Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

yes the biggest laughs are wiger's terrible lack of strategy and sean making his corny biscuit jokes to the waitress

but there's also a lot of wet chewing

Wet chewing has an audience

Hayes & Sean would deliberately wet-chew into the mic just to irritate others

pink shrimpies

I've listened to so many episodes of The Dollop in the last month. Pretty much addicted tbh. Who's looking forward to episode 300?

yes & no

yes bcz Dollop
no bcz Captain Cheetoh

yeah I've also been binging on old dollop episodes lately, but feel like I already know way more about Donald Trump than any person should ever know and I don't even really know that much about him

i thought i knew a fair bit abt Errol Flynn & boyyyyy i did not lol

prolly start on the Trump on tomorrow

Hollywood Handbook today is dark

It wasn't good imo, I wonder if Lapkus was genuinely stung by Sean's takedown of the premise of her new podcast. I like that Hollywood Handbook usually avoids the mock contentious tone that CBB characters often take, of course they're assholes but the premise is that they're trying to help.

been very much enjoying 'what a time to be alive' lately - comedians kath barbadoro, eli yudin and patrick monaghan talk about five events from the past week

or at least that's the framework for it, mainly it's just an excuse for them to riff and make endless digressions, but they have great chemistry and it's usually really funny

on similar lines i'm also into 'your kickstarter sucks'

after a brief break i'm back all-in with hello from the magic tavern

The late-2017 episode of I Don't Even Own a Television on Love Monkey (which i just caught up with) features a guest spot from a certain ILXer, and is well worth a listen.

There’s another ep with the same guest a bit further back in the catalog too!

Valley of the Dolls ep

Just listened to my first ep of this, the Ready Player One ep, and really enjoyed it.

Yeah, IDEOAT is great and J's a solid dude. Highly recommend the ep on Bill O'Reilly's novel (yes, really).

Andy Daly's Podcast Pilot Project getting a second season, if it's anything like the first should be a blast.

got live tickets for how did this get made AND hollywood handbook later this summer. psyched.

has anyone listened to the podcast called Episode One? it took me a while to find because searching for that is impossible but once i found it i liked it, and then i listened more and holy hell it gets very good and weird

I've listened to it a bit. Those guys are definitely very funny, and the concept is kind of amazing (for the uninitiated: every episode is presented as the first and only episode of a failed podcast, with a different subject and characters each time). But it comes off as almost completely unedited, which can make for a rough listen (awkward pauses, jokes that don't land, the hosts breaking to laugh at their own jokes, etc.) I don't think I've ever made it through a whole episode.

Scharpling's Meet My Friends the Friends is a better, more subtle and funnier podcast parody. It's his loooooooong-form humor in bite-sized bits, and it works.

Once the rhythm of it got going it’s been aces. Every time Scharpling was losing it and then one of Jason’s bumpers would play killed. Really hope Brett Davis appears again as Ruby Goodman.

My other 'alf and his friend Tara have been nominated as finalists in TWO categories - comedy and most popular - in the Australian Podcast awards for their Bloody Murder podcast. Unbelievable!

I mean these awards have pods done by TV stations and media outlets and shit, this isnt small fry stuff.

Ooh cool!

I saw their FB post: so exciting!!

Barn said "I gotta write a speech!" haha. They were already going to go to the awards anyway so theyre quite taken by surprise that theyre finalists.

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Thanks for the rec. of Scharpling’s Friends podcast. Its hilarious.

Episode One is fantastic. Search: So, I Wrote A Thing (poetry), GoochTV (p4k, Black Flanders, prob the high point so far), and The Artisan's Plate (foodies). Destroy the eps with special guests like Matt Taibbi doing funny accents.

(Ep1 kinda hits me as Sharpling/Wurster for the extremely online)

in light of recent fox news-level notoriety for cohost jesse farrar, let me re-recommend 'your kickstarter sucks' which continues to be great

Latest dollop about the 1908 New York to Paris car race is amazing

yeah, it really is - not quite jetpack-madness-scale batshittery but getting close

Mike and Tom Eat Snacks is the best.

Alas, this show is dormant, right?

the newest Hollywood Handbook with Joe Mande is absolutely amazing. feel like this one got an assist from the years of The Best Show railing against Carlin, but holy smokes.

Hollywood Handbook is one of my favorite things. My sister still doesn’t get it!

i love it and am excited to see the boys live in a couple of weeks

that Hollywood Handbook is great. i have to take small doses of those guys because their steez is so... concentrated - but yeah it's basically virtuosic at this point

definitely the funniest thing on the internet ... i do have trouble explaining why it's funny though.

What do you guys like about it, because I tried listening to it this morning and was turned off by the improv-y, riffing tone. But I don't listen to many podcasts that are explicitly trying to be funny. Is this not for me, or does it settle down into some other thing?

im thinking if you can check out some early episodes? they were much more in their "gimmick" at the time which may be a turn-off but i personally loved them at their lean-in-iest. also they would try really hard not to break all the time. the episodes with tom scharpling are an excellent jumping off point (esp if you like the best show)

ive listened to it a bunch and still idgi are they just like sassy hollywood boys

tbf "insufferable douchebag know-it-all who is wrong about everything" is one of my favourite comic types

but yeah i can listen to like 1 episode every two months because it's a little too intense and a little too real

as much as i want to sell you on it, if you flat-out don't like improv/riffing-based podcasts, you probably just won't like it. they're generally more focused in their riffing than a lot of the other earwolf comedy podcasts, and the tone is more acerbic/self-flagellating/ironic. also they have the best ads of any of the podcasts; the fallout from sean's work on the luggage company ad was a recent highlight. or if you want a fair criticism of hollywood handbook, you can listen to their own ads in this week's episode.

sadly their back catalog has gone behind the Stitcher Premium paywall, but on the plus side if you subscribe to that you can get the Pro Version, which was originally going to be "let's bring back our segments" but became "let's do a worse, shorter version of the show with no guests" by like the fourth episode. The running gag there is asking how long they've been recording, and if they can stop.

where by "worse" I mean "even less focused but still sublime"