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    Did we know that Scott was in a band with No Doubt's drummer? Because I did not know this. What a 'sclusie. I am also about to download Manchester Orchestra's album, I dig their sound.

     

    Check out Scott's early appearances on Never Not Funny, he goes into this and a whole lot more about his early life! And they're all hilarious, of course.

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    I don't follow Adam Baldwin's beliefs too closely, but a quick Google suggests that he is known to tweet sexist (coined #GamerGate, for example) and homophobic stuff. He also picked a fight with Don Cheadle over the #OscarsSoWhite situation. Not saying the latter definitively proves he's a racist, but...Garon might have been onto something this time.

     

    He definitely didn't do a good job of backing up the "racist" comment on the episode, but I think that's more of a mushmouth thing than an example of endemic liberal hate speech.

     

    EDIT: Also reading plenty of reports that Baldwin's an "extremely nice" guy in person though, so what the hell do I know? Just thought it was worth mentioning.

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    I think I would have been pissed off as a kid if my dad had ever started to let me win chess games. Games are only fun when everyone is giving their all, otherwise what are we even doing?

     

    I have a younger cousin who (as a child) was accustomed to adults letting him win everything, and he would always get so upset when I played with him and actually tried to win. A person has to learn how to lose, if only just to know where they stand.

     

    That said, kids also need patience from their "betters" if they are ever going to get anything constructive from the losing experience. Good moves should be called out as often as bad ones, and after each game offer to walk them through their strategy and show opportunities for improvement.

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    Hey Nong Man,

     

    Fresh CBB always envigorates my week :D/>

     

    But...

     

    I've tried to warm up to Jimmy Pardo over the years since Scott endorses him so highly...I don't get it at all.

     

    To my ear he doesn't seem to be humorous or clever and even his speaking voice seems artificial.

     

    No sé :|

     

    I get it, NNF has a different rhythm from most podcasts for sure. Ep recommendations are kind of irrelevant now that the show is free, but pretty much all Scott's appearances over the years serve as great Pardo introductions since Jimmy's always at the top of his game when Scott's around. A personal fave is Episode 626, where WUHD was born.

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    There is so much to admire about Harris, he was one one of the most effortlessly funny people I've ever seen and he had so much success so early in life. It's hard to express feelings of sadness and loss for someone I never met, but I consider myself very lucky to have gotten to know him and his unique sensibility through CBB, Analyze Phish, and the many other shows he appeared (and absolutely destroyed) on throughout the years. We lost a great one, folks.

     

     

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    I've actually put too much quite a bit of thought into this question, as recommending this show to friends always feels a bit dicey since there's probably over 400 hours of material to get through at this point. To this end, I compiled a list of all the episodes that I considered creative peaks for CBB and yet could still be enjoyed without previous knowledge of characters and mythology...and still ended up with a list that was 60 episodes long.

     

    Since giving a friend (and podcast newbie) 60+ hours of stuff to listen to seemed rather like giving homework, I painfully cut the list down to the 10 episodes that I feel best give a sense of CBB's changing tone over the years and serve as a primer on almost all of its major players and characters. Long story long, here's what I came up with:

     

    14- An Old Fashioned Dinner (Scott has talked about how the CBB format was basically born in this episode, and it's still one of the show's best guest lineups ever)

     

    34- Have a Merry Christmas... (All-star guests and characters, the immortal Acting Off)

     

    85- That's One Way of Doing It (Yes, another Christmas episode, but it's kind of a watershed episode for everything and everyone that made the CDR days as great as the were)

     

    120- Farts and Procreation (One of the flat-out funniest podcast episodes ever in my book, though I wouldn't recommend having a friend start with this one as it's rather inscrutable to newcomers)

     

    150- Time Bobby (I don't need to explain this one, right?)

     

    176- New No-Nos (Maybe the best Wompler episode ever; also, the titular No-Nos, which is just pure CBB at its best in my opinion)

     

    183- Return to Suicide House (Insane fun from beginning to end, especially the 20-person Freestyle Rap that closes it out)

     

    218- The 4th Anniversary Extravaganza! (Another all-star episode, with the Aukerman-Wompler-Wain-Reardon-The Janitor love pentagon to tie it all together)

     

    222- A Peanut in the Rain (Had to include a Gilly-Garry Marshall ep, as it's probably the best and most consistent long-running story CBB has ever done; it also doesn't hurt that this one is actually watchable on Youtube)

     

    260- Tiny Sandwich Story (Showcases what a huge contribution Brendon Small and Jon Gabrus have provided the show since joining the recurring roster in late 2013)

     

     

    These aren't necessarily my all-time favorite episodes (though they're all up there), but I think anyone who listened to these would be suitably prepared for the week-to-week insanity that is Comedy Bang! Bang!

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    Really loving all of these episodes, though trying to stream them on Stagebloc has been extremely frustrating at times due to constant restarting/refreshing.

     

    The Festival Supreme show in particular was fantastic, as Zach, (Adam) Scott, and Traci were all so game for things to get really crazy; shame it's so short. Still, I would pay beaucoup dollars for video footage of the Would You Rather? on that one.

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    And I don't know if the whole episode will make it, but I think the Closing Sentiment Off from #265 is the single funniest thing I heard all year.

     

    This was the year of Lapkus. Behold.

     

    Yes, the Closing Sentiment Off was so great. The interview with Traci at the beginning of that episode (particularly the logistics of her butt-crack piercing) is also one of the funniest things I heard all year.

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    Here's my ten:

     

    260- Tiny Cheeseburger Story (Gino, Victor and Tiny!)

    263- Hollywild (Coco Marx and Benny Schwazz!)

    266- The Calvins Twins

    272- Sex Party Season (Len Weisman, Gilly!)

    283- The 5th Anniversary Show!

    289-The Exorcism of Cake Boss

    300- Oh Golly! You Devil

    306- Project Funway (last-second choice, but I love every DSoWD episode)

    309- Tony Macaroni (aka Comday Bing Bing)

    312- Grounded Me@

     

    No Besser (EDIT: except Matilda Besserina in 283), barely any Wompler, but still a pretty representative sample I would say.

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    TL;DR alert, but I actually found the discussion on this thread interesting and wanted to throw in my four cents.

     

    I'm not going to tread into the gender politics inherent in this discussion; I think it's possible that, in the very specific online alt-comedy community, Esposito is just a bit overexposed at the moment. I don't know how many Earwolfers read the AV Club, but she's been ALL OVER that site lately to the point where I sort of rolled my eyes when yet another interview with her was posted today.

     

    Personally, I think she played along admirably with PFT and Scott during the character segment but the solo interview seemed to suggest that she's still honing her own comedic voice (which obviously takes a long time for most comics), which may partly explain why her appearances so often default to discussion of her sexuality. I don't think there's anything wrong with gay (or straight) comics drawing from their own life experiences in this area, but I don't really find the differences between gay and straight people to be all that interesting or entertaining in and of themselves so these segments always leave me a bit bored. There's just no accounting for comedic preference, I guess.

     

    EDIT: Just had the thought that she could probably do solid character work on here if she ever gets the chance; she's obviously quick enough to pull it off.

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