Voila! Foie gras a la Zsa Zsa!

[Voila! Foie gras a la Zsa Zsa!]

Thank you dahling.

[Andy Kindler?????????????? Bleccch]

I have thoroughly enjoyed him on every podcast on which I've heard him (especially Never Not Funny.)

[Episode 110.5 — 1/11/13 TWO CHARTED 49]

I think I have the clinch too. Let's start a movement.

[Episode 193 — What Else? What Else?]

 

I've seen a ton of female comics say people tell them "I don't usually find female comedians, but you were great" so people can still find one or two female comedians funny while still having some sexist attitudes.

 

Jen Kirkman's twitter account has really alerted me to how many douchey sexist comedy fans there are.

 

To be fair, there's even women who say they don't usually find female comedians funny. But one of the things that seems really weird to me in the whole "women aren't funny" debates, is how comfortable people are throwing out that statement. Like, nobody would say "black people aren't funny" and even if someone thought this, they'd probably at least know that it's something they shouldn't say out loud. For some reason there isn't that same stigma to saying women aren't funny.

 

I make it a point to argue with anyone I encounter who pulls out the "women just aren't that funny!" thing, which is a disappointing amount of people, male and female. It doesn't bother me when they name a specific woman though.

[Episode 193 — What Else? What Else?]

I think a better question is, why, when male comics do a voice, do male listeners say "that's hilarious," and when female comics do a voice, they get called whiny and annoying?

 

Well, to be fair, Kristen Schaal has something of an unusual voice but I could listen to her for hours. I do think Pamela Murphy is funny but there were a couple of times where the vocal presence of the Nancy character got a bit overbearing to me (even though she was saying funny things). Of course, the aforementioned Little Gary fits this description sometimes and I *love* Tom Lennon.

 

Not to say there isn't something societal going against boisterously-voiced women comics/characters. Maria Bamford, who does the best voices in the whole word, had a pretty great observation on one of the Comedians of Comedy things when she said something to the effect of "I'm not sure it's that women aren't funny as much as it's that there are too many accountants with a bad Chris Rock impression and an irrational sense of confidence."

[Episode 86 — Conspiracies]

It sounded like Kyle was narrating the Youtube clip.

[Episode 62 — White People Dancing]

I would rather be told I dance well than poorly.

[Episode 193 — What Else? What Else?]

I like Nancy Cooper but her shtick is pretty grating after a while. Probably best to retire it.

 

 

Yeah, I wish they would stop talking to her for long stretches and then maybe check in with her a bit.

[Don't bogart the folk art!]

!

[Episode 109.5 — 1/4/13 TWO CHARTED 48]

Yo where da twooch at

[Episode 85 — New Year’s Resolutions]

Thanks. I'm actually not too worried about it since I went to the same open mic as just a viewer the other night and the bar is set pretty low. I mean, most of the people weren't getting *laughs* but everyone seemed to be ok with awkward silence, so I shouldn't be "the one guy who wasn't very good."

[Episode 85 — New Year’s Resolutions]

I actually *am* planning to do my first-ever open mic set in a few weeks at a place within walking distance. Maybe I'll sprint!

[Episode 54 — Niggardly]

But yeah, the caller wasn't an asshole at all. Andrew and the guest host seem to often assume that whatever the caller is asking about is something they actually do, without any evidence.

[Episode 54 — Niggardly]

i shave my head because im going bald and i dont wanna look like shiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!!!!!!! m(__ __)m #noracist

 

Yeah, word. I started losing my hair at 18 and I wasn't going to go through college looking like a taller, whiter, skinny Danny Devito.

[Episode 52 — Lenient Grading]

Broadcasting is a pretttttttttttttttttty common college major.

[Episode 108 — Jersey Brawls]

Haha, I have a friend who used to hook up with strippers who told me almost the exact thing that "Lee" said about not paying them because they think of you as a customer.

[Episode 107.5 — 12/21/12 TWO CHARTED 46]

DO VIDEO IN 2012! Barring that, since it ends in a few weeks and all, 2013.

[Episode 38 — Rockabilly]

I don't really see the rockabilly types as having a Happy Days kind of idealizing of the 50s as much as they seem to like space-echoey spaghetti western rock and Jerry Lee Louis's hair.

[Episode 38 — Rockabilly]

This one was pretty puzzling. Wearing a confederate flag: yes, very racist. Listening to rockabilly music: no, have fun. Does rockabilly tend to have white power lyrics?

[Episode 33 — Racist Sports Announcers]

Big white dudes get called a horse or a mule though.

[So does this mean more Rafflecast]

I remember during... probably the Halloween CBB?... Jon said something that made me think rafflecast was coming back full time, so I hope I interpreted that correctly and that we are seeing the first fruits of this endeavor.

[Episode 102 — Silly Dance Party]

Black Moth Super Rainbow's Cobra Juicy is my favorite album this year. That is all.

[Episode 9 — Jill Sobule]

When Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" came out and people were talking about it, my first response was, "somebody covered Jill Sobule"?

[Episode 17 — Good Afternoont]

The problem with the term oriental is that it is defining peoples and place by its relationship to the west. Why oriental? Because it's to the east of Europe. By using it you're unconsciously asserting your western world view.

 

But then why is the West "the West"? It seems like calling it that is just as much adopting an Eastern world view as calling the East "the East" is adopting a Western world view.

[Episode 183 — Return to Suicide House]

My office is now a(n) historical site, as the Stephen Hawking impression killed me in it.