Joe Mande Willing To Do Podcast For a Million Dollars
Joe Mande has drafted a project in Kickstarter, meaning it has yet to be approved and subsequently launched, that poses the idea of Mande doing a podcast so long as he gets a million dollars.
If you pledge $1,000 dollars, Mande says, “I’ll mention your name on the podcast or something who cares.”
Whether or not this launches, Mande continues to game the Internet and we love it.
Joe DeRosa Has a New Podcast “Down With Joe DeRosa”
If you’re not aware, Joe DeRosa is 1) incredibly funny and 2) just started a podcast called Down with DeRosa.
The first two episodes are with Pete Holmes and Kurt Braunohler and we think just that should be enough for you want to give it a listen, so check it out already.
The LA Podcast Festival Is Returning at the End of September
The great LA Podcast Festival is back for its 3rd year and already, months and months away, we can’t wait.
If you’re not familiar with what happens, familiarize yourself with our recap of last year’s festivities.
The podcast where Andy Daly and Matt Gourley take a closer look at “podcast pilots” to see how they would stand on their own two feet has finally arrived on Earwolf.
The first episode of The Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project has a poet laureate, so yeah, go and listen already.
The Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project and Review Coming in Feb/Mar.
You might have heard that the amazing Andy Daly has a brand new podcast coming up at Earwolf called The Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project as well as his upcoming Comedy Central series Review premiering soon.
Well, you can replace “soon” with Thurs. Feb. 6th for The Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project and Thurs. Mar. 6th 10PM for Review. Make event reminders for both ASAP even though you have several weeks to do so.
Never Not Funny with Jimmy Pardo Moving to Earwolf
That’s right, the trailblazing podcast known as Never Not Funny with Jimmy Pardo, which you had to pay to listen to, is now moving to Earwolf and will be free to all to listen to.
Only a select few (Conan O’Brien, Patton Oswalt, SF Sketchfest, Scott Aukerman) are up from the hundreds upon hundreds of episodes Pardo’s recorded, but we’re sure you’re like us in being excited for Pardo goodness for all.
We have all been waiting patiently, but Eddie Pepitone’s solo podcast Pep Talks at All Things Comedy is finally here. Not to disappoint with a first episode, Eddie has James Adomian and Edward Snowden as guests to make fun of the world going to pieces.
Listen, laugh, subscribe, share, repeat to Pep Talks here.
The very funny Matt Knudsen is starting a podcast where he has lunch with other funny people like Myq Kaplan, Howard Kremer, Todd Glass, Jackie Kashian, Erin Foley, Eddie Pepitone, Kyle Kinane, Ron Funches, Moshe Kasher, Matt Braunger, Kurt Braunohler, and records the conversation.
Matt’s sharp as a tack as you can see in this Conan set and we have no that the podcast will feature a lot of guests delaying eating their food for having too much fun.
Take a listen to Grabbing Lunch with Matt Knudsen here.
Oct. 4th-6th isn’t that far away.
It’s actually next week if you were trying to do the math in your head and you definitely get your passes/tickets to The 2nd Los Angeles Podcast Festivalhappening that very weekend. It will now have an episode of one the fastest rising podcasts, Welcome to Night Vale featuring the voice of James Urbaniak, a giant podcast stand up show w/Dana Gould, Marc Maron, Baron Vaughn, Jake Johanssen, Wil Anderson, Karen Kilgariff, and more, an episode of The Fogelnest Files with special guest Andy Richter.
That’s in addition to the already stellar schedule including live tapings of WTF!, Walking The Room, Never Not Funny, Jordan, Jesse, GO!, The Dork Forest, The Crab Feast, and more. So go get your tickets already.
The LA Podcast Festival to Offer Podcast Lab Where You Can Podcast with Festival Podcasters
You read that right. The upcoming LA Podcast Festival happening Oct. 4-6th (tickets are on sale now) is also featuring a Podcast Lab sponsored by Squarespace where, if you bring your own equipment, you can do a podcast with many of the festival guests podcasters.
In short, Marc Maron might just make fun of your podcast on your podcast.
Eban Schletter Launches Fantastical Musicorium Podcast
The comedic musical talents of Eban Schletter have finally found their way to a podcast as Schletter has just launched a podcast “Fantastical Musicorium” featuring original music by him that are, new, deep cuts, and everything in between.
