Name: Jay Jurden joins the show! | You Made It Weird
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jay Jurden joins the show! | You Made It Weird' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-06-25. Transcript available.

Jay Jurden joins the show! | You Made It Weird

You made it weird. You made it weird. Yes, you did. You made it weird. You made
it weird. You made it weird. With Pete Holmes. Yes, you did. You made it weird.
What's happening, weirdos? I am so glad you are here for the hilarious Jay
Jordan. I love Jay. He is so funny. Where have you seen Jay? You've seen him on
The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. He's been on James Corden. In fact, we are
on Corden the same time, which is how I first saw him.
And he absolutely murdered. He's also been on HBO, Comedy Central, Apple TV. He's
got an album called Jay Jordan, y'all. And also follow him on social media. It's
just his name. J-U-R-D-E-N. J-U-R-D-E-N. Jay Jordan. He's so funny. And I love
this conversation. And I'm so glad y'all are here.
Only a couple things to plug up top for me. It's my tour. I am going to be in L.A.
this Saturday on June 28th, followed by Houston. We're rescheduling Michigan. I'm
sorry, Royal Oak. We are moving that, but that will be rescheduled. Los Angeles
is after that. D.C., Boston, Massachusetts, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Spokane,
Washington, St. Louis, Cleveland, Chicago, Pennsylvania, and Atlantic City. And
we'll be adding New York City on there as well.
All of those are available on PeteHolmes.com. So glad you're here. I loved this
chat. Jay Jordan, y'all, indeed. Get into it.
I like these. Right? I really love these. There's a new, so I want to say North
Face and Paraboot. Maybe it's North Face? I don't know. Maybe it's J. Crew.
There's a new, there's a new, there's a new, you're, you're on trend.
I am? You're on trend. We need to roll them. And sort of, sort of make, taking
a big swing. Is that right?
Yes. So this style of shoe, this sort of like, um, quilted moccasin. Yeah. It
became really cool over the past two years.
Is that right? Yeah. So North Face came out with one. Paraboot has a collab.
Because this is Teva. Okay. So Teva and any sort of GORP core utility.
GORP core? GORP core? Good old raisins and peanuts core? Is that what that
means?
No. GORP core now has been adopted by a bit of street wear, kind of aesthetic
people where everyone who's obsessed with Arteryx and obsessed with like
anything Gore-Tex and water resistant.
Very Pacific Northwest kind of feel and outdoor kind of faux utility. It became
super popular.
Yes. So right now, the most.
This is not the first time fashion has co-opted like carpenter pants.
Yes.
Or like, yeah, all right. See?
I ain't got no hammer.
That's right.
I ain't got no hammer.
There was one that had the big patch.
The double knees.
The double knees.
The reinforced knees.
Well, wasn't that called like minor pants or something?
Well, there's like a painter pant. Then there's like a minor pant.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then like if they're very tiny, like they're minor pants.
But then.
Everything at Gap Kids are minor pants.
That's all we have is minor pants.
But there is this beautiful sort of like event horizon that happens with what I
kind of just call unassuming white guys and fashion.
And they go, wait a second. Wait a second. I got two minutes.
I'm here for this, by the way.
I'm looking good.
That's it. That's it.
This is strictly fashion.
Yeah, not fashion. I'm sorry.
Function. This is strictly function.
But my wife, who you will meet on the way out, she got a pair.
I also have them in yellow and I want to know what you feel.
No, we like a big swing.
It's okay.
We like a pop of color.
We like a big swing.
There's so Viola Davis every now and then she wears yellow on the red carpet.
And because she's such a beautifully melanated, dark skinned black woman,
yellow on her.
Every comment is always like, it's crazy how she invented the color yellow.
Yes.
Because she looks so stunning in it.
Yes.
And every time anyone a little bit paler than Viola Davis even tries to wear
yellow on the red carpet, everyone goes, you look sick.
Yeah, that's right. That's right. I just, I'm doing, I was shooting this movie
with a lot of East Asians. So like Indian, Pakistani. And the way that this, I
don't know if I'm allowed to say this, but I was looking at the way brown, you,
golden brown.
You're like, it'll give you the chills. You're like, that's just right. It just
looks better.
But you, I don't want to say it looks better. That's pejorative. But you know
what I'm saying? I was appreciating how good it looked.
There's a fun kind of like play, but, uh, white guys with blue eyes, they get
the blue shirt and every, yes, every time, every time, that's the move.
And you kind of just like, look at people like Basilisk and try to like, make
sure they know. You go, look, you see what's going on? You don't get to blink
for the whole time.
That's our little tiny, tiny, tiny effort. I'm, I love that you just are
leaning in to my, I am, that's why I said I'm here for it. Basic kind of white
guy.
But that's what you want. You want to, but you want, but you want to, I want
like any kind of unassuming older white guy to have like a happy fashion
accident.
Like that's sort of like work where it came back, not being as kind of stuffy
and pretentious came back.
There's a lot of things that like anyone now kind of over the age of 40, if you
go, oh, this is my favorite shirt.
People go, well, you look great in it. And because there's like a lived in kind
of worn feel, it makes it fashion now.
Yeah. That's interesting. So I have another pair of shoes that are real ugly,
real ugly.
And my wife actually, dude, she forbid me. She didn't forbid me. She very playfully
was like, I think you need to stop.
And then somebody was like, that's actually very in right now. And then I was
like, really? And they go, ugly shoes are in.
And I was like, oh, okay. I don't know if I want to be in this line.
You know what I mean? I think this might be a mistake.
I mean, the thing that it's close to maybe last summer. And this happens, this
happens when I guess people are trying to find ways to compliment non-conventionally
attractive leading men in Hollywood.
