Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

I think Staind Glass ep will probably the greatest thing Earwolf will do all year, tied only by certain eps of the Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Podcast Project.

Seriously, you guys need to hear this:

http://www.earwolf.com/episode/staind-glass/

The bit where they play songs for Todd to guess if they're U2 or not is transcendently glorious.

"ill know if its his song in a heartbeat. probably"

todd glass is mostly insufferable tho. he should be studied by science

I like Todd Glass but he seemed so uncomfortable for most of that episode. My favorite UTU2TM has been the one with Paul F. Tompkins where they were up really late and got loopy and kept making PFT start his U2 story over and over and then ended up by saying they wanted the episode played at their funerals.

I just started digging into Kurt Braunohler's K Ohle podcast & omg it is great

The 'Get Lost' episodes are maybe some of the most legit interesting podcasting I've heard ever. He blindfolds comedians & drives them to secret awesome LA landmarks that are kinda unusual or unique.

And his one Radiolab parody episode 'Fact Time' is hilarious in its perfect riffing of that show

Gilbert Godfried has a new podcast, though apparently its going to be him interviewing a bunch of classic Hollywood types, so I'm not really sure what to expect from that.

Enjoying Professor Blastoff after about a month of subscription.

oh whoa. would def listen to a GG podcast

GG was great on norm

@scharpling 9h
Welcome to Night Vale 2nd anniversary at Town Hall. Meanwhile I'm half dead trying to bring #BestShow2014 back. Where Is The Justice.

I'll pay or subscribe, whatever he's selling, I'm buying. DIY home studio for future iterations of Best Show is a great move. But he must be running into a couple foreseeable roadblocks:

mirth - no problem there, he could do 45 minute Fonzie riffs and people would still listen. no shortage of funny guests either.
music - no big loss here, we all know who led zeppelin is. dude could host bands passing through, depending.
mayhem - this must be the main barrier to producing something unique. he could do a dial in line like Chelsea Peretti's podcast, but then he'd be self-selecting for the worst type of Best Show caller, the cleverer than thou rabid podcast listener who infested the lines towards end of the run. he'd still have the Supercallers, but no randoms.

I'm not sure how one creates mayhem outside of live radio.

My favorite UTU2TM has been the one with Paul F. Tompkins where they were up really late and got loopy and kept making PFT start his U2 story over and over and then ended up by saying they wanted the episode played at their funerals.

― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, June 4, 2014 3:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes this was hilarious

Yes the Best Show is pretty much the only podcast I can think of that I would actually pay money for (ESPECIALLY if it includes a full downloadable radio show archive but that might be a pipe dream) but he needs to figure out a way to have callers or some analog to callers.

The bit where they play songs for Todd to guess if they're U2 or not is transcendently glorious.

yeah I got weird looks for laughing at this while listening to this this morning while riding the subway.

Also I've had it's been a while stuck in head all day

If nothing else, Staind Glass has explained to me why Scott and PFT and various others have been singing it's binawhile as an aside for the last couple of months

manstainding

Ha how is it that I am just now learning that Milo from the Descendents is Scott Aukerman's uncle?

Wait, what?

Wow! Oddly I think I've heard Scott A. talk more about the Vandals than the Descendants.

Huh I didn't know that either. Also weird bc his parents seem pretty conservative.

Yes the Best Show is pretty much the only podcast I can think of that I would actually pay money for (ESPECIALLY if it includes a full downloadable radio show archive but that might be a pipe dream) but he needs to figure out a way to have callers or some analog to callers.

I can help. I put this together last year (just in time for the show to end): https://mega.co.nz/#F!IhMUHSbT!bd9x_zzfj2lFfm8_dkvD_A

Oh yeah I saw that via FOT, thanks. I actually downloaded the first few episodes, thinking I might start listening to the whole show in order, but I'm not sure that's the best way to go about listening to the old stuff. But I'd still give Tom money for it.

holy shit dude. i heard a rumor of an mp3 archive but figured it was a hidden board on FOT or on bittorrent.

