Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

The live Fogelnest eps where it's kinda like watching a bunch of random YouTubes with your friends are more fun to me than most of the single-person ones, where he tries to be all serious as an interviewer. AV Club Podmass dude seems to think the exact opposite, tho.

I don't like Fogelnest's show as much as I like the YouTube playlists he creates for each episode. Some of them are pretty great and fairly obscure. Fogelnest is a little tough for me to take as a host.

He's enthusiastic and I wkiw, but he also tends to just loudly agree with whatever his guests say (even when they've just disagreed with something he said previously), and that deferential attitude sometimes makes it seem to me like he's being good naturedly bullied on his own show, whenever he has someone with a stronger personality on.

Also dude's anti-teen thing gets tiresome - I kinda think kids in the 90's were if anything LESS interested in the history of popcult than they are today - but hell, I'm 28 so it's no longer my battle to fight.

i don't always love it, esp when it borders on mocking the people who post the videos, but i'll listen if i'm interested in the guests. i agree fogelnest can be pretty annoying.

I enjoyed Kumail Nanjiani on the recent CBB, as I think he's a far better guest than host(dig his Harmontown appearances v. his own show). The fact that he was able to get Scott Awkzermans and James Adomian(especially) to break up repeatedly was great.

that was a weird episode but mainly because of adomian, who turns me off sometimes - he was much funnier as jesse ventura than as paul giamatti. i'm glad andy daly has been back the past couple of weeks after not being on the show for a bit.

i just started listening to kumail's loooong nerdist interview

kumail is great -- his interview on the Champs is also pretty good too

just bought tickets for the comedy bang bang live tour in october. didn't go last year but paul f tompkins is coming this year and birthday boys are opening, sounds pretty fun.

my favorite "how did this get made?" episodes are the ones when they have people who were involved in making the movies on the show. interview with one of the writers of crocodile dundee 3 in the most recent episode was amazing.

I loved that story of Paul Hogan jacking the script credit

The Punisher one from waaay back was awesome - i haven't listened in a while, I'll have to check that one out

u guys LAUREN GRAHAM on the Nerdist today

:D

I don't know if we've mentioned this yet, but I really like the Night of the Living Podcast(NOTLP), which is ostensibly about horror movies, but really a personality-driven about 5 friends in Cincinnati bullshitting about movies and everything else. Also features occasional tangents with the sole gay member of the group taking audible delight in reviewing horror porn.

It's great stuff.

I have started listening to Jeff Garlin's podcast, 'by the way' --- it's kinda charming! So far I've listened to Vince Gilligan, Conan O Brien, and Lena Dunham.

So Paul F. Tompkins, Jen Kirkman and Harry Dean Stanton were on Doug Loves Movies recently. Haven't listened but figured the world needed to know.

it was kind of hard to listen to, Stanton is 87 and did not know/care what was going on

Anybody here listen to Welcome to Night Vale? It's a horror/comedy hybrid in the form of community radio broadcasts from a fictional desert town. It has floating cats, mysterious hooded figures, deadly librarians, and a fairly well-handled gay romance subplot. I think it's kind of hit-or-miss, but when it's good, it's *really* good.

http://commonplacebooks.com/welcome-to-night-vale/

cbb the tv show is still not great but im anticipating fourvel tbh

CBB live show last night was so much fun. Horatio Sanz doing Victor Ramos (the community organizer) and PFT doing John C. Reilly. Made my face hurt from laughing.

Already up for download, btw.

You can probably hear me boo for comedic effect at one point.

Never Not Funny is free on Earwolf now, apparently.

Andy Daly has his own podcast starting this month (also Earwolf)

Desus Vs. Mero is great

just getting into The Champs, some of the guests & interviews are really great. not sad that they lost the dj drops at some point though.

yeah there are some seriously great interviews.

the doug's drops are good sometimes, but they did get kinda meh after a while.

Anybody here listen to Welcome to Night Vale? It's a horror/comedy hybrid in the form of community radio broadcasts from a fictional desert town. It has floating cats, mysterious hooded figures, deadly librarians, and a fairly well-handled gay romance subplot. I think it's kind of hit-or-miss, but when it's good, it's *really* good.

http://commonplacebooks.com/welcome-to-night-vale/

― zchyrs, Sunday, September 1, 2013 11:05 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

YES! It is so amazing!

The Champs episode with Wyatt Cenac is great

Andy Daly's Podcast Pilot Project is some next level shit.

Also, You Talking U2 To Me?! is surprisingly compelling.

I am liking Andy Daly in pretty much everything right now. His guest spot on Kroll Show was great. Review is pretty funny. I seriously do want him to do a Dalton Wilcox book just so I could listen to him reading the audiobook.

i love the sound of Are You Talking u2 me but I can't stand scott aukerman

i love the andy daly podcast pilot project though

I can't stand scott aukerman

huh!

something about him, his voice, his deliberate meandering... it all drives me up the wall

the andy daly project thing is pretty awesome, he's definitely a funny dude. i've been watching old episodes of the long-since-cancelled crossballs on youtube and he's pretty great in that too

i like scott but i also like not having to hear shit like the "cbb weather report" and his endless introductions and plugs and all that crap. andy daly's podcast gets right to the good stuff

ha Veg if you hate Aukerman's deliberate meandering you would HATE U Talkin' U2 To Me and I Love Films, because of Adam Scott's MUCH MORE deliberate meandering (and the fact they agree they both have exactly the same voice)

lol

But those episodes of CBB with Adam Scott and Harris Wittells as the lumber yard guys are pretty okay

Harris is on 2/3 episodes of Talkin' U2

Adam Scott's MUCH MORE deliberate meandering

in the latest episode, it takes more than an hour before either of them think to mention that this week is about Rattle & Hum, and it is another 25 minutes before anyone starts talking about it

I want them to bring in Tom Scharpling for an ep or two

Finally getting to the Don DiMello ep of the Andy Daly podcast... I'm dying.

go see Andy live and he'll do the character

U Talkin' U2 To Me is basically Topics where U2 is the only topic

I've been getting into Slumber Party with Alie & Georgia the past couple days. I can almost tell their voices apart at this point.

The Matt Mira episode is great...and the Dan Harmon one is, well, it's very drunk rambly Dan but it's pretty funny

Adding my tupence to recommend the Andy Daly podcast project

Podcast Pilot Project

RS does a top 15 led by Maron. Anyone heard James Urbaniak's?

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/pictures/listen-up-the-20-best-comedy-podcasts-right-now-20140508/

Only one ep, which was a little play he performed written by his wife.

That RS has some curious ordering, and I would not put Indoor Kids on there, as I think Kumail's strengths are far greater in being a guest rather than a host with a dubious knowledge of the ostensible subject matter.

Two shows they missed:

-The Flop House, which I enjoy every single time and stars 2/3rds Daily Show writers, which has surprisingly inclusion of Tennessee Williams and 90s Marvel/Vertigo comics when they wander off on their constant jags

-the aforementionend U Talkin U2 to Me? A great recent ep where the hosts pointedly refuse to talk about U2 has Paul F Thompkins on to help them not talk about U2.

It's a great show for anyone who hates U2, and also, for anyone who loves U2.

They need to have Tom Scharpling on preferably with Harris Whittels returning, as Tom's constant cranky excoriation of Harris' fave band on Harris' Analyze Phish show was a thing of beauty.