comedy podcast thread

[saranclaps]

I loved Dave Hill's two-part interview with Dick Cavett, but the show's been rough going for me since then. It's really a guests-only type show for me and I usually end up skipping his opening ramp-up before the interview. The Joe Randazzo (Onion editor) episode in particular was dire, I thought.

Yeah, I love Dave Hill, but I have struggled to make it through any of the episodes after the first two.

[Markman]

Just saw both Nerdist and WTF have Kevin Smith as a guest this week. Hopefully not too much overlap.

[badhat]

and hardwick is on CDR

its all getting a little incestuous

[Duplo]

was feeling iffy about kevin smith on wtf
but it was actually a damn good ep

[Jouster]

and hardwick is on CDR

its all getting a little incestuous

Getting?

[Buddy Glass]

It kinda ruins it for me when NNF has a more leftfield guest like Craig Bierko and then within days he's popping up on every other podcast

Shades of the David Spade episode of Larry Sanders

[Jouster]

I didn't think Bierko was very good on NNF, so I can't imagine he'd be much more entertaining on any other podcast.

[Fullscreen]

was feeling iffy about kevin smith on wtf
but it was actually a damn good ep

smodcast has always been pretty entertaining tbh

the two part deathly hallows episode was fucking hysterical.

[badhat]

and hardwick is on CDR

its all getting a little incestuous

Getting?

fair point

i mean i know theres always a low level UCB insularity to the entire enterprise but then theres a month where kevin smith is on nerdist and WTF, maron is on nerdist, hardwick is on CDR making fun of maron, patton is on CDR and WTF, fitzdog is on everything... etc...

the saving grace is that the power dynamics and tone are still different from show to show so even like maron on nerdist would be a completely different show from hardwick on WTF, but yeah

[nakedlunch]

maybe it's just kind of a post holidays nothing going on lets all go on each others shows thing

[badhat]

and im not even really complaining. theres been some pretty great shit the past few weeks. in particular maron has been on a streak since like thanksgiving at least.

i'm really curious how he's gonna cope with all this attention and praise.

i feel like he's totally ripe for someone at like HBO or AMC or FX trying to create some weird meta-vehicle for him, to capitalize on his profile. and of course he'd wanna do it if it was promsing and lucrative, but i really think WTF is basically a perfect format for him.

[nakedlunch]

maron might be just a bit too crazy for anything big on tv. I love the guy and wtf is amazing but I'm not sure there's a vehicle to bring him to a bigger audience

[badhat]

loved hardwicks impression of peewee on WTF

[Broncobama]

what's maron's real skill here?

he's not particularly good at comedy, so it would have to be an interview show, right? he's just good at getting insight from funny people.

[Broncobama]

and since it's still going on this page, I don't see the value of Dave Hill at all. He's kind of the anti-funny to me.

[nakedlunch]

what's maron's real skill here?

he's not particularly good at comedy, so it would have to be an interview show, right? he's just good at getting insight from funny people.

that's why he's the perfect podcast host but I can't really see him being the man on some big comedy show or whatever

[Broncobama]

what's maron's real skill here?

he's not particularly good at comedy, so it would have to be an interview show, right? he's just good at getting insight from funny people.

that's why he's the perfect podcast host but I can't really see him being the man on some big comedy show or whatever

yeah, same here

I mean I guess they could film the podcast but that seems

yeah

[badhat]

i think as much as interviewing maron is really articulate and interesting in his self obsession and kind of borderline quixotic self help quest.

hes not actually a miserablist, i think hes TRYING to better himself but he's self aware about his nature and his phychology and has an oversensitive bullshit meter that makes it hard for him to commit to a program of self improvement.

i think a lot of folks here are probably inthe same boat, or at least have been there, so a lot of his rants hit pretty close to home. hes too old to just be angry guy forever, but doesnt really have a good system in place yet for getting from here to there.

thats why the rants are so great, and stuff like bobby lee or mike destefano are so awesome, theres a real sincere spiritual quest going on in his head, and hes more articulate about how self consicousness gets in his way than most people are. and it comes across as if its totally off the cuff. like theres no outline or anything, he just sits down and starts talking and every week makes some little breakthrough in coping or self insight and its facinating and hilarious.

[badhat]

for the record i'm not saying it'd be good to see in on another format necessarily, but it seems like hes in the position of having a lot of buzz and cred where people are probably gonna start trying to figure out how to harness his energy into something like a TV show...

[Broncobama]

i just like to laugh

keep the self improvement shit in the spiritual quests podcast thread

[badhat]

yeah but the self help shit is funny thats my point

[Broncobama]

that's the part i don't find funny

interesting, sure

[badhat]

i think its funny as fuck. but whatever.

[Broncobama]

yeah whatever

fuck

[sambadeamigo]

i feel like tig is podcast poison.

I know nobody will agree with me but I kinda like Tig

i also think she's great.

[nakedlunch]

I like her ok but at the same time I assume her podcast sucks

[Fullscreen]

patton's on adam carolla today, yessss.

[nakedlunch]

loved all the MA talk in the corddry wtf

[badhat]

yeah my wife's from there and she was laffing her ass off at that stuff

[badhat]

the whole thing was great really.

i like cordry as a comedian, and he came off as a good dude on there too