“When the guys have to pass a drug test at work, they only have one choice… Bribe middle school kids for clean urine.” Now if this description of an upcoming episode for Comedy Central’s new sorta scripted comedy series “Workaholics” does not pique your interest – Well then Grandma, take yo ass back to bed.

Because there is that special time in one’s life between getting that fancy paper that certifies you educated and actually getting a “real” job. A time filled with beer bongs, bong-bongs, and general debauchery which until this masterwork by Blake Anderson, Adam Devine, Anders Holm, and Kyle Newacheck of the web comedy troupe Mail Order Comedy, had yet to be chronicled properly in the annuls of time.

I was lucky enough recently to be kidnapped, stuffed in the trunk of a Volkswagen Beetle, and driven to the undisclosed party house in the San Fernando Valley where these guys actually live, shoot, and basically just ARE this show. The following was not written under duress… but maybe something else.

Tell me about “Mail Order Comedy”…

Kyle: Mail Order Comedy was our internet sketch group, well, we still are Mail Order comedy.

For our unfamiliar readers might I draw a Kids in the Hall-esque similarity?

Blake: We didn’t dress up as women as much..

Adam: Sadly, like 55 out of the 60 videos we did were just different versions of ourselves.

Kyle: Yeah no, we’re not like real actors, so we just stick to what we know.

Nothing wrong with that sir. There are far too many “real actors” out there anyways.

Adam: Correct. Christian Bale, get over yourself. Light your fart on fire and be a human being or something.

How long have you guys been grinding away at this “real actor” stuff?

Anders: I think we stick by the number of like 5 years or something.

Blake: So, it has been five years that we have been grinding it out on the internet with the Mail Order Comedy thing, having nobody watch us. Great.

Is this where the show was shot?

Adam: So, the three of us (Kyle and Blake) live here.

Kyle: Yeah. It is just an outlandish plan to have comedy central pay our rent.

Are you kidding me? That is every drunkards dream. I would love to get paid to be boozed up and jump in a pool all day. So, is Workaholics “based on a true story” or just something dreamt up?

Adam: Well, Ders (Anders) and I did telemarketing for a bit.

You seem very convincing in the show. What did you sell?

Adam: I sold a ton o’ shit. I sold steaks, Time Life books, did healthcare surveys, and some vacation packages. I was weirdly good at it.

Anders, was your experience about the same?

Anders: Well, mine was non-for profit fundraising and a bit different. The flipside is that he was selling shit and he liked it, where as I was saving animals and hated it.

Adam: You have these two hour power shifts. Where all you would do is look at a screen and beg for money. There was a guy with a whistle at one of the places I worked at. He would be like,”WOOT-WOOT-WOOT Alright, 15 minute break starts now.” And we would all make a mad dash to the parking lot where everybody would be pointing at each other, “Hey you smoking, you smoking, you smoking?” Then my little 18 yr old self would be crammed into the back of some strangers car passing bud around with a 45 yr old man. Excellent career choice.

[I find my self being eyeballed by a publicist] Ok, back to business. Let us talk Marc Summers (of Double Dare fame), how in the F did you get him on the show in a giant spirit hood?

Anders: Surprisingly, Alexander Grahm Bell. I just picked up the phone and called him. I explained some of the show and he was like, “Sure.”

[So much for my dreams of a shady “dead hooker” blackmail appearance.] Where do you get a giant spirit hood these days anyhow?

Blake: Originally, we wanted a big fur coat, straight “Ghostface Killah” style. But that evolved into it needing to be something way cooler. So our costume designer girl made me go out into the middle of nowhere for a fitting, where they forge these, these bear coats basically. It was very cool except that for every time I’d look down, those huge bear teeth would like “knock” me in the head. Ha haha.

They’re all the rage apparently, I just came back from SXSW and everybody had those on.

Adam: Yeah, we were there too.

Blake: You probably didn’t see me because there were millions of people there.

I did see that you guys previewed your show at the VICE magazine party whilst there. How was the reception?

The room (in unison) was good. Good. Yeah.

Adam: Well, it was on St. Patrick’s Day and people were kinda druuuunk. So, great.

Sounds like great planning on your part. Congrats. How’s it been working for “The man.”

Adam: What’s cool about Comedy Central and our show; where we’re maniacs, drunks, and pot heads, is that when Comedy Central throws us a party, it’s a party. I’ll be like, “Should I have another, I’m feelin’ tipsy?” and they’re like,”Drink more, lets see how crazy you really are!”

How were you discovered? Was there some stalking, payola, or anything illegal?

Adam: No. they just saw our videos on the web and called us up. We had a meeting and they watched some more of our videos and were like, “We really like this idea of some guys working at an office and living together” and we were all, “Hey, we have this other idea of a bunch of white rapping wizards!”. And the reply was, “Please don’t bring that up in any higher level meetings.”

Kyle: I remember being very hurt that they were not excited.

Let’s talk “poop dollar” and the genius behind that skit (Gotta watch it).

Adam: My best friend told me about that a long time ago and I laughed my ass off. So when I went to visit him a while back, we did it, so I could see it in action. Amazing. Had to be included when we sat down and wrote the pilot.

Are these “real life” experiences where you draw the majority of your material?

Blake: Totally, man.

What’s the oddest “experience” that you’ve shot where the reception was like, “Did that really happen?”

Kyle: “Bodybuilding contest.” I’ve lived with Adam for like 7 years now and all he has talked about is running down to Muscle Beach and entering one of those contests. So we shot it.

Adam: It wasn’t my best because it takes a lot of working out, which I don’t want to do, but I do want to be Arnold Schwarzenegger someday.

Anders: We did do a full length album as rapping wizards. It’s called The Wizards,” Purple Magic”.

Klye: That’s it. Because collectively, we have always wanted to release a Hip-Hop album and now it’s on iTunes.

Is their a script to this show or does Kyle yell,“Action!”, and you just take your pants off and start talking shit?

Adam: No, we have a pretty tight script now that we’ll even shoot a couple times to get right what’s on the page. But, then Kyle let’s us off the leash and we get weird and see where it takes us like the web days.

Blake: I was really nervous when Comedy Central picked up the show and we had to show scripts instead of outlines. Thankfully, Ders’ is a badass writer.

Anders: It is only because I can use a typewriter.

How much has the show changed from its initial concept to what the kids out in TV land will see on the air?

Adam: I have a lot of friends that are comedians and have gone through the pitch process. After we got out of the first meeting they were, “Aww, sorry they screwed with your show,” but they hadn’t. We came in and pitched our idea and they were all, “WE LOVE IT!’ and we were like, “You do, even all the dick jokes?’ and they were like, “ADD MORE!”

How long from when you shot the first Mail Order Comedy until your pitch to Comedy central?

Kyle: Maybe 6 years. Amazing how all of us living in a sweatbox on Packard St, eating ramen and summer sausages have paid off.