Josh Server: All That’s 90s King Returns in Glory!

joe petty

YOOOO! Relive the 90s with Josh Server, the OG king of Nickelodeon’s All That! From Detective Dan’s goofy antics to Earboy’s big-eared chaos and Milkman’s villainy, Server ruled all six original seasons (1994–2000, 110+ episodes). We dive into his Good Burger role as Fizz, cameos in Kenan & Kel and Drake & Josh, and his epic return in the 2019 All That reboot and Good Burger 2 (2023). Born in Highland Park, IL, this comedy legend chilled with Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell. What’s next for Josh? Share your All That memories below! #JoshServer #AllThat #Nickelodeon #90sNostalgia #GoodBurger #DetectiveDan #Earboy #Milkman #GoodBurger2 #KenanThompson #KelMitchell #DrakeAndJosh #SamAndCat #RetroTV #PopCulture #Throwback #90s #Viral #Humor #Nostalgic #NickelodeonStars #ComedyLegends #90sKids #AllThatReboot #RetroVibes #TVHistory #CelebrityComeback

Transcript

00:00:00You knew him as Detective Dan, maybe Ear Boy from all that.

00:00:03My 90's kids know who I'm talking about.

00:00:05Josh Server, from Child Star to Obscurity.

00:00:09But why?

00:00:10We're gonna answer that question right now on Pop Culture Paradise.

00:00:13Let's go!

00:00:13In a world where the IT thing is always changing,

00:00:16sometimes you need a tour guide or two to help you find your way to Pop Culture's Paradise.

00:00:21If you find yourself reminiscing or in need of a good recommendation,

00:00:25these two have you covered.

00:00:26And now, here's your hosts, Joey and Jeff!

00:00:34In the history of Pop Culture, you'll get a celebrity who goes from Child Stardom

00:00:38to Ultra Mega Stardom, like your Britney Spears.

00:00:42But what happens when it's the opposite?

00:00:44Well, that's what happened to Josh Server.

00:00:46Hey everyone, my name is Josh Server.

00:00:51Hey, I'm Josh Server from Nickelodeon's All That.

00:00:55And that's why we're making today's episode.

00:00:57You see that kind of pop, and it's like, people clearly care about him.

00:01:02No, I'm not.

00:01:03Oh, definitely, dude.

00:01:04I mean, you look at those early clips of him right there in the intro of all that.

00:01:08You can tell he just had charisma.

00:01:10He had the cool, bold cut, skater cut.

00:01:14The big baggy clothes, it was so 90's.

00:01:17And he was always committed to the character he was playing.

00:01:20So, you look at him and you think,

00:01:22well, this guy had to make the transition to Adult Stardom.

00:01:25I mean, this kind of talent should be on SNL, like his brother Keenan.

00:01:30Right, and I think Keenan's about to celebrate 20 years on SNL or something like that.

00:01:36So you wonder, why is Keenan celebrating 20 years on SNL,

00:01:40and Josh Server here is doing web series?

00:01:44So weird, man.

00:01:46Dude, he very much has a physical style of comedy.

00:01:51I'm Josh Server. I'm Josh Server.

00:01:54And when I watched him back in the day, I related to him.

00:01:58Like, he was my guy because if I was on that show, he's who I would be.

00:02:02He had my style of comedy.

00:02:04I'm one of the cast members of this show. Haven't you ever seen Ear Boy?

00:02:07He looks so much older in that last little clip right there.

00:02:13You're going in the clink.

00:02:15Well, what would happen is every year, you know, like your SNL,

00:02:19a cast member might age out or they decide, well, we don't really need you anymore.

00:02:25And by the end of the run, Josh Server was the only person still from the original cast.

00:02:31Really? He lasted that long?

00:02:33Six years.

00:02:35So what I was finding is, you know, that takes us from like 1994 all the way to the millennium.

00:02:42Wow.

00:02:43So, you know, you can see him crossing over with celebrities at his time period.

00:02:47And then as he gets older and as we explore today,

00:02:50there's that peak where it's like, wow, he's like the biggest thing.

00:02:53He's all over Nickelodeon.

00:02:55And then you see somebody like Britney Spears.

00:02:57Wow. She just had that hit.

00:02:58Wow. She is having a massive tour.

00:03:00Wow. She's like the biggest thing in the world.

00:03:02And they have this cross, which is what this clip is where, well, here's Britney.

00:03:08And she's talking about, well, Josh Server?

00:03:12Hey, everybody. I'm Britney Spears.

00:03:14And I just want to congratulate all that on our 100th show.

00:03:16Oh, dude, the busted knee.

00:03:17I'm so sorry I couldn't be there.

00:03:19Hey, as we found out, maybe it wasn't in the accident.

00:03:21But hey, you know what made me feel a lot better?

00:03:23Watching my favorite character, Detective Dan.

00:03:27Detective Dan, he was the best.

00:03:29It was the voice, dude. It was so funny.

00:03:32And the fake mustache and the whole suit.

00:03:34So all child stars have to come somewhere, right?

00:03:37Yeah.

00:03:39And I found out from Josh Server's interviews

00:03:42that him and Kel Mitchell actually started from the same place.

00:03:46They were both kid actors from Chicago.

00:03:48Wow. What are the odds of that? That's kind of cool.

00:03:52And then the other thing with him is that it's almost a feeder system at Nickelodeon

00:03:56where if you're already on their radar,

00:03:59they want to find something that fits your talent.

00:04:02So he, before he was on all that,

00:04:05was already on a pilot that didn't get picked up called Scooter.

00:04:09What?

00:04:10Yeah, and I tried to find this thing because we do pilot episodes on this channel.

00:04:14And I guess he's like a boy from outer space.

00:04:18Of course he is, right?

00:04:20It kind of sounded like Alan Strange or Alex Mack

00:04:24or any of those other sci-fi, futuristic comedies they had.

00:04:27Alex Mack was legit.

00:04:29Did you know there's an Alex Mack board game?

00:04:31Really?

00:04:32Yeah.

00:04:33I mean, actually, I'm not surprised by that, but...

00:04:36Well, there's not like other Alex Mack merchandise

00:04:38other than maybe like one of those scholastic novelizations of an episode.

00:04:43And like, it would cost 80 bucks.

00:04:45And if it's not making me turn into a liquid form,

00:04:48I don't know if it's worth that price.

00:04:50If it's not turning me into a Capri Sun, I'm going to pass.

00:04:54It's all just a part of growing up Alex.

00:04:57Hey, check out his shoes.

00:04:59Thanks, girl. I just got them.

00:05:02They got pops, lights in the back, and a pull-out stereo.

00:05:06That is a kid from Chicago that definitely had a Michael Jordan poster in his room.

00:05:09Oh, dude, definitely.

00:05:11It was the poster with the globe behind him.

00:05:14Eight. One year older than Wyatt.

00:05:16That's so cool.

00:05:17So he was already like a child actor,

00:05:20probably doing commercials and different things like that,

00:05:23and then discovered by Nickelodeon.

00:05:25I got the job when I was 13 with Nickelodeon.

00:05:27They knew me because I had done a pilot for Nickelodeon.

00:05:30That's so crazy.

00:05:34What was that pilot?

00:05:35It was a pilot called Scooter.

00:05:37So the pilot when he was younger than 13?

00:05:41Because 13 he said he started with Nickelodeon.

00:05:43And that was when I was like 12.

00:05:45I had done some work for Nickelodeon already.

00:05:47Hello, I'm Josh.

00:05:49And a lot of you out there have been writing us letters and all that,

00:05:51asking us how we became cast members.

00:05:53Dude, see, this is still a dream of mine to this day,

00:05:55to be a famous child actor.

00:05:58It's never too late.

00:05:59I know.

00:06:06The OG.

00:06:08And that's a flex right there, so flex it.

00:06:13Yeah, flex because you're better than trees and garbage.

00:06:15Right.

00:06:18It's so crazy how young they look.

00:06:23And if you hear this,

00:06:25they were writing almost their own material.

00:06:28Can you imagine that?

00:06:2913 to have the responsibility,

00:06:31no, to be in front of a big crowd

00:06:34and make them laugh with like an outline of a script

00:06:38where it's very like Miss Fingerly talks to her students

00:06:41who are doing silly things.

00:06:44All right, kid, figure out what silly thing you're doing.

00:06:49Right, it's almost like come up with one line

00:06:51that's going to be funny and deliberate

00:06:53and then do it again.

00:06:55Oh, by the way, four to five million people may be watching.

00:06:58Yeah.

00:06:59For some reason, I remember that guy on his right

00:07:02from Pete and Pete,

00:07:03I remember him mostly on being on the like slime shows.

00:07:10He seemed like he was always on those.

00:07:13So with Nickelodeon,

00:07:14you actually would get a lot of that crossover,

00:07:18which we will go into a little bit later.

00:07:20The show you're thinking of.

00:07:21And if I feel like it's an episode of figure it out

00:07:24because you're like, boy,

00:07:25it reminds me of that show he used to go on.

00:07:27I'm like Billy, the answer had blank, blank show.

00:07:29He went on where he'd figure.

00:07:32Yep.

00:07:33So the thing that made us think Josh server

00:07:35was like the biggest deal in the world

00:07:37was dude was a physical comedian.

00:07:40Oh, yeah.

00:07:41There wasn't like a thing that it looked like

00:07:43he was afraid to do to get a laugh.

00:07:45No, he was.

00:07:46He was the type that would always

00:07:48as soon as you thought he crossed the line,

00:07:50he would go further.

00:07:51It was almost like you've,

00:07:53you've kind of explained it to me as like,

00:07:55almost like a kid's version of Jim Carrey.

00:07:58And I also found out from listening

00:08:00to a lot of these podcasts,

00:08:01I think Mark Paul Gosler mentioned it

00:08:03on the save by the bell one,

00:08:05where back in the day,

00:08:07there wasn't as many people on these sets

00:08:09that were like legal and like,

00:08:11oh, we can't have you fallen.

00:08:13We can't have you do this done.

00:08:14It was more of a, well, if he wants to,

00:08:17we're not going to stop him.

00:08:18Yes.

00:08:19Nowadays, they'd be like,

00:08:20all right, get the crash pad

00:08:21and get the 50 year old guy

00:08:23who looks like Josh Server.

00:08:24He's got a bowl cut

00:08:25and we're shooting from behind.

00:08:27He'll work.

00:08:29Dude just wants to make people,

00:08:31make people laugh

00:08:32and his career didn't go anywhere.

00:08:34He'll, he'll take the fall for this kid.

00:08:36Yep.

00:08:37I can bring a little bit of that

00:08:39extra energy from that comedy world.

00:08:42There goes the shirt.

00:08:43What does he get?

00:08:44Like some sort of like,

00:08:46okay.

00:08:47Now he's scratching his back on the,

00:08:48on the couch.

00:08:51He just goes all out.

00:08:55And he's down.

00:09:00His bowl cut is rocking on point right now.

00:09:04It is money.

00:09:05Absolute money.

00:09:08And he's down.

00:09:09Did he just,

00:09:10was one of his things

00:09:11he would faint a lot as, as himself?

00:09:14That was a big thing.

00:09:15And the other thing big on Nickelodeon

00:09:16was how often they do things

00:09:18that would humiliate the kids.

00:09:20Like, oh,

00:09:21let's just dump syrup on him for a laugh.

00:09:23Yeah.

00:09:24If they say though,

00:09:25pain is temporary,

00:09:26film is forever.

00:09:27Forever.

00:09:28And he's still sleeping.

00:09:31Why are they doing this?

00:09:34I remember that girl there on the right.

00:09:36She played that.

00:09:37What was the one guy she played?

00:09:40Oh, she played Ross Perot.

00:09:42Yes.

00:09:43So good.

00:09:44I remember that.

00:09:47Uh-oh.

00:09:48He's going bananas.

00:09:49Yep.

00:09:50Oh, look at the monkeys.

00:09:53Oh my God.

00:09:54He's lost it.

00:09:56Dude.

00:09:57Just whooped him up with Billy the Bass.

00:10:01I like how they don't even bother

00:10:02to get connecting hits.

00:10:04Just like, all right,

00:10:05sound effect to cover it up.

00:10:07You know what's funny about this?

