Jay & Silent Bob

Jay and Silent Bob are fictional characters portrayed by Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith, respectively, in Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse, a fictional universe created and used in most films, comics and television by Smith, which began in Clerks. Jay and Silent Bob have appeared in most of Smith's films with the exceptions being Jersey Girl, Zack and Miri Make a Porno and Cop Out. In Smith's universe the characters are shown spending most of their time selling marijuana in front of the convenience store in the Clerks movies. An exception to their drug trafficking occurred in Clerks: The Animated Series, in which they were selling illegal fireworks instead of drugs. Jay and Silent Bob are said to have been born in Leonardo, New Jersey in the early 1970s. They met as infants in front of Quick Stop Groceries while their mothers shopped inside the store. Silent Bob's distinguishing features are his heavy smoking, long coat, dark hair, beard and mustache, and backwards baseball cap. He was raised Catholic, is an electrical genius, and demonstrates knowledge of The Force. He often appears to be the more clean-minded or intelligent of the two, but he remains almost as foul-minded and foul-mouthed as Jay. True to his name, Silent Bob rarely speaks, but when he does, he often has something profound or thoughtful to say, delivering insightful monologues to the other characters only in appropriate situations. Otherwise, he relies on hand gestures and facial expressions to communicate, with the occasional exception of quiet, muffled laughter. In Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Bob becomes infuriated with Jay's poor interpretation of his silent gestures and yells at him, possibly for the first time, calling him a "dumb fuck". According to the animated series, Silent Bob's full name is revealed to be Robert Blutarsky, which is a nod to the film Animal House, in which one of the main characters is revealed to later become a Senator of the same name. Jay is thinner and slightly taller than Bob, and has long blond hair. In several of the later View Askewniverse films Jay wears a black tuque, which has also become a well-known feature. In contrast to Bob, Jay speaks quite frequently and crudely. Jay's excessive cursing seems due to influence from his overbearing mother, who is shown continually using profanity in front of him. His first word was "fuck". According to Jason Mewes Jay's full name is Jason Derris and he is Rick Derris' little brother. Of the duo, Jay takes the role of spokesman, because Silent Bob so seldom talks. The duo express a great interest in John Hughes' films such as Sixteen Candles, the movie Purple Rain, the heavy metal musician King Diamond, shown in Clerks II, when Silent Bob is asked to put on music and plays the song "Welcome Home" from King Diamond's 1988 album, Them, the funk and dance-pop ensemble Morris Day and the Time, Canadian "melo-drama" television shows such as Degrassi The Next Generation, and Buffalo Bill's infamous nude dancing scene (to the song "Goodbye Horses") from The Silence of the Lambs. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.