Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

I prefer Scharpling ranting about how lame Quentin Tarantino has become to his gags.

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?

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I was up in this bitch.. Was a great atmosphere.. The video display must have kinda sucked for those just listening to it but you got the gist of most of the bits..

yeah at first I was like oh no this was a horrible idea but it didn't really affect the audio-only experience.

it sounded like maybe part of the musical performance at the end didn't make it on the recording though?

like, the vocals and guitar were there but there was a keyboard barely audible

I listened to a ton of these comedy podcasts that got recommended and then I listened to Uhh Yeah Dude and I no longer gave one fuck about any of the podcasts I had heard before.

aside from the occasional WTF episode that's how i feel

Comedy Death Ray, Bugle and PF Tompkast rule tho.

I like CDR and love Tomkins standup but I sorta can't get into the Tompkast.

That's cool. I just like the rambling and the Jen Kirkman stuff.

are there any podcasts that are just selected bits of standup performances?
comedy deathray and sound of young america often have them interspersed with dj banter, but
it's really odd that nobody feels that standup by itself is interesting enough to
devote an entire podcast to (and not just the odd episode).

i assume because comics are saving that stuff for lps/dvds?

There have been a few live Comedy Death Rays but for the most part the episodes are improv vehicles. I doubt any comic is going to come on and do the set they've been building for a year.

what i mean is there are entire satellite radio stations devoted to playing comedians' bits all day
(and by and large, these stations are terrible) but no one out there in podcastland is able to curate/cull
half an hour of material once a week or once a month? I'd do it, except the only material I'm familiar with
comes from haha podcasts. the only comedy albums i own is a space ghost sampler and that terrible bruce mccullough one.

space ghost owns

artists probably get paid money for stuff played on satellite radio, they don't get money for stuff played on podcasts

yeah i think thats the main thing.

"The Moth" is kind of stand-uppy sometimes but also precious/This American Life

so you're saying... if i make a podcast of bubblegum music, 1910 fruitgum company probably won't care, but if I start putting out weekly compilations of my favorite bits, todd barry might knock on my door with brass knuckles demanding a quarter for playing his trader joe's joke?

it might be worth it!

comedy central have a podcast where they play old bits from they're 'CC presents' series.

is it funny

ok here is my brand new "comedy podcast" featuring:
eugene mirman
brent weinbach
todd barry
patton oswalt

http://www.sendspace.com/file/yyihx0

Going thru the back eps of "You Look Nice Today".

Good stuff.

I don't know if I've asked this in this thread or not(meaning I probably have), but does anybody know of any vid gaming podcasts that are as well done or compelling as most comedy podcasts that we've talked about?

giant bomb i've heard, irrational doesn't update often enough, etc.

Film Junk do a games edition, though it's only one every month or so. I'm not all that into games, so I haven't listened to it myself.

http://www.filmjunk.com/category/podcasts/game-junk/

There are a few gaming podcasts I listen too, but most try too hard to be funny so aren't (see the many flavours of Sarcastic Gamer - the only one I still listen to is the Brown Show, and that's just to kill time). Giant Bombcast is ok, GameScoop can be funny at times, and there's the Joystiq podcast and (slightly less funny) Joystiq xbox podcast.

I'd suggest One Life Left, which is doing some experimental 'games book club' episodes at the moment.

Andy Samberg on the Nerdist was pretty interesting. Mostly on internet comedy business matters.

I like CDR and love Tomkins standup but I sorta can't get into the Tompkast.

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i'm in this same boat. i've listened to a couple of tompkasts and it seems like the live sketches are usually pretty funny but the rest of it's mostly just amusing

grady the only one i have is louis ck and it turned out to be something id seen/heard before. i guess taking one joke from an hour of stand up is CC's way of promoting in order to $$$$

but does anybody know of any vid gaming podcasts that are as well done or compelling as most comedy podcasts that we've talked about?

My friend Robert does one called "A Life Well Wasted" that is really great, but he's only done a few episodes so far. Recommended.

Oh yeah, I remember that one. ALWW hasnt updated in forever, right?

He's on a break at the moment, yeah.

ive listened to like maybe 5 total adam carolla podcasts over maybe 6 months and i swear to god hes talked angrily abt peanut allergies on every ep

That's the thing, Adam has like five pet peeves that he constantly returns to, and this is one. He whined about left turn red arrow signal lights on his radio show for like four years running

tim heidecker/neil hamburger episode of comedy death ray is amazing, especially when they come back as elton john and bernie taupin at the end.

The Casey Wilson / Joe LoTruglio episode of CDR featured the word "faggot" like 100 times in the first 10 minutes so I turned it off.

yeah i think i said upthread that episode could be a turnoff for some people

i think the first CDR episode i ever heard is still my favorite: tom scharpling, weird al, and paul f. tompkins playing garry marshall

The Casey Wilson / Joe LoTruglio episode of CDR featured the word "faggot" like 100 times in the first 10 minutes so I turned it off.

everyone should just start listening at the 17min mark and all will be well

I didn't know the AV Club was reviewing podcasts:

http://www.avclub.com/features/podmass/

The Comedy Death Ray bit with tim heidecker & neil hamburger playing elton John & Bernie Taupin was very similar to the Bernie Taupin call that Scharpling & Wurster did--basically that Taupin's original versions of the songs were horrible.

i don't think i "get" Uhhh Yeah Dude. is it really just those two riffing on news stories with each other for over an hour?

yes.

Deep House Chopra

they're likeable dudes but man. it's a lot of filler. i like the bugle because they actually write jokes. and it's short, like maybe half an hour tops. different strokes i guess. different rules for different pools.

there are definitley episodes of UYD where i'm like "jesus stfu already" for stretches of 10 or 20 minutes but on the whole i prefer it to anything with professional comedians ive heard

ep in season 1 f/ scott aukerman where doug 1st calls willem dafoe a shithead is hilarious

does kevin pollack count as comedy? The joel mchale interview is pretty outstanding and v. funny mostly b/c of mchale.

Oooh, I'd listen to that. Joel is always great on mic. His appearances on Loveline from years back are excellent too

Pollak's thing is streaming-video-only though, not a podcast - the audio feed ended one year in

thats called a video podcast, no?