Succotash Clips Epi117: Clippage With A Side Of Chat
Sep 30, 2015
Yeppers,
it’s me, Marc Hershon. Your host and inflatable arm-flailing
tubeman for Epi117 of Succotash, the Comedy Podcast
Podcast. This is a Succotash Clips episode with one
exception, which I’ll 'splain in a sec. I’m happy to have our
associate producer Tyson Saner back helping me to harvest clips of
podcasts far and wide. He was a little overwhelmed doing some
moving recently so we gave him some well-earned vacation time from
listenin’ and snippin’. But he’s back and we’ve got some
interesting clips to get to.
I’m one week back from the 4th Annual LA Podcast Festival and what a time I had. I was mostly dug in at the SquareSpace Podcast Lab, interviewing a few podcasters and then cutting, prepping and uploading those "minisodes". (You can find them all listed, essentially, under Epi116 at http://SuccotashShow.com and iTunes. I forgot to get them up to SoundCloud, but I’ll do that soon just to have them up there as well.)
There
was one last interview that I didn’t get a chance to produce and
upload. That was with Michael John Simpson,
co-host of The Something Something Experience podcast , so
I’m going to break protocol — God, the network hates when I do this
— and play that interview and a clip from Michael’s podcast as
well.
In addition to his show, we’ve got clippage from The Chillpak Hollywood Hour, The Mild Adventures of Fred Stoller, Human Conversation, Taco Tuesday, The Talking Podcast, The Hooray Show, The New Hollywood podcast, and the Why Didn’t They Laugh? podcast.
We also have a double dose of our Burst O’ Durst segment, featuring political comedian and social commentator Will Durst, a classic Henderson’s Pants commercial, and an absurd folk song from our musical buddy, Abner Serd. Be sure to listen for that following Bill Heywatt’s closing credits.
Clips
Chillpak
Hollywood Hour
Immediately
following the LA Podfest, I was honored to be the first guest to
Skype in on the Chillpak Hollywood Hour, with Dean
Haglund and Phil Leirness, since they’ve
gone international with Dean now hanging out down under in
Australia. A little after 11 o’clock Sunday night, I pulled off the
freeway into the parking lot of a KFC in Patterson, California,
population 20,868. Dean and Phil wanted me to give them a review of
the Ear Buds podcast documentary which had a couple of preliminary
screenings at the podfest. In addition, I gave them and their
listeners my take on the current State of the Podcast
Union.
The New
Hollywood
Brian
Flaherty, host of The New Hollywood podcast, was
our guest for Succotash Chats, Epi102, back at the end of
the January of this year. I just reviewed his episode last week for
both Splitsider and Huffington Post Entertainment, which featured
his lengthy interview with the multi-talented and very entertaining
Bill Hader. Since leaving SNL, Hader has been
keeping himself busy – it seems like there is no acting job that
guy won’t try – TV shows, commercials, and movies, including last
year’s amazing The Skeleton Twins. Our clip features Hader
outlining the audition process he had to go through to get on
SNL.
Human
Conversation
Last
week was actually a review “two-fer” because I reviewed Human
Conversation in addition to The New Hollywood.
Human Conversation is a podcast that’s 20-something
episodes in and I hadn’t heard about it until co-host Wayne
Federman waded into the Podcast Lab at the LA Podfest.
Wayne and I go way back but we’re not in touch all that often and
this was the first I’d heard of his show, which he co-hosts with
Erin McGathy, the significant other of Dan
Harmon, the mayor of Harmontown. In the course of
the show, she and Wayne talk about a variety of topics but the
things is that neither is allowed to look up facts, figures, names,
or anything else germane to the topics they discuss. Here, they
talk about music and getting things done. Although Wayne and Erin
don’t look up anything then and there during each episode, they DO
look things up before the next episode and they kick every show off
with a list of corrections. (I’ll have Wayne on an episode of
Succotash Chats soon to talk about his monumental
30-year-project, The Federman Chronicles, which features
parts of his standup comedy act dating back 30 years.)