00:10:08Like you see him doing all these gags

00:10:10and these bits and it's like,

00:10:12man,

00:10:13he would crush it in a full length film.

00:10:16No?

00:10:17Exactly.

00:10:18And I think at the time period,

00:10:20I think even as a kid,

00:10:21I was like,

00:10:22this seems weird.

00:10:23He's not like in one of these films

00:10:25that Nickelodeon put out.

00:10:26He's like in five minutes overall

00:10:28of the Good Burger movie as Fizz.

00:10:30Yeah.

00:10:32But even then,

00:10:33why does Fizz not have a bigger role?

00:10:38And that's him present day.

00:10:41That's how the kids view him

00:10:43as a 38 year old.

00:10:46It's so crazy

00:10:47because the newer generation of all that,

00:10:51it's like, oh, you're a legend.

00:10:52You're this, you're that.

00:10:53It's like, well, yeah,

00:10:55but they're also just like our age,

00:10:57maybe a little bit older.

00:10:59It's just weird.

00:11:00Wow.

00:11:01What was it like back in the day?

00:11:02Back in the day,

00:11:03I thought that was Wednesday.

00:11:04No, right?

00:11:05That was 1995.

00:11:06The 90s were 10 years ago.

00:11:08Want to redo the math?

00:11:09No, I would not like to redo the math.

00:11:11Nope.

00:11:12I hate math.

00:11:13Matter of fact,

00:11:14as a matter of fact,

00:11:15it's still 2005

00:11:16and I am going to bump

00:11:18my Sean Paul music right now.

00:11:20Yep.

00:11:21Oh, that grandpa stuff.

00:11:23You listen here,

00:11:24you little son of a...

00:11:27We listen to Big Shaq.

00:11:28Yeah, I listen to Shaq Diesel too.

00:11:30Nope.

00:11:31That's not the Shaq I'm talking about.

00:11:33You're just making me angry right now.

00:11:36That's all that's happening.

00:11:39So,

00:11:40when you looked at Josh Server,

00:11:43what comedian did you say

00:11:44he reminded you of?

00:11:46Just like a younger Jim Carrey.

00:11:48He was just super energetic,

00:11:50physical humor,

00:11:52the rolling around on the ground,

00:11:54the funny facial expressions,

00:11:56just, yeah,

00:11:57just that kind of

00:11:58over-the-top Jim Carrey stuff.

00:12:00Do you think you were alone

00:12:01in that thought?

00:12:02Maybe not.

00:12:03What about this post

00:12:04that I found on a website?

00:12:06On Thursday, September 15, 2011,

00:12:09somebody on this blog posted,

00:12:11Josh Server should

00:12:13have been the next Jim Carrey.

00:12:15So clearly I'm not alone in this.

00:12:18You've compared Jim Carrey

00:12:19to Josh Server to me before.

00:12:21But we're here to find out why.

00:12:24Why?

00:12:25Why?

00:12:27Why?

00:12:28Very simple answer.

00:12:30The clues were always there.

00:12:32He just admits that he was

00:12:33stealing from Jim Carrey

00:12:35and that everything he was doing

00:12:36was influenced by Jim Carrey

00:12:38at the time.

00:12:39No, he did not.

00:12:41I guess just steal from the best.

00:12:43Like, I pulled some clips, too,

00:12:45where you watch the reactions

00:12:47and some of the things

00:12:48that he's doing.

00:12:49You're just like,

00:12:50yeah, that's Jim Carrey.

00:12:51Oh, yeah.

00:12:52Oh, Milkman.

00:12:54Oh, that was just basically

00:12:55me stealing Jim Carrey stuff

00:12:57for two years.

00:12:58That's correct.

00:12:59So this was basically

00:13:00just me doing Jim Carrey.

00:13:01There it is.

00:13:02The Milkman.

00:13:04I feel like the whole first season

00:13:05I was just doing

00:13:06a bad Jim Carrey impression

00:13:08before I figured out

00:13:09that I was funny.

00:13:10No, you were inspired.

00:13:11Don't say you were stealing.

00:13:13That's a legal gray area.

00:13:17You've got to think,

00:13:18when I was that young,

00:13:19I didn't put two and two together.

00:13:21He was ripping off

00:13:22quote unquote Jim Carrey.

00:13:24But to me,

00:13:26this is funny as well.

00:13:28Oh, there you go.

00:13:30Perhaps you're the burglar.

00:13:32But I'm kind of like

00:13:33the Jim Carrey-ish guy

00:13:35from all that.

00:13:37He literally did.

00:13:38Liu Sahar.

00:13:40I don't know what he's going to say.

00:13:42You can't defend that.

00:13:45Can we finish the sketch, please?

00:13:49All right, now we're just

00:13:50going to put this bib on

00:13:51so you don't get a shirt off.

00:13:53Yeah, the big facial.

00:13:56I was just changing my car oil

00:13:58and I rolled around in the mud.

00:14:00Open up!

00:14:01I probably stole all his material

00:14:03for the first three or four years,

00:14:05not all that.

00:14:06I think the entire Milkman character

00:14:08was based on just being like

00:14:10and acting like Jim Carrey.

00:14:11Come and get me, you big chicken.

00:14:13I'll be waiting.

00:14:14See you later, Superdude.

00:14:15I've got to go make some more funny milk.

00:14:19Later.

00:14:22How did they not make

00:14:23a Superdude movie?

00:14:24I know!

00:14:25I mean, they made a Cable Guy movie

00:14:27Why didn't he get one?

00:14:33I remember this.

00:14:40You know how like Chris Farley

00:14:41shows up on an episode of All That

00:14:44and he's like cooking with Keaton

00:14:46for the chocolate segment?

00:14:48That's right.

00:14:53I'm really surprised

00:14:54that there wasn't one time

00:14:56where like Jim Carrey comes in

00:14:58and plays his dad.

00:15:00Right, or plays, yeah,

00:15:02like a bigger ear man.

00:15:05You know what I mean?

00:15:06Like you couldn't see a time where

00:15:09alright, maybe they have to promote

00:15:10Ace Ventura 2.

00:15:11Well, you want to go on Nickelodeon

00:15:13and talk to the kids?

00:15:14Well, he already does it

00:15:15for like a Kids' Choice Awards.

00:15:16Why wouldn't he just show up

00:15:18on this show too?

00:15:19I've decided to adopt

00:15:20each and every one of you

00:15:21as my own children!

00:15:23They'd probably give Jim Carrey

00:15:24full reign.

00:15:25The crazy thing about

00:15:26some of those clips

00:15:27that you just showed us

00:15:29is well, yeah,

00:15:31it makes perfect sense now

00:15:32that I would always,

00:15:33like he was a kid's Jim Carrey

00:15:35because one, he admits

00:15:36that he was ripping him off

00:15:38and two, the footage you just played

00:15:41admits that he was just ripping him off

00:15:44from what we saw and heard.

00:15:46But again, when I'm young,

00:15:47I can't put those two things together

00:15:49so I don't know,

00:15:51but dude, you're opening

00:15:52my freaking eyes today, Joe.

00:15:54You know, Josh Server

00:15:55does his comedy.

00:15:56His goes,

00:15:57dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun.

00:15:58But Jim Carrey's goes,

00:15:59dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun.

00:16:02It's not the same.

00:16:03It's that little bitty,

00:16:04yeah, the tin, yeah.

00:16:12That's the way theirs goes.

00:16:13Ours goes,

00:16:14dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun.

00:16:17So, one of the major characters

00:16:19that Josh Server had

00:16:20was Ear Boy.

00:16:22And what was Ear Boy's

00:16:23biggest quality?

00:16:25He could hear well.

00:16:27Well, when you have ears like this,

00:16:29it's hard not to.

00:16:30How could you not, right?

00:16:32Walter Ear Boy

00:16:34His ears are really big

00:16:36Hiya, girls.

00:16:37What's up?

00:16:38Really big.

00:16:42That's how distant ducks.

00:16:43Ew.

00:16:44They just walk away from him.

00:16:46With swag like that,

00:16:47how could they do that?

00:16:49For Walter with huge ears here.

00:16:53There you go.

00:16:54There's the Ross Perot.

00:16:57Oh, God.

00:16:58Ew.

00:17:06Oh, my goodness.

00:17:08Dude, Ear Boy was great.

00:17:10I don't necessarily remember

00:17:12his voice or anything,

00:17:13but I remember Ear Boy

00:17:15and Pizza Face

00:17:16and when they would always

00:17:17be together, right?

00:17:19You know, sometimes

00:17:20you feel like an outcast

00:17:21from society

00:17:22and you think, you know,

00:17:24there's something wrong

00:17:25with my looks

00:17:26and that was what they

00:17:27were playing on.

00:17:28Acne?

00:17:29Well, that's a Pizza Face.

00:17:30Yeah.

00:17:31Some sort of weird...

00:17:33I don't know.

00:17:34If you've got big ears,

00:17:35well, this guy's ears

00:17:36are absurdly huge.

00:17:37And they're just outcasts.

00:17:39Yeah.

00:17:40As great as Ear Boy was,

00:17:42he wasn't the big one.

00:17:43He wasn't the main attraction.

00:17:45We all came to see

00:17:46Detective Dan.

00:17:47Do you really think

00:17:48I pulled Detective Dan clips?

00:17:50I would hope so

00:17:51for a Josh Server episode,

00:17:52damn it.

00:17:53Well, the reason we all thought

00:17:55that Josh Server

00:17:56was the funniest thing

00:17:57in the world

00:17:58was Detective Dan.

00:17:59I remember being

00:18:00on the playground

00:18:01and everybody,

00:18:02to be funny,

00:18:03because they thought

00:18:04repeating lines

00:18:05is how you do comedy,

00:18:06would do a,

00:18:07I'm Detective Dan.

00:18:11And, you know,

00:18:13even then,

00:18:14you have some of the stuff

00:18:15go over your head.

00:18:16So, I don't realize,

00:18:17he's like a Columbo parody

00:18:20Is he?

00:18:21Detective Dan is a,

00:18:22he was a spoof,

00:18:23originally,

00:18:24of kind of like a Dick Tracy.

00:18:26And then I kind of put

00:18:27this like Columbo,

00:18:28you know, like Columbo,

00:18:29that like,

00:18:30you know,

00:18:31he had that like eye

00:18:32and he was always

00:18:33not doing well.

00:18:34He is.

00:18:35He's got the same kind of

00:18:36unkempt French coat.

00:18:38Now,

00:18:39he's not like

00:18:40directly Columbo,

00:18:42but he has that same sort of

00:18:43absent-minded,

00:18:44let me just ask you

00:18:45one more thing.

00:18:46And instead of

00:18:47playing dumb

00:18:48to outsmart the criminal,

00:18:49he's just dumb.

00:18:51So he's more

00:18:52Jim Carrey playing Columbo.

00:18:55Wow.

00:18:56No wonder I was so

00:18:57into the sketch.

00:18:58Right?

00:18:59I will do

00:19:00Detective Dan,

00:19:02fan favorite,

00:19:03love Detective Dan.

00:19:04Yup.

00:19:05I'm Detective Dan.

00:19:07I'm a big fan.

00:19:08I'm Detective Dan.

00:19:11Did he ever solve anything?

00:19:12Did someone call

00:19:13for a detective?

00:19:14No.

00:19:15He got other people arrested.

00:19:17The people who called

00:19:18for help got arrested.

00:19:19Detective Dan,

00:19:20thank heaven you're here.

00:19:21I'm Detective Dan.

00:19:23There's no need to worry, ma'am.

00:19:25Detective Dan is on the case.

00:19:29My hat.

00:19:30Someone's stolen my hat.

00:19:32Yeah, where's your hat?

00:19:34Oh, yeah?

00:19:36Well, if that's really you

00:19:38up in that painting,

00:19:39then what are you

00:19:41doing down here?

00:19:44Yeah.

00:19:45Huh?

00:19:46Yeah.

00:19:47Detective Dan

00:19:48solved nothing.

00:19:49There was no.

00:19:50It was like every other

00:19:51sketch and all that,

00:19:52like Repairman,

00:19:54man, man, man.

00:19:55I love Repairman.

00:19:58None of those people

00:19:59actually did their job

00:20:01properly.

00:20:02He didn't repair

00:20:03a single thing.

