What's up, you guys? - I'm sorry.
Are you? No, no please.
No. Are you crying?
- I'm not, no.
- Are you fully crying on Comedy Central Digital?
- Okay.
I'm not crying.
But even if I were crying- - Dude.
- I would just want this audience
to know that vulnerability is actually a strength
and not a weakness. - Okay.
- And everyone, thank you.
Thank you. - Thank you.
Okay, relax. - Thank you.
- And everyone should feel free to express themselves
in this space, so. - Yeah, of course.
If somebody wants to cry during our set, please feel free.
And what I think is actually going on right now
is you're a little embarrassed,
maybe because we're not doing your joke.
And maybe you're feeling a little stupid in that hat.
I don't understand, but- - Okay.
- I would also feel raw right now,
so I get that. - All right, okay.
You keep saying it's like about the joke,
and it's like about the hat.
It's like, it's never been about the hat.
It's about something really personal.
And when you find out what it is,
you're gonna feel really stupid, so.
- Okay, so what is it?
We're talking about it now, so.
- It was a family emergency.
- It's a family emergency? - Yeah.
- You just had a family emergency?
- Yeah. - Just now?
- Right before we got on stage.
So, I am brave for being up here.
Thank you.
Thank you for the clap. - No, no.
- Thank you. - Put your hand down.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm sorry. We're not doing that.
- Most of our material is just like
any time Buckels and I have ever been embarrassed
around each other or made to feel insecure.
- Pretty often.
- We just throw it up on stage and hope people laugh.
Like, there's nothing we think is funnier
than, like, witnessing someone else's like embarrassment.
- Yeah, humiliation is kind of our thing.
If someone could be like really uncomfortable
during our set, we've really done our job.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Especially if there's like,
'cause we do sort of become at odds during most of our sets.
And so, audience members will start to take sides,
which is kind of what we want.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, team Buckels or team Lacey.
- Yeah, we make shirts.
But, a lot of it is just like running it
kind of like a play.
And then, like, leaving room to, you know,
to play with the audience,
and like see what they respond to,
and like change things up in the moment.
- Yeah.
And not to like make excuses, but fives are hard for us.
- Oh yeah.
So just so everyone is like, you know, expectations are set.
- Setting the bar really low for us.
A five, a tight five is like pretty loose.
- It's a pretty loose five.
Okay, so what was the family emergency?
- If you must know, 20 questions,
my Uncle Tomithy passed.
He moved on to the big show in the sky.
- Got it, the big upstairs. - Yeah.
- Okay.
Tomithy, am I saying that right?
- Yeah, that's right.
- It's exotic.
- Thank you. We're from Florida.
- I'm sorry to hear that. - Thank you.
- Okay, just so that I'm,
'cause we're all playing catch up here,
we're all learning.
So, sort of like five to 15 minutes before we got
out on stage, your mom texted you and she was like,
"Hey babe, what's up? Tomithy died."
Something like that?
- More or less, yeah. - Okay.
- But you know what I, you know what I would love
to do is I would just like love
to just sort of like soldier on, like, through the show.
Because there's nothing that he loved more than, like,
a socially-distant,
like COVID-safe comedy show. - That makes sense, okay.
- And like, you know, I think that that would be,
like, really special, you know, if he's, you know,
hey, watching up there, so.
- Hey, Tomithy. Hey.
Yeah, no, that would be special.
And I would love to watch you soldier through anything.
So I think that, I mean,
maybe we'll all do a moment of silence for Uncle Tomithy.
That'd be nice. Right?
I don't want to speak for the audience, but I will.
And I don't know, so he must've been, gosh,
I mean, you're so funny.
Was he just like famously funny in your family?
- Don't even get me started about crazy Uncle Tomithy.
- I think I'm gonna get you started.
Maybe you could tell us like a joke,
or like a story from like Thanksgiving back in the day.
- You know, I think I've taken up enough time.
I actually wouldn't mind doing your joke,
come to think of it. - Crazy. Okay.
- I would really like to stop talking
about this if that's okay. - Okay.
- Yeah, I would love to also stop.
So I think before we stop,
we should just sort of like tie this, whatever this is,
up in a nice bow.
And you can kind of just like tell us like how he passed.
- Okay.
Look, I don't think anyone here wants
to hear like the gory details.
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- Oh yeah, absolutely. So, they do.
I think the, you know, gory details,
it makes everyone curious.
That's interesting.
So like, how did he, how'd he pass?
- They're gory details because he was murdered.
It's not funny.
- Okay, don't.
He was murdered?
Your uncle was full-ass murdered yesterday?
Okay, I'll bite. How was he murdered?
- Buckels, can we please stop?
- Nope, nope.
You're gonna tell us how he was murdered.
- Can we actually please stop? - Yeah, no.
You're gonna tell us.
One, two, three. How was he murdered?
- A knife. - A knife?
Can I talk to you for a second?
Yeah. Hey. - Hey.
- So, you and I both know that you don't have
an Uncle Tomithy.
- Well, not anymore. Rest in peace.
- Don't. - What?
- Please don't, please.
Here's the thing. - Yeah?
- I'm tired, okay?
And I really don't want to be called a liar tonight.
- Yeah. - All right? Not tonight.
Okay, and so what I think the best thing to do is is
to go along
with whatever weird fucking narrative you've created.
Okay? - Okay, yeah.
- Forever.
- Forever? We're just gonna live a lie?
- Yeah. What's one more?
Okay? - All right, well thank you.
- Absolutely. I love you.
- I love you, too. - Okay.
But as your best friend, I do want to hold you accountable
and say that you've made tonight kind of a nightmare.
- Okay. - All right?
And you've been a real fucking cry baby.
All right? - Yeah.
If fair's fair,
I just want to say you've kind of been a stage hog
and a little bit of a bitch, so.
- Awesome. - Great.
- Okay, guys. - Sorry about that.
- Oh my God!
- I think we're just hungry.
- I'm starving.
I just had like a piece of quesadilla.
Okay, you know what?
This has been a very weird year.
And I haven't been on stage with Lacey Jeka for a year.
And I mean- - I missed you.
- I fucking love you, man.
And I just, I feel like I'm being a little weird and petty,
like digging my heels in the sand
about this "Lovely Bones" bit.
So, let's do the birthday girl joke.
Yes! - Really?
- Yes! Come on, guys!
This is my best friend!
- Hey! - Hey!
- All right, here we go.
- Yes, here it is.
- Here it goes. - All right.
To the tippy top.
- I forgot the joke.
- You forgot the joke?
- I'm really sorry.
- It's okay.
We're out of time, so. - Okay.
- Okay.
- Thank you so much! - Thank you so much!
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