Jun 26, 2014
Hello, chum! It is I, Marc Hershon, purveyor of Succotash, the Comedy Podcast Podcast and your ears are hearing Epi 89! (If you’re a subscriber to us via ConnectPal, you’re hearing this two days before anyone else!)
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Epi89 features my audio visit with podcaster, raconteur, singer, Ren Faire hanger-on, and bridge hanger-outer Hob The Troll. Although there are millions of trolls on the internet, Hob is the only actual troll-troll that I know of, and how luck are we that he hosts a regular Hobcast? He's had a number of wonderful guest on his show, some in character, some that just ARE characters, including Hal Lublin from The Thrilling Adventure Hour, who has been on our show a couple of times now.
SUCCOTASH ZIPPER PULLS ARE HERE!
Our newest tchotchke, the Succotash Zipper Pull, is here! This nifty thingy features a wee Succotash button clamped onto a little hook that affixes to pretty much any zipper you may have around on your jacket, duffel bag or gimp suit. If you're like one for FREE, you just need to email your snail mail address to zipper@SuccotashShow.com and we'll mail one out to you.
DOUBLE DOSE O' DURST
Once again, we've got two of our Burst O' Durst segments from cultural commentating comedian Will Durst this episode, as well as a "classic" Henderson's Pants commercial and a nifty set of clips – most of which were culled this week byour Associate Producer Tyson Saner.
THE 10 MOST ACTIVE SHOWS ON THE STITCHER TOP 100 COMEDY PODCAST LIST
The idea to focus on the 10 most ACTIVE shows on Stitcher's Top 100 Comedy Podcast List (rather than the Top 10 shows, which rarely ever change…) originally came to us from Ed Wallick, host of the Don't Quit Your Daycastpodcast. Just wanted to mention that because Ed let us know that he just bought some new podcasting equipment and used our Amazon banner at the top of the SuccotashShow.com website to get to that fabulous online everything store. You can, too, and Amazon will then kick us back a few quatloos to help us keep this operation going.
Here's this week's 10 Most Active…
AT MOVED
25 How Did this Get
Made?
-7
29 SModcast >> Jay & Silent Bob Get
Old
+15
31 Bertcast’s
Podcast
+6
43 This Week In Blackness
Radio
+5
51 Sklarbro
Country
+7
55 The Brian Callen
Show
+10
58 What About
Pod?
-20
61 The Champs w/Neal Brennan & Moshe
Kasher
-10
65 The Cracked
Podcast
-37
79
Harmontown
-13
EXTRA PLUG
An Indiegogo campaign went up this week that's near and dear to the hearts of those privy to the San Francisco comedy scene. The Comedy Club focuses on Cobb's Comedy Club, from its inception in the Marina District through it's relocation and subsequent fire in the Cannery to its present location downtown. The comedians who have crossed the Cobb's stage range from the legendary to the obscure, and it's a story that's been lovingly told by filmmaker David Schendel. The film's almost all done except for final processing bits n' pieces. Check out the trailer and maybe even get your name in the credits at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-comedy-club.
THE
CLIPS
Chillpak
Hollywood Hour
We usually
feature a snippet from this show each week that has Chillpak
Hollywood hosts Dean Haglund and Phil
Leirness mentioned Succotash. But the boys have
been busy and that means pre-recorded shows with guests and not
much mention of us. (Although they did tag us at the very end of
the most recent show - thanks, guys!) So I figured this was a good
opportunity to play a straight-up clip of this excellent show. It's
a story of Dean's early days in Hollywood, and who he found when he
went star-spotting at the once-popular Sky Bar.
The Wolf
Den
This show
from the Earwolf Network, subtitled “The Business and Future of
Podcasting”, is hosted by the network's co-founder Jeff
Ulrich. It was just announced this past week that Mr.
Ulrich is stepping down as CEO of Earwolf and also The Midroll,
which is his podcast advertising agency. In an open letter to the
Internet, he let everyone know that he’s taking a bit of a hiatus
from showbiz, spending time with his family and figuring out his
next steps in life. (I'm assuming The Wolf Den is either
going away or maybe transitioning to a new host…) We feature a
slice of Jeff’s chat with guest and fellow podcasting magnate
Chris Hardwick from The Nerdist
Network.
The Smartest Man In The
WorldI just did a review of
Greg Proops’ The Smartest Man in the
World for Splitsider and Huffington Post. And I realized it’s been a while
since I clipped that show, which is a great example of – as I say
in the review – a Master of the Spew. Someone who can keep up a
steady stream of entertaining solo monologue. There are podcasters
like Bill Burr and Larry Miller
and Marc Maron who are certainly Spew Masters but
Greg is one of the only guys who really only does it in front of a
live audience as opposed to in a studio or an apartment or
whatever. He was recently over in Wales, at the literary Hay
Festival in the town of Hay and I pulled a slice of him getting
into a riff around one of Wales’ favorite sons…
Dining with Doug &
Karen
Doug
Benson is, perhaps, most famous for his Doug Loves
Movies podcast but he’s funny at so much else, including his
Benson Interruptions and his Getting Doug With
High YouTube show. With all that pot smoking that DB does
though, comes a powerful need to feed. I’m not sure if that was the
inspiration for Dining with Doug and Karen, featuring Mr.
Benson and Karen Anderson but, high or not, you'll
enjoy them along with guest Greg Behrendt as they
all eat “Belly Bombz Asian fusion wings".
Norm MacDonald
Live
There have
only been about 15 episodes of Norm MacDonald Live, with
comedian Norm MacDonald and co-host Adam
Eget, and it’s actually a VIDEOcast from The Video Podcast
Network, which is probably why it wasn’t exactly on my radar until
now. (The 'sodes are later released as audiocasts via iTunes.)
We're featuring a clip from a recent outing in which Norm was lucky
enough to corral comic great Carl Reiner on the
show.
TANcast
The
TANcast is a show I’ve seen tweets about but never
listened to but then was inspired to when I saw some fun
Photoshoppery by Tim Babb, one of the three hosts.
He’s also a standup comedian, whereas his two buddies,
Adam and Noah — T, A & N. TAN.
TANcast, get it? — are not comics. But they were all roommates at
one time and now, even though they are separated by distance,
technology brings them together every week. This clip is from one
of their regular features, TANLaughs, in which they read jokes sent
in by their listeners. Sometimes really bad
jokes.
There's Epi89 in a nutshell. Or a blog, rather. Hope you enjoy listening. If you do (or if you don't), or if you'd like to tell me about a comedy podcast worth clipping that we haven't featuring on Succotash yet, drop me a line at marc@SuccotashShow.com OR call into the Succotash Hotline at (818) 921-7212 (also uptuyu on Skype…) and leave a message that we'll feature on the show.
Pass the Succotash!
— Marc
Hershon