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    I liked how during the whole "sparse pubic hair" discussion, Howard did that thing that guys sometimes do when they are around women discussing vaguely titillating topics - where the guy will initially try to feign casual nonchalance in order to allow the women to keep talking, but then later on will awkwardly try to re-introduce the topic again and again in order to try to get them to keep talking about it.

     

    Wow. That was a long sentence.

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    I - for one - would love to hear someone like Paul F. Tompkins on Improv4Humans. I'm not sure if it could ever happen given that Tompkins (to the best of my knowledge) doesn't have a whole lot of formal improv training under his belt, but as anyone who listens to Comedy Bang Bang can attest, he seems to be so naturally gifted at improvisational comedy that I would be very interested to hear him on a show like this. I'll bet it would be great.

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    I'll be kind here: I used to be a huge View Askew nerd. My wife went to the same Vancouver film school he and Mosier went to. Something personal happened for me to cast him off as chaff. The death knell came when he called Jason "hey man." Not even enough respect to call anyone by name. I have a sick Chris Gore feeling in my stomach.

     

    Is it just me, or is this entire string of comments extremely enigmatic?

     

    I am intrigued, but I also don't think I really have any idea what you're talking about.

     

    Oh well.

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    Ben Schwartz's comedic improvising during the whole "placing a phone call to Wyclef Jean" bit was one of the more impressive pieces of quick-and-funny improvisation that I've heard in a long, long time, but things got a little strange after Bob Zmuda showed up. It was still engaging, but overall pretty atypical of this particular podcast.

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    It seemed to me that Maria was not at all comfortable with discussing her porn viewing habits with strangers (and you can't really blame her for that). It made me squirm a little bit just listening to her try to deal with answering that direct of a personal question.

     

    Which is to say, I think maybe this should become a new regular segment on the show. Perhaps the Oprah "game" and the direct grilling regarding pornography consumption can somehow be combined into one single, monstrous entity.

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    Ha. I read the episode title, the "Tick Tack" part, and I saw the two old guys with graying beards and said to myself, "Awesome, they got Tick and Tack the Car Talk Brothers!"

     

    Wait, those guys are named "Tick and Tack?" I always thought that it was "Click and Clack." Now I am genuinely perplexed.

     

    But then, this line of inquiry could hardly be more of a inconsequential tangent, and for that I apologize.

     

    Good day.

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    I often find several elements of Gelmania to be inspired, but the thing that I can never really figure out is how much of the "Brett Gelman persona" is genuine. I mean, here's a guy who comes across as a somewhat deranged borderline personality who is self-aware enough to be able to mine his derangement for a fearless type of comedy, but seems generally unable to rein it in enough to join the ranks of the "normos." This self-presentation is fairly consistent across time and space. Is this a fabricated "character?" A heightened version of reality? A genuine reflection of his true personality? I don't know.

     

    Oh well, I guess I'll just have to wait for the WTF one-on-one interview to find out.

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