00:20:04No.

00:20:05Detective Dan didn't

00:20:06solve any mysteries.

00:20:07Repairman didn't

00:20:08repair anything.

00:20:11Walter the Ear Boy

00:20:12never got any respect.

00:20:13Ross Perot's schemes

00:20:15never worked.

00:20:16All that vital information

00:20:18was not vital or information.

00:20:21No.

00:20:22And Principal Pimpel

00:20:25wasn't ever respected

00:20:26as an authority figure.

00:20:29Oh, man, you're bringing

00:20:30me way back.

00:20:31I've forgotten about

00:20:32a lot of this stuff

00:20:33until just now.

00:20:34This is great.

00:20:35Now, the earlier seasons

00:20:36that people talk about

00:20:37of all that were like

00:20:39very almost adult

00:20:41influenced.

00:20:42They let the kids

00:20:43have their own lines.

00:20:44People in charge

00:20:45must have been

00:20:46very hands off.

00:20:47People point out that

00:20:48the musical acts

00:20:49of that time,

00:20:50they were really

00:20:51hip-hop heavy.

00:20:53They really were.

00:20:55It was like,

00:20:56we're going to see

00:20:57LL Cool J or Naughty by Nature

00:20:58or like Rock Him

00:21:00or something like that.

00:21:01And you're like,

00:21:02wait, what?

00:21:03Yeah, and I definitely

00:21:04remember a special

00:21:06live performance

00:21:07by TLC.

00:21:09Yeah, like those

00:21:10kind of groups, man.

00:21:11Well, it'd be like

00:21:12the most hardcore

00:21:13kind of hip-hop.

00:21:14Well, not hardcore,

00:21:15hardcore,

00:21:16but just like,

00:21:17really?

00:21:18That's the musical act

00:21:19on a kid's show?

00:21:21Yeah, like definitely

00:21:22not kids,

00:21:23like super kid friendly.

00:21:24Oh, you know

00:21:25what the kids love?

00:21:26Tribe Called Quest.

00:21:27Yeah.

00:21:28I mean,

00:21:29I think they actually do.

00:21:30That's actually

00:21:31being more in touch

00:21:32with what kids

00:21:33were sneaking off

00:21:34to listen to.

00:21:35You know what?

00:21:36Kids, don't go chasing

00:21:37waterfalls.

00:21:38Here's TLC.

00:21:40What are they going to do?

00:21:41What are they going to do?

00:21:42Shoop?

00:21:43What's that about?

00:21:44It's better you don't know.

00:21:45They're going to

00:21:46talk about sex.

00:21:47Oh.

00:21:48Whoa, wait a minute now.

00:21:50We're going to have Ice Cube on.

00:21:52Whoa, hold on now.

00:21:54No, Vaseline.

00:21:56Oh, I don't want to know

00:21:58what PRS car goes into.

00:22:00They were sneaking in

00:22:02jokes that,

00:22:03well, like Columbo

00:22:05parodies,

00:22:06and the OJ tribe

00:22:08the OJ trial?

00:22:10No.

00:22:12They wouldn't dare.

00:22:18Channel 106 B News.

00:22:28If the milk fits,

00:22:30you must acquit.

00:22:31Yep.

00:22:32Nice.

00:22:33I like that they're just like,

00:22:34yeah, we're going there.

00:22:35This is exactly a

00:22:37shot-for-shot parody

00:22:39of the verdict of OJ Simpson.

00:22:41That is so interesting

00:22:42that they would do that.

00:22:44Nowadays, it's like,

00:22:45no, we're not doing that.

00:22:46This is a kid's show.

00:22:47I mean, you would get called out

00:22:49by anybody in the world

00:22:50that has a

00:22:51Twitter account.

00:22:52Back then, it was more,

00:22:53are they really going to go

00:22:55through the trouble

00:22:56to write a letter

00:22:57to Nickelodeon, you know?

00:22:58Yeah, and then it's only like,

00:23:00well, the adult in the room

00:23:01will know what they're parodying,

00:23:02and they'll probably appreciate it

00:23:03because they're so burnt out

00:23:05on the other shows on the network

00:23:06that are just so far removed

00:23:08from what they're into

00:23:09that when they see

00:23:10a kind of a clever parody,

00:23:12they'll be like,

00:23:13you know, all that

00:23:14is actually kind of funny.

00:23:16All that kind of is all that.

00:23:18Like, you ever have that thing

00:23:19where your mom or dad

00:23:22or an uncle or somebody else,

00:23:23an older person will be like,

00:23:24yeah, I used to watch

00:23:25that show with you,

00:23:26and, you know,

00:23:27that was really good.

00:23:29Really?

00:23:30You actually liked watching

00:23:31that with me?

00:23:32What?

00:23:33Yeah.

00:23:34That's what this show was.

00:23:35So the other characters

00:23:36Josh Server had,

00:23:37you know,

00:23:38they're just as memorable.

00:23:39Maybe not as memorable

00:23:40as Detective Dan,

00:23:41but come on.

00:23:42These are just as good.

00:23:43Now, I look at acting

00:23:45as far more than just stuff.

00:23:47It's a craft,

00:23:48a discipline to be mastered.

00:23:50Wow.

00:23:51A true professional.

00:23:52So what you're telling me

00:23:53is that you're a vampire.

00:23:54Wait, was this on the show

00:23:55or was that like a real interview?

00:23:57It's a real interview.

00:23:58You always say,

00:23:59okay, do it the first pass.

00:24:00That's a good

00:24:01Jack Nicholson impression.

00:24:02Wait, what was the name

00:24:03of that host?

00:24:05Oh, that's Summer Sanders.

00:24:06I freaking knew it.

00:24:08Former Olympic swimmer.

00:24:10That's cool.

00:24:16See, the reason you think

00:24:17he could be on an SNL

00:24:20is look at how he inhabits

00:24:21these characters

00:24:22that he was playing.

00:24:23Right.

00:24:35Yeah.

00:24:36Oh, he's gonna get canceled.

00:24:41Aw, dude, that's great stuff.

00:24:43Come on.

00:24:46So that's what I loved

00:24:47about Nickelodeon.

00:24:48They just have segments

00:24:49where it's like,

00:24:50oh, this guy's just milking a cow.

00:24:51That's what he's into.

00:24:52Yeah, like after the shoot,

00:24:54he's just hanging out

00:24:55in the studio milking a cow.

00:24:57And then you'd like

00:24:58watch it from home

00:24:59and you wouldn't get

00:25:00that it's absurdity.

00:25:01See, but I guess like

00:25:03he's so, he's so out there.

00:25:04I want to hang with that guy.

00:25:06He does this stuff

00:25:07and I want to hang with a guy

00:25:09who just randomly is milking a cow.

00:25:11Yeah.

00:25:14Oh, here we go.

00:25:18You said you wanted it.

00:25:27What was this character's name?

00:25:29So this was his

00:25:30Tony Little parody

00:25:31of like the gazelle freestyle.

00:25:36Right.

00:25:37See, to me, it was like

00:25:38Ben Stiller in heavyweights

00:25:40kind of thing.

00:25:41Yes.

00:25:43Which would probably be

00:25:44a direct correlation

00:25:45with Kenan being in heavyweights.

00:25:47Yeah.

00:25:49Look at that hair, dude.

00:25:55What?

00:25:57Oh, man.

00:25:59And then there are certain

00:26:00Nickelodeon tropes

00:26:01that were around.

00:26:02Like, you notice

00:26:03how half the time

00:26:04all their sketches,

00:26:05as they pointed out,

00:26:06ended with somebody

00:26:07crashing through something.

00:26:09Always, always.

00:26:11The other thing

00:26:12I noticed with Josh Service,

00:26:13he had a few tropes of his own.

00:26:15Like a lot of times

00:26:17for some reason,

00:26:18his characters would end up

00:26:20electrocuted.

00:26:22What?

00:26:24All right, I need to see this now.

00:26:26Here we go.

00:26:28All right.

00:26:31Who's this little girl with him?

00:26:33I don't know,

00:26:34but she came prepared.

00:26:35Oh, God.

00:26:39I'm alive.

00:26:42You know,

00:26:43I kind of want to write

00:26:44just a nice Nickelodeon sketch

00:26:45where it's like,

00:26:46how do I end it?

00:26:47I'm going to electrocute you.

00:26:49He's going to get electrocuted.

00:26:50I'm going to electrocute you.

00:26:51I'm going to electrocute you.

00:26:52He's going to get electrocuted,

00:26:54and then he's going to faint

00:26:55and fall through a table.

00:26:56And then the other thing

00:26:58with Josh Server,

00:26:59and it's a little weird now

00:27:00looking back at it.

00:27:02Oh, God.

00:27:03Come on.

00:27:04What is it?

00:27:05Well,

00:27:06when you're

00:27:07the same age as them,

00:27:09them doing jokes

00:27:10where suddenly

00:27:11they just rip off their clothes,

00:27:12it's funny, right?

00:27:13But if you're going back

00:27:14and watching that,

00:27:15like your favorite story

00:27:17of me trying to work out

00:27:18and watch The Shield at the gym

00:27:20and being like,

00:27:21what's on my screen?

00:27:22Well,

00:27:23you kind of have this going on

00:27:24because,

00:27:25all right,

00:27:26now I'm just watching a show

00:27:27where a 15-year-old boy

00:27:28rips off his clothes

00:27:29in the name of comedy.

00:27:30Right.

00:27:31And you're like,

00:27:32it's of its time period.

00:27:34Right.

00:27:36Did you ever get embarrassed

00:27:37working on any scenes?

00:27:39Pretty much all of them

00:27:40consistently forever.

00:27:41Yeah, I mean,

00:27:42they were all pretty much

00:27:43to embarrass us, right?

00:27:45Because, you know,

00:27:46sketch comedy is so silly.

00:27:48Well, that was the thing

00:27:49is he was never afraid

00:27:50to go over the top

00:27:51and make a fool of himself.

00:27:52And I think that's why he

00:27:54resonated with so many of us,

00:27:58right?

00:27:59Right.

00:28:03You know how you say

00:28:04you want to be a child star?

00:28:06This is what you'd be living like.

00:28:08You'd be like,

00:28:09oh, dude, I wish.

00:28:10You're all into me.

00:28:11Whatever I do,

00:28:12I'm cool to all these girls.

00:28:14Yeah.

00:28:16Dan,

00:28:17put it back on.

00:28:18I'm touching Sarah's face.

00:28:19She might get the chicken pox.

00:28:21She might not.

00:28:22Chances are she will.

00:28:24When did you last have your underwear?

00:28:25Can you tell me what happened

00:28:26to that girl?

00:28:28Some of them just disappear.

00:28:30Yeah.

00:28:31Actually, you should see

00:28:32the pictures of her now.

00:28:33Don't tell me how to detect him.

00:28:34What the fuck?

00:28:36Where is that?

00:28:38Dude, you could not watch this

00:28:39back at the gym

00:28:40while you're doing cardio.

00:28:41No.

00:28:42They'd be like,

00:28:43you need to leave, pervert.

00:28:45I'm a snowman.

00:28:46It's true.

00:28:47I make men out of snow.

00:28:48So?

00:28:50As you can see,

00:28:51he's not wearing any pants.

00:28:53He's got double boxers on, though.

00:28:55Thank goodness.

00:28:59Hey.

00:29:00You and your drawers, dude.

00:29:02Hey, at least whoever booked the show

00:29:04made sure there's no slit in the front.

00:29:07There's no chance of anything

00:29:08leaving the barnyard.

00:29:10He wasn't afraid to be a fool, man.

00:29:12You gotta respect that.

00:29:14So what, besides the cast members

00:29:16and the sketches,

00:29:17who do you remember the most from all that?

00:29:19I almost said Coolio,

00:29:21but I remember him from Keenan & Kel,

00:29:23the theme song.

00:29:24It starts with C-O.

00:29:26Really?

00:29:27It's a big item.

00:29:30Like it's food.

00:29:31A cow?

00:29:32It's a big piece of food.

00:29:33Corn?

00:29:34The big ear of corn.

00:29:37Wait, why is that a thing?

00:29:39I thought he was just using that

00:29:40to cover himself up.

00:29:41Because the big ear of corn

00:29:43was the big thing from all that.