The Mild Adventures of
Fred Stoller
I
reviewed past guest and friend-of-Succotash Fred
Stoller’s new podcast, The Mild Adventures of Fred
Stoller, back when it debuted in July. We’d had Fred as a
guest way, way back in Epi15, when doing his own podcast wasn’t
even a twinkle in his mouth. We also clipped that episode I
reviewed, with guest Robert Forester, but our
Associate Producer Tyson Saner thought it was time
for a rematch. The clip captures part of the opening to the show,
which is part of a phone conversation of Fred trying explain the
concept of a podcast to his mother. Also in this clip, he’s joined
by sometimes-co-host Amber Tozer, and they discuss
comedy and dating with guest Darren Carter and
Nikki Sullivan.
The Hooray
Show
The
hosts of The Hooray Show, which we’ve not covered on this
show before, are Horatio Sands and Chad
Krueger. Horatio is, of course, from SNL. Krueger
is a musician, perhaps best known as the lead singer and guitarist
for Nickleback. In this clip, from their Season 2, Episode 6, they
talk to guests Peter Murrieta and Jaime Moyer about the fire that
swept through the Second City offices in Chicago earlier in
September. The theater, I believe, was largely untouched, but the
offices took quite a hit.
The Talking
Podcast
From the
UK comes The Talking Podcast, which is the most
content-related blatant titling of a show I can remember. It
features three brothers, Joseph Snelling,
Oliver Snelling and George Trevor
White, who, in the words of their homesite’s “Who Are
We?”, “arrogantly assume that others would like to listen to them
talking.” Tyson found this show and this clip, and I don’t know why
the third brother’s last name, White, is not even close to that of
his two brohams, which is Snelling. Here they talk about a family
outing as boys on the Isle of Man. They also chat about Time as a
concept. Heavy.
Taco
Tuesday
Okay,
I’ve mentioned on the show before that I really don’t care for
pre-recorded promos. There’s nothing inherently wrong with them,
but they can be easily played on any other podcast to help cross
promote another podcast. Clips are much more illustrative of what a
show really has going on. And the guys at the Taco Tuesday
podcast — Uncle Dan, Adam Wolf,
and Dave In The Cave —know that. We’ve clipped ‘em
before. But this week, they sent along a promo – it’s got a head, a
tail, some chit chat in-between, and music bed throughout the whole
thing. Maddening. But because I love the Taco Tuesday guys
(and because they got this promo here using our upload
link at http://hightail.com/u/succotashshow),
I’m going to let it slide.
Why Didn’t They
Laugh?
Comedian
Owen Benjamin, who is also an actor started a
podcast where he tries to deconstruct his act. He plays portions of
his performances and attempts to figure out what it was that kept
an audience from laughing at the material. He’s almost 40 epis into
Why Didn’t They Laugh? But our associate producer has
clipped the very first episode, which features a recording of
Owen’s father recounting a favorite joke. Tyson thinks the senior
Benjamin sounds an awful lot like the late Spaulding
Gray.
The Something
Something Experience
We
slipped this clip of The Something Something Experience
onto the end of my interview with Michael John
Simpson. It features he and his "co-caster", Kitty
Brown, and their visit with comedian Ron
Swallow. It seems Swallow has backed off performing
fulltime, and their discussion gets into the challenge of making
ends meet offstage, working as a freelancer in various
industries.
Thanks for stuffing your ears full of Succotash Clips (with a little bit o’ chat). If you’d like to do a little something-something to pay us back for all this free chuckle n’ jivin’, we would adore your ratings and reviews up on iTunes, your thumbs-ups and reviews on Stitcher, a heart on SoundCloud, a Like on Facebook, a click on our Donate button or Amazon banner at http://SuccotashShow.com — any or all of those options will make us all very happy around Studio P and some of them will even get you mentioned on an upcoming episode of our show!
Until next time, thanks very much for passing the Succotash!
— Marc
Hershon
Thanks to Marc and the Succotash Show for again highlighting the Taco Tuesday podcast. We appreciate you letting our little production slide, especially among all the great talent you highlight every episode. We may not be always doing it right, but we sure are exploring new ways to showcase our work. Thanks again.
-Dan