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Jason C. Brown is the director of an upcoming short film called Imaginary Friends, which is currently funding on Indiegogo, hence our unusual posting of a COV bonus episode this week. I may be biased (see me in the promo video below), but I think you should go send some money their way so t
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The Independent Shakespeare Company’s own David Melville returns, to again open up our comedy minds to the works of George Formby. Still a respected name in English comedy, his work never quite traversed the ocean sufficiently, so it’s time for some mind expansion. Formby’s double-entendre-laden ukulele tunes are played with an unusual skill on an instrument mistakenly seen as simple, especially given its current ubiquity. Enjoy some fun tunes and, if you’re in LA, go see the Independent Shakespeare Company at Griffith Park this summer.
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Craig Rowin of Your Pretty Face is Going To Hell drops by (and so do I, this was “on location” in Hollywood) to talk about Weird Al’s perfectly-timed “Off The Deep End.” Now, before you write me an e-mail about this being a CD-era album, I’d advise you to go to the Netherlands. Where they released this album on vinyl, apparently. Craig squeaked it, but I’m glad he did. This has one of my all-time top Weird Al songs, and we had a blast talking about (individually) meeting Weird Al, as well as, in his case, working with him.
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It’s not often you get to talk to someone about playing their own father in a movie. In 1992, that’s exactly what Rob did, for a cameo in “Heart and Souls.” We discuss how that came about this week, as big fans of his dad, but we also discuss his own introduction to comedy by the likes of Richard Pryor and George Carlin, the former passed down from his father. The album we’re holding isn’t discussed in this episode, but we are holding it for a reason – it has the first recorded mention of Rob’s name, in track one of side 2, in which Bob talks about becoming a father.
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On Sunday, August 2nd at IOWest, we helped kick off The 13th Annual Los Angeles Improv Comedy Festival with a tribute to Robin Williams, with Robin’s close friend, Rick Overton, and special guests Josia Elliott and Jamie Costa. Josia’s a big Robin fan, and if you haven’t seen Jamie’s moving tributes to Robin in the form of impressions, you should go here: youtu.be/Shg53iv4B9o
We had a wonderful time talking about Robin, his work, and getting a little sidetracked about impressions. But it wouldn’t be a tribute to that great mind if we weren’t a little all over the place
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Joseph Scrimshaw is back! And this time, we do something I’ve been waiting to do a long time on this show – let the guest pick from the archive and we both listen to it, fresh. This week, we listen to one of two comedy albums (in the same year) by “The Human Joke Machine,” Morey Amsterdam. Perhaps best known as Buddy on The Dick Van Dyke Show, here he rattles off joke after joke in a variety of strange, fun little songs, and we pick it apart.
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Every once in awhile, because of this show, I’m fortunate enough to meet an official archivist for a legend. This week, I talk with Christopher Bay, who is the archivist for not only Shelley Berman, but for Woody Woobdury. Christopher talks about his experiences with Shelley, including discovering him and imitating him from a young age. We do talk a bit about this, Shelley’s first album, but it’s pretty all-inclusive, especially with this episode’s final clip – a rarity, courtesy Christopher himself.
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He co-hosts the Before You Were Funny podcast and Batman: The Animated Podcast. Turns out, he’s also the first person to bring The Muppets to the show. Another surprise first turns out to be a brilliant piece of work, especially given that we’re supposed to imagine animated felt for 45 minutes. Not only are the voice characterizations typically great, but the sound design and the joke choices are spot-on, especially the kind you need to see for full effect. It really holds up as it’s own piece of comedy work outside of The Muppet Show itself, and was a lot of fun to talk about.
Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: <stro
Podcast listeners will know the sounds of his nimble fingers from the background of many a Paul F. Tompkins podcast, and sketch comedy fans will know his music from Mr. Show. Eban Schletter is not only a great musical improviser, but a guy who maybe, sort of, fell into comedy as a genre. Although, on reflection, it kind of seems inevitable. In this episode, we talk about how Eban’s dad introduced him to Spike Jones at the age of 21, and how that may or may not have changed his career trajectory.
Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
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