00:29:45Everybody loved the big ear of corn.

00:29:46The big ear of corn was a celebrity.

00:29:48I don't remember that from the show at all.

00:29:51Maybe you will

00:29:52when I play some of these clips.

00:29:54Here we go.

00:29:55Fire him up.

00:29:57It's the big ear of corn.

00:29:58So what was wrong with the corn?

00:30:00Nothing. It turns out that the big ear of corn

00:30:02wasn't even sick at all.

00:30:03Katrina.

00:30:04Really?

00:30:05Oh.

00:30:06Prepare to have your mind blown.

00:30:07The big ear of corn was a girl

00:30:09all along.

00:30:10Oh, come on.

00:30:13Look at all the baby corns.

00:30:16That was like a real gag on the show.

00:30:18Could you imagine the person

00:30:19who owns all those crops?

00:30:21So after a while,

00:30:22I just went to the doctor

00:30:23and had it removed.

00:30:24How many of those did they sell?

00:30:26What's going on?

00:30:27Wait, does he just have like a bar

00:30:28drinking with a big thing of corn?

00:30:30Man, he has some good times.

00:30:31Yeah, he got a lot of the big ear of corn.

00:30:33Oh, I do.

00:30:34I mean, his friend.

00:30:35Wait a minute.

00:30:36Is Josh the father

00:30:37of all those little corns?

00:30:39Oh, no.

00:30:40Don't say that.

00:30:41That last clip was from

00:30:43all that anniversary special.

00:30:45It was like the 100th episode

00:30:47cast reunion of all the old cast.

00:30:50Really?

00:30:51And then the season 7, season 8,

00:30:52season 9 cast.

00:30:54So they're like,

00:30:55oh, look at this old man, Josh Server,

00:30:57who's probably like 23 in that clip.

00:31:00Yeah, but he just looks so out of place

00:31:02because these are all kid actors

00:31:05and he's, at that point,

00:31:06a grown-ass man.

00:31:07You know what I mean?

00:31:08Right.

00:31:09And it's like,

00:31:10well, you don't see

00:31:11Kenan in that party.

00:31:12Actually, Kenan does show up

00:31:14to be Pierre Escargot

00:31:15in one of the sketches.

00:31:16He better.

00:31:17But at that point,

00:31:18you're like,

00:31:19well, he's already kind of moved on

00:31:20and he's doing us a favor

00:31:21by showing up.

00:31:22Josh was kind of like,

00:31:23oh, he's just still here.

00:31:25Yeah, it was almost like

00:31:27he needs the work.

00:31:29Like, you just actually

00:31:32brought up something cool.

00:31:34You mentioned him and Kenan, right?

00:31:36Mm-hmm.

00:31:37So let's not even talk about

00:31:38how long Kenan's been on SNL.

00:31:41Let's just talk about

00:31:42things that he's been doing

00:31:43as a child actor.

00:31:45Kenan went on to do Mighty Ducks,

00:31:48which was huge.

00:31:50Mm-hmm.

00:31:52And it's like,

00:31:53where were those roles

00:31:55for Josh Server?

00:31:56Why wasn't he landing those roles

00:31:59when he was that young?

00:32:00I don't understand.

00:32:02Like, why was it only all that?

00:32:04You know,

00:32:05it's almost like

00:32:06you look at some of these ones

00:32:07and you're like,

00:32:08well, if he failed a couple times,

00:32:09I could see them being like,

00:32:10all right,

00:32:11maybe this just isn't

00:32:12the road to go down.

00:32:13But there's not even

00:32:14that, like, failure either.

00:32:16It's just sort of a done.

00:32:17No, there was no chance.

00:32:18Yeah.

00:32:19Because Kenan is like,

00:32:20all right, we give him,

00:32:22him and Kel

00:32:23are gonna do Good Burger now

00:32:24and the Kenan and Kel show

00:32:25and then, you know,

00:32:27all right, now they've graduated

00:32:28and they gotta try to float

00:32:30and succeed on their own

00:32:31and then Kenan gets SNL

00:32:33and then that's where him and Kel

00:32:34start having separate careers.

00:32:36Yep.

00:32:37And then you start seeing,

00:32:38all right, well, Kel's doing

00:32:39B movies and things like Ganked

00:32:42and the Kel Mitchell show

00:32:45where he does a bunch

00:32:46of sketch comedy songs.

00:32:48But there's nothing

00:32:49like that for Josh.

00:32:51No, it's so weird, dude.

00:32:53It really is.

00:32:54Like, you think of all the, like,

00:32:56all right, so, I mean,

00:32:58we gotta call all that what it is.

00:33:00It's like a kid's version of SNL.

00:33:02So a lot of those, like,

00:33:04characters on SNL

00:33:05that got really over

00:33:07got their own films.

00:33:08Yes.

00:33:09And you look at all that,

00:33:10Kenan and Kel got their own film

00:33:12for Good Burger.

00:33:15But where in the world

00:33:16were those roles in those films

00:33:17for Josh Server?

00:33:19I don't understand why.

00:33:21This is crazy.

00:33:22When they're making Harriet the Spy,

00:33:24they could go to Detective Dan.

00:33:25Exactly, Harriet the Spy.

00:33:26Detective Dan the movie.

00:33:28Right, immediately after.

00:33:30Just drop it the next year.

00:33:32Like, come on.

00:33:33I would have loved

00:33:34a Detective Dan film.

00:33:36I'm pissed now.

00:33:37Now, we keep mentioning

00:33:38Kenan and Kel as the examples

00:33:40because, well,

00:33:41they were the boys club.

00:33:43They were the boys club

00:33:44of Nickelodeon at that time.

00:33:46But would you say

00:33:47the biggest star to come out

00:33:48of all that was Amanda Bynes?

00:33:50For a while, yes.

00:33:52Right.

00:33:53But when she had

00:33:54her career meltdown,

00:33:56it's gotta be Kenan

00:33:57for his longevity.

00:33:58Right.

00:33:59But, I mean, think.

00:34:00SNL was never,

00:34:02was it ever really supposed

00:34:03to be something

00:34:04that you would stay on forever?

00:34:06Or was that supposed

00:34:07to be your catapult

00:34:08to a film career?

00:34:10Most people say, like,

00:34:12you gotta do five to seven

00:34:14and then you're hanging around

00:34:15too long after.

00:34:16So Kenan's definitely

00:34:17staying around too long.

00:34:18Yeah, he's coming up on 20,

00:34:20but you have to think

00:34:21he's already done TV before SNL.

00:34:24He's already done films

00:34:25before SNL.

00:34:27So it's like,

00:34:28who's to say he needs SNL

00:34:30to catapult him to movies

00:34:31when he's already done

00:34:32successful movies

00:34:33with Disney and Nickelodeon?

00:34:35As a kid.

00:34:36He was Fat Albert.

00:34:38Okay, yep, exactly.

00:34:40We grew up, like,

00:34:41basically brothers and sisters

00:34:43because there's nobody else

00:34:44to really hang out with.

00:34:45So we were kind of forced

00:34:46to hang out with one another.

00:34:47You're making me think a lot.

00:34:49More than I anticipated

00:34:50thinking today.

00:34:54See what I see?

00:34:56I see it.

00:34:57What is it?

00:34:58Oh no.

00:34:59They just have this

00:35:00kind of chemistry together.

00:35:02No, a popcorn shark.

00:35:04Yeah, a popcorn shark.

00:35:12Yeah, more like that.

00:35:17So does anybody

00:35:18just have access to him now?

00:35:20Is that what this is?

00:35:23Because he seems to be doing

00:35:24like real low budget webcasts

00:35:26and podcasts.

00:35:35Like, do you remember me?

00:35:37Do you remember me?

00:35:38Alright, I'll do your thing.

00:35:39Now, I mean,

00:35:41transparency,

00:35:42I tried to reach out to him.

00:35:43Didn't hear a damn thing.

00:35:44So we're either not big enough

00:35:47or he just doesn't care anymore.

00:35:49Or he's a little bit more famous

00:35:51now that he's on All That again.

00:35:57So how many years

00:35:58in between his last episode

00:36:00on his first All That run

00:36:02and his first episode

00:36:04on his most current All That run?

00:36:08Gotta be 19 to 20 years.

00:36:10Golly, that's so crazy.

00:36:30The appeal of these shows

00:36:31was like you could probably

00:36:33recreate this stuff

00:36:34with your friends

00:36:35if you had super access

00:36:37to the VHS camera.

00:36:41Well, I mean, the thing was

00:36:42is like we were doing a lot of

00:36:45silly stuff like this

00:36:46even without the camera.

00:36:50And it was because

00:36:51we were influenced by these guys

00:36:53because they could do it

00:36:54and we could do it.

00:36:55Yeah.

00:36:57Look, that's him as a woman.

00:37:02No reason.

00:37:05Look at the hair.

00:37:07Dude, I gotta say,

00:37:09it's a soft spot for me

00:37:10when he does the old man.

00:37:12He has Terry Bradshaw's hairline.

00:37:15Yeah, or Holland.

00:37:20What?

00:37:21He just went off.

00:37:25You know, I kind of want to be

00:37:26Josh Server's agent

00:37:27to tell him to get on TikTok

00:37:28because I feel like

00:37:29he would crush it.

00:37:30Come on!

00:37:31With all the different characters

00:37:32and skits?

00:37:33Like, you just showed me

00:37:34Jason Marsden on TikTok.

00:37:36Yeah.

00:37:37And he's crushing it.

00:37:38And it's like...

00:37:39It's funny.

00:37:40Yeah, and it's like,

00:37:41well, Jason Marsden

00:37:42kind of falls into the same realm

00:37:43as your Josh Server

00:37:44where, all right,

00:37:45you get the initial people

00:37:46who know you,

00:37:47who'd follow you like us,

00:37:48and we'd find you first,

00:37:50and then suddenly people

00:37:51would be like,

00:37:52wait, this guy's really funny.

00:37:53Oh, yeah,

00:37:54because he's got

00:37:55the comedy background,

00:37:56obviously.

00:37:57So these people

00:37:58were just all over Nickelodeon,

00:37:59which is why I always thought

00:38:00they were more famous

00:38:01than they were

00:38:02because you work for Nickelodeon,

00:38:03you're doing

00:38:04all kinds of promotion

00:38:05for Nickelodeon.

00:38:06So that was always fun.

00:38:07They kept us busy

00:38:08doing a lot of stuff

00:38:09other than that.

00:38:10You know, Good Burger

00:38:11and things like that.

00:38:12Is that Wade Robinson?

00:38:15Yup.

00:38:16It's gotta be.

00:38:21Teaching him how to dance.

00:38:22Look at that ridiculous hat.

00:38:23That is great.

00:38:24In Orlando,

00:38:25and then we moved the show to L.A.

00:38:26Dude, he's hanging out

00:38:27with Nick Lachey.

00:38:28We talk a lot on set.

00:38:29Right?

00:38:30Nickelodeon is proud

00:38:31to present

00:38:32A Better World.

00:38:34Hey, you want to

00:38:35save the planet?

00:38:36Well, who's the best option?

00:38:37Well, we could get

00:38:38Captain Planet,

00:38:39but he's lame.

00:38:40So let's get Josh Terver.

00:38:41You're not the only one.

00:38:42Looks like big helpers

00:38:43all over have been

00:38:44busy greenifying.

00:38:45Such a little

00:38:46Amanda Fines there.

00:38:47It's crazy to me.

00:38:48Looking back at this stuff.

00:38:49Let's count how many trees

00:38:50the kids have planted.

00:38:51Would you wear

00:38:52those green leggings?

00:38:53Okay.

00:38:541,000, 5,000, 9,300.

00:38:55Uh huh.

00:38:56Big help.

00:38:58Get lost, guy.

00:39:01So then also,

00:39:02you have them at

00:39:04the Kids' Choice Awards,

00:39:05where kids make the picks.

00:39:11Of course, right?

00:39:13And you know,

00:39:14they were just raking in

00:39:15the awards, right?

00:39:18So who is that

00:39:19talking right now?

00:39:20The girl?

00:39:21Alicia Reyes.

00:39:22Why don't I remember her at all?

00:39:25Because she was on

00:39:26the first two seasons

00:39:27of all that.

