Joe Pera Talks with You

Joe Pera Talks with You is the first new show I’ve really liked in at least a year.

― Chris L, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 01:15 (one month ago) Permalink

that show rules. it's somehow funny and gentle and comforting and weird all at the same time. very unlike the other adult swim shows

― na (NA), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 02:16 (one month ago) Permalink

It’s very funny and has a tremendous amount of heart and integrity. I guess it goes to show adult swim is still willing to do something radically different, other than give a show to any woman.

― Chris L, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 07:48 (one month ago) Permalink

OK I just finished it last night and was not expecting nor was I prepared for the turn in the last episode.

― Simon H., Monday, 25 June 2018 11:13 (one month ago) Permalink

I guess saying what major recent arthouse picture it reminded me of might constitute a spoiler so I'll just say I hope it gets picked up for another season.

― Simon H., Monday, 25 June 2018 11:23 (one month ago) Permalink

I like it a lot - it reminds me of my partner's hometown in western Ontario.

There's a weird tension to it, too - you expect every scene to end with some cheap gag to undercut the earnestness, but it never comes. Or if it does, the gag itself is just as earnest.

― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 25 June 2018 11:32 (one month ago) Permalink

Yes, the tone is very carefully managed, as is the writing/design of "Joe Pera," the character

― Simon H., Monday, 25 June 2018 11:45 (one month ago) Permalink

Yeah - I don't want to look at his other stuff on YouTube in case he's acting out of character and it spoils the effect.

Still no word on a second season?

not that i can find, seems like it's got good enough press coverage to warrant it.

hope this is made officially available in the uk somehow so i'm not just boring people about something they can't watch.

I am so grateful to you for flagging this show! I just watched the first episode, and was hooked instantly. It's insane how effective it is at making you care so much about a character inside 11 minutes!

watched the whole season twice so far and got my bro and sis on it. so many great moments.

Yeah - I don't want to look at his other stuff on YouTube in case he's acting out of character and it spoils the effect.

― devvvine, Thursday, August 2, 2018 3:51 AM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i would avoid, a couple standup routines were on point but most of the old stuff was lame. he really honed this character through the years.

i'm guessing church announcements will win, probably deservedly. i think any of them aside from the last couple are a good choice - i like those too but i prefer the self-contained ones to the plot-focused ones.

i can't pick :(

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I had no idea this was a thing! I always try talking this dude up to people and always forget his name (to the extent that I scanned this thread title like seven times before I finally realized where I knew the name). He's just become 'that twentysomething guy who acts like he's in his late seventies' at this point. Will def check this out.

It's insane how effective it is at making you care so much about a character inside 11 minutes!

― tangenttangent, Monday, August 6, 2018 9:44 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

started rewatching it this morning and yeah just how emotionally engaging it is right out of the gate is a miracle. jo firestone and conor o'malley also killing it.

His basset hound makes me happy. This is supposed to be set in Marquette, Michigan, right? Where do they film this?

it's set and filmed there

This is old Pera that is funny and not jarring to new fans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYhcW1aRs0c

what, that was horrible

I don't give a fuck.

I’ve loved this guy since his debut on Seth Meyers

https://vimeo.com/170977560

of his standup work on YouTube, I still think the Buffalo Bills one is the best. Dude fuckin kills me.

Yeah the Bills one was very on point

Doo da dooda doodoo. Doo da dooda doodoo.

Church Announcements.

And considering the licensing for a song like that would normally wipe out a show's entire season budget, I'm guessing that Townshend let it go for peanuts (as he did with Louis CK/"Who Are You" after he watched a clip).

This show was so lovely

Voting is very difficult but I think I will go with Breakfast, as its final line is the best final line of any episode in TV history

Although the other O'Malley-written episode, Fall Drive, pushes it very close and actually I won't vote yet until I've seen them both again

voted "shows you how to dance" but this is basically impossible

Leaning towards fall drive... but also leaning towards the other 8 episodes as well.

I love the tension and release when he finally [spoiler lol] says what he wants for breakfast.

