Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

It seems like there's been an explosion in great comedy podcasts(on iTunes or elsewhere) in the last year. Which ones are worth listening to?

My faves so far:

-Nerdist (Chris Hardwick interviews comedians and nerd icons)

-Comedy Death Ray (Scott Aukerman's convos and improv stuff with comedians)

-Doug Loves Movies (Doug Benson's tuesday night game show)

-SklarBro Country (which is better than I expected) (the Sklar Brothers endlessly riff, only with sports as their source of pop culture references)

-the Film Vault (Anderson & Bald Brian from the Loveline/Adam Carolla crew argue about movies and at each other for an hour each week)

Pretty much, all of these(except for the Film Vault) can be found in the Top 10 section of comedy on iTunes.

What are your faves?

people here don't seem to like the sound of young america guy but he's got some good interviews with many comics.

bugle

WTF with Marc Maron

amazing, personal, anguished interviews with all sorts of comedians. the robin williams one is awesome. and the two-part mencia one, about joke-stealing, is epic!

The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling is available in podcast form and is pretty unfuckwithable as far as these things go. The most recent episode was pretty depressing though, so maybe start with the Best Show Gems podcast if you're uninitiated.

Also, even though there's only been a couple of 'em so far, I have to recommend Paul F. Tompkins' Pod F. Tomcast.

dunno if ricky gervais show is admissible but if it is i'd like to admiss it

Wiretap with Jonathan Goldstein is pretty lovely, if not always laugh out loud stuff.

Love, and am totally obsessed with WTF with Marc Maron. The recent Apatow two-parter is worth a listen.

Bugle is excellent.

Just started on Nerdist today. I didn't like it at first bc I thought it was too chatty but i am not very smart and have poor judgement.

I like Too Beautiful to Live with Luke Burbank.

Thirding Marc Maron's WTF. Great stuff.

Also subscribe to:
-Nerdist
-Coyle & Sharpe: The Imposters (amazingly surreal street interviews from early 60s SF! Please subscribe to this one)
-Never Not Funny
-Pod F. Tomcast
-Best Show On WFMU

Nerdist doesn't do it for me. Don't like Hardwick as an interviewer.

Nerdist could do with editing - Hardwick definitely goes for lols too often, and could trim the failures in favour of more useful interview.

This is what makes WTF so successful - Maron started out trying to do a multi-format show with a monologue, interview that's light & funny, sketches and whatnot, but as it's become apparent that his informal one-on-one style gets actually considered, reflective and profound conversations out of people, he's happily let the format switch to focus on those at length. (And his skill as an interviewer also makes the "funny" ones work too, as where the UCB Live episodes have become more him bantering with a growing stage of folk, rather than four comedians doing a tight ten and getting off.)

Maron's been one of my favorite stand-ups for close to ten years, so it makes me feel all warm inside that he's finally starting to get some recognition. Yeah, he was on Air America for a while and appeared on Conan's Late Night show about a zillion times, but he's clearly gaining more traction now.

If you haven't heard his album Not Sold Out from 2002, get thee to it. No shit, it might be my favorite comedy album.

i think most bros here would be into Uhh Yeah Dude

its the only podcast i listen to basically.

comedy death ray radio, especially when the character "Bob Ducca" is on

some of the best Uhh Yeah Dude material is str8 dudes looking for str8 dudes on craigslist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frqUgIQ8b7g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbgVFy41reM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3m_x8sMY2w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xluqh7SdMLc

I listen to

Nerdist
Doug Loves Movies
Never not Funny
WTF
and
Pod F. Tomcast

which are apparently the same things that everyone else is listening to too! ha.

btw going to see Mr. Tomkins in a couple weeks. V excited.

oh and Comedy Death Radio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIGiw-PL9Bs&feature=related

lol soup kitchen jerk

Both of those dudes are WSes btw but the one is a little too skinny.

hairy guy = jon laroquette's son

hahahahahaha seriously?

seriously

and he's in a chillwave (kind of) band
http://www.myspace.com/joggermusic

I can sorta see it actually. I have to admit that I'm sorta feeling him although I think he would look better with short hair.

OK these two are great. Watching from last to first on "Men Looking for Women". Dying right now.

omg guycunt

"who's parenting harder?" is a good segment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UoR1dUm9dE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfoBvODYDdw&feature=related

johnathan's dad drives around town in a white mercedes with the license plate that reads "uyd". he also wore a uyd tshirt when he was on craig furgeson awhile back.

awwww that's cute!

The Bugle
Best Show Gems

I've tried listening to some the others mentioned (Comedy Death Ray & WTF) but I have a hard time getting into listening to comedians just chatting.

Oh yeah, I like Wiretap too.

just starting with WTF (Patrice O'Neal episode) it's great, thanks s1ocki!

That Partrice O'Neal ep was pretty O_o

have listened to 15 more mins now and the O_o has begun to flow

Like, there's honesty, and then there's, um...okay you have to be quiet now.

Recently downloaded a load of Sound of Young America shit to listen to at the gym, and I like it! He's a non-obtrusive interviewer, occasionally offers up a genuinely insightful question (and at the very least you can tell he does his homework before having a guest on), and (most importantly for me) has John Hodgman on the show all the goddamn time. I have a huge sloppy mancrush on John Hodgman, and I am only slightly ashamed to admit this.

Jesse Thorn is great!! <3 <3 Love Sound of Young America. Something about his voice and manner reminds me of a laidback Weird Al for some reason. Just seems like an all round lovely guy.

not a comedy podcast, but Thorn also does http://putthison.com

well i tried out the mark maron thing and boy does that guy like to hear himself talk. he's obviously doing something right cause so many people dig it but i just don't have the patience to listen to a 20-minute improv ramble before a 40-minute interview. hack down the intro to 5 minutes and the interview to 15 and i'd listen every day. maybe.

as for me it's really

-bugle

tom scharpling's stuff is obviously fucking transcendent at times, he's a good straight man with some unbelievably awesome collaborators

Tracer Hand I skip the intro a lot.

The episode of Doug Loves Movies with John Lithgow, Jimmy Pardo, and Paul F Tompkins was terrific.

re: jesse thorn, i thought people didn't like him here? haha maybe the haters have been worn away by the sands of time.
i'll cop to not having the patience for scharpling, but i did manage to make it through a half hour of his re-dubbing of Mr. Brooks.

look up the phoner with "mr loophole"

bugle i liked a lot but then sort of like... didnt have the energy for

and i like maron's shtick, his manic self-doubt and depression are kind of works of art in and of themselves

exactly. I would find it annoying or offputting in most ppl, even comedians, but he's really good at finding those, um, notes, that have a universal truth to them. So even when he's bitching about his cats or his parents, there's usually some bait on the hook that takes me along for the ride, where I can say, well I know THAT feeling, or ugh omg I know someone who does that. And it's not that it's always relatable, but I think the fact that it's true is probably what it is. It's just truth. Truth is funny.

i'm surprised there isn't a podcast of bootlegged routines of comedians, which seem like natural podcast material.

I like the Adam Carolla show, Doug Loves Movies, Best Show Gems.

Carolla is pretty funny almost every day (although his politics are often lame).

WTF is sometimes good, but Marc Maron is soooo needy and bitter that the podcast sometimes comes off as sort-of pathetic.

Greg Fitzsimmons can be pretty good, but I haven't listened to a whole lot of his stuff, so I'm reserving judgment for now.

Bill Simmons' podcast is funny whenever they don't talk about sports. He did a two-parter on BH90210 a few weeks ago that was awesome.

Recently downloaded a load of Sound of Young America shit to listen to at the gym, and I like it!

Jesse Thorn vs. Charlie Rose in "who can interrupt to talk about themselves the most" FITE

Just started listening to "Walking The Room" with Dave Anthony & Greg Behrendt. It's nebulous and chatty as hell and they talk over each other but damn, it's fucking funny.

NNF is doing the pardcast-a-thon tonight from 6PM to 6AM PST. I'm going to try and stay up for it but I might get too loko'd... anyone else listening?

AV Club interview with Jimmy Pardo:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/jimmy-pardo,48274/

http://www.pardcast.com/

Live streamin'

Have now listened to about 20 WTF w/ Marc Maron podcasts thanks to this thread. My God this thing is incredible. Highly recommended for weird, uncomfortable interplay between Maron and interviewee: Carlos Mencia 2-parter and Louis CK 2-parter.

The CK two-parter was great. The last couple of minutes beween them at the end of Part 2 was...wow

I saw Maron at the Punchline in SF a couple of weeks ago, and he was great. He's incredibly at ease on stage, for someone as neurotic as he is. Seems like he may have found his groove now? I've only seen video of his old stuff, I don't like it nearly as much as him now. He's def more engaging now. And funny!
He has a bit of that Louis CK thing, where they both tell you things about themselves that are designed to make you laugh *at* them. Stories that in another comedians hands could end up racist or offensive, where you end up laughing at the subject of the story, or other people...they turn the observations back on themselves. Their stories become these embarrassing tell-alls where the audience is burying their faces in their hands, like "Dude you did NOT think that." It's kind of genius.

only 9 hours to go

Also will rep for Sklarbro Country, even as I hated their comedy in the 90s. They serve up a quick enough mix of pop cult and sports refs to keep it interesting.

Plus, they went to my alma mater and graduated 3 months before I hit campus.

The Skarboro ep with Jon Hamm is gold

aimee mann <3 <3 <3

jon hamm is such a comedy podcast slut

Wow $26,000. Almost made it the whole way but passed out at 3:30 or so when Tami Segher was on. Was in and out and heard Behrendt and Schmitty.

Have now listened to about 20 WTF w/ Marc Maron podcasts thanks to this thread. My God this thing is incredible. Highly recommended for weird, uncomfortable interplay between Maron and interviewee: Carlos Mencia 2-parter and Louis CK 2-parter.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, November 26, 2010 4:40 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

co-sign this whole post^^ the Ira Glass episode was really nice, too.

also, would like to big up http://uhhyeahdude.com/ again. comedy podcasting by 2 guys who aren't "comedians", just guys who are funny to listen to.

yeah i've liked the couple shows of theirs that i've listened to

Ya uyd is rad

They are actual comedians though right?

i just started listening to WTF, started with the louis ck ep. and it was really good and interesting and funny, but like 97% because of louis ck. marc maron seems really annoying and he talks way too long before he brings the guest in.

>>

s1ocki-

Ya uyd is rad

They are actual comedians though right?
--shirley summistake (s1ocki)

Jonathan Laroquette is a musician and Seth Romatelli is a sometimes actor. Neither one does stand up.

i just started listening to WTF, started with the louis ck ep. and it was really good and interesting and funny, but like 97% because of louis ck. marc maron seems really annoying and he talks way too long before he brings the guest in.

Wrongest thing u have ever said bro

Eh it was just two episodes so I could change my mind, but his voice is really grating and he was just like whine whine whine about Louie CK not returning his emails.

Jerry Minor finally has his own show on Earwolf, "Cyberthug Radio" or somesuch. Thing was released last night and on my iphone's itunes top ten by the time I was driving home today.

on the wfmu beat, seven second delay (where I steal many gags from lately) and nardwuar are both awesome.

they gave nardwuar a show?

http://sevenseconddelay.blogspot.com/2008/01/2007-fan-of-year.html

xp

keep listening n/a

downloading the adam mckay episode now. i plan to keep listening, the interview was great and he has interesting guests.

love seven-second delay

the mckay is okay, but it's the ones where he gets super personal that are really fascinating. you can't miss the carlos mencia ones, or the robin williams one, or the judd apatow ones.

ok - but the itunes app won't really let you go back further than like episode 80 or so (only has the past 50 eps) and I'm lazy about plugging my iphone in to the computer. but i'm pretty sure the apatow episodes are available from the itunes app.

you must find the strength within to plug your phone into your computer

ugh

u can do it

Do it clap clap clap

The Maria Bamford episode is my favorite.

I love that episode!

The Paul Scheer ep from a couple of weeks back was pretty great too. Took an interesting turn with his family issues.

Loved the live ep with Charles Fleischer too, dude is out there & hilarious.

Yes Paul Scheer episode was great. Dude had a crazy/awesome adolescence.

Ive never been sure where I stand in Sarah Silverman, but her WTF interview endeared me to her.

Worst part of WTF podcast: his theme song. Ughhhh.

UYD's practice of using different bumper music every episode has turned me on to some great stuff.

I went to the uyd live show in santa monica a couple months ago.. so rad. went to the bar after and my friends talked a bit with jonathan and seth. seth seemed kinda nuts to me. his eyes were super wide open and he was chomping the shit out of some gum.. but I guess when you listen to the show so much its not very surprising that hes a little off.

If you leave a voice mail for Seth and leave your number, he calls you back. Have had a few lol/ o_O phone conversations with him.

LOCK THE GATES

WHY DOES IT SAY LOCK THE GATES

WE DOING THIS?

