Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

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.