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The Dice Man infiltrates podcasting, Casey Wilson chokes up on The JV Club, and Kumail vs. Maron

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“Already unlistenable.” —Chelsea Peretti’s early assessment of “Farts And Procreation 3,” Comedy Bang! Bang!

“An IFC executive just woke up in a cold sweat somewhere like, ‘The Portlandia guy and the Maron guy are fighting!’” —DC Pierson’s commentary on the battle of Kumail Nanjiani vs. Marc Maron, Doug Loves Movies

“When you shoot one of your own soldiers, it’s friendly fire. What is the term when you shoot yourself by accident?”
“Stupid.” —One of the Sklar brothers and Marc Maron, responding to a story about a man who straps a bullet to the end of a pellet gun, Sklarbro Country

“They became like a porkpie-hatted, checkered-shirt and -skirted ska crime wave. They was skanking around town robbing people day and ...

Maron talks to the Community ladies and Comedy Bang! Bang! celebrates an anniversary

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“If I worked in a firehouse, I’d be the guy that hangs back and makes the chili.” —Bill Burr, Monday Morning Podcast

“If you want to get down with some sex magic in the privacy of your own home, I’m not going to judge you.” —Gillian Jacobs, WTF

“She was the kind of dame they write similes about.” —Thomas Lennon, The Thrilling Adventure Hour

“Every black T-shirt you’ve ever seen is actually just a very old Hypercolor T-shirt.” —Moshe Kasher, You Made It Weird

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The Bugle #233: Baby Got Hack
When a listener signed up The Bugle for a Christian dating website last week, it was a brief and hilarious one-off, but anyone familiar ...

Kurt Braunohler joins the podcast fray, Werner Herzog continues his streak, and Radiolab cuts to the heart

Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“What other Bane [movies] are there?”
“Well, there was Bane 2 In The City: This Time It’s Ur-Bane.” —Doug Benson and Greg Proops, Doug Loves Movies

“Chris Farley would be attempting to roll over in his grave if he saw that kind of acting… [But] he’s probably thin enough now to roll over.” —Jimmy Pardo jokingly dismisses Veep, Never Not Funny

“I feel the same way about children that I feel about people: Most of them are fucking annoying.” —Hank Azaria, WTF

“Matthew McConaughey is a pilgrim in search of a shirt. He doesn’t realize the shirt was inside him the whole time.” —Werner Herzog (Paul F. Tompkins) explains the plot of his favorite film, Surfer ...

A Comedy Bang! Bang! sequel, Pete Holmes yaps with Jeff Garlin, & Rob Zombie returns to Nerdist

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500

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.QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“If I lived in Wisconsin, A) kill me. B) If the bullet didn’t take, I would hang out with Mike.” —Jimmy Pardo talking about his friend in Wisconsin, Never Not Funny

“English is a really wonderful language, and I urge you all to investigate it.” —Werner Herzog (Paul F. Tompkins), Doug Loves Movies

“Anything is possible. Do not give up on your dreams, everyone. Because [Vin Diesel] should be having a hard time getting a job at a gym.” —Tom Scharpling, The Best Show on WFMU

“Essentially, America has once again successfully protected itself from any government attempt to protect itself.” —Andy Zaltzman on failed gun-control legislation, The Bugle

“We’re all in a race to death, and ...

Rob Schneider unloads on WTF and David Lee Roth takes over Mohr Stories

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“Australia is a sensational place, and it really begs the question, why the fuck did we make that our penal colony when it’s nicer than where we live? We should have said to criminals at the time, ‘You’re all staying here, we’re off to live in paradise, albeit a coastal paradise around a rocky hell.’” —John Oliver, The Bugle

“I don’t like videos where people are trying to be funny. And people eating also makes me sick. So a guy eating and trying to be funny make me doubly sick.” —Matt Besser, Improv4Humans

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Getting On With James Urbaniak
As evidenced by his popular Twitter feed, actor James Urbaniak—best known as the ...

