Nov 24, 2014
You are, once again – unless this is your first time – listening to Succotash, the Comedy Podcast Podcast. (Or the Comedy Earfruit Earfruit. Ever since my chat with Superego's Matt Gourley, I’ve become obsessed with renaming the generic podcast with something. What do you think of earfruit?) This is Succotash Epi99! The penultimate episode of Season One. That’s right. Episode 100 will be the final show for our first season.
But that’s next time.
THIS time we have a helluva show for you with not one but TWO interviews that I did when I was at the 3rd Annual LA Podcast Festival at the end of September.You’ll hear my chat with Todd Glass of the Todd Glass Show and with Matt Knudsen from the Grabbing Lunch podcast. (Or earfruit.)
I’ll also be playing clips from both of their podcasts PLUS clips from Picking Favorites, a new podcast on the new Wolfpop Network, the Angry Old Man podcast, Denzel Washington is The Greatest Actor of All Time PERIOD, and Today We Learned teaches us all a little something about the dumbest laws in the United States.
We also have a DOUBLE dose of our Burst O’ Durst segment with comedian Will Durst, a classic Henderson’s Pants commercial, and a musical track from our Associate Producer Tyson Saner that is featured on Combat Radio’s First Christmas Album, which is a great way to help out friend-of-Succotash Ethan Dettenmeier’s Christmas Event for Homeless Children Benefit. You can find out order the album and find out more about the benefit by visiting OUR homesite, http://SuccotashShow.com, and click on the album cover on the right hand side.
Wish Us A Happy 100TH Episode!
If you’re a comedy podcaster or just a regular old listener, there’s still time to get us your “Happy 100th Episode Anniversary!” message for us to play on our one hundredth show. You can call one into the Succotash Hotline, at (818) 921-7212, or email us an MP3 or WAV file to marc@SuccotashShow.com. (Not to throw a challenge out there, but in this episode I'm playing a great 100th episode message in from the guys over at Illusionoid and I’ve got to say that I really appreciate the extra effort that went into it.
PodBay's Top 10 Comedy Podcasts
It’s been TWO months since Stitcher has updated their Top 100 Comedy Podcast List. Not sure what’s going on over there. (Heck, given the nature of technology, maybe my browser is screwed up.) But I’m not able to track podcasts through Stitcher’s site these days so rather than NOT do our Top 10 Most Active Shows On Stitcher's Top 100 Comedy Podcast List, I hopped over to PodBay’s site to harvest their list of the most recent Top 10 Comedy Podcasts according to the live iTunes rankings. (PodBay, by the way, is a GREAT podcast app on iOS and Android, so be sure to check it out if you want a super duper podcast experience!)
1 With
Special Guest Lauren Lapkus
2 Psychobabble with Tyler Oakley
3 Welcome to Nightvale
4 WTF with Marc Maron
5 The Joe Rogan Experieince
6 The Nerdist
7 The Adam Carolla Show
8 How Did This Get Made?
9 Bill Burr’s Monday Morning Podcast
10 Not Too Deep With Grace Helbig
A Little Christmas Music
Our own Tyson Saner wrote and performed an instrumental tune that he did for the First Combat Radio Christmas Album to help raise money for Ethan Dettenmeier’s 4th Annual Combat Radio Christmas Event for Homeless Children. You can donate to the Combat Radio Christmas Event at http://www.gofundme.com/ACombatRadioChristmas and get the album for a suitable donation OR go to the right-hand side of our homesite, http://SuccotashShow.com, and click on the Combat Radio Christmas Album. Tyson’s cut is entitled For Christmas and feature in during this episode both under our Tweetsack mentions and then in its entirety at the end of the show.
The Clips
Denzel Washington is
the Greatest Actor of All Time PERIOD
Last week on
Splitsider.com and HuffPost Comedy I reviewed this new podcast, one
of Wolfpop’s new shows, hosted by recent Succotash special
guest W. Kamau Bell and Kevin
Avery, a soon-to-be guest on this show. Both of these guys
spent a lot of their formative funny years as San Francisco
comedians, then Kamau got his own show, Totally Biased,
for a while on FX and FXX. Kevin was head writer on that show and,
when it got cancelled, he found a place on the writing staff on
John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight on HBO.
The two of them decided to put together a podcast about one of
their favorite people, Denzel Washington, to let
everyone know what a terrific actor they think he
is.
The Todd Glass
Show
I was glad I got a chance
to sit with Todd Glass at this year’s LA Podcast
Festival. I know him a little bit from the LA comedy scene and he’s
played in Northern California during the past couple of years and
we got to hangout just before he started HIS podcast, the Todd
Glass Show. Before I get to our chat, I wanted to play a
little piece of a recent epi of his show, one featuring guest
Patton Oswalt.
Picking
Favorites
If you were a fan of
NBC’s series Chuck, about a nerdy big box store employee
who get a computer stuffed into his noggin, you know
Zachary Levi, the star of the show. David
Coleman was the propmaster on that show, kind of the Q of
TV comedy spy show, if you will. Together, they started a business
called The Nerd Machine and now they have this Wolfpop podcast,
Picking Favorites, started with the help of a comedian who
goes by the name Razzle Dangerously, who also host
a show on the Nerdist network called Today We Learned,
which we’ll be playing a clip from momentarily. Then they drafted
Tyler Labine, a hilarious actor from shows like
Reaper, The Sons of Tucson, and the movie
Tucker & Dale vs Evil. Picking Favorites starts
with three topics each episode and the hosts and guests go
round-robin style, naming off their favorites of whatever the topic
happens to be. In the second show, their guest was Adam
Baldwin, another Chuck alumnus (and also one of
the stars of Monster Makers, a movie I wrote for the
Hallmark Channel.)
Today We
Learned
Associate Producer
Tyson Saner grabbed the previous clip and this
next clip, which comes from the Today We Learned podcast,
featuring Razzle Dangerously (as heard in the
Picking Favorites clip), and Dan Casey.
This Nerdist show says that the hosts bring you “the
latest and greatest and sometimes weirdest facts and trivia the
world has to offer.” In this clip, from their Epi62, the hosts and
their guest Jacob Soboroff talk about dumb laws in
the United States.
Angry Old
Man
We clipped The Angry
Old Man podcast quite a while ago – Episode 53, I think – so
it’s high time we hit him again. All I know about the ringmaster
for this podcast is that he goes by the name Robert
Q, and that he does all the voices on this thing. Tyson
grabbed the cold opening from Angry Old Man Epi 90 so have
a listen…
Grabbing
Lunch
I was first introduced to
Matt Knudsen, host of the Grabbing Lunch
podcast, at the most recent LA Podcast Festival when
Christine Blackburn (of the Story Worthy
podcast) dragged him into the Podcast Lab and told me, “You have
GOT to interview Matt!” I really enjoyed our chat and I love the
premise for his podcast. Simple. Filling. Grab two people who
listeners may or may not have heard of before, sit ‘em down to
lunch and turn the mics on. This clip is from his Epi52 – at one
episode a week, that’s his one year anniversary. And his guests
were actress Helen Slater from things like
Supergirl and City Slickers, and her husband
Rob Watzke, a Hollywood editor and
improviser.
Join us next time for Epi100, the last show of Season 1! Until next time, thanks for passing the Succotash!
– Marc Hershon