Feb 23, 2014
This is Episode 82 of Succotash, the Comedy Podcast Podcast, and I AM your host, Marc Hershon. Terribly sorry for the delay between shows. My wife and I have been in the throes of moving - not far, really only about 10 minutes from where we were living - but you know what moving can be like. Especially for a podcaster - you misplace one box with important equipment in it and it's like your show never existed.
Anyway, last episode I had fun with our Associate Producer Tyson Saner co-hosting the show. This time out our special guest is Hal Lublin from The Thrilling Adventure Hour and The David Feldman Show. We first interviewed Hal last year when he was up for the 12th Annual San Francisco Sketchfest. This year he was up for the 13th edition and we caught up with him again. (During the interivew we had some short unplanned cameo appearances by Ben Blacker, Cole Stratton, and Scott Lifton, but that's what happenes when you set up in the lobby of the hotel Sketchfest was using as their main HQ for this year's event…)
In addition to our catch-up session with Hal, we've got some clips and not one but TWO of our Bursts O' Durst with political comedian Will Durst.
THE TEN MOST ACTIVE SHOWS IN THE STITCHER TOP 100 COMEDY PODCAST LIST
Who moved the most up or down the Stitcher Top 100 Comedy Podcast list this past week? Just listen…
AT MOVED
22. What About
Pod?
+7
32. The Brian & Jill
Show
-10
36. SModcast >> Jay & Silent Bob Get
Old
-11
57. The Bryan Callen
Show
+34
64. Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine +36
73.
Harmontown
+32
81. Where’s My 40 Acres
Podcast
-8
90. Three Guys
On
+102
92. Mr. No
Good
+108
94. The Craig Shoemaker
Show
+272
Glad to see our old pal Craig Shoemaker vaulting into the top 100! We had him as our Special Guest back in Epi29 – maybe we can rope him into another interview soon.
HENDERSON'S PANTS LOGO
A few weeks ago, I tweeted that I would like to have folks submit designs for a Henderson's Pants logo, with the idea we might start to sell some t-shirts, open a phony website, who knows? Listener and podcaster Dr. Norman Trousers rose to the challenge and submitted several, one of which appears here:
I love it! Anyone else have an idea, you're going to have to go Doc Trow one better. Plus he and his co-host cut us a special clip from their Casa Mirth podcast for this episode!
CLIPS
What Say
You?
As you may know, I’m one of the gang of reviewers that contributes
to This Week In Comedy Podcasts up at Splitsider.com every
week, along with Zoe Schwab, Pablo
Goldstein, Josh Sorokach, Robert
Schoon, Scott Reynolds, and Jenny
Nelson. This week I reviewed What Say You?,
hosted by Brian Quinn and Sal
Vulcano. If you watch Impractical Jokers on
TruTV, these are two of those guys. And Brian is also part of the
Tell ‘Em, Steve-Dave podcast on the SModcast network.
What Say You? Is just these two guys – Brian and Sal –
talking about whatever comes into their heads. The lastest epsiode
has a story about a pair of women’s pants that Sal received via UPS
by accident and what he ended up doing about them. It’s, well, not
normal… And that’s how it starts. The story get so funny that Brian
ends laughing so hard that he actually ends up throwing up. As I
concluded on in my review on Splitsider for this show: Podcast
Gold.
Casa
Mirth
I always appreciate when a podcast wants to send along a clip of
their show. Promos I'm not as keen on but one thing that only
happened afew times in the almost three years that I've been
doing Succotash is someone taking the time to put together
a custom clip. Dr. Normal Trousers and his
partner-in-podcasting River Zambezi have done just
that. Coupled with the Henderson's Pants logo that Trousers did,
Casa Mirth ranks right up there with the
best!
HMS Codcast
As I just got done writing about, I'm not a big fan of the pre-fab
promo but I got one in that's from a pretty original show and put
together by a fellow podcast who's recently had some tough breaks,
healthwise. Nigel Boydell had been doing a very
funny show called Uncle Arthur’s Bollocks as well as a
second program, CSI Troutbeck. One of the complications
from his health issues was that he had to have 16 teeth removed.
Yikes! This has left him with what he calls "a pronounced lisp."
But podcasting is what he wanted to do so he ended up WRITING one
and engaging podcasters from all over the place to help read the
passages from a series of continuing misadventures of a ship’s crew
on a voyage to discover the New World. So far he’s got episodes
voiced by the likes of the aforementioned Dr Norman
Trousers (Casa Mirth), Matt
LeRoy (Wicked Radio Network), Matt
Brundage (Another Damn Trivia Show) and
Jenny Sorens, wife of podcaster Kat
Sorens (Strange Times Show)
Salty
Language
One of our frequent retweeters is the Salty Language
podcast with Bryan Stewart, Tony
High, and Tate Hayes. These guys
and a gal talk about a lot of stuff and recently they were on about
The Beatles big 50th Anniversary on the Ed Sullivan show. Tony
isn’t on this clip which our Associate Producer Tyson Saner clipped
for us, but you’ll get the idea of the show’s
flow.
The Bitter Sound
A longtime supporter of Succotash is Davian
Dent, the host of both The Bitter Sound podcast
as well as co-host of The Strange Times podcast.
The Bitter Sound is a truly strange and wonderful
combination of odd ramblings, ambient music, disturbing soundscapes
and visits from a variety of people. In fact, our own announcer
Bill Heywatt is slated to be a future guest on the
show.
Me1 vs
Me2
I got a recommendation from Andy McHaffie, who
tweets as @AndyMcH, to give a listen to Me1 vs Me2
Snooker, which features British comedian Richard
Herring in an ongoing series of snooker games played by
himself playing with himself. Well, not playing with
himself. Playing AGAINST himself, really. And also serving as the
commentators and the referees for the games. With a premise that
odd, it had better be good. And so it is…
Not too many clips this episode but the Hal Lublin interview runs about 50 minutes, so you're still getting a lot of show! Enjoy…and remember to please pass the Succotash!
— Marc Hershon