Jay Mewes

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664 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 1 Apr

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Adam Carolla Show · Jay Mewes on Clerks, Kevin Smith & His Heroin Addiction + Man Caught Rubbing His Junk on Woman in Grocery Store · 1 Apr 2026 podcast

Oh, okay.

I was almost 19, but we filmed it when I was 17.

Right.

But Kevin and I grew up in the same neighborhood in New Jersey Highlands, went to the same high school.

And I didn't really hang out with him then, but he started working at this community center in our town where when I'd get off school, I would go there to play foosball and there was a pool table.

And they'd give you snacks and stuff till my grandma got home from work.

And so I started to get him to know him there because he would read comics in the corner with Walt Flanagan and Brian Johnson.

And they would be bagging him board and comics.

And I would be like, hey, man, what are you guys doing?

They'd be like, get out of here, kid.

And just so I'd leave him alone, they would give me stacks of comics and

And I fell in love with comics and that's sort of where we bonded over comic books.

And then he asked me to start – he quit there, started working at Quick Stop where Clerks was filmed.

And he – I started helping him on Sundays with the newspaper, Sunday paper.

And we started to get to know each other.

And he's like, man, you have a really weird, funny sense of humor.

I've been writing this script.

So I'm writing this character based on you for you.

And I'm like, all right.

But even then, I didn't plan on acting.

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