Why are his fans so offended by dildos?

I never got that either.

i don't understand any of the stuff at the beginning. Also i'd like to support dude through his endorsement stuff but --i don't know about the rest of you but i do my best to avoid the brands of coffee that make me shit my pants (i see you Cafe Bustelo)

coffee company = endorsement
endorsement = supports dude's podcast
poop jokes = "funny"
funny = essential for comedy podcast

that's how I break it down to an extent.

maybe but that's a big risk to take on a series of presumptions

If you leave a voice mail for Seth and leave your number, he calls you back. Have had a few lol/ o_O phone conversations with him.

― gr8080 of missing ILX (gr8080), Wednesday, December 1, 2010 1:53 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

Gonna do this.

see also the new Judge John Hodgman podcast from maximum fun dudes

WHY DOES IT SAY LOCK THE GATES

it's a sample of Maron in Almost Famous

^I figured this out a few weeks ago bcz he mentioned the line in a podcast

man that movie launched a thousand stars headlong into the stratosphere

I still giggle at El Chupacabra's "WTF" in the intro.

WAIT FOR IT

the paul f. tompkins podcast is kind of a letdown.. but man, theres a shit ton of podcasts out there to choose from. what a time to be alive.

It's kind of fun to listen to the tompkast late at night with the lights off.

I didn't have the patience for it, but I could see the late night scenario working well.

I get annoyed with the chattiness on Nerdist...but their Rainn Wilson ep was pretty killer

Tompkins' John C. Reilly impression is killer.

I think I have been genuinely fooled by that on Comedy Death Ray?

can't get enough of Tompkins' Ice-T tbh

I just listened to my first Nerdist podcast ever last night, the one with Donal Logue. SO GOOD! I don't know which one to d/l next, though. Maybe the Rainn Wilson one?

Rainn = yes!!

The Jonathan Coulton one is pretty good also

the extra-long live Nerdist with Craig Ferguson was great

It's kind of fun to listen to the tompkast late at night with the lights off.

This is key. It's kind of the grown up version of a kid with a tape recorder doing weird shit and imaginary radio shows.

It does go on too long, though.

Funny:

http://www.earwolf.com/episode/episode-27-jerry-minor-jerry-oconnell-miles-archer-nick-kroll

Best Show, obviously. The podcast to end all podcasts. Also the Tompkast and Judge John Hodgman.

Really can't believe no one has said: SUPEREGO. That one is really great too.

Best Show gems is nice if all you want is some S&W.

my ex was super into the best show.. I never got into it.. seemed way too samey to me.

in the same way that STRAWBERRIES are samey, or BLOWJOBS

I love the best show but it is definitely not for everyone.

the endless references to solo records by obscure members of 70s hard rock bands just kill me for some reason

The recent Gems show where "Bernie Taupin" calls in is awesome:

http://www.wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=37319&archive=63515

wtf ep with apatow was really good, esp. the clips of 16-yr-old apatow talking to leno, seinfeld and shandling. i really don't understand people who know what they want to do with their lives starting from their childhood but i have a respect for them.

listening to bamford episode now, also good

whoa bamford ep gets pretty hardcore

does she talk in that funny voice?

i really like maria bamford, but i imagine if they're digging deep it's gonna come up with some psychologicall upsetting stuff

the most psychologically damaging anecdote I remember from that episode is her being hired to play a bajoran holocaust victim for some traveling deep space nine theme park show.

? that must have been a different show, this one is about her abusive ex-boyfriend and her love of 12-step programs and her psychological problems as a teen/college student

still had to skip 15 minutes of maron rambling about some b.s. though

isn't it the one where he's driving her after some comedy festival in the boonies?

The stuff about her Dad kind of fascinates me

listening to the louis c.k. two-parter; it's so good! am sort of in love with louis c.k. now

I've never really seen anything with him except a clip from letterman where he talks about how everything is awesome and people are miserable that's really funny. I should watch his TV show.

he is amazing

Louis the TV show is pretty great.

the dane cook WTF is amazing too, where there's 20 mins of cook being actually kind of affable and nice, and maron keeps asking, in various different phrasings, "why does everyone hate you so much? why does everyone say you're an asshole?" and cook gets more and more tetchy and difficult until by the end he's unbearable. this whole podcast kind of reminds me of the interrogation room scenes from homicide: life on the street, but with poop jokes.

weird ive just recently started listening to WTF and listened to the dane one today...idk i thought the mencia eps were "worse" in that i didnt really buy that he felt wrong or bad abt much of the stuff marc brought up to him

the interviews are really engaging and maron is good at them but i just dont care enough abt marc's life and admit i fast fwd through all his monologues

Almost any podcast where it's just a guy alone with a recording device are pretty hard to take.Those chunks of Maron's show are uncomfortable.

He's got better at it imo

I've just started listening to Best Show on WFMU -- I like it a lot! One thing I like: it's 3 hours long so it fills up a nice part of my morning :)
I sort of feel like there's some joke that I'm not quite getting yet, but at the same time I really like him and his weird callers.

I love the little kid that has called in the last couple of weeks: the first one I heard, he pretended to Molly Molesworth, a babysitter; and then last week he was a 97 year old man on his death bed who is still in highschool and was held back in 2nd grade for 16 years. It's like listening to an acidfreak do improv. Tom is an excellent straight man.

Pissed that Cyberthug hasn't updated yet

the mike distefano episode of wtf is like one of the best interviews i have ever heard... seriously moving.

Yeah that was great. Pretty crazy life, but I love how together he is about it all. Holy shit.

patrice oneal is a thoughtful dude but he shd srsly be in therapy like 5 days a wk

otm

the mike distefano episode of wtf is like one of the best interviews i have ever heard... seriously moving.

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Thursday, December 16, 2010 2:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

OTM. Crying in my car...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/arts/09maron.html?_r=2

The Comic Who Explores Comedy’s Darkest Side

By DAN SALTZSTEIN
Published: January 6, 2011

HERE’S a riposte you’re not likely to hear in an interview by Jay Leno or Charlie Rose: “You’ve got to have rage, man. Because I see the posture — your posture is built for rage.” That’s Marc Maron talking to Dane Cook, the popular but bland comedian, on an episode of Mr. Maron’s twice-weekly podcast.

On his show, whose title includes an exclamation that can’t be printed here, Mr. Maron, a stand-up comic by trade, has cast himself as an unlikely celebrity interviewer — one who is angry, probing, neurotic and a vulnerable recovering addict. And somehow he’s able to elicit from his guests, mostly other comedians like Sarah Silverman and Ben Stiller, the same level of vulnerability.

The interviews, usually taped in his garage in Los Angeles, often end up feeling more like therapy sessions. Take, for example, Robin Williams talking to Mr. Maron about the dark side of dealing with audiences: “I guess it’s that fear that they’ll recognize — as you know — how insecure are we really? How desperately insecure that made us do this for a living?”

Thanks to moments like these the podcast has, over the last year or so, become a cult hit and a must-listen in show business and comedy circles. The success of the show has everything to do with its perceptive, prickly host and his ability to coax surprisingly revealing things from his guests.

Comedians, Mr. Maron said, are temperamentally complicated — otherwise they probably wouldn’t be comedians.

“Most of them live difficult lives,” he said. “So that was always more in the forefront than ‘Let’s talk about the business of comedy.’ ”

Each hourlong episode begins with Mr. Maron riffing in the style that has characterizedhis comedy over the years: unscripted banter layered with humor, narcissism and anger, directed both outward and inward. But after about 10 or 15 minutes he turns to a long-form interview. And that’s when the show really takes off.

“People say stuff to him that you can’t imagine them saying to anyone else,” said Ira Glass, host of the public radio show (and podcast) “This American Life,” and a recent guest of Mr. Maron’s. “And they offer it. They want to give it to him. Because he is so bare, he calls it forward.”

After the show goes up on Mondays and Thursdays, it regularly appears on the iTunes Top 10 podcasts list. According to Brendan McDonald, the producer of the podcast, which is free, the show averages 230,000 downloads a week from iTunes and the podcast’s Web site.

In a recent interview in New York City, where he was performing a series of stand-up shows and recording interviews for his podcast, Mr. Maron talked in his usual manner: candidly, verbosely, intensely. At 47 he is lean (though he obsesses over his weight and eating habits) and sports ever-changing facial hair. (He obsesses over that too, theorizing that the lack of a consistent look has held his career back. “I don’t think Jon Stewart’s changed his hair in 25 years,” he said.) He lives in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles — just across town from Hollywood, but a world away — and has three cats. He calls his house “the cat ranch.”

Many of the comedians he came up with have passed him by. In 1995 he shared a photo spread in New York magazine with Dave Attell, Louis C. K. and Ms. Silverman, all of whom went on to have TV projects. He never got that sitcom, those major movie roles, a spot on “Saturday Night Live.” (He famously showed up stoned to an interview with Lorne Michaels; he didn’t get the gig.)

His personal life was — and still is — tumultuous. He has battled addictions to alcohol, cocaine and nicotine. He’s twice divorced, and has consistently included details about his relationships in his stand-up and on the podcast. During the first of four shows last month at Union Hall in Brooklyn, which were being recorded for a CD, he talked about changing the locks on his house because of a fight with a girlfriend.

Over the years he’s also struggled with jealousy and hostility toward other comics. Many of the podcasts begin with an apology from Mr. Maron — or at least a half-hearted attempt at one. And conflicts that have developed over the years crop up regularly, most notably during a recent two-hour interview with Louis C. K.

The two had drifted apart in the last few years, and Mr. Maron expressed envy — though also enormous respect — toward his old friend, who has his own show on FX. “If you see me doing something, and you’re having a hard time coming to terms with it ’cause of your feeling about your own life,” Louis C. K. said toward the end of the interview, “what’s really happening is you’re letting me down as a friend.”

Mr. Maron began doing comedy in the early 1980s as a student at Boston University. Over the next decade or so he performed at small clubs. He moved between the East and West Coasts in these years before settling in New York in 1993. There he helped lay the groundwork for what became known as the alt-comedy scene (a term he says he’s never really understood), alongside Louis C. K., Mr. Stewart, Janeane Garofalo and others.

“He really was the real deal,” said Mr. Attell, who began sharing stages with Mr. Maron more than 15 years ago in New York. “He truly did hate himself.”

But Mr. Attell added: “He turned it into gold. Nobody does angry and bitter better than him.”

Mr. Maron had a few short-lived TV jobs, including comedy specials. He had a minor role in the film “Almost Famous.” In 2000 he had a modestly successful one-man show, “The Jerusalem Syndrome,” Off Off Broadway. He appeared several times on “The Late Show with David Letterman” and more than 40 times on “Late Night With Conan O’Brien.”

But, as he put it, “America didn’t notice.”

In 2004 he found a temporary home at Air America, the left-leaning radio network that went off the air last January. It didn’t work out. “I really began to believe that the struggles of most people are existential, not political,” he said, “and my biggest struggles were existential.”

He was canceled by Air America — twice.

A third project with the network, a Web-based show with the comedian Sam Seder, also failed. In September 2009, after that show was canceled, he and Mr. McDonald began to sneak into the Air America studios after hours to record his podcast, bringing guests up in the freight elevator. Soon, he moved from Astoria, Queens, to Los Angeles, where he had spent time on the comedy circuit. And so his garage became the new home of the podcast.

On the early episodes he interviewed — sometimes awkwardly, thanks perhaps to all that hostile jealousy — old friends and comedy personalities he had intersected with over the years: Zach Galifianakis, Bob Odenkirk, Mr. Attell.

Last April he interviewed Robin Williams at Mr. Williams’s home in Marin County, Calif. (Using a technique repeated in later episodes, on the drive up he talked through and recorded his anxieties about the interview.) Mr. Williams, usually an unstoppable riff machine, mostly laid off the jokes, and the discussion was notably raw and real.

The Williams show “put the thing on the map,” Mr. Maron said. “It was unlike any other interview with him. We talked about addiction, divorce, joke theft, about his reputation, about his career.”

So how does Mr. Maron create the space that allows for comics to finally open up?

“What helps him,” said Judd Apatow, the director and producer, and another recent guest, “is the fact that people mistakenly think that no one is going to listen to it, when in fact a ton of people listen to it, and it will last forever.”

The do-it-yourself quality of the podcast — his setup includes only a laptop computer or digital recorder, a mixer and two microphones — puts guests at ease. As Mr. Apatow put it, “You kind of feel like he might lose the tape on the way home.”

Another breakthrough occurred in May: Mr. Maron interviewed Carlos Mencia, a popular comedian who has been repeatedly accused of stealing jokes and bullying his peers. Mr. Maron, though, approached the interview with empathy.

