Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

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.)

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.

It's also, I should add, a great lesson in how you can not like someone and still respect that they're a person. It's advanced D&D, it really is.

Thanks for the suggestions people. Just subscribed to the Tobolowsky and Hodgman podcasts and, after putting it off for way too long, diving into the Best Show world.

dont forget Uhh Yeah Dude.

Listened to the Tobolowsky Files episode "The Stranger" this morning. Wow. The man is an amazing storyteller.

i've come around to the intros/rants on maron's podcast

I still skip them usually. Doesn't really impact my enjoyment of the show.

Got mildly annoyed last night after downloading the WTF iPhone app, thinking I was getting access to the old episodes, only to find I need to upgrade to Premium to get those. But it was only 99 cents and I'm not going to begrudge Maron for trying to make a little dough off the show.

My mother-in-law was high school debate club partners with Tobolowsky.

lol @ Maron's mailbag on today's episode.

yeah that was pretty wow. Liked his reply too.

The Tompkins interview was pretty great! Cringed a little over the fact that Maron couldn't/wouldn't get past the 'you were fat back then' and 'wtf is it with your clothes'...but Maron is Maron, he wouldn't be who he is if he didn't make you facepalm every now and again. Great conversation though. Looking forward to Monday, with the Kinnison guy. Sounds like an eyeopener.

The Tompkins thing was my favorite type of WTF interview, where they get into the real guts of the art of standup. (Also, it was nice to hear Paul talk more about his mom...he'd gone into some of—her death/funeral—on Freak Wharf, but I feel like we got a rounder idea of what his family is actually like today.)

agree, this ep was my fav in a while

Did you see his Comedy Central standup special last year (October/Novemberish)? -- he talked all about his Mom during that one and it was SO good.

But yeah, I love it when they get into the mechanics of how they do crowd work, how they manage their material on stage, the choices they make, even the travelling...good stuff.

i think the sound of young america guy may have changed his atrocious opening theme song due to negative feedback -- can the same thing happen with marc maron's unnecessarily aggro morning DJ cut-up intro?
also the slate podcast has this public-access public-domain sounding intro song that sounds like some allergy medication commercial. ugh!

I like this intro 10000 times more than his original intro.

there was a worse one?!
how did it go?
if you haven't heard the original sound of young america song it went like this:
rrraadio sweeetheart on the air waaaves / it's the sound ovvv youung amerrrica / maxxxximum fun / maximum fuuuuuuuuuuuun / maximum funnn

original one had like an AC/DC-esque bassline, and stupid Matthew that used to be his sidekick did this Drivetime Radio intro "From the basement of the cat ranch..." that seriously felt like it went for 20 minutes. It was HORRRIBLE

I love that he keeps his "Lock the gates!" from Almost Famous in there.

Yeah me too!