Apr 14, 2014
Hi! It's me, Marc Hershon, and this is the official blog entry for Epi85 of Succotash, the Comedy Podcast Podcast.
What’s it been? THREE
weeks since the last episode went out? Damn, if I was on a network
they would have dropped my sorry ass by now. But - as always -
thank YOU for listening.
And thanks to this episode's special guest co-host for being here all the way from England! Davian Dent is not only host of his own podcast, The Bitter Sound, but he also co-hosts another one called Strange Times. Davian is with me for the entire show. He's also a musician and an audio wunderkind as well. He's brought some clips, I've brought some clips and there's also quite a bit of chat in between.
And what, exactly, is on the show today, you might ask? Clips, of course. Davian selected some, I picked some, we’re going to play clips from both of Davian’s shows.
I also have a quick chat with Mike Guido, an old friend of mine who started out in standup comedy years ago in the burgeoning San Francisco scene but went away from it for a long time. Now he's back with a touching one-man show, A Real Man - Dad. Daughter. Autism. And Mike's just trying to raise a mere $9000 in the next couple of weeks to turn his stage show into a video to raise awareness for autism. Find out more through our brief conversation, check out his video on Kickstarter.com and see if you don't find it to be a very worth cause. (Succotash put our money into the kitty…)
In addition to clips n' chat, this week's epi also feature TWO Bursts O' Durst with our political comedy correspondent Will Durst, a brand new commercial for Henderson's Pants and a rummage around the ol' Tweetsack.
The 10 Most Active Shows In Stitcher's Top 100 Comedy Podcast List
SURPRISE! This week I'm trying an experiment to NOT list the !0 Most Active shows here on the blog. Instead, you're going to have to download or stream the show in order to hear Davian and I reading the list aloud, to music no less.
Clips
Chillpak
Hollywood Hour
Hosts Dean
Haglund and Phil Leirness are just about
to close out their seventh year of consecutive weekly
podcasts. in the clip this week we learn that myself and our
Associate Producer Tyson Saner are being outed on
Chillpak as being members of the
Illuminati.
The Bitter
Sound
My guest co-host Davian Dent
this week shares a snippet from his "main hang", The Bitter
Sound, and we talk a bit about how it came about as well as
why it's got such a unique, well, sound.
Strange Times
Davian also sheds a little light on his
unique companions - Kat Sorens and Jerry
T'what - who are housed under the guise of the Strange
Times podcast.
Sweet Feathery
Jesus
My guest co-host puts his
stake in the ground this week (not a euphemism) and proclaims that
SFJ is his favorite podcast. The antics of Booze,
Belasco, and Dr. P fill me with a sweet,
feathery feeling as well as we share a bit of their trademark
banter.
The Andy Daly
Podcast Pilot Program
The eight episodes of inspired
brilliance that comprised this limited-run podcast series have
ended their initial debuts but you can binge-listen the heck out of
what Andy Daly and Superego's
Matt Gourley created over on Earwolf.com. Each
show featured one of the delightfully strange characters which Andy
initially brought to life during various times on the Comedy
Bang Bang show. The clip we have is from Shut Up And Have
Fun with Danny Mahoney.
Tiny
Odd Conversations
We listen in to a recent episode of
the show which features Travis and Brandi
Clark, longtime friends-of-Succotash and, as it
happens, favorites of Davian's as well. Brandi coins a new term in
this clip that has Travis proclaiming his undying love for her all
over again.
Fitzdog
Radio
Host of Fitzdog
Radio, Greg Fitzsimmons, was our Special
Guest on the most recent episode of Succotash. During that
conversation we touched on the menace of a certain patent troll who
has set out to make lives miserable for podcasters. Adam
Carola is one of the chief targets of the troll and I
thought it important that our listeners learn a little bit more
a\bout this threat to podcasting everywhere so we play a bit of
Adam's visit with Greg.
The Brit & The American
Again, the tastes of my guest co-host and I dovetail in the form of
The Brit & The American, a fun show with international
flavor featuring the lively conversation between co-hosts
Alba Lewis and Thomas
Moore.
Homeo &
Juliet
I happened to catch comedian Mary
Patterson opening for Greg Fitzsimmons
when he played the Punchline in San Francisco a few weeks ago.
That's when I discovered she has a podcast which she shares with
Jason Romaine. Usually p'casting out from Los
Angeles, they have a number of folks in "the biz" on their show. In
this clip, they chat it up wiht comedy writer Alec
Moore.
That's pretty much it but don't be fooled by the length of my blog entry (people often are), as this show passes an hour and a half quite neatly in its runtime. Plenty for everyone so please don't be shy about passing the Succotash!
— Marc Hershon