There are several legit beautiful moments in the fall drive episode - the photos, the decaying pumpkin, the waterfall...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

The perfect egg bite part of the breakfast episode is hilarious

conner o'malley's other comedic output is uh pretty out there

he's great.

he's good but his usual stuff is pretty different from joe pera talks with you

some of his stuff where he's biking around new york salivating over sports cars feels like an american version of limmy

given he wrote the two best episodes of this, and he's gotten a Limmy comparison, I'm interested

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzpAYv0AP68&t=8s

as a chicago resident i also appreciate this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8nRQJaRV9E

:D ok i'm in

this dude is amazing. 'guys day' is some sort of masterpiece

i was extremely emotionally affected by this show, it is incredibly moving and at times transcendent. it is really special

^^^

I grew up in the upper peninsula during my teenage years and it is so unbelievably spot-on that there were moments when I was watching it with my wife where I would uncontrollably lose it and she thought something was wrong with me. he captured the entire vibe of living up there that it felt like I was being teleported back to those years.

I grew up there too and although this is not inaccurate I still can't shake a sense of resentment of the guy for not being from there

https://www.vulture.com/2019/03/mike-obrien-joe-pera-talks-with-you-interview.html

This is the first confirmation I've seen of a second season:

https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/2019/05/02/joe-pera-talks-you-shooting-second-season-milwaukee-and-u-p/3654202002/

oh nice glad to hear it!

yes!

very much in character that there was apparently no formal announcement at all

maybe i just don't get it. it's like they realized they wrote a perfect song, panicked, and then added a violin solo.

I guess if you write a song that good, you can give it whatever dumbass title you want.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91wX0NRjJqg

Holy shit it really is ten hours long

Big news I can finally share - season two of
'Joe Pera Talks With You' will be coming out this holiday season on @adultswim.

There are 14 new episodes, each with new topics, and I will let you speculate whether this fire hydrant will be introduced as a new major character. https://t.co/jED4yFjs7i

— Joe Pera (@JosephPera) September 4, 2019

yes!!!!!!

Yay!

Yay!

Omg

*air piano*

i am in love with this beautiful soul.

i recently guessed his age correctly to the week.

great news

t the time very tired) partner said his show was "too awkward" to enjoy, it made her too anxious. i said you must have watched the wrong episode and put on the episode where he talks you to sleep. she said "actually this is amazing" and fell asleep before it ended.

whoa lemme try again

my (at the time very tired) partner said his show was "too awkward" to enjoy, it made her too anxious. i said you must have watched the wrong episode and put on the episode where he talks you to sleep. she said "actually this is amazing" and fell asleep before it ended.

I've been tearing through this the past few days, and was about to watch the last two, but Adult Swim's site is just giving me their weird 404 page now :(

Biggest laugh for me so far, was the cutaway to the deli slicer in the NYE episode. "NICE AND THICK." Something about that just short-circuited my brane. Biggest smile was when the band teacher starts beating the drum along to "Baba O'Riley."

This is the sweetest comedy ever. I would happily watch feature length episodes of Joe going about his day.

He's just become 'that twentysomething guy who acts like he's in his late seventies' at this point

He's only in his twenties?????

One of my fave things about him is I remember seeing him at a few open mics in like 2010 and he was doing the exact same thing he is now, the voice, the shirts, everything. I love that he just figured that out early on and mustve just been like "yup, this feels perfect."

hope this is made officially available in the uk somehow so i'm not just boring people about something they can't watch.

― devvvine, Thursday, 2 August 2018 12:30 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh hey this is in the uk now on all4 :)

I'm amazed by how much I care about Joe after only nine ten minute episodes. I think it's because he's so different from other main characters in that he's so uncomplicated and straightforward in the best possible way. It's refreshing to see characters who aren't dark or edgy or complex

my (at the time very tired) partner said his show was "too awkward" to enjoy, it made her too anxious. i said you must have watched the wrong episode and put on the episode where he talks you to sleep. she said "actually this is amazing" and fell asleep before it ended.

