We have a great show for you today folks! Brian Nichols is here to get sketchy and talk all about comedy. Brian has written and performed sketch comedy everywhere: The Second City, UCB, ComedySportz and many many more. Paul and Brian are old comedy buds who get into their sketchy past and talk all about the latest episode of SNL hosted by John Mulaney with Chappell Roan. This episode has everything: imposter syndrome, polite guys with bleak world views and punk rock in their hearts, freaks and geeks, new segment: TOUGH QUESTIONS!, Conan O’Brien, smoking ribs, the Great Gatsby, seeing things as magical as a young person, being a little jaded as we’re older, art vs pop, maturity vs immaturity, maybe how everything isn’t a binary…, Paul finally admits he was the Scat Man in the late 90s, SNL background actors, Oops No Cast Members!, Beppo, making fun of liberalism, the state of the union: comedy edition, and a manic Mulaney musical sketch, and plenty of Carla. All that and more on this episode of Sunday Morning Pre-Recorded!

Happy Halloween, monsters! There is no SNL this week so for this spooky holiday episode Sara Loy returns to be the treat in this episode. Paul and Sara try out a couple of new segments like Cut-For-Time/Slashed-For-Time and try to help you out by making Halloween sound effects noises sporadically during the episode so you can play this at your holiday parties. Sara and Paul discuss decorating, obscure costumes you have to explain, more MarioKart, creepy ass David S Pumpkins, fart jokes, a Kate McKinnon tour de force, juvenile, Grown Up Story Time, the extended Domingo-Verse, blah-ing by myself, with a capital T, knowing pop culture references through the Simpsons, psycho to beat boxing: the natural progression, and body horror comedy with Sarah Squirm. Also, the Phantom of the Pod-pera stops by for a haunt, put some respect on his name! Now we know how it feels.

Actor and improviser Matt Tramel ( @theramblemammal ) stops by the podcast to talk with Paul about Multiplicity, pop culture blind spots, being nerds, ghouls moaning, justification, auditioning, smh on the Update desk, Chattahoochee, being dawgs at heart, this time Snoopy NOT Droopy, a pitch for David S. Pumpkins, dream roles and of course Michael Keaton and Billie Eilish. Also, a Michael Keaton character stops by as a special treat as a Halloween celebrity drop in! Spooky Seasoning and more on this episode of the paulcast. The bug is back, baby!