Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

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.

I think that... he can be a little reactionary, in the sense of coming across as someone who would've been quickly branded as being "rockist" back in the day on ilx

but...

aside from the fact that jon wurster is purely one of the funniest human beings ever, scharpling is a perfect straight man... and i think after repeated listenings scharpling's schtick even solo grows on ya. or at least it does on me. i think some of his criticism of pop culture or whatever often is too facile or whatever, but i still enjoy hearing him grouse about shit

plus some of the callers in and of themselves are legit hilarious. "fredericks" from new port richey... "spike", etc.

anyhow, av club quote up there otm. i personally love all the shitty callers!

(though)

yeah i also had an appreciation curve with best show, i hated it the first time i tried it but now i'm totally into it. 3 hours is a lot of show though, so i don't always listen to the whole thing.

same here. i try to get on board after the first half-hour block of music, but in reality i usually don't make it until the second hour is creeping in

Yeah I totally get the rockist vibe from him. Can't tell if the the complete dickbag thing is a character or if he really hates good things so much.

He would totally be considered a troll in these parts

But then so would most everyone with received wisdom

Oh, he's totally a troll, but sometimes he's the most hilarious troll around.

I actually kind of dug the stuff he did with Marc maron, as he comes off as more of normal guy

Of course maron has his own music problem--listening to tony millionaire school him on Yes was fun

A normal guy

Things that make you cringe initially often end up being great sources of entertainment, or at least not boring ones

anyone going to any of the live CBB shows? trying to decide if it's worth $25

I've been watching the tv show and I've decided that Scott Aukerman's face gives me the willies. I much preferred hearing him on the podcast - there's something slightly demonic abt him?

hehe. i do find him to be my least favorite part of the podcast, and the TV show featured him a bit tooo much (i've only been able to see 1 episode). or maybe it is just his face.

Really enjoyed Dave Hill's subway story in the newest You Had To Be There ep:

http://youhadtobetherepodcast.tumblr.com/

xpost It's bad, I had to stop watching. I've had a couple of nightmares about him recently!

anyone going to any of the live CBB shows? trying to decide if it's worth $25

I was going to ask you this. I'll probably only go if I know someone else who is.

Whoa, Nerdist got bought:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/legendary-nerdist-entertainment-industries-347123

wow

oh my, that's nuts!

want my thrilling adventure hour tv show now

yes plz

God I hate the word "brand"

For those of you who think the Best Show might be a little bit of a snooze, you should check out Seven Second Delay. It may be a bigger train wreck at times, but the wrecks are way more entertaining.

i went down a nostalgia hole and decided to look up what happened to the comics from the sketch/improv troupe I used to watch perform back at the University of Arizona. Turns out two of them have podcasts-- Graham Elwood (Comedy Film Nerds) and Paul Goebel ("the Paul Goebel Show"). Another, Micah Wright, became a comic book artist who got in trouble for telling people he was in the Special Forces or something.

I love Graham Elwood!

Graham Elwood is also on Doug Benson's "rental car" episodes in between episodes of Doug Loves Movies.

Why did I never know Neil deGrasse Tyson does a radio show called StarTalk and that a lot of it's available in podcast form and it's awesome and smart and funny? BEST. DAY. EVER.

OMG i didn't know that either, going to check it out right now. <3 him and so disappointed he's going to be doing a show with Seth Macfarlane.

Isn't Macfarlane just producing (i.e. bankrolling) it?

how can the CBB tv show possibly be as horrible as it is, btw? makes me sad. because holy shit is it unfunny.

i feel bad for having not listened to 7 second delay for the last couple of years

otm

the Jon Hamm episode was *kinda* funny, mostly bc El Chupacabra but yeah.

and as mentioned somewhere itt or elsewehre, Scott Aukerman haunts my nightmares, I can't watch.

it's p bad. i know auk mentioned a lot of it is still improvised but it really lacks the spontaneity of the podcast.

it also doesnt help that it compares so massively unfavorably to the eric andre show, which is also doing the deconstruction of the talk show premise

I don't like the *stare down the barrel of the camera* schtick every 10 minutes

i still have only seen the amy poehler episode, which i enjoyed

paul rust's "new no-no's" bit on the CBB podcast this week had me crying with laughter on the el train like some kind of freak

for those unsure about best show on wfmu, last week's episode that starts with the dennis flemion tribute is a pretty great and relatively consistent episode. good rants about game of thrones and breaking bad, great jon wurster bit about a van morrison/john cougar mellencamp cruise

i also feel bad for not having listened to 7 second delay in a couple of years, i used to be really into it, not sure why i stopped listening

I watched the episode w/Amy Poehler -- the one they put online before the show officially premiered -- and thought that was pretty good. But for whatever reason I'm not all that interested in keeping up with it.

Ha, xp.

i am interested but just don't have cable and don't have the patience for torrenting so i'll probably just wait until it's on DVD or netflix or hulu or wherever

also on this week's best show, tom doing an impromptu parody of "LA woman" called "LA podcasts"

That "new no nos" bit was the kind of comedy CBB does best, where it seems barely sketched out and the other guests are kind of fumbling to figure out what the joke is, but then as it goes on it gets funnier and funnier

Wurster's Bruce Springsteen autozone commericial on the Best Show ages ago was all-time, I cried from laughing

Isn't Macfarlane just producing (i.e. bankrolling) it?

probably, i just have a really kneejerk dislike for Macfarlane.

Macfarlane is a blight on pop culture, but in a couple interviews he's given about Cosmos it's very clear that the war on science is appalling to him on a gut level...which makes me respect him more than I'd ever anticipated I would.

I'm going to have to check out the Paul Goebel Show. I have a great memory of seeing him getting arrested on stage (for shoplifting on his way to the show). Also he once pointed me out in the audience and said I looked exactly like the young John Travolta--which led to me getting laid several times.

Graham Elwood is also on Doug Benson's "rental car" episodes in between episodes of Doug Loves Movies.

and fairly frequent third- or fourth-panellist on out-of-LA episodes of DLM

Micah Wright wrote comics btw, didn't draw them. His fall was hilarious though.

CBB-TV is funny, but not in the same way as the radio/podcast version. The sketch bits are the best, and the main reason it feels disappointing is that p much every single time a "regular character" comes on and redoes a bit that was developed in improv, it falls completely flat. I'd rather see Adomian's Dov Charney showing up on real talk shows and spending the whole couch time with regular guests.

oh and since there's no better thread: anyone got any tips on how to watch Burning Love? Yahoo geocockblocked it after the first three eps, and if I run Tunnelbear the video player won't even load.

The Laser Time guys just posted a best-of clip show, having just gotten back from Comic Con, that I recommend.

"too true, mon frere"

I don't want to start a new thread for this, but that poor dude on the latest episode of Judge John Hodgman, with the wife that only wants to give her husband $10 a month.