Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

Nope, I love nerds/dorks.

Sarcasm. I am a huge nerd.

What I meant is that their nerdiness is not why I think they're losers.

Nerdist for me is for more pleasant, or chatty, whereas something like CDR or Greg Fitzsimmons or Sklarbros are much more in the deliberately funny area.

Similarly, Maron's show can waver back & forth from pleasant to funny to compelling.

The recent episode of Best Show where Tom talks about his trip to LA was absolutely slaying me last night.

I lapsed on my Best Show listening, I need to pick it back up again... I do love it.

Just listened to this week's Best Show. Funny how that "Podcastin'" segment comes up the week after his Marc Maron interview. Hmm.

He was on multiple shows when he was in L.A., too.

Just now got around to hearing the Adam McKay episode of WTF (#119) and it was great. A little SNL talk, some Will Ferrell bits, and just a generally hour or so of attractive conversation. Unlike most of the WTF interviews, where it's very one-on-one, that one just kind of seemed like Marc and Adam were sitting around at a bar or something and you had a seat too and could jump in at any time.

Marc Maron podcast, Dave Foley episode, repeating an old-ass Wayne and Schuster joke from the Ed Sullivan Show:

Guy at bar: Gimme a martinez.

Bartender: You mean martini?

Guy: If I wanted two of 'em, I'd have ordered two of 'em.

I laughed about that for 15 minutes. I mean, c'mon, that's great.

Also I guess I'm a sucker for hoary old vaudeville jokes. I feel absolutely no shame.

right there with you, kenan

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

no, it went

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, cryin'
When that cryin's done
When it's dooooooooone
Maximum fun

Thursday's are for bein' awesome
And dancin' in the sun
In the suuuuuuuuuun
Maximum fun

Gimme Thursday, I don't need no Fridays
Five o'clock cooooomes
It's maximum fun

Radio sweetheart, boy detective
It's the sound of young America
Maximum fuuuuuuuuun

Maximum fuuuuuuuun
Maximum fun

Maximum fuuuuuuuuu-uun
Maximum fun

and was a minute twenty-five

wish i owned some sort of device that can run "apps", 'cause i'd love to hear some of those early wtf episodes

Most of the very earliest WTF episodes aren't really worth tracking down. The show was totally scatterbrained and uncomfortable back then. In fact, despite liking Maron, I stopped listening for a while until I came back to it last summer.

The Nerdist sometimes drives me a little crazy because they're so, ... chatty. Like all 3 of them will go off on some riff for 10 minutes between themselves before they get back to the guest.
I usually pick and choose who the guest is, as to whether I'll listen. and I love Hardwicke, I just..it's a personal thing with me, I kind of just hate listening to unstructured random chattiness. no knock against Nerdist itself though.

― VegemiteGrrl, Friday, February 18, 2011 2:32 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^this is v otm. at moments it feels like they all are trying too hard to get a quick witticism in and it makes me immediately want to turn it off. contrasted, say, w/ never not funny where they rarely step on each other or at least it doesnt feel as gross & show-offy. plus pardo is just a way superior host to hardwick, at least for my tastes

RIP Mike DeStefano, according to the WTF twitter. :( This is very sad. I assume it was from complications with HIV. His interview with Marc Maron, last December, was one of the best things I heard in 2011: http://wtfpod.libsyn.com/episode-130-mike-de-stefano

oh wow that is terribly sad

OMG. That seriously breaks my heart, and seems surprising. The Marin interview was fantastic, and he seemed like an insightful and kind of amazing guy.

I'll have to check out that podcast. I never really got his shtick when he was on Last Comic Standing last summer. RIP tho, he seemed like a genuine guy.

Last Comic Standing was not a good venue for him. He was more of a storyteller.

RIP

Listend to every Ricky Gervais Show "Guide To..." in a week. Karl is genuinely the most clever person I've ever "met"... it's that he doesn't conform to the regulaire mode of thought that is so painfully unpermissable. I find myself secretly agreeing with everything the dude says, or at least knowing where he's coming from.... love how Ricky & Steve knock you back into reality.

*listened

You should really listen to the old Gervais podcasts if you haven't.

I didn't realize who today's WTF interviewee was until Maron just tweeted "STARBURNS." Okay, I'm on it.

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Where should I start? Have they always had Pilkington or was he just sorta the odd guest every once in a while?

Start with the first season. Pilkington is basically the centerpiece of every episode:

http://www.audible.com/pd?productID=PF_GERV_000200

thanks - gonna order it when i get home, can't wait

kinda nuts that it's the most downloaded podcast ever and nobody i've met has even heard remotely of it. i mean, is gervais some sort of adam sandler equivalent (celebrity, not quality) in the UK? bc that stat I had to double-check for anomalies..

Yes that original run of the Gervais podcast was all time classic. But I quit following when he started charging for it. I mean, theres so much quality stuff out there for free, I'm not about to start paying for that one.

wish maron talked to dino more abt adult swim & w/e falling out happened over morel orel. i dont really know if dino's been candid abt that (& maybe he wouldnt have been 100% as now hes back working w/ them on frankenhole) and i bet there are some good stories there. too bad marc doesnt know abt/care abt cartoons

i liked it when he said he writes jokes for babies

plz tell me that he talks a lot about community bc community is my heartsongs

He does not. All we learn is that he and Dan Harmon met in a bar, he got Dan a couple writing jobs, and Dan repaid the favor by putting him on Community (but he doesn't really like "acting").

lame. (i'll listen anyway.)

All the stories about the kind of sex he likes more than makes up for it imo.

i'd never really listened to comedy death ray before and yesterday i listened to the one with tom scharpling and weird al and "special guest garry marshall" and i felt really dumb because i seriously couldn't figure out if it was really garry marshall or someone imitating him until the very end when "garry marshall" ceded his plug time to pf tompkins. anyways it was very very funny.

a few weeks old now but I really enjoyed the Carl LaBove interview on WTF. I'm not a massive Kinnison fan, but I find the history around him pretty interesting and that whole story about the daughter and Kinnison's brother making that whole end-around run early on to shut the kid out of the estate..just, wow.

i guess

but god LaBove seemed like an asshole. Actually, a lot of WTF's recent guests have made my skin crawl with how much i dislike them - just yuck vibes, the sort of people i hate hanging out with. Amy Schumer, Greg Fitzsimmons. After being affected by all these comedy insights, it's a good reminder of why i don't go see standup.

also really enjoyed the Paul Krassner episode...I'm sure they seem like boring hippy ramblings to some people but I could seriously listen to his stories for hours, I just really dig the 'living history' aspect of him...corny, I know.

I was excited to learn that Dino had written so many of my favorite Mr. Show sketches.

I just listened to the Rollins one. Made me wish there was a music oriented equivalent to WTF. Is there?

comedians seem like way more interesting interview subjects than musicians

rollins on wtf: "i brought my 9 to 5 work ethic to punk rock"

im sure you werent the only punk rocker who had a day job, you fucking bore

but that just is him explaining himself, I don't think he's saying he's the only one?

probably. rollins just comes across as pompous in that podcast.

rollins just comes across as pompousin that podcast.

He seemed downright humble compared to other times I've heard him talk.

did he bring punk rock to his work at haagen daaz? that would've been awesome

"I'd like two scoops of bad brainsberry please with um.. millions of dead sprinkles, thanks."

tv party at Haagen Daaz tonight!

did he bring punk rock to his work at haagen daaz? that would've been awesome

iirc that's the job he had when he was homeless, sleeping in his Volkswagen, and taking baths in the sink after closing time.