have you seen Larry Sanders?
― rude ragga beats from the F. U. Schnickens (sic), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
Arsenio situation isn't that complicated—a lot of the local tv affiliates that carried his show had to drop it when Letterman's show started on the national CBS network, and that essentially killed it off).
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
ok but then he disappeared for 15 years?
I have seen the first season of Larry Sanders but its the backstage stuff I find funny, monologues and selling any celebrities shit every day is just RMDE@USA.
― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:58 (twelve years ago) link
do not understand american talkshow tradition but still wonder what happened to arsenio hall
He guest-hosted on Access Hollywood the other day and he legitimately looked like he hasn't aged at all. Very odd.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 00:59 (twelve years ago) link
Well yeah, I don't know where he's been really since 1994. Arsenio would be a great WTF interview.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
he did that Sammo Hung cop show, where halfway through they realised they should bring in a sidekick who could deliver some snappy dialogue, as the star couldn't actually speak English
presumably he went hiding for a bit after the talk show was axed, but also got paid enough for it that he's been able to live a comfortable middle-class life and doesn't have a desperate need to see his face on posters
― rude ragga beats from the F. U. Schnickens (sic), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
Who would you like to hear interviewed on WTF? I'm waiting for Steven Wright, Nick Offerman, Andy Daly (non-live), Andy Zaltman...
Offerman on Kevin Pollock's podcast is A++++. Check it out if you haven't yet.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
My WTF want list is...
Dennis MillerPaula PoundstoneBrett ButlerRichard BelzerDan AykroydSteven WrightJudy Tenuta
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 01:44 (twelve years ago) link
Would love an hour with Belzer!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
Dennis Miller would be an insane interview. Doubt it'll ever happen though.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 10:27 (twelve years ago) link
well maron is a fan of stewart lee so brit comedy isnt anathema to him. id love to hear him interview dylan moran.
― Michael B, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 10:53 (twelve years ago) link
Lee isn't exactly 'Brit Comedy' as 'Alt Brit Comedy'.
― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 11:03 (twelve years ago) link
some of my favorite eps have been ones with guys i didn't really know about, like ron shock or eddie brill. i'll listen to any older guy who's been around the block a few times. albert brooks would be cool, or even jeff foxworthy or ron white. or judy tenuta.
― polyphonic, Monday, August 29, 2011 8:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
black dont crack
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
wrt leno i'd love to hear that ep, and i dont think maron would try to put the screws to him - i think he respects leno's old stand-up more than you guys do even if he isnt a fan of the tonight show, and i dont think it'd be hard for him to find a sympathetic angle
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 12:33 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i bet a leno interview would be fairly amicable. maron was raving about that war for late night book for weeks, and after reading it, i actually had a little more sympathy for leno. he's a hack but a hard-working hack and i can't really blame him personally for anything that happened with the conan debacle. plus maron is never a dick to the famous guests.
i've been open about not liking maron much as a personality/comedian so keep that in mind but the idea of the maron/wtf sitcom sounds pretty awful.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
do not understand american talkshow tradition but still wonder what happened to arsenio hall― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Monday, August 29, 2011 8:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Monday, August 29, 2011 8:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
Bill Carter's book (The War For Late Night) is a decent resource for what happened/didn't happen to Arsenio. It's largely forgotten now, but Hall was consistently beating Carson in the ratings in major markets in the late 80s/early 90s -- in some cases, crushing him. The fact that he vanished soon after is some combination of bewildering and fucked up.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
The Late Shift is the one about Letterman/Carson/Leno/Arsenio, The War for Late Night is the newer one about Conan and Leno
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I'm still not very sold on Maron himself, he grates on me some times, particularly when he is doing his little pre-interview bits. But I do like how even the guests I couldn't really care less about turn out to be interesting listens. Like the recent Jimmy Shubert one was good, I liked hearing the stories about Kinison and Mitzi Shore between their fits of laughter. I figured I'd abandon that episode early.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
xp Oops, you're right, but War For Late Night does have a bit of Arsenio backstory.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
I would love a few more Australians next time he travels there likeWil AndersonPaul McDermottTony Martin
Def. would love ChappelleJoan Rivers would be killerRon White maybe, not for his comedy so much but just bc I hear a lot of comedians like himBrett Butler would be great
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
listening to sudeikis, seems like a super nice guy obv but as far as episodes goes it's a bit dull
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
a lorne michaels episode would be pretty interesting though. hoping richard lewis could persuade larry david to do it as well.
