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Groucho Marxist posted:Calling something overrated isn't the same thing as calling it bad This is extremely true. The Ape of Naples posted:This is all pretty true but I've long since learned that Louie is one of those sacred cows that you can't really criticize. It's a no win situation. In the end some one will say "you just don't get it". There are times when Louie is a magical, great show and there are other times when it falls flat on its face. I think that's just the nature of the beast when you try to make a show that is so unpredictable and malleable and eccentric. I totally applaud CK's ideas and intention there are just times when it misses the mark by a mile. In general, people don't like nuance. There's a very strong "you're either with us or you're against us" streak in human nature, where people can't agree on some issues and disagree on others. For many people, one "wrong" opinion is enough to make you The Enemy. And nuanced criticism? This is a terrible example, but gamers who are fans of particular games will throw enormous hissy fits and tantrums if a reviewer is less than 100% glowing about their favorite game. People want you to say "this is good" or "this is bad"; not anything more complicated than that.
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King Lou posted:Well, Lou Reads the Internet for You! didn't make it to the top 10 this year but a podcast I've been on and one I was cut from made it... so theres that. There's a cartoon of Judge John Hodgman at the top of the article, but he didn't make the list? 
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toanoradian posted:On the same vein, where should I start with Judge John Hodgman? Don't start at the very beginning. It took them a few months to get their poo poo together. (Although some of the early episodes are funny because they're so stupid, like "are machine guns robots".) Maybe avoid episodes with guest witnesses/bailiffs right at the start, because some of the joke of those is that they're different from the usual setup.
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Dec 10, 2013 12:33
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Nemo posted:Episode 10 - The Conetractual Dispute is one of the best early episodes of the show. It's about a tangible dispute and the litigants are from Portland. Some of the best JJHO episodes are about John making fun of groan-worthy hipsters. I got most of the way through Episode 132: Criminal In Tent this morning, and it's wonderful. So far it's been 95% laughing at hipster idiots from Oregon. 
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De Nomolos posted:I read the thread and found the JJH episode recommended to be highly enjoyable. ****, would listen again. Have you given The Bugle a try? It's my favoritest. (Judge John Hodgman is second. Third place is a confusing tie between three or four others.)
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King Lou posted:Making a documentary costs a lot of money. They have access to the podcast makers but not to free editors, camera people, lights, cameras, computers, software, music libraries, media storage, travel costs, publicity people, etc... Yes its LA and yes there are a lot of idle production people but getting people to work for free on your passion project is not so simple. Having made an indie feature film (it's bad) in the mid-90's for $40k, its not easy. It's cool they want to make that film. There was definitely an explosion of comedians making podcast for a while there. For a surprisingly-informative look at how much it costs to make a film, you could read Joe Queenan's "The Unkindest Cut": http://www.amazon.com/The-Unkindest-Cut-Joe-Queenan/dp/0786860901 -- The book is some years old, but it's still a good read. And Queenan is great at cruel humor, even at his own expense.
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Jan 21, 2014 14:58
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JohnnyCanuck posted:Hey Lou, do you want to read insufferable geeks whining about their treatment on a tabletop gaming board? Since when is it not okay to call My Little Pony watchers "douchebags"? 
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Jan 22, 2014 20:37
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I've listened to one episode of Harmontown (the latest one, back when they were working on the GI Joe episode of Community), and liked it a lot. Should I start plowing through the archives, or is it not consistently excellent?
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May 8, 2014 23:11
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pretty soft girl posted:I suspect people like him and Klausner are just severely out of touch and think social media is an extension of the stage where hecklers aren't allowed. It didn't surprise me that Patton has the emotional maturity of Jamie Kennedy but it sure did disappoint me. I saw him perform a couple of months ago, and there was an incredibly annoying heckler/drunk in the audience. I thought he handled it really well and made it fun for the rest of the audience. 
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I'm a couple of months behind on International Waters, but whoever decided "Speed Racist" would be a good name for a TV show is a genius. 
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Oct 1, 2014 11:57
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Crankit posted:With the NSTAAF podcast, it's a bit like QI just a bunch of random stuff so pick one it doesn't matter, with Greg Proops make sure you listen to one in front of a live audience, they're fairly consistent in quality, i don't have any particular faves. My first Proopscast was one without an audience, and as a result, the rest of them have felt slightly weird. (It's good stuff -- not arguing that.)
