
Fishing for Laughs: A Comedy Adventure with Jesus & Eeland
Clip: Episode 3 | 1m 56sVideo has Closed Captions
Jesus Trejo and comedian Eeland Stribling hilariously blend fishing with comedy.
Jesus Trejo joins comedian Eeland Stribling for a humorous fishing excursion, exploring the challenges of integrating a beloved hobby into stand-up comedy while navigating the thrills and mishaps of a fishing adventure, resulting in unexpected laughs and fish-catching success.
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Fishing for Laughs: A Comedy Adventure with Jesus & Eeland
Clip: Episode 3 | 1m 56sVideo has Closed Captions
Jesus Trejo joins comedian Eeland Stribling for a humorous fishing excursion, exploring the challenges of integrating a beloved hobby into stand-up comedy while navigating the thrills and mishaps of a fishing adventure, resulting in unexpected laughs and fish-catching success.
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Why don't you talk about it onstage?
Stribling: I haven't found a way to make good jokes to people who don't fish.
Trejo: I was almost wondering if it was something where you kind of-- it's private to you.
You know what I mean?
You don't bring people in on something that's so private and dear to you.
Stribling: I know.
What's there to make fun of to me?
Like, this is, like, my peace, this is my therapy, this is, like, my place to escape.
Trejo: Let's keep it going.
Stribling: Here's the motions.
We'll start from the beginning.
So, we'll go ahead, we'll cast.
Trejo: Oh, ... Stribling: We'll watch the fly.
Trejo: Gotcha.
[Laughter] Stribling: So, all we're doing is when we see that bobber dip, when we set the hook, all it is just, like, give them a lip piercing.
Like, they're, you know, it's their freshman year of college and they're trying something new.
They're just--they're getting a lip piercing, let you know what's up.
So, you'll take care of that.
Trejo: OK. Stribling: So, we're using the tension of the water.
Yup.
And now you flick it forward.
Yup, perfect.
Trejo: And-- Stribling: Oh, my goodness.
Oh, my goodness.
That's a fish!
That's a fish!
Trejo: Oh, we got one.
Stribling: Reel it, reel it, reel it, reel, reel, reel.
Yep, just like that.
Keep reeling.
Keep reeling.
Oh, my good-- Lookit, bro, you didn't even have the line in the water for, like, two seconds.
OK. All right.
Keep it just like that.
Just like that.
Just keep it-- yep, rod tip up, rod tip up.
Trejo: Oh!
Stribling: OK, OK, hold on.
Yeah!
Trejo: Yeah!
Stribling: You got the juice.
Trejo: I got the juice.
Stribling: I've taken a lot of people fishing, and I don't think anyone's ever caught a fish -on their first cast.
-That's my first cast ever.
Stribling: That's your first cast ever.
Trejo: Oh, man.
Look at the colors on it.
Stribling: We want to keep the fish in the water as long as possible.
Trejo: OK. And then we got to kiss it?
Stribling: Yep.
We're going to kiss it, so, we are going to take the fly out.
Trejo: OK. Stribling: Boom.
So, that's a brown trout.
Trejo: Ecch!
[Coughing] [Stribling laughs]
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