Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

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

Jesse Thorn called himself out for the exact same reasons you listed at the very start of that column, Murgatroid!

No celebrity/podcast non-celebrity has ever been good at taking criticism on twitter ever, but as far as "ally" stuff goes I think Pop Rocket actually having a panel that aims for representation with Jesse dropping in for a short segment is a better look than, say, a show centred around interviewing poc that's still hosted by three white dudes.

only two interviewers on the Champs iirc

obviously no white guy is ever allowed to address the topic of racism in the Wonderful World of Murgatroid.

if i ever have dinner with Jesse again i will toast him for blocking M too

Jesus Christ, Adomian as Tom Leykis on Lauren Lapkus' podcast. Perfect format for Adomian to go off.

The recent episode of improv4humans was quite something, a complete parody on the movie Whiplash.

Adomian's Zizek on CBB was amazing

http://gawker.com/parks-rec-exec-found-dead-from-apparent-overdose-1686895611

Harris Wittels, the guy who did the Analyze Phish podcast, died at age 30.

Fucking hell, I only just finished listening to that series. Fuck this is so wrong.

I just heard about this. Very upsetting and sad. He was a really funny guy.

Harris's Phone/Foam Corner one of my fav recurring things on CBB, I will miss Harris :(((((

Oh my god, man, how sad. Always looked forward to that guy turning up on CBB, Analyze Phish, Parks & Rec, anywhere. RIP.

shit that is incredibly sad, and he was v funny imo

shd i listen to his november podcast ep w/ pete holmes? keep in mind i truly hate pete holmes

check out his appearance on pete holmes' podcast if you want to hear him talk about his addiction struggles.

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i don't like holmes either but it was a very honest interview

Jesus Christ, he had been getting help too. Rip Harris. You helped put a distinctive voice on a new medium, even if that was only to be openly mocked in turns by Aukerman and Sharpling

so sad

shd i listen to his november podcast ep w/ pete holmes? keep in mind i truly hate pete holmes

yes, absolutely - Holmes reins himself in fairly early once Harris' story gets going.

Scharpling mocked Fish openly on the podcast, not Harris.

Phish, whatever. The dude from Marillion can suck it, too.

This is the most messed up I've been about someone succumbing to the Bad Thing since DFW.