Now, do you remember what happened? So last summer, there was an entire write-up
about Brat Summer, but a little bit before that, there was Rat Summer.
So every leading man was, they were like, these guys kind of look like rats.
Oh my God. I'm going to need some Zams.
Timothy Chalamet.
Chalamet's got up.
Mike Faist, who was in Challengers, Josh O'Connor, who was also in Challengers,
and Paul Mezcal.
They were saying that these men, while handsome, there is a mouse-like...
But you don't, it turns out, you don't want straight handsome.
I don't mean straight handsome.
No, but you do.
Straight handsome.
Yeah.
You do want straight handsome, but again, I mean, like middle of the bullseye.
Yeah.
You want interesting.
Interesting.
Ryan Gosling is kind of, he's my favorite.
I mean, he's on the wall.
He's kind of, I don't know how to say it.
You can say it.
Left of center is what I'll say.
I was going to say odd, but by odd, I mean, why am I, I can't stop looking at
it.
I'm going to say it.
He's, he's, there's a, an avian quality to his face a little bit.
Bird face.
A little bird.
A little bird.
Bird face.
And that is striking.
It inspires like leadership qualities.
People go out into Prospect Park with binoculars to look at birds.
And then it turns out Hollywood's the same.
We're like, look at that bird.
They go, wait a second.
Look at that bird.
Yeah, there's one.
We love birds.
You want an avian quality.
And Adam Driver, of course, looks like a Siamese cat.
Yes.
Sort of.
Yes.
But so like, but remember, I'm older than you.
I think I'm older.
I mean, I mean, barely.
Is that right?
You don't know?
Yeah.
I just assume.
You never know.
You have so much energy.
You'll never know.
When I watch your standup, dude, for real, I'm like, yes, I love it.
And it's a Gatling gun.
That's what feels youthful about it to me.
It's like, obviously you're having fun, but you're also like, I'm not tired.
I'm not, I'm not like, I can think of more jokes.
Yeah, well, I have a tendency to overwrite.
Like, I'll talk to Matthew Broussard and he and I both have this kind of like
tendency
to be like, tag this, tag that.
Okay, actually, basically, we'll go, this is the line and kind of the Jay Leno
quality
of like, I've overwritten this and now let me scale it back to peak laugh.
But I have more, if you ever want it.
I love that.
Scale it back.
Like, landscape it.
Yeah, truly.
Let's let it overgrow.
But too many, look, I say this all the time on the podcast when we talk about
standup.
Most specials I watch and I go, that's it?
I'll even watch that on myself.
That's my main criticism of myself is I'm like, you brought us into this room.
That's the premise.
And all you did was pick this up and then put it back down.
And then we left the room.
And when I watch you, I'm like, oh, this dude, you figured it out.
That means so much to me from a theater background.
But then also like, and this is the first time anyone knows about this.
So you're part of the reason I started standup in New York City.
No way.
So I started standup around the same time as Crashing.
And there were multiple instances where I was doing mics at the Grizzly Pair.
Y'all just shot a couple scenes at the Grizzly Pair.
I was going up doing mics.
You were going up in the series doing mics.
I wasn't at the Cellar yet.
I saw your Cellar audition.
You were there when we taped it?
No, I wasn't there.
My real one.
No, the one in, no, no, no.
The one in the show.
The one in the show.
The one in the show.
I was doing NACA right after you did NACA.
No way.
I got a bunch of college gigs when you did the college gigs.
I eventually did warm up for a show I was writing for.
I did warm up when I was writing on the promo.
And now you're on Daily Show.
Right.
No, I was on the promo with Jon Stewart on Apple TV+.
And I did warm up there after seeing you kind of do warm up.
There were all these little fun moments.
And so you as a character on Crashing and then also as a comedian.
So it was so funny because then I was like, oh my God.
And like, you also loved X-Men.
So there were all these moments.
I was like, if I ever get the chance to tell people.
So then when I did Corden and we met, I was like, I hope he enjoys it.
And you had an amazing set.
Thank you.
You're really good at late night.
And I think it's like one of those hard things to talk about, meaning I don't
get a lot of
opportunities to talk about it because not a lot of people are really good at
late night.
It's like a weird skill to do five or whatever it is, six months on late night.
The pressure is so high.
I didn't say this, obviously, but I'm like feeling for you.
I think I was doing panel.
Yeah, you're doing panel.
You got to do the couch.
You got to have fun.
I almost went, girl.
I was like, it's true.
That's true, though.
That is true, though.
It's true.
You graduate, meaning when you do it, you don't even think about it.
Oh, my God.
You don't even worry about it.
Because on the couch, it's so.
So I've done late night three different, no, four different times now.
You've done Fallon.
Yeah, I did Fallon a few times.
I did Fallon, and the craziest part is on the couch, so many of the rules,
specifically
from standards and practices, go out of the window.
Yeah.
Because they just do not care.
Jimmy Fallon, when I was on Fallon, he was asking Theo James about his dick on
White Lotus,
and I was like, what?
I mean, that's right.
Y'all made me cry.
My lesbian joke.
You're asking Theo James about his cock scene?
I don't remember a cock scene in White Lotus.
Well, okay.
So not this past one, the previous one.
I remember balls in the first scene.
Yes.
And they always do fake balls.
Yes.
Can I get a take on this?
Yeah.
I'm going to chime in first.
Yeah.
Show me the real balls.
Yeah.
Just show me the real balls.
It's always fake balls.
Balls are a little weird.
You had real dick on your show.
We had real dick on the show.
We had real dick.
And you know what we got shit for?
People were like, show a vagina.
Whoa.
Like, that's what people were lik