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!

On this episode of the podcast, Paul’s mom stops by to talk about comedy. We talk about laughter and joy, cheap therapy, tough times, creepy Gaffigan cameos, how my mom recently learned the term G.O.A.T., mijito Marcelo Hernandez, playing pranks, over competitive board game nights, how our life is like a sitcom and we go into a nostalgia tv deep dive! We also talk about the SNL episode hosted by Ariana Grande with musical guest Stevie Nicks. Beard Sal Paulkovic drops a couple of parody singles. Phone connection issues. Carla being a very good doggy with her grandma on the phone and much, much more! It’s wild to have your mom on your podcast, so come check it out!

Greg Hundemer, playwright, producer, jack-of-all-trades comes by the podcast to give us his hot takes on Coldplay. And we are so excited to introduce our first musical guest: Grundemer! And they play their songs: ltsfckGO and Unremarkable White Guy for us. Greg joins host, Paul Salazar Jr, to discuss the second episode of SNL’s 50th season hosted by Nate Bergatze with his guest Coldplay, facebook pictures, insensitive spiders, The Tragedy of Proto-Hobo: The Greatest Musical Ever Written, bagel bites, liner notes, the creative process, fringe fests, bathtubs full of gravy having so many ideas you fear you’ll never make them all and much much more. Greg mentioned I’d put a link to a sketch in the notes, but I don’t think that sketch exists on the internet anymore. Once again proving our point to just take your shot! Paul does a Jimminy Glick impression. Remember to we’re talking about Droopy and NOT Snoopy. And please go check out Greg’s twitter even if he doesn’t post on it. Subscribe , like, rate and share! Stay tuned for Carson Daly.

Pre-recorded from Los Angeles, it’s Sunday Morning Pre-Recorded! Folks, this pilot episode has had its bumps and hurdles to get to the finish line; but we’re happy to release the first episode on-time (kinda…)! It’s like the little engine that could, if the little engine barely could. We were so lucky to have Sara Loy: architect, live-comedy appreciator, boss-lady who is a 10 but her only flaw is her taste in men on the show! We talk about SNL’s premiere episode hosted by Jean Smart with musical guest Jelly Roll and break down our favorite moments [yet somehow forget to mention Bowen Yang’s JD Vance even though we claim we stan him? Scandal already?] and talk about sketch comedy we watched growing up, our favorite SNL comedians and even do a SNL 50th season Fantasy Comedy League Draft with severe consequences for host, Paul Salazar Jr. Come and enjoy a silly free-wheeling discussion about comedy, sketch comedy and SNL!

Hey, y’all! Welcome to my newest project: Sunday Morning Pre-Recorded: a sketch comedy podcast. We’ll get sketchy this season by following along with SNL’s 50th season and all the circus that will come to town with it. But, as a student of all things sketch, we will most definitely discuss all TV sketch comedy and the performers and writers that have made it. As a veteran of sketch comedy and improv, Paul will talk about his experiences. Both the highs and lows. We’ll also have some sketch comedy writers and performers on to talk about what it’s like being in the trenches. And some regular/non-broken-comedy-folks too! Whether you are a sketch comedy nerd or just a nerd, please join me in talking sketch comedy with Sunday Morning Pre-Recorded!