Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

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"

i tried listening to it at first through the Best Show connection and was completely turned off by/didn't get their schtick. i could not stand Sean's thing at all but once I got into their rhythms (getting zooted, Hayes' troubled relationship with Carrie Anne Moss, etc.) it's been a joy to listen.

The cross-promos on a couple other earwolf shows had the copy “famously only takes about 15 episodes to get into”

i had missed that hayes and shawn did comedy bang bang this week too ... not the best episode, unfortunately (though once they actually get to the stritcher proposals it picks up)

I’m surprised Sean doesn’t get punched more in regular conversation, as even he has admitted his regular tone gets confused with aggro sarcasm occasionally

crossposting this from the UK comedy thread as it really needs to be heard:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/dear-joan-and-jericha-julia-davis-and-vicki-pepperdine/id1376577916?mt=2

fuck off w/ proprietary links imo & 💜💜

ffs just google the podcast! no need to be a dick abt it. i know you cant help it sic but christ dial it back a touch maybe

since there's no context itt, maybe some actual info about what the podcast is would be more useful than just telling ppl to google something for no reason

just a thought tho

lol tell that to everyone who posts tweets here

forget i said anything

it's a comedy podcast called Ask Joan and Jericha

(though all of that info can be gleaned from the URL and the context of this thread)

i don't want to say more quite yet because i think it's better to come at these things fresh tbh!

lol sorry "DEAR Joan and Jericha"

Doug Benson came up during the same alt-comedy explosion that people are currently making huge amounts of money from. His peers were like Eugene Merman, Bamford, Patton Oswald etc. Why is he never in tv or films? He seems doomed to be a mediocre podcast guy forever. Even stupid Pete Holmes got a HBO show.

I don't get the sense that he auditions for much or writes much. He has very few writing credits, and his acting credits are mostly as Himself in his friends' works (including Pete Holmes' show). He appears as himself in You're the Worst. He had a bit part on his friends' show Another Period. Etc.

He had a show on Comedy Central but it didn't last.

It may also be due to being constantly drunk and high?

Pete Holmes on the other hand created and wrote his TBS talk show and wrote for College Humor for several years before Apatow anointed him.

Benson seems perfectly happy at his current level of success, touring nearly every week, doing five podcasts, having a live-streamed weekly talk show on the internet, putting out an album a year, making no-budget documentaries, occasionally getting TV gigs, and AFAIK not paying any portion of his income to an agent or manager. While being constantly drunk and high eleven months of the year.

Once you've been in Blade Runner, Return Of The Living Dead, Space Camp and Captain EO, where else is there to go as an actor?

He's was born one day before Tom Cruise