“In my mind this was a guy that obviously paid his dues,” he said. “And so I wanted to talk to him about the accusations — the little I knew about them — but more so just to say, ‘How do you deal with this burden?’ ”

They taped the interview, and Mr. Maron said he immediately knew that Mr. Mencia hadn’t answered the criticism leveled at him. “It was a snow job,” he said.

After reaching out to a handful of Latino comics who had worked with Mr. Mencia, Mr. Maron spoke to two of them, Willie Barcena and Steve Trevino, on a second show. They spoke very bluntly and negatively about Mr. Mencia. Mr. Barcena said that he would not go on in front of Mr. Mencia when working on new material. Mr. Trevino, who for years opened for Mr. Mencia, said of his alleged joke-stealing: “I think he doesn’t know. I think he’s ill.”

Soon after, Mr. Maron called Mr. Mencia, who agreed to a follow-up interview.

“I’m literally frightened on a few levels, ’cause I’ve never been in this position,” Mr. Maron recalled. “I don’t know him enough to know whether I can handle what’s about to happen.”

On the second episode Mr. Maron relentlessly confronted Mr. Mencia with what the other comics said. Mr. Mencia was defensive, but admitted, “I’ve cared so much about what people think about me that it has led me to negative behavior.” Later he apologized for bumping performers at comedy clubs, another criticism.

The interview was widely praised.

“All of a sudden I’m a journalist,” Mr. Maron said. “I have no idea how to be a journalist.”

For his part Mr. Mencia does not see the incident as a negative one and credits Mr. Maron for creating a “familial” environment.

“Had it been anyone else, I would have said, ‘I answered that question a million times,’ ” Mr. Mencia said. “But he’s a comedian, he’s a friend.”

He added that the podcast’s influence on the comedy world is real. “He’s got power, man,” Mr. Mencia said.

The show is unscripted. Mr. Maron does simple outlines before his interviews and relies heavily on his abilities as a conversationalist to carry the interviews.

“He’s a much better talker than me,” Mr. Glass, the radio host, said. “As a performer he’s incredibly bare. And then to bring that bareness to a journalism setting gives you this secret weapon that’s immensely powerful.”

The podcast may be a success, but financially it about breaks even. Mr. Maron solicits donations from listeners, and the show has occasional sponsors.

“I’m getting by,” Mr. Maron said. “But I’m not making a living.”

Mr. Maron said he was working with a production company on a TV project that would combine his interviews and some of the back stories around them. But because the podcast is the perfect format for what he’s doing, allowing for all that intimacy and depth (and raw language), it’s easy to imagine some of the appeal being lost in the translation. For now, though, he’s content — or at least as content as he ever gets — with doing the podcast.

Backstage at Union Hall, he conceded that he can be his own worst enemy. “I’m wired to destroy myself,” he said, “so fighting that wiring is always challenging.”

A version of this article appeared in print on January 9, 2011, on page AR1 of the New York edition.

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are there any scripted comedy podcasts, like short sitcoms or what have you?

i.e. something on the level of

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r5ck

or

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Charles-Paris-Murders-Radio-Crimes/dp/140842603X

the first Pod F. Tompkast includes a piece so scripted that he performs both halves of an Ice-T/Andrew Lloyd Webber conversation

generally the investment/return equation makes it a bit silly for something that's not re-podded radio material

Yeah, I guess it's cheap - basically free - to have a dude just, like, "being funny". But writers, actors and editors not so much

Tompkins has a live pianist for the non-performance/non-interview bits too! quality favor-calling in the name of production values there

Man I have to hear the WTF with Robin Williams. Hate that dude as a comedian, but I can't imagine that not being fascinating.

It's a very different Williams, and a great interview. Worth your time

i finally checked out the paul f tompkast and it's good! it's closer to what i want, anyway, in that there's some scripted stuff. although the "secret project" stuff is pretty lame actually. the recordings from his variety show are great, though. and the calls with jen kirkland. the rest i can take or leave. really, all these guys (like marc maron) could take a cue from actual broadcasters - get out of the way of the real material. but people like it i guess.

^^

the bob odenkirk maya rudolph sketch was fire

Kevin Smith popping up on people's podcasts this week

Sometimes the "great undiscovered project" is funny, but his Lithgow impression left something to be desired.

I get the sense the Lithgow impression was whipped up quickly after they both appeared on Doug Loves Movies. His call to Comedy Death Ray as Danny Glover was great, though.

Tompkast's "Ring of Hanukkah" and "Ice T Pyramid Scheme" Extrasode's kinda killed me.

Extrasodes. Ugh.

love his Ice-T so much that I plan to download/re-download all the Comedy Death Rays with Ice on and edit a compilation

all these guys (like marc maron) could take a cue from actual broadcasters

Maron was a real broadcaster for several years before doing the podcast, and he had scripted stuff and other skits in the early months of WTF - he dropped them once the deep convo / confessional direction of the interviews started to become more prevalent, over Lisa Lampanelli talking about the size of her husband's dick

it's weird to me that there's so little "real life" scripted funny stuff out there - anything that's scripted tends to be like, super-wacky. and some of it's great (like the tompkins variety show stuff)! which is maybe why maron's show strikes a nerve. even though i personally find his confessions laborious it's a break from this kind of creeping family-guyization of everything. personally i'd kill for a two-person nichols & may style show. just people being painful and awkward and human and hilarious.

Maron's own confessions are v v often tedious but they create the environment that lets his guests feel so comfortable opening up.

the Paul Scheer one is amazing for this btw! half an hour of really casual standard "so then I did this pilot here, earlier I did improv there," then Maron goes "...well, I guess yr a guy who doesn't really have any demons," almost like he doesn't know what to say to someone who isn't tearing themself open, and is just about to wrap up. but Scheer goes "are you fucking kidding?" and busts out half an hour of dad vs stepdad drama and beating a kid bloody at 10 cos that's how he'd learnt to fight at home, &c &c.

Yeah that Scheer ep was a surprise.

maron is on conan tonight

Much as I like Kevin Smith, gotta say I found the Maron interview with him kind of ugh. I always felt like Kevin had a decent amount of humility in him when he was talking about himself. He was like that for a long time. He was well aware of his flaws, well aware that people didn't like him, it bothered him but he was happy doing his thing and was usually able to put things into perspective.

Now...and I don't know how long he's been like this but it's been a while becasue it's one of the reason I can't listen to the smodcast...he's like this horrible godzilla of being owed something. He's so full of entitlement it's really, really offputting. Way angrier than he ever was, way more petty, and just, bitter. Like I hear him talk now and I barely recognize him.

And he makes this whole weed wake-and-bake his personality, like this is who I am. No it's not. You got hurt, you ran away, and now you're hiding.

Sorry, don't want to derail and make this a Kevin Smith c/d thread but after that interview with all of the obvious red flags that he's throwing up, I thought Kev sure makes Maron seem well-adjusted in comparison.

I hated that Smith interview too.

I didn't hate the interview, but I (yeah) hated Smith. Also hated Greg Fitzsimmons. Both guys simply seemed like jerks.

not to get off track, but i'm actually sooner or later supposed to do a comedy podcast with one of my friends...

that's cool!

:)

it's weird, ive listened to ~80 hrs of wtf over the last few wks tho probably hadnt seen what maron looked like in 10 yrs until last night's conan...he sorta looks like

http://www.yardbarker.com/m/15653/xl/johnny_cakes_3116.jpg

morgan spurlock?

whoa, i don't know if i can handle henry rollins on wtf

It's dull. Maron gets nothing new from Rollins. Rollins has used up all the interesting things he had to say by now.

Gonna skip that one.

yea id rather hear him interview say a birthday clown or mime before i listen 2 rollins

True.

I consider myself a big Rollins fan but I'm about 1/3 of the way through this interview and yeah, it's a bit of a snoozefest. I was hoping Rollins would at least be a little looser but you can even hear Maron sort of grimacing through the long sermons

Tbh I prob would've given the interview a shot out of curiosity, but after watching that video of Rollins at the NYC record store a few months ago, I don't have much tolerance for the dude.

listened to half the kevin smith interview this afternoon and it kind of makes me like the guy a little more? i mean, he's obviously a doofus but as a person he seems ok. he'd probably be fun to hang out with.

patrice neal on the other hand ... yikes

or o'neal

Ugh Patrice was a real eyeopener

But yeah, Kevin is a decent guy at heart I think...pretty sincere, earnest, heart on his sleeve kinda dude. It's just the angy wake and bake guy that I'm not a fan of these days.

I always despised Patrice O'Neal so I was surprised to find him so compelling in the Maron interview.

The only part of the K. Smith interview that annoyed me was the last 15-20 minutes, which was all about his too-fat-to-fly incident. I can understand why it frustrated him when it happened, but the fact that he ranted about it at such length nearly a year later = NAGL.

I liked the Rollins interview, but whatevs.

i enjoyed the rollins one, kinda wished maron would stop trying to get him back on track. and yeah, the kevin smith one was just fine until, i dunno what happened, dude took a coke break and came back all I AM THE LAW in the last 20mins. i like his shitty movies and i always give him a break, but him sharing his bathroom mirror psyche up routine with the world was terrible.

listened to the beginning of the rollins one, my gf informed me that his grasp of anatomy is very poor (ie the cyatic nerve definitely does not start in your shoulder).

(psssst...sciatic nerve)

my grasp of anatomy is very poor also

Patton WTF was pretty good imo. Discussion at the end of joke-stealing was pretty enlightening too.

Does anyone listen to Walking The Room?

was maron serious that he read for the lead in 'a serious man'? that blows my mind tbh

Gallagher on WTF today. O_O

I heard he walks out on the interview?

oh dave foley coming up, nice

xpost yep! walked right out.

Gallagher on WTF today. O_O

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Like watermelon smashing Gallagher?

Yup, same guy.

Dude is pretty ranty, kind of out there as an interview subject. Kind of randomly combative and, a little odd.

It was pretty interesting. Gallagher didn't really want to look at the whys of why he does what he does. The microscope bothered him, because he seemed to have a far more pragmatic, black and white view of his role as an entertainer than most of Maron's guest on the show so far. Not even a generational thing. He is a completely different personality of comedian.

Maron definitely went there with him over his gay material, to get something out of him other than his excuse that 'people think it's funny' and no-one really ever wants to be on the back foot. Seemed to get pretty political there for a moment too..but I came away with the feeling that the only motivation Gallagher has is to do whatever people find funny, or what he thinks they *should* find funny. He does whatever makes people laugh because in his mind that's what a comedian does.

maron was on carollas podcast if ur interested, didnt really break any new ground, talked abt the gallagher thing & his relationships & therapy

Does anyone listen to Walking The Room?

I gave it a shot for a bit. I like Greg Behrendt but his co-host (forget his name) comes off as an angry jerk. Ended up unsubscribing.

Dave is an angry jerk, but I love him.

Dave Foley on WTF today! <3 <3 Just the very sound of Dave's voice makes me happy beyond belief.

Yeah that was a great episode! Really nuts hearing about his situation.

yeah it was a good one. I just listened to the Bobby Lee episode from last month, which was also interesting.

oh the Bobby Lee was an eyeopener. Wow he's been through some crazy stuff.

Foley's legal situation O_O

This Gallagher one is really uncomfortable, wow.

i just listened to an ep of "doug loves movies", or at least the first 20 mins of it, waiting for it START instead of everyone just kind of dicking around and trying to sound cool and then realized the whole thing was going to be like that

Here's a summary of Gallagher on WTF:
"Aw, but I'm a comeeeeeedian."

Glad that Maron called him out on his shit, though I wished he was able to better articulate the significance of social privilege in situations where jokes are made about certain groups of people. (I think the only time he touched on it is when he said that racially based humor from African Americans is a form of empowerment.)

Gallagher's notion of comedy as telling overheard jokes to audiences at state fairs was kind of depressing, IMO. (And kind of weird, for someone who's been doing comedy for 30+ years, that he can't conceive of any other style as being valid.)

Maron's ep yesterday with Stephen Tobolowsky was _phenomenal_, where Maron just sat back and let the guy tell amazing stories for more than an hour.

Looking forward to that. Tobolowsky has his own podcast, right?

yeah that was good, it made want to check it out: http://www.slashfilm.com/category/features/slashfilmcast/the-tobolowsky-files/

Yeah that Tobolowsky interview was excellent. What a great storyteller. The 'Mississippi Burning' stuff was pretty O_O

I keep wanting to plug Tobolowsky's podcast on here, but it's so often very far from comedy that I figure people wouldn't go for it.

It is incredible, though.

I'm definitely going to check it out, boy does that guy know how to weave a story. Makes you realize what an art it is when you hear it done well.

The podcast is so great at this, beyond just the narrative and the lovely modulation of his voice, he dissolves smoothly from chatting with the slashfilm dude into telling a story, then segues twice into telling two other anecdotes from his personal or professional life that illustrate the same theme, then rolls back into chat with the host dude (and then EVERY TIME giving out his email, twitter, website, facebook, spelling his name and mentioning his mum's phone number in case you couldn't get in touch with him any other way).

