Baby Episode #4

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Comedy on Vinyl

More coming soon, including a special cross-over episode to introduce a new podcast on the StolenDress Network. This is a little placeholder until the next episode.

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Episode 33 – Live! With David Anthony Higgins and James Urbaniak on The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Comedy on Vinyl

I will remember Memorial Day 2012 as a night of nerddom. Look at that picture. Even Jeremy is wearing thick-rimmed glasses in spirit. This week, we talk with two of my favorite character actors of all time, David Anthony Higgins and James Urbaniak. Jeremy is one of those, too, but he’s too much of a regular to really emphasize. That’s a lie – I was so busy being amazed, Jeremy does most of the talking.

This is just an amazing, insane album from the gents at Monty Python with a HIDDEN SIDE to it. It will go down in history simply for having two tracks side-by-side, so designed that the listener was likely to hear something different each time, causing innumerable aneurysms. It gives us the best version of the Cheese Shop sketch, and it also was originally packaged as the free gift with an actual matching tie and handkerchief. You don’t get albums-as-art anymore, so it’s a treasure.

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Host: Jason Klamm

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This Week’s Guests: David Anthony Higgins, James Urbaniak & Jeremy Guskin
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Episode 32 – Jonah Ray on Emo Philips – E Equals MO Squared

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Comedy on Vinyl

It’s been a long time coming, but Jonah Ray is finally on the podcast. It’s highly unlikely you’ve never heard of The Nerdist, but if you haven’t, it’s pretty much the best podcast out there. As a standup, vinyl comedy was part of his education, and Jonah talks to us this week about Emo Philips’ brilliant E=MO Squared. We also get in a little talky-talk about his new 10″ white vinyl record “Hello, Mr. Magic Plane Person, Hello.” It was a HUGE thrill.

I forgot to admit this to Jonah, but I was – for a brief period – under the misapprehension that the term “emo,” usually used to torture nerds with extra hair, was somehow linked back to Emo Philips. Like Jonah, my first exposure to Emo’s weirdness was the classic Weird Al vehicle UHF. It wasn’t until Jonah’s recommendation that I first listened to what is now some of my favorite wordplay and weird character comedy. I’m over simplifying it, but it is wonderfully brilliant and worth a listen, especially if you’ve already sampled the more “traditional” fare, like Cosby, Carlin or Newhart.

DON’T FORGET!! Comedy on Vinyl is live again! At IO West, May 28th at 7:30 PM – Tickets are ONLY $5! Buy your tickets here! http://goo.gl/WXtMC You can get two for 1 tickets at the door if you show the facebook invite! Also, please RSVP on the Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/324418240957450/

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Host: Jason Klamm

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This Week’s Guest: Jonah Ray
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Emo’s Official Site: http://www.emophilips.com/
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Episode 31 – Scott Aukerman on Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks at the Cannes Film Festival

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Comedy on Vinyl

Improvised interviews. They’re nothing new, but Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks perfected it as an art form. They made a number of albums as interviewer and interviewee, and the current generation of podcasters owes them a huge debt.

This week, we speak with none other than Scott Aukerman. Host of the Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast and upcoming TV show, as well as a writer for Mr. Show and director of Between Two Ferns, Scott’s work on his podcast network is clearly influenced by Carl and Mel’s best work. He and his insanely brilliant guests improvise long-form host/guest pieces that will usually blow your mind. Listen in to exactly why Scott thinks you need to sit down and given this album a listen.

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Host: Jason Klamm

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This Week’s Guest: Scott Aukerman
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Episode 30 – Cole Stratton on Albert Brooks – A Star is Bought

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Comedy on Vinyl

This week we talk about a new favorite – Albert Brooks’ “A Star is Bought.” Meta before people were using that term to describe the brilliantly, intentionally redundant and self-referential kind of work you find on this album. We had difficulty finding stand-alone clips, because this is such an album experience, but its more than worth it.

It comes to us courtesy of vinyl comedy connoisseur Mr. Cole Stratton. Co-host of the Pop My Culture Podcast and co-creator of SF Sketch Fest, he’s a man of pure comedy tastes. Listen to him… taste comedy? No. But he’s got some great things to say.

