Jul 27, 2014
Hello! Yes, this is the episode blog for Succotash, the Comedy Podcast Podcast. And we're up to Epi91, to be exact.
Not familiar? What we mostly do is play clips from comedy podcasts from all over the internet. Some we pick – and by “we” I mean myself and our Associate Producer Tyson Saner. Others get submitted by the comedy podcasters themselves. Still others are suggested by listeners who want to make sure their favorite podcasts are being shared.
For this show, we’ve got a half-dozen clips lined up and ready to roll. PLUS we have a special guest as well! Nick Revell, one of the creators and hosts of No Pressure To Be Funny, a very funny panel show out of England which we happen to be a big fan of here at Succotash.
Nick is a standup comedian and a writer. While NPTBF is on summer hiatus right now, he is doing a one-man show at the Ediburgh Fringe Festival, which we are hoping to be able to feature some audio clips from in the very near future. Like the best podcasters, he's witty, clever, and smart, so you'll want to listen on our chat this episode.
Before I forget to mention it, this last week I reviewed the Judge John Hodgman podcast for both This Week In Comedy Podcasts on Splitsider.com and it's also up on my blog in the comedy section of the Huffington Post. (Click on the links and you should feel free to read, share, Like, Tweet and comment as you wish…)
Here's who we're clipping on the podcast this week (more details and links to the shows follow below): Chillpak Hollywood Hour, The X-Files Files, The 10-ish Minutes Show, Feliz Navipod, and Walking The Room.
In addition we have our Burst O' Durst segment, featuring political comedian Will Durst who, this week, take some potshots an the largely inaction GOP slugabout in the Senate and the House. There's also a classic Henderson's Pants commercial, our Tweetsack segment and my usual wry commentary.
The Ten Most Active Show In Stitcher's Top 100 Comedy Podcast List
As heard only on Succotash, this feature mentions which podcasts showed the most movement, either up OR down Stitcher's list of most listened-to comedy podcasts.
AT
MOVED
34
Bertcast’s
Podcast
+8
38 The Smartest Man in The
World
-4
40 SModcast >>
Edumacation
+16
47 This Week in Blackness
Radio
-6
64 The Champs with Neal Brennan & Moshe Kasher
-15
74 Pointless with Kevin
Perreira
-7
86 Nobody Likes
Onions
+6
87 DVDASA with David Choe and Asa
Akira
-5
88 New York City Crime
Report
+20
91 The Mike Betancourt
Show
+8
And Now…The
Clips
Chillpack Hollywood
Hour
Our friends Dean
Haglund and Phil Leirness recently made
the jump from independent to network status when they joined up
with Blogtalk Radio to carry the Chillpak Hollywood Hour.
Thank heavens that, even while donning their network "big boy
pants", they still give this little ol' podcast a cheery shoutout.
(Make me feel kinda bad that I took a shot at one of their faithful
listeners who goes by the handle "Agent Summer" because he took
their tip, listened to Succotash, didn't much care for
what he heard and gave us a two-star rating and a review on iTunes
that groused about how obscene the show is. Even though we mark it
as being "Explicit". And just because some of the clips we
play can sometimes get a little…salty…
contentwise.)
The X-Files
Files
As a big fan of TV's The X-Files,
I've been enjoying this new entry into Podcastland by
Kumail Nanjiani. He, along with a guest, spend
each episode deconstructing one (or two) episodes of the hit TV
show.I beleive I can rightfully take credit for lighting the fuse
that got the latest edition together: I had suggested that Kumail
ping the aforementioned Dean Haglund and line him
up to guest when it came time to talk about "E.B.E", the X-Files
episode that introduces The Lone Gunmen, a trio of conspiracy
nutballs that featured Dean as Langley, the long-haired,
horn-rimmed rocker of the group. Particularly if you're an X-Phile,
there is some great inside dope in this episode.
The 10-ish Minutes
Show
Hosted by MJ Hughes,
Rob, and Sarah, their specialty
is being a platform for new comedy writers to get their stuff
produced. Sounds like they’re out of England and their show is a
bit along the lines of another show from Britain: the 4 AM
Cab podcast in the fact that they invite writers to
contribute. Which I think is great – the more the merrier,
actually. (My bad, incidentally – I told Michael Hughes that
I’d use their clip back in Epi89 and I lost the
download…)
Feliz Navipod
Wish it could be
Christmas every day? Willing to settle for once a week? Every week
I become aware of more and more pdocasts that demonstrate we are in
the midst of micro-targeting our audiences in Podcastland. Our
Associate Producer nabbed this clip from Feliz Navipod,
with host Tony Thaxton. The show, year-round, is
in the spirit of those old Christmas specials on TV, like Andy
Williams used to do. In Epi24, Tony’s guests were Carol
Spinney – the voice of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch from
“Sesame Street”, and Dave LaMattina.
Walking The Room
Tyson brings us a
clip from Walking The Room, a show I really like but with
a pair of hosts — Greg Behrendt and Dave
Anthony — who won’t really give me the of time of day the
couple of times our paths have crossed. (I even got all dressed up
one night, with pants and everything, to go chat with them down at
the Punchline in San Francisco. It was all set up in advance. And
they blew me off. But I still like the show!
There it is, basically. If you like what we do here, I encourage you to rate and review Succotash on iTunes, Like us on Facebook, Thumbs Up us on Stitcher, "Heart" us on SoundCloud and click our Donate button on the http://SuccotashShow.com website.
Until next time, please remember to pass the Succotash!
— Marc Hershon