May 16, 2014
Howdy hey there, friends and neighbors! You're reading the companion blog entry for Epi87 of Succotash, the Comedy Podcast Podcast. (Just 12 episodes left until we hit 100, which will mark the end of Season 1. What can I say? Long seasons. Kind of like the winters in Game of Thrones…)
In addition to a barrelful of podcast clips this episode, I had a fascinating chat with Geoffrey Welchman. I announced last week that GW was folding up the tent on Inverse Delirium, his 4-year-old podcast, which he has done. So then I thought it might be insightful to find out what led him to that decision and it is – so we’ll hear that in a little bit in addition to the final message to his listeners that he posted this past week.
We also have our Burst O’ Durst segment with comedian Will Durst, a classic Henderson’s Pants spot, the Tweetsack segment, the 10 Most Active Shows In The Stitcher Top 100 Comedy Podcast List and, of course, our obligatory nod, salute, or genuflect to the boys (Dean Haglund & Phil Leirness) over at the Chillpak Hollywood Hour podcast, who just said goodbye to their 7th year in podcasting and mentioned us along the way. I also contrast and compare the old and the new theme songs for the Hob The Troll podcast.
The 10 Most
Active Shows in Stitcher's Top 100 Comedy Podcasts
List
Here's where we look at
the ten podcasts that have moved up or down the Stitcher Top 100
Comedy Podcast chart in the past week.
AT
MOVED
37
SModcast >> Jay & Silent Bob Get
Old
-11
54 Jordan Jesse Go
+12
56 This Week In Blackness
Radio
+8
62 The Artie Lange Show
-10
69 Harmontown
+11
70 Thrilling Adventure Hour
+11
80 The Dana Gould Hour
+23
85 The Beige Phillips Show
+8
86 Straight Outta Lo Cash
+6
97 Nick DiPaolo
-7
The Clips
Chillpak Hollywood
Hour
To mark their
anniversary, Dean Haglund and Phil
Leirness have just moved their operation over to Blogtalk
Radio, which doesn’t change things for the listener but gives them
a nice solid production base.
Monster
Party
Back in Succotash Epi53 I
interviewed my friend and comedian Matt Weinhold
who had, at the time, been experimenting with a new podcast idea
that he and buddies James Gonis, Shawn
Sheridan, and Larry Strohe – all
Hollywood writers – had done on video where they drank adult
beverages and talked about one main subject: Monster movies. Well,
now Monster Party is an ongoing thing and in the most
recent episode, the boys and guest Dana Gould sunk
their teeth into vampire movies. In this clip they ponder the
origins of Blackula.
Nerdist
Last week I reviewed the
Nerdist with Chris Hardwick and
Jonah Ray – Matt Myra wasn’t on
this particular episode, where they interviewed
director/actor/writer Jon Favreau, who has a new
movie out that he both directed AND starred in called
Chef. In this clip, they talk about spoilers and puzzle
over the etiquette of how long you should wait before talking about
a show.
Illusionoid
One of my favorite
podcasts continues to be Illusionoid, which is an
improvised science fiction comedy podcast out of Toronto. I’ve
interviewed the three guys – Paul Bates,
Lee Smart, and Nug Nahrgang (the
best name is podcasting) – before and met them when they were in
San Francisco for the SF Improv Festival last year.
Haven’t played ‘em for a while though, so here’s a clip from their
recent LIVE episode from Comedy Bar in Toronto, along with their
special guests Craig Anderson, Ashley
Comeau, and Kyle Dooley of Bad Dog
Theatre.
Hob The Troll
Some TV shows used
to have very specific theme songs – think about things like the
Addams Family – or an even better example in this case is
Gilligan’s Island, where the theme song changed after the first
season to include mentioned The Professor and MaryAnne instead of
referencing them simply as “all the rest”. Hob The Troll
is a show that is hosted by a character that pops up at Renaissance
Faires around the country. He sings and does comedy and is easily
the happiest, non-goat-eating troll around. In podcast form,
Hob The Troll features guest characters, often played by
actors and comedians, such as Mark Gagliarti’s
King John. He recently upgraded his show’s opening theme song, both
versions of which are so specific that I thought it would be fun to
contrast and compare. And then I play a short clip with
Hob and Corey Eno Ruffin, the guy
who did the new theme song for the show.
Crunch Time
Show
I got a note and a
request from Wayne “Crunchie” Baglin, co-host of
the Crunch Time Show (along with his wife The
Scully), a podcast that looks at a myriad of geekiness,
from games and movies to anything else that geeky nerdlings enjoy.
They have a feature on the show called the "Random 5" where their
showboard computer asks 5 random questions which you answer, then
you get to ask one of your own. So Wayne asked if I’d play the
Random 5 and here’s what happened…
The Bonn & Obo
Show
It’s been a long time
coming but Epi9 – NINE! – of the Bonn & Obo Show has
finally dropped. It’s a pretty inventive show BUT, since
Bonn and Obo seem to rarely – if
ever – get along, it take awhile to get those shows out. This last
one took a solid YEAR. Which is why Bonn moonlights on The
Strange Times Show as well. In this clip, Obo has had enough
disrespect from his mic mate, Bonn, and decides to file a
complaint.
Cashing In With TJ
Miller
Have you had a chance to catch Silicon
Valley, the new Mike Judge comedy on HBO yet? Really funny, at
least for those of us that live within spitting distance of the
real Silicon Valley. And TJ Miller is one of the
best parts of the show. He also can’t seem to showing up as a guest
on the Cashing In podcast, which is probably why they’ve
subtitled it With TJ Miller. Comedian Cash
Levy hosts and TJ does what he does best, which is to
wreak havoc.
The Dork
Forest
Jackie
Kashian and her show The Dork Forest continues to root out
the well-known and semi-well-known who are into sometime some
obscure or even archaic stuff. This snippet comes from her Epi227
with guest Emily Gordon – co-host of the
Indoor Kids with husband Kumail Nanjiani.
Jackie and Emily chat about comedy and mental
health.
Center City
Comedy
A quintet of
Philadelphia’s comedians - H. Foley, Kevin
Ryan, Tom Cassidy, Reggie
Conquest, and Andrew Schiavone – belly up
to the mic and deliver up jokes, insults, and opinion about a
variety of topics for Center City Comedy. The clip they
sent in starts off about playing school basketball then sidetracks
into a discussion about one of the guy’s long-lost classmates, a
discussion which then disintegrates into unstoppable, contagious
giggling.
All right, it’s time to saw goodbye to Epi87. Until next time, don’t be afraid to shop at Amazon by using the oh-so-handy banner at the top of our SuccotashShow.com page. Or click the Donate button you’ll see there and we’ll give you a hearty shout out during the next episode. Or click on the link to our Succotashery and purch some murch there – we’ll be eternally grateful and, again, will shout your name to the heavens.
I’m off to LA for a week. I may do a little Epi87.5 from the road if I’m in a mood for rambling. Otherwise it will be Epi88 when next we meet. Either way, please remember to pass the Succotash!
— Marc Hershon