I know it's been brought up here before, but the Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend podcast is pretty hilarious. I haven't listened to that many, but I assume it depends on the guest.
And tangentially, my new working theory is that Fuzz is Zach Galifianakis.
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James Adomian is a very funny improviser and impressionist. He’s well known for his Bernie Sanders and I’m thrillled that he actually got the Senator to come on his podcast.
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“How Did This Get Played?” Is normally a light-hearted podcast about bad/weird video games hosted by comedy writers Nick Wiger and Heather Anne Campbell. But when they invite Native-American Joey Clift on to discuss “Custer’s Revenge” things get serious.
If you don’t know the game it’s widely considered the worst ever made. It’s racist and grossly sexist. Joey calls out the hosts for their tokenism of inviting him to discuss the game. It results in a great discussion that is awkward but fruitful. I hope Joey comes back on to discuss a different game.
“How Did This Get Played?” Is normally a light-hearted podcast about bad/weird video games hosted by comedy writers Nick Wiger and Heather Anne Campbell. But when they invite Native-American Joey Clift on to discuss “Custer’s Revenge” things get serious.
If you don’t know the game it’s widely considered the worst ever made. It’s racist and grossly sexist. Joey calls out the hosts for their tokenism of inviting him to discuss the game. It results in a great discussion that is awkward but fruitful. I hope Joey comes back on to discuss a different game.
Yeah it was awkward as hell but made for a really interesting discussion.
Joey said it was the fact that the first native person they brought on was for this awful game where you try and rape a native woman, AND it's the Thanksgiving episode to boot. Easy to see why he felt like he was being paraded out to speak for all native people about a game that doesn't really need any closer dissection.
You can tell they thought they were doing the "right" thing by getting a person with an inside perspective of how their racial minority is represented across media... but they clearly did a poor job of approaching it. Since they are evidently friends with Joey, they could have / should have brought him on for any generic game's episode and then use that as an opportunity to ask for his perspective on native representation.
Instead it certainly came across poorly.
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I know it's been brought up here before, but the Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend podcast is pretty hilarious. I haven't listened to that many, but I assume it depends on the guest.
I agree, this podcast is very funny, and the guests are always great.
He just put up a new "Very Special Self-Quarantine Episode".
Terrific episode. It was a fun conversation, and you can tell how much Conan genuinely respects Mike and his talent. It reminded me how much I miss Myers' comedy.
I love Mike Myers. That was really awkward that Dana Carvey went on Stern and basically admitted that he doesn't really like Mike and thinks he stole some Austin Powers material from him.
Jim Jefferies new podcast "I Don't Know About That" has been great.
They invite an expert on, Jim has 5 questions to guess what they're an expert in. Then Jim says everything he knows about the topic, he's assessed a score out of 30, 10 from the expert on accuracy, 10 on confidence from one co-host, and 10 on believably from another co-host.
Then the expert talks about the topic, what Jim got right, what he got wrong.
So far the topics have been Legalization of Drugs and MLB Steroid Scandal.
Plus you get Jim's trademark sarcastic a**holishness. I highly recommend checking it out.
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The latest episode of WTF with Marc Maron is rough. He was dating the director Lynn Shelton who died on Saturday. The podcast starts with him giving details of her death and talks about her a bit. He follows with a replay of her previous podcast appearance when they first met.