And he has such genuine wonder about life, its really infectious. Can't wait to check it out.

It's been said on this thread before, but I can't recommend Judge John Hodgman enough.

Who Charted is sort of charming, though unnecessary.

Ive been loving Greg Proops' The Smartest Man in the World but I can see how it would be annoying as fuck if its not your thing..

BTW, I gave Marc Maron $8.99 today for a premium 1-yr subscription to his podcast. It's the most I could give him, and he's so good at it, and so honest, he truly deserves my money. The way he interviews people makes Terri Gross look like a marionette.

And I disagree with people who don't want to listen to his personal rants. They're what give the whole exercise context, and they're not boring.

^^^ THIS

kenan otfm

wtf deserves some kind of award if only for letting louis c.k. tell his trumpet story

That trumpet story was A+

Mencia Part II is balls on the table all the way through, and it's SOOO obvious whose balls are bigger. Maron actually laughs right in the face of a pissed-off little dude who he knows has no morals and lies as a daily habit.

It's also, I should add, a great lesson in how you can not like someone and still respect that they're a person. It's advanced D&D, it really is.

Thanks for the suggestions people. Just subscribed to the Tobolowsky and Hodgman podcasts and, after putting it off for way too long, diving into the Best Show world.

dont forget Uhh Yeah Dude.

Listened to the Tobolowsky Files episode "The Stranger" this morning. Wow. The man is an amazing storyteller.

i've come around to the intros/rants on maron's podcast

I still skip them usually. Doesn't really impact my enjoyment of the show.

Got mildly annoyed last night after downloading the WTF iPhone app, thinking I was getting access to the old episodes, only to find I need to upgrade to Premium to get those. But it was only 99 cents and I'm not going to begrudge Maron for trying to make a little dough off the show.

My mother-in-law was high school debate club partners with Tobolowsky.

lol @ Maron's mailbag on today's episode.

yeah that was pretty wow. Liked his reply too.

The Tompkins interview was pretty great! Cringed a little over the fact that Maron couldn't/wouldn't get past the 'you were fat back then' and 'wtf is it with your clothes'...but Maron is Maron, he wouldn't be who he is if he didn't make you facepalm every now and again. Great conversation though. Looking forward to Monday, with the Kinnison guy. Sounds like an eyeopener.

The Tompkins thing was my favorite type of WTF interview, where they get into the real guts of the art of standup. (Also, it was nice to hear Paul talk more about his mom...he'd gone into some of—her death/funeral—on Freak Wharf, but I feel like we got a rounder idea of what his family is actually like today.)

agree, this ep was my fav in a while

Did you see his Comedy Central standup special last year (October/Novemberish)? -- he talked all about his Mom during that one and it was SO good.

But yeah, I love it when they get into the mechanics of how they do crowd work, how they manage their material on stage, the choices they make, even the travelling...good stuff.

i think the sound of young america guy may have changed his atrocious opening theme song due to negative feedback -- can the same thing happen with marc maron's unnecessarily aggro morning DJ cut-up intro?
also the slate podcast has this public-access public-domain sounding intro song that sounds like some allergy medication commercial. ugh!

I like this intro 10000 times more than his original intro.

there was a worse one?!
how did it go?
if you haven't heard the original sound of young america song it went like this:
rrraadio sweeetheart on the air waaaves / it's the sound ovvv youung amerrrica / maxxxximum fun / maximum fuuuuuuuuuuuun / maximum funnn

original one had like an AC/DC-esque bassline, and stupid Matthew that used to be his sidekick did this Drivetime Radio intro "From the basement of the cat ranch..." that seriously felt like it went for 20 minutes. It was HORRRIBLE

I love that he keeps his "Lock the gates!" from Almost Famous in there.

Yeah me too!

maybe I'll record a new theme song and send it to him

you totally should

i think it would need to sound pretty '90s for him to actually use it

The current one was created by a dude named John Montagna:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0IO9EIWJ4w

I actually don't mind the current theme, at least it's short. But it could be better.

ha, i like the kid's toy drums.

what's the deal with the "pow! i just shit my pants!" catchphrase? can't say i'm a big fan of that (although i do love just coffee, and it's roasted two blocks away from me).

I've really come around to WTF lately--been listening through the back files at work this week.

Also been listening to the "Thrilling Adventure Hour" (more like 26 minutes) a sketch comedy thing with various folks--F. Tompkins, Aubrey Plaza, etc.

One thing I have noticed is that listening to all these shows has really spoiled me about any other podcasts. The vast majority of folks on the comedy podcasts are all entertainment professionals, and, as such, actually know how to talk on mic, be funny, actually have a decent mic, etc etc etc

Flitting thru shows in the other categories of itunes and it's like, Jesus Christ, people, do you really need to do the whole thing with just your laptop microphone? none of you did college radio shows or anything previous to this where you had to hear yourself before? You do know you are making this for an audience, right?

^^^this. I feel the same way

That reminds me of this podcast I downloaded once about Chicago architecture and it turned out to pretty much be a guy riding the El and talking about what he saw out the window.

The Nerdist sometimes drives me a little crazy because they're so, ... chatty. Like all 3 of them will go off on some riff for 10 minutes between themselves before they get back to the guest.
I usually pick and choose who the guest is, as to whether I'll listen. and I love Hardwicke, I just..it's a personal thing with me, I kind of just hate listening to unstructured random chattiness. no knock against Nerdist itself though.

I guess my main issue with the Nerdist podcast is that I think all three of those guys are losers and not as funny as they think they are. But they have good guests and good conversations SOMETIMES.

You mean the guys doing a "Nerdist" podcast are kinda dorky and socially awkward?

Nope, I love nerds/dorks.

Sarcasm. I am a huge nerd.

What I meant is that their nerdiness is not why I think they're losers.

Nerdist for me is for more pleasant, or chatty, whereas something like CDR or Greg Fitzsimmons or Sklarbros are much more in the deliberately funny area.

Similarly, Maron's show can waver back & forth from pleasant to funny to compelling.

The recent episode of Best Show where Tom talks about his trip to LA was absolutely slaying me last night.

I lapsed on my Best Show listening, I need to pick it back up again... I do love it.

Just listened to this week's Best Show. Funny how that "Podcastin'" segment comes up the week after his Marc Maron interview. Hmm.

He was on multiple shows when he was in L.A., too.

Just now got around to hearing the Adam McKay episode of WTF (#119) and it was great. A little SNL talk, some Will Ferrell bits, and just a generally hour or so of attractive conversation. Unlike most of the WTF interviews, where it's very one-on-one, that one just kind of seemed like Marc and Adam were sitting around at a bar or something and you had a seat too and could jump in at any time.

Marc Maron podcast, Dave Foley episode, repeating an old-ass Wayne and Schuster joke from the Ed Sullivan Show:

Guy at bar: Gimme a martinez.

Bartender: You mean martini?

Guy: If I wanted two of 'em, I'd have ordered two of 'em.

I laughed about that for 15 minutes. I mean, c'mon, that's great.

Also I guess I'm a sucker for hoary old vaudeville jokes. I feel absolutely no shame.

right there with you, kenan

if you haven't heard the original sound of young america song it went like this:
rrraadio sweeetheart on the air waaaves / it's the sound ovvv youung amerrrica / maxxxximum fun / maximum fuuuuuuuuuuuun / maximum funnn

no, it went

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, cryin'
When that cryin's done
When it's dooooooooone
Maximum fun

Thursday's are for bein' awesome
And dancin' in the sun
In the suuuuuuuuuun
Maximum fun

Gimme Thursday, I don't need no Fridays
Five o'clock cooooomes
It's maximum fun

Radio sweetheart, boy detective
It's the sound of young America
Maximum fuuuuuuuuun

Maximum fuuuuuuuun
Maximum fun

Maximum fuuuuuuuuu-uun
Maximum fun

and was a minute twenty-five

wish i owned some sort of device that can run "apps", 'cause i'd love to hear some of those early wtf episodes

Most of the very earliest WTF episodes aren't really worth tracking down. The show was totally scatterbrained and uncomfortable back then. In fact, despite liking Maron, I stopped listening for a while until I came back to it last summer.

The Nerdist sometimes drives me a little crazy because they're so, ... chatty. Like all 3 of them will go off on some riff for 10 minutes between themselves before they get back to the guest.
I usually pick and choose who the guest is, as to whether I'll listen. and I love Hardwicke, I just..it's a personal thing with me, I kind of just hate listening to unstructured random chattiness. no knock against Nerdist itself though.

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^this is v otm. at moments it feels like they all are trying too hard to get a quick witticism in and it makes me immediately want to turn it off. contrasted, say, w/ never not funny where they rarely step on each other or at least it doesnt feel as gross & show-offy. plus pardo is just a way superior host to hardwick, at least for my tastes

RIP Mike DeStefano, according to the WTF twitter. :( This is very sad. I assume it was from complications with HIV. His interview with Marc Maron, last December, was one of the best things I heard in 2011: http://wtfpod.libsyn.com/episode-130-mike-de-stefano

oh wow that is terribly sad

OMG. That seriously breaks my heart, and seems surprising. The Marin interview was fantastic, and he seemed like an insightful and kind of amazing guy.

I'll have to check out that podcast. I never really got his shtick when he was on Last Comic Standing last summer. RIP tho, he seemed like a genuine guy.

Last Comic Standing was not a good venue for him. He was more of a storyteller.

RIP

Listend to every Ricky Gervais Show "Guide To..." in a week. Karl is genuinely the most clever person I've ever "met"... it's that he doesn't conform to the regulaire mode of thought that is so painfully unpermissable. I find myself secretly agreeing with everything the dude says, or at least knowing where he's coming from.... love how Ricky & Steve knock you back into reality.

*listened

You should really listen to the old Gervais podcasts if you haven't.

I didn't realize who today's WTF interviewee was until Maron just tweeted "STARBURNS." Okay, I'm on it.

xpost

Where should I start? Have they always had Pilkington or was he just sorta the odd guest every once in a while?

Start with the first season. Pilkington is basically the centerpiece of every episode:

http://www.audible.com/pd?productID=PF_GERV_000200

thanks - gonna order it when i get home, can't wait

kinda nuts that it's the most downloaded podcast ever and nobody i've met has even heard remotely of it. i mean, is gervais some sort of adam sandler equivalent (celebrity, not quality) in the UK? bc that stat I had to double-check for anomalies..

Yes that original run of the Gervais podcast was all time classic. But I quit following when he started charging for it. I mean, theres so much quality stuff out there for free, I'm not about to start paying for that one.

wish maron talked to dino more abt adult swim & w/e falling out happened over morel orel. i dont really know if dino's been candid abt that (& maybe he wouldnt have been 100% as now hes back working w/ them on frankenhole) and i bet there are some good stories there. too bad marc doesnt know abt/care abt cartoons

i liked it when he said he writes jokes for babies

plz tell me that he talks a lot about community bc community is my heartsongs

He does not. All we learn is that he and Dan Harmon met in a bar, he got Dan a couple writing jobs, and Dan repaid the favor by putting him on Community (but he doesn't really like "acting").

lame. (i'll listen anyway.)

All the stories about the kind of sex he likes more than makes up for it imo.

i'd never really listened to comedy death ray before and yesterday i listened to the one with tom scharpling and weird al and "special guest garry marshall" and i felt really dumb because i seriously couldn't figure out if it was really garry marshall or someone imitating him until the very end when "garry marshall" ceded his plug time to pf tompkins. anyways it was very very funny.

a few weeks old now but I really enjoyed the Carl LaBove interview on WTF. I'm not a massive Kinnison fan, but I find the history around him pretty interesting and that whole story about the daughter and Kinnison's brother making that whole end-around run early on to shut the kid out of the estate..just, wow.

i guess

but god LaBove seemed like an asshole. Actually, a lot of WTF's recent guests have made my skin crawl with how much i dislike them - just yuck vibes, the sort of people i hate hanging out with. Amy Schumer, Greg Fitzsimmons. After being affected by all these comedy insights, it's a good reminder of why i don't go see standup.

also really enjoyed the Paul Krassner episode...I'm sure they seem like boring hippy ramblings to some people but I could seriously listen to his stories for hours, I just really dig the 'living history' aspect of him...corny, I know.

I was excited to learn that Dino had written so many of my favorite Mr. Show sketches.

I just listened to the Rollins one. Made me wish there was a music oriented equivalent to WTF. Is there?

comedians seem like way more interesting interview subjects than musicians

rollins on wtf: "i brought my 9 to 5 work ethic to punk rock"

im sure you werent the only punk rocker who had a day job, you fucking bore

but that just is him explaining himself, I don't think he's saying he's the only one?

probably. rollins just comes across as pompous in that podcast.

rollins just comes across as pompousin that podcast.

