Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

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.

this week's ep or last week's?

i loved the story on Who Charted about the girl playing a Howard Kremer song for Obama

there are four scharpling and wurster albums on spotify

guess everybody likes the same stuff? i get tobolowsky files and superego every week, plus download the nerdist any time i see someone i like getting interviewed - i really think harding does good interviews.

i'd get wtf but i never hear about the good ones till it's too late and i have to pay for them. i'd buy one or two if i could just try it out for free when he's interviewing someone i've actually heard of/care about enough to listen to a 1 1/2 hour interview of - i mean, who the hell is kurt braunohler?

the last 50 are always free, that's a long time you're waiting. kurt braunohler is kristen schaal's stableboy.

yeah, i know, it just seems like never remember to check for ages at a time, then i'll read somewhere "OMG did you hear the wtf interview of Your Favorite Comedian Ever its UNMISSABLE" then i go to check and i missed it. maybe i should just stop whining and shell out $3 to hear robin williams talk about his coke habit or whatever already

i actually googled kurt braunohler before i posted, just to see if i was being an idiot and somehow he was an awesome character on breaking bad or whatever and i was just being thick. but i have no idea who kristen schaal is either so...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnEjyBFncuQ

Robin Williams one is v good tbh! I think you can pay for the app for one month and listen to as many old eps as you like in that month btw.

yeah, but i bet that deal involves streaming and the internet sucks in indonesia, anything streaming is just pretty much undoable, unfortunately. can this (app is streaming only, not unlimited downloads for a month) be confirmed or denied?

^^^ oh her, its the stalker chick from flight of the conchords! she totally gives me the horn, am i the only one? <looks for wtf or nerdist interview of kristen schaal> <can't find any, oh well> <actually sorry but that youtube video doesn't make me want to be horny for her any more>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2sa6iHWF8I

ok horn restored

well, kurt braunholer is far from the most famous interviewee even in the 50 episodes available free-- you've still got the Fred Willard one up (for another week or so), Jeffrey Tambour, Chris Elliott, Stephen Merchant, John Oliver, etc.

i literally have no idea who any of those people are! i mean, it's a character flaw, obviously, i'm not bragging or anything. but these are cantankerous 1 hour+ long inverviews were talking here, not a quick roundup of their best youtubes or anything.

i mean, i can listen to alison brie be sexycute and funny and disarming for about as long as she'll talk into a microphone. not to mention OZZY, neil patrick harris, zack galifainakis, louis ck, patton oswalt, tenatious d, mike shinoda, dudes from portlandia, the entire rest of the cast of community for that matter, jj abrams, simon pegg...

^^^ i mean the nerdest has LOADS of people i want to hear talk about random crap! wtf seriously only has the people i'd be interested in hearing interviewed available for money. and heck, to hear the full louis ck interview you have to buy *2* downloads at what, $3 each?

i know i know, dude has to make money, i don't really blame him. and he's a comedian's comedian so he's got all these rising stars on i guess, people i don't know about but maybe should.... ok, so out of those guys you listed that maybe i should know about but don't, which interview do you reckon i should download to see if i like listening to wtf/maron?

We should take this to the wtf thread I suppose

Nerdist is cool but it's more of a chummy press junket type of interview. WTF has had a lot of famous people and the shows are free for nearly six months.

And the interviews with people you haven't heard of on wtf are way better than the ones with people you have heard of on Nerdist. Unless you're really into hardwick's self helpy crap.

As far as a recommendation from amongst the free ones, Molly Shannon was really interesting

She was on snl in case you don't know

yeah, but i bet that deal involves streaming and the internet sucks in indonesia, anything streaming is just pretty much undoable, unfortunately. can this (app is streaming only, not unlimited downloads for a month) be confirmed or denied?

I think it lets you download two at a time and store them in the app for later listening, but I don't have it myself

The Tambor (Hank from Larry Sanders, George Bluth from Arrested Development, in Hellboy and millions of things as srs actor) and John Oliver (british guy on The Daily Show, Professor Duncan on Community, co-host of The Bugle, best friend of Daniel Kitson) ones both have great, entertaining and very different vibes, without being really detailed interviews with someone you have to care a lot about

ok, between the ones you guys recommended, joel mchale & wayne coyne i've got like 4-5 cued up to try out.

i *like* hardwick's self-helpy crap! he just seems so affable, and has a wide enough knowledge base of weird nerdy esoteric shit that he can really get his subjects going on the offbeat stuff they're into...

I love McHale, but his WTF was pretty boring...

His first WTF appearance was a bit more about his family and whatnot. I kinda liked the flow of his second one, it was just kinda loose and funny.

i wonder how long maron keeps these shows in his pocket--the McHale one was at least 6 weeks old when he released it (Harmon hadn't been fired yet.)

sometimes they go up days later, sometimes they go up months later

Tig Notaro talking about her cancer diagnosis on the last two Professor Blastoff episodes ... pretty hard to not start crying. :/

Steve Albini on Best Show this week was kinda o_0. Also, dude should never be allowed to talk about sports other than baseball.