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
Larry the Cable Guy would be interesting, if he had the balls to not use his character for the interview.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think richard lewis cared about being on one way or the other
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
As much as I'd love to hear a Lorne Michaels interview, I get the feeling he'd just stonewall Maron when he tried to delve into anything interesting/controversial.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
Wil AndersonPaul McDermottTony Martin
Fleet made sense bcz they have common ground to connect on, even without having known each other before. Anderson has no darkness beyond the aching trials of being a sex symbol and doing the same material for 15 years, McDermott hasn't been a comedian since '94 and has never ever displayed any interest in deconstructing or elucidating his persona, and Tony... well, he's opened up about his hideous family history of late in his two books, but still only where he sees an external gag in it, not to ~share~ anything -- and Maron would have to dig into 25 years of material including around 200 hours of radio highlights to find a reason to interview him.
― rude ragga beats from the F. U. Schnickens (sic), Thursday, 1 September 2011 07:26 (twelve years ago) link
I bet Julia Sweeney would be good.
― jaymc, Thursday, 1 September 2011 12:09 (twelve years ago) link
Stanhope was a pretty insubstantial interview today, yet a fun listen all the same.
I don't know, Stanhope's libertarian rambling revealed him to be kind of an asshole.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 1 September 2011 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
I knew that going in. I guess I just gave him a pass since it was altogether mild.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 1 September 2011 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I didn't really know Doug Stanhope apart from his Louie guest-spot, and the interview didn't make me want to get to know him further.
― jaymc, Thursday, 1 September 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
same here (though i haven't seen the louie ep yet).
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
my #1 wtf wish is for him to pick off the rest of the kids in the hall
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Thursday, 1 September 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
is Stanhope the guy who pops up on Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe occasionally?
― gay socialists smoking mushrooms with their illegal gardeners (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 1 September 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
he is, a hoy hoy. im in two minds about stanhope, he can be a great stand-up but sometimes he can pander to his moronic audience too much.
― Michael B, Thursday, 1 September 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
I listened to that Nick Offerman interview (on the Kevin Pollack show) recommended upthread. Good interview. That podcast is weird: lots of famous guests, who get to talk for 2 or 3 hours, but the host is such a non-presence, and you really do have to skip the first 15 minute of name droppiness.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 15 September 2011 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
Yah, the Kevin Pollack show can be very hit or miss depending on the guest. He's great at keeping things moving but no surfaces are going to be peeled back.
Having said that, the Steven Tobolosky episode of the KP show may just be my fave podcast episode of anything
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 16 September 2011 08:09 (twelve years ago) link
ooh ty, I <3 the Tobolowsky Files
― robocop last year was a 'shop (sic), Friday, 16 September 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
I like the turn towards actor interviews this week! Jon Hamm (which was great) and Bryan Cranston (which I just began listening to) are, I hope, just the beginning of a new strand of WTF guests.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
one of marc's intros this week was so emasculating it was hard to listen to. like in one intro he talked about over obsessing about his body, about being too scared of dead animals to dispose of them himself, and about his fanboy crush on jon hamm.
― Mordy, Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
i skip the intros now without even beginng to listen to them. find all of them hard to listen to.
― mizzell, Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
Lol I like them a lot, but then again I'm screwed up in a lot of the same ways so I just think it's nice to hear someone else say those things.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
Hamm and Cranston may be "actors," but both of them have demonstrated pretty ace comedy chops. The Cranston interview is pretty fun.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 October 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
Cranston is such a natural storyteller. Hamm to a lesser degree, but Cranston, fuck he's like my Dad & his friends, just wind him up & watch him go. Great stuff.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
i loved the recent ira glass live one. ira has to be the only jew in the world who doesn't think about what food will make him poop better.
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
I just listened to the Cranston one at lunch, and man, I love that guy.
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Thursday, 6 October 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
Are there Breaking Bad spoilers on the Cranston episode? I've still only seen the first few episodes.
― jaymc, Thursday, 6 October 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
First few episodes of Breaking Bad, that is.
― jaymc, Thursday, 6 October 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
There are enough spoilers, or intimations of spoilers, that I would just avoid.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 October 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that's what I figured, thanks.
― jaymc, Thursday, 6 October 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
so we just skipping over lisa lampanelli hmmmm lol. she kinda conforms to the best-case-scenario of what i thought she was really like as a person and their rapport and comedy shoptalk made for a damn good show
― tremendoid, Thursday, 6 October 2011 23:16 (twelve years ago) link