00:39:28And then for some reason,

00:39:29she was gone.

00:39:31What?

00:39:32Why?

00:39:33Oh, you do, do you?

00:39:34I think they age out.

00:39:35They're no longer

00:39:36that important.

00:39:37But she stuck around

00:39:38and she was like

00:39:39doing a show

00:39:40for Playboy.

00:39:41And she's actually

00:39:42pretty hot.

00:39:44Yikes.

00:39:46I actually asked

00:39:47a question to her

00:39:48while I was

00:39:49pulling these episodes.

00:39:50Because in season 4 or 5,

00:39:51there's this cast member

00:39:52who shows up for like

00:39:53three or four episodes

00:39:54I've never seen before.

00:39:55I'm looking through the credits.

00:39:56Who is this girl?

00:39:57I asked her.

00:39:58And she replied

00:39:59and gave me my answer.

00:40:01Nice.

00:40:02So I was like, thanks.

00:40:03Thanks for helping me out.

00:40:04Alicia Reyes.

00:40:15Dude, that's the OG crew

00:40:16right there.

00:40:17That's what I'll always

00:40:18remember.

00:40:19I love it.

00:40:26Who's enjoying

00:40:27this 100th episode?

00:40:28Dude, of course

00:40:29you would drop it.

00:40:31Now was All That

00:40:32always done

00:40:33in front of

00:40:34a live crowd?

00:40:35Yes.

00:40:36A lot of work goes into

00:40:37making an episode of All That.

00:40:38I love that.

00:40:39It's very impressive

00:40:40when they're able to do this

00:40:41in front of a live audience

00:40:42that they're kids.

00:40:43So they have even worse

00:40:44attention spans than adults.

00:40:46Yep.

00:40:47And they're probably just like

00:40:48alright, be silly

00:40:49or I'm just gonna start

00:40:50making a lot of noise.

00:40:51But then I bet

00:40:52Nickelodeon security guards

00:40:53are like

00:40:54stop making noise.

00:40:55Tackle them.

00:40:56Get them out of here.

00:40:57Alright, so with

00:40:58Nickelodeon being at

00:41:00Universal, right?

00:41:02Would they just rotate in

00:41:03a new crowd

00:41:04every couple hours

00:41:05to just continuously

00:41:06tape stuff?

00:41:09You know, I'm not sure

00:41:10with this one.

00:41:11I don't think they would

00:41:12only because each week

00:41:14is just one singular episode.

00:41:18So I believe

00:41:20they had like

00:41:21rehearsal day

00:41:23and if I remember

00:41:24the interviews

00:41:25it was like a Thursday

00:41:26or Friday

00:41:27was like one rundown

00:41:28and then Saturday

00:41:29was when they actually

00:41:30would do the show.

00:41:32Ah, okay.

00:41:33Gotcha.

00:41:34Now, the king of Nickelodeon

00:41:36and the guy who made

00:41:37a lot of these hit shows

00:41:38was Dan Schneider.

00:41:40Yeah, I was just gonna say

00:41:41is that him?

00:41:42Yeah.

00:41:43Controversial.

00:41:44Look into it on other channels.

00:41:45This isn't the place

00:41:46to find out more

00:41:47about Dan Schneider.

00:41:48No, it is not.

00:41:50But he's the guy

00:41:51who helped make all that.

00:41:53Then did Kenan and Kel,

00:41:55The Amanda Show,

00:41:56Drake and Josh

00:41:57and every,

00:41:58and iCarly.

00:42:00iCarly, yeah.

00:42:01Victorious,

00:42:02Sam and Cat,

00:42:03Game Shakers.

00:42:05He's crazy, man.

00:42:07He's like the dude

00:42:08and that's him in this clip.

00:42:10And this is just an example

00:42:12that, well,

00:42:13Josh may not have had his show.

00:42:16He was kind of on

00:42:17every Nick show.

00:42:19Yeah, it was like

00:42:20if you're gonna put him

00:42:21on every show,

00:42:22give him his own show.

00:42:23He can handle the workload,

00:42:25clearly.

00:42:26That's a bowl cut

00:42:27of a champion.

00:42:29Look at the middle part, dude.

00:42:31I wish I could get it

00:42:32to split like that.

00:42:34Dad?

00:42:35You know what's funny

00:42:36is that's how all the girls

00:42:37wear their hair

00:42:38down the middle.

00:42:39Oh, I know.

00:42:40Rules.

00:42:41Guilty as charged.

00:42:42How would they feel

00:42:43if you called them

00:42:44the Josh server?

00:42:45Well, I did a bunch of stuff

00:42:46for Nickelodeon.

00:42:47Hello and welcome

00:42:48to Good Burger,

00:42:49may I take your order, miss?

00:42:53Dude, he climbed the crack.

00:42:54We even tested our guts.

00:42:56Dude, no way.

00:42:59Let me see your working papers, Missy.

00:43:00So was it like,

00:43:01did the cast of the show

00:43:02compete on guts?

00:43:04No.

00:43:05Alex Mack.

00:43:06Hey!

00:43:07No, it was a promo.

00:43:08All right, sweetheart.

00:43:09I'm just trying to get,

00:43:10I'm gonna pay for it.

00:43:11I mean, you have access

00:43:12to the sets when you're down

00:43:13at Universal Studios.

00:43:14I'm just trying to do my job.

00:43:15That'll be 60 cents.

00:43:16See, I only had one bite.

00:43:17How about I give you a dime?

00:43:18I remember Alex Mack.

00:43:19That was like, dude,

00:43:20for a while that was

00:43:21a really popular show.

00:43:23Larissa Olnick was huge.

00:43:26I think she's one of those ones

00:43:27when you talk about

00:43:2890s crushes

00:43:29that like,

00:43:30you could pick as,

00:43:32man, that's one too

00:43:33you gotta throw in my top five

00:43:34or top ten.

00:43:35She's in love with another guy.

00:43:38It's so interesting

00:43:39seeing him go from like,

00:43:41the super young looking kid

00:43:43with the big bowl cut

00:43:45to having this kind of

00:43:46shorter hairstyle.

00:43:48And being a little bit older.

00:43:50Little gelled up,

00:43:51little cooler.

00:43:54These kids,

00:43:55they grow up so fast on TV.

00:43:57They do.

00:43:58And that's the thing,

00:43:59it's like, you know,

00:44:00maybe three, four seasons

00:44:02go by and they don't look

00:44:03anything like they did

00:44:04when they started.

00:44:06I mean, that's just, you know.

00:44:07And then you try to go back

00:44:08when you're way older

00:44:09on Ned's Declassified.

00:44:12And Drake and Josh.

00:44:16Relax, you're gonna be great.

00:44:18Can you cover up

00:44:19that pimple on his chin?

00:44:20It's huge.

00:44:22Aw, jeez.

00:44:23Which a lot of people

00:44:24have told me they've seen.

00:44:25Do you want a donut?

00:44:26It's got sprinkles.

00:44:28Um, sure, thanks.

00:44:29Well, that's kind of cool

00:44:30that he would get called back

00:44:31and, you know,

00:44:32just be able to play

00:44:33random characters

00:44:34and make cameos, right?

00:44:36Well, you can trust him

00:44:37because if you're

00:44:38booking these shows,

00:44:39he's like,

00:44:40oh, I know that kid.

00:44:41That kid's really funny.

00:44:42He's so funny.

00:44:43He'll nail this part

00:44:44because he knows my writing.

00:44:46Yeah.

00:44:47And he, yeah,

00:44:48he knows the style.

00:44:50Like if I say,

00:44:52all right, be over the top.

00:44:53This kid's,

00:44:54I mean,

00:44:55if anyone knows,

00:44:56go over the top.

00:44:57Yeah.

00:44:59Now, the one show

00:45:00that you mentioned

00:45:02that you always saw him

00:45:03and Danny Tamburelli on was...

00:45:07Figure It Out.

00:45:10You figured it out.

00:45:12Yeah.

00:45:13Josh Server was,

00:45:14I want to say

00:45:15in 10 to 15 episodes

00:45:16of Figure It Out,

00:45:18which actually

00:45:19was kind of low

00:45:20from my memory.

00:45:21It was like,

00:45:22he was always on.

00:45:23Yeah.

00:45:24It seemed like it,

00:45:25but not as much

00:45:26as I actually thought.

00:45:28But when he was on,

00:45:30he was so over the top

00:45:31and so memorable

00:45:32that, well,

00:45:33yeah,

00:45:34it makes sense

00:45:35that you would just

00:45:36picture him on the panel.

00:45:38It was like the perfect

00:45:39kind of style show for him

00:45:41because it wasn't

00:45:42sitcom style.

00:45:43But when it came time

00:45:44for the camera

00:45:45to be on him,

00:45:46for him to, you know,

00:45:47do his answer,

00:45:48he could just turn it on

00:45:49and just crush it.

00:45:52The thing with Figure It Out

00:45:53is, like,

00:45:54if the kid is kind of a dud

00:45:56or just doesn't have

00:45:57an on-camera personality,

00:45:58it's really up to the panelists

00:46:00to go over the top

00:46:01with their comedy.

00:46:03Yep.

00:46:04And one of my favorite things

00:46:06in another instance of,

00:46:07wow, they'd never get away

00:46:08with asking these questions,

00:46:10is they call and ask the kid

00:46:12if he's a member

00:46:13of the Communist Party.

00:46:16What?

00:46:17So I did a lot of those,

00:46:18a lot of the,

00:46:19a lot of stuff for Nickelodeon

00:46:21that wasn't all that,

00:46:22you know, Figure It Out.

00:46:23From all of that,

00:46:24Josh Serber.

00:46:26What's up?

00:46:27Dude, Figure It Out

00:46:28was great.

00:46:29Good to see ya.

00:46:31Are you or have you

00:46:32ever been a member

00:46:33of the Communist Party?

00:46:34I remember Michael Malley.

00:46:36Michael Malley's asking

00:46:37this kid if she's a communist

00:46:38and the answer to that

00:46:39goes off like,

00:46:40tell me yes.

00:46:41What do you think

00:46:42has ever happened?

00:46:43Oh my goodness.

00:46:44Oh wait, no,

00:46:45that was a no, right?

00:46:46You're not a communist, kid.

00:46:49Are you Little Pete's

00:46:50personal massage therapist?

00:46:53No, I'm sorry, I'm not.

00:46:54No.

00:46:55Okay, here you go.

00:46:56This is how it works,

00:46:57if she gets in a little circle.

00:46:58See, Pete was always on there.

00:46:59He gets drenched.

00:47:00Come on, bring it on!

00:47:01Bring it on!

00:47:06Aw, dude.

00:47:07The secret solution is

00:47:08looking at Josh.

00:47:10That's so mad, dude.

00:47:12Of course it is.

00:47:14Just has to look at him.

00:47:17It's over for him, dude.

00:47:18It's over for him.

00:47:19There it goes.

00:47:22Figure it out was so great, man.

00:47:24I missed that show.

00:47:27I want that sound

00:47:28to be on my shower.

00:47:29Yeah.

00:47:33Wait, who was the bald guy

00:47:34again on his left?

00:47:36On the left there?

00:47:37That was Kevin.

00:47:39Okay.

00:47:40What was he from?

00:47:42He was the stage manager

00:47:43on all that.

00:47:44Right, okay.

00:47:45And they're all getting...

00:47:46Dude, that's why

00:47:47this show was so great.

00:47:48I might have, like,

00:47:49PTSD about that sound.

00:47:51It's...

00:47:52Yeah.

00:47:53Uh-oh.

00:47:54Have you ever actually

00:47:55been slimed?

00:47:56No.

00:47:57So, up at Santa's Village...

00:47:58I've done, like,

00:48:00paint parties and stuff

00:48:01with, like,

00:48:02buckets and buckets of paint,

00:48:04but never, like,

00:48:05the actual slime.

00:48:06Oh, so we had it

00:48:07at Santa's Village.

00:48:09And there was, like,

00:48:10a little side attraction

00:48:11where they did

00:48:12a kind of a figure-it-out

00:48:13type show.

00:48:14Yeah.

00:48:15And at the very end,

00:48:16they wanted audience volunteers.

00:48:17And they picked me

00:48:18to go up and be slimed.