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This Week’s Guest: Cole Stratton
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Episode 29 – Dave Holmes on National Lampoon’s “That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick”

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Comedy on Vinyl

National Lampoon was, in its heyday, on the forefront of sketch comedy. This album proves it, and for many it was the first time hearing some of these up-and-coming comedians who are now household names – Bill Murray, Christopher Guest, Richard Belzer, Laraine Newman – and the list goes on.

And the man who brings the album to our collective attention this week is one Mr. Dave Holmes. Host of “A Drink With Dave,” and “How Many People Does it Take” on H2, to name just two of his many projects, Dave tells us how this shaped his idea of comedy, and we’re all the better for it in the end. Take a listen.

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Episode 28 – Matt Knudsen on Andrew Dice Clay – Dice Rules

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Comedy on Vinyl

If it were any other album, I’d apologize for there being only one clip in this episode. But this album is not what you might call the greatest of the great. But it has a special place in Matt Knudsen’s heart.

You’ve seen him on Conan and all over your TV. Matt Knudsen has a remarkably clean act for a guy who wants to talk about Dice, and that’s what makes this such a fun episode – it’s not his act. Listen to Matt talk about his influences, comedy in general, and a little about Dice.

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This Week’s Guest: Matt Knudsen
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Episode 27 – Amy Phillips on Dana Carvey

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Comedy on Vinyl

This week we talk impressions with the awesome Amy Phillips. We take some liberties with the vinyl aspect to talk about one of her greatest influences – and one of ours – Dana Carvey.

Whether you’re an SNL fan or not, you have to appreciate his skill. I’ve picked a few random clips (those that were available online) but there is SO much more to find in his HBO specials, his SNL best of, and The Dana Carvey show, which gave us – besides great sketches – Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell.

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Episode 26 – Jordan Morris on TMBG – Flood

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Comedy on Vinyl

They may not be comedians, but the biting wit of They Might Be Giants makes them the perfect subject for this latest episode. Talk of dark humor abounds in this episode, featuring the great Jordan Morris, who holds one of the Fort Awesome cats, Raine, in the photo to the right.

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This Week’s Guests: Jordan Morris & Jen

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Episode 25 – Die Hard, A Drinking Game

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Comedy on Vinyl

Joe Nicchi (Karl), Anthony Lerner (John McClane) and Natalie Lynch (Holly McClane) in 'Die Hard, A Drinking Game'

Once a month, I’m part of an undeniably awesome theater experience. Since November of 2011, “A Drinking Game” has taken live stage readings of the best films of the 80s and combined them with a custom drinking game for each film. Not only does the audience drink along – so do the actors. It’s been so successful, it recently spun off into a satellite show in Minneapolis. I’m so lucky to get to work with these people, that I wanted you to meet as many of them as I could squeeze in before we had to get started this last Saturday during “Die Hard,” in which I played Hans Gruber.

Brett Schlank - A Drinking Game's Emcee

First up is Brett Schlank. Co-creator (with Natalie Lynch, pictured above) of A Drinking Game and one of my favorite people, Brett comes from a long line of entertainers. He talks with me for a few minutes about Bob and Doug McKenzie’s “Great White North.”

Next is Joe Nicchi. Not only is he hilarious, but his experience with stand-up comedy is unique – he practically grew up in his father’s comedy club. He talks about Mitch Hedburg, being chauffeur to the comics, and what it’s like to see the best comics we’ve never heard of.

Anthony Lerner is the star of this month’s show. He and I were at least twice enemies – he as Biff Tannen and I as Marty McFly, he as Westley and I as Vizzini & Count Rugen. This week, it happens again, as we square off and he sends me to my death that will catch up with him two drinking games later. Anthony opens up about his love of Bill Cosby and comedy in general, as well as having to say “fuck” a lot.

Alex Salem as Al Powell

I met Alex Salem when he first rehearsed with us for “Ghostbusters,” in which he played Winston Zeddemore. In “Die Hard,” he plays Al Powell (or, as our audience referred to him regularly, Carl Winslow) with aplomb. This week, he takes some time to talk with me about listening to David Cross.

The Cast of Die Hard: A Drinking Game

A thank you to the entire cast and crew for an amazing show. Jaymes Wheeler, Alyson King Wheeler, Joe Nicchi, Anthony Lerner, Natalie Lynch, Jeremy Guskin, Alex Salem and Brett Schlank, as well as Justin Wheeler and Jen.

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