Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

most recent CBB was pretty funny. somehow harris wittles and the character of marissa wompler always make me laugh.

marissa wompler is one of my faves, too bad jessica st. clair's tv show is already cancelled. i enjoyed the new hipster experimental musician character, which per a/v club was also nick kroll (in addition to chupacabra and baby).

Www.lasertimepodcast.com is my rec for the week

hitchens hologram was awesome

hitchens hologram was awesome

YES. Adomian's timing and sheer speed of Hitchens-speak is amazing.

harris wittels kinda kills me & wompler is sorta surprisingly always good

i listened 2 zach g on sklarbro cty & laffed a lot

Zach's attempt at a live-read was great.

womp it up

adomian is next level with that Jesse Ventura and Hitchens stuff. It really is a wonder to behold.

Try seeing it live, if you can. He did characters every night of Bridgetown a few weeks back.

CBB this week with alison brie, jason mantzoukas, and bob odenkirk was A+

full episode of the CBB tv show up on the IFC site, pretty funny but different tonally from the podcast: http://www.ifc.com/shows/comedy-bang-bang

I didn't realize until this week that Jason Mantzoukas -- whom I've heard before on CBB -- is Pawnee, Indiana, cologne magnate Dennis Feinstein.

he is also pretty much the only good thing about the tv show "the league"

I'm a little concerned about how well the tv show will work, since, you know, it will be pretty obvious that PFT looks nothing like Ice T, and Marissa Wompler is not actually a 15 year old.

yeah it weirded me out to SEE andy daly playing don demillo.

Daly as Demilo worked OK visually (though reheating a bit when everyone knows where it's going sadly fell flat) but PFT playing Dame ALW as PFT with a cape really didn't play for me

over the last few months i've become obsessed with jason mantzoukas, he's amazing. i've liked him on "how did this get made?" for a while now, but his CBB episodes with andy daly were next-level. i even went to see the dictator for him, he was the only good thing in a predictably shitty movie.

i was just alerted by jaymc that my plugs theme is in this week's comedy bang bang with tim heidecker, reggie watts, jon daly, and andy daly (ep. 161). spoiler alert, scott says it's "pretty good"

congrats

scott otm

Awesome

finally watched all of the sneak peak CBB tv show last night and i like it a lot. pretty much the only thing that didn't work was the don demillo segment but the rest of it was funny, good mix of mr. show + tim & eric aesthetics, which makes sense.

havent watched any of it but it's my most anticipated tv series since
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_and_the_Hendersons_(TV_series)

I've been listening to Best Show Gems for a couple of years, but I finally listened to a full Best Show episode, and it was terrible. Tom Scharpling by himself is the least interesting asshole ever.

disagree

My baptism in Best Show took place on a road trip. I just grabbed a bunch of episodes at random and threw them on a cdr and played them as I navigated the interstates of the Southeast. It took a couple shows before I got the hang of what was going on, but when I did I was hooked.

At least on that trip. When it was over, I kinda never went back and listened to more. I'll probably dig in again next time I have a lot of driving to do.

I love Best Show but not all the time. But it's fun & I love that he loves cutting people off.

I've recently started The Thrilling Adventure Hour...can't believe it took
me so long to get to it, but it's great. I love Tompkins & Paget Brewster's characters and Sparks Nevada.

Tom Scharpling by himself is the least interesting asshole ever.

hate to be that dude, but you don't "get it"

the Best Show isn't a three-hour comedy program, it's a mood piece

I love Tompkins & Paget Brewster's characters and Sparks Nevada.

I love Beyond Belief so much that the other series suffer by comparison in my ears. They saved my lol, I'm under an onus

Tom Scharpling by himself is the least interesting asshole ever.

hate to be that dude, but you don't "get it"

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Yeah, I guess so. As I said, Scharpling and Wurster are awesome, but Scharpling solo is such a fucking drag.

For instance, Scharpling's taste in music is awful

and his non-Wurster callers are morons

I guess it's that Rush Limbaugh "you have to listen for three months before you get it" deal.

Scharpling's music taste is all over the board...how can it be awful?

Also, it's neither here nor there that he loves ABBA. It's that he loves every single ABBA song...except ONE. ("Tropical Loveland" iirc)

i guess i meant all the anonymous punk rock. i know i'm supposed to like it, but no

But that's like...a tenth of the show!

i guess i should listen to 9 more episodes then (I probably will, I rarely give up on anything prematurely)

a lot of comedy out there is kinda bro-ish and male-centric (ayo adam carolla). even really talented comedians talk about their dicks a little too much for me. what podcasts would i like if i wanted something with less of... that?

(i already listen to best show, but not as much as i could/should)

probably anything on the earwolf network. esp. ronna & beverly or professor blastoff, but Comedy Bang Bang and others are pretty woman-friendly.

Superego, Judge John Hodgman, The Long Shot, The Dork Forest, Greg Proops' Smartest Man in the world...there's loads!

If you listen to Best Show, you may already be familiar w/ How Was Your Week w/ Julie Klausner, which is pretty much the antithesis of the Carolla crowd.

i guess i should listen to 9 more episodes then (I probably will, I rarely give up on anything prematurely)

It absolutely becomes better and funnier once you become accustomed to the rhythm of the show. Rather than listening for the next 9 weeks (including the music! which is cut out of the podcast, FYI, but if you're listening live, you can basically skip the first 15-20 minutes of the show to avoid it), I strongly recommend listening to a handful of episodes from the last few years that have in-studio guests that you're interested in.

I especially recommend concluding that with the two-week punch of Christmas 2010 where: first Julie Klausner was in the studio, and a couple of listeners turned up to get AP Mike drunk on Four Loko beforehand, and then: the week after, Hodgman and Scharpling drink Four Loko on-air throughout the entire three hours and CHAOS ENSUES.

Ahhhh the Four Loko eps are outstanding

Judge John Hodgman is the only podcast I listen to regularly and it's not dude-ical at all. OTOH it's not really funny either.

Judge John has become a lot less funny lately, the plaintiffs need to step up their game


Greg Proops' Smartest Man in the world...there's loads!

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 July 2012 11:02 (1 hour ago)

co-sign on Smartest Man as a massive male-talking antidote to bro-ed out dick-focussed humour.

(Each episode is just Proops freestyling onstage once a week, for 45 minutes to an hour 45, on the likes of Joan Of Arc, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Greek philosophers, grammar and usage, drugs are great, history was written by men who then raped their maids, Obama is a disappointment and Hilary should have won, celebrity encounters and the Negro Leagues.)

Don't forget the Ohio Players

I really like Janet Varney's "JV Club" on Nerdist. Just scrolling over her guestlist, it only just occurred to me that every single interview so far has been with a woman. I guess it's not straight up comedy either, but often funny and informal.