Jay & Silent Bob

Jay and Silent Bob
View Askewniverse characters
Jason Mewes as Jay (left) and Kevin Smith as Silent Bob in Clerks II
First appearance	Clerks
Created by	Kevin Smith
Portrayed by	Jason Mewes (Jay) Kevin Smith (Silent Bob)
Information
Aliases	Bluntman and Chronic
Gender	Male
Significant other(s)	Justice (Jay's girlfriend, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back)
Religion	Christian

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 of the films, comics, and television programs written and produced by Smith, beginning with Clerks.

Jay and Silent Bob have appeared in most of Smith's films, with the exceptions of Jersey Girl, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Cop Out, Red State, Tusk, and Yoga Hosers. The characters are shown spending most of their time selling marijuana in front of the convenience store in the Clerks films. In Clerks: The Animated Series, they were also shown selling illegal fireworks.

Jay and Silent Bob were born in Leonardo, New Jersey, in the 1970s, according to Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. They met as infants in front of Quick Stop Groceries while their mothers shopped inside The Record Rack, which would eventually become RST Video.

Silent Bob's distinguishing features are his heavy smoking, long coat, dark hair, beard, and backwards baseball cap. He was raised Catholic, and is a gadgetry genius. True to his name, Silent Bob rarely speaks, but when he does, he often has something intelligent or clever to say, delivering insightful monologues to the other characters only in appropriate situations (minus one instance where Jay was so oblivious to the obvious clue needed to find a lost orangutan that Silent Bob grabbed him and shouted, "The sign on the back of the car said 'Critters of Hollywood,' you dumb fuck!"): in Clerks II, when Dante complains that the two never say anything intelligent, Jay calls for Silent Bob to "do his thing", to which Silent Bob can only say "I got nothing." Otherwise he relies on hand gestures and facial expressions to communicate. Silent Bob is often annoyed by Jay and when Silent Bob does speak, he will sometimes ridicule Jay, particularly in Chasing Amy (in which Silent Bob gave his longest speech) and in Clerks II (where he points out when he speaks he usually says something intelligent, whereas Jay says something stupid). In Clerks: The Animated Series, Silent Bob is called "Blutarsky", but according to Smith, that was a joke referencing Animal House and he never gave Silent Bob a last name.