Randy and Jason grew up in suburban St. Louis in a
Jewish family. They went to the
University of Michigan, where they joined the
Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. While enrolled, they decided to pursue a career in comedy. In 1994, they moved to New York where they developed their comedy style at stand-up comedy clubs. In 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. The Sklar brothers have also appeared in television shows such as
CSI,
Comedy Bang! Bang!,
Mighty Med,
Childrens Hospital,
Law & Order,
Becker,
Providence,
The Oblongs (as conjoined twin brothers Biff and Chip Oblong),
Entourage, ''
Grey's Anatomy (as conjoined twin brothers Peter and Jake Weitzman), Curb Your Enthusiasm (Jason only), and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (as dance marathon DJs on the episode "The Gang Dances Their Asses Off"). They appeared in two episodes of season 3 of Better Call Saul as the owners of a music shop called ABQ In Tune. The Sklars have appeared in the films My Baby's Daddy, Bubble Boy, Wild Hogs, and The Comebacks''. The brothers were pit reporters on Comedy Central's
Battlebots. Randy appeared on an episode of
Take Home Chef, where his wife and chef Curtis Stone surprised him with a gourmet dinner of
Beef Wellington. They have appeared numerous times on
Chelsea Lately. They have appeared on Comedy Central's
@midnight. They produced and starred in a special that ran on ESPN2 called
Utilityman: The Quest for Cooperstown, a lighthearted yet somewhat serious attempt to get seminal utility baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1980s
José Oquendo into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Randy has appeared numerous times on the Forum on
Jim Rome is Burning on ESPN and
Rome on CBS Sports. They appear monthly on
Rome on Showtime in a segment called "Sklarred for Life". They appeared in the 2008 Microsoft film
VoIP As You Are: The Legend of Dan Wilson. They regularly fill in as guest hosts for
Jim Rome on his National and North American syndicated radio show formerly on Premiere Radio, currently on CBS Radio. They participated regularly on
NPR's southern California affiliate KPCC's
The Madeleine Brand Show as sports correspondents. They produced two sports pilots called
Sklar Talk for NPR's KPCC that both aired in 2011. The Sklars are also frequent guests on the podcasts
Never Not Funny and
World Football Daily. They have also appeared on
The Adam Carolla Show,
AST Radio,
Jordan, Jesse GO! and
Battleship Pretension,
WTF with Marc Maron,
You Made It Weird, and
Professor Blastoff. They were featured in the
Troma production
Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV as Jason Gonzalez and Randy Diaz, a pair of Tromaville news anchormen. Randy and Jason are featured in an ad campaign by running shoe and apparel company
Brooks. In August 2010, they made a cameo appearance in the web comedy
The Legend of Neil in season 3 episode 3, depicting two football-loving "Armos" statues. In 2012, the twins began to appear in what would become a series of commercials for Time Warner Cable. In February 2014, the brothers recorded their first one-hour stand-up special at the Majestic Theater in Madison, Wisconsin. The special then premiered on Netflix on April 25, 2014 and the CD/DVD dropped on iTunes on April 29, 2014. The brothers uniquely framed their special as if it were an NFL playoff game with
Rich Eisen leading a roundtable discussion of the brothers' comedy on an NFL Network set, along with future Hall of Fame defensive lineman
Dwight Freeney, NY Giants defensive back
Terrell Thomas, and actor and former Georgia Bulldog football player
Omar Dorsey. In addition, the ubiquitous sideline reporter
Bonnie Bernstein makes a cameo, interviewing the brothers pre- and post-show. The stand up special features a pre-game breakdown by this crew, a halftime report, and a post game wrap up. The stand up special titled
What Are We Talking About was available on Netflix instant streaming for three years after the April 25, 2014 premiere. Randy Sklar is married to Amy Sklar, an interior designer who was featured on HGTVs
Design Star and they have two daughters. Jason is married to Jessica Zucker, a fertility therapist who created her own line of critically acclaimed pregnancy loss cards. They have a son and a daughter. While on a special
Mother's Day themed episode of
@midnight with their mother, Annette, she was asked to pick her favorite son; she picked Randy without any hesitation. In 2025, Jason Sklar told the audience on
After Midnight that the use of ChatGPT would be the end of Wikipedia, and then noted that that fact would end up on Wikipedia.
