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Eel hovercraft posted:I've watched three seasons of the tv show and I'm still not sure if I like it or not, the tv version just never clicked for me the same way the podcast did. They always end up rushing the character guest so you never get the fun arc where they tease out their story by talking it through. The character always starts out as a fully-formed weirdo.
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Poopy Palpy posted:I don't know when my tenuous grip on sanity will finally snap, but I know it will be brought on by someone saying "Nice!"  Nice...well it's hollywood and we're going to Inglew-gently caress
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Jan 19, 2015 09:24
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Why does this show keep wanting me to buy boxes of things
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Jan 19, 2015 13:30
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It's kind of weird how common that business model is now. If you were subscribing to only the ones that advertise on podcasts you'd be getting monthly boxes of healthy snacks, dog toys, socks, clothes, epic gamer loot (Maltin...), wine and razors Also I thought I was doing a good job skipping ads on podcasts but I guess not
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I could take or leave the guest segments on the TV show but it definitely has some of the best sketches on TV right now.
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Jan 19, 2015 15:08
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Thoogsby posted:I could take or leave the guest segments on the TV show but it definitely has some of the best sketches on TV right now. I think the guest works best when it's a completely new character. It took a while (ittookawhile) for me to get into season 1 and I've realized it's because I had a ton of expectations out of the podcast characters. And you just can't condense hours of character development into 3 minutes. Once they started doing brand new characters, I wasn't expecting anything and they were able to explore the character in the short time.
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Jan 19, 2015 16:09
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I mean, you hired Chevy.
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Jan 19, 2015 18:01
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I can't listen to Horatio Sanz bring up Michael Jackson's propofol without Hee Hee shrieking for "MAH MILLLLLLLK"
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Help Im Alive posted:It's kind of weird how common that business model is now. If you were subscribing to only the ones that advertise on podcasts you'd be getting monthly boxes of healthy snacks, dog toys, socks, clothes, epic gamer loot (Maltin...), wine and razors besser trying to sincerely make "loot crate" seem like something worthwhile to buy was really funny to me
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Jan 19, 2015 22:05
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erezaka posted:besser trying to sincerely make "loot crate" seem like something worthwhile to buy was really funny to me They do even better with the healthy snacks box. "Pamela over there is eating the peanut butter nom noms"
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Arm_Fruit posted:They do even better with the healthy snacks box. "Pamela over there is eating the peanut butter nom noms" yeah i forgot about the word nom noms somehow. although you can at least see some merit in buying overpriced health food compared to figurines of your favorite pacific rim characters
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Jan 19, 2015 23:23
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Horatio was on fire this episode and I like that Scott's new thing appears to be getting his characters to exhaust as many premises as possible for their appearance
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I was glad we got a return of "Horatio knows how to get around LA"Help Im Alive posted:It's kind of weird how common that business model is now. If you were subscribing to only the ones that advertise on podcasts you'd be getting monthly boxes of healthy snacks, dog toys, socks, clothes, epic gamer loot (Maltin...), wine and razors After Birchbox somehow made the "Pay us $20 to ship you a handful of sample sized toiletries and cosmetics" business model viable, the floodgates were open.
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Scott and Benny Schwaz sort of got him to do it in the first episode of the year, too.
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I really love the joy of Jim Rash in this episode. He's just having a great time.
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Arm_Fruit posted:I really love the joy of Jim Rash in this episode. He's just having a great time. Yeah I thought the same thing. The first segment is always fun when the guest is tickled by Scott's ridiculous interview style.
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Jim did the best first time WYR, he's extremely analytical.
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erezaka posted:although you can at least see some merit in buying overpriced health food compared Golden Bee posted:Jim did the best first time WYR, he's extremely analytical.
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Golden Bee posted:Jim did the best first time WYR, he's extremely analytical. Yes, that was awesome.
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erezaka posted:yeah i forgot about the word nom noms somehow. although you can at least see some merit in buying overpriced health food compared to figurines of your favorite pacific rim characters As a person whose manchild friend has loot crate, I can tell you that the 3rd tier garbage he tries to push on me as "gifts" are much worse than even that. Thanks for the terrible Marvel documentary and mini Star Lord toy, Alex, it definitely won't just rot in my closet until I find it again and throw it away. Naturebox, however, makes for great low-effort Christmas presents for people you know who are afraid of toxins.
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I was jonesing for a mention of brett butler and Im glad that Shelly and her have made up
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I love Naturebox, it doesn't really seem that overpriced to me?? Four bucks a bag for nuts is pretty normal around here.
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Borrowed Ladder posted:I love Naturebox, it doesn't really seem that overpriced to me?? Four bucks a bag for nuts is pretty normal around here. Where they getcha is in the granola and the big bag with 3 nom noms in it.
