Taste of Veishea and the anti-alcohol theme shadowing it was not the ideal venue for the comedic acoustic guitar duo, The Cartwright Brothers, to make its Ames debut.

But longtime performers Mark Nelson and Jeff Schwebach did not let the family atmosphere stop them.

The Cartwrights used their clever songs and class clown personalities to mock everyone from Richard Gere to George Michael to Iowa State’s own computer lab masturbator.

Eventually, Schwebach went too far.

In promoting the second of the band’s “serious” CDs, Schwebach announced, “We have a naked picture of Corey Moss on the cover.”

Needless to say, the impromptu promotional attempt was far from a success.

But there remained a need for revenge on my part, so I figured I would attempt to stump the Cartwrights with some unusual questions:

Who is your favorite brothers team?

Nelson: The Presleys — Elvis and Stub. Sure, Elvis gets most of the press, but it was Stub who wrote all his best jokes.

If you were to write a song about Clinton, what would it be titled?

Schwebach: Honey Please Don’t Wipe Your Chin On Your Sleeve.

What is your favorite porno and why?

Nelson: “Insatiable,” because I had a bit part in it. I was a pool table.

Schwebach: That, or the Starr Report.

What was your favorite toy as a kid?

Schwebach: The same favorite toy I have now. Thank God Hugh Hefner published the owner’s manual.

What is the best TV show to watch drunk?

Nelson: What’s on now?

If you were a character on “The A Team” who would you be and why?

Nelson: I’d be the desperate victim. Kind of weird how any schmuck with a problem requiring a lot of explosions and violent gunplay could find those guys, but the government couldn’t.

If you had the chance, how would you torture/kill Jesse, that extremely annoying VJ on MTV?

Nelson: Make him watch a continuous loop of Bob Saget delivering those witless jokes he kept babbling on “America’s Funniest Home Videos.”

What is the best way to get rid of a hangover?

Schwebach: Take two raw eggs, one tablespoon of tabasco sauce, a dash of pepper, three tablespoons of refined wheat germ, one tablet of slippery elm, one half-cup of McCann’s imported steel cut Irish oatmeal. Add a dash of Coyote Cocina Prankster’s red-hot sauce. Blend and drink. Follow immediately with 11 beers.

If you could open for any band or individual performer, who would it be?

Schwebach: Somebody we could blow away.

Nelson: John Denver. We heard he stinks now-a-days.

What is one good thing about living in South Dakota?

Nelson: Disneyland. Oh wait — that’s California. Stupid me. I meant to say the Alamo.

What is one CD you are embarrassed to own?

Schwebach: A rare bootleg in which David Hasselhoff sings a duet with Keiko the Whale. It’s called “There’s Sand In My Blowhole.”

What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Schwebach: The chicken. If the egg had come first, some jerk would have blended it with some other crap to get over a hangover.

The Cartwright Brothers play at People’s Bar and Grill Friday afternoon.