00:48:19And then as I'm up there,

00:48:20they're like,

00:48:21who do you want

00:48:22to have slime you?

00:48:23And I'm like,

00:48:24oh, fine.

00:48:25My sister can slime me.

00:48:26But I point,

00:48:27and my cousin thinks

00:48:28I pointed at him.

00:48:29So he's bolting

00:48:30towards the stage,

00:48:31like, all right,

00:48:32it's me.

00:48:33I get to slime you.

00:48:34And he gets pulled down.

00:48:35And it's like, no,

00:48:36Chrissy gets to slime him.

00:48:37And you see this look

00:48:38at his face like,

00:48:39I am so mad right now.

00:48:40You have ruined

00:48:41the perfect opportunity

00:48:42for me.

00:48:43Yeah.

00:48:44It's, uh,

00:48:45it's like wet goop,

00:48:46basically.

00:48:47Yeah.

00:48:48Like,

00:48:49you ever do those

00:48:50craft projects?

00:48:51Like Gak or something.

00:48:52Like a wetter,

00:48:53kind of more fluid-y Gak.

00:48:55Is it warm

00:48:56or is it cold?

00:48:57It's cold.

00:48:58Okay.

00:48:59It's got a very

00:49:00jello-y texture

00:49:01if it's the same

00:49:02as what they're using there.

00:49:04Ugh.

00:49:05You know what I,

00:49:06you know,

00:49:07there's one clip

00:49:08that I've seen

00:49:09going around TikTok

00:49:10recently,

00:49:11and I have no idea why.

00:49:12It's Katy Perry

00:49:13at a Nickelodeon

00:49:14kids award show.

00:49:16And she opens up the box

00:49:18to get the name

00:49:19of the person who won.

00:49:21And the slime

00:49:22just shoots out

00:49:24and knocks the wig

00:49:25off her head.

00:49:26It's just

00:49:27the funniest thing.

00:49:29Like, man,

00:49:30they packed a punch

00:49:31on that one.

00:49:33You know,

00:49:34it kind of reminds me

00:49:35of when you're watching

00:49:36the, uh,

00:49:37God, what the heck

00:49:38is that show?

00:49:39Double Dare.

00:49:40And it's like,

00:49:41all right,

00:49:42reach into this giant nose

00:49:43for all the fake boogers

00:49:44and everything else.

00:49:45And like,

00:49:46they're climbing

00:49:47inside of that nose.

00:49:48Great show.

00:49:49They're literally

00:49:50being swallowed up

00:49:51by booger.

00:49:52At a certain point,

00:49:53what happens

00:49:54to every child star?

00:49:55Ah,

00:49:56you age out of that role.

00:49:57You know,

00:49:58it's,

00:49:59you get to a certain age,

00:50:00you start to look

00:50:01a certain way,

00:50:02and it's like,

00:50:03do you transition

00:50:04into different stuff

00:50:05or do you go away

00:50:06for a while

00:50:07and learn,

00:50:08you know,

00:50:09learn a new hold,

00:50:10as Jim Ross would say.

00:50:11Well,

00:50:12the end was starting

00:50:13to feel near

00:50:14for Josh Server

00:50:15when it came to

00:50:16season six.

00:50:17And, um,

00:50:18by the time

00:50:19I was in my 20s,

00:50:20we had done

00:50:21over six seasons,

00:50:22100 plus episodes

00:50:23where I got to

00:50:24bring to life

00:50:25a lot of different characters,

00:50:26all sketch,

00:50:27all fun.

00:50:28In his 20s.

00:50:29So he was in his 20s.

00:50:30He still got to be

00:50:31on all that.

00:50:32Very funny, Josh.

00:50:33See,

00:50:34I don't remember,

00:50:35I remember Amanda Bynes,

00:50:36but I don't remember

00:50:37any of these other kids, dude.

00:50:38Do you?

00:50:39Yes.

00:50:40But at this point,

00:50:41I was aging out as well.

00:50:42Yeah.

00:50:43And I was like,

00:50:44I like my OGs.

00:50:45I only like Josh Server.

00:50:46The rest of these kids suck.

00:50:47Yeah.

00:50:48And that's why

00:50:49they kept showing up

00:50:50and they wanted me to leave

00:50:51but I wouldn't.

00:50:52Josh,

00:50:53cut it out.

00:50:54We're trying to watch

00:50:55Leon eat peanuts.

00:50:56Like you watch these kids

00:50:57and I guess they're

00:50:58probably funny too,

00:50:59the kids who grew up

00:51:00with them.

00:51:01But it was like,

00:51:02no, I don't like them.

00:51:03I don't like these kids.

00:51:04And where were you

00:51:05January 40, 1931?

00:51:06I don't like you.

00:51:07I wasn't born yet.

00:51:08And besides,

00:51:09there's no such thing

00:51:10as January 40.

00:51:11I guess they're funny as well

00:51:12but they're not as funny

00:51:13as my cast members.

00:51:14You know,

00:51:15I feel like the later season

00:51:16Even Josh agrees.

00:51:17felt more comfortable.

00:51:18It's crazy that he was

00:51:19on the show

00:51:20that freaking long, man.

00:51:21As a performer.

00:51:22So I think I enjoyed those.

00:51:23But I definitely still liked

00:51:24when everyone was still there.

00:51:25You know,

00:51:26the later season,

00:51:27some of my older cast mates

00:51:28had gone

00:51:29and I was like,

00:51:30Yeah,

00:51:31they had kind of moved on

00:51:32and he was kind of like

00:51:33the Lone Ranger.

00:51:34Do we really need to be

00:51:35adding more cast members?

00:51:36I mean,

00:51:37she's okay.

00:51:38Yes,

00:51:39this is what I asked.

00:51:40I said,

00:51:41who is this girl,

00:51:42Tricia?

00:51:43Leon and Mark

00:51:44No idea.

00:51:45and Mark and Nick Cannon

00:51:46and Amanda.

00:51:47They were all great.

00:51:48I definitely kind of

00:51:49remember Nick Cannon

00:51:50coming onto the show

00:51:51because I used to be

00:51:52a big Nick Cannon fan

00:51:53way back in the day.

00:51:54where everyone was

00:51:55still together.

00:51:56But here's the one

00:51:57that people don't remember.

00:51:58Yeah,

00:51:59everyone was still together.

00:52:00But here's the one

00:52:01that blew my mind.

00:52:02Gabrielle Iglesias

00:52:03was a cast member.

00:52:04Hey guys,

00:52:05I think Josh really

00:52:06saved his detective dad.

00:52:07Was she really?

00:52:08Not Gabrielle Iglesias.

00:52:09What the heck?

00:52:10The guy who plays Fluffy.

00:52:11The comedian.

00:52:12The big fat guy.

00:52:13No,

00:52:14he was not.

00:52:15Cast member for season six.

00:52:16Yeah.

00:52:17Someone in the room

00:52:18just hit me with this

00:52:19flying pen

00:52:20and I'm going to find out who.

00:52:21Guys,

00:52:22what are we going to do?

00:52:23The show's about to start.

00:52:24Yeah,

00:52:25that's a poopy show.

00:52:26I hate them.

00:52:27So long,

00:52:29see Jimmy Bond.

00:52:30See,

00:52:31like even Jimmy Bond.

00:52:32Alright,

00:52:33now you're just

00:52:34a little too old

00:52:35now to be that character as well.

00:52:36Yeah,

00:52:37it's a little...

00:52:38What?

00:52:39There he is,

00:52:40for real.

00:52:41You eat it.

00:52:42You're just saying that.

00:52:43No,

00:52:44I'm not.

00:52:45You ate my whole fast.

00:52:46What kind of a person

00:52:47eats another person's

00:52:48whole fast?

00:52:49So,

00:52:50how was he in the school?

00:52:51He's just too cool to leave.

00:52:52Yeah.

00:52:53Well,

00:52:54man,

00:52:55he was so good at it

00:52:56for so long.

00:52:57All you kids on the show

00:52:58seem so nice.

00:52:59I don't think he's going to

00:53:00turn back into Josh.

00:53:01So,

00:53:02Kel was still there

00:53:03up until season five,

00:53:04and even then,

00:53:05he was splitting duties.

00:53:06Like,

00:53:07he wasn't even on

00:53:08half the episodes.

00:53:09See,

00:53:10I did it again.

00:53:11Hey, guys.

00:53:12Right.

00:53:13Wait a minute.

00:53:14Detective Dan and Josh

00:53:15are two different people?

00:53:16Don't worry.

00:53:17What?

00:53:18Detective Dan's

00:53:19on the case.

00:53:20Geronimo!

00:53:25Geronimo!

00:53:27Was that, like,

00:53:28one of his catchphrases?

00:53:36No.

00:53:37So,

00:53:38you can tell

00:53:39he's pretty much

00:53:40aging out at this point

00:53:42because I pulled

00:53:43this press conference

00:53:44from, like,

00:53:45one of those news junkets,

00:53:46and,

00:53:47like,

00:53:48his style of humor

00:53:49and just what he thinks

00:53:50is funny

00:53:51is so much different

00:53:52than his cast members

00:53:53who kind of get offended

00:53:54by his jokes

00:53:55and it's like,

00:53:56What?

00:53:57Okay.

00:53:58Fine.

00:53:59I guess

00:54:00he's a little more adult now

00:54:01and that's not cool.

00:54:02Right.

00:54:03Get lost.

00:54:04So,

00:54:05this looks like

00:54:06Kids' Choice Awards 2000.

00:54:13That's not funny.

00:54:14Oh, gosh.

00:54:15That's not funny.

00:54:24Yikes.

00:54:25See?

00:54:26He's just like,

00:54:27pfft.

00:54:28You could tell

00:54:29he's sick of these kids.

00:54:30Like,

00:54:31they're not his pals.

00:54:32No.

00:54:33Like,

00:54:34that's like when you're at a job

00:54:35or someplace too long

00:54:36and all your friends are gone

00:54:37and you're like,

00:54:38I hate all these new people.

00:54:39They all suck.

00:54:40Get lost.

00:54:41Well, dude,

00:54:42it was like,

00:54:43you know,

00:54:44it was like,

00:54:45I don't know.

00:54:46The creators of the show thought,

00:54:47well, damn,

00:54:48we have to have Josh on here still

00:54:49so the show can still be funny.

00:54:50So, we get to the point now,

00:54:51it's time for him to leave.

00:54:52It's over.

00:54:53The party is done.

00:54:54So,

00:54:55instead of becoming like,

00:54:56transitioning into more adult roles,

00:54:57he decides just to leave

00:54:58and become a real estate agent?

00:54:59What?

00:55:00You know,

00:55:01it was like,

00:55:02all right,

00:55:03it's time for you

00:55:04to either leave

00:55:05or become a real estate agent.

00:55:06It was like,

00:55:07all right,

00:55:08it's time for you

00:55:09to either leave

00:55:10or become a real estate agent.

00:55:11It was like,

00:55:12all right,

00:55:13it's time for you

00:55:14to either become

00:55:15the big-time celebrity

00:55:16or find that other thing

00:55:17that you're passionate about.

00:55:18And he even satirizes that

00:55:19in a web series later on

00:55:20where he plays

00:55:21an aging child sitcom star

00:55:22who's in an

00:55:23all-that-type parody show.

00:55:24Really?

00:55:25Yeah.

00:55:26And he makes fun of

00:55:27the very thing

00:55:28that happened to him

00:55:29where he's an older celebrity kid

00:55:30being aged out of a show

00:55:31and being pushed out

00:55:32for a fake

00:55:33kind of Amanda Bynes type.

00:55:34Yeah.

00:55:35But, you know,

00:55:36it was like,

00:55:37all right,

00:55:38it's time for you

00:55:39to either leave

00:55:40or become a real estate agent.

00:55:41It was like,

00:55:42all right,

00:55:43it's time for you

00:55:44to either leave

00:55:45or become a real estate agent.

00:55:46Yup.

00:55:47But then, you know,

00:55:48you have rumors like this

00:55:49that you're seeing right here.

00:55:50He quit the business

00:55:51to become a real estate agent?

00:55:52No, no, no.

00:55:53Well, that's the thing

00:55:54is his kind of

00:55:55after all that casting,

00:55:56I was probably a punk, honestly,

00:55:57when I was younger

00:55:58and on the show.