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Jan 21, 2015 05:42
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They have really cornered the market on those delicious nom noms.
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If you like the idea of Naturebox but want something better you should try Love With Food. I was kinda meh on Naturebox (and Graze) but LWF is really good. Pretty much everything I've gotten from them I've liked. Also if any of you watch QI, Claudia O'Doherty was on last week's episode.
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I really shouldn't have listened to this episode at the gym. "I got into a car accident once... at the gym" nearly killed me. It's been said before but Horatio's absentminded non sequiturs are a goddamn delight.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:I really shouldn't have listened to this episode at the gym. "I got into a car accident once... at the gym" nearly killed me. When he asked Scott if he shaved for christmas I just about lost it.
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The I4H episode that dropped today is a must-listen for Lauren Lapkus' drunk southern woman character.
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Thoogsby posted:The I4H episode that dropped today is a must-listen for Lauren Lapkus' drunk southern woman character. I've never been the biggest I4H fan but I have to listen each week because there's always an amazing YouTube video that I've yet to see. It's like Fogelnest Files lite.
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Whenever they play a great youtube video the improv scene after it is like a really bad cover version.
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Agreed for the most part, but oftentimes they use that as a basis and just sort of spin off that character into an entirely different scene. But often times they do not. I went back and relistened to a lot of early I4H episodes recently and found them so refreshing. No long rants by Besser, no musicians, no videos, no interviews, no case-closed yelling, just Twitter suggestions leading to funny scenes. I love alternate formats like the interview and whatnot for stage shows, but for a podcast I'm just looking to get bite-sized scenes, not have to skip over a song I don't care for every 5 minutes or keep skipping ahead to not hear Besser yelling about how adults shouldn't drink milk or whatever.
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feedmyleg posted:Agreed for the most part, but oftentimes they use that as a basis and just sort of spin off that character into an entirely different scene. But often times they do not. Yeah I agree totally. I almost feel the show would be better served with the scenes out of context, as the cover song analogy is super apt
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ImPureAwesome posted:Yeah I agree totally. I almost feel the show would be better served with the scenes out of context, as the cover song analogy is super apt I don't know, I think the callback is the foundation of this Del Close-y improv. You don't find the scenes as funny without the monologue (or youtube or whatever) or without the previous sketches. But I agree that the games spawned from the youtubes tend to be shallow, they don't do much with it, go with the first joke.
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ManoliIsFat posted:I don't know, I think the callback is the foundation of this Del Close-y improv. You don't find the scenes as funny without the monologue (or youtube or whatever) or without the previous sketches. But I agree that the games spawned from the youtubes tend to be shallow, they don't do much with it, go with the first joke. I think a lot of times the you tubes can can overwhelm with such a strong character or situation that it becomes really hard to cherry pick a game out of without just repeating the you tube. Especially since when you're pulling from a monologue you get one perspective and some detail and even if you basically repeat that verbatim you get something new out of someone reacting to it, which you don't in the youtubes a lot of time since it's already the entire situation rather than a description of it.
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I've always thought of The Harold as kind of easy since you get to agree with the audience what the joke is before you even actually do improv and then you just hammer the same spots over and over but it's probably insanely bad if you miss on the first beat lol. Well any way you slice it, improv is an easy art form for lazy people.
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ManoliIsFat posted:I don't know, I think the callback is the foundation of this Del Close-y improv. You don't find the scenes as funny without the monologue (or youtube or whatever) or without the previous sketches. But I agree that the games spawned from the youtubes tend to be shallow, they don't do much with it, go with the first joke. I agree, but the balance is completely off. If I go and see a UCB stage show, I get a 20-minute Harold based on a one word suggestion or story. With I4H, it's constantly stopping and starting to the point where some episodes are more chatting and ranting than scenes. e: Improv is not easy. At all. Go to any indie team show or 3rd-tier comedy theater and you'll see. Time and time again. Or take a class and spend 8 weeks watching terrible, terrible improv. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 07:13 on Jan 23, 2015 |
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Keven. Just. Keven posted:I've always thought of The Harold as kind of easy since you get to agree with the audience what the joke is before you even actually do improv and then you just hammer the same spots over and over but it's probably insanely bad if you miss on the first beat lol. Well any way you slice it, improv is an easy art form for lazy people. If you've seen enough improv you k ow it isn't easy because you've seen way too many people gently caress it.
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soggybagel posted:If you've seen enough improv you k ow it isn't easy because you've seen way too many people gently caress it. That's weird because I know your mom is easy because I've seen way too many prior people gently caress her.
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