Feb 18, 2016
Yes, it is I – Marc Hershon – your host and 100% recyclable container for Epi 127 of Succotash, the Comedy Podcast Podcast. We’re back to the clippage this time, with a fully loaded Succotash Clips show.
We’ve got a full rack of comedy podcast clips ready to roll, from the Bertcast, BrianTALKS, Buffet Kings, Now That I’m Older, Push The Button, Rick & Paul Heal The World, Screams & Moans, Sup Doc, Wicked Theory, and You Made It Weird. We’ve also got a double dose of our Burst O’ Durst segment with our resident political comic, correspeondent, and commentator Will Durst, plus a classic spot from our sponsor, Henderson's Pants.
THE CLIPS
Bertcast
Our Associate
Producer Tyson Saner clipped us off a chunk of the
Bertcast, hosted by comedian Bert
Kreischer. Bert’s a funny guy and I love his appearances
on Doug Loves Movies, especially when that insane laugh of
his get going, all girlish and giggly. He tours the comedy clubs a
lot but he also cranks out the episodes. This is from back in
December, Epi150, when he had comedian Jimmy
Tingle on the ‘cast.
Now That I’m
Older
Another clip
from Tyson’s harvest comes to us from the Now That I’m
Older podcast, hosted by Ken Baldwin and
Shane Smith. The general premise for the show is
that getting older sucks but can also be awesome at the same time.
The two host like to poke fun – at the world at large as well as
each other. And they occasionally review movies. The clippage is
from Epi47 from December, and features Shane going off on the worst
part of his telemarketing job.
Sup
Doc
I think I
mentioned the title of this next podcast we’re featuring when it
first came out, for two reasons. The first is that one of the
co-hosts, Paco Romane, is a comedian and actor in
San Francisco whom I happen to know. The second reason is the close
connection our shows’ titles have – ours, of course, is
Succotash, as in “Sufferin’ succotash”, the catchphrase of
Warner Brothers’ cartoon cat, Sylvester. Paco and
his compadre in podcasting, George Chen, run
Sup Doc, which may sound a lot like Bugs Bunny’s “What’s
up, doc?” tagline. Like our show, theirs has nothing to do with
those characters. Sup Doc is a podcast that looks at film
documentaries. I’ve been hanging onto this clip for a few months
because I wanted to see the film they were talking about first,
which is Going Clear, the somewhat chilling doc about
Scientology. Their guest in this show, Epi16, is Jamie
DeWolf, who is also the great-grandson of none other than
Scientology’s founder, L. Ron
Hubbard.
You Made It
Weird
Next episode
we’ll feature our live recording made at The Improv in Los Angeles,
featuring Dana Carvey among other guests. Tyson
clipped an episode of Pete Holmes’ You Made It
Weird from the end of December 2014 that featured Mr. Carvey
in a long episode. In this snippet, Dana thinks on Lorne
Michaels and also Paul McCartney in the
year before SNL’s 40th anniversary.
BryanTALKS
I first
learned of the BryanTALKS podcast from a note that host
Bryan Cain-Jackson dropped into the Tweetsack. (By
note I mean “tweet” and by “Tweetsack” I mean “Tweetsack”.) He
wanted to know if I’d had a chance to check out his brand new
podcast, which I hadn’t. But I did after that and I liked what I
heard! Part sketch, part news, part reaction to the news, and
interviews makes for a well-rounded show with a decent sound. Bryan
seems to be connected – this clip comes from his recent episode,
where he was hanging on the set with the entire cast of NBC’s show
Undateable.
Rick & Paul
Heal The World, A Comedy
Podcast
Thanks to our
man Tyson, we have a clip from a podcast called Rick & Paul
Heal The World. Sounds like a tall order. I can’t find the
last names of these guys anywhere, which certainly limited their
liability if they DON’T end up healing the world. Just to get you
back in the holiday mood, this clip is from just before last
Christmas where Rick & Paul
explore the pain and misery of holiday shopping.
I wanted to play a clip from a podcast by a longtime supporter and friend-of-Succotash, Megan Moen. I only knew her by her Twitter handle for a long time, @podcastwhore, but it’s already been two years since she kicked off her Screams & Moans podcast. So congrats, Megan! Her guest in her 36th episode is Wayne Baglin, whose own podcast, The Crunch Time Show, is — I think — in the Podcast Graveyard, but who was also an inspiration to her getting started.
Buffet
Kings
We got a note
to check out a show from Adelaide, Australia, called The Buffet
Kings. So of course we did. Byt their pictures on the
SoundCloud page for this show, the three hosts — Matt
O’Brien, Matt Rix, and Luke
Verharen — are are “gentlemen of proportion” (to use a
phrase a tailor once used on me when fitting me for a tuxedo.) This
clip is from their second episode, where they obviously feel they
are in a position to chat about how funny can directly translate to
body mass…or not.
Push The
Button
Associate
producer Tyson Saner clipped off a bit of the Push The
Button podcast, hosted by David Vox Mullen
and Mr. Anderson. They chat it up about a bunch of
different things and, in this clip, they’re talking about the
bru-ha-ha that kicked up this past holiday season over Starbucks
changing the design of their holiday cups.
Wicked
Theory
One of our
awesome Twitter supporters is Bill Sweeney, one of
the hosts and the producer of the Wicked Theory podcast.
So I thought it was high time we played a clip from a recent
episode. He’s joined by his buddy Dom, his brother
Bob and NOT by his buddy Ed, who
called in sick. The Wicked Theory guys cover a lot of
shows and movies and comics and stuff in every episode, so they’re
packed with nerdy goodness. Or goody nerdness.
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— Marc Hershon
P.S. I want to leave you with a reminder that our very next episode is not just a Succotash Chats installment, but it was recorded live at the Improv in Los Angeles. Our guests were Dana Carvey, his sons Dex and Tom, and Wayne Federman. Our announcer Bill Heywatt even made the trek to LA along with me to be at The Comedy Lab in West Hollywood. So subscribe today if you don't already so you won't miss it when it drops