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Pick of the Day: Super Horses, Wild Ego 4/19

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Alright, OK, well, well, well… two of the best improv groups in comedy history are coming together for a very, very special, exclusive virtual performance presented by the wondrous Dynasty Typewriter.

The improvised comedy powers of Wild Horses (Lauren Lapkus, Stephanie Allynne, Mary Holland, and Erin Whitehead) and Superego (Jeremy Carter, Matt Gourley, Mark McConville, and Paul F. Tompkins) that truly do represent so much of the crème de la crème of improv comedy are becoming the portmanteau of Super Horses, Wild Ego for this special night on Mon. Apr. 19th at 5PM PT/8PM ET.

No matter what platform or wherever this would be happening, this is most certainly a comedy event not to be missed. Fortunately, you’ll be able to live-stream this from the comfort of wherever you’re comfortably (hopefully) not gathering. Best of all, tickets are only $5-$10. Best go get’em here.

November 28, 2018

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Well, two of the best improv teams around anywhere, Wild Horses and Super Ego are meeting up for what very well could be one of the best nights of improvised comedy you’ve ever seen at Dynasty Typewriter on Sunday, Dec. 9th at 7PM.

Stephanie Allynne, Mary Holland, Lauren Lapkus, Erin Whitehead, Paul F. Tompkins, Matt Gourley, Jeremy Carter, and Mark McConville all together will be improvising their way through a “upper middle-class white people drama”.

It’s called Mixed Company and tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at door, though we have no doubt that this will sell out. Go snag your tickets right now right here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

Superego, One of The Funniest Podcasts Around, Will Return for 6 Episodes

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Superego, One of The Funniest Podcasts Around, Will Return for 6 Episodes

Together, Matt Gourley, Jeremy Carter, Mark McConville, and Paul F. Tompkins form Superego, one of our all time favorite podcasts. It’s as ridiculous as it is brilliant and Superego one-up each other in how absurd they can be in absurdist situations, but doing so with precision.

Seriously, go binge listen to and enjoy past episodes here.

According to this announcement, there will be six new episodes, 4 done in studio and 2 done live, later this year thanks to Earwolf and Stitcher Premium.

Even though the date isn’t announced, it should be something to mark somewhere on your calendar because we think it’s that noteworthy.

December 15, 2016

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Jimmy Pardo, Garfunkel and Oates, ½ of Superego are on the bill and that’s not even half of what next Monday’s Feliz Navipod’s Feliz Navidad Variety Show at The Nerdmelt Showroom has to offer on top of benefitting Planned Parenthood.

Get your tickets for $15 here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

February 26, 2016

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One of the funniest podcasts around, Superego, is returning to Largo to let loose Jeremy Carter, Mark McConville, Matt Gourley, and Paul F. Tompkins to wherever their beautifully chaotic improvised scenes takes them.

Superego Live! added a late show to their evening at Largo at the Coronet Theatre on Saturday, March 5th. The early show is sold out, but you can still get tickets for 10:30PM for $30.

The rest of our comedy listings are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

Someone Who Writes at Jeopardy! Seems to Really Likes Comedy Podcasts

December 8, 2015

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More and more answers seem to come from someone who not only listens to comedy podcasts, but thinks that they’re culturally relevant enough to be on Jeopardy.

In its 32nd season on the air, Jeopardy! stands an television landmark and the topics, of which they derive their answers from, have a certain distinction within history and pop culture.

Just in the past month, both the great comedy podcasts Superego, Greg Proops’ Smartest Man in the World, and Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast have been mentioned as answers.

Jeopardy! mentioned @goSuperego! Amazing – well done! @MattGourley @PFTompkins @markmcconville @ShuntMcGuppin pic.twitter.com/9YwsxkiKg8

Hey! The Smartest Man in the World @GregProops Podcast was a question on the Smartest show in the world @Jeopardy!! pic.twitter.com/prnI4O50UZ

Thank u to all our fans for making #GGACP a success & a question on @Jeopardy RT & SUBSCRIBE https://t.co/AwsNK8H1ol pic.twitter.com/pz15fqpVVY

We don’t know how rigorous the vetting process for the writing the answers that contestants have to guess the right question for, but it’s obvious that podcasts are within the zeitgeist enough and potentially have enough staying power to make into the realm of the renowned trivia show in existence.

Also, whoever came up with those questions seems to have particularly good taste in podcasts as well.

UPDATE: the someone/whoever we’re referring to appears to be Jeopardy! writer Mark Gaberman.

Let us know if you see any other Jeopardy! answers that are comedy podcast related @thecomedybureau on Twitter and we’ll add it to this post

Superego’s Matt Gourley Does the “Drunk History” of Rocket Scientist Wernher Von Braun

November 28, 2015

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Normally being drunk and rockets should never ever mix.