He seemed downright humble compared to other times I've heard him talk.

did he bring punk rock to his work at haagen daaz? that would've been awesome

"I'd like two scoops of bad brainsberry please with um.. millions of dead sprinkles, thanks."

tv party at Haagen Daaz tonight!

did he bring punk rock to his work at haagen daaz? that would've been awesome

iirc that's the job he had when he was homeless, sleeping in his Volkswagen, and taking baths in the sink after closing time.

poor henry!
Millions of Delicious Cookiebits probably more appetizing than the Dead Sprinkledys.

Rollins usu comes across as pompous on interviews bcz he gets very uptight and socially awkward and thinks he URGENTLY HAS TO explain himself to ppl who don't get it; onstage he is very self-deprecating and full of lols at his general attitude and behaviour

(saw him 12 hours ago for the first time in abt five years, he was taking the piss out of the business-like way he answers the phone. "This is Henry!")

(also how he snuck away from Monday Night Football at Shatner's when Rush Limbaugh turned up bcz he couldn't trust himself to be polite and respect Bill's hospitality, and for the rest of the year Shatner would fuck with him: "Henry! I think Rush Limbaugh might be... behind that -- potted plant!")

I thought the WTF was him way dialled-down compared to most interviews, yeah

I just listened to the Rollins one. Made me wish there was a music oriented equivalent to WTF. Is there?

Hard to find an equivalent host that could get the subjects to open up in similar ways. Could dig Maron having more musicians on, but his taste seems too zzzzzrock for this to be a worthwhile avenue.

And Rollins fits WTF because he's been a working standup for 25 years, and hasn't really even been a professional musician for a decade or so at this point.

Maron interviewed Thurston Moore on his post-Morning Sedition show on Air America and it was incredibly awkward. I just don't think his interest in music goes deep enough to know how to talk about it, really. I mean, he jams his love of Iggy Pop into every conversation that turns toward music, but I think that's more because he thinks Iggy is a cool guy and not because he appreciates his musicality or anything.

Kathleen Madigan interview on WTF today is fun. Doesn't really go deep or anything, but she's just fun to listen to.

http://pubphotos.postbulletin.com/get_photo.php%3Fphotoid%3D4599

http://www.tmz.com/2011/03/10/gallagher-collapses-on-stage-comedian-sledgeomatic-minnesota-hospital/

Gallagher Collapses On Stage

54 minutes ago by TMZ Staff

Comedian Gallagher collapsed onto his back, clutching his chest during his performance tonight in Rochester, MN -- and TMZ has learned he was rushed to a hospital by ambulance.

Multiple witnesses tell TMZ Gallagher was doing his famous sledge-o-matic routine when he fell backwards onto the stage. We're told his eyes were closed and he was shaking.

Doctors -- who happened to be in the audience -- rushed on stage and straightened out Gallagher's arms ... and waited by his side until the ambulance arrived.

Yeah, the Madigan one is really good. I like how they go into the mechanics of life on the road and her talking about life with Lewis Black

I agree with Marc. I would watch a show about Kathleen and Lewis just being together. Doesn't really matter what they're doing.

Doctors -- who happened to be in the audience -- rushed on stage and straightened out Gallagher's arms ... and waited by his side until the ambulance arrived.

I have lost and gained respect for doctors over the course of sentence.

I just listened to the Mike DiStefano one last night (because I'm catching up in order and it just happened to be appropriate timing more than anything) and fucking hell that dude had a life. Absolute essential listening for anyone.

So sad.

(also how he snuck away from Monday Night Football at Shatner's when Rush Limbaugh turned up bcz he couldn't trust himself to be polite and respect Bill's hospitality, and for the rest of the year Shatner would fuck with him: "Henry! I think Rush Limbaugh might be... behind that -- potted plant!")

This makes me really want Shatner on WTF.

Catching up on Nerdist and the Billy West episode is astonishingly great.

Paul Reubens on CDR is great

Catching up on Nerdist and the Billy West episode is astonishingly great.

Yeah, I loved that one.

I'm enjoying the Michael Ian Black and Tom Cavanaugh podcast "Mike & Tom Eat Snacks"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfIRb3CH80U&feature=player_embedded#at=46

I'm distracted entirely by the interviewer. Am I alone in immediately not being able to stand him?

I found it weird in that Nerdist interview with John Oliver that no one mentioned The Bugle until the very end when an audience member asked about it & the Nerdist chumps sounded like they'd never heard of it.

xpost I like the interviewer's schtick there. I watched and enjoyed it.

I like Alex Blagg but I'm tired of his "strat" character.

if he's going to do "clueless media jagoff" he could take it a lot further

Doctors -- who happened to be in the audience -- rushed on stage and straightened out Gallagher's arms ... and waited by his side until the ambulance arrived.

I have lost and gained respect for doctors over the course of sentence.

― There's nothing left alive but a pair of ashy thighs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, March 11, 2011 4:37 AM (1 week ago)

xpost...so the interviewer was doing a character?

Alex Blagg is alright, but I want the shoes he was wearing for this interview.

Yeah, shoes were p tight

I have been really loving Who Charted.

listened to the Gallagher WTF last night and boy, what a dickhead.

what a creepy, disconnected from human interaction, person (was my reaction)

maron is going to be here this weekend, do i go?

also this week's podcasts seem promising (joe rogan and michael showalter).

You should go. I've seen him twice, once in Sac and once in SF and enjoyed both shows. There's a little bit of crossover with the podcast and his standup, but not much...def worth seeing imo

And if there's any crowdwork, double bonus: he's really good at it.

I'm going Saturday! (you're in Madison I presume)

yup. i'll see if i can convince my gf to go (might be a tough sell).

feelin kind of burned out on WTF. i realize he has this narrative about "i used to be jealous of you, but now that we talk, i realize we're very similar" but like every episode is the same and it's starting to seem forced. also when he has preconceived notions about a guest, he sticks to those notions; he doesn't always listen to what the guests have to say and adjust accordingly. this really stuck out to me in the new joe rogan interview, he gets stuck on this "you were into martial arts, you must view comedy as competition" thing and won't let go of it even after rogan disagrees with the point a few times.

latest ep of comedy death ray w/adam scott and "alan rickman" was dadaist nuttiness in the extreme.

really into comedy death ray these days. the character bob ducca, scott's ex-stepfather, consistently makes me cry from laughing

i recommend the "bob ducca - list of ailments" clip on this page: http://www.earwolf.com/show/comedy-death-ray-radio-scott-aukerman

bob ducca is fantastic

feelin kind of burned out on WTF. i realize he has this narrative about "i used to be jealous of you, but now that we talk, i realize we're very similar" but like every episode is the same and it's starting to seem forced. also when he has preconceived notions about a guest, he sticks to those notions; he doesn't always listen to what the guests have to say and adjust accordingly. this really stuck out to me in the new joe rogan interview, he gets stuck on this "you were into martial arts, you must view comedy as competition" thing and won't let go of it even after rogan disagrees with the point a few times.

was just thinking about this this morning and Maron could be better about getting out of the way of the interviewees HOWEVER, the Bobby Slayton ep was great and the show is great often enough that I'm hanging on

loved the Slayton interview

Not feeling Rogan but I dont like him that much to begin with. I always had a niggling feeling that he hides behind his nice guy thing,,, not based on anything, just me being irrational

Also, Conan + Showalter coming up -- so that's really exciting

i guess this is duuh but maron is so much better with people that he already knows personally. he flounders a lot more with younger comedians.

Like, if 50% of the interviews are duds that's still a really high hit ratio. Bobby Slayton was great -- I enjoyed the Carolla one (even tho Maron didn't really let him do his thing -- sometimes I feel like maybe he's too worried about mediating less-than-PC elements of his guests), Paul Tompkins was enjoyable, Dino was all time classic I felt (and it totally turned me on to Morel Oral and Frankenhole) um that Gallagher interview was only a few months ago. So what if Lewis Black's girlfriend was boring? Something better is always on the horizon!

Maron and PFT are both coming across the planet to Australia next month and only doing one city, boooo

Kathleen Madigan wasn't boring! xp

I enjoyed the Carolla one (even tho Maron didn't really let him do his thing

what? i felt like maron let carolla ramble the whole time?

See, here's the thing about that.

I guess I meant re: Carolla that it turns out Maron isn't Dr. Drew and I had forgotten that Carolla was only ever interesting with Dr. Drew in the room

man i wish i new about comedy death ray sooner, i was up all last night working on school shit & i plowed through several eps. bob ducca is the hardest i've laughed at a podcast ever maybe?

i am rather enjoying stop podcasting yourself, and my brother my brother & me both part of MaxFun but without Thorn on them if you don't like him (personally I think he's alright). he's also on judge john hodgman but in a minor role, and more john hodgman in my life is always acceptable. thrilling adventure hour is wonderful.

i want a fighting talk style "game" show podcast about things other than being a dick and soccer. maybe i should start a podcast. need more than just dudes talking sometimes.

After listening to the Carolla episode, I'm pretty sure I'd rather hang out with Gallagher.

carolla was such an asshole. i don't know why but, even tho i never liked him, i always kind of gave him a pass. he always seemed too aware for his shtick to be anything more than shtick. but when he was talking through his "thought process" regarding race and basically he is just long form describing racism 101...too much. when he was talking about how he's not sexist because he never hit a woman, and he's not racist because he never fired a black guy, i figured it HAD to be a gag, but apparently not.

I also need some gaming podcasts to hear

Yeah I like Carrolla when he talks about movies, or stupid shit ppl do when theyre renovating, or all the Love Line stuff...but on women and race he just needs to stfu. Way too simplistic, drives me bananas.

I did find him interesting on Maron, all that being said, esp his family and his Mum, etc.

yeah and the whole not hitting a woman = not sexist was O_o
Um, I dont think that is quite the definition to hang your hat on, Adam

Saturday show in Madison is apparently sold out, think I'll go Thursday?

DO IT (in Maron voice)

POW!

Mehhhhhh...what the fuck

I just shit my pants.

What's wrong with me?

Lock the gates!

Also, Conan + Showalter coming up -- so that's really exciting

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Woo-hoo! Maron's been teasing the Conan interview for a month ("I'm reading this book called The War For Late Night, and maybe someone in the book will be on the show...")

psyched for Conan

I love the Mike Detective shows.

i recommend the "bob ducca - list of ailments" clip on this page: http://www.earwolf.com/show/comedy-death-ray-radio-scott-aukerman

"Parkinson's Disease...Parallel Parkinson's Disease..."

Maron totally great, highly recommend seeing his set.

Missed this guy opening

http://www.rooftopcomedy.com/comics/MIkeBobbitt

heard he killed.

The WTF interview with Michael Showalter was, imo, pretty damn great. There were genuine moments where Maron felt like he was mentoring Showalter. Pretty cool.

Their extended conversation about semiotics was hilariously wrongheaded.

yea i was thinking the same thing

I know! I enjoyed it though. I like when Maron starts to get pointyheaded about things and then he veers off in the totally wrong direction.

Conan ep of WTF is on iTunes now. Been looking forward to this...

In other comedy podcast news, Adam and Joe are back, though this probably only means anything to Britishers.

Conan ep of WTF is on iTunes now.

It's on the actual WTF feed as well.

I love Maron + Showalter but ppl otm about how weird that semiotics conversation was. It was basically what I'd imagine a conversation about semiotics between two comedians would sound like. Did you know that if the hero is wearing a white hat that means he's the good guy? Unless you're skeptical about authorial intent in which case maybe it just means he keeps his hat clean. lulz.

After all the conversation about Showalter's desire to be an intellectual and the joy he gets from teaching, I kept thinking "Does Maron know that Showalter's mom is a big-time literary critic?" -- since I wasn't sure that Showalter would volunteer the information himself. So I was glad that that eventually came up.

totally.

i wasn't able to get tickets to see maron this past weekend. kinda wondered if he'd elaborate on his sheen experience that he talked about at the beginning of the showalter ep.

xp to mordy

also wondered if he stopped by just coffee (which is right by my place) while he was in town

he didn't mention sheen.

ok the showalter and conan WTFs were both good, i think i just need to reserve my listening to this show for when he has people on who i'm actually interested in. i like how showalter had the advantage of hearing the episodes with david wain and michael ian black so he was prepared to comment on maron's perceptions of the state and that whole scene.

for sure. WTF is such a guest driven show that a bad guest is just terrible. i listen to all of them since i never know who will turn out to be really interesting - but i'll quit an episode early if it's really boring.

One thing that I get reminded of with almost every wtf ep is how deeply fucked-up Maron is. The eps with Conan and Joe Rogan are the latest examples.

I don't know who most American comedians are so I almost have to listen to them all by default.

The Conan episode was boring imo

The 15-minute rant at the beginning of the Adam Corolla episode about going to the Coca Cola museum is pretty brilliant.

Yeah that was great.