00:55:59It's tough to figure out

00:56:00what exactly he did

00:56:01because it's very vague

00:56:02even with research.

00:56:03And just a lot

00:56:04of life experiences

00:56:05has tried to keep me humble.

00:56:06I'm glad YouTube

00:56:07didn't exist

00:56:08when we did that.

00:56:09Oh, my God.

00:56:10I will say,

00:56:12like when you're a kid,

00:56:13you can get away with stuff.

00:56:14You can get away

00:56:15with not knowing

00:56:16because they're like,

00:56:17oh, well, he's a kid.

00:56:18He's a teenager or whatever.

00:56:19And now as an adult,

00:56:20you can't show up

00:56:21and make those mistakes.

00:56:22So it does.

00:56:23He's a kid.

00:56:24He doesn't understand.

00:56:25No.

00:56:26I think it prepares you

00:56:27to be a professional, right?

00:56:28Because you have a learning curve

00:56:29when you're young.

00:56:30Sometimes you have to

00:56:31step away from something

00:56:32to understand

00:56:33how good you've got it.

00:56:34Man, I wish,

00:56:35I really wish Cal

00:56:36would have accomplished more.

00:56:37Because it's true

00:56:38what they say.

00:56:39When you're doing

00:56:40what you are passionate about.

00:56:41I like him so much.

00:56:42You never work a day

00:56:43in your life.

00:56:44I remember,

00:56:45I used to do that.

00:56:46So there's a Josh Server

00:56:47Facebook fan page.

00:56:48Clearly, you pulled

00:56:49some of this from.

00:56:50No, it's your guy's show.

00:56:51I couldn't.

00:56:52Come on.

00:56:53Well, I'm not alone

00:56:54in wondering what happened

00:56:55to this guy.

00:56:56Right.

00:56:57He's one of the biggest

00:56:58mysteries of where'd he go.

00:56:59And even in these clips,

00:57:00it's very vague of like,

00:57:01all right, I was gone.

00:57:02Well, how'd you disappear

00:57:03for like five years

00:57:04without doing anything?

00:57:05You're a great artist.

00:57:06A showman.

00:57:07You're a showman.

00:57:08You're a great artist.

00:57:09A showman.

00:57:10I was just around.

00:57:11And where was he?

00:57:12Just hanging around Nickelodeon.

00:57:13Ed was like

00:57:14a small little part.

00:57:15But I knew some people

00:57:16over at Nickelodeon

00:57:17who kind of brought me in.

00:57:18So it's like,

00:57:19was he living off royalties

00:57:20to just,

00:57:21all right,

00:57:22every once in a while

00:57:23I'll show up on a Nick show.

00:57:24We had a lot of fun

00:57:25shooting that.

00:57:26And the Drake and Josh thing

00:57:27was a little bit more,

00:57:28a little bit more

00:57:29time intensive.

00:57:30But those guys are great.

00:57:31I mean,

00:57:32that was a fun set to work on.

00:57:33So right at the end

00:57:34of his career

00:57:35with Nickelodeon,

00:57:36he was just kind of

00:57:37showing up on other shows

00:57:38just doing little cameo roles.

00:57:39Those guys are both

00:57:40really talented guys.

00:57:41And they're both really funny.

00:57:42Yeah.

00:57:43That's kind of,

00:57:44he was just like

00:57:45a utility player

00:57:46maybe doing spot shows.

00:57:47A lot of people

00:57:48talk to me about

00:57:49the Drake and Josh.

00:57:50You know,

00:57:51that's kind of

00:57:52what makes you wonder.

00:57:53He's too young

00:57:54to disappear and do spot shows.

00:57:55This is like a position

00:57:56of 40 year old

00:57:57or 50 year old

00:57:58or like guy who had

00:57:59like a 200 episode

00:58:00huge sitcom does.

00:58:01Yeah.

00:58:02Yeah.

00:58:03Yeah.

00:58:04Yeah.

00:58:05a lot of really great

00:58:06and really funny characters.

00:58:07Yup.

00:58:08Oh,

00:58:09that is so funny.

00:58:10Like,

00:58:11you know who does

00:58:12this type of thing?

00:58:13Have been

00:58:14like Michael J Fox

00:58:15show-up on a sitcom

00:58:16for like an episode or two

00:58:17in pinch hit.

00:58:18Oh,

00:58:19and a moment though.

00:58:20Because he has money

00:58:21to not do this.

00:58:22I love you, man.

00:58:24We just came

00:58:25to wish you good luck

00:58:26on your show

00:58:27tonight sweety.

00:58:28Yeah,

00:58:29break a leg.

00:58:30Thanks.

00:58:31You have a

00:58:32I just finished

00:58:33a good show

00:58:34Aww.

00:58:35Ah!

00:58:36Thank you!

00:58:37They're like, hey, we got to bring in Kenan and Josh

00:58:40to co-sign her new show.

00:58:41The thing you're wondering is, you know, he's not a retiree,

00:58:46and he's clearly able to host things or be part of a sitcom.

00:58:51So why are there more and more clips of Nickelodeon

00:58:54giving him half a chance, half of a show,

00:58:57one-time hosting gigs?

00:59:00Right.

00:59:01It's time for Oh Yeah!

00:59:03Cartoons!

00:59:04Oh Yeah!

00:59:05Cartoons!

00:59:06From the Nickelodeon Animation Studio,

00:59:07here's your host, Josh Server!

00:59:09I don't remember this.

00:59:10I am Josh, and this is Oh Yeah!

00:59:12Cartoons.

00:59:13And you know,

00:59:14Oh Yeah!

00:59:15Cartoons, from what I researched,

00:59:16because honestly, it wasn't a big hit for them either,

00:59:19was like a collection of one-off cartoons

00:59:23put into like a package every week of like,

00:59:25oh, this artist made this abstract cartoon,

00:59:28and it's eight minutes long,

00:59:30and it's not a series or anything,

00:59:34but you might enjoy it.

00:59:35Yeah.

00:59:36And maybe down the road,

00:59:37it could become a cartoon series.

00:59:40I mean, I could see them picking Josh to host it.

00:59:42He has great slapstick, like,

00:59:45physical kind of humor.

00:59:47Bring us to...

00:59:48Even in these more current clips.

00:59:52See, Ariana Grande loves it.

00:59:53Dude, I don't even recognize him.

00:59:55That was him?

00:59:57Yeah, that was him.

00:59:59And he doesn't look that old.

01:00:01Is he kind of more now just playing adult roles

01:00:03for Nickelodeon?

01:00:05Because I always thought that could be kind of cool too.

01:00:07Like, I looked at the guy that played Crazy Steve

01:00:10and played, you know, Carly's older brother.

01:00:14I'm like, that seems like a pretty cool role,

01:00:16and he's funny in those shows.

01:00:18It is kind of that perfect role that,

01:00:20like, yeah, Jerry Traynor,

01:00:21he does that kind of thing.

01:00:22And then, all right,

01:00:23he might voice some things on a Nickelodeon cartoon

01:00:26and just stay in their infrastructure of,

01:00:30we got this project.

01:00:31You're a guy.

01:00:32We know what you can do.

01:00:33Go.

01:00:34Yep.

01:00:35So like I mentioned,

01:00:36he wanted to try to keep his relevancy

01:00:38by doing web series and web comedy,

01:00:41which is quite a drop-off

01:00:43for somebody who was getting a big studio

01:00:47to back his projects.

01:00:48You're telling me that almost nobody

01:00:50wants to take a shot at him?

01:00:52Yeah, that's the part that doesn't make sense to me.

01:00:54It's like, he has like a what?

01:00:56A six, seven, eight year track record

01:01:00of doing extremely well on a big hit show,

01:01:04but yet no studio anywhere

01:01:06wants to give him a shot at his own show

01:01:09or a feature-length film.

01:01:12Like, why?

01:01:13I don't get it.

01:01:14Or even just being the sixth guy

01:01:16on like a sitcom somewhere.

01:01:17Like, all right,

01:01:18maybe he could depend on a Parks and Recreation

01:01:21as some eccentric character,

01:01:24as maybe like, you know,

01:01:25you have one or two scenes every show,

01:01:27and you're really funny in it,

01:01:28and then you're gone,

01:01:29and maybe it feels like a step down,

01:01:31but it's a consistent career.

01:01:33Yep.

01:01:34That's a bummer, dude.

01:01:35I don't get it.

01:01:37So like I said,

01:01:37his web series was called Laugh Out Loud,

01:01:40and it was early MySpace comedy.

01:01:43No.

01:01:44And I wanted to go back and find these episodes

01:01:46because I watched them when they first came out,

01:01:49but it's like they'd been erased from the internet.

01:01:51No.

01:01:53From my summary of what I remember

01:01:55was Josh plays basically himself

01:01:59in the last season of all that,

01:02:00but the show's called Laugh Out Loud.

01:02:03Yeah.

01:02:04And then he's basically confronted that,

01:02:07all right, you're off the show.

01:02:08We're transitioning to this young girl character

01:02:10who's in a Meredith Bynes parody.

01:02:12So he's pretty much taking the scenario

01:02:14that's happening to him in real life

01:02:16and making a web series about it.

01:02:17Yes.

01:02:18And then-

01:02:19That's kind of smart, right?

01:02:20Yep.

01:02:21And it goes in that same vein

01:02:22as like Curb Your Enthusiasm,

01:02:24where they blend reality

01:02:25with a fictionalized version of the character.

01:02:28So he's trying to figure out how do I make this transition,

01:02:31which is what the whole episode today is about.

01:02:33Wow.

01:02:34And he goes to seek out advice from fictional Kenan,

01:02:38who's still his pal and working on SNL

01:02:40and becoming a bigger star.

01:02:41No, fictional Kenan.

01:02:43And it's the real Kenan who's part of this web series.

01:02:46And then he also has Nick Cannon make a guest appearance.

01:02:50Wow.

01:02:51And I want to say there's like another cast member or two

01:02:53that show up somewhere in one of the six episodes.

01:02:56That's so cool.

01:02:58Is this, so is this kind of like the first,

01:03:00like I remember, didn't Drake Bell do something like this?

01:03:05Yes.

01:03:06A web series?

01:03:07He did.

01:03:08But obviously much after this.

01:03:10It was called Where's Walter,

01:03:11where he reunited a bunch of the cast

01:03:13and did inside jokes.

01:03:15And this, yeah, this is almost,

01:03:17this was way before it, before something like that.

01:03:20So it's like, Josh is trying again.

01:03:23So I don't, now I'm really confused

01:03:26because did he not want to be a celebrity

01:03:28or did he want to be a celebrity and stayed in

01:03:30and nobody wanted him?

01:03:31Yeah.

01:03:33You, Kenan and Kel need to join Kenan on SNL for one night.

01:03:36A lot of fans want it.

01:03:38From your lips to God's ears.

01:03:42You're probably saying to yourself,

01:03:44who the hell is this handsome man?

01:03:47He looks like he could be on the movies.

01:03:50So then in later years,

01:03:52he's done like sketch comedy with David Panarelli.

01:03:55Really?

01:03:57And they're just, you know,

01:03:59reminiscing on the golden years

01:04:02and having some fun together.

01:04:03There's nothing wrong with that.

01:04:04Exactly.

01:04:05So look at this, 2007 MySpace page.

01:04:08What's like?

01:04:09Wow.

01:04:10The intros and, oh, we got funny MySpace guys

01:04:13and there's a chicken suit man.

01:04:15And there's fake Amanda Bynes

01:04:17in part three of the episode.

01:04:20Oh, this was what it was like on all that

01:04:22behind the scenes for me.

01:04:25Man, I never knew about any of this.

01:04:28Maybe he should have followed more Jim Carrey.

01:04:31He should have figured out how to transition

01:04:34to being funny Jim Carrey to serious Jim Carrey.

01:04:37Yeah, he was still trying to act

01:04:40and, you know, making little attempts here and there

01:04:43that just didn't seem to go anywhere.

01:04:45Well, of course he was still trying to act.

01:04:47He's not just gonna hang it up completely, right?

01:04:49What about you, Josh?

01:04:50I mean, if he's been doing it for so long.

01:04:51I got out of the business for a while,

01:04:53but now I'm getting back in.

