Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting is the most unique name to have. There's no telling what could come from a group with it. Can you imagine a young, deep voiced child or small but powerful country with that name? I wouldn't want to mess with them. Funny ladies Leah Rudick and Katie Hartman own the name they've created for their comedy duo. After years of performing on and off the stage, it seems the group is funnier than ever. Both know how to write; but one knows how to cook. Which one? You'll find out.

The finale to their web series Made to Order airs Tuesday on their YouTube channel. Last week, the girls of SBJM and I spoke over the phone about sketch comedy and all things food:

Do you think old people would respond to Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting?

Katie: You know what, surprisingly -- if there are old people in the audience of our live sketch shows -- they love it. Right, Leah? What do you think?

Leah: Yeah. I feel like if they come into a show knowing that it’s called Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting, I think that they’re probably not going to hate it as much as the old people who don’t come in a t all.

Katie: The ones that we trick into coming?

Leah: Yeah the ones that we trick. Although, the few times that we’ve had really older people in the audience and they’re delighted, [there’s] nothing as fulfilling as that.

Katie: Yeah like the one time at [a show] we had such an old audience and there was this old woman with her, like, 13 year old grandson in the front row. It was really funny. We did the grossest sketches.

They enjoyed themselves at this type of new alternative humor?

Katie: I guess so.

Leah: Or they just don’t know what’s happening.

Katie: And they just start smiling.

They’re getting really senile. They’re like “Oh, this is good! I’m enjoying these. They’re talking about black people and gays!”

Katie: [Laughing] Yeah they just put words in our mouths! They picture us in blackface on stage.

How often do you guys do live shows?

Leah: Right now, it’s whenever we’re in the same city.

Katie: But that’s how we started. We started [in New York] doing sketch comedy so we would do live shows each month. We had a monthly show at The Pit where we would do new material. We wrote a full sketch play with a narrative that we took to a couple of festivals. We’ve been doing it for a while.

How many years exactly? You’ve been doing it since college right?

Leah: Well we were in a different group right out of college. That was a bigger group. It kind of whittled down to the two of us eventually. We’ve been performing as a duo for seven years? Is that right? Eight years?

Katie: I think like maybe eight now. Yeah because 2008 was our first live show as Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting. I think that sounds right.

Do you guys ever write together over Skype or anything? Or when you’re in person do you ever write together?

Leah: Yeah that’s how we write for the most part.

Are you on the same wavelength most of the time or do you fight for personal jokes like Katie is like “This is funny!” and Leah is like “It’s not funny at all!”

[Both laugh]

Katie: Both. We’re usually on the same page and then one of us will fight for it. “Brevity is the soul of tit”-- I absolutely fought for the pilot episode of Made to Order. [Laughs]

Leah: Wait what?!

Katie: Remember when I kept saying “brevity is the soul of shit” and you were like “can we just do one take without it?” And I was like “yeah but it’s funny!” And you’re like “well, let’s just do one take without it.”

Leah: Yeah but then I was fighting against it. But then it’s like people love it. It’s really funny.

What’s with the food theme? I was watching episodes and then I realized -- I didn’t read any description to the series. I realized that each episode has to deal with food. I felt so stupid. What’s up with the food idea?

Katie: I think we started with food and now it’s like we’re going off into nutso land. The idea of it was that these sisters start an underground food delivery service. That was the nugget idea to start the whole series. And that’s why it revolves around food and treating food like basically meth or coke or something like that.