Cheap Seats From 2004 to 2006, Randy and Jason appeared on
Cheap Seats, on which they 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 appeared in the second season opener in their normal silhouette format, making fun of the Sklars' 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, respectively, since
MST3K was cancelled.
Web series The brothers co-wrote with
Nick Kroll the
web series Layers, directed by
Michael Blieden, on which they played twin publicists Larry and Terry Bridge. Their 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 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 also started hosting a weekly
Earwolf podcast series called
Sklarbro Country in 2010.
SportsCenter The brothers wrote and appeared on ESPN's
SportsCenter in a comedic segment called "The Bracket". Randy and Jason occasionally fill in for
Jim Rome on
The Jim Rome Show on radio. Randy occasionally appeared as a "Forum" guest on
ESPN's
Jim Rome Is Burning. Currently, the duo make appearances on the
Showtime show
Rome also hosted by Jim Rome.
United Stats of America In 2012, the Sklar brothers hosted a television show on
History titled
United Stats of America. A "by the numbers" series, it featured interesting
statistics about the U.S., mixed with experiments, stunts, and the Sklars' unique brand of humor. After one season, the show is currently on indefinite hiatus.
United Stats of America episodes are now available for viewing on Apple TV.
Sklarbro Country From August 2010 to 2017 the Sklar Brothers hosted a popular weekly podcast called
Sklarbro Country on the
Earwolf network. They described the podcast as the intersection of sports, comedy, and indie rock, and the show had guests ranging from
Jon Hamm to
Terrell Owens to
Diablo Cody. Memorable episodes featured
Richard Simmons,
Patton Oswalt, the end of the year Character Specials, Hamm,
Rich Eisen, and
Adam Carolla.
Sklarbro Country was nominated for best podcast in the televised 2012 Comedy Central Comedy Awards. In the summer of 2012, the Sklar Brothers added
Sklarbro County to their weekly output of the podcast. Described as a shorter midweek snack of an episode, the show is co-hosted by up and coming character comedic actor Dan Van Kirk. Dan finds crazy stories of people doing stupid or silly things and Randy, Jason, and Dan and a guest all riff as if it were a writers' room. Randy has described the show this way: "If a 30-person brawl breaks out at a Chuck E. Cheese in Tampa, FL at a 5-year-old's birthday party and the fight spills over into a Burlington Coat Factory parking lot, ending in someone defecating in an ex-boyfriend's hatchback… we'll be there to make fun of it."
Sklarbro County was available weekly on Tuesdays, also on the Earwolf Network.
Rome on Showtime The brothers have become a regular staple of Jim Rome's monthly show,
Rome on Showtime with a popular segment, titled "Sklarred for Life", where Jim Rome tees up the 6-8 craziest stories of the last month that happened in the world of sports, video clips, photos, arrests, and the brother skewer the subjects.
Better Call Saul The Sklar brothers made two cameo appearances on AMC's
Better Call Saul as the owners of a music shop who are purchasing television commercials from the suspended lawyer Jimmy McGill.
This American Life The brothers were featured on an episode of
This American Life titled, "Sklar-Crossed Brothers", in which they investigated a family rumor and lifelong suspicion that their mother had misidentified them at some point in their infancy and their identities were from that point mistakenly switched. After getting an expert comparison of their baby footprints with their adult feet, it was determined that there was no mix up.
''America's Got Talent'' The Sklar Brothers later auditioned in
season sixteen of ''
America's Got Talent'' where their comedy act enabled them to advance to the next round. They were not invited to appear in the quarter-finals. ==Stand-up specials==