Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

Best repercussion of today's Apple announcement: the eventual return of "U Talkin' U2 to Me?"

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...and it's already up

And its 2.5 hours long.

the smartest man in the world is my favorite atm

i love proops

I got sick of Proops for a while last year. I don't know. I was under the impression that he was drinking heavying maybe? Anyway, I tuned back in last week and he seems back on his game.

I'm enjoying Black on Black Cinema, especially when they go after Tyler Perry

I've gone back and listened to a few episodes of You Made It Weird this week. Pete Holmes is tough to take for two hours at a time, but the conversations go into good places. Not to be mistaken for a comedy podcast, though.

I love Pete's energy but I can only take him in small doses -- it has to be a guest I really love for me to tune in

Will rep again for Kurt Braunohler's K Ohle podcast -- the Get Lost episodes are SO good

I couldn't get into K Ohle, not sure why. Pete Holmes is so annoying but he's kind of fun on Doug Loves Movies because he's trying to be annoying.

I don't like the regular K Ohle episodes, they're too aimless for me -- but every couple of months he does a 'Get Lost' episode where he blindfolds someone and takes them to a weird/unique location. It's really great. More like an NPR field-reporting type style than anything else around.

I'm enjoying Black on Black Cinema

I listened to one of these last week after you mentioned it (the 'Malcolm X' episode) and it was good. Not sure I need to hear them all, but I may queue another episode up if I'm in the mood.

He does the annoying Marc Maron thing of talking about his life for like 20 minutes before getting to the fun part of the show.

I don't know if anyone else will care but "Mike and Tom Eat Snacks" is back after being gone for like a year.

yes! so happy

I've been enjoying some of these podcasts with narrow themes: Go Bayside!, James Bonding, The X-Files Files, U Talking U2 to Me? I guess MATES is similar but more open-ended.

Are there any more of these types of thing?

Go Bayside!

Happy whenever I see someone bring this one, because April's a friend.

James Bonding is the best, I love it so much

The Dork Forest is good -- it's a different guest each week but they get super specific about whatever that guest is nerdy about, it's pretty fun & interesting

I still don't listen to comedy podcasts bcz i imagine they are almost as awful as your descriptions.

like "whatever a guest is nerdy about" -- when i hear ppl talk about such things, i just get embarrassed for them and me.

x-post to ignore Morbs Sounds cool. I've heard her on other shows.

I haven't heard it but there's a podcast called The Worst Idea of All Time where two guys watch and review the same movie every week. Grown Ups 2.

ha yikes

examples -- Greg Proops talks about Satchel Paige and Negro League baseball and early baseball history in general

there's a live one where Dana Gould & James Urbaniak talk about old Hollywood history & movies that's GREAT

Dork Forest was where I first heard about Michelle McNamama's work on unsolved crimes & her True Crime diary website

some episodes are kind of embarrassing, like when she did one with Maria Bamford in a restaurant and they were both eating on mic, and the Jen Kirkman paranormal/ghosts episode was pretty dumb

There was a recent Dork Forest where a comedian guy claimed to be into interior design and his tips were sooooo bad

they're not all great, I'll the first to admit that

Did the name come from that line in Saved By the Bell? "Dorks! Take me to the forest!"

Pick of the week: Danny Aiello on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast. He explodes on Scorsese, Sopranos, everyone, everything.

Whoa

I know Nerdist isn't particularly beloved around here, but Spike Feresten's story about why Bill Murray absolutely despises him is pretty fun listening.

anybody watching the pardcast-a-thon? at pardcast.com

Patton Oswalt on right now

not technically a comedy podcast but Matt Gourley (Superego, James Bonding) has a new podcast called I Was There Too where he interviews ppl who had bit parts in big movies
So far:
Paul F Tompkins - There Will Be Blood
Ricco Ross - Pvt Frost from Aliens!
Greg Proops - The Phantom Menace

he does v sincere interviewing so even the PFT interview was not just a straightup lolfest

What's happening with superego anyway? Noticed they didn't drop a new ep last month

yeah i dunno

The drive thru scene in the latest Superego cast is quite funny

mentioned above and i've not heard it but THIS sounds amazing

Louis C.K. and Marc Maron did shows together in the late 80s, and though they were friends, Maron always harbored a resentment of Louis C.K.'s success that eroded their friendship over the years, specifically when Maron asked that Louis stop calling him because their conversations were too one-sided. When Maron hosts C.K. on the podcast, a place he has created that encourages openness and honesty, Maron tries to confront C.K. about their friendship but C.K. turns the tables on him and Maron ends up discovering a lot about himself and what makes him a bad friend.

from a 'Mark Maron picks his 15 favourite podcast episodes' thing here http://splitsider.com/2013/05/15-of-the-best-most-defining-episodes-of-wtf-with-marc-maron/

it's a really good episode, reduced me to tears when it aired

Slate recently picked that as the #1 greatest podcast episode of all time. I myself would put it at #442, behind every episode of UYD.

*knucks*

Marin reposted the Louis episodes as one uninterrupted ep just last week, pisces

i have to check that out thanks!

i am not a comedy podcast expert but i listened to a good chunk of WFMU's The Goddamn Dave Hill Show last night and it had me chuckling throughout.

maybe i am a comedy podcast expert idk, i did have an actual aloud and informed-on-both-sides conversation w/ my friend mark about the comedy bang bang year end rankings thus far

Has anyone been listening to the shows on Earwolf's spin-off network Wolfpop? I was already a Get Up on This listener, and I dig the W. Kamau Bell & Kevin Avery show about Denzel Washington--but I haven't listened to any of the other shows. Oh, except for The Canon, which was terrible.

I listen to Maltin on Movies and Off Camera. Off Camera is the better of those two. I like Maltin and Baron Vaughn but their show is overly structured and sort of unnecessarily formal?

Neither are comedy podcasts per se.

UTU2TM? released a new episode after being dual-branded under Wolfpop, so I suppose that counts (although I just checked and it's been un-popped again, so)

Listened to the first couple of five-minute Sly Stallone podcasts, which were terrible, and deleted the rest

The first three I Was There Too-s: PFT in There Will Be Blood was fine, he's largely talked about the experience before though; The Rapping Ringmaster From The Greatest Show In The Galaxy in Aliens was a great happy-working-actor chat; and of course Proops has talked about being in Star Wars: The First Prequel before but it's always hilaire

I listened to the Marin/Louis thing at work today, it's good to hear their friendship on the air

I was There Too is great -- I loved the Untouchables lady-with-baby-carriage!!

caddyshack ep is kinda interesting too

Is this the place where I can talk shit about Jesse Thorn?

"Later, Maximum Fun’s Jesse Thorn drops by to kick off a new segment called “That ’Cism,” where he showcases racially insensitive issues in pop culture."

yes, noted race expert Jesse Thorn

But of course, I don't expect any less from him than to use race/gender/etc. to score cheap points, I called him out on Twitter years ago for sexist comments he made re: M.I.A. during the truffle fries thing and he immediately blocked me

oooh callin' ppl out on Twitter, you justice leaguer.

A lot of JT's stuff is really not for me -- he likes way too much comedy from the last 30 years -- but he's still a good dude, i think.

Finally listened to Gottfried's (Joe Franklin), I guess Aiello and Roger Corman should be next on that one.

the aiello interview is solid gold

kinda lost my appetite for gottfried's podcast after he yukked it up while bob zmuda basically admitted to raping models at the playboy mansion.

yeah aiello is great
eddie munster is gold too