When Sub Pop announced the lineup for their Silver Jubil-eve: A 25th Anniversary Comedy Thing (for Charity!), I couldn't decide who I was more excited about—Eugene Mirman, the standup comedian I've seen at least 20 times in the past 10 years, who now does the voice of Gene on the very hilarious Bob's Burgers, or H. Jon Benjamin, a new funny favorite of mine who not only voices Gene's dad, Bob, but is also the voice of Home Movies' Coach McGuirk. They're both so hilarious! I can't pick! So instead of deciding between the two, I interviewed both of them about Sub Pop, records, birthday parties, and each other.

Do you have a favorite Sub Pop band? I assume Eugene Mirman gets all his Sub Pop records for free, so I probably listen to less Sub Pop music than he does just because I have to pay out of pocket. But the last Sub Pop CD I bought was J. Mascis.

Did you like it? I did. And Dum Dum Girls. They're good, too.

Who do you think Bob's favorite Sub Pop band would be? Bob would wear a Sub Pop T-shirt because Gene gave him one, but I don't think he'd know any of the bands. He's really a dad with a capital D-A-D. He has other things to do. He's like, "I don't care, listen to whatever you want. Just turn it down a little."

Do you remember what you were doing when you turned 25? I don't remember my birthday party, but I lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I was working at a library, then at night as a waiter. That was probably what I was doing on my birthday, working. Sorry, that's a really sad silver jubilee.

What was one of the best birthday parties you've ever had? There was a birthday party in New York, at a bar on University—it was kind of a surprise party. Everybody sang "Happy Birthday," but they only sang the "Haaaaaa" part. Everyone did that, "Haaaaaa," for literally 10 minutes, until we all got kicked out. It was funny—they wouldn't stop singing the first syllable of "happy."

That's pretty great—entertaining and terrible at the same time. Yep, that's my favorite combo.

If you had to choose a spirit animal for Eugene Mirman, what would it be? Oh, man... a coelacanth. They're very rare, they live on the bottom of the ocean, and no one can find them—it's the one creature that hasn't changed since the beginning of time.

Do you have a favorite Sub Pop band? No, I just like a bunch of the bands. Blitzen Trapper, the Shins, the Thermals...

Who do you think Gene's favorite Sub Pop band would be? It might be Nirvana. Or the Postal Service because of how much he loves mailing music. The real answer would probably be much closer to Weird Al.

Do you have a favorite birthday party memory? Oh yeah. When I was a kid, there was a place in my town where you could get an ice cream sundae, then walk down this row of fixings and add as much as the bowl could hold. You could put in as much marshmallow or caramel or whatever—that was very great. It was called Putnam Pantry, which I believe has since gone out of business because children ate all their caramel.

Do you remember the first record you bought with your own money? It might've been either Permanent Vacation or Done with Mirrors by Aerosmith. I remember my first mixtape, which, mixtape is a strong word for something that only had three songs on it—but it was "Money for Nothing," "Born in the USA," and I think Van Halen's "California Girls" cover. It was those three songs on a tape that I'd just listen to and rewind.

You took to rock at a pretty young age. Yeah, I had an older brother and I lived in Boston, so I had a lot of Aerosmith and classic rock. Eventually I got into bands like the Velvet Underground, Robyn Hitchcock, the Pixies. Once Nirvana became popular, people stopped trying to beat up nerds. That was the biggest thing. Literally, when Nirvana became popular, it was okay to be a little weird. It's funny, when I signed to Sub Pop, I was like, "Oh, you're the people who put out the thing that made it much easier in my life." They helped me in 1992, and then I joined them 20 years later.

If you had to choose a spirit animal for H. Jon Benjamin, what would it be? I guess it would be a super-fun and conscientious wolf.

And why is that? You asked me to pick an animal, not explain it.