Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

really into comedy death ray these days. the character bob ducca, scott's ex-stepfather, consistently makes me cry from laughing

i recommend the "bob ducca - list of ailments" clip on this page: http://www.earwolf.com/show/comedy-death-ray-radio-scott-aukerman

bob ducca is fantastic

feelin kind of burned out on WTF. i realize he has this narrative about "i used to be jealous of you, but now that we talk, i realize we're very similar" but like every episode is the same and it's starting to seem forced. also when he has preconceived notions about a guest, he sticks to those notions; he doesn't always listen to what the guests have to say and adjust accordingly. this really stuck out to me in the new joe rogan interview, he gets stuck on this "you were into martial arts, you must view comedy as competition" thing and won't let go of it even after rogan disagrees with the point a few times.

was just thinking about this this morning and Maron could be better about getting out of the way of the interviewees HOWEVER, the Bobby Slayton ep was great and the show is great often enough that I'm hanging on

loved the Slayton interview

Not feeling Rogan but I dont like him that much to begin with. I always had a niggling feeling that he hides behind his nice guy thing,,, not based on anything, just me being irrational

Also, Conan + Showalter coming up -- so that's really exciting

i guess this is duuh but maron is so much better with people that he already knows personally. he flounders a lot more with younger comedians.

Like, if 50% of the interviews are duds that's still a really high hit ratio. Bobby Slayton was great -- I enjoyed the Carolla one (even tho Maron didn't really let him do his thing -- sometimes I feel like maybe he's too worried about mediating less-than-PC elements of his guests), Paul Tompkins was enjoyable, Dino was all time classic I felt (and it totally turned me on to Morel Oral and Frankenhole) um that Gallagher interview was only a few months ago. So what if Lewis Black's girlfriend was boring? Something better is always on the horizon!

Maron and PFT are both coming across the planet to Australia next month and only doing one city, boooo

Kathleen Madigan wasn't boring! xp

I enjoyed the Carolla one (even tho Maron didn't really let him do his thing

what? i felt like maron let carolla ramble the whole time?

See, here's the thing about that.

I guess I meant re: Carolla that it turns out Maron isn't Dr. Drew and I had forgotten that Carolla was only ever interesting with Dr. Drew in the room

man i wish i new about comedy death ray sooner, i was up all last night working on school shit & i plowed through several eps. bob ducca is the hardest i've laughed at a podcast ever maybe?

i am rather enjoying stop podcasting yourself, and my brother my brother & me both part of MaxFun but without Thorn on them if you don't like him (personally I think he's alright). he's also on judge john hodgman but in a minor role, and more john hodgman in my life is always acceptable. thrilling adventure hour is wonderful.

i want a fighting talk style "game" show podcast about things other than being a dick and soccer. maybe i should start a podcast. need more than just dudes talking sometimes.

After listening to the Carolla episode, I'm pretty sure I'd rather hang out with Gallagher.

carolla was such an asshole. i don't know why but, even tho i never liked him, i always kind of gave him a pass. he always seemed too aware for his shtick to be anything more than shtick. but when he was talking through his "thought process" regarding race and basically he is just long form describing racism 101...too much. when he was talking about how he's not sexist because he never hit a woman, and he's not racist because he never fired a black guy, i figured it HAD to be a gag, but apparently not.

I also need some gaming podcasts to hear

Yeah I like Carrolla when he talks about movies, or stupid shit ppl do when theyre renovating, or all the Love Line stuff...but on women and race he just needs to stfu. Way too simplistic, drives me bananas.

I did find him interesting on Maron, all that being said, esp his family and his Mum, etc.

yeah and the whole not hitting a woman = not sexist was O_o
Um, I dont think that is quite the definition to hang your hat on, Adam

Saturday show in Madison is apparently sold out, think I'll go Thursday?

DO IT (in Maron voice)

POW!

Mehhhhhh...what the fuck

I just shit my pants.

What's wrong with me?

Lock the gates!

Also, Conan + Showalter coming up -- so that's really exciting

― Mordy, Monday, March 28, 2011 6:57 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

Woo-hoo! Maron's been teasing the Conan interview for a month ("I'm reading this book called The War For Late Night, and maybe someone in the book will be on the show...")

psyched for Conan

I love the Mike Detective shows.

i recommend the "bob ducca - list of ailments" clip on this page: http://www.earwolf.com/show/comedy-death-ray-radio-scott-aukerman

"Parkinson's Disease...Parallel Parkinson's Disease..."

Maron totally great, highly recommend seeing his set.

Missed this guy opening

http://www.rooftopcomedy.com/comics/MIkeBobbitt

heard he killed.

The WTF interview with Michael Showalter was, imo, pretty damn great. There were genuine moments where Maron felt like he was mentoring Showalter. Pretty cool.

Their extended conversation about semiotics was hilariously wrongheaded.

yea i was thinking the same thing

I know! I enjoyed it though. I like when Maron starts to get pointyheaded about things and then he veers off in the totally wrong direction.

Conan ep of WTF is on iTunes now. Been looking forward to this...

In other comedy podcast news, Adam and Joe are back, though this probably only means anything to Britishers.

Conan ep of WTF is on iTunes now.

It's on the actual WTF feed as well.

I love Maron + Showalter but ppl otm about how weird that semiotics conversation was. It was basically what I'd imagine a conversation about semiotics between two comedians would sound like. Did you know that if the hero is wearing a white hat that means he's the good guy? Unless you're skeptical about authorial intent in which case maybe it just means he keeps his hat clean. lulz.

After all the conversation about Showalter's desire to be an intellectual and the joy he gets from teaching, I kept thinking "Does Maron know that Showalter's mom is a big-time literary critic?" -- since I wasn't sure that Showalter would volunteer the information himself. So I was glad that that eventually came up.

totally.

i wasn't able to get tickets to see maron this past weekend. kinda wondered if he'd elaborate on his sheen experience that he talked about at the beginning of the showalter ep.

xp to mordy

also wondered if he stopped by just coffee (which is right by my place) while he was in town

he didn't mention sheen.

ok the showalter and conan WTFs were both good, i think i just need to reserve my listening to this show for when he has people on who i'm actually interested in. i like how showalter had the advantage of hearing the episodes with david wain and michael ian black so he was prepared to comment on maron's perceptions of the state and that whole scene.

for sure. WTF is such a guest driven show that a bad guest is just terrible. i listen to all of them since i never know who will turn out to be really interesting - but i'll quit an episode early if it's really boring.

One thing that I get reminded of with almost every wtf ep is how deeply fucked-up Maron is. The eps with Conan and Joe Rogan are the latest examples.

I don't know who most American comedians are so I almost have to listen to them all by default.

The Conan episode was boring imo

The 15-minute rant at the beginning of the Adam Corolla episode about going to the Coca Cola museum is pretty brilliant.

Yeah that was great.

I thought the Conan episode was good, it's just cool to hear him speak at length and not have to be the loljokemeister, for me anyway. I never expected an eyebrow-raiser with Conan, because the impression I've gotten from him over the years is he's guarded, and I think because he knows he's kind of a dark guy on his own time he'd rather keep that to himself...and he doesn't have the kind of relationship with Maron where you'd get a Louie episode. I was happy with it.

yeah i loved the conan episode.

one of my favourite Maron rants was when he talked about being booed by someone for mentioning the grateful dead at a performance (thinks this was before the rollins podcast)

"Those burps were the burps of global unity. Just a little burp, floating up into the air, to mock God."