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Oct 30, 2014 18:36
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Ariza posted:I'm sure I'm in the minority on this board, but I really dig Race Wars. I saw a standup special from Metzger and surprisingly it pretty good. I've never heard Sherrod on anything else, but Hannibal, Attell, and Artie are great. Speaking of Artie, has he said anything else about his new podcast? I don't know if it's calculated or not, but Artie's gotten his name in the news the last few days.
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Nov 8, 2014 00:43
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Asterios posted:I was just a guest on two pretty hilarious podcasts: Maddox's The Biggest Problem In The Universe and International Waters with The Bugle's Andy Zaltzman. "...it's no wonder they were Tenzing up."  Zaltor in fine form there.
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Nov 22, 2014 00:43
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Crankit posted:I've considered this before, I think Proops slips into the boring preachy part more easily than Todd does, and does the whole thing more fluidly and eloquently. I listen to Greg's Boring and Preachy part, but probably close to half the time skip Todd's rants. The nice thing about the boring-and-preachy part is that Proops is interesting and funny enough that it's usually not that boring.
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Dec 13, 2014 12:08
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Crankit posted:that's almost exactly what i was hinting at but i didn't wanna seem like i was being rude about todd I've never listened to Todd Glass, so I don't want to make it look like I was putting him down at all. I just wanted to make it clear to anyone reading that Proops's "boring, preachy parts" are a lot better than you'd think, given their name. 
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Dec 15, 2014 13:31
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poorlifedecision posted:I've been listening to The Worst Episode Ever (A Simpsons Podcast) a bunch recently. By virtue of being about The Simpsons and exploring the non-classic episodes it's a pretty funny podcast, but the hosts are funny as well. Although now I'm watching way more new Simpsons episodes than I ever thought I would. The latest episode looks pretty good -- it's the only one where I've actually seen the episode (  ), and I distinctly remember it as part of the reason I stopped watching the Simpsons. Will check this out. 
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Beeez posted:People don't like They Might Be Giants? Bad people.
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wafflesnsegways posted:Did those episodes really do something like this? This isn't ads, this is sponsored content, the scourge of the 2010s. It's 45 minutes of pizza roll based discussion. The Community episodes sponsored by KFC and Subway were pretty great.
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Jul 23, 2015 16:42
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James Adomian was on the latest Harmontown to do his Bernie Sanders impression, and it's not funny to me at all. Has anybody else heard this? I'm thinking maybe I don't think it's funny because I actually like Sanders, and I need a reality check.
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AFewBricksShy posted:The newest Mohr Stories is pretty terrible. For a good ten seconds, I was wondering how he crawled out of the grave. (Ron Ziegler was a Nixon sidekick who died in 2003.) 
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May 17, 2016 14:53
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Jimbozig posted:So I've been listening to Judge John Hodgman for a while, and he's usually pretty good at finding compromise, but this latest ruling made me lose a huge amount of respect for him. (If there's a different thread to talk about JJH instead of this one, let me know.) Thanks so very much for making Hodgman seem like an rear end in a top hat. Great job.  
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Jul 23, 2016 11:10
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LampkinsMateSteve posted:Already gone. What was the drama? https://twitter.com/JenKirkman/status/761588007006633986
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Ches Neckbeard posted:Has Jen ever seen a tweet that she didn't want to fight about? Do people tweet her not wanting a fight or gently caress with her? I think she's great, and I don't know what it's like to be on the receiving end of that kind of treatment, but I sometimes think something along these lines. 
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ElCondemn posted:Having a kid to spite an author you don't enjoy seems pretty petty. I would be pissed if I found out I had been that kid.
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Mst3kmann posted:Listened to the episode, and his reaction was to blame everybody else except, you know, Hillary herself. It started off as a typical episode for a while, but once he compared Trump to his abusive father (which I'm not even sure if he's talked about on stage before), it was off to the races. I don't know if he talked about his father being abusive, but he did sound distant and the only way he and Greg got along was by going to baseball games.
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perceptron posted:The mental gymnastics Proops manages to do with his anti Bernie poo poo is ridiculous. He's not still doing that, is he? I stopped listening during the election, and I was thinking about (finally) coming back to it. 
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