Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster is quality stuff, the UK's very own Doughboys.

Hollywod Handbook today is a fucking journey

I'm going to the early and late shows next Thursday; there may be nothing I love more right now in my life than Hollywood Handbook

Reveal at the end was pretty fucking euphoric assuming you’ve spent about 300 hours of your life listening to this podcast

Which we all should have

haven't listened to the newest one yet but i enjoyed the choose-your-own-adventure episode, particularly hayes' commitment to (kind of) trying to make the timing work

yeah "the masked engineer" episode is unreal. my weice, my nitness

I was briefly onstage with the boys tonight in Seattle! I also got to chat with them after and they were very sweet.

Whoa silbs! I hope it gets broadcast. Was there a guest?

Portland tomorrow for me and the boys, deeply sad i couldn’t make it tonight

walked past and waved at you both through the wall a couple of hours ago, half a wave rescinded now

not comedy per se, this is me reading Henri Bergson's "Laughter: An Essay On The Meaning Of The Comic"

part 4 coming this weekend!

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/eli-reads/id1345096977?mt=2

link ^

xps no guests just extensive clowning with audience members

this is the hollywood handbook thread now

love the HH/scharpling/hamburger men dynamic on last week's ep. i do wonder what regular HH listeners who don't listen to the best show think of tom scharpling.

if there was like a 10-ep primer that would work, that would be cool, but I really don't have the patience to listen to like 60 hours of pod to get a joke

i don't think you need to know the best show to enjoy scharpling on HH but he is playing more of a character (or at least an exaggerated version of himself) on HH

yeah Scharpling has his own character arc on Hollywood Handbook, I'm not a Best Show person.

I should make a list of ten episodes from the archive to give people a fighting chance of getting into the show. You'd need to fire up a stitcher premium trial.

You know, where in the world did Jason Mantzoukas come from? He's almost 50, but he seems to have hit his stride only in the past 10 years or so. I want to know about Mantzoukas, the missing years. Like, I learned he dated Connie Britton!

Google around and you can even find him without a beard, which is a trip.

I know he went to high school with Jessica St. Clair and they both came out to make it in Hollywood at the same time

or maybe it was college who knows

so comedy bang bang 10th anniversary ep is 10 hours long

only if you pay for stitcher

Yes, it's five hours and fifteen minutes with the ads in

5 hr part 1 and 5 hr part 2 if you don't

gah TEN hours and fifteen minutes

i like this:
https://www.plosive.co.uk/why-is-your-bottom-so-dirty

lol. The latest Hollywood Handbook pro-version is 11 hours long.

omg

ha ha ha amazing

i'm afraid to ask but is there actually 11 hours of content?

don't want to spoil anything but the episode may or not be a normal 30 min pro-version followed by 10 and a half hours of snoring/ambient music.

Anyone hear today's ep yet?

https://www.earwolf.com/episode/stephen-malkmus-our-pavement-friend/

of Hollywood Handbook

Does anyone still listen to HH? This week's episode is hilarious.

I do but haven’t heard this weeks yet

they're on Magic Tavern this week

Yes always! last week’s w/jesse farrar had that awkward majesty i love the boys so much for

great hollywood handbook today, though it's mostly scharpling's show. his "richard nixon doing improv" scene was amazing.

i love hh but have yet to enjoy a scharpling episode maybe this will be the one

25th time's the charm

is it even worth trying to get into HH for a complete newbie? if so, how? key eps? just pick up with the latest and inevitably miss many recurring jokes for awhile? I'm a CBB guy and have dabbled with other somewhat related Earwolf shows but missed the initial boat on HH and it has seemed intimidating to jump in

they do describe the show on their website as "a podcast that only takes 15-20 episodes to get." when hayes was on the best show a couple of weeks ago they agreed that the kumail ep is a good starting place but that's behind the paywall now. there was a "best of" episode at one point too, but that was several years ago. the ron funches episode recently was intended to be the intro for new people, or that was the premise, but it's not an amazing ep imo.

going back, maybe the andy daly episode if you've listened to other earwolf stuff? it's heavily based on references to other podcasts but that's a common theme

Yeah the Andy Daly one is a good call for eps currently outside the paywall

unfortunately, the ones i'd go to first are probably behind the paywall at this point. the episode where they play a late-period george carlin bit and joe mande has to pass it off as his is absolute all-time.

Andy Daly is a marquee CBB guest for me and love most of his characters so that sounds like a promising way in for this listener at least!

although maybe not the best place to start because you probably need some knowledge of the show history, "the masked engineer" episode of HHB is at least execution and concept-wise a masterpiece.

guys HH is not hard to "get"

ime it takes about 2-5 minutes to know whether these guys are for you. it's not The Wire

it took me 2-5 min to realise the wire was for me tbh

ok good point