- All right, this is Vandaveon and Mike here.
"The Vandaveon and Mike Show."
We have a little subtitle for this mug.
- Almost said colon.
Colon--pooh!
Popped your O-ring.
[laughter]
- He said, "O-ring"!
We talking about the new "Van and Mike Show."
It's called "Van and Mike: the Ascension."
- It's a mindset.
- And it's a--what?
- It's a mindset. - It is a mindset, man.
- Things have been taking place.
There have been some seismic shifts and whatnot
in our career.
- We made it. - In the upwards way.
- And the crowning achievement
is that "Key & Peele" have finally hired us
on the show as writers and whatnot.
- "Key & Peele." - To do the thing
we were bornt to do.
- I knew they had some sense.
- So, finally, they hired us up, right?
So we collaborating with them now.
And I tell you, man, it was a real good fit,
because, like, two weeks in,
they had given us nicknames and whatnot.
So they was calling us-- what is it, what is it?
- P.A.
- P.A.s, P.A.s, right?
Which was like a nickname for...
"Pen assassins." - "Pen assassins."
That's what we feel. - We pen assassins, man,
'cause we just murdering up that comedy right now.
- Blip-blip-blip-blip-blip. - You know, like...
I be using some ninja pens up in here.
Soo-swah!
Soo-sway-sway!
Swipe!
- Penis style.
- [laughs] Penis style.
[exhaling sharply]
[laughter]
You got to give it to me!
- Get the fuck out of here.
- Oh, my God, man.
We had a lot of fun on the shoot, though.
So, what we gonna do is,
we had signed these confidentiality agreements.
It allows us to confide in the audience,
the material that's behind the scenes.
So we can tell you anything we want about the show
prior to the show coming out.
So right now, what you gonna see
is Mike having a brainstorming session.
- A meeting of minds.
- A meeting of minds, as you will.
So that's what happened with Mike.
We gonna show you some of this right now here.
- Yo, what's up?
- Hi. - It's me, Mike.
- Who? I'm sorry.
Have we met before?
I'm sorry, I don't know if we've met before.
- I'm the new P.A.
- Oh, new P.A., hey, how you doing, Mike?
Nice to meet you, man, yeah.
You and who?
- Vandaveon.
- Van--what? Vandaveon?
- Yeah, we sent some videos the past couple years.
Now we P.A.s, so we could feed you, like, lines or whatever.
- Oh, yeah, that's okay.
We got the script supervisor to do that.
- No, really, it's no sweat.
- No, I appreciate it.
But the script supervisor, it's just,
it's her job and stuff.
- I was thinking maybe in this sketch,
you could like, you know, when somebody slaps ass,
like, you could make a fart sound.
That could, like, enhance the comedy,
'cause you already got asses in there.
- I will...
I will take that under advisement, yeah.
Can you do me a favor, actually?
Could you go-- there are supplements
that are in my trailer, and they're red.
They're in a bottle called Omega Krill.
- I don't know nothing about that.
- No, I'm just telling you where to go.
- Listen, listen.
In this brainstorming session,
it sounded like, you know, there was some,
what they call in the business, chuffa, okay?
You're talking about getting him krill,
you know, like, squid pills and whatnot, right?
- Well, you break the ice with an anecdote.
- With an anec--yeah, right, that's what he did.
But what you did miss in that interaction particularly
is all of the scene ideas that would come out of that,
like "Fart Dick."
- "Fart Supplements."
- "Fart Supplements," that's a good scene,
where you just take particular supplements,
and they just make you fart.
- "Sigmord Ford."
- We have a whole scene called "Sigmoid Freud."
It's a colon that got a beard.
It smoke a cigar.
- That was--
- Just like Sigmund Freud!
Because our shit is smart, though.
- "Urethra Franklin."
- "Urethra Franklin"?
[laughing] That's--
- "Who's Afraid of Vagina Woolf?"
[laughter]
- I got to walk it off!
Hold up a second.
I just got to walk it off a second.
That shit's comedy gold right there, man.
Do you have anything you want to say about that?
- When you start riffing with someone...
- Yeah. - You synergize...
- You synergize, right, right.
- With their brain.
So, in some ways, half my brain
is now Keegan Michael Key's brain.
- You see, this is the kind of insight
that you ain't get on any other kind of Internet shows.
We gonna move into another clip right now.
Okay, because of these confidentiality agreements
we have signed, we're about to straight up show you
some, like, straight up confidential stuff,
behind the scenes, never-seen-before footage.
And the best part, it's all completely legal
for us to show it to you.
- This is one of their better sketches,
I think because we were present.
- I think it has something to do with us being in the room.
- It's a sequel to "Slap-Ass."
- "Slap-Ass 1."
So we gonna go to some footage right now
from a scene that's gonna be in the show.
Y'all gonna love it.
It's gonna be informative.
You are now learning from the masters, Van and Mike.
- And...action.
- Everybody, I need your attention right now, okay?
I know some of you guys were not here
when Rafi was here, okay.
We don't want to trigger him with any slap-ass.
- Good game, man.
- These dudes need to stop scooting back.
They should let that dude get in there
and get that ass, is what they should do.
- You should yell that line when it come up.
- What?
- You should yell that line.
- Good game, man.
- You can slap me.
You can slap me in the ass.
- Shh!
- Who's shushing me?
- Who's shushing? - Don't shush us.
- So thank you very much,
from both me, Van, and Mike.
You want to say something, Mike?
- What do you say to people who don't know
what the inside of Hollywood looks like?
- You say, stay tuned,
because we're going to educate you, all right?
- You see those two new guys?
The guy with the fucking Rick Ross beard?
- Weird.
- Well, clearly he's ambitious,
because it's pretty well groomed,
so that takes a certain amount of effort.
And the other guy with the dreads,
with the tiny dreads...
- That guy...
he was talking while we were shooting.
- Oh, I know.