― I'm a board man. Board man gets paid (Will M.), Monday, September 9, 2019 1:03 AM (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink

ive shared this show with about ten people now and half completely get it and love and the other half are done within about four minutes of the first ep.

this is back with new episodes in like two weeks!

Pumped

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsSZTjLYDJ0
this is remarkably sweet; joe is completely and honestly freaked out and Colbert genuinely likes this guy and wants him to succeed

nice. just checked on my YouTubeTV account and 2 episodes have been added already.

'Kay well I'd seen and enjoyed some of his stand-up and filmed shorts in the past but only just got around to watching the show tonight and...this is something truly special.

Holy cow, I recognized him immediately and then thought 'no way is that actually hum' but sure enough, that was totally a Mark Borchardt cameo in the rat wars episode!

2nd ep of the new season really got me.

i never thought a show could have me as emotionally invested in a bean arch, but here we are.

the shitty baseball-playing yooper me from my childhood was cheering wildly during episode 2.

This is, of course, the best show.

I hit my hands on my pants when the ice cream store is closed.

Ep 3/4 were both great and misted me up a bit even as they undercut the emotion.

First two eps were solid. No idea if or how he could top the end of s1 but I'm eager to see him try.

this show nails the sweetest midwestern sentiments of things that could or could not be troubling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi_pdmipZ0M

continue to love that Gene the cameraman on Seth Meyers is Gene in Joe Pera's world

friend told me that over the holidays he watched a few eps with his grandfather, who loved them and got hooked, raving that Joe was "very moral" and "should be deacon"

that's so wholesome!

my partner L. _hated_ this show until I explained to her that no one is laughing at Joe and there's not some weird gloss of metahumor where we're all making fun of him and his world but that it is the squarest show on television and yet still very enjoyably sweet and funny. Then she liked it. She thought I was being mean by watching it and laughing!

I shared like the first 4-5 episodes with people I'm generally very in sync with wrt comedy and, well, let's say the response was muted at best. Disappointing, but this kinda is its own unique creature so it's hard to tell who's gonna vibe with ol' Joe.

Ah but then a friend texted me yesterday asking what the name of the show was with the guy who talked about rocks and breakfast so I may have been too hasty in assessing the reception. I have to remember that it takes time and patience to grow a bean arch.

the moment he found out he had enough money to buy ice cream and got the gallon pail of vanilla might have been the pinnacle of midwest nods in the show's run.

i've been enjoying the new season and last night went back and watched "joe pera lights up the night with you" which is one of my favorites despite getting zero votes here

the moment he found out he had enough money to buy ice cream and got the gallon pail of vanilla might have been the pinnacle of midwest nods in the show's run.

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, January 6, 2020 7:28 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

this was so good.

oh man the ending of the bachelor party episode <3

oof those last couple of episodes. when sarah took over the show momentarily to give joe space, it blew my mind

End of this season broke my heart

watched s1 last nite, loved it v much. reminds me of my grandparents

There are still 4 eps left this season, thank goodness

Oh cool! I thought it was ten eps.

connor o'malley has a special screen presence

this is my favourite show

if you haven't seen this standup routine it is definitely worth your time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sEHv-iKrYU

lol, thank you for that

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

only watched a few eps but yes it's my favorite thing this year. outside of On Cinema $11

has anyone seen that YouTube series he did with Connor O'Malley called "How To Make it in USA"? 9 episodes, about 40 minutes total, but its really great. Pera is hilarious but Connor steals the show

This topped my (short) ballot for that poll.

Really needed the “Joe Pera Shows You How to do Good Fashion” after the 1-2 gut punch of the previous episodes.

Ok I’m at the part where he starts talking about Dragon Ball, this show is amazing

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/six-to-seven-incredible-comedians-and-music-by-shellshag-tickets-92750155211

tried introducing this to my wife the other day

"so this is the whole episode? he just goes to the grocery store?"

