Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

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."

I don't know why, but that moment between Conan and Maron where he called him Chuck Woollery just about slayed me.

For how long now has this been the Marc Maron thread? We might need a parenthetical subtitle.

Is anyone else listening to Mike Detective? I loved Jon Hamm's introduction.

I think this has been the WTF thread since we started talking about comedy podcasts. Maybe we should have a dedicated WTF thread?

Nah, too late for that.

ah, then yeah parenthetical would work.

I just started getting into the Maron podcast. It's pretty good, but I find that I'm more into the episodes with guests who I'm interested in.

That's the best way in though, imo ... I was like that for a while with him too, and then as I found myself warming to him I went back and listened to the other podcasts later on. And some of the 'unknowns' can bear pretty good fruit.

theres some great episodes with people i never heard of.....the bobby lee one for example.

The Stephen Tobolowsky one is still a favorite, and I never in a million years would've guessed that guy has had the life he's had. I really need to set aside some time to listen to his own podcast.

Tobolowsky's podcast is great. I recommend the episodes "Once in a Lifetime" and "The Voice from Another Room".