Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

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Beyond Yacht Rock ,w/Mike McDonald, Kenny Loggins, Hollywood Steve and Coco

That one is pretty fun

"Hello from the magic tavern" is all time funny imo

Ooh on that same tip, The Adventure Zone has been my obsession for months now. The McElroy brothers (from My Brother My Brother & Me, which I also love) & their Dad playing D&D but writing their own stories & making all kinds of shit up as they go and it's funny as hell.

The Beef Season saga on Get Up on This has been pretty fun.

http://www.fastcocreate.com/3059149/the-most-exciting-rap-beef-in-years-is-happening-right-now-on-a-podcast

Just started on Hello from the Magic Tavern, liking it so far (6 eps in).

The "Tom Cannot Complain" episode of the Best Show from a few weeks back is an absolute all-time classic.

Not a comedy podcast, really, though Chris Gethard is a comic. I've so far found Beautiful/Anonymous really engrossing.

Premise: Chris takes a call from someone, no name given, and they talk for an hour.

http://www.earwolf.com/show/beautiful-anonymous/

They played an edited version of a Beautiful/Anon episode on This American Life and it felt like listening in on a suicide hotline call

I rather enjoyed this ep of JordanJesseGo with Jensen Karp as the guest on a book tour. Jensen & Jesse start competing for most obscure inside hiphop joke, and Jordan helps get disgusted at how idiotic their jokes all get.

Also: Fred Durst stories.

http://www.maximumfun.org/jordan-jesse-go/jordan-jesse-go-episode-427-triple-crab-jensen-karp

I just started Magic Tavern & it's cracking me up. On board for sure

Jon Gabrus' podcast is fun when it's just him and two buddies, all three former high school/college athletes way too into weightlifting, ripping into 80s action movies.

i interviewed david icke this morning for my podcast its not comedy tho :(

yikes. how was it

do you need emergency brain-rinsing station

it was cool! we told him about the death metal band embryonic devourment that bases their lyrics on his work and he was stoked.

went to see the comedy bang bang tour, in tarrytown.
really funny stuff. paul f. tompkins is a delight.

I envy u

Kurt what's your podcast? I'd listen to that.

Don't always love Heidecker but this was funny: http://www.feralaudio.com/59-camping-with-rock-and-roll-gary-tim-heidecker/

Ron Funches!

http://www.earwolf.com/episode/call-center-christmas-party-live-from-largo/

Beyond Yacht Rock is pretty much like ILM the podcast. Each week a new musical genre is posited, and a top 10 is counted down and argued about. This week is "George Orwave"-- New Wave songs about paranoia and Totalitarianism.

If you've never listened to The Dollop, the Disco Demolition episode is great. The guest comedian is barely there, but the 45 minute backstory to the main story is amazing, in a nutshell the life story of the only guy in history who tried to make baseball interesting.

Beyond Yacht Rock is pretty much like ILM the podcast. Each week a new musical genre is posited, and a top 10 is counted down and argued about. This week is "George Orwave"-- New Wave songs about paranoia and Totalitarianism.

― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Saturday, May 14, 2016 9:40 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Holy shit, I need this in my life.

http://nerdist.com/nerdist-podcast-805-anthony-mackie/

Listening to Anthony Mackie run wild all over his press junket is a beautiful thing, especially when him & Matt start tussling over Boston and various Volvo models. Mackie goes from insulting Chris to describing acting theory in less than 120 seconds in certain parts.

Ooh on that same tip, The Adventure Zone has been my obsession for months now.

Thanks for this, Veggrrl, your bringing this podcast to my attention has immeasurably improved my life :)

Yay!! words cannot convey the depth of my affection for The Adventure Zone, it's tge greatest <3

Saw the live ComedyBangBang show tonight in Portland. Great time. Singing was involved.

Hello from the Magic Tavern resembles an American version of Discworld far more than its creators might realize

ha! that's a good point.

As filtered thru Chicago, naturally

I'm sad that I've gotten pretty burned out on Comedy Bang Bang. used to be my #1 podcast but now I've started listening selectively instead of every episode. feels like there's less variety in guests and characters and no new break-out characters since ... Gino? maybe ... it's me that has changed? I went to the live show in Chicago but wish I hadn't gone to the late show bc everyone seemed pretty worn out.
Pretty much just listen to Best Show/Hollywood Handbook/How Did This Get Made? now.

like I'm skipping this week's ep bc I've just had too many forced Ben Schwartz/Scott Aukerman sing-alongs/House of Pies jokes at this point

not a comedy podcast but the nu gethard beautiful/anon podcast is wondeful

Eff it; I'm subscribing to Howl just to get the full Uncle Bertie's Botanarium series

this years CBB tour was incredibly great, a hitrate so much higher than any 28-episode stretch in the last couple of years

John Lennon is a breakout charac since Gino

eh

Hanford can be funny but it's not like he puts much effort into maintaining or building characters. The whole joke of "John Lennon" is that he seems to know almost nothing about John Lennon. At the live show I saw Scott explicitly called out how thin Hanford character was.

