Jan 11, 2015
Welcome, welcome, welcome – to Succotash Clips, Epi101, the first episode of Season 2!
As previously announced, my plan for Season 2 is to split our usual Succotash offerings – Clips and Chats – into separate shows. And that’s what you have here in the first show of Season 2. Succotash Clips.
All clips.
No interviews.
My goal is to have these shows come in at about or under an hour. And they should be a little easier to produce as well. Our Associate Producer, Tyson Saner, grabbed up a bunch of comedy podcasts clips. I’ve pulled a few. And so let me give you the rundown of the podcasts we’re sampling this time out: 80’s Reboot Overdrive, Comedy On Vinyl, Getting On, Hello Internet, The Kundalini Files, That Would Be Me and The Big Cat Show.
In addition, we’ve got not one but TWO of our Burst O’ Durst segments this show, a classic Henderson’s Pants commercial, and the Tweetsack.
IN REVIEW
Now that the holiday break is over, I’m back posting podcast reviews. This past week, for This Week In Comedy Podcasts on Splitsider.com and Huffington Post Entertainment, I took a listen to a couple of very funny episodes of The New Hollywood Podcast with Brian Flaherty. On Monday he had a short 15 minute installment with schlocky 70’s film producer Alan Marlowe, followed on Wednesday featuring an interview with Alan McKay, Will Ferrell’s comedic partner in crime.
The joke is that Marlowe is a character that McKay started riffing during his interview with Brian, so they went with it and made it a self-contained bit, which Brian then posted as a special episode. Check that out if you can – just follow the links above. (By the way, I also mentioned the Casa Mirth podcast with Dr. Norman Trousers and River Zambezi, and I also pinged the OnBrand podcast, which isn’t a comedy podcast but it’s about branding, which is my main day job, and host Nick Westergaard had my friend Pat Hanlon on as a guest so there.)
Oh, and if you didn’t get a chance to catch the Casa Mirth Christmas Spectacular, you should, if only to hear my stirring introduction.
THE JOB INTERVIEW
Maybe it's because I just started a new job at the beginning of the year, but I found the video sketch The Job Interview, by our friend John Dredge (host of The John Dredge Nothing To Do With Anything Show podcast) to be pretty clever.
THE CLIPS
Getting On with
James Urbaniak
If you’re a podcast
aficionado, chances are that you’ve heard James
Urbaniak appearing as a guest on any number of shows out
there, including The Thrilling Adventure Hour and
Comedy Bang Bang. He’s a very talented vocal artist as
well as and actor and a comedian. And he’s had his own podcast for
a while. He doesn’t release them regularly – in fact, since 2012,
there seem to only be about 21 episodes out there. Each one
features him “navigating the darkly comedic recesses of his
troubled yet charming mind,” according to his
homesite.
80’s Reboot
Overdrive
Our Associate Producer
Tyson Saner stumbled headfirst into something
called the Southgate Media Group. It’s a network of podcasts that
got going about a year and a half ago, the brainchild of
Rob and Martha Southgate. Almost
every show on their lineup – and I counted 24 of them – is
dedicated to a TV show. There’s also a show about video games and
one potpourri crazy roundup of a show called 80’s Reboot
Overdrive. That’s where this clip comes from, and it features
host Dave talking to Southgate Media’s heads Rob
and Martha Southgate, along with their 7-year-old daughter
Molly, who co-hosts THREE of the podcasts with her
parents.
The Big Cat
Show
We haven’t heard from our
old pal Lyonheart for a really long time. He had
an internet radio show a couple of years ago, then he shut it down
and headed out West for a bit, landing in San Jose to take care of
some family stuff. But the West Coast didn’t suit him and he went
back East once again, to New York this time with his buddy
Matt.
Hello
Internet
Tyson tossed us a clip this week from Hello Internet, a
show I’m not familiar with. It features hosts CGP
Grey and Brady Haran. I’m not sure what’s
up with the three initials – the CGP Grey thing – but according to
their homesite, the two guys kick around YouTube, life, work, and
whatever. Grey’s got several videos on YuTube under the title “Grey
Explains” and there’s one on the Lord of The Rings, robots, and
other interesting subjects.
The Kundalini Files
Redux
Friends-of-Succotash
Davian Dent and Jason McNamara
(also known as Jabs from The Dhead Factor
podcast), had done a 6-part detective spoof podcast called The
Kundalini Files a couple of years ago. Davian has re-cut and
re-mastered those shows and put them altogether into something he
calls a feature-length show he calls The Kundalini Files
Redux.
Comedy On
Vinyl
I’m going to assume that,
if you’re a listener to Succotash, the Comedy Podcast
Podcast, that you’re a fan of both comedy and podcasts. That
combo probably can’t get much better than on a show called
Comedy On Vinyl. Normally the comedy nerds on the show,
headed up by host Jason Klamm, talk about the
greatest comedy vinyl albums of all time. Our associate producer
Tyson Saner found an intriguing break from that format with their
epi119, featuring guest Jimmy Pardo, host of the
Never Not Funny podcast, who brought the chat around to
the effect that Richard Lewis’ 1985 TV special “I’m In Pain” had on
him.
That Would Be
Me
Author Geoff
Hoff does a lot of self-help books on writing and other
topics, including an e-course on how to start your own podcast. He
recently started doing a humor podcast himself, called That
Would Be Me. Refreshingly, these are pretty short
installments, and the subjects are presented in an observational
style, which is a nice break from the glut of pop culture casts
that seem to be propagating faster than ever.
That's the lineup and the skinny for the first show of Succotash, Season 2. Drop me a line at marc@SuccotashShow.com and let me know what you thought of our first Succotash Clips show. Next we’ll have a Succotash Chats edition, so you can compare the two flavors of Succotash.
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Thanks for listening and be sure to pass the Succotash!
— Marc
Hershon