Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

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

― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, January 31, 2011 1:40 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

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.)