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What is The Bugle (iTunes, RSS)? According to The Bugle wiki:quote:Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver, with the help of the comedy double act Oily and Schmaltz, first created the Bugle in the 1910’s, bringing two major innovations that hampered the earlier incarnations of the audio newspaper; an audio recording technology and English. These were added to the political and social satirical pillars of the others, while continuing the Audio tradition, to create a dynamic product that could be understood by the populace as well as listened to multiple times. Unfortunately the vestiges of the old Victorian society and the Catholic-Impala alliance kept success from Oliver and Zaltzman’s hands. The world just wasn’t ready for The Bugle, and the reactionary lobbies of the Pope and Impala ensured it remained that way. What is The Bugle really? It's a (usually) weekly podcast by John Oliver (who you may recognize from The Daily Show) and Andy Zaltzman and distributed by TimesOnline that takes a comedic look at current events. With Andy living in the UK and John being from there as well, things do tend to have a bit more focus on things happening in the UK, although they cover plenty of international news as well as things happening in the US. The podcast is largely just John and Andy, with their producer occasionally chiming in, and the occasional segment featuring The American (which tend to be fantastic). The podcast has a website here, but it's incredibly ugly and was thrown together basically to host a Coat of Arms contest they ran. There was a more professional albeit sparse website for the podcast that has since moved behind The Times of London's paywall. There's also The Bugle's twitter feed run by Andy. The New York Times recently ran an article about the podcast, Comedy Podcast Inside News Corp. Feasts on a Scandal, which pointed out, perhaps unhelpfully, the comments The Bugle were saying about their parent company. In the Bugle following that article's publication, John Oliver made a statement: quote:Welcome to any first-time Buglers who are here because they might have read The New York Times' story on us earlier this week. Basically, the story was questioning how on Earth Andy and I were able to get away with saying the things we did about Rupert Murdoch during the phone hacking scandal without this podcast being dissolved, which is a legitimate question. I'm guessing the truth is that he was never aware of it, but now that the story's in a newspaper that I'm guessing he reads cover to cover every day, I'm thinking there's an even smaller chance of us managing to not get fired now. So thanks very much, New York Times! Your trumpeting of this podcast may well turn into bugling the Last Post. I guess what I'm saying is—to our new listeners—'Hello and goodbye!' If you want a brief way of introducing yourself to The Bugle, there are a few "Best Of" style episodes produced somewhat recently, which are sorted chronogically and broken into 4 parts designated episodes 122a, 122b, 122g, and 122d. For anyone wondering what sort of numbering scheme that is, regular Bugle episodes get full numbers, and anything short of a full episode (ie, someone can't record that week, they're on vacation, etc) is made a sub-episode which has a numbering scheme that seems to only conform with whatever the hell they feel like naming it at the time. For someone who might want to listen to some single bits: John and Andy take time to talk with The American about health care reform and jet-skis Part 1 Part 2 John and Andy talk Stupid Buildings John and Andy discuss the release of Obama's birth certificate, birtherism, and Donald Trump If you hate yourself: Andy's long string of 31 puns regarding Lou Reed's dog concert And I would be remiss if I managed to post this somehow without taking a moment to say "gently caress you Chris". thefncrow fucked around with this message at 17:08 on May 17, 2012 |
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My favorite moments are when Andy breaks into a string of puns. Just the physical pain John Oliver is in during those is fantastic.
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Sep 22, 2011 01:12
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Wow, I love The Bugle and somehow completely forgot it existed. I sort of stopped listening when the The Times erected their paywall. The RSS feed always gave me problems but I just added it to my Google Listen queue and it seems to be working fine.
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Sep 22, 2011 03:58
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Thanks to The Bugle, I am unable to think of Silvio Berlusconi without hearing Episode 99. "SILVIO BERLUSCONI GETTING HIT IN THE FACE NEWS NOW! Is this a beautiful dream, Andy? Have I died and gone to heaven?" We are long overdue for another appearance by The American, though he's probably too busy scooting around on his jet ski to come into the studio.
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Sep 22, 2011 07:39
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One of the worst thing about the extended break is how we've missed hearing them talk about Berlusconi calling Italy a "lovely country".
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Sep 22, 2011 08:28
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I am another committed lover of the Bugle and just to add some content The Bugle Archive - All back episodes for your enjoyment gently caress you Chris! SoylentCola fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Sep 24, 2011 |
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Sep 22, 2011 13:41
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Mordiceius posted:My favorite moments are when Andy breaks into a string of puns. Just the physical pain John Oliver is in during those is fantastic. To be fair, I share John's pain every time Andy does this. The two play off each other very well, but Andy is the definition of forced, unfunny humour. At least to me, I mean.
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Sep 22, 2011 20:00
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Martytoof posted:To be fair, I share John's pain every time Andy does this. The two play off each other very well, but Andy is the definition of forced, unfunny humour. I kinda agree, but at the same time, it's so forced to the point that it actually becomes funny again. I'm basically with John on this, in that I'm sitting there laughing at it while going "Oh god, when is this going to end?" I mean, there's a reason I linked the dog pun run prefaced with "If you hate yourself".