Given that Eban is Paul F. Tompkins piano player on many occasions, there’s a good chance, we’d say, of great music coupled with some brilliant silliness to come through, so give Fantastical Musicorium a listen.
The Westside Comedy Theater Launching Its Own Comedy Podcast Network
Whether the dust is still being rustled up or clearing from the comedy podcast boom is unsure, but the model of gathering podcasts under the umbrella of a network seems to be a worthwhile path for the medium right now.
Next week, Santa Monica’s Westside Comedy Theater is starting its very own podcast network with many really funny comedians that have made their way through the LA comedy scene over the last few years including: Rob Gleeson, Mr. Goodnight, Tom Sibley, Josh Covitt, Chase Bernstein, Tushar Singh, Neel Nanda and more.
They’re having a free launch party next week on Thurs. to meet all their new podcasters at 7PM if you’re curious (and we’re suggesting that you should be)
The very funny Candice Thompson and Brenda Colonna are branching out for their sketch group/series Creepy Caress to have a podcast at the Toadhop Network. Somewhat along the lines of a traditional radio show (it will stream every Thursday at 5PM PST) and a fresh departure from comedians just talking about comedy with other comedians, there will be sketches, guest comedians/artists riffing, and an anti-talk show aspect (we’re not sure if that means destroying desks like Eric Andre does on The Eric Andre Show, but we’re sure it’ll be a lot of fun).
Offarious (yes, that’s the melding of offensive and hilarious) launches today at 5PM and you can subscribe here.
This Better Be Funny Podcast: This Better Be Funny Ep. 82 Despicable Edition with Sean O’Connor
Another episode of This Better Be Funny mini-series “Despicable Edition”where we have a guest square off with co-host Jeremy Paul, who admitted to basically being a baby boxing promoter, in a “despicable/embarrassing story off” is here. This week, Sean O’Connor (Conan), a man who told off Bon Jovi, who has a pretty formidable tale in one of the worst girlfriends ever by virtue of the fact that she tried to frame him for a felony.
Listen to how Sean survived that, what Jeremy will admit to from his past, what story wins based off Jake’s decision/possible bias against his co-host, and if Sean wins a cassette tape of David Gray (Yep, that’s what he was playing for).
Eddie Pepitone to Launch Podcast Where He Rants Solo
For a long, the brilliant Eddie Pepitone put his hat in the podcast ring with The Longshot Podcast, but is now venturing off on his own to make his own podcast where he rants about things, which is kind of Pepitone’s speciality.
Pep Talks with The Bitter Buddha Eddie Pepitone will launch next month, so get ready for some of the funniest yelling about anything and everything you’ve ever heard.
This Better Be Funny Ep. 81 Despicable Edition with Sean Patton
One of Jake and Jeremy’s favorite guests, the hilarious Sean Patton, who you should know from Conan, Fallon, Comedy Central, and more joins in for The Despicable Edition of This Better Be Funny. The “shameless story off" pits a really twisted story of an ex-girlfriend vs. really underground illegal boxing. What’s illegal and what’s twisted and who is telling which story AND does Sean win the prize of a cassette tape of his choice?
You’ll just have to listen to find out.
Also, you should listen because Jake got his car towed while recording this episode making it probably among the most expensive podcast episodes ever produced
We’ve been doing our podcast, This Better Be Funny, for over a year now and while we’ve enjoyed riffing it out with some of the funniest comedians we can catch at anywhere from their car to an alley to a dive bar to a Denny’s to the stairs of a Church, we’re trying a little experiment coming next week.
Given that co-host Jeremy Paul has been oft-described as evil and has the stories to back it up, we thought it would be pretty great if we had our guests try to “out-despicable” Jeremy with a story of their own for the prize of a cassette tape of their choice* (*that’s what Jeremy had on hand for a prize). Co-host Jake Kroeger will decide, after the guest’s story and a story of Jeremy’s chosen from slips of paper by the guest, which is more detestable and if the guest wins said cassette tape* (cassette tape player not provided).
The first episode of this ‘Despicable mini-series’ on This Better Be Funny starts off with some pretty great depravity with Alex Hooper this Monday, so tune in then.
