Joe Pera Talks with You

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Still no word on a second season?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

i can't pick :(

http://i64.tinypic.com/35i3oky.jpg
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I had no idea this was a thing! I always try talking this dude up to people and always forget his name (to the extent that I scanned this thread title like seven times before I finally realized where I knew the name). He's just become 'that twentysomething guy who acts like he's in his late seventies' at this point. Will def check this out.

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

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

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

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

it's set and filmed there

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

what, that was horrible

I don't give a fuck.

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

https://vimeo.com/170977560

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

Yeah the Bills one was very on point

Doo da dooda doodoo. Doo da dooda doodoo.

Church Announcements.

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

This show was so lovely

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

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

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

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

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

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

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

The perfect egg bite part of the breakfast episode is hilarious

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

he's great.

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

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

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

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

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

:D ok i'm in

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

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

^^^

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

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

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

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

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

oh nice glad to hear it!

yes!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

dude knows his Dragonball Z!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

need to start an accidentally joe pera thread

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

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

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

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

live shows in london/uk next april

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

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

— Joe Pera (@JosephPera) February 1, 2023

lol perfect opening line

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

lol

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

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

Yay!

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

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

He even went on NTS

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

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

incredible drip

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

in case you thought he made it up

lol

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

vital comfort rewatching

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

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

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

— Fawaz. (@FaZeThog) March 12, 2020

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

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