Matt Gourley from the fantastic podcast Superego_, Drunk History, and Nathan Fillion make a great case for an exception to that rule.

Watch Gourley try to make his way through the story of famous rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun, including trying to say his name, while very intoxicated.

Superego’s Matt Gourley and James Bladon Have Made Theme Songs for Non-Existent TV Shows and Are Taking Submissions For Opening Sequences

October 18, 2015

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This is almost like a DIY version of Adam Scott’s Greatest Event in Television History specials.

Matt Gourley from the beloved Superego and James Bladon have teamed up to make TV themes that sounds so much like a real TV theme of a TV show from yesteryear, you’d have a hard time believing the shows didn’t exist. Even when they have long acronyms like S.T.I.N.G.R.A.Y. or juxtapose gnomes into a sitcom, the theme songs of Stay Tuned Vol. 1 are pretty perfect.

If you so desire and have the free time and resources to do so, Gourley and Bladon are looking for submissions for opening credit sequences to go with these themes. They just might feature your submissions as well.

While it might seem like a lot of work, we have no doubt that someone’s going to come up with something great as plenty of folks did for Superego’s Stetch Maldonay contest.

Superego Releases Vinyl Edition of Their ‘James Bond-How British Am I?’ Sketch

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Many of you who follow what we do here are definitely the sort of folks that love snatching up notable, limited, comedy collectibles.

Well, the next collectible that you should focus on collecting needs to be a vinyl Superego record that contains their famous James Bond parody where M asks Bond how British he is.

It’s $10 for a 7″ Flexi-disc and you can and should order your copy here.

Superego’s Matt Gourley and Mark McConville Do Live Game Commentary For Pistol Shrimps Basketball as “Pistol Shrimps Radio” Podcast

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Before you even start forming the question, you do not have to know sports to get into this. In fact, you don’t even have to be in attendance of the game that Matt and Mark are commentating on to enjoy it.

You’ve already probably heard about the LA based women’s basketball rec league that has gotten a lot of press from having The Pistol Shrimps (as well as the league’s dance squad, The LA City Municipal Dance Squad) that are filled with great comedy folks like Stephanie Allynne, Aubrey Plaza, and more.

Well, they now have a podcast of live in-game commentary, Pistol Shrimps Radio, done by two of the funniest people on podcasts/”venerable sports acknowledgers” Matt Gourley and Mark McConville who we’d hope you would know from the hysterical podcast Superego.

Here’s a whole episode on Soundcloud of what both sports fan and non-sports fan can enjoy so long as they both love absurdist comedic stylings.

They’re already ten episodes in, so listen, catch up, subscribe, etc.

Superego Has a Winner For Their Editing-One-Nearly-40 Minute-Sketch Contest

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Earlier this year, one of the funniest podcasts around, Superego, revealed the existence of a sketch about scissor repairman that they had recorded that went nearly 40 minutes known as Stetch Maldonay.

They weren’t sure what to do with it due to its unwieldy length. So, they opted to have a contest to see if any of the Superego faithful would be able to make it into something that’s fit for their high quality brand of short form audio absurdity.

Well, months after the contest was announced, they’ve found a winner in a submission from one Blake Fawley, which you can hear here.

We’ve heard it and it definitely meets Superego standards. They’ve also found some runner-up winners as well that you can listen to here.

If there’s any takeaway here, you should just be listening to any and all of Superego.

Superego Once Recorded a Nearly 40 Min. Sketch That They Are Holding a Contest To See What Someone Can Do With It

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Superego is one of the funniest podcasts around as they really let loose in all their sketches. In fact, just over two years ago, the did a sketch entitled “Stetch Maldonay: Scissor Shapener” that clocked in, raw and unedited, at 38:41.

A quick Google search and check of Record Setter will leave you unsure of exactly if there’s a longer sketch on record in existence (there is a Shortest Comedy Sketch), so we’re going to say, for now, that’s the world’s longest single comedy sketch.

Currently it’s in three separate tracks here, here, and here.

Knowing all of this, the guys over at Superego have been racking their brains for years in trying to see what they can do to make Stetch Maldonay more manageable and into something that would put on a episode of the podcast that features numerous sketches of more standard length.

Now, they’re giving all of us a chance to take this beast on.

If you have the audio know how and have a good sense of comedic structure and timing, you might want to give this a shot. They’re taking submissions until May 1st and might feature it on the actual show. Get all the details here.

Superego’s Fremont City Council Meets/Strikes Again

October 13, 2014

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Certainly, there are plenty of oddities that take place during a city council hearing that has the floor open to any and all residents of that particular city. However, none are as great as the Fremont City Council meeting as done by Superego.