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Sep 22, 2011 22:23
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I think the first few times Andy did it I laughed, but hundreds of episodes in now I start to find them just getting tiresome. It's not a big deal or anything, I'm certainly not going to stop listening because of it -- they're still a great duo. Their back and forth banter is amazing. Not even all Andy-isms bother me. He CAN be funny, it's just that one particular thing he does that I find so bluntly unamusing that it colours the way I talk about him 
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Sep 22, 2011 22:35
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Oddly enough, I find that forced humor (and it's reaction) some of the funniest bits of the Bugle. There's nothing funnier to me than someone utterly bombing, though. Coincidentally, their Fringe stuff lately has been great for me.
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Sep 23, 2011 01:01
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Andy is great, but his comedy styling requires an immense knowledge of cricket and snooker (which I do not know.)
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Sep 23, 2011 21:36
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The Bugle #167 is now available!Cabbit posted:Oddly enough, I find that forced humor (and it's reaction) some of the funniest bits of the Bugle. There's nothing funnier to me than someone utterly bombing, though. Coincidentally, their Fringe stuff lately has been great for me. Yeah, I think that's pretty much where I am. Like, I was going back and listening to some old bits after trying to dig up single bits for the top post and ran into Andy's North Korea puns. That thing is hysterical, because he's trying to make puns based off the names of North Korean cities that most people have never heard of, so after each pun he has to stop and give a quick explanation of what the hell he's talking about.
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Sep 23, 2011 21:42
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So when I subscribe to their RSS feed all that's available are shows from a year ago.
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Sep 25, 2011 04:59
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CommunistMojo posted:So when I subscribe to their RSS feed all that's available are shows from a year ago. http://podcast.timesonline.co.uk/rss/thebugle.rss ^m4a files the mp3 feed in the OP works, too.
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Sep 25, 2011 05:15
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The e-mails section this week was great: mocking the acceptance of The Smurfs in the Czech Republic, and "please stop sending us pictures of wangs." Plus a dig at News Corp!
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Sep 25, 2011 17:22
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I wonder if there will ever be a day when Andy will stop ripping on john for having been in the Love Guru? It's a great show and the Edinburgh episodes leave me yearning for a tour to the us.
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Sep 25, 2011 18:21
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Mordiceius posted:My favorite moments are when Andy breaks into a string of puns. Just the physical pain John Oliver is in during those is fantastic. I do remember one particular episode where John just sounded like he wanted to quit and end the podcast because Andy was making puns out of the names of countries. There's no way I'd be able to find it unless I listened through each podcast, but I know that I personally tapped out when he got to United Arab Emirates - You 'n I did a rap, am I right?
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Sep 26, 2011 01:03
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Mr. D Bewildering posted:I do remember one particular episode where John just sounded like he wanted to quit and end the podcast because Andy was making puns out of the names of countries. There's no way I'd be able to find it unless I listened through each podcast, but I know that I personally tapped out when he got to United Arab Emirates - You 'n I did a rap, am I right? That was Episode 133. Someone put it on Youtube. Here is the link. Edit: Listening to it again, I love how John reacts to it starting. Dezoth fucked around with this message at 13:16 on Sep 26, 2011 |
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Sep 26, 2011 13:10
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Personal favourite episode of this was number 69, in which they spent pretty much the entire 30 minutes joking about this. Literally, an entire half an hour of nothing but dick jokes. Probably my favourite podcast (and radio comedy show) ever 
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Sep 27, 2011 19:26
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What episodes would ya'll recommend from the early episodes (i.e. those not available now on iTunes) to have someone new to the podcast listen to? I know episode 69 is a good one, but I can't really decide on other ones.
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Sep 28, 2011 10:45
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gently caress you Chris.