I thought the Conan episode was good, it's just cool to hear him speak at length and not have to be the loljokemeister, for me anyway. I never expected an eyebrow-raiser with Conan, because the impression I've gotten from him over the years is he's guarded, and I think because he knows he's kind of a dark guy on his own time he'd rather keep that to himself...and he doesn't have the kind of relationship with Maron where you'd get a Louie episode. I was happy with it.

yeah i loved the conan episode.

one of my favourite Maron rants was when he talked about being booed by someone for mentioning the grateful dead at a performance (thinks this was before the rollins podcast)

"Those burps were the burps of global unity. Just a little burp, floating up into the air, to mock God."

I don't know why, but that moment between Conan and Maron where he called him Chuck Woollery just about slayed me.

For how long now has this been the Marc Maron thread? We might need a parenthetical subtitle.

Is anyone else listening to Mike Detective? I loved Jon Hamm's introduction.

I think this has been the WTF thread since we started talking about comedy podcasts. Maybe we should have a dedicated WTF thread?

Nah, too late for that.

ah, then yeah parenthetical would work.

I just started getting into the Maron podcast. It's pretty good, but I find that I'm more into the episodes with guests who I'm interested in.

That's the best way in though, imo ... I was like that for a while with him too, and then as I found myself warming to him I went back and listened to the other podcasts later on. And some of the 'unknowns' can bear pretty good fruit.

theres some great episodes with people i never heard of.....the bobby lee one for example.

The Stephen Tobolowsky one is still a favorite, and I never in a million years would've guessed that guy has had the life he's had. I really need to set aside some time to listen to his own podcast.

Tobolowsky's podcast is great. I recommend the episodes "Once in a Lifetime" and "The Voice from Another Room".

Oh, the Tobolowsky WTF is A+; Bobby Lee otm; Scott Carter for me is one of my Top 10, for sure...and I had NO idea about him at all.

Yeah I've been listening from the beginning and mostly resisting the urge to just skip to Big Name Guests. I really liked the one with the guy who books Letterman. Zach G ep was the funniest so far for me, but at the same time I was hoping there'd be more Penetrating Insight - it's great when he gets a guy like Jim Gaffigan to drop the clown persona and talk intelligently about the history of comedy. Galifianakis never seems like he's out of character.

never heard of joe mande either but his description of getting hustled by an isreali conman and his rouch as fuck school were hilarious too.

yeah I became a Joe Mande fan from that interview. And I know Moshe Kasher is hard to take for a lot of people but his WTF is great, really eye-opening.

I could take or leave Joe Mande's stand-up comedy, but I love his Raw Nerve edits:

http://vimeo.com/20796382

i will rep for the brian regan ep of comedy & everything else -- couple excellent, awkward & endearing stories he tells of the first few times he did comedy

People who liked that coke museum monologue... huh?! That was his worst pre-interview opening/rant, as far as I'm concerned.

Even if the observation seemed shallow -- and I could understand thinking that, though I don't -- I did very much like that it had a beginning, middle, and end. Probably because it was something he wrote down a long time ago, and was just retelling. It's nice when he has a point. It's often interesting even when he doesn't, like an overcaffeinated and overbearing college friend at a coffee shop. But that was a story.

The very last Bill Hader story on the live WTF from yesterday is great. He was talking about how he'd done the Herb Welch character for the first time in dress rehearsal, hitting Anne Hathaway in the face with his microphone over and over, and he came off doubting how funny it actually was. Chris Rock was watching the rehearsal and said, "Don't worry. If hitting people in the face isn't funny, we're all fucked."

Ed Helms on WTF was kind of lovely...I really like that guy, and the banjo stuff was cool

i know this is the ILX WTF thread, but i am currently addicted to Stop Podcasting Yourself

Back to WTF: this Bobcat Goldthwait ep today is hilarious!

kinda cranky that i keep getting a little psyched to see what's new in comedy podcast land and everybody's talking about WTF all the time. it's not even really a comedy podcast! it's an interview show!

about comedy?

wah

Everyone's free to talk about other podcasts in here, but it always comes back around to WTF because it's easier to talk about interviews than bits.

Would anyone be against the idea of WTF having its own thread?

WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

if you have never listened to Uhh Yeah Dude, episode 264 from a few weeks back is a good primer imo. also the live episode last week (266) had some really good stuff. did any LA people attend?

I've heard a little bit of UYD here and there. I really should set aside the time to hear more.

WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

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I have little listening time for anything but WFMU (have never esp 'gotten' Scharpling, tho he makes me laugh in occasional doses) and the Baseball Prospectus podcast (which IS funny!), but...

Jesse Thorn is great!! <3 <3 Love Sound of Young America. Something about his voice and manner reminds me of a laidback Weird Al for some reason

Well, have you heard his recent interview w/ actual Weird Al?
JT is an other-coast bro of mine, tho I only see him about every two years or so.

Huh. I was pretty sure you were Spike, Morbs.

But then again, Spike doesn't listen to Scharpling either lol

The 15-minute rant at the beginning of the Adam Corolla episode about going to the Coca Cola museum is pretty brilliant.
Sweet jeebs are you serious?!? This was the final straw for me. I really like some of these interviews but my god the self obsessive whine is unbearable.

I still don't know who this guy is but i think i think i saw him somewhere in the first scenes of 'who's the caboose' the other night. Whining, shocker.

Joe Truglio on the new Comedy Death Ray.

Joe Lo Truglio. and Casey Wilson. I laughed a lot at that episode but it might not be for everyone, has Matt Besser playing Rev. Fred Phelps

http://bugle.wikia.com/wiki/Chris_the_Producer

Huh. I was pretty sure you were Spike, Morbs.

From hearing him talk to that guy about a month ago---

1) My voice is way butch-er.
2) That guy was calling NYC-area radio shows 25 years ago.

I prefer Scharpling ranting about how lame Quentin Tarantino has become to his gags.

if you have never listened to Uhh Yeah Dude, episode 264 from a few weeks back is a good primer imo. also the live episode last week (266) had some really good stuff. did any LA people attend?

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I was up in this bitch.. Was a great atmosphere.. The video display must have kinda sucked for those just listening to it but you got the gist of most of the bits..

yeah at first I was like oh no this was a horrible idea but it didn't really affect the audio-only experience.

it sounded like maybe part of the musical performance at the end didn't make it on the recording though?

like, the vocals and guitar were there but there was a keyboard barely audible

I listened to a ton of these comedy podcasts that got recommended and then I listened to Uhh Yeah Dude and I no longer gave one fuck about any of the podcasts I had heard before.

aside from the occasional WTF episode that's how i feel

Comedy Death Ray, Bugle and PF Tompkast rule tho.

I like CDR and love Tomkins standup but I sorta can't get into the Tompkast.

That's cool. I just like the rambling and the Jen Kirkman stuff.

are there any podcasts that are just selected bits of standup performances?
comedy deathray and sound of young america often have them interspersed with dj banter, but
it's really odd that nobody feels that standup by itself is interesting enough to
devote an entire podcast to (and not just the odd episode).

i assume because comics are saving that stuff for lps/dvds?

There have been a few live Comedy Death Rays but for the most part the episodes are improv vehicles. I doubt any comic is going to come on and do the set they've been building for a year.

what i mean is there are entire satellite radio stations devoted to playing comedians' bits all day
(and by and large, these stations are terrible) but no one out there in podcastland is able to curate/cull
half an hour of material once a week or once a month? I'd do it, except the only material I'm familiar with
comes from haha podcasts. the only comedy albums i own is a space ghost sampler and that terrible bruce mccullough one.

space ghost owns

artists probably get paid money for stuff played on satellite radio, they don't get money for stuff played on podcasts

yeah i think thats the main thing.

"The Moth" is kind of stand-uppy sometimes but also precious/This American Life

so you're saying... if i make a podcast of bubblegum music, 1910 fruitgum company probably won't care, but if I start putting out weekly compilations of my favorite bits, todd barry might knock on my door with brass knuckles demanding a quarter for playing his trader joe's joke?

it might be worth it!

comedy central have a podcast where they play old bits from they're 'CC presents' series.

is it funny

ok here is my brand new "comedy podcast" featuring:
eugene mirman
brent weinbach
todd barry
patton oswalt

http://www.sendspace.com/file/yyihx0

Going thru the back eps of "You Look Nice Today".

Good stuff.

I don't know if I've asked this in this thread or not(meaning I probably have), but does anybody know of any vid gaming podcasts that are as well done or compelling as most comedy podcasts that we've talked about?

giant bomb i've heard, irrational doesn't update often enough, etc.

Film Junk do a games edition, though it's only one every month or so. I'm not all that into games, so I haven't listened to it myself.

http://www.filmjunk.com/category/podcasts/game-junk/

There are a few gaming podcasts I listen too, but most try too hard to be funny so aren't (see the many flavours of Sarcastic Gamer - the only one I still listen to is the Brown Show, and that's just to kill time). Giant Bombcast is ok, GameScoop can be funny at times, and there's the Joystiq podcast and (slightly less funny) Joystiq xbox podcast.

I'd suggest One Life Left, which is doing some experimental 'games book club' episodes at the moment.

Andy Samberg on the Nerdist was pretty interesting. Mostly on internet comedy business matters.

I like CDR and love Tomkins standup but I sorta can't get into the Tompkast.

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i'm in this same boat. i've listened to a couple of tompkasts and it seems like the live sketches are usually pretty funny but the rest of it's mostly just amusing

grady the only one i have is louis ck and it turned out to be something id seen/heard before. i guess taking one joke from an hour of stand up is CC's way of promoting in order to $$$$

but does anybody know of any vid gaming podcasts that are as well done or compelling as most comedy podcasts that we've talked about?

My friend Robert does one called "A Life Well Wasted" that is really great, but he's only done a few episodes so far. Recommended.

Oh yeah, I remember that one. ALWW hasnt updated in forever, right?

He's on a break at the moment, yeah.

ive listened to like maybe 5 total adam carolla podcasts over maybe 6 months and i swear to god hes talked angrily abt peanut allergies on every ep

That's the thing, Adam has like five pet peeves that he constantly returns to, and this is one. He whined about left turn red arrow signal lights on his radio show for like four years running

tim heidecker/neil hamburger episode of comedy death ray is amazing, especially when they come back as elton john and bernie taupin at the end.

The Casey Wilson / Joe LoTruglio episode of CDR featured the word "faggot" like 100 times in the first 10 minutes so I turned it off.

yeah i think i said upthread that episode could be a turnoff for some people

i think the first CDR episode i ever heard is still my favorite: tom scharpling, weird al, and paul f. tompkins playing garry marshall

The Casey Wilson / Joe LoTruglio episode of CDR featured the word "faggot" like 100 times in the first 10 minutes so I turned it off.

everyone should just start listening at the 17min mark and all will be well

I didn't know the AV Club was reviewing podcasts:

http://www.avclub.com/features/podmass/

The Comedy Death Ray bit with tim heidecker & neil hamburger playing elton John & Bernie Taupin was very similar to the Bernie Taupin call that Scharpling & Wurster did--basically that Taupin's original versions of the songs were horrible.

i don't think i "get" Uhhh Yeah Dude. is it really just those two riffing on news stories with each other for over an hour?

yes.

Deep House Chopra

they're likeable dudes but man. it's a lot of filler. i like the bugle because they actually write jokes. and it's short, like maybe half an hour tops. different strokes i guess. different rules for different pools.

there are definitley episodes of UYD where i'm like "jesus stfu already" for stretches of 10 or 20 minutes but on the whole i prefer it to anything with professional comedians ive heard

ep in season 1 f/ scott aukerman where doug 1st calls willem dafoe a shithead is hilarious

does kevin pollack count as comedy? The joel mchale interview is pretty outstanding and v. funny mostly b/c of mchale.

Oooh, I'd listen to that. Joel is always great on mic. His appearances on Loveline from years back are excellent too

Pollak's thing is streaming-video-only though, not a podcast - the audio feed ended one year in

thats called a video podcast, no?

VODCAST

vidpod

PODDEO

lol! how about with one D, and it could be Podeo rhymes with Rodeo :D

Wow, just watched Kevin Pollack interview Demitri Martin. Pollack is very boring and often annoying. Pretty awful show.

people here don't seem to like the sound of young america guy

WHAT.
Jesse Thorn is a fucking genius IMO.

Well, he's good at making podcasts. He has not advanced the form of media in any way. The show is produced by speking into microphones.

I'm not sure how not advancing something makes you not a genius, but that was hyperbole anyway. I just think he's a guy who has his shit together stylistically and executes it perfectly.

Sure. Agreed. I'm not not sure what technically DOES make someone a genius, but I'm pretty sure that being good at making podcasts is not it.

well that was weird

well i think jesse thorn is cool, partly because he gave out a bunch of invites to this cool torrent site,
which makes him a GENIUS OF SHARING in my book.

