June 13, 2025 • 7 mins
Can Adult Swim really get away with roasting Jerry Jones by name in a new animated series?In this wildly entertaining episode of The Ben and Skin Show, broadcasting live from the always-electric Choctaw Casino and Resort in Durant, Oklahoma, the crew dives into a hilarious and thought-provoking discussion about satire, streaming culture, and the absurdity of modern media.The upcoming Adult Swim animated series “Keeping Up with the Joneses”, which features a cartoon version of Jerry Jones as a next-door neighbor. Is it parody, slander, or just brilliant comedy?The legal and cultural gray areas of using real public figures in satire. (“Can they really call him Jerry Jones and get away with it?”)A side-splitting moment involving a black Porsche with the license plate “GLF WIFE” and the crew’s pitch for Ben’s new custom plate: GLFKLLR
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Back to the Ben and Skin Show, and we're broadcasting
live from the Chalk Tawk Casino in a resort Durant, Oklahoma.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Man, we love this place.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
If you listen to the beginning of the show, you
heard that love letter we wrote on the air. We
got some cowboys news coming your way. And that's going
to come your way in just about ten minutes. But
right now it's time for this juicy new moves.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hot guys, come stay on top in the boots shove.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
All right. So Adult Swim has a new series that
they're going to be breaking out. I don't have a
release date yet, and it's called Keeping Up with the Joneses.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
That's clever now.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
One of the creators is a writer on the Seth
Green show Robot Chicken, and it's ten episodes. It's a
half hour show, animated, and it will be chronicling the
Newberry family of Dallas as they try to keep up
with their wealthy neighbors in Dallas, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones,
who lives next door.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
The animated version of Jones will be a character in
the series, voice by an actor, not Jerry himself. I
was thinking about this when I saw this story, I
was like, this is perfect if you wanted to just
like you don't have any ties to the cowboys and
you just wanted to just roast them like a illegitimate child.
Pictures in the bathroom getting drunk.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Romo is a miracle. The story's going for days.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, that may not connect with the adult swim audience
too much, but it's kind of perfect and a little
it's animated.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
The adult swim audience is very irreverent.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Like, I don't I don't think any of that is
out of line or out of touch. No, because yeah,
the Joneses are on TMZ like it's it's a it's
a pop culture phenomenon beyond Sports Center, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, man, I'm fascinated by this.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
You're You're right, it'll be a gloves off situation because
if you're in a sports and you have a relationship
with the Joneses or with the NFL, and you have
some allegiance or whatever variety, to be careful.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Who owns the it's the cartoon network, right, if the
cartoon network is still a thing.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, I don't even know whoever's above them. I would guess.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Paramount, Okay, okay, and you know, Jerry Jones is on
land man, but.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
They're doing it by name too, Like I don't know
what the rules are for this type of thing. Like
it's a caricature, it's a cartoon, it's funny. It's a
public figure. But you can do whatever they want with
his character and still call him Jerry Jones.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I think you can. I think you can. It's a
disguised as comedy.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
It's it's satire, it's parody. So it's just like SNL
making fun of the Trump or whatever.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yeah, And the other thing about it is that now
there could be some name and likeness stuff and I
don't know enough about this, but like whenever you get
into this whole slander thing like part of and this
is what people will never talk about that oh it's
slander you, I'm gonna sue you. It's like, okay, but
what happens is you go in court and you have
to prove to a jury that what these people put
(03:01):
out about you change their opinion of you.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
And so when you're a public figure and all of.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
This stuff is already out there, like Trump sues people
all the time, like constantly. And when I was younger,
I used to think it was a big deal to
get sued, and then I got older, it was now
these guys are all suing each other all the time,
and I think on a lot of times is like
once they settle, Trump's like, all right, cool, just shakes
your hand and moves on.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It's like it's part of their world. It's just procedural
in a lot of ways.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So come on, what do we need though, Like we
need Steven, we need a Charlotte character, we need the
family we need.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Honestly, the way that Gordo characterizes them would be ideal.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Is anybody tied to other shows? The people doing this?
So yeah, here's what I found out.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
So there's three creators and one of them is a
married couple. They've they've previously worked on that Mike Tyson
Mystery show, so they've done some animation. I had any
good I don't know. I know Norm McDonald had a
hand in the one with the pigeon a long time. Yeah, yeah,
the robot chicken thing I mentioned. They also did that
show that was a satire on Netflix, and it was
(04:13):
called The Woman in the House Across the Street from
the Girl in the Window, and it was like making
fun of all those like horror movies. Yeah, and it
was Kristen Bell was in it, and I don't think
it was very good. I didn't see it though, so
but it's like you got yeah, Okay, Christy's aid it's fine,
it was fine.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
That's a good review.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I mean, I do think that's kind of the Netflix thing.