Matt Walsh chills with Who Charted? and Freakonomics plays the name game

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“I was a dick. Surprised?” —Marc Maron on his first interactions with Dean Delray, WTF

“That town loves its Bob Seger. Sweet Jesus. You make a Bob Seger joke in Michigan, you may has well just punch people in the face. Walk around the room and start punching people. That’s how they react.” —Jimmy Pardo, Never Not Funny

“How did this break bad?”
“Maybe the nonstop shitting on everything her life is about?” —Jimmy Pardo and Matt Belknap wonder why a phone call got awkward, Never Not Funny

“I ate one of the me-apples from the ego tree back in my soul. It was delicious.” —Marc Evan Jackson as hero Sparks Nevada, The Thrilling Adventure Hour

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Jason Sims Puts You In Your Place
Regular listeners of The Best Show On WFMU will recognize Jason Sims as “Jason from Huntsville,” whose regular calls ...

Comedy Bang! Bang! doubles down on El Chupacabra and Walking The Room returns to the closet

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“People always say ‘Arkansas’ because it’s a fun word to say. Arkansas is a fun word. Look at Kansas. They wish they could be ‘Kan-sah.’” —Matt Besser, Improv4Humans

“I just assume everyone involved in the production of that was like… a loose-meat-sandwich-eating monster. The height of hubris.” —Nick Kroll on The Island Of Dr. Moreau, Comedy Bang! Bang!

“But don’t they realize I’m them in training? I’m a fucking [Dave] Attell in training! I’m a fucking [Greg] Fitzsimmons in training! I bring to you a lot of what they can do with no name value. That’s the only thing. You know who I am? I’m the generic version of those guys! If ...

“Werner Herzog” bums out Doug Loves Movies and David Lee Roth has a podcast now

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“Tyler Perry has the grace and the elegance of a late-career Steven Seagal, where it’s almost like a mattress on legs getting into fights.” —Elliott Kalan on Tyler Perry’s botched attempt to reinvent himself as an action star in Alex Cross, The Flop House

“I was singing with our church choir at that point because I wasn’t really sure whether I had faith or not, but gosh darn it, I like singing.” —Jeff Viniard, a man in the midst of a crisis of faith, Radiolab

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The Roth Show
Podcasting lovingly encourages narcissism. It’s an art form where egotists in love with the sound of their own voice can consummate that passion to ...

Dick Van Dyke continues WTF’s “comedy legends” streak and Dane Cook makes it weird

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“With me, Andy Zaltzman the laughter-crafter who gives birth to mirth, and then suckles chuckles at the tits of wits… and joining me by the hidden witchcraft of communications technology from New York City, it’s the snicker-dicker who unshackles cackles from the chortle portal and serves them up for the human consumer with quick bits before planting his gag flag on the moon of lampoon, it’s the doctor of comedy himself, open your mouth and say, ‘Ha,’ it’s John Oliver!” —Andy Zaltzman, The Bugle

“You seem to enjoy the company of Jews.” —Dick Van Dyke quoting Mel Brooks, WTF

“Does anyone have a cricket that they keep playing?”
“No, that’s really comedy failing.” —Scott Aukerman ...

John Hodgman judges hipsters and Walking The Room goes solo

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“If I look nice and non-rapey, it will make people feel better about the fact that they’ve been booked on a public radio show…” —Jesse Thorn on dressing up for work, Sklarbro Country

“This is what I hate about democracy: Everyone gets a voice.” —Greg Proops, The Smartest Man In The World

“I’m not that white.” —Marc Maron responding to Leslie Jones inquiring whether he is familiar with El DeBarge, WTF

“You know your life is messed up and something bad is happening to you when people bring up the fact that you still have your health. That’s usually a good sign that something horrific has happened to you.” —Bill Burr, Monday Morning Podcast

“Do you ...

Best Show’s pledge drive kicks off strong and Professor Blastoff shares the love

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“Andy, how can you see the crisis in Mali, the World Bank’s collapse, and use those things to throw a punch about The Love Guru?”
“They’re all part of the same continuum, John. They’re all basically avoidable atrocities.” —John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman, The Bugle

“An ax is not a ‘just in case’ weapon.” —Jerrod Carmichael, Sklarbro Country

“If your girlfriend shows her beaver on the Jumbotron at the Staples Center and you don’t mind, you may not be as into her as you think.” —Kyle Dunnigan as a Greg Behrendt-channeling Jeff Foxworthy, Professor Blastoff

“My play, it’s not about salesmen, it’s not about East Village bohemians, or star-crossed lovers. It’s about ...