Anyone can be a genius at what they do IMO. They don't have to be Einstein or something. You can be a genius at cleaning toilets. Like, damn I never saw such a clean toilet, that janitor rules! And so forth.

jesse is great and puts out great things. genius? i dunno, but it doesn't matter.

it's not a vodcast if I can't put it on my pod and do housework, but instead have to sit in front of a buffering computer for two hours

I'm still not sure if I like Professor Blastoff but they've got Nick Offerman on their 2nd episode so that's something.

I've never listened to this but Andy Zaltzman's wife does this podcast -

http://answermethis.wordpress.com/

which just won the Gold for best internet programme at the Sonys

Wow, just watched Kevin Pollack interview Demitri Martin. Pollack is very boring and often annoying. Pretty awful show.

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from what ive seen i agree. mchale pretty much carries his episode and leaves KP speechless without a comeback more than a few times.

it's not a vodcast if I can't put it on my pod and do housework, but instead have to sit in front of a buffering computer for two hours

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maybe its a different set up in oz but you should have the option of downloading vodi0castz? also, you cant clean forever!

I'm still not sure if I like Professor Blastoff but they've got Nick Offerman on their 2nd episode so that's something.

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excited to listen to this!

maybe its a different set up in oz but you should have the option of downloading vodi0castz?

where? the site just loads an embedded flash file when you select an episode from the drop-down, with buttons for share/volume/fullscreen/blip.tv, no download.

Pollak's thing is streaming-video-only though, not a podcast - the audio feed ended one year in

No it didn't. Use this URL: feed://feeds.feedburner.com/KevinPollaksChatShow-audio

oh, sweet. includes video too!

I like "How Did This Get Made" (Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, Jason Mantzoukas) especially the "Battlefield Earth" episode.

sic, im doing it through itunes. no streaming allowed for me.

id actually perfer streaming because as it is itunes syncs my iphone and suddenly ive got no space left

you can set it to "manually manage songs and videos"

Bob Ducca now has a podcast: http://www.earwolf.com/show/affirmation-nation-with-bob-ducca/

Only 4 minutes?

It's a daily thing, M-F.

cool. Bob Ducca rocks

What's up with the other new Earwolf show--the Apple Sisters?

Time Out NY raves: "The show soars!"

http://theapplesisters.com/buzz.html

I've seen them live a few times are they are great.

I finally got hooked on Uhh Yeah Dude. What a great podcast.

this week's was kind of sub-par but the last 4 or 5 have been pretty great.

btw if you call the voicemail and leave a callback number Seth actually calls you back just to shoot the shit for a few minutes.

Really enjoying this week's Earwolf Challenge, with Paul F Tompkins and Jesse Thorn giving actual constructive feedback to podcasters.

http://www.earwolf.com/show/earwolf-challenge

http://hootpodcast.com/

Scott Boxenbaum and Megan Koester talk with other comedians about their favorite music. I only found out about this because my friend April did an early episode, but it's turned into a really fun show to follow.

The Gamespy Debriefings just ended, which was great for a bunch of IGN guys talking pointedly about anything other than video games and busting on each other.

Their new show, The Comedy Button, should be debuting soon.

Another show I've just found is WeNerdHard, which is Elon James White and friends in the Brooklyn Comedy Company get together to loudly argue nerd shit with each other and it's hilarious.

Mike and Tom Eat Snacks is the best.

Comedy Film Nerds is a new fave: Ric Meyers ep last week was so great

I rescind my Hootenanny rec, btw. It only took a few episodes for me to absolutely LOATHE these people.

yeah i listened to one on your rec, johnny. tamra brown talking about how she likes her men old and wrinkly *shudder*

would work if it had better guests though. i like the idea.

Mike and Tom Eat Snacks is the best.

― polyphonic, Tuesday, August 30, 2011 12:27 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

yesssssssssssssssssssssss

are there any scripted comedy podcasts, like short sitcoms or what have you?

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 January 2011 21:22 (7 months ago)

Tracer have you tried Superego?

Mike and Tom Eat Snacks is the best.

Fuck yes. Been listening to one a day as I catch up, can't believe the dude from Ed is funny and dickish enough to hold his own with MIB.

can't believe the dude from Ed is funny and dickish enough to hold his own with MIB

Think maybe they developed a friendship when MIB WAS ON ED?

Yeah? But that show looked like garbage so I never watched it?

I mean if their characters have a similar dynamic and are half as funny as the podcast, please let me know and I'll go watch it.

Tracer have you tried Superego?

no, but i will now, thanks!

"Ed" was great...had a weird Northern Exposure-meets Freaks and Geeks kinda vibe. Bit of fish out of water, bit of high school blues, plus town weirdos.
But they're never gonna put it on DVD because of music rights clearance issues so you'll have to torrent it.

Superego's good - nice and short, no rambling, well-written, the actors enjoying themselves. Extremely short supply of women tho

you might like Thrilling Adventure Hour, or some of the sub-series in it too - it's not produced, instead done live in a faux old-time-radio style, but is fully scripted, concise and the actors having a ball

comedy bang bang w/ zach g, pft & ylt is delightful

the cdr with zach g and pft as alw was totes ace

Scharpling's hurricane experiences on the September 6th Best Show. Only just now rewinding to find he's ranted about his clean-up for well over 30 minutes. Amazing.

has anyone else listened to "analyze phish"? it's kind of interesting - not a must-listen, and not really a comedy podcast for the most part despite being hosted by scott aukerman and harris wittels. it's more just about the concept of a person who loves something trying to convince someone who hates that same thing to love it, mainly about how difficult that is, but also how embarrassing it is and what kind of strategies you would take. it does have extensive phish clips, on the other hand.

hah yeah i listened to it. i like aukerman & wittels a lot and used to listen to phish a lot but dont at all today. there really is no way to defend trey's voice & honestly i dont know how id convince someone to get into them. actually i wouldnt try but i do think the show is interesting. basically u need to have a lot of free time and be 20, probably. also, i think it's hard to underestimate the obsessive aspect of it

Waiting for The Comedy Button to be posted online

This new Paul F. Tompkins' "Dead Authors" podcast looks promising.

i'd never listened to phish and so far wittels has yet to convince me with his selections, they all sound pretty shitty

had a dream last night that i was explaining/praising "mike and tom eat snacks" to marc maron and a couple of other people. i think maybe i told maron that "it's probably not your kind of thing, you've had issues with those stella guys in the past"

did anyone else listen to last week's "homemade guacamole" episode of MATES? it takes an interesting turn in the last 10-15 minutes.

<3 Brett Gelman

http://www.earwolf.com/episode/gelmania/

Laser Time
The Comedy Button

oh man, Gelmania was funny. I hope he does more episodes.

*doug loves movies halloween ep w/ cbb characters*

just saw that on the feed, and have a laugh-boner swelling in my hippocampus already

Bought Chris Hardwick's _the Nerdist Way_ funny self-help-type tome yesterday. Will see how he translates all the stuff he's learnt himself to an instructional format.

Let me know how it is, I was thinking of picking it up.

Started listening to Comedy Bang Bang more often and it made me appreciate Nick Kroll. Uh and the Paul F. Tompkins/Andy Richter episode was pretty good all around, lots of PFTs Werner Herzog impression.

I've now listened to 304+ hours of Uhh Yeah Dude in the past 6 months and am pretty sure it is the greatest comedy achievement of our time. Seatbelts, fruits.

damn ive been on a tear lately-- burned through abt 50 episodes since the week before christmas. have about 98 to go.

fyi this is link to every single craigslist segment edited together in to one three hour long mp3: http://www.sendspace.com/file/jfntg1

also i received a callback from Seth on christmas eve

The craigslist stuff is so good.

Seth's rant about Seinfeld in the last episode was A+++

Seatbelts.

a million dollars.

going to my third live show next month. living in la has advantages.

holla back for a dope cock.

I caught on to the Maron podcasts a couple of months ago, and ended up subscribing just so I could listen to a stack of the older ones. The interviews are ultimately case studies in why successful people are successful. It's so lovely listening to schtick monsters like Robin Williams drop the act and be completely straight up about their work, and Maron knows exactly how to get the best out of them.

I mean I know it's been covered to death, just hoping to convince those people who heard 40 seconds of a monologue and gave up.

His interview with Russell Brand was good, I actually warmed to Brand a little more because of it. Not that it was hugely revealing beyond what I knew, but hearing him speak at length and joke around with Maron helped make him a little more human, or soemthing.

just a reminder/no thread police:

WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

Ran across this post. Listened to the JJG episode with Markoe and (I don't normally listen to any of the MaxFun podcasts) and yeah there's an element of truth to it, but my issue with Thorn remains: if a guest is being too polite or reticient, he'll just talk about himself rather than try to engage or draw the guest out.

For one, Jesse Thorn was recently on Boing Boing’s podcast, and Coulton was on Thorn’s TSOYA podcast (responding to a Planet Money podcast that characterized Coulton fairly well, I think — of course, neither he nor Thorn could handle NPR saying he got any sort of help by having a baked-in programmer audience). Thorn is friends with Lonely Sandwich, from You Look Nice Today, which had a two episode run with John Hodgman and his pal Coulton. Hodgman was Thorn’s mentor. They’re all sort of left coast friends (not Hodgman, ofc.), I get the impression. ANYWAY — I’m just trying to establish the connection. (Yes, I listen to a lot of podcasts.) (Also, this ignores the way the extremely funny and talented Merlin Mann connects this group of people to the more hard-core tech people who are THE WORST via Dan Benjamin and 5by5.) (Yes, still, I listen to a lot of podcasts.)

Jordan Jesse Go frequently features racist jokes. In JJGO Ep 207, Jordan Morris was gobsmacked that his “Thai lady boys” twitter joke was poorly received. Then, they played a listener call that celebrated racism, and they thought it was HILARIOUS. Their guest, Merrill Markoe, who’s an actually talented funny person was like, ‘What the fuck is wrong with you?” but more polite. I’d have to literally go back and listen to 200 episodes of JJGO, but there’s not a month that goes by where I don’t have a WTF moment and have to pause or delete the podcast because of their love for liberal-racist jokes. I have a similar relationship with certain podcasts as I do with Bill Simmons. Yes, I am a person who needs to let go of negativity and be too blessed for to be stressed, etc. I’m working on it.

Anyway, yes. The Max Fun podcasts, I believe, really cater to the white and nerdy crowd that I’ve mentally mapped to Boing Boingers, so-called “makers”, readers of Reddit, and comedy nerds — which are not implicitly bad people, certainly. I am a huge comedy nerd. But there’s a strain in it, I think, of meritocratic-nerd-outsideryness that lends itself to denying privilege in off-putting ways. As a panacea to all that, I have nothing but good things to say about The Pod F. Tompkast and Super Ego. (Thorn and Morris are once-time guests on the latter.)

GELMANIA is typically 80% pretty decent, 20% sublime. The sublime bit in the latest ep is of Brett and an industry friend deadpanly describing their lives as amoral sociopaths in pursuit of fame; it's pretty swell.

if anyone is going to the UYD live show on Thursday, tell Seth hi say aloha

I've been enjoying the Long Shot Podcast a lot lately

Listening to Bob Odenkirk on the Nerdist today. I think I am kind of in love with his voice. I love that slightly cranky, world-weary tone he has. That is all.

Sometimes Thorn's interviews are really great! His recent interview with Nile Rodgers was wonderful.

http://www.maximumfun.org/sound-young-america/nile-rodgers-musician-and-hit-producer-interview-sound-young-america

Wow, I'll have to check that out.

cosigning on the Nile interview

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/magazine/the-tragedy-of-comedy-podcasts.html

Stand-Up Comedy Without the Stand-Up. Or the Comedy.
By PAUL BROWNFIELD

“I’ve really been in my head this last week,” a morbid-sounding comedian said on his podcast recently. “Every time I think I’m out of the woods with my depression and my self-obsession, I manage to backslide, and then that makes me even more depressed.”

The podcasting comedian (wait for it) confessed that a cable TV show he had co-hosted for many years was about to go off the air. He was frightened. “I’m afraid to admit to myself that I’m sad, and I’m scared that I’m not going to work again.”

But then (still waiting for it . . .) he made an insight about his depression. He spoke of his “fear that I’m not going to have enough money, which is connected to believing that I’m alone.”

This podcast, called “The Mental Illness Happy Hour” and hosted by Paul Gilmartin, is filed on iTunes under Self Help, even though Gilmartin is a comedian and many of his guests are comedians. And no wonder: the tone of the show plays to the trope that all comedians are in actuality broken people who are willing to expose their brokenness for our light amusement. Gilmartin takes this cliché seriously, creating a perversely safe place in which he and his guests talk about their fears, addictions and traumatic childhoods. As a result, “The Mental Illness Happy Hour” isn’t funny; if anything, it’s so unfunny that it takes a few episodes to realize that what you’re listening to is not a goof.

