LoC Rest of the Best - Day 14 - Top Stand Up Comedians
The Sklar Brothers

The Wiki:
Randy Sklar and Jason Sklar (born January 12, 1972), professionally known as the Sklar Brothers, are American identical twin comedians. They formerly hosted the show Cheap Seats on ESPN Classic, which came to an end on November 19, 2006, after four seasons.
In 1994, they moved to New York where they developed their comedy style at stand-up comedy clubs. In the summer of 1997, Jason and Randy starred in and wrote for MTV's sitcom/sketch/standup program Apt 2F. It was their first television work. The show lasted one season.
Starting in 2004, Randy and Jason played fictitious ESPN research assistants who end up hosting a comedy show as they comment on odd and notable sporting events from ESPN's extensive library.
Cheap Seats borrowed its format from Mystery Science Theater 3000. The cast of MST3K apparently were pleased with the show and afforded it a high honor - they appeared in the fourth season opener in their normal silouette format, making fun of the Sklar's host show bits. So far it is the only time Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy have appeared as their MST3K characters Mike Nelson, Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo since MST3K was cancelled.
The brothers played twin publicists Larry and Terry Bridge, and co-wrote with Nick Kroll, the web series "Layers," directed by Michael Blieden.[1]
The Sklar Brothers web series, Back on Topps was produced by Vuguru, the online production company of Michael Eisner. It won two Streamy Awards.
In 2010, the online network Crackle released Held Up, an original series written by the Sklar Brothers and starring Kaitlin Olson of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Held Up tells the story of a bored bank teller’s life-changing experience when two teams of bumbling bank robbers hold up his branch.
They started hosting a weekly Earwolf podcast series called Sklarbro Country in 2010.
One of their classic stand-up routines:
http://www.youtube.com/v/Ij5Y4A0mR5w?version=3&hl=en_USMike, Kevin, and Bill on Cheap Seats
http://www.youtube.com/v/fW7Q2dmq5Gc?version=3&hl=en_USPersonal thoughts:
The Sklars have a fantastic style of feeding off each other and finishing each others sentences. As Patton Oswalt says, they often devolve into metaphor avalanches. I liked these guys on the Oblongs and on Battle Bots, but when Mike, Kevin, and Bill guested on Cheap Seats, I really started to pay attention. Their sports podcast is hilarious, and I don't even like to follow sports. Also, if you like Jon Dore, check out the web series "Held Up" that the Sklars did with him.