Margaret Cho enters the podcasting arena and Flop House contracts Oogieloves fever

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“Fathers, knock up your daughters… Because watch out: You’re going to have to repopulate the earth after this one.”—Elliott Kalan exhibiting symptoms of prolonged exposure to The Oogieloves, The Flop House

“I would watch network TV after I put an Easy-Bake Oven up my butt and fucking give birth to a pie.” —Greg Proops

“I call it Diabetes 2, like it’s the sequel.”
“This time, all bets are off!” —Pete Holmes and Glennis McCarthy riffing on health, You Made It Weird

“I don’t want to compare Judaism to pornography, but I know it when I see it.” —John Hodgman, Judge John Hodgman

“So do you have a wife or anything?”
“I have a wife and ...

Podcasters decamp to SF Sketchfest while Eddie Pepitone makes the rounds

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“Remember, we’re America, okay? We were founded by hillbillies in a boat.” —Greg Proops, The Smartest Man In The World

“I haven’t been called a goof since yesterday! How dare you?”—Harland Williams, You Made It Weird

“It’s like a glory hole at a funeral. For butts.” —Janet Varney on Tig Notaro’s concept of an “open assket,” The JV Club

“There’s not an improv show that started in 1979 that’s still going on.”

“Yes there is, baby. It’s called life.” —Pat Francis and Jimmy Pardo, Never Not Funny

“I remember [Abbott & Costello] being the funniest two human beings alive, and apparently I had not seen anything else, ever.” —Jimmy Pardo on revisiting ...

Carl Reiner extends WTF’s hot streak and Jason Schwartzman shares Bill Murray stories with Nerdist

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“It is a banner day for dead hookers in containers in Baltimore.” —Randy Sklar on the Baltimore Ravens winning the Super Bowl, Sklarbro Country

“I’m trapped in the bathroom! The walls are leaking on me! Oh no! Are you serious! I’m crying! I’m crying fish out of my eyes! I can’t keep all the fish! They’re drowning on the floor! Oh somebody help me! I’m going to get a knife and cut it out of my skin! I gotta get it out! Somebody help me! I’m gonna cut my own scalp off!” —David Huntsberger, imitating ESPN college basketball announcer/court jester Dick Vitale on PCP, Sklarbro Country

“How can you go see ...

Mel Brooks awes Marc Maron and How Was Your Week turns 100 in style

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“The thing about Ruth Pointer is, she knows how to party. You know what she keeps in her shoulder pads? Seven grams of cocaine.” —Randy Sklar discussing the Pointer Sisters, The Fogelnest Files

“And you’re like, ‘When is the end?’ And it’s Ray Romano. That is the end of the line, is he’s in a meeting with the guy, and we still don’t know who the guy is.” —Julian McCullough on the entertainment industry’s mysterious power structure, You Made It Weird

“A baby will toss you into hell.” —Mel Brooks, WTF With Marc Maron

“Are you friendly with him?”
“No, nobody is.” —Marc Maron asking Mel Brooks about Woody Allen, WTF With Marc Maron ...

Mark Hamill fulfills his Nerdist destiny and chaos returns to Doug Loves Movies

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“It was a huge moment in history. Historically swearing in the first African-American president for the first time twice.” —John Oliver, The Bugle

“I don’t want you to feel bad ’cause your marriages didn’t work out.” —Lucinda Williams, WTF With Marc Maron

“I’m in Los Angeles, which means if I don’t talk about you and something you’re doing, it turns into the Apathy Dome.”—Greg Proops, The Smartest Man In The World

“I’m just laughing because I like that we’re going to go into a whole ‘What’s your favorite gluten-free brand?’ right off the bat. You never know what my podcast is going to be about.” —Mary Lynn Rajskub to Graham ...

Paul F. Tompkins and Jen Kirkman team up on Todd Glass and Joel McHale schools Pete Holmes

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“Rutgers is only miles away from New York, but you have to turn left at 1986 to get there.” —Greg Proops, The Smartest Man In The World

“There’s an a cappella group that I really like called Fuck You, Rosa Parks. I guess Rosa Parks was a girl they went to school with and broke all their hearts. I don’t think they understand there’s another Rosa Parks.” —Greg Behrendt, Walking The Room

“You don’t know what McHale’s Navy is?”
“Is it a sex move?” —Joel McHale and Pete Holmes, You Made It Weird

“I loved sitting around with my male friends in a place of sexual calm.” —John Hodgman on playing Dungeons And Dragons, WTF With Marc Maron

“So ...

