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
― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Friday, 7 January 2011 12:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I guess it's cheap - basically free - to have a dude just, like, "being funny". But writers, actors and editors not so much
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 January 2011 12:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Tompkins has a live pianist for the non-performance/non-interview bits too! quality favor-calling in the name of production values there
― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Friday, 7 January 2011 12:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― That's life in the world of shadows, Garkun. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 8 January 2011 12:25 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a very different Williams, and a great interview. Worth your time
― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 8 January 2011 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
^^
the bob odenkirk maya rudolph sketch was fire
― strongly recommend. unless you're a bitch (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Kevin Smith popping up on people's podcasts this week
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Sometimes the "great undiscovered project" is funny, but his Lithgow impression left something to be desired.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― von kelson, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Tompkast's "Ring of Hanukkah" and "Ice T Pyramid Scheme" Extrasode's kinda killed me.
― Slade Venom Secret Police (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 06:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Extrasodes. Ugh.
― Slade Venom Secret Police (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 06:35 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 13:14 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 13:25 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 13:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah that Scheer ep was a surprise.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
maron is on conan tonight
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 20 January 2011 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 20 January 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I hated that Smith interview too.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 20 January 2011 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't hate the interview, but I (yeah) hated Smith. Also hated Greg Fitzsimmons. Both guys simply seemed like jerks.
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 20 January 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
not to get off track, but i'm actually sooner or later supposed to do a comedy podcast with one of my friends...
― amphetamine enhanced scholar (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 20 January 2011 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
that's cool!
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 20 January 2011 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
:)
― amphetamine enhanced scholar (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― johnny crunch, Friday, 21 January 2011 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
morgan spurlock?
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 21 January 2011 23:04 (thirteen years ago) link
whoa, i don't know if i can handle henry rollins on wtf
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
It's dull. Maron gets nothing new from Rollins. Rollins has used up all the interesting things he had to say by now.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Gonna skip that one.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
yea id rather hear him interview say a birthday clown or mime before i listen 2 rollins
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
True.
― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
patrice neal on the other hand ... yikes
or o'neal
Ugh Patrice was a real eyeopener
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I always despised Patrice O'Neal so I was surprised to find him so compelling in the Maron interview.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I liked the Rollins interview, but whatevs.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 00:36 (thirteen years ago) link
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).
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
(psssst...sciatic nerve)
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
my grasp of anatomy is very poor also
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Patton WTF was pretty good imo. Discussion at the end of joke-stealing was pretty enlightening too.
Does anyone listen to Walking The Room?
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 28 January 2011 06:47 (thirteen years ago) link
was maron serious that he read for the lead in 'a serious man'? that blows my mind tbh
― johnny crunch, Monday, 31 January 2011 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Gallagher on WTF today. O_O
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 31 January 2011 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I heard he walks out on the interview?
― polyphonic, Monday, 31 January 2011 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
oh dave foley coming up, nice
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Monday, 31 January 2011 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost yep! walked right out.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 31 January 2011 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link