And I just can’t stop making awesome shit with him.

In 2009 I had a Thanksgiving party in my LA apartment. My friend Ari Shaffir came over. I told him the harrowing saga of trying to get into Phish’s Festival 8 on mushrooms that kicked in too fast and too strong. (Mushrooms given to me by… Ari Shaffir. 17 years later I can’t help but wonder, what else was in those mushrooms?) We swapped more drug stories. We laughed. We ate turkey and stuffing and mac & cheese. We pretended we weren’t farting every time we shifted in our chairs. Kobe and the Lakers were on their way to a second consecutive NBA title. It was all very normal.

I had no idea it was the day my fate became hopelessly entwined with Ari’s. It was probably the worst day of my life.

Ari was awesome back then. I mean, he was horrible at comedy. Very very bad. Career going nowhere, full of self-doubt, lacking self-esteem. You don’t make Amazing Racist videos if you can even possibly imagine yourself becoming famous one day. Things were beyond bleak, his existence in comedy was just inconsequential. No endless rants about sound mixes in comedy specials, no abandoning an awesome project just before it’s finished for cosplaying homelessness in a third world country, no complaints about a very concerning bloody asshole.

Anyway, a few months after that Thanksgiving, we did our first storytelling show, Psychedelia, in the Improv Lab. And I’ll be damned — it was the best comedy show I’d ever seen, and I really mean that. (Not the best any-kind-of show, but I’ve never tried MDMA at a comedy show. Apples and oranges!)

A few years after that, Comedy Central took a chance on our little show. Soon we were on TV. I quit my day job. I directed my first comedy special, Double Negative, for a comic named — you guessed it — Ari Shaffir. I convinced the network to pick up a double order of our 4th season. Jack White’s company wanted to do a record with us. Some of our favorite comics were taping stories for the show. Things were going great.

And when things go great for Ari, hold onto your butt. He’s about to do some wild shit. He had gotten good at comedy. Not just good, actually great. Two high-level specials in a row (Paid Regular is excellent), telling killer stories on TINH. Ari was on a rocketship.

What better time to blow everything up? Oh I can think of a better time! The next volcanic eruption of Mount Ari, 3 weeks before shooting a special, upon hearing the news of a tragic helicopter crash… No one else in my life has lost a job due to the bomb threats made in the aftermath of their partner tap-dancing on a celebrity’s (and his young daughter’s) grave. 

But Adonai works in mysterious ways. It took two extra years and a new venue in a different Borough, but that new venue let us use real fire in the candles, and JEW turned out to be the most beautiful comedy special I’ve ever seen (totally unbiased). The next special, America’s Sweetheart is also impressively cool.

And now… The End is nigh. We’re still in the process of delivering episodes as I write this. And Ari — inexplicably confident as a producer — is trying to unlock episodes that have been locked for four months, coming up with unreasonable new ideas, and of course, taking 10 times longer than necessary in the sound mix. 

But fuck, I love him. I really do. He has a huge heart. He supports his friends, he supports me.  He loves comedy. He cares deeply about the quality of everything he makes… 

And the new show is fucking awesome. I can’t wait for you to see it.

-Eric Abrams, Director of The End (and tons of other cool shit he won’t mention but I will)

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The whole Studio Jeans team has been working long and hard on this project and we really can’t wait for you to see it.

You can preorder it for a discounted rate at theend.ymhstudios.com. You’ll save $5 if you do that before April 16 when it premieres. That’s 7 full hours of stories, plus a pretty fucked up prologue you’re not gonna want to show your mom. And you can watch it for a whole year.

It was about 2016 when I first saw Tom on JRE. I then immediately fell in love with the mental institution that is Your Mom’s House Podcast. 

2019 was when I hyper fixated on YMH super cuts, memes, and began collaborating with other content creators. 

I had put together a cool guy super cut in the hopes of making it on the pomcast. YMH episode 481 was my first time kinda being mentioned. Nadav didn’t know my name…fuckin google, am I right? 

I was listening to Your Moms House in LAX when I heard my video play. I immediately stood up as to tell someone I had made it on the pomcast but no one was there. 

I rewatched it a second time to hear Nadav say the video was submitted by Caleb? I stood up again and quietly shouted in my mind, “NOOO! It’s from Mr Clavicles!  

I could’ve shit my pants in excitement and I’m happy to report no incidents occurred. It was one thee best days of my life and had no clue where it was headed. 

I’ll be sharing more stories and content here on Behind the Jeans as well as on Instagram. 

My previous account was deleted so mommies follow me

-Jorge Clavel

We get a lot of cool guests at Studio Jeans. From ‘The Shaman’ Will Blunderfield to Chevy Chase, Tony Johns to Tommy Lee, we’ve seen it all. And I’m not gonna lie either, some guests just give you the heebie jeebies. One in particular was Bryan Johnson, the guy who says he wants to live forever and shockwaves his peener so he gets more nighttime boners.

Before my co-worker went to take the photo of him with Tom and Christina, I jokingly told the social team, “this guy’s a vampire, he’s so pale, he wants to live forever… watch, he’s not gonna show up on the photo.” Tyler took the polaroid and left it on our bookcase while it developed. Everyone went home and we forgot about the photo until the next day.

The next morning we pick it up and…

I kid you not. We’ve had weird fuckups with polaroid film… but this is one of the wildest things that I’ve seen while working here. When I texted the photo to Tom and Christina, they didn’t believe me at first. They thought I photoshopped it and was pranking them. Then Christina said she hopes he can turn her into a vampire, cause that’d be a dream come true. What do you guys think?

-Heather

Spring has sprung and all the cool gals in hibernation are coming out to play 🌷

Who remembers The Clapper, BluBlockers, or Life Alert Ads?

In this clip from deep in the vault, Christine delves into the flaws of The Clapper, and Tom questions why robbers are always portrayed by white actors.

We’ve got some weird props lying around from Season 1 of Bad Thoughts. Don’t tell Tom this is what we’re up to.

Cop asks for her drivers license. Speeding blonde rummaged through her purse and says "I can't find it. What should it look like?"

Blonde cop sighs, says " its square, and it has a picture of you." Blonde speeder says "I found it. Here it is," and hands over her compact mirror.

Blonde cop looks at it and says, "You didn't tell me you're a cop. You are free to go."

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