"yeah its one of my favorite ones"

"huh.....you know this guy is exactly like your friend Tim"

Someone needs to put out the Joe Pera haircut style poster immediately

Sarah: "Guess it's back to the rat race tomorrow"

Joe: "Please don't mention that movie anymore"

Sarah: "Sorry...guess it's back to school tomorrow"

Joe: "Now that movie, you can mention any time"

There are certain performances and rhythms in this show that make me think of it as kind of like a Midwestern, live-action King of the Hill.

I realized this specifically in the episode where they go to Milwaukee.

ok it was always bothering me that this guy reminded me of **someone** and I finally figured out who it was

about 10 years ago there was this middle aged Southern guy named Steve Sutton who did a daily video blog even though he led a totally uneventful life and never really had anything to say. occasionally he would post little tutorials. a friend and I used to follow this guy religiously because there was something weirdly relaxing about watching him. it was like a daily moment of zen. anyway looking him up on YouTube again it looks like at least one of his videos got kind of famous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFLiuaEtvdo

They just added this to the All 4 streaming service in the UK/Ireland. I've only watched two episodes: the Church announcements one and the very first one. I can't decide whether to just mill through the whole lot in one weekend or save them up for when I really need them. I just love it.

just plow through and then watch them multiple times when you need a pick me up

That seems like a good plan.

my partner L. _hated_ this show until I explained to her that no one is laughing at Joe and there's not some weird gloss of metahumor where we're all making fun of him and his world but that it is the squarest show on television and yet still very enjoyably sweet and funny. Then she liked it. She thought I was being mean by watching it and laughing!

I had to convince my husband of the same thing. He was really worried that it was some super-extreme comedy of embarrassment. But he relaxed when I assured him nothing bad would happen to Joe.

I feel confident in saying that Steve Sutton knows jack shit about making sweet iced tea.

Look, I know I've had a drink, but Joe Pera Talks You Back to Sleep almost made me cry.

considering Sarah's main personality quirk I feel like recent events absolutely have to factor into season 3

in that recent "showrunners write a corona episode" piece in vulture there was a joe pera piece

JOE and SARAH sit on their respective cots in Sarah’s fortified basement, each reading big books. Joe looks up, asks …

JOE: “Sarah, do you think they’re still gonna do Movie Night at the library next week?”

SARAH: “What?”

Joe removes from his mouth the cinnamon stick he’s been chewing on.

JOE: “Do you think that there’ll be Movie Night at the library next week?”

Sarah opens her mouth to respond but pauses. Of course, it’ll be canceled, but she knows how much Joe looks forward to the event each month and doesn’t want to give him the disappointing news.

Unfortunately, the pause lingers long enough for Joe to figure it out and he nods and returns to reading, disheartened.

Sarah sees the sad look on his face and begins to hum the tune of “Good Time Girl,” used in the opening credits of The New Pope, a television show that they have been watching this week — one episode each night before bed.

Joe doesn’t look up from his book but begins to move his shoulders up and down to the beat. Though he will never be able to dance like the attractive nuns at the beginning of each episode, Sarah and Joe imagine him doing so and smile.

They go back to their books. —Joe Pera

dang tho

Naturally, I bought Ladies of the Lights, by Patricia Majher. And, naturally, I can only hear Joe Pera's voice as I read it.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/onward-and-upward-in-the-garden/its-time-to-grow-your-own-beans

I am growing mange tout peas up the side of a gazebo, which is the closest I can get to a bean arch this year.

We finally watched the first day of school episode, and with everything that's going on at the moment, it straight up made me cry.

https://www.talkhouse.com/joe-pera-talks-with-you-david-bazan-pedro-the-lion-on-the-talkhouse-podcast/

HE IS ACTUALLY GROWING BEANS RIGHT NOW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87_4nHEPHyU

maybe o'malley needs his own thread

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nice, can't wait to watch that tonight

in other news, here's Joe Pera with a beard. fast forward to 1:07

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5NbrLuUol4

it is kind of amazing he hasn't been clocked yet

he's definitely someone you'd want to give a wide latitude to

is there any footage anywhere of joe pera not talking with his joe pera affectation ?

hopefully not

I choose to believe it's how he actually talks

hullo

Unlisted video of 5 hours of Tree TV (actually just 30 mins looped ten times but still).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XkfmrXLxaNk&feature=emb_title&time_continue=21&ebc=ANyPxKov14rG74ZNNxw82RJzjP9I1o9KYQFGGIAVz5Msu9hAitVU60Ncl89c-M8AnLolipxJR01vPILXg8iqZTZsS3OVecHIhQ

retrying embed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkfmrXLxaNk

Alert! new Joe Pera animated short in most recent ep of FXX's Cake

cake is generally pretty bad; how's this?

the Joe Pera short is good; also the John Hodgman & David Rees Dicktown shorts are good.

