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Annabel Pee posted:The guy (sorry I never pick up on anyone's names) saying he was considering not revealing the amoeba bit if the first part went better was a hilarious example of that behind the scenes stuff. That was Will Hines
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Mr. Squishy posted:One newish Scott bit I really like is openly criticising his guests improv. Near the end of a character segment he'll say "and is that everything?" and the guest tends to wither. Love the “so you’re from the south?” for any character Drew Target plays
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Will Hines getting bullied into a different story is one of my favorite features of the show.
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His character getting accused of being a murderer each episode of You Can't Handle the Sleuths is also very funny.
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And how he Yes, And-ed his way into admitting to murder in the second episode and has been struggling to reconcile his innocence ever since.
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Something about Carl Tart’s Barkley makes me so happy
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I always skip the best of clips in the best ofs. It's just Scott and Paul being particularly deranged.
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Besson posted:Something about Carl Tart’s Barkley makes me so happy Same, I think the first I heard him was his guest appearance on You can't handle the sleuths, the way he says "I'm a sleuth" is just so pure
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Interesting that Jason requested Bob Ducca. I hope that means he's a fan of him. I guess he wouldn't be in all those episodes of Full Throttle if he wasn't.
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Dec 19, 2022 20:42
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"Number one. Seven." "Now... I need to address the elephant in the room."
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https://twitter.com/ohlode/status/1...ingawful.com%2F Found Shimmy irl.
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Big Mouth Billy Basshole posted:https://twitter.com/ohlode/status/1...ingawful.com%2F Me, seeing that meal: Gotta go!
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I don't eat or cook a lot of seafood but that's a lot of butter right
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Ainsley McTree posted:I don't eat or cook a lot of seafood but that's a lot of butter right He definitely just used the "Tablespoon" demarcations on the wrapper ("That's clearly meant to be a serving size" in his crappy Shimmy voice)
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Ainsley McTree posted:I don't eat or cook a lot of seafood but that's a lot of butter right That’s like half a stick of butter when he needs like a tablespoon at most
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It’s been a while (ahem) but I remember Mary Holland’s segment being way funnier than Lauren’s on that Fourdom episode for the clip they used.
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Likely unpopular opinion: I think the Calvins Twins have been a textbook case of diminishing returns. An all-time original appearance, and then every revisit just serves to complicate the premise while chipping away at what made it work originally (Two idiots who devote their lives to a shared love of seeing horses fight to the death. You gotta laugh!)
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My really unpopular opinion is I never found the Calvin Twins funny (except for the catchphrase), and I don't really like most Shaun Diston characters.
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JethroMcB posted:Likely unpopular opinion: I think the Calvins Twins have been a textbook case of diminishing returns. An all-time original appearance, and then every revisit just serves to complicate the premise while chipping away at what made it work originally (Two idiots who devote their lives to a shared love of seeing horses fight to the death. You gotta laugh!) It’s like that with pretty much all the recurring episodes of CBB. I get why you’d want to do that, but it’s always diminishing returns and plus it gets to the point where I’d rather have these guys that I find really funny doing something else together rather than rehashing the same bits.
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Nichael posted:My really unpopular opinion is I never found the Calvin Twins funny (except for the catchphrase), and I don't really like most Shaun Diston characters. This. And also I'll definitely be skipping the first snow of the year because I like Schwartz but he and Scott are annoying together.
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Yeah I've never been a solo bolo fan, but I think those ones have always been divisive
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I love Solo Bolo because Scott often finds a new way to get Schwartz's projects wrong. And I just love Schwartz in general.
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Is it definitely a solo bolo? I get not having Horatio back but surely there's plenty of other guests instead. Last year's New Year's show was an all-timer
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The Senator Giroux posted:It’s like that with pretty much all the recurring episodes of CBB. I get why you’d want to do that, but it’s always diminishing returns and plus it gets to the point where I’d rather have these guys that I find really funny doing something else together rather than rehashing the same bits. Time Bobby is probably the biggest example of this for me, especially when it got to the point that Scott would steer Moynihan into being Fourvel. I think Todd stayed fairly fresh, though. I also don’t really like the Solo Bolos but I’ll listen to this New Year’s given last year’s was so great.
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Chairman Capone posted:Time Bobby is probably the biggest example of this for me, especially when it got to the point that Scott would steer Moynihan into being Fourvel. I think Todd stayed fairly fresh, though. I think there's a difference between characters like Todd coming back repeatedly and entire show concepts, like the Calvins Twins or Time Bobby. Single characters get the benefit of interacting with new people. (Farts and Procreation is an exception to this. The first one is the best but every other one is pretty drat close.)
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I like the Time Bobby episodes because I'm a simpleton, and it's forever cursed "It's been" for me.
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feedmyleg posted:This. And also I'll definitely be skipping the first snow of the year because I like Schwartz but he and Scott are annoying together. I wish they'd stop making the plug bag themes. They're always awful.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:I wish they'd stop making the plug bag themes. They're always awful. Oh no.
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I was listening to the PFT tribute panel at SF Sketchfest 2019 and Carla Cackowski (as an audience member) asked how he got so good at improv, given that he has no training. I'd never thought about that before, but jeez.
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he's "street smart" (Tompkins, Paul F., Freak Wharf, A Special Thing Records, 2009.)
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he's my favorite comedian and I'm glad he is the Mayor of Podcasts
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Kind of makes you wonder how much "improv training" is horseshit, doesn't it?
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I think a big key to PFT is that he seems to focus on making sure the people he's performing with are having fun rather than fighting them for laughs.
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If practice makes perfect then his 99,999+ hours of podcasting has definitely been some practice!
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Two episodes of the Batmin show in a row while I’m patiently waiting for a Hey Randy Christmas special or something? Rude. (I’m sure it’s good, I haven’t had time to get into it yet.)
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The first Batmin is so-so but the second is an absolute home run with an audio drop gag that's so good, they should have ended the episode early (Referencing the Richard Gere urban legend and IMMEDIATELY hitting a cut-off version of the Batman '66 scene transition sting.)
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SpacePig posted:I think a big key to PFT is that he seems to focus on making sure the people he's performing with are having fun rather than fighting them for laughs. This is more or less one of the core tenets of improv training.
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There is a benefit to improv training that has nothing to do with actually teaching improv techniques. A good teacher will call out the bad habits of students and let them know they shouldn't respond to someones offer with "No, you're crazy and I've got a gun so you better respect mah authoritah!, now watch this wacky dance!" Half of intro improv classes are introverts trying to get out of their shell, and the other half are people that think the class is a competition that they must dominate. They have a zero sum laugh mentality, which shockingly isn't good for creating laughs.
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feedmyleg posted:This is more or less one of the core tenets of improv training. someone should tell Besser
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