The hilarious Candice Thompson joins Jake and Jeremy again despite having her car not starting the last time because they played her car radio while the car was off. Without having to worry about calling AAA, they get to riffing on clap talking, white guilt jumping the shark, spotting “chiggers”(?), and more. Also, FYI, Urban Dictionary wasn’t that helpful when they were doing real life “research”.

While enjoying a lovely afternoon in a North Hollywood public park, Jake and Jeremy riff down a road with this week’s guest Rosie Tran that travels through “the trade-up game”, how to get men to fall in love with you, one night stand 101, and what it means to be a legitimate foodie. Basically, the type of conversation you’d expect comedians to have even if there were plenty of children with their parents around staring daggers at them the whole time. 

Danny Solomon (writer for JASH) is this week’s guest joining Jake and Jeremy in a riff session that covers Mos Def’s new name, who owns “cancer”, poor Jehovah’s Witness canvasing strategy, and the Kinsey scale. Oh yeah, there’s also an amazing story of the dumbest bet with the grossest (and also dumb) stakes by Jeremy that you’ll probably hear/have heard in awhile. Jake and Danny certainly couldn’t stop talking about how Jeremy lost a bet of who could get to a 100 farts first.

This week, Jake and Jeremy invade a booth at Astro Diner in Silverlake with guest Shawn Pearlman. The gang and their guest didn’t get kicked out, but they got as close as they’ve ever gotten by being sat at the back of the restaurant, which they probably deserved for talking loudly about Paul Anka, legendary (locally) open mic comedian Boon Shaka Laka, and how “too soon” a joke could be if we comedians were clairvoyant. You’d think a 24 hour diner in LA would be used to this type of ruckus by this point, right? Oh well…

Jake and Jeremy go the locally famous, at least amongst comedians that live in the Los Feliz neighborhood of LA, Rustic Inn where plenty of comedians day drink/get inspired. Joining them this week is recently transplant and very funny comedian James Fritz that tells the story behind his American Bible Challenge t-shirt he wore during the taping of this very episode. Well worth a listen as well as the story of Jeremy speaking Arabic to scare off cholos.

One of the LA comedy scene’s funniest, Jesse Case, riffs with Jake and  Jeremy going through basically getting a pink slip from the tribe if you’re not Native American enough, the vast population of homeless people in Vancouver possibly due to the lack of prophylactics during the last Olympics, and a story where Jake saves a girl from being raped. Don’t mind the music playing in the background at Best Fish Taco in Ensenada where they recorded, just listen to how they’ll dig the funny out of all of that. Oh yeah, just for your reference, the pop star that has staffed glitter wrangler mentioned at the beginning of this episode is Ke$ha. 

Leave it comedians to turn a nice stroll along the scenic parts of the LA River (think that one scene from Drive where they’re by a river) to imagining what would be the start of an episode of Law and Order. The very funny Ro Delle Grazie joins Jake and Jeremy this week in figuring what worst case scenarios and possible alibis for crime in and around or inspired by a small stream floating through a bunch of concrete. Oddly enough, as much riffing as they did about possibly finding one, they didn’t stumble past a dead body. Maybe “the secret” doesn’t work?

Jake and Jeremy go back to their old hijinks of seeing what various dining establishments around LA don’t care if you record an impromptu podcast and straight riffing for an hour with a great guest comedian (last week, they just went to AdultCon sans guest). This week hilarious comedian Lauri Roggenkamp (Just For Laughs Montreal) joins in and it turns out that people getting fast food didn’t care that they recorded a podcast or yell an accusatory “You sick fuck!” loudly and repeatedly. It must be a common thing while getting cheap dinner to go in LA? 

As the episode title suggests, Jake and Jeremy make their way past a man screaming fire and brimstone in front of the Los Angeles Convention Center to Adultcon, mostly to see if Jake will freak the fuck out as he has claimed that sex terrifies him. Surprisingly, there’s a good amount of porn and non-porn booths, a thing that Jake is quick to notice and, no surprise here, they run into a comedian at a porn convention, Alex Loulis. Whether you’ll find out if Jake causes a scene or has a panic attack as boobs and penises are on screens everywhere, you’ll just have to listen to the whole episode.

Also, apologies for all the bad hip hop playing in the background.

Finally, after a two-week-completely-unplanned hiatus, Jake and Jeremy are back to business as usual with This Better Be Funny with this week’s hysterical guest Cornell Reid (The Comedy Garage). Of course, by “business as usual”, what’s meant is suggesting South Central LA isn’t that dangerous to walk around, saying things that, heard out of context, would be bizarre at best to real strangers walking by as an example, and discussing the finer points of “pathetic loser” etiquette of placing dollars on the stage at a strip club. It’s good to be back, no matter how many unsuspecting pedestrians they seemingly creeped out, which is kind of hard to do in a hip place like Echo Park.

As stated above, there were technical difficulties preventing uploading this week’s episode of This Better Be Funny with the very funny Ro Delle Grazie. It would be so convenient to simply blame that dumb fangled thing called technology on this mishap, but, like a lot of things that go wrong on this podcast, it’s probably something Jake did.

Trust that what was recorded was an hour and 10 minutes of beautiful conversation, jokes, riffing, explaining what a podcast is and how to listen to one to a wonderfully random person who was just sitting at the park, and comedy, which concluded with this dare of trying to get Jeremy to do an upside down iron into a backflip after failing like an old man to do it the first time.

There’s only one way to see if Jeremy ended up “Jackie Chan-ing” it or not, by watching it right here. 

Following that, you can listen to the 60+ episodes of riffing goodness in the This Better Be Funny archives.

Oh, you still want a reason for there being no episode this week? 

Well, I don’t know, blame the earthquake that you may or may not have felt today. That’s as good a reason as audio not processing, right?

Guest incredibly funny Tony Sam (HAHAJK.com, Persona!) joins Jake and Jeremy at Zankou Chicken for this episode of riffing/hating on wool ties (Jake is wearing one in this episode), discovering that Jeremy is indeed one of those people who had no idea what shawarma was until he saw The Avengers (making Zankou Chicken an ideal location for this ep.), and Tony’s awful time at a strip club.

Unsurprisingly, that story delights Jake and disappoints Jeremy terribly for a really fun episode.