That was like, once we got you on our interface,
people will watch stuff. I was browsing through last night
and looking at all these like documentaries of things that
just go on and on and on and on and on,
and I was like, there's a lot of people who
just probably watch this stuff because it's there on the interface.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, trapped them, it got them. We don't know if
it's good.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
We're not upholding the standard of good TV anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You make.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
You bring up a really good point because a lot
of times when I go from one platform to the next,
it's a pain in the ass to go to the
other one.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
So I just kind of live on that platform for
a little while.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Yeah, like I'm about to get I'm about to be
in i haven't been on Netflix in a long time,
and I'm about to be in Netflix world because I
do want to watch that Led Zeppelin documentary, and so
I'm like, all right, once I go out of this
and then go into that, I'll probably just start flipping
around on Netflix until I exhaust everything that I've wanted
to see there.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
No, it's it's a very shorte Also, just the way
though that there's so many documentaries about everything now, Yep,
I saw one myself, so the submersible thing.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Is interesting to me. Started watching it is that on Netflix? Yep.
I didn't click on it. I thought about it. I've
heard the bin loaden ones really good. I watched that,
but again, I watched Zero Dark thirty.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Zero Dark thirty is you know, one of my favorite movies,
and that's like a documentary about it.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
And then I saw one about cocaine smugglers and I
was like, there's a ninety cocaine.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I still haven't watched Narcos. I hear it's great.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
So I saw some and I quit it.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I saw half of the first season, which is what
ends up with a lot of stuff, and then got sidetracked.
But I liked what I saw. I know there's like
five or seasons of it now, right.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Right, I got to ask you about a show speaking
of that that there's five to six seasons. Sometimes I'll
find out about a show and it could be twenty
years old and it's just now on Netflix or whatever.
My wife started watching a show called Animal Kingdom.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Oh so, dude, that I okay, hold on.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
If it's what I think it was, it was a
TNT drama, it's to have Ellen Barkin in it.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yes, yeah, I would stay clear of that. If it's
a TV. Every time I walk in the living room,
she's watching that.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Ellen. It was like a TNT show that would come
on What's on?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, that's why i'd never did mister Robot, and I
know it's probably good USA.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
So if it's a TNT show, there's no there's no boobies.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
And if you're gonna have Ellen Barkin, even at that age,
that's what you want.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh, let me tell you something. She still got it.
I don't doubt it. Let me say this.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
By the way, I was driving into work today behind
a black Porsche and the license plate said uh Barkin uh?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
And what did it say? It said?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
I like this? Sorry, go ahead, Okay. You know what
I want to get Benn for his birthday. I want
to get him a new license plate. With no vowels
in it. That just says g l F k l L.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Look at this license plate, Read this, Read this and
tell me that's not the car I'm gonna follow.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Oh it's guilf wife. Yeah, the lislate said guilf wife.
And so it's golf one. I know.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I couldn't wait to get up to see her, and
I was like, no, I don't think so. And it
was like, golf one, dude cheers, So let's get him
on g l F k L l R. And that
is his personalized killer.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
All right.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
It's submitting skits Show ninety seven point one.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
The Eagle coming up next. KT. What's the top story
in Cowboys Kerosene?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Is Michael Parsons pissed at the cowboys?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
All right,
Back to the Ben and Skin Show, and we're broadcasting
live from the Chalk Tawk Casino in a resort Durant, Oklahoma.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Man, we love this place.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
If you listen to the beginning of the show, you
heard that love letter we wrote on the air. We
got some cowboys news coming your way. And that's going
to come your way in just about ten minutes. But
right now it's time for this juicy new moves.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hot guys, come stay on top in the boots shove.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
All right. So Adult Swim has a new series that
they're going to be breaking out. I don't have a
release date yet, and it's called Keeping Up with the Joneses.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
That's clever now.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
One of the creators is a writer on the Seth
Green show Robot Chicken, and it's ten episodes. It's a
half hour show, animated, and it will be chronicling the
Newberry family of Dallas as they try to keep up
with their wealthy neighbors in Dallas, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones,
who lives next door.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
The animated version of Jones will be a character in
the series, voice by an actor, not Jerry himself. I
was thinking about this when I saw this story, I
was like, this is perfect if you wanted to just
like you don't have any ties to the cowboys and
you just wanted to just roast them like a illegitimate child.