Great season @BuffaloBills, good game @Chiefs. Hope you beat Brady and that the @Patriots don’t make the playoffs again for 100 years

— Joe Pera (@JosephPera) January 25, 2021

attaboy

keeps finding ways to be more loveable

If he was really from the UP he'd be tweeting about the Packers loss

Hes from buffalo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sEHv-iKrYU

REVERIES + REVERIES GOING DEEPER
Q&A W/ FILMMAKERS MODERATED BY JOE PERA
January 27th 8pm
https://stream.spectacletheater.com/

Reveries, and it’s follow-up Reveries: Going Deeper, are comedy tone poems/visual albums revolving around two mysterious drifters who never speak, but whose inner monologues carry us across a landscape of absurdist one-liners, surreal stories, and stream-of-consciousness musings. Backed by a dreamy original score and hallucinogenic montages created from camcorder footage shot over the course of years all around the world, Reveries is a singular, unclassifiable experience at the intersection of alt comedy, internet video art, and underground weirdo cinema.

Reveries tracks the drifters as they travel across the American landscape in what reveals itself as a journey into their own unravelling minds and psyches. The more narrative-driven, Reveries: Going Deeper, takes place in a dystopian future where the drifters broadcast their “reveries” from an underground, pirate radio station, attempting to save the world by diving deeper into their own minds than they’ve ever been before.

Stick around after the screening for a Q&A with Director Director Graham Mason & Writer/Stars Anthony Oberbeck & Matt Barats moderated by Joe Pera of Joe Pera Talks With You"

Good news: pic.twitter.com/9zU2pzZXdI

— Joe Pera (@JosephPera) August 3, 2021

oh thank god

He also has a book coming out soon!

Yessss

soon

Less than a month away: pic.twitter.com/OyIG8RqXlM

— Joe Pera (@JosephPera) October 11, 2021

genuine lol there

Huge endorsement for India

Did a very important phone call with @Indiawaltonbflo: pic.twitter.com/1SO2Ffb7Fo

— Joe Pera (@JosephPera) October 19, 2021

after watching the full series of The Sopranos, the new episode was much needed balm. Bart is a worthwhile addition to the Pera universe. I teared up a bit near the end.

"Joe! Touch this!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OluiGzTPrzI

I had totally missed the pandemic special (and it really was just so goddamn special) until last week. I really could've used that in the doldrums of 2020. It's my Bo Burham: Inside.

You’re a man of integrity! And you like describing things!

the humor on this is so clean cut that a line like "Mr. Pera Balls" nearly made me fall off the couch

it has been a great season.

We're super late to this but love it. Def. shares some vibes with ... John Wilson?

yeah, Nathan for You too. All part of the new wave of gentle humor.
When does Ike get a show is what I want to know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8n7hnNdbhQ

"Joe Pera Discusses School-Appropriate Entertainment With You" was particularly great. The conversation with the young puppeteer, the libertarian magician, "Why would that be the first line of anything?"

Adventures of Otto!

Oh I didn’t see that Episode 6 was out. Man. That might have been the most beautiful episode of a TV show I’ve ever seen

lmao why does this show keep referencing Dragonball Z

thank you, it’s an honor

— Joe Pera (@JosephPera) December 22, 2021

The Matrix 2 costumes in one of the first two seasons has got to be one of the funniest deep cut jokes I've seen in eons. #onethread

the finale where Joe builds a wooden chair while Gene creates a commercial with a vision for a New World Order is pretty striking. I love how this show can focus on the most droll and ordinary things while also embracing full-on surrealism. I thought all the stuff with Sara's wine night friends was good too. my wife does that and remarked that the show did a really good job of capturing what those things are really like

The one-second freeze frame of his guilt-ridden panicked face after playing the movie with curse words...