Kick off Monday correctly and watch an animated version (animation by Dan Hartshorn) of the Fremontians reconvening for pretty much anything besides actual town business.

2014 LA Podcast Festival Recap: Podcasts Take Over Beverly Hills

This is both the third year of The LA Podcast Festival as well as our third time attending and, as that’s the case, we can most certainly assure you a good thing has only gotten better and better.

Here’s our recap of what went down when a bunch podcasts and their fans take over ritzy Beverly Hills.

All photos courtesy of Los Angeles Podcast Festival

-This was the first year that the LA Podcast Festival took place at Sofitel LA in Beverly Hills and it solved pretty much every drawback from their original location in Santa Monica (i.e. parking, navigating through the festival, it looks nicer).

-Many in the crowd for Talkin’ Shit with Eddie Ifft were thoroughly surprised when they got to see all of transgendered porn star Vaniity.

–Marc Maron and Aisha Tyler hashed out some personal history, specifically when they first met each other, on Girl on Guy. Aisha hilariously made sure to note to Marc that this is her show and not WTF.

-Like every year, one will note that many of the attendees aren’t from LA or even California. Many come from the other side of the country just to make sure they catch their favorite podcast live like The Crabfeast with Jay Larson and Ryan Sickler.

–Superego continued to be one of the funniest podcasts around kicking off Day 2 with a special guest in Conan player Brian Stack and a whirlwind of fun, dark absurdity. We also applaud their matching Superego blazers.

-The crowd at Jonah Raydio had a ball as Jonah Ray made sure that his entire audience had a beer in their hand, treated to a live performance from Upset, fun music news monologue style jokes, and discovered he had to do more time than he expected. This lead to some of the best awful concert stories we’ve heard in awhile.

–Dave Anthony, Gareth Reynolds, and Wil Anderson assembled for a laugh riot of an episode of The Dollop, which we’d describe as a sort of sober version of Drunk History that replaces the reenactments with top shelf riffing from Anthony, Reynolds, and a guest. Edutainment about history’s biggest a-holes has never been as much fun as this.

-An all female guest line-up for WTF with Marc Maron was fascinating especially the likes of Pamela Adlon and Whitney Cummings admired Shelby Fero’s wisdom beyond her years when it comes to dating.

-Podcasts fans at the festival didn’t care how long they would have to wait to get commemorative posters signed to the point where we questioned how much we’re fans of podcasts compared to them.

–Wil Anderson killed it wherever he went at the festival and his own podcast TOFOP was no different. Anderson’s brand of somewhat controlled chaos made for almost non-stop laughs and an unforgettable pop quiz on Russell Crowe facts.

-As far as we’ve seen education hasn’t ever been as funny as it has been on podcasts. See Probably Science’s Matt Kirshen, Jesse Case, and Andy Wood riff on the primates known as Bonobos with Tim Minchin and Dr. Amy Parish. They found their way to tie in feminism while discussing animal behavior and on to applause breaks.

–Matt Besser, Lauren Lapkus, Ian Roberts, and Horatio Sanz ensured that impov4humans was a perennial favorite of the festival just off a scene of visiting the world’s tallest hill.

-Podcast pioneer Jimmy Pardo and his podcast Never Not Funny have been at The LA Podcast Festival most deservedly every single year. Seeing Jimmy having to deal with Pat Francis’ Bruce Springsteen puppet made for a pretty magical evening on its own.

–Go Bayside! and James Bonding are perfect examples of podcasts that celebrate the “nerding out” of a very specific topic, in these cases Saved By The Bell and Agent 007 James Bond, but also very inviting to the uninitiated. April Richardson and Matt Mira/Matt Gourley make a case for enjoying both cultural institutions even if you don’t know who Mr. Belding or the worst Bond villain henchmen are.

–Todd Glass and James Adomian were electric during The Todd Glass Show. Dueling Todd Glass impressions (yes, Todd did an impression of James doing an impression of Todd) were a highlight, but only the tip of the iceberg. We’re convinced that Glass has mastered only letting the audience kind of know what’s happening, but ultimately not caring because they’re having so much damn fun.

–The Kira Soltanovich Show made for an insightful, funny look into parenting not unlike a bunch of parents having drinks and pondering if they’re raising their kid right or not except all the parents are really funny.

If you happened to miss all this glorious podcast goodness, then there’s a livestream video archive of the festival available up until Oct. 19th.

Keep in mind we can only send one guy out to cover all of this so there are only so many things we could make it to and obviously we missed some stuff. Maybe next time, you can go to the LA Podcast Festival yourself and not miss anything.