Nerdist pins Chris Jericho and Nick Kroll goes character crazy on Comedy Bang Bang

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“Look, I was in Police Academy. I directed Windy City Heat. I’m part of the problem.” —Bobcat Goldthwait, You Made It Weird

“This is a very long and hard vagina.” —Kyle Dunnigan, Professor Blastoff

“It’s going to be so different this year. The Mayans didn’t predict anything, and so the plumed serpent god is no longer a factor in your every move.” —Greg Proops, The Smartest Man In The World

“It’s so hot, the sweat in my undercarriage could irrigate a small radish farm.” —Jason Sklar, Sklarbro Country

“I think it’s possible to raise the point of who eats what without being racist ...

Jeff Garlin and Larry David podcast about nothing and Michael Keaton emerges on WTF

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“As with most mistakes, this takes place in Portage, Indiana.” —Dan Van Kirk, Sklarbro Country

“Can I have a vodka, filled with vodka, with vodka?”—Greg Proops ordering a new drink, The Smartest Man In The World

“That’s why Japan is whipping our ass: because they don’t tweet at work.” —Jay Mohr, Mohr Stories

“What do they do with them? How much can you look at? What are you looking at? What is there to see? Yes, okay, I was fishing that day! Big shit! Look at us fishing! Who gives a fuck?!” —Larry David explains why he doesn’t take photos, By The Way, In ...

Everybody visits everybody as podcasters ring in the holidays

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“You need to be living alone with no women in your life to even consider putting up the smallest piece of Guinness paraphernalia in your home.” —Greg Proops, The Smartest Man In The World

“Let’s get our hands dirty with Yule.” —Travis McElroy, My Brother, My Brother And Me

“Don’t do heroin with your baby. There’s better people to do heroin with.” —Dave Anthony, Walking The Room

“Let me ask you a question: If I can touch a certain part of a man’s neck ...

Artie Lange opens up to Jay Mohr and Judd Apatow continues his rounds

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“The meth-head woman starts going, ‘That’s not a word!’ She wants to argue... I go, ‘Really, is this your cause? We’re in a psych ward playing fuckin’ Scrabble. It’s over, honey. In the world we’ve created, ‘GMR’ is a word.’” —Artie Lange, Mohr Stories

“When does friendship start?”
“At conception?” —Pete Holmes and Jon Dore on You Made It Weird

“It’s a foul parody of an abortion of a mockery of a pizza.” —Greg Proops on Wolfgang Puck’s airport restaurant pizzas, The Smartest Man In The World

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Tom Rhodes Radio
The premise of Tom Rhodes Radio, like so many ...

MATES and Superego return, and Neil Hamburger celebrates New Year’s Eve

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“Dying children love when you show them really healthy animals.” —Jay Mohr, WTF With Marc Maron

“The study was apparently called ‘A Study Of Lunar Research Flight’ or Project A119. I’m very interested to know what Project A118 was, considering A119 was ‘blowing up the moon.’” —John Oliver, The Bugle

“While I respect that there are many podcasts on offer, nothing against them, but this podcast is the only one worth listening to. I know Paul appears on a lot of podcasts; I only listen to the episodes on which he appears, and when the other people talk, it makes me uncomfortable.” —Paul F. Tompkins’ suggestion for ...

Jonathan Katz makes the podcast rounds and J Mascis opens up on WTF

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“Uhh, all the things, and spend money.” —What Greg Behrendt’s plugs have come to, Walking The Room

“It sounds like if your white uncle fucked the House of Blues.” —Jensen Karp describing Bruce Willis’ failed attempt as a musician on The Fogelnest Files

“I’ve fallen into a beautiful thesaurus!” —Pete Holmes, You Made It Weird

“But you get the sense that back then, in the early ’70s, Woody Allen would screw your brains out like a little mouse.” —Judd Apatow on Woody Allen being a sex symbol, Comedy Bang! Bang!

“It was a reaction to bad improv… because improv is very funny if you cut out ...

Maria Bamford shines on Never Not Funny and You Made It Weird turns 100

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“This has been an incredibly expensive, an incredibly cynical, and incredibly depressing election. Having said that, watching Herman Cain run for president was like watching the most entertaining car crash I’ve ever seen.” —John Oliver, The Bugle

“How much sympathy is polite in regard to the complaint ‘I haven’t recently savored mouthfuls of blood’?” —Paul F. Tompkins as a character with a vampire friend, on The Thrilling Adventure Hour

“What’s the old expression? Don’t fucking kick my cock into a bucket when I’m the one who does a lot of ...

