Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

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.)

That Best Show episode was jaw-dropping. I think the "upcoming guests" listing from Terre T was a signal to Tom -- but my God, they turned on a dime and there were so many contingencies to consider. Holy crap.

some unexpected chapo/ilx overlap here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1710323845953829/

you can't spell chapo/ilx overlap without challop

Related to Chapo, one of the show's they mention, along with Street Fight, is Delete Your Acct.

Gunna crosspost this here, since I think this is a great podcast ep of that, serving as an OpSec 101, or what any of us can do with our communications in the modern surveillance state.

It's an interview with Freddy Martinez, who did great work exposing shit like the cops using Stingray technology as well as what horseshit the Chicago PD has been up to.

I personally use my phone a lot without always remembering that every single mobile phone is effectively a tracking device.

https://deleteyouraccount.libsyn.com/dont-get-caught

hollywood handbook — takes a few listens to pick up the structure. imo doing super original things with improv by using the podcast format (ads included – the ads are the best!). gives me the same fuzzy "we're all figuring this out as we go" vibe that old Best Show eps did.

which brings me to:

Old (WFMU era) Best Show. Yeah I still listen to new Best Show. It's ok. Has nothing on 2005-2012ish stuff.

On the FMU as podcast tip I'm a big fan of Seven Second Delay

Downloaded the last Chapo - I could see the appeal on occasion. Not going to delve into the back issues or anything but it's amusing and sort of like a group of reasonably intelligent friends sitting around talking shit about politics.

Dead Pilots Society on Maximum Fun is pretty good. Like the Blacklist Table Read but using rejected TV pilots by funny people. Liked John Hodgman's a lot, loved Matt Gourley & Amanda Lund's, still need to listen to Ep 1 (Tom Lennon & Ben Garant).

Feel like Chapo still needs to find its footing in the Trump world, as I think even they have admitted.

Everything is still in shock/flux. But more flux than anything else.

They spent most of new episode trashing Hillary
No pivot in sight

Tom Scharpling was on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast. It was memorable.

http://www.gilbertpodcast.com/tom-scharpling/

im enjoying the doughboys podcast idk I like several things abt it but 1 is how its weirdly confessional abt eating habits etc, like wiger saying in 1 ep he used to sometimes as a snack eat just croutons in ranch dressing as a kid and Mitchell gives a good exasperated 'what the fuck'??

um idk if anyone but me enjoys this but I fucking love TV Crimes with Mikey Neuman & Wil Wheaton

They watch random episodes of old tv shows (different show each week) & yell about it & it's v funny

Family Circus Christmas Special still my favorite so far. There hasn't been many episodes, they only do them every few months when they have time.

I've been binging on the Dollop lately after having discovered it after someone recommended the jetpack episode. The one I especially enjoyed was "The Two Indigenous Actors" from about a month back which just has the craziest twist ending.

Yeah that was a great one! 10 Cent Beer Night is still one of my alltime favorites.

10 Cent Beer Night is amazing. The baseball ones are usually great, for some reason. Falling Pilot, btw, is pretty insane.

my fave episode remains the one about gay panic in the us navy, which a couple of deeply repressed maniacs decided to combat by forming their own gay sex ring

Oh god that one was great.

"How can we be sure they're gay?"
"We'll have to let them give us blowjobs."

it was basically an irl version of the timelessly classic onion story Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?

so good

guys you gotta hear this insane how did this get made? behind-the-scenes interview with dan gordon, the writer of surf ninjas: http://www.earwolf.com/episode/origin-stories-bonus-dan-gordon/

office supply theft, accidentally making a movie for the mob, robbing wealthy dentists - it's all in there!