If you want inspired improv, you'd be hard-pressed to surpass last week's Harmontown.
Dan gets ahold of a vocoder, and about halfway through proceeds to wander through the sad life of a sentient she-robot.
If you aren't familiar with Harmontown, that might sound like a mishmash of nonsense, . . . and it is. But if you are familiar, you know how amazing it can be as well.
It's Dan Harmon [creator of Community and Rick'n'Morty] and Jeff Davis [Whose Line], riffing with a live audience and a random/rotating/occasional guest. This episode was Rob Schrab [HWood writer, best known for creating Sarah Silverman Show].
The first half hour is normal podcast jibber-jabber, decent enough [actually a little somber because he's talking about his grandmother who recently passed], but at about 30 min in, it might be the hardest I've laughed at anything this year [outside Trump's 'why not?' last night].
I can't believe Bill Burr is having a baby. He didn't sound himself on his last MMP not this week, haven't listened yet but the previous. His rants crack me up. [Reply]
After a long hiatus [premusably due to his acting schedule filling up], Stephen Tobolowsky* is back to doing The Tobolowsky Files fairly regularly. At least there's been 3 new episodes in the past month or so.
He's kind of sappy, kind of cheesy, kind of new-agey. But he tells a story about as good as anyone out there.
Tim Ferriss podcast has gone to shit since he started doing audio outtakes from his live audience video show that streams on ATT Network.
I get that he's trying to branch out, but I don't really enjoy the new format.
I've started in on "Waking Up with Sam Harris" and "the Unmistakable Creative" now. Yes, I"m heavy on the self-help, energizing, optimization bullshit. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud:
I like Bill Burr on Conan but don't like his stand up or his podcast delivery.
It's almost like he's a different person depending on the medium.
Probably so and you may just like his non condensed stuff. I love his stand up and find him generally hilarious. However, while his podcast kinda works for me when I've listened it's always a little off just listening to one person talk in that format. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Miles:
Probably so and you may just like his non condensed stuff. I love his stand up and find him generally hilarious. However, while his podcast kinda works for me when I've listened it's always a little off just listening to one person talk in that format.
He's more conversational and funny when on Conan, IMO.
During his standup, he just comes across as angry and pissed off, which doesn't appeal to me. His delivery is just too harsh.
FWIW, I'm friends with Conan's online editor, the guy that cuts all of the shorts for YouTube.
He said that everyone on the crew, Conan included, LOVES Bill Burr as a person and love it when he's booked as a guest. [Reply]
The first 30 minutes or so of the latest 500th episode of comedy bang bang seiously hilarious but fell off at some point after. Mostly from Gabrus and a lot of hilarious people playing off him as well as PFT laughing in the background. [Reply]
I need to streamline my non sports pods and also expand them at the same time. Enjoy stuff like Carolla but just puts out too much content for me to handle. My usuals that are not NBA related are How Did This Get made and the occasional Comedy Bang Bang. Have been listening more recently to Dumb People Town with the Sklars. [Reply]