Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

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.

Chapo is the greatest, and if at least three other people participate in this discussion I will start a dedicated Chapo thread. Also, they're doing a live thing upcoming in Brooklyn:

https://twitter.com/CHAPOTRAPHOUSE/status/775386617469075457

Best eps I've heard so far are probably the two Ross Douthats, the Dennis Prager one and the premium episode where they discuss the John Wayne Genghis Khan film. But a lot of them are good. Every time I see "Pepe Frog" come up now I hear it in Felix's "democrat voice" (I think the particular ref was in the Liza Featherstone episode).

The mexicanarchist episode and the interview with the woman who wrote about Nike's "Girl Effect" campaign are also really good.

i love CTH too, have listened to all of them. i like that they're willing to not be laugh-a-minute if they think the subject warrants it/would involve interrupting their guest (except when they had the libertarian guy on). the one where they make run of 'reign over me' is the funniest one imo.

the street fight radio episode where they talk about seeing the michael bay benghazi movie is great too:
http://www.streetfightradio.com/show/bryan-interviews-will-matt-and-felix-about-seeing-13-hours-in-theaters/

They are pretty long so it will take me a while to get through all of them, like one episode lasts me two evening kitchen clean-ups. I agree they are good about not yukking it up all the time, e.g. when they have a very good and articulate guest talking about something more serious. It would get a bit exhausting if all of every episode was nothing but derision.

I actually discovered them through the Katie Halper show, which is an actual radio show available as a podcast, sort of similar in vibe, very sharp although not quite as funny.

chapo is good. kinda tempted to go to the live brooklyn thing but gowanus so far

This is part of why I listen to shows on 1.25x.

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One great thing about the show is that, to paraphrase Matt's description of Marxism, it's a heuristic, a lens through which to view things. E.g. you can find something like this and suddenly realize that it's hilariously funny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqzN0nqiJyQ

James Adomian chats with Team Chapo:

https://m.soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-46-no-cucks-in-a-foxhole-feat-jadomian-10416

amazing episode

although I do feel like having an (actually funny) pro comedian like Adomian on made them a little more tense or something, vibe was palpably different from other episodes

Hard Nation has on three undecided voters, gets increasingly bizarre. Half the time I don't have much use for this show but this was fun

http://www.earwolf.com/episode/debate-2016-three-margarets-w-marcy-jarreau-madeline-walter-nicole-byer/

NYC Grey Wolves: I may go to the Chapo live debate thing on Wed in NYC (Caroline's is pretty close to my office). Chapo FAPo?

The Bugle is back, with American comedian/podcaster Hari Kondabolu being the recipient of Andy's puns from the other side of the pond:

https://soundcloud.com/the-bugle/bugle-4001-tony-the-tiger-rip

I like how Hayes & Sean are almost totally incapable of sounding different from their usual pattern no matter the premise or the character, as heard in this ep from last year:

http://www.earwolf.com/episode/t-g-i-g-o-t-g-ost/

Started listening to Street Fight bc of Chapo, p good.

I've been listening to The Boogie Monster with Kyle Kinane and Dave Stone. They talk about paranormal stuff and, maybe more often than that, food. Not recommended if burping bothers you and Dave is a little bit of a dick with some dumb ideas (angry at beautiful women because they won't sleep with him oops they have it too easy, thinks anyone with a food allergy is faking it to annoy him, etc), but as a big Kinane fan I can deal with it.

Hannibal Buress' second ep put me off, as the 1st 1/2 hour was just him going on about how he didn't like his AirBNB ratings even after holding house parties and inviting plenty of strangers back to wherever he was staying after a show in whatever city.

More Chapo coverage:

https://psmag.com/the-radical-cheek-of-chapo-trap-house-c95c3b5eabe7#.up561c2pm

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.

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I just started listening to this, but the episodes are jumbled in the podcast app I use, so I've started with their second season where they watch Sex and the City 2.

A second season does seem like a pretty bad idea

They're almost halfway through their third and final season, watching Simian Mobile Disco biopic We Are Your Friends, directed by Maximum Joseph

last night's Best Show is really really great and just about the only thing that made me feel ok for any length of time today (oh I also cried during it at some point, too). If you're a long time listener who can remember what a 2006 episode sounded like, it's a real treat.

it was amazing. i wish i had listened live bc i found out things about it before i heard it.

yeah, it was unbelievably great after the recognizing what was going on until the last 30 minutes or so when reality kicked in and things became tough again.

Never a huge fan of true crime or comedy podcasts but Last Podcast on the Left recommended somewhere on ILX has been very funny

Thanks for Best Show tip - it was great to hear this, this week.

i recommended last podcast elsewhere i think, milo - glad you're enjoying it. it walks a fine line and sometimes crosses it (if i never hear 'hong kong henry zebrowski' again it'll be too soon) but i like the way they usually manage to balance a genuine interest in and appreciation of unsettling material with an objective eye for its accompanying weirdness and absurdity.

They're almost halfway through their third and final season, watching Simian Mobile Disco biopic We Are Your Friends, directed by Maximum Joseph

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good grief, that sounds horrible.

That is not really what the film is about. (It's worse.)