In the meantime, catch up on all these great episodes (we’ve got a lot of them since we’ve been doing it for a year) like the one embedded above with Jake Weisman and random girls pissing on his car in which we were recording in and many others featuring the comedic riffing brilliance of:
Andy Peters
Byron Bowers
Jerrod Carmichael
Hasan Minhaj
Nick Turner
Katie Crown
Jackie Kashian
Jay Larson
The Walsh Brothers
Baron Vaughn
Cameron Esposito
Wayne Federman
Kyle Kinane
Sara Benincasa
Chris Fairbanks
Tony Sam
Jesse Case
Ron Funches
Rory Scovel
Jeremy Takes Jake to Adultcon
This Better Be Funny Ep. 79 with Josh Haness
Josh Haness, the co-host of the one of the best live comedy shows in LA, The Josh & Josh Show, joins Jake and Jeremy at The Farmer’s Market to connect the riffing points of Egypt’s removal of Morsi, ICDC, hanging brain during stage productions, after hours supermarkets and what music they should be playing on the PA system, and more. Also, this is what they, a group of comedians did on the 4th of July, as opposed to eating various grilled meats and look at colorful exploding things because that’s their freedom to do so in the good ol’ US of A.
And another thing: If you know of someone at Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ Sauce corporate, if there is such a thing, someone let them know we always plug their sauce on our program (just like I said last week and every time before that).
This Better Be Funny Ep. 75 with James Austin Johnson
Making their way back to Sabor y Cultura, the site of the first episode of This Better Be Funny, Jake and Jeremy enjoy all the hijinks and riffs with the awesome James Austin Johnson, a very funny comedian that has thankfully relocated from Nashville, TN to LA. They go through what Johnson describes as “wes-ing”, the latest (maybe) Wes Anderson meme, getting into an in-depth argument about The Pink Panther, cartoon vs. Peter Sellers, harmonizing with Trapped in the Closet, and a whole bunch more tangential fun.
Also, though not officially sponsored by Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ Sauce, enjoy Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ Sauce. Bet my ribs on it.
Earwolf, All Things Comedy, & More Podcast Networks Join Soundcloud
Many of the major comedy podcast networks like Nerdist and now, Earwolf, All Things Comedy, Splitsider, The Bugle and Laughspin have become Pro Partners as well as Comedy Central over at SoundCloud (that’s where our podcast This Better Be Funny is located by the way if you’re interested). This means that you’ll be able to find many of your favorite podcasts and audio clips can all be found and shared at SoundCloud instead of jumping around from different streaming services, sites, etc.
The constantly redefined and ever burgeoning world of podcasts has just made another step towards figuring itself out.
Finally, the hilarious Jen Kirkman has gotten her own podcast, “I Seem Fun: The Diary of Jen Kirkman”. It’s just her in her bed with a microphone and Kirkman’s stream of consciousness on things like aggressive parfaits, book signing incidents, and more that we want to hear Jen discuss solo.
Take a listen and subscribe here.
While enjoying a lovely afternoon in a North Hollywood public park, Jake and Jeremy riff down a road with this week’s guest Rosie Tran that travels through “the trade-up game”, how to get men to fall in love with you, one night stand 101, and what it means to be a legitimate foodie. Basically, the type of conversation you’d expect comedians to have even if there were plenty of children with their parents around staring daggers at them the whole time.
Danny Solomon (writer for JASH) is this week’s guest joining Jake and Jeremy in a riff session that covers Mos Def’s new name, who owns “cancer”, poor Jehovah’s Witness canvasing strategy, and the Kinsey scale. Oh yeah, there’s also an amazing story of the dumbest bet with the grossest (and also dumb) stakes by Jeremy that you’ll probably hear/have heard in awhile. Jake and Danny certainly couldn’t stop talking about how Jeremy lost a bet of who could get to a 100 farts first.
This Better Be Funny Ep. 70 with Shawn Pearlman
This week, Jake and Jeremy invade a booth at Astro Diner in Silverlake with guest Shawn Pearlman. The gang and their guest didn’t get kicked out, but they got as close as they’ve ever gotten by being sat at the back of the restaurant, which they probably deserved for talking loudly about Paul Anka, legendary (locally) open mic comedian Boon Shaka Laka, and how “too soon” a joke could be if we comedians were clairvoyant. You’d think a 24 hour diner in LA would be used to this type of ruckus by this point, right? Oh well…