Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

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.

why is there a new Doug Loves Movies every day? it gets tiring

u could always....not listen

plus todd glass is a horrible guest imo

wait what? albini on best show?

Albini + Scharpling is pretty classic

Btw Stephen from Chicago, who called in with Albini, is in Fake Limbs, one of my favorite local bands.

Ha and Tom name checks former ilxor y@ncey during that call

I just checked the Best Show podcast feed. I can't find Albini ;_; Which episode was he on?

oh wait nm i r dumb :)

This past weeks episode, aired aug 14 and online on aug 16

got it.

am listening now.

major lols at scharpling encouraging Albini to get into Night Ranger

That Albini call was easily one of the roughest Tom / Notable Person calls I've ever heard on The Best Show. Like, it's clear that Tom is a huge, huge, huge fan and kind of wants to impress Albini; but, it's also clear that Albini has probably spent 30 years talking to music nerds who love him and try to impress him w/ esoteric music talk. Couple that w/ the fact that Albini has a rep of not being the easiest dude to talk to, and ... ugh. The amount of genuflecting Tom does during the call was way out of the norm.

Funniest part of the call was that it was clearly off to a rough start, so Tom tries to steer things to a more light, conversational place, ie sports, and then Albini goes into his baseball polemic. Tom's interior monologue must've been popping off.

Either way, cool bit of radio. Heh, hope Albini enjoys his Night Ranger iTunes gift!

or listener-provided FLAC files

Huh I interpreted that conversation totally differently. I think they're both treating it pretty lightly.

i only listened to the first ten minutes of the interview but i liked tom needling albini about the urge overkill album

Joan fkng Rivers is on Nerdist today!

Really good interview. Interestingly, she said she hasn't seen any money from the IFC documentary?

ought she have?

I would have thought so. but then maybe I'm just a naive bumpkin i guess?

Jesus, the Maron, Scharpling, Murphy, Kirkman, Coop twitter feeds were on fire tonight.

Jake Fogelnest has a new podcast - The Fogelnest Files. He does it live at the UCB every month (or is going to) - played a bunch of tv clips of punk fans and punk rock bands on talk shows (ie Murphy's Law on Donahue, Ramones on Regis, FEAR performing on SNL) and has guests talk about the clips. This month's guests were Julie Klausner and Chris Gethard. It's pretty great! And he puts all the clips online so you can watch them later or while you're listening.

yeah, that was a pretty effective podcast form

Dude hosts a good mid-morning show on XMU, doesn't he

if he's the same Jake I'm thinking of

yep! and he's done VH1 and MTV stuff and is always kind of the clip-show talking guy.

I have kind of a dumb nerdy crush on him.

oh i remember Squirt TV, was on during sophomore/junior year

I enjoyed an appearance on Julie Klausner's podcast by a Gawker blogger.

the last improv4humans was the funniest one of the bunch so far. jason mantzoukas, jessica st clair & lennon parham w/matt besser

Mulaney/Kroll on CBB was a delight.

yes they kind of steamrolled lizzy caplan out of the episode but it was a funny one

the first episode of chelsea peretti's new podcast is up today. it's called "call chelsea peretti."

Today's Fogelnest Files mentions a Ned Raggett blog post about Manakin

i generally avoid pete holmes but i enjoyed his ep w/ zach g

It was a short, off-hand moment, but I keep giggling every time I think of the Scharpling bit from a few weeks ago, where DMX is about to get mauled by his dogs -> one of them pauses and turns on an iPod with its nose to play "Frankie Teardrop."

has anyone actually listened to "my brother, my brother, and me"? podmass has a huge boner for it.

it's a bit too skypey

Comedy Bang Bang this last week was killer. I love Adomian's gay supervillain voice, and the MASH jokes were brilliant.

I'll keep repping for the Flop House. Worth your time.

I finally went back and listened to the CBB (well CDR) with Adomian as Huell Howser. It was so great.

there are about 10 CDR/CBBs with Huell Howser on, plus a couple from the 2012 tour live episodes

Oh man. Well, this was the first one I found, think it dated back to the radio days. So much joy ahead of me.

yeah, just work through every Adomian episode from beginning to now, nearly every character is a hit

second Huell episode might have been the one with Michael Cera and the debut of Harris's Phone (not-yet Foam) Corner