If You're A Dan And Phil Fan, This Interview Is For You

Phil: We are gaming less on the gaming channel. That's one thing. It's turned into a Dan and Phil variety show.

Dan: This whole comeback was an accident. I came back from this last tour that I did, and Phil was like, "Let's just do this for a bit for fun." And then it blew up so much. We were like, "Oh God, we've created life." And now we're responsible for raising the life that we just resuscitated. We are in Durham, North Carolina.

Phil: On tour, we usually do a baking video. So we did baking on the tour bus, which was a challenge.

Dan: That was some busted-ass baking.

Phil: We made some bus cakes, but it was fun.

Dan: We nearly blew up the town. [Pauses] Back in the day, before we came out, we were like, "Oh, should we be nervous about what we make, what we talk about, what we can joke about? Does Phil have to watch his language? Do I have to make sure that I don't imply something with any jokes that I make?" Whereas this new era feels very like, Right now that everyone is old as fuck, which includes us, you, the entire audience, we can radically make fun of the way that everyone chose to act in the past. It felt quite freeing.

Phil: The Dan and Phil you're seeing on the channel now is just what we are like in real life. Not that we weren't before.

Dan: It's just unleashed and unhinged in a way that probably should be leashed a bit more.

Phil: I can say "fuck" now. It's a whole different thing.