He was a hay salesman who was allergic to hay. That was pretty much it.

I enjoyed the live show from a couple of years ago a lot more. But like I said they were doing two shows in Chicago this year and seemed pretty worn out.

I listened to two a day for a fortnight and it felt like old-CBB. Then the next studio ep ran aground with almost an hour left to go and a whole character yet to come, and I expect to only half pay attention during Schwartz/Sanz. (Even the killer combo of Claudia / Kroll got wasted with Andy Sandwich pressing the "you're just Nick Kroll doing characters" thing endlessly. This has only ever worked once, and it still derailed that ep.)

Very few of PFT's characs have ever been predicated on actually knowing more facts about their subject than Hanford knows about John Lennon; it's just that Scott needles Hanford for it, and the character is so affable that he can't steamroller Scott, unlike the Tompkins ones.

Mike Hanford is very cute though.

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/comedybangbang/images/4/4b/Lennon.png

So....I started one of my own. Anyone have any recommendations for a better hosting option? I'm ponying up for SoundCloud Pro, which looks at least slightly better than Libsyn.

I don't have any recommendations but... can we hear it?

i just got my own domain and upload everything myself. gives you the most control.

i am enjoying Georgina Hardstark & Karen Kilgarriff's "My Favorite Murder" which is technically a true crime podcast but they are v funny together & somehow mange to keep things kinda light despite heavy subject matter

And i am in love with Pistol Shrimps Radio
- absurdist & delightful, and occasionally thrilling!

Bodega Boys cracks me up.

I don't have any recommendations but... can we hear it?

Here you go. I call it "Giving the Mic to the Wrong Person"

https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic

Damian from Fucked Up has had a podcast forever, and started a show connecting punk rock and pro-wrestling. His first guest is, of course, Gerard Cosloy from Matador Records.

https://audioboom.com/boos/4930370-clobbering-time-ep-01-gerard-cosloy

I've been diving into the glory that is the Chapo Trap House podcast. Their best work so far has been dramatic readings from and excoriations of Ross Douthat's stupid Harvard memoir.

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/07/chapo-trap-house-are-the-vulgar-brilliant-demigods.html

JASON: Most of the people who will read this interview will have no idea what Weird Twitter and Left Twitter are and how they inform your show. Can you explain?

BRENDAN: This corner of Twitter is like if Andy Kaufman and Hunter S. Thompson put on a trivia night every single day. Also they’re both amped on crank

WILL: Before the show even started, I think all three of us occupied that strange overlap between “weird” and “left” twitter, a niche that might seem odd at first, but upon closer inspection makes perfect sense. “Left Twitter” should be obvious, but as best I can describe to someone who has a doesn’t share my specific form of mental illness, “Weird Twitter” describes the loosely defined Dadaist comedic style that grew out of this social network. The crossover reveals itself in the fact that both are in their own way a response to the meaninglessness and absurdity of neoliberal capitalism. However, I think both inform and need each other. Pure Left Twitter is too esoteric and humorless and Pure Weird Twitter is … *cop starts breakdancing*

MATT: Weird Twitter is a disparate group of frustrated comedians whose manifest life failures have left them with the time and inclination to seek approval from strangers from the internet in the form of digital treats. Left Twitter is basically anyone on Twitter who uses the platform to express their left political views. This could be anyone from Chris Hayes to @WokeBeria. We reside in shaded spot of the Venn Diagram between the two, which is mostly people who don’t have jobs in media or politics, but still have enough of a political viewpoint for it to shape their epic memes and dong jokes.

FELIX: Weird Twitter is a collection of married guys who desperately want the younger women who fav their tweets to start a new life with them, their desperation becoming more apparent with each joke. Left Twitter is a collection of grad students who desperately want the young women who fav their tweets to send them feet pics, their desperation becoming more apparent with each platitude. In the center of these two sexual psychoses, we find the “id” of Chapo Trap House.