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Phil Proctor is back, with the history of the Firesign Theatre! This time, we’re joined by Firesign archivist Taylor Jessen and Jeremy Guskin to talk about Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him. It was a good, long conversation, so I cut it into two parts. There’s also video of
Your middlest brother, Travis McElroy, joins me this week ostensibly to talk about an admittedly great and not-often-enough-spoken-of-hyphen album, but we get off on a tangent when we discover Blazing Saddles is both of our favorite film. But we come back. I promise.
Host: Jason Kl
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Dr. Demento’s archivist, memory acrobat and comedy lover, Jeff Morris picked a US re-release of an album by the UK “group” Bad News, featuring two members of The Young Ones and two other English comedians in an early-80s rock music parody that paralleled This Is Spinal Ta
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Okay, so I give my guests the options of some things that aren’t strictly comedy, when those things inspired them and at least have some comedic elements to them. Aline Brosh McKenna (The Devils Wears Prada, 27 Dresses AND co-creator of friend of the show Rachel Bloom’s wonderful show Crazy Ex
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You’ve seen Billy Merritt on numerous shows. If you’re lucky enough (like our own producer, Mike), Billy has taught you improv at UCB. We had a great time talking about the mind-changing effect Carlin and this album had on how Billy thought about comedy.
Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike W
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Jensen Karp joins me this week to talk about my favorite subject – Weird Al. The more we talk about this album the more I love it. Jensen also has a new book, Kanye West Owes Me $300, coming out June 7th, which you can pre-order via links on his site (link to his site below).
Host: Jason K
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Chris White is a self-described “recovering standup comic,” and he picked the perfect album to discuss – an album by a standup who quit while he was ahead. Chris also hosts DC Improv’s The Other Side podcast on which he is currently helping the country find out who the funniest president of al
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We’re covering Don’t Crush That Dwarf… for the second time in the show’s history, and this time we’re speaking with Tommy Edison, also known as the Blind Film Critic. Tommy has an infectious sense of humor, so he was a blast to have on the show. Blind since birth, Tommy’s experience with c
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Sandy Danto is funny, a great actor and wonderful impressionist. It shouldn’t have surprised me that he threw a curveball my way. It’s an album that doesn’t hold up, in terms of what’s socially acceptable, even from a comic, but as Sandy points out, it has it’s place, in terms of studying c
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