Go Behind the Audio and Watch Superego at Work

October 7, 2014

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While the sounds of the absurd stampede of fun that is Superego might sound like they are indeed concocted in a secret laboratory, the podcast is often recorded in a living room.

You can watch here and see what’s really going on during a recording of a sketch featuring Andy Daly as the infamous Don Dimello (i.e. all of them can’t help but bust up).

So, Superego Season 4 Is Here

September 1, 2014

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It’s been over a whole year since the end of Superego’s 3rd season and today, the wait for the next season of one of the funniest podcasts on the Internet is finally over. Matt Gourley, Mark McConville, Jeremy Carter, and now, Paul F. Tompkins bring you another wave of downright, absurd fun.

Listen to the first episode here or here or both, so long as you go listen.

Superego Tries to Record a Few Commercials with “Country Star” Shunt McGuppin

August 29, 2014

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Country music here in the U.S. has always done things it’s way. If Toby Keith names his bar Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill, it might be reasonable to assume a country star reading copy for commercials, might likely put his own country spin on it.

Perhaps that’s just Superego’s own country star Shunt McGuppin that does that. Either way, ads could do better with a little bit of twang, Shunt McGuppin style.

Watch McGuppin and Superego attempt to get a through a few pages of ads hopefully without any censoring.

The 3rd LA Podcast Festival Happening at Beverly Hills’ Sofitel with WTF, Never Not Funny, X Files Files, and More

August 25, 2014

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WTF with Marc Maron, Never Not Funny with Jimmy Pardo, The Dana Gould Hour, Kumail Nanjiani’s The X Files Files, Girl on Guy with Aisha Tyler The Todd Glass Show, Superego, Walking the Room, TOFOP, The Crabfeast, and way more are coming in for the 3rd Los Angeles Podcast Festival. They’ve moved from Santa Monica to Beverly Hills at the Sofitel Hotel, which is slightly more central to the rest of LA.

So, clear out your weekend from Sept. 26th-28th and get your tickets/passes now.

Superego Now Has Its Own YouTube Channel Now With a Whole Bunch of Videos To Watch Obsessively

August 10, 2014

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While we all wait as patiently as we can for the new season of one of the funniest podcasts around known only as Superego, they have given us all something to tide us over until September when that new season actually premieres.

As of this week, they have their very own YouTube channel where they’ve made more animated versions of their sketches as well as some live action ones that are just as crazy and damn funny.

We highly recommend binge watching and subscribing so you can see more from a priest that you shouldn’t be confessing to, “old timey” comedy duos, a meeting between Don DiMello, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and H.R. Giger, and “great” California cooking tips.

Superego Returning for 4th Season of Their Podcast and Adding Paul F. Tompkins as a Regular Cast Member

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One of the funniest podcasts around, Superego, is coming back with a whole new row of episodes come this September. That is absolutely great news, but, somehow, on top of that, they’ve managed to make this more exciting by adding the one and only Paul F. Tompkins as a regular cast member of Superego.

So look out for the latest batch of “case studies” that also features such guests as Andy Daly, Thomas Lennon, and more as well as some bonus content from past seasons.

In case it wasn’t clear, you should be getting into Superego if you already haven’t done so.

Superego Wants You To Check Out God’s Crazy Monsters

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You’re watching Superego’s animated series at the Nerdist channel, right? It’s pretty fantastic, just like you’d expect from Superego.

They’re latest episode is no different, with guest Thomas Lennon, as they attempt an ad for the non-Sunoco affliated God’s Crazy Monsters museum. Watch it here.

Superego Uncovers Most Disastrous Episode of Family Feud with Patton Oswalt

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Steve Harvey may have dealt with an out of control Family Feud, but Superego has one to top that with guest Patton Oswalt. One father calls himself fear and the other one wants to just talk about feminine hygiene and so much more unravels.

Watch the latest animated Superego case study at the Nerdist channel now.

Superego and Paul F. Tompkins Find The Lesser “Joes”

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Superego takes on a roll call of the G.I. Joes or, rather, a roll call of ones that we weren’t aware of in the latest animated episode over at Nerdist’s YouTube channel.

The wonderful Paul F. Tompkins joins into the half the battle hijinks too. Watch it here.

Superego “Studies” General Zod

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Superego delightfully continues their web series over at Nerdist where some of their classic “case studies” get animated.

In this episode, Superman’s enemy General Zod gets observed Superego-style with special guest Patton Oswalt. Watch it here.

Superego Shows What H.R. Giger’s Home Life Is Like

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The brilliant comedy group Superego has got an animated web series now over at Nerdist’s YouTube channel.

Here’s their first one, which shows the late, dark surrealist H.R. Giger and what living with him was like…. probably.