Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

Don Dimillo way too low

Louis is back!! https://theinterrobang.com/louis-ck-announces-and-releases-conversations-with-his-girlfriend/

jfc

Louis, a webcam and a young female comedian. This isn't going to end well.

I am a man of simple tastes, but Jason Mantzoukas may be the first celebrity I'd want to be my friend.

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it would be hard to navigate his deathly egg allergy tho

it was pretty funny that Scott and Scott abandoned their Red Hot Chili Peppers podcast after one episode and switched it Talking Heads after making RHCP merch and all

i was wondering if i had talked about episode one in the thread and i now see that i mentioned it... 2 and a half years ago. i have no idea how i have been listening to it that long, it still feels brand new to me and is still (or at least, is now) my favourite podcast.

cant believe it didn't come up again when they dropped the brilliant joe biden episode. i guess that's on me! im currently early in a "listen to the entire show all over again" run.

I think E1 gets brought up from time to time in the Chapo thread. Almost positive that the Biden ep was linked and discussed there.

the Biden episode makes me feel like I'm on drugs

oh right, i just looked and i have talked about it multiple times there, lol.

still, feel like it deserves to at least be in the comedy podcast thread because it's not chapo and it's comedy and it's really funny. just listened to the baseball ep again yesterday (terre haute gunblades vs morrowind virgins - 34th episode). what a delight. multiple branson singing imagine dragons spots. i could listen to these guys do anything (evidence: i listened to them earnestly rank candle aromas for over an hour)

I have never listened to E1 but definitely looking for a new comedy podcast to dive into. Which is the Biden one? In my podcast app I see a 15 minute preview of the Biden ep that’s behind their Patreon paywall - is that what you’re talking about? Do I need to pay for it? And what other eps most highly recommended (realistically not gonna be able to go back and start at the beginning)?

Biden ep is number 113 in their feed from January 20, 2020.

The one that made me a committed listener is actually the 3rd ep from 2017 called "Pulling the Chair with Dunk and Keys," but that one only may work if you were a big basketball fan in the early 2000s.

Oh I was indeed a big basketball fan in the early 2000s. Queueing up both of those eps now, thanks for the recommendation!

you can generally tell within the first 5 minutes of a given E1 episode whether you'll find that week's concept funny or not

comedy podcasts have been chasing this high for 11 years

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

otm

Lou Barlow’s disease

I’m really enjoying ‘A Typical Disgusting Display’ a podcast by Alec Sulkin and Julius Sharpe who are both writers for Family Guy. Its kind of guide for young aspiring comedy writers but mainly an enjoyable listen with some good bits.

Been enjoying the lowkey mild weirdness of Mike Wozniak's St. Elwicks Neighbourhood Association Newsletter Podcast.

Oh cool I like that guy a lot!

i have gotten a lot of enjoyment from Brian & Roger.

https://aca.st/10a59f

I am so fully in love with Blank Check - its a nice Sunday ritual listening on my walks & cooking lunch

i like it so much that I went back & listened to the Phantom Menace episodes & they are much more delightful than I expected, really enjoying them. hats off to them for making this interminable movie somehow newly interesting… griff, david & ben have had that same excellent chemistry from the getgo really, which is fun to discover

i realize it’s technically a movie podcast but the comedy is very much the soul of the show imo

so bummed that Kubrick won the latest bracket :(

love that they've decided the Césars are the Blankie's rivals

I listen to a lot of With Gourley and Rust, who guested on Blank Check last year. I haven't actually listened to anymore Blank Check itself, but I'll go back and check out some more eps.

With Gourley and Rust is also a movie podcast by comedians that can be pretty damn funny at times, but leans more on the hosts just being likable fellows. They're currently in the middle of a Spring King Fling, in which they're watching Stephen King adaptations.

I'm actually underselling them really badly there, but comedy is such a subjective thing that I always get nervous about recommending it to anybody. They're both really funny guys. They are gentle dorks who love horror movies. They also refer to it as an "easy listening-cast" or a "cozy-cast" because the conversation is pretty relaxed.

John Hodgman taking delight at how they can completely change the topic of conversation for half an hour at a time

Kubrick should be fun but I also would have preferred Welles.

Just feel like Kubrick has been discussed to death. Welles has enough oddities in his work that I'd be more hyped for. Would've loved for the Archers to win but that was never gonna happen.

i would've preferred welles to kubrick as well. i think '70s altman would've been my top choice though. but kubrick will be fine.

it's crazy that the moore bonds won the patreon poll over planet of the apes by two votes. two votes!

was listening back to an old ep of Blank Check Special Features (on The Animatrix) yesterday and learned that ben's nickname for the series - Bense8 - was submitted by ilx alum slutsky

That’s excellent.

I’ve been chugging down a lot of Podcast About List, and it’s been a lot fun to hear the little gems that get shaken loose via the riffing, like “Francophile’s Monster” or “it’s great to have your birthday on Halloween, you get like twice the candy!”

Or the Djungelskog Trial.

I rarely check out "Comedy Bang Bang," and I'm not even sure I've ever made it to the end of an episode, but I always listen to every episode that features Jason Mantzoukas, a man so fast and innately funny that he cracks me up when he's playing the straight man. This morning I listened to a bit of a recent episode where the guests are a trio of brothers that own a Honey/Taffy/Horse-Fighting farm, and I literally did a spit take of coffee. And then, moments later, I did it again and had to wash my beard. Just me, walking around like an idiot, smiling and laughing, which I love, because so little makes me smile and laugh uncontrollably.

Anyway. Just to say that the plan still stands to take Mantzoukas as my second wife. What can I say, he makes me laugh.

yeah, for Comedy Bang Bang, I tend to listen to the episodes with Jason Mantzoukas and/or Andy Daly (the whole Byron Denniston/The Grizz saga is one of the funniest things I've ever listened to) and then I will listen to the end of year best-of episodes. The show is generally funny but gets annoying quickly if I listen to too much of it.

I love whenever Scott or a guest spouts a stream of nonsense, and Mantzoukas mischievously makes them stop and repeat the gibberish they just said, just to make sure the listeners at home clearly understand the backstory or whatever.

I really enjoy Stavvy's world - Stavros Halkias with 1-2 guest comedians each time, usually some mix of delving into personal history, talking about being comedians, and an "advice" portion where they discuss pre-recorded call-ins and usually clown the person while also giving them pretty good advice.