Ya know, a lot of people assume Conner O'Malley's name is Teenage Wasteland.

O'Malley's like a really fucking scary version of Bob Odenkirk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQRAbfnKQkM

Hey, ILX. I'm talking with you!

i don't really get how this show is so good. it's sweet and cute, which are not words that could be used to describe almost any other tv show i like, but somehow it's subversive and edgy, but also very funny, but it's very episodic, but also there are full character arcs and narratives, but each episode is only 11 minutes long??? i don't understand

it defies norms for sure

season 3 was great

yeah they basically cracked the code on making a perfect show

it's absolutely among the best things on right now. Jo Firestone doesn't get enough love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGLBRoVl-mY

(i once brought doughnuts to a job interview)

one more, kind of impressed he's been doing this bit for over ten years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAMTye8xfLQ

I kinda don’t like watching old clips of his from before the show where his character is fully formed.

Yeah, I was watching some old Conner O'Malley thing where he briefly showed up as a character (a not terribly un-Joe Pera-esque character, admittedly) and it weirded me out a little.

Jo's new special on Peacock where she has old people doing standup is very sweet.

ok yall wanna get freaked out check out :50 in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CVf3us5c4g

^^ I saw that with the big disclaimers at the beginning, and I dunno. Still feels in character.

I mean, "Joe Pera" is a schoolteacher, so he has to have a college degree. And in the same way he thought it would be a good idea to recreate Rat Race, I could see an even younger "Joe Pera" doing that act.

ultimately I don't think Joe Pera and "Joe Pera" are all that different - no more than say Nathan Fielder in Nathan for You or some of Tim Heidecker's various characters...still it's weird to hear him doing a different voice

but I guess that is the appeal of the show, the characters feel three-dimensional and real. I like the fact that Pera isn't used as a punching bag the way most comedy shows would. the way his students & neighbors treat him feels very authentic to me. he's this boring dork but ultimately people like him even if they don't really want to get to know him

so great that that exists.

im sure ive posted before that there are jokes i remember from seeing him at western ny open mics around this time that popped up in s1 of the show. its amazing how once he figured his character out he just stuck to it and ran with it. i still remember the feeling of seeing him at an open mic at some awful upstate bar and listening to all the macho badboy maron-wannabe standup dudes all roasting him amongst each other, "what is with this mr rogers guy, is he stupid?" etc, and i was like "this guy is obviously the funniest person in this room by a factor of 1000"

the bit he did on Conan where he mocks up some Christmas card from the future including his "very tall sons" and proceeds to just show it to just one person in the audience is really great

There are quite a few less than flattering descriptors I can think of for Marc Maron but, uh, "macho" is not one of them.

<3 <3 Joe Pera though, still need to catch up on S3

i guess i was using "macho" more in terms of that kind of comic-as-gunslinger, "traditional standup uber alles", anyone doing anything weird is "cheating" mindset that he used to be very hung up on (less so in recent years as he's softened, but certainly 10 years ago)

Oh I get that descriptor, for sure, Pera is such a wonderful exception to that. Maron just spends so much time dwelling in and displaying his insecurities that it's hard to think of him the macho type.

Joe Pera's on VCR Party Live RIGHT NOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnu5F6MT14I

hello melinda!

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

Okay I am binging this wonderful show. but! Two episodes from S2 are missing from the Adult Swim website. “Joe Pera teaches you to play piano” and “Joe Pera Has a Surprise for You”. The last one is crustal for the rest of the season (I saw it on a plane’s inflight entertainment center before I saw the rat of the season LOL.

I’m watching S3 and I’m starting to think there is a Werner Herzog documentary vibe? The drone episode with the interview with the astronaut and the watching the sunrise guy. Also the solo cello music in that episode is very Ernst Reijsiger.

he's gonna be on tour soon! all over the Midwest! I'm from the Midwest!! He's coming to Green Bay!!! shit, I might see him three times!!!!

