Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

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.

poor henry!
Millions of Delicious Cookiebits probably more appetizing than the Dead Sprinkledys.

Rollins usu comes across as pompous on interviews bcz he gets very uptight and socially awkward and thinks he URGENTLY HAS TO explain himself to ppl who don't get it; onstage he is very self-deprecating and full of lols at his general attitude and behaviour

(saw him 12 hours ago for the first time in abt five years, he was taking the piss out of the business-like way he answers the phone. "This is Henry!")

(also how he snuck away from Monday Night Football at Shatner's when Rush Limbaugh turned up bcz he couldn't trust himself to be polite and respect Bill's hospitality, and for the rest of the year Shatner would fuck with him: "Henry! I think Rush Limbaugh might be... behind that -- potted plant!")

I thought the WTF was him way dialled-down compared to most interviews, yeah

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

Hard to find an equivalent host that could get the subjects to open up in similar ways. Could dig Maron having more musicians on, but his taste seems too zzzzzrock for this to be a worthwhile avenue.

And Rollins fits WTF because he's been a working standup for 25 years, and hasn't really even been a professional musician for a decade or so at this point.

Maron interviewed Thurston Moore on his post-Morning Sedition show on Air America and it was incredibly awkward. I just don't think his interest in music goes deep enough to know how to talk about it, really. I mean, he jams his love of Iggy Pop into every conversation that turns toward music, but I think that's more because he thinks Iggy is a cool guy and not because he appreciates his musicality or anything.

Kathleen Madigan interview on WTF today is fun. Doesn't really go deep or anything, but she's just fun to listen to.

http://pubphotos.postbulletin.com/get_photo.php%3Fphotoid%3D4599

http://www.tmz.com/2011/03/10/gallagher-collapses-on-stage-comedian-sledgeomatic-minnesota-hospital/

Gallagher Collapses On Stage

54 minutes ago by TMZ Staff

Comedian Gallagher collapsed onto his back, clutching his chest during his performance tonight in Rochester, MN -- and TMZ has learned he was rushed to a hospital by ambulance.

Multiple witnesses tell TMZ Gallagher was doing his famous sledge-o-matic routine when he fell backwards onto the stage. We're told his eyes were closed and he was shaking.

Doctors -- who happened to be in the audience -- rushed on stage and straightened out Gallagher's arms ... and waited by his side until the ambulance arrived.

Yeah, the Madigan one is really good. I like how they go into the mechanics of life on the road and her talking about life with Lewis Black

I agree with Marc. I would watch a show about Kathleen and Lewis just being together. Doesn't really matter what they're doing.

Doctors -- who happened to be in the audience -- rushed on stage and straightened out Gallagher's arms ... and waited by his side until the ambulance arrived.

I have lost and gained respect for doctors over the course of sentence.

I just listened to the Mike DiStefano one last night (because I'm catching up in order and it just happened to be appropriate timing more than anything) and fucking hell that dude had a life. Absolute essential listening for anyone.

So sad.

(also how he snuck away from Monday Night Football at Shatner's when Rush Limbaugh turned up bcz he couldn't trust himself to be polite and respect Bill's hospitality, and for the rest of the year Shatner would fuck with him: "Henry! I think Rush Limbaugh might be... behind that -- potted plant!")

This makes me really want Shatner on WTF.

Catching up on Nerdist and the Billy West episode is astonishingly great.

Paul Reubens on CDR is great

Catching up on Nerdist and the Billy West episode is astonishingly great.

Yeah, I loved that one.

I'm enjoying the Michael Ian Black and Tom Cavanaugh podcast "Mike & Tom Eat Snacks"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfIRb3CH80U&feature=player_embedded#at=46