Best Show rebounds from Sandy, and Professor Blastoff gets the best-of treatment

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“I just don’t know why you would Jet Ski around New York Harbor as a hurricane blew in unless you were at least going to try to high-five the Statue Of Liberty. You’re either all in or you’re all out.” —John Oliver, The Bugle, describing a wacky scene during Hurricane Sandy

“It’s so hacky that your stepfather moved in and started hitting you.” —Dave Anthony to Baron Vaughn, Walking The Room

“Amy, want to say hello?”
“Hi!”
“That’s enough. Quit trying to steal the podcast.” —Tig Notaro and Amy Schumer, Professor Blastoff

“Deploying false humility to let a falsehood stand was at least ...

How Was Your Week celebrates Halloween in style and Zach Galifianakis makes it weird

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“So what was so important? I’m here. It sounded urgent.”
“What we do is chitchat and have fun. Nothing’s important here.” —Paul Reiser and Jimmy Pardo, Never Not Funny

“That sound you might be able to hear is the sound of my balls crawling up into my stomach at the prospect of Willard [Mitt] Romney in the White House, one of the smallest houses he’s ever lived in.” —John Oliver, The Bugle

“TV guys are evil and smart, and radio guys are evil and dumb.” —Adam Carolla, Mohr Stories

“If you just want to look at stuff on your phone for 83 minutes and have ...

Chelsea Peretti enters the podcast fray and Lizzy Caplan does it live on J.V. Club

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:02:00 -0500

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“But I haven’t finished my drink!”
“And I’ve somehow finished mine whilst talking.” —Paget Brewster and Paul F. Tompkins as married alcoholics on The Thrilling Adventure Hour

“I recently, just for fun with me and my friends, I made my own list of the greatest films of all time, and believe it or not, this ranked No. 1.” —Tim Heidecker on his film The Comedy, Comedy Bang! Bang!

“I come here to plug things—I don’t come here because I want to be here.”
“You don’t have a good time here, and the audience knows that.” —Tim Heidecker and Scott Aukerman, Comedy Bang! Bang ...

Podcasts decamp to L.A. Pod Fest, the Tompkast blitzes, and SpongeBob meets Maron

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“It’s not so much what you’ve done, it’s what you haven’t done. The Nobel Peace Prize has become a celebration in restraint.” —John Oliver, The Bugle

“It’s a very large, un-gratifying rebus, which is also, by the way, my dancer name.” —Greg Proops, The Smartest Man In The World

“Most of my crew have been man-murdered by Murdermen. Some, however, have been Murder-manned.” —James Urbaniak as an embattled spaceship captain, The Thrilling Adventure Hour

“I’m a hoax. I’ve gotten away with comedy murder. All I do is talk about myself, unravel myself onstage, get off, and they pay me.” —Richard Lewis ...

“A drum circle with a CB radio”: 19 lessons from the L.A. Podcast Festival

Kyle Ryan — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:00:00 -0500

It was only a matter of time. Everything else has a convention/festival, so why not podcasts? The medium is a decade old at this point—enough time to show some staying power but also for the novelty to have worn off. For some (especially media companies), podcasts have proven too expensive and labor-intensive, but for others, particularly comedians, podcasting has been a revelation. So it makes sense that comedians would organize the first podcasting festival: Dave Anthony (of the Walking The Room podcast), Graham Elwood, and Chris Mancini (both of the Comedy Film Nerds podcast) started the Los Angeles Podcast Festival last winter with a Kickstarter campaign to cover facility costs at the Sheraton Delfina in Santa Monica. Once that succeeded, the rest fell into place, and the event grew to include a couple dozen live podcasts, a handful of panels, and a stand-up show (held across the street ...

Best Show celebrates an anniversary and Nerdist geeks out with Tom Hanks

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“‘Man, when she goes to sleep, she goes to sleeeeep.’ If she had a mic, she would have [dropped it].” —Greg Behrendt shares how his daughter handled the death of the family dog, Walking The Room

“By the way, all movies are essentially based on old Brady Bunch episodes.” —Tom Hanks, Nerdist

“It’s better to have a government that trickles down on to you than one that urinates straight into your face.” —Andy Zaltzman, The Bugle

“There hasn’t been a Steve Jobs of baldness.” —Graham Clark, Stop Podcasting Yourself

“Doug loves boobies…”
“Is that why I’m here?” —Doug Benson and Tig Notaro, Doug Loves Movies ...