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Sep 28, 2011 19:10
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Which one is the episode of the gadaffi rap? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw4dMSo3rRQ
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Sep 28, 2011 22:01
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Lamadrid posted:Which one is the episode of the gadaffi rap? I was trying to find the source of that when I made the OP, actually. The first time The Bugle covers that Gadaffi speech at the UN is in Episode 90 - Bring on the Crazy, Gaddafi!, but that episode has John calling in on the phone, so I know it's not from there. They talk about the speech again in Episode 91, but it's not there either. I know the version put to music is in Episode 99 subepisode 2, the Music Spectacular, so it's clearly from something in the 90s, but I haven't sat down to relisten to that range to figure out which episode it's from. EDIT: Hey, I found it. It's in the email section in #92, 22 minutes in. A listener later cut that up and produced the musical version you linked. Dezoth posted:What episodes would ya'll recommend from the early episodes (i.e. those not available now on iTunes) to have someone new to the podcast listen to? I know episode 69 is a good one, but I can't really decide on other ones. I was actually going to go back and relisten to a few of these to try to point out a couple of good old episodes, but I haven't gotten around to doing so. But, from a somewhat vague memory and looking at episode titles, I'd suggest: Episode 13 - Sark gets democracy after 443 years Episode 22 - Hugo Crackers From Caracas Chavez Episode 24 - Was Stonehenge an ancient tax dodge? (featuring The Greatest Email Ever Sent) Episode 30 - Volcano Porn The Real Episode 55 - Shooting One's Own Leg That last one is pretty much classic, as John and Andy have a field day with the story of Plaxico Burress shooting himself in the leg with an illegal gun that he was carrying at a nightclub in the waistband of a pair of sweatpants. thefncrow fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Sep 29, 2011 |
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Sep 28, 2011 23:48
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Dezoth posted:What episodes would ya'll recommend from the early episodes (i.e. those not available now on iTunes) to have someone new to the podcast listen to? I know episode 69 is a good one, but I can't really decide on other ones. I think episode 56 (54?) is the one with Andy delivering his son. That's a story that has never gotten old to me.
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Sep 29, 2011 03:06
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ieatsoap6 posted:I think episode 56 (54?) is the one with Andy delivering his son. That's a story that has never gotten old to me. It's 56 or 57. I was listening to 55 again earlier to listen to the Plaxico bit and the forecast at the end of that was whether Andy would have 1 or 2 kids next week. I kinda half-remember that they end up reusing that forecast, so I'm thinking 57, but probably one of those two. thefncrow fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Sep 29, 2011 |
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Sep 29, 2011 04:26
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This might be the greatest thing that ever happened on the Bugle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxiAe3ULuxI Andy taking on the concert for dogs. Cold and wet weaver...
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Oct 8, 2011 04:14
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I just listened to this for the first time earlier (completely independent of your post)! I didn't understand "Cold and Wet Weaver" until just now  "She talks rot while her..."
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Oct 8, 2011 04:19
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It took me a while too, but it killed me the second time
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Oct 8, 2011 04:21
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This show is just consistently good . You're doing yourself a major disservice by skipping over some of the older ones -the now sadly disbanded "Hotties from history" segment was unfailingly funny.
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Oct 9, 2011 00:57
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Sinister Cyclist posted:This show is just consistently good . You're doing yourself a major disservice by skipping over some of the older ones -the now sadly disbanded "Hotties from history" segment was unfailingly funny. And John's intense dislike of the audio cryptic crossword puzzles!
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Oct 9, 2011 02:21
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slartibartfast posted:And John's intense dislike of the audio cryptic crossword puzzles! I'm convinced John's obvious hatred of certain bits makes them that much funnier. His groans and snide comments whenever he realizes Andy has launched into a string of puns never fails to crack me up.
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Oct 9, 2011 05:10
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I like that a lot of the material they haven't shared with each other - every pun run just pisses john off more.
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Oct 9, 2011 05:45
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Jet Jaguar posted:Thanks to The Bugle, I am unable to think of Silvio Berlusconi without hearing Episode 99. "SILVIO BERLUSCONI GETTING HIT IN THE FACE NEWS NOW! Is this a beautiful dream, Andy? Have I died and gone to heaven?" Whenever I'm feeling down or having a rough day, nothing makes it better than listening to the pure and unadulterated glee that is in John and Andy's voice as they talk about Berlusconi's facial encounter with a miniature replica of Milan Cathedral. I have such an unhealthy obsession with The Bugle, and have for a long time. Like Law & Order episodes, I'm physically unable to tire of them. I've probably listened to each one at least six times. It's perfect background noise for housework or playing games. Pun runs empower me in League of Legends. Try it sometime! P.S. gently caress you Chris.
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Oct 9, 2011 06:14
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A serious gently caress you Chris for the loud noise he's put at the beginning of the last few episodes. Never fails to make me jump.
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Oct 9, 2011 11:35
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gently caress You Chris for not evening out the audio in general. The little bits of music between segments are way louder than the segments, which you don't totally appreciate until you have your mp3 player at max volume so you can hear them talking while walking to work and then DUUUUND A DUN NA NA NA NA NA NANANANANAAAAAAAAAAAAA my ears, oh god.
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Oct 10, 2011 02:15
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This is a podcast from the Times. gently caress you Chris.
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Oct 13, 2011 16:12
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Well I for one am glad that Andy didn't get eaten by a shark.
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Oct 14, 2011 17:19
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Well I for one am glad that Andy didn't get eaten by a shark. Don't you remember Mossad's shark attacks in Egypt? They're clearly in league with the Jews.
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Oct 14, 2011 18:17
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Huzzah, new Bugle #168! So the break over the past couple weeks was actually due to John's nuptials, didn't realize that.
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Fianlly! A fesh 'gle! You know it's been too long when they've run out of offcuts to use. Though the opening minutes make me feel churlish for being impatient. e:fb
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