Pictures in the bathroom getting drunk.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Romo is a miracle. The story's going for days.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, that may not connect with the adult swim audience
too much, but it's kind of perfect and a little
it's animated.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
The adult swim audience is very irreverent.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Like, I don't I don't think any of that is
out of line or out of touch. No, because yeah,
the Joneses are on TMZ like it's it's a it's
a pop culture phenomenon beyond Sports Center, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, man, I'm fascinated by this.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
You're You're right, it'll be a gloves off situation because
if you're in a sports and you have a relationship
with the Joneses or with the NFL, and you have
some allegiance or whatever variety, to be careful.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Who owns the it's the cartoon network, right, if the
cartoon network is still a thing.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, I don't even know whoever's above them. I would guess.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Paramount, Okay, okay, and you know, Jerry Jones is on
land man, but.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
They're doing it by name too, Like I don't know
what the rules are for this type of thing. Like
it's a caricature, it's a cartoon, it's funny. It's a
public figure. But you can do whatever they want with
his character and still call him Jerry Jones.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I think you can. I think you can. It's a
disguised as comedy.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
It's it's satire, it's parody. So it's just like SNL
making fun of the Trump or whatever.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yeah, And the other thing about it is that now
there could be some name and likeness stuff and I
don't know enough about this, but like whenever you get
into this whole slander thing like part of and this
is what people will never talk about that oh it's
slander you, I'm gonna sue you. It's like, okay, but
what happens is you go in court and you have
to prove to a jury that what these people put
(03:01):
out about you change their opinion of you.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
And so when you're a public figure and all of.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
This stuff is already out there, like Trump sues people
all the time, like constantly. And when I was younger,
I used to think it was a big deal to
get sued, and then I got older, it was now
these guys are all suing each other all the time,
and I think on a lot of times is like
once they settle, Trump's like, all right, cool, just shakes
your hand and moves on.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It's like it's part of their world. It's just procedural
in a lot of ways.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So come on, what do we need though, Like we
need Steven, we need a Charlotte character, we need the
family we need.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Honestly, the way that Gordo characterizes them would be ideal.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Is anybody tied to other shows? The people doing this?
So yeah, here's what I found out.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
So there's three creators and one of them is a
married couple. They've they've previously worked on that Mike Tyson
Mystery show, so they've done some animation. I had any
good I don't know. I know Norm McDonald had a
hand in the one with the pigeon a long time. Yeah, yeah,
the robot chicken thing I mentioned. They also did that
show that was a satire on Netflix, and it was
(04:13):
called The Woman in the House Across the Street from
the Girl in the Window, and it was like making
fun of all those like horror movies. Yeah, and it
was Kristen Bell was in it, and I don't think
it was very good. I didn't see it though, so
but it's like you got yeah, Okay, Christy's aid it's fine,
it was fine.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
That's a good review.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I mean, I do think that's kind of the Netflix thing.
That was like, once we got you on our interface,
people will watch stuff. I was browsing through last night
and looking at all these like documentaries of things that
just go on and on and on and on and on,
and I was like, there's a lot of people who
just probably watch this stuff because it's there on the interface.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, trapped them, it got them. We don't know if
it's good.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
We're not upholding the standard of good TV anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You make.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
You bring up a really good point because a lot
of times when I go from one platform to the next,
it's a pain in the ass to go to the
other one.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
So I just kind of live on that platform for
a little while.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Yeah, like I'm about to get I'm about to be
in i haven't been on Netflix in a long time,
and I'm about to be in Netflix world because I
do want to watch that Led Zeppelin documentary, and so
I'm like, all right, once I go out of this
and then go into that, I'll probably just start flipping
around on Netflix until I exhaust everything that I've wanted
to see there.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
No, it's it's a very shorte Also, just the way
though that there's so many documentaries about everything now, Yep,
I saw one myself, so the submersible thing.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Is interesting to me. Started watching it is that on Netflix? Yep.
I didn't click on it. I thought about it. I've
heard the bin loaden ones really good. I watched that,
but again, I watched Zero Dark thirty.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Zero Dark thirty is you know, one of my favorite movies,
and that's like a documentary about it.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
And then I saw one about cocaine smugglers and I
was like, there's a ninety cocaine.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I still haven't watched Narcos. I hear it's great.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
So I saw some and I quit it.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I saw half of the first season, which is what
ends up with a lot of stuff, and then got sidetracked.
But I liked what I saw. I know there's like
five or seasons of it now, right.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Right, I got to ask you about a show speaking
of that that there's five to six seasons. Sometimes I'll
find out about a show and it could be twenty
years old and it's just now on Netflix or whatever.
My wife started watching a show called Animal Kingdom.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Oh so, dude, that I okay, hold on.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
If it's what I think it was, it was a
TNT drama, it's to have Ellen Barkin in it.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yes, yeah, I would stay clear of that. If it's
a TV. Every time I walk in the living room,
she's watching that.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Ellen. It was like a TNT show that would come
on What's on?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, that's why i'd never did mister Robot, and I
know it's probably good USA.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
So if it's a TNT show, there's no there's no boobies.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
And if you're gonna have Ellen Barkin, even at that age,
that's what you want.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh, let me tell you something. She still got it.
I don't doubt it. Let me say this.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
By the way, I was driving into work today behind
a black Porsche and the license plate said uh Barkin uh?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
And what did it say? It said?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
I like this? Sorry, go ahead, Okay. You know what
I want to get Benn for his birthday. I want
to get him a new license plate. With no vowels
in it. That just says g l F k l L.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Look at this license plate, Read this, Read this and
tell me that's not the car I'm gonna follow.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Oh it's guilf wife. Yeah, the lislate said guilf wife.
And so it's golf one. I know.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I couldn't wait to get up to see her, and
I was like, no, I don't think so. And it
was like, golf one, dude cheers, So let's get him
on g l F k L l R. And that
is his personalized killer.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
All right.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
It's submitting skits Show ninety seven point one.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
The Eagle coming up next. KT. What's the top story
in Cowboys Kerosene?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Is Michael Parsons pissed at the cowboys?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
All right,
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