I think an even bigger compliment to Tom would be that he is worth downloading RealPlayer for.

Does anyone listen to Topics? I love MIB and Showalter but I felt like I got the joke of Topics after the first episode. Did they ever go anywhere different with it? I miss MIB and Tom Cavanaugh's snack podcast (RIP).

Topics got old. But it kinda served as a template for are you talking U2 to me?

I listened to the entire run of U Talkin' U2 To Me? over the past few days. Today's finale/commentary episode is pretty funny.

Started listening to Kumail Nanjani's X-Files podcast-- not comedy really, but cool.

I like Topics, but it's more of an occasional download than an every week download for me.

"clap your hands" is people doing standup. i heard a settlers of catan joke on it. it's weird that it's hard to find more like that (standup podcasts, not settlers of catan joke podcasts)

Comedians don't want to use up their stage material on podcasts

Do you mean "Put Your Hands Together," Cameron Esposito's podcast/stand-up show?

Good ep of "You Poppin' My STONES?!" today!

both that one and "Blue Turtlin'" were like young Mike and Omar taking out the trash--good Epps.

oh yeah it is put your hands together. the incentives for comedy are weird.

just pick a guest you like & try it, it's pretty fun

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, May 8, 2014 7:44 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've dug into this a little. I definitely have some trouble paying attention when it gets too deep into game stuff, but often it's pretty light and accessible. Kumail also has an X-Files oriented podcast he just started called The X-Files Files.

yeah i wanna try that one!

New Analyze Phish is finally up. It's kind of a bummer, but in a good way?

Jessica St Clair and Lennon Parham making the podcast rounds has been spectacular, especially when Jessica starts talking about her weird hang-ups

New podcast recommendation: I Don't Even Own A Television, a show about terrible books from Anthem to Ready Player One to Pregnesia(a Harlequin thriller where an ex-Navy SEAL protects a very pregnant woman who also has amnesia, naturally)

I love the feature on The X-Files Files where Kumail reads 20 year old posts from fan newsgroups.

kept making PFT start his U2 story over and over and then ended up by saying they wanted the episode played at their funerals.

― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, June 4, 2014 7:45 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think this is one of the worst things about comedy podcasts, conflating "interrupting someone constantly" with "being funny." It's why I only listen to Comedy Bing Bong when there's a guest I like.

You should have loved that episode then! For the way Scott gets infuriated by the interruptions and Scott & PFT point out that this is what he does to ppl all the time, no?

yeah that complaint is y the nerdist cast is usu unlistenable or at least used to be when i tried

I agree, but they have a weird way of setting the guest at ease. The episodes where Hardwick is interviewing solo are the worst. Stilted and uncomfortable.

Holy cow, the Gilbert Gottfried podcast is legit amazing for old school show-biz trash talk.

I have massively overdosed in catching up on Alex Horne Breaks the News (I didn't know about it until 2 weeks ago)
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/alex-horne-breaks-the-news/id636514684?mt=2

listening to a lot of Go Bayside!, a show where April Richardson watches an ep of Saved by the Bell with a comedian friend on her couch and discusses it afterward.

http://gobayside.tumblr.com/

The latest ep has Paul F Tompkins on it and is glorious.

Will I enjoy that even though I've never seen an episode of that show? I do like April Richardson. And PFT.

Yes. Half of the guest hosts have not seen an episode.

CBB #300 is really a tour-de-force for Andy Daly. Though it might not make any sense if you haven't heard most of his prior CBB appearances. I thought I had heard every episode but he still did at least one character I don't recognize.

The Jimmy Pardo eps of Go Bayside are great, covering the episodes of Jessie's pill addiction and when they camped out to buy U2 tickets at the mall

I'm so excited! I'm so excited! I'm so...scared...

my sister still says that line from time to time. classic ep.

Scharpling in the Derek Jeter hat tip commercial is killing me right now:

http://i.imgur.com/d0iUpC9.jpg