Go to iTunes, browse the comedy-podcast section and you’ll see them all hiding out there, like subtenants in an illegal loft building of show business: the stand-up comics with their podcasts. There are the alpha dogs like Christopher Titus (“Christopher Titus Podcast”); the antic radio theater of “The Pod F. Tompkast” from Paul F. Tompkins; Jimmy Pardo’s boasting, double-negatively, of being “Never Not Funny”; and the breakout comedy podcast “WTF,” hosted by Marc Maron and picked up by the Public Radio Exchange.

The paradox of the podcast explosion among comics is that it’s at once a minirenaissance for comedy and a retreat by comics further into themselves — a sort of talking cure for a group of people who suffer from something not yet covered, I don’t believe, in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: a need, when not formally doing comedy, to talk about how and why one does comedy.

(This might be a good time to point out that listening to a comedian’s podcast is, almost without exception, free.)

On one hand, the appeal of podcasting to a comic is self-evident. There’s no time limit, no getting bumped, no pilot seasons, no standards and practices, no ratings-obsessed late-night wars. It’s just you and some recording equipment and maybe a few sidekicks for ballast. The audience? They’re imagined, in some separate, contiguous reality. Instead of urging them to tip the wait staff, you nudge them to leave a positive comment on your show page.

For a comedian, what a podcast lacks isthe relational frisson that makes live comedy so risky. But in place of a live crowd is something more unnerving — a vacuum.

The vacuum was what initially flummoxed comedians when the Internet revolution happened. Suddenly comics were in the discomfiting position of needing to relate to audiences outside the more hostile, and familiar, setting of a particular night in front of a particular crowd. Dane Cook, who embraced the “Hey, guys!” approach of building a brand on the Web, was scoffed at for his Internet people-pleasing. He even came to symbolize the end of stand-up comedy as a great antisocial art form.

But eventually comics, who tend to talk and talk and talk, who often write their material by talking, recognized the springboard of a podcast as a beautiful thing — Internet radio without the gatekeepers or, if you like, instant stage time in their down time. Half a decade into the trend, something like an establishment industry is starting to form, with little podcasting chieftains forming networks of shows under such banners as Nerdist, Earwolf and Ace Broadcasting, which belongs to the former radio host turned podcaster Adam Carolla. It’s no coincidence that this is all happening in Los Angeles, where comics move to work in TV and movies and stay to become ironic, insular and defeated about it.

The podcast boom is, on its face, reminiscent of the stand-up craze of the 1980s, which is how I discovered comedians. It was 1981, the cusp of the comedy-club boom, and I was 16 and going regularly to the Comedy Store in Los Angeles. Leno was around, as were Bob Saget and Garry Shandling. More than their material, what resonated for me was their deftness as social magicians, using humor and self-disclosure to turn shame into power. This made comedians an ideal object of transference for someone who, at 16, still could not sleep over at a friend’s house, much less go on class trips out of town, and was seeing a therapist to talk about my separation anxiety. In my life, bombing in front of my peers was a constant threat. So watching comedians exposing their neuroses, or merely their personalities, and triumphing in the process, felt like catharsis.

Unlike most other forms of performance, stand-up comedy begins as a mortifying social situation that the comedian has to surmount through consensual laughter. To do so, he or she employs some combination of personality, material and craft. Regardless, it’s the annihilation of the tension and near-avoidance of public shame (or for certain derelict entertainers, the exacerbating of it) that gives stand-up its thrilling veneer.

Last season, in one of the best “Saturday Night Live” opening monologues in recent memory, Zach Galifianakis, dressed in a red dress, lip-synched “Tomorrow,” from the musical “Annie,” while tearing pages of jokes about gay marriage and pot smoking, written with a Sharpie marker, from a giant drawing pad. Contrast that with another memorable incident of live comedic shame last year: the face plant James Franco and Anne Hathaway took hosting last year’s Oscars.

In one (Galifianakis), a shame-inducing moment was purposefully stoked by a professional comedian who had long dared to show this stranger side of his authentic self; in the other (Hathaway-Franco), two actors were trying to win us over by being funny, and failing, and making us uncomfortable in the process.

As for me, 30 years after dreaming of becoming Garry Shandling, I don’t consume stand-up live anymore; I download it onto my iPod, booking a comedian’s voice in my ear as I walk to work or try to fall asleep. This way of hearing comedians is at once totally dislocating (when was this recorded?) and more intimate than seeing him live; instead of the comedian’s act, you get the comic as extension of the act, the comic forever in the process of writing the act — the more anthropological half comedian, half human being.

Because of podcast overexposure, in fact, I fear I’m losing interest in stand-up altogether, or at least in the performance of it. Listening to a live show, performed in front of an audience, now feels inevitably deflating — the energy off, the crowd response interruptive, the comic now working a crowd, instead of just working you. That’s the appeal of the podcast: the comedian is broadcasting straight into your head, and you in turn are engaged with him, so that the both of you are practically sharing a thought balloon.

No comic does podcasting better, or seems to have a better intuitive understanding of what the transaction involves, than Marc Maron. Maron’s show, “WTF,” has become one of the hottest “rooms” to play in iTunes (the actual room being his garage in the Highland Park section of Los Angeles).

The story goes that only a few years ago, he was at the end of his tether — alone, broke and vaguely suicidal; worse, his manager was saying he’d become unbookable. “I started talking about myself on the mike with no one telling me what I could do or what I could say,” Maron said last summer at the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival, where he gave the keynote address about the success of his podcast. “I started reaching out to comics immediately. I needed help.” He had to gather himself before continuing. “I needed, uh, personal help, professional help. I needed to talk to people. So I reached out to my peers. And I talked to them.”

Maron was a doorman at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles in the late ’80s, where he fell in with that legendary Beelzebub of comedy, Sam Kinison; he has kicked around other comedy scenes as well. I was never a big fan of his “take all of me” onstage persona — think Ben Stiller’s self-immolating pedant in “Greenberg,” only louder and less emo — but I’ve rediscovered Maron as a comedian-who-podcasts, which is to say a comedian who talks about doing comedy instead of actually doing it.

For this he has a strain of brilliance. For one thing, he turns out to be a really good interviewer, in large part because of his tendency to relate everything back to himself. Rather than simply demand that his guest disclose, he makes his own disclosures, which engenders openness. A few weeks ago, Todd Glass (host of “The Todd Glass Show”) went on “WTF” to come out as a gay man, finally, in his mid-40s. Much of the pathos of “WTF” comes from this implied idea of community: that comedians, by connecting with one another about their fears, their damage or their secrets, come to realize that they also need one another.

The only other context in which I’d ever seen this expressed was at a memorial for the late Mitch Hedberg, the slacker-troubadour-comic who was often compared with Steven Wright for his absurdist bons mots (“Rice is great if you’re hungry and want 2,000 of something”). A compelling thing about Hedberg was how authentically small the gap seemed between his abashedness onstage and the wit that overrode his anxiety. The 37-year-old Hedberg died on the road (a hotel in Livingston, N.J.) in 2005 of what was ruled an accidental drug overdose.

Hedberg’s memorial was held at the Friars Club in Beverly Hills, of all places, and it quickly turned into a bizarro antiroast. A comic named Chard Hogan told of touring with Hedberg out West in a beat-up VW bus; another, K. P. Anderson, recalled doing mushrooms in Vegas with Hedberg and staring for hours at the volcano at the Mirage. But they couldn’t get through their “sets” without crying, as if heckled by their own unruly feelings. “Mitch was greased lightning, Mitch was the light,” a comedian named Randy Kagan insisted between fits of tears.

In a weird way, the Hedberg memorial anticipated the podcast phenomenon to come. It wasn’t comedy, exactly; it was comedians unburdening themselves while never straying too far from their bits. As an outsider, it felt wrong to watch, yet compelling, in the exact way that the best podcasts can feel as they explore that wonderfully wrong airspace between the hard joke and the hard cry.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/02/05/magazine/05riff1/mag-05Riff-t_CA0-articleLarge.jpg

feel like the tone of that comes off like the "ppl still buy vinyl?" lolstory but thats prob only cuz i listen to a billion podcasts

I find the opposite, that the podcasts make me want to go to *more* shows. I'd never been to SF Sketchfest before, and this year I went to 4 shows, all comedians/shows that I came across because of podcasts.

agreed, im surprised all the names i end up recognizing of who comes to the casino near me...i mean i dont often go 2 see them but i'm more open to doing so cuz i know who they are (or not if i think theyre annoying i guess -- ie - pete holmes

)

x-post about jesse thorn

I listened that old Jordan Jesse Go with Uhh Yeah Dude as the guests. Jesus Christ! Jonathan tried to play along with Jordan and Jesse's fucking inanity, but it sounded like Seth wanted to exterminate those fools. So damn awkward.

woah. link?

omg I did not know about this

downloading

http://www.maximumfun.org/jordan-jesse-go/jordan-jesse-go-ep-112-bananacakes-seth-and-jonathan-uhh-yeah-dude

Oh shit, Doug Benson and Graham Elwood are in my town this weekend!

You should totally go!

I've listened to half an hour of JJGO with Seth and Jonathan and it is fuckin weeeeeird. It's like a crossover of two tv shows that should not be together. Like Antiques Roadshow meets The Soup. Or something. It's awkward as hell. I don't know if I can listen to the whole thing. And I usually enjoy JJGO.

Last week's Carolla with Dana Gould was non-stop hilarious.

Doug Benson & Graham Ellwood live were funny. Not as much as say, Ron Funches, but still good.

Dana Gould just put up the first ep of his new podcast "The Dana Gould Hour" w/ Pepitone as guest...there's a bit of sketch stuff that isnt great but the Pepitone convo is fun

I just started Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast about a month ago, dude is str8 fire. I don't always love *what* he says, but the fact that he can talk like that for an hour just arguing with himself and ranting is really fucking awesome. And he has his girlfriend on the show sometimes, she's cool

The Dana Gould podcast was pretty good, though I've kind of hit my limit on comedians-shooting-the-shit podcasts. Dana Gould is a genius, though.

The Matt Besser "Improv for Humans" thing on Earwolf is pretty great. Especially when he reads the papers from his dead father.

im pleased podmass quoted this

“It is my sincere wish to have you murdered at a Phish show.” —Scott Aukerman to Harris Wittels, Comedy Bang Bang

I only started listening to CBB regularly within the last few months, but I've been really enjoying it.

i was a late adopter also, for whatever baseless reason i didnt think id like "characters" on a podcast but now it is prob my favorite 'cast

it's really worthwhile to seek out past ones imo; unfortunately i think im really close to having heard all of them at this pt

I can only take so much of Comedy Bang Bang at a time, although I just noticed that Analyze Phish 4 is up, so I might get back into it again for a while.

I can't remember what it was about CBB that made me unsubscribe. Something about it drove me batshit.

Gotta rep for Superego. It's so funny!

last couple of CBB eps have been really good in different ways - the one with harris wittels and paul rust was really goofy and manic and intense, while the weird al, todd glass, and "liza minelli" one seemed like an odd combo but ended up working out really well

comedy bang bang and mike and tom eat snacks are the only podcasts i listen to every single week, and even MATES has been kinda inconsistent since moving over to Nerdist for some reason.

i think i mean "dense" more than "intense" - there was a lot of random riffing and people talking over each other

otm re MATES. I don't really get why the change made such a big deal, but its definitely lacklustre

even the recording sounds off, like the mics are crappier or something. there are still moments of brilliance but something just seems different.

MATES is on Nerdist now? Sugerego moved there too, iirc. It's like some podcast Clear Channel.

someone made a UYD animation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2zU6dUPVSQ

its a little too "explain the joke" for me, also i prob wouldnt have chosen a segment w/ affected asian accents \(o_O)/

Jah looks like a garden gnome, is my only concern.

but I liked the airhorn buddhists animation a lot

im listening to UYD for this first time and just dying.

What do you guys think about a dedicated UYD thread? Is there enough interest?

sunny what episode!!!!

i would be interested since i dont read this thread for any other reason

i'd love a uyd thread

I'm just gonna take that as consensus. Yay!! Hold please.

For all your boning down needs: 2006 4 Life: The Uhh Yeah Dude Thread

I can only take so much of Comedy Bang Bang at a time, although I just noticed that Analyze Phish 4 is up, so I might get back into it again for a while.

Analyze Phish ep 4 is EPIC

I have to imagine that it's better than the first three.

I either adore or despise Julie Klausner and I honestly am not sure which it is.

adspise?

I have to imagine that it's better than the first three.

It makes listening to the first three all worthwhile. (I did like the switch-up in ep3 of adding Adam Scott to the proceedings.)

Harris Wittels in my head looks like Jonathan from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

do you watch Parks & Recreation? he plays Harris from Animal Control on that

I dug James Adomiam as Gary Busey on the new CBB. It took me awhile to realize that "David Wain's Dad" really was David Wain's dad.