Joe Pera Talks with You

Yessss

soon

Less than a month away: pic.twitter.com/OyIG8RqXlM

— Joe Pera (@JosephPera) October 11, 2021

genuine lol there

Huge endorsement for India

Did a very important phone call with @Indiawaltonbflo: pic.twitter.com/1SO2Ffb7Fo

— Joe Pera (@JosephPera) October 19, 2021

after watching the full series of The Sopranos, the new episode was much needed balm. Bart is a worthwhile addition to the Pera universe. I teared up a bit near the end.

"Joe! Touch this!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OluiGzTPrzI

I had totally missed the pandemic special (and it really was just so goddamn special) until last week. I really could've used that in the doldrums of 2020. It's my Bo Burham: Inside.

You’re a man of integrity! And you like describing things!

the humor on this is so clean cut that a line like "Mr. Pera Balls" nearly made me fall off the couch

it has been a great season.

We're super late to this but love it. Def. shares some vibes with ... John Wilson?

yeah, Nathan for You too. All part of the new wave of gentle humor.
When does Ike get a show is what I want to know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8n7hnNdbhQ

"Joe Pera Discusses School-Appropriate Entertainment With You" was particularly great. The conversation with the young puppeteer, the libertarian magician, "Why would that be the first line of anything?"

Adventures of Otto!

Oh I didn’t see that Episode 6 was out. Man. That might have been the most beautiful episode of a TV show I’ve ever seen

lmao why does this show keep referencing Dragonball Z

thank you, it’s an honor

— Joe Pera (@JosephPera) December 22, 2021

The Matrix 2 costumes in one of the first two seasons has got to be one of the funniest deep cut jokes I've seen in eons. #onethread

the finale where Joe builds a wooden chair while Gene creates a commercial with a vision for a New World Order is pretty striking. I love how this show can focus on the most droll and ordinary things while also embracing full-on surrealism. I thought all the stuff with Sara's wine night friends was good too. my wife does that and remarked that the show did a really good job of capturing what those things are really like

The one-second freeze frame of his guilt-ridden panicked face after playing the movie with curse words...

Ya know, a lot of people assume Conner O'Malley's name is Teenage Wasteland.

O'Malley's like a really fucking scary version of Bob Odenkirk.

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

Hey, ILX. I'm talking with you!

i don't really get how this show is so good. it's sweet and cute, which are not words that could be used to describe almost any other tv show i like, but somehow it's subversive and edgy, but also very funny, but it's very episodic, but also there are full character arcs and narratives, but each episode is only 11 minutes long??? i don't understand

it defies norms for sure

season 3 was great

yeah they basically cracked the code on making a perfect show

it's absolutely among the best things on right now. Jo Firestone doesn't get enough love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGLBRoVl-mY

(i once brought doughnuts to a job interview)

one more, kind of impressed he's been doing this bit for over ten years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAMTye8xfLQ

I kinda don’t like watching old clips of his from before the show where his character is fully formed.

Yeah, I was watching some old Conner O'Malley thing where he briefly showed up as a character (a not terribly un-Joe Pera-esque character, admittedly) and it weirded me out a little.

Jo's new special on Peacock where she has old people doing standup is very sweet.

ok yall wanna get freaked out check out :50 in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CVf3us5c4g

^^ I saw that with the big disclaimers at the beginning, and I dunno. Still feels in character.

I mean, "Joe Pera" is a schoolteacher, so he has to have a college degree. And in the same way he thought it would be a good idea to recreate Rat Race, I could see an even younger "Joe Pera" doing that act.

ultimately I don't think Joe Pera and "Joe Pera" are all that different - no more than say Nathan Fielder in Nathan for You or some of Tim Heidecker's various characters...still it's weird to hear him doing a different voice

but I guess that is the appeal of the show, the characters feel three-dimensional and real. I like the fact that Pera isn't used as a punching bag the way most comedy shows would. the way his students & neighbors treat him feels very authentic to me. he's this boring dork but ultimately people like him even if they don't really want to get to know him

so great that that exists.

im sure ive posted before that there are jokes i remember from seeing him at western ny open mics around this time that popped up in s1 of the show. its amazing how once he figured his character out he just stuck to it and ran with it. i still remember the feeling of seeing him at an open mic at some awful upstate bar and listening to all the macho badboy maron-wannabe standup dudes all roasting him amongst each other, "what is with this mr rogers guy, is he stupid?" etc, and i was like "this guy is obviously the funniest person in this room by a factor of 1000"

the bit he did on Conan where he mocks up some Christmas card from the future including his "very tall sons" and proceeds to just show it to just one person in the audience is really great

There are quite a few less than flattering descriptors I can think of for Marc Maron but, uh, "macho" is not one of them.

<3 <3 Joe Pera though, still need to catch up on S3

i guess i was using "macho" more in terms of that kind of comic-as-gunslinger, "traditional standup uber alles", anyone doing anything weird is "cheating" mindset that he used to be very hung up on (less so in recent years as he's softened, but certainly 10 years ago)

Oh I get that descriptor, for sure, Pera is such a wonderful exception to that. Maron just spends so much time dwelling in and displaying his insecurities that it's hard to think of him the macho type.

Joe Pera's on VCR Party Live RIGHT NOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnu5F6MT14I

hello melinda!

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

Okay I am binging this wonderful show. but! Two episodes from S2 are missing from the Adult Swim website. “Joe Pera teaches you to play piano” and “Joe Pera Has a Surprise for You”. The last one is crustal for the rest of the season (I saw it on a plane’s inflight entertainment center before I saw the rat of the season LOL.

I’m watching S3 and I’m starting to think there is a Werner Herzog documentary vibe? The drone episode with the interview with the astronaut and the watching the sunrise guy. Also the solo cello music in that episode is very Ernst Reijsiger.

he's gonna be on tour soon! all over the Midwest! I'm from the Midwest!! He's coming to Green Bay!!! shit, I might see him three times!!!!

Officially cancelled "for now" :(

oh no!!! what a bummer. this show was amazing and I am pretty sure there won't be anything else like it on TV for a long long time

Can’t wait for the live show later this month.