Comedy Podcasts: your suggestions please

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.