Officially cancelled "for now" :(

oh no!!! what a bummer. this show was amazing and I am pretty sure there won't be anything else like it on TV for a long long time

Can’t wait for the live show later this month.

Adult Swim must have realized they had a good show and panicked.

heartbroken

Surely someone will pick this up. Not like it needs a big budget to produce.

it sucks, not just because the show was so great but also because it ran so counter to everything Adult Swim usually did, which I think actually made it a really cool fit for them

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-farewell-screening-with-joe-pera-and-friends-two-day-pass-tickets-383000363397

Still pissed there’s apparently no place for a show like this on the zillion streaming services and channels.

2 day pass sold out instantly but i am gonna go to s2 and s3

So that new Jeffrey Dahmer series on Netflix. It’s a little uncanny.

There’s no regional connection between the two as far as I know and I’ve never seen interview footage of Dahmer, but it’s like they found a guy who looks like Joe Pera and told him to “do Joe Pera”. Or Pera’s thing was quietly “do Jeffrey Dahmer” the whole time.

https://www.gawker.com/culture/joe-pera-dahmer-netflix-evan-peters

If Netflix reads this — they don’t have to do another serial killer show. I have another idea. You know the women who used to appear in the Big Buck Hunter game? They’re all older now, and I’ve reached out to them, and I’ve got them signed on to do a film interpretation of Hamlet. If Netflix reads this, I hope they know that we could do it at a fraction of the price of Dahmer.

I'm here for whatever this guy's next move is

recently I had an old friend - someone I've known since middle school - stay over at my house while in the middle of a 12-day hike from Madison to Sturgeon Bay. I put this show on and he absolutely loved it. He won't stop texting me about it. such a shame nobody has picked it up. I mean how much could it possibly cost to make this show?

dude knows his Dragonball Z!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJIDjehZm40

http://www.keweenawreport.com/featured/adult-swim-show-runner-donates-11000-to-clk-schools-music-program/

Good guy Joe Pera, helping out UP music students. Maybe he is more than a larper Yooper after all :)

What a strange headline, "Adult Swim Show-Runner", not like "Adult Swim Star" or "Joe Pera" or whatever.

yeah that article is wrong on a number of levels: those weren't "stand-up shows," that was the two day screening of every episode of the show at Bell House. He had the UP teacher onstage with him at the start of S3, seemed like a nice guy.

That was a great experience btw, lots of shop talk and fun being in a crowd of Pera obsessives who clapped at every title card.

that blog sucks for sure, I am guessing the more legit UP newspapers and TV haven't published the story as fast

Saw him this past Friday. The music playing over the PA as people were getting seated included the MC5 and the New York Dolls. There were two openers, one of whom was Ryan Dunn who did the music for the show. He was really fun and engaging. The next opener was comedian, and longtime Pera collaborator, Dan Licata (he played the DJ in the "Baba O'Riley" episode) who was decidedly hacky and mediocre. Joe came on, and his entrance music was the Jam's "In The City," which was a pleasant surprise. Joe did a LOT of interacting with the audience, and it wasn't the usual crowd work type of stuff, either. He would ask the audience a question, and then asked people to respond "one at a time" -- which they did. Then he asked us to vote on, for instance, if a squirrel could carry an entire pita chip by itself. The ending of the show was like a slowly deflating balloon, though. I saw Tig Notaro do something similar, where there's a bit sort-of being worked up to, and the performer just kind of riffs hoping they'll hit upon something funny enough to end on. I dunno, maybe Joe was working out half-written material or something -- he brought Ryan and Dan (who was funnier in this bit than in his opening set) back out for the last 10 minutes or so. But overall, a solid and hilarious show. I had never heard Joe swear or talk about sex, so that was weirdly jarring.

lots of other fun merch here but:
https://shop.merchcentral.com/collections/joe-pera/products/joe-pera-new-looks-for-the-modern-man-poster

It does kill me how you can tell which of his jokes are his favorites.

need to start an accidentally joe pera thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd74F_NrsCQ

I appreciate his enthusiasm. Learning about the ways the gases can be channelled through the house was educational for me.

