Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

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".

Oh, the Tobolowsky WTF is A+; Bobby Lee otm; Scott Carter for me is one of my Top 10, for sure...and I had NO idea about him at all.

Yeah I've been listening from the beginning and mostly resisting the urge to just skip to Big Name Guests. I really liked the one with the guy who books Letterman. Zach G ep was the funniest so far for me, but at the same time I was hoping there'd be more Penetrating Insight - it's great when he gets a guy like Jim Gaffigan to drop the clown persona and talk intelligently about the history of comedy. Galifianakis never seems like he's out of character.

never heard of joe mande either but his description of getting hustled by an isreali conman and his rouch as fuck school were hilarious too.

yeah I became a Joe Mande fan from that interview. And I know Moshe Kasher is hard to take for a lot of people but his WTF is great, really eye-opening.

I could take or leave Joe Mande's stand-up comedy, but I love his Raw Nerve edits:

http://vimeo.com/20796382

i will rep for the brian regan ep of comedy & everything else -- couple excellent, awkward & endearing stories he tells of the first few times he did comedy

People who liked that coke museum monologue... huh?! That was his worst pre-interview opening/rant, as far as I'm concerned.

Even if the observation seemed shallow -- and I could understand thinking that, though I don't -- I did very much like that it had a beginning, middle, and end. Probably because it was something he wrote down a long time ago, and was just retelling. It's nice when he has a point. It's often interesting even when he doesn't, like an overcaffeinated and overbearing college friend at a coffee shop. But that was a story.

The very last Bill Hader story on the live WTF from yesterday is great. He was talking about how he'd done the Herb Welch character for the first time in dress rehearsal, hitting Anne Hathaway in the face with his microphone over and over, and he came off doubting how funny it actually was. Chris Rock was watching the rehearsal and said, "Don't worry. If hitting people in the face isn't funny, we're all fucked."

Ed Helms on WTF was kind of lovely...I really like that guy, and the banjo stuff was cool

i know this is the ILX WTF thread, but i am currently addicted to Stop Podcasting Yourself

Back to WTF: this Bobcat Goldthwait ep today is hilarious!

kinda cranky that i keep getting a little psyched to see what's new in comedy podcast land and everybody's talking about WTF all the time. it's not even really a comedy podcast! it's an interview show!

about comedy?

wah

Everyone's free to talk about other podcasts in here, but it always comes back around to WTF because it's easier to talk about interviews than bits.

Would anyone be against the idea of WTF having its own thread?

WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

if you have never listened to Uhh Yeah Dude, episode 264 from a few weeks back is a good primer imo. also the live episode last week (266) had some really good stuff. did any LA people attend?

I've heard a little bit of UYD here and there. I really should set aside the time to hear more.

WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

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I have little listening time for anything but WFMU (have never esp 'gotten' Scharpling, tho he makes me laugh in occasional doses) and the Baseball Prospectus podcast (which IS funny!), but...

Jesse Thorn is great!! <3 <3 Love Sound of Young America. Something about his voice and manner reminds me of a laidback Weird Al for some reason

Well, have you heard his recent interview w/ actual Weird Al?
JT is an other-coast bro of mine, tho I only see him about every two years or so.

Huh. I was pretty sure you were Spike, Morbs.