01:04:54I'm excited to do some acting again

01:04:56and, you know, make a comeback.

01:04:58My fans have always seen me do comedy

01:05:01and I love comedy.

01:05:03I love being funny and I do pretty good at it.

01:05:05He's not always just comedy.

01:05:06Now I'm getting back in.

01:05:07And so I'm working on some projects now.

01:05:10I can't really talk about it.

01:05:11I'm sorry.

01:05:12It's weird when these actors always have the,

01:05:13I'm working on a project and you never see the projects.

01:05:16I hope the fans will get to see me.

01:05:17Like they're being strung along.

01:05:18Yeah, and I can't talk about it.

01:05:20It's almost like they know nothing's gonna come of it.

01:05:22This is a serious film

01:05:23and I am literally playing two crazy roles.

01:05:27All right, maybe the parts he did got paid for and done,

01:05:31but nobody ever edited it or released it.

01:05:32Just recently kind of just getting back into it.

01:05:34But I have a new project

01:05:36that actually I can't really talk about yet

01:05:38that's getting picked up,

01:05:39which is like a behind the scenes thing,

01:05:41a pilot where I'm gonna be writing,

01:05:43potentially acting, directing.

01:05:44Oh my God.

01:05:46You see, this is why I'm always a believer

01:05:49in don't talk about it, be about it.

01:05:52Let people see it after you do it.

01:05:56I hate this.

01:05:57Oh, I got this project on the way

01:05:58that I can't really talk about.

01:06:00Nothing's for certain yet.

01:06:01Then don't talk about it, period.

01:06:03Just don't.

01:06:04You know what I mean?

01:06:05Because he's already cool on the panels.

01:06:08Like the guy, it's like, that's my dude.

01:06:10Oh, I have this thing.

01:06:11You may not say, that doesn't sound very cool.

01:06:13Yeah, you're almost like setting yourself up for failure.

01:06:17It's like, don't do that.

01:06:19Yeah, because you look important

01:06:21because everyone's like, oh my God,

01:06:22that's the guy I used to watch.

01:06:24He's the coolest.

01:06:25Oh, he's struggling pretty hard.

01:06:27Yeah.

01:06:28And it kills the kayfabe of them being this guy.

01:06:32Like, I bet you started today's episode thinking,

01:06:34wow, massive kid star.

01:06:35And after seeing this, you're kind of like,

01:06:38oh, he's just sort of like me, isn't he?

01:06:41Yeah, I mean, he had a lot of success.

01:06:44I would say as a child actor, a lot of success.

01:06:48Again, that's something that I always wanted to be,

01:06:50even to this day.

01:06:53But I mean, you have to think a lot more

01:06:56probably don't transition and have the kind of success

01:07:00comparatively to the, you know what I mean?

01:07:02Like it's very few and far between

01:07:05for those who can take this and then skyrocket

01:07:08and then have the same or bigger success as an adult.

01:07:11Like that's just super, super rare.

01:07:14But I think you answered a lot of the questions

01:07:17that I had today, which was...

01:07:21Actually, you didn't answer anything today

01:07:23because I still do not understand

01:07:25why he didn't get a shot at anything.

01:07:27So please tell me there's some sort of happy ending

01:07:29to this story, please.

01:07:31Oh, of course there is.

01:07:33We're all about happy endings here on Pop Culture Paradise.

01:07:37Josh Server, Kenan and Kel,

01:07:39they all kind of realized that we all

01:07:42have this nostalgia for all that.

01:07:44Yeah.

01:07:45And like everything lately,

01:07:47they cashed in and all that came back.

01:07:50So you gotta have the OGs run it.

01:07:53You need it, yep.

01:07:54It's almost like everywhere

01:07:56has just run out of original ideas.

01:07:59And it's like, well, it's been long enough.

01:08:02Let's just reboot this thing and people will watch it.

01:08:05They're not wrong though,

01:08:06because it's like, hey, all that's coming back

01:08:09and we're gonna do some of your old favorite sketches

01:08:11just with these new kids.

01:08:13Well, I don't care about the new kids, but all right.

01:08:16Yeah.

01:08:17There's only one new kids I care about.

01:08:19Maybe one day we can talk about the reboot done wrong,

01:08:22which was the new Saved by the Bell.

01:08:24Oh God, the new Saved by the Bell sucks.

01:08:26But I'm not gonna get you started on that right now.

01:08:28God, it sucks.

01:08:29It sucks so bad.

01:08:31Yeah, there are some complete winners for reboots

01:08:35and some total fricking losers.

01:08:37Loser.

01:08:40Nice Josh Surfer impression.

01:08:42I was going for a Jim Carrey.

01:08:44It's a high school reunion for kids

01:08:46who didn't get to go to high school.

01:08:48It's all just huge right now.

01:08:49Nice.

01:08:50Couple moments of joy and then you feel alone.

01:08:53Everything okay, guys?

01:08:54Josh Surfer?

01:08:57Oh, there he is.

01:08:58Legend.

01:09:00How they treat the legends.

01:09:01Yeah, no, it was a pretty big deal,

01:09:03meaning that it was pretty big for kids in the 90s.

01:09:06You're a little too young for it.

01:09:08Oh God.

01:09:10That resurgence of the 90s and all the 90s kids,

01:09:12I think that would be considered like-

01:09:14Yeah, you're definitely ahead of me.

01:09:16Look who it is.

01:09:17Seriously?

01:09:18I'm freaking out.

01:09:19I love the big year of corn.

01:09:21It's the big corn thing again.

01:09:22I'm also here.

01:09:24One of the original cast members of all that.

01:09:26Now we don't know you.

01:09:27Yeah, Kenan.

01:09:28Josh Surfer.

01:09:28Show some respect.

01:09:30Respect, Dan.

01:09:32My brothers.

01:09:33This is crazy.

01:09:35We haven't all been in a room together in like, what?

01:09:3720 years?

01:09:39Wow.

01:09:39I'm so grateful.

01:09:40I think we all are.

01:09:41They look good though, right?

01:09:42We talked about 20 years later.

01:09:43Honestly, yeah.

01:09:44You really don't realize-

01:09:44It's kind of like the Full House reboot

01:09:46where it's like, all right,

01:09:48I'd rather see more Stephanie DJing and everything

01:09:50because they're older,

01:09:52but they're not like the age where I wouldn't expect them

01:09:55to be in their own sitcom anyway.

01:09:56I'll be proud of you either way.

01:09:58Thanks for always believing in us, Coach Clampett.

01:10:00Hey, my pleasure, bud.

01:10:02Either way.

01:10:03That is a powerful thing.

01:10:03Like, he's Nickelodeon.

01:10:04That's how old it is.

01:10:05Not like sitcom old.

01:10:07Very powerful.

01:10:08I love how he gets in his face.

01:10:09My pleasure, bud.

01:10:10You know, thank you for bringing such hard work

01:10:12into the show.

01:10:13So we love you.

01:10:14It's so crazy to think.

01:10:15It's like, oh, this is the old cast.

01:10:17But when they come back to do the show,

01:10:19they're still in their thirties.

01:10:21Yeah, and now you get something that it's like,

01:10:25oh, we're going to go back and visit Detective Dan.

01:10:27Oh yeah, Detective Dan, that's the Columbo parody.

01:10:30And you know, he was playing an old man or an older man.

01:10:34Well, now he's basically the age of the older man,

01:10:36but it's still the same character.

01:10:38And now he has a family?

01:10:41Yeah, a family.

01:10:43You didn't realize that Detective Dan procreated?

01:10:46No.

01:10:48Did you want to know that?

01:10:49No.

01:10:50I'm Detective Dan.

01:10:52Oh boy, what the, no, no, no, no, no.

01:10:56I mean, he was already showing up in his underwear

01:10:58in some of the scenes we were watching earlier.

01:11:00Yep.

01:11:01God, that wedding night.

01:11:04Well, Detective Dan has a daughter, Detective Anne.

01:11:07I had a feeling it was Detective Anne.

01:11:11I wondered if he dated and married a Detective Jan or Pam.

01:11:16I'm Detective Dan.

01:11:20That voice still crushes it.

01:11:23Detective Dan, what's your name, now, mate?

01:11:25Oh no, that's even higher and squeakier.

01:11:28Well, isn't that convenient, little Miss Boite Pants?

01:11:31And where were you when the money was stolen?

01:11:35Isn't that convenient?

01:11:36Or another hanky, or another hanky, or another hanky.

01:11:40It's like the tiling's still there.

01:11:42Oh, it is.

01:11:43Even with this gag right here,

01:11:44he's pulling out the long handkerchief.

01:11:46There's something hidden under this decorative paper

01:11:48and fancy bows.

01:11:50Well, there's something on it.

01:11:51He's like a good player coach.

01:11:54Oh, what do you say we get out of here?

01:11:57Out of where?

01:11:57Yeah, let's just open all their gifts.

01:12:00Honey, I can't understand you with that accent.

01:12:02You must have gotten that from your mother.

01:12:04Uh, come on, pops, let's go.

01:12:05Yeah, what are you saying?

01:12:08Get that from your mother.

01:12:10That was great stuff, man.

01:12:11That was the story of Josh Server,

01:12:13the forgotten cast member from all that.

01:12:18Honestly, you kind of, you still look at it.

01:12:21I don't know if we solved this mystery.

01:12:23You're right.

01:12:24No, I think there's only one man that can solve this case.

01:12:29And he's Detective Dan.

01:12:32Absolutely.

01:12:34Yeah, man, definitely a trip down memory lane.

01:12:38I learned a lot of things that I had no idea about.

01:12:41I still can't figure out why he didn't really have that,

01:12:47you know, that secondary career

01:12:49after the Nickelodeon stuff.

01:12:52I'm happy that he got the second go around with the reboot

01:12:55because as we saw in that last clip,

01:12:57the timing is still there.

01:12:58Everything, he's just, he's still funny.

01:13:00You know?

01:13:01You still got it.

01:13:02You still got it.

01:13:03You still got it.

01:13:04Exactly, yeah.

01:13:05But unless we can talk to him

01:13:08and really, you know, ask the questions

01:13:11and try to get the answers from his mouth,

01:13:12I don't think we'll ever really know

01:13:15why he didn't transition into becoming

01:13:18a bigger star as an adult

01:13:20because all the tools were there, if you ask me.

01:13:23Five tool prospects.

01:13:25He had the physical comedy.

01:13:26He had the delivery.

01:13:27He could do the sitcom.

01:13:29He could host.

01:13:30He could entertain.

01:13:33And he was a handsome dude.

01:13:34Like, you know, he was, he had charisma.

01:13:37He like, yeah, I thought he was good.

01:13:41That's somebody who should have been

01:13:42on one of those WB sitcoms like Amanda Bynes was.

01:13:45Like, you're telling me there wasn't like a,

01:13:47what I like about you or something else offered to him?

01:13:50He could have totally been on the OC.

01:13:53Yeah, he could have.

01:13:54He's not that far off.

01:13:55Yeah, like one of those.

01:13:57When you watch those 2001, 2002 clips of him

01:14:00with his overly gelled up hair

01:14:02and the shades and everything,

01:14:03like he could have played like a good kind of scummy kid

01:14:06or he could have played the nerd.

01:14:07He's kind of, he was kind of all characters

01:14:10just depending on what wardrobe he wore.

01:14:12Yeah.

01:14:13Or he could have been on like,

01:14:15have you ever seen Kenan and Kel on,

01:14:17what is it like Steve Harvey or Cedric the Entertainer?

01:14:20That show.

01:14:21Yeah.

01:14:22I think Lori Betts is also on that.

01:14:24Like how was he not invited on?

01:14:26Yeah, man.

01:14:27I don't know.

01:14:28We're going to have to,

01:14:29hopefully this episode can reach him

01:14:31and we can try to get these answers from him himself.

01:14:34Well, that is our promise here.

01:14:36Pop culture paradise.

01:14:39We are going to find out.

01:14:40We're going to send this to Josh

01:14:41and hopefully Josh gives us answers

01:14:44and just doesn't ignore us.

01:14:46What do they do if they like this episode

01:14:47and want to hear us talk more

01:14:49about maybe people who disappeared?

01:14:50Maybe things that, I don't know.

01:14:52You're just still wondering even about to this day.

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