I don't want to ruin the mood, but I do have an important point to make. The tile work there is less than aesthetically pleasing.

Perhaps Eric could make another video explaining the reasons why the tile was set like that. There may be a very good engineering or architectural reason, and – though my wife hates to hear it – that's sometimes more important than how something looks.

live shows in london/uk next april

https://buffalonews.com/entertainment/josephine-pera-93-unlikely-star-of-grandsons-comedy-videos/article_c042b80a-8f49-552f-b919-649b3a457d54.html

Finally doing a Sleep Podcast. First ep out Sunday: pic.twitter.com/GtSRyToYKE

— Joe Pera (@JosephPera) February 1, 2023

lol perfect opening line

about 50% of the time my girl gets home, i shuffle over slackshouldered and say "Hullo"

lol

I hadn't realised he's coming to the UK in a few months! The Glasgow evening show is sold out already, but there's a Sunday afternoon matinee, which maybe feels even more appropriate.

I see devvvine mentioned it just a few posts ago in December actually, but I totally missed it.

Yay!

in a very random twist of fate i ended up showing him around my workplace while he was in the uk. was extremely lovely!

The deep regret where you discover that a favourite/loved band just played nearby without you knowing? Crushing case of this when I saw too late that Joe Pera came to the UK. Managed to get a lovely embroidered t-shirt though.

He even went on NTS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pZ449A--kA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_97zE4GRZk

incredible drip

This is a seven minute routine about a squirrel and a pita chip lmao I’m dying here

The dating column was great to losing virginity section was awesome. Early section? Ehhhh he brings the audience in on the joke of the bit rather then leaning hard on it, though that lean is definitely essential to allow those moments to shine

Has his posture gotten more extreme lately? It's ironically not very relaxing and even menacing -- after 5 minutes, I had to switch to Pera's old "zero fucks" character video to calm down!

Surely he’s got something propping up his shirt from the back, otherwise the man needs to calm down for his health!

well how much calmer can this man get? can't imagine another comedian able to close on "if you haven't fallen asleep yet, I wish you good night"

anyway, I loved the whole thing, maybe some parts were awkward or didn't quite work but I also think he's doing something on stage which hasn't really been done before. btw he does break character around 47:50 :)

who was the guy at the top of the balcony they kept cutting to? was that his dad?

Pretty sure that was the doorman who bonked everyone on the head on the way in. And yeah, he totally broke when talking about his female fans freezing their partners to death. Adorable.

Loved this. A little shocking when he went blue for a few minutes there but the impact of the bit was earned by the years of well-maintained sedation.

When I saw him live on this tour in DC he ended up talking to a woman in the crowd who worked in the White House and he made several asides about he was now worried about being targeted by Joe Biden.

I'll also point out that he put the special on YouTube ad-free, which is a really nice thing for him to do especially since it's getting a good amount of views!

i saw him in madison on the tour that turned into this special, looking forward to watching

they threw tomato seed packs into the crowd at the end lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZMyFjEWOSs

in case you thought he made it up

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvTPQULS3J8

vital comfort rewatching

lol at in the "fall drive" episode you see gene and his wife dressed up as neo and trinity from the matrix and joe and his grandmother dressed up as the albino twin villains

guessing that was a Conner O'Malley obsession since he once dressed up as one of the twins on Seth Meyers, too.

Connor O'Malley as one of The Twins from The Matrix Reloaded for Late Night With Seth Meyers pic.twitter.com/WMO48FQPyH

— Fawaz. (@FaZeThog) March 12, 2020

Dan Licata was on Office Hours a couple weeks ago and told a pretty funny story about when he met Joe Pera. he was 10 years old and met him at a laser tag place, everyone orders "The Lasertron Special" and child Joe Pera orders a ginger ale lmao

also confirms that the bulk of S1's budget went towards licensing Baba O'Reilly